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2020 Chamber Award Winners announced

The Annual Eden Chamber of Commerce Dinner took place at Santana’s Restaurant on Tuesday, January 28th. This annual event celebrates the successes of the previous year and recognizes those individuals and organizations that have made a difference in the Chamber of Commerce specifically and Eden community in general. Outgoing Chairman Cindy Adams recounted the year’s activities in her Chairman’s Report before beginning the award presentations.

The winners included: Business of the Year: Elite Driving School Member of the Year:Roy Sawyers of Rockingham Update Director of the Year: Pete Baker, Eden YMCA Director Chairman’s Star Award: Former Chamber of Commerce Membership Specialist Heather Castle City of Eden Beautification Award: Morehead High School Distinguished Citizen of the Year: Rhonda Price of David Price Auto Works John E. Grogan Lifetime Achievement Award Jim Burnette, former Eden City Councilman and UNC Rockingham Healthcare Board of Trustee Member The Keynote Speaker was Rockingham and Caswell County District Court Judge Erica Stanfield Brandon. Brandon was appointed by Governor Roy Cooper on July 1, 2019 as the first African-American judge in Rockingham County. She has received bi-partisan support in Rockingham County from her work as Assistant District Attorney.

The evening ended with the recognition of outgoing board members and installation of new members. 2020 Chairman J. R. Cecil ended the meeting with his vision for the current year.

Enigma Escape room planned as fundraiser for hospital

You may have thought you had to go to a big city or a tourist spot to experience an Escape Room, but in March 2020 there will be an opportunity right here in Rockingham County.

On March, 19, 20 and 21 you won’t have to leave Rockingham County to test your wits and deduction abilities. That’s when the Rockingham Health Care Foundation debuts the Enigma Escape Room at the Wright Imaging Center in Eden.

The Escape Room is a fundraiser for UNC Rockingham Health Care and has been executed by Phil Raybourn with Raybourn Creative. Phil plans corporate escape rooms around the globe.

Your adventure will begin with a 15 minute pre-game video that sets the scene. A renowned magician and his assistant have mysteriously disappeared after a trick goes horribly wrong.

Using teamwork, brains and problem-solving skills, your job is to enter the Escape Room and unravel the clues to discover the whereabouts of the missing

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great community partner to Rockingham County, especially law enforcement. In 2016, Eden Police bought Ruger patrol rifles for each officer. This patrol rifle provided Eden officers with another option and a more capable firearm if needed. Eden officers were excited to receive this new rifle and the rifle has been a reliable and valued tool.

With Ruger being such a great community partner, providing excellent firearms, and with the City of Eden’s “shop local first” attitude, the new Ruger American Pistol was an obvious choice for a new duty handgun.

Prior to deciding to buy the new handguns, Eden officers were able to shoot a Ruger American Pistol and evaluate this new handgun. A test and evaluation was conducted and feedback was obtained from the evaluating officers. This evaluation found the Ruger American Pistol to be an acceptable replacement for the aging duty handguns. Unfortunately, the release of the federal grant money was delayed until March 2019. Once the grant money was released, Eden Police Department was able to order the new Ruger duty handguns.

Eden received all the new handguns, ammunition and necessary equipment by November 2019. In December 2019, Eden officers were issued their new Ruger duty handguns and equipment. Each officer was then required to fire a qualification course under State guidelines in order to carry the new handgun.

As of December 6, 2019, all Eden officers have been issued and now carry the new Ruger American Pistol.

The Eden Police Department and the City of Eden strongly believe in “shop local” and are proud to carry Ruger firearms.

Rockinghan County 2020 Senior Games & Silver Arts Celebrating 24 years of healthy fun!

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assistant. With only 45 minutes to solve the mystery, groups of six will work together. The team to complete the mystery in the least amount of time will win the grand prize of $1,000.

Due to the popularity of the event, reservations should be made in advance by calling (336) 627-8510. Six people will be admitted at a time; however groups of any size and individuals are welcome to make reservations. Smaller teams and individuals will be partnered with others to create a team of six. The cost is $20 per person.

On Friday, March 20 the Foundation will host a Corporate Challenge Day. Businesses are encouraged to register teams as a team-building experience.

The three-day event ends on Saturday, March 21 with an Abracadabra Reveal Night Party.

Enjoy food, libations, prizes, live music and some slight-of-hand

tricks by a strolling magician. In addition, guests will be offered a behind-the-scenes look at the tricks and clues that were concealed in the Escape Room. In addition, the winning team will be announced.

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But there’s no silver bullet for women. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both women and men in the United States, according to statistics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Fernando Ortiz, cardiologist at UNC Cardiology at Eden, believes it’s important for women to understand the symptoms of a heart attack, their risk factors and what they can do to decrease their risks.

He’ll discuss Women & Heart Disease at a free Lunch & Learn in the Main Conference Room at UNC Rockingham Health Care on Monday, Feb. 24, from noon to 1 p.m. Dr. Ortiz will address the unique symptoms women experience during a heart attack and how to decrease chances of being one of the nearly 300,000 women who die of heart disease in our country every year.

If you would like to attend, you may reserve a free, heart healthy box lunch by calling (336) 627-6191 to register.

Seating is limited, so please register early.

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Richard “Rick” Timothy Alcorn, 62 Barbara Troxler Andrews, 87 - Eden Carolyn Delight Anderson, 81 Jimmy Alberty, 68 - Reidsville Johnny William Bullins, 52 - Eden Marjorie Mahaffey Brame, 78 Reidsville Debra Williamson Burton Juanita Rattz Bowles, 95 Carolyn Wilson Bateman Curtis Lee Bethel - Reidsville Ellis Hammond Broadus, 74 Stoneville Billy Eugene “Bibbee” Benfield, 79 - Reidsville Margaret “Margo” Hearns Brown Evelyn Marie Hamlett Brame, 78 RC James Yancey Blackwell, Jr., 91 Warren James (Randy) Baker Alberto Miguel Bahena, 30 - Eden Laura G. Lindsay Blackstock - RC Sarah Pickard Brown, 80 Reidsville Cynthia Joy Caldwell, 50 Reidsville Violet Bobby Carter, 76 - Eden Ray Arthur Case, 92 - Stoneville Jeanette Lynne Conrad, 80 Dwayne Edwards Chambers, 50 Eden William Andrew Campbell, 74 Reidsville Patricia W. Crouch, 74 - Eden Clinton Keith Cummings Reidsville Sam Cave, III - Reidsville Sonda Cremeans Cardwell, 79 Reidsville Joel Henry Carter, 73 - Eden Steven Lynn Durham, 53 - Eden Pencie Faye Knight Dodson, 78 Betty Jo “B.J” Easter, 63 Reidsville Robert Jimmy Foster, 68 - Eden Steven Grant Fuller, 82 - RC Gary Ann LaMar Fitts - Eden Landon “Jake” Jacob Fowler, 28 Eden Darlene Grogan Fraizer, 69 Dennis Jay Farmer, 75 Mable Rivers Smith Florence - Eden James Duke “J.D” Foster, 88 Ruffin Bradley Carl Fain, 50 - Reidsville Michael Wayne “Chevy” Gray, 49 Eden Thomas “Tom” Austin Gammon, 90 - Reidsville Jerry J. Grubb, 74 - Eden Addie “Becky” Falls Hall, 80 Madison

Misty Denise Hill, 37 - Stoneville Kenneth “Wayne” Harter, 66 - RC Daruis Leon Hyler, 77 - Reidsville Alexander S. Hairston - Reidsville Brenda Gail Hamilton Dorothy “Dot” Lee Willis Herbison - Eden James Raymond Holland, 67 Pauline Bessie White Haislip, 90 Madison Kenneth Lee Hall, Sr., 90 - Eden Ralph Nathaniel Joyce, 75 Mayodan David Harris Johnson - Reidsville Taylor Dawn Johnson, 24 - RC Ronnie Eugene Johnson, 63 - Eden Minster Octavia Mc Intyre Jones Reidsville Addison Grace Kerkstoel Tommy Frank Knight, 76 Stoneville Douglas Knapp, 75 - Eden Dorothy Butcher Lewellyn, 77 Reidsville Stanley Lacy Mc Laughlin Reidsville Kay Banks Mitchell, 77 - Madison Robert “Bob” E. Metzner, 85 Reidsville Ronald Wayne McCandless, 73 Eden Carolyn Shelton McCollum - RC Frances Macklin - Eden Sylvia Sue McElhannon, 86 Robert Lewis Martin, 89 Tony Mabe, 58 James Moyer - RC Colene James Nelson, 89 Daniel “Danny” D. O’Dell, 55 Eden Robert Obey - Reidsville Gerald William Overby, Sr., 79 Maurice Zerr Price, 94 - Ruffin Charles Jesse Powers, Jr., 96 vMayodan Roger Dean Pegram, 75 Daisy Sharpe Purgason, 79 Reidsville Bonnie Adams Profitt, 84 John Allen Pitzen, 84 - Stoneville Patricia “Pat” Mitchell Pearson, 81 Reidsville Willie Paul Pickard - Reidsville Doris Jean Vaughn Parks - RC Micheal James Pugh, Sr., 66 Erlean Shelton Rhodes, 95 Mayodan Cleo Cobb Redd - Reidsville William Claude “Bill” Reynolds, 91 - Reidsville June Mooney-Riggs, 85 - Reidsville Raymond Ralph “Ham” Roach, 81 Eden Kenneth Earl Swink, Sr., 94 -

Reidsville David “Pinto” Slade Milton Percy Standfield, 79 Madison Steve Woodrow Smith, 79 - Ruffin Susie Ann Mabe Southern, 69 - RC Eddie Cora Sizemore, 96 Thomas E.”Stokey” Stowe, 93 - RC Rebecca “Becky” Vernon Samuel, 88 - RC Phyllis Dyer Stickels - Eden Edna Smith Shoffner - Reidsville Gail Patricia Sartin - Reidsville Ms. Alicia Ona Surrat - Reidsville Pastor Judy Laverne Settle Reidsville Melissa Watkins Starr, 60 Garlis Rickie “Rick” Sparks, 72 Henry Everette Sands, 88 Wentworth Calvin Coolidge Stevens, Jr., 58 Eden Richard Bennett “Benny” Smith, 60 - RC James Donald Shelton, 87 - Madison Ms. Barbara Mullins Totten Reidsville Phyllis Brown Toney, 75 Lois Craddock Tilley, 71 - RC Simon “Jr.” Lester Thomas, 84Stoneville George “Homer” Underwood, 85 RC Sandra Sander VerHoeven, 68 Stoneville John White, 88 Mary Frances Watlington Reidsville Robert Edward Wilson, 89 Martha Hawkins Walker, 86 Reidsville Maude Bradsher Wheeler, 92 Reidsville Edward Erie “Moochie” Worsham Ruffin Janice Ratledge Williams, 78 Madison Jennie Joyce Wagoner, 64 - RC Hilda Smith Weddle, 94

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France decorates WWII Veteran with the Legion of Honor during Reidsville Ceremony

The Consulate General of France in Atlanta decorated World War II veteran Paul L. Prewitt of Eden, North Carolina with the Legion of Honor, France’s highest merit, during a ceremony in Reidsville at the American Legion Post 007, 703 Watson Street on January 16th.

The Legion of Honor is bestowed upon French citizens as well as foreign nationals who have served France or the ideals it upholds, including individuals who have contributed to the country professionally, as well as veterans such as the Americans who risked their lives during World War II fighting on French soil.

President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron designates the recipients of the Legion of Honor. Mr. Prewitt will be decorated by the Consul General of France in Atlanta Vincent Hommeril. Below is a

brief summary of Mr. Prewitt’s involvement in World War II: Mr. Paul L. Prewitt entered into active service in the United States Army on January 6, 1942.

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Notably, Mr. Prewitt participated in the invasion of Southern France at Marseille. In recognition of his service, he was awarded 5 bronze stars and the Good Conduct Medal, among others.

Some of the best-known American recipients of the Legion of Honor include Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur and, as an institution, the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Garden of Eden Senior Center

All Events are Free and open to the public unless otherwise listed. The Garden of Eden Senior Center is located at 508 Orchard Dr, Eden, NC 27288 (336) 627-4711. Mon - Fri. 8am - 5pm. (If school system cancels school, programs that day will also usually be canceled). If delayed, the center will follow their regular schedule. Call to be sure. )

• Senior Social – Every Tuesday at 10. Speakers on nutrition, health and other vital information for seniors. First Tuesday in February is tea and show and tell the fourth Tuesday is a lunch meeting at a restaurant TBA. Come join us. No fees.

• Legal Aid will be on February 9th at the senior center You must call 1-800-951-2257 or 1-877579-7562 to make an open a file.

• Walking Group at Bridge Street Rec 9 am Monday Wednesday and Friday • Play Mah Jongg – Thursdays at 11 am Come and learn or play. Schedule does vary call before you come 336-627-4711 • Rook - Please show up at The Garden of Eden Senior Center by 12:45 and play from 1:00pm

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• Open Craft time - Fridays at 1 pm bring your own craft or work on one we have. Call for information on what is available.

• Watercolor, oil, pastels or acrylic paint class on Thursdays at 10:00. $6 per class. give us a call at 336-627-4711 for more info.

• Dominos – (chicken foot) Tuesdays at 11 am.

• Line Dance for fun – Mondays at Bridge Street Rec. 10:15 am for beginners and 11:15 for Experienced dancers.

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"I only truly felt happiness while teaching/training Martial Arts and/or competing in JiuJitsu tournaments. My instructors were all like second fathers to me and I would often go to them for guidance. They encouraged me to consider combining my love for movement/physical fitness with the teaching skills I had developed while teaching martial arts classes. " Mr. Carl Soyars is a Physical Education teacher at Lincoln Elementary School. Carl obtained a BS in Physical Education and a BS in Sociology at UNCG, and then earned his Masters in Adapted Physical Education at NC A&T. Carl also holds a 2nd Degree Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and a 1st Degree Black Belt in American Freestyle Karate!

"My focus as a P.E. teacher has always been to teach students the importance of living a physically active lifestyle while showing them a variety of fun physical activities/movements that they can employ to achieve these goals. Not every child wants to play football or basketball so I try to cover a variety of traditional and nontraditional sports/activities so every child can find something they enjoy doing that could possibly carry over into their adult life. I find it inspiring when I see students take the skills I have taught them and employ these skills in their every day lives, this happened

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last year. Our school was holding an after school dance for the kids. I had recently taught a dance unit in P.E. The kids had enjoyed learning this dance so much that some of the students requested for the song to be played at the school dance.

When the D.J. played the song, we literally had over a hundred students break out into this line dance. That was an amazing experience to see my students take what I had showed them and own it like that. Some students also took this dance and modified it later in the school year and performed it during our end of the year talent show.

When I see kids owning the skills I've taught them, I truly know I am making a difference.”

Jennifer Jones Reidsville High School

"I am a fourth generation educator. My great- grandmother taught in a one-room schoolhouse. My grandfather educated his congregation from the pulpit.

My mother was a teacher for almost thirty years. Teaching is in my blood. It is what I love to do."

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and Literature teacher at Reidsville High School. Jennifer graduated from Appalachian State University, with a Bachelor of Science Middle Grades Education degree. She was the 2006-07 Rockingham County Middle School Teacher of the Year, and RCS TOY Runner Up! "Second only to parenting, I believe teaching is the most important life endeavor. The opportunity to enlighten, to educate, to facilitate growth and understanding is both invigorating and humbling. The greatest contribution any educator can offer is to create in students a desire to learn. I strive to improve myself as an educator by observing master teachers, keeping up with current research, and incorporating the best practices into my teaching. My students recognize the student in me. I share my personal research and drive to learn with my students hoping to exemplify life long learning. My teaching is the sum total of good ideas taken from research and from other teachers. Observing these master educators offers a rich tapestry of ideas and notions that I weave into my own teaching."

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Did you know that right now in Rockingham County there are over 200 abused and neglected children in foster care?

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We offer a competitive compensation package including: • Health Insurance • Dental Insurance • Paid Time Off • 401K

Each one of these children needs someone like you to be their voice in court. They need someone to visit with them at least once a month to make sure all of their needs are being met.

This also includes letting the Court know what their wishes are.

Are you able to dedicate a few hours each month to a child in foster care? If so, please consider becoming a Guardian ad Litem volunteer.

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Loving Yourself...

The Difference Between Successful & Not: How Do You Love Yourself First?

February is often considered the love month. So lets talk about love.

We all want to be loved and accepted. Unfortunately, sometimes we sell ourselves out seeking that from others. And we end up depending on friends, family and other people for love instead of finding it within ourselves first. Doing that is a set up for failure.

Did you know that YOU truly loving and accepting yourself is essential to experiencing your best possible life? That doing so actually allows you to love another person more completely and fully? And it also opens you to receiving the kind of love and other good things you want for yourself?

So.... What does self love look like?

Well, there's a lot of things that you can do to develop or demonstrate self-love. But today I want to focus on three principles that I have personally found to be of utmost importance to cultivate this in my own life.

And I'll put some suggestions underneath each one to begin exploringand playing with.

1. Work on yourself and your inner peace. It starts with you.

• Be gentle and kind to yourself.

• Give yourself space to breathe and just be.

• Respect yourself.

• Set clear boundaries and

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• Be alive and present to your full range of feelings and acknowledge them. They are there for a reason and usually have a message for you.

Ignoring them just creates inner conflict in the long run.

• Keep agreements to yourself and others. When you don't do what you say you're going to do it affects your self-esteem and ability to trust yourself. This then leads to self judgement and lack of peace.

• Renegotiate and communicate when you need to make a change to be in integrity with your agreements. But state it so it is clear.

