Rockwall’s Horizon Auto Center is making a little lighthearted fun of the Nobel Peace Prize recently awarded to Pres. Obama. 

It’s clever advertising. See the sign at 5335 Horizon Dr.

Good job, owner Ken Sterling!

Hope you don’t lose any biz from Obama supporters – but you can’t please everybody, anyway!

Over 500 tubes of ChapStick were recently collected byKC Club members at the “ChapStick for Africa” drive at Rockwall’s Dobbs Elementary School.

Ethan, Logan and Graeson Lynskey (pictured) donated 200 tubes.

The ChapStick are for children  in South Africa with HIV\AIDS, who often suffer from severely chapped and sore lips.  

Dobbs’ SAGE teacher Beverly Stovall, who makes a yearly mission trip to that area, will distribute the ChapStick this summer.

Good job, KC Club members and Ms. Stovall!

Sounds like we need to write a good story about Ms. Stovall’s upcoming and past mission trips!

We were the first to break the news last month in TheRockwallNews.com that Rockwall’s Boys & Girls Club is at risk of closing down from lack of funds.

Now we’re glad to see that CBS 11 TV News just did a story about their money shortfall, as well.

One of their board members just told us that the national Boys & Girls Club organization is not too happy about these news reports. Guess they’d better supply some funds then!

CBS 11 TV News and The Dallas Morning News tell us the sad story about the death of the fifth soldier from neighboring Terrell to die in the War On Terror, US Army Specialist Joseph “Joe” Michael Lewis, 26, who was recently killed while fighting for our country in Afghanistan.

He is the second to die since October.

Left behind are his wife, Teresa; his daughter, Abiagael; his parents, Mike and Pam Lewis; sister and brother-in-law, Amanda and Josh Rodriguez; and grandparents, Carl and Betty Baker and Barbara Hall.

A benefit fund has been set up for Abiagael at American National Bank of Texas, 206 N. Catherine St., Terrell, (972) 442-6565.

Other soldiers from Terrell who have been killed are:

Sgt. Shawn McNabb, 24, killed in October in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

Spc. Jonathan David Arthur “J.D.” Emard, 20, died of combat wounds in June, 2008, in Iraq.

Sgt. Sean Brady Berry, 26, died in an accident in October, 2005, in Iraq.

Army Sgt. Gerardo Moreno, 23, killed April, 2004, in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Iraq.

The City of Rockwall has announced that its garbage collection schedule has been pushed back one day for each of the upcoming holidays.

Thanksgiving:

Thursday, Nov. 26th garbage and recycling will be picked up on Friday, Nov. 27th.

Friday, Nov. 27th garbage and recycling will be picked up on Saturday, Nov. 28th.

Christmas:

Friday, Dec. 25th garbage and recycling will be picked up on Saturday, Dec. 26th.

New Year’s Day:

Friday, Jan. 1st garbage and recycling will be picked up on Saturday, Jan. 2nd.

Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are regularly scheduled pick up days

Congratulations to Lake Pointe Medical Center in Rowlett for receiving recognition for service excellence from the J.D. Power & Associates Distinguished Hospital Program for its “outstanding maternity experience.”

Judging by all the smiles in the above photo, it looks like they’re excited about receiving it!

Read the whole story in TheRockwallNews.com.

Just want to offer congratulations to Rockwall chiropractors Drs. Keeston Waters and Dave Engleken who are stepping up to offer free treatments at their Pro-Health Chiropractic Clinic in return for bags of food donations to Rockwall Helping Hands, where we’re told the cupboards are bare at Thanksgiving time.

Read more about it at TheRockwallNews.com. 

Hurry to get an appointment before the offer ends Nov. 21!

If you eat at Applebee’s restaurant in Rockwall anytime today from 10:30 am-11pm, the restaurant will donate 15 percent of your purchases to the Rockwall-based Lillian Smith Family Violence Foundation, which campaigns in media, schools and communities to help end domestic, dating, child and pet abuse.

Once at Applebee’s, all you have to do, according to Foundation founder and Rockwall resident J.J. Smith, is to tell your waiter or waitress that you are there to help the Lillian Smith Foundation and want your purchases to count as part of Applebee’s donation.

Local Foundation Board and Advisory Council members include State Sen. Bob Deuell, Rockwall County Criminal District Attorney Kenda Culpepper, Walmart Store Manager Jamie Dennis, Dallas Morning News Neighbors Go Editor Dawn Redig, plus Rockwall County Bar Association President and legal columnist John Browning.

Click here to read more at TheRockwallNews.com.

For info about the event or the Foundation’s efforts, call J.J. Smith, 214-256-4071.

Frisco Liberty knocked Rockwall-Heath from the playoffs last night, 49-35.

More details will be online soon at TheRockwallNews.com.

We’ve just posted a story with updated information from Garland Police about the tragic death of Alex Hamilton, the 20-year-old son of Rockwall ISD School Board member Doug Hamilton.

Alex died last Thursday night from injuries suffered in a traffic accident .

See the story now at TheRockwallNews.com.