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50Published by The High Point EnrterpriseJune 2011 Publisher: Jodi V. BrookshireEditor: Tom BlountAdvertising Director: John McClureGraphic Designer: Leslie LongCover Photo: Courtesy of NC Shakespeare Festival. Cover Design: Mary Leslie English

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06 mY HIGH POINT Essays provide glimpses of what this community could mean for you.

�2 LOOKING BACK For most of the 20th century, High Point was defi ned primarily by its furniture and textile industries but the community, which can trace its history to the 1770s, got its name and a terrifi c boost toward becoming the city of more than 100,000 population it is today from the railroad. The High Point Enterprise has been chronicling the community’s history since November 1883, the last 107 years as a daily.

�� INFO TO KNOW The facts and fi gures (High Point, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph), High Point Police Department, High Point Fire Department, Guilford Sheriff’s Department, High Point City Council, Guilford County Board of Commissioners, N.C. legislators, Congress, county agencies, health care, child day care and adult day care. Everything you need to know to get “hooked up”!

2� LENDING A HAND United Way & affi liates and a wide variety of nonprofi t, civic and charitable organizations provide opportunities to get involved.

33 mIND AND BODY By nurturing the joy of reading, sharing the power of knowledge, strengthening the sense of community and enhancing economic vitality and, by offering 15 apps, the High Point Public Library is worth a visit both in person and online. Meanwhile, the High Point Parks & Recreation Department and other sports endeavors provide opportunities to keep fi t.

4� WORKING HERE The city’s designation as Furniture Capital of the World traces its home furnishings manufacturing back some 120 years and what now is known as the High Point Market to its beginning (as the Southern Furniture Market) in 1909. Today, High Point – North Carolina’s international city – is a diversifi ed workplace.

50 LEARNING HERE Schools – public and private, specialty – community college and universities are providing learning for many at any age.

56 ARTS & ENTERTAINmENT The High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, High Point Area Arts Council, galleries and museums and annual events have plenty of activities and attractions for residents and visitors alike.

62 FAITH Where to worship: it’s your choice!

6� RETAIL THERAPY From south to north, from east to west and various spots in between, High Point offers plenty of shopping venues large and small.

69 LIVING HERE Location, location, location!

7� HIGH POINT NOTABLES From Capus Waynick and John Coltrane, to Luke Appling and Heather Richardson, to Ted Brown and Conner Scarborough – people who have made the grade.

73 GETTING AROuND Interstate focus!

74 ATHLETICS There’s much about which to cheer!

76 DAY TRIPPIN’ There’s plenty to see, do within a day’s drive.

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H igh Point is the city I have chosen to proudly call

home.I am a High Pointer

through and through – born here, raised here, and now I live and work here. After be-ing away at college, I began evaluating job opportunities across the country. I quickly realized that High Point is a city that offers everything I fi nd important.

High Point is a city with a thriving business community. We have an active Chamber of Commerce and a healthy mix of small businesses and larger organizations. As CEO of McNeill Lehman – a mar-keting, public relations, and graphic design fi rm – I have found a career that both challenges and inspires me to become better each day.

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BILL BENCINI

T he May 3, 2011, press event by International Market Centers markedthe beginning of a new chapter for our century old furniture market.

Our market, with its impact on our city and region, remains a defi ning institution for High Point. Consolida-tion of ownership in our market’s showroom fa-cilities, and the attention focused on this process, begs for refl ection upon how our market continues to evolve successfully.

We remember well the naysayers and detractors when the new market in Las Vegas was started. Senti-ment abounded that there was no way our market could survive in a competition with America’s behemoth of hospitality and entertain-ment. High Point vs. Vegas. Really?

And yet, survive we did. We survived so well that industry analysts declared High Point victorious in the battle for furniture market supremacy.

How did this outcome, seemingly unlikely to so

BILL BENCINI has worked in the furniture industry since �976 and is a former High Point City Council member and currently serves on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.

many, come about? Anec-dotal observation suggests public-private cooperation in our community as the pri-mary factor in the market’s ongoing success … recently, and decades ago.

In the 1970s, High Point was challenged by a differ-ent market from the west –Dallas. That challenge, just like the recent one from Las Vegas, was successfully overcome through commu-nity cooperation. It can be argued that the competi-tive response to Dallas was small compared to the Las Vegas challenge, and that

is true. By the time Las Vegas started developing its market, the stakes were much higher. High Point Market had grown to a peak of 12,000,000

square feet, from a modest footprint in the 1970s.

Cooperation in our com-munity is fundamental to all our successes. Think for a moment about the success of our premier offi ce parks to the north. Consider the continued development of High Point Regional Hospital and Health System. High Point University’s explosive growth is nurtured by coop-eration from our citizens and city government. We recently developed the region’s fi rst Miracle League Field for children with disabilities. We are blessed with an abundant cooperative spirit often lacking in some neighboring communities / governmental jurisdictions.

Today, an exciting new opportunity challenges us. We are taking on the job of revitalization in our urban

core. City Project “targets,” when completed, will create a sense of place to benefi t our citizens. These neighbor-hoods will bring about new development, new vitality and enhanced quality of life for our city.

Yes, there are always naysayers … just like when our furniture market is chal-lenged. Constrained public and private resources in today’s economy make City Project implementation diffi -cult. The plans are ambitious.

But don’t bet against High Point when we face ambitious plans and diffi cult challenges. Cooperation will, as in the past, clear a path to successful achievement.

Cooperation defi nes our community … and it is a big part of why I love High Point.

DEENA quBEIN

We have more than tripled revenues in the past fi ve years, and we have doubled the size of our team – all in High Point.

High Point is a close-knit city with community-minded people willing to help those less fortunate. The outreach and generosity of families and organizations such as United Way and the Commu-

nity Foundation is astonish-ing. People believe that if they have been blessed, it is their privilege to bless the lives of others with their time, money and talents. This city offers involvement to a wide spectrum of people, and

Top: Marketgoers enjoy the hustle bustle of Fall Market.

right: Iconic statue of High Point’s railway History at the depot.

Far right: The historic Hoggat House located on lexington Avenue at the High Point Museum.

DEENA quBEIN is CEO of McNeill Lehman and was born and raised in High Point.


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at the age of 27, I have served on 15 boards of various orga-nizations. This has allowed me to invest in stewardship at a young age – an opportunity that tends to be rare in larger cities.

High Point is a city with an active and growing social scene. The Uptowne district is becoming more pedestrian-friendly and developing an urban personality. My sister and I started “High Point Young Professionals” to cre-ate an atmosphere for young professionals to enjoy living, working and serving here. The number of young profes-sionals interested has surprised us all. The city is arts-friendly with entertainment stemming from organizations like the Arts Council, Community Theatre, and NC Shakespeare Festival, headquartered here.

High Point is a family-focused city with friendly neighborhoods and an affordable cost of living. More than 100,000 citizens live here, yet we still have a small-town feel and plenty of southern charm. Ten minutes is a “long commute.” As part of the expanding Triad, we have big-city amenities and a central location between the beach and mountains.

High Point is known as the Furniture Capital of the World and the home of High Point University. I am proud to know we host a major world industry at prominent semi-annual furniture markets. High Point University has been growing, expanding, and serving as a huge economic boost to our city, some $400 million annually.

High Point is a truly special place, and I am proud to call it home.

PHYLISS BRIDGES

H igh Point is my hometown and it has given me

some of my best memo-ries. Being the oldest of four children, I had a pretty normal childhood. During the week, both of my parents worked hard in the local mill and furniture factories. I always looked forward to the weekends. My parents would load my siblings and me up in the car and would take us out on a road trip. The neighbor-hood I grew up in was fam-ily-oriented and, I felt safe, because everyone looked out for one another. High Point is one of those cities where you can get that hometown, country feeling and feel safe in your environment.

If you are a family-oriented person, High Point is the place for you. In the spring where everything starts anew, there are a lot of activities going on. There are several recreational parks that offer the opportu-

nity for kids to get involved in organized sports such as Little League baseball and soccer. Along with receiving an excellent education, High Point University hosts a variety of sporting events such as: bas-ketball, lacrosse and baseball.

We have a good public school system, along with sev-eral faith-based private schools, which offer an excellent educational curriculum, grades K-12. High Point University offers continu-ing education for adults along with GTCC’s High Point campus.

In the spring, flowers are in bloom and the folks here in town are busy sprucing up their yards. As you venture through the different neigh-borhoods, you get a sense of pride. Once folks have fin-ished their weekend chores, they sit back on their porches and admire their work, watch the cars go by, enjoying the peace and quiet.

Over the last few years, the

housing industry in High Point really has grown to accommo-date the many families who have relocated here. Family-oriented communities have been built throughout the city. These communities are built around and near shopping areas, such as strip malls and grocery stores, making it very covenant for shopping. Public transportation is widespread

throughout the city. High Point is known as the

Furniture Capital of the World and hosts two major furniture markets every year. Even though it brings a lot of people to the local area, we have managed to keep that small hometown lifestyle that keeps our visitors coming back.

My High Point means fam-ily lifestyle and that’s what’s special to me.

PHYLISS BRIDGES is owner of Yalik’s Modern Art and recalls what neighborhood life is like.

Top: S. Main Street view of a portion of the High Point Market district.

Left: Classroom Building (H5) is the latest building on the High Point campus of Guilford Technical Community College.

OCTAVIO SEDANO

T he main reason I decided to move from Atlanta to High

Point was because I wanted to start my own busi-ness. I wanted to have my own business to al-low my family and kids to live a better life.

Some of the prob-lems that I encoun-tered when I moved here was having to get adjusted to the different lifestyle here. For instance, in Atlanta, life was fast and very stressful and here it is more relaxed and

stress-free. Some of the success that

I encountered as I moved here was that I did open two restaurants (El Charo and an-other on National Highway) as I always had planned. I sold both.

The things that I enjoy about High Point is that things are more tranquil and stress-free.

There are also many good people here compared to Atlanta. Also, there is a better environment and more vegetation here – it is not all buildings and no huge areas of land.

Future plans I have here in High Point is to hopefully open up some sort of new business.

In my time being here in High Point, I don’t have any complaints about the way in which society has treated me.

I have had no sort of racial problem and people are always nice to me and very friendly.

OCTAVIO SEDANOis married and has three chil-dren. He is a shift manager at La Fiesta restaurant in High Point and also works for D.H. Griffin wrecking company. He used to own two restaurants, “El Cha-ro” on South Main and another at the National Highway.

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ZAKI KHALIFA

I have always been inter-ested in learning more and more about different

cultures. To some extent, this desire was satisfied by attend-ing two missionary colleges in Pakistan where I came across students of different faiths and cultural background.

One of the colleges I at-tended was Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan. This college had many American professors. During one of my travels to the western world, I landed in New York on July 4, 1976.

While traveling to differ-ent states, I called Dr. Carl Wheeless at High Point College. Dr. Wheeless had taught me

in Pakistan and invited me to High Point. Several days later, I visited Dr. and Mrs. Whee-less and found their generous hospitality overwhelming. Due to the extraordinary attention I received, I decided to settle in High Point.

I was primarily interested in a big metropolitan area since I had come from a city of 7 million. I was quite apprehen-sive about settling in a town as small as High Point.

Fortunately, some prominent citizens such as Lynwood Smith, Sidney Tomlinson, Fred Alex-ander, the Rev. Bill Price, Jim Morgan and Bob Culp were kind enough to befriend me, which made the transition to High Point less difficult. I must admit, however, that the first three years were very difficult for busi-ness. Even with an increase ev-ery year, it took more than three years to become profitable. I moved the business from the

first 3,000-square-foot store to a 23,000- square-foot building in 1986, and then moved to the 100,000-square-foot showroom in 1997. I have been fortunate enough to donate three build-ings: to the High Point Chamber of Commerce, the Foster Children of North Carolina and High Point Community Against Violence.

In 2009, I was declared one of the 50 Outstanding Asian Ameri-cans in the United States. I am the first one from North Carolina to be included in this group.

This journey has been rewarding since it provided me an opportunity to come across a tremendous variety of people in my showroom and

during my travels to different countries in connection with my business.

Due to the strong recommendations

made by kind friends in High Point, some people traveled thousands of miles in order to buy a few rugs in my show-room. My business has been recognized several times by the Better Business Bureau for promoting ethics in business.

I have been able to host friends like Shirley & George Erath, Jean and John Riley and several people from other states in Pakistan as part of my efforts to promote understand-ing between people from differ-ent parts of the world.

I believe the more religions and cultures you study, the more you enrich your life. It is important to remember that every human being is a vessel of untold worth and one’s full potential can only be realized by associating with the maximum number of people of different backgrounds.

When I saw a janitor, bank tellers, attorneys, physicians and some merchants having lunch in the same restaurant, I felt reassured that my decision to migrate to the U.S. was a correct one.

ZAKI KHALIFAIs president of Zaki Oriental Rugs and a native of Pakistan.

SY GREEN

Top: Market Square Tower near the western edge of the High Point Market district has become a landmark for the community.

Above: Plenty of folks from near and far enjoyed them-selves at Ilderton’s Beach Music Blast.

I am from Laos and I have lived in High Point since 1987.

I came here not knowing what to expect, just wanting a better life.

I did not know anyone here but the church (Forest Hills Presbyterian) that spon-sored me helped me get started on my new life. The people there helped me get a place to live, a job to support myself and school to help me learn English.

Everyone was willing to help me get started on my

new life. The more I learned about High Point, the more I liked it.

I thought High Point was a big city compare to where I was from, but I was happy to find out that, no matter where I went in the city, people were willing to help

me.I did

not feel like an outsider but part of

the community.I enjoy all the fun things

High Point has to offer. I enjoy going to the fireworks display on the Fourth of July, to City Lake Park to ride the rides, to the ball park to

watch my boy play baseball. I have enjoyed living here

so much that, when my brother was able to come to the U.S., I got him to bring his family to live in High Point also. I wanted to make them feel as welcomed as I was.

There are a lot of good people here willing to

help them with even more resources that before. I think what makes High Point such a special place is its people. The community accepts everyone no matter who they are or where they are from.

I am happy to be living in High Point, and would recommend living here to anyone.

SY GREENworks at K & S Tool and Mfg. Co. and emigrated to America from Laos a quarter-century ago.

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DEmOGRAPHICS

REGISTER OF DEEDSJeff Thigpen201 S. Eugene St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

REGISTER OF DEEDS HIGH POINT OFFICE325 E. Russell Ave.High Point, NC 27260(336) 845-7931

SHERIFF OF GUILFORD CO. BJ Barnes

400 W. Washington St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) 641-3694; (336) 845-3694(High Point)[email protected]

GUILFORD COUNTY JAIL HIGH POINT

507 E. Green Dr.High Point, NC 27260(336) 845-7900

counTy AdMInISTrATIon & dEPArTMEnT dIrEcTorS

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICESBrenda Jones Fox county manager301 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

Sharisse Fullerassistant manager(336) [email protected]

COUNTY LEGAL DEPT.Mark Payne – county atty.301 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

BUDGET MNGT. & EVALUATION

Michael Halford – director301 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

TAX DEPARTMENTBen Chavis – director400 W. Market St.PO BOX 3138, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

TAX DEPT – HIGH POINT OFFICE505 E. Green DriveHigh Point, NC 27260(336) 884-7911

COOPERATIVE EXTENSIONWilliam Wickliffe – director3309 Burlington RoadGreensboro NC 27402(336) 375-5876

CLERK TO THE BOARDEffi e D. Varitimidisclerk to the board301 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SERVICES

Stephen Dew – GIS manager400 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

PLANNING & DEVELOPMENTBetty Garrett – interim director400 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) 641-3334

BOARD OF ELECTIONSGeorge N. Gilbert – director301 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

BOARD OF ELECTIONS – HIGH POINT OFFICE

325 E. Russell Ave.High Point, NC 27260(336) 845-7895

PURCHASING DEPARTMENTBonnie Stellfox – director301 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

SECURITY DEPARTMENTJeff Fowler – director301 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

FACILITIESFred Jones – director301 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

FINANCE DEPARTMENTReid Baker – director201 S. Greene St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

THE GUILFORD CENTER – BEHAVIORAL HEALTH & DISABILITY SERVICES

201 N. Eugene St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27401(336) [email protected]

THE GUILFORD CENTER – HIGH POINT OFFICE

211 S. Centennial St.

High Point, NC 27260(336) 845-7946

PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT – HIGH POINT OFFICE

501 E. Green Dr.High Point, NC 27260(336) 845-7771

COURT ALTERNATIVESDoug Logan – director15 Lockheed Ct.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27409(336) [email protected]

EMERGENCY SERVICESAlan Perdue – director 1002 Meadowwood RoadGreensboro NC 27409(336) [email protected]

SOCIAL SERVICESRobert Williams – director1203 Maple StreetPO BOX 3388, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

SOCIAL SERVICES – HIGH POINT OFFICE

325 E. Russell AvenueHigh Point, NC

(336) 845-7771

HUMAN RESOURCESSharisse C. Fuller – director201 S. Greene St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

INFORMATION SERVICESBarbara C. Weaver – CIO/director201 N. Eugene St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

INTERNAL AUDITMartha K. Rogers – director201 S. Greene St. PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

TRANSPORTATIONMyra Thompson – interim director1203 Maple StreetPO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) 641-4848

RISK MANAGEMENTRandall R. Zimmerman – director301 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT – HIGH POINT OFFICE

Renee Kenan – program manager325 E. Russell Ave.High Point, NC 27260(336) [email protected]

PROPERTY MANAGEMENTSandra Woodard – interim director301 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro NC 27402(336) [email protected]

COORDINATED SERVICESBeverly I. Williams – coordinated services manager301 W. Market St.PO BOX 3427, Greensboro, NC 27402(336) 641-6829fax: (336) [email protected]

High Point is the only city in North Carolina that exists within four counties: Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, and Randolph. It also stands within two major watersheds: The Yadkin-Pee Dee and the Cape Fear. Parts of the city rise above 1,000 feet (300 meters), making it among the highest cities in North Carolina’s Piedmont.

DEmOGrAPHICS & COUNtY rESOUrCES

HIGH POINTPopulation: 104,371White: 59,336African American: 26,425Hispanic: 6,230Native American: 501Asian: 4,134Other: 6,106Two or more races: 1639Female: 52.3%; Male: 47.7 %Labor force: 49,201; Employed: 44,219Households: 39,388Median household income: $40,778

Median per capita income: $$22,717Median real estate property taxes paid

for housing units with mortgages in 2009: $1,778 (1.2 %)

Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with no mortgage in 2009: $1,242 (1.0 %)Education: Did not complete high school: 16 %;

High school graduate: 26.5 percentSome college, no degree: 19 percentAssociate degree: 7.2 percentBachelor degree: 23 percent

Graduate degree: 9 percentArea:City – 49 sq mi; latitude: 35.97 N, longitude: 80.00 W

GUILFORD COUNTYPopulation: 488,406White: 265,228African American: 156,902Hispanic: 34,826Native American: 2,071Asian: 19,059Other: 1,316

1753 – Deep River Friends Meeting begins holding services.

1755 – Phillip Hoggatt and his brother Anthony buy tracts of land located along Deep River of nearly 500 acres each from Lord Granville.

1773 – Springfi eld Friends Meeting begins hold services.

1786 – John Haley and his wife Phoeby build a brick house along present-day Lexington Avenue along the Salisbury road.

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BY VINCE WHEELEROPINION PAGE EDITOR

During the mid-1750s, the colonial

government of North Caro-lina authorized construction of the Cape Fear Road from Cross Creek (modern-day Fayetteville) through the Piedmont wilderness to the backwoods settlements of Bethania, Bethabara and Sa-lem in today’s Forsyth Coun-ty. It was a trading path that put some familiar sites in and around High Point today on a noted map of that day by John Collett in 1770.

The northern branch of the Cape Fear Road served as a major trading route into the back country of North Carolina well into the 1800s. It crossed Muddy Creek in today’s Arch-dale and passed near today’s Springfi eld Friends Meeting in south High Point, which be-gan in 1773, so it didn’t make the 1770 map. The trading route then headed on a north-westerly track across Rich-land Creek and on through today’s downtown toward the Moravian settlements in what would become Forsyth County. The Cape Fear Road intersected in today’s north High Point with a road that passed nearby today’s Deep River Friends Meeting. That road was a major north/south

route to Salisbury, another one of the few Tarheel back-woods towns.

At those crossroads, natu-rally sprang up a necessity of that time – a tavern – which served in those days as trav-eler’s inn, roadside restaurant and convenient watering hole. It was known as Be-we’s Ordinary, and with the churches and creeks of that day, we might say put the area that became High Point on a prominent map of colo-nial North Carolina. The ordi-nary served as a community meeting place, too, and was the site of early court pro-ceedings in Guilford County. Part of the building remains off N. Johnson Street.

About 100 years later,

during the early 1850s, the N.C. Legislature chartered the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Co., which built a nearly 130-mile long plank road from Fayetteville to Sa-lem on generally the same route as the Cape Fear Road built a century earlier. This massive construction project using thousands of board feet of North Carolina timber was the interstate highway of that day. And although that project eventually became fi -nancially unviable, it proved pivotal in the development of today’s High Point.

During the mid-1850s, when the plank road was in its heyday, construction of a new form of transportation on rails was making its way from Goldsboro through Raleigh to Charlotte, slicing through the Piedmont and steadily rising to the highest point along the route. The location where the two then-innovative modes of transportation crossed formed an important junction for commerce. And where there’s commerce, there’s usually, eventually a town. So, as the stories go, with this area of commerce strad-dling the highest point on the rail line from Goldsboro to Charlotte, as noted by J.L. Gregg of the North Carolina Railroad, why not call it High Point. The name stuck for the crossroads community.

As the area around the junction of these two modern transportation marvels grew to a whopping 250 people in 1859, on May 26 of that year, the N.C. General Assembly authorized establishment of a town called “High Point” in Guilford County. With the town’s fi rst board of commis-sioners – Robert C. Lindsay, chairman, and commission-ers John Carter, Sewell Far-low, Eli Denny and Jeremiah Piggott – the state’s newest town was offi cially born.

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1872 – Brothers William P. and Francis M. Pickett open a chewing to-bacco factory at W. Lexington Avenue and Wallburg Road. The High Point area becomes home to several such factories during the late 1800s.

1880 – U.S. Census re-ports population of High Point as 991.

November 1883 – The High Point Enterprise begins publication under the guidance of Ed Steele, William Blair and William Richardson.

1817 – Solomon Kendall purchases 231 acres from Matthew Coffi n,

land that would become down-town High Point decades later.

1822 – John Carter builds a home just north of Richland Creek and west of today’s Springfi eld Road.

1833 – The Yearly Meeting of Friends settles a dispute over wheth-er to locate what is now Guilford College along the Deep River near or in present-day High Point or at New Garden. The now-Greensboro loca-tion won out.

1845 – John Carter builds a grist mill on the creek that now runs through Blair Park. Carter, whom local histo-rian Stephen C. Clark said in his memoirs might aptly be called the father of High Point, in 1849 buys a large enough share of stock in the North Carolina Railroad to ensure that it comes through present-day High Point.

Dec. 25, 1849 – The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road is within 12 miles of what would became High Point. In 1853, the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road is completed from near Salem through the community that has become known as High Point to the inland sea-port Fayetteville, the hub of numerous plank roads. The route through High Point becomes a heavy trade artery for getting supplies to the North Carolina back country.

Nov. 22, 1855 – The fi rst train on the North Carolina Railroad passes through High Point in front of ex-cited well-wishers gathered at depot square.

May 26, 1859 – Population of the community known as High Point is 250. The N.C. General Assembly autho-rizes establishment of a town named “High Point” in Guil-ford County.

February 1860 - High Point holds an election and Nathan Hunt Jr. is elected the young city’s fi rst mayor.

1861 – The American Civil War begins and a training camp for North Carolina’s Confederate troops is established where today’s William Penn School is located. The camp was named Camp Fisher after a Salisbury native who had been killed in early fi ghting.

April 1865 – As the War Between the States is drawing to a close, the Barbee Hotel, situated beside the railroad tracks through town, becomes a hospital for wounded Confederate and Union troops. A teenage Laura Wesson, while delayed traveling through High Point, tends to the wounded, contracts smallpox, dies and is buried in the city’s Oakwood Cemetery.

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March 17, 1893 – Two Quakers, Robert Ferris and Robert I. Murray, purchase 5.1 acres of land from James Day for $800 to establish High Point Normal & Industrial Institute as a school for blacks

1895 – High Point Telephone Exchange is organized by J.R. Hoffman and Ed Steele. In 1899, J.F. Hayden, founder of the Thomasville Exchange, and others purchase the High Point exchange. The company is known today as North State Com-munications.

1897 – The graded school system begins with one building that had been constructed to be a residence of banker J. El-wood Cox. Alfred J. Griffi n comes to High Point to head the High Point Normal and Industrial Institute.

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1904 – James H. Millis and John H. Adams begin High Point Hosiery Mills. The hosiery industry continues to grow in the city and in a few years High Point becomes known as the nation’s hosiery capital.

1904 – Junior Order of United American Mechanics, concerned about recent smallpox and typhoid epidemics, purchases and renovates a two-story house on Boulevard Street to open the city’s fi rst hospi-tal.

Sept. 9, 1904 – The High Point En-terprise, a twice a week publication since May 1904, begins publishing daily. A weekly edition of the Enter-prise continues publication for sev-eral more years.

1905/1906 – High Point Furniture Exposition Co. and rival Furniture Manufacturers’ Exposition Co. open showrooms and begin selling and promoting their products.

1909 – The city’s two rival furniture exposition compa-nies combine to hold the fi rst spring and summer home furnishing markets. The infant markets weren’t success-ful so the idea waned until a rebirth in 1913. However, today’s High Point Market traces its roots to this 1909 market.

1913 – John and Nannie Kilby open the Kilby Hotel on Washington Street for black travelers, about a decade af-ter Willis R. Hinton had built the fi rst hotel in High Point for blacks at 600 E. Washington St.

April 1921 – Southern Furniture Expo-sition Building opens. The 90-year-old facility was known more recently as the International Home Furnishings Center. It was purchased this year by Las Vegas-based International Market Centers.

September 1924 – High Point University opens with support from the Methodist Protestant Church, particularly High Point’s now First United Methodist Church.

1933 – High Point’s privately operated hospital is purchased from Dr. John Bur-rus and becomes a community hospital under guidance of a board of trustees. The community hospital expands in 1950 and again in 1971.

July 1943 – O.H. Leak and Warren Steele become city’s fi rst black police offi cers.

July 1943 – High Point’s twice-a-year furniture mar-kets are suspended for the duration of World War II.

Jan. 11, 1944 – High Point’s Carl Chavis is hit by shrapnel while fi ghting in France and dies two days later. He’s the fi rst black High Pointer to die in the war and later is award-ed a Bronze Star for heroism under fi re.

