Sept. 13 - 19, 2013
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Remembering 9/11 Community members share memories of Sept. 11, 2001 by JIM FULLER and PATTI STOKES NW GUILFORD – Darlene page of Summerfield vividly remembers the moment 12 years ago when she heard terrorists had flown planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Photo by Jim Fuller/NWO
Les Leamons (left) and Joe Vodenichar, of Detachment 1314 NW Triad of the Marine Corps League, raise the flag during the 9/11 ceremony in Stokesdale on Sept. 7.
“I was at work when one of my employees came to me and whispered, ‘A plane has just flown into one of the twin towers in New York.’ I remember looking at her like she had grown
another head,” page said.
As they scrambled to gather more information, page got a call that a close friend was in the hotel next door to the towers conducting a training session. paige Boyd and her group were evacuated into the streets, where they were enveloped in a cloud of dirt, dust and debris. paige eventually made it across the bridge to N.J., where she stayed with friends until she could return home. Her sister, Kelley Groce, was at that time minister of Summerfield United Methodist Church. Groce held a special service that evening for members “to gather and pray for those who lost
their lives that day, where we could hold hands, cry, pray, and just be there for each other,” page remembers. “So very many heroes were lost that day,” page says, while also recognizing those who survived. “paige Boyd is among those heroes. Her sense of safety and security were taken from her that day, but she has fought to get it back, and she has succeeded. I am so very proud of her and the inspiration that she and others have been to us since that tragic day. God bless all who were and still are affected by that day.” Margaret pelc, a former resident of New York, had been in the World Trade
Remedies sought for gnarled morning traffic
IN THIS ISSUE Oak Ridge Town Council .. 6 Business Note ..................... 8
Frustration continues over early-morning congestion on Linville Road and Highway 150 by PATTI STOKES OAK RIDGE – Dawn Mcpherson, a DOT traffic engineer, has visited Oak Ridge elementary on more than one occasion since students returned to school on Aug. 26. So has Angelo Kidd, a regional school superintendent with Guilford County Schools, along with transportation and other school
system personnel. Unfortunately, they weren’t just making a social visit. They came to assess the traffic “situation” at Oak Ridge elementary School on weekday mornings – between about 7:10 and 7:40 a.m. – when a couple hundred cars turn into the school entrance and line up to drop their children off.
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Since the new school year began, drivers headed west on Highway 150, in front of Oak Ridge Elementary School, are experiencing backups on the road between about 7:10 and 7:40 a.m.
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