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Sponsored By Local Jaycees, Partially Self - Supporting By - Cal Carpenter Feature Editor Where do the United Fund Fund dollars go? This is a reasonable question that de serves a reasonable answer. But clearly, there is not just one answer. There are many, for the United Fund dollars go many places — all worthwhile, all to re sponsible organizations, all to purposes any charitable citizen would support if he under stood the need. The question can be answered generally or specifically. The general answer will ap peal only to the mind, for it is a logical list ing of carefully audited requirements, an un emotional statement of the neds of communi ty organizations and services. It has been answered this way, and the answer haul been widey publicized. But once we know the purpose, the works and the stories of personal dedication to a par ticular service, the answer appeals to the heart. Such an answer can be given for the dollars that go to the Brevard Sheltered Workshop. SERVICE UNEXCELLED The Sheltered Workshop provides a ser vice unexcelled in pure humanity anywhere or anytime. It provides a place where re tarded or handicapped people — 16 to 65— can learn, associate with their peers; and, perhaps most of all, gain a sense of purpose in life that would be denied them without public help. It makes the difference between an aimless, shut-in life of no hope, and a fu ture, by the simple provision of a day to day interest in living — so little compared to what most people have; yet so much to those who have so little. Sponsored by the Brevard Jaycees, the Sheltered Workshop is an example of devotion to a cause and a day-by-day commitment of two dedicated pfcOple -^Mr. and Mrs. Maynard R. Hunter, Executive Director and Assistant Di rector of the Workshop. Dedication is obvious in their every act toward those whom they love and help. It is obvious in their aggressive pur suit of public help for the Workshop; their un stinting willingness to do anything, that the Workshop may grow and improve. LUNCH PROGRAM Probably the best recent example of the Hunters' leadership is the Workshop’s Lunch program. Says Mrs. Ruth Hunter: “A number of the Workshop clients were coming to the shop either without lunch or with lunches com pletely inadequate. A number came from homes where the diet was clearly insufficient. There was a crying need; something had to be done." And something was done. Go-getters Mike and Ruth Hunter, backed by tbe Jaycee sponsors, began investigating the possibilities of government and community help for a lunch program and asking for support. The result, to skip a lot of hard work and time spent, was that the United States De partment of Agriculture agreed to individual contributions of food and individuals con tributed food and help. After the first six weeks, the North Carolina Vocational Reha (See The Pfabulous Pfaff! THURSDAY, NOV. 18 Our Factory Representative Will Be Here To Show You Why PFAFF Is No. 1. DON'T MISS IT! FREE i Coffee Pens Door Prizes It’s Lunchtime At The Brevard Sheltered Workshop bifitation Division of the Department of Pub lic Instruction began contributing funds to as sist the V. R. sponsored clients and the. N. C. Department of Mental Health contributed support for other individuals at the Work shop. All this, together with a lot of hard work in a kitchen, made the lunch program possible. It began in April, 1970, and is now going strong. You have to see the faces of the Workshop members as they sit down to their hot, home cooked style meal at noon to appreciaite how strong. PART OF TRAINING The lunches are prepared and served in the Workshop. Supervised (and a large part of the work done) by Mrs. Hunter, the food preparation and serving is approved by state health agencies. Dietary information is re ceived from professional sources. You couldn’t get a better meal anywhere. The clients themselves help with the work. This leads to a two-fold benefit in the program for the (average) 16 clients of the Workshop. They receive attractive and nourishing food for their noon meal and, at the same time, training in food preparation, table setting, kitchen clean up, and table manners. OTHER JOBS The Sheltered Workshop, while benefit ting from U. F. contributions, does not de pend upon them alone, of course. It is basi cally sponsored and supported by the Jaycees. It receives help from individuals who recog nize its unique contributions to the public good. It receives help in the lunch program from government sources. But most important of all, it earns money for itself in an unusual combination of training programs which contribute to the self respect of its clients and at the same time provide use ful services. The Workshop clients do box repairs for industry, address and mail bulk material, re claim paint and cleaning rags, make decora tive bows, and cut surveying stakes. They contract for lawn care—work mowing in the summer; cleanup and leaf raking in the fall —do furniture stripping and handle other simple manufacturing contracts. 