The Community Events Calendar is published as space permits. Events will also be published on our website.

Join Pastor Buford Griffith, Jr and Carmen Griffith at Mount Pleasant Seventh-day Adventist Church for a weekend of teachings to help strengthen marriages and homes, Resilient Families: A weekend for strengthening marriages and homes will take place over two days including sessions: July 8, 2022 at 7pm – Church Sanctuary July 9, 2022 at 11am – Church Sanctuary (potluck lunch to follow) July 9, 2022 at 2pm – Fellowship Hall With all the challenges that we face today, the pandemic notwithstanding, the greatest of these challenges is in keeping our families Christ-centered, safe, healthy, and seeking to create and maintain happiness in our homes. This can only be achieved by the help of God.

For free estimates, quality repairs and professional service, go see the experts at Dickie Morrow Body Shop. “It’s not enough to promise a high quality vehicle repair … it’s about delivering one — and standing behind it,” said Dickie Morrow.

Three Northeast Texas Community College history students recently have won Brenda Godoy Awards for superior conceptualization in their semester essay submissions over the course of the 2021-2022 academic year. Heslie Castañon, Mattheson Wright, and Alyssa Ochoa will each receive $50.

The Mount Pleasant football program is doing its part to build up the “#Family.” The annual Mount Pleasant Tiger Youth Football Camp will take place from 1-3 p.m. July 11-13 at Sam Parker Field.

A plane crash late Sunday night near the Mount Pleasant Regional Airport has left one dead and several people injured and the National Transportation Safety Board looking for answers. The plane was identified as a Piper PA-32, a single engine plane that carries up to six people.

The Texas heat is here to stay and forecasters say the next few weeks will be a typical Texas heatwave, plus some. Forecasters are telling us that a northward shift in the jet stream will build a “heat dome” on top of the central part of the United States, with temperatures rising anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees above normal.

The annual Washington Leadership Conference (WLC) was created in 1969. For the past fifty-three years, FFA members from across the country have converged on Washington, D.C. in the summer to evaluate their personal skills and interests, develop leadership talents, and create service plans that will make a difference in their communities. The WLC is the second largest student experience that the National FFA Organization hosts each year with more than 2,300 registered students.