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Grandmother Stokely taught Eric Lupton, the current owner of Stokely’s BBQ, everything he knows about food. He spent his childhood summers at his grandmother’s home in eastern North Carolina, and after years of baking cakes and smoking pigs, Lupton decided to go into the restaurant business.
The May 1 deadline for students to enroll at Elon is approaching and many students are making their final decisions regarding whether or not they want to attend the university. However, recent headlines have been putting the university in a bad light, possibly deterring prospective students from agreeing to attend Elon.
Over 230 Elon students, faculty and community members participated in the Run for H.O.P.E 5K on Saturday, April 18 on campus.
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The terms 'budgeting' and 'spending' are daunting words associated with the typical college student's financial life. However, whether it be paper or plastic, many professionals suggest that students get a hold of their spending now in order for a successful future.
According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Finding a place to store belongings for three months over the summer can be tough. That's why Elon junior Sean Barry co-founded Help U Store It with his three brothers.
Unless you're hearing the whistle of the train as it passes through the railroad tracks running alongside Trollinger Avenue, it is easy to forget that the tracks are more than an obstacle between main campus and south campus. Even so, the tracks come with a number of laws and safety concerns that students don't often take into consideration.
Certain produce is in season now, but the Robert G. Shaw Piedmont Triad Farmer's Market is open all year. Local merchants and farmers bring their homemade and homegrown products, agriculture and preserves. The spring weather and busy summer season bring even more vendors.
Elon has made many efforts to be a more sustainable campus, including the use of alternative energy. More than 9,000 solar panels are being installed in Loy Farm.
Kim Crawford raised her voice a bit, spoke in a sharp, serious tone and delivered a number of robust messages Tuesday night, but one might have resonated a little more than the rest.
The human face of homelessness
The Bio Bus service helps many students get to campus, Alamance Crossing, Target and even Lowes grocery store, but a route that is often forgotten is the Downtown Burlington Express Route.
The partnership between Elon University and the Alamance-Burlington School System has made headlines recently with the recent hiring of William Harrison as superintendent. With a $330,000 salary, Harrison is the highest paid superintendent in the state and a portion of that salary comes from Elon.
Senior Patrick Wheeler recalls a night when he and a friend were walking near the railroad tracks on W. Trollinger Avenue. They heard a train coming. But they didn’t stop for the train to go through. “We decided to get right across,” Wheeler said. “We beat it, but if we would have tripped, that would probably have been the end right there.” In the past 10 months, there have been four fatalities on the railroad tracks in Alamance County, including two in Elon. It’s one of the highest numbers among counties in North Carolina, despite Alamance being the 18th largest county in the state. For perspective, there were 26 fatalities on tracks across North Carolina in 2014. Three of them, or 12 percent, were in Alamance County, an area that accounts for less than 2 percent of the state’s population. Measures are being taken to improve rail safety, but it all boils down to the same simple message: stay off the tracks. According to Paul Worley, the director of the Rail Division at the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), walking on the train tracks outside a designated crossing is legally trespassing. Most rail deaths involve individuals who are trespassing. “It’s unsafe, and it’s also illegal,” Worley said. “Part of the message we want to get out to people is that trains can come as fast as 79 miles per hour. It takes thousands of feet for a train to stop that’s moving at a high rate of speed. That’s certainly not a situation you’re in if you stay away from the tracks.” Worley said many of the incidents involve alcohol and a lot appear to be suicide, but sometimes it’s unclear if a person doesn’t leave a note. For that reason, Worley said NCDOT works with suicide prevention task forces across the state. When someone is killed on the tracks, the driver of the train often asks for a period away from the job. “We continue to try to stress the need for trying to stay away from the tracks, and how it impacts other people, and how it’s more than just one individual that’s involved,” he said. The most recent death on the tracks in Alamance County occurred Jan. 27, when Franklin D. Gwynn, 25, was struck by an Amtrak train near the Fisher Street overpass, not far from the Burlington Amtrak Station. In December, Doris Miles Pinnix, 80, was in her Dodge Caravan on the railroad crossing at East Washington Street in Mebane when the van was hit and she was killed. On May 20, 2014, Malcolm Cornelius Sims, 22, was struck while walking on the train tracks just west of Elon’s campus. Justin Lamar Swanson, 27, was killed two weeks later while standing on the tracks at the crossing by Gilliam Road and Park Road Extension at the border between Elon and Burlington. The last Elon student killed on the tracks was James Michael Elzar Foreman when he was struck on the crossing at Oak Avenue in April 2007. Senior Matt Albers crosses the tracks every day when walking to campus from his Mill Point apartment while wearing headphones. He trusts himself, but he also acknowledges the possible dangers. “I think that’s the biggest danger is when a kid’s walking around with his headphones in,” Albers said. “They’re going to get hit when they don’t even hear it.” The tunnel connecting North and South campus was completed in April 2010 and cost approximately $2.2 million, funded by Elon University and the North Carolina Railroad Company. “It’s quite a public investment,” Worley said of such tunnels. “You have to do everything you can to get people to use that.” Albers thinks more safety measures like the tunnel would benefit in the area on the west side of