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CityViewNC.com | 27 17638 Celebrate Public Power! At PWC, our employees – who are also your friends and neighbors – make the difference. They enable us to provide world-class utilities and exceptional customer service, with the advantages we offer as a Public Power provider: • Community-owned, PWC operates solely for the benefit of customers, not shareholder profit. • Our customers have a voice through local leadership, because PWC leaders are customers too! • Locally operated, we respond faster when you need us, especially important after a storm. Customer Focused. Community Strong. Empowering the Community Public Power Learn more at FayPWC.com/ public-power-at-work by Clayton Britt & Sons 910.868.8319 3703 Bragg Blvd. Fayetteville, NC 28303 customercare@spaandpoolworld.com Spend just a minute with the couple, and you'll sense the love they have for each other, warming your heart like the rich sound of a cello. Both are professional musicians born into families with impressive musical pedigrees. Randolyn has been with the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra for nine years. She met Paul when he was working as a part-time administrative assistant with the orchestra. Each of them has traveled the world playing for music-loving audiences. Randolyn is a native of Salt Lake City. Her mother was a member of the world- renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir, so music runs in her DNA. "at was a wonderful musical introduction," says Randolyn with a smile. "I can remember in the summertime, she would take me to the rehearsals and I would walk around Temple Square. I could come into the tabernacle where they rehearse. I got to go up and sit in the seats, and I sat next to my mother. One of the other ladies handed me a book. Here I am, 10 years old, and I'm singing 'e Hallelujah Chorus' with the tabernacle choir. I loved it." Randolyn's mother got to sing around the world, including at the 1965-66 World's Fair in New York City and in Japan and Latin America. "She had these great opportunities and would come back and tell us about them. Just what a wonderful environment to have someone in that caliber of musical institution." Randolyn had herself been singing for audiences at the age of 2, but it was the discovery of her mother's violin that changed Randolyn's life. As an 8-year-old, she found an odd- looking case in the back of her mother's closet. "What's that?" she asked. Spend just a minute with Paul and Randolyn Emerson, and you'll sense the love they have for each other, warming your heart like the rich sound of a cello.

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