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Do homework
before enrolling
in trade school
By ROY COOPER
In these uncertain eco-
nomic times, many North
«Carolinians
PLANS
MAKING
®
_ [new career
_|opportuni-
ties. Your
local com-
munity col-
3 lege is
always a good place to start.
There are also reputable
career and trade schools
that can help students learn
the skills they need to find
work as an automotive tech-
nician, court reporter, med-
ical assistant, hair stylist,
computer programmer,
paralegal or other skilled
worker.
Unfortunately, some trade
schools are more interested
in increasing their profits
than living up to their
promises.Unscrupulous
schools may try to take
advantage of people who
suddenly find themselves
out of work due to plant
closings and lay offs. To
boost enrollment and the
bottom line, some schools
mislead prospective stu-
dents about salary potential
or job availability in certain
fields. They may also over-
state the caliber of their
training programs, the qual-
ifications of their teachers,
the quality of their facilities
and equipment, and their
connections with business
and industry.
Before you head back to
school, do your homework.
Follow these tips to select a
sound career or trade
school:
Thank goodness,
Isabel and her ‘hot
air’ bypassed us
With Hurricane Isabel dominating the
news last week, I was left with no burn-
Laghad Andie Brymer
ing issues to survey folks for the weekly staff Writer
opinion piece.
I thought it would be interesting to see
if we have any budding meteorologist in our midst so I
posed the question about the effects of Isabel.
One respondent hit it right, sort of. He predicted the
coast would be pounded. While the coast did receive the
Ask abontthednstruc: brunt of the storm, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio
got heavy rain.
: Si Jalfoaons hii Another. person told me the hurricane would have
a few classes. Does the ooo ad absolutely 1 0 effect. Again, : hat was sort of right for this :
lodilacn dequate space, #4" area: Winds and rain didno’damage but we all spent’lots
equipment, instructional ots nergy Pree i 1dn’t eff J
material, and personnel to assumed Isabel wouldn't effect us but my every practi-
provide training of good cal husband took a few precautions. Flashlight received
ality? fresh batteries.
9 Talk to students abot Additional storm preparations included bringing in
their experiences ART what I call yard art. If you ask my neighbors they can
school. How long have the probably come up with some other names.
attended? How ao the at I'll let you be the judge of that. I have a nice, white bird
the quality of yn cage on the porch. A metal bird is attached to the top.
Were they surprised by any Nearby sit statues of a cardinal and a bluebird. The con-
of the foes? What is the crete birds are about one and one half times the size the
dropout rate? Has the birds eppeasiinaiie : :
school delivered on its Inverted green glass candle sticks are wedged into a
promises? flower bed. I routinely fill them with water. The refresh-
ASK for the cotirss outs ment is for the butterflies. The birds, real ones not con-
Bint. schedule of tuition crete, can drink from the larger stone mortar sitting beside
fees, books and other the parsiey plants
charges, absenteeism rules _ A three-tier, wire green shelf - the type most people put
ain policy and niles of in the bathroom to hold towels - sits in another bed. A
2 i 2 Po i Raat vinning plant with bright red flowers clings to it. Perched
{ne in North Carding P ro on one shelf is a small pot of chives. I often have to
en by law to orovide unwind the viny tendrils from the plant.
A oy ion pin A primitive appearing, stone fertility statue is attached
Review the materials Se to a stick with copper wire. Being a conversation piece,
school gives you carefully she normally rest in the front yard. :
including the contract ? Needless to say, I woke up Friday morning relieved that
before you sign up. If the the electricity was still on. Peeping out the window gave
Shoo alate to sive you me another wave of relief, no pine trees had crashed
information in writing or gerossithe top of my gar
tells you that you must first It was evident Izzy had heeded my message. On the
an 3 contra Fike your front of my glider swing I had hastily painted “Isabel
b Gai Ne Rothar I Don’t Visit” in yellow. The color matched the flowers that
See Cooper, 5A 7 decorate the back of the swing.
See Andie, 5A
flail ill
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Editor: Gary Stewart 739-7496
ANDIE BRYMER / HERALD
Kings Mountain City Council held a lengthy work session Monday night at the Patrick Center to discuss projects for
the fiscal year. Left to right are Gene White, Clavon Kelly, rick Moore, Jim Guyton and Howard Shipp.
Cherry Smash
on dash & other|
old car goodies
My oh my how the automobile has
changed - and with it the way kids ride
along.
Once upon a time cars had what were
called bench seats and no air condition-
ing. These vehicles are now highly coveted collector
items, but back in the 1950s and 60s they were just modes
of transportation. And how they transported and what
memories were made on those bench seats from front and
back and in those sweltering interiors.
