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Letter to the Editor:
This year I won’t be going to spend Christmas Eve or Christmas Day with family as I have in the past few years. Why? Because somebody dropped off a litter of seven three-week old puppies at the Nash County Animal Shelter this week. He didn’t want to keep them, but he wanted to keep the mom. He apparently didn’t think about the fact that these puppies were not weaned and would die almost immediately without intervention. It was unlikely they would get adopted in time.
ARRESTS
Frederick Neal Mitchell, Jr - 11/20/2010 - charged with speeding and driving while license revoked
Sharon Tamika Ford - 11/22/2010 - charged with criminal summons
Aderyl Dewaune Wright - 11/22/2010 - charged with simple physical assault
A homecoming is planned on Wednesday, December 22 for Colt Brake, a Rocky Mount Academy student who was injured during a football game in October. Brake has been at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, which specializes in spinal injuries.
While Brake has been recovering in Atlanta, friends and family have been working hard to make over his home, making it more wheelchair accessible.
Pictured L-R, James Ervin and Vince Tesoro receive a donation from Herb Joyner, president of the Oak Level Ruritans for the 2010 Toys-For-Tots Campaign.
Brandon Lindsey was named the Rookie of the Year by Nashville’s Fire Department.
Former Nashville Fire Chief Tim Pope accepts a plaque of appreciation for his 11 years with the department. Pope left to go to the Bay Leaf Fire Department.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Pete Hinton, a charter member of Momeyer’s Ruritan Club was the recipient of the Tom Downing Award at the club’s annual Christmas dinner on Monday night.
Wayne Outlaw, 2008 National President and Nash County resident, presented the award to Hinton.
“It’s always a great honor,” Outlaw said. “Its the most coveted award in Ruritan.”
Dear Santa,
Can you get me a surfboard and a playstation three, also a monkey and a dart gun and a robot to do my chores and my homework to I would also like a shirt with a dinosaur on it and a 2K09 basketball game that has Mighal Jarsen. I will leave milk and cookies for you. I hope you bring me presents.
Thursday, December 23 from 11 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at Outback Steakhouse, 210 Gateway Blvd, Rocky Mount
Thursday, December 23 from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at Davenport Autopark, 600 English Road, Rocky Mount
Friday, December 24 from 9:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Old Navy, 1587 Benvenue Road, Rocky Mount
Nash Community College has completed another successful United Way campaign. This year College faculty and staff contributed over $12,039, a fifteen percent increase from last year’s campaign.
Throughout the two-month campaign, employees were encouraged to give through payroll deduction and other fundraising activities including opportunities to wear their Halloween costume or jeans to work for a small fee.
Nash Community College’s Betsy B. Currin Child Development Center program has received a Five Star rating, the highest rating awarded in North Carolina. The one to five star rating system was created by the Division of Child Development to evaluate child care centers on components of quality, staff education and program standards.
Rocky Mount Academy has announced its First Trimester Honor Roll
Nashville Elementary has announced its A and A/B Honor Roll for the 2nd Six Weeks Grading Period.
Red Oak Middle School has announced its Honor Roll for the 2nd Six Weeks.
On this fourth Sunday of Advent, the candle of “LOVE’ was lit by MartaWhitehouse, following the reading of the Advent Devotional, led by she and Ann Browder. Pastor Whitehouse led the morning worship. The children presented their Christmas program.
I rested again this past Sunday. Coughing too much to get in public. My daughter brought me a bulletin, so I’m writing this article from information in that. Our pastor types an outline of his message and encloses an insert in the bulletin. That helps me with the sermon part.
Family Night was held at Red Oak Baptist Church Sunday, Dec. 12. The night featured music by the children and preschoolers. Refreshments followed the service.
On Sunday morning, the Advent candle of Joy was lit.
Pastor David Eidson’s message in Word was from Matthew 6:25 (NIV) “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?”
Mary Bryan Fryar, former Nashville resident and author, recently donated her new book, Promise of Joy, to Cooley Library as a gift. Pictured is Fryar (at left) with Betsy Robertson (at right), of Friends of the Cooley Library.
Fifty four students at Rocky Mount Academy were recognized as local winners of the 2010 Young Authors Project, a writing contest sponsored locally by the Nash Rocky Mount Council of the International Reading Association.
Each year, students from the area public and private schools write prose or poetry about a theme. This year, the subject was “That’s A Fact,” and students had to write a non-fiction piece.
The Wiley Frank Wood Memorial Technology Scholarship was recently established at Nash Community College by his daughter, Susan W. Sabiston, and her husband, Jim of Rocky Mount to honor the life of Frank Wood and his service to his fellow man. A native of Elizabeth City, Mr. Wood enjoyed helping others and was devoted to lifelong learning of technology.
Civilian Alexander M. Wade, son of Laneta Jo Delong Wade, of Rocky Mount, and John D. Wade, of Rocky Mount, 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. Using recruiters as mentors, this program helps recruits ease into the transition from civilian to military life.
GOLDSBORO -- With Santa Claus coming one week later, the Nash Central High School Girls Swim Team continued to deliver more heroics in the pool last Saturday.
Holiday Cheer has never been more evident for the undefeated Lady Bulldogs, who continued their season-long string of successes at the Sixth Annual Southeastern Interscholastic Meet at the Goldsboro Family YMCA in Wayne County.
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CHARLES ALSTON, Graphic Correspondent / Submitted photos by David Hahula
ROCKY MOUNT -- The top athletic event in the county during the Christmas Holidays opened the way most thought it would Monday evening at Rocky Mount High School’s Gymnasium.
Northern Nash’s girls beat Nash Central, and both of Rocky Mount’s squads made their way to today’s finals of the annual Nash County Holiday Basketball Tournament with victories.
RED OAK -- Northern Nash High School will begin its 2011 regular season girls soccer schedule on Feb. 28 with an away matchup against the Northern Vance Lady Vikings.
NN, coached by veteran mentor Joe McCarthy, will have its initial home match March 1 versus Louisburg.
