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Farmers Day Celebrates 60 Years

BY VICTORIA MIRIAN Staff Writer

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team of horses clambered into downtown Robbins in 1955. It was early August, and the sun was hot, but below the wagon’s covering, Curtis Hussey and his grandfather Johnny Hussey led the horses.

The ride caught the attention of the town, and Robbins granted cousins Curtis Hussey, Branson Hussey and Graham Hussey an annual event dubbed “Farmers Day.” The day became a yearly break for farmers between planting seasons, when they could take a break to ride into town on horse and buggy.

Leading a parade of people and horses in his 1906 Tyson Buggy Works covered wagon, Curtis Hussey earned a title that stuck: “wagon master.”

By 1958, the parade grew to include 65 entries. Now, the same parade sees close to 600. Eventually, local bands got in on the effort and held concerts at the community grocery store for parade-goers.

Odell Hussey took the reins from his father in 1992 to become the current wagon master, but he still leads the parade in the same wagon his father drove.

“25 years ago, we had a Friday night little blue grass band, and then a parade on Saturday,” said Jarius Garner, former chairman of Farmers Day and former Robbins fire chief. Garner passed on both jobs to David Lowe last year.

“Over time, we built it up to where we expanded to have activities on Saturday,” Garner says.

Now, upwards of 30,000 people flood into Robbins on the first weekend in August. The influx of people can be startling for the town, which has a population of just over 1,000.

“It’s also sort of a homecoming, too, for the local town. A lot of people come back home to the town,” Garner says.

Over the years, the Robbins Farmers Day Committee, made up of Chairman David Lowe, Jarius Garner, Brian Marley, Timmy Brown, Jeff Sheffield and Rob Tew, planned and added more attractions.

The festival grew to a three-day event when the committee added a 5-kilometer run to attract visitors Thursday night. Fireworks, entertainment, food and craft vendors soon all became a regular part of the fanfare.

“It’s been wonderful,” Garner says.

2015 marks the 60th anniversary of Farmers Day, and the committee is expecting a crowd of 35,000.

“Usually, we have great turnouts on special anniversary years,” Garner says.

“So that’s what we’re hoping for this year, as well.”

In all of the excitement of the three-day event, Garner wants to remember where it all started. The annual Farmers Day parade takes place at 11 a.m. on Saturday, where participants ride along on their horses or wagons down Middleton Street, much in the same way Curtis Hussey and his family members began riding into town in 1955.

“That’s where we started,” Garner says. “We stick to it and honor it as best we can.”

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From Hazel Neck to Robbins,

What’s in a Name?

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BY CLARK COX Former news editor of The Pilot Originally printed August 2, 2000

Perhaps that is also how “Hazel Neck” got its name. In any case, it didn’t keep the name for long.

hroughout its history, Robbins has been a bustling little town populated by industrious people, generally unmarked by controversy. Except on those occasions when its name has changed.

Changing the name from Hemp to Robbins in 1943 sparked a lawsuit and caused at least one family to move from the town in protest. No legal challenges greeted the name change from Elise to Hemp in the early years of the 20th Century, but diehards refused to take down the Elise sign from the railroad depot, and it remained there for many years.

There was good reason in the minds of railroad people to prefer the name Elise. That name honored the daughter of a railroad builder. If any such controversies surrounded earlier name changes, they have long since disappeared in the mists of time.

What follows is an account of the various names and the reasons for them.

The town now known as Robbins first became a center of industrial activity in the latter days of the American Revolution. Alexander Kennedy, a gunsmith by trade, had been a resident of Philadelphia. When the British occupied Philadelphia, Kennedy fled southward and established a gun factory on the falls o Bear Creek. From this location, Kennedy continued to supply General George Washington’s Continental forces with firearms.

Kennedy’s son, David, took over operation of the gun factory about 1795 and continued it until well into the 19th Century. With nearly 100 workers on the payroll, the factory produced many of the guns used in the War of 1812.

The Kennedy factory had led to the establishment of other factories with similar products.

Other gunsmiths in the neighborhood were John Kennedy, William Williamson, Capt. John Ritter, Phil Cameron, James Ray and Robert Davis (who might have been in business with Alexander Kennedy).

