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By Carol Bettis

Letter From The Executive Director;

Can you believe a new year is here? It is always exciting to start a fresh new year with great

resolutions, goals and dreams. My goal for 2012 is to be the best I can be. I want to be the

best wife, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter and leader that I can be. Trust me, that’s a

lot of work!

I know that PCS will experience hard times this coming year, and great times this coming

year. My goal is to accept those things I cannot change and change those things I can.

I plan on leaning on my Heavenly Father to help me make the right decisions for my family

and my PCS family.

What an exciting time to be alive and work in our business. We have the blessings of walking

in, when the rest of the world is walking out. I received a phone call today from a lady that

needed help and I had to leave a message the first time I called her back. She said, I have

listened to your message over and over and just by the sound of your voice, it lifted me up

to know someone cared. She cried, because someone took the time to return her call and

speak to her in a “nice voice”. I told her she had made my day, and she said that she was going to

keep the recorded message and play it when she feels down. Today I made a new friend for the

agency. Sometimes, it’s the little things that count. Never forget, you are a channel of blessings to

someone.

Enjoy 2012!!! You will never get this moment in your life back. Let’s be thankful for everything we

have and everything that is still yet to come.

Blessings,

Phyllis

Winter 2012 Panhandle Community

Services

1st Quarter

2012

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“Just When we Thought it Couldn’t be Done

One year ago Snack Pak 4 kids was barely off to a slow start. By August it began to pick up and today has it’s own warehouse for putting together the back packs. The new warehouse is located on the corner of 5th and Johnson in Amarillo. It was donated by citizens in Amarillo that are making a difference in the lives of these children. The building also comes with utilities, and some very useful equipment such as a greatly needed fork lift. Every other Tuesday evening the volunteers meet . A record number of them usually about 200 forming 6 to 8 lines on each side of the table. The volunteers line up to fill the bags, and a glow of satisfaction comes across their faces. The success of this program is growing beyond belief. Many caring people in the Texas Panhandle are making Snack Pak 4 Kids a huge success . Thanks to all volunteers that give freely of money and self to help feed the children, also hats off to PCS staff that work so diligently and tirelessly week after week making it happen.

Be sure to visit our web site at -

www.snackpak4kids.org

Thank you letters

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Dr. George Pacheco Jr. is the son of George and Melida Pacheco

of Hereford. Melida is employed with Panhandle Community

services in Transportation Department , she has been with PCS for

many years. This is a wonderful honor for Dr. Pacheco and his

family.

PCS Family News

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Belo is Kent

“Locks of Love”

A Dream of Rita’s

Many of you may know of the “Locks of Love” which takes donations of hair to make wigs for people that have lost their hair do to cancer treatments. This has been a dream of my daughter Rita for 2 years. She wanted to donate hair to help make a wig for a child that has lost their hair due to treatments.

This year a child she knows had to have cancer treatments and lost all of her hair so Rita wanted to donate towards making her a wig . Rita could almost set on the ends of her hair, You have to send at least 12” so we cut off that amount and she is donating it to the “Locks of Love Foundation”. I am so proud of her for

wanting to do this, as I think it is wonderful to be able to help other people in this way. Her hair is still down to the bottom of her shoulder blade so still has long hair, and she feels like by doing this she can make a difference in this child’s life.

Sent in by Peggy Hall Rita’s Mom.

Peggy Hall and daughter Rita cutting for Locks of Love.

Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies

2 cups of sugar 1 table spoon of vanilla Directions:

4 tablespoons cocoa 3 cups of Oatmeal In a heavy saucepan bring to boil, the

1 stick of butter Waxed paper sugar, cocoa, butter and milk. Let

1/2 cup of milk stand for 1 minute then add peanut

1 cup of Peanut Butter butter, vanilla and oatmeal. On a

sheet of waxed paper, drop mixture by

Recipe from Food Network the teaspoonfuls, until cooled and hardened.

Be sure to donate jars of Peanut Butter and Pop Tarts for Snack Pak 4 Kids. Take to PCS 1309 W. 8th Amarillo

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This talented young lady from California is the 10 year old Granddaughter of one of our

dear PCS friends. It appears that young people have a healthy out look on life.

