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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Becky Hill holds her winning pressed flowers arrangement, which won her first place in the heritage skills category at the Extension Community Association Cultural Arts Event. Coordinator Susan Johnson said the association&#8217;s clubs are open to anyone.</p>
Winners named in annual Extension Community Association cultural event
DOBSON — Extension Community Association (ECA) members have announced the winners in their annual Cultural Arts Event as they continue their tradition of not only offering cultural enrichment classes but another outlet for creative expression locally for rural families. “This is an event where ECA members can participate in to show what they have learned from classes they have taken through the organization,” said Surry County Coordinator S...
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<p>Submitted Photo</p><p>Anna White, 3, suffers from lissencephaly, which has severely hampered her development, including the ability to see, move and eat. A local church is selling tickets for a port-a-pit chicken fundraiser to provide therapeutic services in Philadelphia that will improve her quality of life.</p>
Family struggles with child’s rare brain disorder
By the time Anna White was about 12 weeks old, parents Johnny and Tori knew there was something terribly wrong with their daughter. “We had to take her to the doctor for a three-month checkup and she was still having a lot of difficulty holding her head up,” Tori White recalled. “At that point, we thought Anna was blind, because she could not seem to focus on anything.” As it would turn out, the child was suffering from lissencephaly — a ...
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Lawmaker seeks to muffle ban on silencers for hunting
RALEIGH — Hunting would become a quieter process under a bill introduced in the N.C. General Assembly by the senator who represents Surry County. Senate Bill 201 would allow hunting with silencers in North Carolina, a practice now banned. The measure introduced last week by Sen. Shirley Randleman would lift the ban on people using those devices to deaden the sound of guns. “Even with the use of ear protection, many longtime hunters suffer...
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Scam targeting Spanish speakers
DOBSON — Officials with Surry-Yadkin Electric Membership Corporation are warning members that thieves are posing as cooperative employees in an effort to gain access to money and personal information. According to Erica Johnson, public information officer for the cooperative, the alleged scammers are calling customers for whom English is a secondary language, and are focusing their targets on Spanish speakers. “(They) tell them their elec...
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Farmers market vendor meeting to be held Tuesday
A vendor meeting for the Surry County farmers markets will be held Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Surry County Center for the N.C. Cooperative Extension, located at 210 N. Main St. in Dobson. All potential and past vendors are invited to attend the meeting in order to discuss the upcoming farmers market. Vendors must reside and produce the items they sell within Surry County or the adjacent counties of Stokes, Yadkin, Wilkes and Alleghan...
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Mount Airy Livestock Report
Sales totaled 748 head, including cattle (664), goats (69), sheep (6) and hogs (9), during Tuesday’s sales at Mount Airy Stockyards Inc. Animals sold on the livestock market, based on 100-pound weights, were: • Slaughter cows: utility and commercial, $82-$88; cutter and boning, $76.50-$96.50; canner and low cutter, $44-$68. • Slaughter bulls: 1,000-1,500 pounds, $90-$100; 1,500 pounds and up, $93-$105. • Stock cows: 875-1,050 pounds, ...
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<p>Roger Hayden</p>
Patrick supervisor to seek re-election
CLAUDVILLE, Va. — The Patrick County Board of Supervisors has faced some tumultuous times recently, but that isn’t deterring the Dan River District representative from seeking re-election. Roger T. Hayden has filed to run for another four-year term representing that district, which includes the Ararat, Claudville and Willis Gap communities. Hayden said he wants to continue being a watchdog against higher taxes and try to make headway agains...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Pilot Mountain Middle School Battle of the Books Coach Rene Mosley and team members relax at the end of a round of the county competition on Tuesday in the Sue W. Stone Media Center. Pilot won the competition to captured their fifth consecutive victory.</p>
Middle school Battle of the Books held at Pilot Mountain
PILOT MOUNTAIN — Surry County’s Middle School Battle of the Books competition opened Tuesday at Pilot Mountain Middle School with teams from Pilot Mountain, Gentry, Central Middle and Meadowview Middle squaring off to show their knowledge of literature. Pilot Middle placed first in the event with Central Middle School in second, Gentry Middle was third and Meadowview finished fourth. “This is a great competition,” commented Battle of the Bo...
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<p>Jessica Johnson | The News</p><p>Wade Wilson, center, describes his job as a sound editor for TV and film. Monday night&#8217;s presentation kicked off Teen Tech Week at the Mount Airy Public Library.</p>
Library’s Teen Tech Week kicks off with talk by film and TV sound editor
Teen Tech Week kicked off Monday night at the Mount Airy Public library with a presentation by Wade Wilson, sound editor and designer for film and television. Wilson is also a professor with the editing and sound department and assistant dean at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Wilson has worked on sound for multiple movies and television shows, including “The Hunger Games,” “The Simpsons,” “The Perfect Storm,” “Shrek...
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<p>The Rev. Bailey Edwards Nelson</p>
Female minister leaves Flat Rock church
Less than two years after her appointment as senior pastor of Flat Rock Baptist Church led to a backlash over a woman’s presence in the pulpit, Bailey Edwards Nelson has resigned. “She decided to step down because she thought it would be better for her and better for the church,” said Gail Hicks, a deacon at Flat Rock Baptist. Nelson’s resignation was announced “abruptly” last month, according to one source, with her tenure at the church en...
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