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DOCTOR CAREFUL SPORTS ECHS’s Latonya Beatty: Pokémon Go users Post 137 advances in state From nurse to MD. out to catch ‘em all. American Legion tourney. uuSEE 2A uuSEE 3A uuSEE 1B The News Reporter Published since 1890 every Monday and ursday for the County of Columbus and her people. WWW.NRCOLUMBUS.COM Monday, July 18, 2016 75 CENTS CHURCH SANCTUARY A TOTAL LOSS Staff photos by ALLEN TURNER A Tabor City fi refi ghter takes a breather Friday evening as the remains of the Cherry Grove Baptist Church sanctuary smolder. The efforts of the 29 responding fi re departments were able to save the adjoining education/Sunday school building. Lightning sparked fi re that destroyed church building By Allen Turner is burned and it is charred, but it for morning services. Chairman in that candlestick Sunday during Hendrix, chairman of the board of [email protected] is intact, the only big thing that Wayne Hendrix said it will be morning services. The candlestick deacons, who dialed 911. survived from the sanctuary after encased in glass and put on per- and cross were the only things sal- While Fair Bluff Fire and Res- A wooden cross propped by a fi re late Friday afternoon thought manent display somewhere in the vaged from the sanctuary. cue was the first department to cinder blocks stood throughout to have been caused by lightning. rebuilt church, as will a candlestick After a severe thunderstorm late arrive on the scene after the 6:31 the day Saturday in front of what By Sunday morning, that recovered from the altar area of Friday afternoon, a cleaning crew p.m. call, a total of 29 departments used to be the sanctuary of Cherry charred cross had been moved the burned-out sanctuary. Former thought they smelled something Grove Baptist Church. The cross into the church fellowship hall deacon Dan Strickland lit a candle odd at the church and called Wayne uuSEE CHURCH 6A SHIELDING THE SHIELDS Mixed feelings More than 100 turn out for Blue Line Prayer on proposed plans By Jefferson Weaver [email protected] at Acme-Delco; Brandon Patrick said he was shocked when he looked Hallsboro schools across the room at the Colum- bus County Sheriff ’s Offi ce shell By Allen Turner building. [email protected] The organizer of the Blue Line Prayer service on Saturday In sharp contrast to what happened at public hearings expected a few dozen people held earlier in the week elsewhere in the county, mixed to turn out at most. Instead, opinions were expressed Thursday at a public hearing in more than 100 civilians and Acme-Delco to a proposal to close Acme-Delco Middle and law enforcement offi cers from Hallsboro Middle Schools and build a new middle school across Columbus County were near Lake Waccamaw. No opinions were offered by the on hand. public at a Hallsboro hearing. “I thought to myself, ‘Where Earlier in the week there had been unanimous public did all these people come from?’” opinion on Monday in Chadbourn and Evergreen against Patrick said, “then I realized, a a proposal to close the Chadbourn Middle School and lot of people want to pray for Evergreen K-8 school and consolidate at a new facility in our police.” Cerro Gordo while speakers at another hearing Tuesday Saturday’s event was spon- in Tabor City mostly voiced support for a plan to close the sored in part by Peace Baptist existing Tabor City Elementary and Tabor City Middle Church, but participants came Schools and build a new consolidated K-8 school on the from a variety of congregations current elementary school site. and denominations to support About 25 people, seven of whom spoke, attended a law enforcement. Patrick said Thursday hearing conducted by the Columbus County Photos by GRANT MERRITT he felt called to organize the Board of Education at Acme-Delco Middle School. After service after the killings of fi ve Law enforcement offi cers and community members come together and pray in groups. that hearing, the school board reconvened another hear- police offi cers in Dallas earlier like a lot our policemen do,” he country together.” ing at Hallsboro Middle School, where about 20 people this month. said. “They probably got up, told “This isn’t a black and white attended but only one person spoke, not to express an “We as a people have got to their families they loved them, “I’m tired of seeing fl ags thing,” Patrick said. “It’s not opinion, but instead to ask questions. pull together,” he told the crowd. had breakfast and went to work. at half-staff . It’s like it’s a cop thing. It’s a heart condi- At Acme-Delco, several speakers said that, while they “We have got to be the ones to Maybe