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June 2020

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 " Veterans Still Serving Veterans" Legionnaires, Auxiliary, and Sons of the American Legion Family from Liberty American Legion Post 81 put out over 600 flags at seven different Cementaries for Memorial Day to Honor our Fallen Heroes. The Post also had a Memorial Day program at The Liberty Veterans Memorial and Gardens site on Monday at 3:00 p.m. We had a good turn out under with C-19 rules in place. The program was short and hopefully all got a good message from the Memorial day speech. Thanks to all the Veterans that helped with the Program, and placing the Flags.

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“Our scholarship program is an investment in the next generation of our rural communities. We appreciate the applicants who have worked hard, persevered during these difficult times, and are devoted to continuing their education. These awards are well deserved and we are proud of all the applicants pursuing personal and professional goals,” said Kim Garner, CEO & General Manager.

Randolph Communications has given more than $133,000 in scholarships since 1995 through its annual scholarship program. This year’s General Scholarship winners are: • Brodie Cole Smith – Eastern Randolph High School • Brooke Logan Springer – Southwestern Randolph High School • Dana Nicole Garner – North Moore High School • Evan Wayne Waisner – Southwestern Randolph High School • Lora Elizabeth Proctor – Randolph Early College High School • Rebecca Faith Jordan – Chatham Charter High School • Riley Michael Lagenor – Chatham Central High School Randolph Communications is dedicated to providing the most advanced telecommunications solutions and world-class customer care to its customers. Locally owned and operated, Randolph Communications is proud of its 66 years of serving our neighbors and communities in Randolph, Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Guilford, Moore, Lee, and Montgomery Counties.

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Liberty Chamber Monthly Newsletter Written by: Amanda Pabst

The Liberty Chamber would like to thank our community and our members for your patience during COVID19. Most of our members have been able to stay afloat during these trying times and it would not be possible without the support of our community members. As we have moved into Phase 2, many of our members have reopened for business. We would like to encourage everyone to continue to shop local, eat local, and play local!! Our businesses need our continued support!

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PRESENTS The Six Levels of Higher Consciousness Part 2 May issue of the Liberty Leader holds Part 1 of this article listing Levels 1, 2 and 3 of the Six Levels of Higher Consciousness.

The 4th Level of Higher Consciousness: Life Happens For You The more you become curious about what is happening rather than reacting and controlling, the more you come to a wonderful realization that your life is for you. Rather than Life being something that is happening to you that you must control, you realize there are no ordinary moments! And you are one step further on the journey to higher consciousness.

Life is not a random series of events. It is a highly intelligent unfolding that is putting you in the exact situations you need in order to see and unhook from the spells that keep you separate from its flow.

No matter what is happening in your life, you finally understand that Life knows what it is doing.

At this level of consciousness, rather than Life being something you have to mold and shape into what you want it to be, you begin to show up for Life exactly as it is. Yes, the flow of Life includes pain, loss and death. But resisting the pains of Life only turn them it into suffering, and the suffering that comes from resistance is always much greater than directly experiencing your pain. Instead of tightening around your experiences and turning away from them, which only thickens your cloud bank of struggle, you bring your attention to your experience, whatever it is.

“Life is not a random series of events. It is a highly intelligent unfolding.”

Even little moments of curiosity about what is going on right now sprinkled throughout your day are powerful! Every time you respond rather than react to what is going on inside of you, what was formerly bound up begins to loosen. Remember, your natural state is free-flowing aliveness. When that aliveness gets trapped in the spells, your energy and joy dim. When the spells receive the light of your attentiveness, they let go, and the trapped energy flows freely, bringing with it the bliss of openness. Remember: Life is setup, to bring up, what has been bound up, so it can open up, to be freed up, so you can show up for Life!

Close your eyes for a few moments and open into this living moment of your life. Hear it, sense it, feel it. This is the only moment that matters in your whole life for it is the only moment where Life is happening!

The 5th Level of Higher Consciousness: Life Happens Through You The for you phase of higher consciousness shows you that there is no such thing as an ordinary moment in your life and helps you to see that Life is speaking to you at all moments. Becoming curious about what you are experiencing and giving it the light of compassionate attention so it can let go, you evolve into the next level of consciousness of allowing Life to move through you. This is where you recognize that Life is trustable. It is not always likable, but it knows what it is doing.

