Lions Club has new location

MARY LOU BUSH

APPALACHIA NEWS

Appalachia Lions Club

The Appalachia Lions Club will meet on Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. at their new location, 127/125 Callahan Avenue, Appalachia. The new name is “The Appalachia Lions Club Fellowship Hall”. The menu for that meal consists of potato soup and hamburger vegetable soup, fried bologna sandwiches and banana pudding and various beverages.

A new place to call home for the Lions Club members, a good parking lot and a great location for their events and meetings.

Congratulations on a well deserved move.

Skateboard Park Has Been Moved

The skateboard park under the bridge near the new Lions Club building and the Masonic Lodge headquarters has been dismantled and moved to Island Park. The park is a great place for fun activities.

Extends Thanks

The Appalachia Lions Club members wish to thank Randy Blair for the wonderful, delicious fish fry last Thursday night.

Everyone enjoyed Randy’s feast and fellowship. It was a meal fit for a king. Thank you Randy for sharing the fish you had caught and prepared for us.

What a wonderful way to leave the old address and start into a new one.

injuries from fall

I talked with Betty Collins on the phone last week. She had a fall in her home a few days earlier. Nothing is broken in her body but she has some terrible bruising and is very sore from the fall.

Betty would like to ask people to remember her in prayer for a speedy recovery. She is so thankful for all the help her brother, Ted Collins, gives her in these situations.

Celebrates Anniversary

A very nice couple, Debbie and Jim Collier, celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary on Sept. 1.

Mother, Sally Gibson, wishes them many blessed and happy years to come.

Birthday Wishes

August 31 was Rev. Roy Smith’s birthday but due to Roy not feeling up to a party, a party will be at a later date when he feels better. Happy birthday to a fine man whenever he celebrates.

Don Willingham in Euclid, Ohio celebrates his birthday September 5. He normally would be in Andover for the Andover reunion but it was cancelled this year. Betty Myers would like to wish Don a happy birthday. Hope to see you next year.

Condolences

We were shocked and saddened last Friday, August 28 to learn of the unexpected, sudden death of a very well known and loved woman.

Donna M. Stanley, 62 years old, passed away at Holston Valley Hospital during a procedure. Donna lived in Inman with her husband, Randy, her two sons, daughter-in-law and two precious granddaughters and her mother, Mary Wilder.

Donna was very much involved with her church, New Hope Assembly of God in Big Stone Gap. She leaves behind to mourn her passing a large family of two sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews and her church family.
The family received friends at the New Hope Assembly of God Church on Monday evening. The funeral was conducted at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1.

Please remember this family in your prayers.

Allergies are Bad

The yellow goldenrod weeds and the giant ragweed are in full bloom in our area and allergies are bad. The butterfly bushes also are beautiful with their deep purple blossoms. Late summer has some unusual flowers to welcome the fall colors.

Nothing can compare to our October colors. These colors we have for the next few weeks are just a prelude for the beauty of the mountain colors we will see by October 15.

This is the date we have always been able to enjoy “the peak” of our fall colors.

I’m looking forward to this fall. This spring and summer have certainly been a different one to stay home and not travel, so fall won’t be any different.

Stay home and be safe.

Sympathy Extended

We extend our sympathy to Mark Quillen in the loss of his father last week.
Mark is in charge of the water treatment plant for the Town of Appalachia.

Labor Day

Do not forget this Monday is Labor Day. How the months have flown by this year.