CORNELIUS – As speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives, Thom Tillis has one of the most powerful jobs in the state. But he was thinking about eating pancakes with his children when he returned to Cornelius Elementary School Friday, April 29, to talk to a student assembly. He told the students that his children enjoyed going to school there. In the picture, Tillis listens to a student chorus perform “The Old North State.”