FRONT PAGE
By:
Amelia Harper, Graphic Correspondent
Castalia Mayor Ellene Leonard has filed a formal challenge with the Nash County Board of Elections regarding the residency status of Castalia Commissioners Gus Sjoberg and Clarence Bender. According to John Kearney, Director of the Nash County Board of Elections, the challenge was filed earlier this month and was discussed at the April Board of Elections meeting.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Nashville’s Town Council granted a right of way purchase from the Department of Transportation (DOT) that will pave the way for the Stony Creek Bridge to be replaced.
The action was taken at the board’s regular meeting last Tuesday night.
The Stony Creek Bridge, on First Street Extension, has been on the DOT’s replacement schedule for years.
Spring Hope Elementary School hosted its fifth annual Womanless Pageant on Friday night. The school holds the pageant every year as one of its Relay for Life fundraisers. Pictured above, the seven contestants vying for the coveted title perform together during the show. Contestants were Clay Thornton as “Clarice,” Scott Collie as “Lola,” Brian Wood as “Bullicious,” Victor Lopez as “Victoria,” Richie Price as “Roberta,” Jim Breedlove as “Janine” and Jonathan Earp as “Josie.”
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
The man who led Nash County Sheriff’s deputies on a vehicle chase last Wednesday night has been identified.
According to a press release, deputies were dispatched to a suspicious person in a vehicle call near the L&L Convenience Store in the Sandy Cross area around 11:45 p.m. on April 6. When the deputy pulled up to the vehicle, he saw a male subject with a ski mask and gloves on.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
The Town of Nashville was forwarded documentation from the Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments asking for comments on the proposed Sanderson Farms chicken processing plant that could be built on Highway 97 in Nash County.
The form was to give the town a chance to offer their opinions on the issue of Nash County expanding its wastewater collection system for the construction of the plant.
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Michele A. Cruz, Graphic Correspondent
Meal prices for public school students will remain the same next school year, the same prices that have been in place for the last four years.
The Nash-Rocky Mount Schools (NRMS) board voted unanimously to approve the child nutrition budget at their meeting Monday night. NRMS students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12 pay $1 for breakfast; grades pre-k through five pay $1.75 for lunch; grades five through 12 pay $2 for lunch. Reduced price breakfasts cost 30 cents; lunch, 40 cents.
Nashville Mayor Donald Street (right) welcomes Italian Pizza & Subs owner Khaled Hassan (right) to Nashville.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Khaled Hassan and his wife, Renae, started their first Italian restaurant in Wilson seven years ago. Today, the couple now manage three Italian Pizza and Subs, two in the Wilson area and more recently, one in Nashville.
Nashville’s Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony for the Nashville location, which officially opened in January.
Local News
ARRESTS
Davante Eskridge - 3/14/2011 - charged with assault with a deadly weapon and communicating threats
Michael Alston - 3/15/2011 - charged with driving while impaired, driving while license revoked and fictitious/alternate title/registration card/tag
Lynch
The Nash County Sheriff’s Office arrested two Rocky Mount women last week for trafficking prescription pills.
The Narcotics Division of the Sheriff’s Office received information that Kimberly Lynch, 26, of Coleman Avenue, Rocky Mount and Rashunna Parker, 30, of Tanglewood Road, Rocky Mount, would be trafficking prescription pills on April 7.
The Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education honored Channing Hilliard Fries, Jr. last Monday night for his many years of service as an educator.
Fries was born in 1914 in Rowan County and arrived in Nashville in 1938 to teach French and Social Studies at Nashville High School.
As part of Military Appreciation Day, students at Nashville Elementary School got a chance to visit several stations with different military men and women, who discussed their role in the service. Pictured above, students look at a tent that service men and women sleep in.
Wednesday, April 20 from 2 until 6 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 100 S. Church Street, Rocky Mount
Wednesday, April 20 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Environmental Services Building, Thorpe Road, Rocky Mount
Stephen Cole Bunn and Christopher Wayne Miller, both of Rocky Mount, participated in the Governor’s Page Program in Raleigh.
Stephen and Christopher spent a week gaining valuable life experience and providing administrative support as a page for Office of State Budget and Management for the week of March 21-25.
Pictured are Mrs. Collins’ 2nd Graders (1st Place), Mrs. Lancaster’s Kindergartners (2nd Place), and Mrs. Bass’ First Graders (3rd Place).
Winstead Avenue Elementary School recently completed its third annual Valentine’s Day cards’ campaign for Duke Children’s Hospital. Homemade cards, illustrated by second grader Hallie Masten in Mrs. Collins’ second grade, were sold for fifty cents each during the month of February.
Crumpler
Two outstanding students from Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System have been selected to participate in the 2011 North Carolina Governor’s School.
