Fans will be available to needy persons
BY ROY REYNOLDS

May is "Elder Awareness Month." May is also only a short time away from the sweltering East Texas summer. Unfortunately, pride prevents many of the elderly in the area from making their plight known, until it's too late.

To try to help as many as possible, the Rusk Rotary Club, with the assistance of a couple of local retailers, will provide fans to many of the elderly in the area before the heat of summer takes hold.

To help in this "Fans For The Elderly" campaign, Harry's Building Materials Inc. in Rusk and Wallace-Thompson Hardware will offer 20 inch box fans at considerably-reduced prices for this effort during the month of May.

Persons wishing to help may stop at one of the stores and purchase a Rusk Rotary fan. You will not take it home with you. Instead, it will be held at the store for Rotary members to pick up. They will personally deliver the fans to the elderly.

Persons who have good fans they would like to contribute or those who would like to donate to this cause, may contact Rotarian Toni Meador at Texas National Bank in Rusk. Patriotic bunting campaign

underway in Rusk

Red, white and blue banners will be installed in front of all the buildings on the courthouse square in downtown Rusk. This is in anticipation of the annual Fair on the Square planned for Saturday, May 26.

Rusk Chamber of Commerce President Penny Reynolds will be a modern-day Betsy Ross, with her scissors and sewing machine. She will cut the bunting to size and sew the ends to prevent fraying.

Her husband, Roy, will install eyelets so the bunting can be hung. All should be done in time for the Fair on the Square. The bunting will stay up through the Fourth of July celebration on June 30.