November 9, 2008
Dads' Club of Florence Elementary isn't just an organization that volunteers or assists at school. It's a network for dads to connect and support each other. In the spring, the club hopes to go to a Grasshoppers game "so dads can get to know each other......
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November 8, 2008
GREENSBORO - With less than three weeks to go , an effort to feed Thanksgiving dinner to 4,000 of the city's homeless, homebound and elderly poor is running desperately short of cash. The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro's Thanksgiving Fund ne...
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November 6, 2008
Congrats, Barack Obama. You’ve made history. Now, the hard work starts. You’ve inherited two unpopular wars, a growing national debt and a weak economy. And you step into the White House to run a country that fights with itself over almost everything.
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November 5, 2008
It's not a new trend for companies to offer contests to promote their products. What's new is how they use consumers' easy access to the Web to make it simple for people to enter these giveaways and contests. It seems everything from Stouffer's Entrées...
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November 2, 2008
When local children go to the polls to vote in the Kids Voting program Tuesday, fourth-grader Niki Haislip will be giving them a hand. The 9-year-old Colfax Elementary student's handprint graces the T-shirts that Kids Voting volunteers are wearing. Haisli...
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We all get old; we all get sick. Lifelong factory worker Dorothy “Dot” Williams planned for that. She saved, signed a will with durable power of attorney, set up a $300,000 annuity and took out home health insurance to avoid having to go to a nursing...
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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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Recent veterans columns have told how major churches in Greensboro -- First Presbyterian Church and West Market Street Methodist Church -- supported their parishioners and their men and women in service during World War II. This column will tell about a s...
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The Children's Home Society of North Carolina, which has been serving North Carolina families for more than a century, is considered one of North Carolina's leading resources in adoption and foster care. Services include pregnancy counseling, family and t...
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What a difference a year makes. That thought resounded in my mind as I pulled into the parking lot behind Christ Community Church on English Road in High Point's West End last week. Where last year stood a vacant lot is now a pretty two-story brick house...
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The Summerfield gym is a real gem. Completed by Sept. 29, 1939, it was originally called the Summerfield recreation park. Plans included a lake, bathhouses and a community clubhouse. This was a Works Progress Administration project in Guilford County; ano...
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Act 1. Setting: The rehearsal space for the Greensboro Opera Company. A truck delivers three large trunks of costumes from a New York theatrical rental company. Enter two women. One is costume coordinator Patricia Mueller -- Pat to friends -- wearing an e...
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November 1, 2008
GREENSBORO — Prick your finger on one of Frank Holder’s flame-red shards of aluminum, and you’d draw blood. But Holder wants that. He wants you to think of fire and broken glass. He wants you to see frozen flames rising Halloween-scary from his scu...
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October 29, 2008
Veterans Day is Nov. 11. Never have so many given so much to have a holiday in this country named for them. Our active duty military are serving around the world, on land, at sea and in the air, so we can maintain our way of life. Our freedoms are not fre...
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October 27, 2008
Done at last. People taking this weekend's Greensboro Symphony Guild's Tour of Homes will understand why it took four years to restore the colonial-revival house at 314 Isabel St. in Fisher Park to its original beauty. After a 2004 fire gutted the 18-room...
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GREENSBORO - The souring economy helped pack overnight shelters this summer and fall, worrying officials that cold weather will drive more homeless to shelters unable to house them. County leaders will meet this afternoon at Urban Ministry to discuss what...
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October 26, 2008
Libby Rodenbough is proud of Guilford County high schools’ FIRST Robotics Team. Team members build robots that help younger students get excited about science at elementary schools, she said. Rodenbough is even happier because, indirectly, she has a han...
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"Be faithful, loyal, staunch and true, That is the Lions' creed. Be up and ready at all times, To do a kindly deed." -- Lions' Hymn Helen Keller challenged the Lions International, the largest service organization in the world, at their 1925 convention...
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Valda Boyd-Ford of Nebraska and Bruce E. Davis of High Point have been honored as High Point Housing Authority's 2008 Pillars of Fame recipients. Honorees must be former public-housing residents, have a high school diploma or equivalent and have served th...
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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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High Point postman David Lundy -- the National Letter Carrier Association's National Humanitarian of the Year -- said he hasn't done anything different from what other letter carriers do on a daily basis. Lundy and his wife, Carolyn, spent a year seeking...
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I am a huge fan of all things spooky. Drop me off in a creepy forest with chain saw-wielding maniacs, zombies and witches, and I'll have a blast. That's why I was excited when I got invited to get dressed up for some haunted house-hopping fun this Hallow...
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I remember a song from when I was a little girl that said, "Polly, put the kettle on and we'll all have tea." When I visited Doreen Horlick, the first thing she said was, "Let me put the pot on for tea." Horlick, originally from Britain, has lived in this...
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Presidential campaigns all hand out gewgaws and promotions meant to capture the citizens' fancy and vote. There are the old standbys -- buttons, pencils, bumper stickers, posters -- but collectors of campaign memorabilia will tell you that it goes way bey...
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October 23, 2008
GREENSBORO - In this converted classroom, where rows of church pews are pushed beside the wall, H Dang Aran writes everything down in a pink notebook. Sometimes, she scrunches her face. Other times, she repeats the words she hears to help make them st...
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