Helping storm/flood victims
Published 11:03 am Friday, October 14, 2016
Beaufort County residents, businesses, churches and organizations are helping storm/flood victims in various ways. The following entities are meeting certain needs:
- The Salvation Army will serve hot meals Friday and Saturday at 4 p.m. in the parking lot of Union Chapel FWB Church, 2110 Old New Bern Road, Chocowinity.
- Select Bank in Washington (corner of Market and Second streets) is collecting various items. A box in front of the bank has a list of items being collected.
- First Church of Christ in Washington (520 E. 10th St.) is distributing bottled water.
- Washington Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram (4001 U.S. Highway 262 West) is collecting bottled water, cleaning supplies, baby formula, clothing and similar items.
- This list will be updated periodically.
About Mike Voss
Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.
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