Rougemont Winter Reporter Is Twenty Years Old, Happy ......Rougemont Ruritan Club is an integral part of our Rougemont community. In fact it would be im-possible to separate Rougemont

Dec 3, 6 PM Rougemont Childrens’ Christmas Party Dec 6 Rougemont Ruritan Meeting Dec 10 Bahama Christmas Parade Dec 11, 4 PM Christmas Cantata, Rougemont United Methodist Church Dec 16 Ruritan Fruit Baskets Dec 25 Merry Christmas Dec 27 RECA Meeting Dec 31 New Years Eve 2017 Jan 1 Happy New Year Jan 3 Rougemont Ruritan Meeting Jan 14 Ruritan Pancake & Sausage Breakfast 7-11 AM

Jan 24 RECA Meeting Feb 7 Rougemont Ruritan Meeting Feb 11 Rougemont Ruritan Brunswick Stew Feb 14 Valentines Day Feb 28 RECA Meeting March 7 Rougemont Ruritan Meeting March 11 Rougemont Food Drive

A quarterly publication of the Rougemont Ruritan Club for the club and the community!

Rougemont Community Calendar

December 2016 -February 2017

20 Years Serving Rougemont & it’s Neighbors

Winter 1996

Meet Santa at the Rougemont Childrens’ Christmas Party Dec 3rd

Rougemont Reporter First Issue

Rougemont

Reporter Is

Twenty

Years Old,

Happy

Birthday !!!

Merry Christmas to Everyone and To ALL a Safe, Blessed and Healthy Holiday Season

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Rougemont Reporter & Community Newsletter

… is published and distributed free of charge as a community service by the Rougemont Ru-ritan Club, 212 Bacon Road (P.O. Box 63), Rougemont, NC 27572.

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Editions of the Rougemont Reporter are printed; Spring for the months of March, April & May Summer for the months of June, July & August Fall for the months of Sept, October & November Winter for the months of December, January & Feb- ruary The deadline for articles is the first day of the month preceding the first month of each edition. For Spring it would be February 1st, for Summer it would be May 1st, for Fall it would be August 1st, and Winter November 1st. The advertising deadline is the same. All camera ready art needs to be in our hands by the 1st of the month preceding publication or one month before it is delivered.

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2017 Officers & Directors

Club Information and Index

President’s Letter and Rev. Bailey

Rougemont Christmas Party

Rougemont Reporter Beginnings

Remember When? Boxing

Maggie Saphire !! &Gently Used Shoes

Rougemont Train Depot

Rougemont Water

Homestead

Ruritans Honored, LFL & Food Drive

Scholarship Golf Tournament

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They are available in both blue and green …

President: 1st Vice President

2nd Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer:

One Year Director: Two Year Director:

Three Year Director: Past President 2016:

Ruritan National Directors

David Dohr Lawrence Daye Dustin Raymer Bruce Davis Mike Cooley Melody Ann Mininger Millard Thacker Cindy Drake John Mininger

Linward Hedgspeth Frances Long


Pastor Ian Bailey Rougemont United Methodist Church Christmas Cantata at Rougemont United Methodist - December 11th, 4pm, 105 Red Mountain Rd, Rougemont, NC 27572 Come enjoy Christmas Carols and Narratives at Rougemont United Methodist as we celebrate the coming of our Lord and Savior: Jesus Christ!

By the time you get this edition of the Reporter our Christmas Angels will be lighting up Rougemont to cele-brate the Christmas Season until New Years. On average it costs about $20 apiece for them to be lit dur-ing the Christmas Holiday Season to keep them burning as a beacon to all of the spirit of Christmas and what it is we really celebrate … We acknowledge those who donate in the spring edition of the Rougemont Reporter each year. Please consider sponsoring one or more of the angels … thank you kindly. You can send checks made out to the Rougemont Ruritan Club to P O Box 63, Rougemont, NC 27572. Mark them for the Angel Fund. Thank you very much!

