June 14, 2009
In terms of human years, Fluffy the Miracle Cat is well older than 100. This beloved cat, which seems to have more than nine lives, belongs to Terry Seaks, professor of economics emeritus at UNCG, and his wife, Jane, a retired teacher at Aycock Junior Hig...
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Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School Mackenzie Michael Adams, Justin Michael Agud, Alexandra Helana Andorfer, Kimberly Rose Anile, Daisy Macias Arellano, David Matthew Armstrong, William Anthony Barker, Natalie Nicole Beck, Andrew Charlton Black, Emma L...
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A Northwest High School graduate’s quest to stop her peers from smoking in the school’s bathrooms may earn her Girl Scout Gold Award. Rachel Harless , 17, said her school has had a problem with smoking in the bathrooms and she wanted it to end...
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FundRAISERSOngoing The Sanctuary, a place for all people to explore spirituality through a variety of creative endeavors, needs monetary contributions to further scholarships for art classes, book groups and meetings addressing recovery issues. 621-1514 o...
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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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Ray JoyeReading Connections What he does: In March of 2008, when Ray Joye retired from his career as a pharmacist, he wanted to find some way to help someone. He found Reading Connections Adult Literacy Program, which provides free and confidential...
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June 10, 2009
Millis Road Elementary second-grader Lauren Easter has won the National Award of Excellence in the Primary Division PTA Reflections competition. Lauren was recognized Tuesday night by the Guilford County Board of Education. As Lauren moved through each le...
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Summerfield taxpayers will get a break next fiscal year. At Tuesday’s meeting, the town council voted 3-2 to suspend its property tax. A half-cent decrease in the tax rate -- from 3.5 cents to 3 cents per $100 of assessed value -- had been prop...
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June 7, 2009
Following a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Summerfield Town Council will vote on the 2009-10 fiscal year budget. The proposed $2.7 million budget includes a tax-rate reduction — from 3.5 cents to 3 cents per $100 of assessed value &mdash......
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Frequent childhood ear infections and hearing loss might be a detriment to some children’s ability to sing and perform, but not for Savannah Thomas . The determined and talented Alamance Elementary fourth-grader is the featured soloist on this yea...
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Council members in 'The Twilight Zone’I strongly recommend that everyone come to Becky Strickland and Alicia Flowers’ very own live version of “The Twilight Zone” — the place where rationality and logic go to die — at t...
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Honor. Courage. Commitment. These are the hallmarks of our outstanding Triad ROTC cadets. Our future military is in the hands of many of these very capable young men and women. Since about 1982, several local Daughters of the American Revolution chapters...
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The Battle of the Books team from Our Lady of Grace School doesn’t just read about history — it makes history. The team became the first school ever to win a second consecutive N.C. championship May 8. “It was an exciting day for the chi...
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D-Day on June 6, 1944, was such a hinge-of-history event that I was interested in seeing where Greensboro men and women in uniform were. So in one of my columns, I asked: “Where were you and what were you doing on D-Day?” The number of replie...
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FundRAISERSOngoing The Sanctuary, a place for all people to explore spirituality through a variety of creative endeavors, needs monetary contributions to further scholarships for art classes, book groups and meetings addressing recovery issues. 621-1514 o...
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Nearly 75 Stokesdale Elementary School students and family members gathered at Countryside Manor Nursing Home on May 18 with ambitious goals for giving the grounds a facelift. Families spent the afternoon working side by side to clean and beautify two mai...
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Aaron OlsonHemphill Library What he does: Aaron Olson is a volunteer who has been working an average of two hours per week since August 2007 at the Hemphill Branch of the Greensboro Public Library. He is a reliable teen who assists with dozen...
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May 1, 2009: Juan J. Velasquez Salazar from Jesus Noemy Rodriguez Cano May 4, 2009: Todd McManus from Juhota McManus, Bachir Laoual Bachir from Laportia Davis, Edward White from Kimberly White, Saihou Faye from Oley Njie, Issa Boubacar from Salyna Richmon...
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June 3, 2009
A company has begun providing in-home hospice care to residents in six counties in central North Carolina. Tender Loving Care Hospice will serve patients in Alamance, Guilford, Caswell, Orange, Person and Rockingham counties. Amedisys is the parent compan...
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May 31, 2009
Go barefoot at church? Several churches are encouraging their parishioners to do just that next Sunday . Well, at least leave barefoot. The churches are working together to buy new shoes or collect “gently worn” shoes for victims of natural di...
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A Greensboro dentist who usually makes his patients smile has had the favor returned. Dr. Reid Clark won this year’s “I Love My Dentist” contest after Clemmons resident Cindy Ludwig wrote a letter to the Successful Smiles Blog about wh...
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FundRAISERS Ongoing The Sanctuary, a place for all people to explore spirituality through a variety of creative endeavors, needs monetary contributions to further scholarships for art classes, book groups and meetings addressing recovery issues. 621-1514...
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The Carolina Kennel Club delivered some helpful equipment recently to aid in pets’ recovery from the effects of smoke and fire. The CKC donated 29 pet recovery oxygen mask kits to Guilford County and city of Greensboro fire departments on May 22. &l...
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A Sunday afternoon in early March found me enjoying the warm sun on my deck and an intriguing book “Hemingway in Cuba.” It had recently arrived in the mail as a token of thanks for speaking to the Kernersville Friends of the Library. I had men...
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May 24, 2009
Members of the Northwest Guilford Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7999 will break ground on a veterans memorial at 10 a.m. Monday in the Summerfield Community Park. “It’s a shame that Summerfield hasn’t done this before,” post...
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