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Banking vets start new firm
Two of Winston-Salem’s most widely-known bankers have formed a management consultant group to provide strategic planning and advisory services to assist small businesses. F. Scott Bauer and Jeff Clark, the top-ranking executives of former-Winston-Salem
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Wounded vets to compete in Games
The Valor Games Southeast will be played in the Triangle from May 21-23. About 100 former or current wounded and injured veterans and active-duty service members will compete in events such as rowing, archery,
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Earls to receive state NAACP’s top honor
The NC NAACP will hold its 29th Annual Humanitarian Awards Banquet on Saturday, March 16 at Abundant Life Christian Center in Raleigh. Top honors will go to Anita Earls, an attorney and executive director
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Controversial author/researcher gives her take on conquering poverty
Dr. Ruby Payne, author of “Bridges out of Poverty,” led a three-hour workshop last week, schooling a group of more than 150 social service and non-profit officials on ways that they can help their
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K&W throws food bank $10,000 lifeline
K&W Cafeterias presented a $10,000 check to Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC Executive Director Clyde Fitzgerald on Monday. The food bank has been crippled by federal and state funding cuts. The money
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CIAA Commissioner goes 1-on-1
As the first African-American woman to be named CIAA commissioner, Jacqie Carpenter is a trailblazer. Prior to settling into her current position last September, she spent nearly 10 years with the NCAA working in
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Living Christ
Devotional Reading: I Thessalonians 5:16-18 Lesson Scripture: Colossians 4:2-6 Lesson Aims: To discuss the implications of a prayer life; recognize how to witness and its impact; and always be ready to be used by
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Wake to retire Paul’s jersey
NBA star Chris Paul is expected to be on hand March 2 at Joel Coliseum when Wake Forest University retires his No. 3 jersey. The ceremony will take place during halftime of the Wake
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Mississippi, Again!
In 1969, while a graduate student at Notre Dame, I had a one night career on WNDU, the campus radio station. After I played Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam!,” I was banned from the airwaves.
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Nurse wins $1,000 a week for the rest of her life
Loretha Johnson, a nurse from Monroe, will get $52,000 a year for the rest of her life after winning the top prize in the N.C. Education Lottery “$1,000 a Week for Life!” game. She
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