ON THE SIDELINES: Student-athletes should be commended for handling of pandemic season
As this sports season, arguably one of the oddest in state history, winds down, we should turn to the remarkable ability of most of the student-athletes to just hunker down and do what they needed to do for the love of their sport.
Vivian Ross, Lady Braves varsity basketball player, shoots during a game at Swain County this past season while wearing the COVID-19 protocol-mandated mask. (SCOTT MCKIE B.P./One Feather photo)
During a pre-season interview with the Cherokee Braves varsity baseball team, Daniel Thompson, senior outfielder, told me, “It’s crazy. Here we are in the middle of a pandemic, and we’re playing baseball. So, that’s awesome to me really. It’s been great so far. Everybody’s been following the rules. We’ve been wearing our masks. It’s hard, but you have to do what you have to do. I love the sport so I don’t mind it at all.”
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Will Knecht, chairman of the New Hanover County GOP, attempts to talk down an angry protester. “General bullshit is spewed out without any foundation,” the man, who declined to share his name, said. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY –– Hundreds of charged protesters crowded the entry to the New Hanover County Board of Education meeting Tuesday evening. Most were aware the school administration was only permitting 50 people inside the building at a time due to Covid-19 precautions. Still, they arrived in large numbers an hour early in hopes of squeezing through the door before their rivals.
Around 5:30 p.m., protesters elbowed toward the front of the building as a sheriff’s deputy ordered the group to back up. By the time the meeting started, the room filled, although it was unclear who had been brought in. The members of opposing political groups –– including the New Hanover County GOP, the lowercase leaders and education activists –– wer
High Point University graduate student, Johnathon Friar, was recognized by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association with a Life Saver Certificate.