Imagine a life where you trust Life implicitly. Every morning you wake up with a sense of adventure. Your belly is soft, your mind is curious and your heart is open. Rather than struggling with Life, you open to it, even when you are facing deep challenges. If you find yourself caught in reaction, you give your reaction the attention it needs to let go.

Just as when you unkink a hose, the vibrant flow of energy that is Life can now move freely through you and this brings forth the joy and aliveness you so deeply long for. Creativity that you could never imagine on your own becomes clear to you, blessing yourself and everyone you meet with the wisdom of the meadow of Life.

You experience deep gratitude for absolutely everything. You see that your life is dependent on every ounce of creativity that has ever happened in the universe. You also see that all that has happened to you, even the difficult, has been a part of your journey back into Life. Step by step Life is bringing you into higher consciousness, into the ability to be fully here for Life. Now you can relax and show up for the adventure. As Cynthia Bourgeault so beautifully says in her book Mystical Hope, “You find your way by being sensitively and sensually connected to exactly where you are, letting ‘here’ reach out and lead you.”

The 6th Level of Higher Consciousness: Life Is You The more you can stand with Life, allowing it to move through you rather than reacting to it or controlling it, the more you begin to get glimpses of the sixth level of consciousness in which you see that Life is you. You are no longer a separate being. Instead, you merge completely back into the creative flow of Life, understanding that everything—every rock, person, cloud, molecule and ladybug— is you. You are Life! As Eckhart Tolle said, “You are not in the universe; you are the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”

All is well. Come here.

As you look closely at the Six Phases of Higher Consciousness, you will see that the first two are about fixing, changing, resisting and trying to control Life (Life is happening to you and by you).

These phases are the world of your storyteller that doesn’t want what is here (doesn’t know how to open to Life) and wants what is not here (I can have what I want if I just think right). Throughout both of these levels of consciousness, there is a veil between you and the living experience of Life because neither phase is about showing up for the creative river of Life.

The next two phases of higher consciousness are about using your mind to be curious about what is happening rather than resisting and controlling. In Life is happening in you, you recognize that the storyteller inside of you is what separates you from Life. So rather than trying to change anything, you become interested in what you are experiencing in any given moment. The more you are here for Life, the easy and the difficult, the joyous and the sorrowful, unhooking from all of your spells, the more clear it becomes that Life knows what it is doing and it is for you.

The final two phases of higher consciousness are all about coming home to the meadow. The more you live the truth that Life is for you, the more you relax into the flow, bringing you to the joy of Life moving through you. As your cloud bank dissipates, you not only recognize the meadow again, you recognize that you are the meadow! Life is you and you are Life!

“You are not in the universe; you are the universe, an intrinsic part of it.”

Most people live in the first two phases of higher consciousness, to you and by you, never knowing that right in the middle of these beliefs is a doorway into the last four. Life is waking you up from the contraction of the first two and into the opening of the last four. This is not only for your own healing, but for the healing of all beings, because as you see through your cloud bank of struggle, you become a healing presence in the world.

There is a paradoxical truth that is important to acknowledge. Human beings are evolving from the first level of consciousness to the sixth. It is also true that most days you will experience a number of these phases. It is not about getting rid of any particular phase or making one better than the other. They are all part of Life, and as you evolve, you will recognize and be able to embrace them all.

The Truth of Trust In order to evolve into and through the last four levels of consciousness, the tattered threads of your trust of Life need to be rewoven. You, like most people, don’t trust Life! It certainly feels untrustworthy. Life breaks your heart, brings illnesses to your body, and feels, at times, as though it gives you way more than you can handle.

If you don’t trust it, how can you show up for it, opening to all that it is offering you in every experience you have? How can you allow it to bring you, step by step, from unconsciousness into higher consciousness? There is a shift of perception that will help you immensely in relearning how to trust Life, discovering that your life, rather than being something that needs to be controlled, is something that can be opened to. The shift is: Life is smarter than you!

Most of us are so caught in our storyteller that we live in a small world. What we pay attention to all day long is the cloud bank around our heads that is made out of our spells. We don’t see what is going on here! And we definitely don’t

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recognize the meadow. As a means of opening your awareness from the tight and small world of your storyteller into a more spacious perspective, I invite you into what I call a big-picture exploration.

