Jamestown News - January 3, 2024

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JanUarY 3-9, 2024 Vol 46 No 1 | 1 Section | 6 Pages

High school athletes sign intent to play college ball By nORMa B. dennIs FreeLANCe WrIter ndworddesign@gmail.com While many students are getting a bit more sleep before beginning their day, some are already awake and active — training to help give themselves an edge in their chosen athletic endeavors. Putting in the extra effort and giving their sport all they have on the field has paid off for four Ragsdale High School athletes who will continue to play at the college level. “I cannot imagine getting up early to train,” said RHS athletic director Deborah Jones. “It shows true passion for their sport.” On Dec. 21, three baseball players and one football player showed their intent to include sports in their college education at a signing in front of their peers, coaches, teachers and school staff. Head baseball coach Donnie Maness and football coach Johnny Boykin praised the dedication and character of each. Garrett Crum will play baseball for Division 1 University of North Carolina

Asheville. It was the only college to which he applied. “Being able to sign to a Division 1 school has always been a big goal of mine,” Crum said. “When I visited UNC-Asheville, I loved the environment of the school and the people running it, including the coaches and players.” Crum began playing tee ball when he was 4 years old. He also played football and soccer until he was 9 and played one season of basketball. But his main focus has continued to be baseball. “I fell in love with that sport,” he said. The friends I made along the way have been a major part of why I enjoy it. Traveling and spending time with teammates helped me get to know them better and created better chemistry on the field. Making the All-State team my junior year was also special.” Crum acknowledged a person could fall in love with a sport just by participating. He Photo by Norma B. Dennis feels playing sports is a great way to chal- Ragsdale High school athletes who signed their intent to play college ball and lenge oneself and form a second family with their coaches included, left to right, Football Coach Johnny Boykin, Chance Pickard, Garrett Crum, Cole Moebius, savoi edwards and Baseball Coach see COLLeGe, PAGe 2 donnie Maness.

november golf figures down

Photo by Norma B. Dennis

austen Gomez shows a variety of pictures she has painted for her family and her business.

By CaROL BROOKs FreeLANCe WrIter cab1hp@gmail.com Photo submitted

she enjoys talking to people at vendor shows and selling her artwork.

Young artist learns the art of business By nORMa B. dennIs FreeLANCe WrIter ndworddesign@gmail.com Seven-year-old Austen Gomez is a second grade student at Jamestown Elementary School. She is also an artist and entrepreneur, painting and selling her artwork at area vendor shows. Her business, quite naturally, is called Austen’s Art. Austen has been drawing and painting since she was approximately 3 years old. She started creating with watercolors, but now uses acrylic paints as her preferred medium. It has only been in the past year that she has taken her art from a pastime to a business. She designed two styles of business cards, then

combined them to get the look she desired. She has a page on her mother’s website designated for her artwork and a Facebook page where she can post her favorite paintings. “It has been cool to watch her artwork develop,” said her mother Christy. “When I told her she could probably sell her painting at vender events some day, she took that to mean now.” Christy is a photographer who participates in vendor shows so Austen has seen what her mother does. When she received Christmas money from her grandfather, Austen decided to use it for art supplies. The rest — as the cliché goes — is history. One of her aunts asked Austen to paint a picture of a unicorn and purchased see aRTIsT, PAGe 2

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austen had fun painting a large Christmas tree during a session at Wine and design.

Repair work on the dam at the Jamestown Park Golf Course resulted in fewer rounds played in November. There were 1,214 rounds played compared to 1,724 in November 2022, bringing in $41,627 less than the previous year. Total rounds played this fiscal year are up just over 1,000. Driving range revenue, however, was up nearly $300 and year-to-date is up approximately $30,500. Total golf operations revenue for November was $42,611 and operating expenditures were $119,933. There was a net operating loss of $54,282 for the month. Year-to-date, 2023 shows a operating revenue of $61,828 more than the previous time period. Maintenance expenditures indicate an increase of $13,831.

Deadly disease once treated in Jamestown By CaROL BROOKs FreeLANCe WrIter cab1hp@gmail.com

Photos courtesy GTCC archives

(at left) Main Building at Guilford County Tuberculosis sanatorium. (at right) This postcard shows the grounds of the sanatorium. east Main street is on the right and the railroad tracks on the left. neither are shown. With the rural setting in mind, several Greensboro citizens, including Cesar Cone who himself was diagnosed with TB, created the Guilford County Tuberculosis Sanatorium on High Point Road, now East Main Street, on property once owned by the Iddings family. On Dec. 20, 1921, county voters passed a $100,000 bond issue to build and finance a

facility to treat tuberculosis patients — away from uninfected local residents. Private donations and the sale of Christmas seals raised another $125,000. According to a report by Mrs. Annette Sloan Tinsley, dated Oct. 31, 1923, “the medical society passed a resolution whereby every case of tuberculosis coming under their observation shall

be reported to the county hospital. This makes the hospital a clearing house for all tuberculosis work.” The new brick sanatorium opened Jan. 22, 1924. Reports at the time called it “one of the most modern and best equipped institutions of its kind in the South.” Cost with furnishings was $165,000. “The Guilford County

Tuberculosis Sanatorium is the first institution built under the act of 1917, which authorized any county to build and maintain a tuberculosis hospital by bond issue and special tax,” said Dr. J.L. Spruill, the sanatorium’s first superintendent. “The object of this institution is to have a place where the tuberculosis patients of Guilford County can go to be

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Although you’d never know it by looking at the campus now, at one time, the land where Guilford Technical Community College now sits was home to a sanatorium that treated tuberculosis, the leading cause of death at the turn of the 20th century. Also called consumption, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the best treatment for the lung disease was thought to be rest and fresh air, often in a rural setting. Patients were often away from their families for years. The first cottage sanatorium in the United States opened in 1920. Reports show that 125 people in Guilford County died of tuberculosis in 1920.

cured, and not a place where people go to die,” said Dr. Spruill. The first floor of the main building housed a waiting room, business office, X-ray rooms, exam rooms, dining room, kitchen and staff dining room. The second floor contained physician’ and nurses’ quarters. see dIsease, PAGe 2


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