Rip the Runway

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Scholarship funds raised during last year’s Port City Rip the Runway fashion show helped Tyleek Bazil attend North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, where he earned a 3.5 GPA. During this year’s Rip the Runway on Jan. 9, local models, designers and musicians entertained more than 800 guests inside University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Kenan Auditorium with the goal of helping three or four more rising college freshmen with tuition costs.

Local radio program director Brandon “Bigg B” Hickman created Port City Rip the Runway with his wife Suprena Hickman in 2012 in memory of his mother, Lillie Ann Heggins. Heggins was a North Carolina teacher for 40 years and she continued educating children through an after-school program when she retired.