May 5 - 11, 2017
Downtown improvements, Local church leads community service day park features under consideration
Tracey Ring prepares boxes to store donations for Oak Ridge United Methodist Church’s day of service. Photo by Joe Gamm/NWO |
Oak Ridge United Methodist Church is preparing for its annual Change the World Service Day by JOE GAMM OAK RIDGE – Sometimes people want to serve their neighbors, but just don’t know how. As Oak Ridge United Methodist Church searched for a way to get the
entire community to pitch in and help neighbors, church leaders realized there was no single way. Some opportunities to serve weren’t a good fit for everyone who wanted to help. So, about seven years ago, the church began holding a Change the World Service Day and offered scores of different ways people could help the effort. This year, there are nearly 200 different ways neighbors can help.
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A draft budget that could include funding for capital improvements in downtown Stokesdale, a picnic shelter and fitness equipment will be presented at May 11 council meeting by STEVE MANN
STOKESDALE – There’s an elephant in the room in Stokesdale’s draft general fund budget for fiscal year 2017-18. Or downtown. Or in the park. There’s $125,000 under capital outlays – $100,000 for capital improvements downtown and $25,000 for projects at Town Park. What’s missing in all of this is a plan, town council members said May 2 dur-
Board of Education seeks more funding, classroom space Late in its budgeting by JOE GAMM process, the board is GUILFORD COUNTY – The Guilford making educated guesses County Board of Education has less than 10 days to submit a proposed budget to about how much revenue the county. County commissioners have it will have next year to approve the budget by July 1.
The problem, according to school board vice-chairwoman Darlene Garrett, is that no one knows how much revenue the state or federal governments are going to provide.
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ing a Budget Committee meeting. “It was something I suggested be put in there for opening discussion,” council member Frank Bruno said during the budget discussion. “We just came up with an estimate for if you were going to do certain projects, but
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