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ARTISTIC IMPRESSIONS
Moralist adds
new dimension
to Cates Alley
BYERINWILTGEN
Staff Writer
The streets of down
town Thomasville just
got a little brighter.
.Phil Christman, the art
ist of three of Thomas-
ville’s murals, returned
to paint yet another scene
on one of the Chair City’s
downtown alley walls. Set
on Cates AUey, which is
just off Commerce Street
near the Farmer’s Mar
ket, the mural depicts a
sturdy oak tree with a
tire swing, a lamp post
and a dog.
“It’s a real asset to that
area,” said Sue Hunter
of ThomasviUe’s People
Achieving Community
Enhancement (P.A.C.E.),
which commissioned the
project. “Everyone’s been
so pleased with what he’s
done.”
The scene took Christ
man only five days to
complete. It sits just a
ways down from a mural
of children already paint
ed on the wall of Cates
Alley — the only mural
In 'Thomasville that’s not
an original Christman.
“We just wanted some
thing to brighten that
alleyway,” Hunter said.
“There’s the children’s
mural, and this connects
the two. That was just
an ugly waU, and a lot of
people walk up there. We
thdught that would be a
real interesting place to
have something.”
Though the other
murals Christman has
painted depict historical
scenes, his latest doesn’t
carry any real signifi
cance or references to
the past. Hunter says that
P.A.C.E., which comes up
with subjects for the mu
rals, wanted something
TIMES PHOTO/ERIN WILTGEN
Artist Phil Christman Wednesday stands in front of his most recent Thomasville mural
in Cates Alley, just off of Commerce Street.
simple to accompany the
children’s mural.
“Children would go un
der a tree and swing on
a swing and play with a
dog,” Hunter said. “We
just thought that this is
what this waU needed.
Some of the other mu
rals are so detailed. We
thought this one would
coimect with the chil
dren’s mural and just be
what we needed to sit and
relax.”
P.A.C.E.’s original di
rections came very basic,
instructing Christman
only about the oak tree. ^
“They give me the ar
tistic license, if you wfU,
to be creative,” the artist
said.
Christman framed the
mural like an opening,
as if the viewer looked
through something to see
the scene. He also added
Hunter’s dog, shaggy, as
weU as the tire swing to
give the picture life.
“It leaves a little some
thing to the imagination,
with the tire swing in
there,” Christman said.
“It adds character.”
A mural painter since
1985 and commissioned
to‘his first ThomasvUle
scene in the early 1990s,
Christman says he tries
to fit the painting to the
surrounding area.
“I try to tie the colors in
to the buUdings that sur
round the mimal and the
colors around the area,”
he said. “It adds life. It
adds color to the waU.”
Staff Writer Erin Wiit-
gen can be reached at 888-
3576 or at newsdesk@tvil-
ietimes.com.
TCS testing results a mixed bag
BY ELIOT DUKE
Staff Writer
ThomasvUle City Schools Board
of Education got some good news
and some bad news Tuesday night
when it comes to end of grade test
ing, overaU growth and adequate
yearly progress (AYP).
James Carmichael, TCS asso
ciate superintendent, presented
board members with a state-of-the-
system rundown that showed aU
four city schools made growth for
the first time, with Thomasville
High School making high growth.
End of grade scores, for the most
part, went up across the board with
'We feel good about
how we did this year. I
think we're heading in
the right direction.'
— James Carmichael
TCS Associate Superintendent
sixth grade showing vast improve
ments in both reading and math.
“We feel good about how we did
this year,” Carmichael said. “I
think we’re heading in the right
direction.”
OveraU performance Improved in
reading and math for grades four,
six and eight from a year ago. Third
and fifth grades Improved in math
but not reading, and seventh grade
scores went up n reading but saw a
slight drop-off in math. Grades 5-8
aU made expected growth in both
reading and math, whUe fourth
grade didn’t in reading alone. The
growth ratio for eighth grade came
in at 3.82, meaning for every four
students who made growth, one
didn’t.
“That’s the type of thing we’re
looking for,” said Carmichael.
OveraU performance at THS im-
See RESULTS, Page 4
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50 Cents
Lemmond
Man pleads
guilty in 2009
death of infant
BY ELIOT DUKE
StaffWriter
A man indicted by a Davidson County Grand
Jmy for kiUing a baby girl last November pleaded
to second degree murder Wednesday morning in
Lexington.
Travis Christopher Lemmond, 20,
of 2220 BiUy Howey Road, Cabin 17,
in Mineral Springs, entered a guUty
plea to second degree murder for the
death of LiUy Grace CoweU, a 21-
month-old girl who died at Lexing
ton Memorial Hospital from blunt
force injuries to her head on Nov.
20, 2009. Lemmond was baby-sitting
CoweU at the time of her death whUe
the chUd’s mother, Lemmond’s girl
friend, was at the movies. Lemmond
wUl avoid receiving a life sentence and wfU face
a maximum of 198 months in jaU due to the plea
agreement. Lemmond is scheduled to be sentenced
the week of Aug. 31.
See GUILTY, Page 4
WSTANDFOmm
Years separate father
and son reunion
BYERINWILTGEN
StaffWriter
Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series.
Look for the following in ^turday’s edition.
The scene unfolds like a HoUywood drama.
Enter a young man, dressed smartly in the shined
black boots and crisp white uniform of the U.S.
Coast Guard. Finishing up his service that began
in 1964, Patrick White traveled to the Pacific islands
of Hawaii after two years on the East Coast.
The islands were beautiful, a paradise, but not as
beautiful as the young Hawaiian woman Keonaona,
or Kay, he met there. Six months later the couple
married.
In 1968, Patrick was discharged from the Coast
Guard, He brought his new bride back home to
Monterey, Calif. About 13 months later, the couple
became a famUy with the birth of John Patrick Ka-
lelmailoe White.
“I hrmg JP on him as a nickname,” Patrick said.
See YEARS, Page 4
COURTESY PHOTC
Patrick White sits with his son JP during his visit onlj
childhood visit in 1982.
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