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OUR OPINION Thanks for the memories The Lady of the House got in a cleaning mood the other day. She's turning what used to be our son’s bedroom into a nursery for our Gary Stewart granddaugh- ter, Alyssa Nicole Newton, who will be arriving on December 17 (unless Alyssa decides on her own to come earlier). While clearing out closets, underneath beds, drawers and such, she found some old picture books and T-shirts that brought back a lot of memories. One of the T-shirts, which I had been looking for for years to put in my sports memorabilia collection, was one recognizing the KMHS baseball team’s State Championship of 1989. I'll never Editor i forget those victories over . Rockingham County at . Lancaster Field, the talent that . was on that team and Paul . Brannon'’s prodigious home runs. Another shirt had a picture of Flat Nose the tree-climbing dog on it. Some of the younger folks . and those who have moved into . town recently won't remember . Flat Nose, but a man named . Barney Odoms from Darlington, SC actually had a dog thathe trained to climb a tree. They ; gained fame all over the U.S. - (including the Tonight Show). I like to think I helped launch his career, because he was managed by David Godbold, who lived in KM at that time. He brought Flat Nose to KM to display his skills . at a home at Woodbridge and I . covered it. i: i All of the other shirts - even the “I ran into Tammy Faye at the mall” shirt - can be thrown away, I said, but don’t dare lay a finger on the baseball or Flat Nose shirts. i And then, I thumbed quickly through the pages of the picture albums which were mostly old pictures of family members and fellow church members at Dixon Presbyterian. Those also brought back a lot of memories. ! The first one was a collection of church historical pictures that I put together years ago. There were numerous pictures of class- es at old Dixon School which ‘were not identified except for the few family members and neighbors that I recognized on my own. : There were pictures of my father, George, and my uncles, Dan and Hub Stewart, who cut 'the logs to build the church and hauled them to a sawmill in Grover to have them planed into lumber. Growing up, those three guys were my heroes; my father, of course, being the greatest and Dan and Hub running a close See Gary, 5A OPINION The Kings Mountain Herald ‘Thursday, November 22, 2001 Editor: Gary Stewart 739-7496 PICTORIAL EDITORIAL " and restore the old cemetery and have it designated as a historical site. Thanksgiving a good time to think about food With Thanksgiving peering over our shoul- ders, it’s time to start thinking about food. Actually, any time is a good time to think about food, but Thanksgiving provides what is known as "rationaliza- tion" on the subject- with the emphasis on the "rations" part. The thought that has recently come into my being. is the jlixta- position and confabulatory nature of the conrumdum between homemade food and that frozen, microwaveable, or charbroiled stuff we generally subject our bodies to. In other words, a simple pot of homemade pinto beans with a raft of seasoning meat floating on its bubbling surface is ten times better for you than a clod of fake food such as you get from the frozen food department or slapped across a fast food counter. I think our souls can tell the difference between something that someone has put a little love and care into rather than a wad of grub that has been spat out of a machine. Which would you rather have, a little bowl of soup made by someone’s grand- ma or a cardboard box of pasta and frozen sauce with a fancy name that looks like it has just been plucked from the North Pole? Last week I had the opportunity to see a homemade meal in operation at the Belmont Parks and Recreation annual Gad-A- Bout luncheon. At this feast, the tables were laden with things the senior citizens had made themselves. It was a veritable culi- nary cornucopia. Items which my roving eyes fell upon included slabs of tender baked ham, glistening, emerald-colored green beans, snowy chunks of potato salad, creamed corn with a rich and thick sauce, and golden fried chicken. This latter commodity remind- ed me of the wisdom of Robert E. Lee's desire to enjoy "an end- less supply of fried chicken." Now we move on to the desserts. As I scopdd the fabulous array of treats that represented this course of the meal, images of the ladies who had made them wafted back through time. It was an easy journey to envision these women as girls stand- ing at the kitchen counter with their own moms measuring and sifting flour, slicing apples for pies, slathering on thick brown See Alan, Page 5A ' Alan Hodge Guest Column ~ CONTRIBUTED BY BETTY MASTERS NEEDS CLEANING UP - The Goforth family cemetery off Shelby Road, which includes the grave of Battle of Kings Mountain hero Preston Goforth, is in dire need of repair and cleanup. The Colonel Frederick Hambright Chapter of the DAR is attempting to clean Football games should be won on the field A North Gaston player, along with