AIDS Awareness
Program Monday
At Madison High
gram, open to all residents of
Madison County, will be presented at
Madison High School at 7:30 p.m.
Monday.
The program will be presented by
the Madison County Public School
System and the Madison County
Health Department.
Program presenters will be Dr.
Otis Duck, retired physician and a
member of the North Carolina
Speakers Bureau on AIDS; Dr.
Suzanne Landis, epidemiologist and
professor of the Mountain Area
Health Education Center; Nancy
Wilde, health educator for the
Madison County Health Department;
and, Willa Wyatt, AIDS awareness
coordinator for the Madison County
schools. The Madison High School
Health Occupations Society of
America will assist with the pro
gram.
The program will include the film
"AIDS: What Everyone Needs to
Know." Following the film there will
be a discussion time and several
educational handout* will be
available.
The school system sponsored a
similar awareness program for
Madison High School students last
spring and is conducting another pro
gram for ninth-graders in the
healthful living classes.
The seventh- and eighth-graders
will be participating in an awareness
program in January. The programs
which have been conducted have
been well-received and the high
school students expressed the need
for a community program to be
presented, school officials said.
Gov. James G. Martin has pro
claimed Nov. 8-14 as "AIDS
Awareness Week in North Carolina"
to help residents gain more
understanding about the AIDS virus
and to underscore how the virus is
and is not spread and precautions
necessary to avoid contracting the
disease. He has chosen the theme
"AIDS: Fight Fear with Facts."
Wyatt To Attend Drug
Abuse Conference
At White House
?
David Wyatt, principal at Madison
High School, is one of two principals
in the state asked to represent North
Carolina at a regional White House
Conference on Alcohol and Drug
Prevention.
The conference will be held in
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 30- Dec. 3.
This will be a working conference
to develop a national agenda for a
White House Conference on "Buiidii*
Drug-Free Schools," to be held in
Washington on Feb. 28-March 3.
Wyatt was nominated by alcohol
and drug defense regional consultant
Vickie Brunnick. Wyatt may be in
vited to attend the national con
ference in Washington.
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Madison County 4-H'ers
:Get 1st Aid Certificates
*?
By LAURIE MEEKS
Madison County 4-H'ers Chris Stin
son, Susan Waldroup, Eric Gardner
and Laurie were recently certified to
give first aid.
They took an eight-hour Red Cross
First Aid Course along with 16 other
people of various professions, in
cluding Madison County's associate
extension agent, Pam Crowhurst, and
her husbasnd. Curt Crowhurst, of
Mars Hill.
These four Madison High School
students took the course in prepara
tion for their duties as junior camp
counselors at 4-H Camp, which will be
held at Hammocks Beach this upcom
ing summer.
They are now prepared to give first
aid in cases of minor and more
serious injuries, including wrapping
a wound, putting on a sling and
rescue breathing.
2 Nominated For GOP Honor
Five Republican leaders - in
cluding two from Marshall - from the
11th congressional district have been
chosen as finalists for induction in the
North Carolina Republican Party
Hall of Fame, NCGOP Chairman
Jacke Hawke announced recently.
Eleventh district nominees include
Clyde Roberts and Pat Roberts of
Marshall
One of the five will be inducted into
the GOP'i Hall of Fame during the
party's biennial $100 per plate fund
raiser Saturday in Raleigh.
One inductee from each of the
State's It congressional districts is
chosen every two years.
Hawke said the nominees were
selected for their grassroots leader
ship in the Republican party.
Finalists were chosen by a NCGOP
committee from the names submitted
by special selection committees in
each congressional district.
The GOP will also present the
Charles R. Jonas award to one in
dividual in recognition of state-wide
leadership. The award was created
two years ago in the name of the
former 9th , district congressman
from Lincolnton.
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TheSymM W
Month" to recognise and celebrate
the work of hospice in this county.
