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Staff report

The Robeson County Communities In Schools orga-nization collected 6,500 pieces of merchandise in the local “Build A Backpack” campaign.

Dencie Lambdin, the coun-ty’s CIS executive director, said that local shoppers donated between $9,000 and $10,000 in merchandise to students.

This is the second year the organization has partnered

with Walmart, and Lambdin praised the managers of the Pembroke and Lumberton stores for their cooperation.

She said Ponce Chavis, man-ager of the Pembroke Walmart, and John Hendren, manager of the Lumberton Walmart, started planning for the Build a Backpack campaign months before the in-store collections began.

In addition to supplies col-lected for students, Walmart

gave gift cards to school coun-selors to purchase supplies for students.

“We’re already making plans for year number three,” said Lambdin.

Communities In Schools of North Carolina, part of the leading dropout prevention network in the nation that is dedicated to empowering stu-dents to stay in school and achieve in life, works statewide with Walmart to collect school

supplies for economically-dis-advantaged students across the state.

In its second year, the cam-paign exhibited improvement over the pilot year in every measurable aspect. The value of donated items across the state, purchased by Walmart shop-pers, more than doubled from $162,850.71 to $356,931.08. Likewise, 1,345 volunteers helped with the distribution of supplies, compared to 584 last

year — a 130 percent improve-ment. Finally, 62,494 students in 889 schools and other sites were the recipients of these supplies, as compared to 37,378 students in 526 sites last year. Elementary, middle and high school students across North Carolina received these school supplies that are so essential for the start of the new school year.

‘Backpack’ campaign ends second year successfully

Road work

Arelene Sinclair photoWorkers prepare the road bed on Fourth Avenue for re-surfacing, a project that has had traffic lined up in every direction.

North Carolina’s sea-sonally adjusted unem-ployment rate decreased 0.1 of a percentage point in September to 9.6 percent, accord-ing to the North Carolina Department of Commerce.

The national rate declined 0.3 of a per-centage point to 7.8 per-cent. North Carolina’s September 2012 unem-ployment rate is 1.1 per-centage point lower than a year ago.

The number of peo-ple employed increased by 29,232 to 4,225,436 over the month, and by 61,656 over the year. The state unemployment

rate in September 2011 was 10.7 percent.

Seasonally adjusted total nonfarm industry employment, as gathered through the monthly establishment survey, increased by 100 to 3,953,000 in September.

The major industry with the largest over-the-month increase was pro-fessional and business services, which gained 6,000, followed by con-struction, adding 1,100 jobs.

Since Sep¬tember 2010, North Carolina has gained 79,300 nonfarm jobs.

NC jobless rate shows slight dipNonfarm jobs up over-the-year

A l o n g w i t h Southeastern Regional Medical Center’s new name, Southeastern Health, announced in August, comes a new tagline: Better Health-Starting with You.

As a way to jump start this path to better health in our communities, Southeastern will host two community meet-ings before the end of the year; one in Red Springs and one in Fairmont.

The goal of these events is to listen closely to the community and relay the vision and ideas

for improving health in our region to SRMC’s board of trustees during a stra-t e g i c planning meeting in early 2013.

“It is our hope t h a t energet-ic lead-ers who are concerned about the health of their commu-nities will attend these

Southeastern tohost local forum

The chancellor of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, responding to a national story about a military veteran being denied in-state tuition at the institution, said state law was followed and UNCP “prides itself on being a military-friendly institution.”

“Currently we serve more than 800 military personnel annually,” Kyle R. Carter said in the statement post-ed on UNCP’s website. “We strive to provide services tailored to their needs … .”

The statement follows an alle-gation from Army Sgt. Hayleigh Perez, 26, that the school unfair-ly denied her in-state tuition. She has started a petition on change.org titled “UNC Board of Governors: Stop Discriminating Against Student Veterans” that has received nearly 132,000 signatures and gained national attention after

Perez aired her grievance with the university on Fox News.

“I believe that the UNC System took advantage of my situ-ation and discriminated against me as a veteran to pocket $4,603.50; the dif-ference not covered by my Post 9/11 GI Bill,” the peti-tion reads.

According to the peti-tion, Perez and her hus-band, Jose, purchased a home in Raeford in 2006 after their tours in Iraq

ended. The couple relocated to Texas on military assignment in 2009, but continued to pay taxes on their North Carolina home. When Jose Perez was stationed at Fort Bragg in April, Perez, who had been honorably discharged, began applying to schools to attain a mas-ter’s degree.

According to the petition, Perez was accepted to UNCP and Fayetteville State University, both

branches of the UNC System, but while Fayetteville State determined she was an in-state resident, UNCP did not. Perez has said he will attend a private school, one she did not identify.

“… I cannot fully use the Post 9/11-GI Bill I earned from my four years of service at UNCP to pay for my tuition because the bill only covers in-state tuition,” the peti-tion reads. “I immediately appealed the ruling but was met with hostil-ity and aggression.”

“We are disappointed to read news reports of misleading state-ments attributed to Ms. Perez that tarnish UNC Pembroke’s excellent reputation and relationship with our military,” Carter said in the statement. “While I cannot speak to Ms. Perez’s case specifically, I assure the public her case was handled professionally, deliberately and objectively.”

Chancellor responds to vet’s story

Anderson

Carter

Staff report

Paul Loeb, author of “Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times,” will present three lectures at UNC Pembroke on October 31.

The public is welcome to hear Paul Loeb at 6:30 p.m., October 31, in the University Annex. It is free!

Part motivational speaker, part new age citizen-philos-opher and full-time optimist, Loeb’s book was the selected reading for first-year students in 2012.

“I’m so excited to have

the author of our common read appear on campus,” said First Year Program Director Beth Froeba. “Our advisory committee selected ‘Soul of a Citizen’ for Freshman Seminar, the course every first-year student takes.

“Paul Loeb’s mes-sage is that all of us have the ability to make a difference in our communities,” Froeba said.

Freshman Quicia Simmons just started read-ing the book and declared it

“good so far.”“We discussed it on the

(class) blog,” said Simmons, who is taking an online version of Freshman Seminar. “We compared it with the movie “‘Paying it Forward.’”

Froeba is also using it in her Freshman Seminar class to teach study skills. “I’ve asked my students to take notes on chapter

two to build their note-taking skills,” she said.

UNCP’s Office for

Community and Civic Engagement is sponsor for the three lectures beginning in University Center Annex at 11 a.m. for students, 3:30 p.m. for faculty and at 6:30 p.m. for the general public. The event is free and open to the public.

Loeb’s message resonates with college students and the issues that swirl around their generation. Loeb examines students’ concepts of social, political, and environmental responsibility, what matters in their lives, and how they view themselves in relation

to a larger human community.He challenges images

of a generation universally perceived as apathetic and greedy, and asks how stu-dents and citizens in general can gain the moral, political and intellectual tools to take responsibility for the future, and how faculty and profes-sional staff can help in this journey.

Loeb has traveled to hun-dreds of college campuses to talk with students about their beliefs and choices. The result was “Generation

Noted author, speaker to visit UNCP on Oct. 31

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25 Years AgoFall festivals were

planned at Flora Macdonald Academy and Peterson Elementary School.

The Red Springs Rescue Squad brought the Allen Brothers Big Top Circus to town to help raise money for the squad.

The Red Springs Chamber of Commerce announced that a “Meet the Candidates” evening would be held.

