January 11, 2009
Should you want to know how to tell the difference between male and female ostriches, all you have to do is ask Barbara Cummings, an education volunteer at Asheboro's North Carolina Zoo. Cummings, a zoo docent for 25 years, was honored in 1997 as volun...
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January 7, 2009
Correction: John York, English teacher at Penn-Griffin School for the Arts, recently won the Poet Laureate Award. His status was listed incorrectly in the Dec. 28 Guilford Record. Kathryn Stripling Byer , the North Carolina Poet Laureate, selected York as...
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Like father, like son, like grandson. In the Blackwell family, three generations of men build and fly model airplanes as a hobby. The patriarch of the clan, Cledith Blackwell, lives in Apex. He was always fascinated with airplanes and was a member of the...
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January 4, 2009
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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It hit me as my daughter Cydney and her BFF (best friend forever), Brianna, were singing carols to a group of residents at Clapp's Nursing Home here in Pleasant Garden. Amid the jingle bells and ho-ho-hoing, it happened. I had become middle-aged. I am 45...
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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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Women often have a tendency to take care of everyone -- but themselves. When retired educator Mary Ann Yarborough discovered a lump in her breast about two and a half years ago, she ignored it. "That was a big mistake," Yarborough says. She advises other...
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Trash cans wait to be picked up the week after Christmas, strips of shiny paper and colorful bows sticking out of the tops. People breathe a sigh of relief that this busy season is over for another year. But at Janice Cooper's house, Christmas is all yea...
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January 3, 2009
Title and company: President of June DeLugas Interiors in Clemmons Years in business: 28 Design style: Casual French Elegance and Classic Traditional Fee range: $l00 an hour • Describe a major project you’ve worked on.
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January 2, 2009
Two years ago local runner Charlie Engle kicked around a silly idea with some friends after a long-distance race. One turned to the other and asked: "I wonder if anyone has run across the Sahara?" What began as a lark became a grueling 4,300 mile run over...
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December 31, 2008
When the Rev. Richard W. McBride became chaplain at Elon University, he had the chance to decide what his role would be on campus. "That's been part of the fun of it," he said. There's no hard definition of a what a chaplain can be. He'll retire in May af...
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December 28, 2008
If you think romance and love are only for the young, you should meet 90-year-old Anne Dodd of Greensboro, who will tell you differently. She will be marrying a 91-year-old active Methodist minister, the Rev. John J. Powell, whom she has known for many y...
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Terry Garrison Lashley and Jerry Smyre took different paths after graduating from Greensboro Senior High School, now Grimsley High. Smyre, a 1951 graduate, became head of a performing arts school and a professional singer. Lashley, a 1955 graduate, didn't...
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If Gregory Williams could go back in time, he says he wouldn't change a thing about his life, even his time spent in prison for selling marijuana. "That time in prison opened my eyes quite a bit," Williams said. While serving his sentence, he met men who...
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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 25, 2008
Today, on Christmas, I've got John Lennon on the brain. We're at war, we're bailing out everybody in a fancy suit and we're seeing in excruciating detail how one smooth-talking trickster on Wall Street has crippled everybody he caught in his cross-hairs.
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December 24, 2008
The Guilford Bowhunters club recently made Christmas more joyful for the families of a dozen Sedalia Elementary students. The group bought gifts, largely clothing and grocery-store gift cards, for needy families. They also used wish lists from the familie...
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Twenty-two years ago this week, I married my best friend. The church was decorated beautifully for the Christmas season with poinsettias of white and red. Balls of holly and mistletoe hung from the ceiling at the reception. Traditional vows were spoken t...
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December 22, 2008
JAMESTOWN - The gifts have been given, the party thrown. For the 14th year in a row, Christmas will be a little bit better for Edna's Kids. Maybe now Ednalyn Hurley will get a breather. Maybe she'll take some holiday time for just herself. Maybe. But do...
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December 21, 2008
High Point Central senior Eric Leigh, 18, knew he didn't want to construct a bench for his Eagle Scout project. Troop 55 has produced enough benches, he thought. The troop's scoutmaster suggested creating artificial fish habitats. As someone interested in...
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During his senior year at Oak Ridge Institute, T.E. Whitaker was asked to teach at Ridgefield School in 1885. He needed the extra money and the school term only lasted three months -- four weeks before Christmas and eight weeks after Christmas. For a youn...
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Lisa Duke of Coldwell Banker Triad Realtors in High Point this month earned the EcoBroker Certified designation after completing a training program on the energy and environmental issues that affect real estate transactions. The discipline emphasizes ener...
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December 17, 2008
Motivated by the hard times he experienced during the Great Depression, Jim Gordon has volunteered for more than 20 years to fill Christmas wishes for children in need through the Toys for Tots program. At 90, Gordon is the oldest volunteer of Alamance Co...
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WHITSETT — At Bobby Lee Taylor's funeral Thursday, the family tried to find words to describe the store owner and retired firefighter, to say how much he'd be missed. But the community had already showed that better than it could be said. The night...
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December 16, 2008
GREENSBORO - Adrienne Cregar Jandler calls herself a "huge nerd.'' When she was 27, she started her own Web development company in her house. She had three clients. Twelve years later, two months shy of 40, she has six employees, hundreds of clients and a...
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