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CityViewNC .com | 35 Art, Culture, Civic Engagement Help us continue to provide a cultural arts space for the community with exhibitions and programs that acknowledge and incorporate the diverse cultural climate of Fayetteville. Your generous contributions to the Ellington-White Community CDC Endowment Fund at Cumberland Community Foundation will provide ongoing support for the agency. Ellington-White Community Development Corporation 113 Gillespie Street • Fayetteville, NC 28301 • 910-483-1388 www.ellington-white.com arrange for his teammates to read the articles he's written to Lovett over the telephone. Northern managed one more touchdown in the second half, but that was it. Boyette said there were countless people in the background at Seventy-First who played roles in making the championship possible. He mentioned assistant principal Gerald Patterson singing a personal rendition of " The Impossible Dream." Assistant principal A lex Warner, who led the Pep Club and grabbed some dir t f rom the field at Count y Stadium to display in the trophy case w ith the championship trophy. Principal Bob Lew is, administrator Kenneth Edge and al l of the school staf f. McNeill, who went on to serve as a student athletic trainer at the University of North Carolina under veteran athletic trainer John Lacey, graduated from UNC and earned a law degree from North Carolina Central in 1979. He served in the attorney general's office for 31 years, retiring in 2010. He had been organizing a night of remembrance at a Seventy-First football game this season scheduled for late September. Members of the 1970 team planned to gather in Fayetteville for a weekend of celebration at a local motel. e COVID-19 pandemic forced those plans to be scrapped. McNeill is hopeful that the team will be able to replicate the reunion plans during the delayed football season scheduled to begin in late February. But whether the reunion happens or not, the members of the 1970 Eastern championship team still cling hard to all the memories. "It 's ju s t t remendou s how much p e ople gave i n t h at c om mu n it y to s upp or t t h at te a m ,' ' B oye t te s a id . Heath felt there were some racial issues in the communit y at the time, but the footbal l team's accomplishments helped lif t ever yone above that. He said it let the communit y bond together, share a common goal and root for one another. "at's what made it special for me,'' he said. "We just bonded together as brothers and got it done. For the rest of our lives, we've lived on that experience.'' Earl Vaughan Jr. can be reached at earlvaughanjr@gmail.com. Read more of Earl Vaughan Jr. in our PressBox Newsletter. Subscribe at cityviewnc.com or text PressBox to 22999. Make your gift more impactful by donating on Giving Tuesday. As part of GivingTuesday Cumberland Community Foundation will be matching up to $100,000 in donations! You are helping women and children right here in your community. www.connectionsofcc.org www.facebook.com/connectionsofcc 119 N. Cool Spring Street Fayetteville NC 28301 Connections of Cumberland County is a 501 (c) (3) nonprof it organization

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