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July 21-22: United Church, located at 901 South Hattie, will host its annual Vacation Bible School beginning at 6 p.m. July 21 and 10 a.m.

July 19: United Way of Kaufman County and Carter BloodCare will partner to host a blood drive from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

July 4: Terrell's Freedom Fest 2023 will take place at the Ter rell Municipal Airport. The family-friendly event includes food vendors, a kids zone and activities for all ages.

July 4: Terrell’s Freedom Fest 2023 will take place at the Terrell Municipal Airport. The family- friendly event includes food vendors, a kids zone and activities for all ages.

A House Committee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service May 31 received a statement from the National Newspaper Association and others in a broad coalition of mailing and package shipping groups that criticizes the twice-yearly postage increases implemented by USPS. The Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service (C21), a group to which NNA has belonged since C21’s founding, issued a statement for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in response to a May oversight hearing in which only Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was invited to testify. C21 represents organizations that amass more than $1.6 trillion in annual sales from mailing-related activities, which amounts to about five percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product. The Postal Service’s Delivering for America plan has driven total increases in Periodicals postage of around 35 percent since January 2021. Any good news from the plan has been overshadowed, C21 told Congress, by “relentless, twice-yearly, postage rate increases endangering the Postal Service’s mail business and destructive to small and medium-sized businesses and consumers often considered the backbone of American employment.”

HHSC Age Well Live Well Coordinator Relationships help bring connection and purpose to our lives. Having a strong network of family, friends or neighbors not only provides us with meaningful connections but can also help reduce social isolation that can lead to loneliness.

June 10: The No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum will host area veterans for the Second Saturday Veterans Breakfast on Saturday from 9-10:30 a.m.

June 6: The Riter C. Hulsey Public Library will host its 15th annual Activities Fair and Sumer Reading Kickoff from 5-7 p.m.

May 26: The Terrell High School Class of 2023 is scheduled to participate in commencement exercises beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium in Terrell (1300 W.