The gunsmith enterprises earned the community the name “Mechanics Hill”, and it is little wonder that, when the area got its first post office in 1823, Mechanics Hill was the name chosen for it.

The Civil War effectively closed down the gun factories, and the post office moved to Carter’s Mill as the community languished – but it was still known as Mechanics Hill until 1900.

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The earliest maps of the area now known as Robbins designate it as “Hazel Neck”. No one now living knows why.

There are many other communities in North Carolina that still have the word “Hazel” in their names. According to William S. Powell’s encyclopedic reference book, “A North Carolina Gazetteer”, in most cases it was because hazelnuts grow in the area.

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Elise

A new period of growth began when the Durham & Charlotte Railroad (later Norfolk & Southern Railroad) extended its rails through the town in 1899.

Again a prime mover in the resurgence was a former Philadelphian – John F. Lennig, a wealthy businessman and railroad builder who won the contract to build the section of the railroad that passed through Mechanics Hill. For a dozen years, Lennig was heavily involved in community activities in the area.

It was he, with a group of associates, who laid out the streets in Robbins and applied to the state for a municipal charter. And so grateful for Lennig’s contributions were the townspeople, that they agreed to name the new town after Lennig’s daughter, Elise.

The town plat was listed under the new name at the Moore County Courthouse on March 24, 1900.

No one seems to know what became of Elise Lennig.

One unsubstantiated report has it that she “married royalty”.

But she continued to be remembered in the town well past the time that it stopped bearing her Early Elise Street Scene name. A private school, Elise Academy, flourished for many years, later becoming Elise High School.

There is still a school in Robbins with the name.

And then, of course, there was that depot sign.

Hemp

In Richard Lester’s 1965 movie “The Knack,” there is a scene in which a young man shouts from an upstairs window, “Beware the Indian hemp! Beware the Indian hemp!”

Into the frame, on the street below the window, walks an elderly man of swarthy complexion, wearing a turban and a Nehru jacket.

“Oh, Good morning, Mr. Hemp,” the youth says.

The rather limp joke depends on the fact that marijuana is a form of hemp.

Some local people to this day are taken in by the canard that Robbins once had the name Hemp because there was a thriving trade in marijuana in the area. It is one of three explanations of the name, none of which are quite satisfactory.

What is certainly true is that the U.S. Post Office Department – congnizant of the growth that the railroad had brought to the little town (and cognizant, also, that with the railroad now coming through, the town was an attractive pickup and drop-off point for transporting mail by rail)- decided to move the post office back from Carter’s Mill to Elise.

The barrier was that, although post offices almost always carry the names of the towns in which they are located, the Post Office Department wouldn’t let the new post office carry the name Elise. It was too similar to the names of other North Carolina towns that had post offices of their own – Elease in Cumberland County, Eleazar in Randolph County, Elisha in Pasquotank Count y, Ellis in Bladen County – and the similarities might cause mail to be routed incorrectly.

Left unanswered was the obvious question: If the Post Office Department had such a strict policy against such name similarities, how had Elease, Eleazar, Elisha, etc. gotten away with taking those names? Not to mention the thousands of other cases of post offices in the United States that have similar sounding names.

Still, that much has the ring of truth. And so does the oft-told story that it was left up to the new postmaste, George Horner, to come up with the “official” name for the post office, provided that the Post Office Department approved.

From that point, however, the various stories diverge widely. Here is a look at the three most commonly heard versions, from least likely to most likely: 1. The town was named for its thriving marijuana trade.

SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2015 Get real. In the first place, Horner would not have dared name the town for an enterprise that, while legal (the U.S. Government did not outlaw marijuana until 1937) was considered disreputable.

In the second place, it can be stated with some confidence that there was no thriving marijuana trade in Elise in 1900. Marijuana use at the time was well confined to a very small number of people, mostly in urban areas.

And in the third place, if there was a thriving trade in an illicit drug in Elise in 1900, it was in moonshine whiskey. In a brief “History of Robbins” written a number of years ago, W.J. Dunlap wrote of the early railroad years: “Back in those days, bootleggers were thought more of than revenue officers, especially by railroad men. Consequently, they had a whistle signal to warn those engaged in the illegal manufacture of whiskey when a revenue officer was on the train. “ 2. The Post Office Department named the town.