Nowadays it’s hard to imagine a car without air condi-
tioning, But since the old cars lacked. this. luxury, many. .;
folks planned their trips to take advantage of the €ooler;
night or early morning ‘air. This was often-the case when'l
was just past the squab stage but had not yet reached
pooberty and we would go to the beach. To this day I still
have recollections of getting up before daylight and stum-
bling out to where the already loaded car sat in the damp
and dark of predawn and climbing in the backseat to
return to the land of Nod while the grownups moved
around quietly yet efficiently in the darkness and then got
in the car and with the smell of cigarette smoke and
strong black coffee in the air, departed for the shore before
the blazing sun came up and turned the car into a sweat
box.
Here's another memory from yesteryear: There used to
be a type of car that lacked that piece of body work which
connected the roof to the lower part and the middles of
the side and also acted as a guide for the roll up windows.
That's a complicated way to describe the coupe. Well,
when I was in the fifth grade I had a friend named Lewis
Wilson whose daddy had such a car.
Now, Lewis and I often got the daddy-o to take us to an
establishment on Independence Blvd. in Charlotte known
as Gottlieb’s Army-Navy Store. Gottlieb’s had all kinds of
military surplus stuff. Some things they had such as hand
grenades with the powder out but otherwise intact are
frowned upon these days but back then were readily
available to anyone, kids included, who had five bucks. I
had a bunch of grenades but can’t recall what became of
them.
Anyway, one day Lewis and I went to Gottlieb’s and
bought parachutes like they used to drop supplies with.
The chutes were about eight feet in diameter and the
strings came to a loop on the end. We were in the backseat
of Mr. Wilson's coupe going about 45 mph down
Matheson Avenue and only God knows why but Lewis
See Alan, 5A
SN
Alan Hodge
Guest Column
LOOK BACK
WB
KM invited
- President Ford
to 76 events
From the September 23,
1976 edition of the Kings
Mountain Mirror-Herald:
At press time this week
there was still no word
from the White House on
. President Ford's plans to
{accept or decline an invita-
: tion to join in the October
§
=
£4
© 7,8 and 9 celebration in
© Kings Mountain.
{ Dean Westmoreland has
"been appointed to the
Grover Town Council to fill
the unexpired term of R.E.
Hambright. Hambright
resigned recently to serve
on the Cleveland County
Industrial Facilities and
Pollution Control
Financing Authority.
Roy Pearson, Kings
Mountain Recreation
Director, received the
Distinguished Service
Award presented by KM
Jaycees.
The city has approved
new minimum standards
for fire department, water
and waste treatment plant
applications.
Kings Mountain Police
Department will host its
first 168-hour Basic School
in Police Science with the
first class on Oct. 11 and
continuing five days a
week until the course of
instruction is completed.
Seventeen officers have
singed up for the course
John Houze is gunning
for his sixth straight cham-
pionship in the Kings
Mountain Country Club
golf championship.
«William Thompson ran
2o4hdiopening kickoff 90
| yards ford touchdown and
# Kinds Mountain's
Mountaineers went on to
get their third straight vic-
tory, 28-0 over punchless
North Gaston. The victory,
coupled with Chase's 18-15
upset of East Rutherford,
left the Mountaineers as
the only undefeated team
in the Southwestern
Conference.
Kenneth Stoll, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James M. Stoll Jr.,
left Kings Mountain the
last week of August to
enroll at N.C. State
University in Raleigh for
his freshman year.
David Fletcher Hord of
Kings Mountain, son of Dr.
and Mrs. D.F. Hord, is
among 26 Lenoir-Rhyne
College students working
at the NC School for the
Deaf this year to complete
requirements for degrees in
education of the hearing
impaired. :
Sen. WK. “Billy”
Mauney Jr. has been
named southwestern dis-
trict capital funds cam-
paign chairman by Lenoir-
Rhyne College.
SIDEWALK
SURVEY
BY ANDIE L. BRYMER
THE HERALD
a
What will
be the
effects of
Hurricane
Isabel?
“I hope it doesn’t cause
the same flooding in east-
ern North Carolina that it
did two years ago.”
Mark Cheplen
Charlotte
“It will be like Hugo but
milder. It will hit more in
Charlotte than here.”
Jennifer VanPelt
Kings Mountain
~ “It’s going to be devastat-
“I don’t know for around
here. It will probably hit
around Statesville and
towards Raleigh. We'll just
get light rain, wind.”
Jack Huffstetler
Kings Mountain
ing to the coast and proba-
bly inland. My heart goes
out to those folks.”
James Raymond
Kings Mountain
“Nothing. Absolutely
nothing.”
Cletis Pinkerton
Kings Mountain