1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
As we flip the calendar 📅 to November, it’s time to tweak the mission a bit but Thanks to Marion Harris we closed things out in style !
The goal for the past year was to create a ” Happy Place ” that would allow a person in Carroll County to wake ⏰ up and spend a few minutes reading about all the Awesome stuff that took place the day before in Carroll County.
No advertising, no bullying, no negativity – just positive stories about Cavalier comings and goings. Not just the Athletics but the pageantry as well as the Academics.
The past five days have been a blast because things actually worked out like they had been designed, with thousands of people checking in and enjoying the content. That was Marion being Marion and I wanted to publicly say THANKS for his efforts !!!
Perfect storm in that while I was busy trying hard to save the sanity of Mr David Broyles, Marion was making things work on the other end.
Back on September 13th at Cavalier Park we hosted an event and one of the things we did was celebrate the impending retirement of David Broyles. Greg Bolen, Kevin Burress and Russell Smoot teamed up to make it a priceless moment as we danced in costumes to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
Sadly, as David was set to sail off into the Sunset 🌇 and enjoy the rest of his life with his Bride 👰, Allen Worrell stepped away from the Newspaper 📰. This left the folks in Mt. Airy no other choice but to convince David to stay on and be a Gap person until a replacement for Allen was in place.
While there are people on both sides of the fence on Allen Worrell, know that he was a skilled editor. Very good at his job and in an industry that I have been in the past 50 years, so I’m qualified to say is dwindling away to notta.
Now, our friend David is trying hard to keep the operation upright and while a wonderful person who can write ✍ and tell a story, he’s not an editor. I watched as the community paper filled space with a NFL recap instead of asking me for another story..
I’m not sure just how long David can take one for the team in the manner that he is but as long as he’s trying, I will try and do my best to assist him. This week I was able to create four stories and each one was a fun write ✍ about local people doing cool things so hopefully it will all work out for another edition !
The entire Thought Process that Lin and I have with OneofUs.Care is to give people Hope and make people smile when the World 🌎 is itching for a fight. There is still hope and this past week Marion was helping me while I was helping David and Shawn Montgomery received solid coverage for his Cross Country program. We celebrated Darian Brown earning his first victory and marveled at Kris Richardson as the Basketball Whisperer.
Kindness matters and there are so many levels of bullying that go undetected. It’s okay to give your neighbor the benefit of the doubt because we are all facing serious problems every day.
The Duke – Baylor game isn’t until Monday night so there’s no need to worry yet.
After that game in Paris, Marion and I will team up to create a International event by covering the Carroll County at Abingdon Regional Volleyball match. That will be Fun…
The next piece of business will be to create a page for the month long adventure with Duke University Women’s Basketball 🏀. This is the closing chapter for my Hoops Book 📖 as it will include the eight games that the Blue Devils will play this month.
Paris, Durham(2), Greenbriar Resort, Liberty University, Tampa Florida and finally two games in Las Vegas.
For the readers that are interested in this story they can just click on that page.
While this is taking place, I will be covering some Middle School Basketball and supporting whoever wants some positive attention.
Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌
A.S.P.N on The Hill 