2. Practice gratitude and appreciation for yourself, your body, your life and your experiences.

• This includes counting your blessings.

• Write lettters of love and appreciation to your self and your body.

• Acknowledge the things you might commonly see as insignificant (your ability to see, smell, tast, move, walk, etc..)

• Let the words you speak be of integrity, love and truth towards yourself.

• Be mindful and bring positive words into your life.

• Look for the good that is in everything. Yes. I mean everything.

3. Be OK with yourself first.

• Take responsibility for yourself and your actions.

• Do things because YOU want to do them, not because you want to please others or are seeking validation from them.

• Be OK with not needing to manage other people's perception of you.

UNC Rockingham Health Care welcomed the first baby born in 2020 at 11:01 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1.

Aveah Jane Hairston is the daughter of Jessica Jackson and Devon Hairston of Eden. Dr. Nigel Buist of UNC Women’s Health at Eden delivered the newborn, who weighed 6 pounds, 1.1 ounces at birth.

Aveah Jane Hairston, The UNC Rockingham daughter of Jessica Jackson Auxiliary presented the and Devon Hairston was the family with a gift basket first baby born in 2020 at filled with items from the UNC Rockingham Health hospital’s Small Pleasures Care Center in Eden.

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• Do your best in the moment at whatever you choose to do.

• Ask for and receive help and support when you need it.

• Recognize you are a work in process and that includes not knowing everything.

Now go and practice loving yourself more and see how it opens up possibilities for you.

And then reach out and share your results with me. I'd love to hear what it's like for you.

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Job Seeker’s Corner

By Lauri Suthard

Using your phone to your best advantage

Cellular phones… those lovely portable pocket devices we just can’t seem to live without. They are certainly handy, but did you know that they could cause you to miss great opportunities? While allowing us to keep in constant contact with people and information, we are also continually distracted. Here are a few guidelines for jobseekers when it comes to cell phone use: Job Applications – this one is more practical information than distraction, but it is still a pitfall for many job seekers.

Trying to complete a job application on a cell phone is less than ideal as the majority of job applications are not supported by mobile phone applications. This means that you might not get all the parts necessary to successfully complete the job application.

Job applications also way too small to read on a phone for most people, so it becomes frustrating to size up and down to be able to see what you are filling out and be sure to not miss anything. It is much easier to use a desktop or laptop computer to

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Voicemail – Having an unprofessional message, ring back tones, a mailbox that is not set up, or a full mailbox are all common complaints of many local employers. Your outgoing message on your voicemail should be in a clear voice without a lot of background noise (no barking dogs or loud television noises should be heard on a message). Keep your message simple, “You have reached ______at _______. Please leave a message.” A pre-recorded message is also a good option, “You have reached the voicemail box of 123-456-7890.” Please be sure to check messages regularly and make sure to delete any messages that are no longer needed in order to keep enough space for a potential employer to contact you. Lastly, listen to any messages before calling a number back with “somebody from this number just called me.”

This gives an unprofessional appearance and tells the potential caller that you either didn’t bother to check message or you didn’t listen to the message completely. A potential employer may view that as an inability to follow or listen to instructions.

Interview – While this seems like an obvious point, we seem to constantly need to remind people to put the phone down during an interview. Be sure to silence you phone or better yet, leave it in your car, purse, or briefcase. If you have to bring your phone in the building, make sure it is silenced or off. Having a conversation or being distracted by your phone while waiting for your interview gives the impression that there is lack of awareness of surroundings or lack of importance of the interview appointment. Most importantly, if for some reason you forget to silence your phone, do not answer it during an interview. Simply apologize for the interruption and silence your phone at that point.

Modern conveniences such as cell phones are certainly handy, but do not let them be a pitfall in your search for employment. Take the time to be mindful of common mistakes so that you are able to land the job you really want. If you need additional assistance in any part of your job search, contact Career Services at 336-5796418.

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The Hair Company Celebrates 45 Years in Business By Randy Hunt, Eden Main Street Manager

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The Hair Company, located at 624 Monroe Street celebrated its 45th anniversary in December of 2019. This business started on Van Buren Road as Hair Unlimited with Larry Turner and Hassel Warren.

When Hassel retired, Larry expanded the business.

45 years is a long time to remain in a community, and Larry has made a positive impact on his employees. One employee noted what an inspiration he was to her, and how she has gone on to have her own successful hair styling business.

When asked, Larry could recall at least ten employees who started their own successful businesses after working with him. And Larry must have mastered how to run a productive and harmonious business because most of his staff have been with him for more than fifteen years. The City of Eden was happy to celebrate this significant milestone at its January 2020 City Council meeting.

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It might not have made the headlines, but a recently passed piece of legislation could affect the IRAs and 401(k)s of millions of Americans beginning in 2020.

So, if you have either of these accounts, or if you run a business, you’ll want to learn more.

The new laws, collectively called the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, include these noteworthy changes: • Higher age for RMDs – Under current law, you must start taking withdrawals – known as required minimum distributions, or RMDs – from your traditional IRA and 401(k) or similar employer-sponsored plan once you turn 70 ½. The new law pushes the date to start RMDs to 72, which means you can hold on to your retirement savings a bit longer.

• No age limit for traditional IRA contributions – Previously, you could only contribute to your traditional IRA until you were 70 ½, but under the SECURE Act, you can now fund your traditional IRA for as long as you have taxable earned income.

• Limitation of “Stretch IRA” provisions – Under the old rules, beneficiaries were able to stretch taxable RMDs from a retirement account over his or her lifetime.

Under the SECURE Act while spouse beneficiaries can still take advantage of this "stretch" distribution, most non-spouse beneficiaries will have to take all the RMDs by the end of the tenth year after the account owner passes away.

Consequently, non-spouse beneficiaries who inherit an IRA or other retirement plan could have tax implications due to the need to take larger distributions in a shorter timeframe.

• No early withdrawal penalty for IRAs and 401(k)s when new child arrives. Typically, you must pay a 10% penalty when you withdraw funds from your IRA

or 401(k) before you reach 59 ½.

But now, with the new rules, you can withdraw up to $5,000 from your retirement plan without paying the early withdrawal penalty, as long as you take the money within one year of a child being born or an adoption becoming final.

Some provisions of the SECURE Act primarily affect business owners: • Multi-employer retirement plans – Unrelated companies can now work together to offer employees a 401(k) plan with less administrative work, lower costs and fewer fiduciary responsibilities than individual employers now encounter when offering their own retirement plans.

• Tax credit for automatic enrollment – The new law provides a tax credit of $500 for some smaller employers who set up automatic enrollment in their retirement plans. And a tax credit for establishing a retirement plan has been increased from $500 to $5,000.

• Use of annuities in 401(k) plans – It will now be easier for employers to consider including annuities as an investment option within 401(k) plans. Previously, many businesses avoided offering annuities in these plans due to liability concerns related to the annuity provider, but the new rules should help reduce these concerns.

The SECURE Act is the most significant change to our retirement savings system in over a decade. We encourage you to contact your financial advisor, tax professional and estate planning attorney to assess the potential impact on your investment strategies and determine any possible tax and estate planning implications of the SECURE Act. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

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It seems that everyone has a fitness tracker these days.

Whether your goal is as simple as drinking more water or as difficult as trying to quit smoking, keeping track can help you achieve your health goals.

You know what you want, now create your personal roadmap to get there.

Creating and maintaining a “health scorecard” can help you get started on your journey to improved health – and give you the push you need when the going gets tough.

10 steps to create your personal scorecard

1. Define your goals. What do you want to achieve?

2. Develop your strategy. How are you going to get from A to Z? 3. Define your objectives. You are not going to stick to it if you don’t know why you are doing it. You know what you want to accomplish, but do you know why?

4. Create your map. How are you going to reach your goals? Be specific.

5. Measure your progress. How will you determine if you are moving towards your goal? Steps walked, hours slept, the amount of time you were active per week, the number of cigarettes smoked, your blood pressure, etc. – how will you measure progress?

6. Assign yourself tasks. When your boss gives you a job to do, you get it done, right? Make yourself your own boss.

7. Keep track. Create your own personal tracker in a spreadsheet. Ask your friends for good apps that they have tried. Put that fitness tracker to use. It doesn’t have to be complicated, just use what works for you.

8. Evaluate your progress. It’s easy to lose sight of the progress you’re making, even feel like you’re not making any at all. Check your scorecard from time to time to see where you are and remind yourself where you started. Adjust your plan as necessary.

9. Make yourself accountable. Your goal was to be active four days this week, and you only managed two? You vowed to eat healthier but couldn’t resist that piece of cake? Own it. Keep yourself accountable and write it down.

10. Stick with it. You’re not going to get from A to Z overnight. You’re going to stumble, lose motivation from time to time, and get frustrated.

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Rockingham County Center for Economic Development, Small Business & Tourism Director Leigh Cockram, announced the first "ENVISION Rockingham County Youth Career Expo."

Scheduled for Thursday, April 2nd, on the Rockingham Community College Campus in Wentworth, seventh-grade students will explore diverse, traditional, and non-traditional career opportunities in Rockingham County through hands-on activities.

Cockram talked about the upcoming "ENVISION Rockingham County Youth Career Expo," with Public Information Officer Mable Scott, during a Rockingham County 4-1-1 public affairs show: YouTube: https://youtu.be/BTZLxW0EJNU Rockingham County seventh-graders in public schools, private schools, and home schools are invited to participate in this fun, exciting, interactive way to discover numerous, career options.

For more details, contact Betsy Brame at 336.342.8238 or bbrame@co.rockingham.nc.us The "ENVISION Rockingham County Youth Career Expo" collaboration involves Rockingham Community College, Rockingham County Schools, county Chambers of Commerce, county businesses/industries, and municipal/county governments.

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The agency uses “tax check-off” donations to the NGWEF to support nongame wildlife research, conservation and management, such as monitoring populations of Bachman’s sparrows and bald eagles, managing habitat to benefit ephemeral poolbreeding amphibians like gopher frogs and mole salamanders, conducting research and surveys for rare fishes and freshwater mussels, and developing the North Carolina Birding Trail.

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“Whether it is $2 or $200, any amount of money that people can donate is greatly appreciated and goes a long way toward helping the agency match federal and other grants, as well as pay for outreach activities and programs, such our birding trails, which are located throughout the state,” said Sara Schweitzer, the

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Unifi Introduces New Fiber Solutions at 2020 Outdoor + Snow Show Performance and sustainability continue to drive innovation

unifi, inc. (NysE: uFi), one of the world's leading innovators in recycled and synthetic yarns, will introduce a new product and further product expansion to the marketplace at this year’s Outdoor + snow show in Denver. The new additions, consistent with meeting sustainability and performance demands, include rEPrEVE® cationicdyeable polyester and expanded rEPrEVE® Our Ocean™ offerings.

REPREVE CationicDyeable Polyester unifi has long produced quality offerings to meet the demand for heather yarns that create an exciting aesthetic appeal. Combining sustainability and innovation now allows for a revolution in the heather market. rEPrEVE cationic-dyeable delivers 100% rEPrEVE heathers and solids to the market. Offering deeper and brighter colors, as well as improved colorfastness, it can be used in a variety of constructions and across all market segments, from woven to knit to warp knit. The dyeing of these yarns may offer energy savings as compared to some traditional disperse-dyed polyester by utilizing lower temperatures.

“We’ve worked diligently to develop a 100% rEPrEVE replacement for virgin cationicdyeable fibers that is globally available,” said Meredith boyd,

senior Vice President of Global innovation for unifi. “The popularity of heathers in apparel is bigger than ever, and this new global product offering is a great example of how unifi continues to offer innovative products that meet the aesthetic, performance and sustainability demands of consumers.”

REPREVE Our Ocean unifi continues to see strong interest in rEPrEVE Our Ocean offerings since launch, as more customers are serious about reducing ocean plastic waste. rEPrEVE Our Ocean is made with plastics collected within 50km of waterways or coastal areas in developing countries or regions.

“People around the globe are asking, ‘how can we save our oceans from plastic pollution?’ We listened and carefully designed meaningful processes to address this problem directly,” said Jay Hertwig, unifi’s senior Vice President of Global brand sales. “We’re finding swimwear brands are particularly interested in rEPrEVE Our Ocean, and we’re proud to provide a textile solution to help protect this critical ecosystem.”

To learn more about these and other products offered by unifi, visit booth 54081-uL at the Outdoor + snow show in Denver, Jan. 29-31, 2020.

About Unifi: unifi, inc. (NysE: uFi) is a global textile solutions provider and one of the world's leading innovators in manufacturing synthetic and recycled performance fibers. Through rEPrEVE®, one of unifi's proprietary tech-

nologies and the global leader in branded recycled performance fibers, unifi has transformed more than 18 billion plastic bottles into recycled fiber for new apparel, footwear, home goods and other consumer products.

The Company's proprietary PrOFibEr™ technologies offer increased performance, comfort and style advantages, enabling customers to develop products that perform, look and feel better. unifi continually innovates technologies to meet consumer needs in moisture management, thermal regulation, antimicrobial, uV protection, stretch, water resistance and enhanced softness. unifi collaborates with many of the world's most influential brands in the sports apparel, fashion, home, automotive and other industries. For more information about unifi, visit www.unifi.com.

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EDEN’S OWN JOURNAL / ROCKINGHAM COUNTY STAR

5197 NC Hwy. 14, Eden, NC 27288 Office 336-627-9234 • Fax 336-627-9225 • lisag63@edensown.com Publisher: Lisa Finney Griffith • Elizabeth Milligan • Circulation Manager: David Griffith

The following are the policies agreed upon by both parties when running an advertisement in Eden’s Own Journal

We Publish Monthly - the 1st of each month Each issue is an entity unto itself. Ads are purchased and run PEr issuE.

DEADLINES WILL BE LISTED IN THE PAPER FOR THE UPCOMING ISSUES (USUALLY ON PAGE 4) IF A PROOF IS REQUESTED: information must be turned in at least 24 hours prior to deadline in order to be proofed bEFOrE Or by deadline. An email, fax number, text or client on site approval is required.

Responsibility of clients: Proofs must be approved in office by 4pm on day of deadline, otherwise the it will be assumed that the ad is to run AS IS, printed AS IS, and client will be responsible for payment in full, even if there are mistakes in the advertisement. Eden’s Own Journal/rockingham County star is not to be held financially accountable for mistakes in advertisements exceeding the cost of the advertisement itself. refund percentages are to be determined by publisher only.

PAYMENT OPTIONS • Payment expected at time of order for advertisement. We accept Master Card, Visa, Debit, Cash, Check or Money Order.

• If billing is requested, A client must complete billing information for our records, including personal contact numbers & addresses. in some cases a credit card may be required to be put on file for our records only. It will not be charged unless requested by client or unless the account is what we consider grossly overdue. (2 or more months) • We do have Discounts for Payment-up-Front for 3 or more issue commitments.

• Overdue charges . if a bill is not paid by the next billing cycle , there is a 5% fee will be added to total.

After 2 months overdue an account may be charged to the credit card provided for such purpose.

Exceptions may be made with prior agreement with publisher.

CALL BEFORE COMING TO OFFICE to be sure we are in. Office:336-627-9234 or 336-613-0325 OFFICE HOURS are flexible around 9:30 am - 4:00 pm Monday - Thursday. Fridays by appointment only, due to possible Fieldwork. This does not mean we are in the office all these hours. There are events to cover and advertisers to see.

Cells to call: Lisa Griffith (Owner/Publisher) 336-613-0325 • Elizabeth Milligan 336-613-3025 • Ashley Foley 336-420-9699 AD PLACEMENT EXPLANATION All ads are placed ROP (Run Of Press) means: 1) Absolutely NO Guarantee of Placement in any issue. Ads are placed at designers discretion.

2) There is NO Guarantee that a competitor will not be on same or facing pages 3) requests to be in a particular spot are not guaranteed whatsoever. or Prime Placement Request 1) $25 paid iN ADVANCE for a specific placement is required. ($50 for back page)) On a first come, first served basis only.

3) That space will be reserved for that ad, that issue only.

4) in case a reserved placement cannot be supplied in that issue, the only refund will be the $25 placement fee.

Advertisement payment will be DuE iN FuLL no matter where it is placed in that issue.

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PLEASE NOTE: The person who applies must have some experience in the office work with knowledge about Microsoft Office, Word, etc.

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EDEN DRUG CLASSES OFFERED All Classees are FREE: • Eden Drug’s Heart Healthy classes held monthly on the 2nd Tues. at 10.am at Senior Center on Orchard Dr., Eden.

• Diabetic Nutrition Classes are held monthly on the 2nd Thursday at 3:00 at Eden Drug’s Ed. Center located at 107 West Stadium Drive in Eden.

• Diabetic Wellness Classes are held monthly on the 3rd Thursday at 3:00 at Eden Drug’s Ed. Center located at 107 West Stadium Drive in Eden.

• TOPS - TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Mon. at 5:45 pm at the Central Christian Ch., 233 Stadium Dr. Eden. www. tops.org or call 1-800-YEA-TOPS. or 919-621-3613. Laurasgw@gmail.com Brenda Denson 627-1086 or Pat Elske at 627-0057.

• UNC ROCKINGHAM HEALTH CARE

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CHRONIC DISEASE CARE • Parkinson's Support Group Call 336-627-8510 for dates and times • HOUSE CALLS - RADIO SHOW 1490 AM • WMYN AM 11am & 7pm, 2nd & 4th Wednesday • FREE CLASSES FOR EXPECTANT PARENTS UNC Rockingham Health Care.

117 E.Kings Hwy. Eden, NC 27288 • EVERY BABY SHOULD MAKE A GRAND ENTRANCE! Designed to help through the labor and delivery process, Free at UNC Rockingham Health Center’s Downstairs Classroom.

