Dear Editor:
First and foremost we want to thank you for your time and dedication to our community and always capturing all the news and events that go on. We are very fortunate to have you as the Chief Editor here. So thank you to you and your team, as you are very appreciated.
As you know our Cool In The Pool event went off without a hitch again this year and we are so very proud to have served the community again with free haircuts, backpacks and much more.
We had many donors that came alongside us and servers that give their time to allow this event to unfold.
The City of Dublin with their life guards worked long hours that day to provide the pool to be open to the community. The great attitudes of the life guards, under their supervisor Ryan Mitchell was very appreciated.
I think it was great to see so many families take benefit from cooling off in the pool on the last day it was open for the season. [Dublin ISD] gave the students their school supplies this year, and we were so very fortunate to have some donors come alongside us to be able to give away backpacks which was really neat. Every child was able to
Every child was able to receive a toothbrush and paste inside that back pack as well. Every child that was in line was able to receive a backpack, and we had several left over that we were able to share with one of the local schools to make sure their students in need were able to take advantage as well.
Our grill masters kept the hamburgers and hot dogs coming along with Dublin Dairy Queen serving ice cream.
This year we were able to add in raffles for places around town for $50 each.
We are praying that this gives opportunity for the businesses to create new relationships with these customers and it serves them well as they have stepped out and gave to the community as well.
The beauticians were a hot commodity this year with the free haircuts again. We are so very thankful to
We are so very thankful to Leslie VanGelder, Tammy Whitfield, and Amy Bryant who worked until the last haircut was finished. Everyone seemed pleased and ready for their debut on the first day of school. We would like to thank all the people that came out to serve the community as well as the donors. It is never possible without having both those who sow in time and finances. The list of donors is as followed: Dublin Dairy Queen, Cici’s Pizza, Thompson’s Meat Market, Dublin Family Dentistry, Blackjack’s Coffee Shop, Brookshire Brothers, Kustom King, Granny Clarks Brad Allen, Jimmie Byler, Greg Bruner, Charlie Bradberry, Bobbie Nichols, Kathy Clendenin, Jose and Blanca Lopez, Evening Lions Club, Valley Grove Baptist Church, Hephzibah Family Outreach, Backpack Buddies, Summer Food 4 Kids, SMSC, CCMC. This was an inward dwelling of God with an outward demonstration of just who He is.
Felix and Jonna Alvarado, Kingdom Movement