If your New Year’s resolution was to not eat so much candy, it just got a little harder. Camp Fire Boys and Girls are hitting the streets for the organization’s annual candy sale.
The Camp Fire Candy Sale is a decades-old tradition for the local 103-year-old council. Generations of Camp Fire youth have enthusiastically served the organization by selling candy. As they plan and implement the candy sale, these boys and girls are giving back to Camp Fire and learning important life skills.
“Young people who participate in the annual Camp Fire Candy Sale are taking part in a unique learning opportunity emphasizing presentation skills, public speaking, math skills, teamwork, responsibility, confidence and goal-setting” Bettye Ricks, executive director of the Camp Fire North Texas, said.
Proceeds from the sale will be used to provide the wide variety of programs available to youth and to make these programs more affordable.
Camp Fire members will offer five varieties of chocolate including Rich Smooth Chocolate Mints, Sweet Almond Roca Buttercrunch, Creamy Almond Caramel Clusters, and delicious Peanut Butter Bears. Two non-chocolate products include P-Nuttles (butter toffee peanuts) and four varieties of Trail Mix. A new sugar free chocolate candy product this year is made by Russell Stover. Each box is $6.
For the past 10 years, Camp Fire has given people in the community the opportunity to purchase cases of candy for veterans in veterans hospitals in Oklahoma City, Dallas and the ‘Wounded Warriors” at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. This is a perfect opportunity to support Camp Fire and put a smile on the face of a veteran. The Patterson Auto Group kicked off the candy sale by purchasing the first 500 boxes of candy to go to the Wounded Warrior project.
A case includes 15 boxes and sells for $90.
You can order your candy through Feb. 11 by calling the Camp Fire at 322-5209 or stopping by the office at 2414 Ninth St. or of course, purchasing from one of the members.
Paper trail
KMOC 89.5 is gathering paper goods for Faith Mission and Faith Refuge through the end of January. Gather up your paper towels, toilet paper, copy paper and postage stamps and head to the station at 1040 West Wenonah (off Seymour Hwy.)
The goal is to assist the two nonprofit agencies in doing what they do best – helping the hurting and homeless. For more information, call KMOC at 767-3303.
Pen and ink art
Reserve your seat for the next Palette to Palate event 6:30-8:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at Galleria at the Forum, 2120 Speedway. Sherry Mason, a pen and ink artist in Wichita Falls, will be the featured artist. Her artwork is licensed by Art Licensing International and is available on t-shirts, prints and canvases. Working as an illustrator under the name Siobhan, the artist is known as Sherry in her day job as the attendance clerk at Barwise Junior High School.
Tickets are $65 per person and 10 percent off for members. Deadline for reservations is Jan. 22. Dinner is catered by Karat Bar & Bistro. Bring your own favorite drink. For more information, call 766-3347.
Secrets revealed
The MSU Texas Artist-Lecture Series presents Frank Warren, founder of PostSecret, at 7 p.m. Jan. 18 at Akin Auditorium. Warren started the blog in 2005 after passing out post cards to people in public transportation stops in Washington D.C. He invited people to be part of an art project by asking them to share on the post cards a “regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession or children humiliation” as long it was true and had never been shared with anyone before.
Admission to the series: $20 for the general public; $18 for senior citizens, active-duty military personnel and MSU alumnae; and free to MSU students, faculty and staff with an ID. For tickets or more information, call 397-7500.