WINSTON-SALEM ó The board of directors of BB&T Corp. Tuesday declared a 2009 first-quarter dividend of $0.47 per share, a 2.2 percent increase over the $0.46 paid in the first quarter of 2008.
The dividend will be paid Feb. 2 to shareholders of record as of Jan. 9.
The 10-year compound growth rate for BB&T’s quarterly dividend payment is 10.4 percent. BB&T has paid a cash dividend to shareholders every year since 1903. The corporation has increased its quarterly cash dividend payments for 37 consecutive years.
BB&T is the nation’s 14th largest financial holding company, with $137 billion in assets. Founded in 1872, it operates more than 1,500 financial centers in 11 states and Washington, D.C.
Hardesty honored for lighthouse work
In ceremonies held recently in Southport, Rick Hardesty of Salisbury was presented the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society’s highest honor for volunteer service, the Founders’ Award.
Hardesty has provided the society with more than 100,000 full-color brochures depicting and describing each of North Carolina’s lighthouses since 1999. Distribution is free to the public at each of the lighthouses.
Bett Padgett, president of the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society, underscored the contribution the brochures make to people ó especially school children ó who visit North Carolina’s lighthouses.
“Without Rick Hardesty, and his company, Rowan Business Forms, neither we nor the state of North Carolina could possibly make these materials available. The demand is simply too overwhelming, and budgets are too restrictive,” she said.
New owners reopen Tan 2 the Limit & SalonGRANITE QUARRY ó Tan 2 the Limit & Salon has reopened under new ownership at 407 S. Salisbury Ave., one block from the Gas-N-Go.
The new owners are Troy and Melissa Valley. The telephone number is 704-279-8020.
Kathleen Connolly has joined the business as master stylist. A licensed cosmetologist for 16 years, she has previously worked in New York and California as a hair and makeup artist for actors who have appeared in movies, television and music videos.
Some of the celebrities she has worked with in the past include Stephen Baldwin, Nicollette Sheridan, Dana Delany, Jerry Doyle, Mark Christopher Lawrence, James Franco, Mark Thompson and Khrystyne Haje.
The new ownership will run grand opening specials in December through January, including 20 percent off salon services every day and a $25 unlimited tanning package for a month.
On Mondays only, men’s haircuts are $10; women’s, $20.