Today's Sports

By JAMIE ALLEN

CCHS STUDENT

Saturday, April 20th, the CCHS JROTC Department held its annual Military Ball at the Pavilion in Cove Lake State Park.

Cadets, cadre and the JROTC Boosters spent numerous hours planning, coordinating and rehearsing in order to make this event a success. 

At 8 a.m., cadets and boosters started setting up for the ball at Cove Lake Pavilion. 

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A whip-poor-will called in the distance, as darkness fell on the Lewis Farm in Stinking Creek.

Rain continued to drizzle, but the emotions were anything but dreary for the hunting camp on Saturday night.

Hunters were gathering in, showing off their newly acquired trophies, as congratulations abound among the hunters and guides.

The Willing Sportsman Event was coming to a close for the Pine Mountain Longbeards.

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Ronnie Gullion, a retired Sgt. 1st Class, came to the Willing Sportsman Event in hopes of seeing his fellow Wounded Warriors take a bird on the Lewis and Cunningham farms.

However, little did he know, he would be walking away with a bird himself.

For some, it’s killing a Rocky Mountain elk.

Others, it’s getting a Grand Slam turkey hunt all in the same year, while others go for the Big 5 in Africa.

However, on Saturday, as the rain pitter-pattered off the roof of the hunting blind, I realized it was a hunt of a lifetime.

Sitting in the blind with Kevin Honaker, I was able to experience the hunt with the United States Marine.

As rain spilled into the blind and silence fell over the field, Honaker began to tell his story.