Williamson Avenue. “I would figure there’d be more than a bit of fence that’s maybe 4 ½ feet tall,” Albers said. “It shocks me that it’s so easy to walk across.” In its March Rail Report, NCDOT announced that Dual Matrix Vehicle Detection Radar systems will be implemented at nine new locations in the state during the next two years, including three in Alamance County — Oak Avenue in Elon, Elmira Street in Burlington and 3rd Street in Mebane. The systems detect vehicles as they cross the tracks, evaluating how effective a simultaneous gate drop is in deterring drivers from going around the gates hoping to beat a train. If a vehicle is in the crossing when a gate starts to drop, the lowering of the gate is slightly delayed to give the car a clear way out. The systems also have video cameras which give continuous footage of the areas. These are being funded through FHWA Section 1103(f), Freight Rail & Rail Crossing Safety and Highway Safety Improvement Program. They were tested at three locations — on Williamson Avenue in Elon and another on 5th Street in Mebane. The spots were chosen, according to Worley, based on geometrics and how complex the crossing is. Worley said the main purpose of the radar systems is to cut down on violations where people speed through to beat the train, sometimes trying to swerve around the crossing itself. But they also sense where vehicles are on the tracks, so they prevent cars from being trapped when a train is coming through. “They went through quite a bit of testing,” Worley said. “It raises the effectiveness of the four-quadrant gate and gives added security.” NCDOT’s BeRailSafe program is constantly trying to inform the public and law enforcement officers on safety precautions regarding the railroad tracks. In 2014, BeRailSafe worked with Amtrak on First Responder training sessions, partnered with CSX Transportation, North Carolina Operation Lifesaver and NASCAR on a railroad crossing safety event and conducted a number of crossing blitzes, during which workers deliver safety information to motorists when they’re stopped at a crossing. BeRailSafe’s goals for 2015 include working with School Resource Officers to bring its messages to children and to increase its outreach to university campus radio stations. “It doesn’t only work as far as public outreach and the individual contact with citizens, but there’s also an effort there to coordinate with local emergency forces so they have a better understanding,” Worley said. “There may be a percentage of things that you can’t reach, but you try to reach what you can and you try to strive for zero incidents.”
In Alamance County, 18 percent of residents are below the poverty line, which is .8 percent higher than the national average. With 18 percent of the county living in poverty, homelessness is an issue.
The latest addition to the Triad’s aircraft industry, Elon Aviation, looks to get more would-be pilots into the air and capitalize on growing local demand. After longtime FAA-certified flight instructor Chris Whittle struck out on his own to launch the business last December, the startup has already expanded in hiring another instructor and is considering adding two more planes to its current couple-sized fleet. Calling his biggest challenge “the fear of stepping out into the unknown,” Whittle has sold about a half-dozen students on his personal flying philosophy, which requires singular focus, then drilling and drilling until a maneuver is mastered. One of them, Raleigh resident Joe Clarke, pegged the cost of obtaining his FAA-certified private pilot’s license at $8,000 — $1,000 more than Whittle estimated for an average price tag of $8,000. To Clarke, the price tag is well worth the feeling of flying that “nothing else compares to.” “It was expensive, and I knew it would be,” said Clarke, who works at Cisco Systems. “It’s actually cheaper the more you fly, because the more you practice, the quicker it is you can get your certification because things stick you become more comfortable, and you end up requiring less lessons.” Elon Aviation — which also rents out both of its four-seat planes at $138 per hour — is quick to point out the potential savings with flying a family of four privately, as opposed to commercially. “When you look at the cost of a small airplane, and even renting a small airplane, when you put a family of four in that and do an average trip, it’s really competitive with airline fees,” Whittle said. Launching in the dead of winter presented its difficulties for Whittle, but the timing was quite intentional. “It was a good move for the time, and it made a good break at the start of the year,” Whittle said. “That would give me a couple months when things were looking a little slow, so when spring time came around I’m already going full steam.” As springs swings into season, demand for the business has exceeded early expectations. To capitalize on the promise, Whittle has established a monthly meeting of the IMC Club, an international organization of pilots, both private and commercial ones. The first meeting is set for March 5 at 6 p.m. at Elon Aviation. Fostering a sense of community is important to Whittle — both for the business benefits and more simply to shoot the breeze with his fellow pilots, one of his favorite pastimes. “One really important thing that’s working well for me is that I’m really trying to establish a sense of community with the aviation population around here,” he said. So far, Clarke is a fan of the approach, but he said Whittle’s standards can be tough ones to meet, ones that require hours and hours of practice to do and do right. “He wasn’t kidding when he said, ‘Most people would rather fly with the FAA examiner than with me because I’m much more pedantic,” he said. The ability to fly solo is earned, not given, according to Whittle. But once it’s earned, it’s the pilot’s to keep — barring an in-air incident that requires FAA intervention. “I look at flight training as an investment,” he said. “It’s a skill that you’ll have forever. They don’t take it away.”
Alva J. Sizemore, Jr. has been hired as the Town of Elon's new fire chief, the town announced Thursday.
While most of the snow has melted away, some members of the Alamance and Guilford County communities continue to deal with the aftermath of the winter storm.
The Town of Elon is looking to hire a new fire chief by the end of the week.