April 2 - 8, 2020
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Students, coaches, teachers adjust to uncertainty surrounding pandemic by MEREDITH BARKLEY
Photo by Meredith Barkley
Landon Kimrey, Northern Guilford High School baseball coach, mows the school’s baseball field recently. He said he takes pride in the field and enjoys keeping it maintained, but the field “is nothing without the kids.”
IN THIS ISSUE News in brief .......................................2 Town leaders adjust ...........................3 Your Questions ....................................4 ‘Elvis cannot leave the building’ ......5 Pets & Critters ......................................9 Your pets and COVID-19 .................10 Crime/Incident Report ....................14 NWO Kids’ Korner .............................15 Coloring page: ‘Hello Spring!’ ........16 Recipe: Homemade playdough....18 Grins and Gripes ..............................19 Classifieds .........................................20 Index of Advertisers .........................23 NWO On The Go! / Staycation .......24
In a world restructured by the coronavirus pandemic, teachers are having to find new ways to educate and coaches are left wondering when teams will play again. And since they’re all working from home, they’ve found a new set of challenges: juggling internet time so that each family member has a chance to get their work done. “I have a first-grader, and my wife teaches, too,” said Aaron King, who teaches earth and environmental
science at Northern Guilford High School (NGHS). “We’re trying to get everyone’s work and school activities scheduled. That’s a challenge now for every household with kids.” Folks like Melanie Huynh-Duc can sympathize. She teaches journalism and two English classes at Northwest Guilford High School (NWGHS), has a third-grader and preschooler, and a husband working at Elon University. “We’re all competing for digital access,” she said.
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Responding to COVID-19 You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in our area who hasn’t been directly or indirectly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. For this issue we talked to a recovering COVID-19 patient, a gun shop owner and members of a local fire department – look for more conversations in next week’s issue.
by PATTI STOKES
Summerfield Fire Department SUMMERFIELD – Summerfield Fire Department has taken several precautionary steps to protect its staff and volunteers against COVID-19, assistant chief Jenna Daniels told the Northwest Observer. Although firefighters at the outlying stations
Photo by Patti Stokes/NWO
(L-R) Summerfield Fire Department Chief Chris Johnson, Marshall (from PAW Patrol), the Easter Bunny and several Summerfield firefighters ...continued on p. 6 paraded through almost a dozen neighborhoods in the last two weeks.