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5401
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The Louise Wills Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington opened in April 2002 and is the new home of St. John's Museum of Art. The 42,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility is the only museum in the country dedicated solely \"to collecting, preserving, archiving, and displaying the art of North Carolina.\"
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Fayetteville received the first franchise in the new National Basketball Development League, for players 20 and older. The league has eight teams in the Southeast and plays a 56-game season beginning November 2001. Cumberland County expects to net around $123,000 the first year.
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Brafford discusses the popularity of NASCAR racing and how it contributes to the state's economic growth through racing events and activities related to the racing industry.
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Craven Williams, president of Greensboro College, pushes himself and the college to be the best they both can be. Williams had twenty years experience as a college administrator when he came to the college in 1993. Since then he has raised over $50 million for the school; by 2013 he hopes to reach $100 million. Williams is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's “executive profile.â€
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Brafford describes five new golf courses that have opened in the state since Labor Day 2001: Farmstead Golf Links (Calabash); The Heritage Club (Wake Forest); The Links at Cotton Valley (Tarboro); Old Chatham Golf Course (Durham); and The Preserve at Jordan Lake.
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The North Carolina Golf Panel pairs with BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA to publish rankings of the state's top one hundred golf courses. In making their choices judges considered the course's conditioning, routing, design, strategy, memorability, fairness, variety and aesthetics. As it has since the panel began in 1995, Pinehurst No. 2 held the top position.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 3, Mar 2010,
p36-38, 40, il
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The North Carolina Golf Panel, a 135-member organization that includes journalists, golf professionals, and college coaches, rates the state's top one hundred golf courses. The scoring system includes such factors as conditioning, design, strategy, and memorability. Pinehurst No. 2 was rated Number 1 for the 18th straight year.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 4, Apr 2012,
p36, 38, 40, il
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement discusses Johnston County, a county that benefits economically from its location. Two interstates and two U.S. highways pass through it, carrying products and attracting new businesses and people. An available work force, nearness to customers and access to ports in Wilmington, Norfolk, and Charleston are other reasons for its attractiveness to business.
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Sharon Allred Decker is president of Doncaster. Headquartered in Rutherfordton, it is the largest direct selling division of the Tanner Companies, a woman's apparel manufacturer. Decker is featured in this month's NORTH CAROLINA magazine's \"executive profile.\"
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5873
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Krista S. Tillman, president of BellSouth North Carolina Operations in Charlotte, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's \"executive profile.\"
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The North Carolina magazine Golf Panel voted the Rock Barn Golf & Spa in Conover the Best New Course for 2003. he course was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Rock Barn takes its name from a natural rock-studded creek that weaves its way through the course.
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Acclaimed golf course designer Donald Ross created the Pine Needles Golf Course. After seventy-five years of play, the course was showing its age. Much discussion over many months led to the decision to restore the course as close to the original as possible. Brafford discusses the restoration process.
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Phyllis Crain is executive director and chief executive officer of Crossnore School, Inc., a school that helps troubled kids overcome long odds. Crain, a former teacher and principal, was superintendent of Avery County Schools before accepting her present position. She is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's \"executive profile.\"
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\"Bodie\" Bodenheimer has served as many things in his life -- school teacher and coach, bank president and brigadier-general in the North Carolina Army National Guard. In his 60s and dissatisfied with retirement, he bought a fledgling company and turned it around. Today he is chairman and CEO of Zickgraf Enterprises, Inc. Bodenheimer is featured this month in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's \"executive profile\".
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Sue Cole is the first woman to become chair of the board of North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI). Cole is currently CEO of U.S. Trust in Greensboro, a company with assets of over $3.4 billion.
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