The
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Hoke County^s newspaper since 1905
No.25VoLlll
Raeford & Hoke County n.c.
Wednesday, August 24,2016
Sandhills sets up free tuition plan
For Hoke, Moore students who ‘fall through the cracks’
By Catharin Shepard
Staff writer
Sandhills Community College
announced this week a scholarship
for new high school graduates in
Hoke and Moore counties that will
offer two years of free tuition for
students who meet certain criteria.
The Sandhills Promise scholar
ship will give two years of free
tuition to degree-seeking curricu
lum students who enroll at SCC
the fall semester after they gradu
ate from high school. The scholar
ship is open to public, private and
homeschooled students beginning
in 2017.
There are a few requirements
for students to be considered for
the scholarship, SCC Financial
Aid Director Lindsey Farmer
explained.
To qualify, students must have
completed at least four classes
through the College and Career
Promise program, a statewide
dual enrollment initiative that al
lows high school students to take
college-level classes. Prospective
scholarship recipients also must
have made at least a C letter grade
- a 2.0 grade-point average - in
their dual enrollment classes.
To make sure current high
school seniors have a chance to
take advantage of the scholarship,
for the first year of the program,
students will only be required to
(See SCHOLARSHIPS, page 9)
Puppy Creek gets
100-foot, $1 million
ladder truck
6 years ago there were no buildings in
Hoke over 3 stories, now there are 17
The first ladder truck in Hoke County.
By Catharin Shepard
Staff writer
High in the sky: a Puppy Creek fireman gets a feel for the new truck, delivered to the department last week. Hoke
has grown not only in population but in building height. (Catharin Shepard photo)
After two years of work
and planning. Puppy Creek
Fire Department took
delivery last week of a
million-dollar fire truck that
will help them provide fire
protection to Hoke County’s
tallest buildings.
The custom-built fire
engine ladder truck has a
100-foot ladder, the first of
its kind in the county’s his
tory.
In the past, Hoke didn’t
have many buildings over
two stories. Over the last
several years, however, de
velopment brought taller
(See FIRE TRUCK, page 9)
This Week
Parents can
track buses
Page 4
Man stabbed
in stomach
with pole
Page 4
Browsing the Files 2
Calendar 2
Classifieds 8
Deaths 9
Editorials 3
Worship 4
Olympics clothing started here
By Catharin Shepard
Staff writer
Olympic athletes decked out in cloth made here.
The whole world got a
sneak peek at Raeford’s man
ufacturing capabilities when
American Olympic athletes
put on their team uniform
blazers at the Rio Olympics.
The Burlington plant on
Turnpike Road was one of
several companies owned by
International Textile Group
that made the fabrics designer
Ralph Lauren used to create
the team uniforms for the ath
letes representing the United
States.
“It was a very special mo
ment for all of us who work at
the plant,” Burlington man
ager Calvin House said.
The worsted wool fabric
started out as plain wool fiber
that workers at the Raeford
plant dyed. The fiber was sent
on to the company’s plant in
Cordova, where it was woven
into fabric. After the weaving
process, the fabric returned to
Raeford’s Burlington facility
for final processing.
“After finishing, we sent
the cloth to Ralph Lauren’s
cutters to be made into the
(See OLYMPICS, page 9)
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By Ken MacDonald
Now you New Yorkers know pizza—I’ll give you
that. And you Yankees from Massachusetts know
your lobster rolls. But when it comes to one particular
food, you need to leave the conversation.
This ain’t field peas:
It’s good, but it ain’t field peas: Luck’s Blackeye Peas
It’s what we in the South eat at New Year’s, true,
and this particular brand originated nearby in
(See OTHER STUFF, page 10)
Eddie McNeill shows proper southern field peas.
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Marvin Johnson
House
of Raeford
founder dies
The man who founded
the House of Raeford
poultry company and
oversaw the business for
decades died last week at
the age of 89.
Edgar Marvin Johnson
Sr., who was hailed as an
industry pioneer, passed
away peacefully in his
(See JOHNSON, page 2)