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Friday, December 24, 2010

Lights, Camera, Action!

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From: Calvin Sneed <douglassriverview@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:28 AM
Subject: Lights, Camera, Action!
To: Jeff Fleming <kingsportblog@gmail.com>


Greetings, Fellow Douglass Alumni, Riverview Neighbors & Friends:

Keeping the Community and the Alumni Informed! December 20, 2010
Lights, Camera, Action!
There's nothing more dazzling than Christmas displays and yard lights. Imagine what a little child sees, when he or she visits East Tennessee's Christmas backyard, namely Winterfest in Sevierville, Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg?

56 New Vision Youth Kids and their chaperones paid Winterfest a visit, and the Christmas lights were a site to behold.

The visit is on the NEWS AND CURRENT EVENTS page of the Douglass Website.

Don't forget to check out the other pages of your website, especially News of Our Douglass Friends and Neighbors, and the Opinions-Letters to the Editor. Whenever we learn of something that might be of interest to our community, we post it there.

We approach the end of another year, shedding a tear for those who have left us this past year. We still feel the losses, but the Lord is easing our hearts.

Hopefully, we'll have an update on the 2011 Reunion activities soon. We need to get you news out about May's Cruise Reunion in the Caribbean and July's Land Reunion in Riverview.

We're also compiling some end-of-the-year statistics for you. They'll be ready next week.

Here's hoping your Christmas shopping is over, your plans to come home for the holiday go smoothly if you're traveling to Kingsport or going out of town to see loved ones, and a reminder: JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!

Take care my friends.. we will talk again very soon!


Calvin

If you need to send us mail, the address of your Douglass Alumni Association in the V.O. Dobbins Sr. Complex, is at the top of the headline column to the RIGHT.

The link below on the LEFT will take you directly to your Douglass Website. Please access the website pages through the Douglass Website's main page, so we can keep a running tally of visitors.

DO NOT CLICK on the link below to the right.
Address:
The Douglass Alumni Association - Kingsport

Suite 104

301 Louis Street

Kingsport, Tennessee 37660
STORIES STILL TO COME ON THE WEBSITE
A Riverview neighbor has found a document denoting where his mother was sold as a slave, just prior to the Civil War. The document is verified, and we'll examine the historical lessons passed down through generations
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