In this version of the story, Horner picked the name “Hemp” from a list of “approved names” for post offices, sent to him by the Post Office FILE PHOTO Department. Since post offices are almost always named for places, and not the other way around, the existence of such a list is doubtful.

Moreover, the challenge of preparing a comprehensive list of acceptable names, or even of drawin up criteria for what names could be acceptable, would seem insurmountable (especially in pre-computer days). A list containing such an unusual town name as “Hemp” would likely have been a lengthy one indeed.

And finally, this version of the story leaves one big question unanswered: Even given the existence of a list of approved names, why would Horner have chosen the name “Hemp” in preference to any other?

3. Horner named the town for a coil of rope Well, maybe. This version of the story has it that, when Horner read the letter from the Post Office Department advising him that he would have to pick a new name for the post office, he was sitting on a coil of hemp rope in his hardware store on Middleton Street. Hemp was used in industrial and farm products in those days, especially rope and twine.

Even if there is some truth to this story, one as to wonder why Horner Chose the name “Hemp” over such names as “Rope” or “Coil”.

Many townspeople were upset at Horner over his choice of name, however it came about.

There was much resistance to the new name, and for years, the local post office was known as “Hemp” while the town continued to be called “Elise”. Not until 1915 did the town officially adopt the new name.

And even thereafter, that “Elise” sign at the depot remained in place for a long time – perhaps even until 1935, when the town was officially incorporated as a municipality. The 1899 town charger – as “Elise” – had long since lapsed, and when the town was chartered anew in 1935, it took the name “Hemp”.

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But by 1935, the seeds of a new name for the town had already been sown. In 1930, a group of investors led by Karl Robbins of New York purchased what was then known as the Pinehurst Silk Mill in Hemp and prepared the facility for conversion to the manufacture of rayon cloth. Karl Robbins was born in Russia, near the city of Kiev, in 1892.

His father came to America in 1901 and became a merchant. By 1905 he had become financially secure enough to send for his family to join him. The Robbins (then Rubinsky) family became citizens of the United States in 1906. By 1930, Robbins had already been a successful wholesaler in the dress goods business for a number of years, and he seemed to

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take no notice of the Great Depression that had all but crippled the nation. The expanded the plant and put in large numbers of local people to work. By 1943, the payroll at the mill had increased to $29,000 a week – from $2,000 in 1932.

Karl Robbins took an active interest in the town. He donated $2,000 to buy playground equipment for the local elementary school. He spent $10,000 to build a baseball park in Hemp. He had tennis courts built. He donated money to all four local churches for building programs. At Christmas, he financed a program to provide food for needy families, sent gifts to all local ministers, and distributed treat bags to children in Sunday schools. He paid to have several streets in Hemp paved.

Robbins signed a contract with the telephone company, agreeing to make up any “shortage in revenue” the company incurred in transforming the local telephone system from “crank” type phones to dial phones. He donated money to the town to aid in the construction of its first water and sewer system in 1937. He gave $30,000 to the town to

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W.P. Saunders was the first manager of the mill under Robbin’s ownership, and he became mayor of Hemp when the town was incorporated in 1935. Little wonder then, that in 1943 the name of the town was changed from Hemp to Robbins.

The name did not become official for some time, however. Opponents sought an injunction against the change, which was granted by the chief justice of the NC Supreme Court. The town’s name could not be officially changed until the Supreme Court, after a hearing on an appeal by the opponents, struck down the appeal. One man was so angry at the name change that he moved his family from the “new town” of Robbins to Southern Pines. But, by and large, the name was widely approved and accepted. So much so that the name remains in place 72 years later.

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Trinity Quartet, a southern gospel men’s quartet, will perform Thursday night on the Railroad Stage. The Archdale-based quartet, started in 1993 by Michael Toney, has had two national singles that hit top 50 on Joy FM, a Christian radio station out of Winston Salem.

Photo contributed Lead singer Toney is accompanied by tenor Vernon Simmons of Asheboro, baritone Darrell Overman of Seagrove and bass Christopher Slaydon of Yanceyville. The group has toured North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. “The reason we do this is for the glory of God,” Toney says. “It’s a calling that each of us has.” Contact Toney and the Trinity Quartet at (336) 861-7269.

