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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
KMMS students pray Cleveland County Chapter NCAAP
for one of their own
Kings Mountain Middle
School students prayed for
one of their own Tuesday
morning around the flag pole
in front of the school.
The students were pray-
ing for Blake Broome, 12, a
7th grader who was undergo-
ing open heart surgery at the
same hour the students gath-
ered to pray.
A phenomenal athlete
with unbelievable faith and
courage, Blake played with
his Storm baseball team in a
tournament this weekend be-
fore he entered Levine Chil-
dren's Hospital at Charlotte.
It was Blake's last baseball
game for six weeks since he
will be at home recuperating
from surgery. The doctor
told Blake before the surgery
“no baseball, you can't even
pick up a bat or a ball for six
weeks. Give me six weeks
Blake Broome
and I will have you back on
the field.”
Blake, the son of Misty
and Chris Broome, is more
worried that he won't be able
to play ball for six weeks
than the surgery itself.
Blake was born with a
congenital heart defect that
required open heart surgery
at the age of nine months.
During that surgery he had a
conduit (tube) with a pulmo-
nary valve inside placed to
reroute his blood correctly.
He had no complications in
12 years but doctors say he
is outgrowing the tube, which
will be replaced by an adult
size tube along with repair-
ing his leaky mitral valve, a
permanent heart procedure.
Blake's health is excellent
and after the surgery he will
be able to play full contact
football with no restrictions
in sports. He was a starter for
the KMMS wrestling team
this past fall.
Catcher and second base-
man for the Middle School
Patriots, Blake is an All A
student on the Stingray team
at KMMS. His last day of
school was May 22, four days
before the surgery.
Garden club elects new officers
The Town and Country
Garden Club met for the
final meeting of the 2014-
15 year on Thursday, May
14.
The hostess for the
meeting was Brenda Sipe
who served a delicious
meal of baked spaghetti,
salad, and Paula Deen
peach pie.
Florrie Hamrick, club
president, led the 11 mem-
bers in reading the Club
Collect.
The business session
began with a report by
Connie Bell of the plant-
ing of a crepe myrtle tree
at the Kings Mountain Post
Office. This was the club
project for Arbor Day.
Members selected the
month for next year's pro-
gram and hostess schedule.
The programs will be cho-
sen by the member for the
month that they will pres-
ent the program.
A summer/fall trip is
planned by the club to visit
the Lake Lure Flowering
Bridge.
Lou Ballew installed
the new officers for 2015-
16 included: Connie Bell,
president; Florrie Hamrick,
vice-president; Glenda
Crawford, secretary, and
Susan Gibson, treasurer.
The meeting concluded
with a plant exchange.
The ladies of Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc,
Zeta Mu Omega Chap-
ter, have partnered with
NAMI-Charlotte to bring
awareness to the Gaston
County community about
the stigma of mental ill-
ness. On Saturday, May
16, sorority and commu-
nity members, gathered
for a morning of physical
activity entitled "Sanity
Not Vanity". The workout
was led by former NFL
running back and current
Athletic Development
Specialist- Mr.Tremayne
Stephens.
NAMI, the National
Alliance on Mental Ill-
ness, is the nation's largest
grassroots mental health
organization with approx-
imately 1000 state organi-
zations and local affiliates,
dedicated to building bet-
ter lives for the millions
of Americans affected by
mental illness.
. under will be admitted
banquet to honor Campbell
The annual mem-
bership banquet of
the Cleveland County
Chapter of the NCAAP
will be held Saturday, |
June 6, at 5 p.m. at |
LeGrand Center, 1800
E. Marion St., Shelby.
Donation tickets are
$30 . Children 5 and
free.
The theme of the event is
“Forward Together, Not One
Step Back.”
The membership banquet
was named in honor of the
late Rev. M. L. Campbell
who served as branch pres-
ident and worked endlessly
Rev.
M.L. Campbell
recruiting nu-
merous NAACP
memberships. A
minister, politi-
cian, educator,
and Civil Rights
Activist, he en-
tered the AME
Zion ministry in
1944 and served
churches in North
Carolina filling
the pulpits of almost every
denomination, White and
Black, until his retirement in
1988. He w as a resident of
the Compact Community of
Kings Mountain and taught
agriculture in the Kings
Mountain School System for
37 years. Rev. Campbell died
March 11, 1995.
Campbell was known as
an independent thinker and
was a passionate advocate
of excellence and equality
for all people. He was presi-
dent of the Cleveland County
Branch NAACP for 11 years.
He was also very instrumen-
tal in paving the way for the
first African Americans to be
appointed and elected to the
Cleveland County board of
commissioners.
The NAACP was founded
in 1909 with a fundamental
purpose to eliminate racial
hatred and racial discrimina-
tion.
'Mary Poppins’
crowd numbered
1,260
“Mary Poppins," the Kings
Mountain Little Theatre play
which recently performed
five shows, was an audience
favorite with 1,260 people at-
tending at Joy Theatre.
“Liberty Mountain," the
drama written by Bob Inman
and produced by the Little
Theatre, sold 1,375 tickets for
its six premier performances
last year.
“We had several children's
show that drew bigger audi-
ences but the children were
bused from the schools to
attend," said Jim Champion,
congratulating director Betsy
Wells and the cast for their
presentation of 'Mary Pop-
pins.'
Aldridge's song number 1
Cherryville's Darin and
Brooke Aldridge have brought
back a classic country song
and it has become the No. 1
song on the Bluegrass Today
weekly chart.
“Tennessee Flattop Box” is
a hit for the third time. Written
and recorded by Johnny Cash,
the song earned it way to No.
11 on the Billboard music
chart in 1961. His daughter
Rosanne Cash's version of
the song, featuring Randy
Scruggs, Earl's son, playing
the guitar solos, made it to No,
1 on the Billboard in 1988.
The Aldridges released
the song on their new album
“Snapshots” which made its
debut at No. 8 on the Billboard
Bluegrass Music Chart.
Rosanne Cash recorded
the song at the suggestion
of her then-husband and fel-
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority partnership
stomps out the stigma of mental illness
~ As part of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority's 2014-
2018 International pro-
gram Target 2 : Health
Promotion, chapters across
the country and NAMI
have partnered to increase
mental health awareness
within diverse commu-
nities. The sorority is
working with NAMI state
organizations and local
affiliates to stomp out
the stigma of mental ill-
ness by educating African
Americans about mental
health, treatment and re-
covery. Together, the two
organizations are work-
ing to educate undeserved
communities in accessing
much needed treatment
services and support.
Proceeds from the
"Sanity Not Vanity" event
were donated to NA-
MI-Charlotte.
Omega Chapter is led by
President, Mrs. Beverly
Tribble.
Zeta Mu
Fr a
low country singer, Rodney
Crowell. When she recorded
the song, she was unaware
that her father wrote it. Johnny
later told Rosanne that her suc-
cess with the song was “one of
his greatest fulfillment.”
“A great song deserves
a lot of interpretations and
Darin and Brooke's is a beau-
tiful jewel of a rendition of
one of my Dad's most-loved
songs," says Rosanne Cash,
The Bluegrass Today
chart is compiled weekly
from actual airplay data
logged and reported by con-
tributing Bluegrass DJ's. The
numbers reflect airplay on
satellite and terrestrial radio
and come from both com-
mercial and non-commercial
stations but don’t include
streaming internet broadcasts.
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