Police Chief Luther Haggins reported that the 911 emergency number was being used very little by residents.

Twelve bicycle riders raised more than $400 in a bike-a-thon for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Town residents mourn-ed the death of William W. “Bill” Lester. The 63-year-old was owner of the local Western Auto Store, and served as a member of the Red Springs Town Board of Commissioners at the time of his death.

The local Piggly Wiggly advertised fryers for 49

cents a pound, fryer leg quarters for 39 cents a pound, boneless chuck roast for $1.49 a pound and ScotTowels, three jumbo rolls for $1.49.

50 Years AgoA meeting was held

in the Red Springs High School auditorium to discuss a proposal for a junior college to be estab-lished by the Church of God of Anderson, Ind. The proposed school would have been a branch of Anderson College, a four-year college.

A crowd of more than 10,000 was expected for the annual Fall Festival Day in Red Springs. One tradition of note was the absence of any major law violations during the event.

Linda Ashford was crowned Miss Red Springs. She was selected from among 65 contes-tants. Julia Rose Skipper was first runner-up, and Lynn McDuffie was third runner-up in the contest.

Lalla Ann Watson was chosen as Red Springs High School’s homecom-ing queen.

Looking back

Bob ShilesHeartland Publications

Both candidates for governor of North Carolina say they do not support tolls as the best means of funding construction or mainte-nance of the state’s highway sys-tem, including on Interstate 95.

Republican Pat McCrory and Democrat Walter Dalton told The Robesonian last week that they oppose the findings of a state-commissioned study — the I-95 Corridor Planning and Finance Study — stating that tolls are the most feasible way to pay for $4.4 billion in improvements and the widening of North Carolina’s 182 miles of I-95. But neither candi-date offered any specific sugges-tion for how the state should fund its 10 percent, or $440 million, of the project.

“I do not support tolling I-95,” McCrory said in a statement. “To once and for all take the politics out of transportation infrastruc-ture funding, I will work as gover-nor to develop a long-term trans-portation and infrastructure plan for the state. We need to create a long-term strategy, which will send a clear signal to the business community of the state’s future investment in roads, railroads, bridges, ports, airports and other infrastructure.”

Ricky Diaz, McCrory’s press secretary, added that as mayor of Charlotte, McCrory helped create a 25-year transportation plan that is now in its 14th year of imple-mentation.

“It’s working,” Diaz said.Dalton’s stand on the issue of

tolling highways was conveyed through a statement by his press secretary, Ford Porter.

“The lieutenant governor has

repeatedly stressed that tolling existing roads should be a very last resort,” Porter said. “Rather, the next governor needs to work with North Carolina’s congres-sional delegation to ensure that our tax dollars return to the state. Presently we are a donor state for transportation money, send-ing more to Washington than we receive. The condition of I-95 will require attention, but we must ensure that local residents aren’t adversely impacted.”

Currently, North Carolina has just one road, an expressway that passes around Raleigh to the south, on which motorists must pay tolls. But five other toll projects, including I-95, are now reportedly under Department of Transportation development and likely to meet strong opposition.

Recently an economic analysis of tolling along North Carolina’s stretch of I-95 began. The study, ordered by the state DOT, will take six months to complete and is being conducted by Cambridge Systematics of Atlanta at a cost of about $1.6 million. Federal trans-portation funds are being used to pay for the study.

According to the DOT, the study will examine the positive and negative effects of adding lanes to the interstate and paying for them with tolls or existing funds. It will also examine the economic effect of not adding the lanes or making any significant improvements outside of what can be funded with existing funding sources.

“This study is in response to the people and businesses of North Carolina and their con-cerns voiced during the first stage of our study process,” Roberto Canales, a DOT project executive,

said in a statement. “We want to make the right decisions for the citizens of North Carolina as we move forward.”

The proposal for tolling I-95 is meeting extensive opposition from residents, businesses, pub-lic officials and others along the I-95 corridor who are concerned about the economic impact tolling would have on the region. Tolling, they contend, burdens commer-cial vehicles and travelers forced to divert to alternate roads to avoid tolls. Tolls would also have a drastic impact on the region’s tourism, opponents say.

According to a statement ear-lier this year from the Lumberton Tourism Development Authority, tourism is currently one of Robeson County’s largest employ-ers, providing 1,050 jobs. The authority also stated that in 2010 tourism contributed $116.42 mil-lion to the Robeson County econ-omy.

As outlined in the I-95 Corridor Planning and Finance Study, the first phase of improvements to the highway — a 61-mile stretch of the interstate from mile-marker 20 in Robeson County to mile-marker 81 at the U.S. 40/I-95 interchange in Johnston County — are to begin in 2016 and end sometime in 2019. This work would include widening 50 miles from marker 31 to 81 to eight lanes, with the remaining sections being widened to six lanes.

The study proposes two toll sites in Robeson County — at mile-marker 12 near U.S. 74, and between mile-markers 28 and 31 at St. Pauls. Overall there would be nine tolling sites along North Carolina’s section of I-95.

According to the study, if tolls are implemented, a motorist trav-

Interstate tolls not favored by gubernatorial candidates

State Treasurer Janet Cowell handed an unclaimed property check for more than $55,000 to a lucky North Carolina citizen last week at the State Fair.

NC Cash, the department’s unclaimed property program, has a booth at the fair where citizens can search a database of more than $340 million in property to see if they have money to claim.

Cowell made a special appearance at the booth to return unclaimed property to Raleigh elementary school teacher Jan Schnurr.

“I was so surprised and excited to find out about this,” Schnurr said. “I plan to use the money to save up for retirement and invest it so I can hopefully make more money with it.”

Another visitor to the booth found out Thursday that he has more than $117,000 in unclaimed cash. This pushes the total amount found for fairgoers to more than $300,000 since the fair began Oct. 11.

“The fair gives me the oppor-tunity for early holiday shop-

ping; I always enjoy getting North Carolina food products like honey and peanuts,” Cowell said. “Returning cash to its rightful owners just makes the experience even more fun.”

Unclaimed property consists of bank accounts, wages, util-ity deposits, stocks, bonds and other property types that have been abandoned due to a loss of communication or oversight. North Carolinians can also search for unclaimed property at www.nccash.com.

Treasurer returns unclaimed cash

“Blood Memories,” a new exhibit of works by Pembroke artists Tammy and Ricky Jones, opens Thursday, October 25, in the Museum of the Native American Resource Center.

The museum is located in Old Main on the cam-pus of UNC Pembroke. There will be an opening reception at 7 p.m. on Oct. 25. The public is invited and refreshments will be served.

Tammy and Ricky Jones are Tuscarora art-ists. Ricky sculpts and carves in the traditional manner in a media of natural materials that include soapstone, rock and wood.

Tammy is a mask maker who relies on the use of organic materials. She works with gourds pri-marily. Tammy enhances her work with additional media for implementing color designs, detailing

expressive features and applying other hand-craft-ed materials.

In addition, both Tammy and Ricky work within the traditional medium of wampum, a very detailed and time consuming craft. Beadwork and jewelry making with wampum developed out of quahog and conch shells require a high degree of skill, expert craftsmanship and traditional knowledge.

The Jones draw on their tribal history, tradi-tion and culture to create art as expressions of an indigenous world view. Their work is high qual-ity, reflects superb crafts-manship and interprets tribal culture and tradi-tions.

For information, please contact the Native American Resource Center at 910-521-6282 or e-mail [email protected].

