Dale Terry

March 30, 2009 - American Red Cross Blood Drive from 2:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at Hoots Memorial Hospital. Please visit www.nwnc-redcross.org for more details or contact Hoots Memorial Hospital at (336) 679-2041.

With 15+ years in the business, licensed with the North Carolina Real Estate Commission and the North Carolina General Contracting Board. Certified Mortgage Consultant, E-Pro. We provide the most comprehensive service set in the industry. We can help with selling your current property, finding the new one, or build your dream home. You save with each service you use, it reduces stress in a very stressful situation and our satisfaction guarantee is second to none.

Link to my site!

Yadkin County Real Estate, North Carolina Real Estate

Home Realty Group

For New Construction and Remodels

White Oak Custom Homes

We all seem to want to think that we have it tough in this world, jobs going away, money problems, it never seems to end. But think about the ones before us. My mom is 80 years old. She worked in a factory for just a few dollars an hour and raised four kids. She has lived through world wars, famine, hard times and more.

She also found the time to make sure my family had a meal to come home to each day. She pushed us in school, all of us graduated with two of us with college degrees. There wasn't 401-k money or large bonuses but we made it through.

She found the time and money to make sure I had sneakers and a glove to play sports with. Many times my friends fogged up the car with our sweat after practice. But she never said a word. Just continued to push and clean my dirty white socks so that they would be available the next day if needed. She was there when I needed a few dollars in college and even let me come home to live after school for awhile.

My father has passed on and she continues to work at living. Late last year she had a major medical setback, She was in the intensive care ward for 4 months, confounding doctors who told us to say goodbye to our mom. She is now on another mission. She is in a vent unit approx. an hour and a half away from home and only gets to see us on weekends. Does she complain? Some, but expects to be home in a month or so.

I can't tell you enough about the strength and courage that she has. Her faith is strong.

So as we go through our days and think about our problems, remember to thank those before us and marvel at their abilities to get through tough times. We all have it in our genes!

Winter doesn't want to go quietly this year with a major snow storm hitting the East Coast on Sunday night lasting until the early morning hours Monday. Most places had at least 5-6 inches of the white stuff with Jonesville coming in at 8.5 inches.

The storm came quickly, with rain first most of the day Sunday. Late Sunday night, around 8:00pm the first flakes starting hitting the ground. The roads quickly became a nightmare to travel with many wrecks. The power in some areas went out due to ice covered trees falling over power lines and it looked like it was going to be a huge problem for Duke Power and other area power companies.

Monday morning brought the beauty of the storm. White was everywhere and it meant that schools were closed and many people stayed home from work. But as the sun came out, the snow began to melt and most roads were clear by noon. As of Tuesday the storm is but a remnant of its former self with patches of snow left in just a few places.

Allison Oaks Vineyards, Flint Hill Vineyards, Hanover Park Vineyards, Rag Apple Lassie Vineyards and the Yadkin County Historical Society are having a GPS scavenger hunt for the months of January and February 2009. This is the perfect time to try out your new "technology" gifts that many of you probably received for Christmas. A canister will be placed at eight historical sites in Yadkin County with corks. Each participating vineyard will have its color coded corks at two sites. Take the two different corks to the tasting room of the vineyard from which they came from and get a free wine tasting with a $5.00 donation to the Yadkin County Historical Society. (You are more than welcome to write a check for tax deduction purposes)--When you purchase a bottle of wine at each vineyard, you will get a card stamped. When all four vineyards have stamped your card, it goes into a barrel where four will be drawn out at the end of each four weeks. You can win prizes ranging from gift certificates for vineyard events to gift cards. The sites will change each month. Yadkin County maps are available at the Yadkin County Chamber of Commerce and each vineyard will have a map. Check ahead for vineyard hours and WiFi availability. The first 8 GPS locations will be available January 17th. For a list of the GPS addresses for the sites call, email or pick it up at one of the vineyards.

Allison Oaks Vineyards
(336) 677-1388
Flint Hill Vineyards
(336) 699-4455
RagApple Lassie Vineyards
(336) 367-6000
Hanover Park Vineyards
(336) 463-2875

If you are looking for a fun way to visit the wineries and see some of Yadkin Valleys historical sites in the process, this is it! You are welcome to participate in both scavenger hunts. The first hunt will be from January 17 to February 21.

Serving Yadkin, Davie, Forsyth, Surry, Davidson,, Stokes, and Wilkes Counties Also the communities of Yadkinville, Mocksville, Hamptonville, Boonville, Jonesville, Elkin, Lewisville and Winston Salem.

See our website for more information, Home Realty Group or Yadkin County Real Estate

For new Construction, see the custom homes of one of the areas' best builders, White Oak Custom Homes

And for more news, happenings and events of the greater Yadkin Valley area, go to Yadkin Valley Now!

Residential and Commercial Relocation New Construction Development

These days not paying your taxes gets you a cabinet level postion. Only two weeks into the Obama adminstration we already have numerous scandals. Our new Treasury Secretary didn't pay taxes on income for working at the World Bank. His excuse, didn't know he owed it! This man now oversees the IRS. Want to earn millions by being an unregistered lobbyist (something that should be looked into) for the health care industry? Go ahead and when the time is right, you get nominated to be the head of Health and Human Services!

I thought that change was coming. I guess it is Bush's fault.