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Taste of Home

Honeysuckle Biscuits & Bakery
Cassidy Lumpkin, Reporter
October 10, 2024
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Small businesses serve as vital community pillars, drawing towns together and creating niche, warm atmospheres that cannot be replicated in corporate environments. The second episode of “Taste of Home” explores the uniqueness of small businesses and their importance to local climates, featuring Honeysuckle Biscuits and Bakery. From donating to in-town facilities to creating a family-friendly environment, the importance of locally-owned trades presents itself through interviews with both the owner and a customer of Honeysuckle, as well as statistics from an NC poll.

 
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Cassidy Lumpkin
Cassidy Lumpkin, Reporter
A fresh recruit on The Chant, junior and journalist Cassidy Lumpkin enthusiastically looks forward to participating in informing her community of real-world ideas and issues while advocating for her voice and others. Her writing journey started early— as a kid she proudly earned the “Most Likely to Become An Author” superlative in fifth grade. Since then, Lumpkin’s writing has expanded to worlds such as fantasy, poetry, research, speeches, and Bible devotionals. Outside of her studies, Lumpkin involves herself in NC Cross Country, Greenhouse Gang, Relay for Life, Beta Club, and her church’s Youth Family, design team, and daycare. An indecisive individual, Lumpkin’s pastimes vary between reading, watching cheesy rom coms, art (especially ceramics at NC), embroidering, listening to music, thrifting, and scrolling to the end of Pinterest. Lumpkin strongly values authenticity, human rights, love, and being unapologetically herself. With a lot to learn, this new journalist welcomes the opportunity to be on NC’s newspaper and further her writing career with the help of The Chant family. Find her on Instagram @cassidys_journal.