By the time you get this edition of the Reporter our Christmas Angels will be lighting up Rougemont to cele-brate the Christmas Season until New Years. On average it costs about $20 apiece for them to be lit dur-ing the Christmas Holiday Season to keep them burning as a beacon to all of the spirit of Christmas and what it is we really celebrate … We acknowledge those who donate in the spring edition of the Rougemont Reporter each year. Please consider sponsoring one or more of the angels … thank you kindly. You can send checks made out to the Rougemont Ruritan Club to P O Box 63, Rougemont, NC 27572. Mark them for the Angel Fund. Thank you very much!

Started in 1996

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

WINTER 2016 By John MiningerPresident,

Rougemont Ruritan Club 2016 Marks Twenty Years of

the Rougemont Reporter, conceived by Joe Haenn and Millard Thacker, with Lynn as Pub-lisher, for the Rougemont community including the Rougemont Ruritan Club. The Reporter has been faithful in reporting about Rougemont events, history, people and businesses. Topics have included the Rougemont Chil-drens’ Christmas Party, Christmas Angels, Easter Festivals, Ice Cream Socials, Rougemont Water Contamination and New Community Water Sys-tem, Incorporation, Failed City-County Merger, Scholarship Golf Tournaments, Schools, Church-es, Citizens and History. Everything Rougemont! The Reporter is free to area citizens, supported by the businesses who advertise in it. In turn, please support these businesses. It becomes more and more clear that the Rougemont Ruritan Club is an integral part of our Rougemont community. In fact it would be im-possible to separate Rougemont Ruritan from Rougemont because Ruritan is inherently about Community Service! May the Rougemont Re-porter thrive for another twenty years. Ruritan is made up of GOOD PEOPLE HAV-ING A GOOD TIME DOING GOOD THINGS.

If this piques your interest, ask a Ruritan member, and visit our club on a first Tuesday for a meal and interesting program. You might decide to

join!

Christmas Gift Idea !


Rougemont Childrens Christ-mas Party, Tree Lighting, and Caroling Santa Claus will visit Rougemont Saturday evening, December 3

th at 6

PM, Rougemont Ru-ritan Club, 212 Ba-con Road. All of Rougemont is invited!

The party is FREE! Please bring children accompanied by an adult. The annual Christmas Party is sponsored by Rougemont ECA with help from Rougemont Ruritan. There will be refreshments and a gift for all children. Parents will have an opportunity to take their child's pic-ture sitting on Santa's lap. Children should bring their Christmas wish lists to whisper in Santa's ear. Santa will be checking his Naughty and Nice List, so be good all you children! The Rougemont ECA is making Christmas crafts to give the children as well.

Rougemont’s piñata lady, Lydia Thomas If you have ever attended one of the Rougemont Community Chil-dren’s Christmas Party (begun by RE-CA more than 30 years ago and now sponsored jointly by RECA and Rougemont Ruritan), as a celebrant (child, that is), parent, doting other fami-ly member, or a member of one or both organizations working at the event, chances are that you have seen a piñata for the children to smash at the end of the party. Both organizations celebrate the versatility and skill of one member: Lydia Thomas. She has prepared this treat for our children year after year since about 1980 and has never re-peated the design! She does this from scratch each year and donates both the piñata and the candy packed into its pocket. The process is quite involved and must be sturdy so the piñata won’t break too early, spilling its sweet treats onto the floor for the children too soon. Her inspirations come from traditional patterns for both the piñata and for Christmas symbols. She begins with a balloon, blown up and tied tight. Then she lay-ers it with papier mache (flour paste with water soaking strips of newspaper and applied to the balloon) until she begins to form the design for this newest addition fo her list. Ms. Thomas uses traditional colors: red, green, and white for Mexico where the piñata originated. Blue and white, or majestic purple to honor the Virgin Mary, silver and gold to signify the royalty of the Christ Child. The designs include traditional cone shapes along with the spheres to which we are so accustomed. As the design builds, Lydia adds the out-er trim that defines the design. She uses much crepe paper, fringes of tissue and other materials that will withstand the bat-tering the piñata will receive before the children break this work of art to get at their sweet treats. Her creations have ranged from symbols of the holiday to versions of popular symbols and decorations to very special designs that are very meaningful to the sponsoring organiza-tions and the community. She has done nearly every animal associated with Christmas from doves to penguins, toys of all sorts from soldiers to drums to the universal chocolate kiss. One of her recent presentations was a train on which was mounted the picture of our deceased member Joe Haehn, who was known far and wide for his interest and knowledge of toy trains. She even did the partridge in a pear tree! We have had snowflakes, bells, snowmen, elf clothes (hats, shoes), Santa himself, and a reindeer to boot. The design is always a secret until we decorate for the party, which is held the first Saturday evening in December each year. The piñata is hung just before the doors open at 6:00 pm. Though now an inactive (though still treasured) member of RECA, Lydia has also been a long-time member of Rougemont Ruritans. She grew up in Denver, Colorado, and learned to make pinatas while living in California. Rougemont is fortunate indeed that she moved here about 1980. She says her interest in the goings on in Rougemont truly began in 1982 when she met a neighbor, Alma Poole, who was herself a lifetime member of RECA, and a good friend. She joined RECA in 1983 or 1984 and the piñata making began some-time after this. A few examples of Lydia’s generous craft and genius are shown below. -RECA


