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Harnett County has felt the same troubles as the rest of the region, but its recovery stands as an example others may want to follow.

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GROWTH AS POPULATION BOOMS, HARNETT LOOKS TO NEIGHBORS FOR GUIDANCE

BY SCOTT NUNN ith the public school system and Campbell University as its two largest employers, education plays an outsized role in Harnett County. But as the county experiences an unprecedented growth spurt, a different form of education is being embraced — leaders are learning every lesson they can from other parts of the area that have been transformed in recent years by the Raleigh-area growth explosion.

Harnett remains mostly rural, but that status is changing rapidly — its

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population has grown 20 percent in the past decade and its 140,000 residents make it the 23rd largest county in the state, despite the fact that Dunn, its largest municipality, has only about 10,000 residents.

Harnett has grown not necessarily so much from within the county, but from overflow from its neighbors.

The 2020 census, for example, found that Harnett’s northern neighbor Wake is now the largest county in the state. Wake has grown 27 percent in the past decade and with 1,152,740 residents, it has surpassed Mecklenburg as the state’s largest county.

See HARNETT, page 7

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| IN THE NEWS |

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Members of the Huff family gather for a family portrait after the Cape Fear Botanical Gardens announced it was naming it Orangery “The Ralph & Linda Huff Orangery.” The Huffs were instrumental in fund-raising to pay off the mortgage on the center. Right, members of the board celebrate the event by conducting a traditional mortgage burning at the center.

Botanical Garden honors Huffs for many contributions

BY DAVID KENNARD he Cape Fear Botanical Garden’s orangery now carries a new name: “The Ralph & Linda Huff Orangery.”

The Huffs were instrumental in raising funds to pay off the existing mortgage on the center, which serves as a gathering place, event venue or for its traditional use — a refuge for citrus trees during cold weather.

On Thursday, it served as the backdrop for a mortgage burning with about a hundred donors and guests looking on.

“Paying off the mortgage on this world-class building is a milestone worthy of a celebration and we are extremely grateful for your generous support,” said Keith Tilghman, president of the executive board at the botanical garden.

Susie McFadyen, vice president of development, pointed to the many gifts of time, work and money to see the project to completion.

“Linda and Ralph have been generous in sharing their success, and their altruism is reflected throughout our community.” McFayden said. “As we neared the end of the Campaign of Natural Growth, the Huffs stepped forward, offering to not only provide the funds needed to complete the campaign, but also

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to provide a gift significant enough that the care and maintenance of the orangery and the gardens that surround it would be provided for many years to come.”

“Therefore, I am so very pleased to announce that, from this day forward, this beautiful room in which we all stand will be known as the Ralph and Linda Huff Orangery,” McFayden said. “Linda, Ralph, we are all forever grateful for this latest example of your benevolence.”

McFayden said many others provided or helped raise funds to finish the project at the gardens.

Bill Pollitt, vice president of the executive board, pointed to others, connected to the fund-raising effort.

Joan Allen and Harvey Wright were the two co-chairs of the Campaign for Natural Growth. Jay Wyatt also stood up to represent his mother, Dot Wyatt, “who not only served as the honorary chair of the campaign, but who also served for so many years as a volunteer and ambassador for the garden,” Pollitt said.

Pollitt asked Jennifer Sullivan to also step forward as well.

“I am now giving the $3.1 million note and deed of trust from BB&T to Joan (Allen) and Harvey (Wright) and Jay (Wyatt) and Jennifer (Sullivan) and Keith (Tilghman) so that

they can burn it, afterwhich, Jay and Charlene Wyatt will offer a toast for the occasion.”

Once the crowd moved to the Orangery Terrace where a fire pit stood waiting, those holding pages of the bank documents ceremoniously placed the pages into the fire.

Earlier, Tilghman explained the significance of the ceremony.

“Paying off the mortgage on this world-class building is a milestone worthy of celebration and we are extremely grateful for your generous support,” Tilghman said. “Being debt-free represents another new beginning. As we look to the future, we acknowledge our next important campaign is to grow our endowment.

Average annual payout from the Garden’s endowments at Cumberland Community Foundation is a little over $100,000.”

Tilghaman said that to maintain the garden as a vibrant community resource, a payout of $200,000 to $250,000 annually is needed.

“We must now grow our endowment by an additional $2.5 million to $3.8 million to ensure that Cape Fear Botanical Garden will be a healthy, vibrant part of our community for many years to come,” he said.

ABOUT CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN Cape Fear Botanical Garden was founded in 1989 on 80 acres located between the Cape Fear River and Cross Creek. The gardens feature many blooming ornamental plants, camellia, daylillies and shade gardens, as well as a butterfly stroll and Children’s Garden.

The gardens have hosted many special occasions such as weddings, business and military functions.

Find more information at www.capefearbg.org/ about-us.

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Farm fresh food available locally

BY DAVID KENNARD don’t like snakes. I’ve tried to like them, really I have.

My earliest run-ins with snakes involve my grandmother’s garden, a magical place where my brother, sisters and I would spend several hours a day during our summer visits.

My grandmother, Dorothy, lived in a small town in central Kansas.

That’s right, Dorothy, from Kansas.

She had a scarecrow in her very large garden, but no tin man or lion — certainly no flying monkeys or munchkins; unless you count us kids.

I always grow a little nostalgic when I start seeing farmers markets pop up.

Have a look on page 11 of this edition of the Greater Fayetteville Business Journal. Michael Futch’s story is part one of a two-part series on the District Summer Market at Festival Park. Watch for the followup story in the July 23 edition by Jami McLaughlin.

There is absolutely no substitute for farm fresh fruits and vegetables.

And despite ad campaigns touting “farm fresh” or “organic” goods, I know what farm fresh means because I’ve eaten straight from my grandmother’s garden. I’ve picked cherries and shucked corn after pulling it from the stalk.

Like so many towns across the Midwest, wheat, soybeans and silage kept the local economy going. While farmers worked the fields, their wives and young children kept the gardens at home producing more exotic treats, such as peas, beans, sweet corn, cabbage, tomatoes and — easily my favorite, asparagus.

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The small supermarket on the town square relied on fresh vegetables from the backyard gardens of the folks living nearby. In fact, when grandma would take us with her to do her shopping, it seemed like we often brought more groceries in than we’d take out.

I grew up in Denver, Colorado, and our annual pilgrimage to Kansas usually began right after school was out for the summer. My parents would point the Rambler station wagon east and we’d set out across the plains, usually arriving as the sun was going down.

Grandma would get us up early the next morning to help her in the garden. We’d put on aprons and set out down the rows to pull weeds and pick out whatever was ripe.

That poor scarecrow guarding the patch of corn always made me feel a little sad. His faded overalls and tattered shirt got more faded and more tattered every summer.

I must have been in middle school when I saw the snakes in Grandma’s garden for the first time. Growing up in suburban Denver, I hadn’t had a lot of experience with snakes. But I’d seen enough television shows to know to stay away from them.

It took me quite a while to figure out that Grandma’s snakes weren’t real snakes at all. After my first squawk, grandma quickly walked over to reassure me that these were “Scare Snakes.”

She said they helped the scarecrow keep the birds away.

Upon closer inspection, I saw that her snakes were just rubber toys that you can buy at any toy store, and some were just pieces of fabric that

she’d crafted that kind of looked like snakes. I’m not sure if they worked on birds, but they definitely worked on young boys.

After we’d collected enough food, or complained enough, Grandma would shoo us back up to the house to wash up before helping her with dinner.

My favorite: Soup of all kinds, cherry pie and of course, asparagus.

Years later, my wife and I have had gardens of different kinds and I’ve learned that small gardens are much better — for me anyway — than anything close to my grandmother’s.

For the last couple of years, I’ve had container gardens — mosty growing tomatoes, but I’ve experimented with sweetcorn and green beans and various other things.

Unfortunately I’ve never been able to duplicate my grandmother’s asparagus plants. I’m not giving up, though. Perhaps I’ll wander down to the farmers market in search of some farm fresh food.

DAVID KENNARD is the executive editor of the Greater Fayetteville Business Journal.

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| CALENDAR | VICTORY FROM WITHIN

The U.S. Army Airborne and Special Operations Museum is hosting the “Victory from Within: The American Prisoner of War Experience” THROUGH SEPT. 26. The 1,200 square foot traveling exhibit is based on the thematic organization of the National POW Museum – Capture, Prison Life, Those Who Wait, and Freedom. After years of development, the traveling exhibit was completed in the fall of 2013. The intent of this exhibit is to introduce the public to the prisoner of war story.

This exhibit is free to the public. For more information, call 910-643-2778.

CHAMBER 101

Special Operations Museum will be the site of National Airborne Day, which will include a ceremony at 9 a.m. AUG. 14 and static displays open until noon. For more information, call 910-643-2778.

SPEED NETWORKING

The Greater Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce will conduct its Virtual Speed Networking event from 1-2 p.m. on JULY 22. Participants will get about three minutes to introduce themselves and their business to other participants. For more information, call 910-483-8133.

GOVERNMENT VENDOR NETWORK

The Greater Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce will conduct Member Orientation: Chamber 101 at 9:3010:30 a.m. JULY 26. Members will learn about the variety of member benefits, meet chamber staff and ambassadors and get connected.

This will be a virtual meeting. Find information at http://www.faybiz. com/ or call 910-483-8133.

NC TECH will host the Government Vendor Network 3-4 p.m. on JULY 20 during a virtual meeting. The Government Vendor Network is a forum for member companies who have an interest in doing business with the state government. Participation is open to NC TECH members at no cost, but registration is required. For more information, call 919-856-0393 or send email to membership@nctech.org.

NATIONAL AIRBORNE DAY

“EVOKE”

The U.S. Army Airborne and

Cape Fear Studio’s upcoming

one-artist exhibit, “Evoke,” features member and local fine artist Angela Stout. The exhibit features art creations in oil, and will be shown THROUGH JULY 25.

Stout is a disabled veteran and is a member of Cape Fear Studios and teaches art classes to the public. The studio’s workshops and retail section is open to visitors at 148 Maxwell St., Fayetteville. Call 910-433-2986 or go to http://www.capefearstudios. com/ for more information.

event takes place every third Saturday with participation from local farmers, bakers, artisans and more.

Food trucks will be on site, as well.

Contact the Hope Mills Chamber at 910-423-4314 for more information.

GOLF CLASSIC

NC TECH’s annual Golf Classic will take place AUG. 12 at Pinehurst No. 1. Business and IT leaders will gather to take on Pinehurst No. 1.

The Golf Classic will give bragging rights as NC TECH Classic Champion. The best ball format will prizes and giveaways. For more information, contact NC TECH at 919-8560393.

