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Nash Central's Travis Griffin (with ball) drops back and looks for a receiver during last Friday night's contest at Randleman in the second round of the Class 2-AA State Playoffs.

Southern Nash's Stacie Winner (left) dribbles toward the basket during last Thursday's road basketball game against the Bunn Ladycats.

Your Choice Pregnancy Resource Center held its annual Walk For Life on Saturday, September 16, at Englewood Park.
Hundreds of walkers and their families and friends celebrated and walked the two mile trek in honor of preborn babies and their moms.

As the church, especially in the Bible belt, we are pretty good and talking about the need for the repentance of our sins and confession of Jesus as Lord and Savior. We love to hear stories of souls being saved, those lost now found, those who were blind now being able to see. Praise God for this, praise God that this is still happening in many churches across Eastern NC.

George Mueller (1805-1898) is widely considered one of the greatest men of prayer and faith since the days of the New Testament. He lived nearly the entire nineteenth century, two-thirds of it in Bristol, England. He led four far-reaching, influential ministries, but we know him best today for his orphanages. He cared for as many as two thousand orphans at a time -- more than ten thousand in his lifetime. Yet he never made the needs of his ministries known to anyone except to God in prayer. (crossway.org/georgemuellerprayer)

For the third consecutive year, AgCarolina Farm Credit is accepting donations for their annual Toys for Tots drive.
The Toys for Tots campaign began in September in conjunction with customer appreciation events held at AgCarolina Farm Credit's twelve branches in eastern North Carolina. All toy donations will benefit local North Carolina children. Donations will be accepted at your local AgCarolina Farm Credit branch through November 22nd.

Friday, November 24 from 1 until 5 p.m. at Golden East Crossing Mall, 1100 N Wesleyan Boulevard, Rocky Mount
Monday, November 27 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Edgecombe Community College, 225 Tarboro Street, Rocky Mount
Wednesday, November 29 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Nash County Senior Center, 103 N Alston Street, Nashville

The Theatre Arts Department at Rocky Mount High School has much to celebrate, as they recently brought home honors from the 2017 NCTC High School Play Festival, held at Washington High School on November 3rd, 2017.
The theatre program, led by Kristin Lundberg, made the school and community proud with their presentation of Little Women at the Festival, and is thrilled to bring home the Excellence in Acting award which was awarded to Jayna Uricchio.

NASH COUNTY -- Southern Nash ended Wilson Hunt's two-year undefeated run of supremacy this fall en route to winning the Big East Conference boys soccer regular season championship.
Southern, coached by Carlos Barron, used a final-week flurry to edge the Warriors and Wilson Fike by one-half game in the parity-filled Big East standings.

Five out-of-state heroin suppliers were arrested in Nash County early Sunday morning.
The Nash County Sheriff's Office Tar River Regional Drug Task Force received information that a male subject would be transporting a large amount of heroin into Nash County from New Jersey.

After reviewing write-in votes for Nashville's Town Council election, the Nash County Board of Elections declared Kate Burns as the top vote getter among write-ins, placing her in the second open seat on Nashville's Board.
Write-in candidates received 469 votes for Nashville's Town Council last Tuesday during Municipal Elections.

Yoselin Espinoza and Adrianna Gallentine (L-R) raise a flag for one of the five branches of service on Saturday during the annual Veterans Day ceremony, which was held at the Rocky Mount Veterans Memorial at Jack Laughery Park. Espinoza and Gallentine are part of Nash Central High School's Naval ROTC, which assists with the ceremony each year.

Twin County residents came out to the Rocky Mount Veterans Memorial at Jack Laughery Park on Saturday to pay tribute to veterans as part of the annual Veterans Day celebration.
The event has been hosted by the Joint Veterans Committee of Nash and Edgecombe Counties for the past 10 years, since the memorial was established.
David O'Dea said the ceremony is held each year to let veterans know they are appreciated.