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Dec. 1, 1953 – High Point City Council, on recommen-dation of the Parks and Recreational Commission, votes to change the name of the “Municipal Colored Park” to Washington Terrace Park.

March 28, 1953 – The High Point YMCA basketball team plays the Christian Street YMCA of Philadelphia, led by Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain. The High Point team wins 85-79 to claim the YMCA National Championship.

July 12, 1954 – The city’s downtown area is impacted when “The Million Dollar Fire” destroys a number of buildings and many others are threatened in the area of city now occupied by City Hall, Showplace and sur-rounding areas.

Jan. 21, 1956 – City Council votes unanimously to open Blair Park Golf Course to blacks. It’s the sec-ond municipal park in North Carolina to do so.

Feb. 11, 1960 – Ten days after four black college stu-dents begin sit-in protests at Woolworth’s segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, 26 black high school students plan and stage a sit-in at the High Point Woolworth’s on Main Street.

1968 – William Penn High School, for decades High Point’s segregated school for blacks, closes and T. Wing-ate Andrews opens. Sam Burford, former Penn principal is Andrews’ High’s fi rst principal.

Jan. 21, 1985 – High Point records it low-est temperature in history, 8 degrees be-low zero.

July 24, 1985 – Pickett Cotton Mill shuts down after 75 years in operation.

Jan. 15, 1969 – The Elwood Hotel, a downtown High Point landmark since 1903 located at S. Main and E. High Avenue, is sold for $207,710. The his-toric structure is demolished later.

1971 – Sam Burford is fi rst black elected to City Council.

Nov. 24, 1972 – T.W. Andrews High School wins the 4-A state football championship in just the school’s fi fth year of existence.

March 16, 1975 – Offi cer Sally Cranford is High Point’s fi rst woman patrol offi cer.

Nov. 3, 1976 – High Point approves establishment of ABC stores.

Summer 1985 – Vice President George H.W. Bush visits the city’s nearly com-pleted community hospital, High Point Regional Hospital, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. In 2002, President George W. Bush holds a national roundtable discus-sion on malpractice insurance at High Point Regional.

November 1985 – Judy Mendenhall is the fi rst woman elected High Point’s mayor.

Feb. 8, 1988 – It’s an-nounced that Adams Mil-lis textile manufacturing company will be sold to Sara Lee Corp.

1995 – Oak Hollow Mall opens after controversy over its location near Oak Hollow Lake, the city’s main water supply.

January 2005 – Nido Qubein be-comes president of High Point University and begins programs for construction and academic and sports improvements that triple the size of the private insti-tution in fi ve years.

2007 – High Point’s population is 100,432. It’s the fi rst time the city has topped 100,000 popula-tion mark.

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HIGH POINTS HAPPENING NOW

February 2011 – High Point University purchases a declining Oak Hollow Mall.

Spring 2011 – Vast changes occur in the landscape of High Point’s home furnishings market as a new com-pany based in Las Vegas purchases High Point’s three largest market showroom properties. The purchase by International Market Centers puts about two-thirds of the High Point Market’s showroom space under one owner. The new company also purchases Las Vegas’ World Market Center, which had risen dur-ing the previous fi ve years a rival to the 100-year-old High Point Market.

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BY VINCE WHEELEROPINION PAGE EDITOR

F rom January 1935 until May 2010, the official history of

The High Point Enterprise listed its beginning of publication as January 1885. For 75 years, that history was wrong.

In May 2010, the Enter-prise reported that research by the newspaper during the previous three years had uncovered convincing evidence that the Enterprise actually began publication in November 1883, some 14 months prior to the starting date listed in that previous official history. Why for 75 years, the starting date of publication was incorrect is still a mystery. But the fact remains, that in November 2013, the Enterprise will mark its 130th anniversary of beginning publication.

When the Enterprise began, the weekly news-paper was a joint venture of High Point Attorney Ed Steele, educator William A. Blair and William Richardson. In July 1886, however, the paper reports that Steele sold it to C.F. Crutchfield, who operated it about two years and then resold the paper to Steele. Later in 1888, Steele sold the operation to Charles and James Joseph (J.J.) Far-riss. J.J. Farriss served as edi-tor and publisher until March 1915, when he sold the

operation to four Greensboro businessmen, one of whom was J.P. Rawley.

By the time of that 1915 transaction, the weekly Enterprise had in May 1904 become a semi-weekly newspaper, and then on Sept. 9, 1904, the Enterprise published its first daily edi-tion. A weekly edition of the Enterprise continued to run for a few years after the daily began.

In 1918, the four Greens-boro men who bought the paper in 1915 sold it to Parker Anderson, the Washington, D.C., correspon-dent of the Greensboro Daily News. J.P. Rawley remained with the paper as business manager. On May 1, 1919, the Enterprise announced that a number of High Point men, including J.P. Rawley and R.B. Terry, had pur-chased the newspaper from Anderson. The ownership group pledged strong local coverage of events in the High Point area.

In March 1923, Capus M. Waynick came to the Enterprise for a part-time job that became full time and began a career that spanned several decades. During his years of association with the Enterprise, Waynick served as U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua and Colombia and also held several other political posts. In September of 1923, long-time Enterprise editor and owner J.J. Farriss died after suffering a massive heart attack.

On Feb. 7, 1932, the Enterprise published its first column by E.M. Foley under the standing headline, “News of Colored People.” The column, with the help of several writers, would con-tinue to be published until the 1960s.

On Jan. 20, 1935, the Enterprise celebrated what it deemed was its 50th an-niversary of publication. A large special section marking the event, which at the time was purported to have been in January 1885, is published with many well-wishes, including one from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

During the years of World War II before the coming of television, the Enterprise was in its heyday as the local window to world events. As an afternoon daily, the paper was in a position to provide the latest news on the war. It also produced many extra editions that hit the streets quickly announcing the latest big developments in the war.

In the early 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement became front and center coverage, especially of incidents in High Point. The Enterprise was there when 26 black high school students, 24 from William Penn High and two from High Point Central High, staged a sit-in at the F.W. Woolworth’s lunch counter in High Point on Feb. 11, 1960. It is believed to be the first, and perhaps only, sit-in planned and executed by high school students

during the early days of the move toward equal rights for blacks. Throughout the rest of the 1960s, the Enterprise chronicled civil rights dem-onstrations here and around the nation. It also reported the tragedies and triumphs of that turbulent decade for America.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the Enterprise continued to grow as did the greater High Point area, with

the newspaper’s circulation reaching about 33,000. On Monday, Oct. 3, 1994, the Enterprise switched from an afternoon daily to a morning daily, following a trend that many afternoon dailies had begun. However, the Enter-prise had been publishing Saturday and Sunday morn-ing editions for decades.

In February 1999, the families of Joe and David Rawley sold their one-half

interest in the Enterprise to Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Ky., ending a busi-ness relationship with the R. B. Terry family that began in 1919. The family of Randall B. Terry retained its half ownership until Terry’s death in 2004.

After Terry’s death, Paxton Media Group purchased his share of the newspaper and has continued its operation since.

LOOKING BACKat The High Point Enterprise

Front page of The High Point Enterprise’s first daily edition.


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ELECtED OFFICIALS

High Point City Council

CONtACt INFOrmAtION

Mayor Rebecca R. Smothers1843 Country Club DriveHigh Point, NC, 27262883-3305 (Offi ce)882-0662 (Home) email: [email protected]

CITY COuNCIL:

Latimer B. Alexander, IVCity Council Member At Large1019 Sweetbriar RoadHigh Point, NC 27262336-841-4023 (home)336-382-8456 (offi ce)email: [email protected]

Britt MooreCity Council Member At LargeP.O. Box 5131High Point, NC 27262336-410-4412 (home)email: americafi [email protected]

Bernita SimsWard 1 Council Member1720 Candlewood CourtHigh Point, NC 27265336-883-6865email: [email protected]

Foster DouglasWard 2 Council Member309 S. Scientifi c StreetHigh Point, NC 27260336-471-4139email: [email protected]

Michael PughWard 3 Council Member112 Kenilworth DriveHigh Point, NC 27260336-471-1129email: [email protected]

A.B. Henley, IIIWard 4 Council MemberP.O. Box 5686High Point, NC 27262336-848-6526

email: [email protected]

M. Christopher WhitleyWard 5 Council Member3603 Greenhill DriveHigh Point, NC 27265336-869-0336email: [email protected]

James CoreyWard 6 Council Member2715 Red Run CourtHigh Point, NC 27265336-869-1729email: [email protected]

GuILFORD COuNTY COmmISSIONERS REPRESENTING THE GREATER HIGH PONT AREA:

Melvin L. (Skip) Alston (D)Chair2705 W. Vandalia RoadGreensboro, NC 27407(336) 272-5779 - Business

(336) 854-2910 - [email protected]

Bill Bencini (R)1412 Trafalgar DriveHigh Point, NC 27262(336) 885-9420 - Home(336) 859-2052 - Offi [email protected]

Bruce E. Davis (D)1010 Greensboro RoadHigh Point, North Carolina 27260(336) 688-2431 - Cell Phone(336) 889-4356 - [email protected]

Paul Gibson (D) 3402 Cloverdale DriveGreensboro, NC 27408 (336) 282-1114 - Offi ce(336) 210-1049 - Cellular(336) 288-7280 - [email protected]

John Parks (D) 3313 Colony DriveJamestown, NC 27282

(336) 878-7576 - Offi ce(336) 454-4254 - [email protected]

(COmmISSION-ERS REPRESENTING OTHER AREAS OF GuILFORD COuNTY – NOT PICTuRED)

Kay Cashion (D)103 West Greenway Drive, North Greensboro, NC 27403(336) 273-2820 - Offi ce(336)274-6272 - [email protected]

Carolyn Q. Coleman (D) PO Box 3427Greensboro, NC 27402(336) 641-7670 - Offi ce(336) 674-4699 - [email protected]

Kirk Perkins (D)5773 Bethel Church RoadMcLeansville, NC 27301(336) 697-0007 - Offi ce

(336) 697-9832 - [email protected] Linda O. Shaw (R)Vice-ChairPO Box 8618Greensboro, NC 27419 (336) 641-3368 - Offi ce(336) 855-7533 - [email protected] Mike Winstead, Jr. (R) 2920 Martinsville Rd #206Greensboro, NC 27408(336) 362-2055 - Cellular(336) 389-9992 x201 - Offi [email protected]

Billy Yow (R) 1429 Country Lake DriveGreensboro, NC 27406(336) 674-9198 - Offi ce(336) 674-2149 - [email protected]

Guilford County Board of Commissioners

NEW CItY COUNCIL mEmBErS

Mayor Becky Smothers

Latimer B. Alexander, IV

Britt Moore Bernita Sims Foster Douglas Michael Pugh A.B. Henley, III M. Christopher Whitley

James Corey

Melvin L. (Skip) Alston

Bill Bencini Bruce E. Davis Paul Gibson John Parks

NEW CItY COUNCIL mEmBErS


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ELECtED OFFICIALS

Guilford County Board of Education

CONtACt INFOrmAtION

At Large (2008-2012)Sandra [email protected] Hickory Tree Lane,Greensboro, NC 27405Phone: (336) 790-4654 Fax: (336) 697-8155All Schools

At Large (2010-2014)Nancy R. [email protected]. Box 564Plesant Garden, NC 27313Phone: (336) 674-7083 Fax: (336) 674-1245All Schools

District 1 (2008-2012)J. Carlvena [email protected] Runyon Drive, High Point, NC 27260Phone: (336) 886-6431 Fax: (336) 886-3341District 1 Schools: Allen Jay Elementary, Andrews High, Fairview Elementary, The Middle College at GTCC - High Point, Kirkman Park Elementary, Montlieu Math and Science Academy, Oak Hill Elementary, Parkview Village Expressive Arts Mag-net, Penn-Griffin School for the Arts, Dean B. Pruette SCALE Academy, Triangle Lake Montessori, Union Hill Elementary and Welborn Academy of Science and Technology

District 2 (2010-2014)Ed [email protected] Northshore Court, High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 878-7015 Fax: (336) 812-3164District 2 Schools: Colfax El-ementary, Ferndale Middle, Florence Elementary, High Point Central High, The Acad-emy at High Point Central, Johnson Street Global Studies K-8 Magnet, Northwood El-ementary, Oak View Elemen-tary, Shadybrook Elementary, Southwest Elementary, South-west High and Southwest Middle

District 3 (2008-2012)Darlene [email protected] Willow Glen Trail,Greensboro, NC 27455Phone: (336) 643-6070 Fax: (336) 643-5477District 3 Schools: Claxton Elementary, The Early Col-lege at Guilford, E.P. Pearce Elementary, Guilford El-ementary, Guilford Middle, Doris Henderson Newcomers School, Jefferson Elemen-tary, Kernodle Middle, North-ern High, Northern Middle, Northwest High, Northwest Middle, Oak Ridge Elemen-tary, Stokesdale Elementary, Summerfi eld Elementary and Western High

District 4 (2010-2014)Alan W. Duncan, [email protected] St. Regis Road, Greens-boro, NC 27408Phone: (336) 378-5315 Fax: (336) 378-5400District 4 Schools: Bessemer Elementary, Brightwood El-ementary, Brown Summit Middle, Falkener Elementary, Gateway Education Center, Gibsonville Elementary, Hair-ston Middle, Madison Elemen-tary, McLeansville Elementary, Mendenhall Middle, Monticel-lo-Brown Summit Elementary, Northern Elementary, North-east High, Northeast Middle and Reedy Fork Elementary

District 5 (2008-2012)Paul A. [email protected] Hickory Meadow Road,Greensboro, NC 27406Phone: (336) 451-9543 Fax: (336) 674-5181District 5 Schools: Alamance Elementary, Eastern High, Eastern Middle, The Middle College at GTCC - James-town, Jamestown Elementary, Jamestown Middle, Meredith Leigh Haynes-Bennie Lee In-man Education Center, Millis Road Elementary, Nathanael Greene Elementary, Pilot El-ementary, Pleasant Garden

Elementary, Ragsdale High, Sedalia Elementary, South-east High, Southeast Middle, Southern Elementary, South-ern Middle, Southern High and Sumner Elementary

District 6 (2010-2014)Jeff [email protected] Merrill Drive, Greensboro, NC 27410Phone: (336) 299-8805District 6 Schools: Alderman Elementary, Greensboro Col-lege Middle College, Grimsley High, Hunter Elementary, Jack-son Middle, Lindley Elemen-tary, Morehead Elementary, Murphey Traditional Academy, Saturn School, The Middle Col-lege at GTCC - Greensboro and Weaver Academy

District 7 (2008-2012)Kris B. [email protected] Buckingham Road,Greensboro, NC 27408

Phone: (336) 379-0649 Fax: (336) 574-2580District 7 Schools: Brooks Global Studies, Cone El-ementary, General Greene Elementary, Irving Park El-ementary, Jesse Wharton Elementary, Joyner Elemen-tary, Kiser Middle, Page High, SCALE - Greensboro and Sternberger

District 8 (2010-2014)Deena A. [email protected]. Box 1105, Greensboro, NC 27402-1105Phone: (336) 272-9290 Fax: (336) 272-9290District 8 Schools: Archer El-ementary, Aycock Middle, Foust Elementary, Jones Elementary, McIver Education Center, The Middle College at A&T, The Mid-dle College at Bennett, Peck Ele-mentary, Sedgefi eld Elementary, The Academy at Smith, Smith High, Washington Montessori and Wiley Elementary

District 9 (2008-2012)Amos L. Quick, III, Vice [email protected] Foxridge Road, Greens-boro, NC 27406Phone: (336) 235-0345 Fax: (336) 273-9715District 9 Schools: Allen Middle, Blu-ford Elementary STEM Academy, Dudley High, Erwin Montessori, Frazier Elementary, Gillespie Park Elementary, Hampton Elementary University Partnership Magnet, Peeler Elementary, Rankin Elemen-tary, The Academy at Lincoln and Vandalia Elementary

J. Carlvena Foster

Ed Price Darlene Garrett Paul A. Daniels Jeff Belton Kris B. Cooke Deena A. HayesAmos L. Quick, III, Vice Chairman

Dr. Sandra Alexander

Amos L. Quick, Alan W. DuncanChairman

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ELECtED OFFICIALS

U.S. Congress :High Point Representatives

CONtACt INFOrmAYION

N.C. Legislators

Sen. Kay Hagan Sen. Richard Burr

Sen. Kay HaganRep. Mel WattRep. Howard Coble

Rep. Virginia Foxx

u.S. CONGRESS Rep. Howard Coble (R-6th)2188 Rayburn Offi ce Bldg.Washington, DC 20515Phone: (202) 225-3065Fax: (202) 225-86111634 N. Main Street, Suite 101, High Point, North Carolina 27262-2644Phone: (336) 886-5106 Fax: (336) 886-8740Offi ce Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.Nancy Mazza, District Representative

Rep Virginia Foxx (R-5th)1230 Longworth House Offi ce BuildingWashington, D.C. 20515Phone: (202) 225-2071Fax: (202) 225-2995(Hours: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. M-Th, 5 p.m. Fridays and when out of session)

Rep. Mel Watt (D-12th)2304 Rayburn HOBWashington, DC 20515-3312Phone: (202) 225-1510Fax: (202) 225-1512301 S. Greene St.Suite 210Greensboro, NC 27401-

2615Phone: (336) 275-9950Fax: (336) 379-9951Email Rep. Watt

Sen. Richard Burr (R)217 Russell Senate Offi ce BuildingWashington, DC 20510Phone: (202) 224-3154Fax: (202) 228-29812000 W. First StreetSuite 508 Winston-Salem, NC 27104Phone: (800) 685-8916Phone: (336) 631-5125Fax: (336) 725-4493

Sen. Kay Hagan (D)521 Dirksen Senate Offi ce BuildingWashington, DC 20510Phone: (202) 224-6342Fax: (202) 228-2563701 Green Valley Rd;Suite 201 Greensboro, NC 27408Toll Free 1 (877) 852-9462Phone: (336) 333-5311Fax: (336) 333-5331

N.C. LEGISLATORSRepresentative Alma Adams (Dem)District: 58

Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 604 Legislative Offi ce BuildingPhone: 919-733-5902Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC House of Representatives300 N. Salisbury Street, Room 604Raleigh, NC 27603-5925Home Address: 2109 Liberty Valley Rd.,Greensboro, NC 27406Phone: 336-273-9280

Representative John M. Blust (Rep)District: 62Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 1229 Legislative BuildingPhone: 919-733-5781Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC House of Representatives16 W. Jones Street, Room 1229Raleigh, NC 27601-1096Home Address: P. O. Box 8146,Greensboro, NC 27419

Phone: 336-274-4658 Ext. 121

Representative Marcus Brandon (Dem)District: 60Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 1209 Legislative BuildingPhone: 919-733-5825Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC House of Representatives16 W. Jones Street, Room 1209Raleigh, NC 27601-1096Home Address: 907 This-sell St., High point, NC 27260Phone: 336-987-3357

Representative John Faircloth (Rep)District: 61Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 306A3 Legislative Offi ce BuildingPhone: 919-733-5877Email: [email protected] Mailing Address:

NC House of Representatives300 N. Salisbury Street, Room 306A3Raleigh, NC 27603-5925Home Address: 2332 Faircloth Way, High Point, NC 27265Phone: 336-841-4137

Representative Pricey Harrison (Dem)District: 57Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 1218 Legislative BuildingPhone: 919-733-5771Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC House of Representatives16 W. Jones Street, Room 1218Raleigh, NC 27601-1096Home Address: P. O. Box 9339,Greensboro, NC 27429-9339Phone: 336-274-5574

Representative Maggie Jeffus (Dem)District: 59Counties Represented: Guilford

Offi ce: 1307 Legislative BuildingPhone: 919-733-5191Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC House of Representatives16 W. Jones Street, Room 1307Raleigh, NC 27601-1096Home Address: 1801 Rolling Rd.,Greensboro, NC 27403Phone: 336-275-4762

Senator Phil Berger (Rep)President Pro Tempore2011-2012 SessionDistrict: 26Counties Represented: Guilford, RockinghamOffi ce: 2008 Legislative BuildingPhone: (919) 733-5708Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC Senate16 W. Jones Street, Room 2008Raleigh, NC 27601-2808Home Address: P.O. Box 1309, Eden, NC 27289-1309

Phone: (336) 623-5210

Senator Stan Bingham (Rep)District: 33Counties Represented: Davidson, GuilfordOffi ce: 2117 Legislative BuildingPhone: (919) 733-5665Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC Senate16 W. Jones Street, Room 2117Raleigh, NC 27601-2808Home Address: 292 N. Main Street, Denton, NC 27239Phone: (336) 859-0999

Senator Gladys A. Robin-son (Dem)District: 28Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 1120 Legislative BuildingPhone: (919) 715-3042Email: [email protected] Mailing Address:

NC Senate16 W. Jones Street, Room 1120Raleigh, NC 27601-2808

Senator Don Vaughan (Dem)Deputy Democratic LeaderDistrict: 27Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 515 Legislative Offi ce BuildingPhone: (919) 733-5856Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC Senate300 N. Salisbury Street, Room 515Raleigh, NC 27603-5925Home Address: 612 W. Friendly Avenue,Greensboro, NC 27401Phone: (336) 273-1415

Rep. John Faircloth

Rep. Pricey Harrison

Rep. Maggie Jeffus

Senator Phil Berger

Senator Stan Bingham

Senator Gladys Robinson

Rep. Marcus Brandon

Rep. Alma Adams

Rep. John M. Blust

Senator Don Vaughan PuBLIC SAFETY

Our community is protected by its own brave men and women who serve it proudly

Right: A life-size replica of High Point offi cer stands guard where over the memorial where fallen High Point police offi cers and fallen offi cers from around the world are honored in front of the High Point Police Department.

Far right: A back-seat passenger’s eye view of the cockpit of a High Point police cruiser.

Below: The equipment that almost surrounds the driver of a High Point Fire Department truck.

HIGH POINT POLICE DEPARTmENT

at a glance

Chief: Jim FealyEmployees: 263Sworn offi cers: 227Civilians: 36Reserve offi cers: 15 (average)

HPPD has been honored in recent months to receive coverage of our Violent Crime and Street Drug Crime Initiatives, most notably in The Wall Street Journal and on CBS Evening News. We have also received the Innovations in American Government Award from the Ford Foundation.

HIGH POINT FIRE DEPARTmENT

at a glance

Interim Chief: Lee KnightEmployees: 223Firefi ghters: 201Administrative personnel: 22Engine trucks: 13Ladder trucks: 3*Squad trucks: 3*Primarily used for medical calls

GuILFORD COuNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTmENT

at a glance

Sheriff: BJ BarnesSworn deputies: 254Jailers: 255Civilian employees: 52Total employees: 561


ELECtED OFFICIALS

U.S. Congress :High Point Representatives

CONtACt INFOrmAYION

N.C. Legislators

Sen. Kay Hagan Sen. Richard Burr

Rep. Mel WattRep. Howard Coble

Rep. Virginia Foxx

u.S. CONGRESS Rep. Howard Coble (R-6th)2188 Rayburn Offi ce Bldg.Washington, DC 20515Phone: (202) 225-3065Fax: (202) 225-86111634 N. Main Street, Suite 101, High Point, North Carolina 27262-2644Phone: (336) 886-5106 Fax: (336) 886-8740Offi ce Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.Nancy Mazza, District Representative

Rep Virginia Foxx (R-5th)1230 Longworth House Offi ce BuildingWashington, D.C. 20515Phone: (202) 225-2071Fax: (202) 225-2995(Hours: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. M-Th, 5 p.m. Fridays and when out of session)

Rep. Mel Watt (D-12th)2304 Rayburn HOBWashington, DC 20515-3312Phone: (202) 225-1510Fax: (202) 225-1512301 S. Greene St.Suite 210Greensboro, NC 27401-

2615Phone: (336) 275-9950Fax: (336) 379-9951Email Rep. Watt

Sen. Richard Burr (R)217 Russell Senate Offi ce BuildingWashington, DC 20510Phone: (202) 224-3154Fax: (202) 228-29812000 W. First StreetSuite 508 Winston-Salem, NC 27104Phone: (800) 685-8916Phone: (336) 631-5125Fax: (336) 725-4493

Sen. Kay Hagan (D)521 Dirksen Senate Offi ce BuildingWashington, DC 20510Phone: (202) 224-6342Fax: (202) 228-2563701 Green Valley Rd;Suite 201 Greensboro, NC 27408Toll Free 1 (877) 852-9462Phone: (336) 333-5311Fax: (336) 333-5331

N.C. LEGISLATORSRepresentative Alma Adams (Dem)District: 58

Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 604 Legislative Offi ce BuildingPhone: 919-733-5902Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC House of Representatives300 N. Salisbury Street, Room 604Raleigh, NC 27603-5925Home Address: 2109 Liberty Valley Rd.,Greensboro, NC 27406Phone: 336-273-9280

Representative John M. Blust (Rep)District: 62Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 1229 Legislative BuildingPhone: 919-733-5781Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC House of Representatives16 W. Jones Street, Room 1229Raleigh, NC 27601-1096Home Address: P. O. Box 8146,Greensboro, NC 27419

Phone: 336-274-4658 Ext. 121

Representative Marcus Brandon (Dem)District: 60Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 1209 Legislative BuildingPhone: 919-733-5825Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC House of Representatives16 W. Jones Street, Room 1209Raleigh, NC 27601-1096Home Address: 907 This-sell St., High point, NC 27260Phone: 336-987-3357

Representative John Faircloth (Rep)District: 61Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 306A3 Legislative Offi ce BuildingPhone: 919-733-5877Email: [email protected] Mailing Address:

NC House of Representatives300 N. Salisbury Street, Room 306A3Raleigh, NC 27603-5925Home Address: 2332 Faircloth Way, High Point, NC 27265Phone: 336-841-4137

Representative Pricey Harrison (Dem)District: 57Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 1218 Legislative BuildingPhone: 919-733-5771Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC House of Representatives16 W. Jones Street, Room 1218Raleigh, NC 27601-1096Home Address: P. O. Box 9339,Greensboro, NC 27429-9339Phone: 336-274-5574

Representative Maggie Jeffus (Dem)District: 59Counties Represented: Guilford

Offi ce: 1307 Legislative BuildingPhone: 919-733-5191Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC House of Representatives16 W. Jones Street, Room 1307Raleigh, NC 27601-1096Home Address: 1801 Rolling Rd.,Greensboro, NC 27403Phone: 336-275-4762

Senator Phil Berger (Rep)President Pro Tempore2011-2012 SessionDistrict: 26Counties Represented: Guilford, RockinghamOffi ce: 2008 Legislative BuildingPhone: (919) 733-5708Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC Senate16 W. Jones Street, Room 2008Raleigh, NC 27601-2808Home Address: P.O. Box 1309, Eden, NC 27289-1309

Phone: (336) 623-5210

Senator Stan Bingham (Rep)District: 33Counties Represented: Davidson, GuilfordOffi ce: 2117 Legislative BuildingPhone: (919) 733-5665Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC Senate16 W. Jones Street, Room 2117Raleigh, NC 27601-2808Home Address: 292 N. Main Street, Denton, NC 27239Phone: (336) 859-0999

Senator Gladys A. Robin-son (Dem)District: 28Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 1120 Legislative BuildingPhone: (919) 715-3042Email: [email protected] Mailing Address:

NC Senate16 W. Jones Street, Room 1120Raleigh, NC 27601-2808

Senator Don Vaughan (Dem)Deputy Democratic LeaderDistrict: 27Counties Represented: GuilfordOffi ce: 515 Legislative Offi ce BuildingPhone: (919) 733-5856Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: NC Senate300 N. Salisbury Street, Room 515Raleigh, NC 27603-5925Home Address: 612 W. Friendly Avenue,Greensboro, NC 27401Phone: (336) 273-1415

Rep. John Faircloth

Rep. Pricey Harrison

Rep. Maggie Jeffus

Senator Phil Berger

Senator Stan Bingham

Senator Gladys Robinson

Rep. Marcus Brandon

Rep. Alma Adams

Rep. John M. Blust

Senator Don Vaughan PuBLIC SAFETY

Our community is protected by its own brave men and women who serve it proudly

Right: A life-size replica of High Point offi cer stands guard where over the memorial where fallen High Point police offi cers and fallen offi cers from around the world are honored in front of the High Point Police Department.