MARKET ON TRADE STREET

The Hope Mills Area Chamber has launched the farmers market on Trade Street in partnership with the Town of Hope Mills and the Merchants on Trade Street. The

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Find more at www.teamusa.org/ usa-boxing/athletes/Naomi-Graham Story by Brittany Nelson

Fayetteville women on the road to Tokyo

Scott new vice president of Lumbee Guaranty

According to Stars and Stripes, ARMY STAFF SGT. NAOMI GRAHAM, a 32-year-old ammunition specialist from Fayetteville, will compete in the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for July 23.

Graham will be the first female active-duty U.S. service member to box for gold, according to Stars and Stripes and Team USA. Graham is Graham Ranked No. 1 among U.S. middleweights and eighth in the world, according to Stars and Stripes. Here boxing has taken her to the top of the “international ladder, taking fifth at the 2016 World Boxing Championships before moving up to third in 2018. In 2019, she won gold at the Pan American Games,” according to Stars and Stripes.

Graham was crowned the champion of the women’s 75kg weight class at the 2019 U.S. Boxing Olympic trials in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Dec. 17.

“I feel amazing,” said Graham, a boxer in the U.S. Army’s World Class Athlete Program. “I just accomplished something I had only dreamed about. I feel a rush of overwhelming happiness.”

Graham, a two time U.S. National Champion, had a comeback after falling short at the 2015 U.S. Boxing Olympic trials.

“At the 2015 trials Graham said to me ‘I am going to win the 2019 trials,’ and tonight she fulfilled that promise,” said Willie Wilson, WCAP program director. “It’s great to see Soldiers commit to something and put in the hard work and dedication to achieve it.”

Graham mentioned that a big part of her excitement was the fact that she won while representing the U.S. Army.

“It is an awesome feeling,” said Graham. “I am representing something way bigger than myself.

As a noncommissioned officer, Graham says she enjoys working with soldiers under her.

“Being in charge of soldiers was something I wanted to do,” said Graham. “I wanted to get promoted so I can give back to younger soldiers and be a mentor.”

DEREK SCOTT has been named a vice president at Lumbee Guaranty Bank to serve as a business development officer at the bank's Lake Rim branch in Fayetteville.

“With nine years of banking expeScott rience in the Fayetteville market, Derek is a valuable addition to our team,” said Kyle R. Chavis, the bank’s chief executive officer. A Fayetteville native, Derek earned both his bachelor’s degree and M.B.A. from Fayetteville State University.

Scott and his wife, Kimberly, live in Fayetteville.

Founded in 1971, Lumbee Guaranty Bank is celebrating 50 years as an independent community bank.

The bank serves Robeson, Cumberland and Hoke counties and is headquartered in Pembroke. Lumbee Guaranty has 14 offices throughout the area. The bank's newest location is in downtown Fayetteville.

Olivera named director of Budget and Evaluation KELLY OLIVERA is the City of Fayetteville’s new budget and evaluation director. She began her new role recently, after serving as assistant director for the past five years.

Olivera’s promotion replaces former Budget and Evaluation Director Tracey Broyles, who plans to retire after 30 years of service to the city.

Olivera Olivera has been a Fayetteville employee for the past 10 years, according to information provided by the City of Fayetteville.

She was hired in 2011 as a financial analyst in the Finance Department.

Olivera and Broyles founded the City’s Budget and Evaluation Office in 2014, according to city officials.

“I am proud to be a part of the dynamic team of employees at the City,” Olivera said. “Our City has experienced tremendous growth since I began my career here ten years ago, and I am eager to contribute to the ongoing successes of the City in my new role.”

According to the City of Fayette-

ville, Olivera earned her Bachelor of Science in Accountancy degree from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

As budget and evaluation office director, Olivera will aid City Manager Doug Hewett in the development of the city’s more than $240 million annual budget.

“The City is financially sound and that is in no small part due to the work of Ms. Olivera over the last 10 years,” Hewett said. “Her past and present service, along with her pragmatic approach to budgeting, made her promotion to director a clear choice.”

Robert E. Bendetti Jr. at Life Cycle Engineering recently completed a 50 kilometer Spartan Ultra race.

Bendetti completes Fayetteville Spartan race ROBERT E. BENDETTI JR., chief financial officer at Life Cycle Engineering posted on LinkedIn.com that he carried the Life Cycle Engineering flag for all 50 kilometers of the Spartan Ultra on June 26.

“It was my first ultra marathon, but won't be my last,” Bendetti said.

The 50-kilometer “Fayetteville Trifecta Weekend” took place at McCormick Farms on more than 1,000 acres. The mud race included a run through dense forestland, a 200-foot deep quarry, rolling hills and steep riverbanks.

“Kudos to Joe De Sena and the rest of the Spartan team for putting on a great event in Fayetteville, NC,” Bendetti said.

Kenneth Mayes recognized in industry publication KENNETH MAYES, MBA, SHRM-CP was recently recognized in a Society for Human Resource Management Magazine Member Spotlight.

Mayes leads the Institute for Veterans and Military Families’ Onward to Opportunity program at Fort Bragg.

“The career skills training program improves the employment prospects of service members transitioning to civilian life, as well as of

veterans and military spouses,” according to the story written by Dori Meinart for SHRM Magazine. “He also is an ally for underrepresented groups as co-chair of the institute’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group at SyraMayes cuse University in Syracuse, N.Y. And he assists those in the HR profession as president of the Fayetteville Area Society for Human Resource Management chapter of SHRM.” “The best part of my job is working with some of the most dedicated, passionate volunteer leaders who never stop paying it forward, said Nicole Belyna, field services director at SHRM. ”Kenneth Mayes … is a perfect example. I was thrilled to see SHRM HR Magazine highlight Kenneth's leadership as he elevates HR as Chapter President of FAYETTEVILLE AREA SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, and ensures transitioning service members, veterans and military spouses have the resources they need to be successful in the workforce at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families program in Ft. Bragg.”

ZipQuest No. 1 'Fan Favorite' During National Travel and Tourism Week in May, The Fayetteville Area Conventionand Visitors Bureau polled its social media followers to help rank their “Fayetteville Fan Favorites.”

Zipquest Waterfall & Treetop Adventure Park earned the top spot for best family spot for its sky‑high zip lining courses.

Favorite Date Spot went to Antonella's Italian Ristorante. The Italian eatery is a Fayetteville restaurant favorite according to reviews for its “fresh produce in the brunch, lunch and dinner meals, the amazing romantic atmosphere, and exceptional service.”

Rounding out the top five were Dirtbag Ales for best “Pet Spot,” Circa 1800 for “Favorite Food Spot” and the Iron Mike Statue as “Favorite Selfie Spot.”

Find the full list at www.instagram.com/visitfayettevillenc/guides.

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| HARNETT COUNTY | From HARNETT, page 1

The 339,667 people living in Cumberland means that to the south Harnett borders the state’s fifth-largest county and Harnett’s northeast neighbor, Johnston, is the state’s 12th-largest county. Johnston grew by more than 31 percent in the past decade, trailing only coastal Brusndwick (43 percent) as the fastest growing county in the state.

Add up all those numbers and Harnett finds itself situated in one of the fast-growing areas of the state, with nearly 2 million living in the fairly immediate area. The growth in the area has been unprecedented, but Coley Price, assistant county manager, said Harnett saw it coming and has done its best to prepare for it.

“Our commissioners are very pro economic development,” Price told the Greater Fayetteville Business Journal. “But one thing that our county is trying to do is put a lot of good plans together to grow in a smart fashion.”

A big part of that planning is related to infrastructure, Price said, notably ensuring the growing areas — and areas where the most growth is anticipated — have adequate water and sewer service, something that can be an expensive proposition and take years to construct.

“I think what makes us unique is that we have a regional water and sewer system and those utilities are driving a lot of our residential growth,” Price said.

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It's all about relationships,” Price said. “We've been working hard over the past 10 to 15 years, understanding what's happening with the growth and watching what's happening in Wake and Cumberland counties.”

COLEY PRICE, ASSISTANT COUNTY MANAGER

Encompassing 600 square miles, Harnett is a large county land-wise.

Price said that the rapid growth has occurred in certain areas. Leaders are trying to manage the county as

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Lillington, where the Harnett County seat is located remains a vibrant and growing community.

a series of unique sectors instead of using a one-size-fits-all approach, he said.

For example, a lot of the residential growth has been in the northern and northeastern area, which are closest to Wake and Johnston counties. Another residential boom has taken place in the area near Fort Bragg. Not only do those popular residential areas need housing, they need retail and other services, Price said.

Since there is plenty of land to work with, the county is trying to group together common sectors that require similar services. For example, parts of N.C. 87 are viewed as good for industrial development.

With Campbell University’s new medical school and other health-sciences programs growing, Price said the county hopes to develop a medical sector in the Lilington area, where the medical school campus is located as well as Central Harnett Hospital.

Another hotspot is the Interstate 95/40 corridor. Price said that the busy interstate area is seeing moderate residential growth, but remains primarily a commercial area.

Growth, of course, brings plenty of challenges, including the need for more schools and staying ahead of infrastructure needs. But Price said

the county has good working relationships with its incorporated areas as well as its neighboring counties and major private players such as Campbell University. Those strong ties have helped the county maintain a strategic approach to growth rather than just being reactionary.

“It's all about relationships,” Price said. “We've been working hard over the past 10 to 15 years, understanding what's happening with the growth and watching what's happening in Wake and Cumberland counties. Now that growth is pushing our way. We've tried to get as prepared as we can, to lay out our game plan.”

Please See More Harnett County news on page 13

PHOTO PROVIDED BY CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY

With 6,000 students, Campbell University includes schools of law, medicine, pharmacy, engineering and business, among others.

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Property owner realizes dream with shopping center

BY JAMI MCLAUGHLIN

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new shopping center coming to Fayetteville in the eye of Skibo Road is a realized dream for Karese Whaley, a longtime Fayetteville resident, to bring her three businesses to one location and finally own her own commercial space. The Whaley Center will open in late summer at 4544 Yadkin Road in Fayetteville.

“I started looking in 2017, realizing that I could build my own shopping center for the three businesses where I was paying over $20,000 a month in rent for the three collectively,” Whaley said. “I was on loop. net daily trying to find land and, at the same time, I was looking at my lease renewals to make sure I would not need to buy out any of the leases.

This was the former site of Dixie Pawn, which had operated in Fayetteville for 50 years. I made the offer on the same day that it went on the market. It is the busiest intersection in the area. Nichols Buildings built the land up and positioned the shopping center so you could see it from Skibo Road. It all came together.”

“Even my storage [Fayetteville Storage] that I’ve used for years backs up to my new building easement,” Whaley said. “It is impossible to run these businesses without storage and it physically shook me when I realized that it would be so close.”

