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Davie County Enterprise Record 8-10-2023USPS 149-160 Number 32 Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 24 Pages 75¢ White Ribbons Davie High football team, shop class raising cancer awareness 89076 3821260Page B1 Page 5 Free Juice The power of the muscadine promoted What’s happening this week Benefit for Thrive Community, Tanglewood Pizza, Bermuda Run, 3-9 p.m. Cornhole tourney, silent auction, Hawthorne Curve concert See more events under “Dateline,” Page B10 By Brooklyn LakeyDavie High Intern withDavie County Schools Dozens of Davie County High School (DCHS) students are participating in internships with local businesses and non-profits throughout the summer. Students who have active-ly participated in a career and technical education (CTE) course at the high school can Kat Woodruff-Carter is working a summer internship at the Enterprise Record. - Photo by Brooklyn Lakey Off to work Summer internships helping Davie High students explore career opportunities complete a work-based learn-ing internship with trained pro-fessionals from businesses in the community. These opportunities range from dental to construction, all which are offered during the summer or school year. Stu-dents work a certain amount of hours which allows them to get credit towards their high school diploma for the work they complete. “As someone who wants to be a journalist in her future, this is a great opportunity to learn and also make connections for my future,” says rising senior Kat Woodruff-Carter, who is interning with the Davie Coun-ty Enterprise Record. There are 32 students work-ing this summer and gaining workplace experience. Please See Interns - Page 4 Life is better at The Bullhole RiverPark at Cooleemee Falls -The Bullhole - was full of people having fun and relaxing Saturday for the annual river festi- val and rubber duck race. Read about it and see more photos on Page B8. - Photos by KC Smith Festival draws a crowd By Mike BarnhardtEnterprise Record County commissioners are often faced with rezoning de-cisions that are difficult to de-cide.They hope to alleviate some of that difficulty, starting with an Aug. 29 meeting to discuss future growth and dev elop-ment in Davie County. That meeting is from 1-5 p.m. in the board’s meeting room on the second floor of the county ad-ministration building.For board member Brent Shoaf, some clarification of what county residents actually want is needed.“We need to really deter-mine what we want and what we do not want,” he told fellow commissioners on Monday evening. The board needs to be deliberate in deciding ways to “keep what we have” and still grow to meet the growth pressures that will come just because of where the county is located. County to talk about growth Please See Growth - Page 10 2 ‑ DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023Editorial Page USPS 149-160 171 S. Main St., P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, NC 27028 (336) 751-2120 Published weekly by Salisbury Newsmedia LLC John Carr.....................................Publisher Mike Barnhardt............................Managing Editor Ray Tutterow...............................Advertising Director Brian Pitts....................................Sports Editor Mocksville Enterprise 1916-1958 Davie Record 1899-1958 Periodicals Postage Paid in Mocksville, NC 27028Subscription RatesSingle Copy, 75 Cents$32.03 Per Year In Davie CountyPOSTMASTERSend Address Changes to:Davie County Enterprise RecordP.O. Box 99, Mocksville, NC 27028 Cooleemee Journal 1901-1971 The Literary Corner Renegade Writers Guild The Enterprise Record welcomes letters from its readers on topics of local, state, national or international issues. An effort will be made to print all letters, provided they are not libelous, vulgar or in poor taste. The editor reserves the right to edit letters for grammar and for space. Letters should include the name and address of the writer and a signature. A telephone number, not to be published, is requested. Have letters in the newspaper office no later than noon Monday of the week to be published. Enterprise Record P.O. Box, 99, Mocksville, mike.barnhardt@davie-enterprise.com. Tell us what you think In the mail ... Please See Renegade ‑ Page 10 Time to face productivity decline To the editor:Professor Michael Walden, an economist at North Car-olina State University whose views on economic trends are frequently sought, provided this paper last week a co-gent analysis of recent trends in U.S. labor productivity. As a fellow practitioner in the “dismal science of econom-ics” I’d like to amplify on his ideas and perhaps provide further context. Professor Walden states the quarterly rates of change in U.S. labor productivity were extremely volatile from mid-2121 to mid-2023. Yet overall it declined at a rate unseen over the past seven decades. He attributes this to a few factors:• a loss of education during the pandemic;• workers suffering from stress related to inflation and the pandemic;• a change in attitudes towards work (i.e., work/life bal-ance), particularly among younger workers;• the movement of workers into new jobs (i.e., labor churn); and• the rise of remote work.U.S. managers have complained for a long time about their inability to hire workers who can read, write and nav-igate numbers. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) confirms this, reporting a deep decline in reading and math scores from 2020 to 2023. Yet beyond skills learned in school there is also a growing decline in trainability. This suggests not only a deficit in attitude, but in aptitude as well.This is not just a short-term phenomenon, reflecting the dislocation from the pandemic. Robert Gordon and other economists have tracked the long-term decline in U.S. out- put per worker, starting from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest that from 2011 to the present annual gains in labor pro-ductivity has been below the long-term average of 2.2% since 1948. Professor Walden concludes stating labor productivity is higher today than in 2019. But that’s only because pro-ductivity tends to improve year-by-year. However, the rate of change (i.e., the second derivative) has been negative. Since 2011 the improvement has been of the order of 1.0-1.5%. Before 2011 the annual gain in U.S. labor produc-tivity was of the order of 2%, and in earlier decades the annual improvement was of the order of 3%. In elementary economics the annual gain in GDP is the combination of 1) the number of workers employed and 2) their productivity. The latter is crucial for raising the stan-dard of living of workers and their families. In the past the average gain in the first factor was of the order of 1%, and the average gain in the second factor was of the order of 2%, yielding an average 3% gain in living standards across the economy. With an aging population and the “new nor-mal” in labor productivity, future annual improvements in U.S. GDP are likely to be of the order of 1.5% or less. This steady decline in U.S. labor productivity can be offset with more capital (think automation)), more tech-nological innovation (think AI), more scale (greater con-centration of industry), and superior organization of oper-ations. This is our challenge going forward. Peter J. Mooney, AdvanceMooney earned his Ph.D. in economics from UNC-Chapel Hill. Tradition ContinuedBy E. BishopAfter the welcomed Saturday night rain, the morning worship service on Sunday, July 30 at the Cherry Hill Homecoming was pleasantly refreshing considering it has been one of the hottest summers in recorded history. Of course, the windows in this beautiful old church, built in 1874, were raised, ceiling fans whirled and handheld fans were given out just in case. This was the 149th year of celebration for this little country church located in southern Davie County. For this once a year gathering, the Rev. Larry Summey (for-mer pastor of Franklin Presbyterian Church) brought the message from Colossians 3:16, “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish with all wisdom and as you sing psalms, hymns and spirituals with gratitude to God.” The Rev. Summey concluded with trust and obey; do not give up.Sitting in a back pew, I had a unique vantage point where one of those raised windows was neatly framing a headstone in the nearby cemetery as the opening hymn “Old Rugged Cross” was being sung, sending chills down my spine. Then, the children came to the front where Ani- ta Miller gave them a small cross and wood carved tree emblem with a lesson about the importance of the Chris-tian faith and to remember their Christian ancestors that came before them. Descendants of Matheas Miller (25 Sept. 1807 - 1 Sept. 1891) who gave the land for this church were in atten-dance as well as many others. When asked why do they come to this yearly event, Mike and Ann Spry explain that it has always been a tradition for their family and they en-joy the fellowship it provides. My sister, Mary, her granddaughter Amber and beauti-ful 8 month old great-granddaughter Maryjane also attend-ed. Mary and I grew up nearby and as children, some of us helped to clean up the grave yard and church grounds every year before the homecoming Sunday. Our fami-ly always looked forward to attending and being able to enjoy the fellowship and abundance of food for the day. Admittedly, I don’t know many of the people who come to this reunion now, but I feel like we are all family joined to-gether somehow, that we all enjoyed the sermon, the great a cappella rendition of “How Great Thou Art” by soloist Amy Miller and the bountiful spread of food under the arbor. As Amber stated, she had never seen so much food prepared by so few women. The tradition will continue next year for the 150th cel-ebration and, as always, will be on the last Sunday in July. The doors have usually opened only once a year since the early part of the 20th century. But, this year there will be a gathering in September for an ice cream social and the first Sunday in December for a Christmas program. Hope you will attend. The Little Black Book, Part IIBy Linda H. BarnetteWhen I was a child, I did not realize just how much her history meant to my Grandmother Smith. However, as I got older, she must have sensed an interest in history in me because she talked to me often about her ancestors. She also showed me pictures, deeds, and other things that were important to her. One of those items was the little black leather class book that contained the lists of members of Center Unit-ed Methodist Church from its founding to the Civil War period. Her family had been members there as long as the church had existed. Actually, her great-great grandfather Maryjane enjoys the Cherry Hill Homecoming. Daniel Dwiggins was one of the founders of the church before the Civil War. When I held the book in my hand, I had a sense of its history. It had been passed down to her from Daniel Dwiggins, Ashley Dwiggins, James Patterson Dwiggins and given to her by her father, WJF Dwiggins.In any case, she felt strongly that before her death the book should be returned to the place whose its history it contained. She chose Center’s Sesquicentennial(150th) Celebration on Sunday, Oct. 5,1980 when she was in her 90th year.During the special service that day members of the church presented the history of the beginning and forma-tion of the church. It was a spectacular service, but the most special part to me was the presentation of the little black leather class book to the church by my aunt, Hel-en Wrenn Smith on behalf of my grandmother, Mrs. W.N. Smith. To her the book was back where it belonged. To Come Full CircleBy Stephanie Williams DeanSometimes I feel as if I’ve come full circle. This old saying, “to come full circle” is one that some believe originated from Act 5 and Scene 3 of Shakespeare’s work of 1606, known as King Lear. Shakespeare’s charac-ter, Edmund, who said, “The wheel is come full circle. I am here,” describing his own malice against the king as having come back to confront him. While contemplating my own life, I don’t know if com-ing full circle is a positive thing or not. Are we all going to end up right where we began? It’s a little food for thought, isn’t it? It’s wise of our county commissioners to set aside sev-eral hours just to discuss growth in Davie County. Rezoning decisions are just as hard as budget decisions, maybe more difficult. Most of us don’t fully understand the complexities of a government budget, but we do know when a building the size of Fort Knox is being erected right across the street. Maybe part of that discussion would be if buffers should be added to where industrial sites meet the highway. That’s needed along US 158 now, but it’s too late.It was needed for a recent rezoning approval on US 601 North, and the county worked out an agreement with the developer on that one, but only because the developer had applied for a “special use” instead of general use rezoning.Although I don’t like commissioners negotiating with a developer, it worked in this case. Commissioners shouldn’t be deciding on the particulars of a project; that should be spelled out long before any rezoning is done.Getting the right kind of growth in the right places will be next to impossible. Two things will have to occur.For one, county commissioners as a whole will have to get a backbone. No more cowering to any developer who promises a lot of tax revenue and jobs. Remember, they told us that Oak Valley wouldn’t affect our school system. For too long, commissioners have believed and rolled over to anyone wanting to make a sizable investment in Davie.Also, Bermuda Run, Davie County, Mocksville and Cooleemee will have to be on the same page when it comes to what should be built where. While we have a great history of all working together, when it comes to zoning, things get trickier. And with new board members - and new ideas - coming on every couple of years, lines in the sand will be next to impossible to pinpoint.But the Aug. 29 growth summitt is a good start.In the meantime, let board members know how you feel. It’s how our democracy is supposed to work.- Mike Barnhardt Growth on agenda DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 - 3 By Betty Etchison WestFor the Enterprise The first installment about White House wed-dings was about the only President oto be wed in the White House. The wedding of 49-year-old President Grove Cleve-land and 21-year-old, Fran-ces Folsom occurred on June 2, 1886. To this day, Cleveland is the only a president to have been married in the White House, but that wedding was not the first or the only wedding in that beautiful building.The first White House wedding was on March 29, 1812. The bride was Lucy Payne Washington, the sis-ter of Dolley Madison and the widow of George Step-toe Washington, the neph-ew of Gen. George Wash-ington. Steptoe Washington died when he was 37, leav-ing his young wife and four children. Lucy lived at the White House with her sis-ter, Dolley Madison, after the death of her husband. That is where she met Su-preme Court Justice Thom-as Todd. That meeting resulted in the first White House wedding, which was held in the Blue Room. No one loved to enter-tain more than Dolley Mad-ison so she was really in her element when her sister agreed that her wedding could be held in her home, the White House. The Blue Room was decorated beyond compare, and the reception fwas per-fect in every way. The day after, the newlyweds left for Harewood, Shenando-ah Valley plantation, which had been the home of Lu-cy’s first husband.During the War of 1812, the British troops marched to the nation’s capital and set the White House on fire. Dolley Madison, who the troops had hoped to cap-ture, fled just in time. The year was 1814 and all that was left of the White House when the fire was extin-guished by a thunderstorm was the blackened outside walls. The Madisons were never able to return to the White House to live. They lived for the rest of Presi-dent Madison’s term in the Octagon House which is not too far from the White House. Mrs. Madison was able to continue entertain-ing just as she had done in the White House.There was not another wedding there until March 9, 1820, when Maria Hes-ter Monroe, the daughter of President James Mon-roe and his wife, Elizabeth Kortwright Monroe, mar-ried her first cousin, Samu-el L. Gouverneur. The res-toration of the White House had been completed in 1817 so the building was in good condition when Maria Monroe decided to have her wedding. The wedding of the president’s daughter caused a bit of feud with the Diplomatic Corp be-cause the Monroes did not follow the protocols which the previous First Ladies had established. The Dip-lomatic Corp was not invit-ed to the Monroe/Gouver-neur wedding which was considered an insult. The diplomats and their wives were not even invited to a reception to congratulate the newlyweds. Such treat-ment did not help the rela-tionship between the Diplo-matic Corp and the Monroe administration.All of that did not have any effect on the wedding itself which is believed to have been held in the Blue Room though some writers believe that the wedding was held in the unfinished East Room. The Blue Room was decorated in the French style furniture with which the Monroes had come so enambured when he served as envoy to France. President Mon-roe ordered great quantities of French furniture for the White House. The following is a de-scription of the furnishings of the Blue Room from the book, “White House Brides” by Marie Smith and Louise Durbin: “The furniture was upholstered in light crimson satin. Matching taffeta curtains were draped over a gilt arch centered by a gilded eagle holding an olive branch in one claw and a sheaf of arrows in the other. The room was heighted by a magnificent crystal and gilt bronze chandelier with 50 candles and entwined with crimson cloth. Sconces in the shape of gilded eagles were on the walls.” After the ceremony there was a dinner to which 42 family friends were invited. When President Monroe completed his second term, Maria and her husband moved with her parents to Oak Hill, the Monroe Plan-tation in Loudoun County, Va., and later moved with her parents to New York, where Gouverneur served as postmaster.•The next White House wedding did not occur un-til 1828 when John Adams II married Mary Catherine Hellen in the Blue Room. John Adams II is the only son of a president to be wed in the White House.The story of their mar-riage is tumultuous. John Quincy Adams and his wife, Louisa Catherine, had three sons, George, John and Charles Francis, and all three fell in love with the flirtatious Mary Catherine Hellen, their first cousin. Mary Catherine was the or-phaned daughter of Louisa Adams’ sister, Nancy John-son Hellen. Louisa Cather- ine, the wife of John Quin-cy Adams, cared for Mary Catherine and her siblings. The Hellen children lived at the White House through-out John Quincy Adams’ term. George, the oldest Ad-ams son, graduated from Harvard and was living in Boston and reading law in Daniel Webster’s office. Mary Catherine was fasci-nated by the handsome old-er man who was taken with her delightful ways. In the summer of 1923, George asked his father’s consent to become engaged. Mr. Adams asked some ques-tions and then agreed. Even after Mary Cath-erine was engaged to his older brother, Charles Fran-cis could not shake off his infatuation for his cousin. Mary Catherine seemed to enjoy her power over Charles Francis when he came home from Harvard, even though she was en-gaged to his brother.To complicated matters, John, the second son who was living at the White House and studying law under the guidance of his father because he had been expelled from Harvard when he participated during a student rebellion in 1823, became infatuated with Mary Catherine. As the ro-mance between John II and Mary Catherine was going on in Washington, the two brothers who lived in Bos- ton often got together, but Charles Francis could not bring himself to tell George what he thought was going on between John and Mary Catherine. Mrs. Adams was aware of all that was going on, and she told the former president that John and Mary Catherine should get married right away. Mr. Ad-ams couldn’t bring himself to approve such a marriage. The engagement was on-again, off again, and, then, Mrs. Adams announced the news of the wedding date, Feb. 25, 1828. On that date, John and Mary Catherine were married in the oval drawing room. When the wedding was over, according to his brother, Charles Francis, “John looked like he had all the cares of the world on his shoulders.” Charles Fran-cis then added, “My heart tells me that there is much to fear.” A little over a year later a baby girl, Mary Lou-isa, was born to the young couple, which made the grandparents proud.Mrs. Adams had hoped there would be a fami-ly reconciliation after the wedding but that did not happen. George, to whom Mary Catherine was first engaged, was lonely. He became rundown physi-cally and mentally and be-came an alcoholic. While White House Weddings And which Adams brother will marry their first cousin? See Weddings - Page 10 BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT The BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT- An AFFORDABLE marketing choice! 