Morning Brew: Building Imaginations
Morning Brew: Building Imaginations
Morning Brew: Building Imaginations
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RATES
Newsstand Daily ........................ $0.75 Sunday .................... $1.50 Home delivery 4 weeks ................. $13.40 8 weeks ................ $26.80 13 weeks................$43.55 26 weeks ................$87.10 52 weeks ............. $174.20
larissa Anguiano (left), 5, and her sister Vanessa, 7, make a jewelry box out of popsicle sticks during Troutman Middle Schools KLAS (Kids in Leadership to Achieve Success) summer camp program Monday. Camp programs focus on academic enrichment, sports, crafts and more.
OBITUARIES
Death notices and obituaries are published daily. We accept obituaries and photos from funeral homes. The deadline is 3 p.m. Obituaries can be emailed to obits@ statesville.com or faxed to 828-324-8179. For more information about obituaries and our policies, call 1-888-220-4265.
Community Calendar
BLOOD DRIVE
Drivers license, blood donor card, or two other forms of identication are required. For more information or to make an appointment, call 1-800-733-2767. 1:30-6 p.m. today, First Baptist Church-Statesville, 815 Davie Ave., Statesville.
TODAY
STORYTIME
Program for kids as old as 4. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Harmony Branch Library, 3393 Harmony Highway, Harmony. Call 704-546-7086.
or blanket. Free admission. 7 p.m. Thursday, Statesville Christian School, 1210 Museum Road, Statesville. Call 704-873-9511.
PUBLISHER
Tim Dearman.....................................4001 [email protected]
FRIDAY, JULY 13
EDITOR
Dave Ibach ......................................... 4401 [email protected]
NEWS
Bethany Fuller Business Reporter ............................4422 [email protected] Amy Fuhrman Opinion Page Editor ..........................4403 [email protected] Jim McNally City, County Reporter .......................4433 [email protected] Preston Spencer Education & Nonprots Reporter .....4435 [email protected] Donna Swicegood Public Safety Reporter......................4434 [email protected] Regan Hill Photographer ................................... 4461 [email protected] To report news ................. 873-1451, ext. 6 [email protected] Adam Houston Sports Writer ....................................4453 [email protected] Brian Meadows Sports Writer ....................................4452 [email protected] To report scores...............873-1451, ext. 7 [email protected] Retail advertising ............ 873-1451, ext. 3 [email protected] Classied advertising..... 873-1451, ext. 2 [email protected] Melinda Manning Advertising Director.......................... 4501 [email protected]
THURSDAY, JULY 12
GOLDEN AGE CLUB
A social club for seniors 55 and older. 10 a.m. Thursday, Statesville Fitness & Activity Center, 1875 Simonton Road, Statesville. Call 704-8783429.
SATURDAY, JULY 14
For kids as old as 2. No groups. 10:15-11 a.m. Thursday, Iredell County Public Library, 201 N. NORTH IREDELL LEGION POST 113 MEETING Tradd St., Statesville Call 704-878-3097. This is the regularly scheduled meeting of the North Iredell American Legion Post 113. Meal PARENTING CLASSES FOR FOSTER CARE will be served at 6:30 p.m. with meeting to follow. Classes held Mondays and Thursdays through North Iredell American Legion Post 113, 3258 July 26. For more information, call Regina Harmony Highway, Harmony. Rhodes at 704-873-1011 ext. 320. 6-9 p.m. Monday, Little Joes Chapel at Barium Springs, Troutman.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11
BLOOD DRIVE
Drivers license, blood donor card, or two other forms of identication are required. For more information or to make an appointment, call 1-800-733-2767. 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Davis Regional Medical Center, 218 Old Mocksville Road, Statesville.
ASTRONOMY PROGRAM
The Piedmont Astronomy Club will host. 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Harmony Branch Library, 3393 Harmony Highway, Harmony. Call 704-546-7086.
BOOK SIGNING
O. C. Stonestreet, R&L columnist, will sign copies of his new book, Tales from Old Iredell County, from 2-4 p.m. at the Iredell County Public Library, 201 N. Tradd St., Statesville. Copies of his book will be available for purchase during this free program. For more information, call Joel Reese at the library at 828-493-3428.
SPORTS
WEIGHT-LOSS SEMINAR
Understanding Surgical Weight Loss with Dr. Ryan Heider. Free and open to the public. Call 704-660-4584. 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Lake Norman Regional Medical Center, 171 Fairview Road, Mooresville.
SUMMER CONCERT
The Catalinas will perform. Bring a lawn chair
Today in History
Today is Tuesday, July 10, the Calvin, a key gure of the Prot192nd day of 2012. There are estant Reformation, was born 174 days left in the year. in Noyon, Picardy, France. In 1890, Wyoming became Todays Highlights the 44th state. in History In 1919, President Woodrow On July 10, 1962, AT&Ts Tel- Wilson personally delivered star 1 communications satel- the Treaty of Versailles to the lite, capable of relaying tele- Senate, and urged its rativision signals and telephone cation. (However, the Senate calls, was launched by NASA rejected it.) from Cape Canaveral. PresiIn 1929, American paper curdent John F. Kennedy signed rency was reduced in size as the All-Channel Receiver Act, the government began issuing which required that new TV bills that were approximately sets be capable of receiving 25 percent smaller. UHF (ultra-high frequency) In 1940, during World War II, channels 14 through 83 in ad- the Battle of Britain began as dition to VHF (very high fre- Nazi forces began attacking quency) channels 2 through southern England by air. (The 13. Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious.) On this date In 1951, armistice talks aimed In 1509, theologian John at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong. In 1961, Mildred E. Gillars, also known as Axis Sally, was paroled from a federal prison in West Virginia after serving 11 years for treason for her propaganda broadcasts from Nazi Germany during World War II. In 1985, the Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand by French intelligence agents; one activist was killed. Bowing to pressure from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Co. said it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke. In 1991, Boris N. Yeltsin took the oath of ofce as the rst elected president of the Russian republic. President George H.W. Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa. In 1992, a New York jury found Pan Am guilty of willful misconduct and responsible for allowing a terrorist bomb to destroy Flight 103 in 1988, killing 270 people, opening the way for civil lawsuits.
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CORRECTIONS
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Todays Birthdays
Former boxer Jake LaMotta is 91. Actor William Smithers is 85. Actor Lawrence Pressman is 73. Actor Mills Watson is 72. Actor Robert Pine is 71. International Tennis Hall of Famer Virginia Wade is 67. Actor Ron Glass is 67. Actress Sue Lyon is 66. Folk singer Arlo Guthrie is 65. Banjo player Bela Fleck is 54. Actor Gale Harold is 43. Actor Aaron D. Spears is 41. Actress Soa Vergara is 40.
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