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18 UCW AUGUST 15-21, 2018 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Hope Mills News & Views Meetings For details about all meetings and activities, including location where not listed, call Town Clerk Jane Starling at 910-426-4113. Most meetings take place at Town Hall or the Hope Mills Parks and Recreation center. • Board of Commissioners Monday, Aug. 20, 7 p.m. e town of Hope Mills will take notice that the Board of Commissioners has sched- uled a public hearing at Hope Mills Town Hall, 5770 Rockfish Rd., Room #120, on the question of annexing the following described territory, requested by peti- tion filed pursuant to G. S. 160A-31: e described area of land is located on SR 2333 (Corporation Drive) and is the exact distance of 1 mile (N) from the intersection of Route No./Road SR 2252 (Chickenfoot Road) towards the city of Fayetteville, but is not within the city of Fayetteville. LOT 4 CAROLYN R GRANT, Lot frontage 527.80 ft. fac- ing the west is N 72"54'28" E, N 18"26'04"W, S 71"33'58", N 17"57'39" with a lot depth of 412.11ft. Lot 4 is in the Rockfish Township of Cumberland County. is is a non-contiguous annexation. e public is invited to attend the meeting to offer com- ments or ask questions. • Lake Advisory Committee Tuesday, Aug. 21, 6 p.m. at Hope Mills Parks and Recreation. Activities • Hope Mills Area Kiwanis Club at Sammio's, second Tuesdays at noon and fourth Tuesdays at 6 p.m. For details, call 910-237-1240. • Senior programs – Acrylic painting, ursday, Aug. 23, 10 a.m.-noon or 1-3 p.m., in the Small Activity Room of the Hope Mills Parks and Rec center. $5. Sign up at front reception desk. Only 10 seats available per session. Promote yourself: Email hopemills@upandcomingweekly.com. CALENDAR EARL VAUGHAN JR., Senior Staff Writer. COMMENTS? EarlUCWS- ports@gmail.com. 910-364-6638. NEWS It may have rained out the last Food Truck Rodeo in Hope Mills, but the resched- uled event this Thursday at 5 p.m. behind the recreation center on Rockfish Road is going to give people a chance to help out children about to return to school. Chancer McLaughlin, development and planning administrator for the town of Hope Mills, said he real- ized the later date would push the rodeo closer to the scheduled opening of school. This led to the town using the Food Truck Rodeo as an opportunity to collect school supplies for youngsters. The Food Truck Rodeo already collects donations of food for the Hope Mills ALMS HOUSE, which has a mission of feeding the hungry, cloth- ing the needy and providing counseling and financial assistance. Now, this week's rodeo is collecting goods for the upcoming FAYONE event, which is helping to pro- vide school supplies to Cumberland County students. McLaughlin said FAYONE is a cooperative effort between a number of other groups that were provid- ing school supplies to youngsters. The FAYONE orga- nizers joined their efforts to offer one large event. FAYONE is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Crown Arena beginning at 10 a.m. It will feature two events, Gotcha'Back and Cut My City. Gotcha'Back provides backpacks filled with school supplies for needy children, while Cut My City offers free haircuts. To get a free haircut, students must be at the Crown Arena and registered by 2 p.m. the day of the event. McLaughlin said when he realized the Food Truck Rodeo was going to have to be postponed, he contacted Hope Mills town manager Melissa Adams to see about adding collecting school supplies to the rodeo. All supplies collected at the rodeo will in turn be donated to FAYONE to be given away this Saturday. "I feel as a municipality we have a bigger reach and we can be bigger leaders,'' McLaughlin said. "We want to support a communitywide back-to- school drive as well. We're telling residents of Hope Mills to bring school supplies when they come to the food drive.'' Any school supplies are welcome, but McLaughlin said the top choices for people to bring are wire com- position books, pens, pocket folders, rulers, pencils and notebook paper. Another feature of the FAYONE event will be a sepa- rate area in the Crown Arena called the Teachers Lounge. "We'll have things for them and supplies we'll donate to the schools,'' McLaughlin said. If there is anyone who is interested in volunteering to help out at FAYONE this Saturday, they can email fayeone2018@gmail.com. In addition to the usual food trucks, because the Thursday rodeo is focused on back-to-school, McLaughlin said Hope Mills will offer a bouncy house, cornhole games, face painting, karaoke and a dance-off for the children. There will also be raffles held for various prizes. The town will also conduct its usual solicita- tion for donations of food to the Hope Mills ALMS HOUSE. Preferred food donations for the ALMS HOUSE include bottled water, single-serve boxes of cereal, ramen noodles, individual microwaveable servings of pasta and gallon-size freezer bags. Food Truck Rodeo adds school supplies drive by EARL VAUGHAN JR.