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Rotarian President Ron Green, at left, stands with Bob Garner, at right, at the DoubleTree Hotel during a recent meeting. Mr. Garner spoke on his new book "Foods That Make You Say Mmmmmm " and how foods and people's stories are so intertwined. The Rocky Mount Rotary Club meets every Monday at 1 p.m.

The City of Rocky Mount has rescheduled the Rocky Mount/Nash County Special Olympics Spring Games to this Friday, May 15, 2015.
Weather conditions forced the event, originally scheduled for Wednesday, April 15, to be cancelled.
The games will now take place on Friday, May 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Bishop Stadium, 600 Independence Drive in Rocky Mount.
The public is invited to attend the Rocky Mount/Nash County Special Olympics Spring Games to show their support of participants.

UDC Bethel Heroes Chapter 636 members visited the Coolmore Plantation for their May meeting. Joseph and Janet Spiers gave a tour of their home, which is a National Historic Landmark. Those attending were Kay Freehand, Donna Boykin, Helen Sharpe, Margaret Sink, Margie Parker Brantley, Traci Thompson, Claudia Linkous, Edith Whitby and Sara Watson.

Army Pfc. Benjamin K. Hatchel has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises.

Tale Talk is one of the many fellowship opportunities offered through Red Oak United Methodist Church. The next book club meeting is scheduled for 6 pm Saturday, May 19 and they will discuss Gifted Hands by Ben Carson, MD.
Sign up now for the 2nd annual Stop Hunger Now meal packing event hosted by Red Oak United Methodist Church and scheduled for Saturday, May 30. Volunteer registration forms are available on their website or through any ROUMC member. Online registration is also now available.

Ads were once simple presentations of the good qualities of various products. Toothpaste makes teeth white. Soap scrub away dirt. Washers clean clothes. This was the modern approach. Much advertising today is postmodern. Image replaces function. Cars and clothes make a statement. Cigarettes and beer portray an image. Advertisers tinker with our hearts. They appeal to lust and the lower nature. They foster discontent.

Mother's Day was happily observed by Peachtree folks on Sunday morning as they gathered for worship at the church. Sanctuary flowers were given by JoAnn Blankenship in memory of her mother, Ann Downey Savage, and her grandmother, Minnie Wester Savage. Special worship music was by David Griffin, accompanied by Jane May at the piano, as he whistled "Precious Memories", in memory of all mothers.
Linda Edwards, Youth Leader, recognized the oldest and the youngest mothers present.

One definition of strong is "not easily defeated." That will be the new name of our community news. I can't think of one single word thaT describes us Aventonians any better than the word strong.
For an itty bitty community, Aventon has so much to be proud of. Family is so important to Aventonians and never more has it been present than today......right now!

The O.D. Moore Scholarship Foundation will host its Sixth Annual Golf Tournament at Belmont Lake Golf Club in Rocky Mount on Saturday, May 22. Check in is at 8:30 a.m. with a 9 a.m. shotgun start. The entry fee donation is $70 per golfer and includes the grene fee, golf cart, lunch, range balls, 50/50 long drive, 50/50 closest to the pink and many other prizes. Proceeds from this event go towards a scholarship fund which benefits graduating students. For information, call Patrick Ford at 252-469-9805, Allegro Cordell at 252-469-1299, Goldie Ford at 301-873-8586 or Troy Smith at 919-672-0448.

Isaiah Person, a student at Northern Nash Senior High, recently served as a Page for the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Person is the son of Arthur and Sonja Person of Castalia and was sponsored by Representative Bobbie Richardson (Democrat-Franklin). Speaker of the House Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) appoints the Pages and introduces each one to Members and citizens in the House gallery at the start of each week during Monday night's session.

North Carolina State University's Park Scholarships program has named 39 students to its Class of 2019.
Jeffrey Perry Currin, of Nashville, was one of those selected for the Park Scholarship.
Currin is the son of Dennis and Shellie Currin. He will graduate from Nash Central High School, where he is the assistant drum major, a member of the swim team and a National Honor Society inductee.

The Morehead-Cain Foundation - home of the first merit scholarship program in the United States - is proud to announce its class of 2019.
This fall, Morehead-Cain will welcome to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 59 new Morehead-Cain Scholars from across North Carolina, the United States, and the world. The class of 2019 includes:

Cedar Isle Dairy traveled to Winston-Salem on March 21, 2015 to compete in the annual NC State Holstein Show. Cole Strickland and Casey Strickland competed in four classes and won first place in Fall Heifer Class for "Leslie," sixth place in the Spring Yearling Class for "Goldie," fifth place in the Winter Yearling Class for "Emelia," and third place in the Fall Yearling Class for "Enya." Cole and "Leslie" returned to the show ring for the Champion Drive. and the judge selected "Leslie" as the Reserve Junior Champion of the entire show.