Register (336) 623-9711 ext. 1712399.

Leave a message with name, number, due date, email and Doctor’s name.

Support Groups

• Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain Support Group - Every 2nd Tues. of month 11am - 1pm at Wellness Center inside Laynes Pharmacy, 509 Van Buren Rd. , Eden. Visit on Facebook: #gotpain.

• BROKEN CHAINS, Tue. 6pm inside Grace Baptist Ch., 14160 NC 87 N. (Oakland Ave.) Enter Side door.

• COUNCELLING / JOB SEARCH HELP available Wedesdays by appointment from 10am - 6pm in the Life Changes Building at 7586 NC 770, Stoneville. Call 336-327-8663.

- ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Monday • Evening Words of Wisdom -6:00 pm.

Life Changes Bldg, 7586 NC HWY 770 Eden. (336) 623-8584 • Fellowship Group – 8:00pm First Presbyterian Church, 318 S. Main St., Reidsville (336) 349-3474 Tuesday • “A Vision for You” Group – 6:00 pm St. Thomas Episc. Church, 315 Lindsey St., Reidsville (336) 349-3511 Wednesday • Sparrow Group - 8:00pm William’s Annex, 108 N. Main St., Reidsville (800)591-6474 • “Circle of Love” Group - 8:00 pm Open Discussion - UNC Rockingham Health Center (Morehead Hosp) 117 E. Kings Hwy., Eden -(336) 623-9711 Thursday • Fellowship Group – 8:00 pm First Presbyterian Church, 318 S. Main St. Reidsville (336) 349-3474 Friday • “A Vision for You” Group – 8:00 pm Open Discussion, St. Thomas Epi. Ch..

315 Lindsey St., Reidsville 349-3511 Saturday • 12 Changes Group – 9:00 am Life Changes Bldg., 7586 NC Hwy 770, Eden (336) 623-8584 • Serenity Group – 11:00 am William’s Annex, 108 N. Main St. –

Reidsville (800)591-6474 • Fellowship Group – 8:00 pm First Presb. Church 318 S. Main St., Reidsville (336) 349-3474 Sunday Fellowship Group – 8:00 pm First Presb. Church, 318 S. Main St. Reidsville (336) 349-3474 ALANON Thursday • Draper Al-Anon Group - 7:00 pm First United Methodist Church 130 Main Street - Draper • Madison-Mayodan Group – 8:00 pm Episcopal Church of the Messiah 114 S. 2nd Ave. – Mayodan Sunday Paths to Recovery – 7:00 pm Reidsville Alliance Church 1300 Freeway Dr. - Reidsville

ARC OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, INC. MONTHLY DANCE - 2nd Thurs. of every month. Rockingham Wellness Center, 570 S. Van Buren, Laynes Bldg 6:30 pm - 8 pm. Call 336-552-8576 • ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT GROUP FOR CAREGIVERS - Annie Penn Call for date & times. South Day Room.

Registration not required. 336-951-4674.

For the Youth

JUNIOR FIREFIGHTER PROGRAM for 16 & 17 year olds. The Draper Vol. Fire Dept. Must be in high school and have a NC license. Call 336-635-2233.

SPECIAL YOUNG ADULTS A night for adults ages 18-45 with mild or moderate developmental disabilities to meet new friends, play games (Bingo, Uno, Dominoes), crafts, snacks and social activities. Call Brenda Moore at 336-623-1077 or 336-613-5174 after 6 p.m.

MOPS - Reidsville MOPS - Contact Kelly at 348-1634 or - Rockingham MOPS - Contact Heidi at 427-2712

Meetings & Classes

Special Needs Friends Group Madison at the First Baptist Church at 110 Franklin St. for anyone with a disability & their families. Crafts, community info., self-help skills, movies, games, music, parties, field trips. Call Teresa Julianso to assure enough supplies, seating, food &drink. Meets at 1 pm most afternoons.

WENTWORTH RURITAN CLUB 2nd Tues. monthy at 6:30 at Wentworth United Methodist Church, 1308 NC-65, Monnette Rich 336-951-2526 or Mary Jo Boswell 336-342-4346 STONEVILLE RURITAN CLUB At the VFW Hut, N. Glenn St. 3rd Tuesday of month - 7pm Dot Ellington 573-2093 or Ricky Craddock 336-453-7005

INTELLIGENCE RURITAN CLUB Bethany area. 1st Tues. at 6:30 in Fellowship Hall: Comers Chapel Bapt.

Church, Bald Hill Loop, Madison. Text 336 686 6013 or email intelligenceruritans@yahoo.com

REIDSVILLE CHARTER CHAPTER OF ABWA - Meets 3rd Tuesday monthly at Fursty's Rest. on Freeway Dr.. Reidsville at 6:30 pm.

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Church Events

“Church Events” is for Special Occasions that Churches in the county offer the public such as Revivals, Music, Guest Speakers, Programs, Vacation Bible Schools and more. For up to 10 Lines (or less) the fee is $10 The listing will be in the public’s hands for a full month and online, so be sure to tell the public what your place of worship has to offer them.

Call 336-627-9234 and ask for Lisa.

REFORMERS UNANIMOUS ADDICTIONS PROGRAM Complete, Free recovery program meeting at ROBERTS MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH Every Friday evening 7-9, Ph. 336-344-5083 203 Memorial Baptist Church Rd. Stoneville NC 27048 www.robertsmemorialbaptistchurch.org Why Are You Still Addicted? We can Help.

• SHAW CHRISTIAN CHURCH 208 The Boulevard, Eden • 336-635-2277 Thursday Service 6:30pm - Biblical Learning / Bible Study Saturday 6:30pm - Worship Service Now accepting volunteers for our Children’s Ministry for Thursday and Saturdays • EDEN BAPTIST CHURCH The Church With A Y For You! 320 The Boulevard ~ Eden, NC Specialized Sunday School 9:45 AM YSunday Worship 10:45 AM and 6:00 PMY Wednesday Bible Study & Prayer 7:00 PM Ministeries for The Entire Family (336) 623-3515; www.EdenBaptistChurch.org • REDEMPTION ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH 2131 Hwy. 14, Reidsville, NC 27320 • 336-420-8805 Pastor D.L. Bray • Youth Pastor Luke Bray #RevivallnReidsville • Van Ministry • Ladies & Mens Ministry • Youth Ministry • Food Pantry Mininstry Sunday School 10am / Sunday AM Worship 11AM Sunday Evening 5pm / Wed. Night 7pm Preaching from the King James Bible

FEBRUARY 2020 EDEN’S OWN / COUNTY STAR, PAGE 13 H RC FEDERATED REPUBLICAN WOMEN'S CLUB 3rd Sat. of every month at 9:30 am for snacks, 10 am.

Rock. Co. Republican Headquarters, 221 Piedmont St., Reidsville.

Events of Interest

EDEN EVENING LION’S CLUB Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of month at Santana’s, Eden at 6:30am.

• VFW POST 8297- 2nd Sat. of month at 961 Church St. Ext., Reidsville, 10am. Bobby Jones 336-349-7733 • VFW POST 7033 -1st Tuesday of month at 301 12th Ave., Mayodan, 7 PM. Donald Bien,CDR 336-548-3431.

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3rd Sat. of month 8am - until. Freeman Wood Crafters 413 Church St (Near traffic circle). Eden. Park at the Three Rivers Outfitter follow signs. Call ahead: 336-573-9900. Handicapped access available, No bathrooms and no temperature control.

ROCK. CO. DEMOCRATIC PARTY MONTHLY MEETING 3rd Tuesday of Month 7pm - 8:30pm Room 211, Advanced Tech. Bldg, RCC

GOODWILL CAREER CENTERS GED, Computer Skills Classes, Employability Skills Classes, Job Leads, Network Room, Resume Assistance Eden –336-579-6418 Reidsville – 336-637-1010 Mayodan – 336-949-4849

RC AMATEUR RADIO CLUB 7pm on the 3rd Tuesday of month. 708 Barnes St., Reidsville (Salvation Army Gym.) 434-203-3050

THE CHRISTIAN WOMEN’S CONNECTION OF EDEN Shelby Baker 939-2230 or Norma Woody 623-8807

Military Groups

• ROCK. CO. PFC JERRY L. MCKINNEY GROUP - Det. of Marine Corps League - All Marines, active/inactive, Navy Corps and Navy Chap. that served with FMF Marine Units and Spouses. 2nd Thur. of each mo. Eat 6pm, meet 7 pm at the Agriculture Building, 525 Hwy 65, Wentworth. Joe Zanetti 336-623-6779 • AMERICAN LEGION POST 534 Post 534 - at 302 N. 12th Av. Mayodan .

Rock. Co. Post. The 2nd Sat. at 11 am.

Post CDR. David Bray: 336-601-7176 • AMERICAN LEGION RIDERS 2nd Sat. of month at 9:30 AM at Post Building, 302 N. 12th Ave., Mayodan.

American Legion, Auxiliary or Sons of AL with a street legal motorcycle welcome. Bill Morey 276-340-5091 or billmoreyf1@gmail.com • THE DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS OF ROCK. CO. 2nd Monday. Chapter 63 -Ag. Bldg. at 525 HWY NC 65, Wentworth, Room 180) Social 6 pm, meeting 7 pm. Transp. for veterans VA appts if needed. 3496040. Need Volunteers (336) 394-0080.

• AMERICAN LEGION POST 254 2nd Thursdays of Month at 7PM at the legion. Call Curtis Pierce at 336-6239481 leave message.

• AMERICAN LEGION POST 79 Reidsville, 2nd Sat. of month 10 am (breakfast at 9am) Behind Auto Zone in Reidsville. 336-932-9082, leave message.

• AMVETS - Local group.

All Veterans/service men & women welcome. Willard (Woody) Waters at 336635-1786 or woodyeee@embarqmail.com • DAV AUXILIARY - New info: 2nd Tuesday of month, Noon at the Golden Coral in Reidsville.

Betty Gatewood at 336-623-7027

Community Help

MEALS FOR THE HUNGRY • SALVATION ARMY -Mon. thru Fri. 12:00-12:45 at 314 Morgan Rd, Eden • MEALS WITH FRIENDS! Monday – Thursday at lunch time.

Anyone 60 +, Activities, good food & fun Hot Nutritious Lunches • HUNTSVILLE NUTRITION 1151 Sardis Church Rd., Madison 427-5206 • LEAKSVILLE NUTRITION Bridge St. Rec. 400 Bridge St., Eden Contact 336-623-5343 • MAD. - MAYO. NUTRITION Mad. – May. Rec. 300 S Second Ave., Mayodan - 336-445-9840 • REIDSVILLE NUTRITION SITE 201 N. Washington Ave. Reidsville, NC 336-349-9757 • ROCKINGHAM RESCUE MISSION 618 Early Avenue, Eden 336-623-2133 Tues., Wed. & Thurs 11:00-12:30 • FOOD BANK Every Friday 11am 1pm Stoneville Pent. Holiness Ch., Hwy 770, Stoneville. Free food to all in need.

Ongoing Events

DANCE - LARRY J’S 1201 Old Leaksville Rd., Ridgeway, Va. Friday’s feature the House Rockers as well as others (see ad on this page) Saturdays - Various Guest Bands Doors Open 6pm, Music 7pm - 9:45pm No Alcohol • Smoke Free Concessions Available Adults $6 Donation, 12 & Under Free For Info Contact Wayne at 276-956-1337 or 276-340-6212

CASCADE COM. CENTER DANCE 621 (3561 Huntington Trail) Cascade, Va. Doors open 5:30 pm, Concessions avail.

Music the first and third Fridays from 7

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BACKROADS BAND Country, Beach and Oldies First Saturday of each month Doors open 5 PM Dance 6 to 9 PM Admission $6 (40% of admission goes to Mason’s Children’s Foundation.)

The Jefferson Penn Masonic Lodge 110 S. Main St., Reidsville Children under 11 admitted free.

• March 21st - 9am - 5pm • Abracadabra Reveal Night Party Sat., March 21, 6:30pm - $25 admission. This night includes food, libations, magic and more chances to win prizes. The $1000 team winners will be announced. (do not have to be present to win)

SENIOR DANCES -REIDSVILLE EVENTS CENTER - Downtown Reidsville @ 223 S. Scales St. 7-9:30pm Thur. - Classic Country: City Limits Band Bob or Myra Tudor 336-342-6770.

February 10th - Friends of Rockingham Co NC- Monthly Spay & Netuer Clinic Transports - Must set up appointment before February 10th, 2020. Cost - Dogs -$75.00; Cats - $65.00; Rabies Shot $10.00; & Carrier Rental - $5.00.

THE BARN 151 Gant Rd. Eden, N.C. - Tuesday Night at “The Barn” Open Jam 6:15PM, Doors Open 7 p.m. Saturdays at “The Barn” Music at 7:00 PM. Call Jerry 336-706-1018 or Debbie 336-706-2144

VFW WEEKLY DANCE Every Thursday 7pm - 10pm Live Music, Refresh. Avail. • No Alcohol $5 donation at door - VFW Bldg., 302 N. 12th Ave., Mayodan, NC

STORY TIME AT THE LIBRARY – Tuesdays at Reidsville – Wednesdays at Madison-Mayodan – Thursdays at Eden – Fridays at Stoneville 10:30 am with Miss Rachel Stories, songs, dancing and more! Story time is geared for those under 5 years of age and their caregivers. It is always free to attend. Contact Miss Rachel at rshaw@co.rockingham.nc.us

• The Rockingham County Board of Commissioners will discuss a resolution for Rockingham County to become a "Second Amendment Constitutional Right Protection County," at the Monday, Feb. 3rd, meeting of the Board.

The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m., in the Commissioners Chambers, Governmental Center, 371 NC Hwy. 65, Reidsville, 27320.

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Saturday, February 1st REMEDY Saturday, February 8th COWBOY OUTLAW Saturday, February 15th CROSSFIRE Saturday, February 22nd BRANDED Saturday, Feburary 29th HOUSE ROCKERS • Doors Open 6pm • All Shows 7pm

Dreyer Auto Glass Mobile Windshield Repair & Replacement Service is covered by most insurance Veteran Owned Work Guaranteed

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Upcoming Events -

Mark your Calendars!

Triumphant - America’s #1 Quartet presented by the Men’s Fellowship of Grace Fellowship Church - Reidsville Saturday, March 28th, 2020 at 7pm (doors open at 6pm) in the Reidsville High School Auditorium, 1901 S. Park Dr., Reidsville.

General Admission is $10 in advance or $12 at the door) For tickets and information call 336-932-8542 or go to www.triumphant.com

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ESCAPE ROOM - Sponsored by Rockingham Healthcare Foundation.

Held at Wright Diagnostic Center, 618 S. Pierce St., Eden. Cost $20 per person with teams of six (one hour long entry) for resevations call 336-627-8510. Limited appts available. $1000 PRIZE to the team that completes the mystery in the least amount of time!

• March 19th & 20th - 4pm-9pm • Corporate Challenge March 20, 9am - 3pm

Independent Sector study was based on data estimates from 2016, when roughly 63 million Americans volunteered about eight billion hours of their time.

Calculated at $24 per hour, that volunteering was worth more than $193 billion to charitable organizations.

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From Root to Branch

Ex-Slave Porter Scales – Confederate Pensioner Local Geneology Studies By Elvin Perkins, Jr.

Nancy Woodburn Watkins a volunteer with the Work Projects Administration in the 1930’s performed interviews with former slaves in Madison, North Carolina. She enjoyed meeting and knowing the people of Madison and learning the heritage of those who lived there.

During the decade of the 1930’s she had numerous conversations with the Dalton and Scales families whose family members included ex-slaves. As early as 1932 she was documenting her meetings with Porter Scales and his family. The following is her narrative of those interviews

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Our annual Food for Thought taster-talk will be held at the MARC on 29th February 12 noon - 2pm, with this year's focus being all about the rich history of barbecue.

Admission and food is free.

Aimed to celebrate and acknowledge Black History Month, Food for Thought will explore some lesser known histories through the universal narrative of food.

A variety of barbecue and side dishes will be available to sample and is one of MARC's most popular events.

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Mr. Bob Cardwell for a town house in “Pocomo” (actually Kemoca, a suburb from first syllables of promoters names, (Kemp - Moore - Cardwell).

In this town house, Uncle Porter passed away aged (he thought) ninety-seven. For several years, he had drawn a pension of $100 per year for his services to the Confederate government in hauling foodstuff from Charlotte, North Carolina to Danville, Virginia. [Porter was also granted a veteran’s gravestone several years after his death.]

As a “glove” of Nat Pitcher Scales residing in the brick mansion on Academy Street across from the Methodist church, Porter came to Madison when ten years of age, and his memory held the development of Madison from the erection of the churches around 1845 to details like seeing little Bettie Carter (Mrs. B. Watkin's Mebane) cry from stage fright and pass up her "piece” at school "exhibition" (commencement). He saw Madison grow from a tiny trading village with aristocratic slave holding citizens with "quarters" on their town lots to a town of 1500 with automobiles clipping by to Mayodan, a mill town of 2000.

In 1930, Uncle Porter was struck by an automobile, and since he has poked his way about town cautiously with his cane, no longer working as handyman to Thomas R. Pratt’s family on the corner of Academy and Market streets. His slavery home was in a two roomed cabin (with loft) next door to the house Mr. Pratt built in 1890 when he moved to Madison from Leaksville. In the 1890’s Col. Gallaway had enlarged the cabin to house the Episcopal rector, Mr. Stickney. Uncle Porter's slave home stands in 1937, occupied by Mr. Pratt’s daughter, Mrs. Pearl Van Noppen and sons.

