An Evening for Heroes By Jim Satterwhite

Posted by Jim Satterwhite | Jan 31, 2020 | FRIENDLEE PLACE HOME, NEWS | 0 |

An Evening for Heroes By Jim Satterwhite

The Youth of the Year candidates from left to right in back are Jocelyn Garcia, Selena Hermosillo, Henry Lopez, Aundrea Polson, and Austin Cook. In the front from left to right, Tate Jones and Noah Vega.

Greenville, Texas- Young “Superheroes” gathered at the Reecy Davis Center Thursday evening for the 2^nd Annual Celebration. The event was sponsored by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Texas.

Youth of the Year has been the premier recognition program that celebrates extraordinary achievements of club members since 1947. Leadership, service, academic excellence, and healthy lifestyles embody the nominees. The Hunt County nominee will compete with regional and state contenders. The national winner will represent 4-million Boys and Girls Club members.

The Junior Youth of the Year Candidates are Tate Jones from the Commerce, Texas elementary site, Austin Cook is from the A. C. Williams elementary site, and Selena Hermosillo is from the Commerce Middle School. Noah Vega represents the Kava Kids in Greenville and Jocelyn Garcia represents the Reecy Davis Center. Aundrea Polson is from Rockwall. Henry Lopez is the Youth of the Year Candidate in the age 14 plus division. The winner here will journey to Austin in March.

About The Author

Jim Satterwhite

Boxcar Jim Satterwhite I was not always known as Boxcar Jim (who would have imagined) but earned the name at a railroad trade show in Chicago in 1988. I left Greenville in 1968 for an Air Force career that spanned twenty years. I had just retired in 1988 and started my company, Coastline Rail. I joined with an associate, John Licht. We acquired a fleet of used gondola cars and sold them to Steel Processing. The company would later be known as Progress Rail and merge with Caterpillar to be a major player in the railroad scrap business. John and I walked into the hospitality suite in the penthouse of the Chicago Hilton in September and the owner of the company announced “Boxcar Jim”. I lived with that name for the last 31-years. My lovely bride, Nancy, and I lived in Hendersonville, Tennessee. We met all of the Grand Old Opry stars. Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, the Oak Ridge Boys, Roy Orbison, Dottie West and many others. Eventually, I was recruited by another company specializing in railroad equipment and moved to Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina in 1995. Nancy and I moved back home to Greenville in 2001 where I continued to run Coastline Rail. About that time, I met Friendlee at a little place called Clyde’s Shoe Repair. Our friendship has gone on for eighteen years. I became a writer for Hunt County News. Friendlee and other investors purchased the company and it became Friendlee News. We now have YouTube TV shows, a live production every Wednesday from the Texan Theater and now a streaming radio station known as Friendlee Radio. Texans, Legends and Outlaws! I look forward to bringing you “The Good News”.