BLOWING ROCK MY HOMETOWN
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Blowing Rock’s healthcare facilities Blowing Rock offers quality healthcare and many opportunities to maintain a healthy lifestyle for both citizens and visitors alike. Here is a list of healthcare facilities that includes Boone’s Watauga Medical Center. PHOTO BY ELIAS PHOTOGRAPHY The faculty and staff of the Blowing Rock School pose for a photo in the early spring semester of 2020.
Blowing Rock School BY ABBY WHITT
The Blowing Rock School, located at 165 Morris St. in Blowing Rock, is a K-8 school in the Watauga County Public School system that enrolls “an average of about 350 students” per year, according to the school’s website.
Patrick Sukow is the principal of Blowing Rock School, Kelly Baruth is the school’s guidance counselor, Heather Holbrook is the school’s social worker and Brooke Kidwell is the school’s nurse. The school’s resource officer is Lt. Lance Dotson. While the COVID-19 pandemic presented a fair amount of chal-
lenges to students and teachers alike, the faculty and staff of Blowing Rock School are looking forward to a new school year. In May, Dotson said that the work he does as an SRO brings unique challenges and solutions to students’ situations. “I have spent many hours in the
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councilor’s office doing anything from playing Candy Land with a kindergartner with a difficult home life to talking to a former student (current at the time) whose mother passed away from cancer,” Dotson said. “In fact, two sixth graders lost SEE SCHOOL ON PAGE 20
Blowing Rock Medical Park PLUS Urgent Care 8439 Valley Blvd. (828) 295-3116 The Harriet and Charles Davant Medical Clinic 623 Chestnut Ridge Parkway (828) 386-3350 The Foley Center at Chestnut Ridge 621 Chestnut Ridge Parkway (828) 295-3136 AppUrgent Care 2146 Blowing Rock Road (828) 265-5505 Watauga Medical Center 336 Deerfield Road (828) 262-4100