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<p>N.C. Cooperative Extension Service | Submitted Photo</p><p>Master Gardener Volunteer Intern Sue O&#8217;Connell begins the work of removing the stems from last year&#8217;s okra in the Mount Airy Community Garden on Rockford Street. The group cleared the 16 beds of weeds and debris for a Youth Mini Garden Project.</p>
Extension service starting youth mini garden project
Local Extension Master Gardeners and Extension Service Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent Joanna Radford are looking for a few young gardeners who won’t mind getting their hands dirty. Radford has announced that a Youth Mini Garden Project will be held this summer in the Mount Airy Community Garden located behind the Mount Airy Fire Department on Rockford Street. “We generally do some sort of gardening project during the summer,” sai...
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More than 40 turn out for Lunch with Leaders
More than 40 local business people turned out for the April Lunch With Leaders, sponsored by the Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce. “We see our Lunch With Leaders as a program for local businesses to address the challenges they face in the small business world,” Chamber President Betty Ann Collins said. “We truly appreciate the businesses who participate and the elected officials who are always available to answer questions.” Surry C...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Creating Successful Learners Graduate Student Robert Greene III speaks to classmates and teachers at an awards program at the L.H. Jones Auditorium. The program is a collaborative vocational training program between eLink, Mount Airy City Schools and Surry Community College.</p>
Creating Successful Learners students recognized
One theme running throughout the Creating Successful Learners Awards Program Thursday at the L. H. Jones Auditorium was that its participants were probably among the few examples of students who couldn’t wait to go to summer school. In fact, two summer school sessions have been scheduled with the first session being held May 28 through June 26 and the second session set for July 8 through Aug. 13. The program is a collaborative vocational...
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<p>The Canaan Land Children&#8217;s Home is expected to be complete by the end of the year. The children&#8217;s home was the dream of Rev. Lonnie Gunter, who died in February.</p>
Children’s home fundraiser dedicated to late founder
Rev. Lonnie Gunter’s dream was to build a children’s home for abused, neglected, and abandoned children. Before he died February, his dream was partially realized as Canaan Land Children’s Home was more than half complete. Gunter was the pastor of Genesis Full Gospel Church, and the congregation supported his vision. A series of fundraisers and donations helped to make the children’s home possible and organizers plan to continue fundraising...
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Cutest Kids contest is up and running
The The Mount Airy News staff is on the hunt for some adorable young faces, and they’re hoping the reading public — both in print and online — will once again help them find those cuties as they team up with Scenic Motors, title sponsor of the contest, to kick off the third annual online contest designed to promote your children. “We are thrilled to be bringing this contest back again,” said Mount Airy News editor John Peters. “It is one of...
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Apps open new world to readers, advertisers
The Mount Airy News is opening new doors to its advertisers, their current customers and a whole world of new ones, all with the stroke of a fingertip. And it’s been done through MyOwn Apps, a new high-tech advertising venue that offers advertisers a way to reach on-the-go consumers looking for information fast and in the palm of their hand. “It’s an affordable avenue that advertisers can utilize to get their word out,” said General Manag...
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Furnishing a home from yard sales
Look at the Friday and Saturday newspapers from the past few weeks and turn to the classified section. What do you notice, in increasing quantities? Yard Sale ads! It’s that season again — yard sale time. I have to admit that yard sales are one of my favorite pursuits for the spring and summer months. I love looking at the Friday paper and highlighting the yard sales that I want to visit, then I go online to look up the locations of eac...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Bannertown Volunteer Fire Department member Charles &#8220;Punk&#8221; Smith and Board of Directors President Rondale Ratcliff look at Ruritan meeting notes on display at the department. The Bannertown Ruritan Club played an important role early on in getting the department started. The department will hold a Community Day and 50th anniversary celebration on May 18, which is open to the public.</p>
Bannertown fire department to mark 50 years
Combining Bannertown Volunteer Fire Department’s 50th Anniversary and Community Day Celebration is business as usual for the group with a strong history of community involvement and personal commitment. The celebration will take place at the department on Reeves Mill Road on May 18, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Fire Department Board of Directors President Rondale Ratcliff said the department formed in 1963 as a response to the tragic Flat Roc...
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<p>Kelly Epperson, owner of Mount Airy radio station WPAQ, receives a certification of appreciation from Mayor Deborah Cochran during Thursday afternoon&#8217;s city commissioners meeting. It was given as part of an ongoing campaign by Mount Airy officials to recognize older local businesses. The late Ralph Epperson, Kelly&#8217;s father, launched the station in 1948 and it has made a unique contribution to the broadcasting and preservation of traditional Blue Ridge Mountain music. Kelly mentioned that his father, who died in 2006, was an &#8220;Ararat, Va., farm boy&#8221; who hitchhiked to Arkansas to learn how to become a radio engineer. The station recently celebrated its 65th anniversary.</p>
Board paves way for new apartments
A new $6 million apartment complex is in the works for Mount Airy due to action by the city board of commissioners Thursday afternoon. The board unanimously approved a rezoning request for a 5.4-acre site at 191 West Virginia St. in the Toast community. This paves the way for a 56-unit facility that will be open to people who are 55 and over with low-to-moderate incomes. Construction could begin in early 2014 if things go according to pla...
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Dr. David Sparks. a local minister, delivers the keynote address during Thursday's National Day of Prayer observance outside the Mount Airy Municipal Building. Sparks said the power of prayer has benefited past generations and can help solve today's problems as well.
Prayer seen as ‘only hope’ for America
For those who haven’t noticed, the United States is not exactly enjoying the best of times — but this could all change through one ingredient: prayer. That was the message Thursday from speakers at a National Day of Prayer observance on the grounds of the Mount Airy Municipal Building, where about 125 gathered in support of God and country. “America is a mess…on the brink of destruction,” keynote speaker Dr. David Sparks, pastor of Flat R...
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