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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The Kings Mountain Herald
Head-on collision totals new
White Plains Shrine Club
in search of new home
By ELIZABETH STEWART
staff writer
White Plains Shrine Club
is looking for a home.
Dennis C. Reel, club sec-
retary. and Freddie Dellinger,
a former president, are praying
that someone will donate (for
a tax deduction) a building or
house inside the city limits that
members can fix up for a per-
manent location. Since its
charter in 1982, Shriners have
held monthly meetings at
Fairview Lodge 339 AF &
AM, appreciate the generos-
ity of Masons but want to
spread their wings.
“Our members are willing
to build a meeting house if we
can get some property,’ said
Dellinger.
Shriners in Kings Moun-
tain’s White Plains Shrine
Club have been cooking and
serving up barbecue two times
a year for 20 years to help
children at Shriners Hospitals
with burns and orthopedic
problems. Over the years the
local club and community has
provided thousands of dollars
and the club has given trans-
portation to families with chil-
dren needing the free medical
service.
Thursday night at the
club’s 6:30 p.m. dinner meet-
ing at Fairview Lodge 339
AF&AM local Shriners will
make plans for the April 4
benefit, a big barbecue to be
held at the corner of ' S.York
Road and East Gold Street .
Events are a sellout so
those participating should plan *
to arrive by 10:30-11 a.m. to
purchase dinners for $7 and
sandwiches at 2 for $6. The
dinners are either pork or
chicken cooked over hickory
and oak coals.
The Fall date for the annual
fundraiser barbecue is October
3.
Reel said Shriners have
been operating a network of
hospitals since 1922. These
hospitals have not charged the
parents of the burned or crip-
pled child a penny and all
treatment is free. Local
Shriners have also provided
transportation to the hospital
for local children. Burn pa-
photo by Lib Stewart
Freddie Dellinger, left, and Dennis Reel stand in
front of the White Plains Shrine Club logo as they
talk about plans for fundraisers to help burned
and crippled children and for their dreams for a
new home for Shriners.
tients are flown to Shriners
Hospital in Cincinnati,Ohio
and orthopedic patients are
transported to Shriners Hospi-
tal in Greenville, SC. Shriners
operate 22 hospitals in the
United States, three burn cen-
ters and 19 hospitals for ortho-
pedic children.
“Of course we can’t oper-
ate these hospitals without
continuing fundraising on the
part of Shriners throughout the
United States,’ says Reel and
they ask the public to help
them and support the Shriners
Hospitals whenever they see
or hear of a fundraising event.
White Plains Shrine Club
was chartered in' October
1982. The current member-
ship is 50 Shriners. The club
meets on third Thursdays of
each month at Fairview Ma-
sonic Lodge in Kings Moun-
tain for dinner at 6:30 p.m. and
business meeting at 7 p.m.
Mike Bell is President. Con-
tact Reel at 704-937-0639,
residence; 704-674-6719, cell;
and email
deno4reel@aol.com or con-
tact Dellinger at 980-522-
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van, but lives are spared
By EMILY WEAVER
Editor
It was a few minutes past
9:45 pm. on the eve of Friday,
Feb. 6. Teresa Wilson, of Clover,
was driving her grandson, Ram-
sey Stiles, back home in the
family's new van.
The 2008 Dodge Caravan
that she and her husband Terry
Wilson had purchased on
Wednesday was pristine. It still
had that new car smell. But min-
utes later; that smell would be re-
placed by the stench of twisted
metal and oozing car fluids.
At about 9:49 p.m. in front
of the Lithium Corp. of Amer-
ica plant on NC 161, Wilson
was hit head-on.
Witnesses driving behind
Wilson told officers that they
noticed the oncoming 1991
Oldsmobile drift off of the right
side of the road, travel back onto
the highway, glide over the cen-
ter line onto the opposite shoul-
der. Then the car, driven by
Nettie Shoaf, of Kings Moun-
tain, headed back into the lane in
which Wilson was traveling.
Neither could escape the head-
on collision that followed.
Ofc. D.B. Rogers, with the
Gaston County Police, reported
that it was believed a "medical
problem" caused Shoaf to lose
control of her vehicle.
Officers found a few med-
ications in Shoaf's car. One bot-
tle was a prescription for
Oxycontin and another was
supposed to help for sleeping,
said Wilson's husband who
showed photos taken at the
scene.
Shoaf was taken to Gaston
Memorial then to Carolinas
Medical Center in Charlotte;
where she remains in the Inten-
sive Care Unit.
Wilson and Stiles were taken
to Cleveland Regional Medical
Center, for bruises and abra-
sions. Stiles was released that
night. Wilson was released the
following day.
The accident crumpled the
fronts of both vehicles. It also
sent a middle-row seat, which
was supposed to be manufac-
tured into a locked position, ac-
cording to Terry, rolling around
loose inside the van. A metal
bottom part of the seat stabbed
the cushion which held Stiles in
his car carrier. It penetrated right
where his legs would have been,
had they been long enough to
hang over the seat, Terry said.
"It could have been much
worse," he added.
Although their new vehicle,
which had less than 30 miles on
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Clover, SC, and Josh Rhyne, of
Gastonia, who stayed to make
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