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What happens if I arrive at a game/event with a bag that is not permitted? Fans with a prohibited bag will not be permitted inside. Fans will need to return the prohibited bag to their vehicle.What about items such as stadium seats and blankets? Fans will be allowed to enter with a stadium seat and/or blan- ket.Can I bring a camera or binoculars? Yes. Binoculars or a camera can be carried into the venue if it’s not in a concealed bag. Attendees may carry them in a clear bag or in their hand. My child is staying after school for a game. Where will he be able to store his bookbag? Each middle school is making arrangements for students to store their bags in a secure location and will arrange pick up after the game ends. Do I have to put my wallet in a clear bag? You may carry items in your pockets or jacket (such as keys, makeup, personal products, phone, wallet, credit cards, etc.) if you choose not to put them in a clear bag. What is considered a large assembly? Events such as band concerts, dance recitals, theater perfor- mances, athletic events, etc. Davie County Schools has adopted a clear bag only policy for all middle and high school athletic and large assembly events.“This is not a new con-cept to most of our families, since other districts require clear bags as well,” said Jeff Wallace, Davie Schools superintendent. “We know this added measure of clear bags will enhance the secu-rity measures at our events.” He said the move is being made to provide a more safe and secure environment for students, athletes, parents, staff and community mem-bers.Approved bags include:• clear plastic or vinyl bags;• clear fanny packs or cross body bags;• clear plastic Ziploc-style bags;• clear backpacks; Continued From Page 1“We are thankful for the businesses and organiza-tions that generously invest their time and resources to the next generation of lead-ers,” said Alyse Wooldridge, career and development co-ordinator, DCHS. “These opportunities help grow es-sential skills and ignite pas-sions that shape their future careers.” “I’m doing an internship at Lydia Jaynes because I am interested in majoring in interior design,” said ris-ing senior Laney Jaycocks. “The owner of Lydia Jaynes, Stephanie Shoffner, offers interior design services. 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Interns, from left: Amber Lynde, Read to Achieve Camps; Brooklyn Lakey, DCS marketing; Journey Bowman and Jasmine Brickey, Read to Achieve Camps. Richard McDaniel on the job at Atrium Health. Will Dwiggins is completing an internship with the Davie County Fire Marshal’s office. It’s time to get out of the Saturday routine. Try something different and show support for our local youth. Attend the Annual Yadkin-Davie 4-H Live-stock Show on Saturday, August 12, starting at 11:00 AM. The show will be held at Lone Hickory Arena, 1950 Bethel Church Rd., in Yadkinville. Admission to the show is free. The Annual Yadkin-Da-vie 4-H Livestock Show is a great opportunity for local youth to showcase Houses, Decks, Driveways Gutter Cleaning, Roof Wash It’s time to get out of that Saturday routine. Try something different and show support for our local youth by attending the Annual Yadkin-Davie 4-H Livestock Show on Satur-day, Aug. 12 at 11 a.m. atLone Hickory Arena, 1950 Bethel Church Road, Yadkinville. Admission the free.“The Annual Yadkin-Da-vie 4-H Livestock Show is a great opportunity for local youth to showcase their ani-mals as well as the knowl-edge they gain from these projects,” said Phil Rucker, Davie/Yadkin livestock Ex-tension agent. Youth from Davie, Yad-kin and surrounding coun-ties will be exhibiting their beef, sheep, goats and dairy heifers for a chance to win championships, prizes and bragging rights.“Through these live-stock projects, youth learn important lifeskills like sportsmanship, animal management, dealing with adversity, time manage- ment, patience and others,” Rucker said.The show starts at 11 but come out early and watch the kids groom and prepare their livestock for the judg-es to evaluate. The conces-sion stand will be open.Direct questions to the Extension Center at Davie County 336/753-6100 or Yadkin County 336/849-7908. “These youth have worked hard and would appreciate your support. Change up your ordinary Saturday routine and come support our youth,” he said. • New Construction (Residential & Commercial)• Kitchen & Bath Remodels• Basement Finishes• Service Calls• Trouble Shoots• Hot Tub Circuits• Sub Panels• Service Upgrades• Panel Inspections• EV Charging• RV Hookups• Generator Installs Old Fashion Service with Modern Technology Stephen Beatty Owner (NC-Lim EC) Licensed and Insured (336) 940-8196 Advance, NC The Yadkin-Davie 4-H livestock show is Saturday at Lone Hickory Arena. 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Local business, Mighty Muscadine, has the opportunity to help supply some of that juice to stu-dents who want a new bev-erage option.“Our muscadine juice is 100 percent juice so any-one who chooses to drink Mighty Muscadine will be getting the full benefits that the fruit offers,” said founder of Mighty Musca- By Melinda Szeliga. COODavie Community Foundation Where there’s a will, there’s a way.According to Gallup News, 46% of adults say they have a will. Legal Zoom says 32%. Regardless of who you believe, a will may be the most important document you ever write. It allows you to name the people and organizations that receive your possessions when you die. Your will is your legacy.Think about this. If you die without a will, your spouse is the auto-matic beneficiary. Does that match your wishes? And if you aren’t married, the state determines how your prop-erty is divided. The Mighty Muscadine North Carolina’s official fruit getting some new attention The Mighty Muscadine and owner Jerry Smith are giving away cases of muscadine juice on Saturday morning in Advance. dine, Jerry Smith. “We pride ourselves on a juice that is never made from concentrate and bot-tled from freshly pressed muscadines. Naturally sweet and healthy due to naturally-occurring antioxi-dants, we are excited to see the action taken by the state of North Carolina to include muscadine juice on the menu of offerings in prek-12th grade, as well as col-leges and universities across the state to support healthy school nutrition programs.” In an effort to celebrate and introduce the commu-nity to muscadine juice, Mighty Muscadine is offer-ing a free juice giveaway on Saturday, Aug. 12 at its facility on 3134 Cornatzer Road in Advance.It will be a drive-thru event where participants can receive one free case of Mighty Muscadine juice be-tween 8 a.m. and noon (each case includes 24, 10 ounce bottles).“Our staff is looking for-ward to hosting this event and we are making it conve- nient for anyone who wants to take advantage of the free muscadine juice giveaway,” Smith said. “People won’t need to exit their vehicles as we will have people avail-able to load directly into your car.” Mighty Muscadine has plans to host additional events in the future and en-courages those interested to sign up to receive informa-tion by visiting www.LeB-leu.com/MightyMuscadine.The free muscadine juice giveaway will be at Le Bleu Corp. Juice will be available while supplies last and free cases are only available dur-ing this event on Aug, 12. There will be a limit of one free case per vehicle. Wouldn’t you rather make those decisions?August is National “Make A Will” month. This is the perfect reminder to create your will or update your will if you already have one. The top 3 reasons to have a will include:• it’s an important legal document that every adult should have;• it gives you and your family peace of mind; and• it lets you create a lega-cy that will last beyond your lifetime.Being too busy is the number one reason folks say they haven’t written their wills. Others say they don’t feel they have enough assets to need one.It's generally best to make at least a simple will as soon as you become a legal adult. Sometimes milestones in life trigger the idea that it’s the right time to create a will. It could be your first big purchase, like a car or a home. Welcoming a baby into the family helps people understand the importance of having a written plan in place that guides others to your wishes after your death. Think of these benefits. People over 55 cite easing the burden on their loved ones as the top benefit of estate planning and other end-of-life planning. One survey found 71% of adults report that creating an estate plan would make them feel like a good parent or part-ner. Additionally, proactive planning allows families to bypass lengthy and expen-sive probate court proceed- ings and cut down on family drama that arises from dis-putes. Take the time to sit down and begin crafting your will. Your family will thank you for it. Do you want your legacy to continue beyond your lifetime? Consider an endowment to support your church, school, or non-prof-it organization.The staff at the Davie Community Foundation is happy to assist. It’s what they do.Millie Modlin and Paul Foster each worked with their attorneys and the foun-dation staff to craft the lan-guage that would establish their funds at the Davie Community Foundation. The staff understood exact-ly how the funds were to be used after their deaths. Their legacies are alive and well in Davie County.Grant checks are sent to the organizations they wanted to support every year. Millie Modlin and Paul Foster are still contribut- ing to the betterment of the community even af- ter their deaths. Their wills designated monies for their causes through the Davie Community Foundation. Wills are an important step of becoming an adult Commander Heidi L. Koski was installed last month as the new commander at U.S. Coast Guard Base Elizabeth City. The former Heidi Landry, she is a Davie High School graduate. Her husband, Kevin, is also a Coast Guard Commander. 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His election comes after his successful tenure as chair of the education institute, one of the association's four cornerstones.During his time as chair, Swicegood played a pivotal role in guiding and enhanc-ing the educational offer-ings provided to the mem-bers.Swicegood also served as chair of the Certified Auctioneer Institute, an in-tensive three-year program hosted on the Indiana Uni-versity campus. This pro-gram is designed to equip auctioneers with the highest level of top-grade education and industry best practices, contributing to the overall advancement of the auction-eering profession.Upon his election as director, Swicegood ex-pressed his gratitude and commitment to serving the National Auction Associa-tion and its membership. "I am honored to serve the National Auction As-sociation. We have a great industry to work in, and I am dedicated to striving for nothing but the best for our membership."Swicegood is the founder and CEO of The Swicegood Group, which conducts more than 100 auctions annually and are licensed in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. He serves as a governor ap-pointed commissioner on the N.C. Auctioneer Licens-ing Board. President Sherman Hostetter looks on as Kyle Swicegood addresses the The National Auction Association conference. Swicegood elected director at national auction association 6 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023Public Records Sheriff’s OfficeThe following are from Davie County Sheriff’s Of-fice reports.Aug. 5: noise complaint (2 calls), Main Church Rd./US 158, Mocksville; tres-passing, S. Madera Drive, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Wilkesboro St., Mocksville; disturbance, Farmington Road, Mocks-ville; suspicious activity, NC 801 S., Bermuda Run; trespassing, Gladstone Road, Mocksville; domes-tic disturbance, Cloister Drive, Mocksville; miss-ing person, Sunset Drive, Mocksville; disturbance, Yadkinville Road, Mocks-ville; missing person, Salis-bury Road, Mocksville; disturbance, Government Center Drive, Mocksville; domestic assist, Timber Trails Lane, Mocksville; disturbance, NC 801 S., Mocksville; damage to property, Gun Club Road, Advance; missing per-son, Main Church Road, Mocksville; missing per-son, Government Center Drive, Mocksville; custo-dy issue, Jasmine Lane, Mocksville; damage to property, Milling Road, Mocksville; assault, US 64 W., Mocksville; assault, NC 801 N., Bermuda Run; missing person, Hobson Drive, Mocksville; larceny, Doby Road, Harmony; tres-passing, Ashley Furniturew Way, Advance; domestic disturbance, Swicegood St., Mocksville; suspicious activity, Sheffield Road/US 64 W., Mocksville; suspicious activity, Avon St., Mocksville; domestic disturbance, Copperfield Drive, Mocksville.Aug. 4: domestic dis-turbance, Dalton Road, Mocksville; damage to property, Markland Road, Advance; domestic assist, Phelps Way, Advance; larceny, Cooper Creek Drive, Mocksville; domes-tic disturbance, I-40EB MM162, Mocksville; do-mestic disturbance, US 64 W., Mocksville; domestic assist, Yadkinville Road, Mocksville; trespassing, Fulton Road, Advance; custody issue, Government Center Drive, Mocksville; harassment, US 601 S., Mocksville; fraud, Lois Lane, Mocksville; domestic assist, US 601 S., Mocks-ville; larceny, E. Lexington Road, Mocksville; larceny, Swicegood St., Mocksville; trespassing, Fulton Road, Advance; suspicious activ-ity, US 601 S., Mocksville; suspicious activity, Yadkin-ville Road, Mocksville; do-mestic disturbance, Chey-enne Lane, Mocksville; larceny, Holy Cross Church Road, Mocksville.Aug. 3: fraud, Glad-stone Road, Mocksville; domestic disturbance, Landis Court, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Cook Trail, Mocksville; harass-ment, Meadowview Road, Mocksville; suspicious ac-tivity, US 64 W., Mcoks-ville; trespassing, Mead-owview Road, Mocksville; domestic assist, Calvin Lane, Mocksville; larceny, Sanford Ave., Mocksville; fraud, US 601 N., Mocks-ville; domestic assist, NC 801 S., Cooleemee; fraud, N. Main St., Mocksville; custody issue, Government Center Drive, Mocksville.Aug. 2: suspicious ac-tivity, County Home Road, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Lancelot Lane, Mcoksville; suspicious ac-tivity, Brockland Drive, Advance; fraud, Ruffin St., Cooleemee; domestic disturbance, Oakland Ave., Mocksville; custody issue, Carter Lane, Mocksville; larceny, Stone Wood Road, Mocksville; larceny, Kil-bourne Drive, Bermuda Run; fraud, Dulin Road, Mocksville; larceny, US 601 S., Mocksville; larceny, LaQuinta Drive, Advance; domestic disturbance, Hob-son Drive, Mocksville; lar-ceny, Duke St., Cooleemee.Aug. 1: harassment, Hillcrest Drive, Advance; noise complaint, Bracken Road, Mocksville; custody issue, Hope Lane, Mocks-ville; suspicious activity, County Line Road, Har-mony; missing person, Ash Drive, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Yadk-inville Road, Mocksville; larceny, US 601 S., Mocks-ville; domestic disturbance, Neely Road, Mocksville; trespassing, Cooper Creek Drive, Mocksville; dam-age to property, Wilkesboro St., Mocksville; domes-tic disturbance, Hobson Drive, Mocksville; fraud, Pine Valey Road, Mocks-ville; domestic disturbance, Hobson Drive, Mocksville; noise complaint, Yadkin Valley Road, Advance; fraud, Summerlyn Drive, Mocksville; trespass-ing, Meadowview Drive, Mocksville; suspicious ac-tivity, Cooper Creek Drive, Mocksville; harassment, Avon St., Mocksville; tres-passing, Partridge Lane, Advance; larceny, Grana-da Drive, Advance; noise complaint, Yadkin Valley Road, Advance; suspicious activity, US 64 E., Mocks-ville; domestic disturbance, Creason Road, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Valley Road, Mocksville; suspi-cious activity, US 64 W., Mocksville; noise com-plaint, Yadkin Valley Road, Advance.July 31: suspicious ac-tivity, Lakecrest Drive, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Wandering Lane, Mcoksville; disturbance, Yadkinville Road, Mocks-ville; domestic disturbance, Sheffield Road, Mocks-ville; assault, Green St., Mocksville; suspicious activity, US 158, Bermuda Run; suspicious activity, US 601 N., Mocksville; noise complaint, Yadkin Valley Road, Advance; larceny, Arrowhead Road, Mocks-ville; suspicious package, Cross St., Cooleemee; dis-turbance, Legion Hut Road, Mocksville; noise com-plaint, Yadkin Valley Road, Advance; larceny, Jasmine Lane, Mocksville; larceny, Liberty Circle, Mocksville; fraud, Pleasant Acre Drive, Mocksville; trespassing, US 158, Advance; harass-ment, Yadkinville Road, Mocksville; suspicious ac-tivity, N. Main St., Mocks-ville; domestic disturbance, NC 801 N., Bermuda Run; domestic assist, Boger St., Mocksville; harassment, US 158, Advance; suspi-cious activity, Kinder Lane, Mocksville.July 30: noise com-plaint, Yadkin Valley Road, Advance; domestic distur-bance, Eaton Road, Mocks-ville; disturbance, Cooper Creek Drive, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Court Square, Mocksville; ha-rassment, NC 801 S., Mocksville; harassment, Whetstone Drive, Mocks-ville; sex offense, Davie St., Cooleemee; trespass-ing, Ashley Furniture Way, Advance; domestic dis-turbance, Polaris Drive, Mocksville; domestic disturbance, Mountview Drive, Mocksville; dam-age to property, W. Maple Ave., Mocksville; domestic assist, Turkeyfoot Road, Mocksville; suspicious ac-tivity, Yadkinville Road, Mocksville; suspicious ac-tivity, Yadkinville Road, Mocksville; suspicious activity, S. Salisbury St., MocksvilleArrestsThe following were ar-rested by the Davie County Sheriff’s Office.Aug. 5: Michael Chris-tian Kelly, 37, of Swice-good St., Mocksville; 2 counts misdemeanor child abuse, assault on a female; Cordell Lamont Pressley, 45, of Excalibur Lane, Mocksville, provation vio-lation, possession of drug paraphernalia; Adrian Guy Raker, 44, of S. Mader Drive, Mocksville, resist-ing an officer, larceny, first-degree trespassing, failure to appear in court, felony larceny; Juan Carlos Fernandez Torres, 42, of Copperfield Drive, Mocks-ville, 2 counts assault on a female. Aug. 4: Katelyn Rose-mary Felix, 31, of Yadk-inville, assault; Shantelle Marie Painter, 30, of Oak-land Ave., Mocksville, re-sisting an officer; Cordell Lamont Pressley, 45, of Ex-calibur Lane, Mocksville, possession of marijuana paraphernalia, possession of drug paraphernalia, fel-ony possession of marijua-na, possession with intent to sell or deliver marijua-na, possession of metham-phetamine; Zachary Tyler Styles, 23, of High Point, injury to property, assault on a female. Aug. 3: Matthew Tyler Creech, 26, of Salisbury, larceny; Michael Lee Luff-man, 51, of Meadowview Road, Mocksville, assault on a government official, communicating threats, re-sisting an officer, violation of court order; Leo Nevarez Jr., 46, of Casa Bella Drive, Advnce, felony larceny; Kayla Marie Stanley, 20, of Mountview Drive, Mocks-ville, parole violation. Aug. 2: Randall Antho-ny Arnold, 40, of US 64 W., Mocksville, non-sup-port of child; Dustin Neil Atkins, 37, of Joe Myers Road, Avance; misdemean-or stalking, misdemeanor secret peeping, domestic violence prevention order violation, cyberstalking; Melinda Dawn Jackson, 34, of Lexington, driving while license revoked non-im-paired revocation, fictitious vehicle registration, pos-session of stolen goods; Lisa Kay Manning, 39, of Mountview Drive, Mocks-ville, larceny; Kayla Marie Stanley, 29, of Mountview Drive, Mocksville; larceny; Caleb Jordan Wagner, 20, of Hardy Road, Harmony, allowing livestock to run at large. Aug. 1: Bryan Lo-pez-Garcia, 22, of Lilburn, Ga., trafficking metham-phetamine; Michael Lee Luffman, 51, of Mead-owview Road, Mocksville, trespassing, violation of court order; Bernardo Ro-driguez-Ramirez, 20, of Cheyenne Lane, Mocks-ville, failure to appear in court; William Garret Sur-rat, 20, of Meta Breeze Lane, Mocksville, posses-sion of drug parapherna-lia, simple possession of Scheduled IV controlled substance; Ray John Wid-ner, 87, of Harmony, tres-passing.July 31: Holly Suzanne Angermeier, 53, of Scenic Drive, Mocksville; failure to appear in court; Jonathan Ray Ayers, 35, of Gordon Drive, Advance, possession of controlled substance on jail premises; Tyler James Bowman, 19, of Sweetgum Drive, Mocksville, assault; Sherlyn Ivy Johnson, 30, of NC 801 S., Mocksville, communicating threats; Ronald Eugene McK-night-Leonard, 27, of Yad-kinville Road, Mocksville, failuire to appear in court; Joel Luis Sanchez, 22, of Winston-Salem, injury to property; Eric Wesley ward, 41, of Hartley Road, Mocksville, larceny, larce-ny of vehicle parts.July 30: Thomas Guy Tutterow, 55, of Clem-mons, sexual battery. Building PermitsThe following building permits were issued in Da-vie County and are listed by applicant, type of construc-tion, estimated cost and lo-cation.- Arena Builders, single family dwelling, $350,000, Old Dutch Rd., Advance.- Arena Builders, single family dwelling, $350,000, Old Dutch Rd., Advance.- Shugart Homes, single family dwelling, $187,709, Morningstar Dr., Advance.- David Kessler, renova-tion, $28,800, Wandering Lane, Mocksville.- Wishon and Carter Builders, addition, Cana Rd., Mocksville.- Miller Building and Remodeling, single family dwelling, $500,000, Beau-champ Rd., Advance.- Freedom Solar, so-lar panels, $1,870, Caudle Meadows Dr., Advance.- D.R. Horton, single family dwelling, $170,850, Carriage Cove Cir., Mocks-ville.- Carolina Basement Systems, renovation, $2,249.10, Golfview Dr., Bermuda Run.- Rocape, single family dwelling, $250,000, Fere-bee Way, Mocksville.- All Starr Mobile Mov-ers, singlewide manufac-tured home, $3,000, Duke Whittaker Rd., Mocksville.- Oakwood Homes of Burlington, double-wide manufactured home, $106,000, Sain Rd., Mocksville.- Shugart Homes, single family dwelling, $153,300, Moravian Ct., Advance.- Freedom Forever North Carolina, solar pan-els, $44,915, NC 801 S., Mocksville.