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Winners of the North Carolina Folklore Society's 1998 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award are Glenn and Lula Owens Bolick, Donald and Betty Jones, Sheila Kay Adams, and Dwaine Calley.
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Newsletter of the North Carolina Folklore Society
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N59x), Vol. 20 Issue 1, Mar 1998,
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Jean Goodman, who teaches at Alamance County's Western Middle School, is the 1998 winner of the Terry Sanford Award for Creativity in Teaching and Administration. The award, created in 1966, honors educational contributions of Terry Sanford.
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NCAE News Bulletin
(NoCar Oversize L 11 N822x), Vol. 28 Issue 8, May 1998,
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Sculptor Robert Burkhart founded Imaginative Initiatives in 1996 in Summerfield. He created twenty works of people in various poses. These he sells to people or companies for $100 to $2,000. The company averages about ten sales a week.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 6, June 1998,
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3738
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North Carolina Partners in Flight, which started in 1993 with Mark Johns as state coordinator, is part of an international effort to maintain migratory bird populations. It seeks to accomplish this through habitat protection, education, management, and professional training.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 62 Issue 5, May 1998,
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The 30-foot-long skeleton of a humpback whale, killed in a boat collision in Beaufort Inlet, has been acquired by the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. It will replace the 67 year-old finback whale skeleton, whose bones have become brittle.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 62 Issue 5, May 1998,
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In 1997, Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. appointed Phil Kirk as chairman of the State Board of Education. His many accomplishments include serving in the General Assembly and as chief of staff for two governors. His term expires March 31, 2005.
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NCAE News Bulletin
(NoCar Oversize L 11 N822x), Vol. 28 Issue 7, Apr 1998,
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3748
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Over one hundred electric utilities, including those of city governments and consumer-owned cooperatives, provide the state's electricity services. Each utility operates in an assigned area.
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3753
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Nine residents of the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area remember their joys and pains of growing up either gay or lesbian.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 16 Issue 21, June 1998,
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William O. King of Durham was elected president of the North Carolina State Bar on October 23, 1997. King left a prominent sportswriting career to obtain a law degree from Wake Forest University. He was admitted to the bar in 1964.
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3777
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Among the winners of the N.C. Wildlife Federation's Governor's Conservation Achievement Award are River Park North/Greenville Parks and Recreation, JoAnne Burkholder, and Pinebrook Elementary School in Mocksville.
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Some cities have sister cities abroad including Laurinburg paired with Oban, Scotland and Asheville with Karakol, Kyrgyzstan. Benefits from the program include being more informed about the world and more aware of how other cultures solve problems.
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Billie Redmond is president of Raleigh-based Trademark Properties, Inc., one of the largest women-owned real estate firms in the state. In 1998, she created Carolina Forestry to advise buyers on selling timber on their land. This is the first timber-management business in the state paired with a real estate company.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 8, Aug 1998,
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3822
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Becky Hoyle, a teacher at Jacksonville Commons Elementary in Onslow County, is the North Carolina Teacher of the Year for 1998-1999. She has taught in Onslow County for twenty-one years.
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A math project of Ginger Watson, math teacher at New London Elementary in Stanly County, has been recognized for excellence by both the state and federal departments of education. Students learned through visits to varied businesses that math has many applications beyond the classroom.
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Ron Dotson, a fisheries biologist, is the new director of the North Carolina Sea Grant College Program, effective July 1, 1998. He has been interim director since January, 1997. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A & M and has authored or co-authored over thirty scientific publications.
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