St. Judes Research Hospital

by | Jun 6, 2016 | Children, Health, St. Judes Research Hospital

Children of St. Judes Research Hospital and Feeding the Hungry

WorldLegacy’s NC154 Leadership Team raised, in one week, $13,500 for the Children of St. Judes Research Hospital.  St. Jude’s Research Hospital for Children believes that “no child should die in the dawn of life.” They have invented treatments over the last 50 years, that have helped increase the childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80%. Families who come to St. Judes Hospital never have to pay for treatment, travel, housing or food. In addition, NC154 put themselves on a three-hour stretch  where they raised enough money to feed 37,700 people.

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Shaw University Raleigh, NC

by | Jun 6, 2016 | Children

Shaw University

WorldLegacy NC 109 Leadership team decided to make a difference for children at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC. The team spent three months learning stretching and standing for excellence, love and possibility.  The icing on the cake was the project at Shaw University which was indeed an extreme makeover.  Shaw University Center is a 5-star licensed facility and serves 42 low-income children.  It has a capacity for 100 children. They took a brown, mulched yard and transformed it into fun, colorful areas for infants and toddlers to explore the outdoors. The front area was enhanced to make the entrance warm and inviting with the addition of plants, sod, a bench and beautiful potted plants. The infant area was fenced off and was enhanced with an arbor swing, a grassy area, pull-up bars, edible plants and climbing hills. A picnic area was created with sod, a 10′ x 10′ covered sand box with benches, two raised vegetable gardens, a sunflower circle with two small wooden platforms over drains, two teepees, a bird house, a bird bath and feeders, and a rain garden in the bio-retention area. A path was created for the children so that they could dream, transform and explore their world. All of this was accomplished in only two days. The total cost of this project ended up being $65,000. It was indeed an extreme makeover for the community.

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Oaklawn Project Wichita Kansas

by | Jun 6, 2016 | Children, Family, Oaklawn Playground

Oaklawn Playground

In April of 2012 Wichita, Kansas had a night of severe storms and tornadoes that tore through a town, causing devastation throughout the homes. Children could no longer play outside. What used to be a playground was now a vacant lot. NC137 saw how beneficial a playground would be for the children of this community bringing a sense of hope and connection after such a major life-shifting event. In June of 2012 NC137 chose this vacant lot as their project and involved many of the community to volunteer and donate to the project. This created a sense of excitement within the community! The empty lot that was chosen was often referred to by the kids in the neighborhood as the haunted house and lot. During the project, it was so cool to see the kids who live in the community coming to help and see what was happening in their neighborhood. The day after the project a car pulled up to one of the volunteers at the gas station and all of the sudden, there were three smiling faces at the window waving like crazy! They told the volunteer that they had played that morning and just wanted to say thank you! The playground in Oaklawn in Wichita Kansas has created a safe space for kids to run and play and be free to be kids. It is a place that will keep giving for many years to come-a haunted house now a beautiful, free open playground! The WorldLegacy Oaklawn project created a playground completely from scratch in less than 72 hours. Budget: $37,500.

Oaklawn WorldLegacy Leadership Project
New Playground Taking Shape In Vacant Oaklawn Lot
Saturday, June 30, 2012

A community is coming together to improve a neighborhood. Bringing everyone together is the goal of designing and building a playground in the span of just one weekend.

Volunteers have braved the Kansas heat to convert a vacant lot in Oaklawn into a park. It’s a project enjoying plenty of community support.

While there are still signs of damage from the April 14 tornado that caused widespread damage in Oaklawn, they’re being replaced by the signs of progress and improvement.

“It’s fabulous the way everybody’s working together,” said Andree Sisco, a member of the Oaklawn Improvement District’s board of directors. “It really is great.”

Board members have been wanting to do something positive with a vacant lot left behind when an abandoned house in the 4500 block of Hemlock was torn down.

“We took the slab out to look at having it turned into a park someday,” Sisco said. “And then this wonderful organization came in and gave us the opportunity and they’ve just been fabulous.”

That organization is the WorldLegacy, a North Carolina-based company that provides corporate training and personal coaching across the country. Another strong focus of the WorldLegacy is community service.

The group got the idea for the Oaklawn project from team members from Wichita, who wanted to help the communities affected by the April tornado.