ROUGEMONT REPORTER 20TH ANNIVERSARY By Millard Thacker

In early 1996, a small team of local Rougemont citi-zens had an idea and a vision. The idea was to cre-ate a local COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER. The vision was to enhance communication among our local community citizens. Then came the: who, what, when, where, and how of development and imple-mentation. The team included Joe Haenn (now deceased), his wife Lynn Van Scoyoc and Millard Thacker. On Au-gust 28, 1996, a proposal was prepared and present-ed to the Rougemont Ruritan Club (of which Joe and Millard were members) asking for the club’s sponsor-ship. The club unanimously supported and endorsed the idea as a community effort. Under the auspices of the Rougemont Ruritan Club, with Joe Haenn (Editor), Lynn Van Scoyoc (Publisher) and Millard Thacker (Advertising Contact), the first issue of the ROUGEMONT REPORTER was published for December and quarterly thereafter (March, June, September, December). There were four pages with the headline: COMMUNITY CHRIST-MAS PARTY. Monies from four business advertisers were used to help pay the expenses for printing. Ap-proximately 300 copies were distributed at various business and other locations between Durham and Roxboro. Today, the ROUGEMONT REPORTER has grown in size to twenty-four pages with 45-50 advertisers. Dis-tribution covers basically the same geographical area but the number of copies has increased to over 1100 copies. News articles cover a wide variety of items of public notice, community history, local church and special events, community events and activities, hu-mor, etc. The ROUGEMONT REPORTER MISSION remains the same and we are proud to serve the community.

BEGINNINGS OF THE ROUGEMONT REPORTER By Lynn Van Scoyoc

In the winter of 1996, the Rougemont Ruritan Club began publishing this community newsletter. My late husband, Joe Haenn, was a member of the club but I would not become one until three years later when the first women were invited to join. Because I was al-ready producing a newsletter for Durham’s InterNeigh-borhood Council, Joe knew I enjoyed designing and laying out publications like this. Joe was an excellent writer with lots of experience in his work as an evalua-tor of education programs and he knew we would make a good team for this endeavor. So he recruited me and we produced the Reporter from winter 1996 through fall 2010. The Winter 1996 issue consisted of four pages and included articles about the Rougemont Extension Homemaker’s Club’s (now ECA) children’s Christmas party and the Rougemont Christmas tree lighting (which later became part of the children’s party). Also included were articles about the Ruritan Club, Rougemont United Methodist Church, Bahama Volun-teer Fire Department and the Chewning Middle School PTSA. Just one year later the Reporter had grown to eight pages and included its first article about Rougemont’s Christmas Angels. This article reported on seven an-gels already donated and asked the community to supply more of them. The response was overwhelm-ing and now each year we list the donors of our an-gels and request donations to help pay the electric bill for lighting them. It has always been a challenge getting community residents to submit articles, so if you want to contrib-ute, please contact John Mininger ([email protected] or 919-477-5308).

Headlines And Pictures From Old Rougemont Reporters

Great Rougemont Train Wreck(1997) Red Valley Drive School (1998)

“Rougemont Ruritan Club Admits Its First Female Members” (1999)

“Durham Merger Proposal Fails—

Good for Rougemont” (2000)

“Fourth of July in Rougemont– 25 Years Ago” (2001)

(Who is this? Marty Thacker)

(****)Shows Year Published

“Millard Thacker Elected Ruritan National President (2002)

“Downtown Wells Contaminated” (1997)

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Remember When,,,,,,,,Back in 1930 circa 1935 in Rougemont…

Cooler mornings bring a promise of more lowering temperatures and a guarantee of Fall. This brings to mind school athletics and long sleeves in days past as well as those nearing.