- Wood Home Improve-ment, deck, $6,690, US 64 E., Mocksville.- Wood Home Improve-ment, addition, $86,200, US 64 E., Mocksville.- Wood Home Improve-ment, addition, $250,000, US 64 E., Mocksville.- Wood Home Improve-ment, deck, $147,000, US.64 E., Mocksville.- Comfort Quali-ty Homes, single family dwelling, $190,000, Hill-crest Dr., Advance.- Boggs Building, acces-sory structure, $100,000, Shannon Dr., Advance.- Brad Rogers Construc-tion, renovation, $150,000, Angell Rd., Mocksville.- Roger Frye, addi-tion, $1,000, E. Depot St., Mocksville.- Keeney Builders, single family dwelling, $150,000, Deadmon Rd., Mocksville.- Keeney Builders, single family dwelling, $150,000, Deadmon Rd., Mocksville.- Keeney Builders, single family dwelling, $150,000, Deadmon Rd., Mocksville.- Keeney Builders, single family dwelling, $150,000, Deadmon Rd., Mocksville.- Keeney Builders, single family dwelling, $150,000, Deadmon Rd., Mocksville.- Band of Brothers Con-struction, deck, $27,791, Quail Ridge Lane, Mocks-ville.- Keeney Builders, single family dwelling, $150,000, Deadmon Rd., Mocksville.- Keeney Builders, single family dwelling, $150,000, Deadmon Rd., Mocksville.- Todd Craver Construc-tion, addition, $291,776, In & Out Lane, Advance.- Greg Parrish Build-ers, single family dwelling, $425,000, Old Dutch Rd., Advance.- Clint Boggs, single family dwelling, $28,000, US 158, Advance.- Shugart Homes, single family dwelling, $178,142, Brayden Dr., Advance.- RDG Construction, single family dwelling, $350,000, Kent Lane, Mocksville.- Melissa Johnson, ac-cessory structure, $20,000, Cedar Creek Rd., Mocks-ville.- Sam Morgan Custom Homes, accessory struc-ture, $50,000, US 64 W., Mocksville.- Les Gilpin, accessory structure, $100, Georgia Rd., Mocksville.- New Horizon Build-ings and Concrete, accesso-ry structure, $29,900, Hill-crest Dr., Advance.- T. Kyle Swicegood, addition, $150,000, Oak Meadow Lane, Mocksville.- Michael B. Cochran, addition, $21,000, Sain Rd., Mocksville.- Rodney Griffin, ac-cessory structure, $29,900, Copperhead Dr., Mocks-ville.- Amy Puckett Pittard, renovation, $28,000, Mag-nolia Ave., Mocksville.- Jeff Jones, storage building, $110,000, NC 801 S., Advance.- Cav Construc-tion, building addition, $237,000, Salisbury Rd., Mocksville.- Woodward and Com-pany, remodel, $65,000, Kinderton Blvd., Bermuda Run.- Chandler Concrete, concrete plant, $1,000,000, 150 Commercial Way, Mocksville. 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Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.(Matthew 5:6) 8 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 Whiteville was my last stop on July 3, probably the hottest day of my statewide challenge so far. Whiteville is the county seat of Columbus County, centered around the old courthouse, built in 1914-1915 and currently undergoing a major remodeling.Columbus County was created in 1808. In 1810, a community was planned on land owned by James B. White and originally called White’s Crossing. A post office called Whiteville started in 1821 and the town was incorporated in 1832. The Union army sacked the town late in the Civil War. Whiteville hosts the Pecan Harvest Festival annually. Vineland Station, the town’s depot built in 1903 and one of the state’s first brick depots, serves as Whiteville’s Civic Center. Several old churches and a bank building caught my eye, as did some historic houses within a couple blocks of the courthouse. •Nashville, county seat of Nash County, was first called Nash Court House and then became Nashville in 1780 and got a post office in 1805. Nashville features many historic homes. The town and its county were named for Francis Nash, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Germantown, Pa. while in command of N.C. troops during the Revolu-tionary War. The first courthouse was completed in 1778 and a historical marker denotes the ghost of the pastor con-victed for murder who still inhabits it. The next Nash County courthouse was built in 1921 and a newer one is now in use. Nashville hosts the David Freeze Reach your audience wherever they are:on desktops/laptops, tablets & smartphones. Put your message in front of your potential customers today! Call 336.751.2120to learn more! Reach Potential Customers While They Are Online WithTARGETED DIGITAL MARKETING Blooming Festival each spring and Gov. Roy Cooper was born here.•Next up was the town of Washington, county seat of Beaufort County. I had heard of it for years but had never stopped in. Washington is located on the northern bank of the Pam-lico River. It is commonly called "Original Washing-ton" or "Little Washing-ton” to distinguish it from Washington, D.C. Established in 1776 on land donated by Col. James Bonner, Washington is the first city named after George Washington, the first United States presi-dent.Washington has many A fishing boat in Bayboro, which is also home to the Pamlico County Courthouse. - Photos by David Freeze A ghost marker, the Nash County Courthouse and the downtown area in Nashville, NC. A 1906 former bank building in Whiteville, the county seat of Columbus County. “Little” Washington’s Beaufort County Courthouse was built in 1786. The author calls Washington one of the most picturesque and historic county seats he has visited, with a vibrant and refurbished downtown and walks along the Pamlico River. Some vibrant - and not so vibrant - county seats historical buildings, some from colonial times. The North Carolina Estuarium has more than 200 scientif-ic exhibits along the Pam-lico River that includes a ¾-mile boardwalk. The waterfront area is beautiful and had plenty of boats parked in the dock areas. The courthouse was built about 1786 and was originally 42 feet by 42 feet but expanded later. It is one of the oldest public buildings in N.C.The 1913 Turnage Theatre has been renovated from a vaudeville/movie theater to a center for per- forming arts. A cannonball from Union Army guns during an attack on Washington is displayed in an attorney’s office downtown. Dominique Wilkens, NBA Hall of Famer, who was called the “Human Highlight Film” for his thunderous dunks in the NBA, is from Washington. The Bank of Washing-ton, built in 1852, is still in use but I don’t think it’s still a bank. Washington was seized by Union troops in March See County Seats - Page 9 DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 - 9 Continued From Page 8March 1862 and Confeder-ate efforts to recapture it failed. The Union troops withdrew in April 1864. The First Presbyterian Church was built in 1823, rebuilt in 1871 and restored in 1954.•My next county seat was Bayboro, county seat of Pamlico County at the headwaters of the Bay River. Bayboro is a small resi-dential, agricultural, fishing and commercial communi-ty. Bayboro was named for the Bay River and settled long before it was incor-porated in 1881. It is the oldest incorporated town in the county and was the first to have town water. Its location is based on waterway commerce and commercial fishing associated with the town’s Bay River Harbor during colonial times. During that time, waterway traffic was the main source of mov-ing goods and commerce to Pamlico County. The courthouse did not appear to be historic.•I drove on to New Bern, county seat of Craven County. New Bern was founded in October 1710 by Swiss colonists who named their settlement after Bern, Switzerland where many of them came from. New Bern is the second-oldest European settled colonial town in North Carolina, after Bath. It served as the capital of North Carolina from 1770 to 1792. After the Revolu-tionary War, New Bern be-came wealthy and quickly developed a rich cultural life. When Raleigh was named the state capi-tal, New Bern rebuilt its economy by expanding There wasn’t much happening in Trenton, the county seat of Jones County, also home to Brook’s Mill Pond the the Disciples of Christ Church which donations are being taken for its renovation.County Seats ... New Bern is home to the birthplace of Pepsi and many decorated bears. The Craven County Courthouse in New Bern. trade routes to the Carib-bean and New England. James Davis was the first printer and first postmas-ter of the colony of North Carolina and owner of the North-Carolina Gazette, North Carolina colony's first newspaper.In 1862, Union forces captured New Bern and held it until after the end of the war. Over 10,000 slaves escaped under the protec-tion of the army. By 1890, New Bern had become one of the largest lumber producers in the south, but that business gradually dried up.New Bern has an especially interesting fire department history. The manned fire service began in 1845. It was taken over by Union soldiers during their Civil War occupation, and then service moved on to steam fire trucks and then motorized trucks in 1914. All this can be seen in a fantastic fire museum. Late in the afternoon, I tried to get some pictures of Tryon Palace, used by the British governors from 1770-1775. It was seized by American patriots early in the Revolutionary War and accidentally burned in 1792. The palace has been restored for tours, but the gates were closed for the day. •I made my last stop of the day in Trenton, the county seat of Jones County, and another small town with little information available. Jones County is the fourth least populous county in N.C. The Jones County courthouse was built in 1939. The economy has been based on lumber and tobacco. Late in the afternoon, I found a historic church under construction and a historic water pow-ered mill.At the end of the day, I had completed 85 county seats and 9.3 miles on my feet. See you soon with more eastern counties. Some things just belong together Save when you insure your home and auto with ERIE. You can have superb insurance coverage, outstanding service, great rates and discounts too. Take advantage of ERIE’s multi-policy discount and we’re willing to bet your tail will be waggin’. 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We must be a part of the solution to this problem so that our future is set up for success.”Smart Start of Davie has formed a child care research and discussion team composed of county government, HR represen-tatives from local industry, Davie High CTE, Davidson Davie Community College, Smart Start board mem-bers, and other community stakeholders. “We are forming part-nerships and coming up with potential solutions to the problem, especially here locally. In an effort to make these solutions bene-fit everyone.”But they need your help.Parent or guardians for a child(ren) under age 12, are asked to complete the sur-vey found at: tinyurl.com/ssns23 or stop by the Smart Continued From Page 3traveling via ship to vis-it his parents, he became deranged and either fell or jumped overboard and drowned. His death left the family totally distraught.To add to the family’s trials, John Quincy Adams, and his son, John II, took over a mill which had be-longed to a relative. John II became the manager. The business was a failure and John’s health also failed. The handsome John Adams II died when he was 31. Be-fore John’s death, another daughter, who was named Georgianna Frances, had been born to the young cou-ple. Mary Catherine and the two girls lived with their grandparents after John II’s Weddings ... death. To add to the family’s tragedies, Georgiana Fran-ces died when she was9. Mary Louisa and her moth-er continued to live with the grandparents, John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Ad-ams. They found some hap-piness from having their granddaughter with them. John II, who was not al-lowed to return to Harvard to finish his education after his participation in the stu-dent rebellion, was given his Harvard degree post-humously by the Harvard Corporation. That probably did not help the Adams family much after all the problems with which they had had to deal. Continued From Page 1The county, he said, es-pecially needs to work with towns, especially when it comes to growth on NC 801 on either side of Ber-muda Run, and along US 601 North in Mocksville.Growth along Farming-ton Road at I-40 also needs to be discussed, he said, suggesting the county cre-ate a point along Farming-ton Road where no more major development would be allowed. The same would go for US 601 North in Mocksville, he said.And there’s US 158, which begins in Mocksville and travels 10-11 miles through Bermuda Run.“I believe the over-whelming majority of Da-vie County citizens do not want to see this corridor morph into our very own South Stratford Road,” Shoaf said.People are also con-cerned that developers are allowed to skirt “the spirit” of the county’s zoning reg-ulations, he said.“We need to maintain as much of our rural charac-ter as possible. Some areas need to be developed quite a bit, and others areas need to be left alone.”The county, he said, could lead large land own-ers and farmers who want their land to remain rural to land trust or conservation easements.“Growth is inevitable, but let’s do our best.” Growth ... Continued From Page 2Webster’s Dictionary defines the phrase “to come full circle” as “a series of developments that lead back to the source, position, or situation.” Another dictionary defines the phrase in this way: “Something is now “exactly” the same as it used to be, although there has been a long period of changes.” The phrase is an idiom that refers to something ending up in the same place it started out – and while usually re-ferring to a person, it can be a place or thing. As a figure of speech, an idiomatic phrase does not mean what it says. The phrase refers to a circle making a full revolution – the circle begins and ends in the same place. But it can have other meanings relating to our lives, experiences, beliefs, and attitudes. When I consider my life coming full circle, I don’t like to believe I’ve come all this way in life only to be back where I started. I prefer thinking I’m smarter now as I’ve matured in my thinking and my faith has deepened. And all that’s true. In reality, I can’t be right back where I started. On the other hand, if I consider who I was as a child – I feel I’ve come full circle. Completing that circle has been my basic love of art, writing, and the preference I have for country living – I’m the same girl I used to be. In many ways, I’ve come full circle. Now in my final phase of life, and as the circle’s draw-ing to a close, I’d even go so far as to say my basic person-ality hasn’t changed much either. I’ve come almost full circle – and despite life’s ups and downs, fundamental-ly, I’m the same person. Nothing more, nothing less. I’ve concluded that’s a good thing. Above everything else, I’m still kind. My circle began there and will end there. And that’s a great place to stop. Renegade ... Bermuda Run will host The Entertainers Band on Saturday, Aug. 12 at Town Center on Kinderton Bou-levard (off US 158). The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Bring a lawn chair (no blankets or tents). At-tendees can also bring a picnic/cooler.This free concert has been planned with Davie County Arts Council. The Entertainers were founded in 1980 and scored An expanding non-profit is holding a Trivia Night fundraiser on Aug. 12 at 5 p.m. at the Winston-Salem Marriott. Veterans Cup hosts and promotes weekly coffees to build peer-to-peer support networks to redirect Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD) and prevent suicide. The flagship coffee meets the first, third, fourth and fifth Wednesdays at American Legion Post 55 at 111 Mill-er St. in Winston-Salem. Veterans Cup has helped spin off other coffees in Black Mountain, Walnut Cove, Atlanta Ga. and local coffees focusing on Gulf War and women veterans.Veterans Cup Executive Director Sandy Whitaker, the widow of a Navy Seal, is grateful for the support local organizations have given the non-profit, includ-ing the Veterans View In-take Center in Mocksville, which was pioneered by Army veteran Kevin Smith to provide shelter, legal, job training and medical needs for homeless veterans at one site. “This local support and support from major na-tional companies includ-ing Walmart and NextEra Energy Resources helps us effectively reach veterans in Forsyth, Davie. Davidson and Stokes counties. In so doing, we can bridge gener-ations of veterans one cup at time,” she said.Retired Army Command Sgt. Major Alex Nelson is organizer of the Veter-ans Cup Trivia Night. This event brings the community together with trivia judg-es including WXII’s Josh Start office to complete a paper copy. Information collected will help decide on initiatives and solutions. “In the meantime, re-member that child care teachers are literally edu-cating our future workforce and we must support and appreciate them in their ef-forts,” Gupton said. “Thank a child care teacher today, for they are training the leaders of tomorrow.”For more information about early education pro-grams, contact 336-751-2113 or info@daviesmart-start.org or visit www.daviesmartstart.org. Take the survey Smart Start partnering to give young children needed skills their first regional smash hit with “Living For The Summer” that same year. This song helped propel the group to the forefront of beach music, which led to their playing clubs along the grand strand of Myrtle Beach, performing from Washington, DC to Naples, Fla.The group’s years of performing experience and recording prowess culmi-nated in the release of their latest album titled, “The Inside Story”. This record, which contains the No. 1 beach music hit, “Thank Goodness She Cheated.”For more information about the concert, call the arts council (336-751-3112). Should there be a question if the concert will be moved to Sunday, Aug. 13 or cancelled due to the weather, visit the arts coun-cil’s Facebook site for that information. Beach music concert Saturday The Entertainers will perform a free concert Saturday evening in Bermuda Run. Trivia Night to help support local veterans intake center Davis, WTOB’s Ken Hous-er and State Representative Amber Baker. Teams including a bi-partisan team of Forsyth County Commissioners will compete for trophies and bragging rights. Spon-sorships are available as are table teams and individual player spots. Contact Alex Nelson at 336 681-1599`or veterans-cup2021@gmail.com. Tell us what you think with a letter to the editor Details, Page 2 DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 - 11Obituaries Sell it quickly in the classifieds 704-797-4220 William ‘Bill’ Harding BensonMr. William “Bill” Harding Benson, 91, died Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023 at his home at Terra Bella Lake Norman, a senior living center in Mooresville.He was born Jan. 28, 1932 in Davie County to the late Felix Kimbrough and Jane Iza-belle Thomason Benson, and was the last of 12 children to survive. Bill played football for Mocks-ville High School and had been president of the student body. He continued his role in student government while attending Ap-palachian State University where in his senior year he, once again, served as president of the student body. After graduation, he mar-ried the love of his life, Nancy. Bill was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and was stationed in An-napolis, Md., and later served on the U.S.S. Northampton out of Norfolk, Va. Upon his discharge from the Navy, he taught one year of school in Anne Arundel County, Md. In 1959, he joined Thurston Motor Lines in Charlotte as their safety and training di-rector. Four years later, Bill joined Belk Stores where he became general credit manager for their more than 400 stores, and retired in 1994. While with Belk, he was in-volved in many civic activities which included president of Credit Managers Association of Greater Charlotte. Bill and his family were very active at Hickory Grove United Methodist Church for many years; activities there includ-ed president of the men’s club, superintendent of church school, Sunday school teacher, and lay leader. Bill was a Third-Degree Master Mason of Mint Hill Lodge #742 A.F. & A.M. After many years in the Hickory Grove area, the Benson’s moved to the University City area and were ac-tive members of University City United Methodist Church from 1992 to 2019, when they moved to a retirement cen-ter in Mooresville. While living in the Davis Lake neigh-borhood, Bill was president of the Home Owners Asso-ciation and served as head judge in his precinct, with the Board of Elections.Survivors include: his wife of 67 years, Nancy Latham Benson; children, Barbara Jean York (Tad Herrin) of Hunt-ersville and Samuel Kimbrough Benson (Stephanie) of Waynesville; grandsons, Latham York (Taylor), Christian York, and Jett Benson; and a great-granddaughter, Ocie York.A funeral service was conducted at 2 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 6 at Lambert Funeral Chapel, Mocksville, with Chaplain Jonathan Allen officiating. The family invited friends to come by the funeral home one hour prior to the service to pay their respects. The service is available to view on the funeral home website. Interment followed in Rose Ceme-tery, Mocksville.The family would like to thank the staff of VIA Health Partners, staff of Terra Bella, Lake Norman, and Holly Dudzic of Senior Helpers for their many acts of kindness. In lieu of flowers, please consider memorials to VIA Health Partners, P.O. Box 470408, Charlotte, NC 28247.Online condolences: www.lambertfuneralhomenc.com. Death NoticeDennis Michael “Bipper” Naum Jr., 50, of Win-ston-Salem, died Sunday, July 30, 2023. Clarence Thomas DraughnMr. Clarence Thomas Draughn, 89, of Sheffield Road, Mocksville, passed away Monday, July 31, 2023 at his home.He was born on May 11, 1934 in Davie County to the late Jesse Martin Otis and Betsy Ann Stewart Draughn.Mr. Draughn was a truck driver for many years. He loved working in his garden and riding his lawn mower.In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by: his wife, Evelyn Louise Bolin Draughn; and 3 brothers, Thru-mond Draughn, Lester Draughn, and Everette Draughn.Survivors include: his 2 chil-dren, Judy Ball (Jack) of Ad-vance and Larry Draughn (Tonya) of Mocksville; 3 grand-children, Melissa Kimball, Christy Miller (Jeremy), and Craig Draughn; 3 great-grandchildren, Davis Kimball, Luke Kimball, and Macie Miller; 2 brothers, Earl Draughn (Carol) and Ervin Draughn; and several nieces and neph-ews.A graveside service was conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3 in Liberty Wesleyan Church Cemetery, with Pastor Rob Garrison officiating. Friends paid their respects to Mr. Draughn by visiting Eaton Funeral Home from 1-5 p.m. Wednesday or 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday. Memorials may be considered for: Liberty Wesleyan Church, 2106 Sheffield Road, Harmony, NC 28634.The family would like to extend a special thank you to his caregiver, Joyce Huneycutt, and a special neighbor, Vernon Faulx, for all the care, love, and support during his final days.Online condolences: www.eatonfuneralservice.com. Eleanor Spry Swicegood-RidenhourMrs. Eleanor Spry Swicegood-Ridenhour, 94, of Mocksville, died Friday, Aug, 4, 2023 at her home. She was born Nov. 29, 1928 in Rowan County to the late Roy Vestal Spry Sr. and Sarah Della McDaniel Spry. Eleanor loved going to church and although not the oldest mem-ber on the role, she had been the oldest member in attendance at Turrentine Baptist Church. Through the years at church, she had helped with the Women Mis-sionary Union (WMU), Vacation Bible School, the youth group, and had been a Sunday school teacher. Before her illness, El-eanor loved to crochet and had made many afghans for her fam-ily and friends. She was very ac-tive in the VFW Ladies Auxiliary Mocksville Post 4024 where she had served as president, secretary, and treasurer. Eleanor had also served as District 11 president for two terms. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by: her husband of 46 years, James “Jim” Swicegood; husband, Bruce Ridenhour; and siblings and their spouses, Catherine Hellard (J.W.), Evalina Campbell (Avis), and R.V. Spry, Jr. (Mildred).Survivors include: her daughters, Judy Galliher (Grady) and Linda Leonard (Kelly); grandchildren, Michael Galli-her (Renee), Sandra Lipscomb (Andy), Kristen Harrington (Chase), and Kari Snow (Wesley); great-grandchildren, Amanda Harris, Morgan White (Cody), Kaitlyn Lipscomb (Logan Cartner), Ashley Lipscomb (Jake Smith), Michael Galliher Jr. (Melanie Gobble), and Graham Harrington; great-great-grandson, Ryker Lane White; several nieces and nephews; and special friends, Cameron Webb and Au-ria Flores.A funeral service was conducted at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 6 at Turrentine Baptist Church with Rev. Joe Smith and Rev. Fred Carlton officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. The family invited friends to visit with them at the church following the service. In lieu of flowers, please consider memorials to: Turren-tine Baptist Cemetery Fund, 613 Turrentine Rd., Mocks-ville, NC 27028; or Trellis Supportive Care, 377 Hospital St., Ste. 103, Mocksville, NC 27028.The family would like to express a special thank you for your caring support during this time to Rickie and La-nette Lagle, Pat Gregory, Ann Dyson, Rev. Fred and Mrs. Jean Carlton, and her nieces and her nephews who never failed to pray for her.Online condolences: www.lambertfuneralhomenc.com. Emily (Jones) GroceEmily (Jones) Groce, 71, of Cameron, N.C., departed this world on Aug. 3, 2023 from her home in Moore Coun-ty.Emily was born on Dec. 23, 1951 in Forsyth Coun-ty, daughter of the late Marion “Shermer” Jones Sr. and Eliza-beth (Slater) Jones. In addition to her mother and father, Emily was preceded in death by: her loving husband, William Groce; and sis-ters, Becky Woods, Bonnie Tilley and her husband Jerry, and Joy Smith.In life, Emily chose a career in the textile industry where she worked as a packer. She worked with Sara Lee until she retired. Emily was a hard worker and a dedicated member of her church, Fork Baptist Church. She loved Sunday school and helped with the church nurs-ery; her favorites were the newborn babies. For the last 11 years Emily has served and touched many lives at Victory Chapel in Spring Lake, NC. When she wasn’t helping at her church, she truly enjoyed the little things in life like walking to the mailbox, eating hotdogs, bananas, and knit-ting hats. Emily was a loving mother, grandmother, and proud patriot.Emily leaves behind to treasure her memory: a son, David Bradley Groce (Jessica) of Vass, NC; a daughter, Tonya Elizabeth Groce Green (Josh) of Mocksville, NC; a brother, Marion “Shermer” Jones Jr. (Shirley); sisters, Sheila Hardy (Jeff) and Phyllis McMandus; 6 grandchil-dren, Lucius, Daisy, Natalie, Olivia, Abishai, and Hannah; and several nieces and nephews.On Tuesday, August 8, a visitation and service was held at Davie Funeral Service of Mocksville. Pastor Edward Ti-jero officiated the service. Emily was laid to rest in Fork Baptist Church Cemetery.In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the American Cancer Society.We, the staff at Davie Funeral Service of Mocksville, are honored to serve the family. James Franklin ‘Hot Rod’ WhitakerMr. James Franklin “Hot Rod” Whitaker, 85, of Mocks-ville, died peacefully, surrounded by his family, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023 at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Win-ston-Salem. He was born April 28, 1938, in Davie County to the late Oscar Roy “Buck” and Essie Mae Wall Whitaker. In 1960, he married Donna Mae Nichols and were to-gether for 55 years until her death in 2015. He was retired from Davie County Recycling. James loved to spend his time gardening and fishing. James and Donna had a greenhouse, Nannie and Paw’s Greenhouse, on Country Lane where they raised various flowers, plants, and vegetables, until health issues got in their way. He was a “people” person, who had never met a stranger and would lend a helping hand to those who need it, as long as he was able.In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by: his wife, Donna Mae Nichols Whitaker; siblings, Pauline Wall, Margie Whitaker, Oscar Gaither Whitaker, Gary Lee Whitaker, Kenneth Whitaker, and Doris Colleen Whitaker McDaniel.Survivors include: a daughter, Annette Whitaker Steele; son-in-law, Rick Steele; grandchildren, Benjamin Steele (Sheryl), and Leslie Taylor (James); great-grandchildren, Tyler Steele, Hunter Steele, Marshall Taylor, and Ashlyn Taylor; sisters, Shelby Mullis and Caroleen Speaks; sev-eral nieces and nephews; close friend, Carlton “Preacher” Booe; beloved cat, Tinkerbell; and K-9 companion, Patch-es.A memorial service was conducted at 7 p.m., Wednes-day, Aug. 9 at Lambert Funeral Chapel with “Preacher” Booe and grandson, Tyler Steele officiating. The family invited friends to visit with them from 5-7 p.m. at the fu-neral home, prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, please consider memorials to: Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home, 101 Hospice Lane, Winston-Sa-lem, NC 27103; or Humane Society of Davie County, PO Box 937 Mocksville, NC 27028.The family would like to thank the staff of Trellis Sup-portive Care and Kate B. Reynolds Hospice House for their wonderful care.Online condolences: www.lambertfuneralhomenc.com. Dorcas Gayle Walser SeafordMrs. Dorcas Gayle Walser Seaford, 88, of NC 801 S., Advance, died Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023 at her home.She was born on July 13, 1935 in Davidson County to the late John Lloyd and Lucille Rummage Walser.She was a member of Fork Baptist Church where she sang in the choir, was a member of the Co-ed 5 Sunday school class, and served in the nursery for 36 years. Mrs. Seaford was known for her baking, watching children for many families, and surround-ing herself with Sunday lunches after church.In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by: her husband of 50 years, Reginald Jackson Seaford; 2 brothers, Au-brey Walser and John Lloyd Walser, Jr.; and her sister, Col-leen Walser Curry. Survivors include: 3 children, Rev. Craig Seaford (Joy) of Mooresville, Robin Sammons (Terry) of Advance, and Michael Seaford (Susan) of Advance; 9 grandchildren, Jeremy (Hollie), Josh (Trish), Jonathan (Chelsea), Joseph (Kristen), Jesse (Amber), Brandi (Brian), Brittany (Brad-ley), Colby (Jesse), and Tyler (Logan); 14 great-grandchil-dren; a sister-in-law, Priscilla Walser of Lexington; and numerous nieces and nephews. A funeral service will be conducted at 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 10 at Fork Baptist Church with Rev. Robert Garrett and Rev. Craig Seaford officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 3:30-5 p.m. at the church.Memorials may be considered for: Faith Baptist Church, 234 Catalina Drive, Mooresville, NC 28117; or to Trellis Supportive Care, 377 Hospital St., Suite 103, Mocksville, NC 27028.Online condolences: www.eatonfuneralservice.com. Betty Dwiggins Lakey AndersonMs. Betty Dwiggins Lakey Anderson, 89, of Mocks-ville, transitioned to eternal rest Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023 at her home. She was born July 30, 1934 in Davie County to the late Marshall Lee and Nora Belle Parks Dwiggins. Betty was a charter member of Blaise Baptist Church. Through the years she had worked for Ingersoll-Rand, C’s BBQ, The Red Pig, and was a partner at Country Frills with her daughter-in-law, Angie.In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by: the father of her children, Charlie Hugh Lakey; son, Chuck Lakey; son-in-law, George Dayton; a great-grandson, Mason Hunter; and her siblings and their spous-es, Everett Dwiggins (Lilly), Bill Dwiggins (Bernice), and Lester Dwiggins (Peggy).Survivors include: her children, Marsha Lakey Hunt-er Dayton, and Doug Lakey (Angie); daughter-in-law, Scarlett Lakey; grandchildren, Brad Hunter (Shauna), Ben Hunter, Clinton Lakey, and Austin Lakey (Emily); 6 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.A funeral service was conducted at 12 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 8 at Blaise Baptist Church Chapel with Rev. Ken Furches and Dr. Bill Phillips officiating. Interment fol-lowed in the church cemetery. The family invited friends to visit at the church one hour prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, please consider memorials to: Blaise Baptist Building Fund, 134 Blaise Church Road, Mocks-ville, NC 27028, Memo: In Memory of Betty Anderson.The family would like to express a special thank you to the staff of Wellcare Hospice of Mocksville and Wellcare Home Health.Online condolences: www.lambertfuneralhomenc.com. 12 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 Bless Your Spoon By Stephanie Williams Dean Read past recipes www.ourdavie.com Taking a step forward is usually a good thing. Some-times, a step backward is even better – especially when it takes you back home. My long-time friend, MJ Zaremba, has come full circle. After living 19 years in Omaha, Neb., MJ recently moved back to Winston-Salem, a city that’s always felt like home to her. Now settled in her new house – MJ has picked up right where she left off – hosting the stand-out soirees she’s known for. Hospitality is her gift – and one is blessed to take a coveted seat at her table. MJ’s friend list is as exten-sive as her culinary versatility. Born with the French name, Marie Jeanne, pronounced “mahree jhan,” MJ lived a few doors down the street from where I once lived. Dinners served in her beautiful home were memorable and made for exquisite evenings. Her cu-rated menus, creative tablescapes, and ultimate “hostess with the mostest” personality made for a night to remem-ber.Sometimes we’re not aware of the ways we influence others. But back in the early-80s, it was MJ who exposed me to a new culinary world. Taken from a page out of the Silver Palette cookbook – to this day, I vividly recall her serv-ing Chicken Marbella, a scrump-tious chicken thigh and prune recipe. I’d never tasted anything so delicious. She also expanded my horizons with her 40-year col-lection of Bon Appetite magazine publications – I went home and subscribed the next day. In ad-dition to the magazines, MJ has over 300 cookbooks and still col-lecting. She often gifts cookbooks to like-minded friends – recently giving me a Canadian cookbook chock full of delicious recipes with a spread of gorgeous, gastronomic photos.Every good cook has a special feeling related to culinary art. For MJ, cooking is a “sacred” activity. She stands in awe of the bounties that the earth offers. “When I cut a red cabbage, I am mesmerized by the colors, lines, freshness, and taste.” She also finds the sacred in the preparation. Combining ingredients to create a dish both nurturing and delicious, sharing with friends around her table, and laugh-ing and crying together – she feels is “magical.” MJ was born in Wales to European parents and was ex-posed to diverse cultures and cuisines. She began cook-ing and entertaining as a college student and has continued ever since. At one point, her love for cooking led her to own a bakery and delicatessen in Montreal Canada, and later, a healthy, fast-food restaurant in Omaha. In the years leading up to retirement, MJ owned and ran a kitchen con-signment shop where she could share her skills and knowl-edge with lovely customers. While MJ’s father, who was Polish, often invited his cro-nies over and cooked for them – he wasn’t her influencer. Her true mentor authored MJ’s first cookbook – a vintage, French Canadian book called The New and Complete En-cyclopedia of Cooking. The deluxe edition was written by Madae Benoit – a famous gourmet chef equivalent to Julia Childs. Being a poor student, MJ had to buy the cookbook in 12 installments – it took an entire year to purchase them. To MJ, the concept of “eating well” means eating foods prepared with fresh, natural ingredients. She always keeps seasonal fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs in her fridge along with condiments, pickles, and fresh dairy products, saying, “Cheese is a wonderful component to keep on hand.” MJ values small farmers who keep heirloom veg-gies and fruits alive. When asked about a favorite last meal, MJ concluded one might be simple food like “crusty French bread slath-ered with premium mayo and topped with juicy tomato slices with salt and cracked pepper – oh, and with a glass of white wine.” My question, “Beer, wine, or cocktails?” elicited a hearty laugh, which suggested no contest. Without hesita-tion – wine. “Wine pairs better with food and can enhance food in ways that cocktails and beer can’t.” MJ’s food ritual is one I learned from Chef Don McMil-lan in cooking class – a French word known as mise-en-place – the gathering of ingredients and laying them out before cooking. Then, like playing the piano, MJ reads the recipe and creates her version of the piece – I’ve included a few of her recipes.Not only is MJ my friend – she’s my culinary instigator, inspirator, influencer, role model, and mentor. With a pen-chant for the culinary arts, old friends gather at her place, paying homage to an old truth, “Birds of a feather stick together.” Many friendships are bound by a shared love for cooking. And when we gather – there’s lots of chatter – mainly about foods, recipes, and our future plans as well as memories of days past. Our friendships in life can be impactful – be a true friend who loves, supports, and comforts. In the Bible, Peter said, “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.” 1 Peter 4:8-10 (NIV) COUSCOUS SALAD1 ½ cups couscous½ cup raisins1 tsp turmeric2 cups boiling water2 cups or15 oz. rinsed, drained chickpeas2 halved, seeded, diced medium tomatoes3 thinly sliced scallions2/3 cup toasted sliced almondsOrange-Garlic-Basil Dressing1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil1/3 cup fresh lemon juice1 grated orange rind2 Tbsp. minced, fresh basil2 minced cloves garlic½ tsp. saltFreshly ground black pepper, to tasteGreen leaf lettuceIn a bowl, combine couscous, raisins, and turmeric. Pour boiling water over the mixture and stir well. Cover bowl and allow to stand 5 minutes. Fluff with fork, cover, and al-low to stand additional 10 minutes. Stir in chickpeas, toma-toes, scallions, and toasted almonds. In another bowl, com-bine olive oil, lemon juice, orange rind, basil, garlic, salt, and pepper and blend well. Pour oil mixture over couscous mixture and toss. Cover and chill for at least 30 minutes or up to 24 hours before serving. Serve mounded on leafy lettuce. Salad can be made 2 days ahead. BLACK BEAN SALAD15 oz. rinsed, drained black beans15 oz. drained, yellow corn4 chopped scallions1 chopped large carrot½ chopped red pepper½ chopped stalk of celery1 tsp. cumin1 tsp. salt¼ tsp. freshly ground black pepperDressing1/3 cup canola oil1/3 cup fresh lemon juice3 Tbsp. chopped parsleyFor the salad, in a bowl, combine the black beans and corn. Add chopped scallions, carrot, red pepper, and celery that have been cut into small cubes. Sprinkle in the cumin, salt, and pepper. Gently fold all ingredients together un-til mixed well. For the dressing, in a jar, combine canola oil, lemon juice, and parsley. Shake well until thoroughly mixed. Pour dressing over bean mixture and gently mix well. Chill. Serve at room temperature. Salad can be made 2 days ahead. RUSSIAN POTATO SALAD4 cubed Idaho potatoes with skin1 cubed Granny Smith apple½ cubed English cucumber3 4-inch cubed Kosher dill pickles15 oz. drained yellow corn4 chopped green onions½ cup chopped fresh dill Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to tastePremium mayonnaiseSour creamWrap potatoes with skins in foil. Bake in a 370-degree oven until cooked but not too tender. Allow to cool com-pletely. In a bowl, cube potatoes, apple. cucumber, and dill pickles into ½-inch cubes. Gently mix until combined. Add drained corn, green onions, dill, salt, and pepper, to taste. Gently fold in equal amounts of mayonnaise and sour cream, just enough to coat the salad per preference. Refrig-erate. Salad can be made 2 days ahead. As the consummate hostess, MJ Zaremba pre- pares a summer holiday buffet for friends. Culinary hostess in awe of earth’s bounty Enjoy taste combinations of potatoes, apple, corn, and dill for a Russian Potato Salad. BELL PEPPER SLAW2 thinly sliced red bell peppers2 thinly sliced yellow or green bell peppersDressing3 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice1 ½ Tbsp. minced fresh mint2 tsp. sugar¾ tsp. cumin1/3 cup extra virgin olive oilIn a bowl, thinly slice all peppers lengthwise and set aside. For the dressing, in a bowl, whisk together lemon juice, mint, sugar, cumin, and oil until emulsified. Gently toss peppers with dressing, and chill for 1 hour before serv-ing. Salad can be made 2 days ahead. Bell Pepper Slaw includes a colorful assortment of bell peppers tossed in a fresh lemon with mint dressing. MJ’s delicious recipe for Couscous Salad in- cludes fresh tomatoes, scallions, and toasted almonds. Made from scratch, the Old Timey Date Bars are a favorite dessert among guests. OLD-TIMEY DATE BARS1 ½ cups all-purpose flour1 ½ cups old-fashioned regular oats2/3 cup packed brown sugar½ tsp. baking soda¼ tsp. salt¾ cup softened salted butterFilling:2 cups chopped pitted dates (½ lb.)¼ cup sugar2 tsp. fresh lemon juice¾ cups boiling waterFor the filling, in a saucepan, cook dates, sugar, lemon juice, and water over medium heat while stirring for 15 minutes or until dates are soft. Set aside and allow to cool. For the crust, in a bowl, combine flour, oats, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Blend in butter until mixture forms a crum-ble texture. Evenly pat ½ of the mixture into bottom of a square 9-inch pan. Evenly spread filling over top. Sprinkle with remaining flour crumble mixture and pat down very lightly. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 30 min-utes or until nicely browned. Allow to cool and cut into squares. Can be frozen easily. 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Hales, a By Brian PittsEnterprise Record Over the past two seasons, Avery Yount made a number of highlight-reel saves as the goalie for Davie girls soccer. • During a 0-0 tie with North Davidson in March of 2022, coach Corbin Kopetzky said: “(Yount former Davie High teacher, school board member and five-year lung cancer survivor. Col. Hales was treated for his lung cancer at Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2018 before he died in April. Helton has been connected with Draft since last fall when he and his father Chad Helton participated in a White Ribbon Build with Draft at a UNC football game tailgate in September. With the passing of his grand-father in April, Carter wanted to continue to spread awareness of lung cancer and had the idea to include his teammates and high school shop class in building white ribbons. Several members of the football team, coaches and the shop class worked with Draft in May to build 16 ribbons, and they presented them on June 16 to lung cancer survivors and medical staff that cared for Hales. The ribbons that Davie’s foot-ball team and shop class built at White ribbons Former NFL player joins Davie High team, shop class in spreading awareness Please See Ribbons - Page B4 had) one of the most beautiful saves I’ve ever seen in person.”