‘Blood Memories’ exhibit to open in Old Main on Oct. 25

Contributed photoThis is one of the pieces in the art exhibit featuring the work of Tammy and Ricky Jones.

The police department will have a steak plate sale on Oct. 26 at the Red Springs Fire Department facility on Main Street. Plates are $15 each, and will be available from 8 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.

A limited number of walk-in orders will be

taken, and police ask that plates be purchased from members of the depart-ment before the day of the plate sale.

In addition to steak, plates will include baked potato, string beans, bread, cake and a bever-age.

Police plate sale is Friday

Arelene Sinclair photoThe Gospel Choir at Rhyne Memorial United Methodist Church celebrated its 32nd anniversary in a Sunday afternoon program. Choirs from area churches also participated in the program.

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If you expect to find a political col-umn this week, stop reading now.

If you expect to read a rant exco-riating one candidate and exalting

another, stop now.If you expect to find out which politi-

cal party I belong to, or whom I plan to vote for, you’re wasting your time. Stop now.

I simply plan to share some words from the Good Book which I believe speak to us as citizens, espe-cially if we’re a Christian or other believer in God; which mandate certain behaviors toward elected (and appointed) officials; and which I believe would make an enormous differ-ence in their beliefs and behaviors if we did what the words tell us to do.

The words are taken from Paul’s first letter to a young pastor-in-training, in 1 Timothy 2:2, basically the New King James Version with additions from the New Living Translation.

They are direct and clear: “Pray for kings and all who are in author-ity.” That includes all world leaders, I think, but certainly the President and Vice-President of the U.S., the gover-nor and lieutenant governor of North Carolina (and those who wish to take their places); the White House staff; the Cabinet; Supreme Court justices (and all other judges); Senators and Representatives at the national and state levels; all law enforcement from our Red Springs Police Department and Robeson County Sheriff ’s Department to the SBI, FBI, the Highway Patrol, Border Patrol, and Secret Service; all branches of the military; various kinds of “managers”; county and town com-missioners; pastors and deacons (or stewards or elders); and bosses, wheth-er corporate or personal (maybe even some spouses!). And it should include all parents and teachers, coaches, baby-sitters, etc.

What results from praying for such leaders, some, admittedly, seeming much more “deserving” of our time and caring than others?

Again, the answer is direct and simple: “…that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and rever-ence (“dignity”).”

What more could a free people, living in a land of freedom, desire? If you will

give some thought to what qualities would be encompassed within a “quiet and peaceable” life, the breadth of such prayer’s reach becomes breathtaking. And being able to live that way in a godly and reverent (orderly, respect-full) way is blessing piled upon bless-ing!

But why are we enjoined to pray thus? What is the ultimate motivating purpose behind such praying for such folks?

The next verse answers, still directly and simply: “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior….” God desires peace, stabil-ity, and well-being for the peoples of the world. (No, the letter to Timothy was not written just for Americans!)

And just why would God see such a state of

governance as optimal for all people? Verse four tells us that, too…directly and clearly: “[He] desires all men to be saved and come to the knowledge [“understanding”] of the truth.”

Can all of this — quiet and peaceful living in an atmosphere of godliness and reverence among a people saved and living in personal relationship to their Creator-Savior, in full knowledge and understanding of truth — pos-sibly be achieved, through prayer? Apparently God thinks so. At any rate, it is His Word that tells us to pray for all leaders so that life can be this way, because that is His will.

Last week’s column was about “Living our praying.” Let this week’s column serve a two-fold purpose: First, let it be a call to prayer for knowledge of God’s direction (if you’re a believer), or at least to sober thoughtfulness before you cast your vote.

Second, may it serve as a challenge to begin regularly, earnestly to “pray for…all who are in authority,” whether you voted or not, whether your choice won or not.

The Bible does not say to pray for those we like, those we voted for, or for those who look like, think like, or believe like us. It says to pray for all.

God only knows what our world and our country, state, county, or town would be like if we did, but I for one would love to find out.

Have a good week!

REFLECTIONS…On the upcoming elections…

By Linda Ammons

Reflections

I heard humorist Jack Handey say that you should never criticize someone until you walk a mile in his or her shoes. Then, when you do criticize them, “You are a mile away and have their shoes.”

That’s not bad advice, especially when it comes to telling others how to parent their children. If you want to kick over that notorious hornet’s nest, do it from miles away, or at least make sure those shoes on your feet are run-ning shoes.

While this is one of the quickest ways to get into serious trouble, this doesn’t stop the practice from being all the rage these days, how-ever.

Websites, blogs, reality shows, that crazy old blue-haired lady at the park, the priest who has never had the experience of being an actual father, your grouchy neigh-bor whose own children are now on Social Security themselves: Everyone has an opin-ion – and words of instruction – for what to do and not do with your children.

Personally, I don’t appreciate very much of this unsolicited counsel (I don’t know many who do). Yes, when we need advice we should seek it, and we should all bend listening ears to those people we genuinely trust and respect. But armchair parenting? No thanks.

That’s why I couldn’t believe that I became one of “those people,” one who stuck his big nose into someone else’s parental business. It happened so quickly, so impulsively, that I have gained a new understanding for those who sometimes rush in with uninvited guidance.

I was sitting at my son’s mid-week foot-ball practice, watching with a group of other parents when a mother stood to leave and called to her young lad: “It’s time to leave; we have to go to church.”

Her son, not more than five-years-old, had been busy playing with his friends. He was not happy with the interruption. He popped off, “No! I don’t want to go to church!”

His mother answered, “Well, then God will send you to hell with the devil and his angels if you don’t go to church.” And that

is where I stopped being an observer and became an interfering, meddlesome busy-body. “Don’t you ever say that to your child again!” I snapped, not realizing at the time how loud my voice had become.

For her part, the mother I chided looked as if she could have stuffed me and my little fold-up lounge chair into the trunk

of my car. I don’t blame her, for I had interfered at too close a distance and had embarrassed her publically. Yet, I just couldn’t let her comment pass, because it was horribly wrong.

My outburst arose from the fact that I had been subjected to just such religious threats as a child myself. Church was not always something warm and welcoming, a place of community, peace, and learning. It was often a hard place with legalistic pressure, spiritual

intimidation, and such high attendance requirements that I was never allowed to play in community sports programs as a child. My participation would prevent me from attending the midweek prayer meet-ings.

Church was a difficult place, I logically concluded, because God was difficult. I was resentful and distrustful of him; a God whom I actually believed was eager to send a child to “hell with the devil and his angels” for missing the occasional Sunday School class.

When you believe this about God, it’s hard to be enthusiastic about going to the building that bears his name.

Ironically, I have remained a church per-son my entire adult life, being in a pew or a pulpit most every Sunday. But I am no lon-ger part of a rigid, hostile, fear-mongering faith because I no longer believe in a rigid, hostile, fear-mongering God.

This doesn’t make me an enlightened expert sitting in my fold-up chair. I simply have learned that God is not one to be wary of or to be resented, because God is not a threat. The childhood prayer is correct: “God is good,” and he is good all the time.

- Ronnie McBrayer is a syndicated col-umnist, speaker, and author of multiple books.

God is good all the time

Keeping the faith

Ronnie McBryer

ALMETA SCOTTAlmeta Scott, 91, of

1847 N.C. 20 East, St. Pauls, died Oct. 18, 2012, at Southeastern Regional Medical Center.

The funeral was Sunday at Mount Zion Church of God, Elder Alexander Glover officiating. Burial will follow in Markham Memorial Gardens in Durham.

