North Carolina Azalea Festival announces 2021 Queen
The 2021 Azalea Festival Queen, Princess announced By WECT Staff | March 8, 2021 at 8:03 PM EST - Updated March 8 at 11:52 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Azalea Festival announced Monday the 74th Queen Azalea for the 2021 Azalea Festival is Victoria Huggins.
Huggins, a former WECT employee, was Miss Wilmington 2016, Miss North Carolina 2017, and a former emcee of both the Azalea Children’s Tea and the Azalea Festival Princess Scholarship Pageant.
As a news producer for WECT/WSFX, she worked third shift on “Carolina in the Morning” and as a traffic reporter.
Currently a resident of Vass, N.C., Huggins counts this opportunity as one of the greatest honors of her lifetime. She is now a community and media relations manager of the Fayetteville Woodpeckers, a Class A minor league baseball team, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Miss North Carolina organization and the Fayetteville Urban Minist
Fayetteville State University Chancellor-elect Darrell Allison has pushed back against rumors the school would change its name to the University of North Carolina at Fayetteville.
In a Wednesday interview, he said it would not be something he would support unless it came from “internal” stakeholders the Bronco alumni, students and faculty.
“I am an HBCU graduate,” said Allison, who completed his undergraduate work at N.C. Central University in Durham.
He added, “A proud graduate of an HBCU,” placing emphasis on the word “proud.”
Allison said if a name change were to be pushed on FSU by external forces, “I will quickly go put on my jogging pants, my boots and I will be on the front lines to actively resist that effort.”
Exposure to Blasts in War and Training May Increase Risk of Alzheimer s in Troops, Study Finds
U.S. Marines fire a MK-153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon in a live-fire squad attack range during exercise Fuji Viper 21.1 at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, on Dec. 10, 2020. (U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Ujian Gosun)
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A new study of rat brains exposed to military-grade blasts indicates that troops subjected to explosive shockwaves may be at higher risk for developing Alzheimer s disease, including service members who show no symptoms of concussion or brain injury after a blast.
The Army Research Laboratory, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, University of North Carolina at Pembroke and National Institutes of Health collaborated on the research, which showed that exposure to blasts alters the connections between neurons of the hippocampus at the molecular level.
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Federal legislation to recognize the Lumbee Tribe will be named for tribe activist and leader Julian Pierce who worked to provide resources and recognition for the Lumbee people and marginalized communities, the Lumbee Tribal Council voted Feb. 18.
The Julian Thomas Pierce Memorial Lumbee Recognition Act of 2021 is new legislation calling for federal recognition of the Lumbee people, a long sought-after effort that Pierce advocated for in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Lumbee Tribal Council voted unanimously to name the legislation after Pierce. There has been an outpouring of support on the tribe s Facebook page. It was an easy vote for them and I m very grateful to them for doing that because it shows the collaborative effort in the tribal government, Tribal Chairman Harvey Godwin said. That is what our bill means.