Procession turnout helped Spec. Antonio Mooreâs family through the darkest days
Procession turnout helped Spec. Antonio Mooreâs family through the darkest days By Jon Evans | February 4, 2021 at 6:00 PM EST - Updated February 4 at 6:54 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The charter plane touched down just after noon at Wilmington International Airport on Feb. 1, 2020. The casket inside, draped in the Stars and Stripes, carried the body of Army Specialist Antonio Moore, the 22-year-old who had lost his life eight days earlier in a rollover crash on his first deployment in Syria.
âI never thought heâd be coming home that way, because he was happy when he was getting deployed,â said Crystal Vereen, Specialist Mooreâs mother. âHe was telling everybody. He was knocking on neighborsâ doors that actually served (in the military). He was like âIâm going for my country.ââ
Girl Scouts North Carolina Coastal Pines congratulates Emma Johnson of Wilmington for becoming a Gold Award Girl Scout.
Emma earned the designation by introducing underprivileged youth to the principles and elements of art by creating a curriculum called ARTreach. Emma s curriculum included lessons detailing different types of art along with projects to be completed and the supplies needed to do so. She distributed her lessons and resources to six after school programs and taught over 60 children during pilot sessions over Zoom. To further her impacts, she created a website where the curriculum information and instruction are available for free to the public.