Training briefs: RCCC college students win awards at nationwide competitors – Salisbury Publish

SALISBURY — Three college students from Rowan-Cabarrus Neighborhood Faculty captured prime 10 honors at this 12 months’s nationwide SkillsUSA competitors held not too long ago in Atlanta. Joe Guza and Joshua Wooden received first place medals, and Kyle Benkendorf, positioned sixth on the occasion.

The 58th SkillsUSA Nationwide Management and Abilities Convention introduced collectively roughly 5,200 excellent profession and technical training state contest winners to compete in additional than 100 completely different hands-on commerce, technical and management fields.

Guza received a gold medal in heating, air flow, air con and refrigeration (HVAC/R), Wooden received a gold medal in sheet metallic, and Benkendorf captured sixth place in industrial motor management. They competed within the Faculty Publish-Secondary Division.

“Congratulations to those devoted college students on their excellent expertise and efficiency,” mentioned Joe Christie, program chair for building applied sciences packages at Rowan-Cabarrus. “They got here out on prime whereas competing with the most effective within the nation, and that’s no small feat.”

Through the nationwide competitors, college students labored towards the clock and one another to show their experience in a wide range of occupation areas equivalent to building trades, electronics, precision machining, automotive, welding and medical aiding. Contests had been executed with the assist of trade, commerce associations and labor organizations.

North Carolina college students earned the third-highest medal depend within the nation, with 24 gold, 9 silver, and 31 bronze medallions.

This 12 months’s Rowan-Cabarrus
SkillsUSA advisors had been Ryland Perry, Brandon Reese, Brandon Hoffner, Lori Safrit, Carl Smith, Jon Crockett, Joe Christie, Larry Newcomb and James Hauss.

“We’re extraordinarily pleased with these three college students for the talent they’ve developed of their chosen fields of research,” RCCC President Carol Spalding mentioned. “Rowan-Cabarrus encourages college students to benefit from alternatives to broaden their studying past the classroom. Involvement in organizations like SkillsUSA helps them take their training and profession aspirations to the subsequent stage.”

SkillsUSA is a nationwide partnership of scholars, lecturers and trade, working collectively to make sure that America has a talented workforce by offering college students with alternatives to realize private, profession and technical expertise grounded in lecturers. The group has greater than 350,000 pupil and teacher members on the nationwide stage.

For extra info, go to www.SkillsUS.org. For extra details about Rowan-Cabarrus Neighborhood Faculty, go to www.rccc.edu or name 704-216-RCCC (7222).

Livingstone’s West Finish Basic Saturday to honor three

SALISBURY — Two people and one group group will probably be honored this weekend for the work they do to assist the West Finish group throughout Livingstone Faculty’s first residence sport.

Janine Evans, Jason Walser and West Finish Pleasure will every obtain the Fannie T. Butler Neighborhood Affect Award throughout a pre-game ceremony at 4:30 p.m. at Alumni Memorial Stadium.

The West Finish Basic is a partnership between Livingstone Faculty, the Metropolis of Salisbury and members of the West Finish Coalition (West Finish Pleasure and West Finish Neighborhood Group) that pays homage to the group by which Livingstone resides. This 12 months marks the ninth annual traditional sport.

Pre-pandemic, Livingstone Faculty and the West Finish Coalition met for breakfast conferences all year long to debate enchancment points associated to the group and to vote on West Finish residents who qualify for

Neighborhood Spirit Awards throughout the West Finish Basic sport. Final 12 months, Livingstone Faculty determined to rename the award after Fannie Tillery Butler, a member of the West Finish Coalition, who handed away on Feb. 11, 2021, on the age of 92. Butler, a 1949 graduate of Livingstone Faculty and native educator, was a founding member of the West Finish Neighborhood Group and served as president for greater than 25 years. She was the primary director of Miller Recreation Middle.

“Our alternatives this 12 months exemplify group service initiatives that supported relationship constructing and improved visibility of the West Finish group,” mentioned Dee Dee Wright, who leads the West Finish Coalition.

“These three would be the first to obtain the award named after Butler.”

Evans, the daughter of Raemi Evans, registered quite a few senior residents for COVID vaccinations who didn’t have web entry or had issue making preparations by way of telephone, Wright mentioned. She organized for

transportation for a lot of of them to get to the designated vaccination places. She was additionally liable for the restore and substitute of greater than 65 metropolis lights within the West Finish space; and for elevating greater than $4,000 to assist swim classes and free admission to the Fred M. Evans Pool every summer time, Wright mentioned.

12 months spherical, Evans plans and helps youth literacy by supplying free books for college students in grades Okay-12 on the Raemi Evans Little Library on the Fred M. Evans Pool.

Walser, who turned the chief director of the Blanche and Julian Robertson Household Basis in 2017, has overseen investments in group nonprofits and group enhancements within the Historic West Finish, Wright mentioned. He was deeply concerned within the creation of the Bell Tower Inexperienced Park downtown.

Walser grew up in Statesville and attended the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the place he majored in enterprise. He then went on to earn a level from the UNC College of Legislation. He practiced regulation in Hendersonville, earlier than becoming a member of The Land Belief for Central North Carolina in Salisbury in 1999. He labored for The Land Belief for practically 16 years, serving as its govt director.

