Mount Airy Eyes 500000 HUD Renewal To Ease West Side Traffic
Mount Airy considers applying for about 500000 in Housing and Urban Development funds to extend Dixie Street to Rockford Street and to run Market Street to Virginia Street as part of the Thoroughfare Plan. The plan, supported by Mayor Maynard Beamer and Town Manager Victor Denton, aims to improve traffic flow around the downtown area with no local funds required.
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Mount Airy
Maynard Beamer
Victor Denton
Dixie St
Rockford St
Graves St
Market St
Virginia St
Beamer
HUD
Denton
Eric Hill and Associates
al Hawks
Penny's
J T Nichols
Local Churches Prepare For Sunrise Services
Grace Moravian Church Mount Airy plans its 35th Faster Sunrise Service at 6.00 am with a walk to God's Acre cemetery and a two-group hymn sing. Other area churches including New Life Baptist Flat Rock Baptist and Gospel Mission Church hold 5:10 to 6:00 am services with breakfasts and refreshments.
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Grace Moravian Church
Mount Airy
North Main Street
Harold D Cole
God's Acre
Howard Amoss
America
Saxony
Germany
Women's Fellowship
New Life Baptist Church
Beulah
Joe Bowman
Flat Rock Baptist Church
Fellowship Hall
Boyd Hopkins
Sv. Green Baptist Church
Lester Bay
Oak Grove Baptist Church
Clay Bowman
Easter Services and Office Closings in Surry County
All Surry County and Mount Airy offices close Monday for Easter. Easter services at St Andrew Lutheran Church start at 7:00 am with readings, choir performances, and a sermon by Dr. Wilford Lyerly on Sunrise in Your Soul. Sunrise services also at Flippen Memorial Baptist Church at 6:00 am led by Rev. R. J. Hartman.
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Surry County
Mount Airy
St Andrew Lutheran Church
Wilford Lyerly
Dianne Graber
Don Estes
Ladies Guild of the Church
North Franklin Road
US 52
Fancy Gap Road
Flippen Memorial Baptist Church
R. J. Hartman
Slate Motor Breaks Ground for New NC Dealership Building
Slate Motor Co. held a groundbreaking Thursday for a new NC 601 showroom to house one of North Carolina’s finest Chrysler Plymouth GMC Truck dealerships. Grady Slate announced Blue Ridge Industries will build, with an August 1 opening. the brick steel complex features a carpeted showroom for 16 cars, 28 service bays, and a body shop on a 300 by 400 foot lot beyond Scenic Motors. The event drew over 30 attendees including Rev. J. L. Bryson and GMC and Chrysler officials, plus Mount Airy official Bowman George.
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Slate Motor Co
NC 601
North Carolina
Grady Slate
Chrysler
Plymouth
GMC
Blue Ridge Industries
Scenic Motors
Slate
J. L. Bryson
Mike Slivesnky
GMC Truck
Charlotte
Glenn Meally
Washington
Mount Airy
Bowman George
Slate Motor Company
US 601
Red Cross Bloodmobile Visits Planned for Mount Airy
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit Mount Airy on April 26 and 27 at Veterans Memorial Park with hours 11 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. to 3 30 p.m. Friday. Organizers aim to collect at least 300 pints over the two days as county needs rise and donors are urged from all groups.
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Red Cross
Mount Airy
Charles Robertson
Surry County
Veterans Memorial Park
Robertson
Principal Guilty of Assault in Surry County Case
East Surry High School principal Grady L. Lewis was found guilty of assault after hitting student Pam Hicks with a board. Judge Leonard Van Noppen placed a three year order prohibiting corporal punishment and granted a continued judgment. Lewis appealed through attorney W T White. no date set.
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Grady L. Lewis
East Surry High School
Pilot Mountain
Surry County
Leonard van Noppen
Pam Hicks
Route 2
Pinnacle
Miss Hicks
East Surry
Lewis
van Noppen
W. T. White
Lions Club Meeting with District Governor Guest
Lions Club hosts D. Egar Stevens district 31 D governor as guest at Ray's Starlite Restaurant Tuesday at 6 30 p m. All members urged to attend.
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D. Egar Stevens
the Lions
Ray
Starlite
Mount Airy Firm Submits Law Bid On Pilot School Project
Surry County Schools report bids for a Pilot Mountain Elementary School addition are favorable. John S. Clark Construction Co. of Mount Airy submitted the low general bid of 348 400 while Landingham Heating and Plumbing led HVAC at 85 647 and R D Bogers Plumbing 4 500 for plumbing. Floyd S. Pike bid 31 900 for electrical. Total low bid 508 447, far under the board’s 700 000 cap, with award possible at the May 14 meeting.
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Mount Airy
Surry County
Pilot Mountain
Sam Gentry
Dobson
John S. Clark Construction Co. Inc
Landingham Heating and Plumbing of
Winston-Salem
R. D Bogers Plumbing Co
Clemmons
Floyd S. Pike
Gentry
Pilot Mountain School
Bids Sought for Equipment at Northern Surry Hospital
Northern Surry Hospital plans an $150000 bid for equipment and furniture for its expanded laboratory and X-Ray department. Bids open May 23 with delivery expected in late fall as the $860000 expansion nears completion. The X-Ray unit tops $100000, pathology gear about $20000, rest for offices and lobby furniture.
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Surry Hospital
John K. Lockhart
Lockhart
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Housing and Urban Development Funds
Market Willow St
Merchants Association
City Hall
First Baptist Church
Flat Rock
Brown Mountain Baptist Church
Slate Motor
Bloodmobile
Lions Club Meeting
Fred Butner
Butner and Associates
Northern
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