Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Helping hands: Sowing the seeds for success at Airlie Gardens

May 17, 2023 • 3 min. read

Helping Hands is a recurring feature that spotlights volunteer opportunities for older adults across the Wilmington area. One walk through Airlie Gardens’ 67 acres of formal gardens is all it takes to hook many of the volunteers who help keep the site operational....

Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Painter of plaques, preserver of history

Apr 12, 2023 • 3 min. read

Anyone who has walked around downtown Wilmington has likely seen the work of Ruth Arnold, although they may not recognize it....

Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Helping hands: Curtain call

Apr 6, 2023 • 4 min. read

Helping Hands is a recurring feature that spotlights volunteer opportunities for older adults across the Wilmington area. A vital part of making sure the curtain rises for every performance at Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts is a crew of 120 active volunteers....

Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Helping hands: Transforming lives through literacy

Feb 13, 2023 • 5 min. read

Helping Hands is a recurring feature that spotlights volunteer opportunities for older adults across the Wilmington area. At Cape Fear Literacy Council, volunteer tutors provide life-changing literacy instruction to adult learners....

Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Helping hands: Art for all

Jan 5, 2023 • 5 min. read

Helping Hands is a recurring feature that spotlights volunteer opportunities for older adults across the Wilmington area. At Cameron Art Museum, volunteers help bring the museum's mission to engage the community in arts programming to life....

Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Weekend Meals on Wheels cruising into Brunswick County

Dec 15, 2022 • 4 min. read

A successful volunteer organization providing meals to homebound older adults in New Hanover County is expanding to Brunswick County next year. Weekend Meals on Wheels of New Hanover County is sponsoring a pilot program set to launch during the first quarter of 2023....

Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Community connector: Bertha Boykin Todd's years of educating continues

Dec 6, 2022 • 5 min. read

Some people see injustice and walk away. Bertha Boykin Todd isn’t one of those people. A long-time civil rights advocate and former educator, Todd played a central role in the desegregation of Wilmington’s schools....

Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Helping hands: All hands on deck

Nov 30, 2022 • 5 min. read

Helping Hands is a recurring feature that spotlights volunteer opportunities for older adults across the Wilmington area. On board the Battleship North Carolina, about 200 volunteers perform essential work that keeps the restored battleship afloat....

Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Business Journal's 2023 Book On Business: Call For Artists

Nov 7, 2022 • 2 min. read

The Greater Wilmington Business Journal is accepting submissions from local artists  – original paintings and drawings that reflect Wilmington-area landmarks, events, communities, native wildlife or landscapes. Selected works will be included in the 2023 Book of Business....


Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Helping hands: Sowing the seeds for success at Airlie Gardens

May 17, 2023 • 3 min. read

Helping Hands is a recurring feature that spotlights volunteer opportunities for older adults across the Wilmington area. One walk through Airlie Gardens’ 67 acres of formal gardens is all it takes to hook many of the volunteers who help keep the site operational.

Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Painter of plaques, preserver of history

Apr 12, 2023 • 3 min. read

Anyone who has walked around downtown Wilmington has likely seen the work of Ruth Arnold, although they may not recognize it.

Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Helping hands: Curtain call

Apr 6, 2023 • 4 min. read

Helping Hands is a recurring feature that spotlights volunteer opportunities for older adults across the Wilmington area. A vital part of making sure the curtain rises for every performance at Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts is a crew of 120 active volunteers.

Lifestyles + Connections | Community Involvement

Helping hands: Saving the sea turtles

Mar 15, 2023 • 5 min. read

Helping Hands is a recurring feature that spotlights volunteer opportunities for older adults across the Wilmington area. At the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, volunteers nurse sick sea turtles back to health, protect nests on the beach and educate beachgoers about this ancient animal.


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