He and spouse Tracy of 25 years have two youngsters: Ian, 21, a senior at East Carolina College, and Autumn, 18, a freshman at NC State.

The sport begins at 5 p.m. A ribbon chopping for the brand new stadium begins at 4:20 p.m. and the West Finish Basic displays will start at 4:30 p.m. on the monitor at centerfield. There will probably be fireworks after the sport.

Catawba grad a finalist for pupil instructor of the 12 months

SALISBURY — Kylie Morgan, Catawba Faculty class of 2022 and Center Grades ELA Training main, has been named a prime ten finalist for the North Carolina Affiliation of Faculties for Trainer Training Scholar Trainer of the 12 months.

Upon notification she was a finalist, Morgan mentioned “From the time I started 4th grade, I knew that my coronary heart was in training. It’s thrilling to have the ability to say that in only a few brief weeks, I’ll have my very own college students, my very own classroom, and can be capable to see my dream change into actuality. This 12 months, I used to be honored to be named as Catawba Faculty’s potential instructor of the 12 months. God blessed me abundantly throughout my time at Catawba and continued to do so- I used to be chosen as a prime 10 finalist for this competitors; one thing that I by no means might have predicted. Nonetheless, none of this may have been doable with out the training program at Catawba. My professors and friends inspired me, challenged me, and genuinely needed to see me succeed. My thanks will at all times go to them.”

Morgan was nominated by Catawba’s Trainer Training Committee and obtained the Shirley L. Haworth Potential Trainer Award from the Faculty. A quote from her nomination acknowledged “Miss Morgan has confirmed herself as a pacesetter within the classroom and past. Her friends search concepts from her, which she willingly shares. She practices reflective instructing and continuous studying. She values her college students and the number of experiences and backgrounds they create to her classroom. She holds the career of instructing in excessive regard and considers it a privilege to show her college students every day. She serves as an asset to her college students, her faculty group, and the career.” Lisa Moore, college supervisor for Morgan, added “Kylie’s work reveals a spark that comes from a devoted instructor that’s going to impression the instructing career in a optimistic means for a few years to come back.”

The annual award acknowledges excellent future educators nominated by NCACTE member establishments. One instructor candidate from the NCACTE member establishments is acknowledged because the Excellent Scholar Trainer of the 12 months in North Carolina on the annual fall NCACTE Trainer Training Discussion board.

“I realized rather a lot throughout my 4 years at Catawba; issues that I can’t wait to share with my college students,” added Morgan. “Nonetheless, I do know that I nonetheless have a lot to study, and that my college students will train me as a lot as I train them.”

North Hills continues back-to-school custom

SALISBURY — North Hills Christian College continued an annual custom by internet hosting a school-wide prayer stroll once they returned to campus the week of Aug. 15.

Within the earlier two years, the prayer walks had been smaller in dimension than is typical for the varsity, as they took precautions resulting from COVID by limiting participation to workers and college students solely. Nonetheless this 12 months, in a time when a lot of the world is striving in the direction of a way of normalcy, NHCS was excited to welcome households again to take part within the beloved custom.

Sharing her ideas on the occasion, North Hills Government Director, Maria Lowder acknowledged: “It was an unimaginable day to start the fifty fifth 12 months of NHCS with campus-wide prayer. It was such a blessing to have the ability to welcome our households again to campus to affix our annual prayer stroll as we prayed for our college students, workers, college, and households.”

The occasion started within the Helen Kelley Smith Gymnasium with greater than college students, practically 100 college and workers members, and over 150 dad and mom and/or guardians. Shari Evans, Religious Life and Steerage Director started with prayer within the stuffed gymnasium. The prayer stroll continued from there as workers, college students, and their households canvassed the North Hills campus, praying particularly for people, lessons, athletic groups, and the group as an entire.

“It was so particular to have the ability to welcome college students and households on campus this 12 months for our Annual All-Campus Prayer Stroll. This 12 months’s faculty theme, “Press Ahead, Be Daring, Stay Loud”, actually speaks to what God has referred to as us to as a faculty. We’re going to press ahead into all of the Lord has for us this 12 months; we’re going to be daring in rising our religion; and, we’re going to stay our religion out loud for His glory.” added Shari Evans.

Brown to be visitor lecturer at Hood seminary

SALISBURY – Hood Theological Seminary will maintain its annual Ruben L. Speaks Endowed Memorial Lecture Sequence on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 7- 8.  This 12 months’s featured presenter is Teresa L. Fry Brown.

The lectures, that are free  and open to the general public, will probably be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 7 and 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8. This 12 months the lecture sequence will probably be digital by means of Zoom. Go right here for info: https://www.hoodseminary.edu/information/fall-2022- speaks-lecture-series. Zoom hyperlinks will probably be posted on the Hood web site.

The Ruben L. Speaks Endowed Memorial Lecture Sequence is called in honor of the late Bishop Ruben Lee Speaks, a gifted African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church chief acknowledged on quite a few events for his management and artistic engagement in ministry. Speaks obtained the Chancellor’s Award from the College of North Carolina at Wilmington and the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Brooklyn Advisory Committee of the New York City League.