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Whiteville Downtown • The seventh Live •Whiteville and West Co- Inflatables FREE For Kids After Five is this lumbus will play again Dancing In The Streets evening at Vineland tonight in Game 2 of the COOL 105.3 Station. See story, 1A Eastern Championship Live! DOWNTOWN WHITEVILLE at the Depot Thursday, May 28th 6PM-9PM page 2. series. See page 1-B ”The Entertainers” Sports Music by Food & Refreshements~ No Coolers available Please ~ for purchase ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Thursday Reporterfor the County of Columbus and her people. Thursday, May 28, 2015 Consoling a teammate Clean up from Volume 124, Number 97 Whiteville, North Carolina tornado near 75 Cents Bolton ongoing n 105-MPH tornado destroyed one Inside home, hundreds of trees. 4-A By JEFFERSON WEAVER •Jury frees man in Staff Writer robbery case. Judy Parker had just returned home from securing the windows on her daughter’s home 5-A when her husband warned her that a tornado • Celebrate Recovery was on the ground a few miles away. “It wasn’t long before we couldn’t even see is a 12-step Christ- out the windows because of the rain,” she said. centered program to The F1 tornado touched down Thursday on help people deal with the north side of U.S. 74-76, smashed a family home outside of Bolton, and toppled hundreds a variety of issues. of trees along a path that was five miles long but only 100 yards wide. Less than a mile north, 6-A the wind damaged only a sign that had already • Columbus-born been knocked over in a traffic collision. About babies face shorter five miles east of the tornado strike, workers at Livingston Creek Farmers Market reported tak- lifespans than those ing shelter in a sturdy building as a precaution born in many other when the wind rose and the rains fell. N.C. counties. “We had some rain, but not much,” said own- er Danny Graham. “It wasn’t that bad here.” In the town of Bolton, the heavy rain fell in spurts, but the winds did no damage to plants DIDYOB? in several home gardens along Sam Potts Highway. Did you observe ... Just a few miles down the road, however, the storm’s fury demolished a home around Columbus County a 12-year-old boy. He was unscathed, and his advocates from a family’s pet and livestock unhurt. His fam- variety of businesses, See Tornado, page 2-A non-profits and or- ganizations meeting at Lower Cape Fear Hospice Angel House Tuesday evening and Staff photo by Les High Wednesday morn- Ashlin Floyd, right, hugs teammate Shae Cokley after the Whiteville High School women’s soc- cer team’s 2-1 overtime loss to Raleigh Charter High School Tuesday night in Cary. The game ing to discuss the was for the 1A Eastern Championship, with the winner advancing to the state championship possibility of a new Saturday. Cokley is a four-year starter and a team captain. WHS finished the season 22-2-1. December LCFH See the story on page 1-B. fundraiser?...Anthony Veteran Michael Graham salutes Monday. Anderson deliver- ing the invocation at Four-legged Wounded Wednesday night’s Those who gave WHS baccalaure- Warrior calls Whiteville home lives remembered ate?... By JEFFERSON WEAVER his back leg,” Gause said, gesturing Staff Writer to the scars and discolored fur. The dog likes being gently rubbed where here Monday Among the veterans and family he was wounded. members at Monday’s Memorial Where Zino was cross-trained By BOB HIGH Day ceremony was a former soldier in several disciplines, he was pri- Staff Writer County Deaths with a habit of licking outstretched marily a bomb-sniffing dog. Erosz, Whiteville hands. on the other hand, was trained in There are more than 400 men and women Vernis Collins Erosz, a 5-year-old Mallinois, is search and rescue. As such, Gause from Columbus County who have sacrificed a former U.S. Army canine, and said, “he has a lot of personality. their lives to keep this country free. Monday, Wilbert Leroy “Skip” was escorted to the event by Annie “Zino was never mean, but this Memorial Day, they were remembered in im- Hufton Jr. Gause, a former police officer and guy can’t get enough love,” she said. pressive ceremonies at the veterans’ monument Minnie Pearl Carmichael retired member of the military. Service dogs can actually suffer at the Carolyn T. High Library here. “He hasn’t met a stranger,” some of the same issues as their More than 5,000 other residents of Columbus Chadbourn Gause said. human comrades, such as sensitiv- County who have participated in this country’s Gause is close friends with Carol ity to gunfire and other symptoms battles across the world were also honored as John Henry McPherson Clark, who adopted a retired war of post-traumatic stress disorder nearly 100 people of all ages attended the 9 a.m. dog, Zino, and