Courtney Assistant Fire Chief James Caudle discusses to operation of air packs with volunteer firefighters.
Trainers Chris Jester and Caleb Whitman demonstrate to Courtney volunteer firefighters how to hose advancements into a burning building at a training facility in East Bend.
Courtney volunteer firefighters receive training in East Bend. Volunteer firefighters must complete 48 hours of training per year.
Volunteer Fire Departments in Yadkin County
Arlington Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department
The Boonville Community Volunteer Fire Department
Buck Shoals Volunteer Fire Department
Courtney Volunteer Fire Department
The Fall Creek Community Volunteer Fire Department
Forbush Volunteer Fire Department
West Yadkin Volunteer Fire Department
Photo credit: XtremeAg Planter repair and upgrades, stocking up on parts inventory, and ROI drivers are the focus right now for XtremeAg’s Kelly Garrett, Matt Miles, and Kevin Matthews.
Kelly Garrett - Arion, Iowa
A fifth-generation farmer, Kelly Garrett farms corn, soybeans, and winter wheat in western Iowa. We continue to work on planters, installing new closing wheels from Integrated Ag Solutions. We’re moving to more planter-applied nitrogen and fewer anhydrous applications this spring. There’s been an increase in yields with a 2×2×2 system on our planter, and we like the way The Closer systems incorporate the nitrogen into the soil around the seed instead of applying it on top.
On Jan. 27, the Union for Gender Empowerment (UGE) at McGill hosted a virtual screening of the documentary
Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America, which follows Moises Serrano, a young, undocumented, gay man. Directed by Tiffany Rhynard,
Forbidden’s 88 minutes immerse viewers in Serrano’s life and his grapple with the various socio-political tensions underlying his identity. Released on July 12, 2016 and screened one week after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, the film is a historical marker of the impact of recent discriminatory legislation in the United States.
The film opens with the provoking cries from a familiar face. He rallies the crowd, persuades them, and calls for a solution to a shared “issue.” His audience cheers, enthralled with the seemingly new possibilities. The familiar face was then-candidate and now-former President Donald Trump, uniting his supporters around building a wall at the Mexico-U.S. border. The frame then shifts to a large
Repreve polyester yarn is made from chips that come mainly from recycled bottles. Unifi Inc.âs plant in Yadkinville is the companyâs leading recyled production site. The company represents about 8% of the private-sector workforce in Yadkin County. Journal file photo
A significant reduction in sales expenses boosted Unifi Inc. to its best net-income quarter in three years.
Unifi reported after the stock market closed Wednesday net income of $7.5 million, compared with $409,000 a year ago.
Diluted earnings were 40 cents a share, compared with 2 cents a year ago.
The average earnings forecast was 6 cents by two analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research. Analysts typically do not include one-time gains and charges in their forecasts.
Photo Credit: XtremeAg XtremeAg’s Kevin Matthews, Matt Miles, and Kelly Garrett are putting the finishing touches on winter business and putting the planters in the shop for maintenance and upgrades for 2021 planting season.
Kevin Matthews - East Bend, North Carolina
Kevin and his wife, Cindy, own and operate Matthews Family Farms of North Carolina, Inc., Precision Nutrient Management, Inc., and Deep Creek Grain, Inc. in East Bend and Yadkinville. We’ve been busy applying layer litter and pulling soil samples during this brief dry period. Rain is on the way, but hopefully, it will be light so we can get the small grain top dressed with nitrogen with one of the split applications.