Julian J. Marrero, of Northern Nash High School and William D. Crumpler, of Rocky Mount High School, are among the 600 rising high school juniors and seniors statewide selected to attend the six-week summer program for academically or intellectually gifted students.
Amanda Jordan Matthews received her B. S. in Nursing from East Carolina University School of Nursing in December 2010. She received licensure as a Registered Nurse from the N. C. Board of Nursing in January. Amanda, a Nash County native is a graduate of Nash Central High and is the daughter of E. Lindsey & Phyllis B. Matthews of Castalia.
Parker Middle School contestants.
Parker Middle School won its second straight Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools Battle of the Books title during the March 9th competition held at the Nash Agricultural Center. Students from all five middle schools were quizzed on characters, details, plots, settings, and quotes from the 27 novels required for this year’s competition.
Attention - All children (and parents): There will be an Easter party at the Beulah Church of Christ fellowship hall, Saturday, April 23rd from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM. Children please remind your parents of this and let them know just how much you would like to attend. Parents, please mark your calendars and be sure to bring all the children, their friends, and the neighbors’ children to this special event!
Brother Bob welcomed everyone to Sunday school. There were 95 present with six visitors. Alex Marlowe read the Bible verse for today. The title of our Sunday school lesson was “Praise Builds Us Up”. The golden text for today’s lesson was Jude 1:24-25, “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling ... to the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.” Jude is telling us to praise God in all circumsances. We ought to praise everyday for every thing.
Horace Ward, Chris Hall, and Phil Chamberlain with the Tar Roanoke Chaplaincy visited Red Oak Baptist Church on Wednesday, April 6. They gave a presentation on KAIROS, a non-denominational prison ministry. They also shared about a recent KAIROS weekend at the Nash Correctional Center.
On Sunday morning Pastor David Eidson’s message was “Preparing for Life’s Storms” based on Romans 8:31-39. All of us will have storms in our lives and we can all be prepared for these storms by our intimate relationship with God, fervent prayer, and by practicing the presence of Christ.
TEAM FUNDRAISERS
Cancer Awareness Ribbons Magnet: Huntin’ For A Cure’s team is selling 4 inch Cancer Awareness Ribbons Magnets. Please contact Casey @ 252-578-5700 or caseyyandle@gmail.com or Jennifer @ 252-578-1688 or jenniferyandle@gmail.com for a list of available ribbons.
Pastor Whitehouse preached the concluding portion of his sermon titled “Simple Faith in Christ” based on Galatians 2: 15-21. It was a powerful message in which he reiterated that the “Law” cannot provide eternal life. It is a healthy thing to admit your sin and then to find a “new life”. Christ transforms us from the inside out. Then, through Grace, Christ lives within our heart.
Editorials
I recently heard there is a proposal on the table from our fine legislators in Raleigh to start paying kids to make good grades. And we’re not talking about chump change either. We’re talking about $1,000 a year from kindergarten through the end of high school.
What?!?
Seriously?
“An armed society is a polite one.”
I can’t remember if that was one of the Founding Fathers or my UPS Man in Nashville who said that. It doesn’t really matter – they have the same moral and character base values.
For those of us who believe the U.S. Constitution was a pretty dang good document when James Madison first laid pen to it, and feel that it has needed very little modifying and adjusting over the years if you really think about it, protecting rights is a big deal.
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Letters to the Editor:
We, the Nash County Farm Bureau Board of Directors, in the best interest of taxpayers, property owners, and farmers of Nash County hereby resolve to make the following request of the Nash County Board of Commissioners:
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Letters to the Editor:
I would like to plead with those who “enjoy” the circus to PLEASE understand the abuse and torture those circus animals endure. Those animals are taken from their families out of their own environment and forced to “perform” for humans. They are “trained” by abusive methods. Babies are taken from their Moms, wild, majestic creatures are forced to live in cages their whole lives, elephants are tied with chains on their legs most of their lives.
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A PICTORIAL LOOK INTO THE PAST
We found this photo in The Graphic’s 1961 archives. If you recognize the young lady and the store, call us at 459-7101.
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Carol Vierela, Nash County Animal Friends
What is a Shelter? The word shelter means to provide cover or protection. Under that definition, in broad terms, the Nash County Animal Shelter is a shelter. It is the holding facility of Animal Control for stray pets and pets that people turn in. But in my mind, a shelter should be a safe place. BUT it is not.
Sports
COME BACK HERE. Nash Central’s Scarlett Salter (right) tries to track down a loose ball while being defended by Bunn’s Mariela Lopez during Thursday afternoon’s non-conference girls soccer showdown.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Graphic Sportswriter
BUNN -- After falling by just one goal at home to Bunn earlier in the year, Nash Central felt optimistic about its chances heading into last Thursday afternoon’s non-conference rematch at the BHS Soccer Complex.
