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April 2020

This Month’s Issue: Carolina Country Adventures

A year ago, we set out to find the best things to do on a budget in the big cities of Charlotte and Raleigh. In this month’s travel guide, we turn our attention to Wilmington and Winston-Salem. As you explore these destinations and others in this issue, rest assured you’re never far from an electric co-op.

—Scott Gates, editor

More Power

More Power

Students: Apply Now to Co-op Leadership Camp

Cooperative Leadership Camp applications due April 30

More Power

Co-op Educational Grant Program Breaks Record

2019 Bright Ideas Grants neared $720,000

More Power

Poultry Waste Will Provide Power to NC Co-ops

Pitt & Greene EMC serves an innovative renewable energy project

More Power

Help Rural Areas be Counted in Census 2020

Census numbers determine how communities receive federal and state resources

Carolina Living

Carolina Living

Making the Farm-to-Table Connection

Activities to help you learn where your food comes from

Carolina Living

Delightful Dahlias

These outdoor cutting flowers brighten floral bouquets indoors

Carolina Living

Ways to Reduce Sugar Intake

Improve your child’s diet (and yours, too) with these yummy swaps

More from this issue

I Remember

A Pup with a Past

Carolina Gardens

Cinnamon Ferns are Boggy Native Beauties

Plus Garden To-Do’s for April

Energy Sense

Find the Right Fix for Drafty Windows

Four considerations before a costly replacement

Carolina Creators

“Suppertime”

Art by Ronald Ragland

Viewpoints

Why Drive Electric?

Electric vehicles offer several perks for drivers

Energy

April Showers

Consider a rain barrel

Carolina Adventures

See Sights Old and New in the Twin City

History meets culture and innovation in Winston-Salem

Carolina Adventures

Soak Up the Sun in the Port City

Wilmington offers big-city fun not far from the beach

Carolina Adventures

A Major Attraction in the Minor League

How Crawdads baseball (and a carousel) came to Hickory

Carolina Adventures

Going to the Birds on the NC Birding Trail

Spot new feathered friends at sites across the state

Carolina Adventures

Take a Spin (On a Carousel!) Around the State

Check out these carousels in North Carolina

Carolina Adventures

Fire on the Mountain in Spruce Pine

Blacksmith festival brings thousands to Western NC town

Carolina Adventures

What’s Your ‘Traveler Personality’?

Take this quiz for the best-ever vacation

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