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DISTRICT JUDGE POIJ BAREFOOT heard Celeste iMcklear
read her book as part of the Adopt A Child reading program at
Shallotte Middle School.
Community Leaders Adopt
Readers At Middle School
Shallottc Middle School has be
conic an adoption agcncy.
However, no babies are involved
and no parenting expected. Instead,
an adult volunteer who participates
adopts a student from the school as a
reading partner, purchases an appro
priate book for that student to read
and spends a toial of an hour with
that young person in the school on
two separate visits.
Part of the Chapter I reading pro
gram led by Barbara J. Holcombc
and Dayna Raines Sanders, this pro
ject recruited more than a dozen
Brunswick County leaders, includ
ing N.C. Rep. David Redwine,
District Judge Poli Barefoot and
District Attorney Rex Gore, along
with several business executives and
others who hold responsible posi
tions.
The adopting adult visits Shallottc
Middle School on a pre-arranged
day to present a book to the student
of their choice and to spend a few
minutes discussing their position in
the community and why reading is
important. This participant returns
tin a later (kite to hear the txxik read
by the student.
Several related activities can ac
company this shared reading. The
school encourages recognition by
teachers in the form of certificates,
ribbons or other awards for a desig
nated number of books read. Any
class in which 100 books were read
was treated to an icc crcam party by
Principal Mark Owens.
Rex Gore instigated his own re
ward activity. He presented the book
Counting on Frank, to Alyxandra
Kuigre. his student reader, and left
with Alyxandra a bag of candy with
a S5 bill attached. Since the book
was about counting, the student was
to guess the number of candies in
the bag. For a correct guess and two
books read by a certain date,
Alyxandra got to keep the S5.
The purpose of the program is to
improve reading ability and develop
an understanding of why reading is
important to become responsible cit
izens in the society.
Habitat Regional Director To Talk
Sandra Graham, regional director
of Habitat for Humanity Interna
tional, will be the featured speaker
Friday, May 22, at a general meeting
of Brunswick County Habitat for
Humanity.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m.
at St. James the Fisherman Epis
copal Church, 4941 Main Street,
Shallottc.
The Rev. Richard Warner and the
Rev. Jack Hancox, co-chairmen, in
vite the public to attend and learn
more about this ecumenical pro
gram, which helps low-income fam
ilies obtain decent housing of their
own by becoming partners in the
Habitat effort.
Ms. Graham will meet with mem
bers of the board of directors at 4
p.m. that same day for a training
session, also at St. James.
Dr. Michael W. WilWerson
is no longer associated with
Brunswick Islands Medical Associates
Dr. Gary Ross and Dr. Samuel Kirtley
will provide care for his patients.
The BRUNSWICK BPAGC
Union Primary School's
End-Of-Year Bash
St ^
McDonalds
of Shallotte
Tues., May 26
4 'til 9 PM
Bring all your friends & relatives
& buy hamburgers...
20% of all sales from
4 to 9 will be donated to
Union Primary School
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STUDENTS IN THE NEWS
74 Attain ECU Honor List
Fourteen students with Brunswick
County lies earned academic honors
during the spring semester at East
Carolina University in Greenville.
All 14 attained the honor roll,
earning a B average with no grade
below C.
The students and their parents or
guardians arc as follows:
Trina Kathleen Benton, Gerald
Wayne and Ellen Kathleen Benton,
Route 2. Ash; Sherry Lynn Fields,
William D. and Shcla J. Fields,
Shalloue; Sara Lynn Hardee, Curtis
K. and Sheryl A. Hardee, Calabash;
Cheryl Lamcicc Jones, Charles C.
and Evclena L. Jones, Winnabow;
Steven Davis Scarborough, Jack and
Rosic Scarborough, Shalloue; Harold
Dean Smith, Bennie H. and Sally V.
Smith, Route 1, Ash; Tammy Rcncc
Somerset!, Charles W. and Dianna
While Somersett, Route 7, Shalloue;
Bonnie Lynn Stanley, Bun J. and
Dorothy W. Stanley, Route 3.
