This Just In : We miss Vickey Ritchie and Company !

Vickey Ritchie and our Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 team celebrated ❤ a special guest on Sunday!!!

Photo 📷 Credit : Charlotte McPherson

Yesterday (Sun Nov 16) Carroll County Special Olympics honored Grayson County Sheriff Richard Vaughan during the last basketball scrimmage they will have with him before he retires at the end of December. Over the years, he has brought deputies, his own family members, and members of the community to play CCSO.

No matter what, he always has shown up and made a difference. In yesterday’s game, 132 points were scored in 54 minutes (nine 6 minute “quarters” so that everyone on CCSO got to play at least 3 times)….that’s an awesome job by everyone! “One Team!” Is more than a motto !

Welcome 🙏 to the Sunday November 9th 🌄 version of the Morning Brew!

The school 🏫 Calender is Blank as should be the case on the Sabbath

Being that its 3am, I’m hoping 🙏 that Brother Osborne is still sleeping 😴 but his Bible Verse of the Day will appear here shortly.

Psalm 63:7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

Yesterday was a busy, busy day as we touched on quite a few things. Big Thank You 🙏 to Beth Bouldin for all of her efforts up in Wytheville with the Middle School Basketball 🏀 games!!!!

Today will be the second of eight installments of a November to Remember as the Lady 👩 Blue Devils play their home opener at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Back on The Hill, Coach Ritchie will lead yet another afternoon of fun for our Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 team. Brett Petty did the group proud yesterday with his efforts in the Half Marathon !

Brett Petty traveled down to North Carolina Saturday and completed his second HALF Marathon and all of us who are part of Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 are over the Moon 🌙 Proud of him !

Vickey Ritchie checks ✔ in with some Amazing 👏 news as Brett Petty maneuvered his way to the finish line in the Mt Airy Half Marathon !!!

Miss Jeannie Ritchie was part of the traveling party who were on hand to show support.

Also in the group photo 📷 is Ari Barr, Vicky Town and his mentor, Justin Ward.

Coach Ritchie ( not pictured ) gets all of the Photo Credits…

How about an Evening edition of the Morning 🌄 Brew ? Happy Birthday Kristy Jones, Howard Mayo – Allen Worrell and the World 🌎 of Vickey Ritchie never fails to Amaze me…..

Earlier today when we shared the Morning 🌄 Brew, it was missing the entry from Girls Basketball Coach Howard Mayo.

Due to contract demands for the space we failed to sign on Allen Worrell to stand next to Coach Mayo. Worrell was asking for more money 💰 than we had left in our N.I.L fund and it appears that he will be transferring to Louisiana State University.

When the news broke that our Cross Country runners were being given the day off, the story had it being weather related. We found out later that it was so Trenton Newman could properly Celebrate his Mother’s Birthday 🎂…

Last night 🌙 I was along for the support as Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 Coach Vickey Ritchie was heading to Galax for another event that is near and dear to her heart ❤. My blind faith in “Little Ritchie ” is unconditional and to this point has never let me to a place where I don’t feel better for having been there.

The Classic, Little Feet, Boo Ridge, Hoops at VT and VMI are a few on the list and last night we added the 9th Edition of SuperFit at Power Up Oct.

First up, Stephanie Burnette was on hand with one of her Pups 🐶. Neat, Neat Lady that has a disposition about her that is impressive as the day is long. And that’s before the part where she is a fan of Duke University gets added in.

Next Lady is the owner of Power Up Oct, Josee Williams. Another partner in the process and her and Coach enjoyed telling the stories about how their friendship developed over the years.

Theresa Talley was there and naturally that led to having some fun with ” Money ” Talley which naturally included a poke or two and the expense of Mr.T.

I wasn’t sure what exactly my role in assisting Vickey but after setting up my speaker and listening to Kyla Ford, it became clear that my job was to soak in her energy. Kyla has an ability to make everyone else near her feel better.

Normally when I am helping Vickey, I shy away from pictures 📷 because of the depth of the stories and people involved is sometimes highly sensitive but know that these are all good to share.

Two of these three tidbits are very tongue and cheek and one is the real deal. If you’re not sure which is which then you probably stumbled into the wrong place 🤔…