Posted on 08 October 2010. Tags: Davidson College, Tom Ross

John Kuykendall
Davidson College’s Board of Trustees on Friday morning named former president John Kuykendall as interim president and began appointing a committee to search for a successor to current president Tom Ross. In August, President Ross was appointed as president of the 17-campus University of North Carolina system, effective Jan. 1.
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Posted in Davidson College, Nonprofit news
Posted on 08 October 2010. Tags: ada jenkins center, Girl Scouts, loaves and fishes, nonprofits
About 550 Girl Scouts in Davidson, Cornelius and Huntersville will be going door-to-door Saturday morning, Oct. 9, to collect canned goods for Loaves & Fishes food pantry. The girls are hoping neighbors will donate “A Can if You Can” to help feed the hungry in their communities.
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Posted in Beyond Davidson, Calendar, Nonprofit news
Posted on 08 October 2010. Tags: ada jenkins center, Fund-raisers, hope house, nonprofits
Huntersville-based American Tire Distributors Inc. is celebrating its 75th anniversary, and this week marked the occasion with a series of charitable donations, including grants of $35,000 each to the Ada Jenkins Center in Davidson and Hope House Foundation in Huntersville.
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Posted in Beyond Davidson, Business, Huntersville, Nonprofit news
Posted on 05 October 2010. Tags: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, Downtown Davidson
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library director Charles Brown cautioned during a visit to Davidson last week that maintaining the library system in its current form could be difficult given the county’s continuing budget problems. So county officials hope a newly appointed task force can come up with some long-term answers. The 17-member Future of the Library Task Force begins meeting Oct. 20.
Chairing the volunteer task force is Jim Woodward, former chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Davidson Town Board member Connie Wessner has been picked to represent north Mecklenburg.
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Posted in Beyond Davidson, Downtown & old Davidson, Fund-raisers, The Economy, Town Hall
Posted on 05 October 2010. Tags: Fund-raisers, Pack 58

Members of Pack 58 are selling popcorn in their annual fund-raiser. The pack asked that the scouts not be identified.
Monday’s daytime burglaries and a police department alert threw a bit of a wrinkle into Cub Scout Pack 58′s plans to sell popcorn door to door this week. But the scouts are forging ahead with their big annual fund-raiser, in person and online.
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Posted in Fund-raisers
Posted on 04 October 2010. Tags: ada jenkins center, nonprofits, rotary

Rivera- Patrick
The newly formed Rotary Club of Davidson has elected Natisha Rivera-Patrick of Ada Jenkins Center as first president, and picked a slate of other officers representing a cross section of the local business and professional community.
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Posted in Business, Nonprofit news
Posted on 02 October 2010. Tags: cycling, Davidson Housing Coalition, Downtown Davidson, Fund-raisers

Riders cruise down Shearers Road in east Davidson during Saturday's Ride for Hope & Housing. (Bill Giduz/DavidsonNews.net)
Hundreds of bicycle riders and visitors came to downtown Davidson Saturday for the Festival for Hope & Housing, the major annual fund-raiser for the Davidson Housing Coalition. The event, once known as the Ride for Hope & Housing, was expanded this year to include a Taste of Home food festival on the Village Green.
See a photo gallery below.
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Posted in Beyond Davidson, Cycling, Downtown & old Davidson, East Davidson, Fund-raisers, Photos
Posted on 30 September 2010. Tags: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, davdison town board, Davidson College, Davidson Library, Downtown Davidson, Fund-raisers, Town Hall

At Wednesday's reception, from left, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library chief Charles Brown, Davidson and Cornelius branch manager Ellen Giduz and John Zika, manager of the North County Regional Library, in Huntersville. (Bill Giduz/DavidsonNews.net)
With donations now at $148,200, task force says it will extend fund-raiser until it meets $175,000 goal.
By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net
Fifteen years ago, Davidsonians dedicated a new public library branch on the Village Green. When library supporters gathered Wednesday to mark the anniversary, the celebration was as much about community as it was about books or a building. And that sense of community is as strong in 2010 as it was in 1995, Mayor John Woods told about three dozen people at a reception Wednesday evening.
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Posted in Beyond Davidson, Davidson College, Downtown & old Davidson, Fund-raisers, Town Hall