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I remember when my mother, the late Era Sarratt, used two box tops from Frosted Flakes cereal boxes, along with 50 cents to purchase the beautiful hybrid tea rose called Peace.

Jeff Ramsey was pulling and chopping pork shoulders at the annual Camp Call Masonic Lodge Barbecue.

SAVE A LIFE GROUP for the past three years has been pleased to have many organ donation awareness events,

I'm trying to pace myself. I know the deer season can get long and tiresome.

Charity Bible College, Lawndale
Charity Bible College, 113 Charity Church Road, Lawndale, NC (Fallston) will start their Fall Classes September 18 thru December 4, 2017.

Walk For Hope 2017
Save the date! "Walk For Hope 2017", Saturday, September 23, 2017, Historic Uptown Shelby, Earl Scruggs Center. 5K and Celebration Walk.

If you enjoy fine locally produced foods, love to dine outdoors and want to support your local community, the Uptown Shelby Association (USA) is offering you a chance to do all three at one time.

Randy Eugene Rash age 66 of Spindale, NC went to be with his Lord on September 18^th 2017.

Mooresboro - Mrs. Rachel Ann (Harmon) Phillips, age 83 passed away Saturday, September 16, 2017 at her residence surrounded by her loving family.

Bostic - Mr. Bobby Joe Huskey of Bostic NC, passed away September 13, 2017 at Hospice at Wendover, Shelby.

Barry Levon Brackett, 70, of 1918 West Stagecoach Trail, Shelby, passed away
Monday September 18, 2017 at Hospice at Wendover.

Charles Lee Capps Sr., age 83 of Delview Rd. passed away Sunday, September 17, 2017 at PruittHealth - Union Pointe in Monroe.

Noreen McDaniel, age 68, of Caroleen, NC, went home to be with her Savior on Monday, September 18, 2017 at the Hospice House of Rutherford County.

Mrs. Nancy Hall Wallace Marsh, 76, of Goode's Groove Church Road Mooresboro, NC went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Sept.17, 2017, while at Cleveland County Hospice surrounded by her loving family and friends.

SHELBY: Ruth Duff Layng, 92, passed away peacefully Saturday, September 16, 2017 at Testa Family Hospice.

Kenneth "Ken" Wayne Willis, age 67, died Friday, September 15, 2017, at his home.

Grover -- John Alexander "JP" Peterson, 58, of 764 South Battleground Avenue, passed away Friday, September 15th, 2017, at his residence.

Willie B. Branch, age 70, died Friday, September 15, 2017, at Carolina's Medical Charlotte.

Julia Etta Stroup Allran, age 85 of Spring St. passed away Friday, September 15, 2017 at Caromont Regional Medical Center.

Helen Elizabeth Hyde Gold, 96, of 2957 West Stagecoach Trail, Shelby, died on Monday, September 18, 2017, at her home surrounded by her loved ones as she went to Heaven to meet her Lord and join her beloved family already there.

Ruby Bailey Goode, age 77, of Forest City, passed away Thursday, September 14, 2017 at her residence.

Timothy Durand "Tim" Kiser, 58 of Washburn Switch Road, Shelby, NC passed away at Hospice Wendover following a brief illness.

Patrick Shane Fitzgerald, age 42, died Monday, September 11, 2017 at his home.

Fred Louie Stroupe, age 81 of St. Mark's Church Rd. died Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at Caromont Regional Medical Center.