She is survived by two daughters, Melba J. Bateman of Montgomery, Ala., and Armilee McGeachy of St. Pauls; a brother, James Field; two sisters, Katherine Harper and Dollie M. Nixon; four stepgrandchildren; three grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

EDIBERTO VELASQUEZ

MORALESEdiberto Velasquez

Morales, 19, of St. Pauls, died Oct. 16, 2012.

The funeral was held at Pena De Horeb, Inglesia De Dios, 215 S. McGoogan Road, Pastor Jesus Gabino Morales officiating. Burial will be in Guatemala.

DAVID M. SHAW SRDavid M. Shaw Sr., 84,

of St. Pauls, died Oct. 16, 2012, at Southeastern Hospice House.

A graveside ser-vice was Friday at Rex Presbyterian Church Cemetery, the Rev. David Hudson officiating.

He is survived by his

wife, Sarah Shaw; two sons, David M. Shaw Jr. and Daniel O. Shaw; three daughters, Patricia G. Thaggard, Margaret Bullard and Mary F. Shaw; two sisters, Mary Neal Hughes and Laura McMillan; seven grand-children; and two great-grandchildren.

NANCY JACKSONNancy Elaine “Lady

Gravedigger” Jackson, 54, of Parkton, died Oct. 14, 2012, at her home.

She is survived by two sons, James E. Skelton and John C. Fulghum; three sisters, Delilah McDowell, Trigger de Lorge, Marcy Casky; a brother, Wade Fulghum; and a grandson.

Special dayset at church

A Family and Friends Day celebration will be Oct. 28 at Beaver Dam United Methodist Church, Laurel Hill.

The Gospel Choir from Rhyne Memorial United Methodist Church will sing in the afternoon celebration. Everyone is invited.

Ushers markanniversary

On Sunday, Nov. 11 the Adult and Junior Ushers of Mack’s Chapel AME Church will celebrate their Usher’s

Anniversary.Pastor Lisa Harris from Fayetteville,

will speak during the 3 p.m. program. Everyone is welcome. The Rev. Richard Smith is the church’s pastor.

Church willhonor members

The Rhyne Memorial United Methodist Church family will honor people who have faithfully served the church in the Nov. 25 morning worship service.

The church also invites the com-munity to Bible study each Wednesday evening at 6:30.

“We could not be more thrilled with the contin-ued success of the ‘Build A Backpack’ supply drive,” said CISNC Board Member Ronny Hayes, regional vice president of Walmart. “It is our hope that the success of this campaign here in North Carolina, with the invalu-able help of Communities In Schools to ensure that the neediest students be the recipients of the col-lected items, will serve as a model across the coun-try and amount to even greater accomplishment in the near future.”

The “Build A Backpack” campaign is considered the largest school supply drive con-ducted by Walmart in North Carolina, involv-ing 138 Walmart stores across 78 counties in the state.

The campaign, which launched July 23 and ran until August 31, 2012, encouraged Walmart shoppers to purchase and donate school supplies to low-resource children in their local commu-nities. Bins were avail-able at the front of each Walmart store to collect the donated items, which were distributed to part-ner organizations and then distributed to stu-dents in need.

“We are proud that results from this year’s campaign are even more impressive than last year because to us it means we’re reaching more stu-dents in need and fulfill-ing our mission in anoth-er important way,” said Linda Harrill, President and CEO of CISNC. “We greatly appreciate Walmart’s partnership

in making both years a success and we hope to strengthen the impact of ‘Build A Backpack’ in North Carolina in years to come.”

“Thanks to CIS and Walmart, thousands of children across North Carolina were ready to start and succeed in school this year,” said CISNC Board Member Jill Cox, Vice President of Government Relations of the United Way of North Carolina. “‘Build A Backpack’ has been a wonderful partnership and is a great example of the impact that can be made when corporations and nonprofits come together for the greater good.”

Next year, “Build A Backpack” will carry on for its third year, begin-ning again in July.

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The next unemploy-ment update is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 2, when the county unemploy-ment rates for September 2012 will be released.

At 9.6 percent, North Carolina’s September unemployment rate is 1.8 percentage points higher than the United States’ 7.8 percent rate.

The number of people unemployed decreased 0.8 percent to 448,332.

Preliminary average hourly earnings in North Carolina for manufactur-

ing production workers increased by 31 cents in September to $16.65, while average weekly hours added 12 minutes to 41.1. Average weekly earnings rose $16.01 from $668.31 to $684.32.

North Carolina paid $218.2 million in Unemployment Insurance benefits to claimants in September. These payments include state and federally fund-ed benefits.

The number of initial claims filed in North

Carolina for benefits decreased in September to 42,362. Approximately $100.4 million was paid in regular benefi ts to 95,998 unemployed per-sons across the state. The average weekly benefit amount was $292.05, which does not include the $25 Federal Additional Compensation payment from The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The most recent job-less rate for Robeson County was 13.6 percent

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It’s strange, isn’t it, the turns that life takes.

Fifty years ago I was scared to death because I thought the end of the world was just around the corner. Later, I discovered that the thing we called the Cuban Missile Crisis was even closer than my 12-year-old mind imag-ined.

Cuba’s Fidel Castro allied himself and his island with the Soviet Union, and along the way some nuclear mis-siles found their way to the Caribbean island. Of course, the missiles’ pres-ence was denied, but sur-veillance flights revealed the truth, and the Cold War heated up.

I don’t recall being a great geography student, but it was obvious that Cuba was uncomfortably close to those of us liv-ing in South Georgia. My thought was that missiles fired from Cuba would go in steps, starting clos-est to Cuba and moving across the United States.

At school, we watched Civil Defense films – a lot of them – and my eyes drank in every single mushroom cloud ever captured on black and white film. The explosion was devastat-ing, and what it did not take down, the implosion swept up.

In every film there was the same two-story build-ing that took a hit from the blast, and then it was vacuumed up by the implosion.

We had drills at school. Sometimes we got under our desks, and other times we sat down in the hall with our backs against the wall.

Our backs were truly against the wall, and

Nikita Krushchev and those terrible Russians were the ones who made it so.

Fear interrupted boy-hood with every Civil Defense film, school drill, air raid siren test and soldiers who direct-ed never-ending military convoys through our town.

Through it all, my hatred grew for all things Russian, and Nikita Krushchev was evil per-sonified. Who knows what was on his mind? I knew what was on my mind, and I fully believed the devil had stepped out of you-know-where, put on a suit and called him-self Nikita Krushchev.

It was the first time, I believe, I heard “hell” spoken on television. One afternoon, my mother and I watched a live broadcast from the United Nations in which our ambassador, Adlai Stephenson, questioned the Soviet ambassador.

Of course that awful Russian denied the charge, but Stephenson pursued the issue and said: “You are in the courtroom of world opinion right now, and you can answer yes or no. You have denied that they exist, and I want to know whether I have understood you correctly. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over, if that’s your decision. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room.”

Stephenson actually did produce aerial photo-graphs showing the pres-ence of missiles in Cuba.

Civil Defense meetings were held, and people talked about how they might survive a nuclear exchange with the evil enemy. I was not allowed

to go to the meetings, but my parents told me about one meeting in which Florence Byrd brought a little humor to the situation.

