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Peter Makuck, author, poet, professor of English at East Carolina University, and founder of Tar River Poetry, which he has edited for twenty-four years, is profiled in this Edge article.
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When a hurricane strikes, power lines often go down, endangering persons who may come near them and disrupting vital communication links and public services. To protect their lines and customer services during future storms, the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation (BEMC) will bury its lines. A grant of $6.2 million will help relocate 88 miles of power lines underground in four Brunswick County coastal communities.
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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct four outstanding business leaders in the fall of 2001. They are: Edward E. Crutchfield (Charlotte), former chairman of First Union Corp; C. Felix Harvey (Kinston), chairman of Harvey Enterprises and Affiliates; W. Duke Kimbrell (Gastonia), chairman and CEO of Parkdale Mills; and Dalton L. McMichael (Madison), former chairman of Mayo Yarns.
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Gastonia is North Carolina's first municipality to receive certification \"for a new international environmental management standard for wastewater treatment operations.\" To receive certification, Gastonia developed a plan, called an Environmental Management System, which meets the program's 17 required standards. These include devising an environmental management program and training employees.
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Cary is North Carolina's first municipality to pipe treated wastewater to customers for cooling or irrigation uses. Titled Reclaimed Water Project, the program currently serves 354 residential and multi-family customers and 20 businesses. Its purpose is twofold: reduce wastewater going into waterways and reduce use of drinking water for watering lawns and flowers or washing cars.
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Ginger Williams is the new head of the North Carolina Resources Commission's Division of Conservation Education, replacing Sid Baynes who retired in May 2001. Williams has been with the commission ten years and is a graduate of Campbell University.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 65 Issue 8, Aug 2001,
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Carmen Wilson, a mathematics teacher at Ashe County High School, is the 2001-2002 North Carolina Teacher of the Year. Wilson will represent the state in the National Teacher of the Year competition. Other finalists were Yang Yi, of Gates County, and Marsha Cameron, of Jackson County.
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NCAE News Bulletin
(NoCar Oversize L 11 N822x), Vol. 32 Issue 1, Aug 2001,
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The National Park Service has reintroduced elk to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In June 2001, a 40- pound elk was born, the first-elk born in the Smokies in 150 years. Whether or not the elk will be able to reproduce is one question the five-year Smokies elk experiment should answer.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 65 Issue 9, Sept 2001,
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Linda Loftis dreamed of being a dancer, but after ten years of free-lancing and teaching modern dance, she returned home to work in the family business in Charlotte. Today she is president of Loftis Construction Corp., a company which lays and maintains gas-pipelines for companies including Piedmont Natural Gas Co. Since 1994 the company has doubled in size to 80 employees; revenues in 2000 exceed $5 million.
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The Stedman Incentive Grant assists non-profit organizations in an effort to save endangered architecturally and historically significant property. The Friends of the John A. Wilkinson Building in Belhaven in Beaufort County received the award for 2001. The Friends, former graduates of this high school built in 1937-38, worked successfully to save the building from being demolished. The grant will aid in repairing the school's electrical system.
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5527
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Entire issue's focus is on land-use planning in Western North Carolina.
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The Southern Environmental Law Center provides a point-by-point argument against Texasgulf's proposed phosphate mining in Beaufort County wetlands and its environmental impact statement.
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Several North Carolina school systems have experimented with year-round education, and the results are positive. Forty schools took part in 1992-93 and that number doubled during the following school year.
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Statistics from a Department of Public Instruction survey of North Carolina Local Education Agencies indicate that the state is a leader in innovative educational methods.
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North Carolina's Effective Schools Project, a Department of Public Instruction program launched in 1989, has proved to be a popular and successful educational tool. Since the program's inception, 90 of 120 school systems have joined.
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