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SAMPSON COUNTY’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FREE TheVOLUME 9, ISSUE 20 Sampson Weekly www.thesampsonweekly.com Week of May 11-17, 2018 INSIDE Ron Davis Takes Tuesday’s Election Over Men’s Yields a Run-Off Basketball Program Local News Page 2 at Clinton High We Should Know... Page 5 Sports The Primary Elections have come and gone, but one race is still up in the air, the Repub- Page 13 lican candidate for Clerk of Court. Two candidates emerged at the top on Tuesday night, Photo credit Mike Carter Chris Fann with 1001 votes (29.11%) and Chris Driver with 967 votes (28.12%). State statute requires that the winner receive 30% plus 1 vote of the total ballots casts in the ‘Rebuilding? No. We Are Reloading’ WEATHER primary election. When Randy Jordan announced he would be stepping down Fri Partly The two will face off on June 26th in a run-off election. from the head coaching position of the Clinton High School Cloudy Men’s Basketball team after seven seasons a little over a 10% The other two candidates Barbara Moore and Dwight Williams Jr faired well in the hard- month ago, longtime Sampson Middle School head coach Ron Davis decided he would apply for the job - but he did have Hi: 89 º Lo: 65 º fought race that consisted of 4 republican candidates to split the 3439 total ballots casts on the republican side. ELECTION, see P. 4 one caveat. Sat Sunny 10% “I wanted to make sure that the selection committee knew that I wanted to stay on (as a teacher) at the middle school,” Davis Eastpointe Provides Naloxone Kits to explained. “For two reasons. 1) My daughter still goes there, Hi: 94 º Lo: 67 º and 2) I will be able to continue to build on those relationships Sun Sunny Sampson County Sheriff’s Department with the younger players so they can get to know me really 20% well before they come into the high school. They will know exactly what I am expecting and there will be no surprises because we have already have built a relationship.” Hi: 95 º Lo: 67 º Mon Sunny Davis, who has led the Sampson Middle School Boys Basket- 10% ball team to seven, yes, seven consecutive County Champion- ships, said that he applied for the job when Jordan officially resigned. Hi: 94 º Lo: 68 º Tues Partly “It was posted on the website and I just thought I would take Cloudy a chance and apply for it,” he said. “I really didn’t know if I 20% would get it, but I applied. I really love the middle school, so I figured, either way it was a win-win situation for me.” Hi: 85 º Lo: 68 º Wed T-Storms On Monday night, the Clinton City School Board approved the 80% hiring of Davis. Hi: 84 º Lo: 69 º “I got the call from Dr. Miller and I was just ecstatic,” Da- vis said. “It is a great opportunity and I am just really excited about it.” Although there were others in the running, Davis seemed like WEEKLY VERSE a perfect candidate. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for He is a seasoned coach spending the past seven years at Samp- this is right. son Middle and he has also been an assistant at Clinton High “Honor your father for the past 15 years. and mother,” which is the first commandment Eastpointe is partnering with Sampson County to save lives from Opioid overdoes. Eastpointe “I played against Coach Squibb,” Davis laughs. “I was around with Coach Horne, Coach Spell and Coach Jordan too, so I with promise: “that it LME/MCO presented 140 Narcan Kits to the Sampson County Sheriff’s Department on May 3rd. The Nasal Narcan Kits are used to deliver the drug Naloxone to persons who have overdosed on have been around the high school quite a while now. I am just may be well with you opioids. These are the first Narcan Kits for the Sampson County Sher- NOLOXONE, see P. 3 really honored to be able to get and you may live long DAVIS, see P. 3 on the earth.” Ephesians 6:1-3 LET EAGLE EYES HELP YOU PROTECT YOUR FAMILY AND POSSESSIONS! WEEKLY INDEX Do you remember the days when gas was less than a Eagle Eyes dollar and you never even locked your doors at night. Local..............................................1-6 Those days are long gone. Health................................................7 So protect your hard earned investments, with a Faith..................................................8 Surveillance System Eagle Eyes Home Surveillance System. Systems start Entertainment..................................9 We Always Catch Our Prey as low as $699.00 installed, with no monthly fees. 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There will be live music featuring many week so far. The legislature ronment, and, in addition to that, he was someone who always prominent bands, which will start at 6pm on Friday night and has been working hard to brightened your day. The General Assembly will miss Howard 11:30am on Saturday. Vidant Duplin Hospital will sponsor a 5K complete any unfinished busi- Morris, and I wish him congratulations on a well-earned retire- Strawberry Festival Run/Walk at 9am on Saturday that will start ness from the interim, as well ment! at the historic Wallace Train Depot and go throughout down- as preparing for the upcoming town Wallace and the surround neighborhoods. The cost is $25 if short session set to begin on As always, please do not hesitate to contact me if I can assist you you sign up on the Carolina Strawberry Festival 5K’s Facebook May 16th at noon. Yesterday, in any way possible. page, https://www.facebook.com/events/1913524288677854/, North Carolina held its Pri- before May 10th, and the goal of the 5K is to raise stroke aware- mary Elections, so I hope everyone got out and voted! Voting Legislative Recap ness. The festival will also feature cooking contests with cash is one of the most important rights we have as United States Over the course of the interim, we have been including a Leg- prizes. For those interested, please call 910-296-4316 to learn citizens and is something I believe is very important. Voting islative Recap Section in the Newsletter. This section reviews more information. There will also be a Miss Strawberry Pag- gives us the opportunity to voice an opinion and be involved in meaningful legislation that became law during the 2017 session. eant at noon on the Main Street stage, and entry forms can be self-governance. In my last newsletter, we discussed House Bill 467: Agriculture found at www.carolinastrawberryfestival.com. There will be and Forestry Nuisance Remedies. many other activities for attendees to enjoy, such as a cornhole I would like to ask everyone to keep our fellow Americans in tournament, food vendors, a car show, a dog show, and even Hawaii in your thoughts and prayers as they deal with the dev- Expanding Graduate Medical Education Provision helicopter rides. If you would like to find more information on astation caused by the recent eruption of the Kilauea Volcano. the 2018 Carolina Strawberry Festival, please visit www.caroli- These citizens continue to experience the effects of the volca- nastrawberryfestival.com or https://www.facebook.com/Caroli- nic eruption, along with the earthquakes that came with it. I naStrawberryFestival/. wish them a quick and speedy recovery. Sampson County 4-H Summer Workshops This upcoming Sunday, May 13th, is Mother’s Day. I encour- The 2018 Sampson County 4-H’s Summer Workshops are age everyone to spend time thinking on the important role that scheduled to begin in June and continue through August. The your mother and mentors have played in your life and thank summer workshops provide a lot of opportunities for children them for everything they have provided you with. I hope every- and teenagers across the county to get involved in the com- one has a wonderful and safe weekend celebrating with loved munity while being active during the summer. The hope is to ones! keep participants’ minds engaged during the summer months, and learn from new experiences they may have. There are many Former Chief of Police Howard Morris Retirement activities scheduled throughout the summer highlighted by an The former Chief of Po- This week, I would like to go over a provision that was included overnight camping excursion at the Cliffs of the Neuse State lice for the North Carolina in the budget that is aimed at increasing the number of doctors Park, which will be in June, and an “All Around the World” General Assembly Police in rural parts of eastern North Carolina. I first started working program where participants will learn about different cultures Department, Howard Mor- on this provision when I learned that doctors are most likely to through making different types of food and learning of national ris, recently announced his stay and live in the area in which they complete their residency landmarks from all around the world.