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VOLUME 34
100 Easter Baskets For Yancey Children
By Carolyn YuziuJk
La a united effort to make Easter a happier day
for One Hundred children in Yancey County; mer
chants, church groups and the Public Health Depart
ment workers got together this last weekend to help
out the Easter Bunny. The project was a simp 1 e
one: To make 100 Easter Baskets and distribute them
to that many children of "low-income" families who
would otherwise not have been visited by the "Easter
Bunny" at all. For some of the children, in fact,
it would be the first Easter basket they had ever re
ceived.
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Teenagers Fill And Decorate Easter Baskets
School Plan
Controversial
By Bob Helmle
Yancey County is clearly
faced with a tough problem re
garding the future of its schools.
This fact is borne out by the.
reception given the survey re
commendations of the school
planners from Raleigh, pre
sented two weeks ago to a largp
audience of interested citizens.
As anticipated, the survey
report has proved controversial
Many of those who have re
viewed the recommendations
have serious doubts that they
provide a practicable solution
for the county's school pro -
blems. It is clear that adopt -
ing the survey plan will leave
many people in the county dis
appointed. The major objec -
tions seem to be as follows:
—Those in the Burnsville
Elementary School area are un
happy because the program
does not provide an immediate
remedy for the fire hazard and
other shortcomings of theßuns
ville school.
in theoutlying
sections of the county are not
happy about losing their ele
mentary schools. The long
range recommendation of the
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The merchants were involved first. Businessmen
had to be found who would contribute the necessary
ingredients for so many Easter baskets - and indeed,
the baskets themselves. "No problem," said Ed Yu
ziuk, who reported later that not one of the business
men he contacted refused their help or was hesitant
in offering it.
Ray Robinson and William Riddle of Dairy
men, Inc., donated 400 farm-fresh eggs. The ap
proximately 33 dozen eggs would make four for each
basket and would serve a health purpose as well as
an esthetic one. Ray Brothers Food Center contribu
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I Burnsville Youth Killed, I
| One Hnrt In Car Wretk |
One Burnsville youth was
killed and another injured in a
one-car accident early Satur -
day morning on Highway 80,
about 18 miles south of Bums -
ville.
Ohle Carroll, 19, of Rt. %
Burnsville was dead on arrival
at Yancey Hospital from injur
ies sustained in the crash. The
other youth, Emerson Howard
Autxey, 22, was said to be in
good condition at the hospital
late Saturday. He sustained
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numerous bruises and contusiom
> State Highway Patrolm a
Alb in T. Canipe said that the
accident was due to excessive
speed on a sharp curve.
Canipe stated that about
1 a. m. Saturday the auto went
into a spin on this curve, over
turned and smashed into a tree.
Both Carroll and Autrey were
apparently thrown from the car,
Canip>e said, but the upended
vehicle landed on Carrolls body.
According to Autxey, Car
roll was the driver.Canipe said
ted dye for the eggs.
J6e Crisp at Burnsville's Ben Franklin Store wa
contacted. He and Ed Yuziuk of The Yancey Bicoid,
agreed to share the cost of 100 large baskets. In ad
dition, Mr. Crisp donated a large box of "grass" and
offered his invaluable help in estimating the amount
of candy and cellophane which would be needed to
fill and decorate so many baskets.
"Leave the candy to me," said Captain George
Downing of the Yancey County Country Store. He
made a trip to Asheville and brought back pounds of
jelly beans and candy Easter eggs, the cost of which
was shared by the Downing? and Morgan Bros. Whole
salers in Asheville.
Radio Station WKYK in Burnsville completed
this part of "Operation Easter Bunny" by paying for
the yards and yards of multicolored cellophane and
basket decorations needed to make these Easter bas -
kets the beautiful creations they ultimately became.
The ladies of all the churches in the communi
ty were involved next with the practical problem of
boiling and dyeing 400 eggs and putting togetherthe
baskets. The Mission Action Group of the First Bap
tist Church organized this phase of the project and
contacted ladies from Sacred Heart Catholic Church,
Higgins Memorial United Methodist Church and First
Presbyterian Church in Burnsville. Volunteers met
in two of the churches' kitchens on Friday morning
and spent several hours making Easter eggs. The vo
lunteer "Easter Bunnies "were: Mrs. Alma Holcombe,
Mrs. Louella Honeycutt, Mrs. Ralph Jacks, Mrs. Jim
Anglin, Mrs. Ruth Shoals, Mrs. Elizabeth
Ike LaugJjrun, Mb. Carolyn Yuziuk, Mrs. Donna Mo-
Lain,'Mrs. Myra Hensley, Mb. Helene Moore and
Mb. Dick Bailey.
Early Saturday morning ten teenage
working in the fellowship hall of the First Baptist
Church, filled and decorated the baskets. Mb. Pat
Guyer and Mb. Edward Yuziuk supervised the group.
Teenagers participating in the project were: Cathy
Deyton, Linda Deyton, Rosemary Kampf, lisa Fox,
Jeannie Biggerstaff, Marilyn Laughrun, Corky Mil
ler, Denise Piercy, Cathy Silver, Janice Hunter.
Mb. Ruby Smith, who asked that the children
at the Yancey County Child Development Center be
given the materials to make their own Easter
said that the children truly enjoyed themselves. They
made up 11 of the 100 baskets.
On Saturday afternoon, Wanda Edwards, Public
Health Department muse, picked up the Easter bas
kets for distribution. Working with her throughout
the afternoon and evening were twelve work campers
from the Wesley Memorial Methodist Chinch inHigi
Point, N.C. These teenage boys and girls were un
der the direction of Bob Howard, youth minister. In
addition, four girls were here from Illinois, chaper
oned by Marilyn Kunzweiler. The teenagers helped
Miss Edwards give several Easter parties during Sat
urday at which most of the baskets were distributed.
Baskets were also delivered at individual homes in
the communities dining Saturday evening and on
Sunday morning. Miss Edwards reported "Operation
Easter Bunny" a huge success. "The children were so
happy with the baskets," she said. Many of the lit
tle ones.had never seen one, but the older children
told them about Easter baskets and helped them, she
added. -
The Easter basket project involved the whole
community in a united effort to make children hap
py at Easter. It only proves once again what love
has always been able to accomplish - and ahv ays
will.
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