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Wineka Column
Keeping up the National Cemetery proves to be quite the task
News | Monday, May 28, 2012 12:42 AM |
SALISBURY — When the orange golf flag goes up behind the Committal Shelter, crews silence their equipment and stop talking.
On the hill above them, words of prayer and conclusion are said over the remains of a U.S. military veteran or his or he ...Read More
Wineka column: Elizabeth Dole exhibit starts June 3 at Rowan Museum
News | Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:04 AM |
SALISBURY — Near the elevator doors of the Rowan Museum, Terry Holt gingerly lifts a large framed portrait of Elizabeth Hanford Dole and gives it an admiring look.
“This portrait hung in her mother’s bedroom,” says Betty Dan S ...Read More
Bluegrass gospel knits Edwards clan of east Rowan
News | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 6:08 AM |
SALISBURY — When they play their bluegrass gospel in the living room, members of The Edwards Family like to spread out and move the furniture.
Elizabeth Edwards stands next to the rocking chair with her bass. She’s quick to remind her you ...Read More
Motorists enjoy smooth ride on new interstate bridge
News | Monday, May 21, 2012 1:24 AM |
SALISBURY — Walter Turner carries a youngster’s wide-eyed enchantment, watching the progress behind the monumental task of spanning the Yadkin River with new bridges.
Every work day, Turner crosses the river twice on Interstate 85 between ...Read More
Wineka column: Letters from a stranded WWI soldier
News | Friday, May 18, 2012 6:05 AM |
SALISBURY — Barbara Harris Richmond and her husband, David, found the letters in an old metal box more than 40 years ago, after they undertook the restoration of the corner house at 229 Maupin Ave.
Mother’s Day recently reminded Barbara o ...Read More
Wineka column: Retired NYPD officer an RCCC grad like brother, Vic Isler
News | Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:29 AM |
SALISBURY — Two decades ago, Michael Isler patrolled some of the toughest streets in New York as a rookie cop.
Later, as a supervising lieutenant, he and eight of his NYPD officers were among the first responders to the World Trade Center on Se ...Read More
Nation to mark 60th anniversary of Korean war
News | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 6:07 AM |
SALISBURY — Jimmie Hartley’s best weapon in Korea was a typewriter and, of course, he’s not complaining.
By the time he arrived in South Korea during the Thanksgiving holiday in 1953, most of the heavy fighting had stopped, and Hart ...Read More
Restored 1961 Schwinn to benefit Nazareth
News | Monday, May 14, 2012 6:13 AM |
SALISBURY — Cindy Hesprich spied the big, rusty bicycle discarded on the curb. She stopped and threw it in the back of her truck, not really knowing if it was worth the effort.
At least Don, her husband, might like to take a look. Back home, Do ...Read More
Wineka column: Waiting for the train
News | Friday, May 11, 2012 6:24 AM |
SALISBURY — I was a little early for the 7:43 a.m. train, the Carolinian, which goes from Charlotte to New York.
But I was still surprised that so few people were here at the Salisbury station. I grabbed a bench outside, near the covered platfo ...Read More
Wineka column: Bitzer is all politics, all the time
News | Sunday, May 06, 2012 12:55 AM |
SALISBURY — Dr. J. Michael Bitzer welcomes visitors to his “ivory tower,” the third-floor office in the stone tower of Catawba College’s Hedrick Administration Building.
Layers of neatly spaced term papers are on his desk, wai ...Read More
Roman Gabriel III: Kids need role models to make right choices
News | Wednesday, May 02, 2012 6:30 AM |
By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
SALISBURY — Many things in Roman Gabriel III’s message are familiar.
Give kids role models. Give them something to do. Have parents buy into the efforts to keep them away from drugs and alcohol. Ha ...Read More
Team prepares for 28-mile hike for cancer research
News | Tuesday, May 01, 2012 6:22 AM |
By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
SALISBURY — On a rapidly warming spring morning, Ann Cline and Sandy Buechler leave on foot from Ann’s house on Catawba Drive and head for the city’s greenway.
