4-Thomasville Times - Thursday, September 23,2010
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“It’s a completely dif
ferent concept,” Nelson
said. “T.he joint similar
ity is it’s to encourage
parents to have different
discipline techniques
and improve family cohe
siveness. That’s the idea
behind both.”
Topics have ranged
from potty training to
temper tantrums to sepa
ration and divorce.
“The beauty of the pro
gram is parents choose
the topics that they want
to talk about,” Nelson
said. “It will be inter
esting to them because
they’re the ones actually
choosing the topics.”
Designed as a continua
tion of parenting classes.
Circle of Parents helps
reinforce the lessons al
ready learned and apply
them in real life.
“Parenting is a difficult
task, and these kids don’t
come with handbooks,”
Nelson said. “It just helps
people to talk. We aU need
to vent.”
And having open dis
cussions allows parents
to learn from each other.
“A lot of parents have
the basic skills of par
enting and feel confident
in their parental skUls
but yet sometimes feel
frustrated isolated from
other parents that might
be having similar prob
lems,” Nelson said. “The
concept of Circle of Par
ents is to remove the iso
lation factor of similar
parents and give them a
place to go and just talk.”
Venting and parental
support aside. Nelson
added that Circle of Par
ents gives child rearers a
breather from their kids
and a moment to just re
lax.
“It’s so much fun,”
Nelson said. “We’ve had
a blast. There’s tons of
testing that’s been done
that proves that if people
Food donation offers small
reprieve for empty pantry
Until Monday, Fairgrove Family Resource Center
was having some pantry problems. Down 80 percent
on food donations and smack dab in the middle of
the food drive drought — which typically improves
around the holidays — Terri Nelson, executive di
rector, said the center had struggled to deal with in
creasing numbers of those in need.
“We have been close to serving record numbers all
summer long,” she said.
But Feed the Children — an International char
ity based in Oklahoma that delivers food, medicine,
clothing and other necessities — came to the rescue.
Rich Fork Baptist Church sponsored the distribu
tion of food from Feed the Children to 400 area fami
lies. The resource center received a portion of that
food, enough to fill a 15-foot trailer. Nelson said.
“It was a lot of food,” Nelson said. “We got every
thing you can think of. We’ll give it out until it’s
gone.”
To donate, visit the Fairgrove Family Resource
Center at 217 Cedar Lodge Road or call (336) 472-
7217.
Seaman Hurley reports for duty
implement what they’re
taught, they’U really im
prove their relationship
with their kids. We’re try
ing to improve families
one family at a time,”
For more information
about Circle of Parents,
call Fairgrove Family
Resource Center at (336)
472-7217.
Staff Writer Erin Wilt-
gen can be reached at 888-
3576 or at newsdesk@tvil-
letimes.com.
TIMES Staff Report
Navy Seaman Edward W Hurley, III, son of Terri
and Edward W. Hurley of Lexington, N. C., recently
reported for duty at Navy and Marine Corps Intelli
gence Training Center, Virginia Beach, Va.
Hurley is a 2009 graduate of Central Davidson High
School of Lexington, N. C. and joined the Navy in May
2010.
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get a new fuse box. That’s
when Prince noticed
smoke.
He immediately took
Morris’ mother, wrapped
in blankets from the cold,
out to the car. Morris
went to the bedroom for
some Important papers
and valuables. When
she came out, the smoke
had advanced down the
stairs.
“It was like a ball,” she
recalled. “You couldn’t
see how to get out.”
Morris made it out onto
the porch, but couldn’t
see the stairs to climb
down. By that time, she
was coughing from the
smoke. A woman who had
stopped to help assisted
Morris down the stairs.
Soon after, firemen ar
rived, and Morris joined
Prince and her mother
in the car a little ways up
the street.
“We just sat there and
watched it,” Morris said.
“That’s about aU we could
do.”
Though everyone got
out safely Morris es
caped with little more
than the clothes on her
back. Firemen declared
the home a total loss, esti
mating more than $60,000
in external and internal
damages.
Looking back on that
day, Morris says it was
hard to wrap her head
around what happened.
“ReaUy you’re so
shocked,” she said. “You
know it’s real, but it’s like
it’s reaUy not happening.
It’s really not sinking
in.”
The Red Cross gave
Morris a $545 credit card,
which she used to stay in
a motel for a few nights
before living with her
daughter until summer
2010.
Until recently, the mem
ory of the fire burned too
harshly in Morris’ mind.
“I couldn’t come over
here for a long time,”
she said. “I’d start crying
and go aU to pieces. It’s
only been in the last few
months when I foimd out
I was getting a house.”
And since she moved
into the house April 1,
1976, Morris’ feelings of
loss stem from more than
finances.
“When you live some
where that long, it’s
home, and it takes a long
time,” she said. “I guess
nowhere else feels like
home.”
With Habitat swooping
to the rescue, however,
that might change. Rice
says Habitat is in the pro
cess of raisingmoneyand
construction has already
begun. Thomasville High
School’s masonry class
has worked this week
on the foundation. The
THS Masonry class —
A hands-on work experience
Thomasville High School’s eight-student masonry
class, led by Instructor Dwight Broder, is helping
Habitat for Humanity buUd Virgil Morris’ home
as part of its national curriculum. FoUowing stan
dards set by the National Center for Construction
education Research, the class offers students the
opportunity to receive nationafiy recognized cre
dentials upon completion. The curriculum is devel
oped based on industry-described standards and is
catered toward giving students the skills they need
in the workforce.
“The curriculum I teach them is getting them in
dustry-ready” Broder said. “It gives them a heads-
up in getting hired.”
Habitat provides the class an opportunity to work
through the curriculum in hands-on construc
tion. For example, the students must learn how to
lay brick and build stairs, so Habitat has acquired
bricks donated from Cunningham Brick Co.
“We’re providing the classroom,” said Greg Rice
high school’s carpentry
class will erect the fram
ing, and Ledford High
School’s electrical wiring
class also wUl pitch in.
“We’re rocking and
roUlng with it,” Rice
said. “It’s going to be a
real community effort,
putting her home back.”
The construction pro
cess hasn’t been without
its difficulties, however.
An abandoned weU was
discovered last week —
unknown to Morris since
the house was built in
1919 — and Habitat had
to go through a well aban
donment process with the
Velasquez completes U.S. Navy basic training
TIMES Staff Report
Navy Seaman Jonathan
G. Velasquez, a 2009 grad
uate of Ledford Senior
High School, recently
completed U.S. Navy ba
sic training at Recruit
Training Command,
Great Lakes, lU.
During the eight-week
program, Velasquez com
pleted a variety of train
ing which included class
room study and practical
instruction on naval cus
toms, first aid, firefight
ing, water safety and
survival, and shipboard
and aircraft safety. An
emphasis was also placed
on physical fitness.
The capstone event
of boot camp is “Battle
Stations”. This exercise
gives recruits the skUls
and confidence they need
to succeed in the fleet.
“Battle Stations” is de
signed to galvanize the
basic warrior attributes
of sacrifice, dedication,
teamwork and endur
ance in each recruit
through the practical ap
plication of basic Navy
skUls and the core values
of Honor, Courage and
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state to seal it. Also, when
the house was torn down,
debris fell into the base
ment, so Habitat had to
pay to restabUize the soU
with 10 tons of gravel.
“Now that they’ve got
something started, it
seems like it won’t be
long,” Morris said. “I’m
so thankful for Habitat.
I think it’s wonderful the
way they help people.
Without them, I wouldn’t
be able to have a home.”
Staff Writer Erin Wilt-
gen can be reached at 888-
3576 or at newsdesk@tvil-
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