Other people in Polk County that need your support are the hundreds of cancer survivors and their caregivers. Please come to the annual Relay For Life celebration at Polk County Middle School on Friday, June 1 at 6 p.m. This celebration will begin with a Survivor’s Lap at about 6:15 p.m. when cancer survivors are honored as they walk (or ride) around the track. This Relay For Life celebration is so important to cancer survivors. Each year, hundreds of  healthy people attend to show that they care, but in many cases, family members of those survivors don’t come. So please, if you know someone who has had cancer, or who has lost their battle with cancer, please come to show your support, and to help find a cure for this dreaded disease.  Our thanks go out to those many volunteers who work so hard to make the Relay for Life celebration possible. We appreciate you all so very  much.
If anyone has any pictures of old service stations in Polk County, the Polk County Historical Association would like to copy those pictures for the PCHA Museum in Columbus. In “the old days” most general stores in rural areas had gas pumps in front of the store building, sometimes with a porch between the gas pumps and the store. If you have any old pictures that we can copy, please call George Comparetto at 828-859-5251, Al Creasy at 828-894-6365, or call me at 828-863-2437.
Happy Birthday to Julie Horne, Leah Linder, Robert Durham, Marche Pittman, Edith Rodgers, Billy Price, Gwen Sain, Chris Linder, Arnold Gee, Dorothy Greenway, Richie McCormick and Carroll Riddle. Among those celebrating wedding anniversaries this month are Lynn and Jerry Waddell, Evelyn and Arnold Gee, Jodi and Johnny Shytle, and Linda and Donald Hardin. Congratulations to all of you!
If you have news of this area, please call me at 828-863-2437.

article written by Opal Sauve