"Community built the historic Canetuck Rosenwald School, and community labors to preserve its treasured past . . . With a grant that funded exterior restoration of the building, now home to the senior center, organizers reached a halfway point this spring. Thompson and Rocky Point resident Claudia Stack, D.C. Virgo Middle School teacher and filmmaker, obtained the $40,000 grant from Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation. The Southern Office of National Trust for Historic Preservation processed the grant. The exterior work was completed in March."

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Wilmington Star News Online (6/5/2011)