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30th anniversary in April. Over the past 30 years,
School for Young
local organizations.
DMACF has awarded $5 million to 182 different
The Westminster
Children is celebrating
retirement of Carol
Texas Tech April 16 at 6 p.m. at the Durham
director and current financial director. Her work
Duke – the team lost in the 2018 Super Regional
staff in her 50 years at the school. Westminster
one game away from the College World Series
this year, as well as the
The Duke Blue Devils Baseball Team plays
Van Hise, the previous
Bulls Athletic Park. This will be a rematch for
has helped more than 6,000 children and 200
final against Texas Tech, which left the Blue Devils
will hold her retirement celebration at the
in Omaha.
Services celebrated its 100th anniversary in January.
Ash Family,” a searing debut about a young
Produce in a SNAP (PIAS) community produce
a new home, who
Produce Program at Duke Outpatient Clinic.
and in the arms of a dangerous cult
Greensboro.
were from Durham.
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(ACIS) scholarship contest in February.
geographically or financially.
have a reading and book
The Durham Merchants Association
Bookshop April 16 at 7
organizations in Durham County, celebrates its
on Feb. 16 in
the American Council for International Studies’
in the Great
organization that provides funds to charitable
competition
won the grand prize for middle school art in
PIAS provides fresh, affordable produce
Charitable Foundation (DMACF), a nonprofit
Out Loud State
Durham Academy eighth-grader Theo Preston
Hungry Harvest celebrated its one-year
to those with limited food access, either
the 2019 Poetry
three students
releases her novel, “The
ends up off the grid
runner-up at
the competition,
native Molly Dektar
market in January with its partner, the Fresh
of the Arts, won
district finalists at
On April 9, Durham
woman looking for
Jamilla Rahim,
Among the 40
BOOKIN’ IT
anniversary in North Carolina by opening a
SCHOOL WORK Durham School
its 50th anniversary
Durham County Department of Social
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a 10th grader at
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school May 4 from 2 to 5 p.m.
From births to awards to new biz and more –
Smoky Mountains. She’ll
signing at The Regulator p.m.
CALLING ALL ARTISTS
Starting July 1, Andy
Pogach will be Durham Academy’s (DA) new
director of athletics once
Steve Engebretsen, DA’s longest-serving director
of athletics, steps down.
Andy serves as one of DA’s two assistant directors of athletics in addition to teaching middle school
CenterFest 2019 applications for visual
math and P.E., coaching the varsity girls tennis
are now open! Visual artist applications
and is also DA’s sports information director.
45th year, CenterFest Arts Festival is the
The North Carolina Central University (NCCU)
in North Carolina. For more information, go
ranked by onlinemasters.com as one of the
artists, performers, nonprofits and more will be the first to close May 1. Now in its
team, JV boys basketball, varsity boys basketball
longest-running outdoor juried arts festival
Master of Library Science degree was recently
to centerfest.durhamarts.org/applications.
nation’s top online master’s programs for 2019,
ranking No. 13 out of 36 selected library science programs in the country.
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