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57 of Smithfield-Selma High's graduatesreceive newly instituted academic honors
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 Johnston Health photo
JOHNSTON
HEALTH A REPEAT WINNER For
the second year in a row, Johnston Health ---
including its hospitals in Smithfield and Clayton ---
has achieved the Healthgrades Outstanding Patient
Experience Award, ranking the local system among the
top 15 percent of hospitals nationwide so honored.
Healthgrades, a company that provides consumer
information about health-care providers, evaluated
3,449 hospitals that submitted "patient experience"
surveys from 2017 admissions to the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services. As a result,
Healthgrades rated 434 of those as "outstanding."
Pictured at the award presentation: (from left) Amber
Stanley, Johnston Health patient experience
specialist; Chuck Elliott, Johnston Health president
and CEO; Alicia Dreyer of Healthgrades; Dr. Peter
Charvat, chief medical officer; and Ruth Marler, chief
operating officer and chief nursing officer for
Johnston Health, which has been part of UNC Health
Care since 2014.
Traffic advisory for a busy weekend
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Commissioners hear final funding appeals,
plan to adopt county budget next Monday
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SSS teachers get Cullman grants of $52,000
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This
is the first year Johnston County Public Schools has
replaced traditional valedictorian and salutatorian
awards with classic Latin honors to recognize
outstanding academic achievement by high-school
graduates.
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The grants are administered through the North Carolina Community Foundation, which works with an advisory committee to review the applications.
Grants awarded to SSS teachers for 2019 include the following projects:
• "SSS Academy of Hospitality and Tourism & Construction Students to the Biltmore Estates" --- exposes students to culinary and architectural arts in North Carolina.
• "The Great Adventure: Learning About Our Planet and What Lies Beyond" --- helps students develop a broader prospective for the Earth and the solar system through a mobile planetarium.
• "The Nan Ogburn Cullman Brick Wing Gallery" --- showcases the artwork of students and teachers.
• "My Future Is So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" --- student travel to the Smithsonian Institute of American History and the Museum of African-American History in Washington, D.C.
• "A Leader's Legacy" --- AVID students visit the Civil Rights Museum in Atlanta, Ga.
• "SSS Global Partnership" --- supports an educational travel exchange between SSS and the Taarnby Gymnasium in Denmark.
• "Spartan Thunder" --- supports the SSS music program through the purchase of updated drums.
Cullman grants to SSS in 2018 included "virtual reality" technology that helps students "travel the world" without leaving the classroom.
EDITOR'S NOTE:
Nan Ogburn Cullman, a native of Smithfield, bequeathed $2 million to Johnston County Public Schools upon her death in 2015. At age 15, she won a scholarship to attend the Julliard School. After graduation, she performed with regional opera companies and other chorales throughout her life. She and her husband, former Philip Morris CEO Hugh Cullman, spent most of their lives together in Westchester County, New York before relocating in 1993 to Beaufort, N.C. and later to Pittsboro.
Johnston County is unveiling historical
markers at five locations this summer
From Todd Johnson, Director, Johnston County Heritage Center
The Johnston County
Heritage Center and Heritage Commission will
unveil five historical markers in various Johnston
County locations during June and July. Each
unveiling ceremony will feature special speakers,
historical drama, music, and refreshments.
The first unveiling will
be held at 10 a.m. next Wednesday (June 19)
at First Missionary Baptist Church at North Fourth
and Caswell streets in Smithfield. The church is
near the original location of a two-room
Freedmen’s Schoolhouse, built 1868-69.
According
to the staff of the North Carolina Historic
Preservation Office, this is the only Freedmen’s
schoolhouse known to be left standing in the
state. It is thought to be one of only five or so
left in the nation, making it an extremely rare
piece of history.
Other marker unveilings
are scheduled as follows:
Friday, June 21
--- 11 a.m. at Atkinson’s Mill on NC Highway 42
between highways 39 and 96 north of Selma.
Friday, June 28
--- 10 a.m. at Hinton’s Quarter Courthouse site
near the East Front Street roundabout in Clayton.
