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A Day Worth Celebrating A beaming Kyla Newkirk posed recently at City Hall with Durham Mayor Bill Bell, right, and Mayor Pro Tempore Cora Cole-McFadden, left. Earlier this spring, Bell and Cole-McFadden praised the Durham Academy fourth-grader at a City Council meeting, calling her “a role model for our youth and a treasured asset to our community,” and proclaiming March 22 as Kyla Newkirk Day in Durham. An active member of DA’s Lower School Service Club, Kyla often spends her weekends volunteering to help people who are homeless. Kyla also received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Rep. G. K. Butterfield. P H OTO B Y K AT H Y M C P H E R S O N