November 30, 2008
Editor's note: "Winter People" is an annual series by columnist Lorraine Ahearn that appears Sundays between Thanksgiving and the end of the year. There is a move in chess that is game-changing, if not game-ending. A lone pawn, an expendable foot soldi...
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Dan Marshall wouldn't have been standing in the Colfax Post Office on Monday morning if it weren't for postman Charles "Tony" Hood of Kernersville. A few months ago, Hood found Marshall in a ditch near his home and took him for help. "I appreciate what he...
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With feather boas, shades, tiaras and wings, you can be a diva or princess at My Party Palace, 209-G Century Blvd., Kernersville. Parties at the palace can include pedicures, karaoke stage performances, princess visits, makeovers and tea - whatever a youn...
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The 10th annual celebration of the Women Veterans Historical Project was recently held in the Cone Ballroom, Elliott University Center of UNCG, for 100 female veterans who came from across the state for this yearly event. This special luncheon is free for...
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In the previous column, I wrote about First Lutheran Church in Greensboro and how the Rev. Samuel L. Sox and his congregation supported the World War II war effort. Here is a closer look at some of the World War II veterans who joined the church after the...
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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 29, 2008
Charlie Belton thought he had finally “hit one.” The 69-year-old retired carpenter, who likes to enter sweepstakes, got a letter last month from a Canadian company saying he had won $125,000. The company even sent him a check drawn on a local bank...
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November 28, 2008
GREENSBORO - As an Ethiopian Orthodox, Yohannes A. Kabtiyimer should have spent Thursday fasting with his family. Instead, they celebrated their first traditional Thanksgiving meal of turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce with friends from We...
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Renee Negin and her future husband, Max, were unloading sea shells at dusk 10 years ago on the beach of Ocean City, N.J., when she felt a plastic bag buried in the sack. The shells belonged to Max’s mother, and the couple was returning the shells to th...
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November 27, 2008
PLEASANT GARDEN - Sometimes, David Goltare is hard to understand. He lost his voice box to cancer in 1989. So, when he puts his fingers over the small hole in his throat, he speaks in a voice that sounds like snow tires against gravel. But really, you do...
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GREENSBORO - The 11-year-old boy was quiet when he arrived at his new foster home. He had bounced around foster care before, but maybe this time would be different. That was a few months ago. Now, he is more at ease in his surroundings, bonding with the o...
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November 26, 2008
Social worker Kelli Reed backed her sedan up to the bags of groceries on the lawn of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, which contained the makings for Thanksgiving Day meals for four families at the Head Start where she works. Reed had a longer list of f...
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GREENSBORO - Retailers may be offering steep discounts for Black Friday, but Kathy Clark knows she'll be able to beat their prices. Everything at the Friday event she's helping to organize will be free. Yes, really. All of it. Free. Clark is one of the or...
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When National Guard Sgt. Rob Indri soon deploys to Iraq, he can leave knowing his family will not have to struggle as much financially during his absence. His co-workers and friends at Schnabel Engineering, where he works as a civil engineer, have donated...
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During the opening assembly of a Bible study I was attending, a woman shared a Thanksgiving tradition her family participated in each year. She said that on Nov. 1 each year, she would find a branch in her yard for construction paper leaves that would be...
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November 24, 2008
Most people will remember Pryde W. "Buzzy" Basinger Jr., as a banker. He spent more than 30 years with Wachovia, most of the time in Greensboro. His life's balance, however, added up to more than banking. Some who knew him may not have realized that Basin...
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November 23, 2008
The real and tangible results of a vision live on in our community today Moving forward with each "crack of the bat" as hard work, fun and fellowship pave the way! When two students from UNC-Chapel Hill appeared in Pleasant Garden in May of 1962, a whi...
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A recent News & Record article describing Guilford County Schools' Newcomers School got Barry Smith and Jarrod Holmes thinking, "How could the Boy Scouts help these students?" The Newcomers School houses students in grade three through high school who...
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For everything, the Bible informs us, there is a season. Dr. Harold Spangler of Greensboro might be described as a man for all seasons. As a pediatrician for more than 30 years, he probably saw thousands of babies after they were born and then kept them w...
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November 19, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — A former mail carrier who admitted keeping people's junk mail in his garage or buried in his backyard has been sentenced to probation. Steven Padgett pleaded guilty in federal court on Aug. 18 to delaying the mail. He received three years...
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ASHEVILLE (AP) — Rescue crews worked in the dark to find a hunter who fell off a cliff and broke his leg in the North Carolina mountains. WLOS-TV reported that the 25-year-old hunter was taken to a hospital for treatment of the broken bone. The rescue o...
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Undercover officers use Taser on pallbearer WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) _ A North Carolina sheriff's official has apologized for plunging a funeral into chaos when undercover agents tried to arrest the dead man's son - and used a Taser on him in the process. T...
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RALEIGH (MCT) — Steven Padgett was the type of mailman who made sure packages got left on dry porches. He handed out treats to dogs he encountered on his Apex route, and children knew him as "Mailman Steve." He once leapt out of his mail truck to shoo a...
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Rankin Baptist Church in Greensboro is home to not one, but three, congregations. The three -- Rankin, First Montagnard Baptist Church and Iglesia Del Dios Vivo De Greensboro -- hold their own separate services, but they join together to hold combined cel...
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November 18, 2008
GREENSBORO — The 100,000th baby was born at The Women's Hospital of Greensboro today. The milestone child is Jaylen Nashawn Woodard, who was born at 7:29 a.m. Tuesday and weighed in at 8 pounds, 15 ounces. He is the son of Tasha Woodard of Greensboro.
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