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awesome to see it both on the field and in the stands. I was glad we went out on that note.”

An outstanding athlete as well as scholar, Reid was captain of his soccer team last season and named All Conference and All Region. But soccer wasn’t his only sport – he also played on the school’s tennis, football, indoor track and cross country teams.

“I like playing all the different sports,” he said. “Each team has its own personality, so I get a little bit of everything and I get to interact with so many different groups on campus.”

Besides sports, Reid helped Coach Jason Allred (NWHS athletic director and former varsity men’s soccer coach) last season during his downtime.

He also volunteered with Out of the Garden Project, which focuses on eliminating childhood hunger and food insecurity.

And just for fun, he was a member of the school’s Cornhole Club.

Even before he entered high school, Reid said it was his goal to be in the Top 10 of his graduating class.

“When I was in sixth grade, my sister told me it was impossible to be in the Top 10 because the high school is so big,” he said.

The challenge, along with his parents’ encouragement, spurred him on.

“My parents always encouraged us to be the best – they told us, ‘If you make a B, that’s fine, but try everything you can to make that grade as high as possible.’ That’s all they wanted from us,” he said. “Using the same mindset as I do in sports, I tried to be as good as I could be with my GPA and class rank.”

Reid recalls that his former English teacher, Melanie Huynh-duc, had her freshmen students write a letter to their senior selves about their goals.

“Some of my goals were to make all As, graduate in the Top 10 of my class, and be a senior captain on my soccer team.”

He knocked those goals and all the rest on his list out of the ballpark.

“I think my freshman self would be proud of me,” he said.

Finding time for schoolwork, sports, volunteering, clubs – and above all, family – took discipline, and Reid credits his accomplishments to good planning, multi-tasking and using small windows of available time wisely.

Still, he said some nights he came home late from practice and didn’t start on his homework until 11:00 or so – if that meant staying up until the wee hours of the morning to get it done, he did it.

No matter how full his days were, he said, “I wasn’t going to give up anything for family time. I love my parents and my family and I built in time to spend with them.”

When asked about his favorite things, Reid quickly spouted off several, with “praying” being No. 1, followed by: “Hanging out with family – I love my family and there is almost nothing I would rather do than spend time with them. Playing sports. Working out. Soccer, tennis, football. Driving – it gives me a break. I cherish little breaks, just to reset my body and my mind. And watching ‘Seinfeld.’”

Reid will head to the University of Lynchburg in Virginia next month, where he’ll play soccer and likely major in business administration, with a possible minor in astronomy.

He acknowledged a candidate possessing all, or a majority of, the qualifications he listed might command a higher salary, but said hiring someone who lacks those qualifications would cost more in the long run.

Citing Acts 19:35 from the Bible, which begins, “And the city clerk quieted the crowd…” Councilman Tim Jones said, “I’ve always found that to be an amazing set of circumstances, where the town clerk is mentioned in the Bible and had enough rapport with citizens to quiet the crowd and in essence act as a peacemaker.” With that, he requested this trait be added to Foy’s list of clerk qualifications.

Foy hopes the future clerk will ultimately grow into the position of town administrator.

“Could that person grow with the town, wear many hats and potentially supervise employees?” he asked. “What we need/request of a town clerk, that does go beyond a standard town clerk in my opinion.”

“If we brought someone on in the near future, we could hand them this docket – it’s a big pill to swallow, but what you’ve given is something they could grow into,” Mayor Mike Crawford said.

Foy then said that out of the many applications the town had received for the clerk’s position, one applicant appeared to have the “overwhelming majority” of qualifications on his list. The council then scheduled a subsequent special called meeting on June 28, which was held mostly in closed session to discuss the applicant’s qualifications. After 25 minutes, the council returned to open session and unanimously approved Foy’s motion to offer the clerk’s position to Robbie Wagner, at an annual salary of $41,000 plus health, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Wagner will initially serve as deputy clerk under Martin, with the goal of transitioning to town clerk upon her retirement.

Wagner is a 2019 graduate of UNCCharlotte, and majored in criminal justice with a minor in sociology. For the last year he has worked as administrative assistant for the Town of Rural Hall, North Carolina, and for two years before that as office assistant for a law firm in Walnut Cove.

His full-time employment with the Town of Stokesdale will begin July 18.

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