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Lakeside Baptist Church, Rocky Mount is partnering with Košice Baptist Church in Slovakia to provide relief services to Ukrainian refugees. The partnership plan, developed and led by Dr. Jody Wright, Lakeside senior minister, links support from the Rocky Mount area with relief efforts underway at the Košice Church located approximately 80 miles from the border with Ukraine.

Nashville
6/20/2022: 3 p.m. - 7 p.m., Sandy Cross United Methodist Church, 3725 Sandy Cross Road
6/28/2022: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Nash County Senior Center, 103 N. Alston Street

William Hooper, William Brent Hooper, Rashena L. Hooper and Rashena Lynch Hooper to The RW Hooper Living Trust, William Brent Hooper and Rashena Lynch Hooper; 3832 Green Pasture West, Battleboro
Binney Living Trust, William L. Binney Jr. and Barbara G. Binney to Square Foote LLC; Section III, Belmont Lake Preserve, Lot 3

Building Permit
Commercial
Denise Vliet, 417 S. Walnut St; renovation/alteration; $25,000
Joseph Holland, 6950 Corporation Pkwy; renovation/alteration; $153,763

This photo originally published in The Nashville Graphic on August 30, 1979. Nashville Fire Chief Teck Bass (left) receives a $1,000 check from Mike Evans, president of Evans Lumber Co., who made the largest donation toward the purchase of the department's new fire truck.

ROCKY MOUNT -- A latecomer to the sport, Maniyah Jones is making up for lost time during her track and field career.
After a strong senior season at Nash Central, Jones signed a letter-of-intent last Thursday to join the program at Barton College in Wilson.
Jones excelled in sprints and relays this spring for the Bulldogs and was part of a relay contingent on the regional level.

RED OAK -- Indiya Spooner and Ashton Rhodes took home the top honors at the recent Northern Nash Athletic Awards Ceremony.
Spooner, a senior was tabbed as NN's Girls Athlete of the Year after a career that featured excellence in girls basketball and track and field. Spooner has signed a letter-of-intent to join the women's hoops program at Barton College in nearby Wilson.

NORTHERN NASH HIGH SCHOOL'S ASHTON RHODES WITH NNHS ATHLETIC DIRECTOR/BASEBALL COACH JOEY KEEFE

WILSON -- Quante Downey continues to ascend to new heights as a member of the Barton College men's track and field squad.
A Nash Central High School alum, Downey set the previous school record in the pole vault for the Bulldogs -- a mark that stood until eclipsed this spring by Colin Johnson.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Rare are the occasions when a pair of underclassmen take home a school's Athlete of the Year Awards.
But that's what happened recently at Nash Central High School as the Bulldogs' top athletic honors when to sophomore Javaris Jones for the boys and junior Camryn Eley for the girls.

NASH CENTRAL'S JAVARIS JONES

STANHOPE -- One of the most prosperous all-around years in Southern Nash High School sports history concluded recently with SN's Athletic Awards Ceremony.
And it was certainly time to celebrate following a campaign that featured several Big East Conference individual and team championships -- along with a handful of Big East Most Valuable Players in their respective endeavors.

ROGER'S ROTTWEILERS
8-UNDER TOURNAMENT
RUNNER-UP

STALLINGS RENTALS
8-UNDER TOURNAMENT
CHAMPION

ZEBULON - Eduardo Garcia and Hedbert Perez hit solo home runs over the first and second, but the Myrtle Beach Pelicans scored 10 runs over the first three innings and got a 4-for-6, two homer and eight RBI day from Kevin Alcantara while defeating the Carolina Mudcats 15-6 on Sunday afternoon at Five County Stadium.

CHAMPIONS. The Indians went undefeated to win the Tri-Community Baseball League's regular season and tournament championships.

GREENVILLE -- No. 9-seed Texas scored nine runs in the first two innings and claimed the 2022 Greenville Baseball Super Regional over No. 8 National Seed East Carolina Monday morning at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
With their win, the Longhorns advance to the 38th College World Series in Omaha, Neb.

"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." (John 15:5)
When we lived in Georgia, I attended a men's breakfast at my church. I really wanted to sleep in that morning, but something told me to get up and go.
It never registered with me that it was the Spirit that was telling me to get out of bed, but I realized afterwards that God had something to say that morning that he wanted me to hear.

We live in a culture where many are not sure what they believe. It's easy to say, "I believe in Jesus" or "I have faith." Oprah Winfrey spent about 25 years promoting the idea that says it doesn't matter what we believe just as long as we believe or have faith in something.
However, it matters what we believe. The object of our faith is eternally important!

Summers can be a great time to make home repairs and improvements. But this summer, contractors may need to raise their prices to keep up with higher costs from supply chain issues and worker shortages. Reliable and trustworthy contractors will raise prices only as much as they need to. You need to be on the lookout for scammers who take advantage of the situation by charging high costs without cause or do shoddy, unreliable work that leaves you in the lurch.