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CAROLINA INDIAN?T
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Volume 27 Slumber 46 Thursday, November 16, 2000 25c
Stacy Locklear Jr.
Promoted to Major
Captain Stacy Locklear Jr. was promoted to the rank of major on 27
October 2000 in the Singlevich Conference Room at the Air Force
Technical Applications Center (A FTACj, Patrick AFR FL. In attendance
were his wife, Missy Locklear; daughters Kaylu and Kyra Locklear;
parents, Mr. Stacy Locklear Sr. and Mrs. Betty Locklear; sister, \'an
Locklear and numerous friends and coworkers. Major Locklear is
currently serving as the Chief, Plans and Programs for the Materials.
Technology Directorate of A FT AC whose primary mission is nuclear
treaty monitoring. Major Locklear graduatedfrom West Robeson Senior
HighSchoolin 1985, PembrokeState University in 1989, and Wright State 1
University in 199-1 with an M.S. degree in Chemistry. Major Locklear has
served in the Air Force for 11 years and will be transitioning in January
for an assignment to the Pentagon, Washington D.C.
Pembroke Veteran's Day Parade
honors memory of Ardell Jacobs
PEMBROKE-The Pembroke Veteran's Day Parade was held again on
November 11 to honor the veterans. This year it was held in honor of the
late Ardell Jacobs, a veteran's veteran. He died on Sept. 4 after a long
bout with cancer. He was 64 years old.
Jacobs was a member of Pembroke's historic VFW Post 2843. Thousands
turned out to honor Jacobs and all the veterans who gave so
much that the beacon of hope might continue to burn brightly in Pembroke
and throughout the world. He would have been proud of the large
turnout at the event he cared so much about.
NCAEDistrict 10 meeting held
On Wednesday, November 8. the
Retired Education of NCAE District
10 met at Pine Crest Country Club.
Hosted by the Robeson by the Robeson
County unit, headed by President
Maxine Amos, the meeting was eonducted
by District President Romas
Hales of Cumberland County. Guest
Speaker was Dwight Story, State
President of the NCAE Retired organization.
District 10 officers for next year
were selected and will take office in
April of 2001. The officers-elect are
Glenn Hicks, President; Lee Helen
Thompson, Vice President;Essie
Jones, Secretary, and Helen Farrior
Treasurer. Ms. Farrior was also
elected yesterday to the Cumberland
County School Board.
A quartet of retired educators and
some of their friends provided outstanding
entertainment. Retired
teachers Harry Oxendine, Bundy
Locklcar and Henry T eets were j owed
by Pembroke businessman Jerry
Cummings, and Judge Gary
Locklcar. who also provide to be
something of a humorist. Retired
principal Mary Alice Teets accompanied
the singers on the piano. The
group sang three gospel songs before
lunch and several goldie oldies after,
including. "Side By Side" and "Oh,
Baby Mine "
Each of the three units in District
10 honored an outstanding member
noted for their contributions to the
organization and/or to children
Esline Evans of Bladen County was
chosen for her 19 years of service as
Treasurer of that county 's retired organization.
For his service in
numerous capacities District President
Romas Hales was the choice of
Cumberland County. Robeson
County members honored Ann
Fairley for the many hours and days
of tutoring she gave to students at
R.B. Dean School.
The gratitude of the assembly is
owed Shirley Stockton. Katrina
Locklear and Ann Fairley who organized
and carried out the luncheon.
Stacy LockUar Jr.
Pembroke Chamber stays
busy during November
PEMBROKE- November will be a busy month for the Pembroke Area
Chamber of Commerce with three ribbon cutting ceremonies and a regular
org an b at ion al meeting
Don Gersh, PACC president, said he hopes to see as many of the Chamber
members attend these events as possible.
The first ceremony will be held at "A Sister's Corner" on Thursday. Nov.
16 at 10 a.m. The shop is owned by Cavelcn Locklear and Shelby Blanchard.
and is located at the corner of Union Chapel and Cornith Street. "A Sister's
Comer" is a florist and sells gifts, balloons, fragrances, self-inking stamps,
and offers Notary Public service. It will also sell live Christmas trees.
"Cyna's Diamonds & Jewelers" will hold its ribbon cutting Saturday.
Nov. 18 at 1 p.m. Owners are Cynthia and Tim Locklear. "Cyna's" provides
an array of quality jewelry, watches, and repair services. Co-located is
"Cyna's Coffee Shop" which is open at 6 a.m. Monday thru Saturday. Fresh
bagel and a variety of pastries plus gourmet coffee is available.