All three businesses, ONCE UPON A CHILD, PLATO’S CLOSET AND CLOTHES MENTOR, have a similar business model although focus on different sizes.

• ONCE UPON A CHILD buys and sells gently used children’s clothing, toys, shoes, baby gear and furniture helping area parents save up to 70 percent off retail while upcycling their current wares for their growing children.

• PLATO’S CLOSET buys and sells junior sized and young adult clothing along with accessories, footwear, outerwear and athletic wear for boys and girls.

• CLOTHES MENTOR buys and sells women’s clothing sizes 0-26, handbags, accessories and designer items. It often stocks a wide range of popular brands such as Lilly Pulitzer, Michael Kors, Tory Burch and more.

The first to open in Fayetteville was Once Upon a Child in 2008

PHOTO PUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION FROM KARESE WHALEY

Karese Whaley has seen success with her new shopping center at 4544 Yadkin Road in Fayetteville.

after Whaley visited the franchise in Wilmington.

“I was looking to bring European children’s clothes, but when I visited the store in Wilmington, I knew this was a good fit. It was a no-brainer to bring this to Fayetteville,” said Whaley.

Located originally at the Crosspointe Center, Once Upon a Child was immediately a success. In a year of operating, she realized she was turning away merchandise that was meant for junior sizes so she began her plan to open Plato’s Closet.

“It took me a while to find a space, but I opened Plato’s Closet in 2011 in the same shopping center.”

Once Upon a Child also outgrew its space so she moved to the larger location at Westwood. As she was operating Once Upon a Child and Plato’s Closet, she began to run into the same problem with turning away women’s clothing, accessories and bags so she opened Clothes Mentor in 2013 in Westwood Shopping Center.

The Whaley Center will not only have a centralized location for all three businesses, but will have com-

pletely upfitted looks for the franchises.

“We will have 12,000 square feet.

Plato’s Closet will gain 1000 additional square feet. Clothes Mentor will be in the middle and we’ve upgraded the shopper’s experience with chandeliers, bright lighting and other enhancements. Everything is new and energy efficient,” said Whaley.

“My builders are amazing. There are so many things, so many details that the Nichols family with Nichols Buildings in Fayetteville have taken care of that have made this happen.

I also would like to thank Allman Electric Corporation, Trinity Plumbing, McDonald Materials, Certified Heating & Air, Southern Carpets and Interiors, Lalo Martinez Concrete, Timothy Collins Masonry, Erickson Acoustics and Mid-South Lighting. The bank inspector said it was the best building he had seen in over 20 years built in Fayetteville.”

All of Whaley’s business success comes back to family, both past and present.

“I attribute success to my dad. He passed away in 2013 and the building will have a plaque for him. He

demonstrated work ethic and faith.

Because of him, I operate not in fear, but in faith. He taught unconditional love and with that you can do anything.”

Her knack for entrepreneurship also extends to her daughter, Mikalea, who graduated from Campbell University this spring.

“At a young age, my daughter could work in the family business, which has not only helped her earn for college, but in the 8th grade, she tested on a junior level for economics. When I asked her about it, she shrugged and said they were store questions,” said Whaley while laughing.

Her daughter has grown up in the business, but Whaley also hopes that one day she can reap more benefits from it.

“This is a good investment. The building is already worth more than 25 percent more than I put in and that is just the building. Owning versus renting makes sense on so many levels. This is just bigger scale with the benefits of residential real estate. This is retirement for me and her future too.”

Outside of her business acumen, being charitable and a good role model for her daughter is also important for Whaley. She is involved with the Cumberland County Foster System along with other facets of the Cumberland County Health Department and with Junior League of Fayetteville including the Holly Day Fair.

“I’m a sustainer with the Junior League of Fayetteville. I’ve focused on children’s organizations, and I think it is important as a business owner to also give back to the community.”

Not only will the new building bring all three businesses together for one shopping experience, it also gives Whaley the peace of mind that she has been the mother and mentor that she has always strived to be.

“I’ve always wanted to own my own business. I’ve always wanted to be the mom that I wanted to be. I never missed a thing with my daughter. Being my own boss was important to me,” said Whaley.

After a year of construction, the grand opening of the Whaley Center will be in late summer and Fayetteville will be ready to shop.

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| BUSINESS PROFILE | Farmers market open again for 2021 season

BY MICHAEL FUTCH n case you’re unaware, the District Summer Market at Festival Park is up and running as the heat and humidity of another summer swells over southeastern North Carolina.

This farmers and arts and crafts market, sponsored by the Cool Spring Downtown District, is scheduled to open from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. every Thursday at the Fayetteville park at 335 Ray Ave. The pilot season’s inaugural market was held June 3, and the farmers market is expected to run through Aug. 26. It was not open on July 1, which was the date for the planned Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra’s annual Independence Day concert.

“Cool Spring is always looking for opportunities to bring folks downtown to family-friendly events where they can shop, eat and play.

They honestly saw a need for a larger farmers market,” said Jenny Bell, the market’s 41-year-old manager. “And saw that folks, first of all ­— the priority is to shop local. You hear that more and more these days, especially in this post-pandemic world that we’re living in.

Bell runs the market along with an assistant market manager. Downtown staff has been supportive, and student volunteers assist in helping to operate the market.

“Many of these small businesses that come to this market are potential downtown businesses,” Bell explained. “I think people are going back to this notion of helping local business. One of downtown’s goals was not only to grow business, but residents.”

In that regard, leaders with the Cool Spring Downtown District envision the market as a kind of incubator for small business enterprise in the Fayetteville community.

“If we can help these small businesses succeed to the point where they can justify a brick-and-mortar shop,” she said, “then we can potentially draw them to the downtown area.”

Thursday evening was selected as the time for this weekly market because other outdoor markets in

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Visitors and vendors alike enjoy annual farmers market.

the area primarily are open over the weekend through the summer months.

In this case, the idea is that those leaving their jobs for the day on Thursday can stop by Festival Park and pick up some fresh, local groceries, maybe some hot food from the mobile food trucks on site and enjoy some live entertainment, as well.

Roughly 25 vendors will be selling their products at the market each week, according to the district. They include a variety of farmers, ranchers, desert makers, artists, artisans and other various makers.

The vendors — ­ many of whom are military veterans — are charged $25 a week to peddle their wares on site.

Because Bianca Shoneman, the president and CEO of the Cool Spring Downtown District, did not want to make money from the vendors, Bell said, “They help us turn around and pay, for instance, the local musicians who come out and perform every week. “Downtown, obviously, is our arts and entertainment district, and we believe in supporting our local artists as much as possible,” she added. “So paying them for their performances was really important to us.

The money also is used to invest in a bunch of yard games that we spread out on the lawn for people to enjoy

while they are out there and other entertainment-type activities.”

One farmer sells seafood. A rancher whose livestock includes cattle, goats, chickens and swine, too, falls among the regular vendors who set up for the weekly outdoor market.

A dedicated mushroom farmer sells a variety of mushrooms, too.

Richard Hubbard, who is 35, owns and operates Cape Fear Mushrooms in Stedman in the eastern part of Cumberland County. He grows about eight different species of mushrooms and approximately 16 different types of mushrooms for the marketplace.

“We actually just started up at the end of last year,” he said. “We pretty much sold directly to customers. …

The thing about it ­— this allows us to connect with the customer base.

We’re a home-based farm so we don’t have a store. This kind of gives us a place where people can come to us directly.”

Thus far, from a business perspective, Hubbard reports that he will continue to work the District Summer Market as long as he can maintain the business. “We’ve had a lot of good success from the people,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of momentum going.”

Crew Family Orchards will soon

be joining the lineup of vendors, according to Bell. The business, owned

by Nate and Amanda Crew, was established in 2016 in Fayetteville.

Today, Crew Family Orchards grows, among other products, organic peaches, pecans and olives.

“They have an olive orchard. An olive and fruit orchard,” Bell said.

“They harvest olives outside Fayetteville and make olive oil. He bottles it and sells it.”

Other vendors include those who focus on seasonal produce — from microgreens to peaches. Vendors also offer personal care products, soaps, CBD and hemp products.

The home-based start-up Bread & Sugar By Dali has remained a popular vendor with their baked sourdough breads. That entrepreneurship sells at the Dirtbag Ales farmers market on Sundays, too.

Canned beer and glasses of wine are sold. Lake Gaston Brewing Company and Bright Light Brewing Company are the two downtown breweries from which the beer is sourced.

The public is able to apply to be a vendor at one or more of the dozen markets planned over the summer.

If interested, apply via a Google application or email marketmanager@coolspringfay.org for more information. If you’re a business interested in sponsoring one or more of the markets, email bianca@coolspringfay.org.

“It has been really interesting to see. We’ve had three markets so far,” Bell said. “The first one was a rainy, stormy day. We still had attendees come out. But the attendance has built to last week’s market, when we hosted the Fayetteville Pride Community Picnic. We estimated somewhere between 1,000 and 1,500 people came out to the market. And that was amazing. Our vendors were very successful. Our food trucks -we had people lined up for food. We try to have at least four food trucks out there every Thursday.

“So we just expect the market attendance to grow, especially as word of mouth spreads.”

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| HARNETT COUNTY | Harnett Health opens second pediatric clinic; this one in Lillington

BY JENNA-LEY JAMISON

but Wednesday and Sunday — the two days the site is closed — parents can conveniently pop in with a child before rushing off to school or work.

Premiere Pediatrics is open until 4:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and until noon on Saturday, when a special weekend clinic is open for more severe visits.

For more information on Premiere Pediatrics, call (910) 892-4248 or visit myharnetthealth.org/premierepediatrics.

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hen your little ones suffer from the sniffles, a sore throat or other strange sickness, Premiere Pediatrics is there to restore them to good health. And now Harnett County has a second location of this distinguished Harnett Health clinic.

Premiere Pediatrics recently opened a site in Lillington; a second location has already been operating 16 miles away north-northwest in Harnett County’s largest city of Dunn.

Lillington Chamber of Commerce celebrated the clinic’s Grand Opening during a special ribbon-cutting/ open-house event on June 30. The community attended to learn more about the pediatric clinic, meet Dr. Lori Langdon and hear from other Harnett Health officials.

“I know this clinic is going to be a huge success,” said Cory Hess, president and CEO of Harnett Health, at the event.

Hess praised Dr. Langdon’s skills and touted her addition to the community—a community that already knew and loved the veteran physician.

“When I came here a number of years ago, when you kind of come into a new health system and you’re trying to understand the lay of the land and the needs in the community, (and) you talk to the providers and you talk to the community leaders, this one name kept coming up every time I went out: it’s Dr. Langdon,” Hess said. “You rarely meet a physician with this much passion for what they do, an infectious personality, an incredible knowledge base and so well-respected in the community.”

