A Special Night 🌙 surrounded by Special people ! 2025 Hall of Fame Induction ceremony

  Marion Harris, Linda Carter Christopher Carter are to one side with Tammy Tobler, Velvet Leonard, Douglas Owens and Kevin Burress to the other in a Photo taken by Allen Worrell.

  It would be noticeable to the readers of our work that this is the first time I have written anything about the fact that Rick Nester nominated me late last year and I was voted in by the Committee.

   Just last week Bryce Smoot broke the All-Time scoring record for Boys Basketball 🏀, a record that was held by Tee Jackson. Smoot is a hard working young man that I’ve had the privilege of getting to know ( and his Family) over the years. He is someone that has spent his entire life here and spent over half of his life waiting for his turn to wear the colors of our Community. Bryce is from here and as Allen Worrell wrote in his feature story, reached the pinnacle of a life long journey.

  I am honored 🙏 to have been recognized in the manner I was last night 🌙 and it meant a great deal to be surrounded by the people who were standing 🧍‍♂️next to me. Each one was there because of how much they mean to me.

  I made a point to try a say Thank You to everyone that played a role in the ceremony and it wasn’t I made it back out to Laurel Fork that I realized that I couldn’t remember if I had said Thank You to Kevin DeHaven so I did it with a text message.

  I understand that I’m not from here and while its year five for us, I’m never going to be from here. I accept that and move on with our mission. It’s fitting that the moments leading up to the Ceremony I was covering a Junior Varsity Basketball 🏀 game and as soon as it was over I went back into the Gym so I could cover the Varsity team for the Carroll News.

Speaking of which, its now 5: 14 am and that story still needs to be written so its a great time to get to work on it.

Thank you one more time to ANYONE who said Congratulations 👏 last night and everyone 👏 involved with the Ceremony !