We call it "Home."
It’s the community where the Methodist church opened its doors and shared its premises with the neighboring Baptist congregation when the Baptist church burned to the ground. It’s the community where the volunteer fire department worked to earn a Class IV insurance rating, the best rating of any community in Arkansas served by a volunteer department. It’s a community where volunteers put up playground equipment in city parks, where more volunteers are coaching softball and baseball and football.
It’s a community where social seasons are marked by the Methodist turkey dinner, the First Assembly spaghetti dinner, and the first and last days of school. It’s a community where children come home from school and head outdoors to play, secure in the knowledge that if they’re out of their parents’ sight, a neighbor will be looking after them.It’s our community spirit that makes the difference.
It’s a community that’s experienced tremendous growth, and is poised on the edge of even greater growth.
It’s a community that 11,000 people are pleased and proud to call …..”home.”
 July 19, 2010
My brother and I were on a road trip back to TX from IL with my “new” 66′ mustang convertible last week. We broke down at the Shell Station on I-55. A wonderful man named Ken spent over 2 hours helping my brother work on the car, taking him back and forth to the auto supply, and waited until Heck’s wrecker service picked us up and took us to Bowden’s for an immediate repair. While at the Shell station, we had 7 people stop to offer assistance. The man who owned the gun shop on I-55 offered to tow us free to his place and store my vehicle if we couldn’t get it started. I would like to give a big AMERICAN SALUTE AND THANK YOU to the most helpful and friendliest town I have EVER visited. We arrived home safely Saturday, the 17th. Lisa Syer, Beach City, TX |
