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Our readers’ local love stories

Winston-Salem skyline with purple location graphics in various places with a blue heart.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day by exploring local love stories. | Graphic via 6AM City

For Valentine’s Day 2024, we made a map of local places where our readers have made memories. We asked for your help compiling everything from proposals to making friends. You did not disappoint.

Here are the love stories that we just had to share:

“My husband and I met in law school so Wake Forest has always been an integral part of our love story. In 2022 we were preparing to go to a football game and he asked to stop by the quad beforehand—ostensibly to visit the campus bookstore. Unbeknownst to me, he had planned the most beautiful proposal and asked me to marry him in front of Wait Chapel. A year and a half later, we are happily married and have a little free library replica of Wait Chapel in our front yard to commemorate our special day.” — Charlotte + Mac D.
“First date [at Cugino Forno on North Patterson Avenue] and now we’re engaged almost two years later.” — Anonymous reader

Pink map of Winston-Salem with three hearts. — The Twin City or the city of love?
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Graphic via Proxi

“After 16 years of being separated by a family move when I was 12, my childhood sweetheart reached out to me on Facebook. He had spent weeks looking for me and had almost given up when he saw my picture and knew it was me. Over the years, I had looked for he and his sister who had been my neighbors and best friends as kids but had no luck. We began chatting and we rekindled the spark that had been there as kids. Our whirlwind of a romance happened so fast, within 6 months he had left his job, family, and friends to move down here [to Clemmons] to be with me. We’ve become our best selves with each other and are planning an elopement soon.” — Anonymous reader

Now we’re really feeling the love.

Events

Wednesday, Feb. 14

Valentines Ballroom Dance Class | Wednesday, Feb. 14 | 7-8 p.m. | Best of Ballroom Dance studio, 644 Hanes Mall Blvd., Winston-Salem | $55 | Sweep your partner off their feet at this dance class designed for couples.

Thursday, Feb. 15

Crochet 101 With Taj | Thursday, Feb. 15 | 7-9 p.m. | Dose Artist Collective, 606 Trade St., Winston-Salem | Free, RSVP | Materials are provided so you can show up to learn the basics of crochet.
Idea Expo | Thursday, Feb. 15 | 4:30-6 p.m. | Flywheel Coworking, 500 W. 5th St., Ste. 800, Winston-Salem | Free | Idea-stage entrepreneurs are invited to present their projects + ideas and get friendly feedback.
Opening Reception: “From Alpha to Creation” | Thursday, Feb. 15 | 6-8 p.m. | North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem, 750 Marguerite Dr., Winston-Salem | Free | Get the first look at artists’ exploration of racial, political, and economic constructs in the South.

Friday, Feb. 16

African American Foodways and the Hearth | Friday, Feb. 16 | 6-8:30 p.m. | Single Brothers’ Workshop, 10 W. Academy St., Winston-Salem | $50 | Explore how Africans and African Americans contributed to Southern hearth cooking through this workshop.

Saturday, Feb. 17

Twin City Track Club Winter Seminar | Saturday, Feb. 17-Sunday, Feb. 18 | Times vary | The Historic Brookstown Inn, 200 Brookstown Ave., Winston-Salem | $20-$60 | Mix, mingle and hear American long-distance runner + 2024 Olympic hopeful Keira D’Amato share her story.

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News Notes

Development

The City-County Planning Board has endorsed a rezoning proposal for a 126-acre industrial park on Shore Road in Rural Hall, south of US 52 (near the future intersection of US 52 and the Northern Beltway). Forsyth County Commissioners will likely make a final decision in March. (Winston-Salem Journal)

Open

Camel Jewelers is open just in time for Valentine’s Day. The owner of the former Camel Pawn Shop on North Liberty Street has opened the new business at 3068 Trenwest Dr., Ste. 3.

Biz

Nearly a dozen local organizations will use a total of $100,000 in new grant funding to support entrepreneurs + early-stage companies. The ESO Development Fund will award grants annually — applications for the 2025 cycle will open later this year.

Real Estate

The City-County Planning Board has approved plans for a 64-lot residential subdivision in Kernersville. According to the plans, homes built in Glen Abbey West on Pisgah Church Road will be between 5,400 sqft and 10,818 sqft. (Triad Business Journal)

Coming Soon

Shop creations from Elderflour Baking Co. more often beginning next month. The small batch bakery’s store front at 806 N. Main St. in Mocksville opens March 1.

Featured

Art painted by a Winston-Salem State University senior will be featured in the Student Art Showcase during the NBA HBCU Classic in Indianapolis. Sasha Williams’s “My Reflection” features her younger self in pre-K looking at her current self as a college senior. (FOX8 WGHP)

Outdoors

Registration is open for “Rooted in the Triad: Spring Symposium” at Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden in Kernersville. The event for garden enthusiasts on Saturday, March 2 includes breakfast + a plant sale for $60.

Older Adults

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Tech

A new kind of AirDrop

Startup plans to launch delivery service by drone in Winston-Salem

Blue sky with wispy clouds. A black drone is flying in the top right corner.

This could be coming soon to airspace near you. | Photo by Peter Birdsong

Drone delivery appears to be taking flight in the Twin City. The Winston-Salem Journal is reporting that Drone Express plans to serve the Winston-Salem area with “a faster, safer and more cost-effective way to receive goods.” That means you could one day get your order in 15 minutes or less.

Drone Express is headquartered in Denver, CO but the startup’s decision to expand to Winston-Salem wasn’t random. The company is becoming a member of AeroX — a nonprofit based on West 4th Street. It’s a consortium of innovators, businesses, and government entities that’s focused on developing and commercializing aerial technology. The NC General Assembly awarded AeroX $5 million in grant funding in 2021. Public and private donations + membership sustain the organization.

It’s not clear when Drone Express deliveries will start or where operations will be based. We’ll be sure to keep you up to speed when more details are announced.

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My love languages are acts of service + quality time. Dr. Gary Chapman, who created the concept of identifying how you give and receive love, has been a longtime resident of Winston-Salem.

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