Members of outstanding local N.C. Adopt-A-Highway Program groups are shown in the accompanying photo after they were presented certificates of recognition during the Vance County Board of Commissioners’ meeting on January 5. A total of 17 Adopt-A-Highway groups were recognized at the meeting for their efforts in keeping their designated roadside areas in Vance County clean of litter and debris. Archie Taylor, chairman of the Vance County Board of Commissioners, presented the certificates. The Vance County Appearance Commission joined the board in honoring the local groups. Taylor is shown standing on the front row, second from right, along with Deborah Brown, a county commissioner who represented one of the honored groups, far right on the front row.
Among those groups honored and their representatives were in Loving Memory of James E. Franklin & Kirkland Franklin, represented by Kathy Faulkner; Oak Grove Farm, represented by Barbara Vaeth; in Memory of Mary & Milton Perkinson, represented by Gail Perkinson; in Loving Memory of Fred and April Harris, represented by Jenny Harris; Vance-Granville Community College Criminal Justice Club, represented by Andrea Ferguson; Kittrell Job Corps Center, represented by Joan Robinson; in Loving Memory of Tee Roberson, represented by Carolyn Roberson; in Honor of Lunsford B. Brown II, represented by Deborah Brown; Fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5:22, represented by Bernadette and Vincent Jefferson; in Memory of Robert and Bessie Parham, represented by Mary Satterwhite; West Hills/West Creek/158 Community Watch, represented by Susan Adcock, Wayne Adcock and John Pecora; Crossroads Christian School National Honor Society, represented by Kelly Choplin; Maria Parham Medical Center, represented by Emilee Johnson; Lorraine B. Goode Our Unicorn “55-10,” represented by Letonia Goode-Young; in Memory of Donna Franklin Morris, represented by Thomas Franklin; Rehoboth United Methodist Church, represented by Jane Woodside; and Welcome Chapel Church Laymen’s League, represented by Charlie Wright.