Category: Special Olympics Basketball

Today’s Good Guy 👦 Tip of the Cap goes to Patrick Smith ! One of our leaders / partners in our Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 family !

Patrick Smith is just another example of what a OneofUs.Care person looks like, and the energy that he brings to our group is magnetic. Most people have the ability to go the extra mile for their own, but it’s harder to find folks who are willing to do the same for others.

One Team….

Everyone who enters Vickey’s world 🌎 has a roll to play, and Patrick provides the broad shoulders. Watching 👀 him yesterday afternoon was easy on the heart ❤️.

Thank you, Patrick !!

Photos from Vickey Ritchie and Samantha Lark Smith.

Sunday afternoon on The Hill can only mean one thing – it’s time to hang out with Coach Vickey Ritchie and our Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 program…

Sweet summertime is the theme this week, and Coach has added sounding like a Southern Bell 🔔 to her bag 🎒 of tricks.

2 to 4 is a special place because of how hard Coach works on equality

Later on today, when the dust settles, Vickey and her numerous helpers will share the practice on various types of social media.

Very therapeutic to use one’s voice, without judgment for the enjoyment of others !

We lost a great leader and protector yesterday. While I never had the privilege of knowing our Deputy, I do know our Sherriff and what his department stands for.

Thoughts and prayers 🙏 go out to everyone who is feeling like they lost someone who was near and dear to them. God Bless 🙌 everyone who is currently involved with the Man Hunt and the family of the other Deputy who was wounded.

Travis Osborne is busy today celebrating the Birth of his first born today ( Happy Birthday 🎂 Kiddo) but still took the time to share his Bible Verse of the Day…

Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus

Later today, it will be time to head over to Hillsville Elementary School to see how I can be of assistance to Coach Vickey and our Special Olympics Basketball program. This is how I came to know Sherriff Kemp years ago, and I’m better for knowing him.

  Rest in Peace, Brother Utt and know that you touched many, many lives along your journey.

Not your typical Morning Brew, but yesterday was not your typical day.

There have been plenty of songs 🎵 about trains 🚆 and tonight is the overnight ride from Little Rock to St. Louis ! Choo Choo, with some notes 📝 from Vickey Ritchie, Jan Brady, and Brother Osborne to keep me busy.

We had a slightly different group—-as usual, lol—-but everyone stepped up to help, and we got-r- done.  Lots of smiles for CCSO Red White and Blue Basketball Practice!

Thank you, Coach Vickey !

The world 🌎 is a better place with Buc-ees in it, so yes, a great big smile takes place whenever I receive a photo, which includes the little fella !

Recent college graduate 🎓, Jan is heading up the coast and it looks like the middle daughter is in great company x 2!

Travis Osborne is a fellow softball junkie and today, he found himself rooting for the Red Raiders. Wow, did they have themselves a day down in the Swamp !

Big Thank You to Kevin DeHaven for sharing his Regional tournament schedule with us !

My favorite train 🚆 song 🎵 is Kenny Rogers and ” The Gambler”……