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Perdue’s Rockingham operation associates achieve safety milestone
Associates at Perdue’s Rockingham operation achieved a safety milestone on March 5, 2013, after working two million production hours without experiencing an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordable lost-time case, the company said. Counting toward the milestone began in July 2011. To celebrate, the operation’s 945 associates will be served lunch in early April. They also will receive from Perdue a commemorative athlet...
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Contributed photo Two groups participated in the weight loss pilot program and lost a total of more than 150 pounds and more than 45 inches off their waist.
Weight loss program teaches healthy eating
An eight-week class that will help people eat healthy and lose weight will begin on April 10. Sarah Mammarella, MS, RD, LDN, through the Richmond County Cooperative Extension, is offering the program called, “Eat Healthy, Be Active Weight Loss Workshops.” The eight-week class will involve different nutritional concepts, such as losing weight and keeping it off, weigh-ins, healthy recipe tasting and a one-on-one consultation with Mammarell...
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Legal Aid Intake Day is set
Legal Aid of North Carolina will be holding a local Legal Aid Intake Day on Wednesday, March 27. From 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. the Ellerbe Town Hall, 108 West Page St., Ellerbe, North Carolina, will be holding Legal Aid Intake Day. Cases accepted are housing evictions, foreclosures, landlord issues, consumer issues, domestic violence, unemployment, Medicaid disability denials and other public benefits denials, testamentary wills, power of attorn...
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Patty Upham
Upham elected to Long-Term Care & Rehabilitation Governing Council
Patty Upham, director of FirstHealth Home Care Services, has been elected to the governing council of the American Hospital Association’s Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Section. The governing council represents executives from among the nation’s leading hospitals representing rehabilitation, acute long-term care, skilled nursing, home health and continuing care services. Council members provide input and participate in the American Hos...
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Easter schedule closes county sites
The regular monthly meeting of Richmond County Board of Commissioners, which normally takes place on the first Monday of every month at 5:30 p.m., has been postponed to the following Monday for its April meeting. The board will meet on April 8, at 5:30 p.m. on the second floor of the County Administration building in the Commissioners’ Chambers, at 221 S. Hancock St. in Rockingham. The meeting has been postponed to accommodate Easter trav...
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Contributed photo Despite a rainy, cold morning community support for Operation Medicine Drop poured in at WJSG-G104 FM. The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office reported collecting 24, 538 doses of expired and unused medications. “ The Sheriff’s Office was proud to participate in this event as a wrap-up for National Poison Prevention Week”, said Deputy N.L. Forester, “This was the greatest turn-out we’ve ever had. Thanks to everyone who supported this event and our event sponsor G104 FM.” Pictured are Amy Forester, Michelle Spencer, Det. Teri Childers Back Row-Lee Wallace, G104 FM, Scott Waters, G104 FM and Deputy N.L. Forester
Operation Medicine Drop has great turn-out
Contributed photo Despite a rainy, cold morning community support for Operation Medicine Drop poured in at WJSG-G104 FM. The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office reported collecting 24, 538 doses of expired and unused medications. “The Sheriff’s Office was proud to participate in this event as a wrap-up for National Poison Prevention Week,” said Deputy N.L. Forester. “This was the greatest turn-out we’ve ever had. Thanks to everyone who support...
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Contributed photo Jennifer Wilson, R.N., has been named case manager/clinical coordinator for the FirstHealth Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center at FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital.
Wilson Named Case Manager/Clinical Coordinator for RMH Wound Center
Jennifer Wilson, R.N., has been named case manager/clinical coordinator for the FirstHealth Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center at FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital in Rockingham. The Wound Care Center offers specialized treatment that is designed to monitor, manage and treat chronic non-healing wounds. In her role, Wilson supervises the center’s clinical staff in addition to providing case management for the facility’s patients. Wilson r...
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Rockingham Middle students take college level exam
Ben Morrison, Skylar Ramsey, Yash Patel and Jonathan Tadlock, four seventh graders from Rockingham Middle School, participated in the Duke University Talent Identification Program. Duke TIP is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving academically gifted and talented youth. Through identification, recognition, challenging educational programs, information, advocacy and research. Duke TIP provides resources to gifted students, their pare...
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Toddler causes courthouse evacuation
The Richmond County Judicial Center in downtown Rockingham was evacuated Tuesday at 11:14 a.m. when the fire alarm was activated, according to Captain Steve Newton with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office. “A small child on the second floor pulled the alarm,” said Netwon. “So we had to evacuate the building and then we checked the whole building.” As common proceedure, when a fire alarm is activated, fire trucks are dispatched to the loc...
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Contributed photo Recently hatched chicks in an incubator.
Springtime chicks hatch in classroom for 4-H
Richmond County 2nd graders at all seven elementary schools participated in the 4-H Embryology School Enrichment Program last week. Children have a natural sense of curiosity about living things in the world around them. Building on this curiosity, 2nd graders gained an understanding of biological concepts through direct experience with living things, their life cycles and their habitats. Evidence has shown that youth learn best through the...
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Contributed photo Riding trainer Ashley Lovegrove competes at Carolina Horse Park with her personal horse, Diplomat.
Affordable riding lessons new to the Sandhills
Have you ever wanted to give your child horseback riding lessons? Perhaps your daughter or son just got a horse and wants to learn how to jump. A new trainer in the area wants to give children 6 years old and older the chance to have affordable riding lessons. Ashley Lovegrove is new to the Sandhills, fresh from Virginia, and has opened a riding school in Southern Pines. Located on Den Road in horse country, Lovegrove has developed an IEA o...
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Contributed photo Golfers prepare for the start of the Kelly Cup Golf Championship.
