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Page 5 yadkinripple.com Vol. 124; No. 32 THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 $1.00 Judge Mitch McLean drowns at Sunset Beach Dylan Lightfoot who were caught in a riptide and Mary Anne Galway, 55, died The judge was someone who would and Anthony Gonzalez calling for help, according to Sun- shortly being transported to New give his shirt off his back for you. Civitas Media set Chief of Police Lisa Massey. Hanover Regional Medical Center He ran a stern, but fair courtroom. McLean and the couple, Edward in Wilmington, she said. Edward He’ll be missed greatly.” Chief District Court Judge and Mary Anne Galway, were pulled Galway was treated and released. Ashe County Clerk of Court Pam Mitchell “Mitch” McLean and a from the water by emergency crews, Yadkin County Manager Aaron Barlow had worked closely with woman he attempted to rescue Massey said. The unnamed person Church said he was shocked to McLean since his election to the drowned off Sunset Beach last wek. managed to get out safely. learn of the tragedy and that the district court in 1998. McLean sat as a presiding N.C. Massey said that when she ar- death was a huge loss for Yadkin “He was not only a professional District Court Judge in Ashe, Allegh- rived at the scene, CPR was being and other counties. and a colleague, he was one of my any, Wilkes and Yadkin Counties. performed on McLean and Galway. “I knew Judge McClean since best friends,” Barlow said. “One of Just after 3 p.m. on Wednesday, McLean and Galway were trans- I was 5 years old,” said a somber the most fair and humble people I McLean, who was at the beach ported to Brunswick Novant Medi- speaking Church. “He was my bas- have ever sat in court with.” with his family, entered the water cal Center, where McLean was pro- ketball coach. He tought me the “It didn’t matter what walk of life the people who came before him attempting to reach a married cou- nounced dead on arrival, Massey Lord’s prayer, a practice we would Chief District Court Judge ple and an unnamed third person said. He was 54. commonly do before each game. See JUDGE | 2 Mitch McLean Taylor Pardue | The Yadkin Ripple Left to right: Claire Sellars, Courtney Cobler, Clyde Moore, and John Prigmore, center behind couch. Yadkin Valley Habitat for Humanity hosts leadership intern Photos by Taylor Pardue | The Yadkin Ripple Taylor Pardue the state and partners The colorguard begins the parade with the American Flag. Staff Reporter them with an organization. “It is an eight-week Courtney Cobler is one program. The program of only 24 rising seniors includes four training ses- Rain holds off for Fourth of July festivities across North Carolina se- sions with other people lected for a leadership in- across the state,” Claire Taylor Pardue ternship this year. Sellars of the UYV Habitat The internship is an Staff Reporter for Humanity said. event of the N.C. Communi- Both the students and ty Development Initiative, Yadkinville celebrated the Fourth of July with fire- companies apply and are works and a parade Thursday, despite the threat of rain according to a press release. The Initiative selects paired by the initiative. that had fallen for several days prior to the holiday. from a pool of rising high “We were asked to put The Downtown Business Association hosted the school seniors from across See HABITAT | 2 event, the 13th of the association’s annual efforts. The parade followed the traditional route through town, ending at Yadkinville Elementary after wind- ing down Main Street and onto North State Street. The rain that had fallen for the previous few days Yadkin Arts Council to held off just long enough for the parade to finish but began falling again as the last floats entered the school’s float area. exhibit ‘Eye of the Artist’ Crowds lined the streets while the temperature and weather were comfortable. Floats showed their Staff Report honorable mentions. This year’s show will be See FESTIVITIES | 2 Crowds watch the parade near Yadkinville Elementary. The Yadkin Cultural Arts judged by Winston-Salem Center will host its Third resident Page H. Laughlin, Annual Juried Show – Eye a painter who works as a of the Artist – on July 12 in professor of art at Wake the Welborn Gallery at the Forest University. Yadkin Cultural Arts Cen- The opening night event Personality Profile: Brenda Doub ter in Yadkinville. will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Selections were made the Welborn Gallery in the Taylor Pardue from more than 100 sub- Cultural Center with the Staff Reporter missions of art in both 2D awards being presented at and3D from artists across 6 p.m. The Third Branch Born to Dutch immigrant dairy farmers, Brenda Doub the state. Café will serve dinner in- says she felt it was important to raise her own kids on a farm. The selected pieces are side the Center during and Now she and her husband Tim run Flint Hill Vineyards in mediums such as stained after the event. in East Bend in Tim’s childhood home. glass, acrylic, fused glass, This event is free to the Doub and her sisters were born in New York, the first Raku pottery, wood, steel public and everyone is en- generation of her family to be born in the U.S. clay, oil, watercolor, pas- couraged to attend. The Her parents moved from Holland for better opportuni- tels, fabric, pen and ink and Center is located at 226 ties in the dairy farm business, and in 1979 moved down scratchboard. E. Main St. in Yadkinville. The Yadkin Arts Council from a New York dairy farm to Hamptonville. Any questions can be di- has increased its reward “It was just a better setup for farming for my Dad,” rected to the Yadkin Arts monies to $3,000 in 2013. Doub said. Council at 336-679-2941. The first place award will Brenda was raised there on her parents’ dairy farm be a check for $1,500, sec- Anyone interested in and attended West Yadkin Elementary and Starmount ond place will be $1,000 the show can visit the Yad- kin Arts Council’s newly High School. Photo courtesy of Brenda Doub and third place will be See PROFILE | 2 Flint Hill Vineyards tasting room and special events center. $500. Two artists will win See COUNCIL | 2 A2 Page 2- The Yadkin Ripple, Yadkinville, N.C. Thursday, July 11, 2013 Festivities From Page 1 A Yadkinville Police officer told The Ripple the fireworks patriotism with American would go on though, “unless it flags, with one bulldozer al- was pouring.” Sprinkling rain most entirely covered in red, sent some home but despite white and blue. the weather in between the two Adults and children alike ran portions of the event a major to pick up candy. crowd waited for the fireworks Fire trucks, floats, motor- to begin around 9:30 p.m. cycles, antique cars and trucks Some waited the entire time and horses all made their way while others left and came back through the streets. and found a place in the crowd. Many people sat in lawn Fireworks technicians put chairs on the sidewalks, but the show on near the Yadkin- several brought blankets and ville Elementary football field. found grassy spots to sit A police-tape barrier kept down on. the crowd at the top of the A concert had been planned hill near the school and back for the interval between the around the Yadkin County parade and the fireworks Farm Bureau office. show that night, but the The show drew applause weather forced the coordina- after it finished and capped tors to cancel them. off the country’s 237th Carolina Soul Band was birthday in style. slated to play from 6:30 until To contact Taylor Pardue call 336-835- 8:30 in front of the elemen- 1513 ext. 15, or email him at tpardue@ Taylor Pardue | The Yadkin Ripple tary school. civitasmedia.com. A West Yadkin Fire Department fire engine. Judge From Page 1 you’re going through this.’” for Ashe, Alleghany, Wilkes According to N.C. statutes, a Jackson McLean and Patrick “It doesn’t surprise me that he and Yadkin counties, McLean vacancy in the office of a district McLean, and his mother Pauline were from. He was fair and hon- died a hero,” Barlow said. administered all criminal court judge is filled by an McLean of Wilkesboro. orable,” she said. “I have seen A memorial is being planned and civil district courts, and appointment by the governor. him hand down a sentence and for McLean, Barlow said. supervised all magistrates McLean is survived by his Reach Anthony Gonzalez at 336-835-1513 turn around and say ‘I’m sorry As Chief District Court judge in the 23rd Judicial District.