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Nashville Elementary students celebrated Science Day recently. Pictured above, Joe'Nyiah Whitney sits with a Nash UNC Health worker while learning about CPR and the use of defibrillating units.

While talking about current events recently regarding Israel, Robbie and I recalled a miniseries from twenty years ago. It was called Revelations. The show's title had an "s" on the end of the name as opposed to the last book of the Bible - Revelation.
The show questioned whether we were living in the last days. It followed a scientist's struggle between the logic of science (which offers proof) and the illogic of faith (which the Bible described as substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen). Hebrews 11:1

Our agenda, our definition of what a good God should give us, is a life that is comfortable, pleasurable, and predictable; one in which there's lots of human affirmation and an absence of suffering. But consider God's agenda, as it's revealed in the following passages:

Welcome to Bob and Cindy Pike who joined the Red Oak Baptist Church family!
The Women in Action missions group at Red Oak Baptist Church met at the church on Tuesday, April 9. They learned about what WMU groups around the country are doing to reach out to others, prayed for missionaries with birthdays that day, and learned about the Singermans who serve as International Mission Board missionaries in Uganda.

North Carolina Wesleyan University President, Dr. Evan D. Duff, along with Art Curator, Jan Sullivan Volz, and President of Bob Ross Inc., Joan Kowalski, announced that more of Bob Ross' famous original paintings are set to adorn the walls of The Mims Gallery at The Dunn Center this upcoming holiday season.
Bob Ross Bringing Back the JOY will be on display in the Mims Gallery of The Dunn Center, located on the beautiful NC Wesleyan University campus, from Monday, December 2, 2024 through Monday, January 13, 2025.

H&H Constructors of Fayetteville, LLC to David Jonathan Vallette; Walnut Cove Subdivision, Phase 2, Lot 23; $300,000
Pamela Joyce Anderson Grady and Willie Grady to Pamela Joyce Anderson Grady Revocable Trust and Pamela Joyce Anderson Grady; Lot 5, Block A
Eastern Carolina Development Company of Rocky Mount, Inc. to Indra Alapati and Anish Doddapaneni; Greystone North Subdivision, Block A, Lot 1

Renovation/alteration; 5923 Harvest Ridge Rd., Battleboro; Donald Poland; $28,000
New single family dwelling; 700 Harrison Rd., Nashville; Mark Lucero; $242,064.67
Repair; 3320 Macedonia Rd., Spring Hope; Timothy Land; $10,000
Detached accessory structure; 4668 Ashley Dr., Battleboro; David English; $38,000

The Rocky Mount Debu-ette Club has announced its 2024 seniors.
The organization consists of young women in grades ninth through twelfth who volunteer together in the community. They become community leaders while developing lifelong friendships during four years of service.

RED OAK -- Recent poor weather has brought with it some winds of change in the Big East Conference girls soccer standings.
That's because the Northern Nash Lady Knights, with their rebuilding work apparently complete, have started to breeze past their league foes -- even perennial powerhouse Southern Nash.

BUNN -- It took just 21 hours for the rematch of the 'Game of the Year' in the Big East Conference to be played -- and that brought a few key intangibles into play.
With rain in the forecast for last Thursday, Round Two of the Bunn-Northern Nash baseball showdown was moved up one day -- and the first game of the series had been staged Tuesday, with host Northern Nash rallying from a huge deficit to force extra innings before finally earning the tough victory in the bottom of the 11th stanza of action.

ROCKY MOUNT -- The North Carolina Wesleyan University baseball program welcomed back the 1989 & 1999 National Championship teams back to Bauer Field for the 25 and 35-year reunions on April 5.
Led by Head Coach Mike Fox, the 1989 Battling Bishop baseball squad brought home NCWU's first National Championship when Wesleyan defeated California State-Stanislaus by an 8-7 score on June 4, 1989 at Muzzy Field in Bristol, Connecticut.

FRANKLIN COUNTY -- The first Big East Conference boys golf match after Spring Break culminated in the same result as all of the previous ones this spring -- with the Roanoke Rapids Yellow Jackets taking first place in the overall team standings.
Roanoke Rapids, also the defending league champion, saw its margin of victory drop, but the Yellow Jackets still got the job done by finishing with 347 team strokes to take the 18-hole competition last Wednesday at The River Golf Course near Bunn.

ZEBULON - The Carolina Mudcats (4-1) saw three leads disappear throughout last Wednesday night's contest at Five County Stadium, but a big Cooper Pratt two-run single in the eighth gave the Mudcats just enough of a cushion to hand the Down East Wood Ducks (4-1) their first loss of 2024 by a final score of 7-6.
Despite the several surges from Down East, Carolina never trailed in the ballgame.
The Mudcats took a 1-0 lead on a Kay-Lan Nicasia sacrifice fly in the second that was quickly erased by an Echedry Vargas RBI double in the top half of the third.

NASHVILLE - The proposed Nash County FY 2025 budget projects a drop in the property tax rate from the current 67 cents per $100 assessed value to 63 cents per $100 assessed value; after revaluation, even the drop is projected to generate a 20.8% increase, amounting to an estimated $68+ million in property tax money for the county's general fund.

NASHVILLE - Nashville Town Council members, minus an absent Kate Burns, voted to move ahead with a $1.5 million purchase contract Tuesday night for the old Fellowship Church at 981 Old White Oak Road, with the caveat that the 'due diligence' period be lengthened to 90 days and the town granted the right to "back out" of the purchase contract for any reason during that time.

NASHVILLE - Nash's newest District Court Judge, the Honorable Alicia M. Slaughter, was sworn into office April 8, with her first day on the bench April 15. Slaughter won the March 5 democratic primary and was appointed by Governor Cooper to fill the vacancy created by the appointment of the Honorable Beth Freshwater-Smith as a Special Superior Court Judge. Her term will actually begin in January.

NASHVILLE - Nash County Sheriff's deputies and EMS workers could be seeing more money in their paychecks, if recommended pay hikes from a public safety salary study are adopted in the upcoming FY 2025 county budget. County officials were presented with study results in day two of their annual budget workshop April 12 and meetings are planned with both departments the first week of May to go over the data.

Eleven of twelve outside agencies asking for Nash County dollar assistance will be getting some or all of what they asked for, pending approval for the finalized fiscal year 2025 county budget.
Commissioners are being asked to include a total amount of $168,885, with the maximum allowed $35,000 per agency program.

Miranda Easter of Easter Creations sells baked delights to a crowd at opening day of the Nashville Farmers Market. The market will open Friday afternoons through October 11th.