Life Goes On

The Rocky Mount High school sports banquet is tonight in the gym. If they do it they way they did it last year you will enter and be directed toward the cafeteria and then bring your dinner back to the gym. Feed time is 5.00pm and all of the annual awards will be given out shortly there after.

The Rocky Mount Telegram is reporting this morning that Gryphon Basketball player Tashawm Mabry has signed a D-1 scholarship to play basketball at University of Rhode Island of the Atlantic Ten

We are all disappointed that baseball ended so abruptly. Any time you are in a playoff format it doesn’t take much to send you home just ask the San Diego Chargers or Cleveland Cavaliers.

Luck plays its part in any playoff and look no further than basketball to see that instead of a second round road game to West Brunswick, West Craven upset WB and had to come to us instead. Our girl’s basketball team did go to WB and the season ended there. Home field means a lot in any sport.

Football was 7-5, basketball 23-3 and baseball 22-3. That is a combined 52-11 in the so called major sports at Rocky Mount High Not bad at all for the so called big three at any school. Once those taking part in this weeks state championship in track, sports will be over for the 2009-2010 school year.

Now it is time to turn our attention to Legion ball. Tryouts are Saturday at 3.00pm at NCWC’s Bauer Field. I know the players from Rocky Mount were hoping not to have to go because they were still in the playoffs.

Life moves on.

My family's life over the last seven years has been wrapped around the Tar River Children's Chorus. Patsy Gilliland as director has taken the Chorus every other year on a so called big trip.

Our first year the kids sang in her hometown of Winston Salem in a music festival. The next year was a trip to Philadelphia. The following year to Bruton's Parrish in Williamsburg. Just two years ago they sang at Riverside church in New York City. This year we were schedule to take part in a festival at Disney World in Orlando. Just before Christmas we found out that festival had been cancelled.

It has been a scramble to get another event lined up. Memorial Day weekend we are heading to Charleston SC to take part in three week event called the Piccolo Spoleto. Charleston has music galore for three weekends. The second Presbyterian Church in down town Charleston is hosting a youth festival all day on Saturday of Memorial day weekend where you just walk in and listen. it goes on from like nine in the morning until 8.00pm that night. TRCC will be singing at 4.30 until 5.15 that afternoon. That Sunday we are singing as part of church service in another church in Mount Pleasant.

Every school in our area is represented on the chorus. All the faults Rocky Mount has, you can't show me another town that has an organization like the Tar River Orchestral Society that funds the TRCC. Rocky Mount is small population wise but large in the arts in music.