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<p>Jessica Johnson | The News</p><p>Ariel Neal, left, and Mary Sobol are tourism program students from UNC-G who partnered with the Mount Airy Visitors Center to create a plan for encouraging the use of the area&#8217;s gap roads for motorcycle enthusiasts and adventure travelers.</p>
UNC-G projects offers business ideas
Students from the Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality Management Program at UNC-Greensboro returned to Mount Airy last week for the final presentations of their Community Partnership Projects. The Surry County Economic Development Partnership coordinated the projects with Dr. Erick Byrd, professor of the Issues & Trends in Hospitality and Tourism class, which consisted of 24 students in the tourism program. The final projects were present...
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<p>Pilot Mountain Middle School | Submitted Photo</p><p>Pilot Mount Middle School Coach Rene Mosley stands with her team as they nabbed top regional honors. The team topped off a successful season by winning the state title on a rebound question in the last round. Team members are Austin Burton, Anthony Fulp, Elena Heath, Abby Key, Nathaniel McGraw, Elizabeth Porter, Abigail Robertson, Katarina Sechrist, Nathan Sheets, J.T. Tarn, Cassidy Torrey and Jayne Willard.</p>
Pilot Mountain Middle School captures State Battle of the Books title
GREENSBORO — Pilot Mountain Middle School captured its second state title in Battle of the Books recently after a harrowing moment in the last round when the championship of the tourney was decided on a rebound question. PMMS Coach Rene Mosley said nine teams competed in the tournament at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro last Thursday. “Every team played nine rounds,” recalled Mosley. “This was decided in the last round on a...
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SCC board seeks funds for vitaculture building
DOBSON — Surry Community College’s Trustees voted Monday afternoon to file a funding allocation application to construct a building to house part of the vitaculture and enology program on the site of the new vineyard. The proposed 60-foot by 60-foot building will have a 12-foot ceiling and will include an area to house agriculture equipment, a classroom, laboratory and vitaculture office space. According to College President Dr. David Sho...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Outreach Specialist Carol Young talks with seniors in the Pilot Mountain YVEDDI Senior Enrichment Program about ways to safeguard their personal information from scam artists.</p>
Seniors warned of scams at Pilot Senior Enrichment Program talk
PILOT MOUNTAIN — Carol Young, outreach specialist for the Office of Attorney General Roy Cooper, recently spoke to the YVEDDI Senior Enrichment Program seniors by pointing out scam artists see opportunities where the rest of society sees a shortcut to having to remember so much personal information. “I used to ask participants in this program to take out their wallets,” began Young. “If you have nothing more than a social security card and ...
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TDA sees Roberts’ appointment as good for area
During Monday’s meeting the Surry County Tourism Development Authority board discussed the upcoming Very Surry visitor’s guide, a fall media tour and they recognized board member and vice chair Jessica Icenhour Roberts for her recent appointment to the NC Travel and Tourism Board. State Rep. Sarah Stevens recommended Roberts to the board. Roberts, who is director of marketing and tourism for the Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce and Visitor’s ...
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<p>Wendy Byerly Wood | The News</p><p>Sharon Chilton-Moser climbs into the new big red Dodge truck she and her husband purchased to use in her full-time volunteer work with the N.C. Baptist Men Disaster Relief ministry. She is the caretaker of one of the organization&#8217;s mobile shower units, and also helps with Baptist Builds and Student Ministries.</p>
Called to be a volunteer
When she agreed to help with the Hurricane Katrina rebuild several years ago, Pilot Mountain resident Sharon Chilton-Moser had no idea that would lead to a full-time career as a volunteer. But she said God knew what He was doing. “I grew up on Ararat Road and lived there until I went off to college,” Chilton-Moser said. “I swore I would never come back, because that’s what we all do, we want to be better than what we really are. But you can...
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<p>Tom Joyce | The News</p><p>Mount Airy firemen work to contain the restaurant blaze at 1384 S. Main St. with the help of the city&#8217;s ladder truck.</p>
Fire strikes Chase & Charli restaurant
The Mount Airy Fire Department’s ladder truck paid dividends Saturday in helping to contain a blaze at a South Main Street restaurant that has been open only a few months. City firefighters responded to the incident at Chase & Charli Restaurant by the River at 1384 S. Main St. shortly after noon and encountered heavy smoke. Restaurant owner Todd Hiatt had used a fire extinguisher in an unsuccessful attempt to put out the fire, which was sit...
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<p>Tom Joyce | The News</p><p>Hundreds of walkers prepare to enter the Emily B. Taylor Greenway at the start of Saturday&#8217;s March for Babies.</p>
Hundreds march for healthy baby cause
About 400 people of all ages — including many parents pushing baby strollers, and at least one dog in tow — hit the pavement Saturday in an effort that boosted funding and awareness for a special cause. “We’re here for a common goal and that’s healthy babies,” explained Bill James, 2013 campaign chairman for the annual March of Dimes walk Saturday on the Emily B. Taylor Greenway. While a show of force by 40 to 50 different fundraising tea...
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State senator to speak at Freedom Fund Banquet
The first African-American state senator from Forsyth County will be the guest speaker for the 48th-annual Freedom Fund Banquet in Mount Airy next Saturday. J.J. Jones Alumni Auditorium will host the banquet sponsored by Surry County Chapter 5459 of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The theme for the event is “Forward.” It begins at 6 p.m. Saturday and will include dinner catered by K&W Cafeterias in ...
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Driver facing charges in head-on wreck
A Dobson man is facing several charges following a two-vehicle head-on collision Friday night on Siloam Road. According to Trooper H.A. Hiatt of the North Carolina Highway Patrol, shortly before 9 p.m., Jody Golding, 34, of 1025 Copeland School Road, was driving a 1983 Chevrolet pickup north on Siloam Road at a high rate of speed near 1010 Siloam Road, which is in what locals call pickle curve between Little Mountain Church Road and Old Cre...
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