The hospice concept originated in
England SO years ago. It was bora out
of a need to recognise the terminally
ill person in a wholly humanistic
manner. The focus of hospice
philosophy is to address the physical,
pscho-social and spiritual concerns of
each patient and family member.
Whenever possible, the hospice en
courages borne care of the terminally
ill. H>e hospice emphasises the im
portance of the quality of life for the
Tot hospice, the
family is made to recognise that cer
tain diseases are resistant to the
curative effort and require different
care and management.
Madison County residents can
celebrate with the nation this month
because of the recent formation of
Hospice of Madison. A group of con
cerned residents of Madison County
has been working, and is continuing
to work, to organise and assist
Hospice of Madison.
Through the efforts of these
volunteers, Hospice of Madison is
now licensed and receiving patients.
North Buncombe To Present
Classic Music Man 9 Nov. 19~22
The classic American comedy,
"The Music Man" will be performed
at the new North Buncombe High
theater on Nov. 1942.
James F. DeBruhl, for whom the
theater is named, is the director of
the production.
"The Music Man" is the story of
Harold Hill, a very fast-talking
salesman who cons the citizens of
River City (naive as their Iowa corn)
into buying musical instruments by
promising to createa boys' band.
Hardly knowing a piccolo from a
tuba, Harold attempts to escape with
the cash in hand, only to be caught in
the- arms of the beautiful librarian
Marian, and he is then transformed
into a respectable citizen.
Portraying Harold Hill is Kelly
Bagwell, an alumnus of North Bun
combe. Marian is played by alumna
Julie Flower*. Both have many
shows to their credit. The moat recent
was the summer production of "The
Wizard of Oi."
Weaverville Mayor Reese Lasher is
the mayor of River City, and his wife
is played by Libby Bagwell.
Mrs. Parso (Marian's mother) is
performed by Sonia Moss Burgin, a
North Buncombe student from a few
years ago. She is also doubling as
costumer for the production. Her son
Winthrop is performed by Ben Allison
who did the same role last year for
Mars Hill College. The young couple
of love birds is handled by Nick
Koesters and Donna Hester.
The orchestra is composed of cur
rent students, former students, and a
few "imports."
Performances on Nov. 19-21 will be
at 8pm and on Nov. 22 at 2:30. Reser
vations are recommended. Tickets
are $4 (students $3).
UNCA Offers Weather Calendar
Hie 1968 Western North Carolina
weather calendar published by the at
mospheric sciences program at the
University of North Carolina at
Aaheville is now available.
The standard 12-month calendar
features WNC climatological data
such as monthly temperature and
precipitation averages, monthly
heating and cooling degree days, plus
daily noMnals for minimum andi&ax
imum temperatures.
Also included are phases of the
moon, sunrise and sunset times for
the WNC region and a climatological
data table of normals, means and ex
tremes for the Asheville area.
The cost of the calendars is $2.50,
postage included with proceeds going
to the UNCA atmospheric sciences
program. Checks shou^d-fre made
payable to ATMS-UNCAP* mailed
to Alex Huang, Atmospheric Sciences
Program, UNCA, Asheville, NC,
28804.
A volunteer component of the pro
"Madison Neighbors" have been
trained to waist patients and family
Hospice of Madison is affiliated
with Madiaon Home Care. Bnoda
Thomaen, a registered nurse, heads
the hospice program and qualified
staff. She came to Madiaon County
with six years of hospice experience.
Hospice of Madison welcomes the
support of county residents through
volunteer efforts or gifts and dona
tiona, according to hospice
organizers. People who haw lost
close relatives or friends may wish to
make a contribution to hospice as a
living memorial.
Every contribution is recognized
with an official receipt to the donor
and is deductible for tax purposes. In
the caae of memorial gifta, an ap
propriate memorial card ia sent to
the family.
Anyone wishing to support Hospice
of Madison may obtain more infor
mation about the program by calling
822-7146, or by writing Hospice of
Madiaon, P.O. Box 88, Hot Springs,
NC 28743.
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* Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation