Grantfork News for the week of July 16
Grantfork Homecoming is Aug 14 & 15
Committees are preparing for this year’s homecoming that will be on Friday, Aug. 14 and Saturday, Aug. 15.
Grantfork United Church of Christ
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United For Others (UFO), a youth group with Grantfork UCC, will be selling ice cream at the Grantfork Homecoming as a fundraiser. The next meeting of the UFO will be held on July 14 at the church hall at 7 p.m.
On July 15, there will be choir practices, and on July 16, worship will be held at Alhambra Care at 9:30 a.m.
On July 17, yoga will be at 9 a.m., and the UFO trip to the Muny will be in the evening.
HACSM seeks school supplies
The Highland Area Christian Service Ministry is seeking school supply donations.
The most-needed items are two-pocket folders, plastic two-pocket folders, white three-ring binders (1 inch), backpacks, No. 2 pencils, pencil boxes, red ink pens, highlighters (any color), colored pencils, erasers, Clorox wipes, facial tissues, Crayola classic washable markers, black dry-erase markers, large glue sticks, Elmer’s bottled glue (no “school glue”), Fiskars scissors (pointed tip only), calculators (Texas Instrument -TI-30XA), quart- and gallon-sized Ziplock plastic bags (tab close), composition notebooks, loose-leaf paper and spiral notebooks (wide rule only).
Donations may be placed on the table in the breezeway of the UCC church in Grantfork or take the item directly to the food pantry at 900 Chestnut St. in Highland. The food pantry is open Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Items should be donated by July 23 or earlier.
To submit items to the Grantfork News, email riepshoff@yahoo.com or call 488-7603 or (618) 910-9215.
This story was originally published July 16, 2015 at 3:46 AM with the headline "Grantfork News for the week of July 16."