Shalloue; Holly Dean Tripp. James
Ralph and Lcona Lynn Tripp, Route
1, Ash; B. Gore Vemelson of
Greenville, Thomas Frederick and
Jcttcy Sullivan Gore, Supply;
Also, Phillip Mcrrit Becker,
Carolyn Schmacher, Southport;
Jocllcn Carol Best, Joe C. and Jessie
M. Best, Route 2, Leland; Ash
Leigh Brook Dalrymplc, James W.
and Brcnda Dalrymplc, Leland;
Tracy Lynn Haddock, William B.
Haddock of Leland and Mitzi H.
Brombcry of Greenville.
To Work As Intern
Rommyn Skipper of Leland was
one of 51 college students selected
by a nonprofit foundation to work as
copy editing interns at daily newspa
pers or news services this summer.
Skipper was chosen from a group
of 715 applicants by a panel of jour
nalism professors and professional
newspaper editors. After a two-week
training course in copy editing, libel
law and press ethics, Skipper will
work as an intern at the Richmond
Times-Dispalch in Richmond, Va.
A senior at Brigham Young
University, Skipper is the son of
Dyion and Carolynn Skipper.
The program is sponsored by the
Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, a
foundation supported by the Dow
Jones Foundation and other newspa
per companies to encourage young
people to consider journalism ca
reers.
Recent Graduate
Roscita L. Jones of Holden Beach
graduated with honors from Peace
College in Raleigh May 9.
Ms. Jones earned a 4.0 grade
point average as a journalism and
communications major.Shc plans to
continue her education at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
She is the daughter of Richard
and Fran Jones of Holdcn Beach.
Receives Degree
Brunswick County native Diane
Marlow has
earned her mas
ter of arts degree
in education
from Regent
University in
Virginia Beach,
Va.
Ms. Marlow is
the daughter of
Rudolph and Ar
vclla Marlow of
Thomasboro and a graduate of North
Carolina Central University in
Durham. She currently lives in
Chesapeake, Va., and works with the
Norfolk, Va., public school system.
MARLOW
Graduate Campbell
Two Brunswick County residents
received degrees at Campbell Uni
versity's 106th commencement ex
ercises held May 1 1 .
Karen Rene Hcwett of Shallottc
received a doctorate in pharmacy.
Valerie Lynn Smith of Southport
earned a bachelor's degree in busi
ness administration.
Campbell University in a private
Southern Baptist school located in
Buics Creek
Watch Group To
Honor Students
The Brunswick County Com
munity Watch Association will hon
or four outstanding students during
their school's awards day programs
this month.
An eighth grader at Waccamaw
Elementary, Shallottc Middle, South
Brunswick Middle and Lcland
Middle school will each reccivc a
trophy and S50 savings bond for ex
hibiting the traits and characteristics
of good citizenship, said Sheriff's
Deputy Don Gates of Brunswick
County Community Watch.
Winning students will be chosen
by faculty members at each school,
said Gates. The Association will
sponsor the awards each year, he
said.
Community Watch groups
throughout the county help deputies
patrol neighborhoods as a deterrent
to crime.
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PARENT VOLUNTEER Susan Carroll helps kindergartners
Travis Gabree (left) and Janaan McEntire play Brainy Itingn on
Math Day.
Project Makes Math Fun
The math team at Lincoln
Primary School set out to prove how
much fun math could be with a re
cent Math Activities Day. A variety
of games and projects were planned
for each grade level.
Kindergartncrs and first grade
students measured with sand, rice
and beans and graphed with planes,
cars and other objects. They also
used pattern blocks to fill hexagons
and played a special version of
Brainy Bingo. Parent volunteers su
pervised each center.
Second graders displayed consid
erable excitement as they weighed,
estimated and worked wiih tangrams
and rolled color cubes for probabili
ty
Third graders learned about mea
suring and estimating meters and
kilometers by competing in six un
usual metric "Math Olympics" ac
tivities. Paper airplanes sailed
through the air, but kids weren't
"goofing off." The flights constitut
ed a learning opportunity to estimate
how far the planes would fly, then
measure with a meter stick to check
the predictions.
As first grader Adam Watson put
it, "Math is fun when things like that
happen."
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