PINEHURST – It wouldn’t be much of stretch to describe Raeford resident Charles Roberts as the modern-day equivalent of a Renaissance man – interested in many activities and successful at most.
Just 32 years old, this self-described workaholic likes to stay busy even when he’s away from his job as an operating room technician at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital. He moonlights in landscape work during the summer and works scores and keeps stats for a Little League basketball league with Moore County Parks and Recreation during the winter. A drummer since age 12, he now plays drums for his church, Holy Trinity in Raeford,
Roberts’ first poetry collection, called “The Element of Satisfaction,” has just been published by PublishAmerica and is now available through its online book store at publishamerica.com. It will soon be available at Barnes & Noble book stores.
“It’s just something I started doing,” says Roberts, who wrote his first poem, about his mother, when he was in elementary school. “I walk by something and get inspiration. I scramble it around in my mind and go home and play with it.”
Roberts has also written plays and rap music. His poems cover “a little bit of everything,” he says – love, pain, “about life period.”
“I must say that I have done a lot of things, been a lot of places and seen a whole lot, so much that it would almost take a lifetime to tell,” he says in the product description for his book. “I would like each and every person to read my words so that you can get a visual of what’s in my mind.”
Roberts has worked at Moore Regional for 10 years, starting out in Central Transportation and then moving to the OR, as a support tech, six years ago. His supervisor in Central Transportation was Lee Harris, whose employees are often young men who eventually move into other jobs with FirstHealth.
Harris recalls Roberts as a “low-key, quiet young man” who was very respectful and easy to get along with.
“Charles was always willing to help out and was very supportive of others,” he says. “He shared with me that his mother was instrumental in his upbringing and he had a lot of things he wanted to do with his life and had every desire to do them. Charles is a fine young man, and I feel he will be successful in whatever he may choose to do. He certainly has my confidence and support.”
Always an active person, Roberts also enjoys sports – basketball, football and occasionally softball – and the pleasure he finds in athletics has transferred into his volunteer roles with FirstHealth’s “Hoops for Kids” fundraiser for the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sandhills.
Not just satisfied to be an important member of the FirstHealth team, he is also a record-setting ticket salesman for the annual FirstHealth/physician basketball game. During his best year, he sold more than 600 tickets. His usual average is 300 or 400.
“Charles has been our top ticket-seller for the past two years in addition to playing on the health care community’s basketball team,” says Leslie Deane, administrative director of Planning and Marketing. “He’s a generous person and really cares about the kids at the Boys & Girls Club.”
Roberts has a special interest in the Boys & Girls Club, one that comes from personal experience and the desire to help children make the most of their lives.
“Their lives can be so much better,” he says. “I grew up with a single parent, and I know how hard it is to survive. It makes me feel good that I can make a difference, because every little bit helps.”
Syed Kirmani lauds Ravichandran Ashwin, calls him a great role model for youngsters- Firstcricket News, Firstpost
Kirmani hailed Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for dedicating himself in all aspects of the game and in academics too.
Chennai: Former India wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani on Sunday praised star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for his achievements and dedication to the game and said he was a role model for today's youngsters.
"I have no words to express the achievements which Ravichandran Ashwin has done. My heartiest congratulations to the would-be legend in the making," Kirmani said at a function to present the 'Icon of Chennai' award to Ashwin.
The former India 'keeper also said Ashwin is the pride of Tamil Nadu and India and was also a role model for the present day youngsters.
"Ashwin is the pride of Tamil Nadu and the country. He is a great role model to the youngsters of today, the millennials of today. He is such a gentleman cricketer, among all the other gentleman cricketers, he excels. I deem it an honour to honour Ashwin," Kirmani added.
He also hailed the Tamil Nadu cricketer for dedicating himself in all aspects of the game and in academics too.
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Yogi Adityanath directs officials to expedite Patanjali food park project after company threatened to pull out
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to expedite the process for Patanjali Ayurved to set up its Rs 6,000-crore food park, after the company said it was pulling out from the project due to non-cooperation from the state government.
Clarifying that the project has not been cancelled, a senior state government official on Wednesday said Adityanath spoke to Acharya Balkrishna, Managing Director of the Baba Ramdev-promoted firm.
"The Chief Minister has talked to Acharya Balkrishna and heard his grievances. There is no cancellation yet. They have been allotted land and the project is to be commenced. The Chief Minister has directed to expedite the process and also directed officers for the same," Principal Secretary Information, Awanish Awasthi told PTI.
On Tuesday, Balkrishna had told PTI: "We are cancelling the project as we did not get required clearances from the Uttar Pradesh state government."
The company now plans to shift the project to some other state, he had said, adding, "We did not get any cooperation from the state government for this project."
Earlier, Patanjali had said that its Yamuna Expressway-based plant would produce goods worth Rs 25,000 crore annually, if it runs to its full capacity.
It would create 10,000 direct jobs, Patanjali had said. Patanjali is presently investing in mega food park projects, including in Nagpur (Maharashtra) and Tezpur (Assam).
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1Yogi Adityanath directs officials to expedite Patanjali food park project after company threatened to pull out
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