Langdon thanked healthcare leaders and gave considerable credit to a higher power for her new career opportunity and return to a familiar area.

“This all fell into place,” she said, “and let me just say, ‘God is amazing and He is a gracious provider, and He has allowed for so many tiny details to come, to fall all into place and just work out’; and this is closer to my home.”

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PHOTO PUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION OF HARNETT HEALTH.

The Lillington Chamber of Commerce celebrates the grand opening of the Lillington clinic with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on June 30.

surrounded by several familiar faces and believes any new ones will soon become like family, too, to her and her clinic.

“I feel like… so many of my patients are literally my family, and I either grew up with them or my brother or my sister or my cousin or my husband — we just know everyone,” she said. “So we hope that all the love we have for one another in this family setting...

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I feel like… so many of my patients are literally my family, and I either grew up with them or my brother or my sister or my cousin or my husband—we just know everyone,” she said. “So we hope that all the love we have for one another in this family setting... will blow over to our patients and they’ll feel that.”

DR. LORI LANGDON

will blow over to our patients and they’ll feel that.”

The youth-focused clinic will ensure enhanced quality of life for the surrounding community as it provides yet another option for parents and guardians to take upset tummies and congested kiddos. And patients don’t have to stop scheduling appointments once they reach official adult status.

Premiere Pediatrics accepts patients from birth to 21 years old and treats a variety of health-related issues, from the physical to the behavioral.

The facility’s seasoned staff of medical professionals — under the direction of board-certified pediatrician, Dr. Lori Langdon — stands ready to meet a wide range of healthcare needs and provide a plethora of critical services: from a comprehensive Asthma Clinic that features in-house spirometry testing to sports physicals, wellness and ADHD exams, vaccinations, and even frenulectomy (tongue clipping).

They also offer on-site point-ofcare testing and lab services.

Patients have the flexibility to schedule a same-day visit or walk-in without an appointment. With the clinic opening at 7:30 a.m. every day

Premiere Pediatrics is located at 716 S. 10th St., Lillington, Phone: 910-892-4248 Harnett Health has hospitals and clinics throughout the area including the following: HOSPITALS Betsy Johnson Hospital Central Harnett Hospital PRIMARY CARE CLINICS Angier Medical Services Coats Medical Services Dunn Medical Services Lillington Medical Services Buffalo Lakes Medical PEDIATRICS AND SPECIALTY CLINICS Premiere Pediatrics Premiere Pediatrics of Lillington Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine The Cancer Center Wound Care Center Harnett OB GYN Find more information about all locations online at myharnetthealth.org/ locations.

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BIG VISION

BORN IN TINY BUIES CREEK, CAMPBELL HAS QUIETLY BECOME A MAJOR UNIVERSITY

BY SCOTT NUNN n 1887, with little formal education and even less money, Jim Arch Campbell returned to his native Harnett County and founded Buies Creek Academy, with 16 students attending classes in a small church. A proper schoolhouse needed to be erected and, indicative of a spirit that lives on at what today is Campbell University, those first students helped build it.

Nearly 135 years later, 6,000 students attend Campbell, an especially ambitious university with schools of law, medicine, pharmacy, engineering and business, among others.

It’s been an extraordinary — perhaps improbable ­— evolution.

“There is no reason what author Winston Pearce described as the “Big Miracle at little Buies Creek” should have happened,” Tom Campbell, the veteran North Carolina broadcaster and great-grandson of Jim Arch Campbell, wrote in 2016 about the school’s founding.

Despite “the “Big Miracle” — including a dramatic expansion in fields of study and deep connections in communities across the state -Campbell often flies under the radar.

Maybe it’s life in the lengthy shadows of nearby Duke, UNC and N.C. State. But it’s not just that Triangle trio that clouds the university’s impressive accomplishments.

Smaller schools such as Davidson, Elon and, more recently, High Point, arguably garner more attention than Campbell, which remains based in Buies Creek, the diminutive Harnett County community that’s not even an incorporated town.

“There is no major center of commerce or natural resources to make the region appealing,” Tom Cambell wrote in 2016. “Naysayers predicted this ‘bumblebee’ school could never fly, but today, in the middle of nowhere, Campbell boasts schools of law, business, pharmacy, divinity and now a medical school ...”

There are no famous names attached to Campbell — no Dukes, Reynolds or Kenans. That, along with its fairly isolated location, may be among the reasons the school’s remarkable story doesn’t receive more attention.

Campbell also remains faithful to

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a founding principle that promotes service to others over individual achievement. The goal of equipping students to serve others — especially in smaller communities that lack essential professional services — is vital, transformative work. But it’s work that usually happens out of the spotlight.

As vice president of institutional advancement, Dr. Britt J. Davis may be Campbell’s biggest promoter. He acknowledges that the university’s focus on real-world, often behind the scenes accomplishments, is generally not the stuff that produces big names and major headlines.

There’s an aura of humility surrounding Campbell. Although the university has plenty to boast about, tooting its own horn is not a priority and never has been.

“The notion of ‘flying under the radar’ is something we discuss at times,” Davis told the Fayetteville Business Journal.

He did suggest that the success in high-profile fields such as medicine and law may, at times, overshadow the rest of the Campbell story.

Although law and medicine are receiving record numbers of applicants, Davis said there are other areas the university is trying to promote in a more active and focused way.

“I do think Campbell is committed to our mission and our community,” Davis said. “We're also committed to North Carolina. By enrollment, we have more North Carolinians enrolled at Campbell (by far) than any of the other 35 private colleges and universities in the state.”

There's a real connection between Campbell and people from every community in North Carolina, Davis said.

To be clear, Campbell’s no Rodney Dangerfield — it gets respect, just not as much as might be expected when the accomplishments are considered: • In 2013 the university launched the first new medical school in North Carolina in 35 years. It is one of just five in the state and trails only UNC Chapel Hill in enrollment.

• The main campus in tiny Buies Creek has been modernized, with the addition of, among other facilities, a 400-

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With 6,000 students, Campbell University includes schools of law, medicine, pharmacy, engineering and business, among others.

seat chapel, a 115,000-square-foot student union and a large convocation center.

• The School of Engineering launched in 2016 is being praised for its emphasis on diversity.

• When a recent five-year capital campaign hit its $75 million target a year early, the university increased the goal to $100 million. The total raised now stands at $86 million.

• The medical school has teamed with Cape Fear Valley Health on a five-story Center for Medical Education in Fayetteville. The facility will provide residency training annually for 300 Campbell medical school graduates and clinical internships for 150 medical students. It will also offer training in advanced medical fields, providing needed specialty care for the region.

But even as Campbell has grown in size and scope, the school has never abandoned its home in Buies Creek and the important role it plays in Harnett County. The area remains primarily rural, but its proximity to the Research Triangle, Fayetteville/ Fort Bragg and Interstate Highways 95 and 40 are quickly driving change in the county, not to mention the impact of the growth of Campbell.

(With more than 800 full-time employees, the university is Harnett’s largest private employer and second only to the public school system in total workforce. Campbell’s annual economic impact in Harnett County is about $500 million).

The school’s rural heritage and

fealty to Harnett County continues to guide and shape Campbell, but neither has restrained the university from moving in new and, at times bold, directions. In 2009, for example, Campbell relocated its law school to Raleigh, where university leaders believed it could better fulfill its mission.

“The world we live in is changing,” then-Board of Trustees Chairman Harold Wells said at the time.

The move ultimately reinvigorated the program and, at a time when many law schools were struggling, Campbell’s was soon thriving.

In short, Campbell produces outstanding professionals, but professionals who tend to define success through service. The law school’s mission, for example, is “to use the practice of law in order to create a more just and merciful society.”

It’s not exactly the stuff of television legal dramas, but it accurately captures the spirit that continues to drive Campbell.

“We are all about recruiting students who want to make a real impact in their chosen profession and field,” Davis said. “People who understand who their clients are and they’re willing to work for them.”

It’s the foundation on which Campbell was built, and, as evidenced by a litany of unique accomplishments, one that continues to serve the university well.

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| HEALTH CARE |

ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION FROM CAPE FEAR VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM

Work continues on Cape Fear Valley Health System’s new education center. Once completed the building will be one of two new buildings — The Dorothea Dix Unit for Adolescents and The Center for Medical Education — designed to help solve that shortage of health care providers.

Health Center to fill gap in health care industry

BY KATHIE HARRIS cross the nation, an estimated shortage of 100,000 doctors is bumping up against high demands for health care access.

Contributing factors include the baby boomer generation of physicians retiring and the expansion of health care availability from the Affordable Care Act. “In North Carolina, specifically, our ratio isn’t in a critical state except for rural hospitals, in primary care especially,” said Dr. Don Maharty, vice president of graduate medical education at Cape Fear Valley Health System.

Maharty said that by 2030, the state is looking at a shortage of 2,000 primary care providers. The most critical needs are in neurology, psychology, pediatrics, obstetrics

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and gynecology, and general surgery areas.

Fayetteville’s health care provider shortage is a micro-view of the statewide issue. Providers are in short supply everywhere, even in federal facilities such as Womack Army Medical Center and the Fayetteville VA Medical Center.

The VAMC has 58 beds for general medical, surgical and mental health. It serves upwards of 75,000 patients from 19 surrounding counties every year. However, its troubled history of backlogged patients meant solutions like the Veterans Choice Program ask patients to try community doctors instead.

WAMC, housed on Fort Bragg, is for military service members, dependents, and retirees only. After the 2017 National Defense Authori-

zation Act, military hospitals were ordered to partner with local health care systems to improve and streamline health care for military personnel and families. In Fayetteville, military dependents have the option to go out into the community for their health care needs if they want faster service. Both soldiers and dependents use civilian specialty care providers when WAMC lacks the service.

Cape Fear Valley serves several surrounding counties and partners with other local systems to provide care. About 20 percent of its patients are from the surrounding rural counties. They’re the largest non-governmental employer in Cumberland County, with 7,000 employees operating 60 clinics with a total of 1,000 beds.

All these demands for care mean

change is needed.

Local hospital and community leaders had a vision a decade ago to address some of these health care issues.

“When you look at our region, the health care outcomes are quite low,” said Maharty. “When you overlay the physician shortage, it’s certainly a contributing factor.”

So how do communities and hospitals get doctors to come and stay? Cape Fear Valley imports some physicians from other states or state medical schools, like Duke University, but they don’t remain to practice.

Research showed that nearly half of doctors stayed in the same city where they performed their residency. So, Cape Fear launched its residency program three years ago with See CENTER, page 16

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a goal of 300 resident physicians in 10 years. The program currently stands at 171 out of 205 approved slots, exceeding expectations. The resident physicians fill nine programs at the hospital, but the practice space doesn’t allow for more.