Long before I was born, somewhere around 1930-31, two seasonal trends coincided to bring about another of our family legends. Please note that family legends always feature the member of the family beginning the story in the most positive light possible. This is no less true in my own clan than any other family who have oral histories to pass down to posterity (in my case, the youngsters who soak it all up like so many sponges—with no filters!).

Yep, somewhere between 1930 and 1935, likely around 1934, Rougemont male youngsters in high school and their younger siblings were in school enough to form some sort of athletic competition. Also at the same time, fall of the year had arrived with early killing frost so that the boys in the neighborhoods were spared from the fields and barns more of their waking hours. My dad, who you may remember, had a brood of five boys and two girls by this time. Five boys growing like so many stairsteps, all in a clump, make for mischief. I can personally attest that having two children together less than two years different age are not double the capacity for may-hem than having one rambunctious child in tow: two triple the mayhem, at least! Such was true with my five brothers who, even though their surname was Poole, were often called the “Allen Gang.” My guess is that there is a perfectly good explanation for this. I simply do not know enough of local history and current nick- names of that era to find a good explanation. Daddy declared that, especially with knot-headed boys, idle hands are indeed the devil’s workshop, and put on his thinking cap. Just what activity might keep so many red-blooded hooligans out of trouble for a while?

Thanks to the school system and his interest in keeping the boys’ energy levels at a tolerable level, the school boxing team came to his attention. The five boys, from Rufus to Tom, covered a period of 7 years. Oldest to youngest, boxing could occupy them all for several years! So, Papa built a boxing ring on the lot of the old gen-eral store. The boys began to practice their boxing skills every afternoon after school and before chores. Daddy set the time limits so none of the older three could claim boxer’s exhaustion for an excuse not to do their work when they got home. To hear the boys tell it, they got pretty good. The older three were on the school team along with some of the other boys in the neighborhood. Now, the eldest, Rufus, was the smallest, bossiest, and most pugnacious. I am told that he was absolutely convinced that being the oldest boy made him heir to rule the world—of Rougemont or only “Pooledom”—I could never find out which—and this meant he was total boss of all the boys in the family, or maybe the world. Just ask him. He was quick to lose his trigger temper and faster to throw a punch. One of Daddy’s side hopes was that brother Rufus might learn to defend himself from a broken nose every year! Now, my version of this tale came from one of the younger, taller brothers. According to him, a day came when Rougemont’s boxing team was in a match with the boys in Roxboro (or was it Helena?) Some facts are not verifiable. Of course, Rufus, as self-appointed captain of the team, was to be the first boxer in the ring. With his short-fused pugnacity, he bounced into the ring, danced around the taller boy, and before the ref-eree could back out of the way, landed a square left hook right to the other boy’s jaw. The other boy hit the can-vas both surprised and clocked. The referee called the match for Rufus right there in the first round. What came next is the real legend of the clan. According to the younger brother, he heard the captain for the other team say to the rest of his group, “I think we’d better forfeit right now while we can still walk.” Asked why by his team-mates, he replied, “Well, that first little cuss is the runt of the litter, and I understand they are all kin. He is the shortest of the boys that came in together in boxing shorts, and if he is the littlest and least, the rest of them will kill us!” So the legend goes….It was only an afterthought that my brother added quietly. “Maybe that was what Rufus had in mind…He made us all wear boxing trunks and football pads under our sweatshirts, even us taller kids who had not even been in the boxing ring. He figured to outfox the other team.”

