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Scott Mason from WRAL served as the Grand Marshal of the Spring Hope Pumpkin Festival Parade.

Southern Nash High School Band

The Holly Grove Church family rides in the Spring Hope Pumpkin Festival Parade.

Marley Gray Winstead, 2018 Miss Pumpkin Queen, rides in the Spring Hope Pumpkin Festival Parade Saturday.

Nash Community College, in partnership with Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools, will host a "Career in a Year" Open House Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM on the college campus. The event will highlight programs of study offered through the college's Continuing Education department that can be completed within one year.

FREE pets = DEAD pets!!
There are a lot of people needing to rehome their pets for various reasons, including financial, moving, jobs, health and too many reasons to list. Perhaps they cannot give them the quality of care due to financial problems as they have their families to feed first! Until we walk in their shoes.... however, a lot of free pets end up in the wrong hands.

As a child, I was terrified of death. I lost my mother when I was seven years old. So death was not just a figment of my imagination. I saw its sting and I understood how it could tear a family apart.
I still fear death, largely because I continue to view it through the eyes of that seven-year old that lost his mother.

Hello readers. I've taken a couple weeks off from submitting an my "Intersections" article but I'm back. Let me begin by thanking you for reading and for your kind comments as you meet me at different places.
This week, I'd like to talk with you about revival. By the time you read this article we will have concluded "revival services" at the church I pastor.

Just as God is utterly other than creation, so God is utterly against evil. We see this played out in the most powerful way when God splits the Red Sea, allows the Hebrews to cross, and drowns Pharaoh's army. This event is nothing short of God's defining stance of being utterly opposed to evil in whatever form it may present itself.

It was a beautiful day at Peachtree Baptist Church Sunday as the Peachtree faithful gathered to worship.
The Sanctuary flower arrangement was presented to glorify God by Mrs. Ann Browder in loving memory of her husband, Mr. Bobby Browder, Sr.
Jerry Hobgood, assistant Sunday School Director, welcomed the Sunday school gathering.

Several men from Red Oak Baptist Church traveled with the pastor, Chris Fowler, to Morehead City on October 4-6. The 9 men stayed in Morehead and worked in Beaufort. They tore out some things in houses that had damage from Hurricane Florence and also cleaned up yards that had trees down. The group had a great time helping these people, some of which were elderly, and received blessings as well from them.

On September 24, 2018, President Trump declared a major disaster in the State of North Carolina based on losses caused by Hurricane Florence that occurred September 7, 2018 and continuing. As a result of this major disaster, 9 North Carolina counties were declared eligible for Federal disaster assistance, including Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency (EM) loans for eligible family farmers.