To solve that problem, Cape Fear Valley will open two new buildings to offer a home for hundreds of new providers within the next 12 months.

DOROTHEA DIX UNIT FOR ADOLESCENTS

The Dorothea Dix Unit for Adolescents is planning to open in December. The Dix adolescent center is a 12,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility that aims to fill a need for psychology and psychiatric services for children aged 12 to 17. Currently, the closest one is 60 miles away, so families will now be able to stay local to support their family members in crisis. Its $4 million price tag is funded by a grant from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

Thirty-two of the approved resi-

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The new education center is expected to create more than 900 jobs and will generate an estimated $574 million for the local economy.

dencies are for psychiatry, which is a big help for the area, said Maharty.

CENTER FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION

The Center for Medical Education opens next July, just in time to

attract medical school graduates.

The 120,000 square foot education center is expected to create 923 new jobs and will generate an estimated $574 million for the local economy.

It’s also adding doctors into the

provider-deficient specialties, including psychiatry, general surgery, and OB-GYN. It will also house the Neuroscience Institute, filling in the neurologist gap in the local health care industry.

So far, half the post-residency doctors have chosen to make Fayetteville their home. By 2030, Cape Fear Valley hopes to have all 300 resident slots filled.

The average resident physician makes $60,000 to $70,000 a year, which is higher than the median Fayetteville resident income of $45,000. So, the education center’s job creation will impact the housing and retail industry, too.

“When you start a residency program, and you introduce education into a health care system, almost everything goes higher,” said Maharty. “Patient quality goes higher because everybody starts practicing evidence-based medicine. Community engagement goes higher. The benevolence in a community goes higher. There’s very little downside to a residency starting in a hospital.”

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Cape Fear Valley Health celebrates progress of Dorothea Dix Care Unit for Adolescents STAFF REPORT he completion of the steel framing for the Dorothea Dix Care Unit for Adolescents marks a significant milestone for Cape Fear Valley Health.

Located on Melrose Road, across from the Cape Fear Valley Health Behavioral Health Care Inpatient Unit, the health system broke ground in November, and anticipates a late 2021 opening, according to officials.

“This is going to help keep kids out of our Emergency Department and get them the help they need,” said John Bigger, corporate director of Cape Fear Valley Health’s Behavioral Health and Sleep Center. “This would not be at all accomplished if it were not for our current Behavioral Health staff that worked out of the existing inpatient building on the adult unit.”

To mark the recent milestone, staff gathered at the site June 24 to sign their names on the steel supports.

The building will have 16 inpatient

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Psychiatrist Sree Jadapalle, M.D. signs part of the Dorothea Dix Care Unit for Adolescents’ steel frame Thursday.

beds for adolescents 12 to 17, according to press martial released on June 24. The state-of-the-art facility will include psychotherapy staff, psychiatrists, recreational therapists, and others to support the critical components of evidence-based treatment for adolescents.

According to a prepared statement, the facility will fill a need to allow families to have their children treated locally instead of commuting long distances for inpatient psychiat-

ric help. It will provide resources for children in crisis who typically must wait in the emergency room until a bed is available at a similar facility 60 miles away.

“We’re so grateful for the state funding to make all this happen,” said Cape Fear Valley Health CEO Michael Nagowski. “And we’re grateful for that wonderful lady, Dorothea Dix, God rest her soul.

Her legacy continues to live on.”

The facility will also serve the community by welcoming doctors to a new Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency program, officials said.

“Next year we’re going to begin training up to 28 doctors to become board certified psychiatrists,” Nagowski said. “It’s the nation’s newest program and we know we need every single one of them.”

Psychiatrist Sree Jadapalle, M.D., said the facility represents a landmark for Fayetteville and the region.

“Right now, our emergency rooms are flooded with kids and adults with mental health crisis,” Jadapalle said. “We really appreciate everyone

out here working with us day and night keeping kids safe. When this is finished, I won’t have to tell families their kids are going hours away. Now our families can rest, knowing their kids are staying close to home and getting the help they need.”

Keeping children close to their families during treatment is also beneficial because families are often part of the treatment process and team.

Bigger also reminded supporters that though the cost of the building’s construction is covered by the state, there are many remaining needs and opportunities that the Cape Fear Valley Health Foundation is still working to fund.

“We can make this even better, and we’re doing some fundraising through the Foundation, with naming rights and other opportunities available,” Bigger said. “If folks want to, they can still make a donation and have something in honor of a loved one, to help enhance these services we’re going to provide.”

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New Corporations lists firms from the Greater Fayetteville Business Journal region that were recently incorporated in the State of North Carolina.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY Branche Management & Investments LLC 5905 Gentleman Dr. Hope Mills 28348 Agent: Quaneesha Branche Astrobeauty LLC 4416 Forest Park Ct Hope Mills 28348 Agent: Jasmine Childs J.W. Mcneill Farms LLC 3013 Raeford Road, Fayetteville 28303 Agent: King Blue III JL&S Transportation LLC 8049 Laura Ray Road Linden 28356 Agent: Scott Locklear Touched By Luxe LLC 6509 Pacific Ave. Fayetteville 28314-6551 Agent: Jasmyn Piazzaphipps Abundant Living Consulting Corporation LLC 6380 Cliffdale Road, Fayetteville 28314-3012 Agent: Kerstin Driver River Jordan Council on African American Heritage 669 Country Club Dr. Fayetteville 28301 Agent: Demetrius Haddock Truth Transport LLC 3207 Tallywood Drive, Apt 3 Fayetteville 28303-5354 Agent: Howard Solomon Rapp Nursremediez LLC 835 Fresno Dr. Fayetteville 28303-2569 Agent: Capricia Whitley Break'n Barriers LLC 210 Heather Ridge Dr Apt P Fayetteville 28311 Agent: Antione Allen McClennaham Wrap-Fitters LLC 5760 Lady Lane Rd. Hope Mills 28348-4002 Agent: Maxtint Concepts LLC CTC Media Express LLC 225 F Mckenzie Road Spring Lake 28390-0426 Agent: Stephen Maurice Boyne Davis & Sons Logistics LLC 1938 Aspen Cir Fayetteville 28304 Agent: William H Davis V Jaydee's Legacy Rennovations LLC 7109 Dayspring Dr. Fayetteville 28314-6532 Agent: Ashleigh R Davis Otp Transportation L.L.C. 710 Cl Tart Circle, Apt 501 Fayetteville 28314 Agent: Barnard Mccray

World Of Vape & Tobacco Inc. 4230 Legion Rd Ste F Hope Mills 28348-9461 Agent: Ahmed Alsaidi Elite Family Homecare Services LLC 3126 Sommer Dr. Hope Mills 28348-2056 Agent: Jason Levern Moore Ville Fiber Optics LLC 3278 Bluegrass Court Hope Mills 28348-1778 Agent: Jesse C Bazemore Discipleship Outreach Ministries 671 Lenoir Dr. Spring Lake 28390-1699 Agent: Jonathan Jay Shepard Mr.Builder LLC 6596 Fisher Road, Fayetteville 28304 Agent: Michael Cabanilla Tmf Global Enterprises Inc 5248 Foxfire Road, Fayetteville 28303-3279 Agent: Kori Michaels City Sweets Ltd. Liability Co. 3564 Coupure Way Fayetteville 28312-2303 Agent: Michael James Turner Ii Data Train Analytics & Consulting LLC 725 Blawell Street Stedman 28391-9731 Agent: Rachael Yvonne Songalewski Cdt Enterprises LLC 4777 Old Savannah Church Road, Fayetteville 28312 Agent: Craig Thaggard Archy's Mobile Notary Signing Service LLC 2942 Dalmation Dr. Hope Mills 28348-4003 Agent: Michael A Archibald Ingenious Designs LLC 2734 Cosgrove Dr. Fayetteville 28306-3709 Agent: Kendra Gray T&T Bomb Seafood LLC 711 Duggins Way Apt E Fayetteville 28312 Agent: Travis Boykin Tmack 64 Trucking LLC 2551 Millie Christine Road Whiteville 28472 Agent: Maxwell Troy Mean Green LLC 5028 Tangerine Dr. Fayetteville 28306 Agent: Robert Clayton Ewing Golden Hearts Home Health Care LLC 1227 Patrick Dr.

Fayetteville 28314-5926 Agent: Dalashon M Lewis Kenyetas Kitchen LLC 702 Wellons Ave. Spring Lake 28390 Agent: Kenyeta Owens Jojo & Co. Boutique LLC 3533 N. Main St. Hope Mills 28348-1835 Agent: Lisa Eudora Joas Mkt Investments Nc LLC 220 N. Mcpherson Church Rd. Suite A Fayetteville 28303-4495 Agent: Ccr Property Management LLC Goddess Tingz LLC 2228 Ireland Dr. Fayetteville 28306-2337 Agent: Shamani Detriana Baldwin Daniel James & John International LLC 6617 Jacobs Creek Circle Fayetteville 28306-4586 Agent: Izabel Hernandez A-2-Z Websolutions LLC 7669 W Netherland Drive, 274 Fayetteville 28303-2066 Agent: Kira Elziah Cooper Trj Investment Group LLC 2276 Andalusian Dr. Hope Mills 28348 Agent: Rochelle James Buckeye Holdings LLC 5511 Ramsey Street Suite 100 Fayetteville 28311 Agent: Deana Manning Realty LLC

Dime Nation Body Bar LLC 6302 Milford Road, Fayetteville 28303-2686 Agent: Mia C Robinson Reflections Noted Mental Health Counseling PLLC 111 Lamon Street Fayetteville 28301 Agent: Rosa Howard Poston Uniquely For You LLC 520-F Trust Dr. Fayetteville 28301-6318 Agent: Rosemary Page 401 Motors LLC 215 Windsor Dr. Fayetteville 28301-4368 Agent: Aaron Jamal Mciver Jwalsports Production LLC 4725 Woodline Dr. Fayetteville 28314-6576 Agent: Lamark Anthony Wylie Jr Tire House Rockfish LLC 800 Pamalee Dr. Fayetteville 28303-3829 Agent: Fares Al-Abdi One Body One Life Health And Body Studio LLC 3608 Pine Lake Dr.Apt 3 Fayetteville 28311-2406 Agent: Monica Irene Chadwick Investin LLC 3116 Landmark Road Apt 201 Fort Bragg 28307-2867 Agent: Antoine Alexander Davis Kinley Commercial Solutions LLC 1557 Diamond Road, Fayetteville 28311-1895 Agent: Vivian Frazier

M.D.D Ground Logistics Inc. 3508 Tree Ring Court Fayetteville 28306-7465 Agent: Darrin Lee Mcneill

Premier Transportation Services Limited Liability Co. 2102 Hyde Place H Fayetteville 28306-3160 Agent: Courtney Floyd