Imagine you are sitting on the moon, looking at the beautiful blue-green jewel that is our planet. See it as a living being that has been unfolding for 4½ billion years. Look beyond it into the black, velvety depth of space that is filled with more stars than there are grains of sand on every beach of the Earth!

Now bring your attention back to the Earth floating in front of you, and as you drink in its beauty, recognize that absolutely everything on this planet was created from atoms that come from the stars— and that includes you! So everything you see is made out of stardust!

Now in your imagination, see the evolution of Earth as a movie. At its inception it was just a ball of gas and dust. Fast-forward the movie in your mind’s eye and see land and water appearing as the Earth’s atmosphere forms. Then see Life beginning to come together into various rudimentary beings in the seas. Now see Life crawl out of the seas and onto the continents as a wave of green flows across the formerly barren land. Insects appear, animals emerge and dinosaurs come and go.

In the evolution of Life on this planet, there was a time when there were no creatures with thumbs, so Life could not be picked up to be used and explored. Now see life evolving a few million years ago into a form that had two arms with fingers and thumbs, along with the kind of brain that was interested in picking up Life and exploring It. Life had never shown up in this way before!

Now see early human beings coming together into tribes. As their frontal lobes became more complex, see them discovering language, figuring out how to use tools, cultivating the land, creating villages and towns, and then creating the wheel and ships that sail across the oceans.

“You are a community of 70 trillion cells that pump blood through 65,000 miles of arteries and veins” Fast forward the movie again to just a few hundred years ago. See one set of your great, great, great grandparents being born, growing up, discovering one another, birthing one half of the partnership of your great, great grandparents and then disappearing back into mystery. This same cycle brought forth your grandparents, your parents and then you. Now see yourself appearing out of mystery at the exact place on this planet where you were born. Watch yourself evolve from a baby, to a young child, to a teenager and then into an adult.

As you are watching the movie of your life, bring it to this morning when you woke up, began your day and eventually came to the moment where you are reading this article. Realize that all of the millions of moments of your life have unfolded to this moment and this moment is the leading edge of the wave of evolution on this planet. Open to the knowing that this moment is no ordinary moment. Right here, right now, you are being given a very rare gift: the phenomenal gift of Life. For a short slice of time you get to be here, and then you too will dissolve back into mystery and Life will continue to unfold.

Pause for a moment and contemplate all of the creativity that has gone before you that allows you and everything around you to exist. This simple act of contemplation can shift you into a state of higher consciousness.

Your Story This movie about the unfolding of Life on this planet that we just explored is your story. You are a being who is an expression of 4½ billion years of Life evolving on this planet. You exist in this body because of the vast creativity that has gone before you. Let’s take your eyes for example. The first ancestors of your eyes came from polyps on the oceans floors that created cells that were able to differentiate light and dark.

In between that first rudimentary step into seeing and your ability to see are vast amounts of creativity that allow you to see this article! And it is not just your eyes that are dependent on the entire ingenuity of Life. Your whole life, like everybody else’s, is dependent on every single act of creativity that has ever happened on this planet.

It is amazing to recognize the creativity that enabled Life to take stardust and make this planet and everything on it, including you. It is even more astounding to see that as you sit here reading this, you are a community of 70 trillion cells that pump blood through 65,000 miles of arteries and veins, send messages along your nerves at the speed of light, regulate hormones, repair cells and digest food without a single thought from you. If you doubt that there is an amazing Intelligence that permeates and penetrates all of Life, just acknowledge what is happening in your body right now.

Because you don’t recognize the Intelligence at the heart of Life, you believe you are separate from it. Believing you are separate from it, you buy into the illusion that you must control it. As soon as you believe you must control it, you become cut off from it, losing sight of the joy of being open to Life. This perspective keeps you from living in a place of higher consciousness.

You actually trust Life a lot. You trust it enough to beat your heart and breathe your breath. But you think that the Intelligence at the heart of Life has nothing to do with your daily life. You, like most people, bought into the arrogance of the human ego that says that it is in charge. Because of this belief in separation, you think your life is just a random series of events that you must mold and shape into what you think they should be.

