Shaw receives state's highest civilian honor
Guilford County Commissioner Linda Shaw was granted, for the second time in her life, an award that most North Carolina residents are lucky to receive just once in a lifetime.
Shaw received the honor of The Order of the Long Leaf Pine during the North Carolina Republican convention earlier this month when Rep. David Lewis presented the award to Shaw on behalf of Gov. Mike Easley.
Shaw's husband, Bob Shaw sent us the head's-up via email over the weekend, and said:
Linda may be the only person in the state who has received two Orders of the Long Leaf Pine by two Governors, one a Republican and one a Democrat. Gov. Jim Martin presented one to her over twenty years ago.
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