Ms. Jacqueline Gainey has been selected as Kesler Chapel’s 2020 Woman of the Year. Each year, the church recognizes a woman who has shown outstanding commitment, faithfulness, and selfless devotion to her church.

Kesler Chapel A. M. E. Zion Church will hold its annual Woman of the Year program on Sunday, March 15, 2020, during the morning service which begins at 10 a. m. Minister Christine Hall will bring the morning message. The theme for this year’s program is, “Godly Women Listening to God in a Fast-Moving World.”

Ms. Gainey was born April 6, 1968 in Chesterfield, South Carolina. She is the older of two children of Myrtle Gainey and the late James Hubert Gainey, Jr. Jennifer Gainey-Raynor of Hope Mills, North Carolina is her sibling. Ms. Gainey’s children are Jason Gainey, Kimberly Ratliff, Morris Knotts, Jr., and Alexis Gainey. She has seven grandchildren and one nephew.

Ms. Gainey attended Bowman Senior High School in Wadesboro, North Carolina. She was employed by many poultry plants over the years. She relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina to work with the visually impaired for five years and returned home to take care of her elderly father until his passing.

Ms. Gainey is an active member of Kesler Chapel. She has been a dedicated member of the Kesler Chapel AME Zion Choir since she was a small child and has served as choir director for several years. Faithfully, she attends Bible Study and Church School. Ms. Gainey is a member of the Stewardess Board and Women’s Home and Overseas Missionary Society.

Ms. Gainey’s hobbies are singing, interior decorating, and spending time with all of her grandchildren.

Ms. Gainey, Kesler Chapel appreciates and salutes you as our 2020 Woman of the Year.

If there ever was a time to protest the injustices of poverty, now is a good one. A March report from Bloomberg declares that families will face $5,200 more in annual expenditures for the same basket of goods. Unfortunately, that report dropped before a later inflation report in May, showing a higher increase than expected. The inflation number surged from a 7.9% increase in March to 8.6% in May. Costs for gasoline are up twice as much as last year. Food costs are up over 10%, while most experts expect that it will continue to rise. The middle class can weather the storm for a time, but the poor continue to be bludgeoned by misguided policies.

PINEHURST — The first graduates of the FirstHealth Emergency Medical Technician Academy were recognized during a special ceremony at Moore Regional.

ROCKINGHAM — The Rockingham Police Department has arrested two suspects following their involvement in an attempted murder and robbery on South Skipper Street on May 23.

On Sunday, June 19, 2o222, for Father’s Day, Mr. Charlie “Bill” Tillman was honored for his years of dedicated service to Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church, Inc., and for serving his country as a WWII veteran of the U.S. Navy.

RALEIGH — U.S. House members voted today to pass the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, landmark legislation that will prevent extinctions and change North Carolina’s wildlife for generations to come.

I guess it never really occurred to me until now that I should number these things, so, since three others have come before it through the years, this is officially installment number four. The vast majority of the time, I have one thought on my mind and, therefore, one subject in my column, but sometimes I have, as it were, a head full of tiny squirrels that need to be gotten on paper. And so…

Some members from the Anson Bearcat band.

HAMLET — Richmond Community College has recently provided Cascades Tissue in Rockingham with over $32,000 in state funds for customized training on new equipment and system upgrades.

WADESBORO — Kilwinning Lodge #64 AF&AM of Wadesboro recognized members for years of service at an awards dinner on June 9.

The North Carolina General Assembly is losing its best member.

RALEIGH — Although North Carolina has become a demonstrably freer place to live and work over the past 10 years, our state remains grossly out of step with the rest of America in a key respect: we unnecessarily restrict the freedom of workers to enter new occupations and the freedom of consumers to purchase goods and services from whomever they wish.

ROCKINGHAM — Mildred Teal Jones will celebrate her 103 birthday on Monday, June 20, 2022.

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