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RALEIGH – Elections matter.
Keen grasp of the obvious, huh? But in my defense, many people view the electoral process with suspicion, skepticism, and scorn. They say there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the two major parties, or that political pull matters more than political ideas, or that politicians who run for office on principle often run from principle once in office.
The first step in any recovery is to admit you have a problem. So before trying to fix the football program at UNC, or any athletics program, let us begin there. We are addicted and, like all others, it has assumed too great a priority in our lives. Want proof? Look at the campaign to fire the UNC chancellor because he fired the coach, the incessant chatter on Internet message boards or angry talk radio blasts surrounding football at our flagship university.
YOUNGSVILLE — Royce Payne Wheeler, 58, died Friday, Aug. 5, 2011 at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. Graveside services were held Monday, Aug. 8, in the Wake Forest Town Cemetery.
FUQUAY-VARINA— William Morton Mitchell, 75, died Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10, at Thomas Funeral Home, 401 N. Ennis St., Fuquay-Varina. Burial will follow at Raleigh Memorial Park, Raleigh.
WAKE FOREST - Eric Eugene Black, 31, died Friday, Aug. 5, 2011. Funeral services were held Sunday, Aug. 7, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home with Chaplain Matt Baldwin officiating.
FRANKLINTON - Funeral services for Johnnie B. Mann Jr., 76, who died Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, at St. Delight United Church of Christ, with the Rev. Maurice White officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
RALEIGH - Funeral services for Coretta Diane Brodie, 38, who died Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, at Manasseh Chapel Baptist Church, with the Rev. Samuel Tunstall officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
YOUNGSVILLE - Robert L. Armistead, 73, died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011. Strickland Funeral Home, Louisburg.
WAKE FOREST - Bessie Irene Hilkey Bender, formerly of Greensboro, died Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at Hope Lutheran Church.
FRANKLINTON - Mattie Beckham Kemp, 70, of 222 Phelps Road, Franklinton died August 6, 2011.
LOUISBURG - Ruby “Pete” Bobbitt Murray, 73, of Louisburg, died Monday, August 08, 2011, at Louisburg Nursing Center. She was preceded in death by her husband, David Earl Murray; her sisters, Annie Grey Jones and Becky Rhodes, and her brother, Thaddeus Wayne Bobbitt.
By: Kim Jackson, Franklin County Cooperative Extension Service
Rain Gardens are wonderful ways for homeowners to recycle run-off from home drainage and in return have an area for beautiful plants that are watered from captured rainwater.
A rain garden is not only beneficial to your landscape, but also aids in slowing water movement, thus reducing sediment movement into lakes, streams, ponds, and storm water pipes.
Louisburg police are looking for suspects who stole $10,000 worth of equipment from a vacated business.
According to a report by Officer T.W. Lincoln, suspects stole two air-conditioning units from the Murphy House location on Bickett Boulevard.
The business has been closed since last spring, but items remained at the site.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Bunn High School’s Alumni Volleyball Day always brings a huge crowd -- but this year proved to be the all-time topper for the Ladycats.
A whopping total of 24 former players showed up for the annual event -- encompassing just about every era of Coach Henry Jones’ storied tenure at the school, which spans back to the mid-1990s.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- It would be an understatement to say that this is a busy week for Franklin County’s three high school football programs.
Franklinton, Louisburg and Bunn will all be in action this week in not one -- but two -- scrimmages or jamborees.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- When asked about areas of her team that need improvement, Louisburg High School veteran volleyball coach Erica Wammock has a quick answer.
“Everywhere,’’ Wammock said before her team hopped a bus Tuesday for an important scrimmage in Henderson against the homestanding Northern Vance Lady Vikings.
HENDERSON -- As Vance-Granville Community College prepares for another men’s basketball season, the program can boast of several alumni who have gone on to enjoy various athletic and academic successes.
Among them is Raleigh native Bryan Burrell, one of the stars from VGCC’s first season in the National Junior College Athletic Association.
PEARL, MISS. -- Jordan Kreke singled home Cory Harrilchak with the winning run in the last of the ninth to lift Mississippi to a 4-3 victory over Carolina on Sunday night before 1,407 fans at Trustmark Park in a Class AA Southern League baseball matchup.
The game-winning rally started against reliever James Adkins (L, 0-1) with a double to right-center by Harrilchak.
Paige Timberlake (right) is one of the many talented ninth-graders who should help Bunn have a formidable volleyball junior varsity squad this season.
The Carolina Lookouts 12-Under Girls Fast-Pitch Softball Team recently went to Myrtle Beach to take part in the 2011 WFC A Class World Series. The Lookouts dropped only one game at the event and went on to win the World Series.
The Bunn All-Stars were the highest-finishing team from North Carolina at the Dixie Youth Coach-Pitch Regional Tournament, which concluded last week at McLeod Park in Florence, S.C. Earlier, Bunn had won the D-Y District Tournament in Youngsville and took third place in the D-Y State C-P Tourney in Dunn.
LOUISBURG -- First-year head coach Mike McGuire and the Louisburg College Hurricanes will begin their 2011 fall schedule with a home game on Sept. 7 against Wake Tech Community College.
First pitch is slated for 2 p.m. at Frazier Field on the LC campus.
Louisburg College’s complete fall ledger is as follows, with home games listed in CAPS:
After 12 years of dedicated service to the parishioners of Our Lady of the Rosary and the community of Louisburg, “Sister Betty” will be terribly missed.
In August 1999, Bishop Joseph Gossman assigned “Sister Betty” to the Louisburg area to form a parish. At that time, there was just a small group of Catholics who, through the generosity of Louisburg College, had the use of the college chapel for Sunday mass.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Less than 30 percent, four, of the county’s 15 schools met Adequate Yearly Progress — a tool to measure proficiency in reading, language arts and math.
However, more than 86 percent of the county’s schools — 13 of 15 — showed improvement.
(The numbers do not include Cross Creek Charter School.)
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The state Department of Public Instruction released its ABC scores this week and Franklin County took a slight step forward — 14 of its 16 schools met expectations.
Last year, 13 of the county’s 16 schools met state expectations.
The results indicate how students performed on end-of-grade and end-of-course tests. The results include Cross Creek, which is a charter school.
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