Far right: A back-seat passenger’s eye view of the cockpit of a High Point police cruiser.

Below: The equipment that almost surrounds the driver of a High Point Fire Department truck.

HIGH POINT POLICE DEPARTmENT

at a glance

Chief: Jim FealyEmployees: 263Sworn offi cers: 227Civilians: 36Reserve offi cers: 15 (average)

HPPD has been honored in recent months to receive coverage of our Violent Crime and Street Drug Crime Initiatives, most notably in The Wall Street Journal and on CBS Evening News. We have also received the Innovations in American Government Award from the Ford Foundation.

in The Wall Street Journal and on CBS Evening News.

HIGH POINT FIRE DEPARTmENT

at a glance

Interim Chief: Lee KnightEmployees: 223Firefi ghters: 201Administrative personnel: 22Engine trucks: 13Ladder trucks: 3*Squad trucks: 3*Primarily used for medical calls

GuILFORD COuNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTmENT

at a glance

Sheriff: BJ BarnesSworn deputies: 254Jailers: 255Civilian employees: 52Total employees: 561


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ELECTRIC SERVICE:City of High Point211 S. Hamilton StreetHigh Point, NC 27260www.high-point.net336-883-3111

WATER SERVICE:City of High Point211 S. Hamilton StreetHigh Point, NC 27260www.high-point.net336-883-3111

TELEPHONE SERVICE:North State Communications111 Hayden PlaceHigh Point NC 27263www.northstate.netResidential: 336-886-3720Business: 336-886-3718Repair: 336-886-3900

GAS SERVICE:Piedmont Natural Gaswww.piedmontng.com800-752-7504

Amerigas Propane1729 Bethel DriveHigh Point, NC 27260www.amerigas.com336-884-5711

Guilford Gas1904 S. Main StreetHigh Point, NC 27260www.guilfordgas.com336-869-4454

HEATING OIL SERVICE:Bain Oil Co.312 Old Winston RoadHigh Point, NC 27265www.bainonline.com336-887-1960

Brinson Family 1304 W. Market Center DriveHigh Point, NC 336-884-2229

Kennedy Oil Co. Inc.1203 Courtesy RoadHigh Point, NC 336-885-5184

TELEVISION:Time Warner Cable118 E. State AvenueHigh Point, NC 27262www.yourtwc.com336-886-4195

Repair: 336-886-5100

North State CommunicationsPLEXwww.northstate.net336-886-3720

HOuSING AuTHORITY500 E. Russell AvenueHigh Point, NC 27260

CHILDREN DAYCAREApple Tree Academies, 100 Northgate Court, High Point, NC 27265 |(336) 841-5000

Creative Corner Child Care, 4360 Regency Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 812-3488

Fairfi eld Enrichment Center, 1307 E Fairfi eld Road, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 434-152

Carl Chavis Memorial Branch YMCA, 2757 Granville St., High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 434-4000

Children’s Friend Learning

CHILDCARE / ADuLT DAYCARE

Centers, 1574 Skeet Club Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 882-1518

Childtime, 4960 Piedmont Parkway, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 218-5062

A Whole New World Learn-ing Center,,2606 Bedford St., High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 861-2151

It Starts Here Day Care & Learning Center, 600 Greens-boro Road, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 889-6971

A Plus Child Care Devel-opment Center LLC, 711 Greensboro Road, High Point,

NC 27260 | (336) 889-6374

The ARC of High Point Inc., 153 E. Bellevue Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 883-0650

Childcare Network, 5500 Old Thomasville Road, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 882-1004

Laurel Oak Childrens Center, 1004 Old Plank Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 885-5622

High Point Christian Academy, 307 N Rotary Drive, High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 841-8770

Cloverdale Childcare Minis-tries, 1919 S Elm St., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 886-4753

Angels In Training Christian, 2066 Deep River

Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 454-5282

Children’s Powerhouse Day-care, 900 Sales St., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 882-9085

Washington Drive Resource Center, 607 E Wash-ington Drive, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 886-7707

Gifford Child Development, 401 Lake Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 885-0777

Head Start/Early Head Start, 401 Lake Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 885-0777

Luv N Arms Childcare Center,, 1510 East Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 889-5224

Oak Hollow Enrichment Center, 524 Eastchester Drive, High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 883-9110

Linda Hughes Day Care Home, 3002 Central Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-5491

Grace Resource Center, 1231 Enterprise Drive, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-0005

Davis Infants Toddlers, 829 Rosecrest Drive, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 882-6367

Mema’s Kids Learning Center, 108 Garner Place, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 885-4987

Kids Learning Academy Center II, 700 Greensboro Road, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 885-1002

Faith & Love Enrichment Center, 809 Greensboro Road, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-4521

Kid Appeal Learning Center, 1010 Greensboro


Successful Start, 2206 Eastchester Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 885-4933

The Sunshine House, 4955 Samet Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 885-9018

Y’s Angels, 1552 Skeet Club Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 885-4712

Precious Hands Child Devmnt, 4065 Premier Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 841-5051

Circle of Friends Enrichment, 6020 Suits Road, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 861-8600

Anne’s Daycare, 815 Willow Place, High Point, NC 27260 } (336) 841-2350

Precious Gifts Daycare, 201 Seashire Court, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-3150

Our Little Angels Daycare, 2925 Triangle Lake Road, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 905-7381

Maria’s Home Daycare,

2608 Carsten Ave., High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 882-3947

King’s Daycare, 713 Oneil St., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 882-0501

Barbara Goose Home Day-care, 4308 Shade Tree Court, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 471-6843

Developmental Day Care Program, 401 Taylor Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-4841

Guilford Child Develop-ment, 1453 West Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 886-7732

High Point Family Day Care Inc., 1616 W. English Road, High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 885-9686

CHILDCARE / ADuLT DAYCARE CONTINuED

cThis Way ComesSomething Wicked

2011-2012 season

MOZART’S DON GIOVANNI

Fabio, Gene Simmons & Wilt Chamberlain Got Nothin’ On This Guy

OCTOBER 2011

LOVE SCENESGive the Gift Of Coloratura Agility

This Valentine’s

FEBRUARY 2012

WARD’S THE CRUCIBLEA Modern Day Witch Hunt

During The Time Of Witch Hunts

MARCH 2012

Contact Piedmont Operato order your season tickets

336.725.7101 / www.piedmontopera.org

Toll Free 1-800-373-2126

www.oconnorblossom.com

We’ve Been Serving High Point for More than 60 Years.

We Promise Personal, Professional Service and Elegant Flowers Customized For

Your Event And Occasion

ConnorO’Blossom Shop, Inc.

869-2159Call

Since 1948


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ELECTRIC SERVICE:City of High Point211 S. Hamilton StreetHigh Point, NC 27260www.high-point.net336-883-3111

WATER SERVICE:City of High Point211 S. Hamilton StreetHigh Point, NC 27260www.high-point.net336-883-3111

TELEPHONE SERVICE:North State Communications111 Hayden PlaceHigh Point NC 27263www.northstate.netResidential: 336-886-3720Business: 336-886-3718Repair: 336-886-3900

GAS SERVICE:Piedmont Natural Gaswww.piedmontng.com800-752-7504

Amerigas Propane1729 Bethel DriveHigh Point, NC 27260www.amerigas.com336-884-5711

Guilford Gas1904 S. Main StreetHigh Point, NC 27260www.guilfordgas.com336-869-4454

HEATING OIL SERVICE:Bain Oil Co.312 Old Winston RoadHigh Point, NC 27265www.bainonline.com336-887-1960

Brinson Family 1304 W. Market Center DriveHigh Point, NC 336-884-2229

Kennedy Oil Co. Inc.1203 Courtesy RoadHigh Point, NC 336-885-5184

TELEVISION:Time Warner Cable118 E. State AvenueHigh Point, NC 27262www.yourtwc.com336-886-4195

Repair: 336-886-5100

North State CommunicationsPLEXwww.northstate.net336-886-3720

HOuSING AuTHORITY500 E. Russell AvenueHigh Point, NC 27260

CHILDREN DAYCAREApple Tree Academies, 100 Northgate Court, High Point, NC 27265 |(336) 841-5000

Creative Corner Child Care, 4360 Regency Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 812-3488

Fairfield Enrichment Center, 1307 E Fairfield Road, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 434-152

Carl Chavis Memorial Branch YMCA, 2757 Granville St., High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 434-4000

Children’s Friend Learning

CHILDCARE / ADuLT DAYCARE

Centers, 1574 Skeet Club Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 882-1518

Childtime, 4960 Piedmont Parkway, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 218-5062

A Whole New World Learn-ing Center,,2606 Bedford St., High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 861-2151

It Starts Here Day Care & Learning Center, 600 Greens-boro Road, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 889-6971

A Plus Child Care Devel-opment Center LLC, 711 Greensboro Road, High Point,

NC 27260 | (336) 889-6374

The ARC of High Point Inc., 153 E. Bellevue Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 883-0650

Childcare Network, 5500 Old Thomasville Road, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 882-1004

Laurel Oak Childrens Center, 1004 Old Plank Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 885-5622

High Point Christian Academy, 307 N Rotary Drive, High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 841-8770

Cloverdale Childcare Minis-tries, 1919 S Elm St., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 886-4753

Angels In Training Christian, 2066 Deep River


Children’s Powerhouse Day-care, 900 Sales St., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 882-9085

Washington Drive Resource Center, 607 E Wash-ington Drive, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 886-7707

Gifford Child Development, 401 Lake Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 885-0777

Head Start/Early Head Start, 401 Lake Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 885-0777

Luv N Arms Childcare Center,, 1510 East Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 889-5224

Oak Hollow Enrichment Center, 524 Eastchester Drive, High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 883-9110

Linda Hughes Day Care Home, 3002 Central Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-5491

Grace Resource Center, 1231 Enterprise Drive, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-0005

Davis Infants Toddlers, 829 Rosecrest Drive, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 882-6367

Mema’s Kids Learning Center, 108 Garner Place, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 885-4987

Kids Learning Academy Center II, 700 Greensboro Road, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 885-1002

Faith & Love Enrichment Center, 809 Greensboro Road, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-4521

Kid Appeal Learning Center, 1010 Greensboro


Successful Start, 2206 Eastchester Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 885-4933

The Sunshine House, 4955 Samet Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 885-9018

Y’s Angels, 1552 Skeet Club Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 885-4712

Precious Hands Child Devmnt, 4065 Premier Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 841-5051

Circle of Friends Enrichment, 6020 Suits Road, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 861-8600

Anne’s Daycare, 815 Willow Place, High Point, NC 27260 } (336) 841-2350

Precious Gifts Daycare, 201 Seashire Court, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-3150

Our Little Angels Daycare, 2925 Triangle Lake Road, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 905-7381

Maria’s Home Daycare,

2608 Carsten Ave., High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 882-3947

King’s Daycare, 713 Oneil St., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 882-0501

Barbara Goose Home Day-care, 4308 Shade Tree Court, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 471-6843

Developmental Day Care Program, 401 Taylor Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-4841

Guilford Child Develop-ment, 1453 West Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 886-7732

High Point Family Day Care Inc., 1616 W. English Road, High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 885-9686

CHILDCARE / ADuLT DAYCARE CONTINuED

cThis Way ComesSomething Wicked

2011-2012 season

MOZART’S DON GIOVANNI

Fabio, Gene Simmons & Wilt Chamberlain Got Nothin’ On This Guy

OCTOBER 2011

LOVE SCENESGive the Gift Of Coloratura Agility

This Valentine’s

FEBRUARY 2012

WARD’S THE CRUCIBLEA Modern Day Witch Hunt

During The Time Of Witch Hunts

MARCH 2012

Contact Piedmont Operato order your season tickets

336.725.7101 / www.piedmontopera.org

Toll Free 1-800-373-2126

www.oconnorblossom.com

We’ve Been Serving High Point for More than 60 Years.

We Promise Personal, Professional Service and Elegant Flowers Customized For

Your Event And Occasion

ConnorO’Blossom Shop, Inc.

869-2159Call

Since 1948

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D & T Learning Zone Inc, 1406 R C Baldwin Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 885-3276

Mary S Christian Learning Center, 1801 E Green Drive, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 869-6252

Little Napoleon’s Day Care, 1312 Guyer St., High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 889-5080

Tender Loving Care, 1214 Dartmouth Ave., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 882-9533

Guilford Child Development, 2039 Brent-

wood St., High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 887-0935

Arnessa’s Childcare, 2924 Triangle Lake Road, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 882-6110

Little Princess Child Care, 1748 Stoneybrook Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 883-0700

Treehouse Bilingual Learn-ing Center, 2914 W. English Road, High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 882-7313

The King’s Kids Learning Center, 11231 N. Main St., High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 885-4987

Mema, 11231 N. Main St., High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 885-4987

Incredible Minds Child Development Center, 11231 N. Main St., High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 434-9200

Annetta’s Day Care, 3608 Westfield St., High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 883-7492

Chisholm Homes, 431A N. Scientific St., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-2402

Grace Child Development, 1673

Coryton Way, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-3358

New Generation Child Care, 2644 Hidden Pond Cv, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 885-3942

Day School, 7009 Weant Road, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 431-1336

Trudy’s Child Care, 2537 Old Mill Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 882-0771

Holly’s, 3906 Heidi Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 869-6285

Meals For Learning Inc., 4510 Calabria Court, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 869-6715

Bright & Early Child Care, 4022 Waterview Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 454-0706

Precious Hands Child Development Center, 4065

Mendenhall Oaks Parkway, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 841-5051

Covenant Church After School, 1526 Skeet Club Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 841-6851

YMCA, 150 W Hartley Drive, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 869-0151

Hester’s Creative Schools Inc., 851 Lakecrest Ave., High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 884-5373

Gospel Baptist Church, 9042 US Highway 311, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 431-6584

Child Enrichment Preschool, 512 N Main St.,

High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 889-3103

YWCA, 112 Gatewood Ave., High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 882-4126

Westchester Baptist Church, 135 Westchester Drive, High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 886-5021

Oakview United Method-ist Church Preschool, 321 Oakview Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 841-4018

First United Methodist Church, 512 N. Main St., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 889-4429

Greater New Hope Baptist Church, 906 Meredith St., High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 887-6877

Christ United Methodist Church, 1300 N. College Drive, High Point, NC 27262 | (336) 889-4777

Ark of Safety, 1411 Montlieu Ave., High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 887-2292

Temple Memorial Baptist Church, 1458 Cedrow Drive, High Point, NC 27260 | (336) 883-7339

Gospel Baptist Church, 9072 U.S. Highway 311, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 434-3861

YMCA, 7194 Turnpike Road, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 861-7788

ADuLT DAYCARE

Emmanuel Senior Enrichment Center, 1401 Heathcliff Road, High Point,

NC 27262 | (336) 882-6613

Triad Adult Daycare, 409 E Fairfield Road # A, High Point, NC 27263 | (336) 431-1537

Green House Enrichment Center, 204 Dilworth Road, High Point, NC 27265 | (336) 707-3946

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At Sunbridge Healthcare Corporation, we believe our mission sums up our core philosophy: Caring is the Key in Life. By caring for one another, we not only foster a healing environment but also demonstrate what life is truly about. While we are clearly a service organization, what truly defines us is How We Serve - by our determination to strive to provide the best possible quality and most compassionate care possible.

707 North Elm Street, High Point336-885-0141

Caringis theKeyin Life

Alyce Hopping, Administrator

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HEALtH CArEWorld renowned health care in your own backyard

HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM 601 N. Elm St.Main number: 878-6000Physician referral: 878-6888Patient room information: 878-6012Billing: 878-6003www.highpointregional.com

BETHANY MEDICAL CENTER507 N. Lindsay St.883-0029www.bethanymedicalcenter.com

CORNERSTONE HEALTH CARE1701 Westchester DrivePhysician referral: 802-2700Billing: 802-2000Corporate: 802-2400www.cornerstonehealth.com

CORNERSTONE PREMIER CARE4515 Premier Drive802-2210

The beginnings of the not-for-profi t High Point Region-

al Health System came in the early 1900s when members of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, con-cerned about recent typhoid and smallpox epidemics, decided the town needed a hospital. They purchased and renovated a two-story house on Boulevard Street, and the hospital opened to patients in the summer of 1904.

The name High Point Hos-pital was fi rst used in 1912.

On Nov. 8, 1985, Vice President George Bush was on hand for the offi cial rib-bon-cutting for the newly named High Point Region-al Hospital. The hospital opened its doors to patients on Jan. 8, 1986.

The not-for-profi t health system offers a variety of in-patient and outpatient care.

The hospital is a 384-bed facility for medical and sur-gical patients with six pri-mary service areas: Carolina Regional Heart Center, The Cancer Center, The Neurosci-ence Center, The Women’s Center, The Emergency Cen-ter and The Piedmont Joint Replacement Center.

Carolina Regional Heart Center is an outpatient facil-ity that opened in January 2001. According to Thomson Reuters, High Point Regional is one of the Top 50 Cardio-vascular Hospitals in the na-

tion and the only hospital in North Carolina to make the list.

High Point Regional earned its top 50 ranking by having a signifi cantly better 30-day survival, returning patients to daily life half a day earlier (on average), maintaining lower 30-day readmission rates for heart attack and heart patients and spending an average of $1,300 less per case.

Other services offered through the health system include the Rehab Center, the Millis Regional Health Education Center, the Re-gional Wound Center, the Diabetes Self Care Manage-ment Center, The Vascular Center and High Point Be-havioral Health.

MOSES CONE MEDCENTER HIGH POINT 2630 Willard Dairy Road884-3777www.medcenterhighpoint.com

EmERGENCY CARE

CORNERSTONE URGENT CARE4515 Premier Drive802-2222

DOCTORS EXPRESS1231 Eastchester Drive884-4050www/doctorsexpress.com/highpoint

HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMPhysician Referral878-6888

REGIONAL PHYSICAINS FAMILY MEDICINE

2401 Hickswood Road885-9675www.medcentralnc.com

Far right: Cornerstone Health Care facility at 1814 Westchester Drive.

Above: Entrance to Pen-nybyrn at Maryfi led.

Right: Westchester Village, 1765 West-chester Drive.

HEALTH CARE RESOURCES IN CASE OF A mEDICAL EmERGENCY, CALL 9��.REGIONAL PHYSICIANS

Walk-in Medical Care/Family Medicine/Occupational Health: West(Formerly MedCentral)1720 Westchester Drive336-883-WORK | 336-883-2615 Fax

OTHER

COMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT779 N. Main St.841-7154

GUILFORD COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

501 E. Green Drive641-7777www.guilfordhealth.org

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES OF THE TRIAD

910 Mill Ave.883-7480www.mha-triad.org

RETIREmENT, CONTINuING CARE

HIGH POINT MANOR201 W. Hartley Drive885-8600

PENNYBYRN AT MARYFIELD109 Penny Road821-4000

RIVER LANDING AT SANDY RIDGE1575 John Knox Drive668-4900

THE STRATFORD1573 Skeet Club Road841-1746

WESTCHESTER VILLAGES(Providence Place)1765 Westchester Drive885-2300

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uNITED WAY AGENCIES at a glance

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community resources and partnerships that support a broad array of critical health and human service needs in our community. Resources are focused on community impact programs that pro-mote and improve educa-tion, health and income in the Greater High Point.

After almost a year spent planning and talking with local leaders, the United

Way of High Point, then called the “Community Chest” and led by Mr. H.A. Millis, first held an organizational meeting on Sep-tember 12, 1935. A headline in that day’s High Point Enterprise read, “Community Chest will be organized tonight.” The caption stated, “A gathering will be held at 8 o’clock tonight for purpose of electing Board of Trustees and mapping out plans for the sea-son.”

Eighty people attended that first meeting of what is today called the United Way of Greater

High Point. Mr. R.T. Amos was elected the first President of the Board of Directors, and the five original partner agencies were the American Red Cross, The Salvation Army, the YMCA, the YWCA, and the Boy Scouts. The first fund-raising campaign be-gan on October 14, 1935, with a goal of $33,677.32,”and it lasted four days!

Today the United Way of Greater High Point continues a proud tradition of that original stewardship and commitment to our community. We currently

fund 67 programs at 29 partner agencies, including the original five, and hundreds of volunteers help us raise and allocate the funding that supports them.

The United Way of Greater High Point funds programs at 29 partner agencies serving High Point, Archdale, Trinity and Jamestown. They are:

ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICES882-2125 www.adsyes.comProvides comprehensive sub-

stance abuse treatment services,

AlcoHol And drug SErvIcES882-2125AMErIcAn rEd croSS/HIgH PoInT-THoMAS-vIllE cHAPTEr885-9121THE Arc oF HIgH PoInT883-0650BIg BroTHErS BIg SISTErS oF THE PIEdMonT882-4167BoyS & gIrlS cluBS oF grEATEr HIgH PoInT Inc.882-2582Boy ScouTS oF AMErIcA/old norTH STATE councIl1-800-367-9166 or 378-9166THE coMMunITy clInIc oF HIgH PoInT Inc.841-7154coMMunITIES In ScHoolS oF grEATEr HIgH PoInTPhone: 883-6434 Email: [email protected] In ScHoolS oF rAndolPH counTy 434-0008FAMIly SErvIcE oF THE PIEdMonT889-6161 gIrl ScouTS, PEAkS To PIEdMonT274-8491HoSPIcE oF THE PIEdMonT889-8446lATIno FAMIly cEnTErPhone: 884-5858 MEnTAl HEAlTH ASSocIATES oF THE TrIAdPhone: 883-7480oPEn door MInISTrIES oF HIgH PoInT Inc.885-0191 rAndolPH counTy FAMIly crISIS cEnTErArchdale Phone: 434-5579rAndolPH counTy SEnIor AdulTS ASSc. Inc.Archdale Senior Center: 431-1938THE SAlvATIon ArMy 881-5410THE SAlvATIon ArMy BoyS & gIrlS cluBS881-5444PIEdMonT HEAlTH SErvIcES & SIcklE cEll dISEASE AgEncy1-800-733-8297SEnIor rESourcES oF guIlFordPhone: 884-4816TrIAd HEAlTH ProjEcTPhone: 884-4116yMcA oF grEATEr HIgH PoInT – BrAncHESGrubb Family Y861-7788 www.hpymca.orgCarl Chavis Y434-4000 www.hpymca.orgHartley Drive Y869-0151 www.hpymca.orgyWcA oF HIgH PoInT882-4126 www.ywcahp.comyouTH FocuS841-6083 www.youthfocus.orgyouTH unlIMITEd Inc. 883-1361 www.youthunlimited.cc

uNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT

201 church Avenue, High Point, nc, 27262Phone: (336) 883-4127

Fax: (336) 883-6928 or (336) 899-0890

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substance abuse preven-tion and education, criminal justice programs, and DWI services for Guilford County residents.

AMERICAN RED CROSS/HIGH POINT-THOMASVILLE CHAPTER

885-9121 hpt.redcross.orgProvides disaster relief;

helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergen-cies. Conducts blood drives and provides Armed Forces emergency casework, Health & Safety training, youth lead-ership programs, and volun-teer services.

THE ARC OF HIGH POINT883-0650 www.arc-of-

hp.comProvides advocacy, educa-

tion, family support, and di-rect support in the areas of childcare, housing, job train-ing, and recreation to indi-viduals with developmental disabilities.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL PIEDMONT

882-4167 www.bbbscp.orgHelps children reach their

full potential through pro-fessionally-supported, one-on-one relationships with measurable impact. Volun-teer mentors are matched with youth (ages 5-18) from primarily low-income, single parent families and spend 1-5 hours per week together de-veloping a positive relation-ship and having fun.

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC.

882-2582 www.hpclubs.orgProvides targeted and re-

sults-oriented programs for disadvantaged youth, with a focus on Education and Ca-reer Development, Health and Life Skills, the Arts, Character and Leadership Development, and Sports, Fitness, and Rec-reation.

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA/

OLD NORTH STATE COUNCIL1-800-367-9166 or

378-9166 www.bsaonsc.orgPrepares young people

to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.

THE COMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC.

841-7154Provides basic healthcare

for adults of Greater High Point who cannot afford health insurance and do not qualify for Medicare or Med-icaid.

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER HIGH POINT

Phone: 883-6434 Email: [email protected]

Champions the connection of community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school, and prepare for life.

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS

OF RANDOLPH COUNTY 434-0008 communities-

inschools.org/affiliates/ran-dolph/

Champions the connection of community resources with schools to help young people in Archdale and Trinity suc-cessfully learn, stay in school,

and prepare for life, through mentoring and after-school programs.

FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT

889-6161 (calling from High Point) 387-6161 (calling from Greensboro) www.safe-

andhealthyfamilies.comProvides services to pro-

mote healthy lives and rela-tionships for families, chil-dren, and individuals in times of crisis or transition. Services include therapy, victim servic-es, consumer credit counsel-ing, and community-based

Bobby Smith, president of united Way of greater High Point, heads the agency that wound up the 2010 ranking second statewide in per capita giving.

B R I N G I T ! If you belong to a group that holds

conventions somewhere else, help us bring it home! Give us the contact information for the decision maker or meeting planner and you will be entered in drawings for a night on the town!

Send your group contact information to Marva Wells, High Point Convention & Visitors

Bureau, 300 S. Main St., High Point, NC 27260, or call 336.884.5255 or visit bringithomehighpoint.org.

