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INCIDENTS
A larceny was reported on 11/27/13 at 912 Brake Street
A driving while license revoked, larceny after breaking and entering and breaking and entering a residential was reported on 11/29/13 at 1739 Oak Level Road

A second degree trespassing was reported on 11/25/13 at 222 W Washington Street
A financial card fraud was reported on 11/25/13 at 4871 Courtney Drive
A breaking, entering and larceny of a residence was reported 11/25/13 at 1479 Waynes Lane
A breaking, entering and larceny of a residence was reported on 11/25/13 at 2450 Frazier Road

Wesley Stephen and Jeanette Bissette Ferrell celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Friday, November 29, 2013 with a special dinner hosted by their daughters. The couple were wed on November 27, 1963. They are now living in Wilson but attended school in the Spring Hope area. They have two daughters, Stephanie Gardner and her husband, Alan, and Angela Bisbee and her husband, Jeff and five grandchildren.

Leslie  Claire Harrelson and Duncan Powell Blackwell were united in marriage at half past four o’clock on Saturday, September 7th, 2013, in Powell Chapel at Second Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. The Reverend Micah Voraritskul officiated.

Columbiettes, Bonnie Kane and Ruth Gall, assist other Columbiettes, and Knights of Columbus, of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, to assemble and distribute Thanksgiving boxes.  The Knights provided enough food for 111 families to enjoy a nice Thanksgiving dinner, which included turkey and all the trimmings.

Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools received numerous honors during the North Carolina School Board Associations annual conference held at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro November 18-20.
The Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools Honors Band & Dance Ensemble performed during one of the conference’s general sessions.

Member of the West Mount Ruritan Club honored community heroes, including veterans, emergency services personnel and senior citizens, on Saturday, November 16.
Following a lunch of barbeque and friend chicken with all the trimmings, the group enjoyed a POW/MIA presentation by James Ervin and Herbert Joyner, members of the Oak Level Ruritan Club who were representing American Legion Post 110, VFW Post 2057 and the Joint Veterans Committee of Nash and Edgecombe Counties.

Western Carolina University conferred degrees on 291 students who completed their studies during the summer school session of 2013.
A total of 55 undergraduate students received academic honors, with 18 graduating summa cum laude (with highest honors), 20 graduating magna cum laude (with high honors) and 17 graduating cum laude (with honors).

The Special Olympics North Carolina state-level bocce tournament for Special Olympics programs in the eastern part of the state was held on Saturday, Oct. 19 at Gillette Athletic Complex in Wilson.
The SONC Bocce East Tournament consisted of more than 170 athletes and Unified Partners, 75 coaches and had 80 volunteers supporting the event, according to Keith L. Fishburne, president/CEO of SONC.

Elizabeth City State University honored area Teachers of the Year during the annual American Education Week assembly on November 21.

Nash County Cooperative Extension hosted its annual “Farm-City Country Breakfast” last Tuesday morning at the Farmers Market in Rocky Mount.
Close to 150 came out for the breakfast, which is held each year to bring the community together to celebrate agriculture.

Nashville’s Library hosted a children’s craft time on Saturday, November 23. Children made several Christmas ornaments, with help from library staff and Nashville Community Services Officer Jennifer Bull. Pictured above, Bull helps youth work on a snowman ornament.

The Tar River Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation visited My Sister’s House just prior to Thanksgiving to donate turkeys as well as sweet potatoes for the organization to give to its clients. The organization donates turkeys and sweet potatoes each year to several local organizations. The sweet potatoes were donated by Spring Acres Farms in Spring Hope.

The Nash County 4-H Electric Club was recently invited to give a presentation to the Dortches Ruritan Club.
With club leader John Wind, president Elias Moore and vice president Jasper Cruz brought display boards and oral presentations about the club’s activities. The board Moore made included photos and newspaper articles that show how the club conducts meetings, along with the club’s main activities and projects.

Our choir sang “We Are So Blessed” for the call to worship. Pastor Aycock welcomed everyone and prayed the prayer of invocation. Prayer concerns were shared, Standley Bass, Tina Lamm, Bob Watkins, all other sick and shut-ins, hurting and the lost. We pray for our soldiers and missionaries, and nation’s leaders.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and had a chance to be with family and friends. Four generations of the Callahan family from Virginia visited with Rose Callahan, sister of Dorothy Callahan Fisher, at Fountains at the Albemarle, in Tarboro, on Thanksgiving Day. They enjoyed a Thanksgiving dinner together. Afterwards there was a tour of historic Tarboro. The family of 37 enjoyed visiting with each other before returning home.

Area producers wanting coverage through the Noninsurable Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) are urged to purchase it now before the sales closing date of January 1, 2014.
NAP provides financial assistance to Nash County producers of noninsurable crops when low yields/grazing loss, loss of inventory or prevented planting occur due to natural disasters including drought, freeze, hail, excessive moisture, excessive wind or hurricanes.