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Northern Nash's Austin Evans (left) makes a sure tackle during the Knights' season-opening football victory last Friday night against the Corinth Holders Pirates.

NASH COUNTY -- The Nash County Parks and Recreation Department will conduct an NFL Punt, Pass and Kick Competition on Sept. 11 at Ennis Park in Red Oak.
The event will begin at 4 p.m. and is open to boys and girls ages 6-15. There is no charge to participate.
There are five different age groups. Participants are asked to not wear cleats.
For more information or to register, contact (252) 462-2628.

Family Career Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) held their State Leadership Conference in Greensboro in April. This student organization held competitive events in various areas including child development, leadership, community service, advocacy, design, life event planning and foods and nutrition. Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools (NRMPS) students competed against other students from across North Carolina during the conference.

No Aventon News this week, just thoughts.
I have mentioned several times in the past that my old house was named "ANEEDA," because she was always in the need of something. I have been thinking long and hard about what I would call my new home, and really wasn't satisfied with anything until I saw a program on Coquina Rock. This rock is a soft limestone consisting of broken shells, shell fragments, sediment that is formed together in marine water; washed up on shore.

Members of a local group opposed to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline joined hands on Sunday as part of a nationwide event, Hands Across Our Land.
Just over a dozen members of Nash Stop the Pipeline (NSTP) met at Flat Rock Branch on Red Oak Battleboro Road to participate in the nationwide event, whose purpose is to bring attention to property rights and the challenges they face when dealing with corporations in their quest to build new fossil fuel infrastructure.
This is the second year the event has been held nationwide. It is sponsored by the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League.