one of them read a note become normal. When tion.” understand the need to upgrade and consolidate schools, start a great awakening in our from his daughter. Maybe he Revs. Dave Heller and Chip they would be more comfortable consolidating the exist- country. Everybody wants to do joked with his son, or held his I see one all the way up, Hannah also spoke, with Heller ing Acme-Delco Elementary and middle schools into a something, but nobody wants family a little tighter before he I want to know what’s leading the group in singing school that would remain in their community and to to pull together and get their left. None of them knew they w rong .” God Bless America and Hannah combining Hallsboro elementary and middle schools into hands dirty.” wouldn’t be coming home at the calling on “everyone” to “be an a new one to remain there rather, rather than combining Patrick called on the specta- end of their shift.” Brandon Patrick encourager. Acme-Delco and Hallsboro Middle Schools in a new facil- tors to put themselves in the Patrick said that the commu- “We don’t need to hate,” he ity near the existing East Columbus High, as is proposed can Satan cast out Satan? If a shoes of law enforcement of- nity at large needs to not just get said. “We need to lift each other in a feasibility study commissioned by the board of edu- kingdom is divided against it- fi cers. behind law enforcement, but “to in prayer, and especially lift our cation. That study would leave the existing elementary self, that kingdom cannot stand. “Those officers in Dallas, love each other as God said to. LEOs.” schools now serving Acme-Delco and Hallsboro in place We can’t be divided. We need to they probably started their day “Mark 3:23-24 says, …“How cry out to God, and bring our uuSEE SHIELDS 4A uuSEE SCHOOLS 5A Cole Faircloth, a Columbus County native now at N.C. State, winning fi rst place in the weapon kata at the 2016 UFAF Karate Volume 127, Number 5 world championships in Las Vegas? ... Reporter Bob High, who suff ered a stroke last week, working to get stronger? He’ll go to Whiteville, North Carolina DIDYOB a physical rehabilitation facility this week with hopes of a quick recovery and an eventual return to writing. ... Justin and Rachel DID YOU OBSERVE? Smith’s 1-year-old daughter Julia entertaining and delighting the congregation of Whiteville First Presbyterian Church Sunday during her baptism? ... County Boy Scouts returning from Camp Bowers Saturday morning? ... 2A • Th e News Reporter • Monday, July 18, 2016 If you feel overheated so do your animals By Ray Wyche The experts suggest that if [email protected] no trees are available, a make- shift shade can be created by While you are striving to rigging up a canvas-topped, stay cool in these oven-like tent-like arrangement, but days and nights, think about trees are better since the leaves your animals or pets and how to will absorb some of the heat make them more comfortable. released by the shaded animals. Animals do feel the uncom- Hogs are unable to sweat, the fortably high temperatures, as method by which many warm- do we, but fortunately, there is blooded animals cool their a simple, double-barreled rem- bodies as the sweat evaporates. edy for our friends, both pets Instead, swine seek out a mud and working animals: shade hole or small body of water in and water. which to lie in peaceful comfort, “Make sure they have plenty their bodies being cooled by the of fresh water and shade,” says dampness. Extension Service livestock Cats and dogs are equipped Agent Phyllis Creech-Greene by nature with minimum sweat of the Columbus County Exten- glands, on the feet in both spe- sion Service offi ce. cies. The areas (the feet) that Water and shade are plenti- can help remove heat by per- ful in Columbus County but spiration and evaporation are there are right ways to utilize small compared to the animals’ both for maximizing the cooling total skin area. effect on pets, cows and hogs Drinking water should be and chickens. located out of the sun’s rays and For the greatest benefi t to should be checked often since your animals, try to let them all animals will drink more in loaf under a group of heavy- extremely hot weather. The foliaged trees rather than under Extension Service suggests if a single tree. Cows and pigs watering containers are to be Photo by GRANT MERRITT are social animals, and if only used by hogs and pigs, it should With Matt Dudley on drums, Craig Peacock of “Honey Don’t” performs for the “Live After Five” crowd Thursday eve- one shade tree is available, the be visible from a distance.

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