Recently widowed and financially struggling,

Florence had taken a job that required a more reliable car. She traded in the old car on a

shiny new Plymouth, and I am sure the car payments must have stretched the budget. In the Civil Defense meet-ing, a speaker suggested that people could dig a hole, put their family in the hole, then drive the family car over the hole. Florence said if she had time to dig a hole, she would dig one big enough to include her car.

It was on October 28, 1962 that the missile crisis finally came to an end.

My memory of the Cuban Missile Crisis, on the other hand, did not end.

Four years later, we lived in a different town and I was in high school. There was a new Spanish teacher, and he was from Cuba. It was one of those pecu-liar life turns because I had seen Cubans as partners in crime with the Soviet Union. Mr. Alvarez became one of those special teachers in my life. He had no need for missiles. He and his family just wanted a life, and that was why they slipped out of Cuba to come to the United States.

Later, well into adult-hood, I sat across the table from two men from Russia who were visiting this country as participants an exchange

program. Someone said they had just come from a visit to the local Walmart, and it had been a Disneyland experience for the Russians.

I looked across the table and thought, “If you guys had been busy building Walmarts instead of missiles, you wouldn’t have to come here to figure out how to have a better life.” It was, admittedly, a nasty thought. The only con-cern these people had with missiles would be if they were on the receiv-ing end. It was another little turn in life.

Last Christmas, two children sat in the middle of my living room floor. The little girl and her brother unwrapped gifts and spoke to each other in – you guessed it – Russian. Far removed from the Ukrainian orphanage they called home, these children acted just like the rest of us. No one, and I mean no one, knew that I silently spoke to God about how He let me live long enough to really deal with feelings I had carried almost half a cen-tury. I was ashamed, and at the same time I felt relieved of a burden I had carried for so long.

He was not done, though. In August, my oldest daughter and her husband adopted those two children, and now we have two more grand-children. That was more than a little turn, I would say.

This Sunday will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the missile cri-sis. There are no plans to commemorate the event, but I will thank God again for His sovereignty through all the twists and turns that life makes.

Looking back to the Cuban Missile Crisis

Ed Wilcox Editor

All over North Carolina, people are still griev-ing the loss of

UNC President Emeritus William Friday.

At the same time they are enjoying sharing memories of how Friday touched them.

I want to be a part of the storytelling by shar-ing a few things I remember about visiting him in his office about three years ago to see if a heart incident and follow-up surgery had slowed him down.

“He’s slowed down a little bit, but not much,” his long-time assistant Virginia Taylor told me then. “He’s in the office two or three days a week, at least, for telephone calls, meetings and correspon-dence — and preparing for his television show. And he still goes places for events and to see people.”

Every week for more than 40 years, Friday interviewed important North Carolinians on UNC-TV’s “North Carolina People,” even recording a program this summer just a few weeks before he died. Recently he recorded most of his television near his office on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, but missed trav-eling to the far reaches of the state where he did some of his best inter-views.

During my earlier visit, which was shortly before his 90th birthday, Friday told me his rou-tine for regaining and maintaining his good health.

“Stay active — and exercise,” he said, and then told me about his twice-a-week workout. “For one solid hour I lift weights, exercise my legs, arms, chest, and biceps. I have even seen muscles growing, which is a terrifying thought at 89 years of age.”

He kept to that rou-tine into his 90s.

Friday and his wife, Ida, were also regular walkers. One neighbor said the “way they care for each other is heart-warming.”

At his office, Friday spent a lot of time on the telephone, Taylor told me when I made the earlier visit.

“He really knows how to work the phones,” she said.

Friday’s calls often went to people who shared his concern for the future of North Carolina and the health

of all 17 UNC campuses. He projected optimism even as he said, “There is so much more to do or we will fall behind.”

To the end, Friday continued to enjoy the university community, where he and Ida lived when he entered the UNC School of Law after serving in World

War II. They never left.

Until recently, most every Saturday, you could find the Fridays shop-ping at the local farmers market. I remember that he had told me, “If you’ve gone through the medical routines

that I have been, you understand one thing: the fresh food is the best food. That’s why I work so hard to go and get tomatoes and beans and corn and all that.”

Friday was proud of his three daughters. Fran, a nurse, is the mother of the Fridays’ two grandchildren. Mary, a successful businesswoman, lives in Singapore. Betsy, a talented Broadway per-former and producer, died in 2002.

Friday was buried next to Betsy in the fam-ily plot in the old Chapel Hill Cemetery, where Friday visited regularly to tend to her gravesite, with its green lawn and growing flowers that make it one of the loveli-est places in Chapel Hill.

Close to his desk is a framed quote from 1st Corinthians, Chapter 13.

Love is patient, and kind;

Love is not jealous or boastful;

It is not arrogant or rude.

Love does not insist on its own way;

It is not irritable or resentful; It does not rejoice at wrong,

But rejoices in the right.

Love bears all things, believes all things,

Hopes all things, endures all things.

“It was Betsy’s,” Taylor told me a few years ago. “He reads it every day. It is what he lives by, every day, too.”

I bet Mr. Friday would recommend that passage for daily reading by each of us.

- D.G. Martin hosts “North Carolina Bookwatch,” which airs Fridays at 9:30 p.m. and Sundays at 5 p.m. on UNC-TV. This week’s (October 26, 28) guest is Walter Bennett, author of “Leaving Tuscaloosa.”

Still grieving, remembering

One-on-one

D.G. Martin

Are you ordering far fewer checks for your bank account these days? Does a roll of postage stamps seem to last a lot longer?

Like most people, you’re probably perform-ing many more financial transactions electroni-cally, either by choice or because companies and government agencies have increasingly made it all but mandatory.

For example, most gyms require automatic deductions from a check-ing or credit card account. Utilities, mortgage lend-ers, insurance compa-nies and others strongly encourage electronic pay-ments. And many states now distribute benefits like unemployment, child support and disability

assistance using prepaid cards instead of paper checks.

Electronic transactions have caught on because:

- They’re cheap-er. Businesses save on the costs of printing, process-ing and mailing millions of paper checks and state-ments; and with first-class postage costing 45 cents, customers rack up savings over time. And they save mil-lions of tons of paper.

- They’re faster. Bill pay-ments, funds transfers and direct deposits to your bank account or prepaid card occur the same day (often instantly), versus being delayed in the mail.

And, if you sometimes for-get to mail payments on time, auto payment pro-tects against late fees and overdraft charges.

- They’re con-venient. You can choose one-time bill pay, where you first review your bill and then authorize pay-ment; or recurring bill pay, where your bills are paid auto-matically at a sched-uled time – for either for the full amount (usually mandatory with utilities), the

minimum payment due, or an amount you choose. You can usually have funds drawn from either your checking or credit card account (be sure to ask).

- They’re safer. Even in these high-tech times,

old-fashioned mail theft remains a major problem. For example, in 2010 more than 540,000 mailed fed-eral benefit checks were reported lost or stolen and had to be replaced.

That doesn’t mean elec-tronic transactions are risk-free. As with email or any kind of online activity, you should take precau-tions to protect your com-puter (and cell phone) from being hacked. For example:

Make sure your anti-virus and anti-spyware software is up-to-date.

When making online payments, look for safety symbols like a padlock icon in the browser’s sta-tus bar, an “s” after “http” in the URL, or the words “Secure Sockets Layer” (SSL).

The ins and outs of ePayments

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Church Directory

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These local businesses encourage you to attend

the church of your choice.

Jones Chapel Missionary Baptist

Location: 307 Phillips Ave. Pastor: Rev. Chris Edmonds. Church: 843-2067.

