For the 2nd year of their 8, I attended the Plainview AHEAD (Austin Heights Empowerment and Development) community awards and scholarships dinner at the Plainview Country Club. It is always great food and company! So many businesses and individuals are honored and recognized. A highlight is always hearing about the scholarship recipients.
Those recognized for 2025 were:
Academic - Josiah Miller and Brooke Nails
Special Achievement-Student - Brelyn Riddley
Community Achievement - Belinda Nails and Tosha Wall
Community Pillar - Reverand Willie Ansley
Lifetime Achievement - Della Riggins
Education - Joseph Guy, Connie Westbrook, and Taivia Hearn
Special Achievement - Tiffany Mackey and Melba White
Sports - Maddox Ellis and Mady Williams
My Brother's Keeper - Ace Bulldog Hardware, Covenant Hospital, McCoy's Building Supply and Panhandle Popcorn
Congratulations!!!
Pam Fennell shared this song...it speaks!
(I do not own the rights to the lyrics or music, but they are listening worthy)
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing, a song authored by James Weldon Johnson in 1900 that is recognized as the Black National Anthem ...
1 Lift ev’ry voice and sing,
till earth and heaven ring,
ring with the harmonies of liberty.
Let our rejoicing rise
high as the list’ning skies,
let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us.
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.
Facing the rising sun
of our new day begun,
let us march on till victory is won.
2 Stony the road we trod,
bitter the chast’ning rod,
felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
yet with a steady beat,
have not our weary feet
come to the place for which our people sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.
We have come, treading our path thro’ the blood of the slaughtered,
out from the gloomy past,
till now we stand at last
where the bright gleam of our bright star is cast.
3 God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
thou who hast brought us thus far on the way,
thou who hast by thy might
led us into the light,
keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;
lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee;
shadowed beneath thy hand,
may we forever stand,
true to our God, true to our native land.
Thank you, Plainview AHEAD for an inspiring evening! Plainview is blessed by you.