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The community is invited to a special “Blessing Box Fund-raiser” November 3, 12-5 pm at the Hollow Creek Community Center. This is a Christmas holiday craft and vendor sale. Several vendors will be there with their handmade crafts and other vendors with other items for sale.

If you go, please bring nonperishable items to be donated to the Blessing Box. The Blessing Box was created by a young teen in memory of her father. There is currently one Blessing Box at Restore Hope, a nonprofit organization that is located next the Gilbert-Summit IGA. A second Blessing Box will be ready soon and will be at Beulah United Methodist Church. This box is dedicated to the memory of Jason Gossett and in honor of the youth at BUMC. There will be a silent auction, country store, craft and vendor sale and food for sale at this fundraiser. The HCCC is located at 2701 Priceville Road in Gilbert SC.

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Hollow Creek Community Club members thank the community for supporting the recent chicken barbecue fundraiser. HCCC member Dale Swygert said the event was very successful. HCCC members held their October meeting recently. Their program was presented by Lighthouse for Life, an organization that helps victims of human trafficking. Their mission is to provide a safe environment for their spiritual, physical, and emotional well-being. They provide services, guidance and support to help the victims restore their lives.

HCCC members with birthdays were recognized. Happy birthday to Betty Balder, Monroe Fulmer, Diane Jumper, Rebecca Koon, O’Neal Sessions, Ann Hodges, and Sarah Evans. HCCC members with anniversaries in October are James and Ann Hodges, Dan and Nancy Tinman, and Brandon and Bryn Sarvis Rice.

The Gilbert House of Terror thanks the community for its support this year. The turn out has been great and you have two more nights to enjoy the thrills and scares. You can tour the haunted house on Halloween night and November 1. GHOT supports these charities from their ticket sales: Palmetto Therapeutic Riding Program, Lexington County Juvenile Arbitration Program, First Calvary Food Pantry, and Gilbert Scouts Pack 60.

Congratulations to the Gilbert High School Band for placing second in the recent SC Band Directors Association 2A Lower State Championships. Band members will be selling fruit until November 13. Orders will be delivered on December 9. For info, call Hunter White at 821-1926.

Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church will have a community blood drive November 11, 2-7 pm. To donate, call the church office at 892-2520 for an appointment.

Prices Country Store in Gilbert is giving away sturdy boxes good for moving or storage. For information call 892-2457.