Community Safe event gives kids school supplies, food — and a good time - Richmond County Daily Journal

Dobbins Heights-native Dayona Johnson paints a constellation of hearts on the cheek of a young girl on Saturday.

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Shirlyn Morrison-Sims, the organizer of the Community Safe event, pushes to win the hula hoop contest on Saturday.

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Dobbins Heights teens play a friendly game of basketball on Saturday at the Community Safe event.

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Dobbins Heights teens play a friendly game of basketball on Saturday at the Community Safe event.

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Dobbins Heights teens play a friendly game of basketball on Saturday at the Community Safe event.

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Some of the prizes that were awarded on Saturday, which include basketballs and footballs, bikes and scooters.

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Children play limbo at the Community Safe event on Saturday.

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Children play in the Dobbins Heights pool on Saturday.

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Richmond County Health Department staff Allison Smith, Kim Graves, Heather Taylor, Holly Haire, and Interim Health Director Cheryl Speight pose at their trailer on Saturday where they were giving out free COVID-19 vaccines.

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Linda and Mordecai Ross, at left, run the table for the Faith Assembly Food Pantry on Saturday.

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DOBBINS HEIGHTS — The 10th Annual Community Safe event brought out the Dobbins Heights community for a day of fun in the summer sun Saturday afternoon, with a good message and giveaways of school supplies, bikes, sports equipment, and food.

The event, held at the Dobbins Heights has always been centered around building awareness around the dangers of drinking and driving, according to organizer Shirlyn Morrison-Sims, who added that the event shows that the whole family can come together and have fun without the presence of substances.

Among the attractions were African dancers, a hula hoop contest, a game of limbo, pickup basketball games, face painting, music and mime performances, and a Richmond County Health Department vaccination trailer. This year, COVID-19 didn’t impact the opening of the pool due to the implementation of new social distancing guidelines, according to Mayor Pro Tem Tyre Holloway.

Morrison-Sims was grateful for her long-time DJ, DJ Jazz, for providing music for the event. She also thanked her colleague Emily Nicholson for her role in putting on the event.

The face painting was done by Dobbins Heights-native Dayona Johnson, now of Hamlet, who runs DS Art Studio. She painted a pink butterfly on the cheek of Brynlee Moore, 5, Saturday. Johnson does art tutoring, hosts painting parties, and does photography in the area. She said that being a part of Community Safe was just a way to volunteer and give back to the community she was born and raised in.

Johnson said she will be moving her studio into the Hamlet Depot by Oct. 1 where she will be closer to the action bubbling up in downtown Hamlet.

Councilwoman Angeline David was thrilled with the turnout, especially after last year was reduced to a drive-thru school supply giveaway by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’ve been going through this pandemic and to be able to do this today was a great thing,” David said. “To God be the glory.”

Linda and Mordecai Ross set up a table for the Faith Assembly Food Pantry, allowing attendees to pick up some basic food items like soup, rice, trail mix, fruit, and candy for the kids. The Food Pantry is located at 148 Daniels St. in Dobbins Heights and is open from 5:45 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturdays, and from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Sundays. They give food to all who need it. For emergency food, call 910-995-2955.

The sponsors for the event were as follows:

New

• Sandhills Cooperation Association

• Dieffenbach GM Store

• Compassionate Counseling

• Biscuitville

• Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

• New Hope Baptist Church

Returning

• Griffin Chrysler Dodge – Mike Griffin

• Joe Brown – Brown’s Used Cars

• Enviva

• Special Delivery Motorcycle Club

• Walmart

• Crawford Law Office

• The Overflow Worship Center

• Faith Assembly Outreach Ministries

• Palestine Chapter 79

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Reach Gavin Stone at 910-817-2673 or [email protected]

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