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Thomasville City School officials try new approach to get parents involved
Lorie L. McCroskey of Archdale joined Randolph Community College as director of recruitment and student activities. She will be responsible for directing the recruiting program, fostering student leadership development, coordinating student organizations, and serving as a staff advisor for the Student Government Association.
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THOMASVILLE – A Thomasville City Schools parental involvement task force has scheduled four meetings dubbed “parent gatherings” for November, taking a new approach in hopes to spur involvement. Hoping to get unbiased input from parents, the task force has scheduled meetings that will have no school personnel in attendance. It has sought out the services of youth culture expert Eric Rowles, president of a group called Leading to Change. Rowles, a nationally recognized consultant and speaker, will serve as the facilitator of the meetings. “We want to get the word out to the parents who typically don’t get involved,” said Rick Jones, the system’s career technical education director/dropout prevention coordinator. “That’s why we are using some unconventional ways to try to get the message out there.” All of the parent gatherings, which will have a meal for those who attend, will be held between 5:30-7 p.m. at four various locations in Thomasville. The Nov. 9. meeting will be held at Carolina Memorial Baptist Church, 422 Liberty Drive, the Nov. 15 meeting at Our Lady of the Highway Church, 943 Ballpark Road, the Nov. 22 meeting at First Missionary Baptist Church, 103 Church St., and the Nov. 29 meeting at the Thomasville Public Library. The meeting at Our Lady of the Highway Church will be in Spanish. “We want it on neutral turf,” Jones said. “We want it in the community. We don’t want any barriers to be viewed or seen by parents.” Rowles also will lead a student forum and a community forum, which will include city and county officials, on Nov. 29. Rowles will tabulate the feedback from the meetings
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Sandy Motley, executive director of Davidson Medical Ministries, looks over some notes at the clinic located on Salisbury Street in Lexington.
Davidson County nonprofit hopes to expand medical services BY DARRICK IGNASIAK ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
DAVIDSON COUNTY – The Davidson County Board of Commissioners this week joined an effort to assist a nonprofit that hopes to expand its medical services to the indigent. Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday night to allow the Davidson County Health Department to use $30,000 of its funds toward a partnership with Gaston Family Health Services to make Davidson Medical Ministries Clinic a Federally Qualified Health Center. The clinic needed $100,000 from the community to submit an application for the FQHC. Lexington Memorial Hospital, Thomasville Medical Center and the United Way of Davidson County have committed the rest of the funds to ensure the application can be submitted. Sandy Motley, executive director of Davidson Medical Ministries, said her nonprofit can barely scratch the service with those wanting services. She said 152 people in just four hours came to the clinic recently on the nonprof-
it’s enrollment day. If approved, FQHC status would give the clinic $650,000 annually to the nonprofit. According to Motley, the clinic has two part-time practitioners. The FQHC status and partnership with Gaston Family Health Services would provide the nonprofit
Davidson Medical Ministries currently has clinics in Lexington and Thomasville. with a full-time physician and two full-time nurse practitioners. Davidson Medical Ministries currently has clinics in Lexington and Thomasville. Motley said the FQHC status would only be for Lexington’s clinic. If the nonprofit gets FQHC status, it will keep its free component operations, Motley said. “All of the details certainly have not been worked out as to who will be designated a free-clinic patient versus a FQHC patient because the
uninsured will be seen in both of those,” she said. Motley said Davidson Medical Ministries will not know whether it will get FQHC status until August. The partnership with Gaston Family Health Services would increase the chances of Davidson Medical Ministries being approved for an FQHC status because it would be part of an existing FQHC, according to Motley. Steve Shultz, president of Lexington Memorial Hospital, told commissioners that his hospital has agreed to support the partnership with Gaston Family Health Services with a one-time gift of $15,000. He said his hospital currently gives $450,000 each year in in-kind services to the clinic. “As a servant of this community, today we proudly provide millions of dollars of medical care each year to the underserved population of this community and county,” Shultz said. “It is our acknowledged mission to continue that support and care to the underserved.” dignasiak@hpe.com | 888-3657
Write-in candidate hopes for upset in Randolph race BY DARRICK IGNASIAK ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
RANDOLPH COUNTY – Campaigning on Randolph County’s tax issue, Archdale resident Iris Goins hopes to upset a veteran county commissioner who hasn’t faced an opponent in the general election since 1986. Goins, a write-in candidate, faces Randolph County Board of Commissioners Vice Chairman Darrell Frye in the county’s District 2 race on Tuesday. Frye, a Republican, has held the
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seat since 1982, serving as vice chairman for 16 years and chairman for 12 years. Goins turned in the necessary signatures into the Randolph County Board of Elections in July to be a write-in candidate after being approached by Randolph County residents
who asked her to seek election. In June, Goins led a petition of 385 signatures from residents who were against a proposed 9.1-cent property tax increase. Commissioners later approved a 3.1-cent increase. “The answer to your problems is not to continue to raise taxes,” she said. “You can’t keep doing that.” Frye said commissioners did what was necessary to balance the budget after the state took away funds allotted to local governments. He said com-
missioners have made efforts to keep the tax rate as low as possible in Randolph County. “We still are considered a low property tax county,” Frye said. “We get penalized lottery distributions because our property tax rate by state definition is too low. It’s less than the state average, so we only get about 75 percent of our lottery allotment.” Frye believes he’s done a good job on the board and thinks that’s why he should be re-elected. “I think I’ve stayed with the
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issues,” he said. “I think I have been accessible to the public, and I think I’ve worked for the benefit of our county and our schools.” Goins, who also is a Republican, says it’s time for a change. “It seems like God has opened up the door, and I’m going to walk through it,” she said. “We need somebody to speak for the people of Randolph County. We need somebody to listen to what they are saying.” dignasiak@hpe.com | 888-3657
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