introduced Gause (PTSD). While the dogs are not in- ceremony held in the library’s parking lot. Evergreen to the service dog program. That herently dangerous, they require Four Korean War veterans were honored Beulah Mae Foxworth dog and his wartime handler, Nate special, loving homes and lots of with the Korean Peace Medal given by the Korpusic, were reunited last year. attention. Republic of South Korea; however, only one The furry soldier was adopted Gause said the two dogs have was able to attend Monday. None of three Tabor City through a special military program completely different attitudes and Columbus County residents could attend for Patty Nobles Hodges Olson that allows service dogs that are personalities. While Zino quickly Annie Gause and Erosz various reasons. not wanted by law enforcement became a beloved member of the Angela Norris, president of the Ladies Aux- agencies to be placed with approved family, he would tense up and be- son. When this writer met him the iliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. Index private owners. come alert on trips to Fort Bragg for first time, Zino alerted on the smell 8073, noted that three Tabor City men – Harvey Erosz served two combat tours, veterinary checkups. of gunpowder on his boots. Fowler, Elbert Long and Harry Lee Soles – were Editorials ......... 10-A one each in Iraq and Afghanistan. “All the munitions and smells Erosz, on the other hand, just to receive the honor. Obituaries ......... 7-A He was severely wounded when the put him on alert,” Gause said. wants to be buddies. The fourth veteran, Sergeant First Class Sports ................ 1-B HMMV he was riding in with his Whenever he was around a “He likes people, and tries to Maurice Graham of nearby Loris, S.C., man- handler was ambushed. crowd of people, Zino was friendly, Crime ................ 4-A “He took some heavy shrapnel in but carefully scrutinized each per- See Four-legged, page 2-A See Those who gave, page 3-A Living ................ 1-C 2-A – The News Reporter, Thursday, May 28, 2015 Bob Waddell honored Erosz’ service patches. Retired Columbus County educator Robert A. “Bob” Waddell of Fair Bluff, left, re- ceived the Order of the Long Leaf Pine from his second cousin, Rep. Ken Wad- dell, earlier this week. Waddell was a vocational agriculture teacher in the Columbus Four-legged County Schools for 37 years, 31 years at West Columbus and for shorter stints at the Continued from page 1-A old Fair Bluff, Chadbourn and Hallsboro high schools. Unbeknownst to Waddell, he was to receive the award, the state’s highest civilian honor, at the West Columbus make friends with about ev- with him in Afghanistan. It Guard, and wagged his tail FFA banquet tonight (Thursday); however, after that was planned, he was scheduled eryone,” Gause said. was incredible.” at veterans who attended the for surgery in Wilmington today so Rep. Waddell decided to make the presentation Gause said Erosz had a There are no more rides in event in uniform. He leaned early. A ceremonial presentation will also occur at the FFA banquet tonight when completely unexpected local military convoys or searches his head against the thigh of a Waddell’s granddaughter, Mary Allen Waddell, accepts the award on behalf of her connection – he worked with for missing soldiers for Erosz, Vietnam veteran, tail thump- a soldier with local ties who although his people skills were ing against the ground. grandfather. happened to be Gause’s son- evident at Monday’s ceremo- “He was a soldier, and he’s in-law. ny. Outfitted in a canine vest a veteran, too,” Gause said “When we brought him emblazoned with his service scratching the dog’s head. home,” Gause said, “my son- number and military patches, “When the service dogs come Tornado in-law kept looking at him, Erosz perked up when he saw home, they need to be seen as Continued from page 1-A then he realized he had served the Whiteville JROTC Color heroes, too.” ily’s home, two outbuildings, shape, and will need to be cut for their neighbors since the a cargo van and thousands of or reshaped. storm. dollars worth of building ma- “We have been moving the “The Piggly Wiggly in Rie- terials being used to renovate limbs and things off into the gelwood donated snacks, ice, the home were either damaged woods, but we’re running out water and fruit,” she said. ‘Live After 5’ is tonight at 6 or destroyed. of room. There are at least “When someone mentioned Trees were snapped and three other homes I know of the old family cemetery Friday The seventh Live After 5 beach and soul hits such as Columbus County Parks and twisted from 10 to 40 feet in where people have a lot of night – he just said it probably event will be held Thursday “Me & Mrs.

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