Thornton received a $1,000 scholarship. She was sponsored by the Exchange Club of Mount Olive.
Thornton has been involved in many fundraisers and service projects in her local and surrounding communities, said Lynne Smith, school counselor at North Duplin High.
Thornton has helped coordinate the Books for Buddies program at North Duplin Elementary, has helped with the John Roland Sullivan Scholarship Benefit for several years and actively volunteered at Sampson Regional Center in Clinton.
She also founded âThe Rose Project: Notes of Love,â in which she made paper roses from tissue paper and wrote notes to go along with them to nursing home residents during the pandemic. Within eight months, she had made and delivered more than 1,000 roses and notes to 14 different nursing homes, logging more than 600 miles across eastern North Carolina.
Posted Friday, April 16, 2021 6:06 am
ROSE HILL - North Duplin kept its perfect record intact with a 13-1, five-inning conquest of Carolina 1A Conference foe Union on Thursday afternoon.
Senior Callie Thornton batted 4-for-4, collected four RBI and emerged as the winning pitcher. The senior right-hander allowed one unearned run on three hits and retired 11 Union batters on strikeouts.
Ivey Cashell ended the day 3-for-4.
Reece Outlaw, Logan Jones and Riley Hatch (two RBI) supplied two hits apiece. Kasey Jones (two RBI) and Skylar Craig each contributed one hit.
North Duplin (8-0 overall, 7-0 Carolina) travels to Rosewood next Tuesday. First pitch is 7 p.m.