june 13, 2014 - sanford herald, a1
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FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2014 SANFORDHERALD.COM • $1
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Community calendar ..........A2
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INDEXHAPPENING TODAYSANFORD: Joyce Eileen Baker Carr, 75; Michael McIver, 61; Ethel Mae Hancock, 78BEAR CREEK: Tempie Watkins Oldham, 85FAYETTEVILLE: Roy Lee HolleyVASS: John Peter VergesWEST END: Billy M. Bryant, 89
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OBITUARIESHigh: 88Low: 67
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A glow party fundraiser, with Jen-nifer Chappell and Caycee Maples, will be held from 6-8 p.m. at Cheer Extreme Sanford, 3492 Cameron Drive, Sanford. The cost is $10 at the door.
CALENDAR, PAGE A2High: 87Low: 67
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Full and half-day camps for boys and girls will be offered from June 16 through Aug. 8 at San-Lee Park in Sanford. Seven different nature-themed sessions will be offered, featuring hands-on activities and crafts. Fees are $60 per week for a half-day camp, and $100 per week for a full day. Payments must be received on the Friday prior to the session. For more information, call (919) 776-6221 and ask for Jaime Osborne or Carrie Council.
SAN-LEE PARK
FLAG DAYThe Elks Lodge will host its annual Flag Day event to educate children on the meaning and purpose of Flag Day, which commemorates the day 237 years ago in 1777 when the Second Continental Congress adopted the flag of the United States. The event will take place from noon to 1 p.m. on Saturday at the Elks Lodge swimming pool at 910 Carthage St. Free hot dogs will be provided.
READING FUNJoin the summer reading fun at the Lee County Library. Toddlers and Preschoolers story time will be on Wednesday, June 18, at 10 a.m. The theme will be “Fizz, Boom, Read!” featuring Nate the Great Scientist. Programs take place in the auditorium at the Main Library unless otherwise announced. For more information, please contact Delisa Williams at (919) 718-4665 ext. 5484 or Sheneeta Thomas at ext. 5485.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?The annual celebration of dads returns with Father’s
Day on Sunday. What are the qualities of a good dad?
Tara Allen“Someone that loves you unconditionally. My stepfather raised me as his own. He still calls and checks up on me to make sure I’m doing alright.”
Shana Thomas“Good-hearted, kind, lov-ing, religious and patient. A dad should be all those things.”
Tyler DeAngelis“He loves you and gives you support. He protects you and makes you feel safe.”
Tevin Thomas (left) Arian McIver (right)
“Somebody who takes care of their kids and their responsibilities. A good dad is one who can play both roles.”Photos by Zach Potter | The Sanford Herald
Students have hugs and thank you cards for Danny Hester on the last day of school at J. Glenn Edwards Elementary School.
Will Doran | The Sanford Herald
SPORTS: 2014 U.S. Open Championship coverage from Pinehurst • Pages B6-7
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After 31 years teaching in Lee County, including working
at J. Glenn Edwards Elementary School every year it has existed, Danny Hester is retiring.
Tuesday was Hester’s last day at the school, where he has spent most of his professional career, teaching children — and even some children of former students — to love music like he does.
“The best part about this is I teach them through fifth grade, so I get to see them for more than one year and can see them grow,” Hester said. “It’s great watching the fifth-graders, and seeing how they’re better than the first-graders, but knowing that the first-graders will be there soon.”
Edwards’ first-year principal, Christina Womble, said Hester was a huge help in her own transition to leading the school — through both his deep institutional knowledge and his chipper attitude. Hester is the first to arrive at school around 6 a.m. every day, leads the car line so he can greet all the kids and their parents, and emcees most school events.
“He’s honestly just such a pillar of J. Glenn Edwards, he’s huge in all we do,” Womble said, calling him “the one to go to, always willing to help out.”
Hester, 56, took his first piano lesson in second grade and hasn’t stopped playing since. He has a
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Longtime music teacher ends his Edwards Elementary career
LEAVING ON A
Hometown is ‘the whole
package’Editor’s note: This is the second
in a four-part series examining why people move to Sanford — and why others never moved away in the first place.
SANFORD — You can’t choose where you’re born, but you can choose where you set-tle down and raise a family.
What about those who claim Sanford as their birth-place — and their current home?
“I have ver y deep roots here,” said lifelong Sanford resident and former Nor th Carolina Lt. Gov. Dennis A. Wicker, who has lived in the same house since the day he was born. “All my life, I’ve never had a different home.”
Wicker, for whom Sanford’s civic center is named, was elected lieutenant governor in 1993. He said there was an
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BY ZACH [email protected]
SANFORD — Lee County has been scrubbed from a bill that would have prevented the school board from suing the county over improper funding after local school leaders questioned both its motives and constitutionality.
Lee Superintendent Andy Bryan, though, said Wednesday he’s not sure if the Lee County Board of Education’s unanimous opposition played a role in the change. No one associated with the schools has claimed knowl-edge of why Lee County was originally included in the bill,
which originated in the N.C. House, or why it was subse-quently taken out, Bryan said.
He said he sent an email to the committee looking the bill over on Tuesday and heard back simply that he shouldn’t be con-cerned anymore because Lee County wouldn’t be affected.
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Lee no longer included in proposed lawBY WILL DORAN
Bill would have kept BOE from suing county
DESTINATION: SANFORD
BY WILL DORAN • [email protected]
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