They make sure to take the stee ...Read More
Wineka column: Quilts remind families of organ donors
News | Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:34 AM |
WINSTON-SALEM — Table by table, the families walked up to the podium, usually leaving it to one representative — a daughter, wife, son, sister, mother, father or brother — to tell their story of loss.
By the end of the night, there ...Read More
Wineka column: Mandolin player's music family holding benefit concert
News | Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:00 AM |
CLEVELAND — David Murph and his mandolin slide next to guitar-playing Dave Leatherman in the misshapen circle that has formed in the middle of CJ’s restaurant.
The Monday night oval takes in young and old bluegrass musicians and their fid ...Read More
Spencer native who sought weight treatment in Ohio dies
News | Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:15 AM |
SPENCER — R.J. Woodbury sometimes called his mother as she arrived home at night from her second-shift job.
He wanted to make sure she was locking her doors. Or he might ask how the dogs were doing.
On certain mornings R.J. would call just to t ...Read More
Wineka column: Baseball is an important part of our culture
News | Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:32 AM |
SALISBURY — It’s easy to go overboard with the sentimentality attached to baseball.
Listen to James Earl Jones’ soliloquy on our national pastime in the movie, “Field of Dreams,” and it makes you want to find five guys f ...Read More
After cancer bout, ’82 Salisbury High grad turns to running
News | Sunday, April 15, 2012 12:19 AM |
APEX — It started with an eye twitch. Tom O’Donnell mentioned it to his family physician during a routine examination — this involuntary muscle spasm he had just begun experiencing.
The doctor made a note of it, but that was all. Wh ...Read More
Wineka column: Couple’s extra time, money flow into funny cars
News | Friday, April 13, 2012 6:22 AM |
SALISBURY — Bill and Kimberley Naves follow the same ritual for each journey down the dragstrip.
She kisses him before he puts on his helmet.
Bill makes the final adjustments to his fire suit.
He then shakes the hand of each member of his crew. ...Read More
Wineka column: Thrivent, Habitat make dream come true for mom with 11 kids
News | Sunday, April 08, 2012 1:21 AM |
SPENCER — Ask Darlene Gray how many rental houses she has lived in over the years, and she pauses a moment to do the calculations.
It’s at least five or six, Darlene says, and she and her family have lived at their current home on the sou ...Read More
Wineka column: Catawba team has two Emily Huneycutts
News | Tuesday, April 03, 2012 6:27 AM |
SALISBURY — They graduated from the same high school.
They grew up about 10 miles apart and can tell you where Frog Pond, N.C., is.
They both stand 5 feet, 8 inches tall.
Both are studying exercise science at Catawba College.
They play softball ...Read More
Trio works to revitalize advertising signs on buildings
News | Monday, April 02, 2012 6:12 AM |
SALISBURY — “Ghost signs” are a good name for them.
With time, they’ve faded into walls and become apparitions of the products or businesses they once advertised.
Salisbury has at least 22 of these ghosts clinging to downtown ...Read More
Wineka column: Dishing it out at DQ
News | Sunday, April 01, 2012 2:01 AM |
SALISBURY — Now I know. The “DQ” in Dairy Queen stands for disqualified — as in, I’m not qualified.
When Melissa Utley asked me a couple of weeks ago to take part in the “Battle of the Media Titans” with Davi ...Read More
Wineka column: Open structure to be built around the Old Town Well on Church Street
News | Friday, March 30, 2012 7:01 AM |
SALISBURY — Well, well, well. Later this spring, when you drive along the South Church Street side of Rowan Public Library, you’ll see something new over something old.
The something old is the “Old Town Well,” where a young A ...Read More
Wineka column: Retired trooper’s tales never grow old
News | Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:24 AM |
SALISBURY — Retired N.C. highway patrolman T. Frank Holman has stories that could fill an afternoon and keep going into the night.