SUNDAY: Sunday School 9:45 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m.

Center Grove Missionary Baptist

Location: 511 Center Grove Ch. Rd. Pastor: Dr. Samuel Norman, Sr. Church office: 843-3050.

EACH SUNDAY: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. 1st, 3rd, & 5th SUNDAY: Worship 11 a.m. ON 2nd & 4th SUNDAYS: Worship 8:30 a.m.

First Baptist Church

Location: 701 E. Fourth Avenue, Red Springs. SUNDAY - Coffee Fellowship 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School 9:45 a.m.; Morning Worship and Mission Friends 11 a.m.;Youth Group 5:30; and Sweet Hour of Prayer 5:00 p.m.

Mack’s Chapel AME Church

Location: 1574 Daniel McLeod Rd. Pastor: Rev. Richard Smith. Church: 843-1411.

SUNDAYS: Church School 9:45 a.m. 1st, 2nd, 4th, & 5th SUNDAY: Worship 11 a.m.

New HarvestLocation: 12816 Hwy.

211 South. Pastor: Rev. Bob Schmidt. Church: 843-8475

SUNDAY: Sunday School 10 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m.; Evening Worship 6 p.m.

Trinity MethodistLocation: 204 E.

3rd Ave. Pastor: Rev. Mary Frances McClure Church: 843-4011, [email protected]

SUNDAY: Fellowship Time 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School 10:00 a.m.; Worship 11:00 a.m.

Ark of Safety Revival

Location: 11 Maness Street. Pastor: Carlton

C. Richardson, Sr.SUNDAY: Sunday

School, Church Service 10 am; Church Service 11:15am

The Jesus Loves You C.O.M. Church,

Inc.Location: 308

Hubert McLean Ave. Pastor: Dr. Rosa Galbreath. Church: 843-5588 or 843-5703.

S U N D A Y : Intercessory prayer 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School 10 a.m.; Worship 11:30; Youth Hour 6 p.m

First Missionary Baptist

Location: 208 Daniel McLeod Road. Pastor: Rev. J. A. Simpson. Information: 843-5177.

SUNDAY: Early Morning Worship 8 a.m.; Sunday School 9:45; Worship 11 a.m.

Red Springs Presbyterian

Location: 115 N. Vance St. Pastor: Rev. Michael L. McGehee. Church: 843-4388;

E-mail: [email protected].


Antioch Presbyterian

Location: (Hwy. 211 N.). Pastor: Dr. David Hudson. Church: 843-4398.

SUNDAY: Sunday School 10 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m.

Mt. Zion UMCLocation: 5157

Mt. Zion Ch. Rd. (2 miles down on right after turning right off Hwy. 71 South toward Maxton).

Pastor: Rev. Shawn Mitchell Church: 843-2931.


RS Pentecostal Holiness

Location: 945 W. 3rd Ave. (Maxton Hwy. 71 S) Pastor: Clifton D. Jarvis. Church: 910-471-1111

SUNDAY: Sunday School 10 a.m.;

Worship 11 a.m.; Wednesday night ser-vice 7 p.m.

Westside Baptist Church

Location: 527 N. Vance Street. Pastor: Randy Locklear

Church: 843-6822.SUNDAY: Sunday

School 9:45 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m.; Evening Worship 6 p.m.

Rhyne Memorial UMC

Location: 405 W. 4th Ave. Pastor: Rev. Vermel H. Taylor: 843-3791 or 843-2752.

SUNDAY: Sunday School 9:45 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m.; Prayer Meeting 6 pm; Bible Study 7 pm.

St. Joseph Miracle

Revival CenterLocation: Sixth

Avenue and Daniel McLeod Rd. Pastor: Apostle Anthony Buie. Church: 843-2681.

SUNDAYS: Sunday School 9 a.m.; Morning Worship 10 a.m.

St. James AME Zion Church

Location: 116 W. Brown St. PO Box 709 Pastor: Rev. Tim McKoy. Church: 843-3089; Home 875-4490.

SUNDAY: Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m.; Children’s Church every 2nd & 4th Sunday 10:45.

First Free Will Baptist

Location: 4650 Daniel McLeod Rd. Pastor: Elder Frederick Wilson. Church: 843-3734.

SUNDAY: Sunday School 9:45 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m.; 5th Sundays 8 a.m.

Panthersford Presbyterian

ChurchLocation: Hwy.

211 West (toward Lumberton). Pastor: Clarence Page. SUNDAY: Church Service 1st and 3rd Sunday 9 a.m., Sunday school 10:45 a.m.; 2nd and 4th Sunday 11 a.m., Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

The Red Springs Citizen www.redspringscitizen.com Wednesday, October 24, 2012 —

Eph 5:8-10For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light

in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

events so that we may fully under-stand the current health status of the communities we serve,” said SRMC President/CEO Joann Anderson. “They are encouraged to bring forth ideas that will begin to move individu-als and communities to better health.”

The first community meeting will be held Tuesday, Oct. 30 at Providence Place located at 702 E. Third Avenue in Red Springs.

The second is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 13 at the Fairmont-South Robeson Heritage Center located at 207 South Main Street in Fairmont.

Both events will offer refreshments and networking opportunities begin-ning at 6:30 p.m.; the feedback portion of the meeting will begin at 7 p.m. and end at 8:30 p.m.

Each event will include small group discussions on local health issues as well as a larger group discussion on the impact of health in each communi-ty and a review of barriers and unique strengths related to improving health.

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According to Fox News, the appeal process required Perez to appear before a 15-mem-ber panel at UNCP. She told the news network that she learned the denial “was based on the fact she had not paid income tax in North Carolina in the years she was in Iraq and Texas.”

While he acknowledged in the statement that Fayetteville State University accepted Perez as an in-state resident, Carter stood behind the final decision of the committee.

“… UNC Pembroke is required to evaluate residency petitions using a prescribed state process,” Carter said in the statement. “The UNCP Residency Appeals Committee compares information pro-vided by the student against North Carolina residency statutes. UNC Pembroke fol-lowed those procedures and,

as reported in the press, deter-mined Ms. Perez to be a non-resident.”

Perez told Fox News that she, with the help of the Students Veterans Advocacy group, a national nonprofit, plans to sue both the school and the federal government if the decision “is not reversed.”

“We need and deserve the Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits we have rightfully earned through blood, sweat, and often tears,” the petition reads.

“Ms. Perez’s case has become an emotional issue for those who care about our military personnel,” Carter said in the statement. “UNC Pembroke cares, too. I fully understand the emotion, but ask for your understanding; UNC Pembroke must follow state statutes in determining residency.”

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Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus” (1994).

The author then looked at how citizens in general can learn to get involved in their com-munities and keep on being involved through the course of a lifetime, resulting in his acclaimed, “Soul of a Citizen” (1999).

His newest book on political hope, “The Impossible will take a Little While,” which was named a top three political book of fall 2004 by the History Channel and the American Book Association. It won the Nautilus Award for best social change book of the year.

More information on Loeb may be found at www.paulloeb.org. For more information on the Paul Loeb lecture, contact the CCE office at 910.521.6163 or email [email protected].

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Re-Elect

JUDGE JUDITH MILSAP

DANIELSPaid for by the Committee to Re-elect Judge Judith Milsap Daniels

Rated 4.03 on 5 point scale in N.C. Bar Association’s Judicial Performance Evaluation SurveyROBESON COUNTY’S ONLY FEMALE JUDGE

I am a graduate of Wake Forest University and

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I ask for your vote and suupport.

