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Garden still blossoms as sisters age

By VIRGINIA WOOTEN | April 21

A pack of students jogs down Gimghoul Road. As they pass a small white house flanked with a sea of azaleas and tulips, they shout in chorus, “Your garden is beautiful!” Bernice Wade waves and thanks them from her perch on the porch. A moment later, a woman rounds the corner of the house, completing her full tour of the garden. “I couldn’t let a year go by without coming,” she tells Wade. Within the next hour, three more visitors come to soak in the colors and fragrances.

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Parents' home provides refuge after graduation

By VIRGINIA WOOTEN | April 19

After putting away the cap and gown, many students will find themselves sleeping in their old rooms among trophy-lined shelves and New Kids on the Block posters. And it might not be a temporary solution: Students living with parents after graduation is becoming more common, said Marcia Harris, director of University Career Services. “There is definitely an increasing trend for students after graduation not to feel the necessity of being out on their own and supporting themselves,” she said.

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Program for homeless builds on its small start

By VIRGINIA WOOTEN | March 30

Kesson Anderson remembers walking along Franklin Street as a young girl and being repeatedly approached by panhandlers. Every corner meant another person she had to avoid, but also an increase in her conviction that action needed to be taken. Now a UNC sophomore, Anderson, a Pittsboro native, is the coordinator of Project Rush Hour. It’s a student-run division of the Inter-Faith Council’s Crisis Intervention Program, which provides services such as food, clothing, rent and transportation to people in need during crises.

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Gift honors voice of the Tar Heels

By VIRGINIA WOOTEN | March 22

When Woody Durham’s father came home from World War II, he and his wife had tickets to UNC football games. Without paying for a third ticket, the 6-year-old Durham sat between his mother and father, absorbing those games of the late 1940s — the days of football great Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice. He has been a Carolina fan ever since.

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Marathon unites service groups

By VIRGINIA WOOTEN | February 24

The largest charity effort on campus, Dance Marathon raised more than $170,000 and featured more than 600 dancers last year. The organization’s size has the potential to overshadow other campus charities, but many student leaders claim it actually unites the different service groups.

VIRGINIA WOOTEN

Garden still blossoms as sisters age

Parents' home provides refuge after graduation

Program for homeless builds on its small start

Gift honors voice of the Tar Heels

Marathon unites service groups

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