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Continued from page 3A skill improves the chances for academic and career success. Jim Trelease, an author and proponent of reading aloud to children said reading is the ultimate weapon destroying ignorance, poverty, and despair before they can destroy us. A nation that doesn’t read much doesn’t know much. A nation that doesn’t know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace the jury box, and the voting booth. Those decision ultimately affect the entire nation. Partnering agencies such as Smart Start of Pender County, Pender County Health Department, Pender County Social Services, Pender County Schools PreK Program, a host of daycare and child care providers and others are finding new ways to work together to reach young families to strengthen and support literacy. They all realize that early pre-literacy activity is so important in helping a child learn to read when they go to school. We are all better off when young children succeed in school and flourish as stable, responsible adults impacting the generations that follow. Reading provides that foundation for learning and achieving. Look in this column Feb. 18 for more information about 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten. It will be launched in early March. You’ll read how other community partners, such as Smart Start of Pender County, are coming together to encourage parents to read to their children at home. It is said that children are made readers in the laps of their parents. The libraries in Burgaw and Hampstead have long offered services to young families in a variety of ways. For parents and caregivers who can bring children to the libraries, weekly programs for preschoolers,
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Continued from page 4A dollars over and bought four chances. After all, if the purchase was guided by the Divine Hand, wouldn’t one chance have been enough? If the Divine is behind picking the right numbers, I would think He would get them right the first time. Or maybe I got my just deserts for greed. Greed or not, in the end, I think I got my money’s worth. The first two tickets I bought I had left in the store’s bag, not looking at them until the day of the drawing, so that if we did win, we would not know if the winning ticket was mine or Kathy’s. We had agreed in advance to evenly divide the winnings immediately, so that disagreements would not develop later over who spends what. At least one of us, we both thought, might be wiser managers of a windfall of cash. Alas, we are probably no different from anyone else. I was working in the yard the day before the drawing. My neighbors came walking
toddlers and babies and their parents/care givers are conducted. It’s a great way for your child to be with other children and grow in age appropriate learning skills. Borrow an armload of books to read to your child at home. s0RESCHOOL 3TORY 4IME A lively half hour of wonderful stories, finger plays, music and movement, followed by an age appropriate early literacy activity or craft is at Hampstead for ages 3-5 years old each Wednesdays at 11 a.m. In Burgaw the program is Thursdays at 11 a.m. for ages 2-5 years old. s4ODDLER 4IME IS PLANNED for children age one and two, but all ages welcomed. The simple stories and songs plus music and movement make this special time for you and your toddler to enjoy. Visit the Hampstead library Wednesday AT A M s"OOK "ABIES IS PLANNED FOR ages birth to 23 months with simple stories and songs, plus bouncing and clapping themes to make this a special bonding for you and your baby. It’s never too early to help your child develop a love of books and reading. The program is in Burgaw each Friday at A M In addition to times for families to come in, other story times are scheduled to any child care centers who walk or bus the children to the library. Ask your childcare center to call us to discuss a time of their very own in the library. Beginning in the 1990s with Smart Start funding, the public library’s Early Literacy Outreach Program continues to loan large bags of children’s books to teachers at Head Start Centers, preschools, and child care centers throughout Pender County. Up to 50 classrooms of pre-K children enjoy story times shared by their teachers reading library books. The library relies mostly on cash donations and grants to maintain this busy collection of resources. by and I took a break from the yard work, and we talked about the lottery. They had bought some tickets, too, and asked, “What would you do?� The first time I answered the question it was an off the top of the head kind of answer. “I’d drive to the nearest Porsche dealer and get a 911Carrera (always a car of my dreams). I’d leave the door open and the lights on. With the ‘big one’ I would no doubt I would have ‘people’ who could come back and pack up the belongings and follow me to my new digs. I planned to figure the rest out on my way to the Porsche dealer. That was before the first drawing, the one in which I had won four dollars. Confident now, and us-
Obituaries