his team, thought they would their night under the lights Staff Writer Friday in the playoffs. But their game, as well as all others in the Western 3A Regional, were postponed until a football decision is settled by judges rather than by the Notth Carolina High Schenk: Athletic Association; apishosia wisionam A player teansferred Por Hemter Huss to North Gaston, er in the process his grades were changed. So when that was found out, North Gaston had to forfeit six wins, and was thus knocked out of the playoffs. East Lincoln, which lost two students this past year - one being a football player - missed the playoffs this season. With the forfeits, it was in. Then out. Now back in! The Gaston County judge had a deeper case to rule on last week. He had to choose between a player victimized by stan- dards he could not control and a football team that saw a ray of vindication which eventually faded. The initial forfeit also gave Cherryville its only win of the reg- ular season. The Ironmen made their trip to Pilot Mountain with no regular season wins. Ya Hp Jd It was a tough choice, and that particular court decision could: not have a winner regardless of who won on the field. It will be interesting how the controversy will unfold, if it does, during the playoffs. Let's face it, we've become a society that lives on litigation as much as we subsist on instant gratification and atound the clock - information. This means the 3-A playoffs could eventually turn into a Florida recount, in which it took a court case to determine the: winner of the presidential election. Although we're now talking football, I want to see a state champion decided the way it should be, on a field with grass and chalk, with a few devoted fans dressed warmly and scream- ing loudly. I hope politics and litigation can stay out of high school sports, whichis the only level where one can see winners of games and matches determined by which team or competitor gave the best effort. If the high school championships become marred with court cases, high school‘sports will lose a little bit more of its inno- cence that has kept it endeared to people nationwide. See Ben, 5A Ben Ledbotter YOUR VIEW | Grateful to be part of city of KM To the editor: Please allow me to introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me. I am Jeffrey Bostic. I recently ran for Kings Mountain City = Council, the Ward 5 seat. As most of you already know I did not win that seat, but I cannot think of a better candidate to have lost to than Carl DeVane. From what I know of Mr. DeVane he is a very capable councilman and is invested in the success of the City of Kings Mountain. 5 During my campaign, I had a chance to meet with all of the candidates and I feel that Kings Mountain is very fortunate to have these people willing to give their time and share their experi- ences with the city. I never saw anything but mutual respect between the candidates and a level of professionalism that is refreshing in politics. _ & I am proud to have been involved in this election and grateful that my wife and I had a chance to meet so many of the kind people involved in the elec- tion, as well as the citizens of Kings Mountain. I am confident that the Mayor and Council will do what is best for our city. I feel no regret in my loss in this elec- tion and my wife and I thank all the people who supported me. I also want to thank the Herald for doing such a great job of getting the information about the candidates out to the people. I feel the staff has worked very hard to, give; 890d,coy SIRE can’t remember a time during the campaign when I didn’t see someone from the Herald, near- by hard at work, getting the story and accompanying pictures for the paper. This is a great community to live in and raise a family and I hope the people of the city will continue to pull together to show the rest of the county and state that we are strong and we will only achieve greater things in the future. Jeffrey Q. Bostic Kings Mountain In defense of Dr. Talley To the editor: I would like to thank the lady who wrote the letter in defense 4 of Dr. Joseph Talley. It only moti- vated me to go ahead and write my letter because I had planned to do so anyway. I have been a patient of Dr. Talley for 30 years. After suffer- ing all my life with something so out of the ordinary that I could not begin to describe the horrific See Letters, 5A ¥ SIDEWALK . SURVEY > BY BEN LEDBETTER ! THE HERALD : What are you thankful for this year? Probably just being alive and not losing anybody like they did in New York. Lisa Ridings Shelby My family, with everything going on in the world. William Gamble Kings Mountain | am thankful for my wife, food on the table, a pros- perous nation, and my faith. | just got .a new job, and my health, family, and that we have a good president. Tara Smith s Lincolnton Rev. Rich Holmes Bessemer City I'm thankful for our new president because with the tragedy that happened we wouldn't have made it with- out him. Samantha Elliot Kings Mountain aa
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