• In a 1-1 tie with Grimsley in March of 2022, Yount had “the nicest save I’ve ever seen Avery have. She made a diving save and punched it over the bar.”• After a 1-0 overtime win against Mt. Tabor in May of 2022, Kopetzky said: “Holy cow. Avery might have played the best game I’ve ever watched her play. She made some crazy saves.”• And during a 1-0 loss to Mt. Tabor last March, Kopetzky said: “I feel like I’ve said this time and time again, but it’s the best save that she’s made. It went around the bar. This one was crazy.”After putting on several goal- keeping clinics for the War Eagles, Yount was rewarded by making the 75th North Carolina Coaches Association East-West All-Star Game. She played for the West. “It’s an honor to be able to rep-resent Davie in the all-star game,” Yount said. “It finally shows that Please See Yount - Page B4 By Brian PittsEnterprise Record As we get ready for the 2023 Davie football season, here’s a look back at one of the all-time games, a late rally and 35-28 win over Crest in 2004. When Crest scored a touch-down with 8:14 to play at War Eagle Stadium, Davie’s hopes for knocking off one of the state’s biggest dynasties was over. It was 28-14 and Davie was done. Crest had just marched 90 yards in 17 plays and the War Eagles and their standing-room-only crowd felt dejected, even though they had served notice of their legitimacy by staying competitive for three-plus quarters. But somehow, it wasn’t over. Somehow, Davie rallied for one of the greatest and wildest wins in its history. The final 8:14 featured two unbelievable plays - a 95-yard kickoff return by Raeshon McNeil and a 60-yard interception return by Cooter Arnold - and three War Eagle TDs in a span of 5:41 to give them a pulsating 35-28 non-conference win over an opponent that was ranked No. 1 in 3-A by ncpreps.com. Davie slayed a giant, frenzied fans stormed the field and coach Doug Illing got a Gatorade bath. “People said we weren’t going to win,” linebacker D.J. Rice said. “We had to show them Davie County is going to be something this year.”“We’re all going for one thing - a state championship for Da-vie County,” outside linebacker Dustin Morgan said. “Now a lot of people are going to realize what Davie County’s about.”This was such a challenge that just staying close to Crest would have been considered a small victory. The Chargers’ hugely-suc-cessful resume included being the last team to beat Independence in 2000. From 1994-97, they made the 4-A semifinals twice and won it all twice. In 2003, they handed Eastern Randolph its only loss, 40-0, in the 3AA state final. Coach Roy Kirby entered the Davie game with a 77-17 record. They started 10 sophomores in the 2003 state By Brian PittsEnterprise Record Davie’s varsity volleyball team may not have enough juice to dethrone Reagan in the Central Piedmont Conference - the Raiders went 14-0 on the way to first place last year, and they’re just as scary on paper in 2023 - but the War Eagles can absolutely challenge for a top-two finish. Last year Davie went 12-10 overall and 9-5 in the CPC to finish tied for third. It marked the eighth straight winning season under coach Amber Brandon, but it was the first so-so season for the pro-gram’s all-time winningest coach. Davie had finished first or second each of the previous five seasons. The War Eagles averaged 19.8 victories in six full seasons from 2015-22. Can they return to some-where around that level in 2023? Maybe. Maybe not. “If we’re playing really well, I think we can play with the best of them,” Brandon said. “We hav-en’t scrimmaged anybody except ourselves yet, so it’s hard to tell.”Brandon is sure about this: She has an immensely talented mid-dle in Carly Crouch. The 6-foot sophomore has the potential to be the star of the show from now through 2025. “Carly probably had the big-gest offseason,” Brandon said. “She had to figure things out (as a varsity freshman). At the end of the season, she was playing at a much higher level. She played competitive club ball and she looks like a different player. She’s just a sophomore, but she looks like a seasoned veteran. She moves side to side really well for her size. We’re building our offense around her.”The coach couldn’t be more excited about her setter. Senior Lauren O’Connor not only pos-sesses incredible quickness, she is so smart that Siri will ask her questions. “She was sitting behind Emma Hayes (the setter the past four years), so it’s her time to take over and run the show,” Brandon said. “She had a really good offseason - she put a lot of time in. She looks really, really good at practice. She is probably the quickest kid I have ever coached. She gets to balls that she has no business being able to pick up. The second thing about Lauren is she’s really creative. She runs a creative offense. She’s super smart, she’s ranked No. 1 in her class and that translates onto the volleyball court. She makes great decisions on the fly.”Players like Emma Willard, Mi-kaylah Hutton, Malia Privett, Ad-dison Wilson and Caroline Lakey are primed to be key contributors. “Emma will most likely be in the libero jersey,” Brandon said. “She’s also really, really quick. I think we’re going to play a lot faster game than people are used to in the past. “Of our starting six and the seven or eight kids that get into the rotation, all of them played really high level travel ball. Mikaylah and Malia played on my travel team. Emma played competitive travel ball. Addison had a really good travel season. Caroline really committed to a strength-and-con-ditioning program, and she had a great spring in the sand for us. She’s playing at a really high level right now.”Last year East Forsyth finished two games behind Reagan at 12-2, while Davie and West Forsyth tied for third at 9-5. Reagan, of course, is the prohibitive favorite to repeat as champion, but there are way too many positives around Davie to dismiss the War Eagles’ chances of Yount makes Davie history as E-W all-star Crouch, O’Connor anchors for VB Please See Anchors - Page B5 McNeill sparked late rally in ‘04 Please See ‘04 - Page B2 From left, Zander Richardson, Ryder Stickland, Jalen Alexander and Carter Helton work on ribbons to honor lung cancer survivors. Avery Yount leaves her feet to stop the ball during the East-West All-Star Game. The Davie graduate went out in style. B2 ‑ DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 Continued From Page B1championship game, re-turned 16 starters in 2004 and belted West Charlotte 28-0 in the opener. West Charlotte, a 13-game winner in 2003, managed seven yards. Their wealth of talent included running back Mar-tray Littlejohn (1,993 rush-ing yards in 2003), running back Travis Padgett (verbal commitment to Duke), quar-terback Maurice Gullatte (MVP in the 2003 state-title game) and the biggest of-fensive line that you’ll find. Kirby said “our offense is unbelievable” after beating West Charlotte. But after Davie pulled the upset, the truth about the War Eagles became clear to everyone: They were star-studded themselves and were unlike anything Davie County had ever seen. “They thought we were a joke,” defensive lineman Zac O’Brien said. “They were all out there laughing and we showed that Davie ain’t no joke. Don’t come in our house and laugh. We are the real deal.”The outcome had nothing to do with luck. The War Eagles didn’t just outplay Crest in the first quarter, they manhandled Crest (90 yards to zero). Davie opened the scoring on a trick play. Arnold took a pitch from quarterback Brad Corriher and faked a sweep. He pulled up and saw receiver Dewayne Col-lins all alone. Collins caught the pass and jogged in for a 31-yard score and 7-0 lead. The Chargers, though, answered with 14 straight points. They might have taken a 21-7 halftime lead if Davie’s defense had not gotten a huge stop on fourth-and-1 from the Davie 15. Early in the third, Ar-nold intercepted Gullatte at the Davie 45. Arnold picked up a first down on third-and-3 thanks to a highlight-reel block by center Ryan Boehm, and Collins streaked down the left sideline three plays later, a 25-yard completion from Arnold that tied it at 14. The Chargers regained control by putting together Upcoming Games Tuesday, Aug. 15Davie varsity soccer at Starmount at 5:15 Thursday, Aug. 17Davie JV football at Mooresville at 6 Davie JV/varsity soccer at home vs. West Iredell at 5:30/7Davie JV/varsity volleyball at North Davidson at 4:30/6 Friday, Aug. 18Davie varsity football at home vs. Mooresville at 7 By Brian PittsDavie Enterprise Record The well dried up for the Davie girls tennis team in 2019, when the War Eagles suffered their first losing season in 23 years and saw their streak of winning sea-sons end at 20. They strug-gled again in 2021. But then the War Eagles of Collin Ferebee went cra-zy. In 2021, they finished 14-1 overall and 12-0 in the Central Piedmont Con-ference. In 2022, they ran opponents through every button on the blender again, posting the same records while enjoying back-to-back perfection in the regular season. Last year marked Davie’s fifth CPC champi-onship in seven years as two amazing streaks continued. Davie has a 28-match winning streak in the regular season and a 24 winning streak in the CPC. Four of the five league titles since 2016 have come with Fere-bee at the helm. Yep, when you play tennis for Davie, you really are part of some-thing. “This is my seventh year and I think we have a culture and expectation of this is what Davie women’s tennis is now,” he said. “A lot of them know: If I’m not getting better, I’m getting worse and I may not make it next year. It’s not just a Marketing Solutions for YOUR business Newspapers • Special Sections OurDavie.com • Digital Marketing Business Card Directory Including: SEO, SEM, Targeted Marketing, Social and Reputation Management, Website Design, AND MORE. For more information contact us at: 171 S. MAIN STREET • MOCKSVILLE, NC(336) 751-2120 Tennis carries amazing streaks into ‘23 social club where you earn a varsity letter.”Can the War Eagles maintain the dominance in 2023? Let’s put it this way: It would be impossible for them not to recede after losing Karlie Quinn (11-1 singles record), Tru Koren (11-3), Sarah West Marklin (10-6) and Leslie Newsom (12-2) to graduation. Those four combined for a 44-12 singles record in 2022. While Davie will be chal-lenged to reload, Ferebee doesn’t expect his team to fall off a cliff. “Neither Reagan nor Reynolds graduated any starters,” he said. “Talent is hard to beat, but experience is harder to beat in my opin-ion. Tabor improved a lot last year. We can’t overlook them. West Forsyth lost a lot of talent, but Davie-West is a rivalry that you never overlook. “We haven’t lost (in the regular season) in two years, which is a testament to how hard the girls have worked. But that means the target is even bigger this year. Ev-eryone wants to take down Davie. I expect us to be competitive in every match. We may not walk away with 14 straight wins, but as long as we play hard, as long as we leave it on the court, I can handle that.”Ferebee’s best player is Elliot Newsome, who brings rock-solid credentials into her junior year. She went 13-2 at Nos. 1-2 singles as a freshman, and she went 10-3 at No. 1 as a sophomore. Her two-year singles/doubles record is 47-10. “She’s going to put the ball exactly where she wants to put it, and you’re going to have to deal with it,” Fere-bee said. “She’s not going to overhit you, she’s not going to slap winners on you. But she’s going to get to the ball, put it back where she wants it and make you hit a better shot. And 90 percent of the time, you’re not going to be able to.”Davie’s No. 2 singles could be Bailey Aderhold, who went 22-4 as a hotshot freshman. She was 12-3 at 4/5/6 singles, and she was 10-1 in doubles. “I think she felt a little pressure at the beginning (of 2022),” he said. “She didn’t want to mess up. But once she found her groove on the team, she was rocking and rolling. And she’s even more confident this year.”Ferebee expects senior Gabby Thompson to make a big impact. She went 4-3 at No. 6 as a freshman, and she went 3-1 at 5/6 as a junior. “She’s always been No. 7,” he said. “We’re expect-ing big things from her. She’s our biggest hitter, by far. She’ll wipe you off the court if you’re not paying attention.”Outside of Newsome and Aderhold, there are a lot of unknown quantities. The en-couraging part: Junior Abi-gail Etter and sophomores Victoria McFarlin, Casey Cao and Ada Wallace have all improved significantly since 2022. Etter has blos-somed more in two years than even Ferebee thought she would. “(Etter) has tremendous-ly improved since her fresh-man year,” he said. “When she tried out her freshman year, it was probably the first time she’d ever touched a tennis racket. She’s a suc-cess story of when you put the time in, improvements can and will happen. It’s clearly noticeable that she has gotten a lot better. “Victoria has improved her athleticism a ton. She’s been there all summer do-ing workouts with us. Her athleticism is going to take her places. She may not start as a sophomore, but if she keeps getting better, I could see her being good for us in the future. “Casey has made a big jump. She was eight or nine last year. From about three through eight, it’s going to be a slugfest, and she’s going to be right in there. “Ada has definitely got-ten a lot better. She’s hit-ting better shots and she’s quicker.”Notes: The roster in-cludes seniors Olivia Swish-er, Ali Cranfill and Brooklyn Lakey and sophomore Cam-ryn Bullard. ... Davie has the No. 1 player from each of the middle schools. Those freshmen are Corbin Drum (from Ellis), Leah Gibson (North Davie) and Bethany Jacobs (South Davie). ‘03 ... two TD drives. A win for the ages looked like it wouldn’t happen when Padgett’s 2-yard plunge capped the 90-yard drive for a 28-14 margin. Down by 14 with 8:14 to play, all Davie needed was a miracle comeback. All Davie needed was McNeil. With fans on their way to the exits, the junior took the ensuing kickoff at the 5 and delivered a 95-yard return. He got a block from Collins at the Davie 20 and burst untouched into a one-on-one duel with the kicker. When McNeil turned kicker Doug Lowery into a tele-phone pole, it was bye-bye. Coupled with David Stein’s extra point, the return made it 28-21, it stamped McNeil in the archives and it loos-ened Crest’s screws. “The defense was tired,” Morgan said. “Man, that just lifted everything up.”“That changed the game completely,” offensive guard Jordan Grimes said. “Then I knew we were going to win.”McNeil smiled broadly at the lifetime memory. “I saw some people leaving the stands,” he said. “I wanted to do something to bring the team back. They made great blocks. I didn’t have to juke nobody but the kicker. They talked about all their 4.2s and 4.1s. I showed them what speed was.”Then Davie’s rejuvenat-ed defense staggered Crest. Collins and Rice combined for a sack and Kurt Bivins blanketed a deep receiver on third down. Then Arnold fanned the frenzy by return-ing a punt 27 yards to the Crest 27, getting road-clear-ing blocks from McNeil and Rice. Running back Justin Brown powered the ball to the Crest 2. Arnold sneaked 1 yard to convert a make-or-break fourth-and-inches, and he followed Boehm again for a TD. With the score 28-27 and the house rocking, Stein stepped into the spotlight. He evoked a giant roar by drilling the tying kick down the middle. That was some-thing for a senior who had never touched a football before 2004. “I was just praying that I would make that extra point,” he said. “It all came down to me. I said: ‘Con-centrate, concentrate, keep your head down.’”With 2:30 left, Gullatte heaved a moon ball from Crest’s 28. Arnold added another heart-stopping play to his list by picking it off and returning it 60 yards to the house. He made an over-the-shoulder catch. The intended receiver grabbed Arnold’s leg, but he wig-gled free. He stumbled but regained his footing just as his knee was about to touch the ground. Then all you saw was a Collins block and an Arnold flash. He hurdled a man, rode Ted Randolph’s block at the Crest 10 and soared horizontally into the end zone as Davie fans yelled their hearts out. It had gone from 28-14 Crest to 35-28 Davie. Ar-nold knocked the Chargers down, and the defense didn’t let them up. They failed to cross midfield on their final two possessions. “We knew (Arnold’s) a great athlete,” Kirby said. “We’d watched video and I’d talked to people that said he’s high on the list for the Shrine Bowl. So is their tight end (Randolph).”When the clock hit 0:00 on Gullatte’s incomple-tion from midfield, students rushed from the stands and mobbed the War Eagles. It looked like a scene from a state championship game. “I asked a couple peo-ple: ‘Was that worth five dollars?’” offensive coordi-nator Barry Whitlock said. “And I had people telling me they would have paid 20. Our fans were yelling ‘Dee-fence’ and chanting. I’m talking about from grand-mothers to kindergartners, and then everybody stormed the field. People were hug-ging and didn’t even know who they were hugging.”The War Eagles, who improved to 3-0, would live up to the hype by run-ning the table in the regular season. The closest margin other than Crest was 13 at North Davidson. Then they steamrolled to the 4A semi-finals, winning 49-0 over Purnell Swett, 49-6 over South Caldwell and 41-0 over Hoke County. They were 14-0 before getting upset, 19-11, by Jack Britt in the fourth round. Meanwhile, the Chargers would win their next 14 games, including a triumph in the 3AA final to repeat as state champs. They finished 15-1. (336) 751-2304 MILLEREQUIPMENTRENTAL SUMMER IS HERE! 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During the spring spawning run, 100-fish days were not uncommon, so great were the number of fish making their way from the ocean and up the winding river to Roanoke Rapids Dam near Weldon. Dozens of fishing guides flocked to the river in April, and they were booked con-stantly for weeks at a time.The peak was in 2000, when recreational fish-ermen kept 38,206 fish weighing more than 163,000 pounds, even with fairly restrictive creel and size limits. Last year, after a period of poor spawns, recreation-al fishermen kept 1,949 fish weighing 6,069 pounds. They released another 123,704 fish, because the season for keeping stripers was reduced to four days and they were allowed to keep only one fish a day, within certain size limits, with a requirement to use a single, barbless hook up-stream from the US 258 bridge at Scotland Neck from April 1-June 30 when stripers are in the river.So the two agencies took dead aim at the prob-lem, working through the Commission’s Watha State Fish Hatchery in Pender County. At Jamesville on the Roanoke River, they released 1.5 million fry in May. At Edenton, they re-leased 650,000 fingerlings 2 inches long into the Albe-marle Sound in June.A $10,000 grant from the N.C. Marine & Estuary Foundation helped fund the project, which will involve similar stockings in 2024 and 2025.