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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
; ELIZABETH STEWART
Ryder Southeast Distri-
bution Center employees
will celebrate a second an-
niversary in Kings Mountain
Saturday, marking a safety
milestone of two years with-
out lost time accident or in-
jury.
Cindy Truesdale, Senior
Logistics Manager of the
plant at 120 Woodlake Park-
way, said that Ryder’s core
values include being safe
and every employee and
manager at the facility takes
pride in this accomplish-
ment.
Ryder opened its doors
for business July 5, 2011
and is one of three distribu-
tion centers that Ryder oper-
ates for Bay Valley Foods.
The distribution center
building is 505,000 square
feet and the company em-
ploys 45 full time employ-
ees on two shifts, Monday
through Friday.
Mayor Rick Murphrey
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officially proclaimed Satur-
day as “Ryder Day” in
Kings Mountain and pre-
sented the framed proclama-
tion to Ryder employees last
Wednesday. “Ryder has con-
tributed significantly to the
local quality of life through
corporate and employee
community service,” said
the mayor.
Pickles and soups are
among the packaged food-
stuffs shipped from the local
plant.
Employees pointed out
that in 1933 one man’s vi-
sion and a $35 down pay-
ment on a Model A Ford
truck launched a company,
Ryder, that would become a
recognized leader in trans-
portation and logistics.
Antonio Miller, Quality
& Food Safety Supervisor,
said a multitude of products
are shipped from the local
plant warehouse to grocery
stores on the East Coast.
Ryder marks two-year anniversary in KM
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Employees of Ryder Southeast Distribution Center receive a city proclamation from Mayor Rick Murphrey celebrating their
second year in Kings Mountain. Cindy Truesdale, manager, and Mike Haynes, lift truck operator, are on the front row ac-
cepting the award.
From 33 facilities, Ryder
has grown to 1,000 and
grown internationally.
KM Thrift Store under new management
Sisters Celia Wright and
Wanda Hord have purchased
Kings Mountain Thrift Store
in downtown Kings Moun-
tain, leasing the front street
property and operating it
Tuesdays-Saturdays from 10
a.m.-5 p.m.
The owners and store
manager, Judy Wood, have
circulated a petition that
“our mission is to support
our community to keep our
clothing from going over-
seas.”
Hord says she under-
stands the burden of doing
their part for the needy area
residents is not theirs alone.
But, she said she has be-
come quite troubled by the
presence of an ever-growing
number of yellow bins in the
area,
The prominent yellow
bins are owned and main-
tained by Planet Aid, a non-
profit group, which collects
clothing and shoes, selling
the items in bulk to markets
in Europe and Asia. A por-
tion of the funds received
through the donations is
used to supplement long-
term community develop-
ment programs in needy
areas around the world.
“We changed our store
name when we bought out
the former owner,” said
Hord, who said the clothes
and other items she collects
from donors are sold at
rock-bottom, prices, some
are given away to anyone in
need and she said that resi-
dents of nursing homes shop
free and pick and choose
what they want at no cost to
them.
Items donated may be
deposited at the back of the
store, delivered to the sisters
inside the store or the items
donated can be picked up.
Hord said the goal of the
business is also to establish
a food bank where needy
people could find help with
groceries.
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Company'’s nurses get advanced training
i DAVE BLANTON
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Visitors to Bayada Home Health Care of-
fice in Shelby recently could watch trained
nurses save a man’s life. In this case the
nurses were real, but the man wasn’t. Brady
is a very realistic mannequin, however, who
simulates speaking, breathing and blinking.
If conditions are right — low blood pres-
sure or low blood oxygen count, for instance
— he may even appear to suffer
from a seizure or his lips might
turn blue. Controlled by soft-
ware and the nurses who use
him as a training device, Brady
goes about 5°10” and weighs
about 200 Ibs. He’s also de-
signed to sit up in bed, cry,
cough and hiccup.
One thing Brady can’t do is
tell you what's wrong with him
clinically in any given situa-
rate soars? What do you do when his breath-
ing tube has clearly come dislodged from the
small hole that’s been made in his windpipe?
Why is he having a seizure?
Those are some of the examples of the
curve balls that the teaching nurses and the
mannequin’s software can stimulate.
“In the training atmosphere, we don’t tell
the nurses how to respond,” Shaw said.
“They have to figure how the right steps to
take. That’s the best way to learn.”
“We were first timers, had four generations
along, and had a wonderful day together.
tion. That's the job of the
nurses who participate in the
intensive training normally
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diagnose and help the patients
they care for. In the Charlotte
lab, Bayada staff also make use
of an infant mannequin —
Bobbi — who is an equally sophisticated train-
ing tool.
Bayada opened its doors last week for a
day-long open house designed to share em-
ployment opportunities for nurses and to ed-
ucate the community about the services the
New Jersey-based company offers. Turnout
was very strong, with nearly 200 visitors
dropping by to learn more about the company
and its services, company officials said.
Thursday’s open house also featured grilled
hot dogs and other food, plus free gifts and a
chance at winning prizes.
The spotlight Thursday was on Brady and
registered nurse Angie Shaw, who is a clinical
manager for the company’s Charlotte training
lab. There, nurses working for the company
come to learn how best to react to emergency
situations in the arena of home health care,
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to that growth, according to Joe Seidel, an
area director for the company. The company,
which employs more than 18,000 nurses in
250 offices in the United States and India, has
doubled in size in the last five years. The
Shelby office’s success runs parallel with the
company’s overall growth, Seidel said. The
local office employs 125 nurses and certified
nursing assistants in Cleveland and Ruther-
ford Counties. It also has offices in Gastonia,
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