Cleveland Barbershop LLC 2417 Hope Mills Rd Ste 101 Fayetteville 28304 Agent: Amanda Mcneillmcmillan

Bautista Blessed Brother's Construction LLC 4550 Nc Hwy 87 South Fayetteville 28306 Agent: Willy Bautista

Goldie Inc. 1564 Sweetie Rd. Fayetteville 28312-7358 Agent: Courtney Nicole Jackson

Just Keep Livin 365 Enterprise LLC 3946 Tasha Dr. Hope Mills 28348 Agent: Daniel B Mclean

Iougener8tion LLC 3124 Totley Dr. Fayetteville 28306 Agent: Myia Franklin Wildfire Restoration LLC 33 Baltic Cir Fort Bragg 28307-1916 Agent: Lisa Medina O.S Outreach Realty LLC 509 Waterview Court Fayetteville 28301-3347 Agent: Lacrystal Raquel Graham Manifested Properties LLC 1150 Meadowcreek Dr. Fayetteville 28304-5870 Agent: Shednichole Cotton The Garden Bar LLC 113 Willborough Ave. Fayetteville 28303-5447 Agent: Thomas Ferguson K & D Mobile Home Transit LLC 3725 Heatherbrooke Dr. Fayetteville 28306 Agent: Technical Group Alpha LLC Precious Playground LLC 6532 Tareyton Road, Fayetteville 28314 Agent: Melody Mclaughlin

Pisces Diversities LLC 324 Glenburney Drive, 103 Fayetteville 28303 Agent: Gardner H Altman Jr A Second Chance Ministries Of Fayetteville Inc. 9334 Tine Road, Fayetteville 28314 Agent: Elvis Williams Mirmade In The Usa LLC 9871 Ramsey Street Linden 28356-8937 Agent: Miriam Hayden Dippin' Wings LLC 439 Westwood Shopping Center Ste 135 Fayetteville 28314-1532 Agent: Jalissa Angelica Wright Hall Jsy Enterprise LLC 2264 Stanton Street Fayetteville 28304 Agent: Jeffrey Mcbride Fayetteville Holdings & Homes LLC 300 Broadfoot Ave. Fayetteville 28305-5304 Agent: Frederic Charles Clark Yankee Doc Properties LLC 217 Forest Creek Dr.

Fayetteville 28303-5496 Agent: Jenna Schutzer Got Your Six Transport LLC 3510 Southpeak Dr. Fayetteville 28306-9553 Agent: Major Wayne Manor Southern Sky Ventures LLC 7256 Goldsboro Road Wade 28395 Agent: Samuel Mark Brewington Moon Of Hopes Beauty Bar LLC 762 Chevy Chase Street Fayetteville 28306-3907 Agent: Queanu Love Vaughn-Gainey Ed's Sewing And More L.L.C. 2609 Keats Pl. Fayetteville 28306 Agent: Edgardo Nieves Ccf Materials Inc. 1270 Canady Pond Hope Mills 28348 Agent: Nicholas Shaun Harrell Angelica's Transportation Services LLC 4640 Duncastle Rd Apt 1g Fayetteville 28314-1643 Agent: Shaniqua Reid Ked Marketing LLC 731 Athens Ave. Fayetteville 28301-4800 Agent: Kaitlyn Elizabeth Darrigan Grazious LLC 260 Dusty Lane Linden 28356-9312 Agent: Antoinette Campbell

Agent: Nastassja Toombs Lissa's Cleaning Service LLC 2105 Grand Prix Dr Apt H Fayetteville 28303-2993 Agent: Melissa Mcrae Infinity Logistics & Solutions LLC 6491 People Street Fayetteville 28304 Agent: Latoya Cobbs Chasing Sunraee LLC 5834 Holland St Fayetteville 28311-1742 Agent: Radyance Nastassja White The Art Attack Studio LLC 3411 Dorado Cir Fayetteville 28304-0645 Agent: Sheree Hayes Shree Kanha LLC 1957 Cedar Creek Road, Fayetteville 28312 Agent: Nilay Shah Sue Sue Duzit LLC 511 N Reilly Road Ste A Fayetteville 28303-2440 Agent: Suezette Latoya Douglas Contendercapitalsolutions LLC 1307 Vandenberg Dr. Fayetteville 28312-7642 Agent: Brian Keith Stackhouse Monks Transporting Service LLC 6477 Green Meadow Road, Fayetteville 28304-5717 Agent: Duane Jamale Monk Faith Travels With Ejb LLC 2573 Cumberland Creek Dr. Fayetteville 28306 Agent: Earley Blakley

New Wave Real Estate Investments LLC 1230 Colts Pride Dr. Fayetteville 28312-7000 Agent: Michael P. Smith

Families Of Virtue LLC 2620 Evans Dairy Road, Fayetteville 28312-7193 Agent: Thomas Price Mccuddy

Veh'janel Beauti LLC 912 S Cliffs Circle 304 Spring Lake 28390 Agent: Harriett Williams

Trcz Services LLC 8733 Looking Glass Road Linden 28356-9433 Agent: Emily Renee Brimmer

Nosirrah Candle Company LLC 5310 Holland Park Ave. Fayetteville 28314 Agent: Heather Harrison

Bucaneros Motorcycle Association LLC 3233 Davidson Dr. Fayetteville 28306-8415 Agent: Hector Montero

Kamisha Delarosa LLC 508 Dale Dr. Fayetteville 28303-3013 Agent: Kamisha Evete Delarosa T.H.I.C (The Hips I Carry) LLC 104 Pike Pl Fayetteville 28306 Agent: Erika Denise Mcfayden Faith On Wheels Ministries Inc. 20 K And W Dr. Spring Lake 28390 Agent: Donisha Smith My Three Sons LLC 401 Overton Pl Fayetteville 28303 Agent: James L Williams Moncure Valley And Moncure Hills Homeowners Association Inc. 2939 Breezewood Avenue Ste. 101 Fayetteville 28303 Agent: Little And Young Inc. Aod Pro Transport LLC 523 Albany St Fayetteville 28301-0505 Agent: Aaron V Walker Ii Glamorous Kreations Body Bar LLC 2282 Lakewell Cir Fayetteville 28306

Appletastic Llp 1025 Woodcreek Dr. Fayeteviile 28314 Agent: Stephanie Smith Tire House Investments LLC 800 Pamalee Dr. Fayetteville 28303-3829 Agent: Omar Y Alsaidi Sensational Braids LLC 613 Ashbrook Ct Apt F Fayetteville 28314-0882 Agent: Sasha Larmond 809 Holdings LLC 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville 28311 Agent: Davis W. Puryear 4oran Gang Entertainment LLC 553 Winding Creek Rd. Apt. B Fayetteville 28305-5297 Agent: Diquan Washington Sharp All Things Real Estate Nc LLC 1674 Tryon Dr. Fayetteville 28303 Agent: Lindsay E Livermore Garner Design LLC 335 Eastwood Ave. Fayetteville 28301-3321 Agent: Gary G Garner

Package Plus LLC 106 Buckeye Dr. Raeford 28376 Agent: Emanuel Leon Britton Bizzy Bar LLC 1247 Blackford Dr. Fayetteville 28314-5999 Agent: Corena Beatrice Mcneill Julia And Martha's Rose Catering And Delivery LLC 324 Babcock Ct Apt 202 Unit 12 Fayetteville 28314 Agent: Alyshia Dunn Jd Dingle Real Estate LLC 305 Canady St. Fayetteville 28306 Agent: Joyce Dingle

Agent: Pamela Denise Brown Jmj Lawn Care Services LLC 5852 Mack Simmons Road, Fayetteville 28312 Agent: Jonathan Hines Cameron C Services LLC 5917 Armour Ave. Fayetteville 28306-4563 Agent: Cameron Collins Legacy Tobacco Co LLC 6584 Stillwater Dr. Fayetteville 28304-4625 Agent: Latoya Johnson Always Money LLC 847 Scotch Hall Way Fayetteville 28303-4888 Agent: North Carolina

Hines Rentals LLC 5852 Mack Simmons Road, Fayetteville 28312 Agent: Jonathan Hines

Crown Conquering Strategies LLC 867 Flintwood Road, Fayetteville 28314 Agent: Marquetta Walker

I&I Communications LLC 6116 Ackerman Dr. Hope Mills 28348-8812 Agent: Guarionex Manuel Inoa

Going Global Travels LLC 10235 Turnbull Road, Fayetteville 28312-7473 Agent: Michael Ray Fulton Jr

Africans In Aba Inc. 106 Law Road, Fayetteville 28311 Agent: Jacob O Balogun

Jehrumyah LLC 422 Acacia Cir Apt B Fayetteville 28314-2154 Agent: Diondre Mcclam

Noizy Neighborz Entertainment LLC 1125 Brenda Dr. Fayetteville 28311-2319 Agent: Vanpatrick Torain

Triple Five Holdings LLC 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville 28311 Agent: Davis W. Puryear

All Directions Transport LLC 651 Daharan Dr. Fayetteville 28314 Agent: Roy Johnson

3d Legacy LLC 7391 3rd St Wade 28395-8001 Agent: Jennaira Denetta Mcbryde

Tattoo World L.L.C. 5955 Yadkin Road, Fayetteville 28303-2654 Agent: Bill Claydon

Desired Solutions LLC 612 Freda Court Spring Lake 28390-3010 Agent: Desiree L Caesar

All In Construction And Remodeling LLC 859 Fredonia Dr. Fayetteville 28311 Agent: Danny Glee Sanders Jr

Grand Eight & One LLC 1119 Pine Knoll Dr Apt 301 Spring Lake 28390 Agent: Hines Carter

Mitra Pain Management PLLC 9525 Cliffdale Road, Fayetteville 28304 Agent: Darshan B. Patel Inner Armour Infinity LLC 202 Onie Court Fayetteville 28314-1422 Agent: George Richard Newton Iii The Trucks Here Transportation LLC 9615 Ramsey Street Linden 28356 Agent: Robert T Thomas Fizzy Friendz Bath Bomb LLC 2604 Dumbarton Road, Fayetteville 28306 Agent: Andrea C Campos Shirley's Deep Cleaning Service LLC 316 Waddell Dr. Fayetteville 28301-2858 Agent: Shirley Keisha Spriggins Sullivan Photography LLC 5834 Waters Edge Dr. Fayetteville 28314-1062 Agent: Mallory Sullivan Butterfly Kisses LLC (1216223) 751 Burgoyne Dr. Fayetteville 28314-0841 Agent: Pamela Denise Brown Brown's All Around LLC 751 Burgoyne Dr. Fayetteville 28314-0841