This sounds like a tall tale, indeed. However, my brothers and my parents all declared this was a true story when we sat around the supper table and remembered when…

-Patricia Russell


GENTLY USED SHOES Christmas is near, and usually just before or right after the gift-giving frenzy of the holiday, Dona-tions of Gently Used Shoes usually pick up tremendously. Please allow us to remind you why we collect these gifts. These shoes are all carefully packed into huge boxes and shipped so that an-other 50+ people will have shoes this coming year. These shoes, of all kinds (except boots and flip-flops), go to people in economically depressed parts of our country who have no shoes. Most of these are presented to people who need shoes to be able to work. Many more go to children and youth who did not receive any shoes this year. Others go to shut-ins so that they can move around in their homes on the cold floors without getting sick or more sick, in some cases. This is a great way to help others!

THANK YOU, ALL WHO DONATE YOUR GENTLY USED SHOES!

Please continue to donate your gently used shoes that you no longer need. Any size, any color, any style can be used. From size 00 to men’s size 22, YOUR GENTLY USED SHOES HELP TO FULFILL A SERIOUS NEED!!

Please continue to leave your gently used shoe donations at the Rougemont Ruritan cabin at 212 Bacon Road, or leave a message for RECA at 919-477-0681 if you need to leave them somewhere else or ar-range for pick up. If you leave a message, please be sure to leave your contact information (phone) and times when you can be reached, as well as address so that we can have your gift picked up. If you prefer to text a message, you may do that at 336-583-8223.Once again, thank you for your help

There is a lesson can be learned from every story . . .Back around 1900, there was a little boy ‘bout school age, had brothers older and younger, and a Mammy and Pappy who put a lot of stock in younguns’ being mannerly to their elders. It was on account o’ this that little J. Lee got to be a target. There was an elderly couple who lived in the village (most called it Red Hill or Red Mountain in those days). Now, Mr. Sam and Miz Polly had been married more years than anybody knew anymore, but they had neither chick nor child. What they did have was a little house in the edge of the clearing behind the Primitive Baptist Church. The little house had a bedroom and a parlor. The kitchen was out behind the parlor end of the house. Most kitchens were detached out in the country in those days, ‘cause chimneys and fireplaces had a way of catchin’ and burnin’ down, don’t ‘cha know. They also had a little Model T Ford that was newer than they were, but not by much. The young’uns in the neighborhood thought it was special because it had a rumble seat and it was green, not black like everybody elses. Anyhow, Miz Polly thought little J.Lee was plumb purty. And she said so. Everywhere she saw him. To anybody who was around at the time Now, little J.Lee had curly hair and blue eyes that looked at you like his look might pin you to whatever stood behind you. He was clean most of the time, unlike most of the village urchins that ran through the pig paths barefoot year round, ‘cept for church meeting on Sundays, and sometimes, even then, ‘specially if it was hot weather. Now little J.Lee, was a reg’lar boy, and his brothers teased him somethin’ scorchin’ about Miz Polly. They said she was sweet on J.Lee on account of how “purty” he was. ‘Course, J.Lee come up from the floor ready to fight every time, but he was little. This is how come he was bruised about the head more often than not. He tried to tell Mr. Sam how hard it was on him to be called “purty” in front of his peers. He hoped Mr. Sam could get Miz Polly to stop saying things like that in front of the other young’uns in the village. It didn’t help. Mr. Sam thought it was cute and kept tellin’ the menfolk gathered round the pot-bellied stove at the general store how tore up J.Lee was about being purty. Since he was being tormented every day by the other young’uns, J.Lee took matters into his own hands. He stopped washing before school—first behind his ears. He slopped the hogs before breakfast in the overalls he had to wear to school, and most of the time, got smeared with mud from the pig pen. He quit combing that curly brown hair and started wearing his big brother’s hand-me-down brogans with no socks. He scowled all the time. He began to get a name as a ruffian among the adults in the village. He took up cussin’ and chawin’ and being downright disrespectful of his elders—all but Pappy, that is. Pappy decided enough was enough. He had a word with Mr. Sam himself. Mr. Sam then had a quiet word with Miz Polly, and the sweet talk about J.Lee disappeared. It was too little too late. The big boys had already started calling J.Lee “Polly.” They called him “Polly” until he was more than 50 years old. To the day he died, J.Lee could not abide to hear anyone speak the name “Polly.” The message here? (1) Adults should think about the impact of their words to and about young children, even when they are compliments, or meant as such. (2) Boys will be boys, but a quiet word at home might have avoided some of the little boy’s angst about being teased by his older siblings. (3) It is too bad J.Lee was not able to see humor in this happening and take it in stride. (4) Don’t say anything about anybody that you are not willing to have come back and happen to you. It could be a little tenderizin’.

