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WEDNESDAY

December 30, 2015

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Year in Review

Looking back at Jamestown highlights of 2015 Guilford Road intersection. • GTCC daycare closes due to lack of students and money. • Ragsdale High School plans to spruce up the stadium, starting with a new fence along the track.

Compiled by CAROL BROOKS Staff Writer JANUARY • Major projects in the town – golf course, clubhouse – should get underway by year’s end. • Former Pilot Elementary School teacher charged with felonies against a child. • Former Pilot Life property has wind in its sails again as Kisco Senior Living announces plans to create a retirement center and commercial complex. • Town looks for options to expand deer hunting with bow and arrow on private property. • Sheriff deputies look into 1989 Vicki Voncannon murder cold case. • Turntable closes doors after two-year run. • Patriot Rovers help veterans and honor heroes. • High schools move to 10-point grading scale. • SidWill’s Cafe & Catering featured in mural.

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Bob Livengood and John McKenzie, left to right, back, crafted and installed a special mural for café entrepreneurs, Sidney Young, front left, and Williams Wyatt. Elias selected for 2014 Girls’ All-State Golf Team. • Jamestown Public Library digitizes records from the Old Jamestown School Association to preserve history. • Local golfer Scott Harvey earns Tufts Players of the Year nod. FEBRUARY • Carrie Spencer takes over Jamestown town planner position. • Jamestown ghost featured on TV program. • GTCC Lady Titans basketball team captures Region X conference championship. • History of gold mining in the area is topic of Historic Jamestown Society program. • High Point City Lake renamed Arnold J. Koonce, Jr., City Lake. • Nonprofit Dylan’s Hearts offers hope for heal-

State welcomes new year, new legislation By JANE WHITEHORNE Staff Writer It’s that time again when old Father Time makes way for Baby New Year. And as Baby New Year brings hope for a happy, safe and prosperous new year, he also brings a basket full of new laws enacted by our North Carolina state legislators. On Jan. 1, 2016, a slate of new legislation becomes effective. Some of these new laws won’t even cause a blip on our personal radar screens while others might have some impact on our daily lives. One of the most talked about, and most controversial, legislation becoming effective Jan. 1 is House

Bill 589, otherwise known of VIVA/Election Reform. Originally passed by the N.C. legislature during the 2013-2014 sessions, the bill requires voters to provide a photo ID at the voting booth. Now you might be thinking what’s the big deal about this? You have to show a photo ID at the bank, at the doctor’s office, when making a purchase. So why not show one when voting? Isn’t that a step in the right direction to keep our electoral system honest? Yet there are those who argue the law is discriminatory and infringes on the ability of minorities to exercise their right to vote. Lawsuits are currently being tossed about. Right now the bottom line is as of Jan. 1 you must show a photo ID to enter the ballot box. In other election-related legislation, you cannot file as a candidate in a party’s primary unless you have been affiliated with the party for at least 90 days. You also have to file an economic statement with the State Ethics

ing. • Ragsdale YMCA’s Annual Giving Campaign asks people to tear down walls. • Organ donations save lives. • Former Jamestown resident Scott Bean named special FBI agent. • Guilford County Sheriff’s Office begins Nextdoor social media system. MARCH • County Planning Board approves changing name of new stretch of High Point Road to Jamestown Parkway. • Haynes-Inman Education Center names gym after dedicated volunteer Thurman Haynes. • Ragsdale YMCA Executive Director Kevin Bottomley named one of 40 Leaders Under 40 by Triad Business Journal. • Town asks NCDOT to look at O’Neill Drive and

These signs will be posted at all polling places during upcoming elections. Commission rather than the board of elections. The hotly debated legislation last year eliminating the state’s film tax credit in favor of a grant program is back in the news. The Film and Entertainment Grant Fund within the Department of Commerce can provide grants for video productions in North Carolina, but these funds cannot be used unless the production meets minimum qualifying expenses of $5 million for films, $250,000 per television show episode and $200,000 for commercials. The grants cannot exceed 25 percent of those expenses and are capped at those qualifying expense amounts. About $10 million is appropriated to the fund, which is set to expire July 1, 2020. Other new legislation of interest effective Jan. 1 includes: • If you buy property on or after Jan. 1, the owners of that property must furnish mineral, oil and gas rights mandatory disclosure See NEW, page A3

Michelle and Lori Smith, left to right, pose before the new sign at the stadium.

KEVIN BOTTOMLEY • Proposed town ordinance defines vapor as a tobacco product. • Town Finance Director Judy Gallman receives eighth consecutive Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting award.

