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Every week, Michael Beck visits 3377 Elmwood Road in the Oak Level community to check the progress on his family's new home.
This past weekend, significant progress was made, as dozens of volunteers came out to help landscape the home.
In just over a month, Homes for Our Troops will turn over the keys to Beck and his family.
Beck was serving in the United States Army as a Sergeant when he was wounded in 2008 while deployed in Iraq. Beck spent four years undergoing over 100 surgeries, rehabilitation and other treatment before finally being sent back home to Rocky Mount in 2012. But, Beck lost both his legs.

Local youth joined together on the football field at Nash Central High School recently to share their faith and encourage others to make commitments in their faith.
The Fields of Faith event was one of over 500 held across the nation. The event is a student-to-student ministry and included music from "Exodus" of Liberty University as well as a testimony from former NFL Football Player Jason Brown. Students also shared their testimony during the event.
Jordan O'Leary, a freshman at Nash Central High School, publicly shared her testimony with fellow students and how she had changed in her faith over the years.

The boards of advisors of the Futrell-Mauldin Community Foundation for Greater Rocky Mount and the Edgecombe Charitable Foundation recently announced a total contribution of $89,590 in local grants.
This year's nonprofit recipients from the Futrell-Mauldin Community Foundation community grantmaking fund include:

Have you ever had something that just wouldn't stop eating at you? I have recently and it's not a good feeling. I was consumed by what someone "wasn't" doing more than focusing in on the reasons I was doing what I was doing. I was letting someone harden my heart and make me bitter. I finally had to let it go and give it to hands that were stronger and more capable than mine. There are a lot of things in life I guess we just aren't supposed to understand; that's when we need to really let go and let God!

TARBORO -- Nashville's Hornets are still looking for their first touchdown of the 2015 Eastern North Carolina Football League varsity season.
The Hornets had some chances to break that skein last Saturday as part of a road contest against the Tarboro Vikings at Tarboro High School in Edgecombe County.
Nashville, coached by Jim Glover, drove into Tarboro territory on a few occasions, including the opening two marches of the key conference matchup.

RED OAK - All it took was one touchdown to determine the winner of last Thursday's football showdown between Tri-County Conference rivals Nash Central and Red Oak.
But while defense ruled the day, there was still plenty of suspense as part of Red Oak's 7-0 home decision over the Trojans.
Both clubs had their share of chances during the contest -- only to be foiled.

TARBORO -- Hard work paid off for the Nashville Hornets last Saturday in the form of their first junior varsity victory of the 2015 campaign.
Nashville delivered a pair of first-half touchdowns and made them stand up as the Hornets surged past homestanding Tarboro by a 16-0 total at Tarboro High School's Viking Stadium.
The Hornets had experienced a near-miss one week earlier against Rocky Mount, but came through in the clutch last Saturday to claim the Eastern North Carolina Football League decision.

ROCKY MOUNT -- The visiting Southern Nash Firebirds used a Justin Vazquez goal in overtime to edge the Rocky Mount Gryphons by a 1-0 total on Monday in an important Big East Conference boys soccer showdown.
Southern Nash is now 9-10-1 overall to go with a 5-3 record in the competitive conference.
Jose Salazar earned the shutout in net for the Firebirds.

STANHOPE -- It was a season that should probably be made into a motion picture one day.
Back in 2012, a coach who didn't profess to be a soccer genius helped lead the Southern Nash Firebirds to the Big East Conference Championship -- and all the way to the Elite Eight of the Class 3-A State Playoffs.
To that point in the program's history, Southern had been considered a laughingstock afterthought in the Big East.

FAYETTEVILLE -- In USA South Conference football action, North Carolina Wesleyan College and Methodist University traded touchdown drives in the final two minutes with the homestanding Monarchs coming out on top by a 31-28 score.
Senior quarterback Dustin Midgett threw for a trio of touchdowns, the latter of which gave Wesleyan a 28-24 lead with 1:51 to go.
Unfortunately for NCWC, the Monarchs countered with an 8-play, 70-yard gamewinning drive that culminated with a 13-yard TD pass from Dylan DeGroot to Emontie Dears.

NASH COUNTY -- The Nash County Firebirds had two contests this week in the Eastern North Carolina Football League.
Tuesday, the Firebirds tangled with backyard rival Rocky Mount.
In varsity action, the Gryphons were 32-13 winners behind four touchdowns from Aubrey Hill.
JaQuan Horne also scored a touchdown, and teammate Cameron Jones contributed a 2-point conversion for the Gryphons.

FAYETTEVILLE -- The USA South Conference has released its preseason coaches polls for men's and women's basketball.
North Carolina Wesleyan College's men received a 2nd-place billing, while the Battling Bishop women were tabbed 10th overall.
The 2014-2015 Battling Bishop men posted a 13-12 overall record and a 7-7 mark in the USA South.
Entering his 21st season at the helm of the program, veteran head coach John Thompson returns all five starters and 11 letterwinners from that squad, and he hopes they complement a talented crop of 12 newcomers.