Maggie Sapphire


Working on the Rougemont Train Depot Great progress has been made on the restoration of the Rougemont Train Depot. For the first time in decades the waiting room, station master’s office and freight sections have been restored as one unit. Pictured above is Richard Hayden of Tim-berlake who moved the freight section from John Anderson’s property and reas-sembled it at the new Depot site, along with Norman Perry and David Dohr. The station master’s office has been framed in. The Depot looks more like it once did. Next finish and paint the outside. Then restore the interior. Much work is yet to be done. The goal is to rebuild the Rougemont Train Depot as close as possible to its condi-tion while John Anderson was Station Master. The station burned in 1938 and a station from another location was moved to Rougemont to replace it. Significantly we have no complete photos of the station as it existed while Mr. Anderson was Station Master. Pictured above is one side of the depot in the background and al-so a bit of the track side in another photo. If anyone has any photos of the sta-tion as it existed after 1938, please contact John Mininger at 919-477-5308 or Norman Perry. Save Rougemont Depot thanks all who donated to the depot fund originally and all who donated after Joe Haenn’s death. Currently Save Rougemont Depot has sufficient funds to complete the erection of the freight depot and to extend the roof to the Waiting Room section. However, the Station Master’s office must be rebuilt in the empty space between the waiting room and freight sections, including the bay window. The office portion was destroyed when the station was broken into piec-es. The inside must be completely rebuilt including the wood stove used to heat the waiting room and office. This will include extensive repair and replacement of the tongue and groove walls and ceilings. On the out-side a semaphore must be built. We make an appeal to all interested Rougemont and Durham county citizens and all train enthusiasts for ad-ditional donations. These donations will enable our Save Rougemont Depot effort to carry on toward our goal. Be assured all monies will be spent frugally. Any donations can be sent to Preservation Durham(501c3) tax free. Make checks payable to Preservation Durham. Specify “Rougemont Depot” in the memo field on the check, and send to: Preservation Durham, P.O. Box 25411, Durham, NC 27701.

All contributions made through Preservation Durham are tax deductible. Thank you.

Kit Anderson Chappell

Ruritans Dave Dohr, Norman Perry, John Mininger

Bill Anderson

Richard Hayden, Norman Perry, Dave Dohr


Rougemont Community Water System In Operation !!

(reprinted from the Rougemont Water System Celebration brochure) In the 1980’s and 1990’s leakage from pre-existing underground gasoline storage tanks in downtown Rougemont, NC were discovered to have caused petroleum contamination to the groundwater in the immediate vicinity. The affected zones include areas within several hundred feet of the intersections of NC 501 and Bill Poole Rd., Bacon Road, Red Mountain Rd., and Garden Path. Responding to the concerns of citizens and working in concert with the NC Department of Environmental Quality, Durham County committed to helping affected residents and began investigating options for providing them with a safe source of drinking water. The early feasibility studies were partially funded by Environmental Protection Agency American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (AARA) grant funds issued to the NC Department of Environmental Quality. Ultimately, a small independent, well-fed water system was deemed to be the most cost-efficient and satisfactory way of addressing the contamination issues. The Durham Board of County Commissioners authorized County staff to issue a request for Proposal for the completion of the Rougemont Critical Water Infrastructure Improvements Distribution Line in the Spring of2015. The total cost of the project was $2.6 million with Durham County contributing $1.3 million of the total. Addi-tional project funds were secured through NC Department of Environmental Quality, the United States Environ-

mental Protection Agency, and a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) infrastructure grant secured through the NC Department of Com-merce Division of Community Assistance On September 22, 2016, the County, all of the partnering agencies, and the Rougemont community join(ed) together to celebrate the new wa-ter system bringing clean water to 40 households in Northern Durham County. Thank you to Joe Haenn and Karen Walker who led the effort in Rougemont. Pictured in no order– Durham County Commissioners Ellen Reckhow, Brenda Howerton, Wendy Jacobs, and Fred Foster, Drew Cummings (Durham County Chief of Staff), Mark Peterman (NCDEQ), Bill Truman (EPA), and other officials tasting our sweet Rougemont water.


until

until

Steak House

www.thehomesteadsteakhousenc.com

Salad Bar is now $4.99

$15.99

Tell Them You Saw Their AD in the Rougemont Reporter !!!

