The Gazette checked with Wake Forest Commissioner Liz Simpers about a date for the Cougar Walk to celebrate the second consecutive state championship win by the Wake Forest High School football team. She was named by Mayor Vivian Jones as one of the committee organizing the celebration.
Is there a date yet? “Nope! Waiting on Bill Crabtree for a new date!” she replied. We will follow up on this.
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The Wake Forest Police Department had planned a training session that included gunfire for today, Wednesday, Feb. 21, in the 1100 block of Forestville Road near Heritage High School. On Tuesday, the department cancelled the training “Due to concerns raised by area residents and in light of recent events.” It will be rescheduled.
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Finland’s delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics do not do yoga or listen to music through their earphones to relax, though they might, but they do take off their shoes and knit as a group, working on a large blanket this time. Seems it is a tradition. The snowboard coach was spotted recently, way up at the top at the starting line, knitting something with black wool while encouraging his team members. As a knitter, the editor appreciates the good press.
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As someone a little prudish, the editor also hopes the designers of women’s skating costumes can find a way to make them stay together during competition. Very distracting, hard to concentrate on perfectly executing a triple lutz if one hand has to hold some cloth on your boob.
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In recognition of Black History Month, the Gazette is providing a weekly update on important dates. The information comes from a calendar provided by Chappell Funeral & Cremation Services in Garner.
Feb. 21, — In 1965 Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City.
Feb. 22 – In 2008 Johnnie Carr, the president of the Montgomery (Alabama) Improvement Association after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a major icon of the civil rights movement, died in 2008 at the age of 97.
Feb. 23 – In 1868 W.E.B. DuBois, a scholar, activist and author of “The Souls of Black Folk, was born.
Feb. 24 – In 1864 Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first black woman to receive a medical degree. Hers was from the New England Female Medical College.
Feb. 25 – In 1853 the first black YMCA in the country was organized in Washington, D.C.
Feb. 26 – In 1965 civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson dies after he was shot by state police in Marion, Alabama.
Feb. 27 – In 1897 Marian Anderson, who would go on to be a world renowned opera singer and civil rights activist, was born.
Feb. 18 – in 1964 Michael Jackson, the musician and entertainer, won eight Grammy awards.
