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  Dakota Elizabeth Goss spent two years in the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFJROTC) during her time as a student at North Surry High School, and she credits it as being a life-changing experience for her. For this reason, she felt especially honored to be able to represent Carport Central at the recent NSHS Senior Awards Day and present the AFJROTC with a check for $3,000. Goss,…

Next to marrying his wife, Winnie, and deciding on a professional career in golf, there’s only one decision Arnold Palmer considered to be smarter: learning how to fly an airplane (https://www.arnoldpalmer.com/aviation). As poet Gary Claud Stokor noted in “Impressions of a Pilot,” Flight is freedom in its purest form … For each of us is created to die / And within me I know / I was born to fly.…

FROM HOMELESS TO HOME RUN: Meet Woodie Valentine, Carport Central’s Building Specialist of the Month! For some people, a tiny bit of help – an opportunity – is all they need to be able to shine. Two years ago, Woodie Valentine found himself in a pretty tough spot. A serious illness resulted in him losing his job, which then started a chain of events that ended with Valentine finding himself…

As you may have noticed in our recent blogs and posts, Carport Central enjoys connecting with local middle schools and high schools. Over the past few months we’ve also been blessed with the opportunity to partner with a team of senior marketing majors from Winston-Salem State University. We’ve paid a couple of visits to their marketing classroom (aided by the leadership of Dr. Alyssa J Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Management…

  Carport Central was excited to be a part of Mount Airy High School’s Innovation Day featuring local businesses on Friday, April 5. Students from grades 9-12 got the opportunity to come by and try their hand at custom-designing their own building with our signature 3D design tool (powered by Cibirix), and they also got to learn about our business, student internship opportunities, and career paths they can pursue in…