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July 13, 2000 ge 2A The Kings Mountain Herald Obesity OBITUARIES eads to CLARENCE WILSON ESTELLE SWINK h : " SHY Clende Baward Estelle Garland Atkins e alth Ed” Wilson, 84 , 702 Wilson GARY STEWART / THE HERALD Mark Hoy, < on truck, and Donald Cline deliver new garbage carts to Kings Mountain residents 2 Tuvaday morning. The city plans to implement its new curbside collection system next Monday. Curbside sarbage collection to begin on Monday, July 17 By. GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald Cityot Kings Mountain em- . ployees are busy delivering new garbage carts to citizens this'week, preparing for a switch to curbside garbage pickup. text Monday. ; anager Jimmy Maney : helpe Public Works i tment employees deliver about 508 carts Monday to cus- tomers wha are scheduled for : Monday pickup Sep Joy et putting. day,” Maney said. “By he end of the week we hope to have all = of the carts distributed.” City staff is also giving each customer a packet of informa- tion detailing the city’s garbage and trash pickup ordinances Spel Rates for July an “bes Kings Mountain oh Knee Country Club : of Na. Country Club Drive 18 Holes (Greens Fee & Cart Riek - Memberships i GLE Available Weekday $20. Weekend $27.” Call for starting times: 739-5871 Him Paysour - Mgr. Golf & Sales “thru 7-31-00 and pickup schedules and poli- cies. Maney said most of the reac- tion he received from residents on Monday were positive. “You're always going to have a couple of people that still like it in the backyard,” he said, “but most of them are understanding and know that we can’t get people to do it any- more. The physical labor and the dirtiness of the job and ev- erything else that goes with it, is a problem.” Maney said not being able to recruit and retain qualified garbage pullers was one of the main reasons the city opted for curbside pickup. Maney said the city hired three pullers last week, and by Friday two of them quit. The new plan, when fully im- plemented, will require only one driver and one automated (mechanical arm) truck per route. The old backyard pickup procedure required: three three- man crews and would have re- quired a fourth crew on July 1 if the old procedure had been maintained. “We're not the only city that’s making the changeover,” Maney said. “Charlotte- Mecklenburg’s doing it too. A lot of people say it’s the money, but it’s not. They paid pullers $10 an hour and drivers $12 an hour and they can’t keep them either. It’s the physical work.” Maney said pulling an empty - like he did on Monday - is physically demanding. “I can imagine them being full of garbage,” he said. “It’s 97 degrees and you walk five miles a day pulling a 180-pound cart full of garbage. You have to be in top physical condition. And it’s the same thing in the winter time when it’s frost and raining. “People just don’t stop and think what these guys go through,” he added. “If they did they would care about the fact that they need to do every- thing they can to help them. From the city manager’s posi- tion, I appreciate what these guys do. They've got a tough .job. I would challenge anybody to fall in behind them for eight hours and you'll learn to appre- ciate them.” One of the concerns voiced by City Council and staff dur- ing discussion leading up to im- plementing a curbside pickup program was the effect it would have on the elderly and dis- - abled. Special provisions are be- ing made for city staff to contin- ue to pickup garbage for those who have legitimate medical disabilities. A doctor’s verifica- tion form is available to any cit- izen who has an elderly, medi- cal or physical hardship. Maney said only a few resi- dents have indicated a need for assistance so far. “Some people just cannot physically get their carts to the curbside, and those are the ones problems Though America is winning the health war in death rates against cancer and AIDS, there is still much fighting to be done on the fat front. More than 300,000 Americans die annually from complica- tions stemming from weight problems, and nearly 100 mil- lion Americans are considered overweight. In the last 15 years, the percentage of seriously overweight Americas has risen nearly 10 percent. As these fig- . ures indicate, obesity is more than a quality of life issue, it’s a life issue, a fatal disease, and is becoming a national epidemic. High blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes are obesity-related conditions that lead to disability and death in the United States. Obesity is marked by an’ excess accumula- tion of body fat sufficient to po- tentially endanger health. Obesity results from an imbal- ance between‘energy intake and energy output. This is excess caloriés consumed frequently as fat, and insufficient physical ac- tivity. Other factors contribut- ing to obesity are genetic, envi- ronmental, metabolic, socioeconomic, cultural and psychological.’ Heart disease, cancer, high blood présstre, high choles- terol, and diabetes'are among the obesity related conditions that lead to disability and death in the United States. Poor diet and inactivity contribute to 300,000 to 580,000 deaths every yeat, second only to smoking as a cause of preventable death. One-third of all cases of high blood pressure are associated with obesity, and obese individ- uals are more likely to have ele- vated blood cholesterol levels.” Overweight men are more likely to die of colorectal or prostate cancers than non-obese men are, and obese women are at greater risk of dying of en- ‘dometrid, gallbladder; cervical, oyarian’and breast cancers then non-obese women. Gallstones” occur three to six times more of- ten in overweight people. Among women, 70 percent of gallstone cases are attributal to obesity. Cornwell Road, died July 8, 2000 at home. A native of Cleveland County, he was a retired car dealer and realtor with Wilson Real Estate Co. He was a gradu- ate of Lattimore High School, and Zion Baptist Church where he was a former Deacon, mem- ber of the choir, and Sunday School teacher. He was the first Scout Master of Boy Scouts of America Troop #13 at Zion Baptist Church. He was owner and manager of the famous Wilson Country Ham Biscuit Stand at the Cleveland County Fair for 38 years. He was also a member of Camp Call Masonic Lodge for 50 years and a mem- ber of the Shelby Lions Club. He was founder of Wilson Real Estate Co. and a member of the Cleveland County Board of Realtors for 36 years and a char- ter member of the Multiple Listing Service. He was preced- ed in death by his parents Samuel Clarence Wilson and Laura Spangler Wilson and first wife Evelyn Grayson Wilson. He is survived by his wife of 38 years Hazel Bolin Wilson of the home; son and daughter in law Samuel Howard Wilson and Myra D. Wilson of Shelby; grandson and his wife James T. “Jimmy” Wilson and Deborah - Blanton Wilson of Shelby; grandson and his wife David Edward Wilson and Sharon Smith Wilson of Shelby; step granddaughter and her hus- band Carmen A. Blanton and Billy of Shelby; sister Laura Faye Wilson of Shelby; great grandchildren James Alexander Wilson, Edward Lee Wilson, Virginia Ann “Jenna” Wilson, Grace Elizabeth Wilson, all of Shelby. The funeral was conducted Monday at Zion Baptist Church at 11 am. by the Revs. Randy Bridges and Russell Fitts. Burial was in Zion Baptist Church Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Zion Baptist Church Building * Fund, 525 West Zion Church ;., Road, Shelby 28150, or Hospice of Cleveland County, 951 Wendover Heights Drive, Shelby 28150. Cleveland Funeral Services handled the arrangements. . Kings Mountain Weather Report "(Compiled by Kenneth Kitzmiller) Swink, wife of the late Ben E. Atkins, publisher of the Gastonia Gazette, and mother of former Kings Mountain Herald, Belmont Banner, and Mount Holly News Publisher Garland Atkins, died Friday, July 7, #1 2000, in her | room at Cove- nant Village, Gastonia. She recently celebrated her SWINK 90th birthday at a family gath- ering. Born in 1910 in Gastonia, she was the daughter of the late Peter Woods and Kathleen Boyce Garland, granddaughter of the late Samuel N. Boyce, at- tended local schools and Mary Baldwin College in Virginia, ac- tive in local civic activities, hav- ing served as president of the Junior Womans Club, member of First Presbyterian Church where she was active in the work of the Women of the Church. Following the death of Ben E. Atkins, she married Caleb Swink, who died several years ago. When her husband, Ben Atkins, retired from The Gazette, she took over the chore of writing his weekly column, "The Quirky Quill." When her son purchased General Publishing in 1966, in which The Banner and The News were a part, her popular column con- tinued for 10 years in those newspapers. Survivors include sons, Benjamin E. Atkins Jr. and Woods Garland Atkins, Gastonia; brother, James B. Garland; grandchildren, hs Virginia Estelle McCarthy and son-in-law Charles Edward McCarthy Sr., Sanford, Benjamin Garland Atkins, a stu- dent at East Carolina University, Samuel Moore Atkins, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and William Lontz Wilkinson Jr; Rock Hill;'S.C}; great-grandchildren, Brodie Elise McCarthy and Charles Edward McCarthy Jr., Sanford; - sister-in-law, Mrs. Col. Peter Woods Garland Jr., Gastonia; several nieces and nephews. The funeral was conducted Sunday in the chapel of Covenant Village. A family burial was held Monday morn- ing. 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