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Nash County Cooperative Extension will be offering a "Spice It Up" class on Thursday, March 17 from 6 until 7:30 p.m.
Learn what spices to combine with foods to make flavors pop while cutting your salt intake.
Registration fee for the class is $20 per person and includes all materials and ingredients.
Participants will make six different spices mixes to take home.

Rocky Mount Rotarian President Richard Sykes, at left, stands with Dr. Shelton Jefferies, Superintendent of Nash-Rocky Mount Schools. Jefferies spoke at Doubletree of Rocky Mount on his work at West Mecklenburg and Union County Schools and his vision for Nash-Rocky Mount Schools. The club will meet again on Monday, March 7 with guest speaker Pat Daniels, of Nash Community College.

Neil Mehty, Nash Central High School senior, is the Rocky Mount Kiwanis Club student of the week. He plans to attend UNC - Chapel Hill to major in sports medicine. With Neil is Lanny Shuff, Kiwanis Club student of the week coordinator.

TO CRATE OR NOT TO CRATE....
Our answer is YES but... When getting a new dog, it is good to crate until you are sure they won't destroy your home! Dogs aren't born with an innate ability to tell what is wrong or not to chew or play with, but need to be taught, when you are there! Even if you don't use it all the time, it is a good place to keep their dog bed and it can become their own personal den for those times when they need a bit of security, like during a thunderstorm. I like to throw a blanket over ours.

Women in Action of Red Oak Baptist Church met at the church on Thursday, February 25. In addition to their regular meeting, they also discussed plans for making quilt tops for the Shelter of Love orphanage in Cambodia.
A Gideon will be the guest speaker at Red Oak Baptist Church on Sunday, March 6.
The Mildred Griffin Group and the Lucy McIntyre Group will meet on Tuesday, March 8 at 7:00 pm at Red Oak Baptist Church.

Students from Cedar Grove Elementary School led the Pledge of Allegiance for the Nash-Rocky Mount School Board during the board's February meting. Pictured (L-R) is: Raiden Braswell, Victoria Hill and Charley Nelson.

SpringBoardNC, along with partner organization the Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce, recently announced that Michael Goodmon, VP of Real Estate, Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc., is joining its judge panel as a fourth "shark" for the event.
"We're pumped to have Michael back this year! He's our version of Mark Cuban and exciting person to be around. He's built businesses, invested in some, and listened to hundreds of pitches." said Phil Dixon, President, SpringBoardNC.

Linda Bryant was the guest speaker for the February meeting of the UDC Bethel Heroes Chapter 636. She spoke on how the difference in population of the North and South listed on the 1850 US Census affected the War Between the States. Bryant is a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

At first, I must admit, I was not a fan. A young teenager going from Scotland Neck to Wilson on Friday nights for some social thing called cotillion? That was the last thing on my mind. It was, however, the first thing on my parents' mind for their middle child growing up in the south.
For me, cotillion was a way to learn how to be fancy in life. They taught us how to treat ladies, how to initiate a conversation with someone of whom you had just met, they even taught us how to eat properly when there were 4 forks in front of you at your place at the dining table.

On a beautiful, spring-like morning Peachtree folks gathered at the church for worship. The sanctuary flowers were given by Robert Sykes in honor of his wife, Amy, on the occasion of her birthday!
Pastor Whitehouse titled his sermon, "The Hidden Purpose of God". It was based on the scripture passage from Philippians 1: 15-18, which was read by Beth Baines. Here Paul was admonishing the church at Rome about rivalry among factions within the church. He said that glorifying Christ should be the main thing.

Micajah Pettaway Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution held its February meeting at Braswell Memorial Library. Guest speaker, Janice Gravely (far left) spoke on the "American Flag and Its History" She gave toy soldiers to members to keep as a reminder to pray for our men and women serving in the armed forces. Pictured with Gravely is Kay Freeland (far right).

Monday, March 7 from 2:30 until 6:30 p.m. at Nashville United Methodist Church, 209 E Washington Street, Nashville
Saturday, March 12 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, 652 Raleigh Road, Rocky Mount
Tuesday, March 15 from 2:30 until 7 p.m. at Englewood Baptist Church, 1350 Winstead Avenue, Rocky Mount
Thursday, March 17 from 12 until 6 p.m. at Englewood Presbyterian Church, 100 South Englewood Drive, Rocky Mount

Local Emergency Management Services agencies, Nash County Government, and Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools Transportation and Maintenance Department collaborated to open a warming station at Spring Hope Elementary School during a recent winter storm. Members of these departments and agencies were honored for their efforts to keep the community safe and warm during the storm.

We used to do a feature here at The Soapbox that came from compiled data from Citizens Against Government Waster (CAGW). As this group grew, the report became harder to follow as the release date was less consistent, and was tougher to slog through.
However, Senator Rand Paul, who dropped out of the Presidential race this year because people were caught up in Trump Fever, has done some work for us. Hopefully, now that Trump has taken to quoting World War II Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and refuses to repudiate the KKK, that fever will break.