What would happen if this was not so? What would your life look like if you understood that the same Intelligence that keeps the planets spinning, heals the cuts on your skin, and brings spring forth out of winter is with you every step of the way? Can you open to the possibility that this creative Intelligence is weaving your life out of the primal opposites of dark and light and it is giving you exactly what you need in order to evolve from unconsciousness into a phase of higher consciousness? What would it be like if you understood that the same awesome force of evolution that created this planet and brought Life out of the sea and onto land is working its magic in your life?

To get even an inkling of what we are exploring here will allow you to let go of that grip of control enough that you can begin to feel the magic of trusting your life. The more you trust it, the more you will show up for it, and the more you show up for it, the more you will see that Life is wiser than you and is bringing you the exact set of experiences you need in order to come back to Life.

Lift your eyes from the page and recognize that in the vastness of all time this moment will never be repeated, and you have the privilege to bear witness to it.

What It Looks Like To Trust Life When you realize that Life is smarter than you, Life becomes very interesting. Rather than being lost in your storyteller, you realize something very extraordinary is happening here: there are no ordinary moments in your life! You become much more alert to what is happening, both outside and inside of you. If one’s life is like an iceberg, most people just pay attention to the part above the water while what is really going on is happening underneath the “water level” of their everyday awareness.

“You realize something very extraordinary is happening here: there are no ordinary moments in your life” It is true that you are driving, working, showering, cooking, arguing, making love, raising children, birthing and dying. But underneath it all is the unfolding of intelligent evolution, and you are a part of that. You are evolving from an unconscious human being into a conscious one. This is happening in every experience of your life—every experience! Life is for Life. It is supporting your shift from being asleep to being awake. Just as Life assists a peach tree in creating fruit by sustaining it with sun, rain, bees and the nourishment of the Earth, it is giving you exactly what you need in order to know the fruit of a conscious human being, which is the ability to be awake to Life.

Living from the truth that your life is for you, you begin to let go of the belief that your suffering is caused by something outside of you: other people, your job, the shape of your body, the kind of mate you have, the type of health you have, the kind of past you had, or the sort of mind you have. You begin to see that your suffering is coming from inside of you, caused by the spells. Yes, there are difficult things that happen in your life, but when you don’t get lost in your stories about them, you respond to the situation, gathering the gifts that are always embedded in the challenges of your life. This is the gift of higher consciousness, you see that life is conspiring in your favor.

As you awaken into higher levels of consciousness, you become less interested in trying to change anything in your life and more interested in what is going on inside of you, especially in difficult situations. You have a deeper sense of allowing Life to put you in the exact situations you need in order for the core spells that make up your storyteller to be brought to the surface of your awareness. It is there that you can see them, watch them in action, and discover that they are just spells that were conditioned into you when you were young and that you no longer need to buy into them.

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It is almost as if these deep and ancient spells of fear, shame, doubt, jealousy, not being enough, loneliness, and anger, to name a few, are like champagne bubbles that have been trapped inside of you. As your resistance to experiencing them lessens, they begin to loosen, arising to the surface to be seen. As they are fully seen, they burst, and the energy that was formerly trapped in them lets go.

Rather than being afraid of this purification process, you begin to welcome it as the longing to be fully awake to Life becomes stronger than the fear of your spells.

Pause for a moment and check into your belly. Allow any holding you discover there to melt away and let a smile fill you with its healing presence. Allow this softening to move all the way down into your pelvic floor and around to your back. Feel the essence of your unfolding higher consciousness.

The Joy of Response-ability Whether it is an illness, pain, a difficult neighbor, a compulsion, a financial crisis or any other challenging situation in your life, it can be initially threatening to your storyteller to take responsibility (the ability to respond) for your own experience. Old reactions that come from spells can be very strong. But you learn how to become like one of those three-foot tall inflatable dolls with a weight in the bottom.

When you’re in a difficult situation, you feel like the doll when it is hit and falls over. More and more quickly, however, you do the you-turn, becoming curious about what this is bringing up inside of you, and you bounce back up again just like the doll does. You see that each situation is gently nudging you to expand into even higher levels of consciousness.

