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First responders honored at 9/11 ceremony several flights of stairs after she collapsed halfway down – and then he went right back into the burning building. “She has no clue who that person was and no clue whether he lived or died,” Bruno said. “All she remembers from that day was, as she was running away, all these policemen, firefighters and EMS workers were running toward those buildings.”
(L-R) Oak Ridge resident John Gudat, a retired NYC fire chief who was on duty in Queens when the North and South towers of the World Trade Center were struck, Stokesdale firefighter Ben Watkins, Stokesdale Fire Chief Todd Gauldin, Deputy Chief Randy Southard and firefighters Richard Pardue, Ryan Hall and Brandon Vaughn attend the 9/11 ceremony at Linear Park in downtown Stokesdale on Sept. 11. Photos by Patti Stokes/NWO |
BY PATTI STOKES STOKESDALE – Frank Bruno shared a personal story from Sept. 11, 2001 with a small group of people who gathered at Linear Park in downtown Stokesdale on Monday, Sept. 11. Sixteen years ago Bruno’s younger cousin was working at the
World Trade Center in New York City when terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes and flew two of them into the Trade Center’s North and South towers. Bruno’s cousin, who was on the 56th floor of one of the towers, made it safely outside thanks to a first responder carrying her down
Of the passengers on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, Bruno said, “Those guys knew what was happening – they did what they needed to do. They were just a group of civilians who got together and they didn’t care about race, religion, whether they were Democrats or Republicans. All they knew was, “we’re not going to let these guys crash this plane and kill more people.” Each year on Sept. 11 Bruno organizes a ceremony to honor those who died and those personally affected by the tragic events of that day in 2001, as well as to honor first responders everywhere.
Calm before the storm HB-13 provides some respite for schools, but challenges loom by JOE GAMM
classroom sizes in grades K-3 from 24 to between 19 and 21 students would cost jobs. They also worried that already overcrowded schools would not have available classroom space to comply with the mandate.
This spring, as schools planned for the current school year, administrators, teachers and staff worried that a state mandate to decrease
The size reduction included in the state budget this past year was to go into effect for the 2017-18 school year. But this April, the N.C. General
Assembly passed and Gov. Roy Cooper signed HB-13, which let schools reduce class sizes to 23 students this year. The new sizes still meant Guilford County Schools had to reallocate some funds for additional teachers in grade schools,
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