436-4570 Birthday greetings to the following individuals from March 18th ~ 24th: 18th ~ Pierre Dixon, Kevin Sydnor, Douglas Johnson, and Jacell Winstead, Sr.; 19th ~ Eli Anderson, Nathan Carey, and James Jones, Jr., 20th ~ Tammy LeJuan Gray-Lee, Marquel Reed, Terrence Cupitt, Edward Beane, Thomas Basker, and William Scott; 21st ~ Cornell Fauntleroy and Kaleb Xavier Robinson; 22nd ~ (twins) Janelle and Janiece Veney, (twins) Mahogany and Madison Parker-Thombs, Robert H. Garner, Jr., Nikita Gray, Robert Carey, Barbara Jean Turner, Chris Tribble, Mary Young, and Mary Lou Barber; 23rd ~ Charles Carey, (twins) Juan Darcel Ball and Juanita Marcel Sydnor, and Ashley Gray, and Ny’Zier Elias Smiley; and 24th ~ Elsie Brown, Milford P. Rich, Adraine Jones-Bibbens, Zemely Wise, Jr., Cornell Fauntleroy, Darnell T. Smith, Robert Ashton, and Larry Dandridge.

Anniversary greetings to Revs. Darryl & Carolyn Fisher, celebrating 26 years on March 18th; and Lawrence Davis & Marcia Wells, celebrating 21 years, also on March 18th.

Bible Study and church service (Sunday) ~ Wednesday’s @ 6 p.m. on Zoom. Meeting ID: 852 2369 8625; Passcode: 2021; Dial by your location: +1 646 876 9923. Join us on Wednesday mornings at 6 a.m. for our weekly Second Baptist Church’s WOW devotional and prayer. New Dial-in number is: (848) 777-1500, meeting ID: 283020. WOW monthly meetings are 3rd Saturday of each month at 9 a.m.

The Westmoreland Branch NAACP holds its Membership meeting the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Galilee Baptist Church, 20461 Kings Highway in Montross. New members are welcomed. For further information, contact: President, Lewis M. Thompson (575) 442-1208; or email marcelle.thompson @gmail.com or Vice President, Rev. Dr. Joseph Haden, (240) 463-0769; epathways@aol.com.

Democratic Friends Social Meetups will be the first Tuesday of every month @ 7 p.m. For questions, contact Butch Foutz @ (804) 761-5897.

The Pony Riders Mustang Club will be having a Spring Fling Cabaret on April 11, 2026, from 8 p.m. to 12 midnight, at the Tappahannock Firehouse, Tappahannock, VA. Tickets can be purchased from one of the club members. Tickets $25 per person/ $45 per couple. No tickets sold at the door. Attire: Dress to Impress (no t-shirts, shorts, sneakers, and timberland boots). Music provided by: D.J. Buckwild. Ages 25 and up. For more information contact Martel Moore @ (804) 7612758 or James Henry @ (804) 238-6228.

Our get-well, sick, shut-in and prayer list continue this week for: Helen Juanita Wells, Sandy Pinto, Luke Sisson, Ann Taylor, Erica Drummond, Charles & Barbara Newton, Charlene Ashton, Betty Mosier, Joyce Johnson, Reginald “Nookus” Fletcher, Delores Moody, and Tarita Ball. There are others, of course and if you would like other names to be included, please call me. It is great (as always) seeing some of the sick, improving greatly and out. Please keep one another lifted in prayer and stay safe. Call and encourage those individuals and others. They desire your calls, your cards, and your visits . . . but, above all, they need our prayers. Please be extra cautious with the many health issues that we are faced with. We ALL need prayer.

DEATH(S)

A service of remembrance for Brandon Trent Smith will be held on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Salem Baptist Church, King George, VA at 12 noon.

A memorial service for Bennie A. Gray III will be held in the chapel of Weldon-Fisher Funeral Home on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 12 noon.

A service of remembrance for Ms. Denise Amy Jones of Farnham, VA will be held on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 2 p.m. at the Mulberry Baptist Church, Emmerton, VA.