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Here is some history about firefighting. Like many things forwarded and found on the internet, I have not been able to source this information but found it interesting. All my life I have heard the phrase "Fire Plug" and I must admit that my "Intellectual Curiosity" never reached the point of lookin
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 4:46 am
By: Bobby Tony
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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month - the month dedicated to educating women about breast cancer by stressing the importance of early detection through regular self-breast exams and mammography.
Published: Tuesday, October 6th, 2015 @ 9:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is reporting the state's first death from flu for the 2015-2016 influenza season. An adult in the western region of the state died last week of complications from an influenza infection. (To protect the family's privacy, the person's...
Published: Sunday, October 4th, 2015 @ 9:26 am
By: Chris Downey
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I have an old musket in my trophy room from my dad's family. It hung in the basement of our house all my life. After my parents passed, my brother hung it in his garage for a few years. It eventually ended up in my son's collection. It came back to me after he a few years when my son sold his hou
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 5:05 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Vidant Health and its physician partners are offering you the chance to learn how early detection, regular screening, and advanced treatment options can give you the power against breast cancer with our Pink Power Speaking tour, a series of eight events offered across the region.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 10:48 am
By: Chris Downey
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The 25th annual North Carolina Paramedic Competition gets under way Sunday at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center, pitting the 2014 state champs from Rowan County EMS against five teams that clinched regional championships this summer for the right to challenge them.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 3:34 am
By: Chris Downey
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However, some people just bypass the drug companies and go straight to the source. They eat Kaolin or "White Gold" as the Georgians in Sandersville call it.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 5:48 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Conscientious Objectors (COs) could serve as Chaplains or Medics and op out of carrying weapons.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 10:52 am
By: Ted McDonald
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See the flier regarding our FREE breast cancer screenings in October. Please pass along to those who may be interested.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 3:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As the Vietnam series nears completion, I was looking for another Bobby Tony article to plagiarize and found this one.
Published: Sunday, September 27th, 2015 @ 5:12 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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In its largest ever donation, The Service League of Greenville has pledged $2 million to Vidant Medical Center Foundation to help build the new cancer center and bed tower currently under construction on the Vidant Medical Center campus. This contribution to the new facility, which is set to open...
Published: Saturday, September 26th, 2015 @ 12:53 am
By: Chris Downey
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Sometimes it just takes a woman’s touch.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2015 @ 1:57 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The flu vaccine is the most effective method to prevent the spread of influenza. Vidant Health is committed to protecting its employees, patients and the community by offering flu shot clinics through November. Community members, ages 9 and up, may receive the flu shot for a $30 fee. The flu mist...
Published: Thursday, September 24th, 2015 @ 11:16 am
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory has proclaimed September as North Carolina Preparedness Month and is encouraging North Carolina families, businesses and schools to be aware and prepare for all types of emergencies.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 @ 4:52 pm
By: Chris Downey
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After Navy boot camp, I attended Tech school with half Marine students and a few Marine instructors and on ship they provided Brig (jail) guards.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 @ 5:04 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Back during the CB craze almost every city had a CB handle. Tampa was the Cigar City and probably still is, but its biggest cigar producer closed down in 2009.
Published: Sunday, September 20th, 2015 @ 9:56 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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It is hard to memorize Shakespeare, be a soda jerk and flirt with a preacher's daughter, but I did my best.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 4:48 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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After my draft physical, I called a friend who joined the Air Force and hoped to work on dry land in Japan or Thailand.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 3:57 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Embarrassing yourself in front of the girls at the local swimming pool will destroy your cool.
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2015 @ 4:34 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Bobby Tony proves that multitasking is possible when dealing with the Reverend.
Published: Thursday, September 17th, 2015 @ 8:43 am
By: Bobby Tony
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As flu season approaches, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is encouraging all North Carolina residents to protect themselves by getting vaccinated against the flu.
Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 @ 5:18 pm
By: Chris Downey
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As a first time grandpa, I have no experience on how to perform the role, so naturally I went back into the picture archive and searched for some help.
Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 @ 2:40 am
By: Bobby Tony
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"We went from her having two legs to one." Patricia Watkins describes the heartbreaking reality for her family after her daughter, Angel Watkins, now 14, lost her left leg due to osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, in Sept. 2014. Now, a year later, she and her family are joining the fight to bring...
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 4:56 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Dr. Weldon Shaffer, a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist, joined Vidant Women's Care - Washington located at 1210 Brown Street on Sept. 6.
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 9:47 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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A Marine RVN Vet Helicopter door gunner said the Warrant officers were enlisted guys who finished boot camp, 10 weeks of Warrant Officer training and 18 month of helicopter flight training. You had to be at least 18 years old.
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 3:59 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Last night I got some devastating news about one of my best Beaufort County friends, Jimmy Moore who is the long time Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Washington, NC.
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 1:53 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Health officials from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health encourage residents and visitors to take precautions to prevent mosquito-borne illness following a death from West Nile virus infection. This is North Carolina's first death and first...
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 10:33 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health's Injury and Violence Prevention Branch has received $939,000 in funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to prevent overdose deaths related to prescription opioids.
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 10:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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What is was like to be raised in Atlanta in later 1940 through 1950s
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 1:55 am
By: Bobby Tony
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1972 was a very good year for Bobby Tony.
Published: Monday, September 7th, 2015 @ 9:03 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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How a book made me re-evaluate some of the events in my life.
Published: Sunday, September 6th, 2015 @ 2:29 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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How a book made me re-evaluate some of the events in my life.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2015 @ 10:34 am
By: Bobby Tony
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After a digilent search throught his Ancestory.com files, Bobby Tony finds a few rebels in the tree.
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2015 @ 9:39 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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"Good Music Good Medicine," a series of performances at Vidant Medical Center (VMC) featuring faculty and students from the School of Music at East Carolina University (ECU), begins its fifth season on Tuesday, September 8.
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2015 @ 9:29 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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