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Industry State Bank participated in the Credit for Life program Feb. 18. The event was hosted by the Columbus Christian Women’s Organization at Columbus High School. This program allowed high school seniors a trial run at the adult world, which they are about to truly experience after graduation in May. The students received a credit score and job salary and had to make various financial decisions, such as buying a car, finding housing, choosing a credit card, etc. ISB was able to lend a hand in selling the “credit cards” to the students and in the Credit Counseling Center where the students were able to see if they had been successful in their decision making process. The students gained a lot of insight through the program, and ISB was proud to be a part of it.
Read moreEagle Lake Police Officer Allen Ortiz overheard a lively discussion between neighborhood children over the use of a bicycle recently. Ortiz responded quickly and found a resolution to the discussion. He donated an additional bicycle and other toys to the group. The Eagle Lake Police Department often practices community policing.
Read moreEarly voting for the Mar. 1 Primary Election opened Feb. 14.
Read moreThe Valentine’s Dinner prepared and served by the Columbus High School Culinary Arts students Feb. 17 was a great success. Birdie’s Bistro dining area was filled to capacity, and compliments to the chefs and class were plentiful. Debbie Gregory is the Culinary Arts instructor at CHS.
Read moreWhen it comes to vegetables, I am no connoisseur at all. The only vegetable I really like is carrot cake. According to The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage, that is not a vegetable.
Read moreSince it’s beginning in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson when it was Black History Week, Black History Month has embraced themes to raise awareness to subjects and issues.
Read moreSmith Chapel Baptist Church was established in January 1899 by Rev. S.C. Smith in the same location it remains today.
Read moreA group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies for us, and the song was taught to and sung by a chorus of five hundred colored school children. Shortly afterwards my brother and I moved away from Jacksonville to New York, and the song passed out of our minds. But the school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children. Within twenty years it was being sung over the South and in some other parts of the country. Today the song, popularly known as the Negro National Hymn, is quite generally used. The lines of this song repay me in elation, almost of exquisite anguish, whenever I hear them sung by Negro children.
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