e heartbeat of Kernersville for 78 years Fire Chief Terry Crouse is retiring after 21 years with the Kernersville Fire Rescue Dept. See story below. Vol. 78 No. 23 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2015 Published Tues., Thurs., Sat.-Sun. MISSION TO AFRICA HELPING HANDS BY WENDY FREEMAN DAVIS Features & News Editor As Kernersville Fire Rescue Chief Terry Crouse prepares to walk away from a career that has afforded him many opportunities over the past few decades, he can’t help but feel blessed. Crouse said he fell in love with being a firefighter shortly after he began volunteering with the Lib- erty Fire Department in 1988, but it wasn’t until he joined the Kern- ersville Fire Rescue Department (KFRD) in August 1994 that he truly found “home.” “I remember feeling both anx- ious and excited when I showed up my first day,” Crouse said. “I only knew two people, but that didn’t seem to matter. Everyone was very welcoming and treat- ed me like family. I immediately A lifetime in fire service Fire Chief Terry Crouse will retire on December 31 BY LINDA PAYNE Governmental Affairs Reporter See “Chief Crouse” Page 6 Green Valley Baptist Church in Walkertown will once again offer a drive-thru live nativity, provid- ing visitors a glimpse into not only the birth of Jesus Christ, but his crucifixion and resurrection, as well. Live nativity returns Green Valley Baptist Church continues its Christmas tradition BY WENDY FREEMAN DAVIS Features & News Editor See “Live nativity” Page 3 Dale Folwell, a former legislator and member of the Winston-Sa- lem/Forsyth County Schools (WS/ FCS) Board of Education, has filed to run for what will be the open state treasurer’s seat in 2016. Folwell, a Republican, stepped down from his role within the N.C. Department of Commerce as the assistant secretary for the Division of Employment Security Folwell to run for treasurer Former legislator, School Board member files his candidacy See “Dale Folwell” Page 2 Dale Folwell See “Mission trip” Page 7 BY JENNIFER OWENSBY EMINGER Lifestyles Editor Pete Kunkle, senior pastor of First Christian Church Ministries, recently went on a mission trip to Zimbabwe with HASTEN Inter- national, where he held a revival and helped begin the process for digging a well, in which area high schools’ Interact Clubs are helping through a fundraiser. According to HASTEN Inter- national, HASTEN (Health And Salvation To Every Nation) was es- tablished in 1986 by veteran med- ical missionary Dennis D. Pruett, M.D. Today, through the support of those who contribute to HASTEN, medical evangelism is sponsored in five countries and preaching in Cuba. Kunkle said he went on the trip with Dr. Darrel Pruett and Pruett’s wife. Kunkle explained that they spent a lot of their time in Dama, a village where there is a small medi- cal clinic and church. “They have moved people out there to resettle them,” he said, not- ing that many people relocated for work as the cities are overcrowd- ed. “They have sugar cane fields, Building wells in Africa Local pastor travels to Zimbabwe on mission trip The Glenn High School dance team performs a choreographed routine to “Santa Baby” during halftime of a home varsity boys’ basketball game against North Forsyth on Dec. 8. (Kevin Hartley Photography) First Christian Church Senior Pastor Pete Kunkle snaps a photograph of a rainbow at Victoria Falls during a recent mission trip to Zimbabwe. See story above. (Photo contributed)
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The heartbeat of Kernersvillefor 78 years
The heartbeat of Kernersvillefor 78 years
The heartbeat of Kernersvillefor 77 years
Fire Chief
Terry Crouse is retiring after 21 years with
the Kernersville Fire Rescue
Dept. See story below.
Vol. 78 No. 23 Thursday, december 17, 2015 Published Tues., Thurs., Sat.-Sun.
As Kernersville Fire Rescue Chief Terry Crouse prepares to walk away from a career that has afforded him many opportunities over the past few decades, he can’t help but feel blessed.
Crouse said he fell in love with being a firefighter shortly after he began volunteering with the Lib-erty Fire Department in 1988, but
it wasn’t until he joined the Kern-ersville Fire Rescue Department (KFRD) in August 1994 that he truly found “home.”
