Young Farmer of the Year Named T
he 2011 Cumberland County Young Farmer and Rancher of the Year has been named by the North Carolina Farm Bureau. William John Gillis, an eighth generation farmer, received the award Monday, Oct.
University. After college, Gillis began farming in partnership with his father and brother on their 200-acre row crop farm in western Cumberland County — continuing a family agricultural tradition that goes back to the 1700s. Gillis has expanded the family farm from corn and soybeans to wheat, which had not been grown on the farm before. Gillis has also expanded the family's beef operation. The Gillis farm has also entertained thousands of school children
Agent with Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County. "He is a good young man and will keep the operation going."
24, at the Crown Exposition Center in Fayetteville. Gillis is a graduate of the Agricultural Institute at N.C. State
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and adults each year, while providing lessons in the importance of agriculture to the community.
"He has really stepped up," said Colby S. Lambert, an Extension
November Events Promote Adoption Awareness Month
he Cumberland County Department of Social Services will hold events in observance of November as Adoption Awareness Month. A "Faces of Adoption" program will be held at Berean Baptist
Church at 517 Glensford Drive on Saturday, Nov. 5, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. A Fall Festival will be held at the Cumberland County DSS at 1225
Ramsey Street on Thursday, Nov. 10, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Foster or adop- tive parents and people interested in becoming foster or adoptive parents are invited to attend. Adoption
Saturday will
be held at the Fascinate-U Chil- dren's Museum on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Anyone interested in becoming a foster or adoptive parent is invited to attend a fos- ter care/adoption informational session. The sessions are held on the third Thursday of each month at 12:00 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. building.
"We are just asking mem-
William Gillis accepts the Cumberland County Farmer of the Year award from William Tew of North Carolina Farm Bureau.
bers of our community who have the time and patience and love to share to come to some of our events and learn more about the needs of the children in the com- munity," said Sandra Robinson, foster care/adoption recruiter. For more information,
call (910) 677-2897.
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