March 7 - 13, 2014
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Property assessments completed Town will move forward with purchase of 16.1 acres by PATTI STOKES SUMMERFIELD – Over four years ago the Summerfield Town Council made it known that it wanted to purchase suitable property for additional administrative and meeting space. In the time since, town officials considered about a half dozen properties, from Auburn Road to the former Laughlin Primary School near the north end of Summerfield Road.
merfield Town Hall were placed on the market with an asking price of $598,000. Though the two tracts are not adjacent to each other, the owners of Ralph Gordon, LLC combined them because they did not want to sell them separately. The larger of the two tracts is 15.66 acres and includes one occupied house, an unoccupied house, a barn and a mobile home park bordered on either side by US 220 and Summerfield Road. The park had been occupied by nine families who rented the land their mobile homes were on for $125 per month.
In September 2011, two tracts of land totaling 16.1 acres and located near the Sum-
The second tract of land is .35 acres and
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The Town of Summerfield plans to renovate the former Gordon Hardware building (left) for administrative and meeting space. The structure beside it will likely be demolished.
Wild about Loco Nuts After-school program incorporates health and physical fitness into fun activities by LAURA PULLINS NW GREENSBORO – According to the National Survey of Children, North Carolina is ranked the fifth most obese state in the nation for youth. Startling statistics like these inspired some local teachers to start an early-intervention program for Photo by Laura Pullins/NWO children in grades K-2 that proJohn Bullock proudly displays his motes health and physical fitness. silhouette of the human body, illusThe Loco Nuts after-school protrating the different organs, muscles gram was introduced at Pearce Eland bones he’s learned about from the Loco Nuts program. ementary last fall as a collaboration
between the elementary school, the Department of Kinesiology at Greensboro College and Guilford County Schools; the program is staffed by a group of dedicated volunteers. Kindergarten teacher Shelley Hunt and P.E. teacher Stephen Foulks are primarily responsible for creating and running the Loco Nuts after-school program. The teachers receive guidance from Randy Hunt, exercise and sport studies professor at Greensboro College, and his students.
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Photo by Patti Stokes/NWO
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