With her senior year just a few short weeks away, East Henderson High’s Pearl Ballard has quite a story to tell her classmates when school opens back up in August. Ballard just returned from Australia, where she represented North Carolina as she competed in the DownUnder Games, held July 7-15,…
EAST FLAT ROCK — In middle school, Pearl Ballard had a predicament before a track meet. She wasn’t sure how to fix her hair for the meet. She ended up letting her mom braid it and a tradition was born. “I’ve always had my mom braid my hair,” the East…