Sandhills Children’s Center considered winner of tourney
One hundred and sixteen golfers participated recently in the 15th Annual Kelly Cup Golf Championship at Pinehurst No. 8, The Centennial Course, and when it was all over Sandhills Children’s Center was the real winner. In a tournament that lacks any hoopla or circumstance, players and sponsors came together, enjoyed fantastic weather while helping to raise nearly $21,000 to benefit children throughout the Sandhills Region. “This is just a si...
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Contributed photo Pictured are students who achieved the A Honor Roll for the fourth six weeks. On the front L/R: April Schlotter, Shivani Surati, Marlen Resinos, Alexa Coble, Savannah Quick, Breanna Daley, Asha Brewington, Jasmine McIver, Mara Cobb, Ashley Oldham, Gabby Eaton. On the Second Row L/R: Destiny Reed, Michael Saunders, Tylor Thompson, Amelia Bellanger, Jacob Simmons, Bryce Dixon, Hannah Hoopaugh, Miranda Haltom, Angela Chen, Tyesha Spencer, Zarna Shah. On the third row L/R: Ryan Watkins, Ryan Ross, Cate Freeman, Peyton Tucker, Rachel Jarrell, Kelsey Mabe, Hailey Mason, Ryan Humphrey, Jada McKenzie, Montana Kelley, Yue Yang, Ibrahim Henson, Shelby Mossman, Peyton Butler, Hannah Battley, Kaitlyn Brwon, William Pressley, Bianca Casarrubias; and on the Fourth Row: L/R: Jose de Jesus Gomez, Jeremiah Stewart, Adam Bailey, Braxton Faircloth, Madelyn Chappell, Hunter Gibson, Alex Lopez, Ryan Morgan, Brooke Johnson, A.J. Massagee, Marcus Greene, DyAvion Brower, Stormy Flinchum, Daniel Greene, Damien Todd, McLean Lovin, Austin Patrick, Wells Griffin, Byron Williams, Justin Wilson, Savannah Stubbs. Not Pictured are Angelica Deaver, Alexis Grant, Raeli Garner, Ephfini Goins, Alexandra Mabe, Anthony Pierce, John Pittman, Tanisha Ratliff, Victoria Rich, Jacob Ruperd, Derek Wilderman
Richmond County Ninth Grade Academy announces the honor roll for the 4th Six Weeks
A/B Honor Roll Austen Adams, Sunayya Ali, Gabrielle Allred, Lauren Ashworth, Madison Baldwin, Nicholas Bass, Breanna Bostick, Brett Bowers, Regina Braswell, Tajahia Bruce, Taylor Buie, Gabrielle Burgess, Hayden Burns, Dylan Chavis, Eric Carrillo, Jordan Carroll, Phillip Clayton, Stephen Collins, Charles Covington, Stephanie Crawford, Aaron Crouch, Sarah Crump, Dante Davis, Blake Dawkins, Jacob DeWitt, Michael Diaz, Amber Dickens, TyKerra Do...
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School Board meeting change
The Richmond County Board of Education meeting will be on April 9 instead of April 2. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. instead of 7 p.m., this is because April 2 will fall in the middle of spring break.
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Contributed photo Pictured, from left to right are Leroy Crowder, Frankie Leach, Anna P. Thomas, J.C. Watkins, Wiley Mabe, George Norris, Jerry Ethridge, Joe Richardson, Sylvia Long, Cleo Ferguson, Thomas D. Hager.
Leak Street Alumni buys school building
The Leak Street Alumni became the owners of the Leak Street High School real property on Monday. Three documents were signed to hand over the property to the Alumni: the deed, the sales agreement and a HUD-1 or closing statement. The former school was sold for a nominal fee of $10 and there was a $26 recording fee. “This is a historic occasion for us,” said J.C. Watkins, president of the Leak Street Cultural Center. “Public schools in t...
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Martin Brossman
Two seminars in one day will teach customer relations
Two seminars, sponsored by the Small Business Center, will be held in the Cole Auditorium at Richmond Community College in Hamlet on April 2. Both seminars, which will be taught by Martin Brossman, are free and will teach attendees how to reach new customers and how to keep them when problems arise. The first seminar will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. and is titled “Conflict Resolution That Builds More Loyal Customers.” In this seminar, Bros...
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Richmond County Sheriff’s Office - arrests for March 26, 2013
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office recently made the following arrests: • Gabriel Warren Love, 22, of Ledbetter Road, Rockingham, and Ryneem Ne’Wan Evans, 17, of Brenner Lane, Rockingham, were arrested and charged with breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering and larceny of firearms. According to the Sheriff’s Office, Love and Evans were arrested a short distance from a residence they broke into located on Reid Avenue in...
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Planning board to consider permits for produce stand, landscaping materials on Wiregrass Road
Dawn M. Kurry Richmond County Daily Journal The Richmond County Planning and Zoning Board of Adjustments will meet next week to consider two applications for conditional use permits. Both proposed projects would be located on Wiregrass Road, within a half-mile of U.S. 1. “Both of these are very similar,” said planning and zoning director of GIS James Armstrong. “I’m expecting there won’t be any issues.” The meeting will take place on ...
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Contributed photo The Chris Lane Band will take the stage at the pre-race concert at 6 p.m..
Three bands set to rock The Rock
Laura Edington Richmond County Daily Journal The pre-race concert on Saturday, April 13, at the Rockingham Speedway promises to be bigger this year. The city of Rockingham and Rockingham Speedway have brought in three bands to perform at the concert instead of one. This year’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at The Rock presented by Cheerwine will see performances from the Chris Lane Band, Ty Brown...
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