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Donald Pike was named the new manager of the Veeder Root plant in Elizabethtown.
Keith Dennis of Elizabethtown, a reserve officer in the North Carolina National Guard, was promoted to Major.
Good Citizens Awards were presented to Shernetta Neill, Clarkton High School: Barbara Grimes, East Bladen High School: Sherry Sue Thompson, Bladenboro High School and Brenda White, Tar Heel High School. These awards was presented by the Bladen County Chapter of the Daughters of The American Revolution.