Barefoot’s Sandwich Shoppe was presented the “NEXT LEVEL AWARD” by Campbell Oil. Paul Alexander Evans & Jonathan Brooks took the time to stop in and present to our Team. We appreciate their kindness and everyone’s business. Stop in and support local wherever you may live & work. We all need you!
ELIZABETHTOWN - The Lu Mil Vineyard May Day Jamboree was held Saturday to a large amount of festival goers in spite of the warnings of the rain. Although there were tents and umbrellas, a light sprinkling midafternoon was all that saturated the vineyards.
There was a high school graduate who couldn’t wait to leave home and the rigors and rigidity of “the nest.” He thought his parents were the dumbest people on the face of planet earth. Four years later he graduated from college and for all he learned in four years, the most significant was wisdom that came from the experience of being on his own. He was surprised at how smart his parents had become in four years. Kind of a spin on the Mark Twain quote.
Have you heard the saying, “this gettin’ old – it ain’t for sissies?” I heard that the first time when I was in my 30s and laughed. Now as I just hit another mile marker in my life, I am no longer laughing. And if I do laugh, I am usually trying to remember what I was laughing about. The solution for that is not to tell me long jokes or to encourage me when I start in – telling one.
ELIZABETHTOWN - The Bladen County Hospital Foundation extended an invitation and hosted their first Community Leaders Luncheon at Bladen County Hospital on Wednesday, April 24 from 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. The information sharing session featured a presentation by Spencer Cummings focusing on health care in Bladen County, hospital updates and the new medical office building, for which the Foundation is providing support.
Bladen County - The chair of the State Board has indicated he plans to call a meeting to consider early voting plans the week of May 20 according to Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of NCSBE.
