Novelist Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, “You can’t go home again.” I think that he would be glad to see that Euel Akins has joyously done just that, in a very unique way.
I visited Mr. Akins at his home in the Pine Gardens neighborhood. It’s a home that he has bought twice, 75 years apart, first in 1945 when he was 25, then again in 2020 when he turned 100.
Here’s how we came to meet. I was invited to attend a ceremony Feb. 1 at American Legion Post 184. The Veterans Council of Chatham County was hosting Euel’s induction into the inaugural 10th Mountain Division Warrior Legends Hall of Fame. Because of COVID-19, the official induction ceremony was not able to be held last year at Ft. Drum in New York.
Mayor lays ‘first brick’ at major Melton retirement housing scheme
The Mayor of Melton donned a hard hat to lay the first official brick at a major new Melton housing development for retired people.
Friday, 18th December 2020, 10:03 am
Mayor of Melton, Malise Graham, with McCarthy and Stone’s area sales manager, Andrea Shaw and Paul Bardon, senior site manager, as he lays the first brick in a major new retirement housing scheme off Scalford Road EMN-201218-094029001
Councillor Malise Graham did the honours at Catherine Place and Pine Gardens, on Scalford Road, which is on the site of the former Catherine Dalley Nursing Home.