Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Lifestyles
The Kings Mountain Herald
It's beginning to look a lot like. This table decked with pretty packages and holiday trimmings was one of many creative ta-
bles featured at the recent Parade of Tables at Grace Christian Academy.
Parade of Tables raises more than S6, 000
Grace Christian Academy’ s annual Parade of Tables was
a huge success Saturday as more than $6,000 was raised for
the Christ-centered, Bible-based school that offers education
for all children from Pre-Kindergarten through 11th grade.
Parents, grandparents and volunteers decorated 35 tables
on various themes and sold eight tickets for each table where
diners enjoyed chicken, baked potato, salad and cheese cake
catered by Outback Steak House.
The table raising the highest amount of dollars was “Deck
the Halls,” a Christmas table decorated by Vickie Steele.
Leigh Wrenn is principal of Grace Christian Academy and
Stephanie Chambers is administrative assistant.
Grace Christian Academy was founded by Christian Free-
dom Baptist Church.
Children's art museum
opens with circus fanfare
Amid much fanfare,
The Dunedin Fine Art
Center Children's Mu-
seum in Dunedin, Fla.,
opened with a circus
theme, "Under the Big
Top", in its new two mil-
lion dollar renovation co-
designed by its Youth
Education Director Todd
Still, son of Dr. John and
Pat Still of Kings Moun-
tain.
Panels, of bright blue
were draped to suggest a
circus tent under which
sat a large red locomotive
- whose cars were tables
loaded with coloring ma-
terials dispensed from the
mouths of circus animals
modeled in plaster. Many
of the activities, com-
puter-related, allowed
children to create their
own videos.
A green screen, cOS-
tumes and props, let chil-
dren become part of
various circus scenarios
televised throughout the
facility. Entering a black-
light area through a giant
cheetah's mouth created a
glow-in-the-card drawing.
Tyrone, the Terrible, a
huge gorilla on a vintage -
poster suspended from the
ceiling, presided over the
whole show.
According to Todd
Still, project manager, the
new design: reconfigures
existing space and adds
new ones, including a
bright yellow gallery ded-
icated to children's art, ex-
panded clay studios for
children and adults, and a
large multipurpose room
Todd stil at The Dunedin Fine Art Center Children's Museum opening with
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with large windows over-
looking the nearby lake
that can be used for
classes, educational pro-
grams and events. The
darkroom has been ex-
panded where students
can learn traditional pho-
tographic methods. Year-
round classes have risen
to an all-time high with
another 1,500 in its sum-
mer art camp.
With the new facility,
the center will be offering
17 youth classes and 13
teen classes. In this diffi-
cult economy more and
more homeschool, public
and private schools are in
need of additional support
in areas of art. The center
assists with instructors,
studio space, a dedicated
children's art gallery, in-
teractive hands-on mu-
seum ~ with engaging
thoughtful art experi-
ences.
A graduate of the Uni-
versity of South Florida in
Art Education, Still has
been the youth director of *
the David L. Mason Chil-
dren's Art Museum since
1995. Prior to this posi-
tion, Still taught art at
Dillworth Elementary in
Charlotte © and Kings
Mountain Middle and ele-
mentary. schools. He was
also a guest art teacher at
Northside Christian
School in Tampa, Fla.
Still is grandson of the
late former Kings Moun-
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Trim and Light A
Tree for Veterans
Trim and light a tree for
veterans by contacting Unit
155 Legion Auxiliary Presi-
dent Joyce Kale at 704-419-
1239 . For each donation,
the name of a veteran will
be placed on a Christmas
tree located at the side of the
American Legion Building -
on E. Gold Street. Proceeds
from the project are ear-
marked for veterans proj-
ects.
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Rewiring the
brain after stroke
Rewiring the brain for better functioning following a
stroke was the emphasis of a daylong seminar attended by
| - two professionals from the Life Enrichment Center Adult
Day Health Service, which helps adults recover from stroke
by using a number of therapies.
The brain is really simple, stroke researcher Peter G.
Levine told the health care professionals gathered in Pineville
Nov. 15. The “rules” for rewiring the brain to recover from
stroke, he said, or rewiring the brain to become a better mu-
sician, athlete, artist, educator — whatever — are the same for
all.
“I was especially interested in his modified constraint-in-
duced therapy,” said Karissa Jensen, a physical therapy as-
sistant at Life Enrichment. CIT is a stroke-recovery therapy
in which the stroke survivor neuroplastically rewires the
brain by hyper-challenging the affected side.
Realizing that Life Enrichment incorporates much of CIT
in its own philosophy of helping people recover from stroke
was exciting for Derand Peppers, who is a registered nurse
and health care coordinator for the Life Enrichment Center’s
Kings Mountain facility.
Levine is the author of “Stronger After Stroke” and has
co-authored more than 60 articles and abstracts in peer-re-
viewed journals. He is director of SynapsTogether and co-
developer of Modified constraint-induced therapy.
To learn more about Peter Levine, check his blog:
www.recoverfromstroke.blogspot.com
For more information about Life Enrichment Center, call
704.484.0405 in Shelby or 704.739.4858 in Kings Mountain
or check out the video on stroke therapy at Life Enrichment
on its website www.lifeenrichmentcenter.org
Trains exhibit
rolls into museum
"All aboard!" The Kings Mountain Historical Museum's
annual "Trains, Trains, Trains" interactive exhibit opened
Tuesday with extended hours during the displays 40-day-
long run.
The museum is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday
and 1-4 p.m. on Sunday during the Nov. 29-Jan. 7 exhibit,
provided in conjunction with support from the Peidmont "S"
Gaugers. The display brings together several childhood fa-
vorites of holidays past, including Christmas cards, antique
dolls, and model train components in-various scales.
A little something for everyone this Christmas, the
"Trains, Trains, Trains" exhibit showcases the history of the
railroad in Kings Mountain.
Don't miss this other events coming up at the museum:
Friday, Dec. 9 - Christmas at KMHM. Extended evening
hours of 5:30-8:30 p.m. for the "Trains, Trains, Trains" ex-
hibit and candlelight tours of the Robert Barber House.
Saturday, Dec. 10 - Santa's Fire Truck Express. Santa
and his helpers will be visiting the museum from 1 p.m.-3
p.m.
Also the museum's gift shop features pottery, train novel
ties, books, Old Salem cookies and Cheese straws for gift
giving needs. There is no cost of admission to enter the mu-
seum or see its displays, but donations are appreciated. All
donations go towards supporting the museum's mission of
informing the public of the history of the City of Kings
Mountain and surrounding areas by preserving and exhibit-
ing its 19th and early 20th century collection.
The museum is located at 100 E. Mountain Street, Kings
Mountain. For more information, visit www.kingsmountain-
museum.org or call 704-739-1019.
Medicine Drop-Off Saturday in Shelby
Operation Medicine Drop
will be held Saturday, Dec.
3, at the Cleveland County
Health Department and resi-
dents can take their unused,
expired prescriptions and
over-the-counter medica-
tions and drop them off be-
tween 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. at
315 E. Grover Street in
Shelby.
The drop-off is also spon-
sored by Alliance for Health,
Safe Kids, ACCES, Cleve-
land County Substance
Abuse Prevention Coalition,
Community Care, and all
law enforcement agencies
including Kings Mountain
and Shelby Police and Sher-
iff's Departments.
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These include little or no urine; sunken eyes, no
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have symptoms of botulism (blurred or double vision, trouble swallowing or
Call your doctor immediately if: You have severe diarrhea (large amounts
of loose stool every 1 to 2 hours) that lasts longer than 2 days if you are an
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704-739-4721
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