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on RR ETE fro R= a IR hs Mg) Se > EP * Wednesday, March 17, 2010 The Kings Mountain Herald Rev. Wallace joins David Baptist as pastor Rev. Charles (Charlie) Wallace began his duties Feb. 28 as the Senior Pastor of David Baptist Church in Kings Mountain. He brings his years of ex- perience as an Associate Pas- tor, former Youth Pastor, and Children's Pastor. He holds a BS in Retail Management from the University of South Carolina (2002) and gradu- ated from Southeastern Bap- tist Theological Seminary in 2006 with a Masters in Di- vinity. While there, he was a member of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Theta Eta Chapter at USC. Most recently, . Pastor Charlie was the Children's Pastor of First Baptist Church in Columbia, SC. While there, he was in “charge of overseeing the en- tire Children's Ministry, which encompasses the grade school and preschool division. Sunday School at- tendance ran around 250 children and teachers, with an enrollment of 430. In ad- dition, he also oversaw the mission program for RAs, GAs, and Mission Friends. While there, they experi- enced significant church growth through the AWANA ministry for children, Bible studies for parents, and a special needs ministry for children and families with special needs children. He has been involved in college and singles ministry, various children's camps, and min- istry to all ages. He main- tains a personal weblog at "http://pastorcharliewal- lace.com"; here he gives in- formation related to the week's sermon and other Bible studies. Pastor Charlie accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior when he was seven years old, but it wasn't until his junior year of high school that he really began to understand what it meant to follow Christ as his Lord. However, college years brought changes, and for a year and a half, he went down a different path. He learned a lot about the world, and how miserable people are who do not have any hope in life and fail to,real- ize that a Christ-filled life is the only true source of con- tentment as’ well as fulfill- ment. Returning to Christ's con- viction in his heart, he put his life back on track, and soon realized his call to sem- inary and subsequent call to be a minister of the Gospel. In Pastor Charlie's words, \ CHARLIE WALLACE "This was something that I had thought I was called to do ever since my senior year in high school. My calling was affirmed, however, in ' my experience where I with- drew myself from the Lord. Fortunately, the Lord did not withdraw Himself from me." His wife, Emily, also holds a Masters of Divinity in Women's Studies. She has taught Bible studies for women and also for fourth- grade girls Sunday school, and has been active in AWANA and GAs. She also maintains her own weblog, entitled "More Precious Than Jewels" ‘at "http://emi- lywallace.blogspot.com". Emily stays busy caring for their two young children, Jackson, age 3, and Abigail, age 1. GAMING From Page 1 Dellinger said, "they were your run-of-the-mill poker machines." The machines, both table- top and full-standing con- soles, required the insertion of money to play. Credits were tallied and betted. Money was won. Money was lost. But with the recent influx of sweepstakes machines one of the locations under in- vestigation switched over to the © updated = version, Dellinger said. The new consoles looked eerily similar to the poker machines of old, only this time there seemed to be no slot to insert money. Amuse- ment companies have argued in courts that since nothing. can be physically inserted into the machine that they are not in violation of the states gaming laws. Dellinger disagrees. "The machines are illegal," he said. "The statute says it does- n't matter what you're play- ing on, if you're gambling it's illegal," he added. You "still have to deposit money for play of the game." And the games, he said, are "based on the random matching of shapes, colors, cards or whatever without having to rely on the dexter- ity of the player." The law North Carolina General Statute 14-306. 1A states that video gaming instruments are defined as "slot ma- chines" if they operate: "a video poker game or any other kind of video playing card game, a video bingo game, a video craps game, a video keno game, a video lotto game, eight liner, Pot- of-gold, (or) a video game based on or involving the random or chance matching of different pictures, words, numbers or symbols not de- pendent on the skill or dex- terity of the player." Those "slot machines" are Still illegal, according to state law. The North Carolina Court of Appeals recently over- turned a lower court ruling made in February 2009 by Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning, who shared the opinion that if video gaming is allowed in Cherokee it should be per- mitted statewide. The state Court of Appeals ruled that the Band of Cherokee Indi- ans has the sole right to op- erate gambling games .on tribal land. Dellinger said that the amusement companies, which often produce or dis- tribute these machines, took Manning's ruling and other lower court injunctions, made last year, to mean that sweepstakes centers - and gaming consoles were im- mune from state statutes. They took it, he said, "to say that it was okay to play these machines now, which wasn't the case." Gastonia law enforce- ment officers have taken a hard stand against the video gaming machines since the machines began appearing in North Carolina a few years ago. District Attorney Locke Bell has brought many of the cases to trial. 