Allen Memorial Baptist VBS June 19-23

Allen Memorial Baptist Church will hold Twists & Turns Vacation Bible School on Mon.,Jun. 19-Fri., Jun. 23, 5:45-8:30 PM. Ages

3-6th grade. The church is located at 1222 Longbranch Road , Grover, NC Church van transportation available. Send us a message on Facebook or email ambcgrover@ aol.com to be picked up. Signed permission slip required to ride.

Rolling Ribbon Cutting for downtown businesses to be held on June 21

By Loretta Cozart

Three downtown businesses will hold a Rolling Ribbon Cutting on Wednesday, June 21, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. On Q Financial – The Ingle

Team kicks off the event at 129 S. Battleground Avenue at 10:30 a.m., followed by Brittany Austin and Co Huitt Realty at 11 a.m. at 144 S. Battleground Ave. The final ribbing cutting will be at The Impe- rial Mercantile at 138 W. Mountain Street at 11:30 a.m.

The community is invited to celebrate with these new businesses and welcome them to the community.

Dine Around coming to a restaurant near you

The Neal Senior Center is looking to revive "Dine Around", a monthly event where participants eat, talk, laugh, and pray together.

Interested in tak- ing part? We will meet at "Kelly's Seafood" on Thursday, June 29th, at 4 p.m. It's "Dutch Treat" for everyone. So that a reservation can be made in advance, you must RSVP by contacting Neal Senior Center Program Director Daniel Dedmon at 704/481-7387 by Tuesday, June 27, at 3pm.

Loretta Cozart

ment Christina Martin, for procuring a $46,000 grant from North Carolina to place a library kiosk at Moss Lake. Martin said in an interview with the Herald, “Rick Duncan, our wonderful Moss Lake Director, gave us permission to put this kiosk on the permit office porch. It will hold up to 500 physical library items and dispense them like a vending machine. It will run off Wi-Fi and will also be a hotspot for library e-materials. A library card holder can just scan their card, select their item, and it will dispense to them,” she explained. There will also be a book return on site so people can return their borrowed items.

Martin hopes this will allow Moss Lake residents the ease of returning library materials, even those that may have been checked out at a physical library building, at this location. The hope is that an arrangement can be made to accept library materials from either Mauney Memorial Library or Cleveland County Library.

Father’s Day Pappy Van Winkle raffle supports high school athletes

The Brinkley Family Foundation is excited to offer a rare opportunity to purchase raffle tickets to support high school athletes with a Pappy For this Father’s Day raffle. There will be two separate raffles.

The raffles two raffles include:

• Pappy’s Six-Bottle Raffle - $250 per Ticket

• Father’s Day Bourbon Collection Raffle

- $100 per Ticket

The drawing for the winning ticket for the raffles begins at 9 a.m. on June 15, and all proceeds will go toward local youth athletics. We are only selling 400 tickets for the Pappy’s Seven Raffle and will only draw one winner for the entire collection.

For the Father’s Day Bourbon Collection, we will draw tickets for individual bottles (and some sets). So, this raffle will have over 20 winners!

Please note that anyone under the age of 21 cannot purchase tickets to be drawn for either of the raffles. Proof of age will be re- quired prior to shipping and/or pickup. Brinkley Family Foundation will verify the age of the winners prior to determining and communicating official results.

To support the foundation in this fundraising effort, visit: https://one.bidpal.net/ ncbourbonraffle/browse/all