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Family Career Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) held their State Leadership Conference in Greensboro in April. This student organization held competitive events in various areas including child development, leadership, community service, advocacy, design, life event planning and foods and nutrition. Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools (NRMPS) students competed against other students from across North Carolina during the conference.

No Aventon News this week, just thoughts.
I have mentioned several times in the past that my old house was named "ANEEDA," because she was always in the need of something. I have been thinking long and hard about what I would call my new home, and really wasn't satisfied with anything until I saw a program on Coquina Rock. This rock is a soft limestone consisting of broken shells, shell fragments, sediment that is formed together in marine water; washed up on shore.

Members of a local group opposed to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline joined hands on Sunday as part of a nationwide event, Hands Across Our Land.
Just over a dozen members of Nash Stop the Pipeline (NSTP) met at Flat Rock Branch on Red Oak Battleboro Road to participate in the nationwide event, whose purpose is to bring attention to property rights and the challenges they face when dealing with corporations in their quest to build new fossil fuel infrastructure.
This is the second year the event has been held nationwide. It is sponsored by the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League.

Typically, Red Tail Hawks are considered birds of prey but on one Sunday morning in May, "Ammo" became the prey and was left fighting for his life.
Randy Atkinson, the founder of Rocky Mount Wildlife Rehabbers, said he received a call on the Sunday after Memorial Day that a hawk was in the pasture in Conetoe, which is in Pitt County. The hawk had been illegally shot and was stumbling around in the field.
"We had to find the hawk," Atkinson said.

Momeyer's Town Council voted last week to adopt a proclamation recognizing Constitution Day and Week in September.
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is celebrated on September 17 each year during the celebration of Constitution Week, which is recognized September 17 through 23.
Constitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the United States Constitution by 39 men on September 17, 1787, recognizing all who are born in the United States, or by naturalization, have become citizens.

A Spring Hope farmer was recently named to the Conservation Hall of Fame.
John Finch, a Nash Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) supervisor, was named to the National Association of Conservation District's (NACD) Southeast Region "Conservation Hall of Fame" at a Southeast Region meeting held at Harrah's Cherokee Hotel and Resort July 31 through August 2 in Cherokee.
The NACD Southeast Conservation Hall of Fame program recognizes individuals from a nine-state, two-territory region who have made significant contributions to soil and water conservation to help insure the proper management of our nation's natural resources.

Nashville's Chamber of Commerce celebrated a dance studio just outside of Nashville on Monday morning at a ribbon cutting ceremony.
Will and Melinda Coghlan opened At the Barre in September 2015 at 2611 Eastern Avenue, across from East Coast Equipment.
Neither Will nor Melinda have a background in dance but both of their daughters have been dancing since they were small, which made dance a big part of the family's life.

Five years after celebrating the opening of A Place to Grow Learning Center, Nashville's Chamber of Commerce again celebrated the childcare center, who recently expanded into another building with an after school and summer program.
A ribbon cutting was held for the new 3,000 square foot facility, located behind Bojangles in Nashville, on Tuesday morning.
The new location opened in June, said Ginny Thacker, who owns the childcare center along with her husband, Chris.

Dollar Tree has opened up in Nashville, in a spot formerly occupied by Family Dollar.
Dollar Tree completed its acqusition of Family Dollar Stores, Inc. last July. As part of the acqusition, the Family Dollar in Nashville, which was located in the Just Save shopping center at 735 E Washington Street, closed down and reopened as Dollar Tree.
"This is a transformational opportunity for our business to offer broader, more compelling merchandise assortments, with greater values, to a wider array of customers," Bob Sasser, Chief Executive Officer, said in a press release last year during the acquisition.

There is an expression, meant to give people pause and a chance to reach back for some humility, or be humble, that you don't hear much anymore. It goes sort of like this: be slow to judge what you hear and see people do or react to because you don't know what you'd do unless you are put in the same situation.
Most recently, my family and I found ourselves in something that we'd only seen on TV or in the aftermath, in B-roll video, patched together, shown as drama, looping over and over. We were at Crabtree Valley Mall on Saturday, when something happened, and there is just no other way to say it, all hell broke loose.