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After exceeding its 2019 campaign goal with $1,525,098, Rowan County United Way took the opportunity to thank the countless volunteers, companies and others who helped make it possible on Thursday, January 23rd at the Aymer Center at Hood Theological Seminary. Each...

  Individual Winners K-5 Second Runner- Up: Levi Shelton, West Rowan Elementary First Runner-Up: Lucy Moore, West Rowan Elementary Winner: Lillie Martin, Hanford Dole Elementary Middle School Individual Winners Second Runner-Up: Emma Clarke,West Rowan Middle...

  In a room full of first responders, F&M Bank Chairman and CEO Steve Fisher got the Rowan County United Way across the finish line. The United Way’s campaign in 2019 was led by Salisbury Fire Chief Bob Parnell, whose job was to raise $1.525 million for the...

  After almost 30 years, the United Way campaigns sort of run together, but Jackie Harris remembers one autumn when she desperately needed $8,000 to reach the community’s goal. And she had no clue where it would come from. Harris already was making her second and...

  The United Way’s 2019 campaign still has work to do. By its final update on Friday, the campaign had raised $1.4 million or roughly 95% of its goal for local programs that address mental health, substance abuse, healthy lifestyles and basic needs. To hit its...

  Rowan County has nine days to raise $304,000 and meet its goal for the 2019 United Way campaign. As of Wednesday, the United Way’s annual campaign had raised $1.22 million of its goal of $1,526,248, an odd number because of the number of calls for suicides and...

  Paul Lucas remembers the night vividly. There was the repeated noise of one shoe hitting the ground and then silence as Paul walked with his son, Jordan, on April 28. Intoxicated and shoeless on one foot, Jordan walked home with his father. Jordan could hardly...

  By the start of 2020, nonprofits, government agencies and health care-focused businesses will begin rolling out what Rowan County United Way Director Jenny Lee calls “211 on steroids.” Called N.C. Care 360, the new program is an initiative of the state’s...