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is

my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they

were great and noble.

-Helen Keller

11-11-11. It’s an auspicious day – not only because our

calendars reveal a unusual alignment of numbers – but

because it’s Veterans Day. It’s not a “Hallmark” holiday.

And it’s not a church holiday. It’s an occasion that our

government created to honor the ~25 million U.S.

citizens who have served in uniform, on active duty.

More Than 20 Million Served – Salute to Veterans

Salute To Our Veterans

By-LaRue Johnson RSVP Director for PCS

Saturday Nov 5, 2011 RSVP along with 27 other organizations Saluted our Veterans along with 1,500 attendees gathered at the Thomas E Creek Veterans Medical Center for fun, food and games. United Supermarket furnished the food and served 564 hamburgers and 612 hot dogs with all the trimmings. Coca cola furnished soft drinks, Hospice Care of the Southwest baked 2,500 cookies. Children were entertained with the GAMETRUCK, rock wall, kids bouncer, and face painting. Buster Bledsoe Band entertained & door prizes were given.

11-5-11 Honor Guard at VA

Hospital Salute to Veterans

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Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small,

large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

--Winston Churchill--

Taken from Perspective on what matters most.-by Jeff Courter

Amarillo, Texas

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Check out the Sn

ack Pak

web site w

ww.snack

pak4kids.org

2011 was an Incredible Year!! January 2nd, 2012 (Copied from the snackpak4kids web page)

Jan 1, 2011 2 schools and 100 kids were on the program. We now have almost 2000 kids in 8 school

districts (Canyon, Amarillo, Hereford, Bushland, Fritch, Walcott, Tulia, and River Road). THANK YOU

to all the donors, sponsors, churches, volunteers, school staff, and community coordinators who are making weekend hunger a thing of the past in our communities. Our goal is by 2015 every community

in the Texas Panhandle has a weekend backpack program for their children.

Phylli

s Cook

PCS

Executiv

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ctor.

WT Football Guys.

Center student is LaRue

Johnson's grandson John. High School stu

dents from

Snack Pak at the Hilltop Center.

WT Students at Snack

WT student helping

with Snack Pak.

Warehouse donated for

Snack-Pak- 4- Kids has

New location is on the

corner of 5th and Johnson.

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New Year 2012– Mayan Calendar

There are many theories on the 2012 Apocalypse or end of times if you will, and as many disagreements. What will be in store for our planet and mankind in the future? Most likely, this will not be know even after we pass the date, December 21, 2012. Could this date be just the beginning of the changes predicted with the ending of the Mayan Calendar’s last cycle? Mexico, Belize, and Honduras are countries related to the Mayan civilization that stand to benefit from tourism which is expected to increase this year. This mysterious event have many people asking the questions, will the world stand as is, will mankind go on? There will be changes of course, such as the articles below suggest.

“ An Apocalypse”, moving ahead with gradual peace and tranquility, everyone’s dream of life on earth. No matter what your belief or idea of what this time in history will bring to us, it will be on the minds of many people across the world. Hopefully it will be a world of peace and tranquility. Could we be so lucky?

By The Informer editor Carol Bettis

Mayan Age 12/21/2012

An Apocalypse (Greek: “lifting of the veil” or “revelation”) is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted." —

Wikipedia

"Both the Hopis and Mayans recognize that we are approaching the end of a World Age... In both cases, however, the Hopi and Mayan elders do not prophesy that everything will come to an end. Rather, this is a

time of transition from one World Age into another. The message they give concerns our making a choice of

how we enter the future ahead. Our moving through with either resistance or acceptance will determine whether the transition will happen with cataclysmic changes or gradual peace and tranquility. The same

theme can be found reflected in the prophecies of many other Native American visionaries from Black Elk to Sun Bear."

— Joseph Ro"An Apocalypse (Greek: “lifting of the veil” or “revelation”) is a disclosure of something hidden

from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted." — Joseph Robert Jochmans

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Sent in by Ian’s father Robert Gilmore in the

Canyon PCS Transit office.

PCS Family News