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Italy Church of Christ honors Italy city employees

Cindy Sutherland City of Italy, Texas

Image: Italy Police Chief Diron Hill is thanking the Italy Church of Christ for the appreciation breakfast.

Italy Police Chief Diron Hill is thanking the Italy Church of Christ for the appreciation breakfast. (Cindy Sutherland)

Image: Donovan Scott, Ron Scott, Billie Buchanan and Lavon Brach all members of Italy Church of Christ taking a break from cooking and enjoying some breakfast.
Image: Darrell and Donna Rosemond cooking up yummy breakfast burritos.
Image: Cherrie Scott and Kim Zambrano – members of Italy Church of Christ whipping up some delicious pancakes.
Image: Raymond Mosley, Donna Cate, Linda Mosley and Flossie Gowin-members of Italy Church of Christ. Flossie Gowin said,“We are fixing pancakes for the city employees to let them know we appreciate them.”
Image: Appreciation sign.
Image: Darrell Rosemond cooking up the ingredients for some wonderful breakfast burritos.
Image: Brad Chambers (Italy volunteer fireman) signing in and ready to share breakfast with the city employees.
Image: Raymond Mosely serving up breakfast.
Image: Tom and Sue Lauhoff (secretary for Italy Police department) and Zander and Nicole Galvan ready to have breakfast.
Image: Josh Childress said, “I work for the Italy water department and I think this is really nice of the members of Italy Church of Christ to honor us by giving us breakfast.”
Image: Diron Hill (Italy Police Chief), said, “I am here to enjoy a good breakfast. This is wonderful for the community to be behind the service workers of Italy and it means a lot to everyone.”
Image: Officer Mike Richardson. Richardson has been with the Italy Police department for abut seven months. He said, “I like Italy, it is a good town to work for.”
Image: Italy Volunteer fireman Sal Peralis and Italy Fire Chief Don Chambers enjoying their appreciation breakfast.
Image: Italy volunteer fireman Tommy Sutherland and his wife Anne Sutherland.
Image: Pastor Walter Buchanan (pastor of Italy Church of Christ and his wife Billie Buchanan.
Image: Pastor Buchanan telling everyone how much he appreciates all their hard work and hopes they enjoy this appreciation breakfast.
Image: Three generations of the Cate family.
Image: Police decorated table.
Image: EMS workers table decoration.

Early Saturday morning many of the members of the Italy Church of Christ were up and cooking a delicious appreciation breakfast for the City Employees of Italy. The dinning hall was decorated to the hilt and delicious aromas were wafting through the air.

At eight in the morning the doors to the church were open and guests were being welcomed with smiles and handshakes.

Donna Cate (member of the Italy Church of Christ) explained, "We are having an appreciation breakfast for all of our Italy firemen, city workers, policemen, the sheriffs department and the EMS. We are having pancakes, sausage, breakfast burritos, coffee and orange juice. With this breakfast we are trying to let them know that we are very appreciative of all the hard work they do. We know they have to go out in all kinds of inclement weather, we know it is a hard job. We want to thank them for doing this job and keeping the city going. The Italy Volunteer Fire department are always being called to service and we want them to know how much they are appreciated for putting out fires all over the city of Italy and surrounding towns when the need arises. We are so glad to have the EMS in Italy. We hope that this appreciation breakfast is just the beginning of a new tradition and hope to have many more to come.

Dean Carrell (Italy public works department) was there and said, “Everyone of the city employees in public works will be here today. I think this breakfast is great. I have been employed by several cities and there are very few cities that will do this. It is so nice to be recognized and to be told thank you and I am glad to be here.”

Diron Hill (Italy Chief of Police) was in attendance with several of his officers. He said, “This is such a wonderful thing for the members of the Italy Church of Christ to do for us. It means so much to have the community behind us and we all appreciate it.”

When asked why they were putting on this breakfast, Pastor Walter Buchanan said, “We are having this appreciation breakfast for our policemen, firemen and city workers here in Italy. It is just our way of saying thank you for all they do, for protecting us, and for taking care of our property and helping us in our lives. We just want to say thank you. It is our gift to the city workers, policemen and volunteer fire department.”