“They talked about Oaklawn and how it really got a lot of the damage,” said Jason Kunz, a WorldLegacy member from Minneapolis, Minn. “We talked to Oaklawn, talked to the board, and we got this lot open and everything just fell into place after that.”

Kunz left Minneapolis, picked up a disassembled playground in Duluth, Minn., and drove it to Wichita in the back of a U-Haul truck. In addition to about 20 WorldLegacy members, plenty of Oaklawn neighbors have been helping the project take shape, including some of those looking forward to using the playground the most.

No matter their size or age, everybody found a way to help out.

Work on the playground started Friday morning and the plan is for everything to be done by the end of the weekend.

“We have a ribbon-cutting ceremony tomorrow night at 7 o’clock,” Kunz said. “So we have to have everything done by 7 o’clock tomorrow night.”

Plenty more volunteers will be needed to reach that goal. Work will begin at the site of the new park, 4539 Hemlock in Oaklawn, about 8 a.m. Sunday and will continue until the playground is complete.

Oaklawn Playground Kansas Press Release

Contact: Amy Price for Immediate Release
Oaklawn Improvement District Playground Project
Wichita Kansas

WorldLegacy, June 29 2012. The Oaklawn community, 4539 Hemlock, Wichita, Kansas, is receiving an extreme makeover of a vacant lot to turn it into a playground for children and families. Members of the NC137 Leadership Team from WorldLegacy in Chapel Hill, NC are partnering with the Oaklawn community to create a beautiful fun and safe environment for the children in and around the community. This project is a part of WorldLegacy’s three month leadership development program. This playground project will include a safe fenced in area with benches, picnic tables, playground equipment and much more!

What makes this project unique is that the WorldLegacy Leadership team must design the project start to finish, cannot use any of their own money, must involve the community to do 75% of the work and also have it complete in a maximum of three days.

The area chosen for this project has recently been devastated by tornados. The playground project is intended to restore hope peace, serenity, security, fun and safety back into the lives of these children. The project helps to keep these children in a safe and nurturing environment and provides the means for children to discover their imagination, creativity and freedom to be a child as they so deserve.

The NC137 Leadership team requests your help to make this project possible the weekend starting June 29, 2012 at 8:00 am central time extending through Sunday July 1, 2012. We will start each workday at 8:00 am Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Join us in celebrating the completion of the project with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Sunday, July 1 at 7:00 pm.

This is your opportunity to give back to the community and make a difference! Volunteers, monetary, brick masons, landscapers, builders, electricians, helping hands are requested. Everyone is invited to come out and help make this vision become a reality. The playground project will send a powerful message to these children that they matter, are loved and are valued. Your donations will be tax deductible.

Leadership group pools talents to build a playground in Oaklawn

A teacher’s assistant from North Carolina, an industrial hygienist from St. Paul, Minn., a paralegal from London and a physical therapist and a mechanical engineer from Wichita will team up this weekend to build a playground for the children in Oaklawn who were affected by a tornado in April.
By Simina Mistreanu
A teacher’s assistant from North Carolina, an industrial hygienist from St. Paul, Minn., a paralegal from London and a physical therapist and a mechanical engineer from Wichita will team up this weekend to build a playground for the children in Oaklawn who were affected by a tornado in April.
They form the NC137 Leadership Team with WorldLegacy, an organization from North Carolina that provides leadership workshops. This is their attempt at making the world a better place.
Building the playground is the team’s final project for the workshop, which they all participated in the last three months. In order for their project to be successful, Amy Price, Tori Smith, Adam Price, Andrew Hadley and Jason Kunz need to involve donors and volunteers from the Oaklawn community.
“We actually got to choose any place in the country to go and make an impact,” said Amy Price, who works as a teacher’s assistant at a school for deaf students in Morganton, N.C. “Since tornadoes recently went through Wichita, and since we have two members on the team from the Wichita area, we felt that that would make the biggest impact, the biggest difference in the community.”
Adam Price, Amy’s son and a mechanical engineer for Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, and Smith, a physical therapist who works near Oaklawn, attended a board meeting of the Oaklawn Improvement District to see what the area’s needs were. The board had discussed building a playground in the neighborhood for the kids whose families were affected by the tornado. The team took the idea and ran with it.
First, they made a list of the materials they needed for the project: concrete, rubber mulch, a playground structure with a swing set, park benches, picnic tables, trash cans, a fence. Then, they divided the tasks.
“The things that we felt most strongly about we took on individually,” Adam Price said. “If we had any type of background with some of the things needed on the list, then those were the items that we selected.”
They calculated the cost of the project at approximately $30,000. And they set a few rules: the team had to design the project themselves, could not use any of their own money, had to involve the community to do 75 percent of the work and had to have it completed in a maximum of three days.
They started approaching businesses for donations and volunteers for help. On Monday, they still needed funds for buying mulch and a playground structure and the help of as many volunteers as possible.
The team is expecting to attract 50 to 100 volunteers over the weekend, Smith said.
“We still are knocking on the doors in the neighborhood and letting them know what we’re up to, that we’re going to be putting up a playground for their kids to come and play,” Adam Price said. “After work or during lunch we’ll take off for a few minutes and drive over.”
The construction work at the playground will start Friday at 8 a.m. and end Sunday at 7 p.m. with a ribbon-cutting event with food and music.
“It’s just going to be really great to bring the community together around the playground,” Smith said. “And when we’ll get it done, it’s going to be awesome.”

