Archive - Sep 24, 2011 - News Article
Filing for Claremont’s city council race will re-open on Monday after the recent death of incumbent James “PJ” Stanley.
Stanley, a 2011 incumbent who has served as a city councilman since 1987, died Wednesday after a short fight with leukemia.
The Catawba County Board of Elections announced on Friday that it will re-open filing for the council race from Monday until Wednesday.
Only two other candidates have filed for the race at this time – incumbents Nicky E. Setzer and M. Dale Sherrill. There are three open seats on the Claremont City Council.
Gov. Beverly Perdue and other state and county leaders saw what they called the future of health care training and workforce development Friday at Catawba Valley Community College.
CVCC presented its 28,000-square-foot regional simulated hospital on the fifth floor of the campus' Cuyler Dunbar Building in Hickory.
There is a hospital inside Catawba Valley Community College. On Friday, it came to life.
In a simulated Intensive Care Unit (ICU), second-year student Ethel Downey pulled a hunk of innards from the chest of a “gunshot victim.” She lifted it up for her fellow students and audience to see, and a line of fake blood squirted from the “patient’s” sliced artery and hit her on the forearm.
“You got me that time,” she said to fellow student Leslie Casey, who was controlling the reproduced blood palpitations. Downey looked at the patient simulator and continued operating.
A pink fire truck parked in front of the Catawba County Justice Center in Newton on Friday afternoon.
People walked up with black pens and wrote all over it – each set of words a message of support for women who have battled cancer.
The truck's visit was a stop on the Pink Heals Guardians of the Ribbons Tour, a nonprofit effort that began several years ago in Arizona as a way to raise awareness of breast and other cancers that women face.
Justice didn’t taste so good this week for a group of men who set up a drive-through robbery in Denver last year.
Police arrested three men on Wednesday associated with an armed robbery at the Denver KFC/Taco Bell on May 26, 2010. The robbery was a setup and involved one suspect taking money from his acquaintance who worked at the restaurant, said Capt. Joel Fish of the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas — at least it is at The Observer News Enterprise and Outlook.
As Catawba County's community newspapers launch their third annual "Hometown Christmas" campaign, the Christmas spirit will begin flowing at stores and businesses throughout the region.
"On Thursday we were proud to host the first Christmas party of 2010," O-N-E Publisher Michael Willard said of the event held at Newton Expo.
