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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 2004
Page
1
Collingsworth General Hospital invites participation in the annual community Christmas card. Individuals may donate $10 at the hospital or the Leader to have their card included in the newspaper edition this year.
The Wellington High School band performs on the courthouse lawn on Thursday December 9, 2004 at 6 30 pm for the annual lighting of the square. Payton Kane will sing Christmas selections and children may visit Santa at the Collingsworth County Museum for $3 each to have pictures taken with Santa.
First Baptist Church will present the annual Christmas cantata Emmanuel celebrating heaven s child on Sunday December 12 at 6 pm in the church auditorium under the direction of Derwin Comer Harriett Schaub will be a solo ist The public is invited to attend.
The Wellington Elementary will celebrate the holidays with a song program on Friday December 17 2004 at 9 30 am in the gym. Everyone is invited to attend and join the holiday singing.
RSVP will host a monthly birthday luncheon on December 18, 2004 at 11 30. For information contact Boole Guthrie at 806 447 293.
In 1975 John Forbis began making toys for friends’ children, expanding into a local tradition. By 1978 he handed out 800 toys to trick or treaters and since 1979 Santa and his elves have produced about 14,000 wooden cars whistles trucks and reindeer. The toys carry a lifetime warranty and replacements are free if damaged lost or stolen. Forbis, a retired Wellington district judge and former resident, greets visitors Fridays and Saturdays at 1000 Hill Crest Drive in Childress. A Christmas blood drive hosted by Coffee Memorial Blood Center on December 20, 2004 from 2 to 7 pm at the WAC offers a Christmas ornament to donors.
The family of SPC Trinidad Ty Cantu traveled to Arlington over Thanksgiving before his deployment on November 29, 2004. He has served in Wheeling and Fort Bragg with a saw gunner MOS and Combat Life Saver certification. Local weather notes show Collingsworth County surpassing long-term precipitation norms in 2004, with historical context and farm impacts from the wetter winter.
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