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By EDNA GENTRY
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My goodness! Where did the
Sumimr get to? Seems like it
jusj.jj lipped right by me while
ilvasn't looking. Here it is,
oM)e(already, the trees are
fa8f changing color, and Jack
Kiost has already paid us a
siirnrise visit.
Wa here in Madison CountV
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.11 vr,y fortunate - we have a
fri$-row seat to the
munificent show that Mother
Niif Aire' puts on for us every
ytfer'sit this tune. We can look
mi! and see layers and layers of
I'ftiuliful mountains, covered
ujii trees ablaze with color,
I If ndiHg m with smooth,
I''1'", hillsides that are
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Remembering Madison County
fringed with golden rod and
slope gently down into the
nollows making a fantastic
picture that is very pleasing to
the eye.
God's handi-work in all it's
glorious splendor.
Years ago, when I walked
two miles to school at Walnut,
this was my favorite time of
year, next to Spring. There
were so many things to see
and delight in, along the way.
Morning glories and golden
rod and blue "frost flowers"
blooming in profusion, and
lacy spider webs everywhere,
filled with dewdrops that
glistened like jewels in the
morning sun. Even Brush
Creek had a different sound.
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like it knew that Summer was
over and Fall had come.
Walking home in the af
ternoons was nice, too.
Sometimes, we walked around
the hill by the Brigmans' and
the Hendersons' and up the
hollow by Emory Thomas' and
the house above him where
"nobody lived". Other times,
we walked out the highway by
the Widow Clark's, and she
would come out to her mailbox
and talk awhile. I will always
remember her. 1 liked her
because she always talked to
me person-to-person, and not
down to me, as adult -to- child.
I didn't always clearly un
derstand what she was talking
about, but I did understand
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that she must have been very
lonely, living there in that big
house all alone, and needed
someone to talk to.
And it was nice, back then,
to lie snug in our beds on chilly
nights, when a frosty moon
rode high in the sky, and listen
to the sound of dogs, barking
in the distance. We knew then
that the Snelson or Cody boys
were out running foxes, or
possum hunting.
This time of year, it's such a
beautiful time to drive up the
winding, river road to
Asheville, our next-door
neighbor, with the trees so
pretty on one side and the
river on the other. And
sometimes huge gray rocks
hanging right over my head.
And when I drive by Beaver
Lake, I always remember
some thing that happened
years and years ago. If my
memory serves me right, Mrs.
E.R. Tweed, Jr., from Mar
shall, was riding along by the
lake in a blinding rain, with
her tiny baby and another
woman, when the car swerved
on the rain-slick road and
plunged into the lake. How
fortunate for them that a man
named George happened to be
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walking along that particular
stretch of road at that time,
and saw the car sinking Into
the lake! This brave person
managed to pull that little
baby and the two women to
safety.
Some would say that these
people were lucky, or that it
was a miracle; I would say
that it was not God's plan that
these three people perish in
that lake, and He was looking
after them, for it is my firm
belief that God has a plan for
each of us, and one of my
favorite passages in the Bible
is Ecclesiastes 3, which
begins:
"To everyting there is a
season, and a time to every
purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born and a time
to die..."
And that just wasn't their
time to die, for which I've
always been thankful. For
every time I pass that way, a
picture flashes into my mind
of a car sinking into the water,
and a woman holding a little
baby above the water that is
slowly and inevitably filling
up the car. And I can imagine
her feelings when deliverance
came; erasing the horror and
hopelessness.
Little girls used to dream of
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BRANDI PAIGE FVLA recently added the winner's
trophy from the Little Miss American Dream
Pageant to her collection. The 10-year-old Asheville
lassie was crowned in the pageant's initial contest at
Kingsport. Tenn. (Photo by Robert Green)
Togetherness Gives
EDITOR'S NOTK: The
following article Is
republished from the
( amarillo, Calif., newspaper.
Mr. and Mrs. Fortner, of
Camarillo, are the son and
daughter-in-law of Mrs. Trixie
Fortner Candler, of Marshall.
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ROBIN NEWCOMER BRAUN
They're not pulling your leg.
Those crutches John and
Louise Fortner are each
nobbing around on are for
real. Both are recovering
from foot operations they
underwent recently.
Not that their story is easily
believed: Some think it's a
practical joke; others remark
it's carrying togetherness a
step (pardon the pun) too far.
The Fortners arrived at a
recent party with feet ban
daged - his left, her right - and
on crutches. "Nobody
believed us," Mrs. Fortner
laughs. "I think they kept
waiting for us to put our feet
down and walk away."
It all began several months
ago when Mrs. Fortner went
to the doctor complaining of a
pain in her little toe. The
doctor told her she had a bone
spur - something that could be
cleared up by a foot operation,
but "I kept putting it off," she
explained. "I've been so
busy."
Two months ago, Fortner
went to the same doctor
complaining of the same
ailment in the same toe I but
different foot). At last,
operations were scheduled for
Sept. 16 an hour apart at
Pleasant Valley Hospital.
The Fortners' doctor agreed
that the situation was unusual.
And although the Fortners are
active, the doctor couldn't
pinpoint a specific cause of the
bone spurs.
Because Pleasant Valley
Hospital has private rooms,
the Fortners were assigned to
rooms next door to each other.
