Posted by Michelle on Jan 2, 2007 in Hayley
I’ve been so remiss in posting photos because I have so darned many of them from Disney and Christmas to get through. Hayley and I are over at the GSK Holiday Invitational from the 27-29th, where I’m media director and Hayley is a ballgirl (she had Coach Roy Williams sign her new high tops last night). I’ll posted a few photos of her.
So don’t think my lack of postings mean anything is wrong. We are also sorting out some issues with the blog b/c WRAL changed formats.
Day One
Handing out balls.
Watching the action with Ward, they’ve been doing this for three years so far.
Watching the inbounds
Day Two
Waiting during halftime.
Bit of ball handling skills work
Coach Roy Williams’ signature on her new high tops
Day Three
Tags: fun, good deeds, photos, sports
Posted by Michelle on Mar 20, 2006 in Hayley, Jeff, More Family
Jeff’s Dad and Hayley’s Grandpa John, otherwise known as Dr. John Hillison in the real world, is retiring from VT this summer and since he told them not to give him a party, they used an annual dinner to surprise him. He didn’t know we were coming as well as his brother Rory from Ill.
Jeff, his dad, his mom, his brother, his uncle Rory and Hayley up front at his Dad’s surprise retirement party.
Grandpa John took Hayley up on stage with him for awhile which thrilled her – I think he was pretty happy too. It was a very nice night with a lot of people saying wonderful things about John.
See more photos from this set:
Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print)
Slideshow view (easiest to see them all)
Tags: family, good deeds, travel
Posted by Michelle on Mar 9, 2005 in Michelle
A sportswriter I know from our old prep days emailed me a request about Rashad McCants’ mother, who is suffering from breast cancer. McCants as we all know is a UNC player and his younger sister Rashanda is one of the 10 best HS players in the country – and signed with UNC over TN.
The sportswriter had written a column about Brenda Muckelvene’s battle with cancer and thought it would be wonderful to run a response column with emails from people sending good wishes to her. He wanted her to be overwhelmed by them, which is wonderful!
So he asked me to post on the IC board about it, which I did. And he got flooded by them. You know how we do it at IC – full out.
I too sent in a message for her … and it made the cut, whoo hoo!
The following letters are in response to Wednesday’s story by Andrew Pearson in the Citizen-Times that gave details of Brenda Muckelvene’s battle with breast cancer. Muckelvene is the mother of University of North Carolina basketball star Rashad McCants and Asheville High School All-American Rashanda McCants. Many basketball fans who wrote letters to staff writer Andrew Pearson addressed them personally to Ms. Muckelvene.
Read the rest: Brenda’s fan club
And in case the archive there expires, what I said:
Dear Brenda,
Please know you are in the prayers of all Tar Heel fans. Breast cancer is something that seems to touch so many, and our hearts are with you on your journey through this.
Know that by allowing your struggle to be public, you remind all women how important breast self-exams are to catching this early. You will save lives because you have opened up.
Take care of yourself – we know you are a strong woman and a survivor.
God bless you!
Michelle Hillison
Cary, NC
I’m please to be able to say something special to a woman who has given a lot to UNC basketball but is also just a woman struggling with a disease that affects so many women.
Tags: good deeds, in the news, unc
Posted by Michelle on Jun 23, 2004 in Michelle
I won a very gorgeous mosaic pedestal in an auction for the Durham Literacy Council and I cruised on over to pick it up today. I had only seen it in the auction stuff and I was BLOWN away with how gorgeous and sturdy it is.
Claudia Kimbrough is the artist who did it.
Taking a photo of it full was hard, so this is the photo from the auction:
Tags: crafts & cooking, good deeds
