Lifestyle

By Melanie Pyle
Staff Writer

By LeAnna Stephenson

The Maud Volunteer Fire Department is sponsoring the Maud Christmas Parade this year on Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 2:30pm. This year’s theme is “A Gingerbread Christmas.”
Before the parade, the fire department will be hosting a baked potato dinner at the Maud High School Cafeteria.
The baked potatoes with BBQ will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The cost is just $7 per Plate and  includes a drink and dessert.
The parade entries will be leaving from the school and traveling down Hwy. 8 to Main Street and stopping at the Methodist Church. Santa Claus will be at the Community Center at the end of the parade.
Prizes will be given for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places.
The Fire Department will be collecting new unwrapped toys to help with the Maud United Methodist church Toys for Tots. The toys will be distributed to children in the Maud community.

Story and photos by Jane Morris
United Fund

By Kenny Mitchell
Publisher

Publisher’s Note: The following is an up close look at life with Down Syndrome. It is uncut and unedited and comes from the mother of a child living with Down Syndrome.

First in a 2 part Series

By Meredith Bates Brooks

Zac and Tango

New Boston’s Catherine Lyles was recently honored  at the NAACP’s 2013 Freedom Fund Awards Banquet as this year’s recipient of the John Jay Jones, Sr. Community Service Award.
The John J. Jones, Sr. Community Award represents an individual's benevolent goodwill toward the love of humanity and is given to those who excel at giving aid  to those in need and providing generosity and helpfulness to those around them, especially the underprivileged, all the while engaging in institutional relief for the underprivileged and community service.
The event featured a keynote address by Myrlie Evers-Williams , the wife of murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
Lyles was honored for her years of community service going back to decades of teaching students in New Boston and being involved in a host of local organizations.
Lyles was a teacher for 45 years.

By Kenny Mitchell
Publisher

By Ruth Wendell