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for "Gannon, Renee"
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31189
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As the need for quality child care increases, options are becoming more available, thanks to caring providers, local agencies and the state of North Carolina. This article discusses the state of child care in North Carolina, child care options, state requirements, rating systems, and parents’ responsibilities. Also provided, is a list of child care resources for each county.
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31235
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The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, located at University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, provides specialized medical care and rehabilitation services to burn victims. The medical team at the center hopes to teach people how to avoid burn injuries, especially injuries to children. This article describes the foundation of the burn center and its medical programs.
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31259
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According to the Carolina Organ Procurement Agency in Durham, more than two-thousand North Carolinians are waiting for organ or tissue donations. The statewide program of the EMC Volunteers Committee in 1999 is to promote organ and tissue donation. In this article, a North Carolina family discusses organ donation and their experience.
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31292
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According to the Wake County Cooperative Extension office, water quality across North Carolina is good, even in rural areas, despite the possibility of a lurking problem in groundwater under rural farmland treated with pesticides years ago. This article discusses water quality issues in the state and offers a guide to maintaining private well water.
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35213
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This publication, coming from Joyner’s two decades of service, is more shared appreciation for what he contributed to Carolina Country than shared math puzzles and history riddles.
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35235
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Uprooting family mysteries can have unexpected and disappointing results, as the author illustrated in her article’s opening. What can help make the exploration easier, Gannon offered as follow up to her research journey. One was online tools, complete with an assessment for each. Another was recognizing limitations with finding particular categories of people, such as women, and limitations associated with certain types of resources, such as birth certificates.
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40675
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What to see in a town touting legendary barbecue restaurants includes an annual air show at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.
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Goldsboro--History; Wayne County--History; Seymour Johnson Air Force Base (Goldsboro); Seymour Johnson Air Force Base--Wings Over Wayne Air Show ; Air shows--Goldsboro; Wings Over Wayne Air Show--U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds; Goldsboro--Mountains-To-Sea Trail; Goldsboro--NC African-American Music Trail ; NC African-American Music Trail--see also African American Music Trails of North Carolina ; Barbecue cookery--Goldsboro; Wilber's Barbeque (Goldsboro); Grady's Barbecue (Dudley)
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40677
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Literary guidebooks co-created by the North Carolina Arts Council celebrate the selected writings and their authors, representatives of the state's multicultural spectrum. This article, Tour 12 of the “Literary Trails of North Carolina” series, profiles novels set in North Carolina towns and writers such as O. Henry.
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North Carolina Arts Council; LITERARY TRAILS OF NORTH CAROLINA (book); Eubanks, Georgann; Edgerton, Clyde, 1944-; Hart, John, 1965-; Maron, Margaret; Porter, William S.--see O. Henry; State Library of North Carolina ; Michener, Meredith Slane; Murrow, Edward R., 1908-1965; International Civil Rights Center and Museum (Greensboro)
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40696
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Pettigrew State Park offers steps into Northeastern North Carolina’s scenic beauty. Somerset Place, situated within Pettigrew, offer a step back into North Carolina life, pre-Civil War. Such sites help to make the state, from mountains to coast, a popular tourist destination.
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Pettigrew State Park; State parks--North Carolina; Somerset Place (Creswell); Somerset Place (Creswell)--History; Plantations--North Carolina; Antebellum period--North Carolina ; Lake Phelps; Great Eastern Dismal--see also Great Alligator Dismal; Old growth forests--North Carolina--Lake Phelps; Dug-out canoes--Lake Phelps--Native Americans; Somerset Place--slaves--Sucky Davis family ; Somerset Homecoming--Somerset Place--slaves descendants; Historic homes--interpretive tours
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40697
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The family-owned Conrad & Hinkle Food Market is well known for its pimento cheese sandwiches. On the Daniel Boone Heritage Canoe Trail, guests of downtown restaurants like Conrad & Hinkle can burn off calories accrued. Lexington’s reputation can be built on perks other than its legendary barbecue.
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North Carolina Daniel Boone Heritage Canoe Trail (Lexington); Lexington--Description and travel; Barbecue--see also barbeque; Lexington--Economic conditions; Davidson County--History; Davidson County--Description and travel; Boone's Cave Park (Lexington); Lexington--hiking trails ; Davidson County--Industry; Davidson County--Economic conditions
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Thermal Valley Hang Gliding is located between Morganton and Lenoir. Near Wilkesboro, owners, Dima and Merin Sazinas of the Sky Retreat's Blue Ridge Paragliding Center are both professional ballroom dancers and paragliders. In the Peidmont, Statesville and Iredell County are home to balloon manufactuerer Firefly Balloons. Offering hangliding on the coast, Kitty Hawk Kites Flight School has multiple locations.
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The festival has been held since 1985. Liver Mush is described as a blend of head meat, liver, cornmeal and various seasonings blended together to form a mush which is then refrigerated in rectangular pans forming bricks which are then cooked. the concept is thought to have derived from German immigrants.
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"Local musicians are honored at the NC Music Hall of Fame." Originally based in Thomasville, the hall opened in 1994 but moved to Kannapolis in 2008.
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Dubbed as Nature’s Playground, Burke County, North Carolina offers a variety of activities such as hiking, kayaking, hang gliding, and wine tours. South Mountains State Park provides a backcountry experience for all levels of outdoor enthusiasts. There are also a number of waterfalls and lakes to explore in the area.
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Winter Storm Jonas brought snow and freezing rain to most of North Carolina in January 2016. At the storm’s peak, North Carolina Electric Cooperatives reported twenty-five thousand power outages, with most of the outages occurring in the Sandhills and central regions of the state.
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