Points of Pride

  • Piedmont High wrestlers Alex Turner (135 lbs) and Parker von Egidy (152 lbs) are the 2011 NC State 2A wrestling champs.

  • Susan Samsel, teacher of the Home/Hospital-Medically Fragile, was named a CEC (Conference on Exceptional Children) Teacher of Excellence at the Exceptional Children’s Division-61st Conference in Greensboro.

  • Cuthbertson High School junior Kalli Karas is the 2011 2A North Carolina High School Athletics Association’s (NCHSAA) State Champion in tennis.

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Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club is safe haven for students

The Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club area director Moses Fox III, at left, plays a game of Air Hockey with students in the club, an after-school program for Union County Public Schools students that is housed at Monroe Middle. The club’s doors opened officially on Jan. 17, 2011, with 24 students signed up to attend. On the third day, however, that number had already doubled. Club organizers held a grand opening Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.

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Young poets from Western Union Elementary are to be published

These third graders in Jennifer Bittner’s class at Western Union Elementary will have their poems published in the next issue of “Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans." Pictured from left, (first row) Peyton McDonald, Western Union teacher Jennifer Bittner, Caralyn Elrod; (back row) Sukarno Brown, Brett Connell and Nikolas Kotesky.

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