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Discover CityViewNC.com's fresh updated look! | 45 CV CityView BROUGHT TO YOU BY PROFESSIONAL PROFILES 2017 CityView Publishing Visit us online at www.CityViewNC.com for advertising opportunities The Durham police chief called Gina V. Hawkins last year to ask if her friend was applying for the chief's job in Fayetteville. Hawkins, then deputy police chief in Clayton County, Georgia, was bemused. "I thought she was talking about Fayetteville, Georgia, which is a small community," she recalled. Not at all, said Durham Chief C.J. Davis. She was talking about a much larger Fayetteville – the one in North Carolina. Hawkins, then in her 28th year of police work, started considering the idea – and soon decided to put in an application. On June 27, City Manager Doug Hewett announced she had won the job over two other finalists, including the officer who'd been acting as interim chief. Hawkins began work in Fayetteville in mid-August and now, a half-year later, is settled in and said she's pleased with her new city and her new department. She said the Fayetteville job had interested her in part because of the police department's push to improve community engagement. In researching the department, she said she came to see it as top-notch and forward-thinking and she wanted to help it continue to improve. And she liked Fayetteville. "I saw the changes they were making," she said of revitalization efforts in the city. "I was familiar with other cities doing that." It had happened in her own hometown of Columbus, Ohio, where she'd grown up poor in its inner city. She said revitalization happened there • Voted "Best Private School" by Readers' Choice and Best of Fayetteville readers' polls • Chromebook and iPad pilot programs • Grades 4-7 LEGO ® Robotics Team • Middle/Upper School STEAM SmartLab ® opening in 2018 • 81 percent of AP exams taken resulted in a score of 3 or higher. • The 39 members of the Class of 2017 were offered more than $3.6 million in college scholarships and grants. • More than $500,000 in need-based financial aid awarded annually to qualified applicants. 910.868.5131 | 3200 Cliffdale Road, Fayetteville, NC 28303 | www.fayettevilleacademy.com Fayetteville Academy Fayetteville Academy admits qualified students and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, or religion in the administration of admissions, educational policies, financial aid, athletic programs, or other activities. VIEW ACADEMIC CALENDAR Go to www.Reveel.it and scan this page

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