🗞️ Friday night went three different ways for our three schools

🗞️ The Kernersville Foundation writes a $20,000 check

🗞️ Our Kiwanis president is taking over the whole Carolinas district

🗞️ The little library on Harmon Lane closes out its summer

☀️ Patchy Fog, Then Partly Sunny | High: 87°F | Low: 69°F

Sunday starts soft and ends warm. Look for patchy fog before 9 in the morning, then partly sunny skies and a high near 87. The rain chance is 4 percent, which is about as close to nothing as a forecast gets, and the south wind barely registers at 3 miles an hour or less. Overnight turns mostly clear with a low around 69. Then the week leans on the thermostat and does not let up: sunny and near 92 on Monday, 94 on Tuesday, 96 on Wednesday. If you have outdoor work to do, Sunday morning is your window.

Three Kernersville schools played Friday night, and one of them won a game most people will never see the likes of.

East Forsyth had the easy night. The Eagles beat Northern Guilford 49-14 at home and moved to 2-0, a week after opening the season with a 13-0 win over Glenn. No individual statistics were posted for the game, so we will hold off on naming names until the box score turns up.

Bishop McGuinness had the hard one. West Davidson came to Kernersville and left with a 40-6 win, dropping the Villains to 0-2 after the 10-7 opener against Forbush.

And then there is Glenn. MaxPreps has the Bobcats beating R.J. Reynolds 3-2, with two points for Reynolds in the first quarter, three for Glenn in the second, and nothing at all from either side after halftime. That would be the Bobcats' first win of the year and a scoreline a person can go a whole career without seeing. We want to be straight with you about it, though. MaxPreps posts the quarter-by-quarter but no scoring summary, so we cannot tell you how those points were scored, and we could not confirm the final anywhere else. As of Saturday afternoon the Kernersville News had not yet posted Friday's results. Take it as MaxPreps has it until the paper catches up.

One more, from Thursday: Glenn volleyball swept Eastern Guilford 25-11, 25-11, 25-12 and now sits at 7-2. We printed 6-2 in an earlier issue, and 7-2 is the number MaxPreps carries today.

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A foundation that exists only to fund work in this town just did exactly that.

Crisis Control Ministry has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the Kernersville Foundation, according to the Kernersville News.

The Foundation's mission is narrow on purpose. It provides financial assistance to nonprofit organizations serving the Kernersville community, which means the money raised here is spent here.

On hand for the check presentation were Duane Long, Courtney Dion, Mike Shaw, Kathy Hoffner, David Richmond, Ashley Edwards, Mike Hauser and Nasia Creamer. What the grant will fund specifically was not spelled out in the portion of the report available to us.

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The job she just won covers two states.

Cindy Miller, the current president of the Kiwanis Club of Kernersville, has been elected governor-elect of the Carolinas District of Kiwanis International. The vote came at the district's annual convention in Greensboro.

She was nominated by club vice president Cindy Stewart, who said Miller “represents the heart of Kiwanis” and believes every child deserves “encouragement, opportunity, and community that helps them to exceed expectations.” Stewart noted that both women were inducted into the club in 2022.

Miller framed the year ahead as groundwork rather than authority. “It's about preparation,” she said. “It's about partnership. It's about purpose.” Her plan is to start by listening to club leadership across the district and to strengthen communication between chapters.

It is a reminder of something easy to forget about a small town. The people who run the pancake breakfast are often the same people who end up running things a good deal larger.

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It is easy to drive past the branch on Harmon Lane for years without ever going in.

The Friends of the John R. Paddison Memorial Library have wrapped up this year's summer reading program, helped along by a $2,500 grant from the Kernersville Foundation. The mechanism was a Digby card — the program's reading log. Turn one in and your name went into a drawing. Three $25 gift cards went out at random, one to a child, one to a teen and one to an adult.

Present for the check presentation were Lezah Arney, Duane Long, Beverly Brill, Kimberly Hernandez, Laura LaDisa, Nancy Brown, John Ford and Kerry Marsh.

Here is the part worth sitting with. Look back up at the events list in this issue and count how much of it happens at 248 Harmon Lane. Sip and Stitch on Monday morning. The Makerspace open lab, 3D printer and all, Monday afternoon. County social services taking drop-ins the whole day Tuesday, no appointment needed. Drawbots for tweens Tuesday afternoon. Preschool Storytime coming back Wednesday and running weekly into November.

That is one small building, in one ordinary week, and nearly all of it free. The summer reading program is the part that gets a check presentation and a photograph. The rest of it just quietly happens.

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