The Wichita Eagle

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Lifespan WorldLegacy Project

by | Jun 6, 2016 | Children, Lifespan

LifeSpan Circle School

In November of 2008, WorldLegacy’s NC105 Leadership team chose the LifeSpan Circle School in Burlington North Carolina for their project. This school offers 5-star day-care and pre-school services to a mix of children who are developing typically and also to children with special needs. This WorldLegacy Leadership project provided the school with a transformed playground by moving a swing set and bean-bag-toss unit to safer locations, installing a handicapped-accessible swing seat, installing a climbing tree for physical and cognitive development, upgrading the sandboxes and re-mulching the play areas. In addition, a storage shed that obstructed teachers’ view of the children in the playground was replaced with an open gazebo where children can enjoy sheltered play with a set of new toys. The budget was $37,500.

WorldLegacy Building Lifespan Playground

More than 100 Volunteers help erect area for local school
By Michael D. Abernethy

Children at the LifeSpan Circle School in Burlington will be welcomed to a brand new playground Monday. Built in two days by more than 100 volunteers from all over North Carolina and the US. Among the new treasures are a gazebo, a handicapped-accessible swing set, brand new pre-school level playground and several new sand boxes. Volunteers also mulched, raked, and cleaned the schoolyard.

I can’t wait to see the kids’ eyes Monday.  Being a non-profit organization, we couldn’t have afforded this,” said Buzz Vanderwerff, LifeSpan’s development director for Guilford and Alamance Counties.  The Burlington preschool places typical and developmentally challenged children together or learning and an inclusive environment between 6 months and 6 years old. The volunteer project was coordinated by the WorldLegacy Leadership Program, headquartered in Morrisville, and is the Center’s 105th The program teams people of all ages and all walks of life to build their leadership skills and focus on a community project about once a month. community service project in North Carolina and the South.

“We came together to give back.  There’s nothing better than to give and there’s no one better to give to than kids.  This will have an impact in the community for a very long time,” said program member Talib Winston, 30.  “What (LifeSpan) could have done in three months, we’ve done in two days, all without spending our own money and all with donations from the community.”  The program’s 30 members organized support from 40 Elon University students in the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and 20 NC A&T students.  About 20 more volunteers from within the community also lent support over the weekend. Deborah Dorland, 50, is an artist by trade from her home in West Virginia.  She spent the weekend constructing a sandbox with tie-downs for a tarpaulin shell. Children there could play in the school’s sandboxes because they were unsafe, she said. “It seems like a very humble thing to make a sandbox, but this is a stretch for me.  I spend all day sculpting and painting.

This program has completely changed my life.  It’s put me in a place where I can be a better daughter and sister,” Dorland said.  Winston says the leadership program has made him a better father in the six months he’s been involved with the WorldLegacy.  “Without this, I don’t know if I would have kept my family together.  I can only say thank you to (John Foley, the man who told him about the program) and thank the Lord,” he said. The school and WorldLegacy members will hold a ribbon cutting celebration Monday from 4 to 6pm, complete with food and performances by the New River Uprising band, Lulu as “Mother Goose,” Clown Willie and Don the Magic Man.
Reprinted with permission Burlington Times-News.

