VOL. 8, NO. 46
Sponsored By Boosters
BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1980
Tip-Off Dinner
For Basketball
A Basketball Tip-Off Dinner
will be held Tuesday, Novem
ber 18, at the Mountain
Heritage High School
cafeteria, sponsored by the
Mtn. Heritage Athletic
Boosters Club. The Cougar
basketball teams wiU be in
troduced following a delicious
EDDIE HOLBROOK
ham dinner.
Guest speaker at the event
will be Coach Eddie Holbrook
from Furman University, who
is in his third season as Head
Basketball Coach at the
Southern Conference school.
Holbrook spent 14 years at
Gardner Webb College before
going to Furman. His record
at Gardner Webb was an out
standing 344-65. In his first
year at Furman he led the
Paladins to a 20-9 record and
second place in the Southern
Conference. Last year his
Paladins won the Southern
Conference and earned a ber
th in the NCAA playoffs.
Coach Holbrook is one of the
nation’s winningest coaches
and most sought-after dinner
speakers.
Make your plans now to
come out and help the Cougar
basketball teams get off to a
great start this year, and to
hear a fine speaker in Eddie
Holbrook.
County Schools Join
Screening Program
BY IVA NELL BUCKNER Seventeen testing stations are sons involved in the actual
Town’s Award Proclaimed
A highway sign which proclaims
Burnsville’s achievement was
erected only a few days after the
town received the Governor’s
Community of Excellence Award
at an economic development con
ference in Raleigh. The recently
formed Yancey County Economic
Development Commission
worked hard toward this goal as
members took the many steps
called for in preparation for the
award. Photo by Harvey Blatz
Pensacola School
Plans Turkey Shoot
Pensacola School will be
having their annual “Turkey
Shoot” on Saturday, Novem
ber 15,1980 from 10 a.m. until
4 p.m. Refreshments will be
available. There also will be a
drawing for a new Gasoline
Weed Eater. If you haven’t
had a chance to buy a ticket
for the Weed Eater, they may
be purchased at B.B. Wilson’s
Grocery or from the school.
Don’t forget the date, Satur
day, November 15. Bring your
favorite rifle, shotgun or pistol
out to the shooting range and
try your luck. In case of rain.
the Turkey Shoot will be held
the following Saturday,
November 22.
Director of Instruction
The Yancey County School
System is among some of the
first school systems in the
United States to extensively
use the “Insight Unlimited”
screening program. This
unique program began in 1968
in Muncie, Indiana, on an ex
perimental basis. The testing
program consists of 56
screens, each taking ap
proximately 5 to 10 minutes to
administer. The program has
been validated for national
dissemination by ESEA Title
III.
The school personnel in
volved in the screening
program feel that this is the
most effective way to screen a
large number of children in a
short time and also get the
results back quickly. The
results allow for each child to
be taught in a more in
dividualized manner accor
ding to his/her ability. These
test results give the teachers
an overall picture of each
child’s capabilitjies, needs and
strengths.
All students in the Kin
dergarten and first grade
classes in the Yancey County
Schools are involved in the
screening program which in
volves comprehensive
screening in motor, visual and
auditory processing and
language and basic concepts.
set up at Burnsville Elemen
tary School. Each child is
given a folder consisting of
his/her name and other vital
information. Mrs. Nancy
Shaw’s Health Occupation
students assist in seeing that
each child gets to every
station where he or she is
screened individually. The
screening stations were con
structed by Jack Buckner’s
and Mike Orr’s Trades and
Industries students at Moun
tain Heritage High School.
The screening program is
administered by teachers of
Exceptional Children
(elementary level). Kin
dergarten and first grade
teachers, physical therapist,
school psychologist, nurses
from the Health Department,
elementary schools’ media
coordinator, attendance coun
selor, speech pathologist,
ESEA staff, teacher aides at
Burnsville School and Health
Occupation students. All per-
administering of the tests at
tended a two day workshop
before the screening began.