The gospel singers from northern Moore County that make up Grassy Creek Trio are keeping it close to home for Farmer’s Day. Named after a creek that runs by Smyrna Methodist Church in Robbins, the group first performed at Farmers Day last year and will make its second appearance on the Railroad Stage Thursday night. The trio, made up of Hussey, Rodney Garner and Mike Garner, has been singing together as Grassy Creek Trio for ten years, but sang together in church long before that. “We sing old hymns from old country church hymnals that folks who grew up in small churches would know,” Hussey says. Contact Hussey at (910) 6397999.

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THC Takes the Stage Close to home The rock cover band, Tommy, Hank and Cecil — THC for short — will perform at the 60th annual Farmers Day on the Post Office Stage on Friday, July 31 from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. THC specializes in rock ‘n’ roll from the ‘60’s and ‘70’s.

The Pinehurst band was originally known as Sketchbook.

During the 1999 and 2014 U.S. Open Championships in Pinehurst, the band’s song “U.S. Open Blues,” reached world-wide audiences.

“A lot of people know who we are now,” Cecil Monroe, the band’s drummer, says. “We’re trying to establish a new identity.”

Sketchbook temporarily stalled when the lead singer, Jimmy Reeves, passed away after a long battle with lung cancer. The band was renamed to THC, named after the surviving members of Sketchbook. Now, THC has four members including Monroe, Tommy Whitesell, his brother Hank Whitesell, and son Jeffery Whitesell.

Monroe says THC is ready to play close to home.

“With 25,000 people coming into a small town, it’s a big deal,” Monroe says. “It’s a real homecoming for me because I never get to play in Robbins as much anymore, and I’m from there. Now I get to see people I grew up with.”

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McKenzies Mill headlines weekend lineup Justin and Ryan Harris moved to Nashville, Tenn. ten years ago to follow their dream of entering the country music scene.

Since then, the brothers have performed all over the world, but they pay homage to their roots every day.

Their band is McKenzies Mill — named after the street in Seven Lakes where they grew up – and they will return to Moore County to perform at the 60th annual Farmers Day on Friday, July 31 on the Railroad Stage at 9 p.m.

“Playing at home is the best,” Justin Harris says. “We can definitely feel the energy in the air and the amount of people who love us for what we’re doing and support us. It matters a lot to us.

There’s no better place than coming back home and doing a show.”

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Strait Aces Fill Saturday Night Slot William Willard and the Strait Aces will perform on the Fidelity Bank Stage on Saturday, August 1, from 8 p.m. to midnight. The band has been performing George Strait covers at Farmer’s Day for more than seven years.

“We got a good show this year, and we’re looking forward to it,” Willard, who lives in Robbins, says.

Along with Willard’s lead vocals are Donald Wilbanks, steel guitar; Kevin Garland, lead and rhythm guitar; Dwain White, bass guitar; Herman Garrin keyboard and Manuel Holloway on drums. They named themselves the Strait Aces after George Strait’s backup band, Ace in the Hole.

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Hammer N Song brings gospel-bluegrass sound Hammer N Song returns to the Railroad Stage for their third Farmers Day appearance on Saturday, August 1. Hammer N Song’s style is bluegrass gospel, featuring Photo contributed the mandolin, bass and guitar, and focusing on tight harmonies. They perform all over the countryside at churches, benefit events and even wedding receptions. Mike Garner, Monica Williams, Racy Maness Jr. and Travis Brady round out the group.

Garner looks forward to returning to the Farmers Day scene. “We like getting involved in the crowd and being a witness for Jesus Christ,” he says.

While the performance opportunities are a perk of being a member of the group, Hammer N Song’s focus is on relaying Christ’s message.

For bookings, contact Garner at (910) 464-2117 or Williams at (910) 571-4127. ­— Ashlen Renner

­— Ashlen Renner

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Quicksilver Cloggers A Local Fest Favorite The 60th annual Robbins Farmers Day would not be complete without a performance by the Quicksilver Cloggers. The cloggers have left their audiences toe-tapping at Farmers Day for more than 15 years.

The Quicksilver Cloggers will perform on Friday, July 31 on the Middleton Street stage from 7:30 to 10:15 p.m.

Though the group is based in Robbins, dancers are from all over the state in Moore, Montgomery, Forsyth and Guilford counties.

