Couple honored for volunteerism
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schlier have been volunteers at Lenoir Memorial Hospital for more than 10 years. He is a retired veteran of the Air Force, an active member of the Lion’s Club, and along with his wife Jane, has spent 20 years delivering food for the homebound elderly.
She also is an active member of the Neuse Quilters Guild, was a key figure in the development of the Lights of Love program at the hospital and has been president of the Volunteer Board at the hospital.
A reception was held at the Council on Aging’s Skinner Senior Center Nov. 9 to honor the couple. The agency presented them with a plaque to commemorate the honor and made a donation to the charity of their choice, The Lenoir County SPCA, in their name.
Mayor B.J. Murphy presented them with a letter recognizing and thanking them for their efforts throughout the community.
Minister publishes book
The Rev. Claude Sawyer, pastor, can add another title to his name — author. Sawyer has published his first book, “The Apple of Adam’s Eye.”
The Kinston native is an ordained minister in the United American Free Will Baptist Church in Kinston. He is a revivalist and gospel preacher and has committed his life to God’s work, with a heart for the people of God and all people in general. His ministry has spread as far southeast as St. Croix Virgin Island, and as far west as Los Angeles, speaking in conferences, conventions and retreats.
His book is a discovery of the creation of Adam and the things that went on in the Garden of Eden. It is an unfolding of revelation that speaks of the fall of man and the plan of God in sending Jesus as the second Adam to redeem man back to the place of dominion, authority and power that God had given him in the beginning. This interpretation shows Adam in a new way. As Eve was the apple of Adam’s eye, we are the apple of God’s eye.
Sawyer and his wife Betty J. Sawyer have four children and six grandchildren.
Sawyer’s book can be purchased at amazon.com or the Kinston Bible Bookstore in Vernon Park Mall.
Some fresh produce still at market
Ronnie Hanchey, a Lenoir County Farmer’s Market vendor, offers a wide variety of winter produce and will be at the market on regular days — Tuesdays and Saturdays — until his produce is gone. He’ll even tell you how to prepare it.
Included in his produce is Napa cabbage, tat soy, rutabagas, bok choy, turnips and turnip salad, broccoli, kale, purple kale, henpeck, curly mustard, and others.