GREENSBORO -- Just because a state crown eluded performers from Nash Central, Southern Nash and Northern Nash doesn't mean that all was lost for the county titans at the annual Class 3-A State Track and Field Championships.
The event was staged last Friday at Aggie Stadium on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University.
Points were hard to come by for the Nash County schools, especially in girls action, where Nash Central topped the county by claiming 18th place with 12 total points.

WILSON -- It's been an up-and-down season for the Northern Nash High School baseball squad -- but the Knights have saved the 'up' portion for when they needed it most.
Despite returning several key standouts from last year's regular season champions in the Big East Conference, the Knights were unable to defend that title under Coach Leonard Allen and suffered some unexpected losses along the way.

NASH COUNTY -- Josh Harden made the most of his senior season as a member of the Southern Nash High School golf squad.
The talented Harden was second in the Big East Conference cumulative standings and also represented the league at the Class 3-A State Championships earlier this week at Longleaf Golf and Country Club in Southern Pines.
After the first round of the 36-hole event, Harden was tied for 59th place following an 84.

RED OAK -- Senior veteran Shelby Godwin tossed a two-hitter as the homestanding Northern Nash Lady Knights defeated Southern Nash by a 5-0 margin last Thursday in the championship game of the Big East Conference Softball Tournament.
Godwin struck out 11 and walked just two to propel the Lady Knights to the crown. Godwin has signed a letter-of-intent to continue her career at Chowan University.

NASH COUNTY -- Tremel Davis' season-long dominance resulted in his selection as the Big East Conference Boys Tennis Player of the Year.
Davis, a junior at Northern Nash, was the Class 3-A East Regional finalist and also qualified for last weekend's Class 3-A State Championships in Burlington.
Davis was defeated in the opening round of the states by Cameron Union Pines' Will Hart (6-3, 6-1).
Wilson Fike's Lee Matthews was tabbed as the Coach of the Year after guiding the Demons to the league crown, along with a 15-0 overall record in the regular season.

Northern Nash's Derrick Carter earned the mound decision last Thursday during the championship game of the Big East Conference Baseball Tourney at Wilson Fike HS.

Northern Nash's Rhema Hedgpeth (left) soars over a hurdle during qualifying action at last Friday's Class 3-A State Track and Field Championships.

NASH COUNTY -- Listed are updated Nash County Parks and Recreation Department's Spring Baseball and Softball League scores:

SALEM, VA. -- Andrew Thurman held the Salem Red Sox to just two runs over a season high six and 1/3 innings while leading the Carolina Mudcats to a 5-2 win on Sunday at LewisGale Field at Salem Memorial Ballpark in a Class A Carolina League baseball showdown.
Levi Hyams led the way offensively after going 2-for-4 with two RBI in game four of the series.
The Mudcats (18-12) broke a 1-1 tie with four runs in the seventh to take a 5-1 lead over Mike Adams and the Red Sox (16-15) on Sunday.

LEXINGTON, VA. -- The North Carolina Wesleyan College men's tennis team suffered a 5-1 loss to #4 Emory University on Sunday afternoon in the third round of the NCAA Tournament, which was hosted by Washington & Lee University.
While the team ends its dual season with a 17-6 overall record, senior Robert Kjellberg and freshman Sebastian Sikh will continue play in the NCAA Division III Singles and Doubles Championships on May 21.

Northern Nash's Nick Vester hustles to reach first base as the ball gets away from a Wilson Fike player during last Thursday's championship contest of the Big East Conference Baseball Tournament on the Fike campus. The Knights hosted Eastern Guilford on Tuesday in the opening round of the Class 3-A State Playoffs.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Brian Carter drew a one-out walk in the bottom of the sixth inning and cruised home with the game-winning run on Maliq Nicholson's RBI double to close out a game as the Wesley Men Yankees picked up an 8-7 win over the B.O. Cardinals in last Wednesday's afternoon action of the Rocky Mount 11-12 Little League at the RM Sports Complex.
The two teams combined to score 15 runs and pound out 21 hits as the base hit merry-go-round was kept busy spinning all game long.