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t _ PAGE 2 - WEST CRAVEN HIGHUGHTS - JUNE 18, 1987 Eastern Echoes By Gail Roberson Daddy’s Day I think we’ve misnamed the third Sunday in June. It should be called “Daddy's Day” instead of "Father’s Day.” Fathers are a whole different breed of men from daddies. You ntay have a father, but I have a DADDY, So, I know what I’m talking about. Fathers are men who hand their children large sums of money to entertain themselves, and then go off and play golf all day long and leave the kids to do the best they can, with whoever they can. Daddies, however, not only get out in the yard and play ball with their children, but also build back- boards, hang nets and polish bats. Fathers buy the team suits. Daddies take time off without pay to sit on the bleachers and buy cokes afterwards. Fathers load their teenage daughters down with charge cards and then drop them off at the mall entrance. Daddies go along with them to the store and “ooh” and ”ahh” at all the appropriate times. Fathers often forget birthdays. Daddies come out of the field early to blow up ballons and hang crepe paper, and look for the best corner to jump out from when you enter the room, unsuspecting. While fathers have a hard time being anything but fathers, daddies are flexible and can easily adapt to being fathers when it becomes necessary, and then they’re daddies again in the blink of an eye. For instance, it was my father who disciplined me for being late, but my daddy who showed me how to “chunk up” a baseball bat and “break in” a catchers glove that same after noon. My father made me work in the fields when I didn’t want to, but my daddy let me slip off early now and then for a special occasion. My father threatened to take the car keys away, but my daddy supplied the gas for my teenage outings. My father tried to audit the number of boys who appeared on his front porch every week, but my daddy stood firmly behind me when I made the all-male baseball team. It was our father who lined me and my brothers all up in a row out on the back porch, then took a switch to every one of us for turning the garden hose on grandma. But. two days later, our daddy loaded us all up in the beat-up station wagon and took us for our first trip down to the ocean. My father quoted me the ruies of life and my daddy lived them so I could see what it was really all about when done properly. Though I have always admired and respected my father, it is my daddy that I love the most. So, from here on out, let’s refer to the third Sunday in June as “Daddy’s Day,” if for no one but Joe Leggett of Route 4, Windsor. To me, that's plenty reason enough. Rotary Club Honored Vanceboro Rotary Club President Jim Pepper holds a certificate presented to the club by Linda Thomas, volunteer coordinator, for services rendered to Farm Life Elementary School in Vanceboro. The club also received a certificate for its efforts at West Craven High School. (Richard Cannon photo) Rotary Speaker Dr. Dan Campbell of New Bern, a veterinarian and owner of Craven Animal Hospital, gave a program on veterinary medicine last week to the Vanceboro Rotary Club. He discussed care and treatment of pets and other animals in the area. Campbell graduated from N.C. State in 1969. He has been in private practice in New Bern since 1981. He is the in.coming vice president of the New Bern Rotary Club. He also owns the Animal Care Center in New Bern. (Richard Cannon photo) US. OLYMPIC FESriVAL-’87 Riding Horses For The Gold By Smith Barrier (4th of 11-part scricsl Beautiful iniiccd are the challenges of the Olympic horse world...the understanding ami eollahiirution be tween man wonian (did the mount itself in the dressage...the derring-do of the show jumps. No one can forget the 1984 Olympiad in Los Angeles, and the gold earned by the IJ..S. Equestrian Team. Or the 1976 royal visit to Montreal, where Queen Eli/ahelh II thrilleil at I’rince.ss Anne's first Olympic competition with the Britisli team. Kor young Anu.-ricans this road to the top finds the IJ..S. Olympic Festival- '87 an important rung of the ladder. When most of them mount their horses in the Hunt Horse Complex at the State Fairgrounds. Raleigh, they can see their names on the Oly mpic marquee of the future, (he near future at that. Equestrian competition will lake place the second weekend of U.S. Olympic l■■eslival•■87.July 2.V24for the dressage. July 2S-2h for showjumping, the climaelic conclusion being the individual jumping Sunday afternoon. 4 p.m. Before this begins. 