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for "Humphries, Tara L."
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Begun in 1990, the state's Solid Waste Management Trust Fund has awarded 118 grants totaling over $2 million to assist towns in waste reduction plans. Farmville in Pitt County used a grant to begin recycling office paper.
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Originating in a project to plant daylilies, the \"New Day in Lumberton\" program in 1996 won a National League of Cities James C. Howland Award for Urban Enrichment, for cities with a population under 50,000.
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The state's mountains are home to the country's fourth largest group of craftsmen. Based in Asheville, HandMade in America promotes their work, benefitting not only the artisans but also the state's economy.
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The Fox Creek Nature Lab, a fifty-two acre outdoor learning project in Louisburg, Franklin County, features a trail with learning stations on water quality, living wetlands, wildlife enhancement, and forestry management.
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Opening in January, 1998, the N.C. Estuarium in Washington portrays the estuarine system created by the Pamlico River and Pamlico Sound. Exhibits pertain to fish and wildlife, ecosystems, human interaction with the estuary, and history.
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Medical Alert Kits that can be stored in a refrigerator assist Stanly County EMT workers in giving medical aid. The kits contain vital information, including patient's doctor, allergies, and prescriptions. The county has distributed 2,500 kits to date.
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Wilmington is donating the fossil remains of a prehistoric giant sloth, found there in 1991, to the N.C. State Museum of Natural Sciences. It is the most complete sloth skeleton ever found in the state. The creature weighed three tons and was eighteen feet long.
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3979
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The Raleigh Police Department's Gerald Barham is the 1998 North Carolina Animal Control of the Year.
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The state opened its first community learning center in October. Heritage Park, a southeast Raleigh public housing complex, was chosen for the pilot project. The center brings existing resources to the community, providing basic job and educational skills to both students and parents.
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10.Cities' Carousels Merrily Go 'Round by Humphries, Tara L. Southern City Vol. 49 Issue 1, Jan 1999
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4077
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Carousels, with wooden horses fixed in galloping positions and music gaily playing, have entertained parents and children for generations. Today slightly over 170 of them remain. Five reside in the state. Burlington's and Raleigh's are on the National Register of Historic Places. Shelby has just registered its carousel and is seeking registration.
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Lucius S. Jones, the new president of the N.C. League of Municipalities, will promote getting more people involved in league activities and a closer relationship between the league and the N.C. Association of County Commissioners. Jones is in his ninth year as Wendell's mayor, and his community activities include Boy Scouts, chamber of commerce, and Habitat for Humanity.
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With 70,000 athletes from 150 countries participating, the 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games, which are being held in the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area, will be the largest international sporting event ever held in the state. Before the games begin, over 130 towns across the state will host the athletes for several days to give them a taste of Southern hospitality. Greenville will host athletes from Japan.
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In 1998, Charlotte became the first city in the Southeast to put an electronic photo program into operation to reduce red light running. The city contracted with Lockheed Martin, which owns and operates the system and mails citations, collects fines, and schedules court appearances. In the first eight months Charlotte issued 17,000 citations at monitored intersections. This was six times more than the previous year. There was also a thirty-eight percent drop in the number of accidents caused by red light runners at these same intersections.
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In 1998, Salisbury became the first city in the Southeast to use an electronic ticketing system to catch railroad crossing violations. Henderson Street was one of the city's worst crossings, averaging three violations a week during the twenty-week baseline period. Violations dropped to .65 per week when ticketing began. Nationally, the state ranked fourteenth in 1997 in train/vehicle collisions.
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\"Monroe as a Classroom\" is a senior honors elective course at Piedmont High School that gets students in touch with their heritage. Students do research on one of eleven historic buildings in downtown Monroe and then create a display to tell the building's story. Students not only learn about their heritage but also about oral history, historic preservation, and architecture.
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