Circle School Testimonial

I’m a member of the WorldLegacy’s NC105 Leadership Team. What a wild ride! Our leadership experience culminated in a project for the LifeSpan Circle School in Burlington. The Circle School is a school for developmentally disabled children that operates on an inclusive model, where children interact and learn alongside other children with disabilities of varying degrees. This integrative approach is beneficial for the childrens’ social life and cognition. The Circle School is a wonderful place with a loving, devoted staff. Our team gave to the school by revamping its playground and providing toys and additions both to its playground and to its indoor recreation room. Over the course of two and a half days, we built two sandboxes, replanted two swing sets, poured fresh mulch over the entire two-acre playground, and set up new plastic outdoor play stations. We also replaced a hazardous, decrepit shed (where the children used to gather outside) with a brand new, sparkling white, rectangular gazebo with rails!

This provided ample space and shelter for many children to around in the shade. 100% of the funds used to buy the toys, materials, and supplies for the project were fundraised or donated. 100% of the labor was volunteered. To honor the school and recognize its children, we held a public commemoration at the school, where we officially “turned the playground over” to the kids. The whole project was a wonderful, life-changing experience. My experience at the Lifespan Circle School is a testament that anyone can change the world.

It just takes a few people declaring that they will, and then living up to their word.

Taylor Hayes
We were indeed extreme givers for this extreme makeover project

LifeSpan Circle School

New playground and creative learning cottage will help children
with developmental disabilities
CONTACT: Olga Makarenko

BURLINGTON, NC Nov. 22, 2008 – Volunteers from the WorldLegacy Leadership Program will lead other volu nteers in a weekend work project Saturday and Sunday, November 22 and 23 at the LifeSpan Circle School Burlington. This school transforms the lives of children and adults with developmental disabilities by providing education, employment, and enrichment programs to affected children and their families. Over the weekend the group plans to build a gazebo and upgrade the playground equipment and sandboxes. The WorldLegacy volunteers who are leading this project are participating in a leadership development program organized by the WorldLegacy in Morrisville. The project is intended to create an extraordinary transformation that leaves a tangible legacy to the community with less than six weeks of planning and no more than three days of actual physical work, and without using their own money.

Beginning at 8 am on Saturday, and continuing on Sunday, the WorldLegacy volunteers and Elon college students will upgrade current playground equipment including sandboxes and a swingset. A new handicapped-accessible play set and swing will be added to the playground, along with an additional sandbox and playground accessories that promote fun, creativity and learning. An existing storage shed will be replaced with a colorful gazebo-style “creative learning cottage” that will offer the students a sheltered area for creative play. The upgraded playground and creative learning cottage will offer the children new opportunities to interact with each other and the world around them.

On Monday, November 24 at 4:00 pm the LifeSpan Circle School Burlington and the WorldLegacy staff and volunteers will inaugurate the newly renovated playground with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and celebration of the playground and the school’s students and staff. LifeSpan Circle School Burlington students and their families, staff, community members and local educators and dignitaries will be invited, along with the print and broadcast press. The LifeSpan Circle School, located on 919 Stokes Street in Burlington, N.C., is an early childhood development school. What makes LifeSpan Circle Schools’ approach truly extraordinary is that it integrates children with varying degrees of ability with typically developing children. The philosophy of this school is that all children, regardless of mental or physical ability, should have the opportunity to interact with each other, learn from each other and develop relationships with each other. The school gives these children the opportunity to grow knowing that they are all the same on the inside.

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Governor Morehead School for the Blind

by | Jun 6, 2016 | Children, Governor Morehead School

Governor Morehead School for the Blind

The Governor Morehead School for the Blind project created a sensory garden for visually impaired and blind pre-school children that contains landscaping to create four sensory quadrants: smell, sound, taste and touch. Installations included a garden bench, a mosaic, wind chimes, birdhouses, herbs, tactile plants, soil, ground coverings, bird feeders and birdbaths. February 2007. NC89.

