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Morrisville and Preston Progress, Thursday, Sept. 25,1997-7 Morrisville woman takes active role as president of Meredith College’s student body BY MARY BETH PHILLIPS Some of the skills that Kelly Conkling will use in her year as Meredith College student govern ment president are the same skills that she will later need as an ele mentary school teacher. For the retreat she led on Aug.lO ident of the Meredith Recreation Association. As part of that job, she strove to include the non-traditional students, women 23 years old and older who were returning to college. Their group called WINGS, for Women in New Goal Settings, surprised 7 went in to it board of trustees meetings, and rep resenting the college. Miss Conkling, a self-possessed young woman, doesn’t mind giving speeches; she has given quite a few already, at orientation last week and last spring after her elec tion. with the executive council of°the Miss Conkling at the Wanting tO haVO The orientation crew of Student Government Association (SGA), she cut out sailboats, and worked the weekend around the theme “Sail Away with SGA.” Her campaign last spring involved lots of cut-out top hats, and the theme, “Taking Meredith to the Top.” Her mother said she could easily picture Kelly cutting things out of construction paper for a future kindergarten class. The Morrisville native, who grew up on her grandfather's land off Airport Boulevard in a section that is rapidly urbanizing, had not held office in the student government association before this year. In her sophomore year, she became involved in programming activities such as corn-husking week and class competitions. She began attending leadership conferences and got to know other leaders on campus. Her junior year she served as pres- about it. ’ —Kelly Conkling end of the year with an award for Excellence in Leadership. To win office, Miss Conkling ran against the student govern ment vice president for the previous year, but she said because Meredith is a small campus, “people already knew me. It was just a mat ter of proving to them that I really wanted the position.” “It was almost a win-win situa tion,” said the statuesque young woman.“I went in to it wanting to have fun with the campaign, and not to stress out about it.” After her election, she began working in the SGA office getting prepared for the upcoming year. Her major tasks will be serving as a liaison with the faculty and admin istration, doing things like attending about 40 student leaders fun with thG jQ school on CRmpSign, 3nd Tuesday, Aug. 12, to get not to stress out freshmen and transfer students, who moved in on Saturday, Aug. 16, Miss Conkling helped lead parent sessions while students met with their student advisors. She made a speech to all the par ents, and played Dorothy in a skit based on the theme “There’s No Place like Meredith,” from the Wizard of Oz. She’s already realizing that, “I can definitely tell I’m going to have more trouble finding time to spend with family, I like to spend time with my family. That’s going to be one thing that will be different,” she said. Besides her duties as student gov ernment president, she is taking 16 academic hours of major courses for her education degree. She’s confident she will succeed in her new role. “I’ve had other leader ship positions, and I’ve had practice how to balance my schedule...But Td like to have a couple more hours in the day,” she added. She is looking forward to meeting all the new people, and getting to know faculty and administrators better. After she receives her education and child development degree in May, she plans to student teach for a year, and then possibly return to col lege for her master’s degree. Her ultimate goal is to become a principal or an administrator, “but I didn’t realize that until I got to Meredith and experienced all the leadership roles here,” she said. At Cary High School, Miss Conkling was a cheerleader and an A-B honor student. Her grandfather, Ralph Watkins, always gave her money when he saw her name in the newspaper honor roll column, she added with a laugh. In her spare time, she enjoys exer cising. “Going to the gym is a great stress reliever,” she said. She also enjoys young children. She spent the summer babysitting infant twins in Cary. MS. PRESIDENT—Kelly Conkling relaxed at h before she headed off to her outic-s as S' Association President of Meredith College in the Morrsville home snt fall. Board okays site plans for miniature golf course, hotel BY MARY BETH PHILLIPS A furniture store will soon be oper ating on the American Legion site on Airport Boulevard. The town board approved a condi tional rezoning for the 2.43-acre tract from agricultural district to general business. Robert Fritz of Durham sought the request. In other planning matters: A par 3 golf course was approved on 49.42 acres between Weston and the Cedar Fork soccer field. The course will have 36 miniature golf holes, a putting green, and a par three course. It will be open to the public. The board agreed to delete a con nector road that runs between Morrisville Parkway through Preston property to Morrisville Carpenter Road. The board agreed to eliminate the road because of the expense it would take to cross Crabtree Creek. As part of the agreement, the developer, Preston Associates, will in the future pro vide an alternate road into the east side of Lumley Park. A four-story, 116-room Holiday Inn Express was approved on two acres along Airport Boulevard next to Hampton Inn by RDU Choice Properties, Inc., of Winston-Salem. The site plan was approved for a flex building in Cedar Fork business park containing 17,363 square feet on two acres, developed by E, Brothers of Cary. There will be 50 feet of buffer (25-foot undisturbed) between the building and the neigh boring residences. Industrial equip ment would be parked at the site. A rezoning from commercial to residential management was approved on 184.22 acres of land on Chapel Hill Road 1,700 feet west of Weston Parkway, which will allow apartments to be built there. Preston developers requested the rezoning. The board agreed to change the name of Greenview Drive in the Hamptons subdivision to Hampton Pines Drive. The change had been requested by Emergency Services because of a similar road name in Cary. Esther Mayo Dunnegan was appointed to a three-year term on the Morrisville Planning Board, after Ray Ballentine declined the appoint ment made at the last board meeting, Mrs. Dunnegan will represent the extraterritorial, zoning jurisdiction of Morrisville. Board tosses fire station tower, Silver-Smith objects Morrisville Commissioner Mark Silver-Smith again put himself at , odds with the board on Sept, 8 and voted against a scaled-down version of Fire Station Number Three, say ing the fire department needed the training tower. At the last meeting in August, a new site plan was proposed, which reduced the size of the sleeping and office areas, and eliminated the tower. “I’d like the board to determine how much it will cost,” Silver- Smith said. “We have a lot of money coming in, and all of a sudden, we don’t have money? The tower is an important part of the design, and it may be cheaper for the town if we did it all at once.” Mayor Pro Tern Billy Sauls responded, “The town is in good shape. It is my goal to try to keep it in good shape. We need to conduct our affairs in a way that we don’t have to raise taxes.” Commissioner Phyllis Newnam said she understood that the tower would be used by firefighters all over Wake County. She said we don’t need to raise taxes 10 to 15 percent to build the tower. Silver-Smith countered that Morrisville firefighters would have ■first .choice,-tCi train, with the tower. He said it was also needed to prop erly dry the hoses. The town’s ISO fire rating will be considered in a few years, he added, and the tower would help with that. “It would be wonderful to have just anything the fire chief wanted," said Sauls. “There are 12 municipal ities in Wake County who don’t have a fire tower. If the other 12 don’t have it, I don’t see why we need it.” Commissioner Leavy Barbee said, “We don’t need to spend every quar ter in the till. We will have revenue coming in after the growth, I don’t see the necessity to spend the tax payers money for a tower at this time.” “I’d still like to know how much it would cost us,” Silver-Smith said. “I’d like to see us bid it for both.” Mayor Margaret Broadwell asked Town Manager David Hodgkins if it was feasible to have both versions go out for bids, and he said it could be done. The board voted 4-1 to put the scaled down version out for bid, and not to receive bids on the tower. □ Are You Paying Retail? (^) [ Save BIG on Name Brands Every Business Day! 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