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Doug Creamer: Fulfilling Our Call

            Last weekend my wife and I made our annual trek up to Asheville for the Southern Highlands ...

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Lynna Clark: A new season

Don’t you love the turning of one season to another? Currently our fridge holds watermelon on one shelf ...

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Dr. Magryta: Allergy season and school – what’s your plan?

The goal for parents and educators is to limit missed or unproductive school days due to asthma and ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

May the forcing be with you As with any of the tips I’ve been writing, all of them ...

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David Freeze: Gotta Run

More on a life of running I  wrote a couple of weeks ago about running and racing and the ...

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Doug Creamer: Baptized

            We had three people get baptized at church last week. The pastor talked ...

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Lynn Harrington: Small group prayer

I have recently felt led by God to open up my home to prayer. Iris Matthews and I are ...

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David Freeze: Brooke keeps rolling as Michelle Patterson returns

When last we visited, Brooke was going strong and Vivian was on the disabled list. Those things stayed ...

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Kent Bernhardt: Like a fine wine

This morning, I got out of bed and headed straight to the bathroom, which is my normal routine. ...

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Dr. Magryta: Influenza

Influenza season is starting in the United States. Last year’s flu season was particularly rough in North Carolina. ...

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Mack Williams: The missing Widget

This “Widget” is not an inanimate thing, but a female, gray-brown tabby with an unusual orange marking on ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Jumping Jumping can be dangerous in life and in bridge. Don’t fall so in love with your hand ...

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Doug Creamer: An East homecoming

            I teach at East Davidson and we are in the heart of a good football season. High ...

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Anthony Layman: Leading by faith

It’s hard to have faith. Faith requires us to have confidence and conviction in our actions, without proof ...

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Ann Farabee: Feel like a no-name?

I had been invited to speak at a convention to approximately 300 people in what I would call a ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Observations We now have many people at our games new to formal duplicate bridge play. I have purposefully ...

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Mack Williams: Some entertainment

Just the other day, I was with my son Jeremy and his employer. I was wearing a “repro” ...

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David Freeze: Gotta Run

It’s all relative I have thought of covering what I consider an important subject for several months now. On ...

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Wendy John: An Ode to Salisbury

Knowing that you are going to die can be a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, ...

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Doug Creamer: Are you ready?

            Please don’t be jealous, but we are enjoying some late-season tomatoes. Many gardeners have cleaned out their ...

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Dr. Henry B. Waiters: What preachers have become

During the Classical period of Ancient Greece, the Sophists (a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy and the ...

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Lynna Clark: Happy life

HAPPY LIFE Okay so we got new phones. What kind you ask? Ummm… it’s black… and slippery… and ...

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Local Bridge with Myrnie McLaughlin

Everything’s bigger in Texas After partner opens 1NT and you have a 6 card major with more than ...

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Mack Williams: Puff-fluff flight

I first need to call the reader’s attention to something in last week’s column, “Cow Pastures, Comets, and Car ...

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Dr. Magryta: Water and staying hydrated

There is so much controversy surrounding this topic ever since Gatorade was pushed onto the market in the ...

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Barbara Garwood: A Caregiver’s Life

Elderspeak: I don’t think so, Sweetie! We sometimes think of it as a Southern thing. Right, sweetie? (or ...

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Linda Beck: Where’s the good in that?

Since the multiple sclerosis exacerbation and two hospital stays in July, I wrote a story about Romans 8:28: ...

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Ann Farabaee: It’s a secret

Shhh….. it’s a secret. Secrets are meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others. I admit that ...

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