Tee & Sea - May 8th And 9th

One of the greatest (if not the greatest) events in our area is the Windsor Fire Department sponsored "Tee and Sea". It just gets better every year.

Windsor Fire Department "Tee and Sea"

Windsor Fire Department

As usual there are four major events over two days.

Festivities kick off Thursday, May 8th with the Duffers Superball Tournament at 1:00 PM.

Thursday night after the golf event at 6:00 PM, there is the annual Ken Younger Night. There will be free beverages, food, a silent auction, reverse raffle and other exciting activities.

Friday, May 9th is the second golf event, the Embarq Open Golf Tounament, a four man super ball event. Tee times are 8:30 AM and 1:00 PM.

Friday night at 5:30 PM is the Seafood Buffet and Dance. Incredible food is the order of the day, including shrimp, scallops, trout, crab cakes and clam strips. The band "Oz" will perform from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM.

Please click here to go to the Tee and Sea web site for other details.




Click here, here, here and here for Bertie County Patriot coverage of events from last year!

Click here, here and here for Bertie County Patriot coverage of events from 2006!

Rotary Meeting Gets Updates

The meeting of the Windsor Rotary Club on Thursday was an interesting one. The normal format with one speaker was changed to a series of updates on various issues of public interest for the Windsor community. I thought it very intriguing and worth considering using this format again in the future.



Sharon Davis



Collins Cooper



Jody Rhea



Lisa Harrell

Battle Of Windsor - January 30th, 1864

The Windsor Rotary Club was treated to a special presentation this week. Harry Thompson came out to tell us the story of the Battle of Windsor.




Collins Cooper (shown above) introduced Harry to the club, though Harry is so famous in this area he really needed no introduction.




Harry Thompson is a passionate story teller, and animatedly uses his arms and hands as he talks. On this day he shared with us the story of how, until a lady from California called him a few years back, he, the sage of the Inner Banks, was not himself aware that there had been a Battle of Windsor.




Harry told us two stories really. One was about the battle. The other was about the research needed to dig the story out from the records of the Civil War that still existed.

A troop of 125 Confederate Cavalry, were attacked by three separate units of what was supposed to be a coordinated attack on Windsor by 1400 Union soldiers. The attack happened at the bridge over the Cashie River at Hoggard Mill. The 3 units only failed to capture the Confederate forces because they arrived at different times. After taking on each untit separately, the Confederate Cavalry forces escaped North to Virginia.

It took considerable research to put together the facts of the battle from historical records, and though the battle was between ground forces, naval records from the ships that delivered the Union forces to the battle were actually the key to understanding what took place.






At the end of the meeting, Rotary Members were allowed to look at the artifacts that have been collected from the battlefield. Above Joe Roberson holds a plaque with various bullets that have been gathered where the battle took place.





Harry Thompson (above) holds a piece of wood from a nearby house that was hit numerous times during the battle by the large musket balls of the time.





Steve Wishall holds what is known to be the very last cannonball fired during the battle, as the Union forces returned to Plymouth by boat.





Harry Thompson (on left above) is presented the traditional cobalt blue coffee mug by Collins Cooper (above on right) as a thank you for a great presentation.

Shaken Baby Syndrome - Awareness Rally

MUSIC BY THE WILLIE PEOPLE BAND
FREE REFRESHMENTS

FUN event planned for
National Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week

Saturday APRIL 26th, 2008
Noon to 3 PM

in Windsor North Carolina's
Livermon Park



- - - - - - SBS! - - - - - - -

Never ever shake a baby!

RAISING AWARENESS TO HELP PREVENT SBS
Click on title above to learn about SBS



Livermon Park and Mini Zoo - Windsor North Carolina
Pettng zoo and wild animal park for kids, nature trails for relaxing and education about our environment - Livermon Park is a FUN PLACE.



Map to Livermon Park
(click on thumbnail for full size map)


Benefitting Bertie Memorial Hospital




. . . WILL BE THERE



For more information, contact:
Jennipher Dickens
Stop Shaken Baby Syndrome Inc.
http://www.stopsbs.net
(252) 724-0144