June 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — Erika Villarreal walked South Elm for three days, carrying a big red sack as a blister began to build on her right foot.She toted 100 hand-made fabric bundles smaller than a bag lunch. She made them herself and handed them out randomly...
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June 14, 2009
The Hispanic Center in High Point, is offering at-risk elementary and middle school students GREAT alternatives to gang activities. The center will offer Gang Resistance Education and Training, a 12-week gang prevention program for parents and children.
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June 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — Pam Allen, a fixture in education and arts circles known as someone with passion for making sure all children had an opportunity, died Tuesday. She was 68.Allen served on the school board from 1992 to 2002, a period that included the 19...
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June 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — ChaQuanda Graham felt her heart drop. She saw all those people inside Greensboro’s Special Events Center last weekend, and she felt nervousness rise in her throat. “Don’t cry; don’t cry,’’ she told he...
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June 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — With each stride, Thad McLaurin empties his thoughts onto the trail. His mind drifts — to the kids, the training, and sometimes, to a clear and thoughtless nowhere. Every so often, the sound of his footsteps brings McLaurin his be...
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June 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — They’re both the youngest sons of North Carolina farmers, the journalist and the crafty oil tycoon. The oilman is Walter Davis. Don’t confuse him with the hoops star once known as “Sweet D.’’ No, this Walte...
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June 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — There was a time when Marty Goldstein had blond curly hair, felt as hefty as a linebacker and wanted so badly to play first base for the New York Yankees. He’s from the Bronx. He lived above a Chinese restaurant, used cars and sew...
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May 29, 2009
My husband and I were preparing to move my 90-year-old mother and sister-in-law to Greensboro from Reidsville after my father-in-law’s passing so that they could live closer to us. We found a condo, but it needed quite a bit of work before we could...
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May 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — Isaiah Enoch has to get around his small apartment in a wheelchair. But he doesn’t let that stop his busy mind. He collects boxes that once held cereal, detergent and diapers. He cuts them, glues them and decorates them for what h...
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May 24, 2009
GREENSBORO -- It's hard to keep people out of the kitchen when it smells like pecan pie bars and mixed berry squares. Breakfast and lunch are served during the week at the Sanctuary House. But today, there's a bakery order. That means the mixer churns but...
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May 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — Luther Clegg spent most of his life selling everything from brushes and light bulbs to polishes and cleaners out of the Fuller Brush bag he lugged from house to house across the city. He’d stop by for a sale and most nights, stay...
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May 15, 2009
GREENSBORO — Maybe it’s the grape soda. John Hart used to suck down the artificial purple juice he bought from the canteen below his Greensboro office because he wanted that sugar rush to find the tough-boy voice of Johnny Merrimon. He needed...
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April 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Kim Yarborough received a little bundle of baby clothes after giving birth at Women’s Hospital, she didn’t forget it. Now, she’s gathering contributions to fill bundles for other mothers who need a little help. &l...
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April 21, 2009
PattiHanna. Say it quick. They did for years on the third floor of the Guilford County Courthouse. The folks with Guilford County’s Guardian ad Litem program would superglue the first and last name together and yell it from one end of the hall to th...
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April 18, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Life is like a garden. That's the way Sally Pagliai sees it, anyway. And she should know. Pagliai, (pronounced pal-e-eye), an architectectural designer, designs commercial and residential gardens. She sees her projects grow from saplings t...
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April 12, 2009
GREENSBORO — Bhola Timsina's family left their native Bhutan 17 years ago with few possessions and an uncertain future. They had no idea where, or how they might live. They only knew they were headed to India. The sun shone brightly on that May day......
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April 10, 2009
It was a couple of days after Christmas when my husband and I went to Four Seasons Town Centre to return a gift. Mission completed, we started upstairs on the escalator for lunch. As I stepped on the escalator, I fell hard, raising a big knot on my forehe...
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April 9, 2009
Artist Steven Bennett’s towering bronze and marble statues catch the eye of drivers who pass his Metropolitan Galleries along Business 85.Now, one has caught the eye of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.While on a fundraising trip, the governor...
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April 5, 2009
Sixteen young women are headed to Romania this summer. Each realizes the significance of such a trip, and they expect to return changed in some way. For Ashlie Green Bucy, the woman leading the 12-day adventure, it has already been a life-changing experie...
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April 3, 2009
Life can change in an instant. Just ask Johnny Walker. When he reports to his new job for the first time today, he’ll drop off the list of 42,000 unemployed workers in the Greensboro-High Point area. RF Micro Devices laid him off in January. In an i...
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GREENSBORO — A degenerative disease may have stolen Harold Johnson’s voice, but not his joy of life. Johnson learned he had ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in November 2007. Since then, he’s gone skydiving and driven a race car at 18...
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April 1, 2009
Judo is all about feel, Tony Johnson will tell you.The sport, whose name means “gentle way” in Japanese, is not the martial art you’ve seen in the movies, where the greased-up hero mows down a circle of henchmen with a flurry of rock &rs...
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March 31, 2009
To Mark Hoffmann, the highly visible if little understood “man on the bench” at Friendly Center, maybe Greensboro is home after all. He reappeared early Sunday morning, to the astonishment of a volunteer setting up at Centenary United Methodis...
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March 29, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Frank Bailey never let his heart attack keep him down. In fact, the incident inspired him to begin a comprehensive workout plan -- a plan from which he hasn't strayed for 17 years. But during his recovery at Moses Cone Hospital, something ha...
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March 26, 2009
GREENSBORO - For 69 years, Wednesdays were bridge club days at the YWCA. No doctors appointments. No husbands. No exceptions. The Y Matrons Bridge Club started with 79 charter members in 1940. Over the years, those numbers dwindled because of death, illne...
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