Birthday greetings to the following individuals from April 29th ~ May 5th: 29th ~ Marie Parker Dixon, Mary Ann Mackey-Coleman, Sheila Tate Hamlin, Carita Brown, and Ebbie Veney Dudley; 30th ~ Delores Shelton Wood, Charles Crabbe, Jr., Tyemisha Towles, and Michael Wallace; May 1st ~ Ortese L. Parker, Sarah G. Brown, William “Billy” Taylor, Michael Rustin, Christian Oneal Washington, and yours truly (Rosalyn Gray); 2nd ~ Shirley Cupitt, Maxine Johnson Ball, Edith Ann Parker, Lucille B. Jackson, and Brandon Fauntleroy; 3rd ~ Terri Clayton Stewart, Victoria Towles, and Danny Jones; 4th ~ D. Keith Kearse, Russell Wood, Vondell V. Tate, Michael Gray, and Lynn Ambrose; and 5th ~ Cameron Yerby, Robin Gray McKeiver, Mary D. Branson, Daniel C. Wright, Daliekqua LaShawn Parker, Kwin Taylor, and Chris Brown.

Anniversary greetings to Robert & Amy Marks Ashton, celebrating on April 29th; to David & Karen Veney, celebrating 48 years on April 29th; and to Apostle John & Prophetess Adraine Bibbens, celebrating their 20th anniversary on April 29th.

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.

Church anniversary at Second Baptist Church will be the 3rd Sunday in May. Chairperson will be Deaconess Doris Johnson. A repast will follow.

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.

RICHMOND COUNTY NEWS continues, page 4 Democratic Friends Social Meetups will be the first Tuesday of every month @ 7 p.m. For questions, contact Butch Foutz @ (804) 761-5897.

Our get-well, sick, shut-in and prayer list continue this week for: Helen Juanita Wells, Sandy Pinto, Luke Sisson, Ann Banks Taylor, Erica Drummond, Charles & Barbara Newton, Betty Mosier, Joyce Johnson, Raymond Corbin, 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. One called to thank everyone for keeping her in prayer. 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.

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A Service of Remembrance for Charlene Ashton will be held on Friday, May 1st, 2026 at Salem Baptist Church at 12 noon. Family and Friends visitation will be held on Thursday, April 30, 2026, in the chapel of Weldon-Fisher Funeral Home starting at 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. Visitation will also be held on Friday, May 1, 2026 at Salem Baptist Church, from 11 a.m. until the start of service.