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POPPY SALE — Mayor Demery Grubbs recently proclaimed May as Poppy Month and May 26 as Poppy Day for the sale of poppies by the Tyner-Ford American Legion Post. Lashonda Jackson is the post’s Poppy Girl and Mattie Harris, standing center, is the president of the American Legion Post 213 Auxiliary. (Staff Photo)