Uncle Porter was ever very polite and humble, for all his contacts he thought had always been with the highest of Dan River aristocracy. His medium, lean body held a head like Julius Caesar.

On the Deep Springs Dan River plantation lived Mrs. Timberlake whose daughter married Mr. Le Seur from an adjoining plantation just across the Dan river from Gov. Alexander Martin's Danbury plantation. She in time married Mr. Scales, and as property of this lady, Porter was born of legally married parents. Porter's brother, Nathan Scales, was given by his mistress to her daughter, when she married

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Commission’s Wildlife Diversity Program supervisor. “When we match grants using donations, we increase the dollars that we can spend on programs. For instance, if we receive a $100 donation, through grants, we get an additional $185 that we use for a variety of programs and projects to protect our wildlife.”

While paper tax forms show line 30 as the donation line, tax preparation software, such as TurboTax, does not have numbered lines, but e-filers will be asked if they would like to make a donation to the Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Fund. Other tax filers can also tell their tax preparer they would like to donate.

Tax season isn’t the only time or way to contribute to wildlife conservation. Other ways to help North Carolina’s wildlife and their habitats year-round are: Registering a vehicle or trailer with a N.C. Wildlife Conservation license plate; Donating online at www.ncwildlife.org/give; Learn more about the projects and programs Wildlife Commission staff conduct to benefit nongame and endangered wildlife by reading the agency’s Wildlife Diversity Program’s Quarterly Reports.

About the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission: Since 1947, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has been dedicated to the conservation and sustainability of the state’s fish and wildlife resources through research, scientific management, wise use and public input. The Commission is the state regulatory agency responsible for the enforcement of fishing, hunting, trapping and boating laws and provides programs and opportunities for wildlife-related educational, recreational and sporting activities. To learn more, visit www.ncwildlife.org.

Get N.C. Wildlife Update — news including season dates, bag limits, legislative updates and more — delivered free to your Inbox from the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. Go to www.ncwildlife.org/enews.

Video informs voters that Photo ID not required in Primary

The State Board of Elections on Monday released a video of Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell informing North Carolina voters that they will not be required to show photo ID for the March 2020 primary election.

The primary is March 3. In-person early voting begins February 13. Absentee by-mail ballots are scheduled to go out beginning January 13.

A federal judge in Winston-Salem on December 31, 2019, granted a preliminary injunction that will block North Carolina’s voter photo ID requirement from taking effect. It will remain in place until further order of the court.

State Board staff produced the video and are developing additional materials to inform voters that photo ID is not required to vote in the March primary.

The State Board has updated its website, NCSBE.gov, to reflect the changes, and will post information repeatedly on its social media accounts through March 3. The agency also will create a poster to be displayed in county board offices and at all early voting and Election Day polling locations, informing voters that ID is not required for the primary.

Voters with questions may call the photo ID informational hotline at (919) 814-0744.

“The State Board is working diligently to make sure voters are informed that photo ID is not required in the March primary,” said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the State Board of Elections.

Late last week, in a memorandum, the State Board directed the 100 county boards of elections to: Update their websites with the latest information about the injunction and remove any signs indicating photo ID is required to vote.

Stop issuing free Voter ID cards, effective immediately, to avoid voter confusion.

The State Board will continue to update the public with any developments.

Berger files for Re-Election

Kevin Berger, filed for re-election to the Board of Commissioners. First elected to the Board in 2016, Berger is seeking his second term.

Berger, 45, a small business owner and conservative Republican, is an attorney with offices in Madison and Eden and

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another Le Seur, and thus he became Nathan Le Seur. Both brothers have descendants in Madison. Porter, himself was given the choice by his ole Miss of belonging to either of her two sons, John Durham Scales or Nathaniel Pitcher Scales. Porter chose Nat Scales and come to Madison to live with him about 1845.

On orders from Nat Pitcher Scales, Porter operated a train of fifteen wagons loaded with corn for the Confederate cavalry from Charlotte, North Carolina to Danville, Virginia. Therefore, as a Confederate soldier, he in his old age received a pension for his service.

Porter said he got lots of practice in managing feed wagons by “waggoning in Georgia" for his master between the two cities, Augusta and Wadesboro. His master he said, traded his services to “Dan River Jim Scales” who bossed the teams between Augusta and Wadesboro which were owned

by John Durham Scales and Dan River Jim Scales. These wagons also carried corn. Nat Pitcher operated a store at Wadesboro, Georgia. Uncle Porter's "waggoning in Georgia" shows Madison's connection with the far south.

After the war, Porter Scales came back to the Dan River in Rockingham County, and bought his 130-acre farm from Mr. Alex

Llewellyn. He liked to recount his matrimonial matters except those of his second wife who married him for a “rich negro widower” and spent his hard won dollars freely for lace curtains and such to adorn the town house in “Pocomo” and finally forced him out of the town house into the wood house in the yard where he lived until he died. His church friends took charge of his body and kept it until put away by the side of his first wife, Martha Foy Porter said to me in 1932 that Martha was bought by Dr. Ben Foy of Madison from Wheeler Hancock of Wentworth. Six of their children are living near Madison and in West Virginia, Sons Stephen and Lindsay Scales live at the old place down at Deep Springs.

Porter told of “a going tuh see” the attractive Betsy Ann, a house girl slave of Mrs. Nancy Watkins Webster but was “cut out” by Noah Black. Aunt Betsy Ann Black is remembered as being the superlative obstetrical nurse in homes of the rich about Madison and was designated by them as being a "lady if ever there was a lady." Porter cited one of Aunt Betsy’s sons became a Methodist preacher, and two of her granddaughter’s teachers in the public schools of North Carolina.

Porter told of the white school teacher, Professor Seeker who taught in the Doll Academy, Madison's old "female academy" which still stands (in 1937, remodeled since 1900 into a

dwelling) on Murphy Street at the 60 foot deep well in the street, by the old Dr. Robert Gallaway house (standing still in 1937) just south of John H. Moore's five acre homeplace.

Professor Seeker, he said left Madison and went up on Baughn's Mountain to teach among the Baughn’s, Lewis’s, Heggie’s and Gibson’s, pioneer

families of that area. On that May 2, 1932 in his Kemoca yard, Uncle Porter recited the poem which little Bettie Carter forgot in stage fright at Professor Seeker's "exhibition" before Professor Jacob Doll ever started his "female school.” All these pupils were “pay scholars."

The free school for Madison, the "old field schoolhouse” was way down the hill from the old Dr. Smith house near Beaver Island Greek. Only white folks intimate with itch, head lice and long-standing

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Porter said as a laborer he helped build a big tobacco factory at Dr. Smith's old place. By 1880, this factory had been purchased by Madison negroes as a “community and fraternal Hall" for assemblies. It served thus to 1925 when it was abandoned, and in 1936, it was torn down, the last of the several large plug tobacco factories that operated in Madison from 1845 to 1875 by the Scales, Dalton and Hays.

Porter could name Madison's early white residents, and others, too, whom Nat Scales visited.

His story of some Civil War refugees led to how a slave girl named Rose, acquired a small farm two miles east of town held to this day (1937) by her descendants, the Ned Collins family of Madison.

Forced to live in cellars in Petersburg, Virginia, because of bombarding Federal shells, Mrs. A.R. Holderby, William Holderby, Miss Fannie Holderby, and Mrs. Aiken came to Madison in 1864 afflicted with tuberculosis. Their slave girl was Rose. The family died except a son, who became a Presbyterian minister. They were buried on a hill just north of the pioneer Joel

Cardwell home (1937 Siegfried Smith’s home). Rose was married to Uncle Henry Collins, and they lived on the place of Mrs. Louise Whitworth and Scylla Bailey. These white women willed their tiny farm to Rose Collins because of her kindness to them in their old age.

Note: According to Rockingham County Records Porter married Mandy Russel (or Galloway) in 1870 and Alice Stultz Goolsby in 1909. In his interview he says he was married first to Martha Foy. Census records indicate that Porter was born in Georgia about January 1836. Various records give his father as Stephen Scales or Burrows Jones and his mother as Charity Ballard. Porter died of pneumonia on December 15, 1932 (death certificate).

For research information contact: Genealogical Society of Rockingham & Stokes Counties, NC, P.O. Box 152, Mayodan, NC 27027-0152; Website: http://gsrsnc.com/ ; Elvin Perkins, Jr., GSRS member; Email: Eperkins2@aol.com ; Visit the Linda Vernon Genealogy Room, MadisonMayodan Library, 611 Burton St., Madison, NC 27025; Phone (336) 548-6553

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One part of our Parks & Recreation Department that I haven’t focused on as of yet is our Teen Center located at 506 Sprinkle Street. The Teen Center first opened beside the Sanitary Restaurant on Piedmont Street before the City purchased and updated its present location.

Opening in October of 2004, the center serves area youth ages 1016. The Center originally was established by grants from the North Carolina Governor’s Crime Commission and the Reidsville Area Foundation. The facility provided its clientele with a safe place to go to do homework or play games. It also offered different programming and homework assistance, among other things.

In recent years the Teen Center has refreshed its appearance. The interior of the building has been repainted and the landscaping updated. But it hasn’t only been the physical building that has been revamped.

Parks & Rec staff also have re-evaluated the Teen Center’s purpose and sought to increase the offerings it provides to its membership. More than just a place to play games, the Teen Center has also been the site of programs designed to help not only the child but also their entire family. For example, “Budgeting 101” was created in 2017 to help youth learn how to handle finances responsibly, and parents were encouraged to come to the sessions and benefit from the knowledge imparted by financial experts. Such programs also help prepare the youth for life. The Center’s “Road to Success” series stressed career readiness and planning.

One of its most recent programs is something you might be interested in for your child. The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Fusion Program seeks to engage youth through these four fields by giving them the opportunity to take part in project-based learning activities, according to the City’s Recreation Programs Supervisor Quintin Robertson.

As Robertson noted, “We understand that every kid isn’t athletic, so we wanted to create a structured learning program that would push the level of knowledge our youth are receiving.

After brainstorming and researching, we created and established lessons through drone aviation, coding, robotics, architecture and more.”

By stressing these activities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the program helps prepare future

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co-owner of a Dominos Pizza franchise employing over fifteen people in Eden. In addition to the Board of Commissioners, he has served in various local public service roles – currently serving on the boards of Bethany Charter School, and as an advisory board member for First National Bank.

“I’ve enjoyed serving the people of Rockingham County the past few years and would be honored for the people to allow me to continue in the same role for another term.”

Berger is a graduate of Morehead High. He is a graduate of UNC-Greensboro (BS) and Wake Forest Law School.

Upon finishing his education, he returned to Rockingham County to start a career and family. Kevin, his wife Amber, a public school teacher, son Jackson (14) and daughter Emily (11) live in the Bethany Community and are members of Community Church of Eden.

“Rockingham County is the place I’ve always called home, and where my wife and I are raising our family,” Berger said. “I will continue to work to ensure Rockingham County is a place our younger generations will want to return to. We’ve made progress in the past few years, and I want to continue those efforts.”

Wildlife Commission Seeks Input on Sunday Hunting on Game Lands

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The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is seeking input to help identify issues and options related to Sunday hunting on game lands. The survey, which should take no more than 15 minutes to complete, will be available through Feb. 2 and is intended to help the agency better understand how the public uses and values game lands.

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Interested in finding out more about the STEM Fusion Program? It currently meets every second Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. until 12 noon at the Reidsville Teen Center on Sprinkle Street. The program is free to youth aged 13-16. Missed the first lesson in January? No problem. You can attend any of the programs that will continue through May of 2020. For more information, call the Teen Center

at 336-634-0574.

Ongoing Baseball and Girls Softball Registration.

Registration is under way for North Carolina Dixie Youth Spring Leagues in Reidsville, continuing until March 2. You can sign up your child for Girls Softball (ages 4-15), Boys Baseball (ages 4-15) and Co-Ed T-Ball (ages 4-6). Rec Staff is excited to be offering Girls Softball again after several years without it. Cost is $15 for City residents and $20 for non-City residents. Registration can be done at the Parks & Recreation Department, 201 N. Washington Avenue, or you can log in at http://activenet.active.com/reidsvillerec and register. On February 29, from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m., a Baseball/Softball Skills Camp and Player Evaluation will be hosted by the Reidsville Luckies at Jaycee Ballpark. On March 9, Team Drafts will be held at Jaycee Park with a tentative season start date of March 23.

2020 Lake Reidsville Event Schedule

2/8 Youth Waterfowl Day (17 & Under) 4 a.m. - dusk 2/23 "Buster's Cup" Charity Disc Golf Tournament $25 am/$30 Pro 3/14 Crappie Fishing Tournament $5/person 3/22 Monthly Disc Golf Tournament 3/29 Team Bass Tournament (5 Fish Limit) $50/team

Other Reidsville Upcoming Events in February

• Saturday, February 8: Youth Waterfowl Day is set at Lake Reidsville from 4 a.m. until dusk. The event is open to youth 17 and under. Call 336-349-4738 for more details.

• Friday, February 28: It’s your last chance to register for Reidsville Rec Basketball League play for ages 13-15. Cost is $20 for City residents and $40 for those outside the City. Call the Rec Department at 336-349-1090 for more details.

• Coming in March: On Saturday, March 7, Casino Night will be held at the Reidsville Event Center in downtown Reidsville. The event benefits the Reidsville Downtown Corporation and the Reidsville Chamber of Commerce. The doors open at 6 p.m. with the Casino starting at 7 p.m. and ending at 10 p.m., at which time attendees can bid on prizes with their “casino play money” winnings. Tickets are $25 in advance either online at Eventbrite, through Facebook or at the Chamber of Commerce, 140 South Scales Street.

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Reidsville & Wentworth Members of the Luckies Batting Academy used part of their Christmas vacation to spruce up the three-mile mountain bike trail at Lake Reidsville in December.

Baseball players give back to Reidsville community By cleaning up mountain bike trail at Lake Reidsville

The three-mile mountain bike trail at Lake Reidsville got an early Christmas present last month.

On Friday, December 20, 2019, a group of young men from the Reidsville Luckies

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on sections of the three-mile trail. Strader worked with Reidsville Parks and Recreation Superintendent Fred Thompson to coordinate the community service project.

The Luckies have engaged in several such projects. The Batting Academy has also been instrumental in helping the City strengthen its recreational baseball leagues. These players not only engage in travel ball but have been active in the City leagues.

“Due to the collaboration between the City and Luckies Batting Academy, this cleanup effort was a great opportunity for the two entities to work together again,” said Haywood Cloud, Assistant City Manager of Community Services.

“The volunteer efforts of the Luckies have been invaluable in assisting Lake Reidsville Park in maintaining its uniqueness and beauty,” Thompson said.

The group targeted the portion of the bike trail that City staff had not yet gotten to as part of their regular maintenance efforts. Cloud was impressed by the players’ willingness to take a day out of their Christmas vacation to work on the trail. Strader was not surprised by the players’ enthusiasm to help with this project.

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“These players are a great group, who excel not only on the baseball field but also want to help make a difference in their local community. I am very proud of their work on the trail,” said Strader.

He continued, “Reidsville is my hometown and made me who I am. I wanted to start the Reidsville Luckies to give back to the Reidsville community because of what it gave to me.

Starting the Luckies has now allowed me to work with the City of Reidsville, both as a

business and a partner with the Parks & Recreation Department, and these 20 kids got to experience that by giving up a part of their Christmas vacation. This speaks volumes about what the Reidsville community, leaders, schools, and citizens offer and why so many other industries, businesses, and people choose our City over other places. In addition to winning championships in Reidsville, we ‘pay it forward’ and I am thrilled to see the next generation of Reidsville continuing that today.”

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Western Rockingham Treasures

Planting a Church Grows a Community

By Therese Francin The birth of a new town may help bring about the establishment of a church for their citizens. Sometimes it may implant an idea for a new business or industry. A visit to a new area for the first time may create that spark which ignites the idea for a new business.

This is especially true when that industry requires the resources which that geographical location offers in abundance. Such resources existed in Western Rockingham County in 1890.

In September of 1890, a group of worshippers from the Home Church Moravian Sunday School took a trip on the new Roanoke and Southern Railroad to the falls of the Mayo River in a town which would become the incorporated town of Mayodan in 1899. The group, led by Col. Francis H. Fries, picnicked and held a Moravian Lovefeast.

The Moravian Church had its origin in ancient Bohemia and Moravia, which is located in present-day Czechoslovakia.

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They were the followers of the great preacher and educator John Hus (1369-1415) of the University of Prague. Hus was martyred for his religious beliefs. The Moravian Church arose as followers of Hus organized the church near Prague.

Eventually, the followers of Hus established their own ministry and by 1467 formed the Moravian Church. Since their inception, the Moravians placed a high value on learning. When the printing press was invented in 1454, the Moravian followers bought one and opened a publication office. Eventually, they progressed in their printing press skills, and from 1579 to 1593, they translated and published the entire Bible.

Moravians numbered at least 200,000 by 1517, with about 200,000 members in more than 400 parishes. They had their own hymnal and catechism.

During a lengthy period of religious persecution, the Moravians eventually came under the leadership of John Amos Comenius (1592-1670), Czech educator and bishop. He became world renowned for his progressive views on education. I first learned of Comenius when I was a student at Salem College in Winston-Salem, and attended and presented at their annual Comenius symposium, which honored this Moravian for his viewpoint that women should be given the opportunity of pursuing a college education.

The Moravians established the settlement of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania in 1741. A few years later, Bishop Spangenberg led a party of men to survey a 100,000-acre tract in North Carolina. The tract became known as Wachau (Wachovia).