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Business + |insurance and card or credits can then be used to play games, which are activated by the operator. Other video sweepstake games of poker, keno, Pot- of-gold and the like can be found on simple computer monitors. Usually in facili- ties termed "Internet cafes" or "business centers", cus- tomers purchase Internet time and can use the money they paid to bet with as cred- its in the games. Both types of machines have been used in properties + * owned by Johnson. The con- soles‘that were confiscated recently in Bessemer City were like the old poker ma- - chines. These two centers, Dellinger said, were. located in commercial buildings which appeared to cater mostly to the gaming crowd. Unlike convenience stores, no other items seemed to be marketed for sale there. "The people that went there in large part were there to play the games," Dellinger said. GC Police Sgt. R.B. Bat- tle began the investigation over two years ago. Det.’ Dellinger took over after Battle was promoted to ser- _ geant. Johnson, Morrison and Bush have been charged with misdemeanors. They will appear in court in Gas- ton County. Buy life save on your home and car. hen you buy life insurance from us through Auto-Owners Insurance, you'll receive special discounts on your home, mobile home or car insurance. We'll save you : ‘money. As an independent Auto-Owners agent, we take great interest in you = as well as your home and car. We are specialists in insuring people — and the things they own. Auto-Owners Insurance Warlick and Hamrick Insurance 704.739.3611 Page 7A As old jobs go away, what’s coming next? Milltown is now our history; tech, service our future Once we made yarn for America. Our parents and grandparents spun fiber into the gold that fueled our economy. Small family-owned mills all the way up to internationally-owned megafirms provided paychecks, and, in-turn, food for our tables, clothes for our backs, heat for our homes and education for our children. It was literally a way of life. But a.global economy stoked: the fires of change and much of what we knew was no longer relevant. There is no paycheck for those who know how to produce yarn when the yarn is being produced by foreign hands. Other employers in our midst evap- orated for other reasons, leaving just as deep a wound for their newly-job- less. Carolina Freight employed thou- sands until a smaller company saw the benefit to be gained from acquir- ing the company’s decades of experi- ence, contacts and contracts, and, yes even it’s vision. Freightliner shed employees by the hundreds as it sought a better way to operate in the current economic light. Another company was so well-po-. sitioned in the market it caught the attention of entertainment giant ' Sony. The result was the moving of production from here to Britain and the loss of hundreds of jobs. Other firms are still here, but have * been forced to trim back as a wicked economy took its toll on those things we produce here. That’s our past. So what’s our fu- ture? : Probably lithium battery-powered cars. And military defense. And transportation. And electricity. And medicine. And technology And education. And Charlotte. After all we all know how wonderful our communi- ties are and we know why we prefer _ to live here. Well, many more people are dis- covering that very thing every year and leaving Charlotte just to be able to enjoy our lifestyle. And, oddly, a rejuvenation and a re-thinking of our yarn heritage. Jobs are coming back to the very mills that closed. Some of them will be doing the very same thing they did before but probably with updated practices. And some of those mills have found ways to stay at the top of their game and actually gained market share, developed new products and expanded their views of the market- place. The following pages will examine how our local companies, our gov- ernments, our schools and others are... Repairing the Tear in the Fabric of Our Economy. Be A Part of This Very Special Section! DEADLINE TO ADVERTISE: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 @ 2 p.m. PUBLISH DATE: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Reach your local customers in the place they turn for local news! Contact your local advertising representative for more information! Rick Hord - Kings Mountain Herald 704.739.7496 or 704.473-6744 Pat Rooney The Cherryville Eagle or The Banner News 704.689.7970 Ron Isbell 704-739-7496 We're Making Progress is a special section of the Kings Mountain Herald, Cherryville Eagle, The Banner News.
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