Time to celebrate … Veterans Day … and activities all around the area … As of about midnight, Friday night … NO RAIN … There was a 50% chance of rain … but as of midnight, no rain … not a sprinkle reported at the local weather station. Today’s high temp, near 58 and windy … A 40% chance of precipitation tonight (Saturday), low around 47.
Sunday (Church Day), rain likely, 60% chance … mainly before 1 p.m. High temp near 56 and windy.
High School football playoffs…
1A #13 East Bladen 25 – #4 Northside-Pinetown 18. Eagles flying high … move on to the next round.
2A area winners … Clinton & Whiteville … Wallace Rose Hill’s season is over, lost to Hertford County.
There is so much planned for today, all across the county…
Clarkton school, all grades reunion today and tonight … Doors open at 1 p.m. at Town Hall … celebration continues this evening, featuring the Wing Tips at White Plains Church Community Building … Doors open there at 6 p.m. Admission is $10.
Elizabethtown’s 250th Anniversary Celebration is set for today … Activities all day long in the downtown area … Something for everyone … Weather permitting … fun, fun and more fun…
The Bladenboro Benefit Committee is sponsoring a BBQ fundraiser for 3 area residents … Ritchie Priest, Greg Packer and Patricia Bullock. BBQ plates … $8 each … a rifle will be raffled off, tickets $5 each or 4 for $20 … Bake sale and silent auction from 4 p.m to 7 p.m. today at the usual location … Old Bladenboro school. Donations are always welcomed.
Star Telephone Annual Meeting set for 10 a.m. today at the convention center in Clinton … Entertainment, prizes and coop business. All members are welcome…
About as much activity as you will see any time of the year … today…
It’s Veterans Day … reminder, all solid waste collection sites around the county will be open, regular hours … but, the transfer station in Elizabethtown will be closed … re-opens Monday.
I mentioned the Clarkton Woodmen of the World committee recently donating to Bladen We Care … They also donated to an effort to place flags on the graves of veterans, county-wide … Oliver Gause is kind of a one person committee placing those flags all across the area … We all know that is an almost impossible task, but he does more than anyone I am aware of … When you see the flags waving on the graves … most likely he placed them there, with some financial assistance by civic minded groups like the Clarkton WOW committee and supporters of veterans in the area…
So much to cover and so little time … Probably missed something else … important.
“Tough times never last, tough people do.”
“Volunteer are paid in six figures … S.M.I.L.E.S.” Gayla Lemaire
“Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they are priceless.” Sherry Anderson
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