Celina Record (Celina, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 22, 2012 Page: 2 of 18
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Star Community Newspapers Thursday, March 22,2012
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High spirits
FRISCO CHURCH GATHERS TO HELP COMMUNITY
Elisabeth Knighten
eknighten @starlocalnews. com
The Samaritan Inn may be
in McKinney, but its message
has been heard from 20 miles
away by the members of Faith-
bridge Presbyterian Church.
Lynne Williams a member
of the church said the congre-
gation first began working with
the organization about 8 to 10
years ago. Recently, the church
decided to participate with the
shelter’s Gateway Apartments,
which allow single residents
and families the opportunity to
live on their own, but at a
lower rent until they are able
to financially afford a home or
apartment.
Williams said this is the
first apartment the church has
adopted.
“We became aware of this
program within the last year
[2011], and obviously it takes
some gearing up to do some-
thing like that,” Williams said.
“This is something that our
church was interested in
doing, and so we at the begin-
ning of the year [January
2012],our church agreed to
adopt a two bedroom, two
bathroom apartments for a
family, and a family is going to
move in.”
Sipiore said the apart-
ments, which include 10 one
bedroom and 10 two bedroom
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are across the street from the
shelter and are located next
door to the administrative of-
fice. She also added that resi-
dents are able to live in the
apartments for 18 months.
“It’s a great stepping stone
to independence,” Sipiore
said. “Their rent increases
every four months, so by the
time they are ready to move
out they’re paying market
value rent and they really have
an opportunity to practice life
skills.”
The apartment program
began about 4 years ago, Sipi-
ore said.
They were fully funded by
one donor and they were built
because we had people coming
out of the shelter that had a
full-time job, but still couldn’t
afford market value rent,” Sip-
iore said. “So they were able to
move into their own apartment
at the subsidized rate.”
She also added that the
donor of the apartments had
plans to furnish the homes, but
the organization wanted “to
get the community engaged”
and asked that businesses and
other local organizations fur-
nish the apartment with new
or used items. With the pro-
gram, the new residents are
also allowed to keep the items
once they move on to their
next journey.
“They adopt the apartment,
they furnish it, we have a list of
just regular kinds of things
that we need,” Sipiore said.
“Many donors will go over-
board and do art work and
flower arrangements and lap-
top computers; that’s not re-
quired. We have a basic list of
furnishings and then the
donor, if they’re interested can
be there on the homecoming
day when the people move into
their apartment.”
Currently, neither the or-
ganization nor the church
know which family will move
into the Faithbridge adopted
apartment, however, Williams
said once a family is decided
the church will be contacted.
“It’s kind of like being Santa
Claus for your kids, you get to
do something except with
these people, you don’t even
know them and that’s one of
the reasons why its fun,”
Williams said.
Williams, who said she and
her husband have been in-
volved with the organization
for “many years” said the
church has requested that any-
one interested in donating
stick to “gender neutral” fur-
nishings, especially for rooms
like the bedrooms. She also
added that the church will sup-
ply all of the furnishings for
the apartment.
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Blaeberry Pound Cake
By Janice Horne
2 cups fresh blueberries
2 cups sugar
4 ounces cream cheese,
room temperature
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons fresh lemon
juice
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 (6 ounce) carton plain yo-
gurt
3 cups flour, divided
1/2 cup butter, room tem-
perature
4 large eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
6 to 9 tablespoons fresh
lemon juice
Preheat the oven to 350 de-
grees. Mix blueberries with 2
tablespoons flour (tossing gen-
tly to coat) and set aside. Beat
sugar, butter and cream cheese
Obituaries; In Memoriam, Services
O’DELL
Mr. Robert Ross O’Dell,
age 91, of Celina, Texas
passed away March 18,
2012 in Frisco, Texas. He
was bom July 26, 1920 in
Collin County, Texas to
Lillie (Highland) and
John O’Dell. Robert mar-
ried Fannie Bull on April
13, 1946 in Weston,
Texas. He was a farmer
and worked for the Alla
Hubbard Rural School
District as a custodian.
Later he drove a delivery
truck for Hughes
Distributors and retired
from the City of Celina
Water Department.
Robert is survived by his
daughter, Margaret
Franklin of Celina,
Texas; sons, Donny
O’Dell and wife, Kay, of
Whitesboro, Texas and
Ronnie O’Dell and wife,
Elaine, of Caney,
Oklahoma; 5 grandchil-
dren and 10 great grand-
children.
