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Kids Win with Music
Alex Powell Elkin Elementary music teacher and band director Music provides individuals, groups, and entire cultures with opportunities to create. Through this process of creating, whether that is composing, performing, or even listening, many find significance, enjoyment, and purpose. Often, it is not the end result that yields these for the participant, but rather the process that takes them to that point. In schools, this process can...
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Baldwin book describes life in Paris
While we were getting ready for out primary elections last week, the people of France elected a new president. Out with Nicolas Sarkozy, in with the Socialist Francois Hollande. Who can explain to us what it means and why we should care? Maybe it could be done by Chapel Hill author Rosecrans Baldwin, who will be the guest on UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch today at 5:00 p.m. Baldwin’s latest book, “Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me...
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Warning: snakes comin’ at ya
A few weeks ago I turned on the light at the door leading into the kitchen, and there next to my feet and at the wall and the corner of the china hutch was the most wiggly little snake I had ever seen. “Oh no,” I said, or something thereabouts. The gray snake had a design on his back that I did not recognize. He did not look dangerous. He was less than a foot long. And he seemed scared out of his wits; he was thrashing so. And all I did was...
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Letter to the editor
Governments sure seem a likely source of all good things. A recent letter (“American Rights,” 5/11) asks for extra freebies from the Feds: free medical care, “pristine” water, and broadband internet access for every citizen. I personally would like an Italian sportscar. Trouble is, the money to pay for all this has to come from our neighbors . Governments only have money we send them, unless they print it; Germany tried that, and a cup of...
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Stone Mountain News
There will be a car wash and bake sale on Saturday, May 12 at Advance Auto in Elkin beginning at 9 AM. This is sponsored by Yankee T-ball and coach pitch teams. Larry Andrews will be preaching at Garden Creek Baptist Church on May 13 at 9 AM. Campers in the park are invited to come as they are to worship in this historic church. The Wishon’s will be in concert Sunday, May 13 at the 11am worship service at Old Roaring River Baptist Church ...
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Arthroscopic surgery
Submitted by Wilkes Regional Medical Center Years ago, surgery to repair a joint usually meant a large incision and a long, painful recuperation. These days, patients are finding relief from joint ailments through arthroscopic surgery, or arthroscopy, a minimally invasive procedure that allows for a less painful and faster recovery. In many cases, arthroscopy is performed on an outpatient basis, eliminating the need for an overnight hospital...
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We must put politics aside, and put our students first
It’s an unmistakable fact that North Carolina’s public education system is broken – failing to educate too many children, rewarding too few teachers, and jeopardizing our state’s future. It needs reform. And it needs it now. Thus far, many have thought the solution to our public school woes is to toss more and more money at a struggling system and hope it improves, even though no real link exists between funding levels and academic resu...
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The Budget
Budget time is a stressful time for the staff of the Town and the Board of Commissioners. It’s a process of trying to provide the same service with less money. For several years, the Town has been in a financial crisis with regard to the cost of producing water. Some price increase has been passed along to the citizens, but approximately $200,000 per year has been taken from the fund balance to augment this fund. The water fund has been s...
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Ben Fountain’s long wait brings us the ‘Catch-22’ of the Iraq War
What is really going on inside their minds when the soldiers come home? Before they can tell us, the call comes to go back to the Middle East for another long tour. In North Carolina, such brave soldiers and their families surround us. We try to honor them and show our appreciation for what they do for us. We do it as best we can when we see them in uniform in airports, on the streets, and at halftimes during athletic contests in university...
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Who’s the cutest kid in town?
Every parent knows that he or she has the cutest baby or the cutest child in town. Some parents may have commented that their children could earn money modeling because they’re so cute. They proudly post their children’s pictures on Facebook or on a blog for all of their friends to see. The only problem is: that doesn’t earn them any money. It may get them plenty of “likes” and comments such as “how adorable,” or “what a cutie,” but Faceb...
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Mr. President, don’t pass us up
Elkin and Jonesville have never been graced by the presence of a president, as far as I know, and if we don’t pull in the president sometime during this election year we may never get a better chance. George Washington, in his famous southern tour after he became the first president, stirred up a lot of attention passing just to the east of us. He slept in Old Salem, where he complained of bedbugs, then took a horse-drawn carriage along the...
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What’s going on at Elkin High School
As we begin the month of May, we are now into what is not only the most exciting time of year, but also the busiest. Numerous important events will be taking place over the next three weeks. Our 2012 Senior Award’s Night Ceremony will take place on Tuesday, May 8 at 7 p.m. in Dixon Auditorium. Our chamber singers will present their Dinner Theater on Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12 at 7 p.m. at the Elkin Elementary School gym. Internship...
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Why I’m voting for Amendment One
The 30-second commercial is graphic: an assistant district attorney describes in detail the harm that a man caused to a woman and a baby, from slamming the woman’s head into the wall to pushing the baby onto a trash can. “Amendment One could take away protections for domestic violence victims,” she says, referring to the proposed Consitutional amendment that would make marriage between a man and a woman the only domestic legal union in Nort...
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Letter to the editor
On September 18, 1961 I saw the smoke from Swan Creek Baptist Church burning down. An education building had recently been added on in 1956 on the back of the church with a connector joining the two. Lindberg Swaim, with a 1 1/2 inch line and very limited water supply moved into the connector and saved the new building, a very nice piece of work for one man. I hope Lindberg and the other firemen have received several fresh coconut cakes and o...
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Do aliens exist? What does the Bible say?
This topic has become an interesting one for me to study, and my eyes have been opened to a few things that I didn’t realize. Did you know there is a private organization that exists, which owns highly sensitive equipment, and has an annual budget of $7 million, to search continuously for alien life in outer space? Did you know that their intense search stems from a belief in evolution? The reason why is because if evolution occurred on ear...
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