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Wineka Column
Wineka column: Bernhardt House back on the block for a mere $180,000
News | Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:18 AM |
SALISBURY — The Bernhardt House has nine lives. Or so it seems. Once again, Historic Salisbury Foundation has rescued, repaired and returned the historic house to the market, looking for a compassionate buyer.
“This house has been well-lo ...Read More
Grey Corriher says it’s time to sell former movie theatre
News | Tuesday, February 07, 2012 6:20 AM |
CHINA GROVE — Climb three flights of stairs to the top of the China Grove Roller Mill museum, and you’ll find a corner devoted to the Grove Theatre.
Four seats from the old movie house line the wall.
An ancient projector, an original cloc ...Read More
Jean Kennedy has dedicated her life to education
News | Sunday, February 05, 2012 1:26 AM |
SALISBURY — The school kept sending Jean Boyd Kennedy home, and her mother kept sending her back.
Shuford Memorial School had decided 5-year-old Jean was too young for the first grade, but Willie Menia Boyd knew better.
Her little girl already ...Read More
Wineka column: No shadows for this groundhog today
News | Thursday, February 02, 2012 12:30 AM |
SALISBURY — Bob Pendergrass led us through various doors, gates and roped-off areas until we reached the inside cages behind the bear habitat.
But we weren’t here to see the bears. We wanted to check up on Buddy, the groundhog at Dan Nich ...Read More
Wineka infiltrates 'Crazies' at West Rowan
News | Saturday, January 28, 2012 11:38 PM |
MOUNT ULLA — After paying admission Friday night, I lingered in the gymnasium lobby at West Rowan High and looked for anyone who might be crazy.
I found my prey in Cody Haire and Jake Watson, students who were standing in the doorway to the gym ...Read More
After half a century, Dr. Bobby Lomax still sees patients
News | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:54 AM |
SALISBURY — As he marks his 50th year as a Salisbury dentist, Dr. Bobby Lomax still has a way with patients.
“I’ve just always had a good feeling, being in his hands,” says Ronald Moose, who went to Lomax for more than four de ...Read More
Paterno created a state of mind, and he couldn’t live without it
News | Monday, January 23, 2012 6:11 AM |
By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
SALISBURY — Early Sunday afternoon, my youngest son, who lives in Atlanta, sent me a text and asked, “Are you wearing your jacket in memoriam [sic]?”
I knew what he was talking about.
My brother l ...Read More
Salisbury woman’s courageous acts aided Allies in WWII
News | Sunday, January 22, 2012 1:47 AM |
SALISBURY — I took a trip across the ocean and back in time last week to the French seaport town of Cherbourg.
Carrying me there was Terri Tomasini, though her name during World War II was Therese Compere, a pretty girl who worked for officers ...Read More
Wineka column: Ladies, the game is on for Miss Cheerwine
News | Saturday, January 21, 2012 12:33 AM |
SALISBURY — Brothers, are you with me?
The folks at Cheerwine have committed a grievous error in their call for applications for a new Miss Cheerwine.
They have shut us out, and it is discrimination of the highest order. It smacks of sexism, ag ...Read More
North Rowan students receive free word books from Spencer Civitans
News | Friday, January 20, 2012 12:39 AM |
SPENCER — Dictionaries. They’re so old school.
But tell that to the 96 third-graders who received a personalized, paperback dictionary Thursday at North Rowan Elementary.
As the students lined up to return to class after receiving their d ...Read More
Wineka column: Marcelle’s main focus now schools and veterans
News | Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:49 AM |
FAITH — From his kitchen window, while he washes dishes, Marcelle Williams can look up the hill across Main Street and see where he was born.
His son, Tim, lives next door, and daughter Ginger’s home sits up past the school. His oldest da ...Read More
Students get a lot out of trip to military museum
News | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:34 AM |
CHINA GROVE — As a classmate took her picture, Caitlin Hodge beamed with pride.
