Cary Academy student Jimmy A. Joyner Jr. is the recipient of the 2011 $500 Vinson Orthodontics Scholarship. He was selected from a group of candidates based on his grades, SAT scores, and an essay that he wrote, among other things. The essay was about the challenges facing his generation and ideas for dealing with those challenges.
Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is a federally funded, supplemental food program which provides nutritional foods to help babies and young children improve their developmental growth.
Young children need essential vitamins and minerals in their diet. If a child does not receive the proper nutrients, he can become more susceptible to illnesses.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
There was an old recruiting poster that featured bold type and Uncle Sam proclaiming: I Want You!
Maybe it’s time to revamp that poster just a little and aim it squarely at the nation’s kindergarten and first grade teachers who may have a unique set of skills that could help this nation right itself.
What are those skills?
GOOD MORNING: Well, it was nice while it lasted, but our short respite from the oppressive heat is apparently over, for the foreseeable future at any rate. Daytime highs locally returned to the 90’s again Monday with temperatures climbing into the mid to upper 90’s Tuesday and possibly higher as the week progresses, possibly reaching the 100–degree mark or more Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
A few weeks ago, I saw a movie called Bad Teacher.
In it, the protagonist is a liquor drinking, pot smoking, movie playing, sleeping in class type of teacher.
And, a spoiler alert — she cheats for her students on a standardized test so that she can earn the money she needs for a surgical procedure.
Would the political and leadership shakeup the newly proposed legislative and congressional redistricting maps could bring to Franklin County be a step forward or backward for economic growth.
Are you fed up with the partisan, polarizing and stagnant incivility and childish gamesmanship of today’s politics that forces the shutdown of governments, brings this nation to the brink of financial chaos and focuses more on being right than doing right? Political-speak labels this condition “hyper partisanship,” but most of us plainspoken folks call it garbage that smells so bad we want to toss it out and start over.
Dear Editor:
The world and I lost a very special lady and friend this week, when the Lord called her home to be with her mate of 66 years.
By:
Tracy Perry, Franklin County Cooperative Extension Agricultural Technician
While going through your day-to-day routine you might have heard of one, you might have even seen one, or maybe you have even worked in one.
One what you ask? A community garden of course. Well enough with the suspense. Community gardens are as varied as the neighborhoods in which they thrive.
RALEIGH - The artwork of 14 elementary and middle school students was selected for the first North Carolina Farm to School calendar. The calendar features daily agricultural facts and is intended to highlight the Farm to School program and agriculture’s role in food production.
A celebration in honor of the Rev. Dazale Vines Kearney for her 25 years of preaching service will be held on July 23 at 5 p.m. at Old Liberty Missionary Baptist Church.
The guest preacher will be Dr. Coolidge McCoy. Music will be by the Old Liberty Gospel Choir, Elder Nathaniel Cooke (original Brooklyn All Star), Freddy Greene (jazzy sax), and the Rev. David Rosby.
ANGIER - Gladys Conyers Frazier Greene died Sunday morning, July 17, 2011 at Rex Hospital. A graveside service was held Tuesday, July 19, at Montlawn Memorial Park, with Elder Joe Helms of Rehobeth Primitive Baptist Church officiating.
FRANKLINTON - Fred T. Williams died Sunday, July 17, 2011. At his request, no funeral service will be held. His family will have a private memorial service at a later date.
HOLLISTER - Funeral services for Florine Manley Harvey, 83, who died Monday, July 18, 2011, will be held at noon Friday, July 22, at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Thomas Richardson officiating. Burial will follow in the Harvey family cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Betty Jean Whitaker Outlaw died Monday night, July 18, 2011 at Wake Med in Raleigh. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday, July 21, in the Hall Wynne Franklinton Chapel, with the Rev. Clyde Waiden officiating. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery.
CASTALIA - Willie Bruce Pearce better known as “W.B.”, passed away at his home on July 19th, 2011.
He was born in Franklin County on January 2. 1924. His parents were the late Willie P. Pearce and Lizzie Lancaster Pearce.
Brenda Mata-Hernandez, daughter of Yuridiana Hernandez of Louisburg, has been selected as a finalist in the Pre-Teen North Carolina Scholarship and Recognition Program to be held Aug. 12-14 at the Sheraton Imperial in Durham.
Barton College in Wilson named 48 students to the President’s List and 219 students to the Dean’s List for spring semester 2011. President’s List students compiled a perfect 4.0 grade point average; Dean’s List students achieved a grade point average of 3.3 or better on a four-point scale.
Authorities arrested the second suspect in an assault that resulted in head injuries.
Mark Antione Smith, 31, of Kittrell, was arrested by Vance County authorities on Friday, charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and felony conspiracy — the result of a March 25 assault involving a skateboard and a stick in Louisburg.
The Kid’s Corner in Louisburg held its graduation in May at the center. Daycare director is Amy Merritt. The instructor of the class of 2011 is Tina Holden and assistant instructor is Barbara Coons.
SOUTHPORT -- Louisburg’s All-Stars went two-and-out at the Dixie Youth Minor League State Baseball Tournament, but a good time was still had by all.
Included among the heroics were medal-winning performances from a trio of Louisburg players at the annual Skills Competition that opened the tournament last Friday evening.
MORGANTON -- Each of Franklin County’s four participants wrapped up play last weekend at the annual Tar Heel Softball State Tournaments in Burke County.
The host Burke County contingent lived up to its lofty billing at the event by winning in all but one age group.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- The world has been Brett Vana’s oyster during his coaching career.
So why should things be different now?
Vana, an Ohio native, has spent time at several stops in the United States -- in addition to Europe.
He’s taking the same worldwide approach to his new duties in charge of the powerful Louisburg College women’s basketball program.
Gone but not forgotten.
That’s the story of Carey Johnson after his decision to permanently retire from our College Football Bowl Picks and NFL Fantasy Leagues.
But while Carey is no longer participating, his legacy of near-misses, screw-ups and ill-fated draft selections will live in infamy.