"I got up and climbed in bed
with John," Mrs. Fortner
recalls.
The hospital staff took that
good-naturedly. But when it
came time to give pre-
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someday, but the women's
liberation movement has
operation medication, Mrs.
Fortner says the nurses "were
too embarrassed to come in. I
told them it was okay. We
were watching Medical
Center."
Joining in the fun, the
nurses replied, "We're going
to fix you. We're going to
change your last name on your
forms," Mrs. Fortner relates.
Steel pins rhave been in
serted in the Fortners' toes
while calcium is allowed to
build up. The healing process
will take at least a couple of
months.
"It's going to take a lot of
time," Mrs. Fortner ruefully
admits. Meanwhile, the couple
hobbles around on crutches,
bringing bemused smiles from
observers.
Mrs. Anna Mae Tioton,
School Food Service Super
visor of Madison County
Schools, attended the North
Carolina School Food Service
Supervisors' Fall Workshop
on September 23-25 at the
Parade for
mentally handicapped
"Santa's Special Christmas
Parade" is a current project
for the Volunteer Services
Department at Western
Carolina Center in Morganton.
The parade is scheduled to be
held on Thursday, Dec. 4, at 5
p.m., on the Western Carolina
Center campus.
Members of the department
are coordinating the parade in
an effort to bring a real live
Christmas parade to the
mentally handicapped
children of Western Carolina
Center who have never had an
opportunity to attend a
community parade. Holiday
decorations will light up
throughout the campus as
"Santa's Parade" encircles
the Center.
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national beauty title
robbed beauty contests"" of
some of the appeal they once
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Apparently criticism from
feminists has not turned off 10-year-old
Brandi Paige Fula of
Asheville, who was recently'
crowned Uttle Miss American
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Brandi has competed in
numerous pageants
throughout the Southeast and
has won 13 trophies; however,
the Little Miss American
Dream Pageant is the first
national contest she has won.
Miss Fula not only as the
distinction of winning the
contest over 41 other girls
from across the nation
competing in it but also of
being the first Little Miss
American Dream. This year's
pageant at Kingsport, Tenn.
was the first ever held.
"They (the people spon
soring the pageant) had to get
special permission from
Congress to hold it," said Mrs.
Richard A. Fula.
Her mother pointed out that
Brandi was the only girl from
North Carolina who was
qualified to compete in the
contest.
The contest winner was
required to compete in
swimsuit, party dress and
sportswear competition at the
pageant in Kingsport, said
Mrs. Fula. She added that
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We really get some stares,"
she says. One woman stopped
the pair to ask: "Are you
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Food Service Supervisor
Attends Work Shop
Islander Motor Inn at
Emerald Isle near Swansboro,
N.C.
The theme of the workshop
was "Putting the Bite on
Accountability." Nineteen
members of the State Staff,
President of the All American
Drum and Bugle Corps and
Band Association, and the
Director of the famed
Cavalier Band of East
Rutherford High School in
Forest City, will be the parade
marsn&li.
Anyone who is associated
with a band, cheerleadlng
squad, baton twirlers, or has a
clown act, parade float, etc., is
invited to volunteer their
talents and join "Santa's
Special Christmas Parade" at
Western Carolina Center. For
further information please
contact Mrs. Dessie Flte at
Western Carolina Center,
Enola Road, Morganton,
North Carolina, telephone
number (704) 433-2614.
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teatanta performed a dance to .
"Yankee Doodle Dandy."
'-' In addition to holding the
title of Little Miss American
Dream, Brandi is the reigning;:
little Miss Dixie Miss for 1975:,":
78. Recently aba was UttW,
Miss Hospitality at the Miss '
Asheville pageant .
Brandi has also been first I
runner-up in several contests-'
the Tri-CMes Bathing Beauty -Little
Miss Division, the North:
Carolina- Bl-Centennlal ;
Princess, the Tennessee Little
Miss Summer Fun, Little Miss
Bi-Centennlal and the 1974
North Carolina State Dixie
Miss.
A fifth-grade pupil at West
Buncombe Elementary.
School, she is a student at the
Fletcher School of Dance in:
Asheville.
"I love dancing," Brandi
confides. She adds that she
enjoyed winning all the titles,
and competing in the beauty;
contests.
According to Mrs. Fula;
Brandi would like to have a
career in modeling.
With the early start and
experience she has had in
beauty pageants, Brandi
should be successful in her
endeavors, and who knows?
maybe she will be Miss
America someday.
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never seen anything like
that."
Tne Fortners admit:
Neither have they.
including Mr. Ralph Eaton,
the State Director of School
Food Services in North
Carolina, participated in the
workshop. Other distinguished
speakers were Mr. Jim Cabe,
U.S.D.A., Atlanta, Ga., Mr.
Bob Werth, Department Head,
Culinary Technology,
Asheville Buncombe
Technical Institute, Mr. Joy
Davis, NCDA, and Dr. Lewis
C. Forest, East Carolina
University, Greenville, N.C.
Mrs. Tipton is District
Director of the North Carolina
School Food Service
Association. This district
includes thirteen counties,
Asheville City and Hen
derson ville City.
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.announcement:
I hereby
announce my
candidacy for a
member ot the
Board of Aldermen
of Hot Springs,
N.C. subject to the
will of the voters
in the November
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