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26695
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A Farmville couple, Connie Castillo and Emil Winkler, seeks to continue their winning luck at canning fruits and vegetables for the upcoming fair season. At the 2015 N.C. State Fair the couple won a total of 21 ribbons.
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Greenville: Life in the East (NoCar F264 G8 G743), Vol. Issue , Fall 2016, p10, 12-14, il, por
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20984
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Jack Cobb began selling barbecue out of his car in Farmville in Pitt County because he knew that in the 1940s, a black-owned business would have a hard time becoming successful. So, he and his son Rudy filled his car with barbecue plates and drove all over town selling them for 65 cents. In 1971, Cobb and his son built a cinder-block storefront in Farmville, but because of racial turmoil during the 1960s, it did not have a dining room. Still, people came to buy. Jack Cobb died in 1989, and Rudy, now 72, continues his father's traditional pit-cooked barbecue over charcoal, oak, and pecan wood.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 6, Nov 2013, p61-62, 64, il Periodical Website
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21237
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Angela Alvarez Garris founded Garris Grading and Paving, Inc., headquartered in Farmville in 2006. The company is a runner-up in the BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine 2013 Small Business of the Year competition. The company employs 16 and projects revenues of $4.4 million in 2013.