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Sales circulars in Tuesday, May 13 Jefferson Post
These sales circulars for Food Lion, Ingles, Lowes Foods, Walmart and Window World can be found inside the Tuesday, May 13 print edition of The Jefferson Post. The Post can be purchased for $1 at over 30 locations throughout Ashe County and yearly subscriptions are just $38.
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<p>James Howell | Jefferson Post</p><p>The current building housing the Fleetwood Volunteer Fire Department is scheduled to be purchased and then torn down to make room for U.S. 221 when it is widened into a four-lane highway.</p>
Fleetwood VFD will need new home, eventually
As the N.C. Department of Transportation continues acquiring right-of-way property along U.S. 221 for the roads widening into a four-lane, the property housing the Fleetwood Volunteer Fire Department has been targeted for purchase, leaving the Fleetwood VFD to look for a new home for its people and equipment. “I think we’ll probably be able to stay where we are for quite a while until we get a better indication of where we need to go,” said...
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<p>Photo submitted | Jefferson Post</p><p>Garrett Miller standing in front of Wagoner Baptist Church.</p>
Following His call
Every Sunday morning, preachers and priests deliver messages to their congregations all across Ashe County. Garrett Miller, the interim-pastor at Wagoner Baptist Church in Laural Springs, delivers messages like his fellow preachers, but with one obvious difference; Miller is 18 years old. “Everybody in life, I believe, has a purpose and everybody has a job, and this is my job. I welcome it now,” said Miller. Miller felt called to preach...
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Lawsuit seeks to eliminate arsenic in animal feed
North Carolina’s poultry and hog farmers could face changes in what goes into their animal feed if a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is successful. The agency continues to allow an organic form of arsenic in feed given to chickens, turkeys and hogs. A handful of advocacy groups, including the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, want that to change. According to the Institute’s senior advisor in science, food an...
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Blue Ridge Electric members will share in $4 million credit
Checks or bill credits are coming in May to members of Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation, thanks to a $4 million capital credits retirement approved earlier this year by the board of directors. Checks mailed earlier this week to members due a capital credits refund of $35 or more. Members due less than $35 are receiving their capital credits refunds in the form of a credit on their May electric bill. The amount of each refund is ba...
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<p>Image submitted | Jefferson Post</p><p>This map of Todd is featured on the Todd Mercantile website and was designed by local artist Jim Lewis.</p>
Todd adds a web presence
In an attempt to share the Todd community with the rest of the world, the Todd community and the Todd Mercantile have created websites to disperse information about the area. “You have to have a web presence in today’s world,” said Helen Barnes-Rielly, who owns the Todd Mercantile with her husband. Todd’s website, toddnc.org , gives information about upcoming events and also shares the history of Todd, which at one time, was a larger com...
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DPI releases public reports on educator effectiveness
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has made available to the public the summary results of teacher and administrator evaluation systems for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. These data can be accessed from the Educator Effectiveness Database . The online data display provides a resource that is user-friendly and easily accessible so that parents, educators and other community members can see data reflecting the effec...
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Mother’s Day Hat Contest
Staff photo | Jefferson Post To honor Mother’s Day, the senior center hosted the Mother’s Day Hat Contest on Friday. Winners were chosen according to audience applause from four different categories, which included most creative, best color, oldest style and unusual size. The winners were (from left to right:) Mary Rozier, for most creative, Ina Bare and Irene Sheets for unusual size, Jenifer Barker for oldest styles, and Madge McNeill for be...
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Ribbon cutting at People’s Drug Store
Photo submitted | Jefferson Post Bradley and Aletha Eller, who purchased People’s Drug Drug Store in West Jefferson in November, had their ribbon cutting ceremony Friday. Back row, left to right: Town Manager Brantley Price, Misty Shatley, Ashe Chamber of Commerce board members Jeff Dreyer and Josh Roten, Town Planner Matt Levi, Sherrie Matthews; Middle row, left to right: Brent Eller, Linda Ward, Amanda Goodman, Louise Burgess, Janie Roten, ...
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C.J. Burford (center) completed a 315 mile ride through N.C. at the South Carolina state line last year. With C.J. were his father Craig Burford (left) and family friend and fellow cross-country cyclist Bernard Molinda.
Eight-year-old bikes across N.C.
Eight-year-old C. J. Burford of Walkertown will set off on a bike ride across the state of N.C. Monday morning, traveling 360 miles and raising money to provide live-saving heart surgery for children. ”This bike ride isn’t a race,” Burford said, “instead it’s a great opportunity for many people to help me show God’s love and support families all over the world with children who do not have the medical care they need.” Burford, who has b...
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