“The objective of the stocking effort is to sup-plement the natural recruit-ment that has been lack-ing over the last several years,” said Chris Smith, a fisheries biologist with the commission. “The intent is for these fish to ultimately contribute to the Roanoke River spawning population naturally when they reach age 3 and 4.” NCDMF has been sam-pling Albemarle Sound stripers this summer to get genetic markers that will determine whether stripers Henry Coe of the T-ball Blue Rocks, “Mr. Consistent,” has been doing great all year, ripping hits off of the coaches and has not needed to hit off the tee during a game. During one game, he threw a ball from the third-base line all the way to first for an out. He also has been doing well playing first base. Henry is a great kid and has been a great leader for his team. Grayson Anuran and Henry Pearce of the T-ball Yankees are turning into really good ballplayers and are great kids to be around. Grayson played an almost flawless inning at first base while also having a few great hits. Henry had three incredible hits and played well in the infield. Daniel Holbrook of the machine pitch Rail Riders became a key contributor to the team’s success as a catcher and outfielder. He is a brick wall behind the plate and has been relied on to drive in runs as the team’s cleanup hitter in multiple games. Tucker Lowery of the Minor Cubs played a great game and was full of en- ergy. He kept his head up and didn’t let things get to him while playing. Davie American Little League Player Spotlights sampled in coming years are natives or stocked fish, and how well the stocking program works.A big question regarding the stocking program:How many of these stocked fish will wind up in the nets of commercial fishermen?Will the stocking pro-gram benefit them more than the recreational sec-tor?Some numbers point to a possible answer. Last year, commercial fish-ermen landed and sold 24,026 pounds of striped bass – basically four times the weight of stripers kept by hook-and-line anglers. They stand to benefit a great deal.This concern was raised a number of years ago when discussion about NCDMF setting up a fish hatchery along the coast to produce some of the species whose numbers had fallen. Rec-reational fishermen were generally in favor, but they were worried that commer-cial netters would scoop up the products of the hatchery. Whether a valid thought or not, who knows?What’s up with speckled trout?Of greater concern to recreational fishermen might be NCDMF’s inter-esting ideas about the sta-tus of spotted seatrout, aka speckled trout, that were first raised in public meet-ings earlier this year and mentioned in the agency’s 2022 Fishery Management Plan Review, which was re-leased last week.The document, which was more than 700 pag-es long, reviews the status of almost every inshore or nearshore fish familiar to North Carolina fishermen.In its review of spotted seatrout, it classified them as having a huge, healthy stock of breeding-aged fish. But it declared that the species was being “over-fished.” So how do “not overfished” and “being overfished” jive?Apparently, it means there are plenty of fish, with no immediate concerns, but with concerns down the road a ways.Overfishing is, by the state’s definition, “fishing that causes a level of mor-tality that prevents a fishery from producing a sustain- able harvest.”Being overfished is “the condition of a fishery that occurs when the spawning stock biomass of the fishery is below the level that is ad-equate for the recruitment class of a fishery to replace the spawning class of the fishery.”Confused? You bet. The bottom line is, the agency is worried because fishermen have been catching more speckled trout in North Carolina (and Virginia) wa-ters over the past handful of years than ever before, and more big fish, too. One reason? North Car-olina has gone without a crushing cold-weath-er event for a handful of years, so the population has largely survived the winters and grown every year, with more fish and more big fish showing up. A second reason? Since the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission has imposed harvest limits on south-ern flounder – one of the state’s most popular fish among recreational fish-ermen – a lot of fisherman are targeting species other than flounder. I have been targeting speckled trout a great deal more since the flounder restrictions. This fall, instead of a week on the Outer Banks, my family will be headed to Murrells Inlet, S.C., where there is no flounder closure and the daily creel limit is five fish. So the NCDMF doesnn’t think the kind of harvest the past handful of years has produced can be sustained, so they’re thinking about ways to keep us from catch-ing as many specks. Well, restoring the flounder fish-ery would be a good first step. 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BY MAIL ON A FIRESTONE VISA® PREPAID CARDBACK$90GET UP TO GET $60 WITH PURCHASE OF 4 ELIGIBLE FIRESTONE TIRES GET $30 WHEN YOU USE YOUR CFNA CREDIT CARD* B4 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 Continued From Page B1team camp will be presented to lung cancer survivors and medical staff at Novant Health Cancer Institute and Atrium Wake Forest Baptist. “(Davie coach Tim De-vericks) made a good point to me that this project was great for multiple reasons,” Chad Helton said. “The team got to do a commu-nity service project to help others while doing a team building project. They got to interact and hear from a for-mer NFL player whose wife passed from lung cancer at the age of 37 a month after they got married. And they learned a skill of sanding/painting.“Mr. (Matthew) Cartner and his shop class cut out all 32 of these ribbons and the football team painted and sanded the ribbons. The overall goal of the White Ribbon Project is to change the face of lung cancer through love and support for all lung cancer survivors.”Devericks, Carter Hel-ton, his brother Tate Helton and several other football players attended the school board meeting on Aug. 1, which was World Lung Cancer Day, and presented a ribbon to the board in memory of Hales. “This movement to change the face of lung cancer has become my pas-sion,” Carter Helton said. “I have found my purpose, and without passion you can’t find purpose.”If someone is a lung cancer survivor, a caregiver, a lung cancer advocate or wants to become one and would like a white ribbon of their own, contact Chad Helton at chelton75@gmail.com. Ribbons ... Continued From Page B1all the hard work I have put in for the past few years has finally paid off. It was only a short time ago that I was a freshman who took her first steps on a high school field. Now as a senior, I get to compete with the best in the state. These are all talented girls and I expect that being able to be around each other and train together will be the most rewarding experience. It’s also a nice way to cap off my high school career.”Yount had every right to be incredibly proud. She be-came the first Davie soccer player - male or female - to play in the East-West Game, she became the first Davie female to play in any East-West Game in 39 years and she became the third Davie female of all time to play in an East-West All-Star game. The other two Davie females to make it were basketball stars Jill Amos and Angie Browder in 1980 and 1984, respectively. “I had no idea (about making Davie history),” Yount said. “When I looked at the (East-West) program, it did make me wonder about that. But I didn’t know until after the game when I talked to my coaches. “I never would have thought that I would have Davie’s East-West All-Stars John Grimes (football, 1961) Ed Bowles (football, 1962) Ronnie Spry (football, 1966) Edgar Osborne (football, 1967) Randall Ward (football, 1967) Fred Bailey (football, 1968) Allan Barger (football, 1970) James “Jingles” Ijames (basketball, 1970) Dwayne Grant (basketball, 1977) Jill Amos (basketball, 1980) Angie Browder (basketball, 1984) Chris Jacobs (football, 1984) Andre Frost (football, 1989) Duane Phillips (basketball, 2000) Sam Stovall (football, 2003) Ryan Boehm (football, 2005) ReShaun Parks (football, 2006) Garrett Benge (football, 2008) Drew Absher (basketball, 2009) James Mayfield (football, 2009) Zach Long (football, 2010) Shannon Dillard (basketball, 2012) Nate Jones (basketball, 2012) Adam Smith (football, 2012) Ben Ellis (football, 2016) James Boyle (football, 2017) Chris Reynolds (football, 2017) Cody Hendrix (football, 2018) Kristian Lyons (football, 2021) Avery Taylor (football, 2021) Willie Purvis (football, 2023) Brodie Smith (football, 2023) Avery Yount (soccer, 2023) Yount ... gotten the opportunity to play in this game nor have my name carry this much weight in Davie’s history. It’s a surreal feeling to say you’re an all-star, but to say you were the first is a unique feeling that is inde-scribable.”The game was held at Bryan Park’s MacPherson Stadium in Browns Summit on July 18. The East beat the West 6-2. Yount and Hibrit-en’s Rylee Conrad split time at goalie, and Yount turned in two saves. Three of the West’s 16 players were from the Central Piedmont Con-ference, including West For-syth’s Raegan Williams and Kate Schaffer. The West was coached by Rockingham County’s Tim Buck. Yount was the varsity goalie for three years. She racked up a whopping 139 saves as a sophomore. Da-vie’s defense was consid-erably stronger the next year and Yount’s saves tally dropped to 67 in 2022. Da-vie fielded another stingy defense in 2023 and Yount had 67 saves again. Yount is also a star in the classroom. She was a mem-ber of the National Honor Society. She plans to major in architecture at Clemson. “She’s very determined, hard-working and selfless - she’s going to put others before herself,” said Kope-tzky, the second-year head coach who was a Davie assistant during Yount’s sophomore year. “And she was constantly wanting to get better. She was a captain this year for us. She was voted by her peers for that. I think she exemplified what that position is.” 3301 Salisbury Hwy • Statesville, NC 28677 704-872-3148 • lilshavers.com Lumber • Hardwood • Plywood PPG Paints • Stains • Flooring Quikrete • Plumbing Electrical & More! We Know Wood! If wood confuses you, call or come by... We’ll clear it up for you! Davie football players line up around former NFL player Chris Draft (center). At right, Carter Helton works on a ribbon. From left: Tate Helton, Carter Helton, Chris Draft, Tim Devericks and Corey Tilley. Ty Miller puts his ribbon together. Coach Corbin Kopetzky with Avery Yount. DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 - B5 Continued From Page B1contending for at least run-ner-up. “Reagan should be just as good, if not better, than they were last year,” Bran-don said. “West has some really good pieces. They’ve got three super talented freshmen. I anticipate all three being on varsity as By Brian PittsEnterprise Record Marco Rebollar arrived in 2022 to reboot a long downtrodden team. He in-jected new energy into Da-vie varsity boys soccer and bled four wins out of the War Eagles. Records of 4-18 overall and 2-12 in the Central Piedmont Conference might look like a fruitless season, but it was progress. The largest margin of defeat was 6-0 at West Forsyth - there were no mercy-rule defeats on Rebollar’s watch in 2022 - and Davie earned the most wins in eight seasons. The two CPC victories were noteworthy when you con-sider Davie went 1-65 in the league from 2016-21. One of the best things By Brian PittsEnterprise Record Davie boys soccer looks like an up-and-coming pro-gram. While the varsity ap-pears primed to turn a corner under Marco Rebollar, the JV is ready to put a stop to the constant losing. We’re not suggesting coach Scott McBain’s squad is going to soar to a winning record in 2023 - that would be asking a bit much after it finished 1-16-3 last year, with the end of a 22-game losing streak representing one of Davie’s few high-lights - but it should be a whole lot stronger in 2023. “We should be very com-petitive,” said McBain, who is beginning his second year at Davie. “I will be keeping about 25 freshmen. Soccer coach excited about potential about 2022: The War Eagles got better as the season wore on. Reagan had 12 seniors, but they were shocked 2-1 by Davie on the Raiders’ Senior Night. It was Davie’s first win over Reagan in 21 tries. Then came a 5-4 over-time win over Parkland on Davie’s Senior Night. Now there are signs pointing to Davie taking the next step - climbing out of the CPC cellar after fin-ishing last for nine straight seasons. “Last year we started eight sophomores,” Rebol-lar said. “(A year older) is going to make a world of difference. They’ve got ex-perience to play varsity now. We just have to get them to believe in themselves; that’s the hardest thing.”It’s hard to win when you average 1.2 goals per game. Last year Davie generated 28 goals in 22 games, but that was marked improve-ment over 2021, when it had 12 goals in 19 games. Rebollar is looking for an-other jump in that area. The key guys at forward will be sophomore Justin Rayas and the Tarbet brothers - juniors Mason and Alex. When Alex plays forward, Mason will be working the mid-field, and vice versa. Last year as a freshman, Rayas led Davie in assists (four) and was second in goals (six). Alex Del Car-men, a junior, was tied for third in goals with four. “Alex played in the State Games for me this summer,” Rebollar said. “I think that helped him facing some of the best players in North Carolina. That brought a lot of confidence to his game.”Davie expects a big boost from Rafael Amaro, who attended Davie as a fresh-man, moved to Texas for his sophomore year and is back at Davie as a junior. “Rafael is a nice addition to the team,” Rebollar said. “He’s a natural leader and I’m hoping he can control the tempo of games and put our forwards in good positions for them to score. “One of the Tarbets will play up top and one of them in the midfield. Mason will probably help more in the midfield.”Eight guys are competing for starting spots on defense. One of the leaders is junior Karson Yount. Will Davis is another one that Rebollar is counting on. Davis missed the last two games of 2022 with an ACL tear, but he’s back for his senior year. “We have a lot of talent back there,” Rebollar said. Rebollar has high hopes for his goalie, junior Felipe Flores. In fact, he sees lots of reasons to be excited. One of the biggest is this: 12 varsity returners (Davis, Victor Calix, Alex Torres, Luke Kittleson, Emmanuel Alanis, Yount, Del Carmen, Flores, A. Tarbet, M. Tarbet, Zach Hill and Rayas). “I think we have so much potential,” he said. “I can see us doing a lot better than we did last year.”There’s only one prob-lem: The CPC is a killer league. As always, Davie will have to earn everything it gets. “This is one of the hard- est conferences,” Rebollar said. “Man, it’s brutal. Rea-gan had (12 seniors), but their JV program was just as strong, so I think they’ll be just as competitive.”Notes: Rebollar has ev-eryone on his staff back and one addition. Tyler Dinkins, Nate Hinshaw and Scott McBain have been joined by Corbin Kopetzky, the head coach of varsity girls soccer. ... The seniors are Micah Fryar, Mason Kuhnemann, Davis, Alanis, Kittleson and Calix. The juniors are A. Tarbet, M. Tarbet, Del Carmen, Amaro, Torres, Yount, Flores, Abdullah Guver, Brayan Reyes, Hill, Giovani Ramirez and Gage Whitaker. The sophomores are Rayas and Isaiah Beaty. Dylan Cassetta is a fresh-man. Many have 10-plus years of playing experience. My objective is to polish them into a dominant force that eventually builds a domi-nant program for years to come. Needless to say, I’m excited about the potential.”McBain has five re-turners: sophomores Jaxon Cruse, Roger Luna, Erik Pope, Owen Tomlinson and David Fishel. After the first week, he cited Andy Longares, Hunter Stephens, Max Rappoport, Cruse, Gabriel Bello, Porter Spann, Fishel, Hamza Heikal and Ezra Regalado for showing promise. “Andy is a scoring threat from anywhere,” he said. “Hunter and Max are skilled and examples of leadership, as well as (Cruse). Our sweeper (Bello) is a quiet leader with a smooth touch. He should be fun to watch. We have a new goalkeeper. (Spann) is mild-mannered but tough as steel, as is our returning keeper (Fishel). Our midfield will be strong and deep, led by Heikal and Ragalado.”Evans Steele is a sopho-more member of the team. There are 16 freshmen, including Heikal, Longares, Santiago Maganda, Rap-poport, Stephens, Bello, Devin Hernandez, Jaden Godbey, Hector Rodriguez, Joshua Baker, Regalado, Spann, Eric Martinez, An-thony Ramirez, Alex Serra-no and Richard Diaz. “I have some secret weapons of depth,” Mc-Bain said. JV should be stronger Anchors ... freshmen. East Forsyth still has Kinnady Boothe, who can take over and change a game.”Notes: Brandon enters her ninth year with a 140-54 record. ... While Marnic Lewis and JV coach Tabatha Lyons are back as assistants, a familiar face has joined the coaching staff in Morgan Flores, who starred at Davie before playing in college at Appalachian State. “She was a part of my first fresh-man class,” Brandon said. “She was part of a group that bought into building the volleyball program and the culture into what I wanted it to be. It’s special that she wanted to come back as soon as she graduated and get back involved in the program.”Junior VarsityDavie’s JV might take its lumps early, but Brandon has grand visions for a huge freshman class. “It’s the biggest fresh-man class since I’ve been at Davie,” she said. “I took two freshmen on varsity and there are 12 of them on JV. It’s a huge adjustment from middle school to high school, but we are super excited about what they bring and what the future could be. It might take them a little while to get it figured out, but I expect them to be rocking and rolling by the end of the season.” If it takes some time for the newcomers to get accli-mated, the JV can lean on sophomores Mia Clemo, La-nah Kruger, Callie Jenkins and MacKenzie Burrows. “It’ll be beneficial for them to have two sopho-mores setters (Clemo and Kruger),” Brandon said. “It’s always beneficial to have a middle as a returner (like Burrows) because it’s such a dynamic position.“Callie had a really good freshman year last year. She learned a lot. She had a really good offseason. She really worked hard, made some adjustments. She’s right there on the brink of really figuring it out. Once she does, she could be some-thing really special.”The JV went 9-5 in Ly-ons’ first year at Davie. “I specialize in small projects!” John Huneycutt, Owner 336-618-2425 huneycuttpainting@gmail.com Interior & Exterior Painting Handyman work, repairs, & carpentry Building new decks & refurbishing existing decks Home upgrades: flooring, tile, backsplash, & countertops Market readies & home improvement projects Pressure washing & basement clean-outs Mason Tarbet handles the ball. In middle, Dylan Cassetta, Rafael Amaro and Luke Kittleson compete in practice. At right, Amaro makes a pass. Mason Tarbet attempts a bicycle kick finish. - Photos by Kat Woodruff-Carter Gage Whitaker, Isaiah Beaty and Abdullah Guver work on their skills. The War Eagles sharpen up for the Aug. 15 season opener. Caroline Mitchell (left), Zamirah Summers and Bella Bailey play the back row in practice. B6 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 By Carrie MillerDavie Senior Services Davie Senior Services kicked off July with the monthly veterans social on July 6, sponsored by Senior Services, Veterans Ser-vices, and Trellis Support-ive Care.On July 7, karaoke and dance met at the Brock and folks enjoyed singing to their favorite songs and dancing with the music. Also, seniors enjoyed cre-ating Flag Pin crafts as part of Crafternoon at the Davie County Public Library. Each quarter, Senior Ser-vices offers Senior Games activities. On July 10, Mike Garner taught badminton at the Brock. Badminton is a Senior Games sport that can be played in singles or doubles. Badminton open play is every Thursday at the Brock Gym from 2-3.July 11 was the monthly day trip, this time to Mur-ray’s Mill Historic District, lunch at Granny’s Country Kitchen, and the Bunker Hill Covered Bridge. The trips fill up quickly.Each quarter, Senior Services offers an inter-generational event for older adults to enjoy with their grandchildren or great-grandchildren. This time it was cooking with grandkids. The children ranged from 3-6 years in age and worked with their grandparents on three proj-ects: peanut butter balls, Sully and his grandma, Renae Tkach, enjoy making ice cream in a bag together at Cooking with Grandkids at Davie Senior Services. Children (above and below) enjoy Living History Day at Cognition. A group of friends enjoy seeing the Bunker Hill Covered Bridge on the day trip in July, including Carl and Millie Fulton (right). Members of the Theatre Club enjoy a trip to see “Bye-Bye Birdie.” Anson Hartman enjoys mixing party mix with his grandparents at Cooking with Grandkids. a snack mix, and making their own ice cream. On July 18, Dr. Charles Semelka from Atrium Health Wake Forest Bap-tist joined Senior Services discussed mental health and older adults. That af-ternoon, Dedicated Senior Medical Center sponsored bingo with more than 50 in attendance. Thursday, Phillip Brown from NC Baptist Aging Ministry held a program titled “Not Living in Nev-erland: Removing Barriers from Your Home”. That afternoon, the Senior Book Club met at the library. They discussed the book “The Other Bennett Sister” by Janice Hadlow. Living History Day was Friday, July 21. For the past two years, Senior Services has worked with Cogni-tion Davie to host this for children to learn about arts from the past. The children learned about butter mak-ing and farming from Steve and Peggy Evans, quilting from Sharrie Campbell, Re-nee Call, and Haley Kyles, basket weaving from Cher-yl Tilley, and woodcarving from Tim Trudgeon. Chil-dren participated in hands-on activities– making butter by shaking heavy whipping cream in a jar and then tast-ing it on French bread, cre-ating a quilt square, weav-ing a paper placemat, and carving soap. More than 20 children and 11 adults par-ticipated. Crafternoon met on July 21 at the library to make wind chimes. On July 24, Senior Ser-vices held the monthly What’s Cooking: Foods, Fads, and Helpful Home Hacks class. They dis-cussed spices. They dis-cussed when to salt food along with types of salt. Handouts featured which spices to use along with spice substitutes. At the end of the class, the group made a chicken marinade rub. This class covers a va-riety of topics, and the next meeting will be on Mon-day, Aug. 28.The Good Health Club meets the fourth Thursday. They talk about healthy items and do light exer-cises. This month, they discussed sugars and tried a strawberry tomato salsa and cucumber sandwiches.To close the month, Se-nior Services held a Patri-otic Party on July 28 with Presidential Trivia and snacks featuring red, white, and blue creations. For more information on how to become involved at Senior Services, give them a call at 336-753-6230. Diane and Rowdy Cannaday enjoy the Patriotic Party. Friends Darryl, Daphne, Fred, and Kathleen en- joy the Patriotic Party in their festive outfits. Day trips and cooking with kids: Seniors stay busy DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 - B7 Sheffield-Calahaln By Brenda BaileySheffield-CalahalnCorrespondent Birthday wishes to: Ra-chel Wilson on Aug. 11; Cora Lee Gaither on Aug. 12; Marsha Alexander on Aug. 14; Joanie Bailey on Aug. 15; and Gina Swisher on Aug. 17. Happy anni-versary to Wilbur and June Reeves on Aug. 11. If you would like a birthday or an-niversary listed in this col-umn, please let me know.Anyone interested in be-ing a firefighter and serving the community, please see Chief Gary Allen of the Sheffield-Calahaln