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If you like traveling, opportunities nowadays are very abundant, with many countries opening their doors to tourists and students of all ages.
For many students it is an opportunity of a lifetime with memories to keep forever. These students are taking trips to gain knowledge, to be adventurous, and, in many cases, to get college credit while traveling and getting to know the world.

The following events will take place the weekend of Friday, May 5, and Saturday, May 6, as a part of Louisburg College’s commencement weekend:

On Thursday, May 4 at 8 p.m., Louisburg College will present the Russian National Ballet’s production of the timeless classic “Swan Lake.”

Within a matter of days, corporate officials installed new leadership at Franklin Regional Medical Center. Tom Dunning, who would had been at the hospital for nearly four years, left abruptly on Monday.

The effectiveness of months of campaigning will be judged Tuesday when ballots are counted to determine who has earned the rights to represent their party in this fall’s General Election. And residents will also decide if the county uses a $45-million bond to pay for a new high school in Franklinton and improvements at other schools.

Five days before a vote on a $45-million school bond, county leaders were optimistic that the needs are clear and that the financial aspects of the debt are understood.
Schools Superintendent Dr. Bert L’Homme, Assistant Superintendent of Business and Finance Doug Moore, County Manager Chris Coudriet and lead bond project architect from MBAJ Jon Long discussed on Thursday the upcoming bond vote in a roundtable interview with The Franklin Times, all saying that the passing of the referendum is in the best interest of the future for Franklin County and the education system.

The storyteller in James Speed would not let him sit for long.
Recognized Thursday night by the Franklin County Cattlemen’s Association for his countless contributions to agriculture as a cattleman and as a former state representative and senator who served 32 years before retiring in 1996, Speed had to give the last laugh of the evening - even after one of his most famous stories about a stubborn mule not wanting to pull a Hoover cart during the Depression was retold by FCCA President Greg Wheeler.

WENDELL - Percy Clarence Holt, 79, died Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at his home. Funeral services were conducted Friday, April 28, at Gethsemane Memorial Gardens Mausoleum.

ZEBULON - Shirley Stallings Martin, 91 (Pilot Community), died Saturday, April 22, 2006 at Guardian Care. Funeral services were conducted Monday, April 24, at Pilot Baptist Church. Burial was in the Stallings family cemetery.

WENDELL - Bobby Joe Allmon, 57, died Friday, April 21, 2006 at home. Visitation was held Monday, April 24, at Strickland Funeral Home, Wendell, and a Celebration of Life Service followed at 7 p.m. Private inurnment was at Gethsemane Memorial Gardens Mausoleum.

WAKE FOREST - Charles “Eddie” Woodlief, 51, died Friday, April 21, 2006 at his residence. Funeral services were held Monday, April 24, at Oak Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Michael Bass officiating. Entombment followed in the church cemetery.

LOUISBURG - Sybil Barker Shuping, 89, died after a brief illness on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at Rex Nursing Care Center in Apex. For the past two years, she has been a resident of Magnolia Glen in Raleigh. Born March 16, 1917 to John Sydney Barker and Annie Honeycutt Barker of Fuquay-Varina.

LOUISBURG – Seba Carlton Strickland, Sr., 78, of 864 Ransdell Rd., died Wednesday at his home. Seba was a son of the late William Seba and Ella Geneva Denton Strickland and a native of Franklin County.

WAKE FOREST - James Otis Black, 69, died after a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, April 29, at Mitchell’s Funeral Home in Orlando, Fla.

Louisburg High School’s 2006 Quiz Bowl season ended with a loss in the state championships, but coaches hope the experience is a spring board for the future.

Terry Allen is quick to point out that he’s not a politician. But he would probably swear that he’s run into a lot of them in a door-to-door campaign that he hopes will lead to the Republican nod he’ll need on May 2 to challenge for the county’s sheriff’s seat in the fall.

Short of building a fence around the county that no one wants, commissioners and school leaders said voters will need to support a $45-million school bond on May 2 that, in part, will put a high school in place to handle growth.

Franklin County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Henderson woman on Friday night, alleging that she shot and killed her boyfriend. Authorities responded to 158 Louisburg Farms Road just before 10:30 a.m. to find Frederick Lee Crudup, 33, of Henderson, suffering from a gunshot wound.

A Superior Court judge gave a former tax collector three more years to pay his debt and a stern warning — pay up or risk getting jammed up. Probation officers alleged in court on Monday that Donnie Rudd willfully violated his probation by failing to pay the $60,000 he owes the county after he illegally pocketed a $50 fee from more than 5,000 delinquent taxpayers in the 1990s.

BUNN — Despite the threat of rain on Friday night and a promised downpour on Saturday, the spirit of Relay For Life shown through in its return trip to Bunn. “We had to cut it short on Saturday, but we had raised a good amount by then,” said co-organizer Timothy Bryant. “We still have money coming in, but as of Saturday, we were a little shy of $200,000.

FRANKLINTON - William James Claude McAlister, 88, formerly of Bostic, N.C., died Saturday, April 22, 2006 in a Raleigh hospital. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, April 25, at Union View Baptist Church, with the Rev. T. J. Kollar officiating. Burial followed in Fairview Cemetery

HENDERSON - Rubert Benjamin Pearce Jr., 79, died Friday, April 21, 2006 at his home on Kerr Lake. Graveside services were conducted Monday, April 24, in Fairview Cemetery in Franklinton, with the Rev. Canon Ted Malone officiating.

FRANKLINTON - Gilmer Reggie Moore, 62, died Saturday, April 22, 2006 in Wake Medical Center. Funeral services were conducted Monday, April 24, in the chapel of Lancaster Funerals and Cremations in Louisburg by the Rev. Carl Hunter.