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• Trust God Ministries will host a revival featuring guest speaker Rev. Charlie Fryson Jr. at the Open Door Church of the Lord Jesus Christ through Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. nightly.

• St. Joseph MB church will host a 100 Men in Black, Women in White service Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. with guest speaker, Rev. Herbert Thomas Sr. The event is sponsored by the Silver Star Lodge No. 61. Dinner will be served following the service.

Charlie and Liza Dilworth of Gretna, along with Andrew and Geraldine Kenon of St. John, Emmanuel Brown of St. Mary and the late Delores Cooper, are pleased to announce the marriage of their children, LaCarra Kerrell Dilworth and Carlos Jermaine Brown.

The bride is a 2003 graduate of James A. Shanks High School,  and is employed as a correctional officer with the Leon County Sheriff's Office. She is the granddaughter of Eliese Williams of Gretna.

Margaret Bredsher can't explain why she started collecting angels. But they offer her a certain comfort level when she feels a little down from the pressures of life. Somehow, when she looks around her home and sees an angel in almost every corner, she said she feel's "God's protection."

Bredsher doesn't know exactly how many angels she owns. The number, she guessed, tops 400. While she has some on display throughout her Key Street home year round during Christmas, all them are on display.

Jim will not be meeting the “Kid from Tifton” after all.

My old friend and teaching team partner from South Carolina Jim Rogers and I were not able to reunite after 9 years.  Jim was going to spend Christmas with his family in Tifton, Ga., and then, hopefully, drive down to Havana and spend a couple of days with my wife Judy and me.

Joey and Cyndi Proctor of Bristol, and Alan and Kim Peacock of Altha, are pleased to  announce the engagement and forthcoming wedding of their children, Joanna Lee Proctor and Trey Alan Peacock.

The wedding is planned for Feb. 20, 2010 at Pine Grove Baptist Church in Greensboro at 4 p.m. No invitations will be sent.

A reception will immediately follow at W.T. Neal Civic Center in Blountstown. 

Billy and Beatrice Redding retired several years ago and have done everything together since that time, according to Beatrice.

"He came in one night and was talking about the Cops On Patrol program. We talked about it and he thought it was a good idea. We were couch potatoes. We looked into the program and decided we would join. The rest is history," she said.

The Keeping Independent Seniors Safe program kickoff brunch scheduled for Dec. 18 has been rescehduled for Jan. 29 at 10:30 a.m. at the A.O. Shelfer National Guard Armory. Florida Secretary of Elder Affairs Doug Beach will be the speaker. The brunch is free, but because of limited seating, tickets are required. For more information or to get a ticket, call Tashonda Williams at the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office at 850-627-9233.

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"Caroline or Change," nominated for six Tony awards in 2004, is coming to the Quincy Music Theatre Dec. 11-13.

Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees are at 3 p.m. All performances are at the Leaf Theatre, located at 118 East Washington Street in downtown Quincy, two blocks north of US. Highway 90.

The winter of ’54 was very cold and blustery in Southington, Conn.  We were nearly buried in snow.   Sliding (sledding) and ice skating were nearly impossible, and the town’s children didn‘t get to play much that particular winter.  I was a wee lad of 13.

 The town of Southington owned and operated the “Town Farm,” a place for homeless old men who could get room and board free if they did work on an actual, small farm next to the square, brick building that housed them.