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Arelene Sinclair photoPrimary Health Choice at 227 E. Fourth Ave. held a grand re-opening event last week. The event featured bounce houses, food and music. Open since 2003, the business offers services to families and communities. Among the people attending the event were police, court counselors, social workers, and town and county officials.

Fun day

Brad CrawfordHeartland Publications

Never underestimate a capa-ble opponent.

Red Springs coach George Coltharp warned his players throughout the week prior to Friday’s game against South Robeson that overlooking the Mustangs could prematurely squash the program’s hopes of a Three Rivers Conference championship.

Apparently, they listened.After sputtering for the bet-

ter half of two quarters, the Red Devils turned a tight con-test into a rout after intermis-sion, downing South Robeson, 53-13, for their fourth consecu-tive victory.

A win next week at West Columbus wraps up the school’s first league title out-right since 2004.

“This is for the Class of 2013 and we want to get it done,” said Zach Leach, one of 15 Red Springs seniors honored before kickoff. “We win as a team, but our seniors have really carried

us.”Red Springs (7-3, 4-0) had

three turnovers, was penal-ized nine times and had three touchdowns called back in the first half before erupting for 22 points in a pass-happy third quarter that put away South Robeson, which came in fresh off its first conference victory in three seasons.

Blake Greene tossed three of his six touchdown passes during the frame including a 76-yarder on a slant at the 4:07 mark.

“It was one of my short-est halftime speeches ever,” Coltharp said. “I told the guys to go fix it and they said ‘OK’.”

Coming into Friday’s game, Greene ranked in the state’s top 5 for quarterbacks in sever-al statistical categories, includ-ing yards (2,389) and touch-down passes (30). Against the Mustangs, he finished 20-of-33 for 372 yards passing. He added 160 yards and a touch-down on the ground.

Greene set up the Red Devils’ touchdown on their opening

drive with a 58-yard scamper and later added a 75-yard burst on a scoring drive in the sec-ond half. Leach, Greene’s go-to target on third down, added to his county-leading touchdown total for receivers with three scores and 113 yards on eight catches.

“They do what they do really well,” South Robeson coach Stephen Roberson said. “We didn’t tackle well in the second half. They’re a good team that puts a lot of pressure on you. They know how to execute.”

South Robeson (3-6, 1-3) got on the board in the sec-ond quarter on a beauti-fully executed halfback pass from Deshawn Hamilton to Shaunqell Thompson. On third-and-long, Hamilton found Thompson streaking down the left sideline for a 46-yard touchdown that cut a 12-point deficit in half.

Thompson added a sec-ond touchdown catch in the third quarter, but the game was quickly out of reach soon thereafter. The Mustangs mus-

tered just 41 yards after inter-mission and struggled at the line of scrimmage against Red Springs’ physical defensive line.

“Obviously, the storyline is always the offense, but our defense is pretty darn good,” Coltharp said. “When I hired Coach (Ron) Cook as the defensive coordinator in the spring, I told him we were going to put him in a bad posi-tion and not take a lot of time off the clock.

“I wanted an attacking style defense. He’s came in and real-ly been a great addition for us.”

Last week’s star, C.J. McGeachey, contributed two more touchdown receptions and picked off a pair of passes on defense. Red Springs held the Mustangs to one touch-down in five trips to the red zone and forced six turnovers leading to 34 points.

South Robeson kept a six-play, 30-yard drive alive late in the second quarter on a nifty direct snap fake punt by Jay Couser, but the drive stalled

inside the Red Devil 20.Red Springs played with-

out starting tailback Jedarian Lesane who sat out with a concussion and JuJu Brown, the squad’s two-time all-county wideout who is out for the sea-son with a knee injury. Lesane’s status for next week’s regular-season finale is uncertain.

Despite not having their top weapon in the zone read rush-ing attack, the game plan didn’t change according to Coltharp. Brandon Smith carried it five times for 60 yards as the next guy in line.

“Our plan is to always throw screens until they get tired and then run the ball when we can,” he said. “There’s no sense in running into nine peo-ple when we don’t have to and South Robeson did a good job of stacking the box. They did a good job in the first half of kind of confusing us and giving us different looks.

Reach staff writer Brad Crawford at 910-272-6119 or at [email protected].

Red Devils rout Mustangs, 53-13

The switch to Common Core State Standards has brought about a paradigm shift to teaching and learn-ing across the United States. At this time, 45 states have adopted the Common Core State Standards for math, meaning that teachers in Hawaii will teach the same lessons as teach-ers in North Carolina.

Proponents of this national curriculum believe that Common Core State Standards for math will be benefi-cial to our students and our nation.

They believe it will help level the playing field for all students; therefore, students’ zip codes will not deter-mine the type of edu-cation they receive. Secondly, students who move from state to state will not have to worry that they missed part of the curricu-lum. Next, supporters believe that education must be revamped to better prepare students to be productive 21st century global learners.

Supporters believe that we must equip our students to be able to compete in a global society. A national cur-riculum will also allow for collaboration across state lines — informa-tion can be posted via the Internet that teach-ers will be able to use in their classrooms.

The Common Core State Standards for math consist of two sets of standards: content standards, which focus on the mathematics — the content we expect our students to know and be able to apply — and mathematical practices, which devel-op processes and pro-ficiencies that will help our students to become problem-solvers.

Teachers will have to re-evaluate how math

has been taught and how students under-stand it. In the past, the emphasis in class-room was on proce-dures. In many cases, students were assigned several problems for homework. The shift to Common Core State Standards will allow for more collaboration in a student-centered classroom. Students will discover the mathematics through project-based learning activities.

Students in third through eighth grade, and those in Common Core Math 1 or Integrated Math 1, will participate in the North Carolina’s standardized testing process. There are a few changes.

One of the changes in the math testing is that all math tests will consist of a portion where calculators can-not be used. Secondly, the questions will be more in-depth. Next, re-testing will not be allowed. Lastly, by the 2014-2015 school year, all of North Carolina’s standardized tests will be online and they will be administered through the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

Granted, there are many changes that are occurring in the state and the nation, but the goal is that these changes will help all students thrive in an ever-changing global economy. The Public Schools of Robeson County began provid-ing professional devel-opment for teachers and we will continue to offer professional development and guid-ance.

- Johnny Hunt is the superintendent of the Public Schools of Robeson County.

Schools equip students for global society

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The Carolina Civic Center is asking the public to submit photos to be used as backdrop images for its upcoming “A Robeson County Christmas” music revue.

Specifically, images are sought of snowy weather in Robeson County from the past. Snow images do not have to be from Christmas but certainly can be.

Please send all images to [email protected] or call 910-738-4339, ext. 102 for information.

“A Robeson County Christmas” will be staged at the Carolina Civic

Center Historic Theater on Dec. 7, 8, 14 and 15.

It is a heart-warming, holi-day musical revue for the entire family. Created and directed by Kendrix Singletary, the the-ater’s resident artist, “Robeson County Christmas” features the best regional singers and dancers performing popular and spiritual Christmas songs with beautiful lighting effects and a special, new set.

Tickets are $15 or $10 with the advance purchase of ten or more

as a group. It’s perfect for churches and other organizations - or just a group of friends.

Tickets can be purchased in-person or by telephone with credit card or cash 1-5 p.m., Monday through Friday, through the the-ater’s administrative offices in the theater’s second floor (enter on Fourth Street side), or by calling the Civic Center at 738-4339.

Tickets can also be purchased at the door. The theater lobby box office opens for ticket sales one hour prior to performance.

Civic Center seeks photos for Christmas production

The Red Springs and Northern Railroad and the Village Station Restaurant in Lumberton will offer the “Fright Train” on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26 and 27.

This is the fifth year for this train ride through haunted woods and past a swamp with surprises and terror around every corner.

It is a unique experience fea-turing actors of Flying Angels Entertainment in scenes of hor-ror along the railroad.

Railcars are open, putting rid-ers near the action. Each year offers new scenes and new mon-sters, and includes a frightening appearance from the headless horseman. Parental discretion is advised.

The railcar train will leave the Parkton Depot every 30 min-utes beginning at 7 each night of the ride, with the last ride leaving at 11.

Fright Train tickets are $6 for children ages 2 through 12 and $8 for adults ages 13 and up.

Children under two are free. Tickets will go on sale each day of the ride at 4 p.m. at the Parkton Depot.

There will also be a vari-ety of food and entertainment available including hot dogs, hamburgers, collard sandwich-es, popcorn, continuous run-ning classic horror movies, live music by the Parkton Music Company, a strolling fortune teller and much more.

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Health BriefsAssociAtedPress

CLUES ACROSS

1. Syrian president

6. Grand Caravan brand

11. Immeasurably small

14. Myriagram

15. Yellow-fever mosquito

16. Radioactivity unit

18. Anklebone

21. Adobe house

23. Direct to a source

25. Piper __, actress

26. Leuciscus leuciscus

28. Moral excellences

29. Describes distinct concepts

31. Rubberized raincoat

34. Inhabitants of the Earth

35. Distress signal

36. Destroyed by secret means

39. Skin abrasions

40. Caesar or tossed

44. Supplied with a chapeaux

45. Fictional elephant

47. Forced open

48. Pole (Scottish)

50. Browning of the skin

51. Boy Scout merit emblem

56. British thermal unit

57. Decomposes naturally

62. Freshet

63. Lawn game

CLUES DOWN

1. Fished in a stream

2. Left heart there

3. Yes in Spanish

4. Nursing organization

5. Cease to live

6. River in NE Scotland

7. Former CIA

8. Didymium

9. Gram

10. Audio membranes

11. 8th Jewish month

12. Touchdown

13. Madames

14. Metric ton

17. Fabric colorants

19. Capital of Bashkortostan

20. Extra dry wine

21. An Indian dress

22. Expenditure

24. Ribbed or corded fabric

25. Can top

27. So. African Music Awards

28. Weather directionals

30. A scrap of cloth

31. Gin & vermouth cocktails

32. A way to lessen

33. Contended with difficulties

36. Egyptian beetle

37. CNN’s Turner

38. A quick light pat

39. Shipment, abbr.

41. Resin-like insect secretion

42. Goat and camel hair fabric

43. Superficially play at

46. Network of veins or nerves

49. Atomic #44

51. Wager

52. The time something has existed

53. Physician’s moniker

54. Talk excessively

55. Pre-Tokyo

58. Out of print

59. Ducktail hairstyle

60. Carrier’s invention

61. Canadian province

Crossword Challenge

Arelene Sinclair photoChief Ronnie Patterson and Red Springs Police Department officers delivered Halloween bags Monday morning to children at Peterson Elementary School, Head Start and Flora Macdonald Academy. The bags glow in the dark. Here, FMA students show off the bags that police gave to them.

Special delivery

Cleanup

Arelene SinclairA town electric utilities department employee trimmed trees along Main Street.

Supportgroup

Persons who are blind or visually impaired and their family members are invited to join a sup-port group which meets the second Thursday of each month at 10 a.m. in Community Classroom I on the main campus of Southeastern Regional Medical Center.

The featured speaker for the Nov. 8 meeting will be the Robeson County Social Worker for the Blind. For information, call Victor Alford at 739-2799 or Ethel Bullard at 738-8012.

Walk-influ shots

Southeastern Urgent Care Lumberton offers flu shot clinics Monday through Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 2 to 6 p.m.

The Dr. A.J. Robinson Medical Clinic will offer flu shot clinics on Tuesdays through Nov. 13, from 5 to 7 p.m. No appointment is necessary.

The cost of the vaccine is $20. Insurance will be filed for individuals who present their private insurance or Medicare/Medicaid card.

Southeastern Urgent Care Lumberton is located in the Southeastern Heath Mall on the campus of Biggs Park Mall. For information, call 910-272-1175.

The Dr. A.J. Robinson Medical Clinic is locat-ed at 800 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Lumberton. For information, call 910-738-3957.

SRMC Mobileschedule

Southeastern Mobile Medical, a service of Southeastern Regional Medical Center which is supported by the Golden LEAF Foundation, will be stationed at the following locations at the dates listed.

Family Nurse Practitioner Nantachie Chavis is the lead medical provider for the mobile unit, which offers primary care and preventative care services including disease management, vaccina-tions, routine checkups, treatment for acute and episodic illnesses and injuries, wellness exams, and laboratory analysis.

The mobile unit operates from 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m., unless otherwise noted. While cash is not accepted due to security reasons, patients may present insurance information (private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid), money orders or personal checks. Appointments are not required but may be scheduled by calling 910-674-6144.

The schedule is:Oct. 29 & 30 - Mill Branch Baptist Church,

Fairmont.Oct. 31 - Floyd’s Temple Number One,

Lumberton.

Open housesare planned

Southeastern Regional Medical Center is host-ing open house events for its two newest clinics –Southeastern Medial Clinic Red Springs and Southeastern Medical Clinic Gray’s Creek.

The open house in Red Springs will be Wednesday, Oct. 31; the open house in Gray’s Creek will be Thursday, Nov. 1.

Both events will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and will offer refreshments.

The public is invited to meet the clinic provid-ers and tour the new facilities, including the reha-bilitation services area.

For information, call 671-5026.Weight-lossseminarsSoutheastern Weight Loss Center, an affiliate of

Southeastern Regional Medical Center, now offers more options for weight loss success.

Dr. Eric Velazquez, of Southeastern Surgical Center, will host seminars on a variety of weight loss surgery options including adjustable gastric band, sleeve gastrectomy, and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass on Nov. 7 and 21 from 6 to 7 p.m., at Southeastern Weight Loss Center located within the Southeastern Health Mall on the campus of Biggs Park Mall in Lumberton.

Dr. Barry Williamson, of Lumberton Surgical Associates, will host a seminar on LAP-BANDTM on Nov. 15 from 6 until 7 p.m. also at the weight loss center.

Registration is required for all seminars by call-ing 608-0307.

SRMC needsmagazines

Volunteers at Southeastern Regional Medical Center are requesting donations of recent maga-zines for daily distribution to patients.

Donations of magazines published within the past six months may be dropped off at the hospi-tal’s main lobby reception desk.

Please call Volunteer Supervisor Beth Ivey at 671-5093 for information.

Youth rallyis planned

The Robeson County Substance Abuse Coalition will host an Alcohol and Drug Free Youth Rally for students in grades 9 through 12 on Friday, Oct. 26, from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Southeastern Pavilion off of Highway 74 near Lumberton.

The event will include a DJ, refreshments and door prizes.

Students are asked to bring three canned goods for the Robeson County Church and Community Center, and school ID is required.

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