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% . ... SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY ?0th Year NO. M PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N.<!. THURSDAY, November 12, 1981 15c Per Copy Community Development Contest Greater Ivy Sweeps Awards By NICHOLAS HANCOCK Editor Madison's Greater Ivy community walked off with three first-place com munity development awards in county competition Thursday night, and will become a strong contender in area competition which will be judged this week in the Western North Carolina Community Development Association contest. Area competition awards will be presented at a banquet Dec. 5 at Inn on the Plaza in Asheville. The county awards were presented at the annual recognition dinner held at the Greater Ivy Community Center at Beech Glen. Over 70 representatives of county community development clubs were on hand to participate in the pro gram and hear keynote speaker, Dr. Don Anderson, associate dean of com munity development at Mars Hill Col lege. Greater Ivy captured first place awards in overall Community Develop ment, Division C (200 or more residents); Beautification and Youth Division. Sleepy Valley took first place in Divi- . sion A (100 families or less) in Com munity Development, and Walnut was first place winner in Division B (101 to 200 families). Other winners in the Beautification category were Mars Hill, second place; Upper Laurel, third place; and Walnut, fourth place. Mars Hill also placed se cond in the Youth Division, and Sleepy Valley received a special merit award in the Youth Division. - Robert Bailey of Upper Laurel won - first place in the Mobile florae category, and Phil Fox of Mars Hill received second place. Recognized as outstanding in dividuals who have made contributions Dr. Don Anderson to their community and the county, Mrs. Annie Fox and Rev. David Allman were chosen Woman and Man of the Year. Both are from the Upper Laurel community. In his address, Anderson said that while the awards program was "a celebration of the accomplishments of the past year," citizens of the county should focus their attention on three fundamental needs in the county for the future. Those needs, he said, are get ting young people involved in the com munity. taking care of the growing number of elderly persons in the coun ty, and creating and maintaining a diversified economic base for the coun ty. He said figures show that many of the county's young people grow up and leave the county and that much of the county's population growth in recent years is the result of in-migration of adults. He called the need to get young people involved in the community a "fundamental urgency," and indicated that providing them with jobs and get ting them actively involved would slow the out-migration of the county's youth. Anderson said youth involvment could start with allowing youth to become involved with volunteer ser vices in the community. He said volunteerism is a "normal and ex pected part of being a citizen." "Neighboring and caring must be done by neighbors. There's no other way to do it. Paid staffs shouldn't be do ing it," he said. Anderson said it's up to the communi ty volunteer to help provide many of the services that face budget cuts in the future. Madison County ranks 27th out of the state's 100 counties in the number of doctors per 10,000 population, and 62nd in the state in infant mortality rate, ac cording to Anderson. And with young people migrating out, and older people migrating in, the county's elderly population is steadily growing. He said there is a growing need to provide pro per care for the elderly. He said studies have shown where communities have based their economies on one industry or source of income, there has inevitably been economic hardship. He called on com munity leaders to strive for, a diver sified economic base in the county. "We want to nurture small industry," he said, "and we need to keep agriculture also." Powell Resigns Medical Consultant Post Monday By NICHOLAS HANCOCK Editor Dr. Charles H. Powell submitted a letter of resignation to the Madison County Board of Health and to county commissioners Monday stating he was resigning his seat on the board and his position as medical consultant to the county health department effective im mediately. Powell cited a resolution adopted at the Nov. 6 commissioners meeting and Commissioners James Ledford and Virginia Anderson's "concern with my failure as a private physician toadmit patients to the new Madison Manor nur sing facility" as reasons for his resigna tion. (See letters to the editor on Page J). Powell's resignation came in the wake of a months-long battle between him and commissioners Chairman Led ford <Jver reinstatement of the county's share of the medical consultant's fee. Ledford contends the $1,700 sum was frozen as a county budget tightening move. Powell says the funds were frozen because he refused to admit elderly patients to the Mars Hill nurs ing home. At Friday night's commissioners meeting, a request by the. board of health to reinstate the medical consul tant's fee died on the table when com missioners refused to make a motion regarding the matter. The request was delivered to the commissioners by Ed Morton, director of the county health department . Powell has said Morton delivered a message of a different kind to him dur ing the latter part of August when Led ford sent Word that the fee would be reinstated if Powell would agree to ad mit patients to Madison