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WEDNESDAYJULY 27, 2016
RO C K I N G H A M N OW.CO M • 5 0 C E N TS
EEDENDENNNEWSEWSSERVING EDEN AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTY SINCE 1924
Doors open to county’s neweconomic development center
BY JUSTYN [email protected]
WENTWORTH — As it works to in-vite new businesses and accommo-date existing businesses, Rocking-ham County is putting its best footforward with the opening of the newRockingham County Center for Eco-nomical Development, Small Busi-ness and Tourism.
On July 22, the three county
Chambers of Commerce and theEconomic Development team host-ed a ribbon cutting, welcoming theCenter into being.
“Congratulations to Economic De-velopment — and really it’s a con-gratulation to everyone, whetheryou’re a business or a non-profit oryou live and shop here,” said West-ern Rockingham Chamber of Com-merce President Amy Chan Hardi-son. “We’re all a part of the economic
health and development of thiscounty.”
This new center will serve thecounty as a base of operations forEconomic Development’s ongoingwork such as creating jobs, welcom-ing business and promoting localgrowth.
“From 2014 when EconomicDevelopment became a county
Printing company has done it ‘Wright’ for 30 yearsBY JOE DEXTER
MADISON — For 30 years,Wright Printing has providedRockingham County, Greens-boro and businesses and indi-viduals across the state of NorthCarolina a company that handlesfull-service printing needs.
It takes something other thandelivering traditional printing,letterhead, envelopes, labels,checks, business cards and moreto stand out for three decades.
Danny and Carol Wright, whoopened their current facilities at1510 W. Academy St. in Madison
during the summer of 1986, havecontinued to innovate throughthe changing of technology— while providing high-qualityproducts with excellent servicethat has kept loyal clients com-ing back.
“This area had multiple print-ing companies,” said DannyWright, who grew up in the Mad-ison area and was named thecitizen of the year by the WesternRockingham Chamber of Com-merce in 1994. “I saw a need formore professionalism in printingand I wanted to provide the ser-vice and quality that rivaled a bigcity like Charlotte in a rural area
like Rockingham County.”That vision was born with the
purchase of an abandoned ser-vice station.
Afterspendingeverydayoftheirfirst year building the companyfrom the ground up, the Wrightsput plans in place to be one ofthe first local printing companiesin the state to separate customerservice from the actual printingdevices. Two years after usingtheir home as their main office, aprint shop was built to coincidewith their local storefront.
With the launch of personal
JUSTYN MELROSE/ROCKINGHAMNOW
The Center for Economic Development, Small Business andTourism is located at 425 NC 65, Wentworth, just beside theRockingham County Governmental Center.
JOE DEXTER/ROCKINGHAMNOW
Danny andCarol Wrighthave owned
WrightPrinting
at 1510 W.Academy St.
in Madisonsince
August1986. They
also ownand operatea quick copy
center at302-C NorthPierce St. in
Eden. See WRIGHT, Page A8
See CENTER, Page A8
Peckspresent
centenarianbarnBY JUSTYN MELROSE
MAYODAN — Situated at 2031 Victory HillChurch Road in Mayodan, a weathered barnhas stood for more than a century.
While the history of the barn, now ownedby Sam and Janet Peck, has a few gaps, itjoins more than 20 other sites in celebratingthe county’s heritage along the RockinghamCounty Quilt Trail.
“The barn has had some changes madeto it over the years, small updates here and
there to make itmore efficientand useful, butother than thosesmall changes,the barn standsas the originalbarn built in thelate 1800s, ear-ly 1900s,” said
Misty Luna, the Pecks’ niece.Originally, it was a wood burning barn
used to cure tobacco. The flue was built nearthe front of the barn and when the wood wasburning, the flue would help fill the spacewith heat. That heat would cure the tobaccohanging in the rafters.
“During the time that the flue was used,someone had to stay at the barn all night tocontinuously feed wood into the flue,” Lunasaid.
Around 1980, the barn was taken overby Joe Pete Richardson, the father of JanetPeck.
Richardson continued to use the barn tocure tobacco, but converted the wood burn-ing system to an oil system, one that wasmore efficient and convenient.
“When the oil system was installed, it hada trough, other units and a vaporizer ringaround the trough that distributed heatthroughout the barn,” Luna said.
Richardson worked at Bassett-Walker in
Rockingham CountyQuilt Trail
See TRAIL, Page A8
SHAGGIN’ ONFIELDCREST
BY GERRI [email protected]
Despite super hottemperatures overthe weekend, hun-
dreds of beach music lov-ers gathered on FieldcrestRoad Saturday evening tolisten to the tunes of JimQuick and Coastline.
For three hours, theband, back by populardemand, belted out musicthat was irresistible to lo-cal shaggers. They took toa makeshift dance floor infront of the stage, for songafter song.
Vendors were set up sell-ing food and cold drinks,while MillerCoors offeredbeer tastings and the EdenRotary Club sold beer asa fundraiser during theevent, put on by the Cityof Eden.
PHOTOS BY GERRI HUNT/ROCKINGHAMNOW
At far right, the namesake ofJim Quick and Coastline leads
the music for a night thatincluded food, refreshments
and, of course, plenty ofdancing.
Yadkin Bank sold after buying NewBridge, A6
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