Katie Bass, 14, participated in 16 different Tennessee Walking Horse shows in 2012. Her last shows were at the NC State Fair and the NC Walking Horse Championship in Asheville in October. Bass has been showing since she was 7 years old. She participated in the High Point programs and now has an International (including Cannada and Europe), National, and NC State standing.
Female students at Northern Nash High School recently had the chance to take a closer look at the engineering field as a possible career. Kelsey Boulanger and Ashley Smith, two MIT engineering students, stopped by the school to encourage the female students to explore STEM related fields
For 11th grader Myra Slep, the presentation provided exposure to a diverse span of engineering work.
United Way Tar River Region recently announced six new additions to the Board of Directors.
“We are delighted to welcome our newest members,” said Executive Director Ginny Mohrbutter. “Our board directors have a proven history of making careful decisions to guide the direction of our organization. Their expertise and ideas have sustained us for over 60 years.”
Due to the weather and condition of the roads and church parking lot, Sunday school and church were cancelled Sunday morning. The lunch we had planned to welcome pastor Aycock and his wife, Nancy will be next Sunday. I missed Sunday school and worship service, but I think it best that us older folks stay inside with this kind of weather. The snow was pretty falling yesterday.
The snow on Saturday and the resulting icy roads caused the cancellation of worship services at Peachtree on Sunday morning. The Valentine fellowship dinner, scheduled for Saturday evening was also canceled. The dinner has been rescheduled for next Saturday evening, February 23rd. Families were given a bonus time of “togetherness” to sit by the fire this week-end.
Woman’s Missionary Union continued their celebration of WMU Focus Week with ice cream sundaes after the Bible studies on Wednesday, Feb. 13.
Don’t forget the Men’s Bible Study on Tuesday mornings at Langley’s Town and Country Restaurant in Nashville.
Nikki Clark (at right) was the guest speaker at the February meeting of the UDC Heroes Chapter 636 meeting. Her topic was on investing in annuities. Pictured at left is Bethel Heroes member Helen Sharpe, who welcomed Nikki to the meeting.
RED OAK -- Coach Henry Drake and his Northern Nash Knights will begin the 2013 boys prep tennis campaign March 2 with a road match versus Northern Vance in Henderson.
NN’s complete slate is as follows, with home events listed in CAPS:
GREENSBORO -- North Carolina rosters have been finalized for the 2013 Carolina Classic All-Star Basketball Games.
The event, which features boys and girls games featuring the best prep seniors from North Carolina and South Carolina, will be played March 23 at Socastee High School near Myrtle Beach.
GREENVILLE -- No. 25 Virginia scored 13 unanswered runs and held off a late rally by No. 37 East Carolina to take game two and claimed the weekend series, 13-9, last Saturday afternoon inside Lewis Field at Clark-LeClair Stadium.
Game three was cancelled due to inclement weather and below-freezing temperatures in the area.
Northern Nash’s Camille Branch (left) tries to gain a rebound last Friday against Rocky Mount.
Northern Nash’s Quinesha Lynch (left) drives toward the basket during last Friday’s meeting with Rocky Mount at the Big East Tournament.
WILSON -- Barton College has announced that the golf bag used by two-time Barton All-American Daniel Claytor in the second annual Patriot All-American Golf Invitational at The Wigwam Resort in Litchfield Park, Ariz., this past December will be auctioned off to benefit the Folds of Honor Foundation.
Claytor is a senior from Rocky Mount who prepped at Northern Nash. He is majoring in Sport Management at Barton.
CULLOWHEE -- Western Carolina University’s Trey Sumler was named the Southern Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for games played Feb. 5-11.
Sumler averaged 19.7 points, 6.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game as the Catamounts posted a 2-1 record on the week, snapping a four-game slide with back-to-back victories.
NASH COUNTY -- Listed are updated scores from the Nash County Parks & Recreation Youth Basketball Season:
WILSON -- More than just bragging rights was on the line during last Friday’s Big East Boys Basketball Tournament Championship.
Rocky Mount and Wilson Hunt had finished tied atop the Big East standings in the regular season, mainly because the clubs split their two matchups.
FAYETTEVILLE -- The USA South Athletic Conference has announced its 2013 Hall of Fame Class, and one of the selections was North Carolina Wesleyan College legend Greg Clark.
This year’s class includes two former student-athletes, one coach and two administrators.
The youth leaders, Amy & Robert Tyner, Jeff and Barbara Morgan, Kim and Bobby Farmer and the youth entertained the adults of the church with a Valentine dinner Saturday night in the Fellowship Center. They had the center decorated with a pretty Valentine theme. The food was delicious and the youth did a wonderful job serving the food and beverages.
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Amelia Harper, Graphic Correspondent
Castalia commissioners are considering wording for a new firearms regulation to replace a more than 40 year old regulation that no longer seems adequate.
The need for the new ordinance became apparent this month when a Nash County Sheriff’s Deputy called the town to say that the office could not respond to a complaint of shots fired within the vicinity of a house because there was no gun ordinance on file with the Sheriff’s Department.
The Nash County Sheriff’s Office has charged four Bailey residents in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed a 41-year-old woman in Middlesex last week.
According to Captain Pat Joyner, Portia Hinnant was shot and killed at her Old Middlesex Road home last Thursday evening. Two other people were in the home at the time of the shooting but were not injured.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
The Red Barn is not coming to Downtown Nashville after all.
Brent Hoggard, who owns the auction company along with his wife Marcy, said there were several issues that have forced them to look elsewhere.
Hoggard said Scott Tyson, the building’s owner, would have to invest between $80,000 to $100,000 to make improvements to the building to bring it up to code for an auction company, which according to the building code is deemed an assembly use.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Nashville’s Fire Department participated in a live burn on Saturday to give members hands-on training.
Members of the Coopers and Momeyer Fire Departments also participated in the training and were joined by Nash Community College Fire and Rescue Training Coordinator John Winstead. The burn was held at an abandoned farm house on Old Spring Hope Road.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
The Town of Nashville is continuing its efforts to improve performance and reduce cost by moving forward with several performance improvement projects.
The projects were approved at the town’s annual retreat, which was held on January 28 and 29.
The projects are part of a program, “Marking Your Way to Peak Performance,” that began in 2010. The program was designed by WayMaker, Inc. and was done at no cost for the Town of Nashville.
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Michele A. Cruz, Graphic Correspondent
At their work session last week, Dr. Eric Cunningham, Nash-Rocky Mount Schools (NRMS) associate superintendent, gave the board an overview of safety upgrades currently underway. Using $200,000 appropriated through a recent budget amendment, he shared, the system will soon have video access for all schools to see the front entrance, identification badges for all staff, and upgrades and replacement of doors.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
A YouTube video led a man from Palau to Nash Community College to train to be a firefighter. Today, Chris Carlos is the Town of Nashville’s newest firefighter.
Nashville’s Fire Department recently hired Carlos to fill one of its firefighter positions.
Carlos comes from Palau, an island located in the Pacific Ocean. He said he was searching YouTube when he came across a video on Nash Community College’s Fire Service Training program.