But host BHS got a clutch insurance goal from sophomore ace Whitney Bunn early in the second half and went on to sweep the season series against the Lady Bulldogs by a 3-1 score.
IT’S A FOOTRACE. (L to R) Southern Nash’s Karla Flores and Rocky Mount’s Emily Gray try to gain possession during last Friday’s action at the annual The Brittany Girls Soccer Showcase, which was held at Gillette Park in Wilson.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Graphic Sportswriter
WILSON -- The atmosphere at the annual The Brittany Girls Soccer Showcase is designed to be friendly and informal -- as sportsmanship is constantly accentuated in the ‘friendly’ matches.
But even more was at stake for Southern Nash and Rocky Mount during last Friday’s latest Brittany installment at picturesque Gillette Park in Wilson.
NASH COUNTY -- The Nash-Halifax Swim League has released its schedule for the 2011 summer season.
Action will begin on June 16 and run through the N-HSL Championships, which will be held July 30 at the Roanoke Rapids Aquatic Center in Halifax County.
The complete N-HSL worksheet is as follows:
SQUEEZING THROUGH FOR NN. Northern Nash’s Caroline Johnson (center) makes her way through a pair of Faytteville Jack Britt defenders during last Friday night’s action at the annual The Brittany Girls Soccer Showcase.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Graphic Sportswriter
WILSON -- After being unable to find the net at The Brittany Girls Soccer Showcase, the Northern Nash Lady Knights broke through in a big way during Monday’s home Big East Conference showdown against the Southern Nash Ladybirds.
Northern Nash had gone four halves without scoring, including the first on Monday, which ended in a scoreless tie.
ZEBULON -- The Mobile BayBears scored 11 runs in the first five innings and then cruised home to an 11-3 victory over the Carolina Mudcats, turning the Mudcats into the only winless team through the first four games of the Southern League baseball season.
Carolina had its chances in the early innings against first-time Double-A starter Patrick Corbin.
FERRUM, VA. -- The North Carolina Wesleyan College Bishops baseball squad concluded its 2011 USA South Conference schedule on Sunday with a trip to Ferrum College for a contest with a Panthers’ squad that was coming off back-to-back victories.
BUNN -- A Big East Conference rarity occurred during league action on March 29 at The River Golf and Country Club in Franklin County.
Wilson Fike usually dominates Big East boys links action, but that wasn’t the case as host Southern Nash edged the Golden Demons for the top spot.
NASH COUNTY -- Listed are last weekend’s results from sports action from the Nash County Parks and Recreation Department:
By:
CHARLES ALSTON, Graphic Correspondent
RED OAK – Northern Nash responded to a tough Big East Conference loss to Nash Central last Wednesday by topping visiting Wilson Fike 10-4 Thursday in prep baseball action.
Sophomore Hunter Watson had a fine night on the mound and at the plate.
GREENVILLE -- Junior Kevin Brandt tossed his second career complete game and helped host East Carolina University (22-10, 4-5 C-USA) to a much-needed 7-3 win over No. 21 Rice (23-13, 6-3) Sunday afternoon in Conference USA baseball action at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
Nash Central’s Scarlett Salter (left) sends the ball forward during the Lady Bulldogs’ road soccer matchup last Thursday afternoon against Bunn.
Deaths (Updated Daily)
SPRING HOPE- A going home celebration was held on Monday, April 11, 2011 for Florine E. Greene, age 88.
NASH COUNTY - Lurene Morgan Parker died Thursday, March 31, 2011.
ROCKY MOUNT - Jacqueline Whitfield Goodman, 58, of Rocky Mount, died on Friday, April 8, 2011, in Greenville.
ROCKY MOUNT - Kim P. Richardson, 44, of Rocky Mount, died on Saturday, April 9, 2011.
Entertainment
Legislator Angela Bryant (center) has been named Honorary Ringmaster for the 7:30 p.m. performance on Thursday, April 21, of the Cole Brothers Circus on the campus of N. C. Wesleyan College. She is accompanied by NRMPS Board Member Reginald Silver (left) and Nash General Chaplain Richard Joyner (right) in announcing the availability at local EP Marts of free general admission tickets for children 12 and under.
St. Paul United Methodist Church presents the musical of Godspell which is a great way for the entire community to celebrate Easter together. Performances of this delightful musical, based on the gospel of Matthew, are April 20 – 23rd at 7:30 p.m. with a 2:00 matinee on Saturday, April 23rd at St. Paul United Methodist Church at 1217 Bethlehem Road in Rocky Mount.
