Jack Hart sits in his favorite Windsor chair - one he purchased from the Habitat ReStore for $15 and restored. (Christina Ritchie Rogers / CorneliusNews.net)

By CHRISTINA RITCHIE ROGERS
DavidsonNews.net

CORNELIUS – In his living room Jack Hart has a comfortable recliner, a lovely couch and an artisan table, but his favorite piece of furniture is a small, wooden Windsor chair he bought for $15 at the Habitat ReStore in Cornelius. It was in pieces when he got it, and he meticulously repaired it using only clamps – the way it should be done, he said.

That chair is just one of the many pieces of furniture Mr. Hart, 93, has repaired and restored over the past seven years. A World War II veteran and former engineer, he began volunteering at the Habitat ReStore in Cornelius in 2006 as a merchandise repair expert and has logged more than 3,500 volunteer hours since. This week, he was named Home Instead Senior Care’s North Carolina Senior Volunteer of the Year for his work with Our Towns Habitat for Humanity. Read the full story

Reprinted from Brenda Barger’s Jan. 12, 2012, Around Davidson column.

Bill Tiemann

By BRENDA BARGER
DavidsonNews.net

New Year’s Day was a time to close one chapter and open a new one for the Rev. William Harold Tiemann, a “long tall Texan,” who retired from his duties with “his Davidson flock” on Jan. 1.

Born in Seguin, Texas, some 30 miles east of San Antonio, Bill grew up on a farm where his parents raised cotton, corn, grains, cows, sheep and hogs. He used his 4-H training to show hogs in local county fairs and through FFA was encouraged to show Hereford calves. Read the full story