Homestead Steakhouse & Festival House

205 Frank Timberlake Road

Timberlake, NC

New Years Eve at the Homestead Festival House

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Doors Open at 8:00 PM

Band Plays 9:00—12:30 AM

Tickets $20 in Advance

$25 at Door (if available) Tables reserved with purchase of 10 Tickets

Great Entertainment, Champagne at Midnight & Light Snacks

Tickets can be purchased at:

Homestead Steakhouse - 205 Frank Timberlake Road - Timberlake, NC - 336-364-8508

Homestead Florist - 801 Durham Road - Roxboro, NC - 336-597-2281


If I can lose 35 +pounds and keep

it off - so can you ! I have dropped

below 200# for the first time in 35

years.

TM

YOUR HEALTH IS IN YOUR HANDS

BULL MARKET 131 (Village BP) 12929 Hwy 501 Rougemont, NC (919) 620-7843

OPEN: 5 am—11 pm

Managers: Kandy Poole

And Karen Newton

BULL MARKET 133

(North Durham Mobil)

5100 Guess Road Durham, NC

(919) 471-3515

OPEN: 6 am—10 pm

Managers: Kandy Poole

And Timmie Poole


SHOP LOCAL ~ SHOP LOCAL ~ SHOP LOCAL ~ SHOP LOCAL ~ SHOP LOCAL ~ SHOP LOCAL


New Ruritan Members Rougemont Ruritan is proud to have new members Wayland Burton & Pastor Ian Bailey pictured here with Millard Thacker who initiated them. Welcome Wayland & Ian! Your interest and commitment to our Ruritan fellowship and community service efforts are greatly appreciated.

Ruritans Honored

Lawrence Daye– September Ruritan of the Month

David Dohr– October Ruritan of the Month

Rougemont Little Free Library has

been experiencing more and more use, particularly the Childrens’ Section recently added. The LFL is in need of more books, especially childrens’ books. If you have books to donate, adult or youth, please contact Melody Ann Mininger at 919-477-5308, or Lynn Van Scoyoc at 919-477-3269.

Generosity Rules- Rougemont Food Drive

Once again the Rougemont community opened their hearts and wallets to help their hungry neighbors. On October 15

th, the Ruritans held

their 4th food drive of 2016. The response was

heartwarming. $375 and 120 pounds of food was donated. Thank you Rougemont.

For 6 years the Rougemont Ruritan Club has used the Bull Market, formerly the village BP, as the sole collection point for the food drives. This October Blalock's Store volunteered to serve as a collection point also. The result was a significant increase in donations. Many thanks to the Bull Market and Blalock's Store.

The volunteers who man the collection points en-joy greeting the customers. They exemplify the Ruritan slogan of Fellowship, Good Will and Community Service. Thank you for all the volun-teers who generously gave their time.

All donations were taken to the Rougemont Food Pantry. Many thanks to the Rougemont United Methodist Church and its members who do a great job organizing and distributing the food twice monthly to needy families.

Thank you to everyone who helped make Octo-ber food drive successful. Over $1132 and 194 pounds of food were donated in 2016. The next Rougemont Ruritan Food Drive will be March 11

th, 2017. We look forward to continu-

ing to work together to feed the hungry of Rougemont.

Carver Store (2002)

“First Annual Rougemont Easter Parade” (2004)

Saving Rougemont Train Depot (2008)

Original Carver’s Store on Red Mountain Road (2012)

More Pictures From Previous Rougemont Reporters

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Brakes / Air Conditioning Alignments / Tires / Oil Changes & Lube

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919.493.4434 Office 919.536.0041 Direct

919.417.8790 Cell

[email protected]

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Major & Minor Repairs

Joe’s Bail Bonds “We Put Your Feet On The Street”

23-1/2 hrs per day – 7 days per week

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17th Annual Rougemont Ruritan GOLF TOURNAMENT was a fun day for area duffers and successful fund raiser for the Rougemont Ruritan Education Assistance Ptogram (REAP). 14 Teams competed in the tournament including the win-ning team Wayne Bailey, Frank Howard, Dennis Bailey and Dwayne Oldham.

