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The Play House toy store on Ninth
Lashanda DeBerry opened Pur Bella’s
Street plans to reimagine the
Organic Haircare Extensions & BlowOut
business from a retail shop to a
Bar in September on Roxboro Street.
resource center focusing on science
Lashanda was inspired to open the
and math programs for children ages
business after a battle with cancer. The
2 to 13. To accomplish this, the locally
salon will offer wig services for cancer
owned business has launched a Go
patients, massage therapy and organic hair
Fund Me page to help raise $15,000.
treatments, among other services.
In the News I.T.S. Baseball (owners Chas and Megan Pippitt, pictured above) will relocate from Hillsborogh to 4502 Bennett Memorial Road, where Bull City Gymnastics is
Vincent and Ethel Simonetti’s Historic Tuba Collection was featured on NPR’s “Morning Edition” in late August.
North Carolina Central University is the third highest-rated public historically black college/ university in the country according to the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings.
currently located, in late 2017. Austin-based Camp Gladiator, a fitness brand for all ages, has opened a location at Northgate Mall near Stadium 10 Theater. The business was conceived by Ally Davidson, winner of “American Gladiator” on NBC. Empower Dance Studio is moving to 100 W. Parrish St. downtown. Pierce McKoy’s shoeshine business McKoy’s Shoe Shines has moved from The Durham Hotel to Main Street, near Dame’s Chicken & Waffles. Patina, a vintage, new and used furniture store on Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, has added MacRae Sollee, Maria Siegal, Anita Hicks and Jane Goss to its creative team, begun by Sissy Anlyan.
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Duke University’s golf club at Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club was selected by Golfweek as one of the publication’s top campus courses for 2016.
October/November 2016