Corner Grocery opening part of pastor’s vision

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December 19, 2016

Lorene Gardner prepares the homemade dessert display on the counter of the New Beginning Corner Grocery Store at 219 N. Monroe St. during the grand opening of the store Saturday. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

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New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church and the Rev. Solomon Loud jr. are making a difference in their North Monroe Street neighborhood.

Flossie Loud stands in the New Beginning Corner Grocery Store just before the store’s grand opening Saturday. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

A crowd of well-wishers, along with Albany City Commissioner B.J. Fletcher, right, joins pastor Solomon Loud Jr. for the grand opening of the New Beginning Corner Grocery Store Saturday. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Albany City Commissioner B.J. Fletcher, right, helps pastor Solomon Loud Jr. hand out free peanut snacks he prepared for those gathered for the opening of the New Beginning Corner Grocery Store Saturday. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Pastor Solomon Loud Jr. and his wife Flossie share a hug before the grand opening of the New Beginning Corner Grocery Store in Albany. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Flossie and Solomon Loud Jr. stand in front of a concessions trailer that will be part of New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church’s neighborhood renovation program on the 200 block of North Monroe Street in Albany. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

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Carlton Fletcher

Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

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Corner Grocery opening part of pastor’s vision

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