June 6, 2012 The Kings Mountain Herald | www.kmherald.net
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— Woman’s Club hears about Living with Alzheimers —
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ing of the Woman's Club.
Gail Herndon, left, program chairman for the Home Life Community Service department of the Kings Mountain
Woman's Club, introduces Edie McCurry, RN, who led the program topic, “Living with Alzheimers" at the May 28 meet-
Girl Scouts win te] honor
Brittany Dimmitt of Bessemer City,
Kaitlynn Rose Krieger of Grover and
Maia Frances Black of Kings Mountain
were named among the 173 Girl Scouts
to recently win the prestigious Girl
Scout Gold Award.
Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Pied-
a United Way agency, has
awarded 173 Gold Awards — the high-
est girl award in Girl Scouting. Nation-
ally, approximately 5-6% of eligible
mont,
Girl Scouts earn the award. Locally,
GSCP2P exceeded the national average
and awarded nearly 11% of its girls
throughout central and western North
Carolina with the Gold Award.
After the prerequisites are com-
pleted, the Girl Scout Gold Award proj-
ect is the culmination of a girl's
demonstration of self-discipline, lead-
- ership ability, time management, cre-
ativity, initiative and a significant
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“mastery of skills. Achieving the Gold
Award takes true commitment and ded-
ication with a minimum of 65 hours of
service per girl. Locally and regionally,
Girl Scouts collectively contributed a
minimum of 11,245 hours, which the
council credits with a monetary value
of $211,406 based on the Independent
Sector’s estimated value of volunteer
time for 2010 at $18. 80 per hour for
North Corofina.
Beauties crowned in Miss
Down Home Festival Pageant
Nine girls won crowns
during the Miss Down Home
Festival Pageant held Satur-
day, May 12 in Bessemer
City. The Miss Gastonia
Scholarship ~~ Association
hosted the pageant, which
was an official event of the
“annual Down Home Festival
sponsored by the City of
Bessemer City.
The winners were Bitsy
Miss Zoey Rudisill, Baby
Doll Miss Cheyanne Walker,
Miniature Miss Kendall
Lyles, Tiny Miss Alyssa
Hallman, Little Miss Jersey
Beattie, Junior: Miss Erica
Carpenter of Kings Moun-
tain, Teen Miss Masha
Hamby and Majestic Miss
Ava Bryant.
The runners-up were
Bentley Towery, Ava Rudis-
ill, Aubrey Pruett, Sarah
Greer, Carey Reali, Ashlynn
° King, Ashtyn Lane, Lucy
McDaniel, Davanee Duncan,
Addison Bryant, Kylee Perry
and Lillian Wensil. ©
~The signatures award
winners were Bentley Tow-
ery, Ava Rudisill, Zoey Rud-
isill, Ava Bryant, Addison
Bryant, Alyssa Hallman,
Masha Hamby and Erica
Carpenter. The overall signa-
DOWN HOME FESTIVAL PAGEANT WINNERS 2012 - The Miss Down Home Festival Pageant
winners were Kendall Lyles, Kylee Perry, Alyssa Hallman, Jersey Beattie (front row) and °
Zoey Rudisill, Ava Bryant, Masha Hamby, Cheyanne Walker, Erica Carpenter (back row).
Photo submitted by TODD HAGANS
tures award winner was
Kylee Perry and the first ap-
plication award winner was
Lillian Wensil.
The pageant was a
fundraiser for this year's
Miss Gastonia Scholarship
Pageant, which is planned
Landscape plants at a fair price! :. 3
Open to the public & commercial landscapers
for July 22 at Gaston Col-
lege. The next youth pageant
for girls 0-19 years is Miss
Fourth of July on Tuesday,
July 3 in Cherryville. For
more information, visit
www.missgastoniapageant.c
om.
You're on
your way,
graduates!
(Don't trip!)
Graduation is a moment
to remember. I find it hard
not to remember the two I’ve
had.
In high school, we were
the first class of the new mil-
lennium, dressed in purple
caps and gowns. It wasn’t
too hot. It wasn’t too cold:
But heavy clouds moved in
over our heads and before
the speakers really started
talking, the Class of 2000
was drenched. All washed
up. The white dress under :
my robe, however, turned a
violet color that would never
wash out. i
- The ceremony went by
quickly and the rain had
stopped by the end of it. But
Ill never forget the rainbow
that appeared when our prin-
‘cipal said, “I give you the
Class 0f 2000.”
It wasn’t so much the
words of speakers that I re-
member from that day, al-
though I'm sure they were
great, but the rainbow I re-
member most. To me, it was
a sign of greater things to
come.
Then, on a cold Deco:
ber day in 2004, I was set to
graduate from Western Car-
olina University. The stage
was indoors and for that I
was grateful.
My grandmother had
passed away a couple of
months earlier. I know she
would have wanted to see
me graduate’ so I wore her
jade necklace that day in a
symbolic way to carry her
with me. There weren’t quite
as many graduates in De-
* cember so our rows of seats
were spread a good distance
apart. As I sat in my seat
» waiting for the ceremony to
begin I felt a hand on my
shoulder. I quickly turned
back to see who it was, but
found no one. I knew right
away that my grandmother
was there.
On my way to the stage, I
kept coaching myself not to
‘trip. I usually don’t wear
heels, but I had that day for
some reason. I remember, in
practice, we were told to
wait before we came down
with our diploma because at
the end: of the stage each
~ graduate would pause to
have a picture taken. In all
my silent self-coaching, I
had forgotten that part.
1 came straight down and
bumped into the poor guy
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ahead of me just as his photo
' was being taken. My Mom
still laughs about it to this
day. But that poor guy prob-
ably wasn’t laughing when
he got the proof of this me-
mento of his great accom-
plishment with a
startle-faced me bumping
into him.
That’s what I remember.
And I hope Friday will be a
day full of great memories
for the 335 graduates of
Kings Mountain High’s
Class of 2012. You've
earned it.
Don’t be afraid of a little
rain. You can’t have a rain-
bow without it. You're on
your way. Don’t trip! And
keep your eyes on the hori-
zon. You never know who
you’ll bump into. ..or the im-
pact you’ll have on someone
else.
And remember to carry
your loved ones with you.
They want to see you suc-
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