Nicholas “Nick� Ryan Dillon WILMINGTON -- Nicholas “Nick� Ryan Dillon, 34, of Wilmington, died unexpectedly in his home on January 6, 2016. Nick loved hunting, competition and recreational shooting, and volunteering at his son’s school. He is survived by his wife, Adrienne Anderson Dillon; son, Walker Phoenix Dillon; parents, Toi and Brian Pettus; brothers, Adam, Baron, Cade, Sam, and Jonah; sisters, Marissa, Erika, and Amberly; grandparents, Obbie and Mary Blanton, and Eugene and Loretta Pettus; many aunts, uncles, and cousins; and his beloved Great Danes, ing some thought, I ditched the idea of randomly generated numbers. Instead, I looked up the chart of winning numbers from previous drawings and wrote down the top ten winning numbers. I told Kathy about the wisdom of my strategy and she asked what number we would use for the power ball, and suggested that since we were coming up on our 17th anniversary, we should use that number, and I thought that was wise, and using the progression through 18, 19 and 20 indicated a level of commitment. We had read about the dire consequences that others, maybe less sophisticated, had run into in squandering their new wealth. We would provide for our immediate needs and put the rest away for the future. We were confident that we could be good stewards of our responsibility, and remain level headed and rational. The first inklings of that fallacy came on the way home from the store where we had bought the new chances. It’s those first two words, ‘immediate needs’ that opened Pandora’s box. I had only been partially joking about the Porsche. Now, we thought, we had better do some serious planning. We agreed on the 50/50 split as before, and the first action would be to get the
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Corenthia Wilson Corenthia Wilson passed away Jan. 16, 2016 at Lowe r C a p e Fe a r H o s p i c e, Wilmington. She is the wife of Jessie Lee Wilson, Sr. of the home; the mother of Jessie Lee Wilson, Jr. of Baltimore, Md., and Selena Smith(Kevin) of Burgaw; grandmother of Quavonte J. Wilson and Ashticket safely in a deposit safety box in the bank. Then we would take the advice given to winners to get an attorney to help plan what to do with the wealth. That was the sensible part. Then the ‘immediate needs’ took over and I, at least, planned for a few upgrades. My current car is 10 years old, so that was a no-brainer, a new SUV of some sort, with all the mod-cons required for someone driving himself to the country club. I once had a 25-year-old Cessna 172 airplane, the ‘Chevy’ of the sky. The plane upgrade morphed into a new Gulfstream G650, suitable enough to pick up the kids and grandkids for gettogethers, and range enough for junkets to Disneyland Tokyo. Oprah has a Bombardier Global Express XRS. It’s nice. My planning would include a trip to Raleigh to find an attorney, but this time, instead of driving, I would arrange for a charter jet to pick us up at ILM for the trip
ley M. Smith of Burgaw. The visitation for relatives and friends will be 6-8 p.m., Friday, Jan. 22, 2016 at Dunn Funeral Home. The funeral service will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 at New Pike Creek AME Church. Burial will be in the Pike Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. Sabrina Michelle Edge Williamson WATHA -- Sabrina Michelle Edge Williamson, 31, of Watha passed from her earthly life on Tuesday, Jan 12, 2016. She was born Aug. 5, 1984 in Wilmington, the daughter of John D. Edge and Cindy Kibbey. Sabrina is survived by her son, Isaiah Moore and his father, Christopher Moore; her mother, Cindy Lanier Kibbey and her husband, Linwood; father, John D. Edge and his wife, Rachel; sister, Shawna Edge McKeithan and her husband Cecil; step-sister, Bridgett Wolf; step-brothers, Mike Floyd and his wife Casey and Allen Kibbey and wife Betsey; maternal grandparents, Bill and Barbara Lanier; ten nephews and many extended family and friends. to RDU. Once in Raleigh, we could go online and look at real estate in California, in Carmel, maybe, or Sausalito. I found a nice property for $39 million, on a hilltop overlooking the bay. The night before the big drawing, I thought, “Maybe I ought to pack a few things.� Then I thought, “Nah, there’s a Nordstrom’s in Durham.� I would have won, I’m certain, but instead of following my faith in the Divine with a single ticket, greed overcame me and I padded my chances. If my faith in Divine Guidance had been stronger, I
She was baptized at College Acres Baptist Church and had made a profession of her faith in Jesus Christ. Sabrina was currently a member of Burgaw United Methodist Church. Sabrina loved her family in her own special way. She enjoyed the simplest things in life, but most important was family. She loved watching movies, music and being a mom. Her beautiful smile and sweet spirit will be remembered and greatly missed. A memorial service was held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016 at Burgaw United Methodist Church with The Rev. Ellen McCubbin officiating. The family received friends in the church fellowship hall following the service. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be given to Burgaw United Church, P.O. Box 26, Burgaw NC 28425 to assist with funeral and family expenses. Shared memories and condolences may be sent to the family at www.quinnmcgowen. com. The family was served by Quinn-McGowen Funeral Home and Cremation Center of Burgaw. would have felt secure with the one ticket. I’ll know better next time. I’m as susceptible to all the same fantasies as the everyone else, and smitten by the same reaction to common sense as the namer of the boat, “Never Again, II�.
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Hank, Barrett, and C.J. He is preceded in death by his brother, Shawn, aunt, Susan Johnson, and Larry Dillon. A memorial service to celebrate Nick’s life was held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, at Northside Baptist Church with Rev. Mike Morley officiating. Prior to the service at the church, the immediate family greeted friends from 1 p.m. until the service hour. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions, in Nick’s memory, be made into a trust fund, for Walker’s education, at any First Citizens Bank in the Wilmington area. Condolences to the family at www.andrewsmortuary. com. The family was served by Andrews Market Street Chapel.
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