Forney Life Skills grad fills food pantry with profits from handmade bracelet sales

Forney Life Skills grad fills food pantry with profits from handmade bracelet sales

(FORNEY, TX – May 20, 2015) A few steps inside the front door of Philbeck’s Texas Pine Furniture Store in Forney and one can’t help but marvel at the absolute vastness of the place, the large quantities of country-style antique furniture made from solid vintage pine, or even the charming little bracelet stand run by […]

Rockwall High football kicks off annual food drive

Rockwall High football kicks off annual food drive

(ROCKWALL, TX – May 7, 2015) Rockwall High School Head Football Coach Rodney Webb and the Rockwall Yellowjacket Football Team are proud to announce their third annual spring food drive for Rockwall County Helping Hands.  In conjunction with spring practice and culminating with Spring Swarm on Wednesday, May 20, the football boys will strive to […]

Lake Pointe Food Pantry offers ‘Choice Day’ for residents needing food assistance

(ROCKWALL, TX – May 1, 2015) The Lake Pointe Church food pantry and the North Texas Food Bank continue to make a positive impact on the community through LP food pantry’s CHOICE Day program, helping to end local hunger while sharing Christ and building believers. Lake Pointe Church began a partnership with the North Texas […]

Lake Pointe Food Pantry offers ‘Choice Day’ for residents needing food assistance

(ROCKWALL, TX – April 14, 2015) Residents needing food assistance are encouraged to join Lake Pointe Church for ‘Choice Day’ from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Thursdays at the church food pantry, 701 E. Interstate 30 in Rockwall. They service residents in need in zip codes 75032, 75087, 75089, and other surrounding zip codes depending on […]

Lake Pointe Food Pantry offers ‘Choice Day’ for residents needing food assistance

ROCKWALL, TX. Jan. 12, 2015) Residents needing food assistance are encouraged to join Lake Pointe Church for ‘Choice Day’ from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Thursdays at the church food pantry, 701 E. Interstate 30 in Rockwall. They service residents in need in zip codes 75032, 75087, 75089, and other surrounding zip codes depending on the […]

Rockwall Jackets Spring Swarm Food Drive is victory for Helping Hands food pantry

ROCKWALL, TX (May 31, 2014) Jacket football players helped collect more than 3,000 canned food donations and more than $1,500 in the recent Rockwall High School Spring Swarm Football Game Food Drive. The donations will help fill the shelves at the Rockwall County Helping Hands food pantry. The football players also went door-to-door collecting canned […]

Amy Parks Heath first graders have big hearts

Amy Parks Heath first graders have big hearts

ROCKWALL – December 16, 2013 – Amy Parks Heath Elementary students would like to thank all those who donated to their APHE First Grade Big Hearts for Breakfast Food Drive. APHE first graders provided four shopping carts full of cereal and granola bars to the Rockwall County Helping Hands Food Pantry. “I had the privilege […]

Holiday appeal from Rockwall County Helping Hands

ROCKWALL COUNTY (November 29, 2013) When our Rockwall County neighbors experience an unexpected crisis, where do they turn? If they’re like most in our community, they go to Rockwall County Helping Hands. Why? Because they know Helping Hands serves residents by relieving financial crisis and by providing a medical home. And they know that clients will be treated […]

Sixth grader takes action to help feed the hungry

(ROCKWALL-May 7, 2013) Anna Hibbs, a sixth grader in Christine Roach’s class at Grace Hartman Elementary School, recently collected and delivered more than 700 pounds of canned goods, flour, sugar, oil, peanut butter, jelly, canned meats and Hamburger Helper to Rockwall County Helping Hands.  “While researching on the internet, I learned that one out of every six […]