I like the one in which he called in to report he was investigating a wreck involving 2,500 fatalities.
That kind ...Read More
Wineka column: Salisbury native Katie Garner an early starter on TV
News | Sunday, March 25, 2012 1:20 AM |
CHARLOTTE — There’s no way around it: Katie Garner talks fast.
It comes in handy this particular morning, and every morning, as the Salisbury native delivers traffic reports on WBTV.
She has 30 seconds or less to touch her maps, pinpoint ...Read More
Wineka column: Give me a U-N-C - Salisbury natives cheering for Carolina
News | Friday, March 23, 2012 6:28 AM |
SALISBURY — As University of North Carolina basketball player Kendall Marshall crashed to the floor last Sunday in an important NCAA Tournament game, he tumbled toward cheerleaders Jordan Oakes and Hayley Mikkelson, who were crouched along the ...Read More
Wineka column: After 25 years, couple renews vows at the Square
News | Thursday, March 22, 2012 6:15 AM |
SALISBURY — Mike and Carolyn McGee met for the first time July 17, 1986.
It was back in Salisbury’s cruising days, and they set eyes on each other on the Square, at the corner where today’s Pottery 101 stands.
They would never forge ...Read More
VanHoy appeals to ‘better angels’ as long-ago Fiddlers’ Convention returns
News | Monday, March 19, 2012 6:08 AM |
By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
UNION GROVE — As Casey VanHoy motors over the grounds in an old golf cart, he can’t help but think about the music.
The grassy fields, wooded trails and, of course, the mammoth arena bring back mem ...Read More
Wineka column: Surprise parties 47 years apart for former West principal
News | Thursday, March 15, 2012 6:11 AM |
By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
LEXINGTON — Back in 1965, West Rowan High students lured their principal, Dr. Frank B. Greer, to a surprise birthday party by telling him there was a fight in the student lounge.
Last Saturday, on Greer& ...Read More
Family’s work on Habitat house honors Catherine Huffman
News | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 1:08 AM |
SPENCER — Marsha Tarte flew in from Las Vegas.
Caitlin Hudgins drove down from Philadelphia.
Dick Huffman laughed. He lives only a couple miles away in Salisbury.
The trio converged Monday morning at Grants Crossing, where they continued framin ...Read More
Wineka column: Another run for Billy Burke’s ‘Huck Finn’
News | Sunday, March 04, 2012 12:15 AM |
SALISBURY — When Robin Tynes wakes up, the music filters in immediately.
It’s with her as she walks between classes at Catawba College or hangs out at the student center.
Every evening, she can’t wait for another “Huck Finn&rd ...Read More
‘Urban guerrillas’ continue to thrive
News | Sunday, March 04, 2012 1:39 AM |
SALISBURY — Rick and Deborah Bowman are survivors. Twenty years ago, they hit on a formula — their hair salon combined with a ladies apparel store — that has carried Attractions on Main through economic downturns testing the mettle ...Read More
Consultant lives, performs in Salisbury while developing 10-year tourism plan
News | Friday, February 24, 2012 6:28 AM |
By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
SALISBURY — By day, Michael Weaver assessed Salisbury and Rowan County with the trained, experienced eye of an outsider.
By night, he played the lead role in “Cyrano de Bergerac” with the nos ...Read More
Rowan Animal Clinic staff vows to rebuild practice
News | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:17 AM |
SALISBURY — Gail Lowe probably summed it up best for her husband, R.B., after the Rowan Animal Clinic fire Sunday.
These aren’t close to the exact words, but basically Gail told him that all the animals he had saved and made better over 3 ...Read More
Former general store gives window into area’s past
News | Sunday, February 19, 2012 1:36 AM |
MOORESVILLE — Patti Silverman can’t hide the love she has for this old country store, now her consignment shop, which she opens to the public every Saturday.
“It’s an incredible building,” she says.
Everything tells a st ...Read More
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