Wachovia, Bethabara, Bethania and Salem became the first Moravian settlements in North Carolina.

The Home Moravian Church was established in Salem on November 13, 1771. From this church, came the group of worshippers from the Sunday School who took a trip to visit and picnic at Mayo Falls. Col. Fries then realized that the water falls could be harnessed to power a cotton textile mill. Col. Fries was also president of the Home Church Sunday School,

and so it was natural that he invited his pastor, Bishop Rondthaler, to visit with him and view the falls and the surrounding countryside in Rockingham County in 1895, and select the site for a Moravian church. The Bishop probably was interested in establishing a Moravian Church in Rockingham County, and his son, Rev. Howard Rondthaler, was called to be founding pastor. Subscriptions were raised, and on July 26, 1896, with 200 people assembled, Rev. Howard Rondthaler laid the cornerstone in the “first Moravian service . . . held in the new town of Mayodan.” On Sunday, the 29th of November, 1896, Bishop Rondthaler joined his son to formally organize Mayodan Moravian Church.

The 225-seat church sprang to life with a new congregation.

In the December 1896 Wachovia Moravian editor Edward Rondthaler devoted the front page to Mayodan, even publishing a drawing of the church.

This was only the third news illustration to appear in the magazine.

The Mayodan church prospered, providing the mill town with its first public school and library. When Col. Fries began another mill town called Avalon only two miles away in 1900, many of the Mayodan church moved to work in the new mill and start a Moravian church there. When the Avalon mill burned in 1911, many of them returned to the Mayodan church.

A preaching station called Kallam flourished for a time in the 1920’s with assistance of Mayodan’s minister and members. Leaksville Moravian Church got its start with strong assistance from Mayodan.

The Mayodan church itself grew with the addition of Sunday school rooms in 1937, a new parsonage in 1954, a new church tower in 1961, a new Christian education building in 1963, and a facelift of the old wooden church building with a brick façade in 1970.

In 1996 Mayodan Moravian Church celebrated its 100th anniversary, looking to the future with faith and expectation.

This founding of an industry in a geographical location which had a great deal to offer, and was conceived by chance after a religious outing, became a town.

Had this not occurred, the Mayo Falls may have not been the source of an industry which ultimately prompted the eventual incorporation of the Town of Mayodan in 1899.

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Pella Corporation Gives To Local Community Pella Corporation, one of the Reidsville Market’s newest industries, is proving to be a true community partner.

The Pella Rolscreen Foundation Board has chosen the City’s Lake Reidsville Greenway and Blueway Trail Extension project to receive a $30,000 community impact grant, according to Lisha G. Akers, HR Manager of the facility located at 310 Rockingham Drive, Reidsville.

The aim of the Foundation is to better the communities in which Pella is a part by making a difference and investing in the future, inspired by the example and philosophy set some 95 years ago by Pella Corporation’s founder Pete Kuyper and his wife, Lucille.

The presentation was made January 29, at the Amphitheater at Lake Reidsville Haywood Cloud Jr., Assistant City Manager of Community Services, said that Pella has been interested in getting involved in the community since it was announced back in May of last year that the window and door manufacturer would be coming to the county. In initial conversations with Pella executives, they expressed the desire to find opportunities to be

involved in projects that could benefit as many citizens as possible. Over the course of these discussions, the City’s Greenways & Blueways Plan was mentioned. This $30,000 contribution will go towards funding a portion of that project.

“We are thrilled that Pella is making this $30,000 contribution to our greenways and blueways expansion, primarily the trail at Lake Reidsville,” said Cloud.

“This is a project that helps the City in its efforts to make Reidsville a walkable community that benefits our citizens looking to engage in a healthier lifestyle.”

“Pella is known for our core values, including total integrity in everything we do, teamwork and respect, and giving back to our communities,” said Akers.

“The Reidsville community not only has a quality workforce, but is also well aligned with these values and will help us continue to live up to our reputation as a great place to work.”

“Pella has been such a great company to work with,” Cloud added. “You can tell they are committed to making the communities they are in a better place to live. We are glad to have them on board.”

Winter: A Good Time to Test for Radon Gas in Homes

According to Angel Wyatt, Environmental Health Director for Rockingham County Division of Health and Human Services, “because doors and windows of homes are kept closed most of the time, the cooler months are a good time for radon testing”.

Radon, a natural radioactive gas that is invisible, odorless and tasteless, can become a health hazard when it accumulates inside homes. It comes from the decay of uranium in soil, rock and water. Radon usually enters homes through cracks in foundations and openings around plumbing, ductwork and drains.

When inhaled, radon releases radioactive particles that can damage lung tissue. Long-term exposure to radon has been found to cause lung cancer.

Rockingham County is a Zone 1 county for radon gas – a county that has a predicted average indoor level of radon greater than the EPA action level, according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. The only way to know the radon level in a building is to conduct a radon test.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Radon Zone Map of North Carolina shows Rockingham County as the only county east of the mountains with an average radon level greater than four picocuries per liter, the EPA action level where remediation should be started.

Activatedcharcoal radon test kits are now available FREE of charge, while supplies last, at the County Governmental Center in Wentworth in the Central Permitting office.

Environmental Health can provide information regarding testing and other options. The test kit should be used according to instructions provided with the kit. A follow-up test kit can be purchased for $10.00 if the radon level is above four (4) picocuries.

If a high level of radon is detected, there are remediation methods which include improved home ventilation systems, and sealing home foundations or cracks in basement floors.

For more information about radon, visit www.ncradon.org or the Rockingham County Division of Public Health’s website at www.rockinghamcountypublichealth.org

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County Schools Reduce Energy Use 15 %

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Due to the drastic 15 percent reduction in energy use per square foot over an initial fiveyear partnership, Rockingham County Schools has announced it will extend its energy conservation program with Cenergistic, a nationwide energy optimization company.

Since the program’s official start in December 2014, RCS has managed to save $3.6 million, significantly cut its utility spending and create a culture of sustainability among students and staff.

“The continued success of this program is a major reason for our decision to renew,” said RCS Superintendent Dr. Rodney Shotwell. “Seeing such massive reductions in both utility bills and energy consumption allows us to free up funding and pave the way as a leader in sustainability.”

RCS personnel work closely with Cenergistic engineers, experts and Energy Specialists to audit and optimize energy-using systems across the district to achieve peak efficiency. The Specialists track energy consumption at all facilities to identify and correct areas that need immediate attention. Savings are calculated using third-party energy-accounting software.

This hand-in-hand relationship has already started to produce notable success. In the five years since implementation, the carbon emissions avoided from the energy program equate to driving approximately 59 million miles.

One of the most significant results of this program is a 45 percent reduction in propane use, further reducing the district’s

greenhouse gas emissions.

Additionally, 13 district buildings have performed well enough against their national peers to gain ENERGY STAR® certification.

“Working with a company like Cenergistic has dramatically reduced our energy consumption and become critical to our continued financial success,” said Dr. Shotwell. “I’m excited about how the community has really embraced this program, and our students feel emboldened to make a difference.”

Rockingham County Schools will provide a safe, dynamic and globally competitive education environment in which all students can reach their highest potential.

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Armor Express (Formerly KDH Defense Systems) Armor Express has merged with KDH Defense Systems.

The new company will be called Armor Express. Currently, they employ 300 people in their Eden facility. They have immediate openings for sewers, inspectors and utility workers. They offer a competitive compensation package including health and dental insurance, paid time off and 401K. Send resume to nshreve @kdhtech.net or visit their 750A Fieldcrest Road facility.

NC Works and U.S. Census Quick facts data • The current Rockingham County unemployment rate is 4.0%; it is 3.8% for the state and 3.5% for the U.S., the lowest rate in 50 years.

• 811 jobs are available in Rockingham County.

• Eden’s poverty rate has dropped 25% since 2016 although it is higher than state

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INDUSTRY

MVP Pipeline Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC announced its proposed 74mile interstate natural gas transmission pipeline in 2008. It is designed to meet customer demand for low-cost natural gas supply access in southern Virginia and central North Carolina. Dominion Energy North Carolina (DENC), formerly PSNC Energy, is a local natural gas distribution company that signed a long-term agreement to purchase natural gas from MVP Southgate. The NC Utilities Commission has recognized MVP Southgate as the best option for meeting DENC customers’ growing demand for natural gas. Project facts: • A majority of the route is collocated along existing natural gas and electric transmission line corridors.

• Survey work has been completed on 95 percent of the route.

• A majority of the project rightof-way has been acquired.

• Construction is targeted to start in 2020.

• In-service date is projected to be 2021.

• MVP has worked collaboratively with state regulators (NCDEQ) and has determined the project would result in: o No permanent impact to streams in NC o No permanent loss of wetlands in NC o No crossing of the Haw River Duke Energy Duke Energy offered tours of its Belews Creek facility in December of 2019. Some interesting facts were provided attendees: • Duke Energy serves 7.5 million customers impacting 23 million lives.

• Belews Creek is a 50% coal/50% natural gas facility.

• The company goal is to reduce emissions by 30% by 2030 and 100% by 2050 (although the technology does not yet exist to

reach the latter goal).

• There has been a 70% reduction in ash produced by their plants over the last decade.

• 0% of ash is going into basins as of early 2019. More ash will be recycled than produced once three recycling units are opened.

• The EPA has determined that coal ash is non-hazardous with less than 1% containing trace elements.

• Thousands of monitoring wells show groundwater impacts are not reaching neighborhood wells.

Envision Career Expo This event will expose Rockingham County seventh graders to available jobs in area companies on the RCC campus on April 2. Area companies will showcase their operations. Small business and industry will participate. Many of Eden’s local industry partners have expressed interest in participating. The event will open remain open until 6 p.m. that evening for adults interested in learning more about area companies.

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Old Leaksville Commercial District Work at 620 Washington Street has ramped up dramatically. Five new apartments will be ready for rent February 6. Three apartments have been preleased.

The pedestrian passage to the Bridge Street parking lot will be finished in the next phase of construction.

Family Video Family Video announced they are closing their Bridge Street location. They liquidated their inventory starting in January.

A CrossFit St. Paddy’s Smackdown is scheduled March 24. Contestants from 10 other states have been invited to compete. Seventy-two two-person

teams can compete, and most teams will bring several spectators. Watch for details.

EDEN DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT INC.

The December EDDI meeting voted in members for the 20202023 term. City Council designated Phil Hunnicutt to serve as a non-voting liaison between the Board and City body.

The term of office will be one year, yet the liaison may serve as many consecutive years as the Board designates.

Boulevard Merchants The merchants have planned their 2020 calendar of events.

Food Truck Rodeos are planned for April 18 and August 8, Cars and Crabs are May 23 and October 17, Halloween parade October 31, and an Adult Easter Egg Hunt April 11. A prayer walk is scheduled January 25.

Klyce Street Landing Stairs have been installed. A concrete pad is being poured at the base and a bulkhead is being installed. Landscaping and signage should complete the project in time for spring.

Entrepreneurship Training Main Street Manager Randy Hunt received Facilitator Certification for Entrepreneurship Mindset authorizing training for Ice House Entrepreneur-ship programs. This curriculum will be used in the series of entrepreneurial classes soon to be offered in a joint project with the city, county and community college.

TOURISM & EVENTS

Event Entertainers Calling all bands!

We are already planning for RiverFest 2020! If your band is interested in performing please submit an EPK or detailed information to Cindy Adams at cadams@edennc.us. The dates for this year are September 18 and 19. Local and regional bands will play on two stages Saturday.

Thank you and we look forward to listening to your music!

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PRESIDENT’S DAY HOLIDAY CLOSING The City of Eden Solid Waste Division will be closed Monday, February 17th in observance of President’s Day.

Recycling SOLID WASTE & REFUSE Recycling/Collection Date Center Monday 2-17-20 No Collection Closed Tuesday 2-18-20 Normal Schedule Open Wednesday 2-19-20 Monday’s Collection Open Thursday 2-20-20 Normal Schedule Open Friday 2-21-20 Normal Schedule Open If your collection day falls on an observed holiday, your collection will be Wednesday of that week.

Any After Hours Calls For Water Or Sewer Emergency Issues, Or Trees Down Across Road Or Open Holes In Road Should Be Made To The Emergency Answering Service At 336-415-4444.

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Pottery Festival We would like to invite all our talented potters to apply for our upcoming 18th Piedmont Pottery Festival that will take place Saturday, June 6.

Applications can be found on ExploreEdenNC.com or can be obtained in the Tourism Office at City Hall or can be mailed to you. Please call 336- 612-8049 for more information.

Heritage & Heroes Mark your calendars now for a very exciting new event coming October 17 of 2020!

More information coming soon.

You do not want to miss it!

PARKS & RECREATION

Staff will conduct the Monthly Pod Cast with Mike Moore Media on Parks and Recreation on February 7 and attend a Be Healthy Rockingham County Meeting on February 12.

The City’s Youth Basketball program is in full swing and players are practicing and playing at the Bridge Street Recreation Center and the Mill Avenue Gym. There

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Parks & Recreation teams, Eden YMCA and the Eden Boys and Girls club. Games will continue through March and will conclude with the Rockingham County Youth Basketball Tournament.

PLANNING & INSPECTIONS

Code Enforcement Eight notices were mailed by certified mail and first class mail that affect the following number of properties: two for violation of the Non-Residential Building Maintenance Standards and two for zoning violations.

Staff has reviewed the current Code Compliance Report and plan to revisit all properties listed on the report to establish the current condition of the property and proceed with the necessary action to abate the violations.

Collections Statements were mailed to all property owners with an outstanding balance for code enforcement action. The buyer of the property at 416 Decatur Street delivered a certified check for the balance due and the

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• Deep fertilize trees and shrubs: Punch one to two inch holes two feet apart around the drip line and fill with appropriate food • Use an acidic type Rhododendron fertilizer to feed evergreens, conifers, broadleaf evergreens, Rhododendrons, azaleas, and camellias • Use an all-purpose fertilizer to feed roses and other deciduous trees and shrubs • Water in granular type fertilizers thoroughly • Keep watering trees and shrubs as needed • Remove all dead, decayed, or broken branches • Prune roses depending on the variety or type • Thin out climbing roses to get rid of last year’s tangled growth • Prune grapevines and begin training on supports • Prune forsythia, quince, spirea and other early flowering plants after they have bloomed • Apply dormant spray to fruit trees • Press back into place any plants that may have been pushed out of the ground due to frost heave • Clean birdbaths and keep seed refreshed • Put up bluebird feeders—they’re here and looking for a home • Spring gardens like sun and good drainage—Sun at least eight hours each day. Raised beds are ideal!

• Lettuce, spinach, mustard and turnip greens can be grown from seed or transplants.

• Plant daylilies, bleeding hearts, and hosta this month • Onions can be planted from sets. Leeks, shallots, and garlic should be planted next fall • Add lime to the compost • Get rid of all those early weeds before they go to seed • Visit a lawn and garden center to see what’s available now • Peruse seed catalogs for something different this year

Facility Maintenance Dept. was notified that they no longer needed to mow the property.

Unified Development Ordinance On January 9 at a special meeting of the Eden City Council, a presentation was made regarding the process for the development and adoption of updated land use regulations for the City. The new regulations will also meet the deadline for statutory compliance with the new enabling legislation for land use planning that will be effective as of January 2021. Chad Sary from Stewart Inc. made the presentation.

Community Appearance Commission Commission discussed possible projects and budget items for upcoming year, including: downtown banners; Draper downtown sign; downtown planters; new American flags. A representative from the Boulevard Merchants also attended to discuss possible projects for The Boulevard. The Community Appearance Award went to Planet Fitness.

Historic Preservation Commission Upcoming meeting on Jan. 13 and will discuss possible projects and budget items for upcoming year including: new historic district signs; state historic marker for Draper Speedway; historic property inventory updates. Commission also plans to adopt a resolution in support of renaming the Washington Street Park in honor of Jean Harrington.

Vacant Commercial Property Registration Preparing second letter to send to vacant downtown property owners who did not respond to first letter. Civil penalties may be applied if property owners do not reply to this letter.

Sight Obstruction Ordinance Codes Inspector Josh Woodall and Engineering’s Kevin London have been working to make changes to the current sight obstruction triangle ordinance.

They have studied other communities’ ordinances and gone out and looked at various situations that would not be covered by our current sight triangle ordinance.

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Explore Eden

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Gildan Yarns Gildan is seeking machine electricians, spinning and carding technicians, spinning and carding operators, and can haulers. There are some day shift positions, but the majority of these openings are on the night shift. Most positions are for 12-hour shifts on a 2-2-3 schedule. For more information, visit their 335 Summit Road facility.

The Clock Doc Time and Chime Emporium Visit them for unique, as well as high end heirloom pieces. They are authorized retailers of new clocks, including German Black Forest made cuckoos, Hermie grandfather clocks, Committi of London (exquisite English made clocks), and David Peterson (also English made brass carriage clocks.)

They also carry various musical

items such as water globes, figurines, carousels, and jewelry boxes from The San Francisco Music Box Company. Kern Kopal’s Faberge’ Eggs. Special ordering is available for Reuge Luxury Music Boxes and Sterling Steam Engines. The Clock Doc is located at 350-B King’s Hwy in Eden. Call them at 336-627-3750.

Envision Career Expo This event will expose Rockingham County 7th graders to available jobs in area companies on the RCC campus on April 2, 2020. Area companies will showcase their operations.

Small business and industry will participate. Many of Eden’s local industry partners have expressed interest in participating. The event will open remain open until 6:00pm that evening for adults interested in learning more about area companies.

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For the Fun of it...

Benny went to the pet My daughter was I ate a clock yesterday, anxious to do some it was very time store. He looked at all consuming. the birds. Then he said to landscaping at her new home, but then she • the man, “please, may I called up sounding - Whoever said that the have some bird seed?”

