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In Banner Elk, the city celebrated the arrival of laundry machines set up inside of a tractor-trailer, and the hundreds still remaining in town rejoiced that the Best Western opened its showers in ...
Jerry Hicks, a Banner Elk resident, found $20 on the ground, then won $1 million on a scratch-off ticket. ... This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Man finds $20 on ground, buys winning ...
Ray Hicks was born on August 29, 1922, in Banner Elk, North Carolina. He was the fourth of 11 children [4] of Nathan and Rena Hicks. [5] He had Cherokee ancestry, traced through his great-grandmother. [6] Storytelling and ballad-singing were a big part of life with the Hicks family. Ray was in the eighth generation of family storytellers. [4]
The first permanent settlement was established by Martin L. Banner in 1848. Although the Banner family originally came from Wales, Martin Banner moved from Forsyth County in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Eventually, the Banner family grew to 55 members, and the area where they lived became known as Banner's Elk.
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The watershed of Elk Run has an area of 7.49 square miles (19.4 km 2). [3] The stream is entirely within the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Elk Grove. [6] The part of the stream that is in Columbia County is in northern Sugarloaf Township. [9] Elk Run is in the headwaters of the watershed of Fishing Creek. [9]
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NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the lifeblood of the Southwest, providing water and electricity to the farms and cities of California, Nevada, and Arizona. The program examines the political expediency and technological over-optimism that has led to some major miscalculations of the river's capacity.