Scotland Memorial Family Practice Center is hosting its open house
and ribbon cutting on Tuesday. Nov.28 at their beautiful facility on Jones
Street. The open house is from 4:30 to 6 p.m.. with ribbon cutting ceremony
at 5 p.m. Scotland Memorial Family Practice Center is sending a separate
mailing (invitation and information) to each Chamber member.
Mark your calendars for these special events, plus the General Meeting
on Thursday. November 16 at noon at ShcfTs.
Peggy Locklear named Chief
of Pembroke Rescue Squad
At a recent meeting of the Pembroke
Rescue Squad. Peggy I.ocklcar
was elected as chief. Peggy, an Emergency
Medical Defibrillation
Technician, lives at 12691 lenry Berry
Road in Pembroke, with her granddaughter
Ana Vazquez. Peggy has
three children. Donnic, Brian And
Karcy Hunt. She is also the proud
grandmother of seven grandchildren.
She graduated from ! airgrove in 1965
and after retiring from L.O.F. of
I.aurinburg in 1997, she returned to
school and obtained her nursing assistance
II diploma Peggy said .she
will draw on the talents, learning
experience and her expertise of emergency
care to lead the Pembroke
Rescue Squad
Peggy is a life long member of
Bear Swamp Baptist Church, where
she has been involved in mission
work and currently serves as a consultant
to the Burnt Swamp Baptist
association in the (Mission friends)
program. She is mission minded and
has a goal of institating mission friends
in all churches of the Burnt Swamp
Association
To her family, she wears many
hats: homemaker. cook, teacher,
church planner, missionary, babysitter.
and nurse. Among her hobbies
are church, visiting the sick, and rest
homes, missions trips, and assisting
the elderly. A good Saturday night
for Peggy is to run calls with her best
friend and sister Nancy Jacobs, who
is also a member of Pembroke Rescue.
In her new role as chief Peggy
states "I can't run Pembroke Rescue
Squad by myself, I need the support of
all the members of the squad as well
as the support of the community. We
need new equipment and it takes a lot
of money to operate because we are an
non profit organization. Therefore, 1
am asking the churches to support the
Rescue Squad by sending in those
donations."
iviiKe cummings
elected as
president of N.C.
Baptists again
WINSTON-SALEM-Rev. Mike
Cummings, the popular Director
of Missions of the Burnt Swamp
Baptist Association in Pembroke,
has been chosen as president
of the Baptist State Convention
of North Carolina. He ran
unopposed for a second term.
Cummings counts himself a consci
vativc, and this will be his second
one-year term as president.
The convention was held November
13-14 at Lawrence Joel
Coliseum in Winston-Salem. Rev.
Cummings gave the president's
address on Tuesday, with the rest
of the day taken up with major
business issues and votes. *
An Engineering
Future For Girls
(NAPS)?Girls and minorities
have a better chance at becoming
tomorrow's engineers thanks to
. (STEPS) Science Technology &
Engineering Preview Summer
camp for girls, a program funded
by the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers Education Foundation
(SME-EF).
I
STEPS is the nation s tirst
coordinated and integrated ap- _
proach to attracting girls and
minorities into careers in manufacturing
and technology. The
tuition-free, summer residential
program targets girls in a twotiered
approach, first as they
enter the 7,h grade, and then in
the 10"1 and ll'h grade. The concept
of the program is to reach
girls early enough to influence
their choices of math, science and
technical courses in middle and
high school and prepare them to
succeed in college level engineering
programs.
Nancy Berg, SME executive
director and general manager,
explained, "SME-EF is taking
STEPS to the K-12 nudience and
offering them an opportunity to
learn the basics of manufacturing
and technology in hopes of capturing
and directing them to a career
in manufacturing engineering."
For further information on
' STEPS, contact Lynn Borg, Development
Specialist?Youth Pro[
grams?Society of Manufacturing
Engineers Education Foundation
at (313) 271-1500, ext. 1713.
Kristen's Law Signed
Washington- A national clearinghouse
lot information on missing
adults will be established under legislation
that was signed into law on
Thursday
The measure authorizes the attorney
general to make grants of up to
SI million for each of the next four
years to public agencies and nonprofit
private organizations that help
find missing adults.
Senator John Edwards sponsored
the Senate version of the bill. Representative
Sue Myrick of Charlotte
introduced the legislation in the
house.
The measure was named for
Kristeu ModafTeri. a North Carolina
State University student who was last
seen during the summer of 1997 in
San I-'rancisco just three weeks after
her 18th birthday.
The Charlotte w oman's disappearance
of young adults are reported to
authorities without generating headlines.
