The GRACE Community Clinic is a Medical Home for uninsured families that do not have access to traditional health care. A dedicated staff of volunteer Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Pharmacists, translators, and clerical personnel provide services to our patients. To continue to serve our clients, the Community Clinic is looking for some help. We are in need of the following over the counter, adult medications to help treat those in need: Iron Tablets 65 mg (325 mg. Ferrous Sulfate) Fish Oil 1,000 mg. Colace Psyllium (soluble fiber) Probiotics Gas-X Prilosec Citrucel Nexium Omeprazole 20 mg. or 40 mg. Multi-Vitamins Women’s Men’s Lamisil Cream Clotrimazole Cream (Lotrimin) Mucinex Mucinex D Robitussin DM Vicks VapoRub Voltaren Cream/Gel Biofreeze Debrox Zaditor-Antihistamine Eye Drops Magnesium Melatonin Items can be dropped off or shipped to the following location: GRACE Food Pantry 837 E Walnut Street, Grapevine, TX 76051 Monday – Friday 9am –

GRACE has been blessed with two events celebrating fine wines in October. For wine connoisseurs, and all others seeking to enjoy a well-curated wine, this is a great time! Sommelier Clare Gillette and our good friends at Classic Wine are running a special “Shop for GRACE” promotion, now through October 29. Just visit Shop for GRACE, and order a case of wine to share with friends or family at your next gathering. While you’re on the Classic Wine site, please take a look at all the storage, cellar design, wine delivery, and other services Classic Wine is known for. Also, their wine club, Carpe Vinum, is the wine club curated with the wine collector in mind. And remember, you are getting great wine, and the proceeds will come straight back to GRACE to help those in need. Next, mark your calendars for Thursday, October 28. Randy Johnson and the staff

Sharon Reynolds received the GRACE Most Valuable Player Award for the 2021 Third Quarter at the October meeting of the full GRACE staff. Sharon joined the GRACE staff in 2015 with the opening of the GRACEful Buys Store at 700 West Euless Boulevard in Euless. “Sharon is always smiling and always happy,” said Melissa Simpkins, GRACE Director of Administration and Assistance to the CEO. “She talks with customers and really cares about them. And it shows.” Sharon always has a positive attitude, Simpkins continued. She is very conscientious in organizing and cleaning the merchandise shelves, making the Euless GRACEful Buys store even more inviting for customers, and its one-of-a-kind merchandise easy to find. In the presentation of her MVP Award, Reynolds was recognized for exceptional customer service such as this, as well as her interdepartmental relations/teamwork and excellence in mission. Please drop by GRACEful Buys in Euless and congratulate Sharon

Congratulations to Nicole and Mike Tesoriero and their staff at Southlake Style magazine for another fantastic event. The fifth annual Women’s Luncheon filled Legends Hall at The Marg in Southlake last Friday with attendees seeking new perspectives on what it means to lead courageously. Keynote speaker AT&T Business CEO Anne Chow provided superb insights into current and future trends in leadership. Each guest received a copy of Ms. Chow’s book, “The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias”. A panel of Southlake-based executives joined in the discussion with views on many diverse issues affecting the local area. The Women’s Luncheon was presented by Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southlake, a portion of admissions and all the proceeds of raffle tickets sales will be donated to the GRACE Transitional Housing program and to the MeSquared Cancer Foundation. A “Bellini Wall” greeted arriving guests courtesy of Grapevine Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram, and additional beverages

After crushing summer heat, it’s finally time to enjoy the great outdoors and what better way to do that than at the GRACE Community Garden! This Saturday is Early Fall Tending day. Participants will plant winter crops which do well in the fall weather. All produce harvested will go in the GRACE Food Pantry. Some of the other plots will be worked include some that were planted in spring and are now ready for harvest.   Garden Work Days are a great way to give back to the community and for those new to gardening, a wonderful opportunity to learn. Volunteers do not need to be gardeners—demonstration and teaching are part of the GRACE Garden experience. The Garden is supervised by volunteer certified master gardeners and maintained by trained volunteers, some who are clients and give back by working in the gardens. Ultimately, Garden volunteers find joy in planting, growing, and

Last Friday a tradition returned to GRACE! Past sessions of “Family Game Night”—a collaboration featuring the First Baptist Church of Grapevine, the Grapevine Police Department Community Outreach Center, and GRACE was a massive celebration of fun, food, and fellowship. Huge checkerboards hosted fierce competitions with plate-sized checkers and knee-high chess pieces. Toddler-sized inflatable bowling pins tumbled to beachball-sized bowling balls. Picnic table-after-picnic table sat moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas, aunts and uncles, extended families, and kids, kids, kids. Well, the kids rarely sat. Many times GRACE was the venue, but Family Game Night traveled to the Mustang Drive location of the Community Outreach Center, and the old GRACE Main at the foot of Scribner Street at Shady Brook so the families in the neighboring areas could enjoy the evening. Moms and dads got to know the representatives of the organizers a bit better, and the assistance available with each.

To say “Good things happen to good people” pales in comparison to the situation. And Shonda Schaefer’s humbleness and sincerity would most certainly shun “Great things happen to great people”. In fact, she would say all those participating in the 10th Annual Classic Chevrolet Charity Golf Tournament on Wednesday were great and good people. And she would be right! So when Classic Chevrolet owners Susan and Tom Durant drew her raffle entry and awarded her a 2021 C8 Corvette, she would praise the Durant’s generosity, the hard work of Classic Chevrolet staff, and the support of all who made the tournament a rousing success. GRACE is one of eleven local charities supported by the tournament, and other Classic Chevrolet fundraisers throughout the year. The Durant’s have selected a variety of charities that combat poverty, hunger and homelessness, work with children and adults with disabilities, support military causes, and more. “Each

After a year of “zooming in” to a virtual GRACE Gala, friends of GRACE will once again come together on November 6 to celebrate the stronger families, new lives, second chances, and outstanding successes of GRACE Clients. The Irving Convention Center will be transformed with a Latin Flare to bring the festivities of the night to a high pitch. Special menus, excellent wines, amazing entertainment, and spectacular delights will thrill all our wonderful guests! Among the many highlights will be—once again—unrivaled Silent, Big Board, and Live Auctions offering packages and happenings that money cannot buy—but the highest bidder will! Special Gala volunteers will ring the Grand Ballroom with opportunities to win the very special Cabo San Lucas raffle prize—drawn at the conclusion of the evening’s program. More destination resorts, and private home getaways, hundreds of thousands of airline miles, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences await. But the wait is over—all admission opportunities

The French-inspired interiors of Colleyville’s Montclair took on a British bearing Wednesday afternoon for a “High Tea & Royal Conversation” directed by the Colleyville Woman’s Club. Proceeds from the event benefited the causes of the club, including GRACE. Regaling the guests packing the ballroom with touching history and anecdotes of Diana, the Princess of Wales, was Patrick Jephson, Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, and private secretary to Princess Diana. Jephson served the Princess for eight years (1988-96), and was responsible for every aspect of her public life, charitable initiatives, and private organizations. He travelled with her to five continents, working with the highest ranking government officials including US presidents and other heads of state. Under relentless media scrutiny, Jephson’s tenure covered the period of Princess Diana’s greatest popularity as well as the constitutional controversy of her separation from Prince Charles. Jephson was born and raised in Ireland and holds