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Meet Ava Katherine Socarras, first Miss Lexington’s Outstanding Teen

Meet Ava Katherine Socarras, first Miss Lexington’s Outstanding Teen

Erica Zheng
Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Education, Health, Local News, nonprofit

It was late 2021 when Socarras was named Miss Lexington’s Outstanding Teen 2022. Her passion and social impact initiative, another term for a platform in the Miss America system, is Share a Spare, which emphasizes kidney disease. As an ambassador of the National Kidney Foundation of North Carolina, Socarras has attended meetings with nephrologists, kidney disease patients, recipients of kidney implants and kidney donors; it’s all a way to learn more about kidney disease and how to spread awareness about it.

First Reformed UCC Prayer Shawl Ministry

First Reformed UCC Prayer Shawl Ministry

First Reformed United Church of Christ
advertising, Culture, Faith & Fellowship

Over the centuries, shawls have come to symbolize shelter, peace, and spiritual sustenance. Today, knitters and crocheters of all faiths are creating handmade shawls for people in need, as gifts of comfort, hope, and peace. “Shawls...made for centuries universal and embracing, symbolic of an inclusive, unconditionally loving, God. They wrap, enfold, comfort, cover, give solace, mother, hug, shelter and beautify. Those who have received these shawls have been uplifted and affirmed, as if given wings to fly above their troubles...” Written in 1998 by Janet Severt Bristow.

Op-Ed: The year July Fourth was protested

Op-Ed: The year July Fourth was protested

Cassie Brenker
Culture, Federal Government, Opinion, Politics

Opinion: Remembering this excerpt from The Declaration of Independence. -”That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.”

Denton FarmPark's Christmas Train seeks votes by June 30th, Southeast Old Threshers' Reunion

Denton FarmPark's Christmas Train seeks votes by June 30th, Southeast Old Threshers' Reunion

Community News - Contributed
Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Local News

Carolina’s Finest Awards, showcasing the finest North Carolina has to offer. We’re leaving it up to you, our readers, to pick the best of the best. Winners will be published in our November 2022 issue. Vote for your top picks to be entered into a random drawing for one of three $100 gift cards. Deadline to vote is June 30, 2022.

Library makes a splash in Thomasville, offers Monday book sale

Library makes a splash in Thomasville, offers Monday book sale

Antionette Kerr
Arts & Entertainment, Community Events, Culture, Education, Local News

Experts call the “Summer Slide” the tendency for students to lose some of the reaching achievements made during the previous school year. Some estimates say, “it costs the educational system more than $1,500 per student to reteach materials. Over the course of a K-12 education, that can equate to more than $18,000 per student.”

Community Teen Pride: Chants of "Love Always" abound

Community Teen Pride: Chants of "Love Always" abound

Davidson Local
Culture

For several years, 16-year-old Girl Scout Jianna Miller knew she wanted her Gold Award project to be a Pride March for teens. The Gold Award is the highest award for Girl Scouts, in which individuals address issues in their community by making lasting change and 80 hours of work. The parade garnered a host of media attention from across the state.

Live United: United Way seeks volunteers to help allocate funds

Live United: United Way seeks volunteers to help allocate funds

Community News - Contributed
Arts & Entertainment, Business, Community Events, Culture

Each year, a group of around 100 volunteers participate in this process to review applications from nonprofits requesting funds from United Way of Davidson County. These volunteers make decisions on how to allocate funding to a variety of local agencies doing life-changing work. Our community relies on these volunteers to act as stewards for funds by the United Way of Davidson County. You can be part of this amazing group!

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