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ACDI North Carolina will be hosting its Second Annual Charity Golf Tournament on Thursday, May 1, 2014 at Birchwood Country Club. All proceeds will benefit My Sister’s House located in Nashville.
ACDI has a tradition of hosting charity events that benefit groups such as food banks, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, and Christmas Cash for Kids. ACDI has raised in excess of $55,000 over the last four consecutive years.

Trustee Lou Uzzle Blackmon (left center) with the Allan C. Mims and Margaret L. Mims Foundation presents to Nash Community College President Bill Carver (right center), Foundation Executive Director Pat Daniels (left) and Foundation Past President Lyn Brown (right) a $50,000 gift on behalf of the Board to the Nash Community College Foundation.

Nash County will join 16 other North Carolina counties  this week as they begin accepting credit cards payments at the Clerk of Court Office.
Payments by credit card will begin on Thursday, March 13, said Nash County Clerk of Court Rachel Joyner.
“We are excited to provide this modern technology which will greatly benefit everyone needing our services in payment transactions,” Joyner said.

The legendary Percy Sledge, soul and rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, will appear in concert at the Dunn Center on the campus of North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, NC on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 8 p.m.
The most popular era of Percy Sledge’s career dates back to around 1966 when his most famous recording, “When a Man Loves a Woman,” was released on the Atlantic record label. This one song launched his first national tour and he remained a sought after artist for many years following.

Red Oak Middle School earned first place recognition at the Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools Battle of the Books during the competition held at the Nash Arts Center on March 5. 
Students from all six middle schools were quizzed on characters, details, plots, settings, and quotes from the 26 novels required for this year’s competition.

Nashville’s Park Avenue Community Watch will sponsor all three candidates for Nash County Sheriff at meetings over the next few months.
Candidate Gene Braswell will be speaking at the meeting this week, which will be held on Thursday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m.

The N.C. Department of Transportation recently closed a section of Exum Road north of Nashville in Nash County so crews with S.T. Wooten Co. of Wilson could begin replacement of the bridge over Basket Creek.
A $923,782 contract was awarded in December 2013 to S.T. Wooten Co. for the replacement of the 58-year-old bridge. The new bridge is scheduled to open to traffic no later than August 15.

The beautifully preserved Cherry Hill Plantation in Inez will be part of the biannual Preservation Warrenton Homes Tour April 27 and 27.
Directors of the historic home are seeking help from volunteers who can help, perhaps in four-hour sessions, during the tour.

Nash Health Care is planning ways to improve patient health care and satisfaction scores in the coming days. Members of the Nash Health Care board discussed these approaches at the most recent board meeting held on March 6.
The meeting opened with a presentation by Amy Winham, Director of Performance Improvement for Nash Health Care.

Nashville’s Chamber of Commerce celebrated the newest barber shop in town last week at a special ribbon cutting event.
Randy’s Barber Shop opened last March at 218 West Cross Street. Randy Colegrove, who owns the business, said the ribbon cutting event was delayed because he was trying to get the remodeling of his business complete.

The highlight of a recent DKG, Mu Chapter meeting was the program.  Mu Chapter was entertained by Ann Davis, and a couple of her best friends, Scooby and Grace.  Ann is a French teacher at RMHS, and a MU Chapter member. Scooby and Grace are therapy dogs, and have earned their therapy certificates, and are registered with Pet Partners.  Therapy dogs are different from service dogs in that they provide comfort and affection to people in hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and to people with learning disabilities.

Bethel Heroes Chapter 636 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy held their March meeting at the Braswell Memorial Library.
Guest speaker was Mr. Wallace Abernathy, local Civil War buff.  He spoke on the recent discovery of two NC Artillery Projectiles found  in May 2013 at Calvary Church in Tarboro, NC.

Cub Scout Pack 16 held its annual Blue and Gold Banquet on Saturday, March 8.  During the event, which celebrates the birthday of Cub Scouting, scouts and their families enjoyed a pizza and salad dinner.  Cub Scouts performed skits and received many awards including their respective rank badges.  Boy Scouts from the Order of the Arrow performed the Arrow of Light Ceremony which honors Cub Scouts who are graduating to Boy Scouts.

Sunday morning was a beautiful foretaste of spring!  It was most welcome after a week of cold dreary weather.  Pastor Whitehouse greeted Peachtree folks.  His sermon title was “Good Soil is Not Always Easy to Find-2”.  It was based on scripture found in Matthew 13: 1-9; 18-23. The main idea was that the Word of God is the basis of good ministry.  A passion for God is better caught than taught.  Without prayer, ministry cannot be effective.

Last weekend the youth of Red Oak United Methodist Church attended a two day worship retreat, culminating in the Casting Crowns concert at the PNC Arena.  Young people in the community are invited to be a part of the ROUMC youth group. Youth meeting are scheduled for 4 p.m. each Sunday afternoon, excluding 5th Sundays of the month.
On Wednesday, March 5 the members of ROUMC gathered to celebrate Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of the Lenten season.

Saturday, March 15 from 9:30 until 2:30 p.m. at Nashville Fire Department (sponsored by Nashville Police Department), 501 S Barnes Street, Nashville
Tuesday, March 18 from 3 until 7 p.m. at Red Oak Volunteer Fire Department, 7951 Red Oak Blvd, Red Oak

Two young Nash County tobacco growers, Michael High of Bailey and Matthew Scott Tilley of Spring Hope, recently participated in the week long 2014 NC State Tobacco Short Course in Raleigh. Also participating in the event was Mike Narron of Nashville, who works as a crop consultant serving tobacco farmers.
High has been farming with his father, Dean and uncle Lee High, at High Farms for 12 years.

RED OAK -- It’s almost a given that a team will encounter challenging competition once its reaches the Elite Eight of the NCHSAA Class 3-A Girls Basketball State Playoffs.
But that assessment is even more pertinent this season as whichever team leaves Fayetteville as the East Regional Champion will certainly have earned that lofty status.

STANHOPE -- Funny how times change, as Southern Nash High School had a strong boys basketball run in the late 1990s before eventually gaining a reputation -- at least for the past decade or so -- as a ‘football’ school.
As an assistant coach for the SNHS grid squad, Robbie Kennedy understands the value of the sport to the school.
But he also surmises that football and basketball can co-exist at SN -- just like they do at other schools.

ROANOKE  RAPIDS -- Northern Nash used an eight-run fourth inning to defeat Roanoke Rapids by a 9-3 score last Friday afternoon in prep baseball action in Halifax County.
Chad Haggerty had a huge day at the plate for NNHS as he doubled, tripled and drove in four runs.
Derrick Carter also had two hits and one RBI for the victorious Knights, who are competing under new coach Leonard Allen.

CHAPEL HILL -- Here are the pairings for this week’s North Carolina High School Athletic Association Men’s and Women’s Regional Basketball Tournaments:

ROCKY MOUNT -- Four North Carolina Wesleyan College Battling Bishop squads combined for 10 different athletic events last weekend, seven of which involved USA South Conference competition.
Kicking off their spring schedule, Wesleyan’s golfers turned in a 7th-place finish out of ten teams at the Echo Farms Intercollegiate hosted by Mars Hill College.

GREENVILLE -- Ian Townsend posted three hits, Ryan Williams notched his fourth win and Drew Reynolds set the all-time saves record as part of East Carolina University’s 3-2 diamond victory over Ohio State on Sunday at Clark-LeClair Stadium.

Northern Nash head coach Grover Battle (wearing vest) addresses his team during last Friday night’s home playoff victory over Cardinal Gibbons.