They Said It

“The first time I came here was because my mother and her new husband bought some land in Bladen County,” she said. “I came to visit and I just fell in love with Elizabethtown. I almost felt like I was coming home and I knew it was where I belonged and if I got the chance I was moving.”

Ruth Hall, Bladen Crisis Assistance Thrift Shop

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“Take a LOT of pictures. It’s best to have too many rather than too few. Some of my best shots are when I get the camera card to the computer and find out that I was a better photographer on some shots than I thought. Of course, it’s always good to trust your equipment, know your equipment and don’t be afraid to take your equipment where others won’t take it.”

Mark DeLap – Recipe for wildlife photography

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“Sweep a walk. Scrape a frosty car window. Bake a pie. Send a card. Pick up the phone. Send a text. Let them hear your voice, and, not just “A” coal, but heap them. As in a huge pile of coals. Go overboard on someone’s dark, cold, hopeless existence. Make someone feel as if they’d hung the moon today. Someone who could care less. Because when you do, remember that God couldn’t care MORE.”

Streetfire Ministries, A Weekly Challenge

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“There was a suggestion presented to me today,” Johnson said. “Any time I get a suggestion, if I don’t know someone who’s an expert at it, or I don’t feel comfortable with it, we have a small business center network which is 58 of us and I’ll send an email out to the group. This happened not so long ago about QuickBooks. I know QuickBooks, but I don’t feel comfortable teaching someone in a business. I sent an email out and within 24 hours I had 10 different solutions, one which was viable and that’s how we’re going to do it.”

Brad Johson, director of the Bladen Community College Small Business Center