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Church News
Revival Services To Begin
The Salvation Army Church of Sleepy Valley will begin
revival services at 7 p.m. Monday. The services will go
through Saturday, March 28, and finish up Sunday, March 29.
The Rev. Lattie Henderson will be conducting the revival.
Youth To Be Honored
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The Calvary Baptist Church, located on Bailey Street in
Mars Hill, will honor its graduating seniors with a youth
celebration on March 28 at 7 p.m. at the church. Lynn
Westafer will be featured in a concert. Everyone is invited to
attend.
Gospel Singing Friday
A gospel singing will be held on Friday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
at the Madison High School Little Theater. Guest include the
"Principals" and the "Foundations." The Madison County 4-H
Teen Leader Council will sponsor the singing.
Mars Hill
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Organized In 1 920 s
By LOU ZELLKK
This week's column focuses on ooe
of the oldest (ire departments in
Madison County - the Mara Hill
Volunteer Fire Department
Organised around lttl, the depart
ment has been answering fires for <6
yean Records dating back to that
time are not dear, but according to
Assistant Chief BUI Zink, a shed on
North Main Street near Capps
Funeral Home boused the equipment.
This consisted of a hand-drawn
hose cart. A bell located near the old
Universe Gym called out the
firefighters A street hydrant system
provided water to the hoses pulled to
the scene of the fire in this matter.
Time has erased all but a trace of
that early outfit, but today's Mars
Hill Volunteer Fire Department
answers the call in modern pumper
trucks with the same old spirit. The
fire hall on Main Street houses a 1961
American La France pumper/tanker,
a 1871 Ford pumper/tanker, a 1976
"first out" truck with rescue equip
ment and portable pump and a 1963
F.M.C. Grigadier on a GMC chassis.
Fireman's
Association
CarreapMident
Together this equipment can haul
2,250 gallons of water and pump a
total of 3,050 gallons per minute.
The department also operates an
ambulance which answers all struc
tural fire calls, and has six members
qualified as emergency medical
technicians.
The 23 active members responded
to 97 fir* alarms in 1986. Chief Eddie
Fox is also an emergency medical
technician and president of the
Tickets are U for adults, *2 for
children, and can be purchased from
a fireman or at the door. The firemen
will be selling tickets around town on
Tuesday night. Just look for the fire
truck coming down the street.
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On Feb. 13th, the Madison County
Emergency Service Director, Eddie
Pox, held a meeting at the courthouse
to discuss the county's Disaster
Relief and Assistance Plan, or
DRAP. The purpose of this plan is to
familiarize all emergency services
with each other's function. This is to
insure an efficient, coordinated and
effective response to any large-scale
emergency involving many agencies.
tfae meeting will be
rescheduled in the near future.
However, Tony Webb of the U.S.
Forest Service did present a plan for
natural disasters such as a forest fire.
In other news, the Laurel Volunteer
Fire Department held a very suc
cessful bingo game on Feb. 28. Prizes
donated by area merchants and
citisens helped to earn more than 1700
that evening. Also given away that
night was a handmade quilt raffle
prize. The quilt, made and donated by
Pearl Gentry, was won by S.D. Payne
of Weaverville. Ellenia Rice sold him
the winning ticket, and helped the
Ladies A miliary to earn $929 on that
event. Many thanks go to all who
donated their time and energy to
these efforts.
Announcement
Fire School for all county
firefighters will be held on April 10-11
at Madison High School. It will begin
at 7 p.m. on Friday night and run all
day on Saturday. The topic will be
"Rural Water Supply and Tanker
Operations."
Electric
Co-op Names
Committee
The French Broad Electric
Membership Corporation Board of
Directors named a nominating com
mittee at its meeting on Feb. 24.
The committee were to meet
Wednesday at 1 p.m. in French Broad
EMC's office on N.C. 213 between
Marshall and Mars Hill to select per
sons for four seats on the
cooperative's Board of Directors.
Directors will be voted on at the an
nual meeting of the members to be
held April 18 at the Moore Auditorium
in Mars Hill.
Members of the nominating com
mittee are Ruth Gregory, Roy
Reeves, Eugene Wills and Owen
Tilson of Madison County; Ted
Caldwell of Buncombe County; Reece
Mcintosh, Eddie Faw and Charles
Hensley of Yancey County; M.A.
Anderson Jr. and Allen Baker of Mit
chell County; and, Ursie H. Shelton of
Unicoi County, Tenn.
Directors whose terms expire this
year are Albert Freeman and Joseph
Justice of Madison County; I.E.
Clevenger of Yancey County; and,
Parnell Cooke of Mitchell County.
Ruth L?jeune is hard at work on the antique loom now on
display in Mars Hill.
Antique Loom
Now On Display
At Rural Museum
By ELIZABETH SQUIRE
Features Writer
An antique loom of the kind used to
make rag rugs at Allans tand and in
other parts of Madison County is now
in working order at the Rural Life
Museum at Mars Hill.
The warp or stringing of the loom
was put in place by Ruth Lejeune, a
volunteer, who has also done some
weaving on the loom with a weft of
cotton sock loops.
In the old days, Madison County
women would cut up worn out clothes
for the weft, said Richard Dill
ingham, museum director.
The Lee White family of Ingalls in
Avery County, donated the loom,
which was removed from the loft of
their old log homeplace and has not
been used in this century until now.
It belonged to Mrs. White's great
grandmother, Lydia Loqise Wiseman
Keener, born in 1831 and the grand
daughter of a William Wiseman who
came to America before 1800 as a
stowaway.
Mrs. Lejeune has also restrung the
antique loom that was already in the
museum. She strung the loom with a
warp of linen and will weave with a
weft of wool to make the traditional
linsey woolsey.
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One day I was playing golf with a dose
friend who was a golf pro. After I had made
great effort to hit the bail as far as I couid ?
and it went less distance than I could have
thrown H? he shook his head and said.
"You surely waste a lot of money."
"What's money got to do with my bad
golf shot?" I asked.
"WeU," he said. "You spend aB that
money on golf dubs, than won't let them
do their work for you. You're trying to
guide the bad. That's the dub's job.
I pondered the pro's words. It sud
denly occurred to me that what I do with a
golf club.;1 often do with Kfe. especially
with Cod's Word? the Bible
The Bibte Is MM wfth truth and guid
ance; with great Bfe-principtea. Rather
than accepting by faith God's Word, I
often try to "make the shot" all by myself,
rather than alowtng Hb truth to guide the
"shoU" of my life. '
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