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Husband and wife team Jimmy and Pam Smith run the TNT Fireworks Tent in the Rockingham Wal-Mart’s parking lot for their church, Outreach for Jesus. They are pictured completing a transaction with Mark McDonald and Angie Kuffel Thursday afternoon. The proceeds are used for Outreach’s Dream Center, a treatment program for people who suffer from alcoholism or substance-dependence. Mother and son Diane McKenzie and Josh Smith debate whether to pick up the Shining Star flashing, banging doo-hickie at the TNT Fireworks Tent in the parking lot of the Rockingham Wal-Mart Thursday afternoon.
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Husband and wife team Jimmy and Pam Smith run the TNT Fireworks Tent in the Rockingham Wal-Mart’s parking lot for their church, Outreach for Jesus. They are pictured completing a transaction with Mark McDonald and Angie Kuffel Thursday afternoon. The proceeds are used for Outreach’s Dream Center, a treatment program for people who suffer from alcoholism or substance-dependence.
Church uses fireworks to help fund outreach
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Fireworks are as much a part of most people’s Fourth of July ritual as a backyard barbecue, a double-header baseball game or the National Anthem. Maybe even more so. A lot of money is on the table, even though North Carolina may not see the same amount of gross sales as less strict neighbors South Carolina and Tennessee, where a wider variety o...
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Insurance solution is sought
When it comes to government-created insurance, the state health plan isn’t the only entity facing trouble. An attempt to fix an ailing coastal insurance plan made steps through the North Carolina ...
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Kramer Bomb claims four troops
Four North Carolina National Guardsmen who served in the same battalion as local soldiers died in Iraq on June 29. It was the last day of regular combat operations for U.S. forces in Iraqi cities....
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Progress Energy’s Southern Region Community Relations Manager Andy Honeycutt (right) presents Sandy Marsh with a check for $1,000 Thursday morning. Marsh applied for the grant money in April and will use it to enhance the energy efficiency of the food pantry that she runs in Hoffman,  Southern Mission Ministries. Pantry gets a little help
When Sandy Marsh realized there wasn’t enough money to put energy-efficient finishing touches on her Hoffman food pantry facility, she applied for a grant from Progress Energy of the Carolinas. An...
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Youth golf clinics
Richmond Pines Country Club golf professional Naveen Reddy, center, poses with participants at a youth golf clinic earlier this summer at the golf course.
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Local sports briefs
RSHS athletic events postponed The Richmond No. 1 contest against Pinecrest No. 2 on July 7 in the summer league softball league, as well as, the Richmond No. 2 game against Pinecrest No. 2 on J...
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Qualifying for Saturday’s Cheerwine Cherry Bomb 200 will begin today at 11 a.m. The ASA Late Model Stock Series will take the track first, followed by the Frank Kimmel’s Street Stock National Series at 2 p.m. Qualifying for Cherry Bomb 200 set for today
Family cookouts and firework displays are usually the norms on the Fourth of July, but the Rockingham Speedway giving families another option this year — racing. The Cheerwine Cherry Bomb 200 will...
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New Hamlet Rotary Club officers enjoyed an installation ceremony and cookout at the Hamlet Depot Tuesday. Pictured, left to right: Secretary David “Butch” Adeimy, President Mitch Bowman, Vice President Ellyn Brannick and Sergeant at Arms B.K. Jones. Not pictured is Treasurer Deanna Bristow.
New Hamlet Rotary Club officers enjoyed an installation ceremony and cookout at the Hamlet Depot Tuesday. Pictured, left to right: Secretary David “Butch” Adeimy, President Mitch Bowman, Vice President Ellyn Brannick and Sergeant at Arms B.K. Jones. Not pictured is Treasurer Deanna Bristow.
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OPINION
New allegations remind public of wasted talent
From The Charlotte Observer, July 1 Has there been a bigger waste of potential in North Carolina political history than John Edwards? Here was a guy who had unquestioned intelligence, an unparalle...
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Plenty to do this holiday
There are solemn holidays designed for reflection and reverence. On Veterans Day and Memorial Day we pause to remember the sacrifices of those who served in our military. On Christmas and Easter ...
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Easley’s appeal shows it is all about the money
From The Fayetteville Observer, July 1 After all the collateral damage inflicted in the firefight over Mary Easley’s cushy job, you’d think she’d want to walk away from it all as fast as she could...
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