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Pioneering Black Lineman Lights the Way John 'Johnny' Lee Willis was born in Spring Hill, Louisiana to a sharecropper father and saw firsthand the impacts of slavery and racism in the Deep South. It prepared him with the courage and strength to break the barrier as one of the first Black linemen at Southern California Edison. 'You can't fail unless you quit,' he said, 'and I was prepared for this.' Married with three children - ages 1, 2 and 4 at the time - Willis had left the Marines when he applied for a job at SCE. He visited the Rialto office every day to the point everyone knew him on a ...

In just the first two weeks of the new year, the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office has seen positive results come from the work of their K-9 unit. Monday night, a green Chevrolet pickup was circling an area near Oleander and College Road before going into a gravel parking lot next to Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church where buses, vans, and trailers for the church and Boy Scout Troop 26 were parked. A sheriff's office deputy, his K-9 Timo, and two detectives approached on foot and found David Hansen and Johnny Willis. Hansen and Willis had allegedly hooked up a Boy Scouts' trailer ...

Sheriff’s Office: K-9 unit halts theft of trailer belonging to Scout troop K-9 hero helps stop potential theft of Scout Troop's trailer By WECT Staff | January 13, 2021 at 2:10 PM EST - Updated January 13 at 7:01 PM WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Thanks to one of its K-9 units, a potential theft of a Boy Scout troop’s trailer was halted, according to the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office. Timo (Source: NHCSO) “While on Patrol Monday night K-9 Deputy Day noticed a green Chevrolet pickup circling the area near Oleander and College Rd.,” the sheriff’s office sai...