The Bring it Home, High Point! Campaign is conducted by the High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau.

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programs and education.

GIRL SCOUTS, PEAKS TO PIEDMONT

274-8491 www.girlscout-sp2p.org

The world’s preeminent or-ganization dedicated solely to girls ages 5-17, helping build girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT889-8446 www.hospice-

careconnection.orgProvides expert pain and

symptom management, psy-chosocial and spiritual sup-port for persons of all ages with progressive life threat-ening illness and their fami-lies through Hospice Home Care, Hospice Home, Kid’s Path, Care Connection Home Health, and the Grief Coun-seling Center.

LATINO FAMILY CENTER, CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA LATINA

Phone: 884-5858 FAX: 884-9064

Serves the Hispanic com-munity and organizations serving the Hispanic commu-nity with interpretation, re-ferrals, translations, outreach programs, and educational services.

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCI-ATES OF THE TRIAD

Phone: 883-7480 FAX: 883-4013 www.mhahp.org

Increases the public’s un-derstanding and acceptance of people with mental ill-ness through programming, education and advocacy. Ser-vices include programs for in-dividuals with mental illness, including full-day psychoso-cial rehabilitation services (Destiny House), supported employment (The Work Force I & II), community support services/case management (Transitions), support groups (Crossroads and Zenith Club), and community education.

ONE STEP FURTHER INC.275-3699 www.onestep-

further.comOffers alternatives to incar-

ceration and provides adult/youth mediation, life skills/conflict resolution training, placements for community services, victim restitution and Teen Court services.

OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT INC.

885-0191 www.odm-hp.org

Strives to assist and up-lift the poor and homeless through community soup kitchen, men’s homeless shelter, transitional housing, emergency financial assis-tance, and substance abuse treatment program.

RANDOLPH COUNTY FAMILY CRISIS CENTER

Archdale Phone: 434-5579 Email: [email protected]

Provides advocacy for vic-tims of family violence and/or sexual assault, as well as community education. Oper-ates a crisis line and assists with protection order com-plaints for individuals in Arch-dale and Trinity.

RANDOLPH COUNTY SENIOR ADULTS ASSOCIATION INC.

Archdale Senior Center: 431-1938 www.senioradults.org

A private non-profit orga-nization providing adult day care services, information and assistance, congregate and home-delivered meals, trans-portation, outreach, senior games, medication manage-ment, and other services to older adults in Archdale and Trinity.

THE SALVATION ARMY 881-5410 www.salvation-

armycarolinas.org/highpointProvides emergency as-

sistance for rent, utilities, heating, medical assistance, emergency shelter, transi-tional living, and children’s programs.

THE SALVATION ARMY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS

881-5444 www.salvation-armycarolinas.org/highpoint

Provides a year-round youth development program that helps youth from all backgrounds to become re-sponsible citizens through structured educational, rec-reational, social and spiritual emphasis.

PIEDMONT HEALTH SER-VICES AND SICKLE CELL DISEASE AGENCY

1-800-733-8297 or 886-2437 www.piedmonthealth-services.org/

Provides services for sickle cell and related genetic dis-orders. Addresses high-risk minority health issues such as HIV/AIDS.

SENIOR RESOURCES OF GUILFORD

Phone: 884-4816 or Senior Line Information and Assis-tance: 884-6981 www.senior-resources-guilford.org

Makes a difference in the lives of senior adults by pro-moting independent living through information and referral services, nutrition and activity programs, medi-cal transportation, caregiver education, SHIIP (Senior

uNITED WAY AGENCIES CONTINuED

Health Insurance Information Program), volunteer oppor-tunities, and refugee support services for seniors.

TRIAD HEALTH PROJECTPhone: 884-4116 FAX:

884-5750 www.triadhealth-project.com

Provides emotional and practical support, case man-agement, transportation, and limited financial assis-tance for people affected by HIV/AIDS. Also educates to change the behaviors of at-risk populations.

YMCA OF GREATER HIGH POINT – BRANCHES

Promotes the balanced development of spirit, mind and body and putting Chris-tian principles into practice to strengthen children, families, and our community. All are welcome at our YMCA’s, re-gardless of age, physical abil-ity, or income.

Grubb Family Y861-7788 www.hpymca.orgA full YMCA facility is

planned in the near future on Hwy 62 that provides well-ness, a gym and meeting rooms in Phase I. Phase II will be the aquatics facility. Our 27-acre youth sports facil-ity on Turnpike Road provides

youth sports and summer specialty camps. Other pro-gramming currently available includes child care, day camp, and adult sports.

Carl Chavis Y434-4000 www.hpymca.orgTwo facilities are available

at Carl Chavis Branch: a 4 star childcare center serving in-fants through school age chil-dren, and a sports complex offering state-of-the-art well-ness center, aerobic rooms, a gym, and athletic fields. Vari-ous youth summer camps are available.

Hartley Drive Y869-0151 www.hpymca.orgThe Hartley Drive Family

Branch facilities offer a large pool, two multi-court gyms, racquetball, youth and adult wellness centers along with fields for all sports and a climbing tower. Hartley pro-grams offer fitness classes and aquatic classes that pro-mote healthy lifestyles.

YWCA OF HIGH POINT882-4126 www.ywcahp.comA community resource of

programs including water and land exercise, after school

child care, summer camp, women’s resource center, teen pregnancy prevention, and teen mother education.

YOUTH FOCUS841-6083 www.youthfocus.orgProvides a continuum of

services for emotionally and/or behaviorally disturbed young people including out-patient counseling, family preservation services, thera-peutic foster care services, day treatment, community support, diagnostic assess-ment, an emergency shelter, a residential treatment center, a residential adolescent drug treatment center, and a tran-sitional living program.

YOUTH UNLIMITED INC. 883-1361 www.youthunlimited.ccProvides residential care

and counseling services for adolescents with severe be-havioral problems at school or home. Provides commu-nity-based programs in foster care, intensive in-home ser-vices, diagnostic assessment, day treatment, and commu-nity support.

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GET INVOLVEDmore places to make a difference

507th Fighter Group Associates Inc.

A Pat & Kathryne L Brown Foundation Inc.

Academy for Life Transformation Inc.

All Nations Praise and Worship Church Anpawc

American Furniture Hall of Fame Foundation Inc.

An Lac Buddhist Temple Association, High Point

Animal Shelter League Inc.Ann G and W Vann York

Foundation Inc. Another Chance Community

Development Corp.Another Chance Gospel

MinistryArts Evangelica Inc. Assemblies of Christ Church

Ministries Inc.Banner Pharmacaps

Educational Found Ation Inc. Bay Creek Christian Outreach

Ministries Inc.Beauty 4 Ashes InternationalBible Baptist Church of High

Point North Carolina Biblical Business Fellowship

Inc. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the

Central Piedmont Inc.Big Hearts Bill Baird Evangelistic

Association Inc.Bleeding Disorders Association

of the Carolinas Born Again Church of the

Living God Boys & Girls Club of Greater

High Point Inc.Brayton Family Charitable

FoundationBuilt for Success Inc. Camp FOCUSCanaan Inc. Caring Services Inc.Carolina Container Co.

FoundationCarolina Housing Partnership

Inc. Carolinas Golf Foundation Centennial Assisted Living

Center Inc. Change of Pace International Charles B Loflin Educational

FoundationChildrens Advocacy Centers of

North Carolina Inc. Childrens Carousel Theater Christ Church of High Point

Inc. Christian Fellowship Word of

God Church Christian Foundation Wickliff Clark Foundation Inc. Clyde A Parker FoundationCollegiate Commissions

THE FOLLOWING IS A COmPLETE LIST OF 50�(C)(3) NONPROFIT GROuPS LOCATED IN HIGH POINT ACCORDING TO THE INTERNAL REVENuE SERVICE.

Association Division II Communities in Schools of

High Point Inc. Community Deliverance

Holiness Church Inc.Community Mosque of High

Point Companions on the Journey

Inc. Concepts in Action Inc. Conference Carolinas Core City High Point Inc.Cornerstone Charities Inc. Cornerstone Investments

Partnership Cover the Earth Ministry Cowboy Bible MinistryCrime Stoppers of High Point

Inc. Ddbsr Ministries of High

Point Nc Inc. Deep River Christian

Academy Inc. Deep River Church of Christ Doll and Miniature Museum

of High PointDon A Hunziker Memorial

Foundation Inc.Dusty Joy Foundation Earl N Phillips Jr Family

FoundationEast High Point Development

Corp.Effective Training Solutions Elim Community

Development Corp. Emmanuel Senior Enrichment

Center Inc. Esthers Haven Eternal Life Youth Ministry

Inc. Experiential Cultural &

Outdoor School Inc.Fairmont Park Baptist Church Faith and Love Enrichment

Center Inc.Feed My Sheep Inc.First Team 2655 Fish-N-4-KidsFoscue Plantation House

Restoration Foster Foundation Inc. Friends of High Point Public

Library Friends of the High Point

Theatre Inc.Friends of the Triad Park

Amphitheater Friendship Community

Church Friendship Missionary Baptist

Church of High Point Furniture Foundation Inc.Furniture Library AssociationFuture Impacted Inc. Gail Norcross Trigueiro

Foundation Gethsemane Reaching

Beyond Our Walls

Girls Athletic Association Global Missions Inc.Go Far, High PointGood Friends of High Point

Inc. Grace Church of High Point

Incorporated Greenway Ministries Inc. Hallelujah Baptist Church Full

Gospel Handi-Clean Family

Foundation Harry Wagner Foundation Harvey L Kanter FoundationHayworth Christian School Healing Seekers Inc. Healing Stripes Ministries Inc.Heart for India MissionsHeartlife Ministries Inc.Henry Step Forward High Point Alcohol & Drug

Action Coalition Inc.High Point Alliance for

Workforce PreparednessHigh Point Apostolic

Deliverance Temple High Point Area Arts Council

Inc. High Point Association of

Electrician Contractors High Point Ballet High Point Baptist Camp

Meeting Grounds Inc.High Point Camp Meeting

Ground Inc. High Point Central Blue-White

Club Inc.High Point Chamber

Foundation Inc. High Point Christian Academy

Inc. High Point Christian Center High Point Citizens Police

Academy Alumni Association High Point City Employees

Foundation Inc. High Point Civitan Club

Foundation Inc. High Point Community Against

Violence Inc.High Point Community Chorus High Point Community

Concert Association High Point Community

Foundation High Point Community Theatre

Inc.High Point Deliverance Center High Point Design Center

Foundation Inc.High Point Fine Art Guild High Point Friends

Kindergarten and Preschool Endowment Inc.

High Point Heat Athletic Association

High Point Heat Track and Field Club

High Point Hebrew Cemetary

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High Point Historical Society Inc.

High Point Housing Coalition High Point Hurricanes

Basketball Association High Point Jail Ministry High Point Literary League High Point Public Library

Foundation Inc.High Point Racial Healing Inc. High Point Regional Health

Services Inc. High Point Regional Health

System High Point Regional Health

System Foundation High Point Regional Hospital

Guild High Point Soccer Association

Inc. High Point Solid Rock

Ministries Inc.High Point Swim Club Inc. High Point University High Point Word of Life

Tabernacle Inc.High Point Youth Sports

Council Inc. Home to Home Ministries Inc. Honbarrier Foundation Inc. Hopscotch Adoptions Inc. Horneytown Volunteer Fire

Department of Forsyth County Inc.

Hospice of the Piedmont Inc.I Am Now Inc. Iglesia De Jesucristo Palabra-

Miel Impact Ministries of the Triad In His Image Ministries Inspiration of Praise Outreach

Ministries International Ambassadors for

Christ Ministries Inc. International Association of

Jazz Record Collectors Inc. International Booksmart

Foundation International Concern

Foundation Inc. International Home Furnishing

Representatives Foundation International Intercession Inc. International Partnerships Inc. Iota Phi Inc. Isaiah 58 Islamic Center of High Point Itma Educational Foundation Jack and Mary Cartwright

Foundation Inc. Jesus Mission Incorporated John C Slane FoundationJuanita K Voncannon

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THE FOLLOWING IS A COmPLETE LIST OF 50�(C)(3) NONPROFIT GROuPS LOCATED IN HIGH POINT, ACCORDING TO THE INTERNAL REVENuE SERVICE.

Foundation Inc. Junior League of High Point

North Carolina Inc. Kenya Partners Khmer Buddhist Society Inc. Kids Academy Learning CenterKimberly House Kingdom Athletes

Kiwanis Boys & Girls Inc.Kiwanis Club of High Point Laurel UniversityLeap Frog Academy Learning

Center Legacy Ministries of North

Carolina Inc. Lenny Peters Foundation Inc. Life Changing International

Church Inc.Louis Dejoy and Aldona Z Wos

Family Foundation Inc. Love Faith and Hope

Ministries Loving Pet Inn Adoptions Inc.Low Income Housing

Opportunities Inc. Lydias Project Inc. Macedonia Family Resource

Center Inc.Mainline Therapeutic Services

Inc.

Make It Happen Maranatha Fellowship Church Mark A and Rena R Norcross

Family FoundationMen of Dudley Mercy Outreach Church of

Deliverance Inc. Ministries of the Son of God

Mobile Meals for the Elderly of High Point Inc.

Monument of Praise Ministries Inc.

Mother Baby Foundation Inc. Mt. Zion Baptist Church Neurostrides of High Point Inc. New Beginnings Full Gospel

Ministries New Day Ministries New Life Evangelistic

Association Inc. Next Phase Nia Community Action Center

Inc.Nias Ark North Carolina Equal Access

to Justice Foundation Inc. North Carolina Postal History

Society North Carolina Shakespeare

Festival Inc.

Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc.

Parables Community Theater Partners Ending HomelessnessPiedmont Artists Inc.Piedmont Environmental

Center of High Point Inc. Piedmont Information

NetworkPiedmont School Inc. Piedmont Triad Ambulance &

Rescue Inc.Powerhouse of Faith Ministries Pprc Nursing Home Inc. Pprc Senior Living II Inc.Pprc Senior Living Inc. Precious Hands Child

Development Center Pregnancy Center of High

Point Premier Foundation Preparing Our Youth

Foundation Providence Church of God in

Christ Inc. R B Terry Charitable

Foundation Inc. Redeeming Love Christian

Center Retail Home Furnishings

FoundationRise America Rjw Ministries Inc.Rosetta C Baldwin Foundation Rotary Club of FurniturelandRotary Club of High PointRotary Club of the TriadSadie and Hobert Fouts

Scholarship FundSallie B Phillips FoundationSaviors House High

PointSeed to Harvest Outreach

Corporation Seedtime and Harvest

Ministries Serving Gods Servants Inc. Seven Homes Residential

Youth Development Alternative Shield of Faith Mins Ins Sidney A Lenger Charitable

TrustSignature by Design Cdc Sikh Association of the Triad

North Carolina Sisters of Charity of St.

Vincent De Paul Social Ministries Incorporate

Skip and Susan Gilliland Foundation

Southern Triad Missions Inc. Southwest Guilford High

School Athletic Booster Club Southwest Guilford High

School Band Booster Club Spirit Body & Soul Inc.St. George Greek Orthodox

Church St. Marys Music Academy St. Stephen Adult Day Care

Center Still A Rose Students Offering Solutions

Medicine Inc.

Summit HouseThe Family Support CenterTemple of Prayer Praise and

Deliverance Inc. Tender Loving Care Youth

Bible SchoolThe Arc of High Point Inc. The Charitable Triune Trinity

Trust Inc. The Claude and Mickie Gable

Scholarship Trust The Club Inc. The Common Thread for the

Cure Foundation The Community Clinic of High

Point Inc. The Harris and Covington

FoundationThe Joy Cathedral Ministries

Incorporated The Northeast Middle School

Band Boosters Club The Qubein FoundationTheatre Art Galleries Think First Foundation of

Guilford County Thomas Henry Wilson & Family

FoundationTom Haggai & Associates

Foundation % Wachovia Bk & Tr Co NA Ttee

Total Family FocusTriad Adult Day Care Center

Inc. Triad Christian Church

Corporation Triad Economic Development

Corporation Triad Learning and

Development Outreach Program Triad RavensTriad Rotary Foundation Inc. Triad Titans Basketball Inc. Triathlon Team Trinity Assembly Incorporated Trinity Holiness Outreach

Ministry Inc. Trust in Jesus Ministry Unc Nrotc Alumni Association United Way of Greater High

Point Inc. Unity Builders Inc. Vernon Chandler Ministries Inc. Veterans Memorial of High

PointVictim 2 Victor Inc.Victory is Mine Ministries Ward Street Community

Resources Inc. Warren J Rives Jr Memorial

Irrv Tr Washington Drive Renaissance

Inc.Washington Drive Resource &

Enrichment Center Inc.Way of Life Inc. Wesleyan Homes Inc. West End Ministries Westchester Academy

Endowment Fund Westchester Academy Inc. Westchester Booster Club Whitener FoundationWilliam Penn Tigers

Association Inc.William R Kenan Jr

Endowment Fund for the Piedmont School

Women of Hope Foundation Word of Reconciliation

Ministries Inc. Worlds TouchWow Words of Wisdom

Ministries Inc. Young Mens Christian

Association of High Point Young Womens Christian

Association High Point Youth & Family Transitional

Center Inc. Youth Unlimited Inc.

Molly N. Howard Law Office, P.C.Top-Notch Legal Service Since 1994

(336) 885-3124Located In High Point, NC

Serving the Triad Area

Specializing In:FAMILY LAW - ADOPTION - DIVORCE

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mIND & BODYHigh Point offers a variety of resources for your active lifestyle

PuBLIC LIBRARY

There is only one public library branch in High

Point, and the city has invest-ed millions of dollars over the years to try to make the facil-ity as well-suited as possible to serve a population of more than 100,000 residents.

The library has been through a period of record us-age, drawing almost 500,000 visitors last fiscal year. The 2009 completion of a $6 mil-lion expansion and renova-tion, funded by a bond issue approved by city voters in 2004, have fed a sustained rise in visitors.

A staff of 48 people serve library patrons’ needs in four divisions: children’s, research services, readers’ services and lending. Children’s services include storytime programs in

the children’s room available for youths from birth through age 5. Craft programs are of-fered on a regular basis and occasional attractions like musicians, acrobats, jugglers and animal shows are offered for children.

The research services de-partment includes an online collection of African-Ameri-can history and several other databases accessible by the library’s computers, such as geneology archives, the an-cestry library and archives featuring documents covering every major war going back to the Revolution, as well as U.S. presidents and a range of historical documents. Patrons can also research a wide ar-ray of periodicals, search for employment, obtain tax forms and access NCKnows, a service that allows librarians

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across the state to respond to questions.

Readers’ services include a teen summer reading program and one for adults, as well as DVDs and books on CD and MP3 for checkout, book clubs and e-book services.

The library has a founda-tion that receives and ex-pends tax-deductible gifts for

specific short-term projects and administers a library en-dowment to fund expansion of existing library programs and services as well as new services and programs that address critical needs.

The Friends of the Library was established in 1984 and has several hundred mem-

bers. It helps raise money through book sales, sponsors special projects and carries out other functions.

The 19,000-square-foot addition to the library com-pleted two years ago pro-vided much-needed space to house its non-fiction collec-tion, a children’s story room,

outreach services and admin-istrative offices. The project also allowed for creation of a 125-seat auditorium on the first floor, as well as an expanded Heritage Research Center and Business Research Services area. The library’s public computing center has also doubled in size.

HIGH POINT PuBLIC LIBRARY

at a glance

Located at: 901 N. Main St. Customer service: 883-3660For a full range of information about its services, visit its website: www.highpointpubliclibrary.com


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Sears Oak Hollow Mall921 Eastchester Drive, High Point

Sears at Oak Hollow Mall has enjoyed a long relationship

with the High Point Community,and wants to remind everyone

that great things lie ahead.

We look forward to continuing to serve our community!

PARKS & RECREATION

High Point’s Parks and Recreation De-

partment touches virtually every corner of the city, with programs for the smallest child to senior adults.

There are six recreation centers throughout the city, which feature everything from swimming pools, picnic shelters, softball fields, gyms and playgrounds, although the amenities vary from site to site. Adult and youth sports, and three regional parks – City Lake Park, Oak Hollow Park and the Pied-mont Environmental Center – offer a variety of recre-ational opportunities. The department oversees several smaller community parks and neighborhood parks and two athletic complexes.

The department offers a full slate of year-round recre-ational and leisure opportuni-

ties for children and adults with disabilities.

One of the most popular of these is Special Olym-pics, a sports training and competition organization for athletes age 8 and older with intellectual disabili-ties. The High Point pro-gram offers alpine skiing, aquatics, track and field, basketball, bocce, bowling, cycling, golf, power lifting, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball.

The Miracle League pro-gram is a baseball league for youth with physical and/or intellectual disabilities who play on a specially-designed field that allows participants in wheelchairs, as well as those on foot, the opportunity to move around the field without barriers. The program’s mission is to provide opportunities to all children with special needs to play baseball regardless

mIND & BODYof their abilities.

For more information about the Miracle League or Spe-cial Olympics, contact Brian Coward at [email protected], visit www.hpmiracleleague.org or call 883-3481.

There are numerous other offerings for citizens with dis-abilities, such as bowling and a breakfast club for the visu-ally impaired and a summer day camp for ages 6 and older of all disabilities. For informa-tion about these, contact Jeff Caudill at 883-3477.

The Roy B. Culler, Jr. Senior Center at 600 N. Hamilton St. serves the needs of adults age 50 and older and offers many types of programs, such as exercise, arts and crafts, mov-ies, guest speakers, health screenings, club meetings, parties, holiday celebrations, cultural events, entertain-ment and more. The center also oversees oversees the

annual Greater High Point Se-nior Games each spring.

Citizens age 55 and up compete in team sports, such as basketball, softball and

chair volleyball, as well as individual sports, such as ten-nis, cycling, swimming, golf and archery. There is also a division for artistic catego-

ries, such as poetry, dance, singing, sculpture and wood-carving.


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Golfers can chart a winning course every time out

when they hit the links in High Point.

The city offers two top-flight public golf courses in Blair Park and Oak Hollow. City of High Point golf pro Steve High, Blair Park head pro Johnny Carroll and their staffs do a terrific job main-taining great facilities.

Blair Park was a gift to the city from descendants of Solomon Blair.

It’s a gift that keeps on giv-ing for area golf enthusiasts.

The original nine-hole course was built in 1931, with expansion to the modern 18-hole course in the mid-1940s.

Numerous creeks and well-placed bunkering add to the challenge.

Blair Park Golf Course is located at 1901 South Main Street. Call (336) 883-3497 for information on prices, tee times and special events and tournaments throughout the year.

OAK HOLLOW GOLF COuRSE

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The Pet Dye-designed Oak Hollow Golf Course opened in 1972 and instantly drew rave reviews from golfers all across the country.

It has earned numerous honors from Golf Digest and Top Links magazines.

Oak Hollow provides beau-tiful views of the lake which bears the same name, and gives a worthy test every time out.

For more details on prices, hours, tee times and special events and programs, call the Oak Hollow Pro Shop at (336) 883-3260.

High Point Country Club of-fers a pair of excellent cours-es in Emerywood and Willow Creek. Call HPCC at (336) 869-2416 for details on how to join, etc.

And if miniature golf is more your size, High Point Putt Putt at 2418 North Main Street gives you the perfect place to test those par-2 greens.

Call (336) 869-4273 for details on hours, prices, tour-naments and other special events.

OAK HOLLOW TENNIS

Tennis, anyone?If you answered

yes to that question, you’re in luck.

The Oak Hollow Tennis Center offers everything you’ll need to hit the court running.

OHTC features eight light-ed, outdoor Har-Tru tennis courts and two lighted, out-door Deco-turf tennis courts, plus four indoor Deco-turf tennis courts.

The Oak Hollow Tennis Center also provides a wide array of camps, leagues and special programs for junior and adult players alike. Everyone from be-ginners to seasoned play-ers can benefit from these programs.

For more information or questions, please call the Oak Hollow Tennis Center at 336-883-3493.

And if you’re just looking for a court in your neighbor-hood to serve up a few recre-ational backhands, forehands or drop shots, call the City of

High Point Parks and Recre-ation Dept. at (336) 883-3469 for the location of the courts nearest you.

Top: oak Hollow golf course provides a good test for any golfer’s skills.

Above: Tennis for anyone is available at oak Hollow Ten-nis center.


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The fun is catching at Oak Hollow Marina.

Whether your in-terests lean toward fishing or boating, the Oak Hollow Marina at 3431 North Cen-tennial Street has everything you need for smooth sailing and alluring outdoor action.

The Oak Hollow Marina opened to the public in 1972. The lake is 800 acres with a 1,500-acre park.

The lake has served as the City of High Point’s primary water supply since 1991.

The Marina showcases boating and fishing, sailing classes, sailboat rental, boat storage spaces, bank fish-ing, picnic shelter rental with electricity, restrooms, and grills year round.

You can purchase bait, fishing supplies and licenses and snacks right at the Ma-rina.

If you’re interested, you can rent Festival Park for such private events as wed-dings, company picnics and concerts.

Contact the Oak Hollow Marina at (336) 883-3494 for more information on prices, hours, special events etc.

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Mark Twain fa-mously quipped

that “golf is a good walk spoiled.”

With all due respect to one of America’s most famous writers, let me paraphrase that.

Disc golf is a great walk unspoiled.

High Point offers disc golf players a terrific chance to show their stuff at the Johnson Street Disc Golf Course.

This 18-hole course opened in 1992, then underwent major improve-ments and renovations in 2000, when the city installed a parking lot, a new course sign, and more than 50 trees and shrubs.

The High Point Parks and Recreation Department,

BOWLING

Sometimes, two words create the ultimate fun

atmosphere for athletes of all ages and skill levels.

Let’s bowl!When that spirit moves

High Pointers, they’re blessed with two great options to at-tack those pins.

For bowlers on the south side of town, the High Point Bowling Center on 309 West Fairfield Road offers 32 lanes and a plethora of leagues and special pack-ages.

Call (336) 434-6301 or

along with the Oak Hollow Disc Golf Club, handle the upkeep and maintenance for the Johnson Street Park course, which can play anywhere from 4,210 feet to 6,360 feet depending on the tees you use.

Johnson Street’s layout provides a chal-lenging mix of wooded and open holes. There are various doglegs left and right and disc golfers from beginners to advanced pros can find something to their liking.

There are three sets of concrete pads (White, Blue and Gold) available at all times. The White and Blue tee pads are designed for everyday play for the amateur to professional player. The Gold (Ludi-crous) tees are set up to provide a super-stiff

test (think Augusta National or Pebble Beach for disc golfers).

Johnson Street Disc Golf Park is located at 3812 Johnson Street and play is free for the public. Call the High Point Parks and Rec-reation Dept. at 883-3469 for more information.

log on to see the High Point Bowling Center website for more details.

