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Siler City Rotary Fundrasier

PARTY OF THE YEAR returns to Siler City Saturday evening Aug 12th. All proceeds go to the Rotary Scholarship Fund. High school graduates are encouraged to apply for $1000 to the college of their choice. “Service Above Self” of Rotary is alive and well. Siler City Rotary Club raised over $2 million to grow Chatham Hospital from a single home through to the merger with UNC which allowed our shift to Scholarships, Boys and Girls Club, and other non-profits. Rotary International is in every nation except Iran and Saudi Arabia and has nearly eradicated polio starting with funding Polio Plus and drawing in the Gates Foundation and WHO.

The Siler City Rotary Club brought us this great fundraiser event every Spring for decades until Covid-19 collided with fun in the Spring peak of 2020 and made a crowded indoor steak dinner and open bar and reverse raffle impossible. Only 325 tickets were available at $100 each, and all the stubs of lucky buyers are on the board to be removed as the numbers are drawn. The last one drawn wins $10,000! Cash prizes from $100 to $375 are paid every 25th ticket. Meanwhile ticket holders enjoy a steak dinner with all the trimmings and an open bar; must be 21 to attend. Rotary moved from May to August this year and plans are underway for next year. Make your plans to buy tickets early next year. Rotary will try to draft Scott Harris to lead the fundraiser again. These odds sure beat Powerball and scratch offs! And you know you are at the party of the year.

NC ended fiscal year with $3 billion surplus

Chatham News & Record

RALEIGH — North Carolina state coffers ended the 202223 fiscal year with revenues of $33.5 billion, adding an additional $3 billion above the state budget estimate.

In addition, the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM) state agencies reverted $1.17 billion in unspent budgeted funds. This represents 4% of the General Fund appropriations for the year, a larger than typical amount, OSBM stated. Much of the reversions were driven by historically high state employee vacancy and turnover rates as well as prudent budget management by agencies.

“Our state employees have demonstrated incredible stewardship and resilience in the face of changing budgetary pressures and unprecedented vacancies,” said State Budget Director Kristin Walker in a statement. “We look forward to working with state agencies in the new biennium to serve our growing state with the most effective state government we can.”

According to the National Association of State Budget Officers, North Carolina is one of 45 states that ended the recent fiscal year with revenues above the forecasted amount.

Household Hazardous Waste Events 2023

Saturday, August 19 9:00 am to 3:00 pm 28 County Services Road (6 miles west of

THE WORD: CHARACTER IS PERSONAL

his courage with the trembling recruit who fights by his side in the battle. The pure, gentle woman cannot give part of her purity and gentleness, to the defiled and hardened woman she meets.

Character is our own — a part of our very being. It grows in us over the years. Acts repeated become habits, and character is made up in the long run, of those habits which have been repeated so often, that they become a permanent part of our lives.

Proverbs 22:1

Reputation is what a man’s neighbors and friends think of him. Character is what the man is. Character is personal. It is not a possession we can share with someone else. We can give a hungry person part of our loaf of bread; we can divide our money with one who needs it; but character is something we cannot give away or transmit. The brave soldier cannot share

Sow a thought — and you will reap an act; sow an act — and you will reap a habit.

Sow a habit — and you will reap a character; sow character — and you will reap a destiny.

As the tree falls — so must it lie; As the man lives — so must he die.

As a man dies — such must he be; All through the ages of eternity.

J.R. Miller was a pastor and former editorial superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication from 1880 to 1911. His works are now in the public domain.

It’s time to join us again and give the Gift of Life. Easily schedule your appointment on www.redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code: Siler Or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) for scheduling assistance.