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Cheryl Page
Stars get in the rhythm of rehearsal
LUMBERTON — Life is about experience, which is why Cheryl Page signed on for the Dancing with the Robeson County Stars. “It’s just been great fun,” Page said of the United Way fund-raising event. “Our dance is just fantastic if we can pull it off, I’m nervous about it but not so much. That’s the fun in life is to try and experience new things, and so that’s what this is. I’m being brave.” Page, a native of Robeson County who works for BB&...
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Features briefs for Jan. 20, 2013
FAYETTEVILLE — The Child Advocacy Center of Fayetteville will hold the American Girl Fashion Show, a program that showcases historical and contemporary fashions for girls and their dolls, on March 23 and March 24 at the Crown Center Ballroom in Fayetteville. More than 130 local and regional girl models will present the fashions. Refreshments, party favors, raffles and door prizes will be available. Proceeds from tickets, which start at $6...
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Military news
LUMBERTON — Army National Guard Spec. Charles W. Noble, a graduate of Lumberton High School, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla. During the nine weeks of training, Noble studied the Army mission and received instruction and training exercises in drill and ceremonies; Army history; core values and traditions; military courtesy; military justice; physical fitness; first aid; rifle marksmanship; weapons use; ma...
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Julia McDuffie
Club news
LUMBERTON — The Col. Thomas Robeson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution held its January meeting at Pinecrest Country Club. Julia McDuffie presented a program on the White House, which included a video with pictures and history of the various rooms and furnishings. Her talk highlighted the burning of the White House during the War of 1812 and renovations during various administrations.
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What’s happening for Jan. 20, 2013
MONDAY MLK Celebration: The eighth annual Martin Luther King celebration will be held at the Fairmont Heritage Center at 1 p.m. on Monday. There will be singers, praise dancers, and a reenactment of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech by Rev. David Walker. Refreshments will be served. TUESDAY Square dance class: The Lumber River Swingers will hold a “Fun Night” on Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Bill Sapp Re...
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Reunion announcements for Jan. 20, 2013
Pembroke High School class of 1966 will meet for dinner on Feb. 16 at Sheff’s Restaurant at 6 p.m. All classmates are invited to attend. The cost is the price of the meal. For information or to reserve a spot by Feb. 15, call Sue at 910-521-0468. The Magnolia High School class of 1963 is planning at 50-year reunion at the Holiday Inn in Lumberton on June 8. To attend, call Pete Bell at 910-785-1050, Delano Cummings at 910-536-3652...
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'Sock Hop,' a performance by Purnell Swett High School similar to 'Remember the 60s,' will be performed on Jan. 19, Jan. 26 and Feb. 2 at Lumberton Jr. High School's auditorium at 7 p.m. each night. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and $6 for students. Photos by Anne-Claire Siegert | The Robesonian
Blast from the past
PEMBROKE — You can hear the “Sock Hop” before you see it. Music makes its way through the door of the theater room held slightly ajar by a chair at Purnell Swett High School. Inside that room, John Hodges reclines slightly on a gurney off duty from its part in the production. Of the energy and enthusiasm punching the air, he says matter-of-factly, “you can’t teach that.” Hodges would know. He’s been part history teacher, part theater teac...
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In with the new at the local library
It is hard to believe that the holiday season has come and gone already. It was a busy time. Both of my sons came to visit and although it was great to see them, we had the usual ups and downs. For one, my house is too small for five adults and the cat. The newlyweds were jammed into the small bedroom, normally our TV den, and my younger son bunked in the sewing room. Of course, we had the drums set up in the little hallway room in the midd...
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Features briefs for 13 Jan. 2013
LUMBERTON — The Robeson County History Museum will hold a meeting to discuss planning for the traveling Smithsonian exhibit “Journey Stories” on Monday at the museum at 5 p.m. “Journey Stories,” a six-week exhibit that will be featured at the museum, uses images with audio and artifacts to tell the individual stories that illustrate the role travel and movement played in building American society. For information, call 910-738-7979. L...
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What’s happening for 13 Jan. 2013
MONDAY Meeting: Veterans of Foreign Wars 2843 Pembroke will conduct it’s regular monthly meeting on Monday starting with dinner at 6 p.m. For information, call 910-734-1083. TUESDAY Art exibit: Angela Jennings, curator of the SANKOFA African-American Museum on Wheels, will display her collection of more than 1,000 pieces of artwork and artifacts at the University Center Lounge at The University of North Carolina at Pembr...
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Hayes-Leazer
Weddings for 13 Jan. 2013
Hayes-Leazer Samuel Marcus Leazer of Durham and Lois Gwendolyn Hayes of Charlotte were married at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C. on Oct. 20. The Rev. John N. Leazer, Jr. officiated. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James and Lucille Hayes of Barnwell, S.C. She is the granddaughter of Mr. Daniel S. Hayes and the late Idella J. Hayes, and the late Mr. Marion and Mrs. Albertha Green. She is a graduate of Barnwell High ...
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Reunions for 13 Jan. 2013
The Magnolia High School class of 1963 is planning at 50-year reunion at the Holiday Inn in Lumberton on June 8. To attend, call Pete Bell at 910-785-1050, Delano Cummings at 910-536-3652, Rudy Jones at 910-827-0227 or Van Wilkins at 804-426-2192. The J.H. Hayswood High School class of 1963 is planning a cruise from April 18, 2013 to April 22 to celebrate its 50th year. The cruise will depart from Jacksonville, Fla., and will travel t...
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The Glenn Miller Orchestra, a big band that became famous in the early 40s, will be performing at the Carolina Civic Center and Historic Theater on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Blast from the past
Anne-Claire Siegert Features Editor LUMBERTON — Although the present is a gift, the Carolina Civic Center and Historic Theater is giving locals the chance to see a blast from the past in a riot of music that will pack as much of a punch as it does a sense of nostalgia. “The band really maintains the old standards and plays them in such a way that it’s just the way they did in the 50s,” said Lumberton businessman Bo Biggs, a trombone pla...
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A mourning brooch for the death of Richard Clinton inherited by Belle Higley from her mother, Ann Eliza Norment.
Gilbert P. Higley, Yankee builder, Lumberton’s Civil War hero
A quiet grave site on East Fifth Street next to City Hall in Lumberton, N.C. marks the last resting place of Gilbert P. Higley, a native of Connecticut who migrated to Robeson County in 1843 at age 20. During the last year of the Civil War, he was one of the “Immortal 600,” a group of Confederate officers who were confined by the Union on Morris Island, S.C. in order to protect the Union position at Charleston, S.C. Many Confederate soldier...
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What’s happening for Dec. 30
FRIDAY Turkey shoot: American Indian Mothers Inc. and North Carolina Indian Cultural Center Inc. will hold a turkey shoot and wild game food sampling event every Friday until the new year starting at 6 p.m. at 447 Recreation Center in Maxton. For information, call 910-734-4185. UPCOMING New Year hike: The Lumber River State Park will hold a hike on Jan. 1 starting at Princess Ann Access Area at 10 a.m. The hike will feature di...
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