When Joshua’s primary-care doctor referred him discouraged.

“What kind of bird do to a cardiologist, he thought the man’s name sounded definition of insanity is “I don’t think I’ll ever doing the same thing familiar. And when he showed up for his appointyou have?” get these flowers over and over again ment and noticed the framed diploma on the wall, he asked the man. recalled that a tall, dark-haired boy with that name and expecting different “Oh,” said Benny, “I do planted, she moaned.” had been in his class.

“It says to plant in full results has obviously not have a bird. That’s But when he met the doctor, he saw that although sun... but its been never had to reboot a why I want the bird seed. the names were the same, that was just a coincicloudy for four days.” computer.

I want to grow one.” dence. This balding physician with a wrinkled face • was clearly too old to have been his classmate.

- A college girl was Even so, he asked the doctor where he had gone to visiting my farm and FEBUARY CRYPTO FUN high school. noticed the ring in our “I went to Morehead,” the doctor said. bull’s nose.

“So did I,” said Joshua. “ And did you graduate in Intrigued, she asked, 1963?”

“Did you put that ring “How did you know?” in his nose or was he “You were in my class!” born that way?”

“Really?” said the doctor. “What did you teach?”

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FINAL Candidates Who Filed for 2020 Elections

RC REG. OF DEEDS Curtis, Benjamin Jeffrey (REP) Eden Jones, Kellie Boyte (DEM) Eden BOARD OF EDUCATION Wyatt, Robert Smith (REP) Stoneville Jansen, Nadine Yamila (DEM) Stoneville Jordan, Robert Michael (LIB) Eden Ruffin Huss, Brent Hillard (REP) Wright, Ophelia Powell (DEM) Reidsville BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Johnson, Jeffrey Lee (DEM) Stokesdale Brady, Ann Rubinsohn (DEM) Reidsville PRESIDENTIAL Blankenship, Don (CST) Kraut, Charles (CST) Bennet, Michael(DEM) Biden, Joseph R(DEM) Bloomberg, Michael R(DEM) Booker, Cory(DEM) Buttigeig, Pete (DEM) Castro, Julian (DEM) Delaney, John K (DEM) Gabbard, Tulsi (DEM) Klobuchar, Amy (DEM) Patrick, Deval (DEM) Sanders, Bernie (DEM) Steyer, Tom (DEM) Warren, Elizabeth (DEM) Williamson, Marianne (DEM) Yang, Andrew (DEM) Hawkins, Howie (GRE) Presidential (LIB) Abramson, Max(LIB) Armstrong, Ken(LIB) Behrman, Dan(LIB) Blevins, Kenneth(LIB) Faas, Souraya(LIB) Gerhardt, Erik(LIB) Hill, Jedidiah(LIB) Hornberger, Jacob(LIB) Jorgensen, Jo(LIB) Kokesh, Adam(LIB) McAfee, John(LIB) Ogle, James Orlando(LIB) Richey, Steve(LIB) Ruff, Kim(LIB) Supreme, Vermin(LIB) Vohra, Arvin(LIB) Trump, Donald J. (REP) US SENATE Haynes, Kevin Eugene (CST) Fuller, Trevor M (DEM) Swenson, Steven Andrew(DEM) Cunningham, James Calvin, III( DEM) Goel, Atul Kumar (DEM) Smith, Erica Danette( DEM) Bray, Shannon Wilson (LIB) Tillis, Thomas Roland (REP) Wright, Paul M (REP) Hudson, SharonYeager (REP) Holmquist, Larry Howard (REP) US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Parker, David Payne (DEM) Johnson, David Lee (REP) McHenry, Patrick Timothy (REP) Walters, Ralf Eugene (REP) NC GOVERNOR Pisano, Albert Lawrence (CST) NC Governor Dem (CST) Cooper, Roy Asberry III (CST) Reeves, Ernest Tyrone (CST) Difiore, Steven Joseph II (LIB) Grange, Holly Getz (REP) Forrest, Daniel James (REP) NC Ltn. Governor (DEM) Toole, William Walter (DEM) VanDunn, Teresa Quaid (DEM) Holley, Yvonne Lewis (DEM) Beasley, Chaz Michael (DEM) Thomas, Allen Melvin Jr. (DEM) Newton, Ronald Lewis (DEM) NC LTN. GOVERNOR Robinson, Mark Keith (REP) Cochran, Deborah Kay (REP) Wells, Winfred Andrew Jr. (REP) Gebhardt, Gregory Michael (REP) Ellmers, Renee Louise (REP) Stone, Scott David (REP) Vengel, Richard Earl IV (REP)

Ritter, John Lucian (REP) Johnson, Mark Randall Jr. (REP) NC ATTORNEY GENERAL Stein, Joshua Harold (DEM) O’Neill, James Roderick (REP) Hayes, Sam (REP) Mumma, Christine Cecchetti (REP) NC AUDITOR Wood, Beth Ann (DEM) Tolendo, Luis Arturo (DEM) NC AUDITOR Street, Anthony Wayne (REP) Hoegemeyer, Timothy James (REP) NC COMMISIONER OF AGRICULTURE Watson, Donovan Alexander (DEM) Wadsworth, Jennifer Austin (DEM) Smith, Walter Graham Jr (DEM) Troxler, Steven Wayne (REP) Goodwin, George Wayne (DEM) NC COMMISSION OF INSURANCE Causey, John Micheal (REP) Pierce, Ronald Leonard (REP) NC COMMISSIONER OF LABOR Floyd, Pearl Burris (REP) Dobson, Joshua Roberts (REP) Stanley, Chuck Arthur (REP) Holmes, Jessica Nicole (DEM) NC SECRETARY OF STATE Marshall, Elaine Folk (DEM) Brown, Chad Rodger (REP) Sykes, Eslie Cornelius JR (REP) Lapaglia, Michael Salvatore (REP) NC SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Barrett, James Carlie JR (DEM) Johnson, Constance Lavette (DEM) Mangrum, Jennifer Robinson (DEM) Maher, Micheal John (DEM) Sutton, Keith Alexis (DEM) Horn, Dwight Craig (REP) Truitt, Catherine Lauterbach (REP) NC TREASURER Leatherman, John Matthew (DEM) Chatterji, Aaron Kumar (DEM) Ajmera, Dimple Tansen (DEM) Folwell, Dale Robbins (REP) NC SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SEAT 1 Beasley, Cheri Lynn (DEM) Newby, Paul Martian (REP)

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Inman, Lucy N (DEM) Berger, Philp Edward Jr (REP) NC COURT APPEALS JUDGE SEAT 4 Davis, Mark A (DEM) Barringer, Tamara Patterson (REP) Shields, Patricia Pursell (DEM) Wood, April Cathena (REP) NC COURT APPEALS JUDGE SEAT 5 Cubbage, Lora Christine (DEM) Gore, Willie Fredrick (REP) NC COURT APPEALS JUDGE SEAT 6 Styers, Matthew Gray Jr (DEM) Dillion, Robert Christopher (REP) NC COURT APPEALS JUDGE SEAT 7 Young, Ruben F (DEM) Carpenter, Jeffery Kent (REP) NC COURT APPEALS JUDGE SEAT 13 Brook, Christopher Anderson (DEM) Griffin, Jefferson Glenn(REP) NC STATE DISTRICT 30 White, Wally Gray (DEM) Berger, Philip Edward (REP) NC HOUSE OF REPERSENTATIVES 065 Bell, Amanda Joann Dark (DEM) Carter, Jerry Lee (REP) NC HOUSE OF REPERSENTATIVES 091 Cruise, Rita Gale Young (DEM) Hall, Kyle Ethan (REP) NC DIST. COURT JUDGE DISt. 17A SEAT 04 Grogan, James Allen (REP) RC BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Berger, Patrick Kevin (REP) Pyrtle, Armor Reece Jr. (REP) Richardson, Mark Franics (REP) Joyce, Jimmy Rogers (REP) RC BOARD OF EDUCATION DISTRICT 01 McKinney, Lorie Booth (REP) James, William Edward (REP) Alston, Vicky Wimberly (REP) RC BOARD OF EDUCATION DISTRICT 03 McKinney, Vickie Thompson (REP) Fink, James Allen (REP)

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What to expect when adopting a shelter dog Millions of dogs reside in shelters or in foster homes just waiting for someone to make them permanent members of their family. The ASPCA says there are nearly four million dogs in shelters across America.

Bringing home a puppy or an older dog can be an exciting, selfless endeavor.

Shelter dogs have the capacity to be loving, devoted pets. Unfortunately, many such dogs have been dealt difficult hands, ending up in shelters through no fault of their own.

Prospective pup parents should be aware that there can be a transitional period as dogs acclimate to their new homes.

Understanding what to expect the first few weeks and months can be helpful.

• Creatures of habit: Dogs are creatures of habit and feel most comfortable when they know what to expect. Moving from a shelter into a home can be a big change. Shelter dogs will need time to understand the workings of a household. By remaining consistent and patient, dog owners can help their pooches acclimate to their new surroundings.

Feed the dog at the same time and place each day. Take the dog for a walk the same time each day with the same route.

Knowing what to expect can be calming for the dog.

• Housetraining regression: New puppies likely do not fully know the rules of housetraining, but even older dogs who may have been housetrained can regress in a new environment. Pet parents

may have to go back to basics and reinforce housetraining lessons.

• Shyness and anxiety: It’s impossible to know what dogs went through before landing in a shelter. Shelter workers may have conducted certain tests, such as food aggression or resource guarding, but that only paints part of the picture. It will

take time for the dog to trust and understand, and dogs may be timid and experience anxiety for a brief period. Some may even act out by exhibiting damaging behavior.

• Safe space: The experts at Hill’s Pets advise employing a crate that can serve as a den for the dog. It not only is an area that can keep the dog out of trouble as he or she learns the rules of the house, but it also can serve as a safe haven that is familiar and comforting.

• Training classes: Enroll in training classes so that the pup begins to learn commands.

Obedience training also helps keep the animal safe.

• Vet care: Make an appointment to have the shelter dog checked over by a vet as soon as possible. This helps everyone get on a vaccination schedule and can pinpoint illnesses or behavior problems. Many shelter dogs have common communicable illnesses like kennel cough or worms that require prompt treatment.

Shelter dogs can become warm and loving pets with the right care and a little patience.

• Housetraining regression: New puppies likely do not fully know the rules of housetraining, but even older dogs who may have been housetrained can regress in a new environment. Pet parents may have to go back to basics and reinforce housetraining lessons.

• Shyness and anxiety: It’s impossible to know what dogs went through before landing in a shelter. Shelter workers may have conducted certain tests, such as food aggression or resource guarding, but that only paints part of the picture. It will take time for the dog to trust and understand, and dogs may be timid and experience anxiety for a brief period. Some may even act out by exhibiting damaging behavior .

Many shelter dogs have common communicable illnesses like kennel cough or worms that require prompt treatment.

Shelter dogs can become warm and loving pets with the right care and a little patience.

What’s the purpose behind a leap year?

February is known for many things, one of which is being the shortest month of the year.

Many people do not give much thought to whether or not February has 28 or 29 days. But February bears the unique distinction of being the only month on the calendar that does not always have the same number of days.

Known as a “leap day,” the 29th day of February helps to synchronize the calendar to Earth’s orbit. According to EarthSky, which reports on astronomy and other cosmosrelated information, Earth’s orbit around the sun takes approximately 365.25 days. That extra .25 creates a need for a leap year every four years; otherwise, the calendar, which is faster than the actual solar year), would drift from what is actually occurring with the orbit. After four years, it would be off by one day, or 25 days after 100 years. If no corrections were made to the calendar, the seasons might become misaligned. After 300 years, January 1 would arrive in autumn.

Julius Caesar, at the advice of Sosigenes, an Alexandrian astronomer, was responsible for adding a leap day to February to compensate for Earth’s rotation after the original Roman calendar kept slipping out of alignment. During his reign, Caesar first implemented a 445-day calendar year in 46 BCE to bring the calendar back into alignment.

Roman officials called it annus confusionis. To limit future headaches, the work-around was

to simply add a leap day to February once every four years.

The Julian calendar wasn’t exact to the solar year, but it was much closer than the previous Roman calendar.

The Gregorian calendar, revised by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, further adapted the calendar and the leap days. All leap years are divisible by four. That is why 2020 will include a leap day on February 29.

People can utilize the extra day in 2020 (yes, 2020 is a leap year) in various fun ways. In addition to learning more about leap years and astronomy, try these entertaining ideas.

• Take a day off of work and spend it relaxing or engaging in a favorite hobby.

• Be reminded that leap years also coincide with U.S. Presidential elections, and it will soon be time to vote.

• Check out the celebrities who were born on February 29 and only get a true birthday every four years. Rapper Ja Rule, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, actor Antonio Sabato, Jr., swimmer Jessica Long, and football player Eric Kendricks are some of the notable people born on February 29.

• Buy a gift for yourself or others on leap day and make it a tradition of going the extra mile to love and pamper.

• Realign your life like the calendar is being realigned by focusing on organization or personal finances.

Leap year has arrived, and that extra day can be put to good use in various ways.

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Moving Pictures come to the Tri-Cities Part 3 The Gamechanger

by Darrell M. Gregory

The crowd rapidly filled the 350-seat theater on the Boulevard for the first showing of the most popular movie of the time. Many had heard about this film, but it seemed like it took longer than usual before it finally made it to town. This threehour-long epic film held the audience’s attention with many new movie techniques as well as very accurate battle scenes of the War Between the States which had just commemorated its 50th anniversary. The lone piano player feverishly kept up the tempo of playing patriotic songs throughout the show adding to the wonder of its cinematic score. In the climatic scene, the whole audience stood up and cheered as mounted men rode their steeds into town to save the day while “Flight of the Valkyries” was skillfully played with much enthusiasm on the piano (many remember this song played in the 1977 movie “Apocalypse Now” in the helicopter attack). When the movie theater emptied that night, the satisfied audiences had just unknowingly witnessed a threshold being breeched in the motion picture industry that changed the silver screen forever.

In 1915, William Martin and James Clayton had bought into the movie entertainment venture at the right time. Under their directorship, the Theatre Boulevard made a gigantic leap into respectability in the Tri-City area. Constantly changing the billboards every few days with different movies, they made sure that the customers would not get tired of the same showing, and the patrons knew that they had to move fast to be able to catch the serial episodes that were in essence, the action equivalent of today’s soap operas.

Being the only “modern” theater in town, Theatre Boulevard took in good profits in the prosperous Tri-Cities.

Martin and Clayton also brought in the best entertainment that was available, whether it was a traveling vaudeville show on its stage or the newest movie on its canvas screens. James Clayton had a lot of connections through his dealings with the local fairs and had honed his skills at pleasing the audiences and keeping them coming back for more.

James Clayton was confident that the moving picture industry was on an upswing, and he noticed that Draper was rapidly growing due to MarshallFields taking over the mills there. Steady work from the mills was enticing farmers, mainly from Virginia, to make their home at this new mill town. Draper experienced a major technological boost when electricity was finally provided

Gregory for businesses and residential housing. Marshall-Fields brought in a YMCA at this time and staffed it with proficient personal. The Lodge Theater had run its course-it was way out of date.

The new Draper YMCA noticed that the Central YMCA (Spray) had a good audience for their very small in house theater.

Marshall-Field, wanting to make their workers satisfied with their work and recreation so they would stay, decided that they would build a modern theater beside the YMCA. The Lodge Theater was phased out and the YMCA took over the moving picture business. It was smaller than Theatre Boulevard, but a major improvement over the makeshift Lodge Theatre.

James Clayton looked at the Draper market and felt that he could still get a piece of the action. Knowing that Draper had showed no intention of slowing up growth, Clayton decided to build another theater across the tracks on Main Street. Both theaters were opened about the same time in late 1919. Added

Griffith on to this, there was talk of opening another theater on Washington Street in Leaksville.

This explosion of movie theaters was happening all over the country, not just the Tri-Cities mainly because of one film.

Proving the old adage, “that timing is everything,” along came a movie at the right time with unheard of new filming techniques. The 50 year anniversary of the end of the Civil War prompted several film producers to make short films consisting of 15 minutes or less that were eagerly accepted by the movie crowd. They were simple films with a small acting core and almost all of them exhibited humanity from both sides. There were many reunions of veterans on both sides and many reunions at battlefields had all participants shaking hands and vowing never to fight each other again.

Besides the many parades, there were many monuments erected, the vast majority being Confederate statues put up mainly by the Daughters of the Confederacy.

The forty-year old David Wark Griffith was making his

mark on the moving picture industry with over a hundred film shorts to his credit. D.W. Griffith put extra care in his civil war films because he was influenced by his father, Confederate Colonel “Roaring” Dick Griffith’s war stories when he was a child. Griffith was unsatisfied with making movies in the New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania area, where most of the studios were set up.

Griffith went to California to make his dream of making a classic War Between the States film a reality.

Griffith settled on an area which was just several miles north of what would shortly become Hollywood. This started a trend where all the movie companies started to move to California to take advantage of being able to shoot films all year round instead of being hampered by the cold and damp winters of the northern states.

Griffith had honed his skills on about ten civil war shorts that he was successful with but he had grand ideas that were being stifled in the east so he set up shop in the west. Divorcing himself from established movie companies, he went out on his own to make his dream come true. Knowing that the run of the mill stories could not cut it with his grandiose plans, he chose a very controversial story line that could not be ignored. It was anything but ignored.