24 of the nation's lop riders will be selected by the U.S. Equestrian Team through applications to the American Horse .Show Associa tion. A dozen will be chosen for the dressage, same for show juipping. then • For The Pan A ms SuniL’ihmL' spokiiil .iwaits the eijiiesiriuii eoni|K‘Uii*rs.it the Hunt Horse C\>niple\ t>f the Stale I air^erotiiuls. There \sill he iiuljjinii hetween the h>ur reenmal teams in I \S. Olympic I'estival- S’’, hut these will als4> serve as the ilressaye selecltun trials fi>r the Pan American Games. I hese eames t»f i he Western Hemisphere lake place in Indianapolis August 7-2.Vai»d actpiirini'aposiiiimonihel'.S. Iiquestrian Team will be an im[H>rlani step to many yimrie riders toward future World Chiim- pumships and the PIKX Olympics in Setuil. Dressage competition takes the first two days of the State I'airgrotinds schedule in Raleigh, set for July 2.V24 m the evening (7;.V) p.m.t. More experienced horses are selected for the dressage exercises, since the judg ing is based on the h«»rse's resjxmse to the rider’s orders. While 50 percent of the dressage competi tion at the State Fair- grtHinds w ill be scored i>n a tciim basis, the ituii\idualsci>reswiilbe mtkre important than usual in these annual Festivals. Horses and riders w ill be striving to make the U.S. team for the Pan-American (james. less than two weeks away. OUOMO grouped in four teams for competition. Teams represent the four regions of the nation: East. South, North and West. At U.S. Olympic Festival-'Sb in Houston. Jay Bozich of Southern Pines was on the East team. The year before, his team won the bronze. Also in show jumping. Kay Meredith of Raleigh is a world-class rider. Strong Texas entries dominated a year ago. Jeepers Rags dale of Hunt. Texas riding his mount Cabellero Rags through four rounds of jumping without a fault. Explained Glenn Petty, local eques trian coordinator for the Festival and manager of the Hunt Horse Complex: "Dressage is the figure skating of the hor.se world. It is judging the horse on a searching test of its obedience and responsiveness in performing prescrib ed movements on the flat." Show jumping carries the rider and mount over I.S jumps, starting at 4- foot-6 with a five foot spread. In U.S. Equestrian Team competition jumps reach .S-foot-.l. The United States won golds at both the 1986 World Cham pionships at Aachen. West Germany, and the 1984 Olympics. The State Fairgrounds host site has .s.(MX) seats in an indoor arena. An Olympic Festival attendance record was set at Houston. 14,000 spectators for the four events. TICKETS: Season and individual event tickets may be purchased by telephone, through Ticketron. 1-8()II-2.\V40S0. from anywhere in the U.S.: in person, at Ticketron outlets across the country: or by mail, with a completed ticket order form available bv calling I-8(M)-22.TUSOF (N.C. onlvlor9l9-.161-l987. Obituary iVaiirv L. Mnitliis Nancy “Nannie” Lamm MaUh- is, 78. of 800 Gaskins Road died June 11 in her home. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. June 13 at Broad Street Christian Church with the Rev. C. Frank Speight and Dr. Arthur W. Lilley ofTiciating. Burial was in Greenleaf Memo rial Park. She is surv’iv'ed by three daughters. Corinne M. Newell of Roxboro. Libby M. Ferebee of Newport News. Va.. and Nancy M. Parrott of New Bern; six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Mrs. Matthis was a member of Broad Street Christian Church. She was a member of the Craven Chapter No. 129, Order of East ern Star. Funeral arrangements were by Cotlen Funeral Home Budget From Page 1 amount of rev'enue they are ex pected to provide are as follow’s: Water tap charges. $105: sewer tap charges. $250; reconnection charges. $300; sales tax refund, $700; state funds under Senate Bill II, $5,486; sales tax. $6,900; penalties. $1,000 and miscel laneous income. $100. Graduation From Page 1 the graduating class. Barbara Guice Bowers, valedictorian, spoke after an address by Michel le Gaskins, salutatorian. The West Craven Concert Band then performed Invicta by James Swearinsen. Jimmy Smith, chairman of the New Bern-Craven County Board of Educaton. handed out diplo mas to the 161 graduates. He was assisted by Jolly and Willie Per ry, an assistant principal at West Craven High School. After the graduates marched across the field and received their diplomas, the school's alma mater was sung. The alma mater was followed by the senior reces sional, Fanfare and Recessional, by James Polyhar. Junior marshals for the gra duation were Darren Cayton, Pearlie Campbell, William Chap man, Cedric Hargett, Deanna Hawkins. Roger Hawkins. Tam my Hughes. Vicky Hunnings, Chrishell Johnson, James Kirk- man. Jennifer Peskie. Michael Register. Tina Taglieri, Kellie Wiggins. Sheila Woolard and Eric Zittoun Ushers for the commencement serv'icc were from the National Honor Society. Graduation Scenes Last minute preparations (top photo) before commence ment exercises had graduates worrying about personal de tails rather than academic de tails. After 12 years of study, the night had arrived. Waiting in the wings (center photo) were the junior marshals. With a wide smile, diploma in hand and the tassle moved to the left, this graduate is ready to go out into the “real world.” (Richard Cannon photos) Wcat Craven Highlights CravMCmmty'a Family Waakly Wawapapar P.O.Box 404 Vanceboro, N.C. 28586 (Main SL Across Ftom Post Office) Publlshad laeh Thuraelay AablayM.Piitrnll,Jr. Publisher MIkaVoaa Editor FatBaaeham Advertising Manager t. Daryl Daughtry Advertising Director ■dith Hodgaa Office Manager Office Hours Mon 8:30 am -10:30 am Thurs. & Fri. 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Talaplion2444>7M IN-COUNTY RATES Single Copy 25 1 Year *7.36 OUT-OF-COUNTY RATES 1 Year Abova InehidaB N.e. Tax. Payable in advance. 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