“All of the joy, clarity and aliveness you long for have always been with you, right here, right now” This is where you truly begin to trust Life. You know that difficult situations are for you. You see that just as the body cleanses itself of foreign viruses and bacteria, your being will cleanse itself of the old spells. The more you want to see your spells, the more Life puts you in the situations that will bring them up so they can be touched enough with the light of your consciousness to let go. Thus you are no longer the victim to your life.

Even feelings like aloneness, or unending sadness, or the black hole of nothingness that seem so deep and real when you are resisting them become something to say “hello” to and touch with compassion. As you stand with them, they no longer have the power over you they used to have, and the energy that was bound up in them is released, opening you to the meadow that is always with you.

It is important to remember as you are bringing higher consciousness into your daily life that you have never left the meadow; you just thought that you had. All of the joy, clarity and aliveness you long for have always been with you, right here, right now. You just haven’t seen it because your storyteller has grabbed hold of your attention and rarely let it go. The more you allow Life to put you in the situations that bring up the core spells of your storyteller, the more your cloud bank will thin and you will be able to recognize and live from the meadow of your being.

This article on higher consciousness is excerpted from Mary O’Malleys awareness expanding book What’s in the Way is the Way. Visit her website: whatsinthewayistheway.com Thank you for your interest in yourself and your life. Thank you for your interest in contributing to the lives of others through your consciousness. Comments or questions may be forwarded to bitsnpiecesliberty@gmail.com

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

BY THE TOWN OF LIBERTY FOR PUBLIC INPUT ON LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUNDS GRANT PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS Notice is hereby given that the Town of Liberty Public Services and Recreation will conduct a public hearing on June 16th, 2020 at 6:30 PM at the Freedom Park picnic shelter located at 800 Hamilton Drive, Liberty, NC 27298, relative to the intention of the Town of Liberty to apply for Land and Water Conservation Funds Grant (LWCF).

The Town of Liberty intends to submit an application for a grant of approximately two hundred twenty two thousand dollars ($222,000.00) in LWCF grant funds to construct a new tennis court, a splash pad, concession stand, and bathrooms in the location where the previous four tennis courts were located at Freedom Park.

The following is a tentative list of proposed activities and an estimated budget. The final application will be reviewed at the public hearing.

Tennis Court Splash Pad Concession with Restrooms

$30,000 $150,000 $42,000

The proposed project will provide benefits to all residents of the Town of Liberty. If we receive this grant, we will be adding tennis back to Freedom Park along with a new feature in a splash pad. Splash pads are an alternative to a swimming pool and will provide the citizens of Liberty a place to come and play in the water features provided by the splash pad. We will also construct a concession stand and bathrooms to serve as a place to change and get some food or drink while at the splash pad.

Citizens will be given the opportunity to provide comments at the Public Hearing. If additional information is needed, please contact the Public Services and Recreation Director - Scott Kidd - at 336-215-2339. Formal written complaints or comments concerning the application process that are submitted to the Town of Liberty prior to or following the public hearing will be responded to within ten working days by Town staff. Comments or complaints may also be directed to townhall@townoflibertync.org or PO Box 1006 Liberty, NC 27298.

This information is available in Spanish or any other language upon request. Please contact Town Hall at 336-622-4276 or at 239 S Fayetteville St. Liberty, NC 27298 for accommodations for this request.

Esta información está disponible en español o en cualquier otro idioma bajo petición. Por favor, póngase en contacto con William Doerfer al 336-622-4276 o en 239 S Fayetteville St. Liberty, NC 27298 de alojamiento para esta solicitud.

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Brookhaven Mill Farm Great Weather! Great News! Charlie's Farm Store is ready for you with new arrivals of fresh milk, creamy chocolate milk, pure cream, homemade butter, farm eggs, local honey and peanut butter, organic elderberry syrup and FINALLY, ICE CREAM!!! We are picking up 1/2 gallons tonight from Homeland Creamery: Mint Chocolate Chip, Butter Pecan, Lemon Crunch, Chocolate and Cookies and Cream! Very limited quantity.

Why wait 2+ hours in line at the Creamery when you don't have to? However, Charlie's does observe the 10 and under rule, so if you do come to the farm and someone else is shopping in the store, hang out on the porch, play a game of checkers, and BREATHE the fresh air while you wait for them to finish shopping. You are in the country and it's a beautiful day. While you are waiting, go see the ducklings or hold a kitten! Farm babies are adorable!

