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and do your best.”

She discovered she “really liked blocking” and found a home at middle blocker, she said. “It just feels really good to block an attack from the other side.”

During the recent COVID-shortened season she led the league with 32 blocks. She also had 86 kills and 24 aces, according to Coach Audrey Hoffman.

Wooden has also played for the Piedmont Volleyball club team the past three years. She credited the coaches for both her club and high school teams with helping her develop the skills to play at a high level.

SUMMERFIELD ETJ?

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field would be establishing an ETJ, if the Guilford County Board of Commissioners approves the town’s request. Council member Teresa Pegram voted against pursuing the plan.

“Guilford County allows for much more density” in residential development than Summerfield, Councilman Reece Walker said in an interview earlier this week. “My hope is that we can control density and control how property near Summerfield is developed.”

Limiting the density of housing would ease attendance pressure on Summerfield’s schools, Walker said. Construction of fewer houses in subdivisions would also require a smaller number of wells and septic fields, according to a Jan. 7 memo from Chris York, Summerfield’s planning manager, to Town Manager Scott Whitaker.

Summerfield doesn’t need to seek permission from property owners to establish an ETJ, Town Attorney Bob Hornik said in an interview.

Establishing an ETJ differs from annexation, which allows municipalities to collect property taxes. In North Carolina, municipalities aren’t allowed to annex land without the permission of property owners.

Town staff prepared a map showing the proposed ETJ extending one mile and two miles beyond Summerfield’s borders. It contains a mix of neighborhoods, property under residential development and At Northern, she’s also involved in the Beta Club and National Honor Society. index of DISPLAY ADVERTISERS In addition, she volunteers with Reading Buddies, through which she helps Summerfield Elementary students develop Please support reading skills, and Fun Buddies, through which she works with special needs students. our advertisers, Her family shares its 6-acre “mini farm” with an assortment of animals that and tell them where you saw their ad. include alpacas, sheep, chickens, cats and a dog. She loves the animals and has Without their partnership, the Northwest Observer decided she wants to be a veterinarian. could not be free to you, our readers!

Utah State, she said, should be a good place to prepare for that. “It’s a really big agricultural school,” said Wooden, who plans to major in agricultural sciences. ACCOUNTING By the Book Accounting ...................... 9 Carlotta Lytton, CPA .......................... 27 Kimberly Thacker Accounting ............ 27 HOME PRODUCTS & SERVICES BEK Paint Company .......................... 37 Eanes Heating & Air ............................ 3 Old School Home Repair ................... 37 undeveloped land owned by developers, Samuel K. Anders, CPA, MSA, PC ......15 Rymack Storage ................................ 38 according to York. AUTOMOTIVE SALES / SERVICE Stokesdale Heating & Air ....................15

To the north, the area proposed for Beamer Tire & Auto ...........................11 Wilson Septic & Pumping .................. 38 the ETJ abuts Stokesdale’s town limits and the Rockingham County line. To the east, the area includes Northern Guilford EuroHaus .................................... 31, 36 Piedmont Truck Tires ......................... 29 Prestige Car Wash ............................... 6 INSURANCE Carlos Gomez – Insure the Triad ......... 4 middle and high schools on Spencer- Tire Max ............................................ 35 Gladwell Insurance Agency................ 32 Dixon Road, as well as large tracts of undeveloped land around Lake Brandt and Plainfield roads, Walker said. Northwest Guilford middle and high schools are located on property southwest of Summerfield in the vicinity of the town’s borders with Oak Ridge and Greensboro. The area contains Northwest School, Alcorn, Edgefield and Pleasant Ridge roads “where there is a considerable amount of existing development,” York said. Walker said he plans to talk to county BUILDING / REMODELING Disney Construction Company ........... 21 Don Mills Builders .............................. 18 Friddle & Company, Inc. .................... 23 Johnson & Lee, LLC ............................19 Naylor Custom Homes ...................... 20 R&K Custom Homes ..........................17 Ray Bullins Construction .....................19 R.S. Dezern Construction .................. 22 TM Construction Services .................. 38 Walraven Signature Homes ............... 22 LEGAL SERVICES Barbour & Williams Law .................... 32 Scott Tippett, Hagan Barrett Law ...... 24 MEDICAL CARE Dignity Healthcare ............................ 36 LeBauer HealthCare .......................... 26 Northwest Oral & Maxillofacial Surg. ..31 Wake Forest Baptist Health ................. 7 ORTHODONTIC CARE Olmsted Orthodontics ....................... 30 commissioners Carly Cooke and Justin Conrad to explain why Summerfield would like to create the ETJ. Limiting the density of residential development may reduce how much Guilford CHILDCARE Kidz Station ......................................... CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES Oak Ridge Chiropractic ....................... 2 8 PET SERVICES & PRODUCTS B el-Aire Veterinary Hospital ............... 27 King’s Crossing Animal Hospital .......... 2 Northwest Animal Hospital .................15 County would collect in property taxes, a possible objection by county officials, Walker said. On the other hand, establishCOMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS Oak Ridge Historic Preservation ........ 34 Stand up for Summerfield ...................12 REAL ESTATE A New Dawn Realty ............................ 9 James D. Coleman Jr. – Land for Sale ..14 ing the ETJ would free the county from the responsibilities and costs of providing planning services for the area, he said. “Establishing even a one-mile ETJ bufDENTAL SERVICES Summerfield Family Dentistry ............ FUNERAL SERVICES 30 Nicole Gillespie, RE/MAX .................. 25 Ramilya Siegel, Keller Williams ...........16 Smith Marketing – Allen Tate .............19 fer from the town limit adds a substantial Forbis & Dick Funeral Service .............. 9 YOUTH SPORTS / CAMPS area to Summerfield’s planning jurisdiction GROCERIES / SUPPLIES National Flag Football ...................... 28 regulating zoning and development,” York Southern Foods ................................. 33 Oak Ridge Youth Association ........... 10 said in his memo. As a result, it “could The Northwest Observer • Totally local since 1996 mean a considerable addition to the Planning Department’s current workload.’’ JAN. 21 - FEB. 3, 2021 39