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Cary is North Carolina's seventh largest city with 107,000 residents and 6,000 businesses. In 2004, MONEY MAGAZINE designated the town as the best place to live on the East Coast. Above average home prices, residents with above average incomes (median $75,000), and a high percentage of residents with college degrees (67 percent) were demographics the magazine selected in making their selection. Maurer discusses this city that chose smart growth and culture over urban sprawl and still doubled its population every decade since 1960.
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2.Becoming A Major Force In Amateur Sports by Maurer, Allan North Carolina Vol. 63 Issue 1, Jan 2005
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Maurer discusses Cary's growth as a center for amateur sports in the state and nation. The state amateur games are scheduled there for 2005 and 2006. Over 12,000 athletes and coaches will come, plus hordes of spectators. USA Baseball is opening four fields in Cary to train players for the World Cup, Pan Am, and Olympic games in 2008. Other sports facilities and events include the SAS Soccer Park, the thirty-court Cary Tennis Center, the Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic, and cross-country running courses. Sporting activities have a huge impact on the city's economy, attracting people to hotels, shopping centers, and restaurants.
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North Carolina has twenty-seven electric cooperatives that supply power to 2.5 million residential and small business customers. These electric suppliers differ from the big companies, like Duke Energy, in that they are owned by their members, who elect a board of directors to set rates and policies. Every cooperative member is guaranteed a voice in decisions. Each cooperative is in the community it serves and is therefore more in touch with what the local needs are. Rafferty discusses some cooperatives, including the Roanoke, Randolph, Edgecombe-Martin County, Albemarle, and Tri-County Electric Cooperatives.
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Sheila Ogle started in the media business in 1962 at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, where she was an assistant to the women's affairs director. She has created three successful businesses. In 1986, she started Media Research Planning and Placement (MRRP); in 2003, she co-founded Integrated Clinical Trial Services; and in 2000, she purchased and renovated Matthews House in Cary. She also boosts causes that range from women in business to a veteran's park in Cary. Ogle is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's executive profile.
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Cold Mountain was made famous by Charles Frazier's Civil War novel of the same name. It is located in Haywood County. The mountain's elevation is 6,030 feet; reaching its summit requires a strenuous 10-mile hike. For non-climbers, the Milepost 411 overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway provides a good view.
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