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CMS honors late music teacher CHARLOTTE – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is honoring longtime music teacher Walter Moore’s legacy at Jay M. Robinson Middle School. Moore taught 37 years until his retirement in 2020. He passed away last summer. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education voted during its Feb.8 meeting to name the band room at Jay M. Robinson in Moore’s honor. It will be called the Walter “Chip” Moore Music Room. “Mr. Moore positively impacted countless number of students during his 18-year tenure at Jay. M. Robin-
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son Middle School,” Principal Mike Miliote wrote in an endorsement letter. “He was truly a professional that focused on creating experiences and learning outcomes that will have a lasting positive impression on students’ lives.” He said Jay M. Robinson’s school improvement team and Parent Teacher Association pursued the renaming effort, which also gained the support of Southeast Learning Community Superintendent Tangela Williams. “He was known for his patient teaching style that produced stu-
dents with exceptional musical skill,” Williams said. In other board news: • Erica Gipson will leave South Mecklenburg High School to serve as principal at Mountain Island Lake Academy. She has served as assistant principal at South Meck since 2017. Kylene Collins, an assistant principal at Huntingtowne Farms Elementary since 2018, was named principal at Starmount Academy of Excellence. • The board chose south Charlotte's Margaret Marshall to serve on the legislative committee for the N.C. School Boards Association.
Each district is invited to appoint one member to the committee, which develops a legislative agenda. • The board voted to Federal American Rescue Plan funding to double the district’s retention bonus for eligible employees. The original retention bonuses were $2,500 for full-time staff and $1,250 for parttime staff, awarded in two payments. The modified plan will pay an additional $2,500 to eligible full-time employees and an additional $1,250 to eligible part-time staff. Guest teachers are eligible for a total bonus of $2,500.
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CHARLOTTE – Atrium Health has opened a new practice off South Boulevard after identifying a lack of accessible community care in south Charlotte. Atrium Health Community Care Primary Care Archdale Family Medicine is seeing patients across the street from the Archdale light rail station, allowing for convenient access for those lacking transportation. This practice is designed to offer convenient and affordable care. “Community care practices such as this one are crucial to ensure more vulnerable patient populations have access to high-quality care,” said Dr. Cordula Lutz, site-based medical director at Atrium Health Community Care Primary Care Archdale Family Medicine. “The opening of this new location is a testament to the value Atrium Health places in giving back to local communities and our mission to make healthcare equitable for all.” This marks Atrium Health’s sixth community care primary care practice in the greater Charlotte region. Board-certified providers and a team of medical professionals, including a nurse care manager, social worker and a patient coordinator, will offer a range of medical services for the entire family, from newborns to seniors, extending beyond traditional primary care offerings with advanced supplemental support for underserved residents. The team will offer extended hours, virtual care options and interpretation services to help ensure those who need care have access when, where and how they need it. The new location will offer enhanced community resources. Patients will have access to behavioral health and pharmacist consults, clinical assistance to help manage chronic disease, home visits and convenient prescription pickup.
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Members of the National Disaster Medical System team demonstrate patient care at Atrium Health Pineville. People being treated aren't COVID positive. Photos courtesy of Atrium Health
Getting backup Federal health officials help with COVID-19 surge at Atrium Health Pineville PINEVILLE – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has sent several members of its National Disaster Medical System team to Atrium Health Pineville to cover some shifts in the hospital’s emergency department. Atrium Health said it requested help from FEMA to handle the medical surge associated with the latest COVID-19 variant.
Figure skater steps off ice for missionary work
Brittlyn Anderson skates with Carolinas Figure Skating Club. Photo courtesy of Kristen Anderson
Brittlyn Anderson, a 2020 graduate of Providence High School, is headed to Minneapolis, Minnesota for 18 months to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She will be joining the approximately 53,000 other missionaries of the Church, between the ages of 18 and 25, who are voluntarily serving in 404 missions located in the United States and throughout the world. Latter-day Saint missionaries do not choose the location of their missionary assignment when submitting their application.
Although raised in the temperate weather of North Carolina, Brittlyn was delighted to learn she would be heading to Minnesota and its sub-zero winter temperatures because, for the last 10 years, an ice rink has been her second home. Brittlyn is a member of the Carolinas Figure Skating Club, which trains at the Extreme Ice Center in Indian Trail. She is a U.S. Figure Skating Triple Gold Medalist, which means she has earned the highest testing distinction available in three disciplines and
I didn’t date a lot in high school. College was better. I dated my freshman year, but no spark got ignited. In my sophomore year of college, I was hanging out with a girl just as friends. Everyone said we needed to date. We tried and it didn’t work. We broke up both as boyfriend/girlfriend as well as friends. There were a few other women, but it never went past two dates. At college, I was involved with the campus ministry. Since we were not chartered by the Student Government Organization, we needed to apply for membership by submitting our constitution and by-laws. I remember the day I submitted them to the secretary. There sat Joan, in a turquoise blouse with white piping. I was smitten. She would be the mother of my children. One problem was that we moved in different circles. While she hung out in the campus pub and was often seen in campus newspaper photos partying, I never went to a party. But I was convinced we could make this work. That was the last time I spoke to her. I never forgot her during my junior and senior years of college. I never ran into her again. She was this woman that I had said one sentence to and had no idea how to get her attention. That is until … I was on the four-anda-half-year plan at college. I declared my major late and added being a high school teacher to my major. Teaching took so many credit hours. I found myself approaching graduation with 150 credit hours, even though I only needed 120 to graduate. But I was 18 credit hours short in sociology. I signed up for six courses my last semester and convinced the department chair to let me graduate with the minimum credit hours for my major. That fall, I walked into one of my six sociology classes. Guess who was sitting in the class? Joan. We struck up a brief conversation. Two hours later, I walked into another sociology class. Again, you won’t believe who was in the class. It was Joan. We joked that we had almost the same schedule. Being the Big Man on Campus, I asked her if she wanted to go to the library with me (a normal guy would have asked her to the Student Union to buy her a snack). By now, you are assuming she became the mother of my children. There see FAITH, Page 5A
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