03/28/2024
Robert Hester, Founder of BladenOnline.com
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By Robert Hester

High School Football Results (Check sports sections for the rest of the story)
West Bladen 29 – South Columbus 22
North Brunswick 59 – East Bladen 13

Other area results…
Whiteville 57 – Bunn 14
Fairmont 14 – Lumberton 12
East Columbus 62 – Jones 0
Westover 12 – St. Pauls 9
Clinton 40 – Northside-Jacksonville 7
Harrells Christian Academy 47 – Arendell Parrott Academy 0
Havelock 28 – Wallace Rose-Hill 27

I miss broadcasting high school football… Just when we thought we were set to broadcast on a nearby FM station… there was an issue…

ACC football action begins the 1st weekend in September, except Wake Forest… The Demon Deacon season opener is Thursday,  August 31, vs Elon.

Bladen County Commissioners meet on Monday, August 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the Bladen County Courthouse, Commissioners room.
Open to the public.

The local 2023 summer season is nearing an end, but activities will not cease immediately…may not cease at all…Maybe slow-down is a better description…

The weather has not changed…hot, hot, hot…and more on the way…Yesterday’s (Friday) high was 90 degrees…mid afternoon.

Today’s forecast… Sunny, with a high near 91… Tonight, mostly clear, low around 70.  Sunday (Church Day), Sunny, with a high near 94, heat index values as high as 100.

No break in the high temps in the coming week.  Same type of forecast… Highs will range from 92 to 98 degrees….no rain in the forecast….but can’t rule out a brief shower.

My mind drifts back to my younger days… hot, hot, hot… no air conditioning… Work in the field… Mom would have a good meal after working all day long… typical… peas, butter beans, okra, tomatoes… anything we could grow… A couple of pans of homemade biscuits and maybe a piece of pork from the ‘smokehouse’, or a piece of a home-grown chicken, a pitcher or two of iced tea… Ice was buried in a bag in the ground… attempting to keep it from melting completely… two parents and six hungry children… All the children washed, one at a time in a tub of hot water behind the house and attempted to sleep in a hot house, with no air conditioning and seldom an electric fan…Go thru the same routine the next day… I do not miss those days… Miss family, not the conditions… About the only fan we knew about was a handheld fan provided to church attendees by the funeral home. And you think it is tough now?  We were no different from our neighbors… The life of sharecroppers…in rural Bladen Count in the late 40s and the mid-50s.

“Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.”  Kim Kardashian

“Siblings are a volume of childhood memories; a nostalgia that cannot be easily deleted.”

“To the outside world, we all grow old.  But not to brothers and sisters.  We know each other as we always were, we know each other’s hearts, we share private family jokes.  We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys.”  Clara Ortega

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