D.W. Griffith’s wife was an actor in a popular New York play called the “Clansman,” based on the best selling novel by the same name penned by Thomas Dixon. Griffith decided that this was the vehicle he needed to transport his pent up movie skills to the public as well as making his dream of an epic Civil War film. Griffith purchased the rights to incorporate it into his vision of the ultimate War Between the States classic.

Dixon and Griffith worked closely together on the three month filming on a ranch. They also worked together in promoting the film all over the country.

Griffith worked just as hard raising capitol for this new venture, convincing enough men to invest in this adventure to make it happen. Griffith started out with 40,000 dollars but due to his vast army of hundred’s of actors and using extensive props and pyrotechnics for battle scenes, the cost swelled to over a $100,000 which translates out to over $2,530,000 million in today’s estimates. He was able to film the complete film in three months with virtually no retakes.

Griffith’s main actress was played by Lillian Gish, who was the most sought after actress of her time. She had staying power, for she was still doing television shows in the 1980’s. She played the northern aristocrat family’s Elsie Stoneman, with her two brothers who were friends with the southern plantation family’s Cameron three sons. When the war broke out, the brothers

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He painstakingly went through newspaper lithographs of battles and Matthew Brady’s pictures of the aftermath of the carnage to weave a picturesque view of the war. He spared no detail in the climatic battle scene of charging troops and artillery fire. The smoke drifting over the battlefield and scores of fallen soldiers left a mental impression on the audience. It was the most realistic film ever made at that time.

Griffith had combined drama and education for a first in film history.

D.W. Griffith also did wonders with camera techniques with his masterful cameraman, G.W. Bitzer, which was unthought-of at that time.

Where the majority of movies were reluctant in showing less that the full body view of the actors, Griffith did facial closeups, jump cuts, fade aways, and parallel action scenes. The innovative parallel action scenes were unlike anything the movie goers had ever seen; showing the south’s battle line and then switching to the north’s trenches during the battle for example.

Showing his tricks of the trade, Griffin skillfully took hundreds of actors and presented then as thousands. In all, Griffith had introduced almost twenty new film techniques that modern day films owe their foundation to.

This twelve reel film, which was between 133 and 193 minutes depending on the speed of the projector, was the longest film to date. Griffith inserted an eight minute intermission between the two parts which was also a first. The orchestra or band that provided the music score probably needed this as much as the audience. The music score was compiled by the ground breaking Joseph Carl Briel. Briel skillfully weaved a soundtrack that was laced with patriotic music, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Dixie, Star Spangled Banner and others of that ilk. The cue sheets were supplied with the movie as a matched set. Even at smaller theaters that predominately played the piano, there were emphasis on using horns and violin for full effect. Another first of the movie was the first theme song, “The Perfect Song,” which was Elsie Stoneman and Ben Cameron’s

love song. In the late 1950’s, the popular Amos and Andy radio and TV show used it as its theme song.

Since the film went way over budget, the films financiers went into an unheard of marketing campaign. The first movie posters were plastered everywhere well in advance of its showing. They even had men dressed as Clansmen ride their horses down through main street to stir up interest. Another first was the distributing at the theater of the first movie program at thirteen pages that went into detail about the film.

The film was first shown in January 1915 under the title of the Clansman but when it was shown at Los Angeles in February, the name was changed to the Birth of a Nation. With the orchestra music score and the detail of war, the audience was spellbound. This carried over to the east coast; the New York Liberty ran the show for fourtyfour straight weeks. D.W. Griffith was very selective in the first showing of the movie in a business ploy to charge the unheard amount of $2.20 for a ticket in NYC. This means that in today’s terms, the ticket would cost over 56 dollars.

Imagine paying that for a movie ticket at your favorite theater this weekend.

Thomas Dixon had a large influence on the hype generated by the film for he was friends with fellow Georgtown classmate President Woodrow Wilson. This was the first film shown inside the Whitehouse.

President Wilson was a historian and he was greatly impressed with the spectacle that he witnessed. Wilson was also credited with declaring it was like” writing history with lightning and my only regret that it is all so terribly true.” This film did not stop at the Whitehouse while in Washington, D.C. Most of the members of Congress witnessed it as well as the Supreme Court.

Griffith’s contemporaries were shocked by the innovations that he had implanted into his

movie. Griffith had made the blueprint of all future successful movies. Griffith’s movie making cohorts knew that they had to adapt and change their ways if they were to be successful now.

Griffith had banked on the audiences being able to comprehend complex story lines and not mind to sit and watch the spellbinding show. This proved true as it was reported that multiple patrons sat through the movie for back to back shows. Film producer and professor Dale Pollock stated that “from a technical perspective, it is cinema’s first masterpiece.”

While the first half of the movie dealt with the Civil War, the second part portrayed the Reconstruction Era after the war and here is where the controversy starts. From the southern point of view and promoted by the movie, the Reconstruction act was a misnomer. Like many government names for its law, like the Affordable Care Act, the Reconstruction Act was anything but. It was enacted by vengeful radical Republican legislators to punish the south for the war.

Even North Carolina felt the results of this act when the duly elected governor was forced out of office when the state fell under martial law and replaced by a Union general two years after the war. All the southern states were trying to rebuild their shattered economy and had a functioning elected government in place struggling to pull out of the devastation of the war years.

This is when unscrupulous carpetbaggers and the corrupt Freedman’s Bureau came upon the scene. Many from the south viewed this as worse than the war.

At this time, the Fourteenth Amendment which gave former slaves equal protection under the Constitution and the Fifteenth Amendment which gave blacks and poor whites the right to vote had to be ratified before the

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Unfortunately, corrupt and unqualified men were put in positions of authority that had no interest in rebuilding the south but were dedicated to enriching themselves. “Birth of a Nation” delved heavily into this time period vilifying the Freedman’s Bureau, carpetbaggers, and former slaves. This was a time of lawlessness as the local governments were inept at keeping order forcing vigilante groups to spring up to fill the void. It has been said that if there was no Reconstruction Act there never would have been a Ku Klux Klan.

As accurate as the first half of the movie was to its history portrayal, the second half was slanted heavily against the black race. The stereotypes that were presented to the audience left an impression that stuck in their minds and is still prevalent after over a hundred years. While stereotyping was widely used in political cartoons of the era, Griffith portrayed it in the film as history. Birth of a Nation is the example of stereotyping. It is often referred to as the most racist film ever made in America. While the first observers of the film were enthralled with it, there was some that vehemently opposed it.

The NAACP was just getting started and they were horrified with the depictions of blacks in the film. They organized to hold protest and lobbied heavily to have this film censored in mainly northern cities. Their outcry energized the NAACP with the membership soaring to new heights in a short amount of time. A few cities banned the film to minimize the chance of

any civil unrest but in the end the film always managed to be presented. The first amendment right of free speech won out over the threat of censorship.

Another definite result of this film was the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. After the Reconstruction era had past, the Klan had faded away into a chapter in the history books.

When this movie came out glorifying the actions of the Klan in the post civil war days, the Clan was resurrected like a phoenix from its ashes. By the 1920’s the new Klan had held marches in Washington D.C. It is highly unlikely the KKK would have been reborn without this film. It is common knowledge the movie was shown as a recruitment tool for the Klan in modern times.

While Birth of a Nation celebrated the reunion of the north and south combatants, it split the racial divide wide open.

All this controversy did was drive the crowds in droves into the theaters to see what all the fuss was about in droves. By the end of 1917 it took in over $4.8 million which is equivalent to $60 million now. It is the most successful silent movie of all times and was officially the highest grossing film until it was usurped by Gone With the Wind in 1939, another Civil War era movie. A 2015 TIME article estimated that it easily grossed more than $1.8 billion in today’s currency. Channel 12 WXII film critic Dale Pollock stated that due to lenient record keeping at the early box offices and the Birth of a Nation re-release regularly up into the 1970’s that it “is the highest grossing film of all time.” Not only is this anti-war film the first “block buster,” it is the definition of a blockbuster.

Yet, another attribute to this

film is that it is the first political film. While Griffin was just driven to make a cinema masterpiece, the writer of the “The Clansman,” Thomas Dixon had other aspirations. Dixon it seems was a very close friend of President Woodrow Wilson of the Democratic Party. At the time the northern politics favored the Republicans whereas the south was strongly Democrats. Dixon wrote to Wilson that “the real purpose of the film was to revolutionize northern sentiments by a presentation of history that would transform every man in the audience into a good Democrat.”

This one film transformed the motion picture industry from a novelty to a profitable art form. Hollywood started to grow and with it major, powerful film companies began their rise to prominence. The power to influence people’s mindset was noticed by the entertainment industry and governments. All major governments, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and China, Great Britain, and the United States used the same techniques to vilify their enemies which were pure propaganda.

The entertainment industry also used these propaganda techniques to sway public opinion and perception. It is by no mistake that TV companies call their daily lineup, programs.

David Wark Griffith was surprised that there was so much protest of his film for he was

FEBRUARY 2020 EDEN’S OWN / COUNTY STAR, PAGE 29 H only focused on making the strongest film on the market, which he did. Thomas Dixon’s influence on the film is very prevalent with his slighted racial and political views. Griffith went on and continued to make many more good films, but of course, nothing equaled his Birth of a Nation. Griffith’s influence in Hollywood had started to wane in the late 1920’s and curiously he was not able to make a successful transition into talking movies. Famous film comedian Charlie Chaplin of that time period summed it up by stating, “the whole industry owes its existent to him.”

It is no wonder that the movie industry exploded into an entertaining art form as well as being extremely profitable. The days of simplistic, short films

had drawn to a close as the movie going public demanded more. The Tri-City area was just an example of movie madness sweeping the country. The movies had become more respectable and the movie theaters followed rapidly to keep up pace. By 1920, there were five major theaters that called the three small towns’ home. Where would the movie industry lead these theaters going into the 1920’s?

Part Four will appear in next month’s Eden’s Own Journal. Special thanks to the Eden Historical Museum, Ronnie Hooker, Teresa Meade Hutson, James Ivie, Jay Johnson, Ted Johnson, Sam Lindsey, Dale Pollock, Karien Roberts, Ann Lindsey Rudd, Melissa Whitten, and many more.

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Not Your Mother’s “Home EC” Class

By Michael Dougherty

What years ago was called Home Economics has evolved into a class that teaches entrepreneurship, food safety, creative cooking, appreciation of local foods, and hydroponics. This is what Morehead High School 2019-2020 Teacher of the Year Christine Wenger imparts to her students in her Food and Nutrition I & II classes. A former Chef and graduate of the Culinary Degree from the Art Institute of Atlanta, GA., Wenger moved to Eden in 2017 and has been teaching at MHS for two years.

She covers food safety first, following the “Serve Safe” method advocated by the Natural Restaurant Association. Food basics include safety, sanitation, how to prepare different fruits and vegetables, dairy, grain, or protein products.

The Food and Nutrition II

classes are for Juniors and Seniors. The course is divided up into two 9-week sessions, entrepreneurship, and Global foods. Groups of students learn to create their own businesses.

The state started this program that enables students to identify a need in a community and develop an idea to solve it with food. They have to create a business plan to open a restaurant with a competitive advantage that attracts customers, is costeffective, and provides the needed revenue streams to stay profitable. Students present their projects to a panel modeled after the Shark Tank television show.

Plans are evaluated with the panel providing valuable feedback on student ideas.

As a class, the students run a business, selling lunch to teachers on Fridays with the proceeds going to the foods

program and field trips. In November of 2019, more than 100 Thanksgiving meal, including turkey, ham, and potatoes were sold to teachers. Students make dishes from different countries to learn how to prepare the common ingredients for foods from those areas.

Wenger has had two students pursue culinary degrees after taking her class. One is at the Culinary Institute of America in New York, and the other entered the Guilford Technical Community College Culinary Program. She remarks on how some students seem to come alive when they are allowed to work in the kitchen. “Some are like completely different kids,” stated Wenger. “They realize how much they enjoy cooking.

Even if something comes out wrong, they still learn from the experience.”

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MHS received a grant for tower gardens in which students can hydroponically grow different types of lettuce, basil, and oregano. Hydroponics is the process of growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid, with added nutrients but without soil.

The tower gardens use water in which to cultivate foods.

Wenger’s students also learn how to define “local foods.” She

and two of her students were guests at the May 2019 City of Eden Grown & Gathered event that celebrates local foods.

“I like to see students be proud of themselves when they create different foods, “Wenger remarked. They also are learning practical tasks that will help them long after they leave the halls of Morehead High School.

Scholarship / Athlete Academic Awards program helps students achieve greatness Student Athletes in the Rockingham County School system have a great opportunity for scholarships offered by local companies who care about the youth of our community. The following businesses offer these opportunities: Home Trust Bank Cup The high school whose teams on the varsity and junior varsity level obtaining the highest grade point average (GPA) will recieve the HomeTrust Bank Cup. This will be on display at the school in recognition of “The Best of the Best” in Rockingham County. A plaque will be awarded for premanent display at the school. The presentation will be in the fall for the previous year.

The First National Bank Cup This award given annually to the high school whose teams display the best sportsmanship in the county. Sponsored by the First National Bank and Rockingham County Schools, the First National Bank Cup Award will be displayed at the winning school. In addition, a permanet plaque will be awarded to the school and a cash contribution to the athetic program will be presented. The presentation will be made in the fall for the previous year.

Gildan Male/Female Scholar This award is given to both a male and female athlete, nominated by each high school, and meets the following: played at least two sports junior and seniro year, made all-conference twice during the junior & senior year, obtained an overall cumulative unweighted GPA of 3.5 at the end of the 1st semester of the senior year, etc. A traveling cup is presented to the school for the male/female winner.

Nominees are presented a plaque designating them as a Scholar-Athlete of the Year. A Traveling plaque is presented to the winners each year.

Dorada Foods Cup of Excellence The Dorada Foods Cup of Excellence will be presented to the high school in Rockingham County with the most athletic sucess when compared to all high schools in the county.

Each school will receive 5 points for having a varsity team in each sport. Points will be awarded for the order of finish in each sport played amount the four county high schools. The Cup is sponsored by Doradaf Foods, North Carolina Division and Rockingham County Schools.

Athlete of the Year The athlete on each varsity team with the best grade point average will be recognized as the recipient of the Superintendent Scholar/ Athlete Award. To be eligible theathlete must have a minimum of a 3.3 GPA. The winners will recieve a plaque.

Team Academic Award The team in each of the nineteen varsity sports with the highest grade point average will be recognized as the team will be used to determine the average GPA. The GPA will be determined b the semester and remain at the school for one year. Each player will receive a certificate recognizing the athletes for being a member of a team receiving the team academic award.

Superintendent Scholarship Award The athlete on each varsity team with the best grade point average will be recognized as the recipient of the Superintendent Scholar/ Athlete Award. To be eligible the athlete must have a minimum of a 3.3 GPA. The winners will receive a plaque.

Scholar/Athlete Academic Program is sponsored by these fine community minded businesses and industries: • Gildan • HomeTrust Bank • Dorada Foods • First National Bank • Dalton’s Plumbing, Inc. • Electric Systems, Inc. • Piedmont Occupational & Urgent Care • Colonial Funeral Home & Chapel, Inc. • Family Eye Care of Eden • Rentz-Eden Oil Co. • Flynn Furniture Mattress Gallery • Tri-City Glass & Mirror Co., Inc. • Caring Modern Dentistry • Scotty’s Carpet & Oriential Rug Services, Inc. • Century 21 The Knowels Team • Eden Chiropractic • Dyer’s Inc. • Davis Appraisal Service • Happy Family Eye Care of Mayodan • First Piedmont Corporation We would like to express our deep appreciation to these companies who give back to the community and our youth.

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TENNIS TALK Shelby Rhyne, RCTA Executive Director Hey can you play with us?

Dr. Rodney Shotwell accepted the USTA Southern Member Organization of the Year award on Saturday January 25 at the USTA Southern Annual Meeting in Atlanta. This award is presented annually to a member organization in the USTA Southern Section to recognize outstanding service to the local community, to the organization members and to the game of tennis. In addition, the Southern winner is submitted for USTA National award consideration.

“I got that sunshine in my pocket” by Justin Timberlake played as Dr. Shotwell walked to the stage and accepted the award. Here is his acceptance speech: I’m glad the music stopped before I got here, because I was feeling the urge to dance. And my boys will tell you, you don’t want to see that. They say dance like nobody’s watching and I do.

First of all I have to give thanks to Rockingham County Tennis Association, Shelby Rhyne, for spearheading the revitalization of tennis in Rockingham County. When I got the email that we won the regional award, I was like “Us?”.

I know we won the state award but I was really happy and shocked at the same time. I want to thank USTA Southern for recognizing Rockingham County Schools.

What I want you to put in your mind, if you were in our county 5 years ago, there really wasn’t a court that you could really play on and have competition. Now we’re proud to say that that for our high schools, there’s are resurfaced tennis courts at our community college, and at Jaycee Park (in Reidsville, and there are plans for a a brand new tennis facility that we’ve already raised $150,000 for. It’s going to be 6 courts for the western side of the county (at Western Rockingham Middle School). After that we’re going to work on the courts at the other high school (Morehead High School) .

When we had the first playground courts put in at the Williamsburg Elementary School, Shelby said if you any free time, come on down and I did. There were lines for four courts painted on the asphalt.

There’s nothing like seeing a bunch of first and second graders with a gigantic rackets and a big puffy ball, about this big. Two of the kids said “Hey can you play with us?” Well sure I said, thinking I have my suit on but how hard can it be? The first time they tossed me the ball, I missed it and they just starting laughing. I said “So ya’ll are better than me, right?” and they said “yeah”. I said, “How about

the two of you play and I’ll watch?”. I’m really pleased to see that if there’s an asphalt playground at one of our schools, we’ve painted a tennis lines on them in some form or fashion to make it happen..

