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October 12th, 2010
Area high school students are working to create a unique honor code to govern their school's rules, regulations and policies.
Challenger Early College High School students will review and discuss their beliefs and values about what keeps a school running smoothly, and they'll put those values into an honor code.
Challenger Early College High School, located on the campus of Catawba Valley Community College, is a school of 380 students that blends the high school experience with the first two years of college.
A documentary about one of Catawba County's jewels will air at the Adrian L. Shuford YMCA.
Margaret "Sparky" Sparkman, also known as The Gourd Lady, will be the feature of a documentary on her service. An open house and premiere screening will be 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday in the Sparkman Community Center located behind the YMCA.
James Smith, the documentary's creator, will be present at the event and will sell DVDs for $15 each. The Gourd Lady will be available to autograph DVDs sold Thursday.
Semi-formal or formal attire is optional.
Two Catawba County ambulances were involved in accidents Monday, with one being recorded as fatal.
Nathan Turner, 54, of Claremont, was driving an ambulance occupied with another paramedic and a patient from an Alexander County nursing home to a hospital in Catawba County. As Turner approached the Alexander and Catawba county line, a 2003 Ford Escape crossed the center line and hit the ambulance head on about 1:30 p.m. Monday.
Patrick Salmons, 67, of Taylorsville, was driving the SUV and died at the scene.
On the football field Friday, Maiden High School and Bandys High School will battle it out for a victory.
But as the clock winds down the game's final moments, both teams will emerge victorious against a common opponent: cancer.
The rival schools joined forces to help Bandys assistant football coach Chris "Chopper" Fulbright, 38, who is recovering from kidney cancer.
Eric Daniel Christopher, 40 of Catawba, died Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. The family will receive friends 1-3 p.m. prior to the service at the funeral home.
It started the first week of practice as a simple bet. It was just a coach trying to motivate his team to perform, and it worked. Bunker Hill tennis coach Doug Watters shortly after practice opened in summer made an offer the girls did not refuse.
The 2009 Bears finished the season 0-14 in conference play after losing six seniors to graduation the year before. And Watters wanted to entice his players to achieve more than that.
Police canceled the Amber Alert issued for a missing Hickory girl and will instead investigate the case as a homicide.
Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins said Tuesday that police will continue the case to locate 10-year-old Zahra Clare Baker as a murder investigation.
Adkins fought back tears Tuesday as he briefed local and national media during a late-morning press conference about the investigation.
Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins will update the community on the disappearance of Zahra Baker during a press briefing at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Ahead of that meeting HPD announced that "investigators are working several leads, specifically addressing Zahra’s life before she disappeared."
By
Associated Press Writer Mitch Weiss
HICKORY — Relatives of a missing 10-year-old Hickory girl whose bone cancer left her with a prosthetic leg and hearing aids described the child's life as miserable, saying she was locked in her room for most of the day and was punished over little things.
Zahra Clare Baker was reported missing Saturday, but police said they have had trouble finding anyone outside the household who had seen the girl alive in the last few weeks. Authorities also cast doubt on what the couple had told them.
October 11th
Political signs accumulate in yards and city streets as election day nears. Some of those signs, however, could be illegal.
Illegal campaign sign placement is a violation of littering laws, said Larry Brewer Catawba County Board of Elections director. The Board of Elections, however, does not have the authority to enforce the laws.
"We don't control signs," Brewer said. "We're not the sign police, so to speak."
Littering law violations on public rights-of-way are enforced by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
