November 8, 2009
Despite the agony, inconvenience, frustration and unmitigated pain of having her pelvis broken in three places, Peggy Haymes started out writing a book of pseudo humor about being run over by an automobile while riding her bicycle.
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October 20, 2009
Moravia Moravian Church members have been arriving bright and early at the church one day a month for 15 years. Well, at least early. The day gets brighter after they spend several hours finishing their task — making chicken pies. Normally, the grou...
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September 27, 2009
September 2009 marks an important time in my life. No, it’s not my birth month, which was in January so long ago that I don’t remember. I’ve been told that event was on a snowy day in a little house on a North Carolina mountainside. A mi...
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September 14, 2009
Neal Stockton had a zeal for work even before he set his teenaged sights on owning a new car. “My father said if I got a car, that I’d have to make the money to buy it,” he said. He was doing chores with town work crews long before he f...
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Somewhere in Montana or Wyoming today a tall, square-shouldered man who might have well fit in with the legendary lawmen of the West will be spending another day taking in spectacular sights. Kernersville’s Neal Stockton has retired his pistol and...
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August 30, 2009
Judge W. Allen Schmitt is a commanding figure who doesn’t need a gavel to summon attention. His gentlemanly demeanor, precise speech and enthusiasm for the law make him a model for his profession. Even at age 100. Schmitt, who was an attorney and a...
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August 19, 2009
Brady Mullinax, 88, the bee king of North Carolina, died today at the VA Medical Center in Salisbury where he had been a patient for several weeks. Mullinax became a legend in his own time by getting the N.C. General Assembly...
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August 16, 2009
Don’t be misled by 9-year-old Ryan Jakubsen’s quiet moments. He’s a writer who is thinking ahead. What adventures remain for the heroes of the two books that he has written? Where will his imagination take brothers Axel, Exile, Alex and...
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July 5, 2009
J. Hyde Savage, one of the tough guys on the Oak Ridge Institute football team during the 1925-26 season, wanted his only child to attend the school — an idea that at first didn’t appeal to his son. “My father had such good memories of h...
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June 14, 2009
Samuel Lankford’s eventual goal is to attend MIT and become a designer of “military technology-type things.” Too bad. He could have had a shot at being the nation’s top salesman. Bright and articulate, Samuel, 14, is a natural at s...
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May 10, 2009
Hollywood missed Charlie Gregory’s story! Never mind. His rise from a brawling, disrespectful boy who grew up in one of High Point’s roughest neighborhoods in the 1940s and ’50s to a superior athlete and a championship coach is known by...
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April 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — Wade Jenkins can remember the frenzy created by the Cone Mills Quartet on national TV nearly 58 years ago. Greensboro was aglow with aspirations for these hometown boys who survived two auditions and gained an appearance on “The T...
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April 12, 2009
Shades of the Wild West can be found in the book “Wicked Kernersville,” which became available in bookstores and online this week. And a lot of hot words may be flying at Kernersville researchers Michael L. Marshall and Jerry L. Taylor. ......
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March 29, 2009
HIGH POINT — Latinos, Asians, white and black students, with a diversity of beliefs have come together to fight discrimination and hate during the past four years. The High Point Student Human Relations Commission — made up of students from n...
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February 22, 2009
Innocent children and spouses also pay a price for the crimes of their loved ones, and 10 community service agencies in High Point want to eradicate that unfair penalty. It won't happen overnight, according to Chaplain Joyce Setchfield of High Point Jail...
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January 11, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Marshall Johnson wasn't surprised when his wife, Beverly, showed up at the Harry B. Caldwell Service Class at First Baptist Church. She knew where to find him early on Sunday. Johnson, who joined the church nearly 59 years ago, has been a fi...
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January 4, 2009
HIGH POINT -- Somebody else will have to do chores for the elderly in the West End section of High Point. The Rev. Jim Summey said he no longer will have time to fix commodes, paint, mow yards and do other chores. He took a new job Friday, becoming the fi...
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Serenity Klumb of Archdale, a math whiz at GTCC, is on the road to realizing her ambition of being a math teacher, despite some bumps along the way. Klumb, 25, a single mom, full-time student and tutor for fellow students, has been awarded a GlaxoSmithKli...
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December 28, 2008
Sitting crouched in a small chair in the corner of the West End Ministries office hastily writing checks, Judy Mendenhall is asked what she is doing. "I'm writing emergency checks (for the needy)," she said, without ceasing writing. "They need these right...
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December 21, 2008
The Coat had hung in the closet for at least 30 years, except for the frequent times when it was picked up, admired and hung back. Made of black, soft leather, the three-quarter-length coat was a beauty. The wide lapels and leather buttons added to its un...
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November 30, 2008
GREENSBORO — The two men greet each other in a foreign dialect at an old house in one of Greensboro’s aging neighborhoods and make their way up the winding stairs to the attic. Soon, they are busy writing on laptops, and chatting in one of the more th...
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November 16, 2008
A dozen women -- all well-educated and thinkers -- meet each month in either Greensboro, Oak Ridge or Jamestown to tell each other exactly what they think. The more differences of opinion, the better the meetings, said Donna Dinkin of Greensboro, a public...
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November 9, 2008
HIGH POINT -- People in the Sunday school weren't surprised when Benny Link rose to speak. Link likes to talk; he's a car salesman. He wanted to announce his eighth anniversary. It was Oct. 26, the day eight years earlier when Link had a double lung trans...
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November 2, 2008
KERNERSVILLE -- Grayson Sherrell was a happy child, bright, playful and fun-loving. It wasn't until his second birthday that Roger and Donna Sherrell noticed that their beautiful boy was losing that brightness. "Grayson's exceptional vocabulary as a littl...
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October 26, 2008
HIGH POINT -- Phyllis Parker of High Point and Rick Webb of Cherryville had one thing in common when they met in Nashville more than 30 years ago -- singing Christian music. Both were members of the internationally acclaimed 10-member vocal group ReGener...
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