I want to thank again the USTA for recognizing us and we look forward to tennis growing in Rockingham County.

For more information about tennis for all ages in Rockingham County, visit our website at www.rockingham.usta.com and follow us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/RCYo uthtennis.

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Love’s Strong Bond

by Natalie Schwartz

February: the month for sweethearts. It’s known as the month of love and often focuses on couples. Yet the month of love can also be focused on love between parent/child, siblings, or simply friends. Love in any relationship can and should be celebrated this month. Honestly, I had a couple ideas for this month’s article that would go with the sweetheart romance theme.

But it became clear this quirky life of mine had a different idea. Yes, I will talk about love, but this isn’t of romance and sweethearts. This is about the love, the bond, between a mother and her sons. The

strength that love provides in a relationship.

First though this starts on a sad note; but it will become a story of beauty, dedication, strength, and love. This is a story of how love prevails. Those of you who know me or read my debut article in September knows I am a Leukemia survivor. Since August 2011 I survived Acute Myeloid Leukemia three times!

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Schwartz constants in those battles were my sons who inspire me to fight.

Another is the desire of a mother not wanting to leave her sons behind. This is a love story about those sons providing love to that sick tired mother. So, this month I am going to share about the bond of love between my sons and me.

My two sons and I have always had a strong relationship, a true blessing to me over the years. I recall my best friend telling me I was lucky to have sons because they take care of their mamas. Well I must say that rings very true with my sons and me. Through the years we have faced many challenges and through those experiences we learned what is important in life.

In their early years, it was that growing bond of love that gave us strength when my oldest was fighting his early battles of bipolar in high school. It’s that bond of love that gave my youngest the strength he needed as he had his own personal battle few years back.

Over the years we have watched our bond with each other grow. The second Friday this January I had to go for another bone marrow biopsy due to some health concerns. In fact, both my sons and my future daughter in-law (my youngest got engaged) went with me to Wesley Long to have the biopsy done. All three kids (in their 20s) kept the mood light and funny that day. I think we entertained the staff handling my biopsy.

You see we have learned to laugh in the face of fear, and we are quite good at it.

That evening, my oldest fixed all of us a delicious supper and we enjoyed family game of cards. While waiting on the biopsy results my oldest, who is currently staying with me, seemed to find opportunities to distract me; while my youngest texted me during his work shifts. Finally, we got the test results on Wednesday showing I had relapsed. I did my usual notifications to my inner circle.

Afterwards my oldest and I went downtown for lunch, where I received warm supportive hug from the business owner. It reminded me that I have support all around me.

That evening my youngest and his fiancé came by to visit. We didn’t focus our chats around the bad news, though we did talk about possible game plan. We simply caught up on everyone’s day. How did my sons wrap up my day? My big tall sons circled me within their long, strong arms and we hugged as a family, a family readying for battle. You see, this is no different than the other times we’ve faced my leukemia battles.

Granted in our own moments’ tears are shed, but we find strength in the love we have with each other- the mother/son and the brother/brother.

My love for my sons is what gives me the desire to fight. The love my sons have for me is what gives me strength to continue fighting. Over the past eight and half years it’s our bond of love that strengthens each of us during these cancer battles.

Each time we circled arms; it gave strength when it was needed to the one who needed it in every battle life has sent us.

Over time that love for each other has grown stronger with each battle faced. That strong love is what allowed my sons to celebrate each other’s victories and milestones. The first time my oldest saw and held his baby brother he smiled proudly and told everyone in the room “This is my baby brother”! They bonded as brothers, and that bond never wavered. I taught my sons to show love as they grew and tried to set a good example.

I protected them best I could and tried to raise them with the idea that we love each other unconditionally. I am blessed to see them grow and show love to me, to each other, and to others in life. You see, love isn’t always rosy. We need to remember those roses can have thorns and we can get pricked by those thorns.

Amid beauty, we can experience

some pain. It’s the love and strong bonds in our relationships that help us in this life.

As I reflect on the bond with my sons, I see that it’s our love for each other that helps us as individuals or as a family survive these crazy battles life throws at us. I see that we cultivated and worked hard to have that strong bond of love. It’s that bond that gives us the strength to face these difficult times. It’s that love that allows us to celebrate too, and not envy.

Love is a living breathing thing that needs cultivating, needs feeding to grow strong. It’s the love in each relationship that requires this tender care in order to provide the strength those individuals in that relationship need. Unconditional love is needed even more in order to develop the bond that we all need. As I face this next battle, I know that the bonds of love are what will strengthen me.

So, this month of love reflect on your relationships and find ways to cultivate and strengthen those bonds whether it’s a spouse, a child, a friend.

Find time to show your appreciation to that person who gives you that strong bond of love.

Remember there are many types of love and we need to show appreciation for the special love we have in our lives. It’s those love bonds that help strengthen you in this quirky crazy life.

Valencia Abbott, History teacher at Rockingham Early College High School, will lead discussion at MARC’s annual Food for Thought: Barbeque tasting event.

Barbeque is focus of MARC’s annual Food for Thought taster-talk

The Museum and Archives of Rockingham County is pleased to announce our fourth annual Food for Thought tastertalk event to be held February 29, 2020 at the MARC. The free program is scheduled from 12 noon to 2pm, and this year’s focus will be all about the rich history of barbeque.

Food for Thought is a multicultural and multigenerational program aimed to celebrate and acknowledge Black History Month. Recognized in February dating back as early as 1926 and coinciding originally with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and prominent abolitionist figure, Frederick Douglass, Black History Month provides recognition to the wealth of lesser known histories throughout the United States. Food for Thought will explore and reveal some of these intriguing, lesser known

histories through the undoubtedly universal narrative that is food.

Valencia Abbott, history teacher at Rockingham Early College High School, will guide guests in unpacking not only barbecue’s fascinating heritage, but also its unique significance in African American culture. Ongoing research is even revealing how the humble and beloved barbecue became a vehicle for political legitimacy amongst marginalized groups.

The discussion will center around “tasters“— a variety of delicious barbeque and side dishes to sample, provided by professional chefs and home-style cooks. This feast for all the senses is one of MARC’s most popular events. We look forward to sharing this free event with students and adults.

Rockingham Wellness Center

The Rockingham Wellness Center is located inside of Layne’s Pharmacy at 509 South Van Buren Rd., Eden, NC. All events offered at Rockingham Wellness Center are open to the public and there is no charge to attend programs. (336) 7783659Exercise Class Offerings: • Exercise Class Offerings: Stretch and Tone- Join Adrienne Branch for Stretch and Tone class on Monday afternoons at Rockingham Wellness Center.

Stretch and Tone classes work on improving movement and flexibility, with a bit of muscle toning thrown in for good measure. You'll be bending and stretching to music, targeting different muscle groups to help you move better and feel great.

Date and Time: Every Monday from 2:00 – 3:00 pm Date and Time: Every Thursday from 2:00 – 3:00 pm • Gentle Yoga – Yoga appears to be particularly beneficial when it comes to mental health, with studies showing it helps improve psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), by using physical postures, breath work, and meditation. Please join Elohee El-Bey as he guides you through yoga.

Date and Time: Every Thursday from 4:00 – 5:00 pm • Lunch and Learn for February: Alternative Programs for Adults with IDD- This lunch and learn event will be presented by Mount Jubilee Ministries to introduce a new alternative day program called His Path Developmental Day Program.

During this event, members and stakeholders will learn how this program is beneficial and how it addresses the dimensions of wellness. Julie Andrews, Registry Supervisor for Cardinal Innovations Healthcare, will also be a speaker to provide information on Registry of Unmet Needs.

Date and Time: February 20, 2020 from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm • Special Events for the month of February: Conflict Resolution- The Conflict Resolution workshop will place emphasis on achieving compromise and collaboration in conflictual situations. The training will address why people act

and/or react in specific ways, effective communication skills, problem-solving, and steps to deescalate in a crisis. This class will be presented by Chelsea Bullins, Member Engagement Specialist. Registration is required for this course and closes two business days before the class begins. Please call 336778-3659 to register.

Date and Time: February 4, 2020 from 10:00 am – 12:00 noon • Cardinal Innovations Overview for Members - This introductory presentation assists members in learning what services are available through Cardinal Innovations Healthcare.

Registration is required for this course and closes two business days before the class begins.

Please call 336-778-3659 to register.

Date and Time: February 25, 2020 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

• Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE Act) – The ABLE Act is a federal and state law that allows people with disabilities to save money for qualified expenses without it affecting their SSI, SSDI, or Medicaid benefits. Join Chelsea Bullins, Member Engagement Specialist with Cardinal Innovations, as she explains the importance of this Act and the potential benefits. Registration is required for this course and closes two business days before the class begins. Please call 336-778-3659 to register.

Date and Time: February 25, 2020 from 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm • How to become a Hospice Volunteer: Please visit Rockingham Wellness Center to receive information and learn how you can volunteer at Hospice of Rockingham County.

This is a drop in session, you can come during the timeframe of 12:00 noon and 2:00 pm to learn more information. This a wonderful opportunity for all to learn information about how to give back to our community.

Date and Time: February 19, 2020 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Date and Time: February 25, 2020 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm • Safely Dispose of Sensitive Documents- Visit Rockingham Wellness Center to securely dispose of documents which may contain personal or confidential information. February 4, 2020 from 4 pm-5 pm. February 18,

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2020 from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm • Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia Warriors Support Group – Chronic pain affects both the individual and the people they love. Support groups provide emotional strength and promote empowerment in a community environment. This group plans events and speakers, and provides assistance in meeting basic needs. Join members for refreshments and fellowship. Be a part of building support for Rockingham County residents who suffer with chronic pain.

Date and Time: February 11, 2020 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm • Lunch and Learn Event for March: Learn about Community Resources: James Austin Health Center- Teneka Striblin will present resource information pertaining to James Austin Health Center that is located in Eden, NC. James Austin Health Center in Eden, NC is a primary care and behavioral health medical home serving residents of Rockingham County, North Carolina and surrounding areas.

Teneka is a part of the Integrated Behavioral Health Team at James Austin Health Center. The Integrated Behavioral Health Program applies an evidencebased approach to integrate behavioral health into primary care. This model incorporates mental health treatment into a traditional medical visit.

Date and Time: March 3, 2020 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm • The Rockingham Wellness Center is located inside of Layne’s Pharmacy at 509 South Van Buren Road Eden, NC. Events offered at the Rock.

Wellness Center are open to the public and there is no charge to attend programs.

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Follow the link & nominate a person who you have seen going beyond the call of duty as a volunteer in Rockingham County!

The Rockingham County Board of Commissioners would like to honor a deserving County volunteer each month for using talents and compassion to make a difference. Fordetails on how to nominate an "Outstanding Volunteer of the Month go to https://rockinghamcounty.municipalcms.com and go to forms.

No Photo Id Required in primary

Voters will NOT be required to show photo ID for the March 3, 2020, primary election. In a December 31 order, a federal district court blocked NC’s voter photo ID requirement from taking effect.

The injunction will remain in place until further order of the court.

Citizen’s Academy graduates announce project for Animal Shelter

Following Rockingham County Citizens' Academy's 2019 Fall Graduation in Nov., graduates announced to County Commissioners a special project they were leading to support the Animal Shelter.

Please join Citizens' Academy grads, by helping Rockingham County Animal Shelter, in a Pet Food Drive between now and Valentine's Day, Feb. 14th, called "GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER." Please place donations of pet food in the designated box in the main Gov't Ctr. lobby. Urge family, neighbors and colleagues to start 2020 on the good foot helping fury friends! Thanks in advance for your contributions. Feel free to walk an Animal Shelter dog during your lunch break or adopt a fourlegged friend for your family!

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Dixie Youth Baseball awards scholarships

Dixie Youth Baseball will be awarding 100 scholarships this year valued at $2000 each. The only requirement for these scholarships is that the person be a high school senior and that they must have played at least one season of Dixie Youth Baseball. We have had a winner here in District 8 (Rockingham, Caswell & Person County) four out of the last five years.

Last year there were two students from Rockingham County to win scholarships. All applications must be postmarked by February 1st in order to be considered.

Currently there are eleven states that participate in DYB and there were 72 applications sent in from the state of North Carolina last year. 14 of those 72 were awarded scholarships last year.

For additional information contact District 8 Director Terry Vernon at 336280-5677.

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Dan River Basin Association's Annual Celebration, 9:30 a.m., Saturday, March 7. Public program & meeting at Eden City Hall, 308 East Stadium Drive, Eden, NC. Optional 2-mile afternoon hike after the meeting on Matrimony Creek Trail, 1335 Washington Street, Eden. Meeting at Eden City Hall, 308 East Stadium Drive, Eden, NC (36.5012, -79.7354). If planning to hike, wear hiking boots or walking shoes, bring hiking stick(s), lunch and water. Public is invited free of charge.

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Eden accounting firms merge

Rouse, Rouse, Rouse & Gardner, LLP and Gunn and Page, LLC jointly announce the merger of the accounting practices effective February 1, 2020. The name of the new practice will continue under the name of Rouse, Rouse, Rouse & Gardner, LLP. This will bring together two local firms with over 100 years of combined accounting, audit and tax experience.

By joining the knowledge and expertise of both firms together, it will allow the firms to continue to provide the best possible service to their clients, while also allowing the combined firm to grow its current services and capabilities.

The staff of Gunn and Page, including its partners, Ed Gunn and Kathy Page, will transition to the office of RRR&G at 439 W. Kings Highway, beginning February 1, 2020.

Black Tie Blue Jeans event returns in May

Rockingham Pregnancy Care Center 18th Annual Black Tie & Blue Jeans event. Friday, May 1, 2020 @ 5:30 PM. Dinner to be Served at 6:00 PM, Same Great Food, Fun, and Auctions It’s Not Just a Date – It’s a Date that Makes a Difference

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Rockingham County 411 - will provide crucial info and updates, calendar and events. To sign up go to ww.myrockinghamcounty.com Emergency services director Rodney Cates Sends out vital info and updates regarding Rockingham County, NC, with this new, video called, "ROCKINGHAM COUNTY 4-1-1." Announcing items such as Ready NC - road closing, shelter info, preparing for the unexpected problems, storm announcements, power outages info, preparation advice for these events.

On a periodic basis, Public Inform. Officer Mable Scott, will share important, crucial news that citizens can use. The short segments will provide interviews, updates, calendar info, and events to keep you informed and up-to-date.

2019 County accomplishements highlighted on link

Learn about major all of the recent Rockingham County Governmental accomplishments, growth and developments during the 2019 year.

Go to "ROCKINGHAM COUNTY YEAR IN REVIEW" video featuring Rockingham County Manager Lance Metzler: https://youtu.be/WuFXoXcolkg Metzler highlighted the overall vision established by the Rockingham County Board of Commissioners to: "provide the best quality of life educationally, economically, and environmentally."

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Social Security Matters

by AMAC Certified Social Security Advisor Russell Gloor Association of Mature American Citizens

Ask Rusty – We took benefits early; can we get more now?

Dear Rusty: My birth date is 1947. My wife is 1950. We both took our Social Security years ago at age 62 due to health concerns because we questioned if we would live to age 78 to equalize the extra payout if we would have waited to age 66. Taking early at 62 may have been a mistake and I am wondering if there are any options available to maximize my and/or my wife's monthly payment with a restricted application or any other available options? My gross monthly is $946.60, and my wife’s is $543.60 before the deduction for Medicare. Together our gross monthly is about equal to the per person individual average monthly payment of $1479. Signed: Regretful we took SS early.

Dear Regretful: I’m afraid the options for either you or your wife increasing your benefit at this point are extremely limited.

You cannot file the restricted application you mentioned because that can only be done by someone applying for the first time (and who was born before 1/2/1954), and only by someone who has not yet reached age 70.

Neither can you suspend your benefits to earn delayed retirement credits (DRCs) because

DRCs are only earned up to age 70. Your wife has a very small window until she reaches 70 in March during which she could suspend her benefits, and by doing so immediately she could perhaps earn, at most, an additional 1% in DRCs (about $5 more per month). That leaves only two other things which could increase your benefits: 1) Cost of Living Annual Adjustments (COLAs) granted each year depending upon inflation, and 2) returning to work and having substantial current earnings which may replace the earnings in a lower-earning year in your lifetime work record (SS uses the highest earning 35 years over your lifetime to compute your benefit amount).

If you have some years in that 35-year history with no or very low earnings, working now could replace one or more of those years. I have no way of determining whether that is a possibility; you would need to get your lifetime earnings record from Social Security and see if that is possible by examining your earnings for each year over your lifetime. But remember, all early years of earnings are adjusted for inflation, so for example, $10,000 earned in 1990 would be equal to about $25,000 in today’s dollars, and you’d need to earn more than the higher amount to have any effect on your benefit.

I wish I had better news for you, but the unfortunate reality is that once someone claims their Social Security, the benefit amount is quite fixed. Although

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it’s possible to withdraw an application within 12 months of initial filing, and it’s also possible to suspend benefits once FRA is reached, neither of those is available to you. And your wife only has a very short window to suspend her benefits, which will

reach maximum when she reaches 70 in March. So, except for the COLA increases and returning to work options I’ve discussed above, I’m afraid you have no other opportunity to increase your Social Security benefit amounts.

This article is intended for information purposes only and does not represent legal or financial guidance. It presents the opinions and interpretations of the AMAC Foundation’s staff, trained and accredited by the National Social Security Association (NSSA). NSSA and the AMAC Foundation and its staff are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any other governmental entity. To submit a question, visit our website (amacfoundation.org/programs/social-securityadvisory) or email us at ssadvisor@amacfoundation.org.

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