Having seen Kamala Harris sworn in as vice president on Wednesday, Virginia Newell hopes Harris will be elected in the future to the country s highest office.
By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com
Mark Thorpe, a 25-year veteran of the City of King Fire Department, is teaching the first course of the county schools’ new Fire Academy.
Thorpe instructs his Public Safety I students at South Stokes High School.
DANBURY When students went back to school last week after their Christmas break, it also meant the start of something pretty important: The Stokes County School System’s new Fire Academy, something that’s been dreamed about for quite a while.
Twenty-nine students have signed up for the program. Classes are being taught at South and North Stokes high schools by Mark Thorpe, who has been with the City of King Fire Department as a firefighter since 1996.
If Charlotte Willhite had continued to believe what her seventh-grade art teacher told her years ago, she probably wouldnât be a visual artist today.
âMy art teacher told me I needed to be in something else. I had no talent,â Willhite said.
That teacher discouraged her from continuing any art classes.
âWhen youâre a young teenager, I think you tend to believe whatever an adult tells you,â Willhite said. âI believed her, so I actually didnât take my first drawing class until the fall of 2005.â
âI discovered that I do have a little bit of talent,â she said laughing.
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