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Wesleyan Properties: High Point University is negotiating with Providence Place to buy the Wesleyan Homes apartment group adjacent to the campus and the Wesleyan Arms assistedliving complex on N. Centennial Street.
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chester Drive, Tom Higgins, president and CEO of Providence Place said. There is no room for Wesleyan Familes of residents worry about Homes residents, he said. “Wesleyan Christian Academy future. 2A was approached about these properties, and then we were approached names total about $11 million. Many after the academy declined,” Don of the Wesleyan Arms residents at Scarborough, HPU vice president of 1901 N. Centennial St. will move to HPU, 2A Providence Place facilities at West-
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HIGH POINT – High Point University is negotiating with Providence Place to purchase part or all of the Wesleyan Arms and Wesleyan Homes properties for a campus expansion. Exact terms of the deal have not been released, but county tax listings for the four properties under those
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Dr. Paul Sagerman, associate professor of pediatrics at Brenner Children’s Hospital, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, was appointed to the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities. The council is a 34-member, governor-appointed council.
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Horse and Mule Days continues in Denton
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Jimmy Garner of Asheboro plows with his team of Percheron horses.
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DENTON – On the first day of the 13th annual Horse and Mule Days festival Friday, Herman “Blackbart” Cox of Thomasville brought his mule, Charlie, to provide enjoyment for hundreds of youngsters while making molasses. Cox, who has attended all 13 Horse and Mule Days festivals, is one of many who are participating in the two-day event, which continues today. “I’m just a natural mule lover,” Cox said. “I breed and raise mules. That’s all I do is train mules for people. That’s my job.” With about 50 people looking on, 6-year-old Tray Norton rode Charlie as the mule walked in circles to operate a cane mill. “It feels like driving a car.” Norton said as he sat on Charlie. While Norton was riding the mule, there was quite a competition going on nearby. Curtis Ribelin and Jeffrey Bumgarner, both of Cleveland, were competing against the team of Riley Gobble of Salisbury and Larry Massey of Mooresville in a cross-cut saw contest. Gobble and Massey, who met for the first time at Horse and Mule Days, cut through an 8-inch-wide log in diameter in 21 seconds, beating the team of Ribel-
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One of the more popular events of Horse and Mule Days is the timed log-sawing event. Ted Womack (center) times Jeffrey Bumgarner and Curtis Ribelin, both of Cleveland, who finished 2nd, losing by one second.
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What: 13th annual Horse and Mule Days When: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today
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Where: Denton FarmPark, 1072 Cranford Road, Denton
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Dakota Dennis holds onto Tray Norton, 6, while he rides a mule that turns the cane mill. The juice from the cane is then turned into molasses. en and Bumgarner by just one second. “I enjoyed it,” Massey said, sawing the log. “It was the way we had to make
our fire. You didn’t have the coal where I lived.” Karen Miller, Denton FarmPark general manager, said Horse and Mule
Admission: $8 for adults, $4 for children under 12, preschool age free
Days usually attracts 6,000 and live bluegrass music to 8,000 over the two days. today. And, of course, mules. According to Miller, the festival will have arts and dignasiak@hpe.com | 888-3657 crafts, food, train rides
Police still seeking property from break-in spree BY PAT KIMBROUGH ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – Three Greensboro teenagers on their way to a north High Point restaurant looking for work over the summer allegedly changed their plans as they were coming into town on Wendover Avenue. “The story they gave was they were going to fill out an application and on the way there, they saw the apartment complexes over on the right and just thought it looked like a good place to go hit,” said High Point police Detective Chris Weisner. The three – Romauld Lawrence,
Terrence Lawson and Tajh Woolfolk, all of whom are 17 years old – have been charged with multiple counts of larceny and other offenses. A fourth person, Meonte Florence, 24, of Greensboro, also faces charges in the case. About 70 cars in neighborhoods along the Wendover Avenue corridor were broken into over a sixweek period, police said. More than $44,000 worth of laptop computers, MP3 players, GPS equipment, cell phones, CDs and other items were stolen. According to police, around $3,100 worth of the items have been recovered. “Their targets – the apartments and townhomes – they basically
could park and get out and hit a large number of cars in 30 minutes depending on what was there and what they saw, so it was pretty easy for them,” Weisner said. Investigators said they believe the break-ins occurred every weekend from July 31 through early September, except for the last weekend of August. “The only weekend they didn’t hit we worked undercover out there,” he said. “We had two cars unmarked out there and that was the only weekend they didn’t hit us. Evidently, they either spotted us or we spooked them or something.” Police are trying to track down
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the stolen property but said they don’t expect additional charges against the suspects. “There’s some stuff we could do as far as conspiracy, and there were some credit cards stolen, which they attempted to use,” Weisner said. “We could go back and charge them with those, but as of right now, we’re probably going to go back and close it out with the charges we’ve got.” Anyone with information about the suspects or the stolen property is asked to call Weisner at 8877828 or High Point Crimestoppers at 889-4000. pkimbrough@hpe.com | 888-3531
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