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Since 1998, North Carolina has offered a 20 percent tax credit to individuals and companies that rehabilitate income producing historic structures. The state is one of seventeen states that offer this incentive. The program has also produced an increase in the number of nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. Among neighborhoods benefiting from this incentive are Glenwood South, Raleigh, and Delworth, Charlotte.
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The All-America City Award, a program of the 106- year-old National Civic League, annually honors ten communities best exemplifying grassroots citizen involvement and collaborative problem solving. Gastonia is an All-America city for 2000. New Bern was one of the thirty finalists. Gastonia previously won the award in 1963, and New Bern was a winner in 1989.
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Among the winners of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation's Governor's Conservation Achievement Awards for 1999 are the Wildlife Conservationist of the Year, Mark Johns (Cary); Environmental Educator of the Year, Anne Rogerson Weaver (Kenly); Land Conservationist of the Year, John and Georgia Theys (Raleigh); and Conservationist of the Year, Bill Holman (Raleigh).
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Ginseng is an endangered plant that has medicinal properties highly prized by illegal harvesters. To help the North Carolina Department of Agriculture catch ginseng poachers, researchers developed a harmless dye to spray on the plant. The secret dye identifies an illegal harvest. Since 1993, eighty ginseng poachers have been convicted. Stealing an endangered plant is a felony.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 7, July 2000,
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An increased load of nutrients and decreased levels of salt and oxygen in the estuaries were short-term effects of Hurricane Floyd's floods. Estuaries also began to recover more quickly than has been expected. The flood did kill a number of slower moving aquatic animals and affect the food supply of fish. What still remains unknown is the flood's lasting effect.
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In August 1999, Henry E. Frye became the first African-American chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. He had served as an associate justice sine 1983. Frye was also the first African-American elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives since Reconstruction. In an interview with Tar Heel Junior Historian, Frye discusses his life and accomplishments.
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After being closed eighteen months in order to move 1,600 feet back from the Atlantic Ocean, the historic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse reopened to the public on May 26, 2000. The lighthouse was built in 1870. The American Society of Civil Engineers recognized the moving of the 4,800-ton structure as the outstanding civil engineering feat of 1999.
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Lisa Griffin had dreams of being a lawyer but did not have the money for college. Today she is a Tupperware sales representative and earns six figures a year working in Charlotte and its surrounding area. She is also Tupperware's second-best seller nationwide.
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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct four outstanding business and government leaders in the fall of 2000. They are James H. Millis, Sr., chairman of the Millis Foundation, High Point; R. Stuart Dickson, chairman of the executive committee of Ruddick Corp., Charlotte; John M. Belk, chairman of the board and CEO of Belk Inc., Charlotte; and Harlan E. Boyles, retiring Treasurer of North Carolina.
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Mandatory buffer zones are a way to protect water quality. Effective August 2000, 30-foot buffers must be established on all navigable waterways in twenty coastal counties. Most development is also banned in the buffer zone. Buffer zones filter nutrients, bacteria, and other pollutants from stormwater runoff, thereby reducing the pollutant flow into waterways. The Coastal Resources Commission adopted the buffer zone rule after two years of discussion on ways to protect water quality.
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Joyce Elliott has been elected president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, and Carolyn McKinney, vice president. They will serve a one-year term from July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001.
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NCAE News Bulletin
(NoCar Oversize L 11 N822x), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Aug 2000,
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Jeanne Laws (Elkin City High School), Amy Orr Hobbs (Robbinsville High School), Vickie Honeycutt (Mt. Pleasant High School, Cabarrus County), and Judy Lewis (Grantham School) are Regional Teachers of the Year for 2000-2001. Among items the winners receive are a $5,000 stipend, software and computer training, and a one-week seminar at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Cullowhee.
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NCAE News Bulletin
(NoCar Oversize L 11 N822x), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Aug 2000,
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The greatest nature to strike eastern Carolina was the flood spawned by Hurricane Floyd. Nineteen thousand square miles of forests, towns, and farms were inundated. East Carolina University personnel are researching various flood effects, including how people cope with trauma from a natural disaster, what evacuation patterns businesses and households used, and school children's stress over the loss of homes and schools, in order to learn ways to help people cope with disaster.
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East Carolina University faculty members discuss their projects in collecting first-person accounts of modern history. Lu Ann Jones (History) discusses her interviews with farmers about agriculture from the 1930s to the present; Don Lennon (Joyner Special Collections) describes the collection's 200-plus oral histories of notable North Carolinians and the Naval Academy Class of 1941; Reginald Watson, Sharon Raynor, and Seodial Deena (English) collect oral histories of Afro-American soldiers' experiences before, during, and after the Vietnam War; and Russell E. Tranbarger (Nursing) collects oral histories of graduates of male nursing schools.
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East Carolina University professor Louise Toppin did not plan to have a career in music. Though talented in music, she entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an eye on medical school. Gradually music drew her, first in piano, then as a singer. Today Toppin is an internationally known soprano who maintains a rigorous schedule of concerts at home and abroad, while teaching classes at the university and handing numerous other activities.
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