The cloggers perform at the Carthage Buggy Festival, the Peach Festival in Candor, the Lake Lure Arts and Crafts Festival, the NC Seafood Festival in New Bern, and many fiddlers’ conventions. Though they clog for fun, they compete every year at the NC State Fair.

The Quicksilver Cloggers have ten members ranging in age from 20 to 75. To stay sharp, the cloggers practice every Sunday and attend clogging workshops and conventions to learn new dances. ­— Ashlen Renner Photo contributed

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Fair Warning a Saturday night feature band

Larry G. Davis brings presidential skills to Robbins

Fair Warning will perform on Saturday, August 1 from 8 p.m. to midnight on the Post Office Stage. The band started in 1996 in Thomasville where they caught the attention of several local clubs. Since then, the band has recorded two CD’s and their songs, “Till Love,” “Sweet Addiction” and “Not Through Loving You” can still be heard on local radio and internet stations. They also play cover songs from the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Fair Warning features Brian Hall, vocals; Jimmy Hinson, guitar; Dave Baker, bass guitar and Chris Lesnick, drums and vocals.

Larry G. Davis lives on Ridges Mountain in Randolph County.

As a former studio musician in Nashville Tenn., Davis has risen to one of today’s premier solo guitarists. He will be performing on the Fidelity Bank Stage on Saturday, August 1 from noon to 4 p.m. Davis has performed for Presidents Ronald Regan and Jimmy Carter and has performed at Nascar races for seven years.

He plays many genres of music, including classical and jazz.

Davis also teaches guitar to students in Asheboro.

Photo contributed

­— Ashlen Renner

­— Ashlen Renner Photo contributed

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Band More Than Just Passin’ Thru Bluegrass band, Passin’ Thru, Photo contributed will perform on Friday, July 31 on the Fidelity Bank Stage from 8 to 11 p.m. Passin’ Thru has been together for more than 10 years, performing across the south east in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. Members include CH Lineberry on guitar, Dwayne Runyon on mandolin, Jim Damron on bass and Austin Dunn on banjo.

“They’re a great bunch of guys, and we have the same attitudes,” Lineberry says. “ We all get along and work hard on our music.”

The members come from all over the state and West Virginia, and most have played in other bands. Lineberry has been in bands for more than 30 years, starTing with his father’s band.

Passin’ Thru has played at Farmer’s Day once before a few years ago and is eager to return to see “the spirit of the place.”

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Pioneers Carry Gospel Many Miles The Pioneers, a southern gospel band from Randleman, will take the Railroad Stage on Saturday, August 1 during the 60th annual Farmer’s Day celebration. The band includes Bruce Moore, lead singer; Steve McFerson, first tenor and Bobby Ray Marsh, baritone. Moore formed the band 56 years ago, and each Pioneer has been playing since they were teenagers.

“We pick at each other all the time,” McFerson says. “We started the band when we were kids, so it has been a journey.”

The trio have played all over the southeast in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee. They have also performed at Farmer’s Day in the past, an experience McFerson says he’ll never forget.

“The day we were there, there was a heat wave, and our sound system got so hot, it shut down,” he says.

The band continued their show after moving in the shade. The Pioneers are still looking forward to returning to Farmer’s Day. “We sing to glorify the lord savior Jesus Christ,” McFerson says. “God’s family needs to grow, and that’s what we’re here for.”

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— ­ Ashlen Renner

­— Ashlen Renner

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Volunteers Make Farmers Day Possible

BY VICTORIA MIRIAN Staff Writer

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ith three days of activities, entertainment and parades, Farmers Day requires volunteer manpower to keep everything running smoothly.

The Robbins Volunteer Fire Department helps organize and run the three-day event. Under the leadership of Fire Chief and Farmers Day Committee Chairman David Lowe, 38 volunteer firefighters run everything from concessions to clean up. “We’ve been working on the festival for months,” Lowe says.

“Once it’s over, we start looking forward to the next one.”

The department’s work is ongoing — once one year’s Farmers Day ends, preparation for the next one begins. Volunteers have to be assembled, plans have to be made and publicity sent out before festivities can begin.

“Everything has to be lined up—the bands, the fireworks, the food,” Lowe says. “There are all kinds of stuff.”