If you’re striking out for a good time on the north side

of town, check out Tar Heel Lanes on 2617 North Main Street.

Tar Heel offers 32 fun-filled lanes with a variety of special

features and programs.Call (336) 869-7189 or

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The railroad has major signifi -cance in the history of High Point, which was offi cially recognized as a town on May 26, 1859 in a two-square-mile area surrounding the intersection of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road with the North Carolina Railroad.

The city’s name was derived af-ter surveyors for the North Caro-lina Railroad dubbed the intersec-tion the “highest point” along the railroad route from Charlotte to Goldsboro.

The railroad was established through a stock sale in 1850, and a stretch of tracks opened from Char-lotte to High Point in 1855. It joined rails being laid from Charlotte to Goldsboro near Jamestown.

The advent of the rails into furni-ture city was a major boon for the fl edgling village, serving as a hub for farm goods brought in from sur-rounding counties that were shipped to major markets around the state and beyond.

Businesses sprung up near the railroad tracks, including an inn near the junction that fed the growth of the population from the approxi-mately 250 people who lived in the city proper at the time of High Point’s incorporation.

The transportation system was a key to the city’s growth through the

rest of the 19th century, helping fuel manufacturing, tobacco and, eventually, the furniture industry, which saw its fi rst factory open in the city in 1888.

By 1890, the population reached 2,000 and the city had developed a business base consisting of timber products, agriculture, tobacco and furniture.

Another railroad established around that time brought addi-tional benefi ts: The High Point, Randleman, Asheboro & Southern Railroad was established in 1888.

The High Point train depot downtown at 100 W. High Ave., was built in 1907 by the Southern Railway (now Norfolk Southern) and is served by three Amtrak pas-senger trains – the Crescent, Caro-linian and the Piedmont. The sta-tion closed in the 1970s, as train traffi c declined.

Local leaders and preservation-ists, in conjunction with the N.C. Department of Transportation, secured $6.8 million for a reno-vation of the depot that began in January 2001 and was complete in December 2003. As part of the renovation, the canopies, platform and bridge were replaced. The main room of the station serves as a waiting room for Amtrak trains – six of which travel through the depot area daily.

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left: A view across the mar-ket area with Market Square Tower, historic Market Square and Suites at Market Square in the fore-ground.

right: Men-denhall Sta-tion terminal and commerce entrance to the International Home Furnish-ings center.

Far right: Main entrance to Suites at Market Square.

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Furniture manufactur-ing – an industry that

dates back to the 19th cen-tury in the High Point area – remains an integral part of the High Point economy.

The industry, which began in earnest in High Point in the

1880s, spurred the develop-ment of the High Point

Market, the world’s

largest home furnishings trade show, and gave High Point its nickname as the Fur-niture Capital of the World.

The first furniture factory in the city began operations in 1888, according to the refer-ence book “High Pointers of High Point.” Entrepreneurs took advantage of plentiful supplies of lumber and a com-mitted work force to develop

the industry heading into the early 20th cen-

tury.“By 1914, t h e r e

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107 furniture plants in North Carolina. By that time it was generally agreed that 90 per-cent of the Southern furniture industry had its inception in High Point,” according to “High Pointers of High Point.”

As the High Point area grew as a furniture manu-facturing center for the na-tion, representatives of retail stores began making treks to the city to inspect products. The trade between manufac-turers and retail buyers led a little more than 100 years ago to the development of a trade show in High Point.

What has become known as the High Point Market began in 1909 as the South-

ern Furniture Market. The showrooms in the market

district downtown grew over the decades as

the nation’s popu-lation expanded and created greater

demand for home fur-nishings.

In the later part of the 20th century, the furniture indus-try and market took a global turn, which has had both a positive and negative effect on the city’s economy.

Today, the market draws representatives from 106 na-tions, and an estimated 10 percent of attendance at each spring and fall High Point Market is international visi-tors. International companies exhibiting home furnishings and accessories and buy-ers coming to market from overseas have provided a key boost to the market.

However, the offshoring of furniture production to for-eign nations, especially the People’s Republic of China, starting in the 1990s has dev-astated large-scale furniture manufacturing in High Point and surrounding communi-ties. Tens of thousands of furniture manufacturing jobs have been lost in the past 20 years as major companies that had factories here for


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generations shifted offshore.Despite the erosion of fur-

niture manufacturing jobs because of offshoring and the impact of the Great Reces-sion, furniture manufactur-ing remains an industry that employs nearly 33,000 North Carolinians through nearly

1,000 employers statewide, according to fi gures through the N.C. Employment Security Commission.

The city of High Point re-mains home to 56 furniture manufacturers, according to the most recent local statis-tics available. Many of the

High Point manufacturers are small to mid-sized com-panies producing specialized or high-end furnishings or furniture for offi ce, hospitality or institutional uses, such as universities.

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The High Point Market and the city for which

the trade show is named have been linked for more than a century, like siblings growing together from adol-secence to adulthood.

The market not only pro-vides the largest economic event for the city year in and year out, but has given the city of 100,000 people a national and global profile much higher than another city its size.

What has become the larg-est home furnishings trade show in the world and be-stowed upon High Point the nickname Furniture Capital of the World started as a trade exposition in 1909. Original-ly called the Southern Furni-ture Market, the trade show began taking place twice a year for the first time in 1913 – a semiannual schedule that continues to this day.

Each spring and fall, the market draws upwards of 70,000 furniture industry representatives from across the world to High Point. The visitors to market comes from 106 countries.

“Our international clients in all industry sectors usu-ally know about High Point already, due to our positive worldwide furniture and market reputation. The High Point Market and our furni-ture industry help sell the city as a superior place to open a new facility, before our office has a chance to re-inforce that message,” said Loren Hill, president of the High Point Economic Devel-opment Corp.

The market, which isn’t open to the general public, brings together manufactur-ers and suppliers of home furnishings and accessories with buyers for retail estab-

lishments and designers. The retailers and designers visit showrooms at market, placing orders that turn into merchandise that shows up for customers to browse and buy at stores and furniture and accessories that deco-rate homes.

The market features 180 buildings covering 10 mil-lion square feet of show-room space, predominantly in a trade show district tak-ing up most of downtown High Point. More than 2,000 exhibitors unveil tens of thousands of new product introductions at each mar-ket.

The market not only rep-resents the essential eco-nomic event in High Point each year, but in the state. The annual impact of the market on the state econ-omy is $1.14 billion annu-ally, according to a study

compiled by Andrew Brod, an economic researcher and faculty member at the Uni-versity of North Carolina at Greensboro. The market ac-counts for more than 13,000 jobs, and the assessed tax value of the High Point Mar-ket buildings was $667 mil-lion, Brod found.

Three of the four largest taxpayers in the city of High Point have been showroom complexes.

“The market is an eco-nomic engine for the Triad and North Carolina, and its success and long-term vi-ability is important ...” Brod indicated in his study. “Mar-ket is indeed a phenomenal economic engine for the re-gional and state economy.”

WORKING HEREWORKING IN THE DESIGN TRADE

The High Point Design Center caters to a key

group of people in the home furnishings industry and at the High Point Market – de-signers.

The High Point Design Center exists for the purpose of assisting interior design-ers and others in the trade in the location and acquisi-tion of products for custom-ers. Member showrooms are committed to being available to the trade and supporting designers and dealers.

The High Point Design Cen-ter regularly plans and hosts events for interior designers, sometimes with speakers or by partnering with profes-sional design associations.

The High Point Design Cen-ter has helped arrange a Unity in Design event featuring more than 50 designer-friendly show-rooms at the furniture market. One goal of the High Point Design Center is to promote events and networking among designers between spring and fall High Point Markets.

The High Point Design Cen-ter has created a data base for interior designers and others in the trade. Designers can search the data base in a product, such as bedroom, lamps or rugs, and receive a list of showrooms that carry merchandise in those catego-ries.

The High Point Design Cen-ter works with interior de-

signers, architects and those working in residential and contract design. With more than 60 showrooms, the center provides a resource of lines and collections of fur-niture, upholstery, lighting, decorative accessories, mir-rors, rugs, fine art, antiques, draperies, fabric and other merchandise.

The High Point Design Center also emphasizes edu-cation and networking with their events for designers.

The High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau has had a long-standing partnership with the association, award-ing the group $35,975 in CVB arts and tourism grants fund-ing since 1993.

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WORKING IN THE HIGH POINT mARKET


The High Point Market and the city for which

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The market not only pro-vides the largest economic event for the city year in and year out, but has given the city of 100,000 people a national and global profi le much higher than another city its size.

What has become the larg-est home furnishings trade show in the world and be-stowed upon High Point the nickname Furniture Capital of the World started as a trade exposition in 1909. Original-ly called the Southern Furni-ture Market, the trade show began taking place twice a year for the fi rst time in 1913 – a semiannual schedule that continues to this day.

Each spring and fall, the market draws upwards of 70,000 furniture industry representatives from across the world to High Point. The visitors to market comes from 106 countries.

“Our international clients in all industry sectors usu-ally know about High Point already, due to our positive worldwide furniture and market reputation. The High Point Market and our furni-ture industry help sell the city as a superior place to open a new facility, before our offi ce has a chance to re-inforce that message,” said Loren Hill, president of the High Point Economic Devel-opment Corp.

The market, which isn’t open to the general public, brings together manufactur-ers and suppliers of home furnishings and accessories with buyers for retail estab-

lishments and designers. The retailers and designers visit showrooms at market, placing orders that turn into merchandise that shows up for customers to browse and buy at stores and furniture and accessories that deco-rate homes.

The market features 180 buildings covering 10 mil-lion square feet of show-room space, predominantly in a trade show district tak-ing up most of downtown High Point. More than 2,000 exhibitors unveil tens of thousands of new product introductions at each mar-ket.

The market not only rep-resents the essential eco-nomic event in High Point each year, but in the state. The annual impact of the market on the state econ-omy is $1.14 billion annu-ally, according to a study

compiled by Andrew Brod, an economic researcher and faculty member at the Uni-versity of North Carolina at Greensboro. The market ac-counts for more than 13,000 jobs, and the assessed tax value of the High Point Mar-ket buildings was $667 mil-lion, Brod found.

Three of the four largest taxpayers in the city of High Point have been showroom complexes.

“The market is an eco-nomic engine for the Triad and North Carolina, and its success and long-term vi-ability is important ...” Brod indicated in his study. “Mar-ket is indeed a phenomenal economic engine for the re-gional and state economy.”

WORKING HEREWORKING IN THE DESIGN TRADE

The High Point Design Center caters to a key

group of people in the home furnishings industry and at the High Point Market – de-signers.

The High Point Design Center exists for the purpose of assisting interior design-ers and others in the trade in the location and acquisi-tion of products for custom-ers. Member showrooms are committed to being available to the trade and supporting designers and dealers.

The High Point Design Cen-ter regularly plans and hosts events for interior designers, sometimes with speakers or by partnering with profes-sional design associations.

The High Point Design Cen-ter has helped arrange a Unity in Design event featuring more than 50 designer-friendly show-rooms at the furniture market. One goal of the High Point Design Center is to promote events and networking among designers between spring and fall High Point Markets.

The High Point Design Cen-ter has created a data base for interior designers and others in the trade. Designers can search the data base in a product, such as bedroom, lamps or rugs, and receive a list of showrooms that carry merchandise in those catego-ries.

The High Point Design Cen-ter works with interior de-

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The High Point Design Center also emphasizes edu-cation and networking with their events for designers.

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Wall of Fame is in the Furniture Plaza lobby.

The American Furni-ture Wall of Fame

and Walk of Fame located in front of and in Furniture Plaza honor individuals who have shown outstand-ing leadership and achieve-ments in the U.S. furniture market and have contrib-uted to the innovation and development of the indus-try.

The American Furniture Hall of Fame Foundation began Feb. 22, 1988, by nine executives of the fur-niture industry who recog-nized the need for its heri-tage to be preserved. The Foundation researches the economic, cultural and ar-tistic history of the industry and collects and catalogs memorabilia.

There are 85 inducted members of The American Furniture Hall of Fame and, along with being put on

the Wall and Walk of Fame, each inductee is presented with an Affie Award. Each fall during Market, furni-ture industrialists whose vicissitude and accomplish-ments enrich the market are inducted into the Hall of Fame, Wall of Fame and Walk of Fame.

The Walk of Fame was established in 2001 and features every Hall of Fame member. After the induction of new members a bronze plaque is placed in the walkway outside Furniture Plaza.

The Wall of Fame, estab-lished in 2006 in Furniture Plaza (Merchandise Mart Properties), features the history of the industry and the inducted members.

In order to be nominated, members provide a list of potential Industry Fellows for election into the American

Furniture Hall of Fame. Indus-try Fellows include furniture manufacturers, retailers, fur-niture designers, suppliers, association management, and others who have made notable contribution to the advancement of the Ameri-can furniture industry. Candi-dates may be nominated and elected posthumously but may not have died in the 12 months prior to the date of nomination.

Each nominee must con-duct business in the United States; have served in the industry for at least 15 years and have created a legacy as a leader of the furniture in-dustry.

This year, a new process of nominations has been added to include the Industry Fel-low Selection Committee. The committee explores the industry for additional nomi-nations and then recommend

a slate which includes those nominations made by Foun-dation members. Inductees are determined by the combi-nation of a vote of the mem-bership and a points-based

rating of each nominee by the Industry Fellow Selection Committee.

Last year, Jane Seymour of “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Wom-an” fame, hosted the induc-

tion banquet, yielding four new members, including Dar-rell and Stella S. Harris found-ers of Furnitureland South, the largest home furnishings retail store in the world.

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WORKING IN TExTILES

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High Point is the home furnishings

capital of the world but it also incluse status as a textile mecca in its history. Several cotton and hosiery mills were created and thrived in High Point.

Empire Plaid Mill is claimed to be the first textile mill in High Point. In 1891, it was sold at auction to J.W. Al-spaugh for $25,000.

In 1902, Swiss silk weaver Emil J. Stehli was invited to bring his silk weaving mill to the community. It became one of the largest plants in the world to manufacture broad silk exclusively.

The Adams-Millis Corp. is probably one of the most known corporations whose home was High Point. In 1904, J.H. Adams an J. Henry Millis began the High Point Hosiery Mill. By 1915, it had grown to include Piedmont Hosiery Mills and Consolidated Mills. The corporation produced socks for many companies including Sears, J.C. Penney and Sara Lee, who acquired Adams-Millis in 1988. The Millis and Adams homes are on Main Street right across from each other. The Millis home now occupied by sever-al shops and businesses and the Adams residence is now the J.H. Adams Inn.

Because many farmers lost their land because they could not pay taxes in the early 1900s, mill companies enticed them from their farms and into mill villages where they and their families could do work outside the home for wages. The mill owner acted as a father for the families, providing jobs, shelter, medi-cal care and schooling for the families.

Mill owners usually re-quired two or three family members to work in their mill before allowing them to live in a mill house. These vil-

lages became more popular as more people moved from farms and mountains into these tight-knit communi-ties.

These communities were just like small towns with a company store where em-ployees shopped, a church and a school.

In the late 1980s and early ’90s, many jobs shifted from the textile industry to more technological industries such as cell phones. Mill workers had spent most of their lives learning the trade and once mills closed they had trouble finding jobs using the skills they already had.

Textile manufacturing is the No. 1 declining industry and the Bureau of labor Sta-tistics predicts that at least 40 percent of textile-related job will be lost by 2018.

Harriss & Covington Ho-siery Mills was founded in 1920 by Julius Ward Harriss and his son-in-law W. Comer Covington. Unlike many of the other mills in the area, it still operates as a textile mill in its fifth generation of family ownership and opera-tion. It produces a full line of men’s dress and casual socks, athletic socks and ladies’ and misses’ knee highs.

Other operating textile companies in High Point in-clude Culp, Inc., Amerifab International Inc., Skeen Textiles Inc., and Hendrix Batting Company.

Making hosiery at Harriss & covington Hosiery Mills Inc.

Showtime is High Point’s semi-annual fabric market produced by and for the mem-bers of the International Tex-tile Market Association. For four days during the months of June and December, this market offers the most thor-ough selection home fur-nishing needs such as fabric, leather and trimmings in the western hemisphere.

ITMA member companies host nearly 800 buyer compa-nies during each event. Nearly 200 member companies pres-ent at Showtime, including the eight new member com-panies that showed in early June this year. Members are converters, mills, tanneries, and trimmings manufactur-ers who supply the home fur-

nishing industry. ITMA is the largest organized group of decorative covering suppliers in the western hemisphere.

Showtime began in 1990 with around 10 exhibitors. In 2010, Showtime added 21 ex-hibitors to the event.

ITMA also supports col-leges and universities with textile and design programs. The covers of the directory and guide for Showtime and Showtime Magazine are de-signed by students in the tex-tile field from colleges across the country. The ITMA distrib-utes 5,000 Member Directory and Guides, 12,000 Show-time Magazines and 14,000 other promotional materials each year.

Exhibitors show at Market

Square in the Textile Tower the Suites, Resource Center, 329 S. Wrenn St., and the Fabric Center nearby.

At Showtime, exhibitors schedule, on average, 70 to 110 appointments for the week, making this market a cost-effective venue to view and show thousands of fab-rics. ITMA’s online appoint-ment format makes sched-uling an appointment very convenient and “walk-ins” are encouraged during the show.

Several industries are rep-resented at Showtime includ-ing apparel and costuming, fashion accessory manufac-turers, hospitality, marine, transportation and interior designers.

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ECONOmIC DEVELOPmENT CORPORATION

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High Point busi-ness has thrived

and survived off the fur-niture industry for many decades. The High Point Economic Development Corp. has been working for 21 years to continue that business and add and expand other industries in High Point.

The mission of the HPEDC is to work to re-tain existing business and industry, assist local companies in expanding, encourage the creation of head-of-household jobs for Piedmont Triad residents and attract new business to High Point.

Unlike many of its Triad counterparts, HPEDC is a part of city government, not county. That ensures that a prospective compa-ny deals with onl one deci-sion-making entity instead of multiple.

Loren Hill, the president of the EDC said it is a great advantage.

“If a developer has a problem with permits or things like that, we’ll track down the solution easier.”

The EDC also helps to find a vacant building or land that is available to build a facility. They also offer incentives to companies that come to High Point and help them find exactly what they need.

An essential part of what the EDC does is training employees through Guil-ford Technical Community

College and workforce de-velopment

Four years in a row, Greensboro-High Point ranks No. 7 in the nation for attracting new indus-try. Some industries that have found a home in High Point are advanced manu-facturing, health care and biotechnology, commercial photography, and distribu-tion and warehousing.

The EDC helped bring up the low marks of 2009 in commercial contruc-tion and in job announce-ments. In 2010, over 2,000 jobs were announced in the High Point area.

HondaJet and FedEx both chose locations at Pied-mont Triad International Airport, less than one mile outside of the High Point city limits, in 2010. Swiss light manufacturer Baltek will move its US divisional headquarters from New Jersey to High Point. Polo Ralph Lauren has three High Point facilities, the newest being a distribu-tion/logistics facility that opened in April.

For nine years in a row, HPEDC has won an award for its annual report and High Point won the na-tional distribution awasr and Public Power Award of Excellence three years in a row.

“High Point is very busi-ness friendly,” Hill said. “The city manager and senior staff work closely with business leaders on any and every issue that may arise.”

LARGEST TAxPAYERSTOTAL VALuATION OF LARGEST HIGH POINT TAxPAYERS

International Home Furnishings Center – $184,898,593

Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. – $140,010,182 Liberty Property Trust real estate – $116,508,630 HP Showplace Investors IV – $70,972,153

Tyco Electronics – $64,466,054

North State Communications – $59,587,894

CBL and Associates Properties Inc. – $57,723,425

Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. – $55,420,810

Carolina Investment Properties – $53,608,700

Thomas Built Buses – $53,358,200

Blue Ridge Companies – $50,057,907

First State Investors (finance/customer service) – $40,469,400

Mannington Mills – $38,931,255

Banner Pharmacaps – $38,884,793

Walmart – $29,329,087

Piedmont Natural Gas – $29,126,728

Kao Specialties Americas (chemical manufacturing) – $28,793,089

Maple Leaf Holdings (Palliser home furnishings showroom) – $27,091,800

Crowne Lake Associates (multi-family housing) – $23,670,443

Duke Energy Corp. – $21,182,419

Source: High Point Economic Development Corp.

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LARGEST HIGH POINT EmPLOYERSBank of America, customer service center – 2,145 High Point Regional Health System – 2,036 Guilford County Schools – 1,769 City of High Point – 1,289Thomas Built Buses – 1,248 Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. – 1,222 Cornerstone Health Care – 946 Tyco Electronics, manufacturing /distribution – 900 High Point University – 879 Aetna insurance – 852 NCO Group, customer service – 813 Carilion-Spectrum Laboratory Network, medical laboratory services – 621 Banner Pharmacaps, pharmaceutical manufacturing – 586Advanced Home Care – 528New Breed Logistics, distributionnetworks/logistics – 521North State Communications – 394 Sears Operations Center, customer service – 380 Guilford County – 368 Marsh Furniture Co., cabinet manufacturing – 354 Harland Clarke Corp., check manufacturing/distribution – 319 Source: High Point Economic Development Corp.

INTERNATIONAL COmPANIES WITH HIGH POINT PRESENCEArgEnTInA

Anthem LeatherArpel Leather Corp.

AuSTrIAFulterer USA Inc.

Schmidt America

BElgIuMFood Lion

BrAZIlDuratex North America

cAnAdADécor-Rest FurniturePalliser FurnitureMagnussen Home FurnishingsSklar-Peppler of CanadaMorbern USATop SuppliesNLnovalink

cHInABolier & Co.Legacy Classic FurnitureDecca Classic UpholsteryLifestyle Enterprise Inc.Fine Furniture DesignNew Classic FurnitureFurnco InternationalSamson Marketing FutureWei TechnologiesSchnadig InternationalHomeleganceUniversal FurnitureHTL Furniture

FrAncEAXA AdvisorsSoboplac USA Corp.

gErMAnyAdwood Corp.Klingenburg USABodet & Horst USA Merz PharmaceuticalsHörmannThomas Built Buses/Daimler TrucksJowat Corp.W. Schillig

ITAlyCalligaris USAFrancesco Molon (GieMme US)

Delmac Machinery GroupFreud USADoimo’s YumanModNatuzzi AmericasFerrari America

jAPAnHondaJetRicoh Americas Corp.Kao Specialties AmericasYKK AP America

nETHErlAndSAkzo Nobel CoatingsKeller CrescentBanner PharmacapsSun Chemical GroupHagemeyer North America

nEW ZEAlAndOrnamental Products

norWAyWema Americas

SPAInHurtado USAJoya Sleep Systems by Garme

SWEdEnElmo Leather of AmericaSapa Extrusions

SWITZErlAndAjilon Professional ServicesHuntsman Textile EffectsBaltekTE Connectivity (Tyco Electronics)Herzog Veneers

TurkEyDe Leo Textiles

unITEd kIngdoMAdams Furniture USA/House of EnglandFLIK InternationalThe British ShopInnospec ChemicalsBunzl USAJulian ChichesterFerguson EnterprisesVita Nonwovens

Source: High Point Economic Development Corp.

COPORATE/DIVISIONAL HEADquARTERS BASED IN HIGH POINT

High Point Regional Health SystemThomas Built BusesCornerstone Health CareCarilion-Spectrum Laboratory Network (Solstas Lab Partners)Banner PharmacapsLa-Z-Boy Inc. Advanced Home CareNatuzzi Americas Inc.Mickey Truck BodiesNew Breed LogisticsNorth State CommunicationsMarsh Furniture Co.Davis Furniture Industries Inc.Swaim Fine Upholstery & OccasionalTrone Inc.Anco-EaglinCarolina Container Co.Home Meridian InternationalSchnadig International Corp.HTL Furniture Inc.

Sources: High Point Economic Development Corp.; Piedmont Triad Partnership; other resources

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EDuCATING HIGH POINTfrom private institutions to award winning public schools, progress can be found everywhere

HIGH POINT uNIVERSITY

Almost every month offers a new sight

on the growing campus of High Point University.

A new $16 million Greek Village was to open in 2011 along with a “liv-ing and learning” commu-nity for arts, theater and music students even as construction started on a $9 million School of Edu-cation. A new $12 million residence hall for 300 stu-dents is scheduled to open by fall of 2012. Campus offi cials expect enrollment to continue growing to 5,000 undergraduates by 2017.

The campus also has re-ceived national attention about resort-style ame-nities and fun activities.

Classical music wafts through the grounds. HPU President Nido Qubein says that when students know you care, they do well in the classroom.

The campus also features ice cream trucks. There’s valet park-ing, a concierge desk, a hot tub and free snacks.

The school was founded in 1924 as High Point College, a joint venture between the Meth-odist Protestant Church and the citizens of High Point. When the college opened, the campus consisted of three buildings, at-tended by nine faculty members, with a student enrollment of 122.

HPU also is a growing busi-ness enterprise. By the end of 2011, HPU was expected to join the city’s 1,000-employee club by adding 149 new work-ers. Job growth has helped to elevate the university’s annual economic impact on the state to $415 million, according to Qu-

RIght: Ren Lackey, a descen-dent of Peter Doub, sits atop “Dude” at Wesley Memorial UMC, Doub was the founder of WM UMC and a “circuit rider” preacher.

Far Right: High Point Central High School Campus.

Below: Students enjoy a high quality of campus life at High Point University.

Founded: 1924 as High Point College, achieved university status in 1991.

location: 833 Montlieu Ave., High Point, N.C. 27262.

Academics: A liberal arts institution, affi liated with the United Methodist Church, offering 50 undergraduate majors, 43 undergraduate minors and 14 graduate degree programs; Accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Honors program offered.

Enrollment: More than 4,200 undergraduate and graduate students from 51 countries

and 46 states at campuses in High Point and Winston-Salem.

recognitions: Ranked by US News and World Report at No. 3 among Regional Colleges in the South. Forbes.com ranks HPU in the top 7 percent among “America’s Best Colleges.” Parade Magazine lists HPU in the top 25 private schools in the nation.

Athletics: A member of the NCAA, Division I and the Big South Conference. Costs: $35,400, which covers tuition, fees, room and board, parking, laundry and athletic events.

HIGH POINT uNIVERSITY at a glancebein. The need for additional faculty and staff will continue to increase with the planned $2.1 billion, 10-year expan-sion and transformation of campus, according to univer-sity offi cials.

The latest big HPU project is the $70 million School of Health and Sciences, pro-posed to open in 2014. The 180,000 square-foot health science building to be located across from Millis Athletic and Convocation Center will include a pharmacy school and house programs in physi-cal therapy and physician as-sistant studies.

