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Mount Airy was a busy place last weekend.
The annual Bunker Family reunion brought more than a hundred folks to the city, including the ambassador and other staff members from the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington. The Mayberry Cool Cars and Rods Cruise-In brought hundreds of antique and classic cars, and their fans, to Main Street. And of course, there was the usual rush of weekend tourists and visitors.
But among all that activity was another group that quietly slipped into town, shopping, hanging out, and taking part in some low-key but pure Americana activities.
It was the ninth annual Mayberry Meet-Up.
April 17, 2021
• Six guns with a total value exceeding $2,500 have been stolen from a Mount Airy man as a result of a break-in involving a safecracking, according to city police reports.
The crime occurred Wednesday at the home of Kenneth Dwight Weyrauch on Fancy Gap Road, where entry was gained through an unsecured window. A gun safe was then pried open and firearms were removed, including a black and gray Smith and Wesson .22-caliber LR pistol and a black-tan Hi-Point 9mm rifle.
Also stole was a Heritage Rough Rider .22-caliber LR revolver with wooden grips; a Dickinson Arms 12-gauge shotgun; an SKS 7.62 rifle; and a Go Ballistic-9C AR-9, a gun combining characteristics of a pistol and rifle, with all four of those firearms described as black in color. Police records indicate that $100 in damage occurred to the safe.
March 21, 2021
Nearly two dozen members of Mount Airy’s Calvary Baptist Church recently gathered for what might seem like a peculiar purpose to separate and distribute 22,000 pounds of sweet potatoes.
The work was part of an informal association the church has with the Society of St. Andrews, a Big Island, Virginia-based ministry which aims to supply food to needy families.
Rev. Alex Martin, better known as Pastor Alex to his parishioners at Calvary Baptist, said his church has been affiliated with the ministry for several years.
“The Society of St. Andrews works with farmers to glean their fields and to rescue sometimes imperfect produce that otherwise might go to waste and to try to get it into the hands of organizations that can distribute it to those in need,” he said.