La Grange woman earns Farm Bureau award
The Lenoir County Farm Bureau held its annual Ladies Night Jan. 24 at the Kinston Country Club.
Steve Carroll, executive vice-president and general manager of North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, was the guest speaker. Mitch Peele Sr., director for public policy at the N.C. Farm Bureau Federation, performed the duty of installing officers and directors of the Lenoir County Farm Bureau.
Kayla Hill of La Grange was presented the 2013 Young Farmer and Rancher Award by President Alton Roberson of Kinston. Hill was an active member of the FFA from 2004 to 2007 at North Lenoir High School. She received an Associate’s Degree in horticulture from Lenoir Community College and is adjunct horticulture instructor at LCC.
She is the daughter of Doug and Joy Hill of La Grange and has one brother, Garrett.
Safe Kids to host medicine drop
Safe Kids Eastern Carolina will host Operation Medicine Drop in Lenoir, Jones, Duplin and Onslow counties from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Piggly Wiggly, 258 North and Jackson Heights locations; Food Lion in La Grange and Richlands; Pink Hill Gym on Macon Street; Realo Drugs in Trenton and Pollocksville; Maysville Police Department; and Beulaville Town Common.
Community members are urged to acknowledge “National Poison Prevention Week” by properly disposing of unused, unwanted or expired prescriptions and over-the-counter medications at one of the listed sites.
Operation Medicine Drop is an initiative of Safe Kids North Carolina to help prevent accidental poisonings and drug abuse while protecting the waters. In the spring of 2011, more than 4 million doses were collected at almost 300 events.
For more information, call 252-939-1200.
Museum to show Tuscarora film
GOLDSBORO — G.M. Smith of Snow Hill will show his documentary “Forgotten Tragedy: The Tuscarora War” at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Wayne County Museum, 116 N. William St. Admission is free.
The film documents the fall of the Tuscarora stronghold, Fort Nooherooka, in present-day Greene County. For three weeks in March of 1713, a force of South Carolina colonial troops, along with members of several tribes, laid siege to the fort which held hundreds of Tuscarora men, women and children. To end the siege, the attackers set fire to the site. Hundreds died and more than 400 survivors were sold into slavery. The site remains the single largest burial of Native Americans in North America. This tragedy was the beginning of the end of the Tuscarora in Eastern North Carolina.
Call the museum at 919-734-5023.