October 2022

For 85 consecutive years, Southwestern has celebrated its existence and the educator who founded the HBCU, but this year’s Lectureship is among the most anticipated and sweetest. In June 2022, Southwestern received full accreditation and reaffirmation from SACSCOC after a Florida oversight committee review.

Oct. 21-23: The Historic US 80 Hi-Way Sale is a biannual yard and garage sale is with events scheduled each April and October.

More than 15-million pints of blood are transfused in this country each year. That exceeds 40-thousand pints daily. Hospitals in north, central and east Texas are using only a fraction of that amount, but Carter BloodCare still requests 1,000 volunteer blood donors each day to keep pace with local hospital demands.

County officials took to social media this week, inviting the public for a special ribbon cutting event for the soon to be completed Kaufman County Justice Center located at 1902 US Highway 175 in Kaufman.

“The 1911 Sidearm of Two World Wars” is the title of the No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum’s October 27 program that is free and open to the public. The program begins at 7 pm at the museum, 119 Silent Wings Blvd. in Terrell.

A Terrell resident claimed a top prize winning ticket worth $1 million in the Texas Lottery scratch ticket game 500X. The ticket was purchased at Stop Food Mart, located at 6600 Meadowbrook Drive, in Fort Worth.

The Wills Point City Council had a surprise visitor at their regularly scheduled monthly meeting Oct. 11 in the form of U.S.

1943-2022 John David Hardy, Sr., known to most as “Dave” and “Papaw”, passed away peacefully on October 16, 2022, in Forney. David was born in Dallas on March 18, 1943, to Earl M.

Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 70 million Americans will increase 8.7 percent in 2023, the Social Security Administration announced Oct. 13. On average, Social Security benefits will increase by more than $140 per month starting in January.

The Office of Texas State Comptroller Glenn Hegar delivered mostly positive news to Kaufman County city officials last week, announcing that 10 out of 13 local entities had shown sales tax revenue gains when comparing against the same calendar month for the previous year.