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CityViewNC.com | 9 910.868.5131 | 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. INFORMATION SESSION FOR PROSPECTIVE FAMILIES July 20th starting at 6:00pm. See website for details. 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 "I have vivid memories of the night it burned," Martha Goetz says. "I was very frightened of the high flames. Luckily, our home and the adjacent apartments were spared." John Wooten later opened Cape Fear Drug around 1960, adjacent to the log house home. When it came to owning drugstores, replete with lunch counters and soda fountains, John Wooten was not in business alone. Sudie Wooten was right there with him. "Daddy was the pharmacist," Joan Nicholson says. "Mother baked hams that were the best and made the delicious pecan pies that they served." For the Wooten sisters, Bettie, Joan and Martha, the drugstores were like heaven. "We loved Daddy's drugstore and Uncle Sam's lunch counter," Martha Goetz says, "because we got free sundaes and banana splits." A Happy Home For the Wooten family, there was no place like the log house. For John Wooten, it was his dream home. He ordered the architectural plans from California in the late 1930s, and with a few hired hands, he built the home on the scenic property from cypress trees from Hope Mills Lake. "e original front porch was supported with beautiful logs with the wider, swollen base, which had been in the water," says Martha Goetz, the youngest of the Wooten sisters. "e living room and den shared a large stone fireplace, which was open on both sides. We spent most of our time on the large, wraparound back porch. It had large, paneled windows, which opened to the outside for a wonderful cross breeze." Adjacent to the log house, John Wooten constructed 10 apartments, which Bettie Wooten Downing, the oldest of the Wooten sisters, remembers were filled with young military couples. "Mother would take the young military wives 'under her wing' and teach them to sew," Bettie Downing says. "She and Daddy offered them support any way that they could. When food was scarce, even strangers would line up at the back door. Mother never turned them away. She would always give them food or dinner." Sudie Cloninger Wooten had a compassionate heart for others, always volunteering at her beloved Hay Street Skyline Memories i Old-fashioned Fare i Family Businesses COMING NEXT MONTH

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