03/28/2024
Thoughts While Shaving
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Thoughts While Shaving

Municipal elections are over for 2017.  Congratulations to the winners and to those who came up short.  Without candidates our system doesn’t work.  And, when voters fail to vote, the system is weaker.

Attention will now turn to filing for the 2018 elections that begins shortly after the first of the new year.

The NC Lottery Commission has approved KENO.  I know little about KENO, or video poker, but those who know tell me there is little difference.  So we outlaw video poker and approve KENO.  Not sure I understand.

East Bladen high school football team begins their quest for the 2A State Championship Friday night playing host to James Kenan.  Game time is 7:30 for all NCHSAA play-off games, according to John Clark, BladenOnline sports guru.

Veterans will be honored at halftime of the Friday night game.  Veterans Day is Saturday.

The East Bladen Jayvees also captured a championship with a 7-1 record for the year.

And, a salute to the East Bladen Varsity Soccer team.  They completed their season with a 21-2 record.  Both loses were to the Clinton Dark Horses

Star Telephone Membership Corporation’s annual meeting is set for Saturday, beginning at 10 AM, at the Sampson County Expo Center on Warsaw Road in Clinton, located just off US 701 business.  Registration begins at 8 AM.  Comedian Jerry Carroll, a North Carolina native will provide entertainment.  The annual business meeting will be held, 3 directors will be elected and prizes will be awarded.  All Star TMC members are encouraged to attend.

To err is human.  To blame someone else is politics.  Hubert H. Humphrey

In politics….never retreat, never retract….never admit a mistake.  Napoleon Bonaparte

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.  William E. Simon

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