In Mecklenburg County, for
example, the sheriffs office last year
received reports of 132 missing persons
from 18 through 21 years old
"We want to make sure that if a
child disappears that a family has a
place to go and knows where to go to
get assistance in locating them What
happens often limes is that there is no
condition between law enforcement
agencies," Senator Edwards said.
"Secondly, we want parents of children
who have gone away to college
my child just went aw ay to college
- to know and feel secure that if
something does happen to their child
there is something in place to help
them."
Senator Edwards credited
Kristen's parents, who pressed for
enactment of a law to help other
families. "1 also am grateful to Representative
Myrick for her tireless
efforts toward ensuring that Kristen's
Act becomes law." Senator Edwards
said "Our legislatures will help public
agencies and nonprofit
organizations provide desperately
needed assistance to law enforcement
and families in locating
involuntarily missing adults.
"Kristen's Act will not only provide
some comfort to the millions of
parents who send their children to
college every year and worry about
their safety, but it will help ensure
that when an adult of any age is
missing due to foul play a national
effort will be mobilized to help," the
senator concluded.
Youth Baseball Association Fall
League Tournament Winners
The major league Indians were the winners of the Lumberton Youth Baseball Association
(LYBA) 2000 Fall League Tournament. The tournament was held from October 16th to 25th,
2000 at the Bill Sapp Park. Shown in the photo, front row, left to right, Sean Shores, Jamie Bell,
Ryan Allen, Jordan Hunt, Austin Galloway, Ryan Tyson, second row, left to right Lee Leggett,
Phillip Jackson, Scott Thompson, Ryan Hunt,Zachary Pittman, back row,left to right, Coach
Craig Hunt. Coach Frank Jackson and Coach Mitchell Pittman.
Jamie Bell is theson of Greg and Bonita Bell of Lumberton and grandson of Buddy and Sarah
Bell of Pembroke.
Diabetes... a lifelong battle
Thirty-five-year-old Molly wakes
up every morning to begin her daily
routine She washes her face, dresses
for work, makes her breakfast and
prepares her kids for school.
Then she begins another routine.
She checks her blood sugar, evaluates
the results and injects herself
with the proper amount of insulin
Molly repeals this many times
throughout the day to make sure her
blood sugar stays at healthy levels.
Like nearly 16 million other
Americans. Molly is a diabetic A
study recently released by the Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention revealed that diabetes now
affects more than just senior citizens.
Since 1990 the rate of diagnosed
cases rose 40 percent among 40-49
year-olds and 70 percent among 3039
year olds.
Diabetes, the seventh leading
cause of death in the United States, is
a disease caused by a lack of insulin
Insulin is the hormone secreted by
the pancreas that stores fats, sy nthesizes
proteins and converts glucose
into energy. Without the right amount
of insulin, the body cannot process
glucose and the blood becomes
clogged with the excess. Type 1 and
Type 2 diabetes are the most com
mon forms, however such things as
pregnancy, drugs, malnutrition and
surgery can trigger other types of
diabetes.
A number of factors have been
associated with the onset of diabetes
including heredity. obesity, certain
viruses, prior history of gestational
diabetes, race, ethnicity and lack of
exercise.
Molly has control of her disease
because she was diagnosed in its
earliest stages and has learned to
work disease management techniques
into her lifestyle.
In the past, diabetes was seen as a
debilitating disease that would consume
a person's life. People felt that
constant insulin shots and diabetic
complications such as amputations
were inevitable and unavoidable parts
of the disease.
Thanks to research and modern
medicine that's not true anyone.
Diabetes doesn't have to control
your life It can be monitored and
controlled easily and without interfering
with your life. It can be
monitored and controlled easily and
without interfering with your normal
life (letting control of diabetes requires
a combination of proper
supervision, controlled diet and ex
ercisWSd medication. New medications
of proper supervision, controlled
diet and exercise and medication.
New medications are emerging each
day to make insulin injections easier
and more convenient for patients to
take
More than 2.000 people arc diagnosed
with diabetes every day and.
like Molly, they will be living with
this disease for decades to come We
need you help to stop this number
from growing.
The problem with diabetes is that
a person can have no symptoms and
still be sick Almost one-third of all
cases in the United States are undiagnosed
. Molly never felt any diabetic
symptoms and would have never
known she had the disease until her
doctor discovered it during a routine
physical two years ago If you experience
symptoms such as constant
thirst, hunger, unexplained weight
loss and numbness in your hands or
feet or think you may be at risk for
developing diabetes, please see your
doctor for testing. F.arly detection
can prevent future complications such
as heart disease, strokes, blindness,
kidney failure and amputations.
For more information or to get
tested for diabetes, please call your
doctor or local health department.