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Meet Your Neighbors ... Debbi & Joey Smith

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RCC, Zoo team to save a species

• Wheatmore adds agricultural classes — page 7 • Woman, 20, shot in leg and two others charged in theft — page 12

Community of veterans seeks to build home for this hero.

Church news......5 Obituaries.............8 Classifieds........13 Police report........11 Fire report..........11 Sheriff’s report.....12

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Thursday, September 2, 2010

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Trinity to revisit ETJ lines

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rinity City Council may reconsider asking the Randolph County Commissioners for an extraterritorial jurisdiction south of the city after the wastewater treatment plant feasibility study has been completed. If so, they will likely request the same area for which they were denied ETJ authority in 2007. BY ROBYN HANKINS

Guil-Rand goes pink Guil-Rand firefighters prove that tough guys wear pink, at least those pictured above can — from left, Steve Barr, Carl Marano, Jake Mills, Matt Robertson, Shane Sample and Scott Spencer. High Point and Guil-Rand firefighters will don pink shirts for cancer awareness as part of the Pink Heals Tour coming through High Point on Saturday, Sept. 11. While some Guil-Rand firefighters will aid High Point in the event, others will show support by wearing the pink shirts at the Bush Hill Heritage Festival, set for the same day. The Pink Heals Tour includes a ride through High Point complete with a pink fire truck. The parade will begin at 9:30 a.m. on N. Main Street, between Montlieu Avenue and High Street in High Point. A 9/11 tribute to fallen heroes will be at 11 a.m. at the Showplace parking lot, 211 E. Commerce Ave. in High Point. A ride to the South Carolina border will begin at 3:30 p.m. The cost is $15 per bike or $20 per bike with two riders. A similar event will be held in Laurinburg. For Photo by Betsy Feldman more information, visit pinkhealsnc.com .

An extraterritorial jurisdiction, or ETJ, is an area directly outside of a city’s limits. N.C. General Statutes allow a municipality with a population under 10,000 to claim up to one mile of unincorporated area adjacent to the city limits in an ETJ. Residents in the ETJ are subject to the city’s zoning laws and fee schedules, but do not pay city taxes. City Manager Ann Bailie said the Council would likely wait to discuss the matter further. “If the Council chooses to discuss ETJ in connection with the wastewater treatment plant, it will be after the feasibility study is completed and presented,” Bailie said. “That will probably be around the end of this year or first of the next.” The feasibility study for a wastewater treatment plant is a joint endeavor funded by Trinity, Archdale and Randolph County. When complete, it will outline the various costs associated with construction of a wastewater treatment plant south of the Archdale-Trinity area. The cities collaborated with the county to determine whether or not the construction of a treatment plant would be less expensive than continuing to pay High Point and Thomasville to treat wastewater. SEE ETJ ON PAGE 3

Chamber Education Committee sets aggressive agenda T

he Education Committee of the Archdale-Trinity Chamber of Commerce in partnership with local schools has identified an aggressive agenda of involvement with students. STAFF REPORTS

“Our goals are to address student needs as they make career choices and assist them in preparing for the world of work,” says Committee Chairman Sandi Norman. “Staff and faculty at Archdale-Trinity

Middle School and Trinity and Wheatmore high schools have helped us identify needs and develop programs which we hope will prepare students for life.” Those programs include Reality Store, Job Shadowing Day and Career Day. Reality Store will take place at Wheatmore High School on Oct. 12. The financial literacy program is co-sponsored by Communities In Schools of Randolph County and offers freshman students a good dose of reality. Each student is given a profile which

includes marital status, number of children, job and income. Then they are given a check book register to use when recording their “expenses.” Students visit booths manned by local business representatives, where they purchase the essentials of life such as housing, food, clothing, transportation, insurance and child care. “They learn very quickly that there is little left for entertainment,” said Norman. High Point Regional Health System and First Bank are co-sponsoring this event. A Reality Store will be held in the spring at

Trinity High School. Job Shadowing Day will be held Oct. 26 for eighth grade students at Archdale-Trinity Middle School. Selected students will spend approximately three hours shadowing local businesses so that they will be better prepared to make career choices. Because this event has been so successful, the education committee will host this program twice at ATMS during the 20102011 school year with the second event to be held in the spring. Co-sponsoring this SEE AGENDA ON PAGE 3

Festival lineup aims to entertain, inspire T

he 25th annual Bush Hill Heritage Festival, presented by the Archdale-Trinity Chamber of Commerce and set for Friday and Saturday, Sept. 10-11, offers festivalgoers lots of free entertainment. egas Nash V

BY ROBYN HANKINS Friday night is the Bush Hill Bash with a stage set on Bonnie Place. Entertainment continues Saturday with three stages — the Main Stage on W. White Drive, the Gospel Stage at North State Communications on N.C. 62 and the children’s stage on Hillcrest Street at Archdale Elementary School. The Bush Hill Bash — sponsored by the Archdale-Trinity Merchants Alliance, Heart of NC Visitor’s Bureau, Allred & Co. Realtors and Crumley Roberts LLP — starts at 6 p.m. Nash Vegas will perform at 7 p.m. “We are a country rock band, with a smidgen of blues,” said lead vocalist Amanda Daugherty. “We are extremely excited about performing at Bush Hill.”

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Part Time Party Time

There’s plenty of entertainment for the kids too — the Big Wheel race, CastingKids and a bike rodeo. Domino’s Pizza will be sold during the event with the booth manned by Wheatmore Athletic Boosters Club. Bluff Mountain will also provide food. Drinks will be sold by the Archdale-Trinity Merchants

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Alliance. For Saturday, the Part Time Party Time Band will headline the Main Stage at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The group, whose signature style is beach music, has performed throughout the southeastern United States and opened for stars such as The Four Tops, The Temptations and The Beach Boys. Some band members have strong ties to ArchdaleTrinity. Trinity High School graduate David Spell teaches at Archdale-Trinity Middle School. Brian Barfield teaches band at THS. The Main Stage also includes music by The Farlows, Easy Rhythm and Bad Situation, as well as Pride of Carolina Cloggers, Magic Feet Cloggers and the Archdale Boot Scooters Linedancing Group. The Gospel Stage, in the grassy area of North State Communications, is a longtime favorite of Phyllis East, a part-timer at the NEWS and moreSEE ENTERTAINMENT ON PAGE 10

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