Manor. Ledford, who also serves as chair man of the board of health and as a director of Madison County Convales cent Center, Inc. (the parent organiza tion of Madison Manor), has neither denied nor confirmed that he sent such word to Powell. Just before the request to reinstate the funds came up for consideration, the commissioners unanimously adopted a resolution instructing county attorney Larry Leake to approach the Hot Springs Health Program about pro viding a medical consultant for the county. The resolution also authorizes the county to enter into a contract with the HSHP should an agreement an the matter be reached between the two en tities. Poweli questioned the adoption of the . resolution saying the board of health . had neither met on it or discussed it. "Are you saying the commissioners are just going to take charge and ignore the board of health?" he asked. Ledford responded by saying the re quest for reinstatement of the funds had not yet been considered, and that the *, resolution involving the HSHP had to do with the board ?f health 0 if kV>0.' Ledford said, "The commissioners have acted on the motion for the resolu tion, the motion has been approved and it stands. That's the law." Powell again objected saying the commissioners initiated the resolution and acted on it without consulting the board of health. Ledford said, "State law says the county commissioners can change any board they want to at any time for the benefit of the people of the county." "Well, if you're not going to use the board that you've got now, then that would probably be a wise thing to do," Powell said. In other action at the commissioners meeting, the commissioners': ? Approved the hiring of Marilyn Rice as meal site manager at Mars Hill. ? Appointed Joan Caldwell to the Madison County Day Care Board. ? Approved a pay raise for Maria Cox of the Child Development Program in the Department of Social Services. ? Hired Mary Jane Pressley to work with the Energy Assistance Program in the Department of Social Services. ? Approved the hiring of Sandra WaUin Ford as county CETA coor dinator and Louise Anderson as CETA job counselor. ? Approved a lease contract with Richard Kingston for leasing the Sprinkie-ShelUm Building in Marshall. ? Approved a <6,900 contract with Greene, Skidmbre and Smith of Asheville for audit services. Residents Approve Road Propo th scamons <rf the mwtlng. htJd | Trtniportatlor tawl ifcey would Ufce to?* fl}? roftd fan b< ri) I ??!?? IB Vlf Willi to propoced project! ting a motion carried at ? d of franspc meeting (or appropriation oC KIOO.MD to and deal -.f i he road. right-of-way negotiations S&aSttZE*. ?stimated toUl cost tor tl* project would be bet ween *10 5 Md 91 1 million and said without heaitatkm that tfee work The money, he aaid. SPECIAL MERIT AWARD - Charlie Davis, 10, (left) receives the special merit award in the Youth Division for the Sleepy Valley Community at Thursday night's county com munity development awardsUuiner at Beech Glen. Cloice Plemmons presented awards to the county winners. Charlie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Davis of Rt.2, Hot Springs. Anderson concluded by saying com munity development activities were "crucial" to the county and perhaps the most significant need here is an 'in creased sense of community." He said the principal goal of com munity development should be a pro cm "that will make us be more caring and neighborly." The increase in size of political and economic organizations leads to a decrease in small scale organizations such as the family-owned store, the locally owned bank and the community church, he said. The price we pay for an increase in political and economical organizations is the destruction of community ties, he said. A total of 35 communities in 17 coun ties will be judged this week inihe WNC Community Development Contest. In addition to holding top honors for com munity improvements, the winners will share more than $10,000 in prizes when awards are handed out Dec. 5 at the Inn on the Plaza. Greater Ivy will be competing in Division C of the contest and Walnut Brush Creek and Sleepy Valley in Divi sions B and A respectively. The WNC Community Development Program is in its 32nd year and is co sponsored by the WNC Development Association and the N.C. Agricultural Extension Service. Recent Graduates Of Health Department CPR Course Opposes Term Amendment Gilmore Resigns DHR Post Tom Gilmore, deputy secretary of the N.C. Department of Human Resources, resigned his position Tuesday morning, announcing his plans to organize a statewide committee to work against a constitutional amendment allowing four-year terms for members of the General Assembly. In a press conference statement in Raleigh Gilmore said he thinks a four-year term is "a serious mistake" and another step toward a full time General Assembly 'In the only state which does not permit a embty should be that leash ly state with four-year terms that would not elect the legislature in the same year as the governor, lieutenant governor and Council of State. "We have a citizen General Assembly made up of some of the most outstanding men and women in the state and we must maintain a part time citizen-based legislature. Gilmore added that the election system should be designed for the benefit of the voter, not the candidate, and the best interest of the voter would not be served by a four-year term. Gilmore, 44, has f DHR since fa 1*77. He will I
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