“I remember feeling both anx-ious and excited when I showed up my first day,” Crouse said. “I only knew two people, but that didn’t seem to matter. Everyone was very welcoming and treat-ed me like family. I immediately
A lifetime in fire service
Fire Chief Terry Crouse will retireon December 31
by Linda PayneGovernmental Affairs Reporter
See “Chief Crouse” Page 6
Green Valley Baptist Church in Walkertown will once again offer a drive-thru live nativity, provid-ing visitors a glimpse into not only the birth of Jesus Christ, but his crucifixion and resurrection, as well.
Live nativity returns
Green Valley Baptist Church continues its
Christmas tradition
by Wendy Freeman davisFeatures & News Editor
See “Live nativity” Page 3
Dale Folwell, a former legislator and member of the Winston-Sa-lem/Forsyth County Schools (WS/FCS) Board of Education, has filed to run for what will be the open state treasurer’s seat in 2016.
Folwell, a Republican, stepped down from his role within the N.C. Department of Commerce as the assistant secretary for the Division of Employment Security
Folwell to run for treasurerFormer legislator, School Board
member files his candidacy
See “Dale Folwell” Page 2 Dale Folwell
See “Mission trip” Page 7
by JenniFer OWensby emingerLifestyles Editor
Pete Kunkle, senior pastor of First Christian Church Ministries, recently went on a mission trip to Zimbabwe with HASTEN Inter-
national, where he held a revival and helped begin the process for digging a well, in which area high schools’ Interact Clubs are helping through a fundraiser.
According to HASTEN Inter-national, HASTEN (Health And
Salvation To Every Nation) was es-tablished in 1986 by veteran med-ical missionary Dennis D. Pruett, M.D. Today, through the support of those who contribute to HASTEN, medical evangelism is sponsored in five countries and preaching in
Cuba. Kunkle said he went on the trip
with Dr. Darrel Pruett and Pruett’s wife.
Kunkle explained that they spent a lot of their time in Dama, a village where there is a small medi-
cal clinic and church. “They have moved people out
there to resettle them,” he said, not-ing that many people relocated for work as the cities are overcrowd-ed. “They have sugar cane fields,
Building wells in AfricaLocal pastor travels to Zimbabwe on mission trip
The Glenn High School dance team performs a choreographed routine to “Santa Baby” during halftime of a home varsity boys’ basketball game against North Forsyth on Dec. 8. (Kevin Hartley Photography)
First Christian Church Senior Pastor Pete Kunkle snaps a photograph of a rainbow at Victoria Falls during a recent mission trip to Zimbabwe. See story above. (Photo contributed)
news features Kernersville News, Thursday, December 17, 2015 · A2
Phipps named to Native American commissionSwearing in ceremony conducted at Town Hall
by Wendy Freeman davisFeatures & News Editor
Julia Phipps, accompanied by her husband Bill, is sworn to the N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs by Kernersville Mayor Dawn Morgan. (Photo by Wendy Freeman Davis)
Julia Phipps, second from left, is joined by Charlene Martin, Frances Stewart Lowrey and Kernersville Mayor Dawn Morgan. (Photo by Gray Cassell)
Julia Phipps, left is pictured above with Greg Richardson, executive director of the N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs, and Mayor Dawn Morgan, right. (Photo by Wendy Freeman Davis)
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(DES), effective Decem-ber 1. He was appointed to the position in March 2013 and has been credit-ed with being instrumen-tal in shaping reforms that turned DES deficits into surpluses for the state.
“Dale has been our point man on long-over-due reforms to the state’s unemployment insurance system, and his leader-ship on those and other important issues has been critical in North Caroli-na’s economic comeback,” Governor Pat McCrory said in announcing Fol-well’s decision to step down. “I am grateful for the energy and insight Dale brought to our ad-ministration and wish him the best in his next endeavors.”
Commerce Secretary John Skvarla, III echoed McCrory’s sentiments re-garding Folwell and the job he’s done over the last two-and-a-half years.
“Dale’s leadership of one of Commerce’s larg-est and most important divisions resulted in im-proved customer service, the adoption of new tech-nologies, streamlined op-erations and an estimat-ed collective savings for North Carolina employers of more than $600 million in federal and state taxes over the next year,” Skvar-la said.
According to an an-nouncement by McCrory and the DES in November, the state’s unemployment trust fund reserve has reached $1 billion after paying off a $2.8 billion debt to the federal gov-ernment this past May. It was the first time the trust fund had exceeded $1 bil-lion since May 2001, offi-cials said.
As a result, the state discontinued a 20 per-cent state unemployment insurance tax surcharge North Carolina employ-ers had been paying for a decade. The surplus also eliminates the penalties and interest due to the debt to the federal govern-ment, which had totaled $1 billion from 2011 to 2014.
