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SCC launches Heritage Arts Endowed Fund Jeff Marley.
Over the past decade at Southwestern Community College, serving as Heritage Arts Department Chair has become much more than a fun job for Jeff Marley it’s a passion.
Marley’s desire to see the program continue to flourish is the main reason he recently took steps to create the Heritage Arts Endowed Fund through the SCC Foundation. The scholarship will be used to financially support visiting artists, equipment, travel and salaries associated with the Heritage Arts program, which is housed at the SCC Swain Center.
“Unlike a scholarship for an individual student, this fund will benefit all students and the community through events and classes we offer,” Marley said. “I wanted to begin developing this fund to ensure the Heritage Arts program would have the fiscal means to be able to provide a wide variety of events well into the future. I want to sustain our program and provide many more opportunities to ou
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By Cece Nunn, posted Dec 18, 2020
It was the worst of times, it was the weirdest of times. It was 2020, the year of the coronavirus pandemic.
For many small business owners in the region – especially those dependent on visitors and indoor operations – impacted by restrictions to slow the virus’s spread, 2020 was a year of tough decisions. Along those lines, Kris Testori ended up shutting down her Wilmington escape room business because of COVID-19.
Operating Port City Escape, where people would come together to solve puzzles that would allow them to “escape” different scenarios, didn’t seem safe anymore. Testori’s husband, Doug, would know firsthand: before he retired, he was an oncologist, treating people whose immune systems were compromised.