Apr 30
Add your comments here to tell us “why you Relay….”
Apr 20
All through Columbus County’s 2007 Relay for Life event (held at Southeastern Community College) on April 20-21, The News Reporter team is asking people to “Tell Us Why You Relay.” Keep visiting this blogspot site. As we can, we’ll post some of the answers we get.
Here’s the first one from Herb Washington of U.S. Cellular. We saw his smiling face out here in the very beginning hours of the community’s annual event to: raise awareness of and money for the fight against cancer.
Herb wrote:
“I’ve been given information that’s not for me alone. “My” experience are everyone’s experiences, so I “Relay” for those to whom it concerns. Life concerns everyone, and the THIEVES of life (ignorance, in-difference, and such like) will life. So I walk, we walk. I learn, we learn. I Relay because “He” Lives.
Apr 19
Is the N.C. Education Lottery still a worthwhile endeavor despite not providing the level of funding to schools that was predicted?
Apr 18
Columbus County’s 2007 Relay for Life is this weekend - April 20-21. Come on out and Relay! For whiteville.com visitors, keep checking in with this blogspot. We will add blog entries as we can. YOU can add comments as you’d life. Let’s all join together in the Relay for Life and find a cure for cancer!
Apr 16
Is the county commissioners pay too much, too little or about right?
Apr 02
Records show that over 50 percent* of the births in Columbus County last year were illegitimate. What do you think of this? Should anything be done differently in our homes, schools, communities or places of worship to address this issue?
*63 percent was listed in The News Reporter article on April 2.