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Discove r Cit yV iewN C.co m's fre s h up d ate d loo k ! | 15 2405 Robeson Street / Fayetteville, North Carolina / 910-323-3600 572 Executive Place / Fayetteville, North Carolina / 910-323-3100 110 Commerce Drive / Dunn, North Carolina / 910-891-1100 Two of the area's leading CPA firms, TRP CPAs, PLLC and McFadyen & Sumner, CPAs PA, will join together January 1, 2020. As TRP Sumner, PLLC, we're combining our vast experience and expertise to better serve your accounting, tax, financial and advisory needs. We look forward to providing our clients with: • Top-level service from the "best and brightest" in our profession, combined with the friendly, personalized attention we're known for • Strengthened resources and a wider array of services • Enhanced capacity to keep pace with new developments in our field, so you benefit from changes that help you, your family and your business • Continued commitment to supporting our home communities For more information, contact TRP Sumner today. Two Proven Leaders. One Strong Client Focus. north of Kinston. e Grion delivery was made the Wednesday night before anksgiving by Gunter and her husband, Vincent Gunter Sr., a retired Army command sergeant major. e Gunters rented a van for the purpose and drove two hours to Grion and two hours back home before catching a very few winks as time ticked down to T-Day. Venassia Gunter said they will do the same this year if no one else is available. It's all in the name of sharing love, filling bellies and helping the community. "I tell my kids, 'Your community is your family,'" Venassia Gunter said. "'Do things for your family that you would want done for yourself.'" at's why she tells volunteers who are fixing meals to do so as though they're making the food for their own families. "Make it like you're going to sit down and eat that meal," she said. "at's important. When you put your time and effort and love into fixing a meal, that means more to people than anything else." She tells the volunteers who deliver meals to individuals to visit a few minutes with them, "so they know someone cares." Gunter, who works as a family readiness coordinator for a military unit, stumbled onto Operation Turkey in 2015 as she tried to organize turkey dinners for her soldiers. When she called the organization's main number in Austin, she learned it didn't give away free turkeys but it did support grassroots efforts to feed the needy on anksgiving. She decided to start an Operation Turkey here in Fayetteville. anksgiving was a month away at that point. Gunter said she met with some naysayers in the beginning. "People said I was wasting my time and not that many people need anything,"

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