RASHELLE BROOKS • Rashelle Brooks launches Mac and Cheese

Ministry to deliver food to the streets where the homeless and hungry live. • Students report suspicious activity near school bus stops in the county. • State Trooper Clinton Clay follows family tradition. APRIL • Ragsdale teacher, coach Austin Reade Ferguson charged with sex offence against student. • William Henry Parker charged in 1989 Vicki Voncannon murder. • Town Manager tells Town Council he expects no tax increase in the proposed 2015-16 budget. • Ragsdale High School baseball stadium named for late coach Ronnie Smith. • Bales Wesleyan Church members forgive those who vandalized the building and van. • Kisco Senior Living announces additional plans

for former Pilot Life property on High Point Road. • Wheelchair athlete Christopher Coke keeps moving forward. • Hi Tran bus stop installation improves service to Jamestown. • FAA suspends testing at GTCC campus due to questions about equipment. • New historical marker recognizes Johnson Shoe Company. • Post office installs lockers for oversized packages. See REVIEW, page A7

CHRISTOPHER COKE

Luminaries displayed to honor and remember family and friends After the Rotary Club Jamestown Christmas parade on Dec. 6, Friends of the Library sponsored a luminary display around the fountain and along the walkways at Jamestown Public Library to honor family and friends. The following names were placed on luminary bags: In Memory of: L.E. and Mary Barnes, O.R. and Rhoda Mann, D.L. and Mary E. Johnson, Wilma Bailey and family, Betty Gutknecht Flick, Claude Marion Flick, George Taylor, Margaret Taylor, John Ebel, Lois Ebel, Paul Weston, Mary Hamil, Gateway Education Students, Beulah Metz, James E. Metz and Lewis and Gladys Reynolds. Also, Mae and J.B. Bishop, Abbie and Robert Caine, David Caine, Troy Mitchell, Bob (John R.) Brisley, Lynne Miller Perryman, Benny Morton, Jesse Horne, Joyce Horne, Eleanor Munns, Alton Munns, Jenny Oliver, Jane Oliver, Glen Farmer, Donie Horne, Patty Schisler Felein, Albert Schisler, Charlotte Schisler and Jay Clifford Cyrus. Also, SSG Adam

Dickmyer, SSG Christopher Hake, Meredith Kearney, Lisa Moran, Joe Ramos, Bob and Gladys Wagoner, Emerson Ridenour, Darrell Burns, Irene Patton, Dewey Patton, Dale Patton, Gene Rosensky, Bill Janawitz, Margaret Janawitz, Edith Johnson, R.V. Johnson, Wayne Johnson, Joseph V. Nigro, Florence Nigro and Lawrence and Selma Hawkins. Also, Joe and Frances Watson, Jack Faulkner, Jay Faulkner, Roberta Railley Scheiner, William C. Scheiner, Jr., Martha Jane Wilson and Bruce Albert Wilson, Thomas Graham, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Mikko S. Makela, Mr. and Mrs. V.E. Deinlein, Barbara Voelkert, Karen Clark (Pigeon) Jones, Floyd Foss, Clater Killebrew and Michael Ballas. Also, Kenneth T. Miller, Mary Glover, Dorothy F. Miller, David Burroughs, Mr. James Betsill, Charlie Noell, Bernice Simmons, Lester Simmons, Lee Huggins, B.D. Huggins, Hank and Josephine Spas, Rebecca Arnold, David and Nita Atwood, Bookie Howell Baley, Ret. Guilford Professor Edward

“Flud” Burrows and Bill and Rachel Cheek. Also, “Peggy” Kinsey and Jimmy Clark, Bob Crichton, Ret. Guilford Librarian Treva M. Dodd, Ret. Guilford Professor Carroll and Mary Feagins, David and Ruth Finegold, Bill Gorrod, Mr. and Mrs. John “Gus” Gorrod, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Gorrod, Sr., Cary Grant, Dayton V.O. Grasso and Russell and Hattie Grogan. Also, Ret. Guilford Professor Samuel and Evelyn Haworth, Charlie Hendricks of Guilford, Fred and Mary Hetzel, Tommy Hilliard, Nancy Hovater, Buddy Howell, Jimmy Howell, Miss Florence Johns, Ret. Guilford Professor Daryl and Ebby Kent, Carol Kerr, Albert H. Kinsey, “Aunt Ellen” Kinsey and Bass C. Kinsey. Also, Cecil Kinsey, John W. Kinsey, Louvenia Kinsey, Margaret Kinsey, W. Herbert and Ada L. Kinsey, Levie Mallard, Kay Cecil Kinsey, Virginia T. Kinsey, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel MacDonald, Jim Maira, John Martine, See LUMINARIES, page A6


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