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First Grounds Tech Grad Looking To The Future BY SUSAN USHER A part-time job at Bnerwood Golf Course when he was 16 cinched ca reer choices for Adam Evans, then a student at West Brunswick High School. "I knew I wanted to work out side," the Ash resident recalled. "I was mowing and tending the course. They taught me a lot. I enjoyed it and decided that was probably what I wanted to do." Six years later, he hasn't changed his mind, only expanded it. He still likes tending turf. But even more he enjoys the magic of taking a bare plot of ground and transforming it into something beautiful, then keep ing it that way. Today he has the right mix of practical experience and education to pursue his goals. Friday night, on the stage of the Odell Williamson Auditorium, Evans will receive the first associate degree in recreational grounds man agement technology awarded by Brunswick Community College He's one of 281 students eligible to receive a certificate or diploma at graduation, including 165 curricu lum program graduates and 116 GED recipients. Among those in the audience will be his bride. On Aug. S, Evans was married to BCC graduate Cindy Skipper, a junior education major at UNC Wilmington. After graduating from West Brunswick, Evans didn't start school immediately. Instead he worked two years in golf course maintenance and residential landscaping in Flor ida with an associate he'd met at Brierwood. "Then it was past time to come home," he reflected. "I knew educa tion and going to school was the an SW* moro ?Y LYNN CAHLSON 7 00 Years Young Autumn Care resident Maggie Pickard is shown on her 100th birthday last week. Born Aug. 11, 1894 in Lee County, she said her secret to longevity is that she always worked hard, never smoked or drank, and spent plenty of rime with young people. She married Richard Pickard in 1921, and they lived all their married life in Durham. Her children are Yvonne Hewett and husband LaVem of Sea Aire Canal, Holden Beach; Doris Bennett and husband Tom of Rocky Mount; and William E. Pickard of Raleigh. She has four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. She has been at Aut umn Care since suffering a stroke in 1991 but was active in gar dening and sewing well into her 90s. swer. There were questions coming up at work I couldn't answer. There's always something knew to learn in this business." "But I'm glad I had the opportu nity to go to Florida," he said. "It didn't set me back." He returned just in time to enroll in BCC's new two-year program in recreational grounds management, and was "fortunate enough" to be the only person in that first class to attend school full-time. His three classmates should finish their coursework this coming year, Evans said. The program's mix of classwork and practical training complemented his past experience, answering a lot of the "whys" he never knew how to answer before. Through a chance meeting with turf consultant Wilton Harrelson at N.C. State he learned of a possible summer job with Larry Harrelson 's landscaping business. Evans and Harrelson connected for the grounds curriculum's summer cooperative work program, and Evans has worked for Harrelson ever since, first part-time, now full-time. "I like the kind of installations he does," said Evans. "It's quality." In turn Harrelson has become a supporter of and part-time instructor in the curriculum. 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