Points of Pride

  • Congratulations to Weddington High swimmer, Katherine Plevka, for capturing two 2011 NC State 3A Swimming Championships - 200 Yard Individual Medley and the 100 yard Breatstroke.

  • Susan Samsel, teacher of the Home/Hospital-Medically Fragile, was named a CEC (Conference on Exceptional Children) Teacher of Excellence at the Exceptional Children’s Division-61st Conference in Greensboro.

  • Central Academy of Technology and Arts teachers Larry Robinson, Bianca Morgan and Jeff Weis, and several CATA students have been recognized for their play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” winning the North Carolina Theatre Conference State Play Festival.

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Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club is safe haven for students

The Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club area director Moses Fox III, at left, plays a game of Air Hockey with students in the club, an after-school program for Union County Public Schools students that is housed at Monroe Middle. The club’s doors opened officially on Jan. 17, 2011, with 24 students signed up to attend. On the third day, however, that number had already doubled. Club organizers held a grand opening Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.

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Young poets from Western Union Elementary are to be published

These third graders in Jennifer Bittner’s class at Western Union Elementary will have their poems published in the next issue of “Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans." Pictured from left, (first row) Peyton McDonald, Western Union teacher Jennifer Bittner, Caralyn Elrod; (back row) Sukarno Brown, Brett Connell and Nikolas Kotesky.

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