4 ASK U. F. SUPPORT Where do the United Fund dollars go? Some of them go to help the Brevard Shelter ed Workshop. They go to help less fortunate people in a way that is probably as much a kindness as any human can do for another. They go to make life meaningful for neighbors who would otherwise be without hope. ‘' The people at the Sheltered Workshop are a good answer to where the U. F. dollars go. And they ask that everyone give gener ously, for: Optometrists Attend Meet In Charlotte Dr. Glenn S. Matheny, Dr. Frank B. McGuire and Dr. E. O. Roland, local optometrists, attended a symposium Sunday on the Bausch and Lomb Sof tens contact lens. The Charlotte meeting was attended by several hudtMdt practictioners from North and South Carolina and Virginia. This was the initial introduc tion of this new concept in con tact lenses in this area. Bob Sherrill Is Honored, Retires Here Robert C. (Bob) Sherrill, native of Transylvania County, who left in 1951 to take a job in Columbus County with Riegel Paper Company, retir ed October 29th and has re turned to retire in his cabin on top of Jeter Mountain. A dinner party was given by Riegel Paper Company where Mr. Sherrill was recognied by C. C. Peters, Vice President of the Company. Those attending this special occasion were Mrs. Jo Merrill, of Chimney Rock; D. M. Sher rill, II, of Ireland, Mrs. Bobbie Rimmer, of Cbeaspeake, Virgi nia, John Sherrill, of Burgaw, and Mrs. Sam Reed, of Edney ville. Another son, R. C., Jr., was unable to attend. Mr. Sherrill has a sister, Mrs. Edith Allison, of Pisgah For est, and Mrs. Sherrill, a broth er, C. R. Rainer, also of Pis gah Forest. The Sherrills extend an in vitation to all their friends to visit them at their home on Jeter Mountain. %irst Baptists To Hold Youth Rally Nov. 12-14 The First Baptist Church of Brevard will sponsor a city county wide youth rally Novem ber 12th - 14th. The speaker for the rally will be Albert Long of Durham. Mr. Long graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1955, where he was the second, and last, athlete in UNC history to win letters in football, basketball, baseball and track. He is on the National Ad visory Council of the Fellow ship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and has held some 250 high school assembly programs the past four years. He has al so recorded two high school as sembly talks with World Rec ords, Inc. In 1967 Albert was the Young Man of the Year in Durham. He spends one weekend a month with Teen Crusade, Inc., with such men as former Yankee second baseman Bobby Rich ardson, Lt. Clebe McClary, who was such a hit on the Bil ly Graham CVusade in Ana heim, California* PGA golfer Dave Ragan, and others. He is employed by Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company. He won “Service to Mankind” award for Durham in 1970. A volunteer youth choir will ALBERT LONG sing Friday and Saturday nights. The Friday night ser vice will begin at 10:30 p. m. following the football game. Sturday’s service will be at 7:30 p. m. The public is cordially invit ed and encouraged to attend these worship services. State governments will ring up total debts of $6 billion this fiscal year a Census Bureau study predicts. Business Meet Is Held By g£ Rotary Club Brevard Rotarians held a business meeting Monday at their regular weekly session in Gaither’s Rhododendron room. President John I, Anderson presided, and a number of items was discussed by the members of the club. Gene Baker gave a brief in* spirational talk on Rotary to begin the meeting, and Harry Hadeler inducted Clifford Frady into the club as a new member. Mr. Frady is manager of Pisgah Gardens. A committee was appointed to work with the Transylvania County Christmas House. Serv ing on the committee are Harry Hadeler, Jerry Purser and Doug Thomason. Dr. Marius Wells reported on the Botanical Gardena pwe ject of the Rotary club. Several other matters were referred to the Board of Direc tors. When you think of prescrip tions, think of VARNER’S. a*r. What’s my I know very well what my line is: it’s serv ing cibsotutely scrumptious meals, at rea sonable prices, three times a day, to residents and tourists in the Brevard area. But my creators (parents, if you will), the devel opers of the new “Un-city"—Connestee Falls—forgot to give me a name! Now really, I don't want to go through life being called “The Connestee Inn Restaurant”, I’m far too glamorous for that. So, f need your help. Please give me a name, and I'll repay the kindness. I’m hav ing a contest, and the person who picks the name I like best will win an All-Expense Paid Weekend Vacation For Two—at the Connestee Inn, of course. That’s three days and two nights, double occupancy, six meals per person. To enter the contest, just visit me at Con nestee Falls, six miles south of Brevard on U S. 276 and pick up an entry blank. And while you’re here, if you'll try some of my fare, perhaps it will help you choose a really great name. But whether you eat my food or not, come on down for a look (I’m pretty, too) and get your entry blank. Also, while you’re here, my folks, the Connestee Falls people, would like to host you on a tour of our private, relational/ residential community now being constructed as an ”Un-city".. .uncrowded, unpolluted and unspoiled. (signed) D«raSop«l tv Ranted t(WfiCP« atea, a subsidy of Certain-teed Product* CofporaUon firtl(
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