Sept. 23 - 29, 2016
Citizens, officials discuss safety concerns regarding U.S. 220 crossing Photo by Leon Stokes/NWO
by JESSICA WATERS
The inability of the town to obtain the necessary easements along the initial proposed southern alignment of the A&Y Trail – which would have used the pedestrian tunnel under U.S. 220 – led to the adoption, in a 3-2 town council vote, of an alternate route that will include a pedestrian crosswalk across the soon-to-be four lanes of U.S. 220 at its intersection with Strawberry Road (shown in photo, at left).
Included on the Sept. 13 Town of Summerfield council agenda was a discussion of the “A&Y Greenway (south) crossing at U.S. 220.” Despite numerous prior discussions, and a split vote during the Aug. 9 council meeting to move ahead with a trail option that would require trail users to cross over the soon-tobe four lanes of U.S. 220, the topic still garnered more than
Principal, students have photo op with James Madison Photo and article courtesy of JANE THOMAS, DAR OAK RIDGE – Jane Thomas with the Rachel Caldwell Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, is taking her 6-foot cutout of James Madison on a tour of Guilford County schools, colleges and a mall to celebrate Constitution Week and the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. With no printable, full-length picture of President Madison, the chapter used a photo of Jane’s President Madison bobble head to make the cutout. Chapter member Debbie Fox, who works in the front office at Oak Ridge Elementary School, rounded up some faculty children to pose with Principal
Denise Francisco (back row, far right) and James Madison; the students also held the “Happy Birthday to the Bill of Rights” sign. These girls and boys learned that Madison proposed the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution which later became known as the Bill of Rights. Oak Ridge Elementary student Henry Royal, (shown in photo wearing a coat and tie and standing on back row, next to James Madison), asked Mrs. Fox if he could wear a coat and tie for the event as he wanted to wear his great grandfather’s purple heart in the picture. He has it on, but, alas, James Madison’s shoulder is keeping it from being seen.
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