The Robbins Fire Department partners with the town of Robbins and the Robbins Farmers Day Committee to bring everything together.

“It’s just a big group effort for so many people to put on such a large festival,” Lowe says.

“We all have to work together to make it go over all right.”

Photos by Hannah Sharpe

The community effort goes beyond the committees and departments — volunteers enlist their families and friends to run enough booths and concession stands to keep the large crowds satisfied.

“We also have friends and family that help assist,” Lowe says. “Our families all participate and help. They help sell hamburgers and t-shirts and hotdogs. It takes a lot of people to put this on.”

Lowe also credits the town of Robbins for their part in putting the festival together.

“And then of course the town’s street crews help make sure the town looks good and the streets look good,” Lowe says.

When the Farmers Day parades have settled down and the crowd has disappeared, the volunteer fire department gets to work once again. With an estimated 30,000 people visiting the small town for Farmers Day, the influx in tourism and momentary population can leave the town needing serious cleanup.

“They clean up before, and we clean up after,” Lowe says. “We stay out all night Saturday night. There’s a lot to do.”

As chairman, Lowe’s work is seemingly endless. After cleanup, he and his team sit down and begin to plan next year’s Farmers Day, complete with enough optimism to represent the whole town.

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5K Race kicks off Farmers Day Activities

BY ASHLEN RENNER Staff Writer

T

he Farmers Day 5K will begin this year’s 60th annual Robbins Farmers Day event, and all of its proceeds go to Robbins Fire Rescue.

Racers run on the Bear Creek Trail, which begins in front of Robbins’ Town Hall on Broad Street, dips onto a gravel road, connects to a couple of miles of moderate reservoir trail and a quarter of a mile of riverbank trail, then loops back around up the steep hill on Water Plant Road.

Registration for the race begins at the Robbins Railroad Depot at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 30. The race begins at 7 p.m. Registration is $15 without a T-shirt and $25 with a T-shirt. T-shirts are first come, first served.

This year will also be the first year children 12 years and younger can sign up for a halfmile fun run, which will start 20 minutes prior to the 5K. The top three winners of each age group receive a clay medal handmade by Lynne McDuffie.

During the 5K, the fire department will be on-site with water, ice buckets and cold sponges to ease the heat. The race is family- and walker-friendly.

This Bear Creek 5K is sixth in the Bear Creek race series conducted by Foothills Outdoors to crown the male and female Robbins Outdoor Athlete of the Year. No one is required to be in the series competition in order to enter the Farmers Day 5K Run/Walk.

Lynne McDuffie and her husband William McDuffie started Foothills Outdoors, the community-based nonprofit organizing this 5K, eight years ago. Foothills Outdoors

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branched out of STEP, a community revitalization program that Mark Garner, Cynthia Reeves and William McDuffie brought to Robbins. When STEP ended, it donated money to the McDuffies to start their own nonprofit, “giving everybody a place to play,” as Foothills Outdoors motto states.

“It’s a nonprofit about giving people things to do in the Robbins area,” Lynne McDuffie says. “If it’s around Robbins we pretty much got a hand in it.”

In the future, Foothills Outdoors hopes to clean up Mill Pond with a trail and kayak launch and connect it to Bear Creek and downtown Robbins. They hope to create better access to Bear Creek and the Deep River. They would like to maintain each of their established trails, to grow each event in support of Robbins, to start a paddle camp, and to organize more events for disabled racers and paddlers.

For more information, call William and Lynne McDuffie at (910) 948-3238.

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2014 Farmers Day Winners

Awards to be Given for Best Parade Entries

There will be a plethora of trophies awarded to the best entries in this year’s Farmers Day Parade, as in year’s past.

Categories for trophy competition include the following:

• Best Dressed Girl • Best Dressed Boy • Best Dressed Woman • Best Dressed Man • Oddest Rig • Best Rig • Best Pony • Best Country Horse and

Rider Male

• Best Country Horse and

Rider Female • Best Team of Horses • Best Team of Little Horses • Best Parade Horse • Best Saddle Horse • Best Pony Rig

• Best Mule • Best Team of Mules • Best Team of Little Mules • Best Foal

• Best Buggy • Best Work Horse • Best Donkey

In addition, there will be awards for the best entries in the Antique Tractor Show. Categories include best International tractor, best John Deere, Ford, Allis Chalmers, and other brand.

