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Jeri Rowe: Guilford leader of tobacco prevention programs may lose job

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Wed, 23 May 2012 05:21:33 -0400

State legislators are considering using the money earmarked for tobacco prevention programs to help balance the budget.

Now, it would be one thing if the money was taxpayer money. It’s not. It’s tobacco money.

Jeri Rowe: Dream still inspires Miss Jo

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:55:39 -0400

HIGH POINT — The line outside the High Point Seventh-day Adventist Church forms early. This day is no different.

Fifteen minutes before the door opens, the line snakes down the sidewalk, past the bank of Bradford pear trees toward a parking lot full of cars. There, a woman nicknamed Miss Jo sits in her van, her oxygen tank by her side.

Derelict? Y'all just don't know Greensboro

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:44:55 -0400

Andrea Peyser. May I call you Andrea?

You’ve pretty much ticked off everybody I know in Greensboro with your Thursday column in the New York Post. I get it. You hate John Edwards. But then you hit us. With this:

Jeri Rowe: Another ride for Sweet Daddy and the Siler City Kid

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:32:44 -0400

GREENSBORO — Saturday is for Sweet Daddy and the Siler City Kid.

At Festival Park in downtown Greensboro, blues lovers will talk about the stylish man in the sharp duds who, according to a good friend, had a sound as sweet as sugar, as smooth as Skippy peanut butter.

That man was Ray Burnett, Sweet Daddy.

Jeri Rowe: Mural celebrates Peck’s diversity, caring teachers

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:49:38 -0400

GREENSBORO — It’s beautiful, Peck Elementary’s new mural.

It’s at least 12 feet high, a dozen steps across and features all kinds of things that Peck kids recognize — a cardinal, an arrowhead, a pagoda, an African savanna, the Statue of Liberty and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Whole Foods opens in Greensboro

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:49:20 -0400

GREENSBORO – It’s not very often a drum line leads customers into a grocery store or people pose for pictures by the pears.

But this is not your typical grocery store, customers say. This is Whole Foods Market.

Jeri Rowe column: Globetrotters' 'Curly' Neal still draws a crowd

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:03:30 -0400

GREENSBORO — His friends call him Freddie. We know him by another name.

Curly.

He walked into the Greensboro Coliseum a few days back and looked like he hadn’t aged a day since the first time he played in his hometown arena five decades ago.

Jeri Rowe column: 'T.M.' cut in hair says stand up, speak out

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:39:21 -0400

GREENSBORO — Shaved into the back of his head, Josephus Thompson III makes a statement with two initials: TM.

He teaches about mood and metaphor at 15 local schools and creates events, holds workshops and produces his own weekly radio show on WNAA (90.1 FM) because of his passion for poetry and spoken word.

But T.M.?

Lost. And found.

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:37:32 -0500

His name is Toady , not Toddy. And he has a new home.

He has a room with a single bed, a lamp, red curtains and a bathroom outside the door. He has new jeans, new running shoes and a new jacket, as well as a new pair of blue bedroom slippers that keep his feet warm.

And he has family. And they have him.

In snow globe, he sees Christmas year-round

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:32:34 -0500

GREENSBORO — His name is Toddy, and he keeps a Santa globe in his tent.

As many of us celebrate Christmas, Toddy is probably huddled up in his tent, looking at his Santa globe and thinking about where he’s going this afternoon.

Jeri Rowe: Memories of Sandy Bradshaw live in abundance

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400

Turn the corner too quick, and you’ll miss the flight handbook behind the glass.

It’s 2,000 pages or so of print and diagrams, with only small notations of dates and two initials, written in cursive, near the front. The last notation: 9-01-01 . The two initials: SB.

Olympic trials coming to town

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:43:33 -0400

GREENSBORO — Before opening today to the tax-paying public, the Greensboro Aquatic Center already has landed 34 events.

$200 million expansion reinvigorates hospital

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:00:00 -0400

Everything looks small from the roof of Moses Cone Hospital.

