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Regional Briefs: Perdue calls for long-term trade ties between North Carolina and China
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Published: October 23, 2009
RALEIGH -- Gov. Bev Perdue said yesterday that North Carolina must take a long-term view when it comes to expanding the state's commercial interests with and in China.
Perdue, in the middle of a two-week economic-development trip that has already taken her to Japan, met with Chinese commerce and technology officials in her first full day in Beijing.
"What we have here is the start of a long-term relationship," Perdue said in a conference call with reporters.
China is the state's second-largest trading partner, but it lacks the level of presence held by Japan, the No. 4 partner. More than 150 Japanese companies are operating in the state, generating 18,000 jobs.
The Japan-North Carolina business link has grown over more than 30 years, and Perdue suggested that it may take that long for the relationship with China to mature.
‘Mockingbird' actress dead at 74
HIGHLANDS -- Actress Collin Wilcox-Paxton, who portrayed the false accuser in the movie classic To Kill a Mockingbird, died of brain cancer just months after the diagnosis. She was 74.
Her husband, Scott Paxton, confirmed yesterday that she died Oct. 14 in Highlands.
No funeral was held. Instead, the family held a service before her death.
The actress played Mayella Ewell in the movie based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning novel. Her role as the young white woman who accuses a black man of beating and raping her in her home was brief but memorable.
Her roles in the 1990s included television series and movies that were filmed near her hometown. They included Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Christy, about a teacher in the early 1900s in remote Appalachia.
Artist, writer Faith Ringgold to speak
Artist and writer Faith Ringgold, best known for her books Tar Beach and The Invisible Princess, will speak to teachers and members of the public this afternoon.
Tar Beach was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration.
Ringgold also is known for her artwork and painted story quilts. She has exhibited in museums in the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Her talk, "Story Quilts and Children's Books," will run from 4 to 6 p.m. in the third-floor auditorium of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools'administrative center, 1605 Miller St.
For more information, call Lynn Foltz, the school system's program manager for arts education, at 748-4067.
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