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CityViewNC.com | 19 Get Smart! Put Your Thermostat to Work! Earn Money! Earn more money with PWC incentives • Get an $80 bill credit for installing your ENERGY STAR ® Smart Thermostat • Sign up for the ecobee Peak Savings Program and have your temperatures adjusted automatically during Peak periods; earn a $3 monthly bill credit (for each thermostat) + get significant Time-of-Use savings! Save big on your cooling (and heating) bills Install a WiFi connected Smart Thermostat for your HVAC heat pump. • Automatically (and reliably) adjust temperatures • Take full advantage of Time-of-Use Off-Peak savings, keeping your heat at the lowest (A/C at the highest) comfortable setting For incentive details: Visit faypwc.com/residential-programs/ Kevin Rodriguez, AMP Regional Vice-President AMERICAN SECURITY MORTGAGE CORP. For over 20 years, Kevin Rodriguez has been assisting clients with their residential mortgage needs, specializing in VA, FHA, USDA and Conven- tional mortgage products. Whether seeking a new home mortgage or re- financing an existing loan, Kevin's experience and knowledge will guide homeowners through the entire lending process, assuring that their loan will be processed and closed in a supportive and timely manner. A Fayetteville native, Kevin proudly serves as President of the Mortgage Bankers Association of the Carolinas. Kevin and his wife Liz have four wonderful children and he serves as a Deacon at Cedar Falls Baptist Church. 3037-F Boone Trail Extension, Fayetteville, NC 28304 910.321.7200, ext. 302 | 910.987.3490 | krodriguez@1asmc.com NMLS.110776 | NMLS Company ID: 40561 (910) 987-3490 • (910) 321-7200 Ext 302 americansecuritymortgage.com • krodriguez@1asmc.com 6200 Ramsey Street Suite 275, Fayetteville, NC 28311 Branch Manager • NMLS: 110776 K E V I N R O D R I G U E Z NMLS Company ID: 40561 Hometown experience you can trust. Established by Goodyear employee Richard Bradford in 2015, the rowback Collaboration is a grassroots party band out of Fayetteville that largely applies its earthy soul spin on select cover material from different genres in the musical world. "We TCB it," said Mark "Duce" omas, the 63-year-old rhythm guitarist for the collective seven-member group, all of them church musicians. ey come with an old school sensibility. And while they play the likes of Rick James, Heatwave and Michael Jackson from the vintage rhythm-and-blues, dance and pop worlds, this outfit of seasoned players also musters the chops to crank out songs from, among others, 1970s rocker Steve Miller and contemporary country maverick Chris Stapleton. "It's a combination. We make people remember what it was like to be in the '70s and '80s," said Adolph omas, 63. "So we play all those tunes from R&B and funk from back then. And we lean a little bit toward social consciousness songs, like from Marvin Gaye. ose kinds of things. But we keep the show fun." Members also include Bradford, 59, on drums; Michael Counts, 63-year-old bassist; Larry Ludgood, 56, lead keyboardist; Sybil Pinkney, 55, vocals; and Mosh'e Hair, 41, on keyboards. Due to the ongoing concerns over the COVID-19 crisis, there haven't been any shows of late for them to perform. e last time the rowback Collaboration played a date was in October 2019 at Dirtbag Ales Brewery and Taproom on Corporation Drive in Hope Mills. ey said they were scheduled to return to the same site in January, but the date was canceled because of the concerns over the spread of the COVID in the United States. e group also had been booked to play Segra Stadium, home of the Fayetteville Woodpeckers minor league baseball team, in downtown Fayetteville. But the club's entire season was scratched in 2020, another casualty to COVID. Still, the musicians continue to hone their skills during Saturday rehearsals. Adolph omas has described their live stage performances as "a family-oriented show – so

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