Due to the virus outbreak many churches in our community will be having their Easter services online Sunday.

Easter is always a time of special community Easter Sunrise services, family gatherings, Easter egg hunts and those delicious Easter Sunday dinners. This year celebrating Easter will be different for all of us. We will have to celebrate Easter in new ways.

Wayne and I have been worshipping online each Sunday. Gilbert-Summit churches have posted times on their Facebook pages and websites for online Easter services. Wayne and I pray everyone is well and we extend Easter blessings to all of you.

Beulah United Methodist Church gave over 500 Easter baskets to children at a drive-through. Church volunteers asked everyone to stay in their cars to receive the Easter baskets. Each child in the car received a basket filled with goodies. Volunteers were rewarded with smiles and thanks from the children.

Cherokee Presbyterian Church invites you to a 10 am drive-in Easter service. The service will be broadcast live on Facebook.

DONNA NELL OF the Gilbert-Summit Senior Center tells us the center will remain closed through April. She hopes to reopen in early May. She said they would like to have more volunteers to deliver Meals on Wheels. For information call 892-5745.

LOUISE TAYLOR OF the Gilbert-Summit Branch Library, said no date has been set for reopening. She said a great amount of resources are online for children and adults. Weekly classes will resume when the library reopens.

DALE SWYGERT TELLS us the Hollow Creek Community Center has canceled their April meeting but hope to have their May meeting, the last until September. For information call 892-5701.

OUR GILBERT SCHOOLS will remain closed but Gilbert Middle School student Madyson Amick recently created a beautiful drawing of 3 rainbow trout as part of her art curriculum. Most students are working online. Assignments for those not online are given to them in packages.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO Taylor Davis, William Stidom, Matt Taylor, Kerri Blizzard, Hunter Kyzer, Cory Allen, Matt Ricard, Hunter Haltiwanger, Theron Smith, Ana Sease, Olivia Sease, Mack Puckett, Alli Kimble, and Stephanie Harmon.