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Participants of the first AgriScience Homeschool Course were recognized at the annual Farm to Table Breakfast. Nash County Cooperative Extension hosted the 12-week course, with 14 youth participating. Classes focused on horticulture, crop science and livestock and animal care. The goal for the course is for youth to have an increased appreciation for agriculture.

The Business of the Year Award was presented to B&S Enterprises, a agriculture and lawn and garden equipment company out of Wilson.

Nash County Cooperative Extension Agent Colby Griffin presents the Women in Agriculture Award to Christina Wrenn of Wrenn's Farm. Wrenn is a third generation family farm, producing strawberries and cut flowers.

Colin Leggett of Nashville received the Next Generation in Agricutlure Award.

Regular readers of the Soapbox have been reading about my daughter for about 25 years. Every spring on her birthday, I've written a "Dear Holly" column, making sure I said the things I needed to say.
You found out about her birthday parties and her reactions when she found out new baby brothers were on the way.
You read about how I took her with me to vote when she was four, and she announced to everyone at the Samaria polling place, "I'M HERE TO VOTE FOR GEORGE WASHINGTON!"

It always amazes me every year how some of the busiest folks in Nash County find the time to spend a day with local youth to make sure they're learning about agriculture and teach them where their food comes from.
Local farmers can be found every year parking their tractors to spend a day with local students during events such as the annual Heritage Days. This event gives kids hands-on lessons about farming right down to milking a cow. Though the cow is mechanical, kids get the idea that milk comes from an animal instead of thinking it's something that is made at a grocery store.

These photos published in The Nashville Graphic on December 31, 1964. In the above photo, Donald Winstead (seated, second from left) scoutmaster for Troop 76, and Raymond Batchelor (seated third from left), chairman of the scout committee, accept the scout charter from Willard Inscoe, chairman of the Board of Deacons for the Nashville Baptist Church which sponsored the scout troop. Also seated were Tommy Batchelor (left), assistant scoutmaster, and Cleveland Jeffreys. Standing left to right are Teck Bass, Fred Winsetad, Kermit Dunn and Edgar Batchlor.

It is almost alarming to consider the difference between a man or woman in hell and a man or woman in heaven. In that amazing story from Jesus about Lazarus the poor man who ate the crumbs from the rich man's table we learn, after the death of both of them, something which we might not know otherwise.
The rich man is in Hades, the first dimension of hell. He is in torment, and asks for mercy from Abraham, the man of faith, who is next to Lazarus. He is "in the bosom" of Abraham, which only means that he was lying next to Abraham on the triclinium or three-sided couch used for eating meals in that day.

Meredith and Besweri Walujjo and son, Parker, visited Red Oak Baptist Church on Wednesday, Nov. 13 while here from Uganda. Children, youth, and adults enjoyed hearing from Meredith and Besweri and learning about their ministries. Preschoolers had a separate session about Uganda with Marilyn Boone and Taylor Brantley, They joined the group for refreshments and a time to meet Meredith and Besweri. Meredith is from the Justice community and has been on several mission trips before she decided to dedicate her work in Uganda.

For a century plus a decade, Boice-Willis Clinic has been providing primary and specialty medical care to the residents of Nash and Edgecombe counties. The area's largest provider, the practice serves more than 40,000 patients a year in three towns: Rocky Mount, Nashville and Spring Hope.
Boice-Willis Clinic was founded in 1914 when Edmund Boice, MD, and Byrd Willis, MD, relocated to Rocky Mount, from Richmond, VA, to begin their surgical practices.

STANHOPE -- Southern Nash's rapid ascent to the top of the Big East Conference was the main storyline of the league's 2024 volleyball campaign -- but there were plenty of other highlights.
Southern, coached by Melanie Mercer, scored a clean sweep of the Big East, winning the conference's regular season and tournament championships.
The on-the-rise Ladybirds would go 20-3 overall and reach the second round of the Class 3-A State Playoffs to cap off their historic year.

KERNERSVILLE -- It's not difficult to find the Northern Nash High School boys cross country team on the day that the Class 3-A State Championships are held.
Just head to Ivey Redmon Park in Kernersville (Forsyth County), and you'll find the Fighting Knights there.
That's just about as much of a guarantee as you'll find in Nash County prep athletics.

CHAPEL HILL -- The high school football playoffs are returning to Nash County in a big way this weekend, with all four of the county's public schools each selected as a host for their first-round matchups.
Friday's opening round slate will consist of Northern Nash hosting J.H. Rose, Southern Nash facing Harnett Central and Rocky Mount taking on Richlands in the Class 3-A bracket while Nash Central will host West Craven in the Class 2-A playoffs.

NASH COUNTY -- Here are the pairings for Friday's first-round action in the NCHSAA Class 2-A and 3-A State Football Playoffs:

NASHVILLE - Nashville's Farmers Market will remain attached to the Nashville Junction for the next three years, now that a new lease has been worked out with Hurt LLC, Junction owner.
Randy Lansing, town manager, said the town's lease, now expired, had been in negotiation with the only remaining sticking point the rent.
Nashville is currently paying Hurt LLC $1,500 a month for the farmers market venue to use three open air shelters at the Junction.