April 20, 2000
Herald/Times
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Open Gate club meets
The Open Gate Garden Club
met with Mrs. C.L. Morris on
April 12. Seventeen members
enjoyed a delicious dessert
course.
Mrs. Sam Collins, President,
welcomed all members and in-
troduced two new members.
Mrs. Collins introduced Mrs.
Eugene McCarter, who present-
ed a delightful program on
“The Meaning of Flowers.”
She stated that the promise of
the periwinkle or vinca is to
know someone a long time and
to know someone well. The
French know the periwinkle as
the virgin’s flower, and in
England periwinkles are sold
with a song. In lore, the flowers
carried in a packet evoked
sweet memories of a lover long
ago.
In the Victorian flower lan-
guage, a yellow rose spoke of
jealousy. But in Western United
States, it speaks of familiar love,
humble and native to the land.
It was immortalized in a popu-
lar song, “The Yellow Rose of
Texas.”
When Robert Burns com-
pared his love to a red, red rose,
he was identifying it with beau-
ty and deep love. The white
rose suggests purity and si-
lence. It is sometimes called
“the flower of light.”
The pure while lily is known
as youthful innocence. It is
identified with goddesses of the
Western world. Christianity as-
sociates the lily with the Virgin
Mary.
The name Aster means star
and clusters of the small daisy--
like flower reminded people of
the night sky. In Europe, asters
are supposed to have magical
powers.
Dahlias suggest the instabili-
ty of perfect beauty. The English
called it fickle. The Spanish
made a holiday in its honor,
“The Day of the Dahlia.”
Poppies suggest the consoli-
dation of rest, the wonder of
dreams and the sleep of death.
In the dream of the red poppy,
the lover seeks erotic passion,
. but while poppies offer a deep
and intimate dream.
The peony symbolizes pros-
perity for the Japanese. It grants
the power to keep a secret.
Nymphs could hide in the
clenched petals.
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KM Garden Club meets
The Kings Mountain Garden
Club met Wednesday at the
home of Margot Plonk on West
Gold Street. Grace Mitchell
shared hostess duties.
The front porch of the Plonk
home featured a birdhouse mo-
tif. The twin-parlor living room
and dining room were bright
with azaleas, spirea, alstroeme-
ria, sunflowers, mums, and as-
sorted greenery.
Upon arrival members en-
joyed an attractive dessert and
fruit course served from the
dining room table. The table,
covered with a scarlet damask
cloth, was centered with a sea-
sonal arrangement of Easter
eggs and grass and Varoons
candy. The buffet included
_ raspberry cream cake with mint
leaves and raspberry sauce, ap-
ple walnut cake, fresh raspber-
ries and strawberries, Easter
egg ambrosia salad with col-
ored marshmallows, molded
Easter mints, pastel drizzled yo-
gurt pretzels, and fruit punch
with a fruited ice ring incorpo-
rating pansy accents.
In the absence of the presi-
dent and vice-president, the
business meeting was called to
order by the secretary, Emily
Suber. Club members signed a
card to accompany a violet for
their president, Jackie Cooper,
who is in the hospital. :
In other membership matters,
Mrs. Suber reported that Mary
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Florida. A discussion followed
concerning candidates for mem-
bership. The vice-president,
Hilda Leonard, will contact the
membership over the summer
to establish a monthly schedule
of responsibilities for club year
2000-2001.
Grace Mitchell announced
that she and her husband will
be holding an auction at their
house on May 6 in preparation
for a move to Charlotte. Mary
Mauney displayed a baby
Chinese flowering peach tree,
an offspring from the 50-year-
old parent tree in her yard
which blooms in December, |
January and February. Margo
Plonk won the drawing for the
tree.
Mary Mauney and Hazel
Jackson announced plans for
the May outing to the Daniel
Stowe Botanical Garden in
Belmont. Members voted to go
on Tuesday, May 9, with lunch
being provided by the hostess-
es.
For the program, Mrs. Plonk
introduced Todd Frady, owner
of Frady’s Florist and Gifts, a
new business located at the for-
mer site of Secret Garden and
Allen's Florist on East King
Street. Frady said he acquired
his love of flowers from sum-
mer visits to his grandmother’s
house and gardens. He present-
ed a demonstration of flower
arranging, using white dog-
wood branches, red azaleas, red
snapdragons, purple iris, white
snowballs, red tulips, purple
asters, lavender periwinkle,
tanged honeysuckle, perfume
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ENGAGEMENT
CHRISTY MARIE CORN
LEWIS PRESTON NANTZ
Houston and Cathy Corn of Kings Mountain
announce the engagement of their daughter,
Christy Marie Corn, to Lewis Preston Nantz, -
son of Kenneth and Mary Nantz of Kings
The bride-to-be is a 1995 graduate of Kings
Mountain High School and a 1999 graduate of
Cleveland Community College. She is em-
ployed by Caromont Family Medicine, Kings
The groom-to-be is a 1993 graduate of Kings
Mountain High School and a 1999 graduate of
Gardner-Webb University. He is employed by
A May 27, 2000 wedding is planned.
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MRS. ADRIAN GAY STINNETT
(Nichole Sheree Beam)
Beam-Stinnett
Nichole Sheree Beam of Cherryville and
Adrian Gay Stinnett of Kings Mountain ex-
changed marriage vows April 15 at the home
of the groom on Chestnut Ridge Road.
Rev. Phil Deitz of Shady Grove Baptist
Church, Cherryville, officiated. Mike Fulbright
was vocal soloist and Ms. Gayla Green was
The bride is the daughter of Ronnie and
Brenda Beam of Cherryville and Jan and Jim
Bentley of Bessemer City. She is a graduate of
Bessemer City High School and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is em-
ployed as a Pharmacist with CVS Pharmacy.
She‘is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Foreman, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bentley, and Ms.
Juanita Smith.
The groom is the son of Gay and Sandie
Stinnett of Bessemer City. He is a graduate of
Bessemer City High School and is Vice-
President of A&A Grading and Hauling. He is
the grandson of Mrs. Mozelle Stinnett and Mr.
and Mrs. E.B. Whitworth.
The bride was given in marriage by her fa-
ther, Ronnie Beam. The groom's best man was
his son, Addison Stinnett.
A reception was given by family and friends.
Members of the family hosted the rehearsal
Following a cruise to the Western Carribean,
the couple will reside in Kings Mountain. .
Merry-Go-Round 2000 set
An 11th hour extension of the
April 27-29 Foothills Merry-Go-
Round Festival 2000 will resur-
rect a bit of the entertainment
world of the early part of the
past century.
A 3 p.m. matinee Sunday,
April 30 at the long-silent
Rogers Theatre in uptown
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endary comic Charlie Chaplin's
silent movies and an old-fash-
ioned sing along. The
Chaplin movie will be shown to
the music of a vaudeville-era
organ being donated to the
Rogers Theatre Consortium by
Larry Jones of Charlotte. Jones,
an accomplished theatre organ-
ist, will be at the keyboard dur-
ing the matinee.
The consortium recently
launched an initiative to raise
funds to purchase and restore .
the theatre, which was opened
in 1936.
The festival will begin
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Thursday with a home run der-
by at the Cleveland Community
College ball field. Registration
and qualifying begins at 5 p.m.
Also on Thursday, First
National Bank will sponsor a
by-invitation-only Honors
Awards reception and presenta-
tion, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at
the bank. :
Friday's activities begin at 3
p.m. with kiddie attractions and
food vendors on the square.
Attractions and vendors will
run through the evening's 7
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