It’s Friday and hopefully we will receive rain before the day is over…
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2 p.m. Partly sunny with a high near 92. 40% chance of rain. Tonight, showers and thunderstorms likely between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. and thunderstorms after 5 a.m. Cloudy with a low around 67 … 60% chance of rain. Saturday, a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7 a.m. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 85. Hopeful…
Yesterday was a scorcher … highest temp at the local weather station was 99 degrees…
Golden Leaf Foundation recently awarded millions of dollars to various agencies across the state … Including, $364,896 to the Town of Elizabethtown to help construct infrastructure in the Elizabethtown Industrial Park and to perform some site development activities that will facilitate construction of seven commercial buildings and support the location of five businesses, including a new medical clinic, that have committed to Elizabethtown to invest and operate in a section of the industrial park.
Another grant of $132,000 to the Town of Elizabethtown to develop a stormwater Master Plan that includes updating the town’s asset inventory, field data collection, modeling of existing watersheds, development of concept plans and a summary report that will include recommendations to address frequent flooding in the central basin, the eastern subbasin, and along the Greenwood Drive in the western part of the town.
Since 1999, Golden Leaf has funded 2,011 projects totaling $1.18 billion supporting the mission of advancing economic opportunity in North Carolina’s rural, tobacco-dependent, and economically distressed communities…
Golden Leaf Corporation has been a good resource for numerous projects throughout Bladen County…
Gas prices continue to soar … need rain, food prices going up … Sure could use a little good news today…
“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure innovations.”
robert g hester
rgh4612@gmail.com
910-876-2322
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