She was holding a framed photograph of her grandfather, James A. Hodge, which is among the hundreds displayed at the Price of Freedom Museum.
Hodge, a Vietnam veter ...Read More
Moon Mullins is an accomplished guitar picker
News | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:20 AM |
CHINA GROVE — Every so often, Moon Mullins goes to a nail salon so a manicurist can reapply fake nails to the tips of his right fingers.
This comes as no surprise to the fellow musicians who consider the guitar-playing Mullins a thumbpicking ic ...Read More
High Rock man fascinated by items that are atmospheric, extraterrestrial
News | Sunday, January 08, 2012 1:01 AM |
HIGH ROCK — James Morgan wanted to show me something.
A long-distance truck driver for most of his life, Morgan said he had noticed pieces of a meteorite near the intersection of High Rock and Goodman roads.
He first came upon the heavenly debr ...Read More
At 83, Plexico says second stop at Union will be his last
News | Saturday, January 07, 2012 12:34 AM |
SALISBURY — Before we head to the church office for a talk, the Rev. Thurmond C. “T.C.” Plexico stops for a moment on the covered walkway leading from the Union Lutheran sanctuary.
As he looks across the expansive church cemetery an ...Read More
Local soldier receives purple heart after Afghan attack
News | Sunday, January 01, 2012 1:01 AM |
SALISBURY — Shaking off the night’s cold, Army Spc. Thomas Gravitte took over his solitary guard position about 4:45 a.m.
He positioned himself on a makeshift tower, a perch on top of a wall of Hesco barriers, the kind that sometimes seem ...Read More
Newsmaker of the Year: The student athlete
News | Friday, December 30, 2011 6:04 AM |
By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
SALISBURY — It was a year filled with news of people losing their jobs and homes.
Of rising gas prices. Higher tuition bills. Not enough food and clothing for the needy. More of us falling out of the mid ...Read More
Smell of steak too hard for pup to resist
News | Friday, December 30, 2011 6:14 AM |
By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
SALISBURY — The smells coming from Fred Moore’s George Foreman grill were just too hard to resist Wednesday evening.
They attracted a friendly pit bull onto Moore’s front porch. The female pu ...Read More
Football helps Zachary Owen deal with Asperger’s syndrome
News | Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:07 AM |
SALISBURY — Zachary Owen talks slowly and directly.
His actions are measured, like the hits he delivers on a football field, even at age 12.
This week, Owen has been attending activities and practices connected with the Offense-Defense All-Amer ...Read More
Wineka column: Wounds heal easier in company of comrades at coffee shop
News | Saturday, December 24, 2011 8:41 PM |
MOORESVILLE — The scene repeats itself each Thursday morning. Military veterans from World War II to modern-day conflicts cram into Richard’s Coffee Shop.
“A bunch of old guys in funny hats,” John Hedley says, confident that w ...Read More
Wineka column: Have no fear, it’s only Bad Santa
News | Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:08 AM |
LIBERTY — I didn’t know how to take it when Marti Lakey, who was helping me put on my Santa suit, said I would not need a pillow around my stomach.
Things went downhill from there.
It took me 55 years, but I finally laid a finger to the s ...Read More
Wineka column: Having hope, belief and a faith in God
News | Thursday, December 22, 2011 6:20 AM |
SALISBURY — Flora Smith, a self-described local preacher, will talk about the Lord wherever she finds an audience.
It could be among a group of veterans at the local VFW. It could be the people who ride with her on the “RITA” buses. ...Read More
After surviving bus wreck, Todd Miller met his wife
News | Monday, December 19, 2011 6:15 AM |
By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
SALISBURY — It’s easy to say a horrific accident brought Todd and Leigh Miller together almost five years ago.
But their romance has more to do with the color purple.
The Millers have returned to t ...Read More
Support helps woman with aggressive brain cancer
News | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 7:02 AM |
By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
ROCKWELL — Nancy Beaver was maybe in the best shape of her life.