The workshop was conducted
by four members of the Mun
cie, Indiana, staff.
We are very excited about
the “Insight Unlimited”
Screening Program especially
since we are among some of
the first school systems in the
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Town Meeting
About Railroad
There will be a town
meeting relative to the Yan
cey Railroad with the Depar
tment of Transportation
(DOT) representatives from
Chicago, Ill. and Raleigh, N.C.
November 18, 7:00 p.m. in the
courtroom, Yancey County
Courthouse.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
Breakfast Invitation
Boy Scout Troop 502 invites YOU to their
pancake breakfast Saturday, November 15,
from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. at Higgins Memorial
Methodist Church. Adults $2.50, children 12
and under $1.25. Your Scout troop needs your
support.
Public
Meeting
Film Crew Shoots Scenes
A film crew from Portland,
Oregon, headed by Woody
Crocker of Productions, Inc. was
in Yancey County last week
shooting scenes in the area which
will be used in a film about Kirby
Hensley’s life. Hensley, a native
of Yancey County who left here as
a young man, subsequently foun
ding the Universal Life Church,
has been interviewed on several
TV shows in recent years. The
production crew hopes the film
will be shown on prime time TV
nationwide sometime in the
future. Above, E.L. Briggs
reminisces about the early days in
Yancey County when Hensley was
growing up here.
Photo by Harvey Blatz
North Carolina Wildlife
Resources Commission
biologists will conduct a public
meeting on Tuesday, Novem
ber 18, at 7:00 p.m. in the
courtroom of Yancey County
courthouse. The results of a
parasite study on Yancey
County deer herds will be
presented, and the
management of deer herd
size and habitat will be fully
discussed. All persons having
an interest in Yancey County’s
deer herd are urged to attend.
AT STATION R in the “Insight Unlimited”
Screening Program, the Muncie, Indiana
project trainers, a representative from E.F.
Braswell Company, staff from Western
Regional Center in Canton and Iva Nell
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Buckner, project director from Yancey Coun
ty, observe children being escorted to the
various stations by Mtn. Heritage Health Oc
cupations students. Photos by Harvey Blatz
Unofficial Election Results By Yancey County Precincts (Most Races)
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402
182
8
409
170
398
179
404
176
391
184
201
394
391
177
183
394
393
383
191
189
182
410
171
Burnsville
839
769
21
870
739
811
. 787
829
773
755
788
786
786
783
686
754
789
749
741
780
829
811
848
730
Cane River
259
231
4
257
227
249
237
246
243
251
221
223
244
252
206
219
261
249
256
215
215
217
277
196
Egypt
203
150
189
168
191
167
191
169
179
175
172
180
184
172
172
184
182
184
176
175
181
184
175
Ramseytown
141
167
2
149
165
160
164
149
165
134
170
167
135
134
164
163
135
129
141
175
172
169
135
169
Green Mountain 251
130
255
126
253
126
255
127
251
119
121
249
251
114
117
249
244
246
122
126
124
253
118
Jacks Creek
409
154
6
421
153
412
162
417
156
408
157
149
412
415
139
146
415
420
423
151
146
151
428
143
Brush Creek
124
74
132
71
133
71
129
75
118
79
79
115
115
75
79
122
117
116
78
80
82
124
77
Crabtree
687
657
21
714
634
700
636
701
651
667
622
639
664
682
581
629
711
713
684
637
612
613
700
639
South Toe
388
387
29
447
369
422
379
426
386
417
369
384
423
410
344
353
410
422
408
395
379
371
425
370
Pensacola
73
191
82
180
74
186
75
187
70
179
189
64
73
174
180
68
66
64
187
,200
182
71
176
Prices Creek
Totals
224
267
6
232
258
230
255
229
256
227
260
258
225
237
248
258
228
222
224
259
266
242
242
249
4000
3359
97
4157
3260
4033
3349
4051
3364
3868
3323
3363
3891
3927
3080
3253
3966
3906
3870 3366
3389
3325
4097
3213