Woman Finds Her Children in Charity Jar Photos
Sue Mayo of Alliance discovered a collection jar at Medical Arts Pharmacy on Neuse Boulevard showing her own children. The jar had been dropped off by a regular customer who believed the children were needy. Mayo’s husband found a second jar with the same picture at an Askin business.
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Sue P. Mayo
Alliance
Medical Arts
Neuse Boulevard
David Teal
Teal
Mayo
Fire destroys home. family seeks help with loss
Helen King 30 and her sons Larry Jr. 9 Romeo 7 lost their rented house at 512 West St after a Tuesday night fire blamed on a bathroom candle. Fire damage totals about 6000 with clothing and items to replace. the family plans to move to HUD housing by December 1 and is seeking donations of clothing, shoes, furniture and other essentials. Donations accepted at 1036 North St. or 510 1/2 George St.
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Helen King
West St
Larry Lee Jr
Romeo Lee
Helen Perry
King
Perry
Ethel Sampson
North St
George St
Blue Ribbon Oyster Panel Sets First Meeting Monday
Blue Ribbon Advisory Council will hold its initial meeting Monday at 10 a.m. in Morehead City at the Institute of Marine Sciences next to the Division of Marine The focus is to identify expertise gaps and set a work plan. For more information contact Mike Marshall at Division of Marine Fisheries at 726-7021.
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Blue Ribbon Oyster Panel
Tor
Morehead City
Institute of Marine Sciences
Division of Marine
Mike Marshall
Division of Marine Fisheries
SOS grants aid New Bern youth program in after school push
Ed Bell’s Youth Vision won the first installment of a 74 666 grant for a daily after school program at Oaks Road Elementary to aid at risk youth. The SOS funding comes from a 4 6 million state appropriation aimed at early intervention to prevent trouble among unsupervised children.
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SOS
Save Our Schools
Youth Vision
Ed Bell
Oaks Road
Bell
New Bern
General Assembly
Sonia Pickens
County Social Services Department
Leary
Beverly Perdue
D-Craven
Tomor
Youth Vision Kids
Christopher LeCraft
Nicol Lovick
Taureau LeCraft
New Bern District 3 race pits Buckshot Nixon against Parker
In Craven County District 3 New Bern, Republican Buckshot Nixon age 72 and Democrat Gerald Parker age 32 face off for the minority district seat. Both have not held office, with Parker promoting minority economic opportunity and an apprenticeship coalition. Nixon leverages decades of civil rights protest leadership and a critical view of government. Parker trails a child support payment issue from post primary records.
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Craven County
New Bern
Leon “Buckshot” Nixon
U.S
Gerald Parker
Parker
Ben Godette
Godette
Albert H. Toon
Faaher
the Heads-Up Foundation
New Bern Chamber of Commerce, Committee of 100
Craven Community Development Foundation
Vietnam veteran’s Washington trek yields aid letter in PTSD fight
Donald Clark, a Vietnam veteran from New Bern, walked to Washington to urge reclassification of his Army PTSD status after VA records loss. He reached D.C. and received a letter from Rep. Eva Clayton promising to push the case to VA Secretary Jesse Brown. Clark hopes new evidence and ongoing reviews will confirm his service and PTSD diagnosis.
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Donald Clark
New Bern
Washington
Vanceboro
D.C
Clark
Veteran Administration
U.S. Army
Vietnam
U.S
Eva Clayton
Dn.c
Craven Veterans Service
Vickie Glover
Jesse Brown
Glover
Veterans Organization
Greenville
Vietnam Memorial
Rocky Mount
Petersburg
Clayton
Election Day and the tangled party loyalties across the nation
Bruce Godfrey surveys a muddled political landscape as Election Day approaches amid party switchers and unnamed candidates. The piece recalls a veteran Republican judge who ferried Iggie to vote for decades and now faces questions about citizenship, illustrating the reach and quirks of turnout politics in Arapahoe.
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Court of Claims
Iggie
Fred
Justice Fred
State Capitol
Judge
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Maya
Aga
Laurie Gengenbach
Sun Journal
Perdue
Willie M
Neuse Center
Craven
Pamlico
Jones
Carteret
Z. Smith Reynolds
Charlie Peek
Havelock High School
Heads-Up Foundation
Nixon
L.C
Buckshot” Nixon
GOP
Demship
Bill Clinton
Prez
Willie Poll
Martin Lancaster
George
Jeb
California
Pete Wilson
New York
Mario
Virginia
Congress
Bruce Godfrey
Arapahoe
Godfrey
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