He is preceded in death
by his wife, Fannie (Bull)
O’Dell and his parents,
Lillie (Highland) O’Dell
and John O’Dell, one sis-
ter and three brothers.
Visitation was held
Tuesday evening from
6:00 until 8:00 pm at the
Tur rent in e- Jacks on-
Morrow Funeral Home
in Celina, Texas. Funeral
services were held at
2:00 pm Wednesday,
March 21, 2012 at Bethel
Baptist Church in Celina,
Texas.
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THE SAMARITAN INN/ SUBMITTED PHOTO
The Samaritan Inn’s Gateway Apartments sit across the street from the shelter.
“Just envision when you
move into your first apartment
and it was empty, that’s what
we’re providing,” Williams
said. “There’s a lot to it, you
think about everything that
goes into your kitchen from a
potato peeler to a mixer to
bowls ... everything that goes
into a bathroom, towels, the
soap.”
She also added that mem-
bers of the church can agree
to sign up for items they will
donate or to donate cash in-
stead. The church’s “target
date” for the sign-up, Williams
said, is May 1, so that after
that date, members can pur-
chase the necessary items.
The church is also asking
members who have storage ca-
pability to store the items
together in a large mixing bowl
until well blended. Add eggs,
one at a time, until mixed well.
Add vanilla, sour cream and
lemon juice. In a small bowl,
combine remaining flour, bak-
ing powder, baking soda and
salt, mixing well. Gradually add
flour mixture alternately with
yogurt to the egg mixture. Fold
in the blueberries. Pour into
well-greased and floured tube
pan and bake for 60 to 75 min-
utes, or until done (test with a
toothpick after 60 minutes).
Cool for 10 minutes and then
remove the cake to a wire rack.
Glaze: Mix powdered sugar
with lemon juice. Puncture
cake with fork and drizzle with
glaze.
until they can be moved into
the new apartment.
Williams said that “so far
everything going really well.”
She said they have also no-
ticed that the kitchen, both
bathrooms and bedrooms have
been adopted, but the furni-
ture has not been chosen, so
the church is taking financial
donations to raise money for
the more expensive home ne-
cessities.
“We are confident that we
will raise enough funds that by
May 1 we will have enough funds
to actually go out and purchase
furniture,” Williams said.
Homelessness can happen
to anyone. Sipiore said the
shelter has had nights where
every head-of-the-house was
college graduates.
“We’ve had six figure middle
managers and executives who
lost their job, and had some
catastrophic thing occur,” Sip-
iore said. “There is no stereo-
type of who becomes homeless
anymore — primary reason is
long term unemployment.”
She also said on occasion
she will run into someone
whom program has helped
along the way.
“I run into former residents
on a regular basis, just out and
about in the community,” Sip-
iore said. “They also regularly
come back. We have an alumni
group that meets, if they have
a problem, even once they’re
completely independent and
want to talk to their case
worker; our support is there
for a lifetime.”
PENNY RATHBUN/STAFF PHOTO
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TWitter:
PARENTS LEARN TO TWEET
From PAGE ONE
cided to hold classes for PTA
members and anyone inter-
ested in the community to
teach people Twitter 101 and
social media in general.
Poncio said she was
pleased with the response
from PTA members. The
Twitter class was held at C-
Town in the building that for-
merly housed Celina Middle
School.
She and Chamberlin in-
troduced parents to an over-
all view of Twitter, including
basic instructions in estab-
lishing a Twitter account and
tweeting.
“I hear parents saying I
want to know more about
what my kids are doing,”
Chamberlin said.
Parents will accomplish
that by participating in these
technology classes. In a class
held for community mem-
bers Poncio walked students
through setting up an ac-
count on Twitter and then
how to determine who to fol-
low. Choosing who to follow
is a basic skill for using Twit-
ter.
Twitter began as a net-
working computer tool in
2006 and quickly acquired
millions of followers. Today a
teenager without an intelli-
gent phone and a Twitter ac-
count is like a teenager half a
century ago whose family did
not have a telephone.
Chamberlin and Poncio
will be holding other classes
on computer usage for par-
ents and community mem-
bers. The classes will be held
about once a month during
the school year either at C-
Town or one of the computer
labs at Celina High School.
Check the CISD website
at www.celinaisd.com for
class schedules. The classes
are free, but registration for
the classes is required.
“This is important for all
of us to be able to raise our
kids and be in the know,”
Poncio said.
Roger Will
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