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MITCHEM GARDEN IS YEAR ROUND FLOWER SHOW - Lillian Mitchem stands in her colorful garden at the corner of King Street and Railroad Avenue, which abounds with color at every season of the year thanks to her green thumb. Mrs. Mitchem won the first place beautification project for non-farm residences at the Cleveland County Fair last week. Lillian Mitchem’s Garden Catches Everyone’s Eye Lillian Mitchem’s colorful year-round flower garden at the corner of King Street and Railroad Avenue catches everyone’s eye who travels across the overhead bridge and this week copped the first place beautification award at the Cleveland County Fair. Mrs. Mitchem, a great- grandmother whose vitality belies her age, received a pla- que from the Cleveland Coun- ty Agricultural Extension Service and $100 cash. Marigolds, mums, periwinkle, scarlet sage, and cockscomb abound in gorgeous fall colors at this season of the year and delight passers-by who stop just to marvel at the beauty of the yard where most any day you can find ‘‘Mitchem’’, as Lillian is affectionately call- ed by her friends, busy water- ing and tending the flowers which come back prettier at * each season of the year. The Mitchem yard is a year- round garden which Lillian says grows with love. The first thing Lillian Mit- chem does in the morning is to open her front door and look at the purple, red, yellow ‘and green landscape. One Sunday Lillian returned from Resur- rection Lutheran Church to find a note pinned to her front door. It was from a man who enjoys her flowers when he travels back and forth from - Asheville. He told her in the note that most people don’t have time to stop and smell the flowers let alone grow them. He wanted her to know how much he appreciated her morning SILVER MEDAL TO ALEXANDER—Teresa Melton, Direc- tor of the Senior Center program at KM Depot Center, presents a silver olympic medal to William (Bill) Alexander, who won the award during first annual state Senior Games Day Oct. 3-6 in Raleigh, patterned after the Olympics and an athletic event which drew over 700 senior citizens who had won awards in similar games in their own counties. Walking For Exercises Pays Off For Alexander William (Bill) Alexander, retired Kings Mountain Bible teacher, enjoys walking for exercise and for fun and last weekend he won the silver medal in the senior citizens olympic competition for adults 55 and older at Athens Drive High School in West Raleigh. To make the state finals of the athletic competition, he had earlier won first, second and third prizes in Senior Citizens Games held at Gard- ner Webb College. The North Carolina Senior Games are endorsed by the. President’s Council on Physical Fitness and the state competition, which will . be an annual event, was spon- sored by NCNB and the North Carolina Division of Aging. “It was just like the real olympics”, said Alexander, who said the participants assembled for a Parade of Athletes and an opening ceremony featuring torch lighting. Events were held on Friday and Saturday with the closing ceremony, including a worship service and awards presentations, on Sunday morning. Hester Bolin and Darvin and Clara Earle, and William and Edith Miller, all of Kings ‘Mountain, also participated in the games but did not place in the competitions. They had all placed in competition in the spring at Gardner Webb College. Alexander competed in basketball shooting, horseshoes, shuffleboard, softball throw, table tennis, and one mile walk, coming close to placing in several other categories. Mrs. Alexander also ac- companied her husband to Raleigh. Alexander retired after 19 years as a KMSHS faculty member. Other Cleveland County eople taking part in the estivities were Virginia Clark of Earl, Earlene Corn- well of Lawndale, Paul Cole, William and Virginia Greene, Vida and Hugh Hester, Eliza Peeler, Lonnie Proctor, Er- win Singleton, and Gaither Young, all of Shelby. efforts. Mitchem had to have a pacemaker put in five years ago. ‘‘My family thought that would slow me down, But it hasn’t yet. My flowers gave me inspiration”, she says. In her Sunday School class at Resurrection Church, the leader asked each one to tell when they felt the closest to God. Of course, Lillian said when she’s working in her garden when everything is blooming. “Anytime I ever get down in the dumps I only have to go outside and start digging,” said Mitchem, who plans her garden at night and begins digging at dawn. When Kings Mountain Housing Authority opened the new apartments across from the overhead bridge eight years ago, Lillian Mitchem Applied for one because of the short distance to town. She i tunate enoug corner apartment, she would make the city proud of the yard, and so her beautifica- tion project began. Lillian’s yard is among the prettiest in Kings Mountain and the coun- ty. At 80 years of age, the petite silverhaired great- grandmother keeps on digg- ing and the garden never comes out the same two years in a row. It gets pret- tier. Mrs. Mitchem, widow of John Mitchem, was born and reared in Kings Mountain, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Lynn. She is mother of two children, Sam Mitchem of Greensboro and Madge Abernathy of North Augusta, S.C. and reared a foster son, Dr. Lloyd W. (Bill) Mitchem, Jr., a Lutheran minister in Charlotte. There are three grandchildren. The flower show in the Mit- chem yard begins in the early spring with pansies flanked by blue phlox followed by all the rainbow colors in petunias of brilliant pink and white, and of course, the darl- ing of the midsummer an- nuals, the marigolds that resemble pomponss in vibrant orange and lemon yellow. In the Fall there is periwinkle blue, white and pink tubeshaped ageratums, red cockscomb, which seems to be just what the name im- plies, like a regal rooster standing guard in the flower garden and celtuse which stands so tall it looks like feather dusters in pink and deep rose. Behind these are mums in beautiful dee orange and warm yellow fa colors. Lage clay pots of geraniums flank the doorway of the Mitchem home and in the windowbox are pink and white begonias. Lillian’s flowre garden is the best possible ‘medicine’ for her and for the people who enjoy it. She would find life Turn To Page 10-C Keep HORD LR BOARD Paid Pol. 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