NEWPORT NEWS, VA - Floyd Elie Silver, 66, died on Monday, April 22, 2013.
I was leaving Campbell University to head back to Nash County when I saw the headline on a news website I frequent. It mentioned that a bomb had gone off at the Boston Marathon and there were people hurt.
I walked to my car and called a graduate school colleague, one I knew as an avid marathon participant. I couldn’t remember if this was the year she was running it. She answered and I was relieved; and she hadn’t heard the news. We got off the phone quickly, so she could call friends who were there.
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GUEST COLUMN, Chief Tom Bashore, Nashville Police Chief
It is that time of the year again…the sun is shining, the bees are buzzing, and the flowers are blooming. Speaking of blooming – the Nashville North Carolina’s Chamber of Commerce sponsored “Blooming Festival” is coming up in the second weekend in May! This annual event showcases all the fine things Nashville has to offer – Food, Fun, and Fellowship.
Well this year will definitely go down in the books for my family. And not in a good way!
We have had one thing after another happen to us and I must say, I am ready for it to stop.
We started the year in the hospital with our little boy.
A few weeks later, I ended up in the hospital.
A month after that, we were back in the hospital with our little boy.
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A PICTORIAL LOOK INTO THE PAST
BLOCKED SHOT –– This photo was originally published in The Graphic January 19, 1967. Sandy Frazier (43) of Northern Nash has one of his shots blocked in a game against Green Central. The Knights won the game 57-32.
Nathan and Temsula Bass of Wake Forest proudly announce the birth of a daughter, Katriel Elyce Shisalia Bass, born April 9, 2013, at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. She weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 20 1/2 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Chem lom Phom and Asenla Chenth-Dimapur of Nagaland, India.
The North Carolina Senate was honored recently to have Jamison Miles Wiggins, a student at Nash Central High School, serve as a Page. He is the son of Oscar and Angela Wiggins of Nashville. Miles was sponsored by Senator Angela Bryant and appointed by the Senate President Pro Tempore, Phil Berger of Rockingham County.
Nashville’s Police Department will host its next “Coffee with a Cop” event on Thursday, April 25 from 7:30 until 9 a.m. at Langley’s Town and Country.
The “Coffee with a Cop” event is a community outreach program that allows citizens to sit down and meet Police Chief Tom Bashore and some of the Nashville Police Officers.
This year’s Franklin County Historic Homes Tour is slated for Saturday, April 27, and Sunday, April 28, rain or shine.
The event, which raises money for the preservation of Person Place on the Louisburg College Campus, will be from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
A Night with David Via
Saturday April 27 at 7 p.m. Admission, $12; Nash Arts Member discounts applied as according to level of membership.
Call 252-459-4734 to order tickets or visit: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/373812
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Representative Bobbie Richardson urged fellow Democrats to get fired up and help support Democratic candidates in the coming elections so they could win back North Carolina.
Richardson, who represents District Seven in the General Assembly, spoke at the Nash County Democrat rally last Thursday evening. She told those in attendance that Democrats needed to work hard to win back more seats in 2014. Democrats also had another goal in mind for 2016, Richardson said.
The Nashville Boys and Girls Club drew this photo on the chalkboard wall of the Boston skyline last Tuesday, following the bombing at the Boston Marathon. Asya Bryant, Dekalon Stample, Jaylyn Addison, Octavius Lynch, Tyler Richardson, Dasja Speight and Amari Hagans all contributed to the drawing.
Nash County youth participated in goat shows at the 76th annual Livestock Show and Sale, which was held April 2 and 3 at the Eastern Carolina Livestock Arena in Rocky Mount.
Over 175 youth from Nash, Edgecombe and Halifax Counties participated in the event and showcased their lambs, steers, goats and pigs. Cloverbuds, youth ages five to eight, also had a chance to showcase their goats at the event.
The third annual Enfield Fishing Creek Paddle will take place on Saturday, May 11, 2013.
Fishing Creek, one of North Carolina’s treasures, winds through pristine forest and farmland. A tributary of the Tar River, Fishing Creek has a long history. Shark teeth are often found along the river’s banks reminding everyone that this part of North Carolina was under sea eons ago.
Nash Community College students, faculty and staff celebrated “Green Day” by planting three magnolia trees on campus. During the tree planting ceremony, Dr. Margaret Sowerwine, Chair of the Medoc Group of the North Carolina Sierra Club, and NCC Biology Instructor Reggie Cobb, educated the campus about environmental issues and how to get involved in promoting improved environmental practices.
Wells Fargo recently announced that Gina Webb, Vice President, has been named Principal Business Banker for the Greenville market. She will be relocating to Greenville from Rocky Mount.
In this role, Webb will be focused on serving the financial needs of local businesses. She is an expect resource for business credit, deposit, cash management and risk management solutions.
Eleven high school students will vie for the title of Distinguished Young Woman of Rocky Mount in the city’s 32nd annual scholarship competition to be held April 28.
The competition will start at 2 p.m. at the Dunn Center for the Performing Arts at N.C. Wesleyan College. Tickets are $15 and are available at the door and from participants.
Faculty, staff and students from Nash Community College’s Betsy B. Currin Child Development Center celebrated The Week of the Young Child April 15–19. The week is an annual celebration sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The purpose of the Week of the Young Child is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs.
Lion Mary Boehm, President of the Nashville Lions Club, received the long-sought-after Jungle Prowler Award from Lion David Edwards, President of the Wilson Lions Club, at the April 18th joint-meeting in Wilson.
Nash County is joining with others across the nation to recognize National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
In 1983, April was proclaimed the first National Child Abuse Prevention Month. During this month, public awareness is promoted as child welfare agencies strive to ensure to protect the safety and welfare of children as well supporting and strengthening families and communities to prevent child maltreatment.
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Carol Vierela, Nash County Animal Friends
Monday was EARTH DAY. Earth Day reminds us to not overpopulate Earth when there are perfectly good pets waiting to be saved from death at your local Animal Control facilities, kill shelters, such as at Nash. You may not be able to adopt one of the Nash pets, but if you adopt from a Rescue, then they will have room to save another.
Following a week of violence and loss in Boston, and then Texas, made Sunday a most appropriate time for the special service held at Peachtree Church. The second annual 9-1-1 Memorial Service to honor the men and women who protect the country was held. The service began with greetings from Ricky Tucker of the NC State Capital Police.
Welcome to Joey and Elizabeth Sprinkle and Nicole Mason who are new members at Red Oak Baptist Church!
Everyone enjoyed the 57th Annual NRBA WMU Spring Meeting on Tuesday, April 9 at Hickory Baptist Church! Brenda Rose, WMU Director, gave the welcome followed by greetings from Hickory Baptist Church by Miriam Brown.
The Edgecombe-Nash Retired School Personnel met on March 12 at 10:30 a.m. in Braswell Memorial Library’s Warner Room. After President Mary Williams welcomed everyone, Reverend Mary Hinton presented an Inspirational Moment and gave everyone a TV Channel TCT devotional booklet.
Member Shirley Felton introduced her son, Cleon Felton, Federal Program Administrator of the NC Department of Public Instruction in Raleigh.
The Nash County Democratic Party will hold its Spring Rally on Thursday, April 18 at 6:30 p.m.
The rally will be held at the Momeyer Ruritan Club. A spaghetti and tossed salad dinner will be served.
The guest speaker for the event is Representative Bobbie Richardson. Richardson represents District Seven in the NC House of Representatives. District Seven consists of Nash and Franklin Counties.
Richardson has dedicated her life to education.
