Around our house, we call it “Birthday Season.”
My birthday, which I’ve become less inclined to draw attention to, and all three of our children’s’ birthdays all fall within 30 days or so each year. Lowell, the baby, ends this crazy run of celebrations in early May.
Which brings us to the first point about Lowell growing up.
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GUEST COLUMN / Bill Creech, Nashville Chief of Police
Once again, it’s time for the Blooming Festival. We want everyone to have a good, safe, enjoyable time at the festival. We ask for everyone’s cooperation to help make it a fun, safe family oriented event.
Please read and follow these tips. They are intended to ensure that everyone enjoys the festival. Also be aware that the police department strictly enforces them.
Living out in the country has its benefits but one of those benefits is certainly not high speed internet.
It all depends on how far out in the country you live but in my case, I live pretty far out there. Out my way, we’re still using tin cans and string for telephones. To get a decent television channel, someone has to get on the roof and tin foil is involved. So you can bet, internet is hard to come by out my way.
It’s pretty obvious that it’s time for Nashville’s Annual Blooming Festival. Beautiful floral flags line our downtown streets, and some extended areas as well. Nashville’s public works department has Nashville looking great. And festival committee members, along with local agencies that assist the festival, are working hard to wrap up last minute duties.
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A PICTORIAL LOOK INTO THE PAST
PARADE IN DOWNTOWN – We found another photo in The Graphic’s archives of a parade that was held in downtown Nashville in 1962. It looks as though it may have been part of a 4-H event.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
There shouldn’t be a lack of things to do for kids this summer, as the Town of Nashville has several programs in store for youth.
Nashville Recreation Director Jim Glover presented some of the programs that will be offered by various town departments this summer to Nashville Town Council members at the regular board meeting last Tuesday night.
The Nash County Health Department is investigating a possible foodborne illness outbreak associated with the Ribeyes Steakhouse restaurant in Nashville.
According to Bill Hill, Nash County Health Director, the Health Department received several reports of gastroenteritis that was possibly linked to the restaurant. The reports first began last Thursday, May 3.
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Amelia Harper, Graphic Correspondent
Last month, three more towns voted to oppose the establishment of a Sanderson Farms poultry plant in Nash County, near the border of the Town of Wilson. The towns of Saratoga, Lucama, and Elm City, all of which are located within the Wilson County borders, sent resolutions to Mayor Rose and the Wilson City Council Members regarding the proposed poultry plant.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
A Nash Central High School student was robbed two weeks ago in the school’s parking lot and the three responsible are facing charges of common law robbery.
According to Corporal Mike Lewis of the Rocky Mount Police Department, the student was in the parking lot around 1:20 p.m on Wednesday, April 18 when he reported he was robbed by several individuals in the parking lot.
Nash Community College English Professor Dr. Mary Wayne Watson recently presented a copy of her iconic photograph from World War I to Carol Banks, Director of the Edgecombe County Veterans Military Museum. The photo featured troops of the 317th and 319th Ambulance Company and the 305th Sanitary Train on November 5, 1918, inside the Church of Vaux-Ardennes, in France.
The Nash Community College Foundation is pleased to announce that the 5th Annual Jack Laughery Ride for Knowledge will be held on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Rocky Mount Harley-Davidson. The event serves as a tribute to Jack Laughery, the former CEO and chairman of the Hardee’s restaurant chain along with his wife, Helen and their love of motorcycling and support of higher education.
The O.D. Moore Scholarship Foundation will hold its Third Annual Golf Tournament on Friday, May 25 at the River Golf and Country Club at Lake Royale.
The entry fee donation is $70 per golfer and includes green fee, golf cart and range balls.
Check in is at 8 a.m. with a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
Civilian Danielle R. Williams, a 2011 graduate of Northern Nash High School, recently enlisted in the United States Navy under the Delayed Entry Program at Navy Recruiting District, Raleigh.
The program allows recruits to enter the Navy and take up to one year to complete prior commitments such as high school.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Coopers School alumni had a special guest attend their reunion events last weekend.
Jim Eaker, a popular teacher and coach, and his wife, Peggy, came from Asheville to visit with former students.
The Class of 1962 of Coopers School held a special celebration to welcome the Eaker’s prior to the larger reunion celebrations later in the evening, which included all the classes of Coopers School.
Nashville Elementary School has announced its Honor Roll for the 4th 6 Weeks grading period.
Rocky Mount Academy has announced its Second Trimester Honor Roll
Taylor McDonald of the Southern Nash High School Key Club, center front, participated with five students from Red Oak Middle School at a Builders Club Retreat held at YMCA Camp Weaver in Greensboro on April 27-28.
Southern Nash FFA members competed in the East Central Regional FFA Rally on Friday, April 20th. The Agricultural Mechanics team of Clay Whitley, Tyler Kelly, Greg Ellington, Daniel Boykin and Jordan Lamm placed 3rd and will advance to State competition.
Caroline Bell, center, a spring 2012 graduate of the International Baccalaureate program at Rocky Mount High School, is the winner of a $2500 Merit Scholarship awarded by the Rocky Mount Kiwanis Club. Accompanied by RMHS Counselor Philip Curtiss, rear, she was informed on May 1 by Kiwanis President-Elect E. L. Daughtridge, left, and Kiwanis President Ed Vann, right.
Ruritan’s International recently awarded Stony Creek Rescue Member Ashley Shearin a scholarship to attend the EMT-Basic Academy at Nash Community College. Ruritan’s International awards scholarships to local recipients to assist with educating motivated individuals in furthering their career to assist and give back to their community.
Northern Nash High School educators held this year’s third “fun science” activity on Thursday, April 20. Educators Mr. Tom Barkalow and Mr. John Warren coordinated the bottle rocket activity which included the design process, the test process and the launch process of bottle rockets.
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From DogTime.com By Leslie Smith
Pet overpopulation: real or myth?
While no one disputes the fact that millions of animals are put down each year, the No Kill movement asserts that pet overpopulation is a myth. Shelter administrators, on the other hand, claim crippling numbers of dogs and cats are overloading their facilities, that we have a serious pet overpopulation problem. In a way, they’re both right.
Keep America Beautiful of Nash & Edgecombe Counties and Nash County Solid Waste kicks off its 2012 Tarp Awareness Campaign by offering free tarps and educational fliers to individual truck owners on May 11, 2012. Representatives from Keep America Beautiful of Nash & Edgecombe Counties and Nash County Solid Waste will be at the Nash County Landfill located at 3057 Duke Road in Nashville from 8 am to 4:30 pm.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Bert Daniel (D) and Lisa Stone Barnes (R) will face off for the District Four County Commissioner seat in November elections, after defeating Jerry Harris and Danny Tyson in the primaries on Tuesday.
Over 24,000 Nash County voters, or close to 37 percent, cast their votes for the primary election, most of them heading to the polls on Election Day instead of choosing to participate in One Stop Early Voting.
“Turnout has been very, very good,” said John Kearney, Nash County Board of Elections Director.
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Michele A. Cruz, Graphic Correspondent
The Nash-Rocky Mount Schools (NRMS) board unanimously approved new positions to be added to the administration at their meeting Monday night. Among the new positions are an associate superintendent and educational specialists.
These positions have been filled and approved, while budget cuts have brought talks from the board and administration of cutting positions throughout the system.