“In March of 2013, I wasn’t surprised at the broken N.C. unemploy-ment system,” said Folwell upon the announcement of his departure. “We im-mediately went to work to implement, not interpret, the new laws to reform the system. The governor told us not to rest until every penny of debt was repaid, every phone call was an-swered, and the backlog resolved. With the cour-age and creativity of our employees, the adminis-tration’s confidence, and the new law, we were able to go from bankruptcy to solvency in 30 months. I have loved being a leader of a turnaround team who tore DES apart and cor-rectly put it back together again. An accomplishment is an accomplishment for only as long as it lasts. I’m leaving DES confident that no North Carolina governor will have to deal with a bankrupt system again.”
Folwell was in Kern-ersville on Friday, Dec. 11 to attend the Kerners-ville Foundation’s annual banquet. He talked to the Kernersville News about his decision to run for state treasurer.
Folwell said he wanted to continue fixing things in state government.
“I’ve had a reputation over the last 10 years of
fixing things. Well, you can’t fix something unless you know how to tear it apart and put it back to-gether. It takes those skills to fix a problem that is 10 times larger than the un-employment trust fund reserve,” Folwell said.
That problem lies with-in the unfounded liabil-ities in North Carolina’s health and retirement sys-tem.
“It’s 30 billion dollars and growing. It’s actually growing by 20 percent per year,” Folwell said. “The state has never put any money aside for this. We were a national leader in fixing unemployment and we need to be a national leader in this.”
Folwell, whose back-ground is in accounting, said those who call them-selves “conservatives”
should at least have some record of conserving. He believes his record has ex-actly that.
“I know how to save the taxpayers money,” Folwell continued.
A Republican state treasurer would be a first should one win next No-vember. Current Treasurer Janet Cowell, a Democrat, announced in October that she won’t seek re-elec-tion in 2016.
Folwell said it doesn’t matter whose policies caused the situation with the state’s unfounded lia-bilities. What matters are solutions.
“We’ve discovered it, so let’s fix it,” he said. “There are state employ-ees like prison guards, state troopers and school teachers who are relying on those benefits, and if
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we don’t do something, the train is going to hit the car. We have to find a way to fix it. This is a threat to other functions of government.”
Folwell served four terms in the N.C. House of Representatives. He was elected as the Speaker Pro Tempore of the State House for the 2011-12 legislative sessions. Be-fore election to State of-fice, Folwell served for eight years on the WS/FCS Board of Education.
Folwell received his B.S. and masters in accounting from the University of North Carolina at Greens-boro. He is the former
vice president and regis-tered investment advisor for Deutsche Bank/Alex Brown. Folwell graduated from the North Carolina Institute of Political Lead-ership in 1989.
He and his wife, Syn-thia, have two children. The couple, who live in Winston-Salem, has been married for 25 years.
The filing period for the March, 15, 2016 pri-mary ends Monday, Dec. 21. So far, two others have filed their intention to run for state treasurer. They are Ron Elmer, of Cary, and Dan Blue, III, of Raleigh, both Demo-crats.
Kernersville Mayor Dawn Morgan presid-ed over a ceremony at Town Hall last week in which local resident Julia Phipps took the oath of office to become one of the newest members of the N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs (NCCIA).
During the oath, Phipps was joined at the
side by her husband, Bill. Also in attendance was Greg Richardson, execu-tive director of the NCCIA, Charlene Martin, treasur-er of the Guilford Native American Association (GNAA), and Frances Stew-art Lowry, chairman of the GNAA Board of Directors.
Phipps was appointed to the unexpired term of Dev-ane Burnett, Sr.
According to the NCCIA website, Burnett’s term ex-
pires June 30, 2016.Richardson welcomed
Phipps back to the commis-sion, noting that she had served the organization in the past as a member of the N.C. Indian Health Board.
“There was a whole net-work across the U.S., but not one in the Southeast,” said Richardson. “Julia led that ef-fort. It started as an initiative but now is a full non-profit.”
Richardson said the NC-CIA consists of eight tribes
and four urban associa-tions, with North Carolina having the largest Native American population east of the Mississippi.
“We have a deep-rooted heritage in North Carolina,” he said.
Phipps was appreciative of the opportunity to serve and thanked Burnett for his service to the commission.
