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Wednesday, November 13,2013
Ashley Harris
1 Cleveland County YMCA
November is National:
Diabetes Awareness Month,
«and the Cleveland County
Family YMCA is helping
* residents of Kings Mountain
~ and surrounding areas cut
w= their risk of developing Type
x2 diabetes through the
L.YMCA’s Diabetes Preven-
*“tion Program. Programs like
oe YMCA’s Diabetes Pre-
..vention Program, which
+ lielp people lose 5- 7 percent
of body weight through
healthier eating and in-
creased, physical activity,
. ‘can prevent or delay the
«onset of Type 2 diabetes.
Upon a recent visit to the
.doctor, Shannon Blanton,
76, found out that she was
indeed at risk for developing
diabetes. Blanton, a former
employee of Kings Moun-
tain Hospital for 30 years,
said, “It really concerned me
and I didn’t want to be la-
beled “diabetic,” and I knew
it was up to me to take con-
trol of the situation, to lose
“the extra weight and to get
active.”
Blanton enrolled in the
YMCA’s Diabetes Preven-
. tion Program, and began her
journey. “I tracked every-
thing I put in my mouth ex-
~ cept my tooth brush “and
. dental floss,” Blanton said.
After 16 weeks, Blanton
returned to her doctor. Her
blood glucose was reported
. to be in the low normal
| range,
x
pounds, and was proud to re-
- port she was more active
! than ever.
“This will bee a perma-
: nent change for me,” she
~. said.
~ have blood glucose levels.
“This program has
worked so well for me I
want to tell others about it
and be an advocate for dia-
betes prevention.”
Pre-diabetes is a condi-
tion in which individuals
» that are higher than normal,
. but not high enough to be
© classified as diabetes. An es- |
« timated one in three adults
. in the U.S. (79 million peo-
. ple) has pre-diabetes, yet
* just 11 percent of those indi-
» viduals know they have it.
. People with pre-diabetes are
at a high risk of developing
Type 2 diabetes and other.
« chronic diseases such as
» heart disease and stroke.
. Find out if you are at risk for
<
© pre-diabetes at
www.cdc. govifeamres/die:
| betesalert.
The Cleveland County
: Family YMCA is one of 94
x
Greater Shelby Commu-
. nity Theatre will hold audi-
: tions for the musical “I Do,
# I Do” on Friday and Satur-
« day, Nov. 22 and 23 from 6-
>» 9 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 24
» from 2:30-5:30 p.m. Tryouts
she had lost 30
Ys nationwide participating
in the YMCA’s Diabetes
Prevention ' Program, a
lifestyle modification pro-
gram that helps people re-
duce their risk for Type 2
diabetes. The program is
part of the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Preven-
tion’s National Diabetes '
Prevention Program, and
based on the National Insti-
tutes of Health led, CDC
supported, Diabetes Preven-
tion Program study that.
showed losing a moderate
amount of weight and in-
creasing physical activity re-
duces the number of new
cases of Type 2 diabetes by
58 percent.
“Initiatives like . the
YMCA’s Diabetes Preven-
tion Program that help resi- |
dents avoid developing
Type 2 diabetes and other
chronic diseases play a key
role in improving the na-
tion’s health,” said Ashley
Harris, Director of the Dia-
betes Prevention Program
for the Cleveland County
Family YMCA. “Taking
preventive steps helps
everyone live better, health-
ier lives.”
Participants in the
-YMCA'’s Diabetes Preven-
tion Program take part in a
year-long program ‘begin-
ning with 16 one-hour
weekly classroom sessions
with a trained lifestyle coach
who teaches individuals
‘about healthy eating, physi-
cal activity and other
lifestyle changes. Following
these sessions, participants
- meet monthly for added sup-
port in reaching their ulti-
mate goals of reducing body
weight by 5-7 percent and
participating in 150 minutes
of physical activity per
week. Through lifestyle
changes and modest weight
reduction, a person with pre-
diabetes can reduce their
risk for Type 2 diabetes.
. In Cleveland . County,
close to 90 participants have
taken -advantage of the
YMCA’s Diabetes Preven-
tion Program. To learn more
about the program, please
contact Ashley Harris, R.N.,
at (704) 669-3631 or ahar-
ris@clevecoymca.org.
The YMCA’s Diabetes
Prevention Program is sup-
ported nationally by the Di-
abetes Prevention . and
Control” Alliance and the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and is avail-
able at 94 Ys in 39 states.
For more information, visit
ymca.net/diabetes.
; Tryouts for “1 Do, I Do”
will be held in the basement
of the Cleveland County
Arts Council on Washington
Street in Shelby.