Bs Media Group LLC 225 N. Main St Spring Lake 28390 Agent: Benjamin Adam Shafer Ads Contracting & Consulting Inc. 420 Northview Dr. Fayetteville 28303 Agent: Alden Smith Chris's Heating & Air LLC 1500 Tom Starling Rd. Fayetteville 28306 Agent: Christopher M. Williams Rim Rd Mhp LLC 2621 Franciscan Dr. Fayetteville 28306 Agent: Keith Rigby Satchel LLC 2759 Millmann Road, Fayetteville 28304-8917 Agent: Chelsea L Daniels Hands Impression LLC 3913 Pleasantburg Dr. Fayetteville 28312-7669 Agent: Teresa Lopez Lucas Trucking 1 LLC 6521 Lark Dr. Fayetteville 28314-0414 Agent: Mario Carnell Lucas Gliss Of Glam Cosmetics LLC 3511 Monument Dr Apt 204 Fayetteville 28304-3275 Agent: Shaquitta Mclean Happy Kitty LLC 250 Caquiny Loop

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| BIZ LEADS | Fort Bragg 28307 Agent: Avasia Mitchell

Agent: Vicky Huntley Brighter Rays Ahead LLC 7241 Sandcastle Lane Linden 28356-9437 Agent: Danny Stewart Sampson

Coastal Logic L.L.C. 706 Shopton Ct. Fayetteville 28303-5151 Agent: Paul Elias Gonzalez Hearts For Children Childcare And Learning Center LLC 541 Bunce Road, Fayetteville 28314-0529 Agent: Cornelia D Burke

Not Your Ordinary Berries LLC 6201 Kirkwall Road, Fayetteville 28311-2932 Agent: Eddie Lamont Williams

365 Investments LLC 800 Pamalee Dr. Fayetteville 28303-3829 Agent: Omar Y Alsaidi Uniquely Beautiful's Boutique LLC 6524 Green Meadow Road, Fayetteville 28304-5719 Agent: Latonya Denise Jones Shaunlaflare Kennels LLC 1729 Merry Oaks Dr. Fayetteville 28304-5556 Agent: Rashaun Federick Fahie Nationwide Transporters LLC 8520 Amish Dr. Fayetteville 28314-8420 Agent: Kodi Hawkins 19:26 Logistics LLC 3741 Badin Lake Lane Fayetteville 28314 Agent: Jeremy Kenneth Hardin Joseph's Heating And Air Condition LLC 225 N Main Street, No. 602 Spring Lake 28390 Agent: Wayne Joseph Gear Up Travel Agency LLC 230 Lovington Dr. Fayetteville 28303-2330

Next Wave Hookah Lounge LLC 6920 Kizer Dr. Fayetteville 28314 Agent: Jeremy Burrow

Cheeckyvalor LLC 5731 Fountain Grove Apt 268 Fayetteville 28304-2671 Agent: Tracy Jordan Guthrie Tuff Titty Trucking LLC 5592 Pepperbush Dr. Fayetteville 28304 Agent: Torrie T Mcnair Nc Property Protector LLC 4364 Lake Gordon Dr. Fayetteville 28312-8359 Agent: Alexander D McKinney Reno United Football Club LLC 216 Heather Ridge Dr Apt P Fayetteville 28311 Agent: Jason Buchanan Neighborhood Officiant Services LLC 406 Northumberland Ct B Fayetteville 28314-2858 Agent: Shante Bryant Abang&Abang LLC 6380 Cliffdale Road, 27435 Fayetteville 28314-3078 Agent: Philippa Mbele Abang

Integrity Counseling 1 Inc 5120 Carson Allen Road Hope Mills 28348 Agent: Alicia Jackson

Carolina Coin Exchange LLC 316 Lakeview Dr. Fayetteville 28311 Agent: Clayton Brewer

Matusik Law PLLC 259 Vanstore Dr. Fuquay Varina 27526 Agent: Rosa Matusik

Spiritual Escapes LLC 1432 Rosser Pittman Road Broadway 27505-7000 Agent: Sara Cathrine Sarver

Plentypape LLC 1418 Furnish Dr. Fayetteville 28304 Agent: Christopher Bookhart

Harnett County E Team Cleaning LLC 104 Fleetwood Court Lillington 27546-5574 Agent: Osvaldo Espinoza

M Hernandez Roofing LLC. 193 West Depot St. Angier 27501 Agent: Maria Hernandez Silverio

Fleet Temple Engineering PLLC 5245 Red Hill Church Road Coats 27521 Agent: Peter E. Norfleet Temple

Oak City Mobile Car Care LLC 98 Denise Ln Coats 27521 Agent: Alexander Langdon Kaneklides

Joshua Tree Development LLC 2086 WADE STEPHENSON Road Holly Springs 27540-8035 Agent: Lori M Carlyle

Hyppolite Transport LLC 673 Bartons Landing Pl Apt 6 Fayetteville 28314-0005 Agent: Alan Hyppolite None Stop Trucking LLC 7336 Layton Dr. Fayetteville 28314-5883 Agent: Kenneth B Lewis Tdr Trucking & Logistics LLC 1409 Deer Trail Drive Apt 308 Fayetteville 28314-3238 Agent: Terrel D Reeves S&K Low Country Kitchen LLC 2366 N Bragg Blvd Spring Lake 28390-9574 Agent: Sandra Katrina Hines Macias Properties LLC 4305 Haskell Dr. Hope Mills 28348-2842 Agent: Gabriel Macias Fluffy But Fit LLC 3837 Corapeake Dr. Fayetteville 28312-7014 Agent: Jesse Andrew Garcia Hearts Of Gold Home Care LLC 6813 Brush Crk Fayetteville 28314 Agent: Alexandria Ford Windy Ridge Ff LLC 2919 Breezewood Ave Ste 100 Fayetteville 28303-5283 Agent: Denver Ralph Huff Iii

MinaMunir LLC 61 Hunters Point Ct Angier 27501-7298 Agent: Tahmina Munir Ahmed A & M Road Service LLC 231 Glovers Lane Coats 27521-8737 Agent: Amanda Glover Hicks Gone Trucking LLC 257 Fuller Dr. Lillington 27546-9091 Agent: Martin Simms

Corporate Transcendence LLC 1010 Fairground Road Dunn 28334-8355 Agent: Pamela Massengill Tripp

Underdog Ranch LLC 1523 Red Hill Church Road Dunn 28334-9122 Agent: River Shawn Lucas

DS Utility and Repair LLC 781 Tart Town Road Dunn 28334 Agent: Daniel Sandoval Collazo

MK Events LLC 63 Colonist Place Cameron 28326-4023 Agent: Kimesha Robyn Cooper Frierson

Smith & Company Real Estate LLC 827 South 8th Street C Lillington 27546 Agent: Trevor Swain Smith

Beautiful & Borrowed Bridal LLC 495 Ave.ry Pond Dr. Fuquay Varina 27526-5733 Agent: Stacy Yvette Diffendorf

Epaint LLC 600 S Magnolia Ave. Dunn 28334 Agent: Erika Beatriz Garcia Colin

Synapse Solutions Consulting Group LLC 170 Homestead Road Angier 27501-6844 Agent: Mark Steven Vanatta

Stewart's Cargo Carrier Llc 590 Loop Road Bunnlevel, 28323-9028 Agent: Jesse Stewart

Phillips Investment Properties of Harnett LLC 910 S Clinton Ave. Dunn 28334 Agent: Lester Ray Phillips

Echo Lima Residential Services LLC 122 Sonora Dr. Lillington 27546-6334 Agent: CHARLES E LOVINGOOD

Maximum Performance Productions LLC 985 Buffalo Lake Road Sanford 27332-2351 Agent: Mike Thomas

Well Rooted LLC 509 W Duncan St Lillington 27546 Agent: Tracy Lee Pipkin

Niki Nicole Beauty LLC 87 Pine Needles Dr. Lillington 27546-8034 Agent: Andreniki Ray

TDA Communication LLC 405 Old Field Loop SANFORD 27332-2519 Agent: Sherry Fox Johnson

Adams Soil Consulting PLLC 1676 Mitchell Road Angier 27501 Agent: Alex Adams

The Antidote: TriStar Solutions LLC 226 Heathrow Dr. Spring Lake, 28390-9258 Agent: Deeta L Logan

SCS Canine LLC 1374 Jesse Road Broadway 27505 Agent: Jerry Wayne Davis

Accessories & things LLC 100 Scotland Dr Spring Lake, 28390-1676 Agent: Tammy Jean Hillard

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On the mark custom woodwork LLC 3704 Nursery Road Spring Lake, 28390-9798 Agent: Chad Elton Riggsby

Angier 27501 Agent: Kathryn Bowden

Liz Beauty Salon LLC 350 E Smithfield St Angier 27501 Agent: Lizbeth Camacho Garcia OneLight Christian Counseling PLLC 6720 NC Highway 210

Magar Properties LLC 1716 Fairing View Way Fuquay Varina 27526-2284 Agent: Madan Pun

Walkers Treasure Box LLC 21 Hopeland Dr. Lillington 27546 Agent: Robert Joseph Walker Farmers Consulting LLC 2776 S. River Rd Lillington 27546-8373 Agent: Schyler Morgan Brown

ijustwannacutpr LLC 28 Dandelion Pl. Spring Lake, 28390-7357 Agent: Luis Enrique Colon Burgos Niki Nicole Beauty LLC 87 Pine Needles Dr. Lillington 27546-8034 Agent: Andreniki Ray DCEL FLOORING LLC 40 Westbrook Ln Angier 27501 Agent: Mario Martinez Rodriguez Hortensia’s Contour Body Studio LLC 33 serenity lane Lillington 27546 Agent: Yesenia Pinales Aguiar Hoke County Innovative Manufacturing Concepts LLC 2626 Johnson Mill Rd Raeford 28376 Agent: Matthew White Predator Control LLC 197 Exeter Dr Raeford 28376 Agent: Michael Banks Notary Lion L.L.C. 223 Himalaya Dr Raeford 28376-8126 Agent: Courtney L Salcedo Krystal Clean Enterprise LLC 166 Gatsby Dr. Raeford 28376-8410 Agent: Krystal Rodriguez Untamed Gentlemen LLC 149 River Birch Lane Raeford 28376-8317 Agent: Brycen Steven Erdody

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| FROM BIZFAYETTEVILLE.COM | Civil War center takes another step forward The core mission of the N.C. Civil War & Reconstruction History Center is to educate — specifically, by finding the most effective ways to accurately

ILLUSTRATION PROVIDED BY N.C. CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION HISTORY CENTER

A rendering of the North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center.

tell the story of the most contentious period in America's history. As chairman of the center’s board, Fayetteville’s Mac Healy has spent a lot of time talking with educators.

