Over the weekend, the Boys and Girls Club of Walker County-Trinity Site held a bingo fundraiser on Jefferson Street in Trinity and raised more than $46,000. Congratulations.
Several organizations will hold fundraisers this month to support students, veterans, and churches to maintain financial support to help Trinity residents in need. Listed below are some of these fundraisers:
Oct. 17-31, TMC Pumpkin Patch opens
Oct. 24, Trinity Veterans Wall of Honor Society 18th annual fundraiser
Oct. 31, Halloween
Oct. 31, Treats on the Street downtown
Oct. 31, VFW Halloween Activities for children and adults
•November is shaping up for many events also.
Nov. 1, All Saint’s Day
Nov. 11, Veterans Day
Nov. 14, Trinity Community Health Fair
Nov. 23-27, TISD Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 26, Thanksgiving Day
Nov. 28, Black Friday
Dec. 5, Trinity Peninsula Chamber of Commerce Christmas Show
•I will elaborate on some of these annual fundraisers so you can support your favorite ones or all of them. For instance:
First Methodist Church of Trinity hosting the Downtown Pumpkin Patch on Robb Street from Oct. 17-31. Pumpkins are priced at $5 each, but a donation is welcome. It is a fun time for children as they can run and play, and families can take photos of them among various decorations. For more information, call Laura at (936) 594-3826.
•Martin Senior Service Center on Walker Street
Oct. 30k a Halloween Luncheon with the cost $10 adults and $7 for those over 80. Games, costume and trivia contests and bingo are planned for this event. For more information, please call Sherry at (936) 594-2625.
Nov. 25, Thanksgiving luncheon
Dec. 23, Christmas luncheon
Oct. 24, Hosting Wall of Honor at noon
Oct. 31, Dance and Trick or Trunk Nite
Nov. 11, Veterans Day. Free breakfast for veterans at the Post.
Nov. 21, barbecue and chili cook-off.
The Elf Station 7th annual fundraiser
Registration is now online only. Details for signing are listed on their website at Elf Station Trinity County. I will repeat instructions in next week’s issue. Donation boxes have been placed in businesses around town and in other facilities and areas of interest.
•During the 77th Annual Trinity Community Fair Association, Julia’s Tidbits sponsored Trinity 42 Domino Tournament at Joseph’s Café and Restaurant. The winners are listed below, and we were proud to have one of our local Trinity players win on the second-place team (see photo).
First-place team: Bill Lee (Sitting on right) Roy Anding (Standing right.)
Second-place team: Goodie Kelly, (sitting in middle) Mary Ann Newhouse from Trinity, (standing middle).
Third-place team: June Hairell (sitting left) Robert Carr (standing left).
By the time you get this newspaper edition, you will have missed the Trinity Economic Development Corporation’s Private Sector Stakeholders meeting on Wednesday.
This meeting has been planned for the last several months, and the circular was sent out asking for your vision, ideas, challenges, experiences, candor, dreams, and goals for the improvement of downtown Trinity. Trinity Economic Development Corp. has partnered with Texas Downtown Association to assess our needs and will preside over this meeting.
I am interested in how this meeting will go as the city does not have the funds to fix many needs of the community in the city pressing us now, and has to raise property taxes, water, and sewage rates to cover shortages today.
I do appreciate the corporation’s challenges and attempts to help the community. See you around town.
Don’t forget to go to the VFW Hall for the Veterans’ Wall of Honor Fundraiser on Saturday.
•Last week I apologized for misrepresenting the City’s position on Veteran’s Banners hanging on the Electrical poles and I find out this week that it is a liability to do so. How come it is not a liability for the Christmas decorations to hang from the poles?