The backhoes look like Tonka toys. The people seem as tall as ballpoint pens. Acres of red dirt resemble a kid’s backyard beaten down by too much activity.

Then you see the crane, all 180 feet of it. It looms above everything — including Landon Wyatt .

The Bubbas cavort

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:00:00 -0400

GREENSBORO — I saw my South Sunday.

I saw 11 men with bay-window bellies, surrounded by a posse of fans waving flags, holding signs and calling themselves everything from The Belews Creek Militia to Mr. C’s Tie-Dyed Nation.

Jeri Rowe: Before I die, here’s what needs doing

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:06:02 -0400

When I told my wife, she laughed.

The folks on the News & Record’s first floor — the ones who promote and steer the paper toward your front stoop — had asked me if I’d be interested in writing down what I’d like to do before I die.

A family's grief

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Fri, 06 May 2011 10:03:58 -0400

GREENSBORO — There are no easy answers why Brooks Ferrell drove his car into Country Park Lake and drowned.

His parents would love to know why. His sister would, too. All they know is that they’ll gather Saturday afternoon at First Lutheran Church, their church, to say goodbye.

She’s learning how to live

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:42:21 -0400

Brigitte Gann wore her angel necklace Monday.

Her son, Jason, gave it to her at Christmas a few years ago. On Monday, though, she felt she needed it. She sat in a hospital waiting room, surrounded by family, waiting for her husband, Jay, to emerge from surgery.

Help and hope: A better fate for black men

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:00:00 -0400

GREENSBORO — Meet Jaquan Edwards and Tyrick Jackson. They’re both 15, both freshmen at Dudley High.

Jaquan wants to be a lawyer or a basketball player. Tyrick wants to be a veterinarian or a computer technician. But they wonder if they’ll make it.

Here’s how they see it:

A new legacy for the man who loved music and life

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:00:00 -0500

SUMMERFIELD — Ann Sherman still wears her wedding ring.

She says she’ll take it off when it feels “right.” But right now, it’s not. She loves her husband and misses him for all the things they shared, like Tennessee football, the Greensboro Symphony and their two girls, Beth and Becky.

Fire death at 'The Castle' unsolved after two years

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:00:00 -0400

GREENSBORO — It has been two years, and we still don’t know who killed Hobo Billy and left his longtime friend, Deborah Moy, for dead.

We wish it would be like TV — crime done, case solved, all within an hour.

Son reluctantly auctions items from The Old Rebel's collection

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:00:00 -0400

GREENSBORO — Timm Perry admits it’s hard.

He’ll auction off some of his dad Sunday afternoon. He’ll sell at least 30 items — from his dad’s paintings and top hats to his 78 rpm single that outsold Elvis Presley in Greensboro.

'True Blood' comes to Greensboro

"Jeri Rowe ()", "Melissa Umbarger ()" — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:00:00 -0400

GREENSBORO — Vampires — and all lovers of vampires — descended Sunday on the Carolina Theatre.

They came at least 1,100 strong — in black and red, in fangs, cradling fake hearts and toting signs that read, “Once You’re Bit You Never Quit.’’

Finding, going home: Two celebrations

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:00:00 -0400

GREENSBORO — Summer. A time of celebration. Here are two.

One happened Monday night in a grove of trees behind a church off West Market. You’d probably recognize the guest of honor: Kent Bates, 44, a married father of three and a former face of WFMY.

Greensboro Senior High alums revive classic sauce

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:00:00 -0400

GREENSBORO — How we’ve missed you, Boar and Castle Sauce.

When you disappeared from local grocery shelves a few years back, we figured you’d be gone forever — just like your old restaurant at the Y-intersection of Walker and West Market.

He took care of business

"Jeri Rowe ()" — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:28:42 -0400

GREENSBORO — Terrell Collins came to Dudley High’s graduation rehearsal Wednesday in his fuzzy bedroom slippers and blue pajama bottoms.

He wasn’t nervous. He was excited — or “geeked,” as he’d tell you.