By May, Nia Raines will have earned two.
The 18-year-old will soon graduate from Cumberland Polytechnic High School. She already has one degree under her belt in December she completed work for her associate’s degree from Fayetteville Technical Community College. Graduation ceremonies for both schools are scheduled for next month.
Nia’s high school is located on the FTCC campus, and students there earn credits toward college. But she went the extra mile, taking summer courses, to earn her degree in a two-year program. She was just 17 at the time.
“I took a lot of summer classes to help me with that, to get me on the fast track,” says Nia, who has maintained a 3.8 GPA in high school. “It just accumulated. I worked very hard.”
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Roger Mercer
Spring is at hand.
The flowering apricots have been spectacular this year. They are almost finished blooming in the Cape Fear Botanical Garden and in my garden, too.
A few Asian magnolias with basketball-sized, fragrant flowers are blooming now and many more should be open during the next two weeks.
A dozen spectacular Taiwan cherries are in bloom in my garden with very bright fuchsia pink to red colors.
Five chinese witch hazels are blooming here now and one has already finished.
I d like you to visit and see them all, especially the magnolias. Give me a call to arrange a tour. My address and phone number are at the bottom of this column. Most people have never seen these winter bloomers in flower. I don t know how I would survive the winter without the excitement, color and fragrance they provide.