The winning Ruritan Team was Lynns Crossroads who won ownership of the Stew Pot Trophy for a year.

Dave Brown won the raffle for a one year Lakewinds membership. Ruritan Jerry Aiken came within one inch of making the 50 foot putt and winning $5000 for himself and $5000 for the Ruritan club! Thanks to Lawrence Daye for his work and expertise.

Boy Scout Troop 411 from Union Baptist Church helped prepare for the tournament. Finally thanks to all our Sponsors for their support.

JEANE BARGO REALTOR/BROKER/CRS


Tires

* NC State Inspections*

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LUNCH — DINNER SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNTS

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OLD LOCATION 4390 Oxford Rd

(Hwy158)Morristown/Roxboro,NC 27574 This location is cur-rently a processing

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12924 Roxboro Road,

Rougemont, NC 27572

“Just Around The Corner”, 919-471-1900

Friendly Service & Fair Prices

Sun-Thurs 5 AM to 11 PM

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Hours of Operation

Monday 8am-12pm & 4pm-6pm

Tuesday 8am-12pm & 4pm-6pm

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202 Red Mountain Road, Rougemont

Office: (919) 381-5258 E-Fax: (919) 794-5717

A Full Service Real Estate Company

Candy McLain (919) 452-3542

[email protected]

The Food Mart #12

7723 Guess Rd. at South Lowell Road in Hillsborough, NC 27278

Supports the Rougemont Ruritan Club

Candy McLain (919) 452-3542 Bubba McLain (919) 717-0183 Janelle Benson (919) 477-0352 Tabitha Wade (919) 270-3108

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[email protected]


Rougemont Post Office Operating Hours Regular Mail- Monday through Friday Open Lunch Close 8:30 AM 12:30-1:30 PM 4:00 PM Rural Delivery Monday through Saturday Passport– Monday through Friday Open Lunch Close 8:30 AM 12:30–1:30 PM 2:30 PM


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8307 No. Durham Rd. Bahama, NC

919.471.2446

Weekly Fee Recreational Day Camp

FOR EARLY DISMISSAL &

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Optional Activities for Summer Day Camp include:*

Karate Horseback Lessons Gymnastics Vacation Bible School and more.

*First come basis and

extra cost on some …

We serve Mangum,

Little River, Eno Valley,

Voyager Academy,

Helena and Carrington

Schools!

K.C.’s SHOP

(336) 504-2066

Community Bible Study

Purpose: Study the Bible in order to know GOD. Who: Everyone is welcome … When: Thursday nights from 7:30 to 8:30 pm Where: Rougemont Ruritan Club - 212 Bacon Rd.

Questions? Please call Tony Blalock at 919.695.6677

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for you souls.” Matthew 11: 28-29

1807 Moores Mill Rd

919) 471-GOLF Rougemont, NC 27572 [email protected]

All Your Golfing Needs

Golf Club Repair Grips Shafts Owned and Operated By David Fridley


Smith Upholstery Free Estimates, Pickup & Delivery

Russ Smith Custom Upholsterer

13105 Meadow Ridge Drive Rougemont, NC 27572

Phone: 919-479-6096

E-mail: [email protected]



Sara Biever, Pharm D RPh Pharmacy Manager

(919) 536-3673

www.universityfordnorth.com 5331 North Roxboro Road, Durham, NC 27712

Residential and commercial. Real estate inspections. Pre-treats / Services for termites

roaches, fleas, ants, mice, flies

Michael Scull (336) 364-2505 (H) (919) 730-4882 (O)

294 Winchester Road, Rougemont, NC 27572

SCULL’S PEST CONTROL, INC.

SILVER SPOON RESTAURANT BREAKFAST FOOD SERVED ALL DAY!

BREAKFAST SPECIAL $5.79 MON-FRI 7AM—10:30 AM

Featuring: Omelet’s, Pancakes, Waffles, Egg Dishes, Sandwiches, Chicken Platters,

Italian Dishes

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8741 Durham Rd Timberlake NC, 27583

Phone: 336-364-7001 Fax: 336-364-7002

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