Persons wanting to audi-
tion should be prepared to
sing. :
The Kings Mountain Herald | www.kmherald.net
You can cut your Biscuit making is serious business for Brice
diabetes risk
‘ELIZABETH STEWART
lib. kmherald@gmail. com
“Justen Brice, in the kitchen at the
local Bojangles, is a finalist in Bojan-
gles’ Master Biscuit Maker Challenge.
Brice, a team trainer at Bojangles’
located at 218 Cleveland Avenue in
Kings Mountain, has been named a fi-
_nalist in the 2013 Master Biscuit Maker
Challenge, ‘an annual company-wide
competition in which thousands of Bo-
- jangles’ teammates from more than 550
company-owned and franchised loca-
tions across the Southeast compete to be
named the best biscuit-maker, the Mas-
ter Biscuit Baker.
“I am excited,” says Brice, ‘who
joined the local Bojangles 10 years ago
and has been baking made-from-scratch
biscuits for eight years.
~ “Being named a finalist is a big
deal,” said Bojangles’ Regional Vice-
President Jeff Wells. “There is no room
for error with tough competition and a
very precise biscuit-making process, but
our Kings Mountain team is confident
that Justen will represent us well as a
strong contender at the finals.”
Brice takes biscuit making seriously.
!
He learned the biscuit-making process
by completing in-depth training and’is
certified or re-certified with this training
every year to participate in the Master
Justen Brice makes up a batch of biscuits in preparation for the upcoming Bojan-
gles’ Master Biscuit Maker Challenge taking place in Charlotte 1ater this week.
; Photo by LIB STEWART
Biscuit, Maker Challenge.
Brice will compete with eight other
finalists at Bojangles test Kitchen | in
Charlotte this week.
Fighting hunger, one bumper crop at a time
dave.kmherald@gmail.com
With borrowed land, do-
nated money and hundreds
of generous volunteers, the.
Cleveland County Potato
Project has this year
churned up more than
156,000 pounds of sweet
and white potatoes in the ef-
fort to feed the area’s hun-
ary.
This is the project’s
fourth year and the figures
that go with the harvests
they’ve cultivating since
2009 come in at an astound-
ing 430,000 pounds.
“(Our total was) 8,000
less than last year,” said co-
founder Doug Sharp, a re- °
tired human = resources
professional. “We feel this
was a pretty good year
when you consider all the
rain we had at the beginning
of the year. Our sweet po-
tato amount would have
been greater but we had to
get them up a little early
due to the early frost.”
- “We were greatly
blessed and I am thankful
for the contribution of food
we made to so many peo-
ple. We hope to re-new our
efforts next year. We would
_ love for groups to accept re-
sponsibility for a plot of po-
tatoes,” said Sharp, who
said Cleveland County Po-
tato Project provides all the
raw materials and most of
the labor to get through the
planting, cultivating and
harvest.
Sharp said the potatoes
raised are funneled prima-
rily to /four agencies: the
Greater Cleveland County
Baptist Association, the
Kings Mountain = Crisis
Ministry, The Salvation
Army and U-CAN, a Lawn-
_ dale charitable organization
Volunteers work the fields in the last stages of this year’s Cleveland County Potato Project.
In the first year of the initiative, about 30,000 pounds of white and sweet potatoes were
raised. This year, that Himlseri is up to 156,000 pounds. The crop is provided to the area’s
nsely; families.
that stands for Upper Cleve-
land Area Needy.
_, Central Methodist .
Church and the H.
Lawrence Patrick Senior
Center in Kings Mountain
and the Washington Mis-
sionary Baptist Church in
the Oak Grove area also re-
ceive some of the bounty.
. A great deal of financial
support comes from the
N.C. Baptist Convention,
according to Sharp, who
. said the project is also
grateful to Gardner-Webb
University, which coordi-
nates and provides: student
volunteers. -He said about
500 volunteers a year pitch
in to make the initiative a
Success.
To learn more about the
Cleveland County Potato
Project, visit www.ccpotato
project.com.
Annual Toy Run
set for Nov. 23
* Murphrey's 19th annual Toy Run to benefit Shriner Burn
Center and Oxford Orphanage Masonic'Home for Children
and Kings Mountain Police Department Shop for a Cop will
be held Saturday, Nov. 23, at 11 a.m. From Scooter Shed,
114 Camelot Court. Police will escort motorcycle riders be-
ginning at noon.
Riders are asking for $5 and a new toy per person. Free
barbecue will be served after the ride. Rain date i is Sunday,
Nov.24.
The toy run route: 114 Camelot Court, right on Phifer
Road, right on Bethlehem Road, left on 74 west bound, right
onto Marion Street at Mall, right on Borders Road, right on
Oak Grove Road, right on Stoney Point Road, straight on
74/West to King Street, right on York Road, right into Mili-
tary Park, right onto Highway 29, merge left onto Battle-
ground, left on KM Boulevard, left onto Phifer Road, right
onto amelos Court,
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