Davidson Parks & Recreation has hired the former college volleyball coach and recreation supervisor from Missouri as its first-ever health and wellness supervisor. We talked to Ms. Willis this week about her new job and her outlook on wellness. In HEALTH & FITNESS »

Rodger Clark (left) and Matt Rogers

WDAV-FM, the Davidson-based classical music radio station, has hired Matt Rogers as its new midday host, and named J. Rodger Clark as director of development and corporate support. The station announced the appointments this week. Read the full story

Air quality monitors.

SOURCE: Catawba College
Davidson College and the Center for the Environment at Catawba College are partnering on a summer air monitoring program to measure ozone and nitrogen oxide (NOx) levels in seven Piedmont counties.

Dr. Cindy Hauser, associate professor of chemistry at Davidson, will analyze the data collected for cross comparison. Two of her students will be working with June McDowell, an air quality intern with the Center for the Environment, to deliver and collect the tubes with filters used for monitoring. Read the full story

This week I have asked several Davidson College employees what they do when the students go home for the summer.  The reason I am asking this is because people are always asking my mother (who works at the college) if she gets the summer off when the students go home.  We always get a good laugh at that because in no way is she done when the students leave.

I asked people on Davidson’s campus how life changes without the students and what they do in the summertime.

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Goats get to work eating kudzu. Listen to an audio postcard below. (Michael Tomsic / WFAE)

By MICHAEL TOMSIC
WFAE

Davidson College put an unusual new maintenance crew to work yesterday. The crew consists of 30 goats imported from the Asheville area, and their job is to eat all the kudzu vine overrunning the most used stretch of the college’s ecological preserve. Reporter Michael Tomsic went to the forest of invasive Asian vine and produced this audio postcard: Read the full story

Next Monday, NBA father and son Dell and Stephen Curry will host their 2nd annual Curry Celebrity Classic golf tournament at River Run Country Club to benefit Ada Jenkins Center. We talked to Dell Curry about their charitable effort, and also got the latest why Steph won’t be hitting any golf balls next week.  In SPORTS »

Firefighters received a report that a tree had fallen across East Rocky River Road as a result of Thursday’s evening storm. The overnight crew on Engine 3 assisted by cutting the tree into manageable pieces and removing it from the roadway. The same crew investigated a smoke scare shortly after responding to a medical call at The Pines.

A number of minor cooking incidents caused accidental fire alarm activations throughout the week, and Cornelius firefighters battled a vehicle fire on Interstate-77 near Exit 28 on Tuesday. An infant was extricated from a locked vehicle in an unrelated incident at Direct Furniture Connection, and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities Department had to assist a private pavement cleaning company when workers realized that their truck was connected to a fire hydrant that could not be turned off.

Details on these stories and others (as well as a tally of the week’s medical calls) may be found below.

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bug” title=”HealthFitness-bug” width=”137″ height=”85″ class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-29008″ />More than 400 cyclists turned out Saturday morning, June 4, at Davidson College for the annual Collier Lilly Ride 4 Life, which raised funds and awareness for organ donation. The event is named in memory of a Davidson College student who died in 1987. Story in Health & Fitness, CLICK HERE »