Governor Morehead School WorldLegacyPublic Affairs Office Michael F. Easley, Governor
Carmen Hooker Odom, Secretary
North Carolina DHHS For Release: IMMEDIATE
Date: February 12, 2007

Ribbon cutting marks opening of Sensory Garden for
Pre-School at Governor Morehead School

RALEIGH – A ribbon cutting marked the opening of a Sensory Garden for visually impaired and blind pre-school children on Monday at Governor Morehead School. The garden is a gift of a 21-member leadership team from the WorldLegacy.  “We are happy to receive this wonderful gift from the WorldLegacy’s leadership team,” said Cyndie Bennett, director of the Office of Education Services of the Department of Health and Human Services. “This will provide our preschool children with year-around opportunities to experience the smell, sound, taste and touch of its components.

“The pre-school garden is a complement to the Garden Club of North Carolina’s Martha Franck Sensory Garden in the center of campus that adults and school aged children have enjoyed since 2001.”

A group of more than 50 volunteers created the preschool garden on Jan. 27 in space set aside on the GMS campus near the preschool. Cash and material donations of about $8,000 combined with the volunteer manpower to create the garden, which includes a bench, wind chimes, a birdhouse, herbs, tactile plants, soil, ground coverings, bird feeders and bird baths. Among contributors are John Deere Landscapes, treestogo.com, Smith & Hawken, The Mulch Masters, Target and three Chatham County artists: potter Rusty Sieck, mosaic artist Hannah Barnum and metal sculptor Tamera Mulanix.

The Governor Morehead Preschool provides community-based early intervention and preschool services to children ages birth through five years with diagnosed visual impairments. Services are provided in collaboration with a variety of other agencies and interventionists to ensure that each child’s unique needs across all areas of development are addressed. In all settings, a strong emphasis is placed on the provision of service in natural environments.

Governor Morehead School WorldLegacyOur WorldLegacy NC89 Leadership team accomplished something extraordinary. The evening before NC 89 was to complete our garden at the Morehead School for the blind, we got a call that the principal hadn’t gotten a form signed and we would have to postpone the building for another weekend. We got together for an emergency team call. Rather than distress or figure out how to cancel the whole thing on a Friday night, we figured ways that it COULD happen. We had one team member go talk to a school official. We sent another to talk with the teacher, etc. The principal responded a few minutes later saying he was going to do whatever it took to let it happen the next day. He totally handled it. The workday went off without a hitch. It was an act of extreme giving and extreme makeover.
Ray NC89

Building a sensory garden for the blind and visually impaired children at the Governor Morehead preschool was one of the highlights of my WorldLegacy NC leadership experience. The way people responded and really wanted to help make a difference in the world was inspiring. People were so generous with their time and we created an amazing garden. Our team members just boldly asked for donations of time, money or sweat and the community said how much do you need? I guess you never know what is possible until you go out there and ask! I am very glad to be on a team like this.
Andrew Donadio NC43,89

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Durham Rescue Mission

by | Jun 6, 2016 | Children, Durham Rescue

Durham Rescue Mission

In the Durham Rescue Mission, women and children have a place to go when they have no home of their own. WorldLegacy has had five projects at the Durham Rescue Mission. The first project remodeled parts of the home and created a family park. July – September 2002. NC49. The other three projects created a child care center (NC50), a transformed front foyer (NC51), and a children’s computer learning center (NC53). WorldLegacy’s NC103 Leadership Team created an Extreme Makeover of an entire wing of the mission that was informally called, The Hood. In two days, on Memorial day weekend, the team completely renovated 17 rooms of the entire wing! All of the carpeting and linoleum was replaced, and the rooms were repainted and redecorated. An original mural was painted on all the walls and ceiling of the children’s library! In addition to the extensive renovations, the team created a play day and pamper day to bring love and honoring to the women and children. The children were treated to a play day that included games, animal rides and food. The women were treated to a pamper day that included massages, hair styling, pedicures, and manicures. Five thousand dollars was raised and was donated to the mission. This project created a sense of dignity and elevation for the women and children who reside in the hall. The budget was $50,000.