An award for the best modified lawn mower will be recognized, as well as a best in show and best antique farm rig trophy. The awards presentation will begin at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 1 at the railroad stage.

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Farmers Day Depends On Sponsors

Official Drink of Robbins Farmers Day First Bank Robbins Professional Center (Dr. Bell, Dr. Powers, Dr. Ward, Tarheel Drug)

Situs Fidelity Bank War Sport Industries Harris Printing Co., Inc Randolph Telephone Mountaire Randolph EMC Robbins/Seven Lakes Friendly Mart

SILVER SPONSORS

BY ASHLEN RENNER Staff Writer

armers Day would not be possible without the support of its sponsors, and Carolina Fried Chicken and House of Pizza has been the main sponsor of the celebration for seven years, donating thousands of dollars every year to the Robbins Fire Department.

The money funds the printing of all the t-shirts sold by the Fire Department during the celebration. Most of the shirts sell out by the end of the weekend.

“The town has become part of the family,” says Yianni Kakouras, owner of the restaurant.

Kakouras and his father, Pete Kakouras, have owned the restaurant for 20 years, and a sponsor for Farmers Day for at least 15 years. Yianni Kakouras says he enjoys working with his father during Farmers Day, the busiest weekend of the year for the restaurant and the town.

“When you’re in the restaurant business, you have to perform well under pressure, but it’s fun for us,” he says. “Different people come to town from different places, and it gets busier every year.”

Every year, the restaurant fills up with hungry festival goers and people wanting a place to escape the afternoon heat. Though Farmers Day brings his restaurant more business, Yianni Kakouras’ favorite part of the celebration is watching different people walk through his doors.

“It’s a great event to get people to come to our side of the community,” he says. “During Farmers Day, literally every parking lot in town is filled from people going to the event, and for me, that’s kind of amazing.”

Yianni Kakouras and his father, who are originally from Charlotte, were attracted to Robbins’ laid-back nature and people. Farmers Day is just one of the many Robbins traditions the family enjoys.

“Robbins is not as fast-paced as a lot of places,” he says. “Farmers Day is something good — something different — for the town.”

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ROBBINS FARMERS DAY • Wrongful Death • Personal Injury• Auto Accidents • Worker’s Compensation• Social Security Disability • Bankruptcy Chapter 7 & 13 • DWI, Speeding Tickets • Family Law • Driving with Revoked License • Drug Offense • Civil & Criminal Trials Michael Rowland, Jr. • Brett Yauger Robert Garner

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107 Monroe Street, Carthage, NC (across from the courthouse) • 910-947-2280 236 N. Cox Street, Asheboro, NC • 1-336-625-1275

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THE PILOT — 2015 ROBBINS FARMERS DAY

SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2015

Don’t miss the fireworks FRIDAY, JULY 31ST • 10:15PM

MID-TOWN Sponsored by Hussey Oil Co.

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THE PILOT — 2015 ROBBINS FARMERS DAY

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Make Adoption the Only Option.

Adopt Moore Animals!

AUGUST IS CHIP MONTH! FREE Smart Chip for the First 100 customers in August!

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Limited to one chip per customer

5235 HWY 15/501 • Carthage, NC 28327

(910)-947-2858

Adoption Hours: M-F 10-4:45 • Sat 10-3:45

If not...

then come see us soon!

RONALD GARNER, Owner 340 Gibson Road • Robbins, NC 27325 • garnershomesupply@rtmc.net 910-464-4769 • 910-690-3653 (cell)

Ready Mix Concrete • Air Conditioning Pads • Septic Tanks • Parking Curbs • Splash Blocks • Radio Dispatched Troy Ready Mix Inc. 1739 NC Hwy 24/27 West • PO Box 137 Troy, NC 27371 910-572-1011 • 910-572-3711 fax • 1-800-525-9053

Mid-State Furniture of Carthage

403 Monroe Street Downtown Carthage 910-947-3739

William Lee Bell, M.D. Family Medicine

Robbins Family Practice 300 S. Middleton St. • P.O. Box 1059 Robbins, NC 27325

910-948-2911