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CityViewNC.com | 11 Claire Mullen can be reached at clairejlmullen@ gmail.com. 910.868.5131 | 3200 Cliffdale Road, Fayetteville, NC 28303 | www.fayacademy.org Fayetteville Academy Fayetteville Academy admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation in administration of its educational policies, admissions, financial aid, and athletic and other school-administered programs. Accepting applications for the 2021-22 school year. Visit www.fayacademy.org for more information. • Pre-K through grade 12 STEAM SmartLabs ® • Chromebook 1:1 program • Grades 4-7 LEGO ® Robotics Team • 89 percent of AP exams taken resulted in a score of 3 or higher. • More than $500,000 in need-based financial aid awarded annually to qualified applicants. • The 23 members of the Class of 2021 were offered more than $1.3 million in college scholarships and grants. RANKED #1 IN THE NICHE.COM 2021 BEST PRIVATE K-12 SCHOOLS IN THE FAYETTEVILLE AREA real soda cans, paper plates and napkins, plastic cutlery, and an entire (well-balanced) meal of food that she hand-cut from colorful construction paper. She thought of everything, including a trail of ants fashioned out of twisted black pipe cleaners. Everything but the fact that she was transforming little Susanna, with a red bandana tied like a kerchief around her head, into a picnic so giant that she wouldn't be able to fit through the doorways of any of our welcoming neighbors or turn around without knocking into another trick-or-treater. Poor Sueboo, looking cute as a button, would spend the evening in tears (the paper napkins came in handy) as her sympathetic older sisters fetched candy for her goodie bag (a miniature picnic basket, of course) from homeowners with stoops too narrow to accommodate an enormous walking picnic. And then there was the year one of my sisters went as a grandma. As she remembers it, "I was a grandma, complete with white baby powder in my hair and one of mom's bras filled with two low-hanging balloons." e Halloween that Mom imagined up a werewolf costume for my little brother and hand-sewed patches of itchy, hot brown fur from who knows where or what to his jeans and flannel shirt. But, along with the mishaps, I remember Mom sprawling on the living room floor for hours on end every evening for a week, hand-drawing an exact replica of the Queen of Hearts on two pieces of poster board for an elaborate playing card costume. Cutting up her own clothing to create patches for a homemade scarecrow. Sitting me down at her vanity to expertly paint my face to match my mime costume. When I think about all of that effort times four, every year until each of us kids proclaimed ourselves too old for dress up, I realize that it's actually quite easy to sacrifice an hour of my precious time and a little too much of my money once a year on two Halloween costumes from a warehouse full of factory-made, pre-packaged outfits. Maybe one year I'll pull out the ol' glue gun and try my hand at a homemade Halloween. Aer all, the pictures are priceless. PEACE OF MIND, WHEREVER YOU ARE Cameras, intrusion & smoke/CO detection, access control & more Security & life safety solutions with on-the-go monitoring Unparalleled, award-winning LOCAL monitoring & service Call 910.483.1196 for a safety assessment Offices in Fayetteville & Wilmington serving Central and SE North Carolina HolmesSecurity.net #TheresNoPlaceLikeHolmes

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