Former Garner High and North Carolina basketball standout Donald Williams, a member of the Heels' 1993 NCAA championship team, will sign autographs at the Kangaroo Express in Chapel Hill (2229 Raleigh Road) from 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8. Williams' appearance is part of the Battle of Bean Street program which gives a $20,000 charitable donation to the school whose branded coffee cup sells the most between Carolina, N.C. State and Duke. If the Heels' win the promotion, the funds will go to the UNC Build a Block program.
For more info, visit battleforbeanstreet.com.

Garner High has named the inaugural five members of its Hall of Fame. 

The group will be introduced at the Trojans game against Harnett Central on Nov. 5 and will be inducted next spring.

The group includes:

Anthony Barbour, a football running back who led Garner to the 1987 state 4-A title and started at N.C. State. Barbour has been the head football coach at Southern Durham, Middle Creek and Smithfield-Selma and is currently an assistant coach at Clayton High.

Barbara Kelly, a girls basketball player and later a coach and athletics administrator at the University of Virginia who was instrumental in starting the Atlantic Coast Conference women’s basketball tournament.

Hal Stewart, who built a football dynasty at Garner including the state title in 1987. Stewart is among the few coaches who has won state 4-A championships at two different schools, having led Richmond County to a state title before going to Garner.

Patrick Watkins, a baseball player who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinatti Reds and Colorado Rockies. He was a collegiate star at East Carolina where he led the NCAA in home runs.

Donald Williams, a boys basketball player who was the MVP of the Final Four when University of North Carolina won the national title in 1993.
 

It's going to be busy during North Carolina's final home games of the
season, even when the current players aren't competing on the court.

Former Tar Heel guards Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington, starters on last
year’s national championship team, will have their jerseys honored
prior to the Feb. 13 game against N.C. State, a team spokesman said.

CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina four-time All-America Tyler Hansbrough was already scheduled to have his jersey retired, and former teammate Ty Lawson, a first-team All-America, was already scheduled to have his jersey honored.

But two additional jerseys -- those of Wayne Ellington and Donald Williams -- will soon be hung in the Smith Center rafters, as well.