Saturday, July 6
--- 10 at the Governor Benjamin Williams
birthplace site, 3390 Grabtown Road east of
Smithfield.
Saturday, July 20
--- 10 a.m. at the Catch-Me-Eye Explosion site
near the intersection of US 70 and 301 in Selma.
These historical markers
have been made possible by a matching grant from
the Johnston County Visitors Bureau and by gifts
from the Clayton Historical Association and the
Smith-Bryan Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution.
WHAT'S COMING UP?
A rundown of upcoming civic and cultural opportunities in our community
that we've been told about or seen publicized in other media:
COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVE next Tuesday (June 18) from 10:30 a.m. till 3 p.m. at the Johnston County Health Department at 517 N. Bright Leaf Blvd. Appointments may be made at redcrossblood.org by entering sponsor code "Smithfield" at the upper right-hand corner of the opening page.
GRASSROOTS ARTS GRANT WORKSHOP next Tuesday (June 18) from 3 to 4 p.m. at the Triangle East Chamber of Commerce headquarters at 1115 Outlet Center Drive. The Johnston County Arts Council is accepting applications through July 18 from non-profit organizations that promote cultural-arts programming. For more information, visit www.jcartscouncil.org.
MUSIC FOR THE LUNCH BUNCH SERIES opens its 35th annual summer series next Wednesday (June 19) at 12:15 p.m. at Smithfield's First Presbyterian Church. The first performance features Dara Edwards and students on piano.
View the full series schedule>
JUNIOR LEAGUE GALA Saturday, June 22 to benefit the Smithfield Rescue Mission's "Blessing Baskets" program for needy families. The event begins at 7 p.m. at The Farm at 95. Tickets are $65 each and include an open beer and wine bar. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.jwlsmithfield.com.
MY KID'S CLUB SUMMER CAMP July 8-19 at South Smithfield Elementary School. It's open to the first 50 kids ages 6-12 who submit an application from a child's teacher, the office at South Smithfield School, or by contacting Mamie Moore, director of operations for My Kid's Club: e-mail mamie.moore@mykidsclub.org or telephone 919-351-1559.
DEATHS & FUNERALS
Each week we'll post links to obituaries about persons who have died during the past week. We'll monitor the websites of local funeral homes to compile our list, and we welcome links provided by readers to obituaries of persons with Smithfield connections who have died outside our immediate area.
WALTER LEE AVERY, 73 - died June 10
HELEN LANGLEY BROWN, 76 - died June 10
RODNEY PERCY ACTON, 73 - died June 7
ELLA THOMPSON JORDAN PRICE, 94 - died June 7
CHRISTINE GILBERT, 93 - died June 6
ANNIE RUTH PARRISH, 85 - died June 6
THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS
Here's an early
1930s "colorized" postcard of newly opened Johnston
County Hospital at the corner of Hancock Street and US
301 in Smithfield, complete with nurses sitting on
benches out front. Replaced by nearby Johnston
Memorial Hospital in 1951, the building was used for a
couple of decades after that for individual doctors'
offices before its conversion into the present-day
home of the county's Department of Social Services.
"Colorized" postcards were actually produced from
black-and-white photographs "doctored" to add colors,
similar to what's now done with old black-and-white
movies.
(From the
archives of the Johnston
County Heritage Center)
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IN THIS WEEK'S "INSIDE" PAGES
SPORTS
& RECREATION: Three Little Pigs
Triathlon
FEATURE
PAGE: SSS honor graduates listedOPINIONS: Who are our high-school graduates?
For more
information about our community, check out
our online "newspaper parent" via the link shown
below. This website is a handy "portal" to
important sources of current information about
Smithfield and Johnston County.
Here's what you'll find there:
• Local weather data, current & past
• Monthly jobs reports
• Quarterly retail-sales reports
• Official population estimates
• Agricultural statistics
• Local government links
• Things to see and do
Here's what you'll find there:• Local weather data, current & past
• Monthly jobs reports
• Quarterly retail-sales reports
• Official population estimates
• Agricultural statistics
• Local government links
• Things to see and do
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