CONGRATULATIONS to our 2017 Civitan Scholarship Winners, who were recognized at last Thursday’s business meeting.: The 2017 Civitan Scholarship winners! Pictured from left to right, Sharma Amin (Morton Lerner Civitan Scholarship), Kaylon Morgan (Dr. Walter Low Tatum Scholarship in Nursing), Olivia Hedrick (John Nelson Haden Scholarship in Music), Chelsea Heusinger (Dr. Walter Low Tatum Scholarship in Nursing), Megan Hampton (Rev. Milton B. Faust Scholarship in Education), Cor

Civitan Nelson Darrow Large, DDS, of Salisbury, passed away Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, at the Lutheran Home at Trinity Oaks. He was 97. Born Sept. 14, 1919, in Rocky Mount, as the second of five children to the late H. Lee Large, M.D., Sr., and Nellie Brockwell Large, he was a graduate of Rocky Mount schools, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Medical College of Virginia. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. He was then loaned by the Navy