By walking, weight-training, taking Zumba classes at the Y and watching her diet, Beaver had shed more than 20 pounds to win a “Bigg ...Read More
Davidson County residents still cleaning up after fatal tornado
News | Monday, December 12, 2011 12:12 AM |
LEXINGTON — The randomness of it all is what troubles you.
Why did a renegade tornado decide to lift this particular house off its foundation and send it crashing down a hill, while merely brushing the houses on either side?
“I’ve s ...Read More
Wineka column: Social networking, the old-fashioned way
News | Thursday, December 08, 2011 12:59 AM |
SALISBURY — Forget Facebook or Twitter. The real social networking — the way it should be — happens every morning when “The Wink’s Bunch” gets together for breakfast.
For 25 years, men from various walks of life ha ...Read More
Wineka column: Captured flag connects family to Pearl Harbor
News | Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:50 AM |
SALISBURY — When Robert D. Hartman spoke of it years later to his family, he described a scene of U.S. sailors — the “prize crew” — running through all parts of the Japanese battleship Nagato and collecting souvenirs.
Ha ...Read More
Church occupies former Wink’s Fish Camp building
News | Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:22 PM |
SALISBURY — A building that used to serve all-you-can-eat flounder and seafood platters now dishes the Lord.
It’s hard to escape the symbolism.
LifeWay Church, located at 7621 Old Mocksville Road near U.S. 601, promotes itself as a place ...Read More
Hap's Grill celebrates 25 years
News | Monday, November 28, 2011 12:38 AM |
SALISBURY — On every visit to Hap’s Grill, Dan Lyerly orders the same thing: a hot dog all the way, extra mustard, light on the onions.
“That’s known as a ‘Dan Dog,’ ” says Lyerly, a Spencer retiree.
Lyerly u ...Read More
New kidney recipients reflect on their freedom
News | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:58 AM |
EAST SPENCER — Annie Cline can’t describe how much she’s looking forward to this Thanksgiving.
Two years ago at this time, she was recovering from a heart attack.
A year ago, she had just received a new kidney.
Her son Jermaine kidd ...Read More
Johnny Luckey revels in his good fortune
News | Sunday, November 20, 2011 12:23 AM |
SALISBURY — Now that the mornings have turned crisp, Johnny Luckey can see his breath as he bends down to unchain his mo-ped.
He wears layers of clothing, topped off by a reflector vest for the 8-mile trip ahead of him in the darkness.
The mo-p ...Read More
Granite Quarry's Fannie Gaither celebrates 105 years
News | Friday, November 18, 2011 11:10 PM |
GRANITE QUARRY — Fannie Gaither says she has always been particular about food.
That is to say, she never allowed herself to be a big eater.
“I didn’t want to be a pig,” she says. “I trained myself to eat what I thought was a reasonable amount.”
...Read More
Funds raised for scholarship in honor of man who died in 9/11 attacks
News | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:06 AM |
SALISBURY — Ruby Beaty’s college-age son, Channing, brought the package inside when he came home from classes one afternoon.
Beaty didn’t know what to make of the square box the FedEx man had left on the porch. A receipt said it was ...Read More
Wineka column: Now that coyotes are here, there’s no getting rid of them
News | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 8:19 AM |
SALISBURY — On Halloween afternoon, Allan Fontenot had just reached his deer stand off Barnhardt Road and was pulling up his muzzle-loader when he saw movement 75 yards away.
He thought it was a deer at first, until a look through his binocular ...Read More
Wineka column: Veteran looks back on key WWII invasions
News | Friday, November 11, 2011 1:15 AM |
SALISBURY — From his observation post on the USS LST-809, anchored off the beach at Iwo Jima, Walter Meyers saw the Japanese kamikaze plane coming right toward him.
But luckily so did the men on the guns of his landing ship. They peppered the s ...Read More
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