The POC Service Club is welcoming the New Year with a new ensemble of service projects and more plans to make our little community an even better place to call home. Fund raising, community improvement projects and community service are all on the schedule.
Our spring Garage Sale is set for April 8th. We are now taking donations of quality used household goods and clothing for our sale. If you need assistance with donated items, please call Linda Orrick at 719-650-3433 or Diane Cooley at 903-467-6335 to make arrangements. Please do not leave donations at the County Service Barn any longer.
We are just a few weeks from the annual opportunity for graduating seniors who attended POC Elementary and are now planning for college or trade school in their future to apply for scholarship assistance. Applications will be accepted this spring. For more information, students can check with the school counselor or any Service Club Member.
POC Service Club is a not-for-profit service club committed to the community and its residents. We love helping and seeing good things happen in Port O’ Connor. We are widening our reach to include children, senior citizens and others in need of assistance as we create opportunity for recreation, health and safety and community interactions. About 200 senior citizens and their caregivers and friends enjoyed Christmas Lunch with us in December. Around 75 POC Elementary students were awarded Honor Roll recognition through club donations last semester. Several 4H Club volunteers were financially supported in their Fair efforts to raise and show animals through by POC Service Club. We have added pet potty stations to Kingfisher Beach, rescue heart defibrillators to the beach area and the Community Center, we maintain the Post Office bulletin board and community announcement boards at the Community Center and the VFD. Countless other persons, projects and purposes were aided through monies, manpower or ministry donated by service club members. We meet twice monthly to plan, manage and progress our service plans and efforts. If you would like to be part of a group that freely serves our community and has fun while doing it, please join us at 10 AM the 1st and 3rd Thursdays at the POC Community Service Center.
To those of you who have donated to or shopped our garage sales, bought cookbooks, attended community events, donated to our efforts in any way last year and every year, we humbly thank you. Without your support and backing we would never be able to accomplish the things we do. We are truly grateful.
So, until next time, be safe, live simply, love openly, forgive generously and remember this quote by the late author and heroine Anne Frank who said, “No one ever became poor by giving.” So, if you want to donate to your community savings account, come by, we have your deposit slip waiting.