So far, HPU has committed $550 million to construct 28 new buildings, add 120 fac-ulty members and buy the nearby Oak Hollow Mall for $9 million. Part of the fi nanc-ing comes from $170 million HPU has raised since Qubein became president.

Costs: $35,400, which covers

EDuCATING HIGH POINT

LAuREL uNIVERSITY

The name Laurel University may be

relatively new to High Point, but the school’s roots here can be traced back to 1980, when the school moved to High Point as John Wesley College.

Laurel University is a four-year, interdenomi-national Bible college that aims to integrate faith and learning while equipping students for full-time Christian min-istry or Christian leader-ship positions within the community.

Founded in Greens-boro in 1903, the school moved to High Point in 1980 – when local businessman Ed-win Shufelt donated the 25 acres on which the college now sits off of Eastchester Drive – and received accreditation two years later. The school has undergone several name changes, but it became John Wesley College in 1956 and kept that name until January 2011, when it became Laurel University.

Students at “High Point’s Other Univer-sity” can earn degrees in such disciplines as ministry, Christian

counseling, Bible/theology, Christian elementary educa-tion, intercultural studies and global missions, management and business ethics, and pastoral ministry. Beginning in the fall of 2012, the school will add bachelor’s degrees in criminal justice, social work and worship arts.

Additionally, students can take courses in Spanish – in undergraduate and graduate degree programs – through FLET, the university’s Spanish academic division.

One of the university’s most popular programs is its PACE program – Professional Adult

Career Education – which of-fers convenient, flexible course schedules designed to help working adults complete their undergraduate degree in about 18 to 20 months.

Another program designed to help working adults is the university’s totally online MBA (master of business admin-istration) program, which is licensed by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.

For more information about Laurel University, call 887-3000 or visit the school’s website at www.laureluniver-sity.edu.

Tickets go on sale July 15 through the Theatre Box Of ce and online at

www.highpointtheatre.com.

Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011 Th e Wonder Bread Years Th ursday, Oct. 13, 2011 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 Najee Th ursday, Dec. 22, 2011 It’s A Wonderful Life: Live From WVL Radio Th eatre Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 Southern Fried Jazz Band Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012 Mike Farris & the Roseland Rhythm Revue Friday, March 9, 2012 Th e Peking Acrobats Saturday, March 24, 2012 John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers Saturday, April 28, 2012 Kim Waters, featuring Maysa Saturday, May 12, 2012 Th e Rippingtons, featuring Russ Freeman

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MAGNET SCHOOLS Applications are required for many of these programs.

Academy at Central High700 Chestnut DriveHigh Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 885-7905Fax: (336) 885-7927Grades ninth through 12

Andrews Aviation Academy1920 McGuinn DriveHigh Point, NC 27265Phone: (336) 819-2800Fax: (336) 887-5585Grades ninth through 12

Central High School International Baccalaureate 801 Ferndale Blvd.High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-2825Fax: (336) 819-2991

Ferndale Middle International Baccalaureate 701 Ferndale Blvd.High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-2855Fax: (336) 885-2854Grades sixth through eighth

Johnson Street Global Studies K-8 Magnet 1601 Johnson St.High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-2900Fax: (336) 819-2899Grades K through eighth

Kirkman Park Elementary Spanish Immersion 1101 N. Centennial St.High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-2905Fax: (336) 889-6218Grades Pre-K through fi fth

LEARNING HERESPECIALITY SCHOOLS

Middle College at Guilford Technical Community College 901 S. Main St.High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-4111Fax: (336) 819-4116Grades ninth through 12

Middle College at GTCC, Jamestown601 High Point RoadJamestown, NC 27282Phone: (336) 819-2957Fax: (336) 819-2961Grades ninth through 12

Northwood Elementary International Baccalaureate Program818 W. Lexington Ave.High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-2920Fax: (336) 819-2921Grades Pre-K through fi fth

Parkview Village ElementaryExpressive Arts325 Gordon St.High Point, NC 27261Phone: (336) 819-2945Fax: (336) 819-2943Grades Pre-K through fi fth

Penn-Griffi n School for the Arts825 Washington St.High Point, NC 27260Phone: (336) 819-2870Fax: (336) 889-4841Grades sixth through 12

Triangle Lake Montessori Elementary2401 Triangle Lake RoadHigh Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-2883Fax: (336) 819-2754Grades Pre-K through fi fth

ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS Dean B. Pruette SCALE Academy 900 English RoadHigh Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 878-5380Fax: (336) 889-7625Grades sixth through 12.

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GTCC-HIGH POINT

Educators are working to make campus

life more complete at the Guilford Technical Community College campus on S. Main Street.

Part of that is opening new buildings so that students can stay on campus for more of their classes.

College leaders have the same hope for a new $8 mil-lion, three-story classroom building which has four new computer labs, biology and physics labs, offi ce space and more student space. Many of the new GTCC projects have been approved with voter-ap-proved bonds.

The building adds 553 more seats, increasing total seating to nearly 2,000 seats. The campus, which serves 5,000 to 6,000 students, has had a space problem for some time.

The campus goal is to pro-vide any student who majors in any of the campus curricu-lum programs housed on the High Point campus – Enter-tainment Technology, Human Services Technology, Simula-tion and Gaming, Pharmacy Technology and Upholstery – the opportunity to take all the classes they need to grad-uate on the High Point cam-pus. The campus also offers a combination of traditional manufacturing and service programs from upholstery to entertainment technology and massage therapy.

The college’s goal is to serve 10,000 people and the campus master plan calls for the construction of three more buildings as the campus expands toward S. Hamilton and Centennial streets.

Here is a sampling of GTCC programs at the High Point campus:

• Adult High School: For adults who want to earn a high school diploma in the traditional classroom and lab settings. Students must pass the state competency test to earn the diploma.

• General Education De-velopment: Classes prepare students to take the fi ve-part GED test needed to receive a high school equivalency di-ploma.

• Adult Basic Education: For adults who want to im-prove basic reading, writing and math skills.

• English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL): GTCC offers beginning, inter-mediate and advanced level classes.

• Compensatory Education (CED): Designed specifi cally for adults with mental retar-dation who need help in ac-quiring basic and life skills.

• The Larry Gatlin School of Entertainment Technology: Courses available in acous-tics, artist management, concert lighting, entertain-ment promotion, equipment maintenance, live sound pro-duction and recording engi-neering.

GuILFORD TECHNICAL COmmuNITY COLLEGE at a glanceStudent Population: 7,100 - 7,200Continuing Education: 6,000 students Basic Skills: 2,600 students. Curriculum students: 1,000. Campus: Five class buildings, including offi ces for business, advising and counseling, fi nancial aid and a bookstore. Contact: 336.334.4822

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ELEmENTARY SCHOOLS

Allen Jay Elementary1311 E. Springfield RoadHigh Point, NC 27263Phone: (336) 434-8490Fax: (336) 431-6555Grades Pre-K through fifth

Fairview Elementary 608 Fairview St.High Point, NC 27260Phone: (336) 819-2890Fax: (336) 819-2892Grades Pre-K through fifth

Florence Elementary 7605 Florence School RoadHigh Point, NC 27265Phone: (336) 819-2120Fax: (336) 454-5579Grades K through fifth

Kirkman Park Elementary 1101 N. Centennial St.High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-2905Fax: (336) 889-6218Grades Pre-K through fifth

Montlieu Elementary Acad-emy of Technology 1105 Montlieu Ave.High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-2910Fax: (336) 819-2915Grades Pre-K through fifth

Northwood Elementary

PuBLIC SCHOOLS

818 W. Lexington Ave.High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-2920Fax: (336) 819-2921Grades Pre-K through fifth

Oak Hill Elementary 320 Wrightenberry St.High Point, NC 27260Phone: (336) 819-2925Fax: (336) 819-2931Grades Pre-K through fifth

Oak View Elementary614 Oakview RoadHigh Point, NC 27265Phone: (336) 819-2935Fax: (336) 869-6856Grades Pre-K through fifth

Parkview Elementary325 Gordon St.High Point, NC 27261

Phone: (336) 819-2945Fax: (336) 819-2943Grades Pre-K through fifth

Shadybrook Elementary503 Shadybrook RoadHigh Point, NC 27265Phone: (336) 819-2950Fax: (336) 869-1575Grades Pre-K through fifth

Southwest Elementary4372 SW School Road.High Point, NC 27265Phone: (336) 819-2992Fax: (336) 454-8372

Grades K through fifth

Union Hill Elementary3523 Triangle Lake RoadHigh Point, NC 27260Phone: (336) 819-2130Fax: (336) 882-7162Grades Pre-K through fifth

mIDDLE SCHOOLS

Ferndale Middle 701 Ferndale Blvd.High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-2855Fax: (336) 885-2854Grades 6-9

Southwest Middle4368 Barrow RoadHigh Point, NC 27265Phone: (336) 819-2985Fax: (336) 454-4015Grades 6-8

Welborn Academy of Sci-ence and Technology1710 McGuinn DriveHigh Point, NC 27265Phone: (336) 819-2880Fax: (336) 819-2879Grades 6-8

HIGH SCHOOLS

T.W. Andrews High 1920 McGuinn DriveHigh Point, NC 27265Phone: (336) 819-2800Fax: (336) 887-5585Grades ninth through 12

Central High School 801 Ferndale Blvd.High Point, NC 27262Phone: (336) 819-2825Fax: (336) 819-2991Grades ninth through 12

Ragsdale High602 High Point RoadJamestown, NC 27282Phone: (336) 819-2960Fax: (336) 454-6767Grades ninth through 12

Southwest High School 4364 Barrow RoadHigh Point, NC 27265Phone: (336) 819-2970Fax: (336) 454-5175Grades ninth through 12

PRIVATE SCHOOLSHayworth Christian SchoolType: ReligiousHighest Degree: K-121696 Westchester Dr, High Point, NC 27262(336)882-3126

High Point Christian AcademyType: ReligiousHighest Degree: K-12307 N Rotary Dr.High Point, NC 27262(336)841-8702

High Point Friends SchoolType: ReligiousHighest Degree: K-5800-A Quake Lane, High Point, NC 27262(336) 886-5516

Immaculate Heart Of MaryType: ReligiousHighest Degree: K-8605 Barbee St, High Point, NC 27262(336)887-2613

The Piedmont SchoolType: Independent for chil-dren with learning disabilitiesHighest Degree: K-10815 Old Mill RoadHigh Point, NC (336) 883-0992

Shining Light AcademyType: ReligiousHighest Degree: K-10530 West Wendover Ave.Greensboro, NC 27409(336) 299-9688

Tri-City Christian AcademyType: ReligiousHighest Degree: K-128000 Clinard Farms RdHigh Point, NC 27265(336) 665-9822

Wesleyan Christian AcademyHighest Degree: K-121917 N. Centennial St.High Point, NC 29262(336) 884-3333

Westchester Country Day School Type: IndependentHighest Degree: K-122045 N. Old Greensboro Rd. High Point, NC 27265(336) 869-2128

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D I X O N & A S S O C I A T E ST H E R A P Y S E R V I C E S

204 Gatewood Ave, High Point, NC 889-5676We file with all insurance companies. We are a Blue Cross/Blue Shield provider.

Lori Dixon OT/L has been practicing as an occupational therapist for over 23 years. She has had her own private out-patient therapy clinic in High Point for

19 years. She has taught therapy techniques to other therapists through out North and South Carolina for over 10 years.

Her area of expertise is Myofascial Release, Mayofascial Release is a safe and effective way to evaluate and treat patients for pain and dysfunction.

Myofascial Release is a hands on treatment technique that releases scar tis-sue, soft tissue restrictions, tight and restricted muscles. Myofascial Release is successful when traditional therapy, medications and surgery have failed to

produce the desired results.

At Dixon and Associates Therapy Services, we look at each patient as a unique individual, not a diagnosis. We have tremendous success with chronic pain, TMJ dysfunction, gynecological problems, orthopedic injuries, sports related

injuries and hand injuries.

Following state and national trends, home

schooling in the greater High Point area has grown increas-ingly popular in recent years.

According to the N.C. Divi-sion of Non-Public Education, which governs home school-ing in North Carolina, Guil-ford County had 1,637 home schools during the 2009-10 school year, the most recent year for which fi gures are available. Only Wake (with 4,023 home schools), Meck-lenburg (3,131) and Bun-combe (1,666) had more.

The 1,637 home schools had an estimated enrollment of 2,986 students.

During the previous school year, 2008-09, Guilford Coun-ty had 1,568 home schools and an estimated enrollment of 2,940 students.

By contrast, in 1999-2000 Guilford County had 737 home schools and an esti-mated enrollment of 1,188 students, and in 1989-90, the county had only 175 home schools.

While no breakdown was available by counties, state statistics indicate that ap-proximately two-thirds of the state’s 43,316 home schools were classifi ed as religious, while the rest were indepen-dent.

HOmE SCHOOLING

Above: Students enjoy thier fi rst day at johnson Street Elementary School

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ENTERTAINmENTARTS &

The mission of the High Point Convention &

Visitors Bureau is simply to bring people to High Point to contribute to the economy. Tourism is the largest industry in the world, and High Point wants its share.

In the past year, 200,000 visitors have come to High Point, for an economic impact of $37 million, according to fi gures provided by the bu-reau.

HIGH POINT CONVENTION & VISITORS BuREAu

North Carolina is the sixth-most visited state in the country, and tourism leads economic recovery in the state. Visitors contributed $2.6 million to the N.C. gen-eral fund every day last year, reducing taxes by $390 for every household in the state in 2010.

Local economic impact is determined using more than just the amount visitors spend while in town. Spending cre-

ates new jobs or maintains existing ones. Businesses pay wages and taxes, and they spend money with other busi-ness that supply the goods needed to serve customers.

Retail developers track spending, and eventually new development occurs, luring visitors so that the cycle can repeat.

Taxes allow for city gov-ernment to improve parks and public areas, contribut-

ing not only to quality of life, but also to the city’s ability to draw more visitors.

Visitors come individually, in small groups and for con-ventions and trade shows. The bureau works to bring in groups of all sizes.

The High Point Conven-tion & Visitors Bureau was founded in 1983 as a division of the High Point Chamber of Commerce. The bureau be-came a separate entity and

was incorporated July 1, 1995. It is funded entirely by the nightly room tax on hotels and motels in Guilford County.

The bureau recent-ly unveiled a strategic plan for the next year that focuses on organizational excellence, increased hotel occupancy, promoting tourism, public relations and communication, diversity and inclusion.

Tim Mabe is president and cEo of convention &visitors Bureau

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NORTH CAROLINA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival

is the only professional the-ater company dedicated to performing the works of Wil-liam Shakespeare in the mid-Atlantic section of the United States.

Work to create the com-pany began in the mid-1970s, and the fi rst season opened in summer of 1977 with a pro-duction of “The Taming of the Shrew” and a budget of less than $60,000.

In 1984, Pedro Silva, origi-nally an actor with the com-pany, became managing di-rector of the nonprofi t group and has led it since, except for 1993-2001.

Now the Shakespeare Fes-tival has an annual budget of more than $1 million. In 2006 it purchased facilities for a permanent home at W. Ward Avenue and W. Green Drive

and renovated the complex to include offi ce, production, rehearsal and education fa-cilities.

Each year the Shakespeare Festival produces a Main-Stage season in the fall at the High Point Theatre. In times of economic prosperity, the Shakespeare Festival per-formed as many as six plays in its MainStage season. In recent years, however, it has presented only one play in its main season in order to economize.

This year, it will not stage a MainStage production be-cause of the poor economy and low attendance in the past several years.

Each holiday season (late November -December ) , i t stages popular performances of Charles Dickens’ “A Christ-mas Carol” at the High Point Theatre.

The Shakespeare Festival has ongoing efforts in the areas of outreach and educa-tion with the following offer-

ings:• Camps and classes for

both students and educators;• SchoolFest performances

for school groups;• Shakespeare To Go,

small-cast, condensed per-formances of Shakespeare works given throughout the state and locally;

• ShakeSpirit classroom programs that can be custom designed;

• Programs by scholars and programs before and fol-lowing productions in which audience members may talk to and question actors and directors.

For several years the Shake-speare Festival has presented family theater productions in Winston-Salem.

In 2010, it established an affi liated group, Festival Stage of Winston-Salem, that produces more contemporary and new works at The Hanes-brands Theatre at Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in Winston-Salem.

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HIGH POINT AREA ARTS COuNCIL

The High Point Area Arts Council programs its own events – including Day in the Park in early fall, a series of summer outdoor concerts and music programs for young people – and it raises money through an annual fund drive for its five affiliate groups:

• Carousel Theatre, which brings in touring performanc-es for elementary school students;

• High Point Ballet, which stages dance productions;

• High Point Community Concerts, which sponsors concerts by nationally known musicians;

• High Point Community Theatre, which uses local actors, both children and adults, to perform drama productions;

• Piedmont Artists, which sponsors performances by area musicians.

THEATRE ART GALLERIES 220 E. Commerce Ave.

SECHREST GALLERYHayworth Fine Arts Center, High Point University, 833 Montlieu Ave.

HIGH POINT FINE ART GuILDChanging Tides Cultural Arts Center, 613 Washington St.

YALIK’S mODERN ART1113 E. Washington St.

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Point has you covered with a number of options.

The High Point Museum, for example, established in 1964, offers an in-depth look at High Point’s rich history, from the Native Americans who fi rst inhabited the land, to the Quaker families that settled the area, to the infl u-ences that turned High Point into “The Furniture Capital of the World.”

Permanent exhibits include “High Point’s History,” a varied exhibit that includes, among other things, the pi-ano that belonged to former High Pointer John Coltrane; “The Hall of Commerce,” which showcases prominent local businesses; “Jamestown Rifl es,” a collection of historic rifl es manufactured in the area; and “Meredith’s Min-iatures,” one of the country’s largest collections of minia-tures.

Speaking of miniatures, the Doll & Miniature Museum of High Point features a collec-tion of more than 2,700 dolls

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from around the world, as well as numerous miniatures. The collection includes some 130 Shirley Temple dolls, a Nativity scene with 50 rare Creche dolls, and bride and groom fl ea dolls – just to name a few – as well as a large collection of nutcrack-ers that are put on display every year at Christmas.

The Rosetta C. Baldwin Museum introduces visitors to the contributions of Baldwin, an infl uential Christian edu-cator in High Point, and other African-Americans who made signifi cant contributions to the High Point community. In addition to mementos from Baldwin’s life, the museum also includes inventions made by African-Americans.

The Museum of Old Do-mestic Life, housed in a his-toric Quaker meeting house built in 1858, features the everyday items necessary to 19th-century rural life in a Quaker community, includ-ing displays for cloth-making, shoe-making, cooking and farming.

muSEumS at a glanceHigh Point Museum1859 E. Lexington Ave.885-1859, www.highpointmuseum.org

Doll & Miniature Museum of High Point101 W. Green Drive, 885-3655www.dollandminiaturemuseum.org

Rosetta C. Baldwin Museum1408 R.C. Baldwin Ave., (336) 253-1797

Museum of Old Domestic Life555 E. Springfi eld Road, 882-3054.

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WINTER:Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” by North Carolina Shakespeare Festival November and December at High Point Theatre

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration mid-January at High Point TheatrePrayer vigil in memory of fi rst High Point sit-inmid-February

SPRING:High Point Festival of Cultures, sponsored by High Point Human Relations Commission April

Dancing with the High Point Stars, fundraiser for Communities in Schools Spring

Party on the Plank concert seriesspring

N.C. Criterium race, ride May 27 and 28, 2011

SummER:Arts Splash concerts Sundays, June 19-Aug. 14, 2011

Tour de Furniture ride, race to benefi t American Red Cross Aug. 7

Hospice Taste of the Town at Showplace Aug. 16

FALL: Warren Rives 5K Run/Walk & Fun Run to Benefi t Heart StridesSept. 17, 2011

International Jazz & Blues John Coltrane Festival Sept. 3, 2011, at Oak Hollow Festival Park

North Carolina Shakespeare Festival Mainstage Season Fall

Day in the Park at High Point City Lake Parkthird Saturday in September

Beach Music Blast concerts to benefi t Children’s Home Society of North Carolina Thursdays Sept. 8-29

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WHEREto worship

Abbotts Creek Baptist Church, 2816 Abbotts Creek Church Road, High Point 27265 | 869-8410

Agape Family Ministries, 406 Ennis St., High Point 27260 | 886-8804

Albertson Road Baptist Church, 1506 Blandwood Drive, High Point 27260 | 882-9278

Allen Jay Baptist Church, 1100 E. Fairfield Road,High Point 27263 | 434-1968

Allendale Baptist Church, 900 E. Springfield Road, High Point 27263 | 887-1198

Apostolic Lutheran Church, 6024 Checker Road, High Point 27263 | 861-6320

Assembly of Christ Church Ministries, 301 E. Lexington Ave., High Point 27261 | 883-9322

Baldwin’s Chapel 7th Day Adventists Church, 1200 Leonard Ave., High Point 27260 | 889-3334

Bethany Baptist Church, 1329 Kimery Drive, High Point 27260 | 884-0479

Bethel Baptist Church, 1352 Cox Ave., High Point 27263 | 434-1591

Bethlehem Baptist Church, 801 S. Centennial St., High Point 27260 | 883-7831B’nai Israel Synagogue, 1207 Kensington Drive, High Point 27262 | 884-5522

Body of Christ Christian Church, 830 W. Green Drive, High Point 27260 | 885-3782

Brentwood Baptist Church, 2426 Gordon Road, High Point 27265 | 884-1904

Calvary Baptist Church, 808 Hilltop St., High Point 27260 882-8543

Calvary Church of the Naza-rene, 622 W. Fairfield Road, High Point 27263 | 431-6450

Calvary Covenant Fellowship, 2207 E. Green Drive, High Point 27260 | 885-6485

Cedar Street Church of God, 402 Cedar St., High Point 27260 | 887-5141

Charity Baptist Church, 6835 Charity Church Lane, High Point 27263 | 889-2852

Christ Community Church, 2928 N. Main St., High Point 27265 | 882-9923

Christ Gospel Baptist Church, 1013 Old Thomasville Road, High Point 27260 | 884-8413

Christ Presbyterian Church, 645 Greensboro Road, High Point 27260 | 884-5578

Christ the King Catholic Church, 1505 E. Kivett Drive, High Point 27260 | 884-0244

Christ United Methodist Church, 1300 N. College Drive, High Point 27262 | 889-4777

Christian Fellowship Word-God, 1654 English Road, High Point 27262 | 889-0011

Chua An Lac Buddhist Temple, 605 S. Scientific St., High Point 27260 | 887-3485

Church of God of Prophecy, 900 Old Mill Road, High Point 27265 | 869-8928

Church of God of Prophecy, 211 N. Ward Ave., High Point 27262 | 883-7953

Church of God of Prophecy, 1100 Stanton Place, High Point 27261 | 885-6512

Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, 1830 Chestnut Drive, High Point 27263 | 882-6566

Cloverdale Baptist Church, 1704 Ogden St., High Point 27260 | 882-8197

Cloverdale Church of the Living God, 1923 S. Elm St., High Point 27260 | 886-4963

Colonial Heights Baptist Church, 808 Hendrix St., High Point 27260 | 454-1259

Community Bible Church, 4125 Johnson St., High Point 27265 | 841-4480

Community Holiness Church, 7609 Horney Road, High Point 27265 | 454-5869

Community Mosque of High Point, 222 Spring Hill Church Road, High Point 27262 | 886-8341

Congregational United Church, 401 Gordon St., High Point 27260 | 884-8440

Conrad Memorial Baptist Church, 1920 N. Centen-nial St., High Point 27262 | 884-5717

Cornerstone Baptist Church, 1110 NC Highway 62 W., High Point 27263 | 861-5514

Covenant Church United Methodist, 1526 Skeet Club Road, High Point 27265 | 841-3242

Cross Community Fellowship, 175 N. Point Ave. #11B, High Point 27262 | 869-0097

Daily Walk Ministry 1518 Baker Road, High Point 27263 | 434-6176

Daily Walk Ministry, 401 Brentwood St., High Point 27260 | 884-1430

Deep River Church of Christ, 1934 Eastchester Drive, High Point 27265 | 454-3011

Deep River Friends Meeting, 5300 W. Wendover Ave., High Point 27265 | 454-1928

Doer’s of the Word, 2025 S. College Drive, High Point 27260 | 887-3811

Dothan Praise & Worship Ministries, 10418 X N. Main St., Archdale 27263 |861-8487

Eastside Baptist Church, 3100 Wilma Ave., High Point 27260 | 454-2733

Emerywood Baptist Church, 1300 Country Club Drive, High Point 27262 | 885-6016

Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 1401 Heathcliff Road, High Point 27262 | 882-2119

English Road Baptist Church, 1111 English Road, High Point 27262 | 887-2626

Eternal Life Ministry, 425 Na-than Hunt Drive, High Point 27260 | 882-6990

Fairfield Baptist Church, 212 Lakeview Ave., High Point 27263 | 431-7088

Fairfield United Methodist Church 1505 NC Highway 62 W., High Point 27263 | 431-5743

Fairmont Park Baptist Church, 3001 English Road, High Point 27262 | 887-1931

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Faith Delivered Full Gospel, 2291 English Road, High Point 27262 | 886-7495

Faith Temple Church of God, 1214 S. Elm St., High Point 27260 | 889-5564

Faith Temple Church of God in Christ, 1230 Franklin Ave., High Point 27260 | 885-6265

Fellowship of Faith Bible, 1400 Foust Ave., High Point 27260 | 883-1878

First Baptist Church, 701 E. Washington Drive, High Point 27261 | 882-9229

First Baptist Church, 405 N. Main St., High Point 27260 | 883-0178

First Church of Christ Science, 206 Woodrow Ave., High Point 27262 | 882-9755

First Congregational Church, 1718 Chestnut Drive, High Point 27262 | 884-1375

First Emmanuel Baptist Church, 833 Leonard Ave., High Point 27260 | 882-8221

First Pentecostal Holiness Church, 100 Kenilworth Drive, High Point 27260 | 882-3615

First Reformed United Church, 901 English Road, High Point 27262 | 884-1088

First United Methodist Church, 512 N. Main St., High Point 27260 | 889-4429

First United Pentecostal Church 210 Fraley Road, High Point 27263 | 884-5661

First Wesleyan Church 1701 Westchester Drive, High Point 27262| 884-1111

Forest Hills Presbyterian Church, 836 W. Lexington Ave., High Point 27262 | 883-4239

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Abbotts Creek Baptist Church, 2816 Abbotts Creek Church Road, High Point 27265 | 869-8410

