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<p>Eleanor Powell-Hines | Submitted Photo</p><p>Mount Airy City Schools Superintendent Dr. Gregory Little introduces Dr. Paul Webster, left, and Mount Airy High School Principal Dr. Sandy George, to a group of Mount Airy High School graduates at an organizational meeting to form an alumni association. Webster, a 1948 graduate, lives in Lancaster, S.C.</p>
Mount Airy schools look to start alumni group
A new alumni organization may be on the way for former Mount Airy City Schools students, and the group may already have its first project — a way to recognize teachers from the past. Dr. Paul Webster, a 1948 Mount Airy High School graduate, recently met with School Superintendent Dr. Gregory Little and others at an organizational meeting for city schools alumni. “I got the idea when I first became superintendent during a conservation with...
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Photography Mini-Series coming to the Pilot Center
DOBSON — Persons who wish their sports action images or vacation shots turned out the way they envisioned them when they snapped the shutter will have a chance through a class offered at the Pilot Center. Improving Your Skills in Sports and Vacation Image Making is the first course in a series of photography classes to be taught by Boyce Shore, master of photography, who has 30 years experience as a professional photographer. The class wi...
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<p>Tom Joyce | The News</p><p>Angie Chandler, the executive director of the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership, explains a new music trails initiative involving Surry and other counties in western North Carolina. It is under way by Chandler&#8217;s organization in conjunction with the North Carolina Arts Council.</p>
Surry helps chart path for regional music trail
One thing was abundantly clear after a meeting Tuesday in Mount Airy to help plot the course for a program called the Blue Ridge Music Trail(s) of North Carolina: “The Blue Ridge Music Trail is not a road — it’s a region,” program leader Angie Chandler told about 35 people from a five-county area who gathered in the Earle Theatre for a planning session. The trails program seeks to better promote the traditional music heritage in 29 counti...
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<p>Tom Joyce | The News</p><p>Commissioners Jon Cawley, left, and Steve Yokeley, members of the city government Finance Committee, go over budget details for outside-agency requests Tuesday with City Manager Barbara Jones.</p>
Holding events in city could cost groups more
Charging extra fees to organizations holding events in Mount Airy — to offset the costs of related services provided by public safety personnel — could be a way to increase funding for agencies such as the Mount Airy Rescue Squad. That idea emerged during a meeting of the city government Finance Committee Tuesday, held to further discuss $222,650 in municipal funding requests received on April 9 from the rescue squad and three other organiz...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>B.H. Tharrington Primary School second grade students Christopher Gomez, Morgan Brinegar and Nadia Brim go through their art portfolios in search of pieces to display at the first grades K-5 art show held at the school Tuesday.</p>
Show puts young artists’ work on display
First year B.H Tharrington Primary School Art Teacher Ashlee Kniskern staged an art show for students in grades K-5 Tuesday as a means to showcase student effort. The native of upstate New York said she saw an opportunity with the show which was open to parents and staff from noon until 5 p.m. “The kids had worked so hard I wanted to show it all off before the school year ends,” said Kniskern. “They have so much creative energy and they r...
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Free Comic Book Day this Saturday at Yesterdays
Yesterdays will celebrate Free Comic Book Day on Saturday. Steve Martin, co-owner of Yesterdays, said customers are welcome to pick up at least three free comic books from a selection of special Free Comic Book Day titles they have in stock. Free Comic Book Day began in 2002 as a worldwide event to share the love of comic books, which are enjoyed by many people of all ages, not only collectors, but also those who enjoy the “graphic storytel...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Belk in Mayberry Mall associate Emily Seal and Store Manager Tenisha Bridges take their turn painting educational canvas murals for Flat Rock Elementary. The project marks Belk&#8217;s 125th anniversary with associates doing makeovers in local schools for a period of 125 days.</p>
Belk associates stage makeover projects at Flat Rock Elementary
Area Belk associates have volunteered time and materials for a local school to mark the 125th anniversary of the department store this year. Belk of Mayberry Mall associates worked in partnership with Points of Light, an organization which helps mobilize and coordinate the retail chain’s efforts. The effort is known as the Belk 125 Days of Service project with volunteers doing school makeovers over a period of 125 days. HandsOn Northwest ...
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<p>Lorena Castillo, in the ninth grade at Mount Airy High School, loves the lunch menu. Server, Marilou Griffith, in back, has just filled Castillo&#8217;s plate with the day&#8217;s dish &#8212; chicken casserole.</p>
Mount Airy Schools’ lunch program cutting-edge
School lunch cafeterias are not what they used to be. In fact, they are a world apart, not just from when current parents went to school, but from just a few scant years ago. “New lunch guidelines have been in the works for several years because its part of the Healthy Hunger-free Kids program,” said Elke Boyd, child nutrition director for the Mount Airy City Schools. The new menu is being guided, in part, by First Lady Michelle Obama’s r...
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<p>Surry Community College | Submitted Photo</p><p>The Paralegal Club of Surry Community College attended the 33rd annual Meeting and Seminar of the North Carolina Paralegal Association. Pictured are, from left, Amy Lynch of Germanton; Bridgette Hawks of Mount Airy; Cassie Hernandez of Dobson; Samantha Beck of Mount Airy, Wilborn Rives, SCC lead paralegal instructor and club advisor; Ashley Moretta of Mount Airy; Judy Caudill of McGrady; Kerianne Hall of Dobson; Tonya Thornton of Mount Airy; Patty Draughn of Mount Airy; and Pamela Arms of Mount Airy.</p>
SCC Paralegal Club hears lecture by N.C. Supreme Court Justice
DOBSON — North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Paul M. Newby presented “Recovering our Bill of Rights” during the 33rd annual Meeting and Seminar of the North Carolina Paralegal Association, which was attended by the Paralegal Club of Surry Community College (SCC) on April 22. The club included students from Surry, Stokes and Wilkes counties. Newby’s account of how North Carolina retrieved its copy of the Bill of Rights proved to be informat...
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Book signing Thursday at library
Author Sarah Lee McGee will sign copies of her book “Dear Zachary, It’s All About You” at the Mount Airy Public Library Thursday at 1 p.m. The book is about her grandson, Zachary, and the ups and downs experienced by people with disabilities. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. McGee is a former English teacher with Mount Airy City Schools. She wrote a book in 1972 called “God Called the Play” about her son Allen, who passe...
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