EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: The Family of the Year
We begin 2017 honoring a Family of the Year for 2016. They are from New Hanover County and they are knocking down all the pins when it comes to helping the community.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: 2016 Year in Review
Every week WWAY features someone in the community who is doing extraordinary things. It's been an up and down year in the headlines, but one guarantee is that you'll find positive stories in the Extraordinary Person of the Week series.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: The Sea Mercy Mission
A massive journey is about to take place and it begins in Carolina Beach. Our Extraordinary Person of the Week is a couple who are about to depart on a life saving mission to Haiti and some remote islands around the world.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: The High Notes
It has long been said that music is the one place where you can both lose and find yourself at the same time. Our Extraordinary Person of the Week is hitting all those high notes.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: The 98-year-young Harold Garrish
Wilmington is home to a Pearl Harbor survivor. He's no stranger to the WWAY airwaves as we've followed his wonderful spirit on the dance floor and in the air.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: 20 Years of Tailwaggin'
20 years ago a man would pack his bags and move from the west coast to the east coast in hopes of helping train service dogs. 20 years later and a lot of ups and downs in between, our Extraordinary Person of the Week is celebrating a milestone.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: A Sip of Thankfulness
We've been following Amy Wright's mission to get meaningful work for folks with intellectual disabilities for a year now. The team is so thankful for everything that has happened in that time frame.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: Major Salvation
It's known for angel trees, giving shelter, food, life skill's programs and countless other services. Right there leading the way and inspiring people who are in need of direction is Major Richard Watts, our Extraordinary Person of the Week.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: Mrs. World War II Wilmington
Hannah Block will be honored this weekend to mark the 75th anniversary of the Hannah Block USO Building in Wilmington. She played a pivotal role in both what went on inside the building decades ago and what went on outside of it to save it.
WHAT'S HAPPENING: November 4-6
Want to blow up a pumpkin this weekend? Maybe close out the fair or even check out the event that is skating into town?
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: A Family of Hope
Raising a family is extraordinary in itself for a mother and father, but this week, our Extraordinary Person of the Week is actually an entire family. A family of 11 here in the Cape Fear...a family of hope.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: Writing 'Outside the Lines'
An investigative sports writer for ESPN calls Wilmington home. He stumbled upon the Cape Fear while on assignment for the network and decided that he didn't want to leave.
BIG NEWS: Bitty and Beau's now official coffee of national TV show
Tuesday morning, the crew of Bitty and Beau's Coffee in Wilmington got some big time news from a national television show.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: The Band Geek
Music is a universal language. Instruments teach something that makes people shine inside and out. Our Extraordinary Person of the Week goes above and beyond to make sure kids get the tools to speak that language.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: Phantom of the Port City
There is something very scary inside Saint Paul's Episcopal Church. It's where we find our Extraordinary Person of the Week!
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: Polly gets a Sanctuary
Parrots are beautiful birds and a lot of people have them as pets. Unfortunately, a lot of times they don't make the best pets. Enter our Extraordinary person of the Week.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: The GLOWing Journey of Judy: Part 2
Fate can be magical. Take Judy Girard, who's retired in New Hanover County. Here's Part 2 of the GLOWing Journey of Judy.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: The GLOWing Journey of Judy
A lot of folks move to our area to retire and then end up giving back in major ways to the community. Our Extraordinary Person of the Week is a textbook example.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: Beginning with the End
Tanya Fermin is using a conversation at the dinner table to help us all start a conversation with our own loved ones. It's a tough topic, beginning with the end, but her story is one that affects us all.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: Hear, ye! Hear, ye! Local art on a Pepsi
When Pepsi, one of the biggest soft drink makers in the world, puts your art work on two million of their cans, it's a big deal. Just so happens that Wilmington artist Sarah Sheffield's art work is on two million Diet Pepsi cans.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: The Master Falconer
Our Extraordinary Person of the Week uses birds for a variety of purposes. They are used for education, hunting, and even to deal with nuisance animals in a natural way. Nuisance animals and over-population that can bring down airplanes. Chip Gentry is a Master Falconer who has quite the wild life as we found out in Shallotte.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: The Brain Game Benefit
Memory loss and diseases like Alzheimers are all heartbreaking. Enter our Extraordinary Person of the Week who has brain games that researchers say could help reduce the risk.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: Breaking Down Barriers
State statistics show that in the 2014-2015 school year, more than 11 thousand students dropped out of school in North Carolina. Our Extraordinary Person of the Week is trying to lower that number.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: Keeping Peace Connected
Our Extraordinary Person of the Week is from Wilmington but our interview is from about 77 hundred miles away where he just wrapped up Eastern Accord 2016.
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE: The Man of Many Hats
The man who has been with WWAY from the beginning is successfully riding off into the sunset. As he officially retires, it only makes sense that he be our Extraordinary Person of the Week.