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I want to share a little bit about CovenantHealth Plainview. Foremost, it is a special gift to our community — one that we should appreciate and support. It is full of amazing medical personnel. A few years ago, I admit, most of my doctors were found outside of the CHP system. In the last five years, I have moved all of my healthcare to the CovenantHealth Plainview system as specialty physicians have opened practices here. I have one doctor not in the system, and that is my dermatologist. I hope one day we will have one in Plainview and I can say I'm 100% cared for by the best physicians in the region.
The CovenantHealth - Saint Joseph System is celebrating 100 years 1918-2018. WOW! A beautiful story of faith and healing! Today, I was gifted with their centennial ornament.
Each tree ornament has distinguished meaning.
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There are several wonderful catering opportunities in Plainview. Today, I want to share with you the Broadway Brew catering menu. The Brew has catered for some time, but now they have a catering director whose focus is on catering for your event or gathering. Book early for your holiday party. What a great gift to your employees, friends, and family! Ask for Jude.
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Shirley Mull-Flatt, the wife of G.W. Flatt, shared this interesting Plainview history tidbit.
Buddy Widener, of Buddy's Grocery, had talked Gibson's into letting him open his grocery store inside the Gibson's location. G.W. was working for Buddy in his grocery store after he lost his job when Piggly Wiggly burned. G.W. says it happened around 1968-69. One day Sam Walton stopped in Plainview. G.W. thought he had come into Plainview to refuel his plane and then decided to visit Gibson's.
Sam Walton didn't know that the Gibson's store had a grocery store (owned by Buddy Widener), pharmacy and a jewelry store (owned by Curly Service) in them. He had never seen one before that had everything in one location. He talked to Buddy about the grocery store and liked the idea. G.W. was there that day and saw Sam Walton, so you know this is a first-hand story. Buddy lost his contract a year or so after that, so he moved over on 10th Street before opening a store on 5th street. G.W. says that is why Sam Walton put the distribution store in Plainview because of the ideas he got here that day.
After Buddy moved to the 10th Street location, G.W. went to work for Pioneer Natural Gas aka Atmos Energy. G.W. Flatt is a 1968 PHS graduate and a Vietnam Veteran.
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Sacrificial Giving. Yes, that's correct. What else can it be after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday? I hope before we spent all of our money that we planned for Giving Tuesday! It is good to plan and give all year long, but it is equally important that we sacrificially give...beyond the regular giving. To give is to bless and to bless is to be blessed. Giving never fails to bless doubly.
There are many organizations with needs. I suggest you go to God in prayer to determine where you can most help with your giving according to His will. It doesn't matter how little or how much you have because the blessing is found in the giving spirit.
It is difficult for me to suggest places to give to you in Plainview because there are many who need our help and they are all worthy places.
Let me start with suggesting that we first give to God through our house of worship. Go above your tithe giving.
Then, there are two primary giving sources that reach multiple agencies. The Plainview United Way and the Plainview Area Endowment. Both of these giving sources touch multiple entities.
The PAUW assists the following agencies and they all depend on our giving!
The Plainview Area Endowment an affiliate of the Community Foundation of West Texas will be at both the United and Amigos Stores on Giving Tuesday, November 27th.
The Plainview Area Endowment serves Plainview and the surrounding area by supporting projects that address community needs. It is the largest member of the Community Foundation of West Texas‘s family of affiliates.
For you, it’s a way to lend a hand that’s always ready to help.
For Plainview and the surrounding area, it ensures that help is here when it’s needed – now and for generations to come.
Since 1981, thousands of donors have used the expertise of the Community Foundation of West Texas to improve the quality of life throughout the South Plains area. The Plainview Area Endowment, an affiliate of the Community Foundation of West Texas, was created in 2010 to give the people of Plainview and the surrounding area the opportunity to build a pool of permanent resources exclusively for the benefit of their community.
When life’s been good to you, it’s good to reinvest.
For most of us, that means contributing to local charitable causes periodically. But those who are especially grateful – or those to whom life has been especially generous sometimes want to do more. That’s where the Plainview Area Endowment comes in.
You can see some of those in Plainview who have been helped through our giving to the PAE in this picture on the sign. You can give from the links above on the website.
There are other great agencies to give to:
AND, I'm certain there are others! The important thing is for us to locate the best fit for our giving glove! It is magical!!!
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I suppose I have become a keeper of data! LOL, I enjoy old phone books, and I cannot lie!
52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 67, 70, 71, 73, 07 are the phone books I have. I need to fill in the blanks!!! Anyone have the ones we are missing?
It is fun to look at the old data found in these pieces of history. So much has changed. It's all good though. Change makes us take action.
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