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Wednesday, June 8,
2011
The Kings Mountain Herald
KM firefighters earn EMT certification
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Front row, left to right, Randy Peterson, Justin Morrow, Derek Wells. Back row, |-r, Junior Yarborough, Lows Wilson, Eric
Carroll, Keith Dixon, Tyler Laughridge, and Assistant Fire Chief Jamie Black.
Nine Kings Mountain firemen were
recently state EMT certified following test.
203 hours of night and weekend class-
room work during the past six months.
Fire Chief Frank Burns said that an
80% passing grade was required and
firemen spent countless hours studying
for the two hour long state test for
North Carolina Emergency Medical
Technician certification which included
32 modules, a skills test and written
Mayor Rick Murphrey presented
EMT pens to the graduates at the recent
city council meeting. They were: Jamie
Black, Assistant Chief; Eric Carroll,
Firefighter/Inspector;
Willard Yarbrough, Louis Wilson, and
Randy Peterson .and volunteer fire-
fighters Keith Dixon, Tyler Laughridge,
David Morrow and Derrick. Wells.
Rocky Pack and Bradley Gilliam com-
Engineers
pleted the classroom work but have not
taken the state test.
Kings Mountain firemen previously
state EMT certified are Chief Frank
Burns and firefighters Jimmy Hensley,
Gary Burris and David Ayscue.
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Arson is Siaciadi ina mysterious fire that destroyed a vacant home on Silver Street on May 13. Oily suspect gasoline
may have heen used. The case is still under investigation. KM: Fire Chief Frank Burns said the house wa
fully engulfed by
flames when firemen arrived at the scene. The State Bureau of Investigation was called in to help with the investigation.
Veteran with PTSD felt ‘harassed’
Letter to the Editor:
This | Memorial Day,
please remember the veter-
ans who fought and died for
this country. But also re-
member those who are being
treated unjustly because of
that service.
Last year; I was forced to
retire because of a com-
pany’s lack of enforcement
of their personnel policies
concerning the treatment of
veterans. I don’t want that to
happen to another veteran.
I suffer from Post Trau-
matic Stress Disorder
(PTSD) but held down a
good job with a North Car-
olina hospital for 16 years -
until I got a new supervisor
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my own,
I am an electrician by
trade and I am not trained to
do some of the things that he
told me to do, like tile work.
He made comments about
me to co-workers when I had
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treated badly because of my
service to this great country.
Things should not be this
way.
I worked for 16 years for
this same company and had
no problems until this insen-
sitive person was hired as
my supervisor. I feel that I
am being harassed because
of my health problems and I
have never been treated like
this by anyone else.
To compound the prob-
lems, this situation at work
and my subsequent retire-
ment because of the harass-
ment has put added pressure
on my family. I love my
family and I don’t want to
lose any of them - they’re all
I've got left.
‘My life has been spiraling
downward since this man
became a part of it.
I realize there’s probably
nothing I can do about what
has happened to me, but I
did want other veterans to
know my situation and,
hopefully, be aware that
there are people like this
man who don’t care about
you, your service or your
service-related illnesses.
Please, on this Memorial
Day, make sure your com-
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PTSD so this terrible thing
doesn’t happen to another
veteran.
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Front Porch Music
By Ron Isbell, Publisher
bh. It is what it is...
It is what it is. That’s what
I told Dr. Brame when he gave
me the news.
And what it is, is stage 4
renal cell cancer. Bad stuff.
And it took me by surprise. I
had no symptoms of the dis-
ease that had been attacking
my body for apparently quite
some time. Doctors found it
by accident, looking for the
cause of some, by comparison
anyway, minor pain that we
couldn’t explain.
Renal cell cancer, by the
way, is cancer that originates
in the kidney. I didn’t know
that until last week.
By the time you read this
I’ll be recuperating, I hope,
from some pretty major sur-
gery at Carolinas Medical
Center in Charlotte. Then
comes the long road of treat-
ment using immunotherapy.
That means I'll be absent
at your local newspaper for
quite some time. I’ll miss it,
and I'll miss all of you.
It’s amazing to me how
quickly you accepted Wendy
and me info this community
and allowed us to participate
and contribute in so many
ways. It’s been wonderful to
work with a staff as talented
and eager as ours and with
community and business lead-
ers willing to include us.
I haven’t had much experi-
ence sitting around doing
nothing. I don’t know how
good I'll be at that. I’m guess-
ing not very good. After all,
OR
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Letter to the editor...
how many reruns of Law &
Order can a guy watch? And I
don’t knit and don’t really
have any desire to learn.
So, we’ll play it by ear and
see how it goes.
We've always beén enthu-
siastic supporters of Relay for
Life, but this has certainly
given the importance of that
organization a new meaning
for me.
If there’s anyone in the
community who’s asking what
they might be able to do for
me, here’s the answer:
Pray.
Continue to read your local
newspaper.
Contribute both your
money and your time to Relay
~ for Life. Every business and
organization should be in-
volved.
Get screenings. Some can-
cers, like ‘mine, stay hidden
and are hard to detect. Others,
though, can be easily spotted
by simple procedures. Use
them. Stay cancer-free.
I wish this were another
story about my life in Rusty
Springs, but it’s not. It’s here
and now in real time. It is
what it is.
Ron is currently recovering
from his surgery at Carolinas
Medical Center. If you would
like to send him a card you
may mail it to:
Carolinas Medical Center,
Attn: Ron Isbell (patient), P.O.
Box 32861, Charlotte NC
28232.
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