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r„. •m'- '*■ FOURTH&LONG There’s a reason I don’t run the Miami Dolphins. Page 4 GRACE&TRUTH Grow, increase, advance... all where you find yourself. Pages FARMERTOFAMILY Boxes will be distributed In Askewville starting next week. Page 2 Volume 123: No. 13 Bertie Ledffer-Advance Vi^ TUIIDCnAV - ADDIi t TAII THURSDAY • APRIL 1,2021 980 S. Academy St. Ahoskie,NC 27910 MASTERS Heating & Air Conditioning 252209.0223 if >■ o if oe M * «p * oe ^ rii * £3 9 04 if ^ Q« qo * w S tan isi » s UJ S « if o ^ S rM * u S Zt W 15 ts Askewville * Aulander * Colerain • Kelford * Lewiston Woodville > Merry Hill« Powellsville » Roxobel« Windsor Historic marker in Windsor. Repair/ replace signs A new opportunity to support the N.C. High way Historical Marker Program will help repair or replace damaged his torical highway marker, N.C. DOT announced. The program has partnered with the non profit North Carolina Literary and Historical Association to estab lish a historical marker maintenance endow ment fund that will al low the public to make financial contributions to support the mainte nance or repair of high way historical markers. For more than 85 years, the North Caro lina Highway Histori cal Marker Program has erected markers along the state’s roads to mark locations of events and people of historical significance. When markers are damaged Ijy collisions or weather, the cost to repair them can be high. In fact, in recent years the marker program has spent on average one-third to one-half of its available annual budget on these kinds of maintenance needs. Three historical high way markers soon will be repaired or replaced through the fund, in cluding a marker for Ella Baker in Halifax County, one for Torhunta in Wayne County and one about Squire and Sarah Boone in Davie County. Visit the association’s website at www.ncdcr. gov/HistoricalMarker- Endowment to contrib- ^ ute. Blood drives like this one - held at Lawrence Academy in 2018 - help keep the American Red Cross supplied. Blood drive set April 12 THADD WHITE Bertie Ledger-Advance WINDSOR - Despite down swings in the active cases of COVlD-19, the need for blood has never stopped. Blood donations, however, have been paused in many ar eas leaving the American Red Cross in need of blood, espe cially type O blood. This spring, the Red Cross is teaming up with INDYCAR® to urge people to help keep the blood supply on track by donating blood or platelets. As a thank you, those who give blood April 1-15 will au tomatically be entered into a drawing to win a trip for four to the 2022 Indianapolis 500. Those who give will also have a chance to win one of five $1,000 e-gift cards. The next local opportunity to give blood will be in less than two weeks when the Ro tary Club of Windsor hosts a blood drive from 2-6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12 at the Windsor Community Build ing. Lewis Hoggard, who chairs the Windsor blood drive, en- See DRIVE, 2 Surface: One journey ends BY CAL BRYANT Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald RICH SQUARE - Where did the time go... Sallie Surface keeps asking herself that question as the 38-year veteran of Choa- noke Area Development Asso ciation (CADA) eyes the end of a long and productive ca reer of helping those in need. Surface, who was first em ployed by CADA in 1983 as its Manager of Community Ser vices, has served the organi zation as its Executive Direc tor since 1990. She plans to retire on June 30 of this year. “There is never a good time to retire since you will always have something you want to accomplish before you do,” said Surface. “You just reach a point when you decide this is the time.” She admitted that the next few months will run the gaunt let between sadness and hap piness. “The daily interactions with CADA Executive Director Sallie Surface (right) is joined by, from left. Dr. Jeffery Fields of Halifax Community College and Weldon Mayor Julia Meacham at an event held in June 2019. staff will be missed,” she as an agency, were making a noted. “I’ve been very fortu- difference in the lives of oth- nate to have had a job that 1 enjoyed and thought that we. See SURFACE, 3 Billy Smithwick Windsor mourns 'Chler Billy Smithwick touted for fire, tourism work THADD WHITE Bertie Ledger-Advance WINDSOR - For more than five decades, Billy Smithwick was known for his wealth of knowl edge when it came to emergency manage ment. Then, for the major ity of his senior years, he was known for his role in helping develop Windsor into a tourist destination. In both roles, he was beloved by the commu nity he served. That community is now in mourning after William “Billy” Jordan Smithwick, 77, of Win- wood Drive passed away Tuesday at Vi- dant Medical Center in Greenville. “Billy was an excep tional person, all the way back to when he earned his Eagle Scout Award,” Windsor May or Jim Hoggard said. “1 guess for many years, what Billy was known for was his emergency work. He was in the fire department for over 50 years, instrumental in rescue work and taught emergency services at Martin Community Col lege. No one met or ex ceeded the accomplish ments in emergency services like Billy. “More recently, when See SMITHWICK, 3 In this edition ^ 4 Church & Faith 5 ^ Classified 6 ■ ImiijFE Obituaries 2 % wmmm Opinion 4 V^lKfsaMf Out & About 2 Good Morning^ Jim Harrell OF Kelford Thank you for subscribing! 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