Exploring Plainview Texas

Chamber of Commerce

 

This morning at 7 a.m., the Plainview Chamber of Commerce Board met for reports.

 

What a joy to sit at a table with the Plainview Junior Service League's young women who were present to receive the Chamber's Business of the month. Emily Parker, a Chamber Board member, and JSL member, Denise Smith of Happy Investments (not JSL, but young), Ashley Criswell, JSL President, and Anneka DeVos, JSL member, represented for all young women who are the future of our community!!!

 

Junior Service League receives the Business of the Month award...

 

If your business is not a part of the Plainview Chamber of Commerce, you are missing out! You may not think you need it, but we all need each other to maintain a strong and vital business community. Call the Chamber @ 806-296-7431 for more information. 

 

Champions for Children

Covenant Children's Champions for Children is allowing our community to support the oncology services by a point of purchase at the participating businesses. These gifts will provide:

• new oncology/hematology floor with inpatient, outpatient, and infusion services
• a school inside the hospital to help children stay on track with their work while they are in the hospital.
• pediatric behavioral health unit with inpatient, outpatient, and therapy groups

Our point of purchase opportunities are:

• Amigos
• Dairy Queen
• Leal's
• The Broadway Brew
• United Supermarkets

Oncology services provide care for our entire region, and yes, for Plainview and hale County children. Let's give where we can. 100% of what we give goes to servicing our pediatric oncology patients!!!

 

 

Window Mural

 

The Hale County Teachers Federal Credit Union always has fun 4-H windows, often a painted window mural. The Spring 2021 windows do not disappoint.

 

 

New Mural

 

We are working on a new mural in historic Downtown Plainview. It is located inside the Broadway Brew, on the Brew Art Wall. Dylan Price is the artist creating the piece after collaborating with Brew owner Bradley Sell. 

 

 

 

 

We are excited for another mural listing in our art inventory in our downtown. We hope you enjoy them!

 

Name Change

 

There is a name change that occurred in Plainview in the health community, the medical doctors and staff of West Texas Family Medicine were integrated into Covenant Health Plainview. Look for new signage to be in position over the next few days.

 

 

5431

 

Hale County Historical Marker #5431 is the Stant Rhea Stage Stand, located six miles from Hale Center, Texas. The Stant Rhea Site historical marker was erected in 1976. Sidney Stanton - "Stant" - Rhea (1862-1922) was a small, red-haired man who drove wild Spanish mules hitched to a buckboard (or carriage). He made the 240-mile round trip from Amarillo to this area three times a week. With later route changes and better roads, he came this way daily. Six miles east of this spot, he had a mule corral and a dugout. Stage passengers and mail patrons used the dugout as a waiting room. Until railroads outmoded his service, Stant Rhea's route and stand were important in developing the South Plains. It is located by three Hackberry Trees, a grove, along I27 on private property but viewable from the west service road.

 

 

Frisbee Golf

 

One of our Plainview park system perks is the frisbee golf course at Regional Running Water Draw Park on west 4th Street. It is used often!

 

 

Ash & 7th Streets

 

A nice vintage picture of Ash & 7th Streets. Look at those automobiles!!! The "Leap of Faith" water tower before it was muraled for the movie. It taken down a few years ago. We remember this as the Bob Hooper Motor Company...Now the "Nash on Ash."

 

 

Tell us your stories!!!

Starting Tomorrow ~ P.O.P.

 

The online auction for the Sally Society's Power of the Purse starts tomorrow, April 13, 2021.

 

 

 

 

The Sally Society is a women's philanthropy group formed in 2011 to educate and empower women to use their combined resources to better the world through Wayland and her students. They host the widely popular, Power of the Purse each Spring. It is purses, yes, but so much more!!!

This year's event is free to attend. Follow the link above, and follow the instructions below to get started bidding! We can all give back and enhance opportunities for Wayland Baptist University students!!!

 

 

 

Shelves & More

 

The ACE hardware located in the old Ramsower's building is getting shelves & more as they get closer to their opening in Plainview, Texas. Exciting times!!!