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Front Porch Music
By Ron Isbell, Publisher emeritus
Sidewalk Survey
by LIB STEWART
A word of advice...
June 6, 2012
This time of year almost always melon,
brings a little celebration to Rusty Change your own flat tire.
Springs. With a family the size of ours Create something. Anything,
there seems to be a new graduate every 3
Learn a foreign language.
year, This year, however, it’s a little :
more special because the graduates Sail a boat,
| | have moved down to the next genera- Take pictures, Lots of them,
| | tion and our first grandchild will walk Dance.
| across a stage and pick up her high Watch a sunset, Repeat. Repeat.
school diploma. Repeat
Brette is a beautiful 18 year old
blonde superstar that seemed to inherit
all of our
family’s
What are
: your plans
: after
high school
graduation?
eres
Taste raindrops.
Eat a brussels sprout.
One is enough.
Chaney Barnes, 18
I'm going to Spain in | good quali- Vote.
June for five weeks to study | ties. I assure Go fishing without bait.
Spanish and then enroll at | Jou hers is Spend more time. Less money.
Davidson College to major | no more Coils
in Math/Science. prejudice oposL
here than in Sleep in a tent.
| any assess- Write a poem.
| ment > id . : Hold a newborn child.
ga ie Brette Cry, but just a little.
| ties. She is a multi-sport athlete, loves See ab roadway play,
| her job in a gun shop and will start a even if it’s off-Broadway.
' medical career at University of ' Smellamum.
Louisville this fall. Everybody smells roses.
All of our grandkids are pretty close Learn to play golf. Then
to-perfect. Brette just happens to be the actually play only if you
first. enjoy it.
Swim in an ocean and walk in a
While I’ve presented this list of ad- ;
: desert in the same year.
vice to graduates in the past, here it is
SE | : . Make friends everywhere
Sarah Scoggins, 17 Ross Clark, 18 - again, but especially for Brette. Son Ty
I plan to attend mission I plan to work this sum- Be less. Taste TnOre: Go SYSPyLie with friends.
trips this summer and in the mer at Kings Mountain Hos- Climb more mountains. Don t work at a job you
fall enroll at Gardner-Webb pital and enter the nursing | Drive a red sports car. : don’t like. ;
- University and major in ele- program at Central Piedmont | Appreciate kudzu. Work hard at a job you do.
mentary education. My goal Community College this fall. Start a fire in Someone s'sonl. Love your parents for who they
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is to be a classroom teacher. I plan to continue my volun-
* Sarah had perfect at- teer service with Kings |
Learn how to choose a good are. Appreciate them for who
you are,
Hear music when there isn’t
any,
Love someone more than
yourself,
Know the virtue of being alone,
Never know the pain of being
lonely. Know the difference.
Appreciate art for what it is.
Don’t try to make it something
else.
Start saving for retirement
before you get your first job.
Just like your funeral, it’s -
inevitable.
Avoid the seven deadly sins.
They're aptly named.
Paddle in a lake.
Make a friend in someone of a
different culture.
Read Huck Finn.
Spend a St. Patrick’s Day
evening in a real Irish pub.
Be a part of a revolution,
but do it peacefully.
Find a way for others to be right
when they disagree with you.
Learn the difference between
flowers and weeds before you
~ tend a garden.
Milk a cow.
Visit New York City. Like
brussels sprouts, once is
probably enough.
Read enough to have a favorite
author.
Make a list like this,
then share it.
- tendence for her entire Mountain Fire Department.
Sha ______110BC seniors. 2012 Graduates,
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. ae - : — | By EMILY WEAVER lunch, whispers at the lock-
7 Edward Hopper,18 Matt Lovelace, 18 ers, sang together in chorus,
z BESSEMER CITY - played together on the field
~ My career plans are to be- After a vacation with | Dressed in caps and gowns and at 9 a.m. on June 9, the
- come a doctor. I plan to en- family I plan to enroll at | of green and gold, 110 grad- graduates of two schools,
= roll at UNC-Pembroke and UNC in Chapel Hill and | uates will march into Besse- who’ve shared one roof, will
- study medicine. major in Chemistry. mer City High School - all together - turn their tas-
: Stadium at 9 a.m. Saturday sels.
for commencement. Among - The valedictorian and
that number, will be the first salutatorian (still to be an-
and last class - the only grad- nounced) will address the
uating class - of Bessemer crowd along with James
City Early College High Montgomery, principal of
School. BCHS. And the Yellow
The five-year program, Jacket fans that fill the
which afforded Bessemer stands will cheer for their fa-
City students the chance to vorite graduates as the new
earn a high school diploma diploma-holders embark on
lege credits, is moving to the On Friday, June 8, the
| College. In August, the new senior picnic at 11:30 a.m.
Mariah McKee, 18 Ridge Scruggs, 18 | lege High School will open chosen Jan Sean’s song
to freshmen throughout the “2012” as its class song. The ;
I’m excited to be going to After a trip to Vegas I | county. class’ motto is “The proud,
~ Honduras this summer on a plan to enroll at UNC in | But for four years the 10 the few, the class of two
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mission trip. In the Fall I Chapel Hill. I plan to be- | Bessemer City seniors, who thousand one two.” Tiger Butler S
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~ lotte and major in elemen- diplomas and college credits,
© tary education. My goal is to
= be a teacher.
their peers at BCHS. See a complete list of
They’ve shared stories over graduates on page 8C.
| Rev Up Those Engines
to march Saturday | For A Great Future!
First and last class of BC early Congratulations on your
college students to take the accomplishment.
and up to two years of col- their next journey in life. “This is just one big reason
| Dallas campus ‘of Gaston Class of 2012 is invited to a you should keep your car properly
Gaston County Early Col- The Class of 2012 has | maintained and safe for the road.”
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