SPOTLIGHT

photo c/o Lighthouse Films

HWF ANNOUNCES PRESERVATION AWARD WINNERS

TThe Historic Wilmington Foundation announced the recipients of its 2020 Preservation Awards, holding a virtual ceremony to highlight the fifteen winners this year.

Among the winning projects were Arrive Hotel, The Bodega, and End of Days Distillery for revamping and reusing their building spaces.

Rehabilitation nods went to both private homeowners and business owners such as ANDREA and BRAD WALKER (above), owners of Lighthouse Films who painstakingly fixed up the Richter Building on North Fourth Street. Inside the building, which was built in 1903, the couple spent countless hours salvaging wood from the ceilings and floors so that workers could use the materials to help bring the building back to life, Andrea Walker says in her award acceptance talk.

“I love coming to work every day and walking up those stairs and being greeted by these beautiful (wood) ceilings,” she says.

For a full list of winning projects, go to historicwilmington.org/2020-preservation-awards.

CHIPPS NAMED HEAD OF UNCW SPARC

The University of North Carolina Wilmington named KATI CHIPPS as director of its Office of Sponsored Programs and Research Compliance.

Chipps has experience in research administration, training and development, and nonprofit management.

She most recently served as a research administration manager for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.

The Office of Sponsored Programs and Research Compliance (SPARC) “provides assistance in identifying funding opportunities, preparing proposals and ensuring compliance with government regulations and specific requirements of sponsored research and programs,” officials say.

The university also filled two newly created leadership positions in the office.

DANA BELL took on the role of SPARC’s preaward coordinator, and Michael Carr began as assistant director for agreements.

Bell came to UNCW in January as a proposal development specialist. Before her roles at UNCW, she worked in research administration at the Medical University of South Carolina.

CF MUSEUM BOARD ELECTS OFFICERS

Cape Fear Museum Associates Inc. recently named its board officers and new members.

EMILY BOGAN (above), vice president of product enablement and GTM at nCino, was named board president.

KATE BAYNARD was elected vice president, and CHRYSTAL FRAY is board secretary. Daniel Owen was named treasurer.

New board members are:

DIANE DURANCE, director of the UNCW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship; JEAN GUINUP, owner of GC Communications LLC, a tourism and hospitality consulting firm; SUSAN HANNA, who is retired from NHRMC after thirty years in a number of nursing roles; SARA IZAD, a software architect at nCino for retail product; and LISA LEATH, founder of WorkTok and president of Leath HR Group.

John Coble, a partner in the Marshall, William & Gorham law firm, and Girard Newkirk, founder of KWH Coin Smart Grid, also joined the board.

“We are delighted to welcome these dedicated community leaders to Cape Fear Museum’s Associates Board,” museum director Sheryl Kingery Mays says.

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AREA WOMEN JOIN NEW STATE GROUPS

Local leaders now sit on new state task forces that Gov. Roy Cooper created in the summer.

Cooper named MARGARET WELLER-STARGELL to the Andrea Harris Social, Economic, Environmental and, Health Equity Task Force.

Weller-Stargell (above) is president and CEO of Coastal Horizons, as well as the president of the Willie Stargell Foundation, and chair of the North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services Waiver Advisory Committee.

The group was formed to “address the social, environmental, economic, and health disparities in communities of color that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,” state officials say.

“Inequities in North Carolina are not new, but COVID-19 is shining a bright light on disparities that have gone unchecked in our health care and economic institutions for communities of color,” Cooper says.

DEBORAH DICKS MAXWELL, president of the New Hanover County NAACP, was appointed to another new task force focused on equity.

She is one of the members sitting on the Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice.

The group is expected to help develop and help implement policy solutions to address systemic racial bias in criminal justice and submit recommendations by December 1.