“One of the things we've done is gone out and talked to a lot of the public social studies teachers in the state of North Carolina, because as we're designing this program, we're asking them what they need. They're the ones we are building it for,” Healy said.

“So we've been to them and the vast majority tell us that they will not even teach this subject anymore. They won't even address it in their class because they're afraid they'll say something wrong. And that's scary as heck.”

That’s where the history center comes in: It is being designed to be an educational center rather than a collecting museum. With the use of cutting-edge technology, students will be able to learn about the Civil War and Reconstruction from some of the most knowledgeable scholars on the subjects.

It’s an idea that excites Healy and the many other supporters of the center, including Cumberland County, the City of Fayetteville and the N.C. General Assembly, all who have committed major funding. When it is completed, the Civil War & Reconstruction History Center will be a state museum, part of the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

The center reached an important benchmark last week when it marked the opening of the History Village and began work on the next phase of its development — an outdoor education pavilion. The final piece is a 60,000 square foot history center.

While its mission is to be a one-ofa-kind history center for the state and even the nation, the center is expected to benefit Fayetteville directly, with a

$20 million annual economic impact for the region, a consultant’s study estimates.

There also are less-tangible but still-valuable benefits, said Shari Fiveash, president and CEO of the Greater Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce.

Not only will it put Fayetteville on the map as a destination for Civil War tourism (a $2 billion annual industry), the center will bolster what’s already here, she said.

“I think it's actually going to help the other attractions in the community, as well,” Fiveash told the Business Journal. “I think people are going to use that as one spoke of many spokes in a wheel.”

Healy sees another asset the center will provide — bolstering Fayetteville’s reputation.

“People are going to come to see a world-class history center that’s tackling one of our nation’s toughest issues,” he said. “They’re going to see a city that’s not afraid to look at these things; a city not afraid to address the root cause of so much of the contentious issue we face today.”

New trolleys arrive in downtown Fayetteville Cool Spring Downtown District and Coldwell Banker Advantage are bringing a cool new ride to the streets of downtown Fayetteville.

PHOTO PUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION FROM THE COOL SPRING DOWNTOWN DISTRICT

Ralph and Linda Huff stand in the doorway of one of the Can Do Coldwell Banker Trolleys.

Before COVID, Bianca Shoneman, CEO and president of Cool Spring Downtown District, approached Ralph Huff, the founder of H&H Homes and co-owner of Coldwell Banker Advantage, with an idea to bring trolleys to downtown Fayetteville.

“Downtown advocates for years have wanted to see a trolley system for the district. The ‘Can Do Coldwell Banker’ Trolleys complete this long-standing goal and will connect the adjoining residential nodes to the arts and entertainment district,” Shoneman said.

“I told her it was a fabulous idea and that I would be interested in help-

ing. Then the pandemic hit,” Huff said.

Three months ago, once restrictions started to loosen, Shoneman saw the opportunity to start revisiting the trolley idea. She sent two models to Huff — a diesel trolley and an electric trolley.

“It was a significant amount of money so I went to my Coldwell Banker partners and asked Suzanne Pennink, Gary Raybon and Tim Milam if they would pay for half of the cost of the trolley if Linda and I paid the other half,” Huff explained. They all agreed.

Then, the team found out that the electric trolley would have to be built and couldn’t be delivered until the fall.

“But more important was the electric trolley could run only for six hours and then it had to charge for eight hours,” Huff said.

The two 2004 “Molley Trolleys” could be delivered faster and cost the same amount as one electric trolley.

It also gave the range to carry people around for longer throughout the day.

“We believe that these models will provide a larger impact, connect more people, and allow us to both provide a downtown transportation circulator and a private trolley rental option,” Shoneman said.

New FSU chancellor promotes value of interns Dr. Darrell T. Allison, chancellor of Fayetteville State University informed Fayetteville’s business community of the school’s continuous efforts to contribute to economic development in the area. Allison spoke June 24 at the Greater Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce’s Chairman’s Coffee Club.

The school offers opportunities to its students to make an impact in the workforce with a diverse student body.

Seventy-nine percent of students at the school are from rural counties, 30 percent are military-affiliated, 60 percent are first generation students, 70 percent are Pell Grant eligible, and 32 percent are adult learners. Fayetteville State University is the leader in adult learners. Cumberland County as a whole has the fourth largest population of adult learners in North Carolina.

“We are, as an institution, investing in internships,” Allison said. “The opportuAllison nity is so important to us that we, as an institution, are willing to invest in pay of that student, not you.”

The expectation is that the university commits to the first year and the corporation will back the University

up for the next two to three years.

“We actually think there’s a retention piece there,” Allison said.

He pointed out that, by offering the internships in the second semester of students’ sophomore year, they have the opportunity to cultivate skills so they are more prepared when they graduate.

“They’re learning and growing; by the time they get to that fourth year, they’re prime picking,” he said.

FTCC named a top college for military veterans

PHOTO PUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION FROM FTCC

A recent study ranks Fayetteville Technical Community College among best the nation for its service to veterans.

A recent article in Military Times magazine shone a spotlight on Fayetteville Technical Community College and its service to veterans.

The college was ranked third in the nation for its educational services for veterans; it also has been ranked as 10th in the Southeast and 47th nationally among colleges and universities for veterans.

The college appeared as the highest ranked college or university in the state mentioned on the Best for Vets list.

Data from the Department of Education and the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as surveys from educational institutions, was published in the Military Times’ 2021 “Best for Vets” rankings.

According to promotional material from FTCC’s Public Relations & Marketing Department, the rankings are “the largest and most comprehensive set of rankings for military service members and veterans and can help them make important decisions about their education, including how to use the education benefits they earn through military service.”

The magazine stated that 20 percent of the students at FTCC are veterans.

“FTCC serves active-duty, retired and transitioning military members as well as family members by providing access to academic degree, diploma and certificate programs; short-term skills development training; and personal enrichment courses,” according to the statement released Wednesday morning.

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| PROFILE | Butler Farms shows pig industry the benefits of renewables

BY LYDIA WOELLWARTH

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pioneering pig farm in North Carolina that has led the way in its industry for embracing renewable technologies has reported a 10 percent-plus increase in its biogas yields by investing in two new chopper pumps made by Landia.

Soon after Butler Farms opened just over a quarter of a century ago, the owner quickly wanted to reduce its impact on the environment, culminating in the development of its own pig-manure-powered biogas operation in 2011.

As a contract grower that takes 20 000 pigs per year from their arrival weight of approximately 40 lbs to their departure size of approximately 290 lbs, Butler Farms of Lillington (just south of Raleigh, North Carolina) has enough manure to warrant a 1 million gal. storage lagoon turned anaerobic digester (60 ft x 180 ft x 18 ft deep) for the (up to) 10 000 gal. of manure that are produced every day.

“We may have started out in 1994 as a simple generic contract grower,” said owner, Tom Butler, “but starting with improvements through the EPA’s Clean Water Act, we wanted to do whatever we could to lessen our impact on the environment and our community.”

Consistently adopting best management practices for environmental improvements, Butler Farms chose to cover its pig waste lagoon in 2008 so that as well as significantly reducing odours, methane could be safely flared off – then three years later using that methane to run a biogas engine.

“It’s a never-ending learning process,” adds Tom. “We’re pig farmers, not engineers or renewables experts, which is why perhaps we didn’t have the best mixing system for a biogas plant.”

Now referring to the old small mixers as ‘eggbeaters,’ Tom said that the pressure ratios on the previous set up, plus varying diameters of pipework also put a strain on the biogas engine, but that Landia helped to optimise the system.

“Power isn’t always everything,” he continued, “but our first mixers were

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Lillington farmer Tom Butler has capitalized on pig-manure-powered biogas.

so undersized. We’ve gone up from around just 10 hp to 60 hp, which means we can now move one million gal. whenever we want to; using two Landia Chopper Pumps at the start of the process and then just one is sufficient to keep everything moving.

This is quite an achievement because our lagoon is rectangular, not round, but with two nozzles per pump, we are finally getting everything mixed properly, so its perhaps no surprise that we’re seeing such as increase in methane levels for our biogas plant, which will continue to improve as we fine-tune the operation.”

Butler Farms now generates more electricity than the farm needs through its 180 kW biogas-fuelled gen-set, so it has a power purchase agreement to sell the excess renewable energy to its power provider, South River Electric Membership Corp. The farm has also installed 20 kW worth of solar panels; the power from which it too sells back to South River EMC. It also has a 250 kW/735 kWh battery storage system.

In addition, a new hydrogen sulfide (H2S) removal cleaning module, which cools and dries methane prior

to being used as a fuel for the biogas generator, has been installed.

“Now that we have the right mixing system,” added Tom, “our next step is to look at a more consistent supply of feedstock, because at the moment we have gaps, which we need to level out. Pigs of almost 300 lbs obviously produce much more manure than when they are less than 50 lbs, and we have turnaround times of course for cleaning before new stock arrives. So, we’re starting to look at introducing food waste, which again is why the Landia Chopper Pumps are such a good investment. We know that the equipment is more than capable of handling it.

When we go ahead, we’re looking to add another Landia unit for our 20 000 gal. in-ground concrete in-take tank, because again, the small existing pump won’t be able to handle the solids. A Landia pump will make sure that the consistency of the feedstock particle size will benefit our digester.”

Tom explained that a local cannery for sweet potatoes could soon become a regular, albeit seasonal supplier of additional feedstock

for the biogas plant, but there was no shortage of enquires from those wanting to find a home for food waste. It is mainly just a question of carefully selecting the types of waste that would be of the right quality for the biogas process.

“As much as new chopper pumps have been a revelation,” he said, “for me, customer service is extremely important. For far too many businesses to-day, that customer care just isn’t there anymore, but at Landia it is alive and well. We value it very much. They’ve been around since 1933 but clearly haven’t taken their eye off the ball when it comes to being there for their customers. They take a keen interest in our business and want us to succeed.”

Tom may have grown up on a farm, but his father steered him towards college, from where he became office-based, but part of the agricultural industry. However, the farm kept calling him back – and whilst he never aimed to go into renewable power, his belief in fighting the good fight to prove that pig farming can be more about solution than pollution, has seen him scale a whole new learning curve. And speaking of learning, Butler Farms has caught the attention of the education sector, with the pig grower’s move into renewable energy featured in the popular children’s book series, Ripley’s Fun Facts.

“Eventually, I want us to introduce the same reverse osmosis used by municipal wastewater treatment plants,” he said. “In recent years and especially of late, we’ve seen some very positive steps taken towards protecting the environment. We must continue to try.” Tom admits to having not that long ago reduced his working week at Butler Farms to around 20 hours, he tends to do a lot of ‘pointing.’ But as somebody who has just celebrated his 80th birthday, perhaps he can be forgiven…

This story originally appeared at www.energyglobal.com.

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