Agape Family Ministries, 406 Ennis St., High Point 27260 | 886-8804

Albertson Road Baptist Church, 1506 Blandwood Drive, High Point 27260 | 882-9278

Allen Jay Baptist Church, 1100 E. Fairfi eld Road,High Point 27263 | 434-1968

Allendale Baptist Church, 900 E. Springfi eld Road, High Point 27263 | 887-1198

Apostolic Lutheran Church, 6024 Checker Road, High Point 27263 | 861-6320

Assembly of Christ Church Ministries, 301 E. Lexington Ave., High Point 27261 | 883-9322

Baldwin’s Chapel 7th Day Adventists Church, 1200 Leonard Ave., High Point 27260 | 889-3334

Bethany Baptist Church, 1329 Kimery Drive, High Point 27260 | 884-0479

Bethel Baptist Church, 1352 Cox Ave., High Point 27263 | 434-1591

Bethlehem Baptist Church, 801 S. Centennial St., High Point 27260 | 883-7831B’nai Israel Synagogue, 1207 Kensington Drive, High Point 27262 | 884-5522

Body of Christ Christian Church, 830 W. Green Drive, High Point 27260 | 885-3782

Brentwood Baptist Church, 2426 Gordon Road, High Point 27265 | 884-1904

Calvary Baptist Church, 808 Hilltop St., High Point 27260 882-8543

Calvary Church of the Naza-rene, 622 W. Fairfi eld Road, High Point 27263 | 431-6450

Calvary Covenant Fellowship, 2207 E. Green Drive, High Point 27260 | 885-6485

Cedar Street Church of God, 402 Cedar St., High Point 27260 | 887-5141

Charity Baptist Church, 6835 Charity Church Lane, High Point 27263 | 889-2852

Christ Community Church, 2928 N. Main St., High Point 27265 | 882-9923

Christ Gospel Baptist Church, 1013 Old Thomasville Road, High Point 27260 | 884-8413

Christ Presbyterian Church, 645 Greensboro Road, High Point 27260 | 884-5578

Christ the King Catholic Church, 1505 E. Kivett Drive, High Point 27260 | 884-0244

Christ United Methodist Church, 1300 N. College Drive, High Point 27262 | 889-4777

Christian Fellowship Word-God, 1654 English Road, High Point 27262 | 889-0011

Chua An Lac Buddhist Temple, 605 S. Scientifi c St., High Point 27260 | 887-3485

Church of God of Prophecy, 900 Old Mill Road, High Point 27265 | 869-8928

Church of God of Prophecy, 211 N. Ward Ave., High Point 27262 | 883-7953

Church of God of Prophecy, 1100 Stanton Place, High Point 27261 | 885-6512

Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, 1830 Chestnut Drive, High Point 27263 | 882-6566

Cloverdale Baptist Church, 1704 Ogden St., High Point 27260 | 882-8197

Cloverdale Church of the Living God, 1923 S. Elm St., High Point 27260 | 886-4963

Colonial Heights Baptist Church, 808 Hendrix St., High Point 27260 | 454-1259

Community Bible Church, 4125 Johnson St., High Point 27265 | 841-4480

Community Holiness Church, 7609 Horney Road, High Point 27265 | 454-5869

Community Mosque of High Point, 222 Spring Hill Church Road, High Point 27262 | 886-8341

Congregational United Church, 401 Gordon St., High Point 27260 | 884-8440

Conrad Memorial Baptist Church, 1920 N. Centen-nial St., High Point 27262 | 884-5717

Cornerstone Baptist Church, 1110 NC Highway 62 W., High Point 27263 | 861-5514

Covenant Church United Methodist, 1526 Skeet Club Road, High Point 27265 | 841-3242

Cross Community Fellowship, 175 N. Point Ave. #11B, High Point 27262 | 869-0097

Daily Walk Ministry 1518 Baker Road, High Point 27263 | 434-6176

Daily Walk Ministry, 401 Brentwood St., High Point 27260 | 884-1430

Deep River Church of Christ, 1934 Eastchester Drive, High Point 27265 | 454-3011

Deep River Friends Meeting, 5300 W. Wendover Ave., High Point 27265 | 454-1928

Doer’s of the Word, 2025 S. College Drive, High Point 27260 | 887-3811

Dothan Praise & Worship Ministries, 10418 X N. Main St., Archdale 27263 |861-8487

Eastside Baptist Church, 3100 Wilma Ave., High Point 27260 | 454-2733

Emerywood Baptist Church, 1300 Country Club Drive, High Point 27262 | 885-6016

Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 1401 Heathcliff Road, High Point 27262 | 882-2119

English Road Baptist Church, 1111 English Road, High Point 27262 | 887-2626

Eternal Life Ministry, 425 Na-than Hunt Drive, High Point 27260 | 882-6990

Fairfi eld Baptist Church, 212 Lakeview Ave., High Point 27263 | 431-7088

Fairfi eld United Methodist Church 1505 NC Highway 62 W., High Point 27263 | 431-5743

Fairmont Park Baptist Church, 3001 English Road, High Point 27262 | 887-1931

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Faith Delivered Full Gospel, 2291 English Road, High Point 27262 | 886-7495

Faith Temple Church of God, 1214 S. Elm St., High Point 27260 | 889-5564

Faith Temple Church of God in Christ, 1230 Franklin Ave., High Point 27260 | 885-6265

Fellowship of Faith Bible, 1400 Foust Ave., High Point 27260 | 883-1878

First Baptist Church, 701 E. Washington Drive, High Point 27261 | 882-9229

First Baptist Church, 405 N. Main St., High Point 27260 | 883-0178

First Church of Christ Science, 206 Woodrow Ave., High Point 27262 | 882-9755

First Congregational Church, 1718 Chestnut Drive, High Point 27262 | 884-1375

First Emmanuel Baptist Church, 833 Leonard Ave., High Point 27260 | 882-8221

First Pentecostal Holiness Church, 100 Kenilworth Drive, High Point 27260 | 882-3615

First Reformed United Church, 901 English Road, High Point 27262 | 884-1088

First United Methodist Church, 512 N. Main St., High Point 27260 | 889-4429

First United Pentecostal Church 210 Fraley Road, High Point 27263 | 884-5661

First Wesleyan Church 1701 Westchester Drive, High Point 27262| 884-1111

Forest Hills Presbyterian Church, 836 W. Lexington Ave., High Point 27262 | 883-4239

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WHERE TO WORSHIP

Foursquare Gospel Church 214 Welch Drive, High Point 27265 | 869-5612

Friendly Baptist Church 420 New St., High Point 27260 | 883-4798

Friendship Community Church, 1712 Baker Road, High Point 27263 | 431-2883

Friendship Holiness Church, 820 Leonard Ave., High Point 27260 | 884-1189

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church 715 W. Willis Ave., High Point 27260 | 882-9429

Full Gospel Miracle Ministries, 1107 Lake Ave., High Point 27260 | 886-5923

Gethsemane Baptist Church, 401 Wise St. ,High Point 27260 | 883-2137

Glory Center Ministries, 1209 Greensboro Road, High Point 27260 | 454-3055

Gospel Baptist Church Youth Center, 104 Jackie Ave., High Point 27263 | 434-3861

Gospel Echoes Ministry, 711B E. Washington Drive, High Point 27260 | 882-2990

Grace Church of High Point, 1141 Enterprise Drive, High Point 27260 | 889-2177

Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, LCMS, 808 N. Centennial St., High Point 27262 | 886-4947

Greater First United Baptist Church, 1409 Deep River Road, High Point 27265 | 882-6211

Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church, 2207 E. Green Drive, High Point 27260 | 885-6486

Greater New Hope Baptist Church, 906 Meredith St., High Point 27260 | 887-6877

Green Street Baptist Church, 303 Rotary Drive, High Point 27262 | 841-4334

Greenwood Hills Wesleyan Church, 2937 N. Main St., High Point 27265 | 869-5662

Hallelujah Baptist Church, 2511 Guyer St., High Point 27265 | 883-3997

Harvest Point Church, 4124 Johnson St., High Point 27265 | 869-4418

Hayworth Wesleyan Church, 1696 Westchester Drive, High Point 27262 | 882-3842

Hickory Chapel Wesleyan Church, 301 Hickory Chapel Road, High Point 27260 | 882-0792

High Point Apostolic Lutheran, 6024 Checker Road, High Point 27263

High Point Christian Center, 234 Dorothy St., High Point 27262 | 882-8738

High Point ChurchLiving God, 619 Garrison St., High Point 27260

High Point Deliverance Center, 103 Crestwood Circle, High Point 27260 | 889-4961

High Point Deliverance Temple, 908 Sharon St., High Point 27260

High Point Friends Meeting, 800 Quaker Lane, High Point 27262 | 884-1359

High Point SeventhDay Adventist Church, 279 Eastchester Drive, High Point 27262 | 869-2215

Highland Baptist Church, 1204 Textile Place, High Point 27260 | 882-6783

Highland United Methodist Church, 1015 Mill Ave., High Point 27260 | 882-2136

Hilliard Memorial Baptist Church, 2311 Westchester Drive, High Point 27262 | 887-1936

His Village Community Center, 1209 Greensboro Road, High Point 27260

HiThom Church of Christ, 1726 Kivett Drive, High Point 27261 | 883-2835

Iglesia Pentecostal Nueva Vida Asambleas de Dios, 1841 Bethel Drive, High Point 27260 | 884-5716

Iglesiade De Cristo Elim, 1235 Montlieu Ave. # B, High Point 27262

Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, 4145 John-son St., High Point 27265 | 884-5212

Inspiration Of Praise Outreach, 1136 Five Points Place, High Point 27260

Islamic Center Of High Point, 200 West Market Center Drive, High Point 27260885-0786

Jesus Mission, 1108 W. Green St., High Point 27260886-2016

Jewel Baptist Church, 2007 Dunmore Court, High Point 27263 | 431-3816

John Wesley Camp Inc., 1500 Bridges Drive, High Point 27262 | 889-4022

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witness, 1405 Penny Road, High Point 27265 | 454-2123

Kings Chapel Holiness Church, 500 Saunders Place, High Point 27260 | 885-0631

Korean American Presbyterian, 3523 Johnson St., High Point 27265 841-8439

Lakeview Free Will Baptist Church, 3855 Johnson St., High Point 27265 | 869-6312

Laurel Oak Christian Church, 1001 Old Plank Road, High Point 27265 | 887-1395

Lebanon United Methodist Church, 237 Idol Drive, High Point 27262 | 882-9853

Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, 620 E. Lexington Ave., High Point 27262889-7875

Life Changing Ministries, 1217 East Green Drive, High Point 27260 | 882-1611

Living Water Baptist Church, 1300 Brentwood St., High Point 27260 | 885-0915

Love Faith & Hope Ministries, 813 South Road, High Point 27262 | 887-6374

Memorial United Methodist Church, 1327 Cedrow Drive, High Point 27260 | 889-4501

Miracle Temple Holiness Church, 402 New St., High Point 27260 | 882-8984


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Mitchell’s Grove Methodist Church, 3511 East Kivett Drive, High Point 27260882-6657

Montlieu Avenue United Methodist Church, 1210 Montlieu Ave., High Point 27260 | 8834348

Monument Of Praise Ministries, 615 West English Road, High Point 27262 | 887-5673

Mount Carmel Baptist Church, 915 Old Mill Road, High Point 27265 | 869-3437

Mount Vernon Baptist Church, 716 Leonard Ave., High Point 27260 | 882-9216

Mount Zion Baptist Church, 753 East Washington Drive, High Point 27260 | 887-3610

New Beginnings Full Gospel, Ministries 215 Fourth St., High Point 27260 | 884-8183

New Bethel Baptist Church, 1116 Montlieu Ave., High Point 27262 | 887-1061

New Day Ministry, 1229 South Main St., High Point 27260 | 883-8950

New Dimension Family Worship, 1502 Hughes Court, High Point 27263 | 431-1688

New Grove Baptist Church, 1206 Worth St., High Point 27260 | 883-4732

New Hope Community Outreach Ministries, 1402 W. Green Drive, High Point 27260 | 885-1588

New Image Ministries Meet, at 306 N. Centennial St., High Point 27262 | 885-6750

New Jeruselem Faith Ministry, 1501 English Road, High Point 27262 | 883-9688

HIGH POINTeverythingNew Light Church Of God, 614 East Washington Drive, High Point 27260 | 886-5744

New Vision Church, 2625 Suffolk Ave., # E High Point 27265 | 954-4863

New Vision IndependentDistrict, 1012 Leonard Ave., High Point 27260 | 885-0210

New Zion Baptist Church, 1104 Garrison St., High Point 27260 | 887-2795

North Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 1600 N. Centennial St., High Point 27262 | 884-5826

North Pointe Pentecostal Church, 5225 High Point Road, High Point 27265 | 869-4015

Northwood United Methodist Church, 2409 Ambassador Court, High Point 27265 | 882-3585

Oak Grove Baptist Church, 1710 East Green St., High Point 27261 | 885-5204

Oak Hill Friends Church, 2001 Westchester Drive, High Point 27262 | 887-1350

Oak View Baptist Church, 810 Oakview Road, High Point 27265 | 841-6511

Oakview United Methodist Church, 321 Oakview Road, High Point 27265 | 869-4211

Old Pathway Baptist, 300 E. Springfi eld Road, Archdale 27263 | 882-9472

Old UnionWorthville United, 1754 Jackson Lake Road, High Point 27263 | 434-2605

Olga Avenue Church Of Christ, 1316 Olga Ave., High Point 27260 | 887-2017

One In Christ Fellowship Church, 1826 Cedrow Drive, High Point 27260 | 454-7167

Parkwood Baptist Church, 2107 Penny Road, High Point 27265 | 454-2523

Pearson Memorial AME Church, 805 East Washington Drive, High Point 27260 | 841-3032Pleasant View Baptist Church 7742 Turnpike Road, High Point 27263 | 475-0517

Power & Praise Tabernacle 1104 Cleveland St., High Point 27260 887-4506

Powerhouse Of Faith Ministries, 2805 Earlham Place, 101 High Point 27263 | 434-5089

Prison Fellowship Ministries, 1701 Westchester Drive, 620 High Point 27262 | 886-2500

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Providence Wesleyan Church, 1505 E. Fairfield Road, High Point 27263 | 431-1898

Rabbit Quarter Ministries, 2904 Esco Place, High Point 27260 | 454-0740

Rankin Memorial United Methodist Church, 314 Barker Ave., High Point 27262 | 886-4484

Reavis Memorial Baptist Church, 711 Knightdale Ave., High Point 27263 | 431-7113

Redding Street Church Of God 920 Redding Drive, High Point 27260 | 883-9214

Redeeming Love Christian Center, 1201 East Green Drive, High Point 27260 | 883-9569

Refuge Baptist Church, 2618 Refuge Church Drive, Trinity 27370 | 472-6260

Restoration Temple Deliverance, 1104 Cleveland St., High Point 27260 883-1583

Restoration Word Ministries, 662 Barney Road, High Point 27265 | 887-0707

Revelation of Faith Baptist, Church 1233 Montlieu Ave., High Point 27262 | 887-5276

Rise America Outreach Ministry Church, 2011 English Road,. High Point 27262 | 882-7473

Sandy Ridge United Methodist Church, 2223 Sandy Ridge Road, High Point 27265 | 665-0774

Shekinah Glory Church International, Inc. 1300 Fur-lough St., High Point 27260 882-0822

Solid Rock Baptist Church, 903 East Kearns Ave., High Point 27260 | 889-2486

Solid Rock Ministries, 515 Cross St., High Point 27260 883-4786

Southside Baptist Church, 2515 Bellemeade St., High Point 27263 | 884-1006

Spirit Of Life Ministries, 1809 Eastchester Drive. High Point 27265 | 886-7911

Spring Hill United Methodist, 240 Spring Hill Church Road, High Point 27262 | 882-6014

Springfield Baptist Church, 1322 Baker Road, High Point 27263| 431-3615

Springfield Friends Meeting, 555 E. Springfield Road, High Point 27263 | 889-4911

St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church 303 Eastchester Drive, High Point 27262 869-5311

St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 808 North Hamilton St., High Point 27262 889-9020

St. Luke Lutheran Church, 1711 Stoneybrook Drive, High Point 27261 | 885-6412

St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 108 W. Farriss Ave., High Point 27262 | 886-4756

St. Matthews Holiness Church, 414 Meredith St., High Point 27260 | 889-5239

St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, 100 Skeet Club Rd. High Point 27265 | 869-2311

St. Paul Presbyterian Church, 309 Summit Road, High Point 27265 | 882-4310

St. Paul United Church Of Christ, 1212 Pearson Place, High Point 27260 | 889-9430

St. Seraphim Of Sarov Eastern, 303 Eastchester Drive, High Point 27262869-8607

St. Stephen A.M.E. Zion Church, 1012 Leonard Ave., High Point 27260 | 883-0414

Straightway Baptist Church, 1125 Hickory Chapel Road, High Point 27260 | 883-2226

Successful Life Word Ministries Intl., 1756 Lamb Ave., High Point 27260 889-6179

Tabernacle Baptist Church, 3929 Johnson St., High Point 27265 | 869-3314

Tabernacle House of Praise Holiness, 601 E. Washington Drive, High Point 27260 | 885-8452

Temple Memorial Baptist Church, 1458 Cedrow Drive, High Point 27260 | 883-7023

Temple Of Inspirational Truths, 1239 Montlieu Ave., High Point 27262 | 883-6697

Temple Of Prayer Praise, 1514 Willard Ave., High Point 27260 | 883-9599

Testimonial Baptist Church, 1002 Prospect St., High Point 27260 | 883-7042

Triad Community Baptist Church, 2525 Eastchester Drive, High Point 27265 | 454-2815

Triad Community Church, 922 Gallimore Dairy Road, High Point 27265 | 662-9905

Trindale Independent Fellowship, 7027 Penman Road, High Point 27263 431-9760

True Love Church Of Living God, 905 East Lexington Ave., High Point 27262841-3972

True Standard Holiness Church, 1501 Davis Ave., High Point 27260 | 883-0015

Trulite Baptist Church 4001 N. Main St., High Point 27265 869-2380

Turner’s Chapel AME Church 7615 Florence School Drive, High Point 27265 | 454-3215

United House Of Prayer 1625 E. Washington Drive, High Point 27260 | 887-0086

Upper Room Baptist Church, 166 Ravina Lane, High Point 27260 | 883-4670

Victorious Life Church, 121 Skeet Club Road, High Point 27265 | 841-3588

Victory Baptist Church, 2112 W. English Road, High Point 27262 | 882-3794

Victory Chapel United Holy Church, 609 Amos St., High Point 27260| 883-6618

Victory Is Mine Ministries, 917 Shamrock Road, High Point 27265 | 883-8073

Ward Street United Methodist Church, 1619 W. Ward Ave., High Point 27260 884-1609

Welch Memorial United Methodist Church, 2405 Bellemeade St., High Point 27263 | 883-4230

Wellspring Community Church, 1814 B Westchester Drive, High Point 27262884-3971

Wendover Hills Wesleyan Church, 3320 Rockingham Road, High Point 27265 | 869-9588

Wesley Memorial United Methodist, 1225 Chestnut Drive, High Point 27262 | 884-2204

West Fairfield Baptist Church, 622 West Fairfield Road, High Point 27263 | 883-0617

Westchester Baptist Church, 135 Westchester Drive, High Point 27262 | 886-5021

WholeLife Ministries, 210 4th St., High Point 27260 | 886-6228

Williams Memorial CME Church, 3400 Triangle Lake Road, High Point 27261 | 883-7330

Woodlawn Baptist Church, 3201 N. Main St., High Point 27265 | 869-2411

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Palladium at Deep River, which includes The Shoppes at Deep River, opened in 2001. It’s the perfect place to spend a breezy spring day with the family. It has a multitude of options for food, shopping and fun. Some options are pizza, Thai, Japanese, Chi-nese or subs. Palladium Cin-emas opened in 2004.

Walmart has two loca-tions in High Point, one on N. Main and the other on S. Main both of which are su-percenters. Both Walmarts offer a grocery, garden center pharmacy, and photo center. The Walmart on S. Main also offers a vision center and Subway. Also, Target at Oak Hollow Mall also has apparel and a pharmacy.

There are some 200 busi-nesses located in the Uptowne (N. Main Street corridor) that begins at Ray Avenue on the south and ends at State Av-enue. It is the fl agship of the neighborhood-building areas designated, guided and sup-ported by the City Project.

If you are planning any home improvement projects High Point has Lowe’s and Home Depot, the two pre-miere choices for your home improvement needs. Both stores offer everything you’ll need for you backyard bar-becue from patio furniture to

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Antiques & Interiors has a large variety of antique furni-ture and accessories. The an-tique furniture is restored to withstand one hundred years. The antique furniture consists of pine, oak, mahogany, and

more. They also carry interior furnishings but also garden items such as cast iron gates, lamp posts and stone troughs. It has a location at 517 Green Drive and a new 100,000 square-foot showroom 1947-1949 Green Drive.

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The High Point real es-tate market offers a

variety of homes – from mod-ern construction in the north-ern part of the city to historic houses near the city’s heart – in a location that’s a day’s drive from the coast or moun-tains of North Carolina.

The city recorded 22,803 active residential properties as of last year, according to the High Point Regional As-sociation of Realtors. The city features a solid number of homes from two bedrooms to four or more bedrooms in a staggered set of price ranges.

High Point has a unique market in one respect – the older part of the city that developed downtown and spread out over more than 100 years features neighbor-hoods with houses that offer

a rich heritage of styles from different time periods. In the last 30 years, however, High Point expanded signifi cantly to the north beyond Oak Hol-low Lake, giving the city the variety of modern neighbor-hoods with subdivisions. So High Point features a market where buyers can fi nd almost any type of house.

“High Point is a great place to live, to raise children. We are within driving distance of anything you need,” said Amy Hedgecock, the current president of the High Point Regional Association of Real-tors.

Unlike other parts of the country, High Point hasn’t been a boom and bust mar-ket, said Hedgecock, who works as a property manager at Fowler & Fowler Realtors.

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The city also features an active and diverse commer-cial real estate market. One current initiative involves developing businesses in an area north of downtown known as Uptowne, which is envisioned as a place for restaurants, shops and enter-tainment venues.

Since the 1980s, the busi-ness parks in and around Pied-mont Centre in northern High Point have become a magnet for commercial development and major employers.

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The High Point residential real estate market wasn’t as hurt as much as some other locations in the country from the effects of the Great Recession. But the downturn in the economy did have an impact, as shown in figures comparing 2007 to last year.

TOTAL RESIDENTIAL uNITS SOLD2007 – 2,2262010 – 1,263

TOTAL SALES DOLLAR VOLumE2007 – $339.8 million2010 – $172.4 million

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2007 – $152,6312010 – $138,519

Source: High Point Regional Association of Realtors

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NOTABLESHigh Point natives who shine in the spotlight

High Point’s his-tory is riddled with

individuals who have gone on to greater fame beyond High Point. Among them are:

Fantasia Barrino: “Ameri-can Idol” winner in 2004 and eight-time Grammy Award nominee.

Ben Best: Screenwriter and actor, co-creator and co-writer of television show “East-bound & Down” on HBO.

robert Brown: Founder of B&C Associates, one of the largest minority-owned public relations fi rms in the country; former special assistant to President Richard M. Nixon.

james H. Burnley Iv: Deputy Secretary of Transportation from 1983 to 1987, then U.S. Secretary of Transportation from 1987 to 1989; senior advisor to Robert Dole’s presidential campaign in 1996.

james P. cain: Former U.S. ambassador to Denmark (2005-2009).

Austin Carty: Contestant on CBS’s “Survivor” in 2009; published author and motiva-tional speaker.

Elizabeth carty: Former Miss U.S. Teen (2005).

Sammie chess: Civil rights attorney who became North Carolina’s fi rst black Superior Court judge appointed in the South in the 20th century.

john coltrane: Celebrated saxophonist, born in Hamlet but moved to High Point shortly after birth, where he remained through high school.

donna Fargo: Former High Point College student who

became a top country music singer and songwriter in the 1970s.

james giles: Internation-ally renowned concert pianist and recording artist, member of the piano faculty at North-western University.

Anthony dean griffey: Tenor soloist with opera companies and symphony orchestras in major cities worldwide, and a multiple Grammy Award winner.

j.d. Hayworth: U.S. Con-

gressman, R-Arizona, from 1955 to 2007.

Elizabeth Horton: Win-ner of the 2006 Miss North Carolina Pageant.

jessica jacobs: Winner of the 2007 Miss North Carolina Pageant, fourth runner-up at the Miss America Pageant.

Warren jones: Renowned pianist, named Collaborative

Pianist of the Year for 2010, collaborates with such well-known musicians as Anthony Dean Griffey, Denyce Graves, Kiri Te Kanawa and Samuel Raney.

Hannah kiefer: Winner

of the 2008 Miss Virginia Pageant, third runner-up at the Miss America Pageant.

jack lucas: youngest Marine to receive the Medal of Honor (at age 17), gradu-ated from High Point College in 1956.

Adrian Mcdonnell: Conductor and music direc-tor of Orchestre de la Cité Internationale in Paris, France; in 2007, he was decorated with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government.

Earl n. “Phil” Phillips jr.: Former U.S. ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean (2002 and 2003).

nido Qubein: President of High Point University, interna-tionally renowned motiva-tional speaker and author.

Perley A. Thomas: Founder of Thomas Built Buses, one of the country’s

largest manufacturers of school buses; 2004 inductee of the N.C. Transportation Hall of Fame.

Maxwell Thurman: U.S. Army general who planned and executed 1989 invasion of Panama (Operation Just Cause), and helped develop the Army’s popular “Be All You Can Be” recruitment campaign.

royster Thurman: Served in the offi ce of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

capus Waynick: Former editor of the High Point Enterprise, U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua and Colombia during the Truman adminis-tration.