Durham Rescue Mission Extreme Makeover WorldLegacy
Rescue Mission undergoes an ‘extreme renovation’

Author: KEITH UPCHURCH
Article Text:
DURHAM — Love for others and faith in God are two major motivators for a group of volunteers pouring hours of their time into renovating rooms at the Durham Rescue Mission.
The faith-based mission, which provides lodging for people facing hard times, will look far better beginning Monday after 17 of the rooms have been transformed.
Andrew MacRae of Washington, D.C., a project leader with the WorldLegacy, a personal excellence and leadership training program based in the Triangle area, has been helping coordinate the effort at the Rescue Mission’s 504 E. Knox St. site off Interstate 85.
The rooms are getting new paint, carpeting and linoleum, fixtures and linen, and a mural is being created for the literacy center, MacRae said. Many of the materials are being donated by area businesses, but some have to be bought. He said volunteers are still trying to raise another $5,000 for materials.
“We really wanted to do something that would impact these children,” he said. “We’re calling it the Extreme Renovation of the Durham Rescue Mission.”
Residents will also enjoy being pampered this weekend as area masseuses and cosmetologists donate their services to residents. There will also be games for children.
“We’re trying to bring a little joy to these people’s lives,” he said.
“The purpose of this project is to sort of bring the community together to transform the lives of these women and children who live here,” MacRae said. “People have really been opening their hearts to volunteer.”
A ribbon-cutting to unveil the renovations will be at 3 p.m. Monday. Joel Rosch, senior research scholar at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, will speak.

Reprinted with permission The Durham Herald Company

Durham Rescue Mission WorldLegacy Leadership Making quick work of a miracle

WorldLegacy volunteers redecorate rehab shelter in Durham Jim Wise, Staff Writer DURHAM – In a state of somewhat organized chaos, about 25 volunteers were making a miracle happen Saturday. They were repainting, recarpeting and redecorating 17 rooms in the Durham Rescue Mission’s Good Samaritan Inn, a rehabilitated motel. Once notorious for narcotics dealing and prostitution, it opened in 2005 as a home for women, children and families in need. While Good Samaritan residents calmly ate lunch downstairs, volunteers on the second floor cut old carpet and hauled it out to make way for the new material just delivered. Meanwhile, others were out buying tools and materials, soliciting donations and recruiting more volunteers to pitch in. Work started Thursday night, and the volunteers hope to be finished in time for a ribbon-cutting Monday afternoon. “That’s a huge project,” inn director Lois Cooper said. “It’s a blessing.” The effort was part of a leadership training course organized by the WorldLegacy in Morrisville. This weekend’s class assignment: “Create an extraordinary project that leaves a tangible legacy” with less than six weeks of planning and no more than three days of actual physical work, and without using their own money. “The point is to create something amazing from nothing,” said Netta Cohen of Raleigh, who took a similar course eight years ago and still volunteers with the center. “It really is looking at a practically impossible situation and making it happen, just miraculously quickly.” Not only are volunteers tearing down and building up, they’re pampering. Saturday afternoon, residents were treated to manicures, hair styling and massages. Monday is designated to be “Fun Day.” “We’re trying to bring circus animals and have a carnival,” volunteer Andrew MacRae said. Artist Deborah Dorland plans to draw caricatures for the children. Dorland, a West Virginian who formerly lived in Chapel Hill, is spending three weeks painting a mural around the Inn’s library. It will have scenes from the Inn’s garden with storybook characters and children who live at the Inn. “This is like a magical place,” she said, pointing out where Dr. Seuss’s Horton would go, and a little girl who looks like Dora the Explorer. Roberta Ray, like the other residents, said she was excited. “I thing it’s very nice that someone wants to do this for us,” said Ray, who has lived at the Inn for a month and plans to stay through its yearlong “Victory Program” of Bible study, counseling and vocational training. The benefit is mutual, said volunteer Nick Seligman, an Appalachian State University sophomore. “I had no idea I would be doing this four months ago,” Seligman said. “It’s been a complete eye-opening experience.” His father suggested he try Legacy training when Seligman felt he wasn’t living up to his potential. “Having this project has been the perfect opportunity to gain the skills that I needed,” he said. “I want to give back to people, and this is a perfect opportunity.” BACKGROUND WorldLegacy is “an adult experiential education company” founded in 1998 by two UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral graduates with entrepreneurial inclinations: Rob Katz, a computer engineer, and Lori Todd, an environmental scientist. Their company offers coaching and workshops lasting from three days to three months in “leadership training and personal effectiveness” for individual and corporate clients, according to its Web site. Reprinted with Permission of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina.

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