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Charlotte Catholic, Weddington named grand champions at virtual NCCCA state championship Updated: 2021-04-01 02:03:42
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Updated April 1, 2021 2:03 a.m. EDT
By Nick Stevens, HighSchoolOT managing editor
Raleigh, N.C. Charlotte Catholic and Weddington came away with grand championships at the virtual N.C. Cheerleading Coaches Association state championship competition, streamed on HighSchoolOT on Wednesday evening.
The competition was held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Teams submitted videos to the NCCCA, which were reviewed and scored by judges. The results were announced live on Wednesday night.
Here are the winners:
Middle School All-Girl
Middle School Non-Building, Non Tumbling
Victims of Thiokol plant explosion remembered 50 years later
Surviving workers, South Georgia community honors 29 killed on Feb. 3, 1971
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That community gathered Wednesday to remember one of the deadliest industrial disasters in the United States.
Workers at that plant made trip flares for American soldiers to use in the Vietnam War at a 36-building facility on a former cotton plantation in Northeast Camden County. Building 132, where the explosion took place, included the assembly line and was where much of the explosives were stored.
About 80 people mostly Black women worked in the building, which was leveled by the blast. Three other nearby buildings were severely damaged and the fire engulfed nearby pine trees, which started a forest fire that eventually scorched 200 acres.
WOODBINE, Ga. The plant closed years ago. But the land is still there at the end of Harrietts Bluff Road, a two-lane county highway that winds east from Interstate-95 before hitting a chain-link fence, padlocked, with stop signs.
It has been 50 years since that Wednesday morning in 1971 and some of the people who survived, who are still alive today, still can’t talk about it.
Some never could bring themselves to go back to the site of the Thiokol plant. Others did go back, but swore they’d never return.
One of the men who was there that morning eventually returned, only to hear something in the quiet stillness. Or maybe it was just something in his head. Either way, it haunted him.