Editorials

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.