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Cline discusses the Hickory Metropolitan Higher Education Center. The center, which is the first of its kind in North Carolina, came into existence because of hard times in the manufacturing and high-tech industries in Catawba and surrounding counties. A once enviable unemployment rate of 2.4 percent soared to 10.2 percent in less than a year. Most of the students attending the center are unemployed, and half of them are over thirty-five years of age. Dr. Jane Everson, the director, says, “Our goal is to raise the educational attainment level and economic development level of people in this community, to help them gain and retain skills and remain in the area.â€
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Pickett Council, vice-president of Council Tool Company of Lake Waccamaw, is featured in this month's NORTH CAROLINA magazine “executive profile.†Council had a career in New York and had been offered a job with publisher Simon & Schuster when illness called her home and into the family business. Brafford discusses her early life, career in New York, and work in the family business.
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Catawba County, one of the premier furniture manufacturing centers in the country, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's “community profile.†Each year over half a million people shop at the world famous Hickory Furniture Mart. The county also benefits from its location, both for retirement or relaxation seekers. The past is kept alive through seven historic districts, and the future is developed through three school systems that rank high on state standards. An active arts council supports fifty-five diverse arts, sciences, and historical interests. Catawba County has a strong manufacturing base, two high-quality medical centers, and a great quality of life for its citizens.
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