by Brian Pate | Jan 31, 2024
Remembering Herb Pate On January 31, 1990, we lost my cousin Herb Pate in a plane crash in Coral County, Oklahoma. That crash also claimed the lives of the two children of Bill and Suzie Brewster, 16-year-old daughter Kecia, and 13-year-old Kent. The accident happened...
by Brian Pate | Jun 25, 2023
On this, our first wedding anniversary, I thought I would do something here and print something nobody has ever seen before. As Kirke and I were preparing to be married, our minister, Donald Warren, asked both of us to write a letter to him on why we wanted to be...
by Brian Pate | May 29, 2023
This past week, Kirke and I fed our baseball passions with tickets to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) baseball tournament. We are huge baseball fans and season ticket holders to the University of North Carolina (UNC) baseball team. Our love for baseball also...
by Brian Pate | May 29, 2023
Memorial Day is here with its cookouts, pool parties and furniture sales. Have you noticed all of the businesses taking advantage of a holiday to make a buck? Is it wrong for them to do so? How do you feel about businesses that attempt to profit off of such a holiday?...
by Brian Pate | Apr 3, 2023
Yesterday, April 2, 2023, I learned of the passing of a good friend of mine whom I had known for over 34 years. I first met Wesley “Wes” May as a young shag dancer at Fat Harold’s and The Pad in North Myrtle Beach in the mid 1980s. Phillip Tilghman and I used to...