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Luke Appling – MLB leg-end, 1964 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee

James Betterson – Star running back at North Caro-lina who played in the NFL in the late 1970s

Ted Brown – Star running back at N.C. State and with the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings

Charlie Harville – Radio and TV sportscaster

William Hayes – starting defensive end with the NFL’s Tennessee Titans

Ray Hayworth – Big-league baseball catcher, won World Series with the Detroit Tigers in 1935

Fred Schwartzberg – Only person to letter in basketball at both N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Jim Paschal – 25-time NASCAR top series winner and two-time World 600 champion

Heather Richardson – U.S. Olympic speedskater and reigning World Cup cham-pion at 1,000 meters

Ken Rush – automobile racing pioneer and winner in many different forms of racing

Drew Weaver – 2007 Brit-ish Amateur golf champion

Brian Williams – NFL de-fensive back with the At-lanta Falcons

Adrian Wilson – All-Pro safety with the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals

Johnny Evans – Profes-sional American and Ca-nadian football punter and quarterback

HIGH POINT CENTRAL/HIGHOtis Foster (1972) — Baseball

standout who starred at High Point College and was drafted by the Boston Red Sox

Sammy Johnson (1970) — Football standout who starred at North Caro-lina, played in the NFL and was induct-ed into the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame

Harry Williamson (1931) — Track standout who starred at North Caro-lina, qualified for the 800 meters finals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics (N.C.’s first Olympian) and inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame

T.W. ANDREWSAdrian Wilson (1998) — Football

standout who starred at N.C. State and currently plays in the NFL for the Arizona Cardinals

Ted Brown (1975) — Football stand-out who was an All-American at N.C. State, played in the NFL and was in-ducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame

Johnny Evans (1974) — Football standout who starred at N.C. State and played in the NFL and Canadian Football League

SOuTHWEST GuILFORDEddie Pope (1993) — Soccer stand-

out who was an All-American at North Carolina, starred in the MLS (he was named to the league’s All-Time Best XI) and on the USA National Team and was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame

Brian Williams (1998) — Football standout who starred at N.C. State and currently plays in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons

Stefon Adams (1981) — Football standout who starred at East Carolina and played in the NFL for three teams

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Dwon Clifton (2000) — Basketball standout who played at Clemson and UNC Greensboro, played professionally overseas and coached at Baylor

Sherrill Kester Dempsey (1996) — Soc-cer standout who was an All-American at Duke and who was an all-star with the WUSA’s San Diego Spirit professionally

Christy Hedgpeth (1990) — Basketball standout who starred at Stanford and played professionally with the ABL’s Se-attle Reign

WESLEYAN CHRISTIANMaria Lubrano (2007) — Soccer stand-

out, winning state titles in her two years, who won two NCAA championships at North Carolina

Kelly McLaughlin (1996) — All-America swimming standout who starred at North Carolina and swam in the Olympic Trials

David Perry (1995) — Soccer standout, winning four straight state titles, before playing at the U.S. Naval Academy and going on to a distinguished military ca-reer

HIGH POINT CHRISTIANConner Scarborough (2009) — Base-

ball standout who currently plays at Gardner-Webb

John Eger (2008) — Soccer standout who currently plays at Covenant College

Troy Spencer (2008) — Golf standout who currently plays at Seton Hall

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GETTING AROuNDIn real estate the saying is

the three most important aspects of a property are, “Loca-tion, location, location.”

If that’s the case in geography, then High Point is situated in an enviable location in North Caro-lina and along the East Coast.

The city is at the crossroads of a network of interstates and oth-er major highways that connect High Point to locations across the breadth of the state and up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

“High Point boast four inter-state highways in or adjacent to our city limits – I-40, 85, 74, and 73. No other city in North Carolina has four ‘two-digit’ interstates running through it,” said Loren Hill, president of the High Point Economic Develop-ment Corp.

Hill said that his agency’s re-search indicates that no other community in the United States boasts the interstate connectivity of High Point.

“Los Angeles has several ‘three-digit’ interstate highways, which are spurs or loops, but the two-digit-numbered highways are the main through inter-states,” Hill said.

The roadway connections in and around High Point are a primary reason that FedEx Corp. decided in April 1998 to build its latest national cargo hub at Pied-mont Triad International Airport. In addition to its cargo hub that opened in June 2009, FedEx has developed a major ground sort-ing facility in the region.

The interstate and highway system in and around High Point explains why so many regional and national trucking motor freight companies have facili-ties in or near the city. The High Point area features at minimum approximately two dozen motor freight carrier operations.

High Point is served through its municipal bus service, Hitran, which provides rides to people across the city. High Point also is a dropoff and pickup point for the regional bus service, the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation.

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Luke Appling – MLB leg-end, 1964 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee

James Betterson – Star running back at North Caro-lina who played in the NFL in the late 1970s

Ted Brown – Star running back at N.C. State and with the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings

Charlie Harville – Radio and TV sportscaster

William Hayes – starting defensive end with the NFL’s Tennessee Titans

Ray Hayworth – Big-league baseball catcher, won World Series with the Detroit Tigers in 1935

Fred Schwartzberg – Only person to letter in basketball at both N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Jim Paschal – 25-time NASCAR top series winner and two-time World 600 champion

Heather Richardson – U.S. Olympic speedskater and reigning World Cup cham-pion at 1,000 meters

Ken Rush – automobile racing pioneer and winner in many different forms of racing

Drew Weaver – 2007 Brit-ish Amateur golf champion

Brian Williams – NFL de-fensive back with the At-lanta Falcons

Adrian Wilson – All-Pro safety with the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals

Johnny Evans – Profes-sional American and Ca-nadian football punter and quarterback

HIGH POINT CENTRAL/HIGHOtis Foster (1972) — Baseball

standout who starred at High Point College and was drafted by the Boston Red Sox

Sammy Johnson (1970) — Football standout who starred at North Caro-lina, played in the NFL and was induct-ed into the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame

Harry Williamson (1931) — Track standout who starred at North Caro-lina, qualifi ed for the 800 meters fi nals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics (N.C.’s fi rst Olympian) and inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame

T.W. ANDREWSAdrian Wilson (1998) — Football

standout who starred at N.C. State and currently plays in the NFL for the Arizona Cardinals

Ted Brown (1975) — Football stand-out who was an All-American at N.C. State, played in the NFL and was in-ducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame

Johnny Evans (1974) — Football standout who starred at N.C. State and played in the NFL and Canadian Football League

SOuTHWEST GuILFORDEddie Pope (1993) — Soccer stand-

out who was an All-American at North Carolina, starred in the MLS (he was named to the league’s All-Time Best XI) and on the USA National Team and was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame

Brian Williams (1998) — Football standout who starred at N.C. State and currently plays in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons

Stefon Adams (1981) — Football standout who starred at East Carolina and played in the NFL for three teams

WESTCHESTER ACADEmY/COuNTRY DAY

Dwon Clifton (2000) — Basketball standout who played at Clemson and UNC Greensboro, played professionally overseas and coached at Baylor

Sherrill Kester Dempsey (1996) — Soc-cer standout who was an All-American at Duke and who was an all-star with the WUSA’s San Diego Spirit professionally

Christy Hedgpeth (1990) — Basketball standout who starred at Stanford and played professionally with the ABL’s Se-attle Reign

WESLEYAN CHRISTIANMaria Lubrano (2007) — Soccer stand-

out, winning state titles in her two years, who won two NCAA championships at North Carolina

Kelly McLaughlin (1996) — All-America swimming standout who starred at North Carolina and swam in the Olympic Trials

David Perry (1995) — Soccer standout, winning four straight state titles, before playing at the U.S. Naval Academy and going on to a distinguished military ca-reer

HIGH POINT CHRISTIANConner Scarborough (2009) — Base-

ball standout who currently plays at Gardner-Webb

John Eger (2008) — Soccer standout who currently plays at Covenant College

Troy Spencer (2008) — Golf standout who currently plays at Seton Hall

NOTABLESTOP AHTLETES FROm HIGH POINT STANDOuT PREP AHTLETES

GETTING AROuNDIn real estate the saying is

the three most important aspects of a property are, “Loca-tion, location, location.”

If that’s the case in geography, then High Point is situated in an enviable location in North Caro-lina and along the East Coast.

The city is at the crossroads of a network of interstates and oth-er major highways that connect High Point to locations across the breadth of the state and up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

“High Point boast four inter-state highways in or adjacent to our city limits – I-40, 85, 74, and 73. No other city in North Carolina has four ‘two-digit’ interstates running through it,” said Loren Hill, president of the High Point Economic Develop-ment Corp.

Hill said that his agency’s re-search indicates that no other community in the United States boasts the interstate connectivity of High Point.

“Los Angeles has several ‘three-digit’ interstate highways, which are spurs or loops, but the two-digit-numbered highways are the main through inter-states,” Hill said.

The roadway connections in and around High Point are a primary reason that FedEx Corp. decided in April 1998 to build its latest national cargo hub at Pied-mont Triad International Airport. In addition to its cargo hub that opened in June 2009, FedEx has developed a major ground sort-ing facility in the region.

The interstate and highway system in and around High Point explains why so many regional and national trucking motor freight companies have facili-ties in or near the city. The High Point area features at minimum approximately two dozen motor freight carrier operations.

High Point is served through its municipal bus service, Hitran, which provides rides to people across the city. High Point also is a dropoff and pickup point for the regional bus service, the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation.

PuBLIC TRANSPORTATION/TAxICAB OPTIONS IN HIGH POINT

Hitran city bus service 889-7433

Piedmont Authority for regional Transportation regional bus service (PArT) 662-0002First class cab 885-1966golden city cabs883-1739red Bird cab 886-5001

Rebate Programs*

High Ef ciency Heat Pump Rebate - $400 rebates when a high ef ciency heat pump (minimum 14 SEER) is installed after January 1, 2009.

Electric Water Heater Rebate - a rebate of up to $150 after in-stalling an energy ef cient electric hot water heater (30 gallons or more).

Energy Star Home Rebate - Builders of single family homes constructed after January 1, 2009, are eligible to receive a rebate of $500, upon nal certi cation by an independent Home Energy Rater.

Energy Audits*

Free Home Energy Audits - A city employee will come to your home and perform the audit. Once the audit is complete, a written report will be mailed to you.

Free Energy Depot - Complete a do-it-yourself home energy audit and receive your report online.

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Get started saving green by going online to www.highpointnc.gov/custsrv/green.cfm.

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From the time the doors opened at High Point

University in 1924, athlet-ics have been a part of the school’s fabric.

The cloth featured football and basketball in the begin-ning. Today, the school fi elds seven men’s sports (baseball, basketball, cross country, soc-cer, golf, lacrosse and track and fi eld) and seven women’s sports (basketball, volleyball, soccer, cross country, golf, la-crosse and track and fi eld).

The fabric was woven ear-ly. HPU was an early paceset-ter in 1930 when it played at North Carolina State in the fi rst night football game in the state of North Carolina and participated in the fi rst

intercollegiate soccer match south of the Mason-Dixon Line, a 1-0 victory over Ca-tawba.

That was also the year HPU became a charter member of what is now Conference Car-olinas, which was originally an NAIA league that even-tually moved to Division II. The Panthers remained loyal, staying the league until leav-ing in 1997 to move up from the to their current status as a NCAA Division I member.

Basketball became the most visible sport when foot-ball was discontinued after the 1950 season. HPU a tra-ditional power in the league fi rst known as the North State Conference and then the Car-olina Conference, winning a record 12 conference tourna-ment.

The best of the glory days for the Panthers came in the 1960s when they went to the NAIA national tournament three times, losing in the third round in 1964, the second round in 1965 and the third round in 1969 behind all-time

leading scorer and Little All-American Gene Littles. They also made it in 1939, 1942, 1946 and 1951.

The men’s basketball runs weren’t the deepest on a na-tional level. Behind the play of Ethel White and Marie Riley, the Panthers won the AIAW Division II National Championship. In baseball, HPU went all the way to the NAIA championship game in 1979, losing to Lipscomb by a run. HPU has also made its mark since moving to the Big South, winning regular season conference champion-ships in women’s basketball plus men’s and women’s soc-cer and tournament champi-onships in women’s soccer, men’s cross country, men’s tennis, volleyball and wom-en’s lacrosse.

The lacrosse title was the most recent after 15 regular season wins that set a NCAA Division I record.

The fabric continues to be well meshed.

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PANTHERS OF NOTE- Dick Culler – Little All-American in basketball, All-conference in baseball, player-coach in soccer. Only player in HPU history to go on to play in Major Leagues

Gene Littles – All-time leading scorer in basketball with 2,398 points. Played six seasons in the ABA. Coached four seasons in the NBA.

Tubby Smith – Sixth all-time scorer in basket-ball. Won NCAA national championship as coach at Kentucky. Currently head coach at Minnesota.

Otis Foster – Two-time All-American in baseball in the 1970s. Still holds records for batting aver-age in a season, RBIs in a season and career and home runs in second and career. Reached AAA level in minor leagues.

Jerry Steele – Winnigest coach in basketball, going 456-411 over 31 seasons.

Karen Curtis – Holds record for scoring (2,612 points) and assists (645) in women’s basketball

Roger Watson – All-American golfer, member of NAIA Hall of Fame, went on to win two PGA National Club Professional Championships

Nancy Isenhour – Be-came fi rst woman to play on a men’s varsity basket-ball team, in 1944

George Nostrand – Played basketball for HPU from 1941-44, played in the fi rst NBA game ever in 1946 and is the only player in school history to reach the NBA.

Virgil Yow – Best win-ning percentage as basket-ball coach (323-197 over 21 seasons). Also coached baseball for 12 seasons.

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HIGH POINT HIGH/CENTRAL

Football — 1941, 1979, 1999Boys basketball — 1937, 1943, 1948, 1950Boys track — 1913, 1936, 1937Boys swimming — 1953, 1954Boys golf — 1937, 1943, 1948, 1949Wrestling — 1947, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1994Boys tennis — 1982, 1983Boys soccer — 1988Girls tennis — 1976Girls basketball — 1993, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002Girls soccer — 1999

T.W. ANDREWSFootball — 1972, 1976, 1991Boys basketball — 1995, 2001Boys track — 1998, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2001Wrestling — 1981,

1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 2003Girls tennis — 1986Girls track — 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005Volleyball — 1975

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Baseball — 1997Boys basketball — 1996Boys golf — 1987, 2004Boys soccer — 1994Girls basketball — 1984, 1985, 2011Girls soccer — 1997, 2001, 2002Girls swimming — 1995, 1997Volleyball — 1995, 2006

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2010Girls soccer — 1995, 1996, 2005Boys swimming — 2002, 2003Boys tennis — 1992, 1993, 2003Girls tennis — 1976

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Boys soccer — 1984, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2005Boys basketball — 1985, 1986, 1989, 1993Baseball — 2008, 2010Volleyball — 1988, 1991Wrestling — 2011Girls swimming — 2010

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DAY TRIPPIN’there are lots of adventures waiting just around the corner...

If you are looking for something to do within a

day’s drive of High Point, this region provides an array of at-tractions and activities.

From racing museums, such as the Petty Museum in Randle-man and the Richard Childress Museum in Welcome, to the N.C. Zoo in Asheboro to the Childress Vineyards in Lexing-ton, there are activities and at-tractions for all ages.

RHICHARDCHILDRESSmuSEumOne attraction is the Richard

Childress Museum, located in a complex beside Richard Childress Racing’s race shop, in the town of Welcome. The museum, which features 47 race vehicles, including Dale Earnhardt’s winning Daytona 500 car, attracts about 50,000 people annually, according to 2010 fi gures from RCR racing. There 16 video screens in the facility that showcase key vic-tories in RCR history.

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website, the center section of the facility is dedicated to Childress’ devotion to wildlife and outdoor conservation. The Rocky Mountain Elk Founda-tion, the North Carolina Wild-life Habitat Foundation, the National Wild Turkey Federa-tion and Ducks Unlimited, all actively involved in the con-servation of the nation’s wild-life and natural resources, are showcased in this area along with many of the animal tro-phies Childress has taken over the years, the website states.

Hours of operation for the Richard Childress Museum are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday the museum is closed. Admission is $12 for adults, $8 for se-niors (age 55 and older), $5 for students (age 7 to 18) and admission is free for children six years and younger.

BOB TImBERLAKE GALLERY

In 1997, Timberlake opened

The Bob Timberlake Gallery, a 16,000-square-foot facility in his hometown of Lexington. The gallery, located at 1714 E. Center St., Lexington, features Bob Timberlake art, apparel, furniture and home furnish-ing accessories, as well as a broad selection of gifts and collectible items. The gallery, which prides itself in inviting visitors to step into the artist’s life and immerse themselves in the world, attracts between 45,000 and 55,000 visitors each year.

The Bob Timberlake Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The gallery is closed Sunday and Monday.

CHILDRESS VINEYARDS

Childress Vineyards, located at 1000 Childress Vineyards Road, Lexington, was part of a recognition by USA Today Travel in 2010. USA Today Travel recongized the Yadkin Valley, which includes Chil-dress Vineyards, as one of the

top 10 places in the nation for local wines.

Childress Vineyards oper-ates out of a 35,000-square-foot facility, where visitors can witness the craft of winemak-ing under the guidance of one of the most award-winning winemakers in America today, Mark Friszolowski, according to Childress Vineyard’s web-site. The wines Friszolowski has produced are both a com-mercial and critical success, being named to the 50 Best Wines of the World twice, the website says.

PETTY muSEum The Petty Museum, located

on 142 W. Academy St., re-opened in February 2011 with a new look. Museum work-ers completed renovations to the attraction in Randleman Renovations included im-provements to the museum’s foyer, a larger children’s room, as well as the relocation of the movie room and gift shop. The space of the museum remains the same.

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The museum also consists of Petty’s interests outside of racing, including his gun and knife collection. Petty’s wife, Linda, also has her collection of dolls at the museum.

The museum is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Admission is $8 for adults, $7.50 for seniors and $5 for children.

CASTLE mCCuLLOuGH

Castle McCulloch in James-town is well within a day’s drive – in fact, it’s just east of the city off of Kivett Drive.

It’s now best known as a wedding and reception site, as well as a place for corpo-rate meetings and retreats, children’s activities, birthday parties and private parties.

The site has a lengthy his-tory that dates to the early 19th century.

Following the discovery of gold in North Carolina, an enterprising Cornish engineer named Charles McCulloch came to gold fi elds near Jamestown to build a gold

refi nery, according to Castle McCulloch.

McCulloch brought with him the architecture of Eng-land and the latest technologi-cal development, the steam engine. McCulloch Gold Mill was built in 1832 and oper-ated many years as an integral part of the history of gold min-ing in the state and beyond.

Gold mining gradually shifted west, with the advent of the gold rush in California in the mid-19th century. The original mill structure at the castle also served briefl y as a makeshift hospital for soldiers during the Civil War.

The site offers panning for gold and gems, and patrons can fi nd Amethyst, Garnet, Ruby, Saphire, Peredot, Tour-maline and other types of stones on the property.

The castle has several ven-ues that host wedding events: The Crystal Garden Ballroom, The Hillside Terrace (Crystal Garden Patio), The Hillside Terrace (Crystal Garden Patio), The Great Hall, The Great Hall

Patio, The Queen’s Chambers and The Queen’s Chambers Patio.

SAILSBuRY A short drive down In-

terstate 85 from High Point, historic downtown Salisbury beckons.

Downtown Salisbury has seen over $51 million in in-vestment over the past de-cade, with some 75 shops, 15 restaurants and a pedes-trian-friendly atmosphere that incorporates sidewalk seating throughout the downtown. Bakeries, bars, cafes, coffee houses and other businesses have proven that there is a market for their services with their staying power.

The historic district covers 30 square blocks area and includes the Dr. Josephus Hall House, built in 1820 as the Salisbury Female Academy, and the Utzman-Chambers House, an 1819 Federal town-house. A guided audio walk-ing tour is available for rent at the Rowan County Convention & Visitors Bureau that covers

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The downtown includes a warehouse district that houses retail shops, art galleries a theater and other contempo-rary businesses in space once devoted to factories.

CHARLOTTEIn Charlotte, the NASCAR

Hall of Fame opened in May 2010. Located in uptown Charlotte, the hall is approxi-mately 150,000 square feet and features more than 40,000 square feet of exhibit space showcasing hands-on exhib-its, video interactive displays, educational opportunities and authentic artifacts telling the story of stock car racing.

The hall includes a theater that shows a 12-minute fi lm covering the history of the sport, the Great Hall with ro-tating exhibits, a feature that showcases 18 historic cars and highlights 40 current and his-toric tracks, information about Hall of Fame inductees and an interactive area that takes viewers behind the scenes of how a NASCAR team works.

GREENSBOROThe International Civil

Rights Center & Museum opened in downtown Greens-boro in February 2010, on the 40th anniversary of the sit-in movement that began in what is now the museum site.

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Angel.”Much of the architecture in downtown was constructed by the same craftspeople who built Biltmore House. Asheville boasts more Art Deco architecture than any southeastern city other than Miami Beach. Among other attractions are:• The Asheville Art Museum’s outstanding collection, show-casing the very best of 20th and 21st century American art and the cultural heritage and contemporary art of Western North Carolina.• The Asheville Urban Trail that often has been called Asheville’s “museum without walls.” Started by a small group of citizens interested in helping revitalize downtown, the Urban Trail consists of 30 stations of bronze sculpture around downtown. Each

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station has a plaque illumi-nating some of the very inter-esting history of downtown’s development and the various notable people who once lived here. • The Basilica of St. Lawrence D.M., completed in 1909, is one of Asheville’s architec-tural treasures and spiri-tual anchors. Designed by Rafael Gustavino and Richard Sharpe Smith, renowned architects on the Biltmore House, this Catholic church has the largest freestanding elliptical dome in the country.• A National Heritage Area is something to treasure, and Asheville is in the heart of one of the most beautiful in the country, the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. In designating the 25 western-most counties and Qualla

Boundary in North Carolina as a National Heritage Area in 2003, Congress recognized that the cultural and natural resources of the Blue Ridge Mountains have played a significant role in the history of the United States and the State of North Carolina. Some of the defining land-scapes include the deepest gorge in the Eastern U.S., Linville Gorge; the oldest river in North America, the New River; the most visited National Park lands in the country, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway; the highest mountain east of the Rockies, Mt. Mitchell; the ancestral home of the Cherokee, and America’s larg-est home, Biltmore.

RALEIGHThere is plenty to do in Raleigh, the state capital, including:• The J.S. Dorton Arena that has been a fixture of the skyline of Raleigh for over 50 years. Groundbreaking and revolutionary in its design at the time of construction, the building still stands out as a unique aspect of the city.• The JC Raulston Arbore-tum, located on the grounds of the North Carolina State University. The plants on dis-play are considered the best examples of plants suited to the climate of the southeast-ern United States.• Early American architecture fans will want to be sure to stop by Joel Lane House when in Raleigh. This home was built in the late 18th

Century and has been care-fully restored to its original appearance complete with décor of the times and period furniture.• Marbles Kids Museum, a hands-on, interactive at-traction for children. There are five galleries and two outdoor escapes for kids from infant to age 12, and their families.• The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, which features an impressive permanent collection and features changing exhibits as well. The permanent collec-tion showcases art from the time of the Pharohs to mod-ern artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Franz Kline, Frank Stella, and Jacob Lawrence.• The North Carolina Mu-seum of History in Raleigh, which offers long term and

temporary exhibits on the history of the state. The museum offers informative displays on a variety of top-ics including the Civil War, Native Americans, women’s history and more. The North Carolina Museum of History is also home to the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.• North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is the largest natural sciences museum in the Southeastern United States. Easily located right downtown between the Capital and Legislative buildings, the museum can be combined with visits to these two city sites.• When touring Raleigh, be sure to stop in and see the North Carolina State Capital Building. Located on the historic Trolley Tour, the North Carolina State Capital Building is considered one of the best-preserved examples of Greek revival architecture. The Capital Building was completed in 1840 and is one of Raleigh’s best-loved land-marks. The North Carolina State Capital Building is a National Historic Landmark.

WILmINGTONWilmingtonInsiderinfo.US reports that horse-drawn carriages still click down Wilmington’s old brick streets and riverboats cruise its 300-year-old harbor, but the past is only part of the coastal city’s story. What was once a busy port teeming with markets, warehouses and the world’s largest cot-ton exchange has become a lively spot for arts, shopping, family activities, fine dining and nightlife. Wilmington provides much to see and do. A water taxi ferries visitors to the famous World War II battleship, USS North Carolina. Hands-on exhibits at the Wilmington Children’s Museum nurture creative young minds. The Bellamy Mansion, a lavish, four-story, 22-room historic house museum, beckons visitors with its opulence. Historic Thalian Hall attracts internationally acclaimed musicians, actors

and dancers.Cameron Art Museum’s glorious collections inspire art lovers, and vast Airlie Gardens’ acres of azaleas, camellias, freshwater lakes and massive live oaks pro-vide a place to enjoy nature. Nicknamed “Hollywood East,” Wilmington is home to massive EUE/Screen Gems Studios, where movies, TV shows and commercials are filmed, and each fall brings indie gems at the annual Cucalorus Film Festival.

OLD SALEmCloser to home, Old Salem is a historic district of Winston-Salem. Wikipedia reports it features a living history museum (oper-ated by the non-profit Old Salem Museums & Gardens, organized as Old Salem Inc.) that interprets the restored Moravian community. The nonprofit organization began its work in 1950, although some private residents had restored buildings earlier. As the Old Salem Historic District, it was declared a Na-tional Historic Landmark in 1966.The district showcases the culture of the Moravian settlement in North Carolina during the 18th and 19th centuries, recreating shops, churches and houses.Two buildings were individu-ally designated as NHL, the Salem Tavern and the Single Brothers’ House. Additional buildings and properties have been added to the National Register that expand the historic area. Ownership of the buildings and land is currently divided among Old Salem, Inc., Wachovia Histori-cal Society, private owners, Salem Academy and College, Home Moravian Church, and the Moravian Church Southern Province.Today, the town’s preserved and reconstructed buildings, staffed by living-history interpreters, present visitors with a view of Moravian life in the 18th and 19th cen-turies. The features include skilled interpreters such

as tinsmiths, blacksmiths, cobblers, gunsmiths, bakers and carpenters, actually practicing their trades while interacting with visitors. Approximately 70 percent of the buildings in the historic district are original, making this a truly unique living his-tory museum.Substantial historical and archaeological research has focused on Salem’s historical African-American population. Moravians even educated enslaved members of their community, teaching literacy skills and even some profes-sional trades. Holistic studies directed towards understand-ing ethnicity and cultural identity of African-Americans in Salem have resulted in significant additions to the historical interpretation presented at Old Salem. Highlights of the village itself include the Salem Tavern, where George Washington spent two nights, May 31 and June 1, 1791, while pass-ing through North Carolina; the Single Brothers’ House; Boys’ School; Winkler Bakery; and a host of restored homes and shops, and several stores including T. Bagge Merchant and the Moravian Book and Gift Shop.

NORTH CAROLINA ZOOThe North Carolina Zoo is located in Asheboro in Randolph County, in the Uwharrie Mountains near the geographic center of the state. At 1,371 acres , it is the largest “walk-through” natural-habitat zoo in the world, and only one of two state-owned zoos in the Unit-ed States. The NC Zoo has over 1100 animals from more than 250 species primarily representing Africa and North America. Wikipedia says the zoo is open 364 days a year and receives more than 700,000 visitors annually. The North Carolina Zoo con-sists of two main areas: “Af-rica” and “North America” on opposite ends. There are parking lots located on both ends, so during peak season, visitors can start their day from either side. There are approximately five miles of walking paths. There are also trams and air-conditioned buses for transporting visi-tors in the park.The North Carolina Zoo was the first American zoo to in-corporate the “natural habi-tat” philosophy – presenting animals together with plants in exhibits that resemble the habitats in which they would be found in the wild.

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