See you at Charlie's, 1617 Brookhaven Mill Road, Greensboro. Open weekends from 10-5.

PS - If you have any extra egg cartons, please consider recycling back to us. We sell anywhere from 15-20 dozen eggs every weekend, so we go through alot of cartons! Thank you!

Millstone Creek Orchards | Ramseur, NC 0 Fishing SOAK UP THE SUNSHINE...Before the rain moves in later this week, enjoy a little vitamin D and outdoor adventure with open fishing. Our ponds are open today from 10-4pm and we still have plenty of spots available. Registration is required at bit.ly/MCOfishing. đ&#x;?

Another Great Welcome To Ramseur (Ramseur New Police Chief) The Town of Ramseur lets give a warm welcoming to our new Police Chief (Arron Presley) Congratulations to your new position!

Liberty Chiropractic Center 104 N Greensboro St, Liberty Phone (336)622-1600 ———————————————————

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DENTISTRY Edward Scott DDS - Erin Scott DDS

Family, Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry “Emergencies Seen Same Day” Located in the Forest Oaks Community www.southeastdentistry.com

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Please Welcome Ramseur’s new Finance Officer Rigo P. Madrid and Ramseur’s new Town Clerk Carol Akers

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Ramseur Lake Opening

We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, the Kermit G. Pell Recreational Facility, also known as, Ramseur Lake, will reopen!

Hopefully, by this time, North Carolina will be in Phase 2 of its reopening plan. Under Phase 2, the Stay At Home order will be lifted, public playgrounds will be opened, and the number of people allowed to safely gather will increase. However, we will still require that the proper precautions, including social distancing, be observed.

While the lake has been closed, our Lake Warden and Board Members have been working diligently on updating the pier, boat docks, and facilities. We are excited to share this progress with you all and will post more information on this soon.

For questions or more information on the Ramseur Lake please contact Commissioner Tanya Kenyon at t.kenyon@townoframseur.org or call 336-460-2100.

We appreciate your patience and support as we continue to work through this pandemic.

New Ramseur Commissioner Tim Matthews stated, "As (Ramseur New Commissioner) I would like to say thank you to the citizens for all the support and kind words. I would also like to say thank you to the Ramseur Board of Commissioner’s for appointing me to this commissioner seat. I am excited and honored to have the privilege of serving our community in this capacity." His role will be (Community Outreach & Economic Development ) Tim is an example of Ramseur My Hometown and a great access to the community. We look forward to all the great things you will bring to the table and community .

Mowing Trimming Yard work Now Taking New Clients 10yrs Exp. In Liberty To Julian Area

Contact Dale Humble 336-430-5530 Gwen Taylor - Owner / Preparer 728 S Greensboro St, Liberty Ph 336-622-5722

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OPEN 7 Days Mon-Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sunday 1 pm-6 pm Vendor Showcases are $25 & $35 monthly w/10% commission and Vendors andonly showcase boothRental spaces available Booth & Showcase Available Booth Space are only $1.00 per sq. ft. monthly w/10% commission us a call for all your Auction YOUGive STOCK...WE SELL" - GIVE USneeds A TRY919-663-2034 TODAY!!!)

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Wade Hardin Landscapes Contact Wade Hardin (336)240-7925

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"Time to PLANT trees and shrubs" Seeding & Fertilizing Pruning & Trimming Irrigation Property Clean Up Tree Removal Bobcat & Dump Truck Pine Needles & Mulch New Installations (and repairs) Insect & Disease Control

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Hurricane

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Live Music

Open For Delivery, Inside and Outside Dining

Karaoke Cold Beer & Mixed Drinks

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Mon Tues.

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Monday - Thursday 10:30am - 8:30pm Friday - Saturday 10:30 - 10pm

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-Flounder -Chicken N Dumplings -Chicken Pie / Pintos -Baked Spaghetti -Chicken Pie / Green Beans Peach Cobbler

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JAM Special Fabrics, Gifts, and More Open by appointment Open one week a month Materials for face mask available 10am-3pm Judy Merrill Nicki Merrill 1309 NC Hwy 62 Climax, NC 27233 https:// www.facebook.com/ jamspecial/ 336-392-4494

Now Serving Homeland Creamery Ice Cream !!

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