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Touchstone Energy brings future PGA stars to eastern North Carolina North Carolina’s Touchstone Energy cooperatives will host the third annual Touchstone Energy Open, a tournament on the 23-stop circuit of the National Golf Association (NGA) Hooters Tour. The tournament will be held June 19–23 at Brook Valley Country Club in Greenville. More than 150 golfers will compete for a firstplace purse of at least $25,000 at the 72-hole Touchstone Energy Open. Last year, the golf event raised more than $26,000 for the Ronald McDonald House, which provides a “home-awayfrom-home” for families of seriously ill children treated at Children’s Hospital in Greenville. The NGA Hooters Golf Tour is a developmental tour for rising stars. David Toms, Jim Furyk, Tom Leyman, Chad Campbell and Ben Curtis are among today’s PGA players who got their start on the NGA Hooters Tour.
Co-ops celebrate Dia de Los Ninos, Dia de Los Libros North Carolina’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives helped bring the wonder of books (libros) and libraries to thousands of Hispanic children (ninos) by hosting Dia de Los Ninos/Dia de los Libros celebrations statewide April 24 through May 6. Children’s Day (Dia de los Ninos)/Book Day (Dia Storytelling time during Dia de Los Ninos, Dia de Los de los Libros) is a mulLibros in the main library auditorium of Catawba County ticultural celebration of Library in Newton. children and books. North Carolina’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives and El Pueblo sponsored the event to help the state’s Latino families discover libraries and other resources in their communities and start to bridge the language gap. At each celebration, children received free bilingual books and their parents received electric safety information provided in both English and Spanish. Headquarters Library in Fayetteville was the first site of the event. Similar gatherings across the state were held in Newton, Siler City, Spring Lake, Hope Mills, Durham, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Charlotte, Monroe, Raleigh, FuquayVarina, High Point, as well as additional Fayetteville locations.
This is a Carolina Country scene in Touchstone Energy territory. If you know where it is, send your answer by June 8 with your name, address, phone number and the name of your electric cooperative. By e-mail:
where@carolinacountry.com
Or by mail:
Where in Carolina Country? P.O. Box 27306 Raleigh, NC 27611
The winner, chosen at random and announced in our July issue, will receive $25.
May Winner: The scene in the May magazine shows a yard ornament on Capt. Chubby’s lot at the corner of Sunset Strip and Bowen Rd. in Frisco on Hatteras Island. Diane Horan of Buxton says people give directions to that vicinity by saying, “Take a left at the toilet and a right at the shoe.” Pauline Rollinson and Arthur Fulcher remember when the road was “lined with potties” placed there by Bert Basnight who lived nearby. Correct answers were Continued on pg.of10 numbered and the $25 winner chosen at random was John Bingley of Frisco, a member Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative.
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