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Thursday, September 14, 1995 - THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD - Page 5A
Resurrection Luther League organizes
Logan, Michael Sabetti, Katie
Bridges, who helped organize church.
looks forward to Eastside
Woodrow Bridges, 82, said he
felt like a child with a new toy 45
years ago when he and four other
men from Second Baptist Church
and their families organized
Eastside Baptist Church.
"I still believe that with faith,
prayer and work that anything can
be accomplished," said Bridges,
who's excited about Eastside's
Homecoming Day on Sunday.
On the wall of his home are
framed newspaper clippings which
show his then 12-year-old son
Larry holding hands with Carolyn
Alexander, then 13, as they raced
from the old frame one-room
building to the handsome brick
church on York Road for the first
service in 1951.
Bridges recalled that one of the
first challenges of the preacher that
Sunday was that "now that we
have a new church let's begin a
new habit and start seating from
the front back instead of from the
back to the front."
"We still have folks to take the
back pew but we accepted the chal-
lenge that our hardest task would
be to let our lives outshine our
church," he said.
Bridges and his wife, Vera
Sellers Bridges, celebrated their
62nd wedding anniversary last
Friday. They met at Second Baptist
Church when she was 15 years old
and it was love at first sight, ac-
cording to Bridges who married
her just before her 16th birthday.
Over the years Bridges said he
had attended several other church-
es in the area but his heart was al-
ways at Eastside.
Rev. Dale Thornburg, the pre-
sent pastor, said the community is
invited to share in the
Homecoming celebration on
Sunday, including the 11 a.m. wor-
ship hour and lunch in the fellow-
ship hall. Special music will be ar-
ranged by Elizabeth Hill and
Nelline Hovis.
"They Left The Old for the
New" was the caption over the
newspaper articles which told of
the church's beginnings with Rev,
R. &. Chaney asthe first: pastor ins
the one-ro om frame building.
Resurrection teachers
honored Sunday morning
Sunday School teachers at
Resurrection Lutheran Church
were recognized during the morn-
ing worship hour Sunday on
"Teacher Appreciation Day."
Recognized were Kim DeVane,
Dee Dee Gurdner, Karen
Lineberger, Lynn Witherspoon,
Deborah Bridges, Thea Delaney,
Annie Smithwick, Barbara Kies,
Barbara Tackett, Kathy James, Jan
Sabetti, Freida McGinnis, Barbara
Bridges, Jane Alexander, Beth
Smith, Mike Bennett, Twyla
Robinson, Pam Cheshire, Kathy
Goforth, Pam McGinnis, Mark
Smith, Betty Anne Deal, Essie
Marie Foster, Carolyn McGinnis,
John McGinnis and Doyle
Campbell.
Maxine Bennett, Vickie Rhyne,
Retha Blackwell and Connie Bell,
nursery workers, were also hon-
ored.
Reg Alexander entertained at the
Sunday School Rally Day prior to
the teacher recognition ceremony.
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Woodrow Bridges,
who helped found Eastside Baptist Church, is
looking forward to the 45th anniversary and Homecoming on Sunday.
Kings Mountain native Bridges,
son of the late Giles and Alice
Bridges, was reared on a mill vil-
lage on Walker Street and worked
in the mill almost all his life, be-
ginning as a boy of 14 for $5.56
and then $12 a week. He lost his
right thumb to a shearing machine
at a Shelby cloth room and that
kept him out of World War II but
he did his part at home working in
the shipyards.
He retired from Glen Raven
“ "Mills but ‘he“also“formerly worked
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at the old Kings Mountain
Manufacturing plant and at the
Margrace Mill, among others.
"Wood" and his wife raised four
boys, William Lawrence Bridges,
who died at 17 in a tragic railroad
accident; Larry and Darrell Bridges
who live near their parents in the
Midpines Community; and Gene
Bridges of Bessemer City. They al-
so have eight grandchildren and
nine great-grandchildren.
Bridges attended the Little Red
Schoolhouse on the Dilling Mill as
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Resurrection Lutheran Church Smithwick, Donna Tackett and
kickoff the new season of activities Charlie Witherspoon as new mem.-
on Sunday at a cookout after the bers.
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a child and the old Central School.,
Now that he doesn't drive a car,
Bridges still goes to church every
Sunday with his family and likes to
£0 to the library. An avid reader of
the Bible and other books, he likes
to read the good news columns in
the daily and weekly newspapers.
each other more and treasure our
time together as the years go by,"
he said.
"2. Additional de smisdion fine from the treatment plant into the city. At present time there is only one
A message from
JIM CHILDERS
Candidate For
Mayor of Kings Mountain
As the date of the election approaches, | would like to share with you
the voter my Platform. My Platform consist of short term and long term
projects.
Short Term: a 3
1. Work with City Council to lift the so called gag rule at the city council meetings. Every citizen should have the
right to speak if there is a question or concern the citizen has.
2. Clean up and beautify the downtown area and around the entrances into the city. We may need to hire an
additional employee or two but it will be worth the cost.
3. Work with the city council, beautification committee and Consortium For Progress, on dressing up the
downtown area by way of banners, flower beds, paintings of various city properties including the downtown flag
pole. Daily display of the flag, work to take away the sterile look along the concrete bumper wall on the railroad
side parking on Battleground Ave. and work within the General Statutes to help the downtown area merchants
in the upgrading of the appearance of their properties.
4. Install liner in basin at Pilot Creek Treatment Plant in order to operate plant at full capacity.
| feel these goals can be reached in a reasonably short time, and as your Mayor | will work toward these goals.
Long Term Goals:
1. Study and planning of a Hydro Generating Plant. Once in place this plant can save the city $300,000 to
$400,000 per year.
tramission line from the treatment plant into the city that we depend on for our water. If that line goes down what
will we do for water? | realize we have storage tanks but once those tanks are empty, how do you refill them
during the time the tramission line is out of service?
3. Dye color removable system:
The EPA is in the process of coming out with regulations requiring that color from industrial dye be removed
before returning the water to our creeks and streams. We have several industrial dyers within our city that the
regulations will effect. Rather than each company having it's own facility, | would urge the city council to approve
a special committee to with industry in order for the city to put into place the program and facility to treat the dye
color, with the city operating the system and charging industry per gallon for product treated. | feel this will be a
long term income for the city.
4. Expand the Gas System:
| feel with increased allocations we can expand the gas system. Without additional allocations | would not be in
favor of expansion if it meant taking away from our present customers.
5. Annexation:
I will be in favor of annexation after a comlete study is made to where and when.
| know and realize these are long range and expensive projects, | also understand that until the city’s financial
position improves and the credit rating increases there is not a lot we can do other than begin the studies and
planning for these projects, but you never finish a project unless you first plan and start that project.
| am like the average citizen in that at times | am more interested in when my garbage was picked up, if the
street light is out of order, if | do not have hot water pressure, and the everyday things | expect from the city.
This is the way it should be. The utilities, revenue producing projects, fire protection, police protection and all
the other services for the citizen becomes the responsibility of the mayor and the City Council. As your Mayor |
will accept my part of the responsibility for the future growth of the city.
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