VFD by coming by the department or calling 336-492-5791. New Union had a great time at Vacation Bible School this past week with 35 or more children each night. The theme was the Hero Hotline, where chil-dren experienced stories through music, drama and storytelling, games, arts and crafts, science exper-iments and food. They learned that heroes are called to follow Jesus, help others, work together, and listen to God. On the last night, family night, there was a program followed by hotdogs, then playtime. We thank everyone who helped, the children who attended and their parents, teachers, helpers, those who provided the meal each night and the servers.New Union’s next Hot-dog Saturday is Aug. 26 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The church is at Sheffield and County Line roads.New Union also wel-comes everyone to Sun-day School at 9 a.m. and worship service at 10 each week. A Blessing Box is full and ready for those in need. Homecoming and reviv-al services at Ijames Baptist Church will begin Sunday, Aug. 13 with Evangelist Kenny Greenway speaking at the 10:30 a.m. worship service. A covered dish lunch will be follow in the fellowship hall. Each eve-ning at 7:, Sunday-Wednes-day, Greenway will be guest speaker. Everyone is welcome. A nursery will be provided.Ijames Baptist’s wor-ship service is each week at 10:30 a.m. Bible Study is each Sunday evening from 5-6 and TeamKID is each Sunday at the same time for children ages 3 years to 6th grade. Ijames welcomes everyone to all services. Ijames is collect-ing non-perishable items for a Blessing Box placed on the church grounds, and Children practice a routine at the New Union Bible School last week.Harper Dyson tries out a heroes science exper- iment. Pastor Brian Loper visits during meal time, won- dering who got the last Krispy Kreme dough- nuts.Games are always a fun time at Bible School. Drama and music and costumes, children take center stage at the New Union Bible School. the Blessing Box now has a produce stand. Anyone with an abundance of gar-den vegetables may place the bounty on the stand to help those in need. Anyone in need may take what they can use. A time of prayer is held at Liberty Wesleyan Church each Sunday at 9:30 a.m., followed by Sunday School at 10 and Worship at 11. Choir practice is held each Wednesday at 7 p.m. Vacation Bible School at Liberty Wesleyan is Aug. 19 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The theme is “Let The Little Children Come Unto Me”. There will be food, crafts, Bible lessons, and a bounce house with water, so bring a towel. Community Covenant invites you to join them on Sundays at 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. for worship and on Wednesday evenings at 6 for Bible study.If you like to play mu-sic or just enjoy listening and dancing, check out the Meatlocker Jam on Mondays from 6:30-9:30 p.m. and/or BoTyme each Thursday from 6:30-8:30. For more information and location of these jams, con-tact me via Facebook or email. Southern Express per-formed at Maw Maw’s Kitchen Friday. Upcoming bands performing: J Max McKee on the 11th, NuHi-Way the 18th and Cabarrus Station the 25th. Time is 6-8 p.m. each Friday.Prayer requests con-tinue for Bryan Swain, Jean Reavis, Hazel Smoot, Tim Keller, Junior Dunn, Betty Dameron, Tammy Keller, Charles England, Lincoln Dyson, Chester Reeves, Yvonne Ijames, Bonnie Gunter, Ed Liven-good, Milton Tutterow, Nancy Peacock, Geraldine Lambert, Betty Beck, Sue Gobble, Bob Ellis, Helen Bulla, Paul Beck, Juanita Keaton, Betty Godbey, Em-ily Brown, Marsha Gobble, Mary Teague, Eddie Por-ter, Janie Williams, Larry Richie, Maria Knight, Vio-let Coursey, Clyde Jordan, Jack Seaford and Suzonne Stratton. Our sincere con-dolences to the Clarence Draughn family.Submit all news to me at brfbailey@msn.com, message me on facebook or call me at 336-837-8122 no later than Friday. Several new musicians, Kandi Gordon Fie, Joe Andrews and Landin Baldwin, were welcomed at Farmington on Thursday. Southern Express members, Brian Hinson, Mike Benton, Lee Ward and Donnie Gulledge, perform on Friday. The top stories sent to your inbox Visit www.ourdavie.com, click on services, and sign up for our free weekly email newsletter. And receive some pretty sweet deals for an online subscription. Bible school a hit at New Union B8 ‑ DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 By KC SmithCooleemee Correspondent On Saturday, Aug. 5, the 14th annual rubber duck race was held at RiverPark, Cooleemee Falls or The Bull Hole. Several vendors were lo-cated at the shelter and half way down the hill you could stop and choose from dif-ferent flavors of sno cones. Many children were excited to win a ticket at games pro-vided to receive a free one.The temperature hit above 90 but the South Yad-kin River refreshed those in seconds who dared to ride down the rushing water. Families with children stayed on the shallow areas so they could play in the water safely.Several families built sand castles and moats un-der the large arched branch-es from a tree. Those who didn’t have a raft or inner tube could still ride the swift flow of the water.An aroma of Indian food came down from the high hill. A large group of friends, all originally from India, were in the shade on a blanket and enjoying fel-lowship and food. Their home is in Charlotte. The park has many visitors from that part of the state. Saul Mendez found a quiet spot on a large rock under a shaded tree to relax and watch everyone having fun. An elderly woman was so relaxed while she en-joyed her hammock that had been tied between shade trees. The fee per car to enter the park is $10 for an event, other days the fee is $5.Where else can you go and find walking trails through the woods, picnic tables, benches behind the dam to read a book, have lunch or meditate to the sounds of the water?There are two portals for canoe entrances, clean bath-rooms and a shelter where large groups can gather and The place to beRiverPark drawing crowds to South Yadkin Please See Park ‑ Page B9 The South Yadkin River helps folks cool off during the annual festival and rubber duck race. - Photos by KC Smith DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 ‑ B9 Continued From Page B8grill.And, there’s the river. Many people arrive early in the morning to make a full day. RiverPark is a beauti-ful place and people who come for the first time say this is a hidden gem. The surrounding nature can take you breath away and bea-cons you to return again and again. Contact me at www.cool-eemeenews@gmail.com or 336.250.1133. 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STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Domestic Violence hurts more than oneperson 336-751-HELP 24 HOUR CRISIS LINE OUR SERVICES INCLUDE: 24-Hour Crisis Line • Assistance Filing Protective Orders Crisis Counseling • Support Groups Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Information Emergency Shelter Assistance * North Carolina Department of Public Safety. Justice Analysis Review: Identifying Domestic Violence in North Carolina. February 2023. of simple assault in N.C. committed by a current or former intimate partneror family member between 2019 and 2021* 138,375 reports B10 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 County Line SUBSCRIBE TO THE ENTERPRISE! Dateline By Shirley ThorneCounty Line Correspondent Iredell-Statesville Schools begin Monday, Aug. 14. As you drive, be sure to exercise caution when meeting a school bus or passing students at a bus stop. Also, be sure to stop when a bus has its stop arm extended. If students need to cross the road, they should always cross in front of the bus. More buses will be on the road when Davie County Schools begin Aug. 28. Words/acts of caution may save a life.The Young at Heart of Society Baptist will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15. The group invites others in our community.Calvary Baptist Church hosted a community ice cream social yesterday (Wednesday) evening.A country ham and sau-sage breakfast sponsored by the V-Point Ruritans will be from 7-10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 2.Our community sends get-well wishes to Lorene Macemore, who has pan-creatitis at Rowan Medical Center since Thursday of last week. Alice Waugh and Mildred Beck remain in re-hab at Davie Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Join us in prayer for the Lord's divine healing upon Lorene, Alice, Mildred, and others who have health problems.Remember in prayer the family of Clarence Draughn, who died Monday of last week at his home on Sheffield Road; he was the husband of the late County Line native Evelyn Bolin Draughn. Also, remember in prayer County Line na-tive Archie Jones and wife Caroline; she has been di-agnosed with critical lym-phoma of the brain and will begin treatment therapy at N.C. University Health Center of Chapel Hill. Please continue to pray for the Lord's divine healing of young Caleb Williams as he takes oral chemotherapy treatments at Wake Forest Baptist Brenner Children's Hospital. Also, pray for the Lord's comfort and guid-ance upon his parents Perry and Vickie as they minister to his needs.For news and memories to share, call or text Shirley on 336-492-5115 or email sdtlink@hotmail.com. Iredell schools starting; use caution on the roads Fundraisers Saturday, Aug. 12Community breakfast, Farmington Methodist, Farmington Road, Mocksville, 7-10 a.m. Pork tenderloin, sausage, eggs, grits, sausage gravy, apples, hash brown casserole, biscuits, beverages. Donations accepted. Reunions Saturday, Sept. 9Davie High School Class of 1963, 60th-year reunion, ar-rive at noon, lunch at 1, Junk-er’s Barn, 136 Triple J Lane, Mocksville. $20 per person. RSVP by text or call Bob Crotts by Aug. 26, 336-816-1900. Friday, Sept. 22Davie High Class of 1973, 50th year reunion, The Farm-house at Gemini Branch, 3320 NC 801 N., Mocksville. Meet at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 7. $35 per person, $45 at door. Checks to DCHS Class of ‘73 at venue address. 336-909-3754, 336-830-5123. Religion Saturday, Aug. 12Vacation Bible School, Tur-rentine Baptist Church, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Lunch served, whole family welcome. Ex-plore Babylon and Daniel’s courage in captivity. OngoingCenter Methodist Preschool enrolling 2, 3, 4 year olds. 336-751-5853.AWANA, youth meetings, Victory Baptist, 160 Midway ACROSS 1. (K) Girl’s name that’s a palindrome 5. (K) Do this to the lawn 8. (K) Mouse ___ (board game) 12. (K) Underground plant part 13. (K) Sound that a dentist loves to hear 14. Patient beneficiary 15. (K) Isn’t contraction that isn’t isn’t 16. (K) A downhill slider 17. Implement corrections 18. Swimming style (2 words) 21. (K) Actor’s hint 22. (K) Careful watcher 23. (K) Busy buzzer (2 words) 27. Absolute upper limit 30. Flees quickly, archaically 31. “Cool” number 32. (K) Exploding star 33. (K) Like being the same age as Santa 34. Wet low-lying coastal plain 36. (K) Place for caught tuna 37. (K) It often has a lid 38. “Then again ...” (2 words) 45. (K) “Meow” relative 46. Roth acct. 47. (K) Simba or Nala sound 48. Space within certain boundaries 49. (K) Praying woman with a habit 50. Starting poker stake 51. Loud wail 52. (K) Acquire 53. Onion relative DOWN 1. (K) Fast horse 2. Cinematic film genre 3. Like the number of Detroit Lions Super Bowl wins 4. Offensive actions 5. Orchestrating plans 6. (K) Sturdy trees 7. A burdensome pachyderm? (2 words) 8. Spasm of deep pain 9. Smell like garbage 10. (K) Helper at work 11. (K) Like WNBA players 19. (K) Take to court 20. Grain 23. (K) What an owl wants to know? 24. (K) Cooking liquid 25. (K) Like Elmo or Ariel’s hair 26. Do this on eBay 27. Collapsible bed 28. (K) Abbreviation in some street names 29. Golf score to shoot for 32. (K) Not artificial 34. (K) Sunbather’s objective 35. Try to win someone’s affection 36. (K) Colorful underwater life-form 38. Sterilize a pet 39. 100 cents, in France 40. (K) All hands on deck? 41. (K) Not false 42. (K) No longer in the building 43. (K) Horrible emotion 44. “Star ___” PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER © 2023 Timothy Parker Crosswords/Dist. by Andrews McMeel Syndication syndication.andrewsmcmeel.com Can you find the answer to this riddle within the solved puzzle? One waiting in line for years? Look for the answer in next week’s paper. Created by Timothy E. Parker August 14, 2023 The (K) Clues Are for Kids Part of a real pig out? 1-A) ODOR Previous riddle answer: St., Cooleemee, Sundays 5:30 p.m. Special Events Saturday, Aug. 12Free Breakfast, BBQ chicken for lunch, Just Hope Thrift Store, Salisbury Rd., Mocks-ville. Free breakfast 9-10:30, sponsored by Agape Home-care Solutions; and $12 BBQ chicken plates beginning at 11:30 a.m. Donations needed, especially men’s and boy’s clothing. Sept. 8-9Davie Farm Fest, Masonic Picnic Grounds (off N. Main behind the Brock, Mocks-ville.) 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. On site parade 2 p.m. Saturday. Trac-tor show, vendors, games, ac-tivities, kid’s pedal pull, farm and livestock demonstrations. Entertainment by Shoulder 2 Shoulder 5-8 p.m. Friday and Gaining Ground, 10-11 a.m. Saturday and Hazy Ridge, 12:30-2 p.m. www.daviefarm-fest.org. OngoingScout Troop 9555G, 6:30 p.m. second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, Center Methodist, 1857 US 64 W.Tech Tuesdays, Davie County Public Library, 371 N. Main St., Mocksville. Get assistance with tech devices, 10 a.m.-noon and 2-4 p.m. Register for appointment: http://bit.ly/DCPLTECHJAZ. Learn more by calling 336-753-6033 or emailing jbaylor@daviecoun-tync.gov.BoTyme Jam, country, blue- grass and gospel music, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Thursdays, Farm-ington Community Center, Farmington Road, Mocksville. $3, musicians admitted free. Meetings OngoingSheffield-Calahaln Vol. Fire Dept., Monday nights at 7.NAMI family support group for confidential support for fami-lies with persons with diagnosed mental illness. Via Zoom second and fourth Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m. missjulieysl@gmail.com.Disabled American Veterans Davie Chapter 75, first Mon-day of each month, 6 p.m., DAV Building, 1958 US 601 S., Mocksville. 336-749-8347. SeniorsAll events are sponsored by Davie Senior Services. For more information or to register, call 336-753-6230. The main cam-pus at 278 Meroney St. is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The health and fitness center at the Brock Recreation Center at 644 N. Main St. is open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Fridays. 1st, 3rd TuesdaysEmail, computer basics, 10-11:30 a.m. With Davie Public Library. Friday, Aug. 11Foot Care with nurse Kathy Na-jdek, 10 a.m.-2:45 p.m., Brock Gym. Appointment reuired.Crafternoon- Sugar Scrubs, 2 p.m. at public library. Monday, Aug. 14Lung Cancer Seminar, 10 a.m. with Angie Swaim and Morgan Galbe of the Novant Health Der-rick L. Davis Cancer Institute. Thursday, Aug. 17Ombudsman?, 10 a.m. with Tracy Warner, Piedmont Triad Regional Council. Can assist with care in long term facility.Senior Book Club, 2 p.m. at pub-lic library with Ginny Hinkle.’ Friday, Aug. 18Welcome to Medicare Lun-cheon, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. with Mi-chelle Ellis, SHIIP coordinator.Monday, Aug. 21Are bonds still your friend? 10 a.m. with Ralph Milelr of Allegacy Credit Union.Monthly movie, 1 p.m., with popcorn. Tuesday, Aug. 22Theatre Club, 1 p.m. with Mike Garner. Discuss theatrical and trip options. Thursday, Aug. 24Good Health Club, 1 p.m. with Stacey Southern, nutrition coordinator. Friday, Aug. 25Crafternoon - Zen Gardens, 2 p.m. at public library with Rachel Nelson. Tuesday, Aug. 29Spa Day, 10 a.m. with Monica Morrison. Mini-makeovers. Thursday, Aug. 31Beach Party, 2 p.m. Refresh-ments and entertainment by Paul Moore with shagging demo. OngoingBrock Senior Steppers, s Brock Gym, open 8-10 each morning and other times with no pro-grams. Register and count steps for monthly and yearly prizes.Coffee & Caregiving, Tuesdays 10 a.m. via Zoom. Interact with other caregivers, ask staff mem-ber Kelly Sloan questions. Open to caregivers of all ages.Quilting, Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Bring own suppliesCrocheting, Wednesdays, 9-11 a.m. with Theresa Manak and Sara Cioffi. Bring own supplies.Woodcarving, Wednesdays, 9-noon with Tim Trudgeon, $8.75 for new students to cover initial supplies.Art Class, Mondays, 9 a.m.-noon with Jo Robinson. Begin-ning to advanced. Live Music Thursday, Aug. 10William Kiley, 6 p.m., Tangle-wood Pizza, US 158, Bermuda Run. Saturday, Aug. 12Hawthorne Curve, Thrive benefit, 6 p.m., Tanglewood Pizza, US 158, Bermuda Run. Sunday, Aug. 13Morgan ‘N Austin acoustic, 2 p.m., The Station, Downtown Mocksville. Friday, Aug. 18Incognito, 7 p.m., The Station, Downtown Mocksville.James Vincent Carroll, 5:30-8:30 p.m., RayLen Vineyards & Winery, US 158, Mocksville. Saturday, Aug. 19Adam & Avery, 6 p.m., Tangle-wood Pizza, US 158, Bermuda Run. Friday, Aug. 25Exit 180, 6 p.m. Tanglewood Pizza, US 158, Bermuda Run. Saturday, Aug. 26Tin Can Alley, 6 p.m., Tangle-wood Pizza, US 158, Bermuda Run. Saturday, Sept. 2Cat 5, Southside Saints, 6 p.m., Davie Community Park, US 601 S., Mocksville. Saturday, Oct. 7Jim Quick and Coastline, Jake Haldenvang, 6 p.m., Davie Community Park, US 601 S., Mocksville. Only $32.03 P./Yr. in Davie County Call today! 336-751-2120 DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 - B11 Public Notices No. 1679980 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS HAVING QUALIFIED as Execu-trix of the Estate of SIDNEY LE-VON SMITH late of Davie County, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against said estate to present writ-ten claim to the undersigned on or before October 27, 2023 (being three [3] months from the rst day of publication of this notice), orthis notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms, and corporations indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.This the 27th day of July, 2023.Andrea Smith WintersC/O FLEMING & WILLIAMS, LLPBrian F. Williams, Attorney at Law284 South Main StreetMocksville, NC 27028Publish 7/27/23, 8/3/23, 8/10/23, 8/17/23 No. 1683522 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having quali ed as Execut or of the Will and Estate of Evelyn Ann Folds deceased, late of Da- vie County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms, corporations and others having claims against the Estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at 3303 Healy Drive, Ste A, Winston-Salem, North Car- olina 27103, on or before the 10th day of November 2023 or this no- tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make im- mediate payment. This the 3rd day of August, 2023. Kelly F. Boger Executor of the Estate of Evelyn Ann Folds J. Alex Thornton J. E. Thornton, P.A. 3303 Healy Drive, Ste A Winston-Salem, NC 27103 Publish Davie Co. Enter- prise-Record: 08/03/23, 08/10/23, 08/17/23, 08/24/23. No. 1686515 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS HAVING QUALIFIED as Co-Ex- ecutors of the Estate of WILLIE BESS BENNETT late of Davie County, this is to notify all per- sons, rms and corporations having claims against said estate to present written claim to the un- dersigned on or before November 3, 2023 (being three [3] months from the rst day of publication of this notice), or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms, and corpora- tions indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This the 3rd day of August, 2023. Delbert E. Bennett Bradley F. Bennett Cynthia B. Summers C/O FLEMING & WILLIAMS, LLP Brian F. Williams, Attorney at Law 284 South Main Street Mocksville, NC 27028 Publish Davie Co. Enter- prise-Record: 08/03/23, 08/10/23, 08/17/23, 08/24/23. No. 1690545 NOTICE As required by federal and state laws, this notice is to inform all workers and building occupants and/or their legal guardians about asbestos in school buildings. Any- one who wishes to see the as- bestos les my contact the school or call Michael Spillman, Davie County Schools Maintenance De- partment, 336-751-1991. Publish 8/10/23 Public Notices No. 1677967 NORTH CA ROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having quali ed as Public Ad-ministrator of the Estate of Sarah Elizabeth Wiseman, Deceased, late of Davie County, North Car-olina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before Oc-tober 27, 2023, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their right to recover against the estate of the said deceased. All persons indebt-ed to said estate will please make immediate payment.This the 20th day of July, 2023.Bryan C. Thompson Public Administrator of the Estate of Sarah Elizabeth Wiseman, deceasedROBINSON & LAWING, LLP 11 0 Oakwood Drive, Suite 200Winston-Salem, NC 27103(336) 725-8323Publish 7/20/23, 7/27/23, 8/3/23, 8/10/23 No. 1686455 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as EXECUTOR for the Estate of RUSSELL CAL- VIN TALLENT, late of Davie Coun- ty, NC, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before NOVEMBER 8, 2023. This notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said estate are notified to make im- mediate payment. Today’s date 08/03/2023. ALMA JOY NICH- OLS, 156 CRICKET LANE, AD- VANCE, NC 27006, as EXECU- TOR of the Estate of RUSSELL CALVIN TALLENT, deceased, File #2023E000270. Publish Davie Co. Enter- prise-Record: 08/03/23, 08/10/23, 08/17/23, 08/24/23. No. 1682349 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS HAVING QUALIFIED as Execu- tor of the Estate of Charles Den- ny Hupp late of Davie County, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against said Estate to present writ- ten claim to the undersigned on or before October 27, 2023 (being three [3] months from the first day of publication of this notice) or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said Estate will please make immedi- ate payment to the undersigned. This the 21st of July, 2023. Stephen Clay Hege, Executor c/o Henry P. Van Hoy, II, Attorney at Law MARTIN VAN HOY & RAISBECK, LLP Attorneys at Law 10 Court Square Mocksville, NC 27028 (336)751-2171 Publish: 07/27/23, 08/03/23, 08/10/23, 08/17/23. No. 1679980 NORTH CA ROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS HAVING QUALIFIED as Execu-trix of the Estate of SIDNEY LE-VON SMITH late of Davie County, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against said estate to present writ-ten claim to the undersigned on or before October 27, 2023 (being three [3] months from the rst day of publication of this notice), orthis notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms, and corporations indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.This the 27th day of July, 2023.Andrea Smith WintersC/O FLEMING & WILLIAMS, LLPBrian F. Williams, Attorney at Law284 South Main StreetMocksville, NC 27028Publish 7/27/23, 8/3/23, 8/10/23, 8/17/23 Public Notices No. 1676555 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having quali ed as Administrat or of the Estate of Deborah AnneDraughn (aka Deborah Anne Morrow Draughn), late of Davie County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms and cor-porations having claims against the deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned Ricky Lee Draughn, Administrator, at the address listed below, on or before October 20, 2023, or this noticewill be pleaded in bar of the right to recover against the estate of the deceased. All persons indebted to said deceased will please make immediate payment.This the 20th day of July, 2023.Ricky Lee Draughn, Administratorc/o James Keith Stroud, Attorney102 W Third Street, Ste 650Winston-Salem, NC 27101Publish 7/20/23, 7/27/23, 8/3/23, 8/10/23 No. 1680333 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS HAVING QUALIFIED as Exec-utrix of the Estate of RIGDON GARY BROWN late of Davie County, this is to notify all per-sons, rms and corporations having claims against said estate to present written claim to the un-dersigned on or before October 27, 2023 (being three [3] months from the rst day of publication of this notice), or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms, and corpora-tions indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.This the 27th day of July, 2023.Jamie Lou Carter BrownC/O FLEMING & WILLIAMS, LLPBrian F. Williams, Attorney at Law284 South Main StreetMocksville, NC 27028Publish 7/27/23, 8/3/23, 8/10/23, 8/17/23 No. 1690173 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as EXECUTOR for the Estate of KENNETH LOU- IS VOGT, late of Davie County, NC, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before NOVEMBER 15, 2023. This notice will be plead- ed in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said estate are noti- fied to make immediate payment. Today’s date 08/08/2023. JOHN N CONTOS III, 325 BRACKEN RD., MOCKSVILLE, NC 27028, as EX- ECUTOR of the Estate of KEN- NETH LOUIS VOGT, deceased, File #2023E000261. Publish Davie Co. Enter- prise-Record: 08/10/23, 08/17/23, 08/24/23, 08/31/23. No. 1677967 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having quali ed as Public Ad-ministrator of the Estate of Sarah Elizabeth Wiseman, Deceased, late of Davie County, North Car-olina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before Oc-tober 27, 2023, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their right to recover against the estate of the said deceased. All persons indebt-ed to said estate will please make immediate payment.This the 20th day of July, 2023.Bryan C. Thompson Public Administrator of the Estate of Sarah Elizabeth Wiseman, deceasedROBINSON & LAWING, LLP 11 0 Oakwood Drive, Suite 200Winston-Salem, NC 27103(336) 725-8323Publish 7/20/23, 7/27/23, 8/3/23, 8/10/23 Real Estate Homes For Sale House for Sale in Farmington Area 124 Cemetery Road, Mocksville, NC 27028. 1646 sq. feet, .4 acres, 3BR, 1.5BA, ktichen, dining room, living room, office, utility room, 1 car carport, outside storage. 336- 830-5123 or 336-909-5718. Public Notices Public Notices No. 1690490 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having quali ed as Executor f or the Estate of Barbara Ann Clod-felter, late of Davie County, NC, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the said decedent to ex-hibit them to the undersigned on or before November 15, 2023. This notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms and corporations indebted to said estate are noti ed to make immediate payment. Today’s date 08/10/2023. Boyce Russell Clod-felter, P.O. Box 395, 149 Joyner Street, Cooleemee, NC 27014, as Executor of the Estate of Bar-bara Ann Clodfelter, deceased, File #23E000230. Publish 8/10/23, 8/17/23, 8/24/23, 8/31/23 No. 1679890 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS The undersigned, having hereto-fore, quali ed as Administrator of the Estate of Leora Janice Pr ude, late of Davie County, North Car-olina, hereby noti es all par ties having claims against said Estate to present them to the attorney for the undersigned on or before Oc-tober 25th, 2023, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.This the 27th day of July 2023.Cornelia Williams, Administrator Ronald D. Payne II, Esq.Apple Payne Law PLLC900 Old Winston Road, Suite 212Kernersville, NC 27284Publish 7/27/23, 8/3/23, 8/10/23, 8/17/23 No. 1681554 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having quali ed as ADMINISTRA - TOR for the Estate of DEE ANN LY TLE, late of Davie County, NC, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the said decedent to ex- hibit them to the undersigned on or before November 1, 2023. This notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms and corporations indebted to said estate are noti ed to make immediate payment. Today’s date 07/27/2023. JAMES HERBERT LY TLE, JR., 173 JUNCTION RD., MOCKSVILLE, NC 27028, as AD- MINISTRATOR of the Estate of DEE ANN LY TLE, deceased, File #2023E000267. Pu blish: 07/27/23, 08/03/23, 08/10/23, 08/17/23. Deals & Bargains Map Bookcase $200 704-630-9286 New Ink Cartridge New HP xl 62 ink cartridge. 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You catch. 704-857- 2044 Pet & Livestock Supplies new today Use Happy Jack® Kennel Dip as an area spray to treat deer ticks, stable ies, eas, & mosquit os where they breed. Biodegrade- able. Yadkinville Quality Hardware 679- 2049. Notices Lost & Found HE’S BEEN FOUND. Thank you to the family that found him & calling us. He was dearly missed. Employment Job Opportunities Kennel AssistantWe’re looking for Part-Time, to possibility of Full-Time. Must be at least 18 years old. Must have reliable transportation. Must be willing to work weekends & hol-idays. Riverside Kennels, Ad-vance, 336-940-3959. Auctions & Sales Garage Sales 2094 Shefﬁ eld Road, Harmony, Located at Liberty Wesleyan Church Parsonage Moving Sale, Fr i. 8/11 & Sat. 8/12 9am-3pm. Everything in like new condition! Gas smoker, furniture, gas grill, exercise equipment, books, Christmer decor, home de- cor, bedding, rugs, outdoor Amish rocker/glider, lamps, dishes & LOTS more! Merchandise Deals & Bargains 10,000 BTU Window AC Unit $75. 704-636-4251 3-Fresh Water Rods & Reels All for $25.704-278-9527 Air Innovations Humidifer Reg. $100 sale for $50. 704-798- 4417 Adjustable Full Bed Base New in box, remote control. FRAME ONLY. $300 980-234- 5059, leave message. Blood Pressure Monitor - Digital/ automatic memory. Model UAM-710 by Zewa. arm type, like new, still in box/manuals. $45 336-766-5096 Brand New Sonic Blade Electric Knife Cut like a pro w/ a variety of ways to use. Instruction books & recipes from appetizers to desserts are in- cluded. $15 704-633-7307 Chaise Lounge $150. 704-630-9286 Cemetery Plot for Sale At Chestnut Hill Cemetery, section D, corner lot. $500 Call if interest- ed, 980-234-5059. Grey’s Anatomy Sport Clogs Dark Grey Patent, 8M. Memory foam footbed by Softwalk. Like new, in box. 704-855-8353 $20.00 Ladies Top & Bottoms 2-3x, summer & winter. $5. 704- 798-4417 Mahogany Finish Jewelry Chest 38”H. 4 drawer, 2 side doors. Top drawer w/ sections & mirror. $30. Great condition. 980-234-5059 B12 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, May 26, 2022 1710 Jake Alexander Blvd W Salisbury, NC 28144 (704) 773-8655 www.facebook.com/Everydayyardsalestore Everyday Yardsale Store Hrs: Mon. - Sat. 9am - 5pm Specialize in small appliances & cleaning supplies Deals & Bargains Oak Dresser Solid oak. $480. 336-546-7408 Quart Canning Jars $8/dozen.704-298-4089 Deals & Bargains Family of Porcelain Dolls $100 704-209-1664 George Foreman Electric Grill Gently used. Personal size. Call 980-330-9613 $15.00 Deals & Bargains 2-Samsung Phones Perfect condition. $480. 336-546-7408 2-Wigs $50 704-209-1664 2-Zebco 33 Rods & Reels $25 for both. 704-278-9527 7.5 New Christmas Tree w/ 1200 lights. $225 Call 704-680-3114 or 336-816-1479 Cedar Glider 704-232-0881 $500 James Bond 007 1950s vintage, Sean Connery 33”x51” beach towel. Perfect condition, never been used or washed. $80 336-766-5096 English Walnuts FREE. 704-298-4089 Floor Lamp Very heavy, like new. $85 704- 680-3114 or 336-816-1479 Garage Sales Woodleaf, 1615 Powell Rd Multi-Family Yard Sale, ONE DAY ONLY Sat. 5/28, 7am-4pm. Raising money for summer trips! Clothes, shoes, bags, furniture, home goods, books, plants and technology! Merchandise Deals & Bargains 1972 Ford Pinto 2000 engine & c4 transmission. Runs but both need rebuilding. $250. 704-857-7186 2-Pair Brand New High Heels Size 9.5 & 10. $50 704-209-1664 Auctions & Sales Garage Sales Ridenhour Arbor Center Street Cooleemee Webb Yard Sale Yard Sale, Fri. 5/27 8am-1pm & Sat. 5/28 8am-noon. Men’s and women’s clothes, other good buys. Salisbury Rowan Co. Fairgrounds County Wide Antique & Yard Sale Fri. May 27 & Sat. May 28 8am-4pm & Sun. May 29, 9am-4pm. Over 150 booths. Fairground full of anything from yard sale items to antiques. For info, call 704-425-9838 RAIN OR SHINE! Employment Job Opportunities QST INDUSTRIES NOW HIRINGOperations, Manufacturing, Warehousing & Clerical. Com-petitive pay, complete vacation and holiday package. Health, dental, eye & life insurance. Contact Tony Phelps 336-936-8504 for additional information. E.O.E Houses, Decks, Driveways Gutter Cleaning, Roof Wash NOW HIRING Apply in Person 251 Eaton Rd., Mocksville E.O.E. $14/hr. & up $500 Sign On Bonus Great Benefits • PAY & BonusesAll Shifts Available We’re Growing! ACROSS 1. (K) Talk to each other 5. Sharpen an ax blade 9. Place for Hemingway’s Old Man 12. Feeling fit and healthy 13. (K) “What do you ___ there?” 14. (K) Simple grain 15. (K) One thing to sail to 16. One of several on a bulleted list 17. Not “to,” but ___ 18. Printed and glazed cotton fabric 20. A sacred hymn 22. (K) Bonfire residue 23. (K) One way to be seen in the dark 25. (K) Came in first 27. (K) Shrek is one 29. Wading bird of warm regions 33. What “You can do it!” is 36. (K) Root ___ float 37. “American ___” (TV show) 38. (K) “___ day now!” 39. (K) Facial blemishes 41. (K) Biggest heater you’ll ever need 43. Swindler’s cohort 46. Friendship by mail (2 words) 49. Tween age 50. (K) Flow sluggishly 53. (K) Worst part of an apple to eat, you’d think 54. “Are,” way old 55. (K) Geometry class answer, sometimes 56. Collected charity 57. (K) “The Tigger Movie” character 58. Boat’s central structure 59. (K) An annoying bug is one DOWN 1. “That dress is tres ___!” 2. Corn beef dish 3. Coalition 4. (K) Young adults 5. Someone dazzlingly skilled in a field 6. (K) Thing blown off in the wind, sometimes 7. (K) Adam and ___ 8. (K) Something a drummer is responsible for 9. (K) Thing to lie or sit on 10. Marquis subordinate 11. (K) Smallest component of an element 19. Commandment word 21. (K) Type of suit that gets wet 23. (K) Elementary school division 24. (K) Toy company that’s all blocked up? 25. (K) What a spider makes 26. (K) Single number 28. Beam with your face 30. Old descriptor for a tall, skinny guy 31. Place with room service, maybe 32. (K) Pig’s home with a mud floor 34. Type of exam with no writing 35. (K) “Anybody ___ coming to the worm race?” 40. Robe relative 42. (K) Open, as a toothpaste tube 43. (K) One of trillions in the sky 44. (K) Last person standing in an action film 45. (K) “Spider-Man: ___ the Spider-Verse” 46. Sound, as big bells 47. (K) Muscular items, for many 48. “___ we forget ...” 51. Rock in stores? 52. Last letter PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER © 2022 Andrews McMeel Syndication syndication.andrewsmcmeel.com Can you find the answer to this riddle within the solved puzzle? You, long ago Look for the answer in next week’s paper. Created by Timothy E. Parker May 30, 2022The (K) Clues Are for Kids Get from yesterday? 7-D) GOT Previous riddle answer: FundraisersSaturday, June 11Breakfast, Farmington Meth-odist, 1939 Farmington Rd., Mocksville, 7-10 a.m. Pork tenderloin, sausage, gravy, eggs, grits, stewed apples, biscuits, mixed fruit, breakfast casserold, coffee, OJ. Donations support church ministries.ReunionsSaturday, Oct. 8Davie High School Class of 1982, 40th-year reunion, 7-11 p.m., The Farm at Oak Hill, 186 Kent Lane, Mocksville. $40 per couple, $25 per per-son, paid to DHS Class of ‘82, c/o Shelia Walker Stanley, PO Box 601, Mocksville. Details to be on class Facebook page. ReligionSunday, May 29George and Minnie Campbell Day, Shiloh Baptist, 544 E. Depot St., Mocksville, 11 a.m.June 5-8Vacation Bible School, Ea-tons Baptist, 6:30-8:30 each evening. For kids age 3-12. Concurrent adult class. 336-655-9656.Special EventsFriday, May 27Strawberry Jam canning workshop, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Extension Center, downtown Mocksville. $15. Reserve spot by May 23, 336.753.6100. Saturday, June 4Tea Party, Dulin Methodist, 897 Dulin Rd., Mocksville, 2-4 p.m. Put on party hat and joing the free fun. Write to church and tell them how many will attend. ThursdaysBoTyme Jam, country, blue-grass and gospel music, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Farmington Com-munity Center, Farmington Road, Mocksville. $3, musi-cians admitted free. DatelineOngoingSmith Grove Farmer’s Mar-ket, Saturdays, 1-3:30 p.m., Smith Grove Methodist, 3492 US 158, Mocksville. Local produce, eggs, metas, honey, plants, baked goods, handcraft-ed gifts, food vendors, kids activities, music, non-profit booths. Visit Facebook or Ins-tagram.SeniorsAll of the following events are sponsored by Davie Senior Ser-vices. For more information or to register, call 336-753-6230. The main campus at 278 Meroney St. is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The health and fitness center at the Brock Recreation Center at 644 N. Main St. is open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Fridays.MondaysAfternoon card games, new program, 1 p.m. First Monday, Uno; second, Skipbo; third, Rook; fourth, Rummy; fifth, Crazy Eights.TuesdaysEmail basics, 10-11 a.m. With Davie Public Library.Thursday, May 26Good Health Club, 1 p.m. with Stacey Southern, nutrition coor-dinator. Learn health eating tips, share recipes, light exercises.Silver Arts Follies: Senior Games Closing Ceremonies, Awards, 6 p.m. Performing arts entrants and cheerleaders to perform. Silver Arts on display. Friday, May 27Move It or Lose It, 10 a.m., with Allegra Tucker from Da-vie Health Dept. Learn how to incorporate more movement in everyday life, learn benefits. Thursday, June 2Senior Writing Group, 2 p.m. with Marie Craig. Learn to im-prove writing skills. Friday, June 3Golden Anniversary Party, 1 p.m., for all couples married for 50 years or more. Luncheon with music by Benita Finney.Tuesday, June 7Blood Pressure Screening, 10 a.m.Wednesday, June 8Papercrating Extravaganza, 1 p.m. Bring own supplies, no formal instruction.Thursday, June 9Scams & Frauds Seminar, 10 a.m., with John Brown, outreach and policy advisor with NC Dept. of Justice.Friday, June 10Armchair Adventures - Ha-waii, 1-3 p.m., enjoy informa-tion and tastes of Hawaii.Crafternoon - Stencil Tote Bag, 2 p.m., public library. Materials provided.Tuesday, June 14Coffee & Caregiving, 10 a.m., for caregivers.Novant Health Seminar, 10 a.m., info on a health topic.Got Plans? Advanced Care Planning Workshop, 1 p.m. with facilitator from Hospits/Palliative Care.Wednesday, June 15Basket Weaving, 1 p.m. with instructor Cheryl Tilley, $15. Will make picket fence basket.Live MusicThursday, May 26Aaron & Ellen, 6:30 p.m., sum-mer music kickoff at O’Calah-an’s, Downtown Mocksville.Whiskey Mic, 6 p.m.. 601 Burgers & Brews, US 601 N., Mocksville.Saturday, May 28Jason Leake Band, 7 p.m., The Station, Downtown Mocksville. Anwarotti Live, 4-7 p.m., Summer Lovin’ Concert Series.Nick Branscome, noon, Raylen Vineyards & Winery, US 158, Mocksville.Sunday, May 29Sydney Rose, 2 p.m., The Sta-tion, Downtown Mocksville.Thursday, June 2Adam & Avery, 6:30 p.m., O’Callahan’s, Downtown Mocksville.Darrell Hoots, 6 p.m., 601 Burgers & Brews, US 601 N., Mocksville.Friday, June 3COIA, 6 p.m., The Station, Downtown Mocksville.James Vincent Carroll, 5:30 p.m., Raylen Vineyards & Winery, US 158, Mocksville. Saturday, June 4SoundKraft, 6 p.m., The Sta-tion, Downtown Mocksville. Sunday, June 5Nick Branscome, 2 p.m., The Station, Downtown Mocksville. Thursday, June 9Michael Chaney, 6 p.m., 601 Burgers & Brews, US 601 N., Mocksville.SoundKraft, 6:30 p.m.. O’Cal-lahan’s, Downtown Mocksville. Saturday, June 11Karaoke Night, 6 p.m., 601 Burgers & Brews, US 601 N., Mocksville.Russell Henderson, 11 a.m., The Station, Downtown Mocks-ville.James Vincent Carroll, 6 p.m., Tanglewood Pizza, US 158, Bermuda Run. Thursday, June 16James Vincent Carroll, 7 p.m., 601 Burgers & Brews, US 601 N., Mocksville.Josh Tenery, 6:30 p.m., O’Cal-lahan’s, Downtown Mocksville. Friday, June 17Darrell Hoots, 6 p.m., The Station, Downtown Mocksville. Thursday, June 23Dalton Allen Music, 6 p.m., 601 Burgers & Brews, US 601 N., Mocksville.Megan Doss, 6:30 p.m. O’Cal-lahan’s, Downtown Mocksville. Saturday, June 25Summer Lovin’ Fest, 4 p.m., with music and vendors, The Station, Downtown Mocksville.SoundKraft, 6 p.m., Tangle-wood Pizza, US 158, Bermuda Run. Have a spaghetti dinner Friday and help a local Boy Scout become an Eagle.The dinner will take place at Hillsdale Bap-tist Church, 4815 US 158, Advance, and include spa-ghetti, salads, drinks and desserts.As a Life Scout in Troop 575, Isaiah Beaty is looking to raise the funds as part of his Eagle Scout Project. He is raising funds for Davie County High School Mens Soccer team to sup-ply basic equipment for training; soccer balls, game balls, cones, and various other needed equipment. He will also be helping to teach and lead middle schoolers during a soccer camp. Pick up spaghetti din-ners and make donations to the project at the church on Friday. MULTI-FAMILYYARD SALE! Sat., August 12 8:00 am-1:00 pm (Cancelled if Raining) Mocksville Animal Hospital 1138 Salisbury Rd., Mocksville Kids and Adult Clothing, Antiques, TOO MUCH TO LIST!1691344Isaiah Beaty Dinner to help local Scout While many people think of early August as “the dog days of summer” with activities grinding to a standstill, members of Ber-muda Run Garden Club re-cently met to renew friend-ships, to continue learning about flowers and garden-ing, and to begin planning for the busy fall days ahead. Gguest speaker on Aug. 2 was Linda Abplanalp, Master Judge of the African Violet Society of America, whose program encouraged members to become better acquainted with the club’s own flower—the violet. Abplanalp gave each mem-ber a user-friendly handout about caring for violets and a sample package of “Lin-da’s Own” potting mix to inspire members to experi-ment with growing violets. Hostesses Cindy O’Ha-gan and Beth Wright pro-vided a bouquet of hydran-geas and pots of violets as a centerpiece. They gave members a handmade bookmark with dried flow-ers.Flower Show Co-Chair Bonnie Rockaway reported on this year’s flower show at the Carolina Classic Fair, which will begin on Sept. 29. She encouraged members to participate by submitting horticulture specimens and/or contain-er plants or by entering a floral design. The dhow is a special annual event for the club. Its members tra-ditionally bring home doz-ens, and sometimes hun-dreds, of winning ribbons, as well as prize money for Garden club members learn about violets Bermuda Run Garden Club mem- ber Deborah Capps with her book- mark made using dried flowers.August Meeting Hostesses Beth Wright and Cindy O’Ha- gan. the club’s treasury.Contributions to the “What’s Blooming in my Garden” display (a feature at each club meeting) in-cluded limelight hydran-geas, two varieties of cole-us, vinca blossoms, dahlias, phlox, and balloon flowers.Throughout the year, the club supportd A Storehouse for Jesus, and the August meeting was no exception. Members brought school supplies and paper products for the community. “What’s Blooming in My Garden” is an educa- tional and inspirational feature at each meeting of Bermuda Run Garden Club. $ SHOP LOCAL $ B12 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 Online voting only. No purchase required. 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