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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Khaled Hassan and his wife, Renae, started their first Italian restaurant in Wilson seven years ago. Today, the couple now manage three Italian Pizza and Subs, two in the Wilson area and more recently, one in Nashville.
Nashville’s Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony for the Nashville location, which officially opened in January.
ARRESTS
Davante Eskridge - 3/14/2011 - charged with assault with a deadly weapon and communicating threats
Michael Alston - 3/15/2011 - charged with driving while impaired, driving while license revoked and fictitious/alternate title/registration card/tag
The Nash County Sheriff’s Office arrested two Rocky Mount women last week for trafficking prescription pills.
The Narcotics Division of the Sheriff’s Office received information that Kimberly Lynch, 26, of Coleman Avenue, Rocky Mount and Rashunna Parker, 30, of Tanglewood Road, Rocky Mount, would be trafficking prescription pills on April 7.
SPRING HOPE- A going home celebration was held on Monday, April 11, 2011 for Florine E. Greene, age 88.
NASH COUNTY - Lurene Morgan Parker died Thursday, March 31, 2011.
ROCKY MOUNT - Jacqueline Whitfield Goodman, 58, of Rocky Mount, died on Friday, April 8, 2011, in Greenville.
ROCKY MOUNT - Kim P. Richardson, 44, of Rocky Mount, died on Saturday, April 9, 2011.
The Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education honored Channing Hilliard Fries, Jr. last Monday night for his many years of service as an educator.
Fries was born in 1914 in Rowan County and arrived in Nashville in 1938 to teach French and Social Studies at Nashville High School.
As part of Military Appreciation Day, students at Nashville Elementary School got a chance to visit several stations with different military men and women, who discussed their role in the service. Pictured above, students look at a tent that service men and women sleep in.
Wednesday, April 20 from 2 until 6 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 100 S. Church Street, Rocky Mount
Wednesday, April 20 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Environmental Services Building, Thorpe Road, Rocky Mount
I recently heard there is a proposal on the table from our fine legislators in Raleigh to start paying kids to make good grades. And we’re not talking about chump change either. We’re talking about $1,000 a year from kindergarten through the end of high school.
What?!?
Seriously?
“An armed society is a polite one.”
I can’t remember if that was one of the Founding Fathers or my UPS Man in Nashville who said that. It doesn’t really matter – they have the same moral and character base values.
For those of us who believe the U.S. Constitution was a pretty dang good document when James Madison first laid pen to it, and feel that it has needed very little modifying and adjusting over the years if you really think about it, protecting rights is a big deal.
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Letters to the Editor:
We, the Nash County Farm Bureau Board of Directors, in the best interest of taxpayers, property owners, and farmers of Nash County hereby resolve to make the following request of the Nash County Board of Commissioners:
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Letters to the Editor:
I would like to plead with those who “enjoy” the circus to PLEASE understand the abuse and torture those circus animals endure. Those animals are taken from their families out of their own environment and forced to “perform” for humans. They are “trained” by abusive methods. Babies are taken from their Moms, wild, majestic creatures are forced to live in cages their whole lives, elephants are tied with chains on their legs most of their lives.
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A PICTORIAL LOOK INTO THE PAST
We found this photo in The Graphic’s 1961 archives. If you recognize the young lady and the store, call us at 459-7101.
Legislator Angela Bryant (center) has been named Honorary Ringmaster for the 7:30 p.m. performance on Thursday, April 21, of the Cole Brothers Circus on the campus of N. C. Wesleyan College. She is accompanied by NRMPS Board Member Reginald Silver (left) and Nash General Chaplain Richard Joyner (right) in announcing the availability at local EP Marts of free general admission tickets for children 12 and under.
Stephen Cole Bunn and Christopher Wayne Miller, both of Rocky Mount, participated in the Governor’s Page Program in Raleigh.
Stephen and Christopher spent a week gaining valuable life experience and providing administrative support as a page for Office of State Budget and Management for the week of March 21-25.
Winstead Avenue Elementary School recently completed its third annual Valentine’s Day cards’ campaign for Duke Children’s Hospital. Homemade cards, illustrated by second grader Hallie Masten in Mrs. Collins’ second grade, were sold for fifty cents each during the month of February.
Two outstanding students from Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System have been selected to participate in the 2011 North Carolina Governor’s School.
Julian J. Marrero, of Northern Nash High School and William D. Crumpler, of Rocky Mount High School, are among the 600 rising high school juniors and seniors statewide selected to attend the six-week summer program for academically or intellectually gifted students.
Amanda Jordan Matthews received her B. S. in Nursing from East Carolina University School of Nursing in December 2010. She received licensure as a Registered Nurse from the N. C. Board of Nursing in January. Amanda, a Nash County native is a graduate of Nash Central High and is the daughter of E. Lindsey & Phyllis B. Matthews of Castalia.
Parker Middle School won its second straight Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools Battle of the Books title during the March 9th competition held at the Nash Agricultural Center. Students from all five middle schools were quizzed on characters, details, plots, settings, and quotes from the 27 novels required for this year’s competition.
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Carol Vierela, Nash County Animal Friends
What is a Shelter? The word shelter means to provide cover or protection. Under that definition, in broad terms, the Nash County Animal Shelter is a shelter. It is the holding facility of Animal Control for stray pets and pets that people turn in. But in my mind, a shelter should be a safe place. BUT it is not.
St. Paul United Methodist Church presents the musical of Godspell which is a great way for the entire community to celebrate Easter together. Performances of this delightful musical, based on the gospel of Matthew, are April 20 – 23rd at 7:30 p.m. with a 2:00 matinee on Saturday, April 23rd at St. Paul United Methodist Church at 1217 Bethlehem Road in Rocky Mount.
Attention - All children (and parents): There will be an Easter party at the Beulah Church of Christ fellowship hall, Saturday, April 23rd from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM. Children please remind your parents of this and let them know just how much you would like to attend. Parents, please mark your calendars and be sure to bring all the children, their friends, and the neighbors’ children to this special event!
Brother Bob welcomed everyone to Sunday school. There were 95 present with six visitors. Alex Marlowe read the Bible verse for today. The title of our Sunday school lesson was “Praise Builds Us Up”. The golden text for today’s lesson was Jude 1:24-25, “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling ... to the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.” Jude is telling us to praise God in all circumsances. We ought to praise everyday for every thing.
