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Community Schools Registration Is Underway
Registration for Community
Schools Program is underway
through October 7, at the Com
munity Schools Office, 900
Ramseur Street, from 8:304.'00.
Registration for the courses
will be on a first come, first serve
basis. All class fees must be paid
on the first night of class. In the
event of inclement weather
where the school day program is
cancelled, the Community
Schools Program will also be
cancelled for that day and made
up at a later date.
Anyone with questions
relating to any class or activity
listed or to register for a class,
call 739-2296.
Courses include:
•Practical Bookkeeping & Ac
counting Course. Tuesday,
10-7-80 through 12-16-80 from
7<X)-10<X) for II weeks. Fee
$8.00. Age 18-up. Location
-Central School. Senior Citizens
Free. Instructor - Jim Amos,
Public Accountant. This course
is for home and small business.
The course is divided into 12 ses
sions: (1) Brief History and
Theory of Accounting; (2 & 3)
Practical Examples of Records
You May Need; (4,5,6) Entries
to Books; (7) General Ledger; (8)
Working Papers; (9) Profit &
Loss Statement; (10) Balance
Sheet; (11) Monthly, Quarterly,
REACTHelps
Dean Family
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SECTION B Thursday, Septem her 18,1980
Annual Reports, and (12)
Review of Course. Come learn
how to keep your books ac
curately. Register early. There
will be a maximum number that
will be accepted in this class.
•Macrame - (Christmas Craft
for Advanced & Beginners).
Thursday, 9-25-80 through
12-4-80 from 700-900 for 11
weeks. Fee $8.00. Age 18-up.
Location - North Elementary
School. Senior Citizens Free. In
structor - Peggy McDowell.
Material is required for this class.
•Bible Study - Tuesday,
10-7-80 through 12-16-80 from
7 00-9:30 for 11 weeks. Fee
$5.00. Age 18-up. Location
-North Elementary School.
Senior Citizens Free. Instructor
-William Alexander. There is a
maximum number that will be
accepted in this class.
•Cake Decorating - Tuesday,
10-7-80 through 12-16-80 from
6:30-9:30 for 11 weeks. Fee
$8.00. Age 18-up. Location
-North Elementary School.
Senior Citizens Free. Instructor
-Diane Davis. Material is re
quired for this course.
•Systematic Training For Ef
fective Parenting - Tuesday
10-7-80 through 11-8-80 from
6:30-8:30 for 7 weeks. Course is
free. Age 18-up. Location - Cen
tral School. Instructor - Bill Mc
Cullough. This class is for
couples, one parent, and the
single parent. Step participants
are helped toward realizing the
goal parents want most; to raise
responsible children who will
grow into responsible men and
women, capable of living mean
ingful, happy adult lives.
•Auto Mechanics For Begin
ners - Thursday, 10-9-80 through
12-18-80 from 6:30-9:30 for II
weeks. Age 18-up. Fee $8.00.
Location - Kings Mountain High
School Automotive Shop. In
structor - Bernard Hamrick.
BY UB STEWART
Sylvester Dean, 40, of
Gastonia, can’t say enough
about the generosity of Kings
Mountain area citizens who are
helping his family during a bad
ordeal.
Dean entered Kings Moun
tain Hospital in July for treat
ment for what he and his doctors
thought were stomach ulcers.
Three weeks later. Dean under
went surgery and doctors
discovered he had cancer of the
stomach. His condition was
diagnosed as terminal.
Dean and his wife, Pamela,
and their lO-months-old
daughter, Kristy, had only
recently moved to Gastonia and
neither had obtained a job. Dean
was working on a construction
job in Texas but he said the heat
was “so bad I couldn’t stand it
and I started having blackout
spells.” Mrs. Dean, pregnant
with their second child, had been
unable to visit her husband
because of financial reasons.
As D6an’$ hospitalization
lengthened, he said_the nurses at ^
KM Hospital became concerned
because his family had been
unable to visit him. They took
up a collection, he said, and rais
ed $50 to help Mrs. Dean with
transportation.
“The Gastonia Gazette’’
published a feature story on the
Dean’s plight and how the
nurses became involved and
came to their aid. That’s when
the Kings Mountain REACT
and N. C. Road Runners took
up the ball and REACT made a
matching pledge of $50 and
started a fund drive to help the
Dean family.
More than $500 was raised
during the weekend at a Coffee
Break co-sponsored by KM
REACT and Road Runners. A
handful of members turned out
to mann the coffee shop Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Dean said her family is
most appreciative of the fund
drive initiated by REACT dur
ing the weekend, which they in
vite citizens to contribute to the
drive by forwarding checks to
them at PO Box 605, Kin^
Mountain. She said the family is
having a bad time now with no
money coming in and medical
bills piling up. “It made me feel
good that the nurses cared
enough to help us out and it
makes me feel good to know
about all these good folks like
REACT who are helping us.”
“We need all the help we can
get”, stiid Mrs. Dean, who said
the family is staying with Dean’s
mother in Gastonia. She said the
family has been receiving food
stampts and is hoping to receive
assistance from social services.
Dean has been back in the
hospital again, the most recent
hospitalization at Gaston
Memorial Hospital where he was
fed intravenously and gain^ 10
pounds before beginning
chemotheraphy.
“I have high hopes that by
some miracle my life will be
spared and that someday there
will be a cure for cancer”, said
Dean, as he accepted the
monetary gift from the volunteer
agency Sunday evening at 7 p.m.
at the Coffee Break stand at
U.C. 74 near the KM Armory.
“1 just live one day at a time
and right now I’m just praying
for a miracle that this cancer will
be arrested and that I will see the
birth of our second child”, said
Dean, who admits that he’s hop
ing for a boy with red hair like
his Mom and Sis but another lit
tle girl, healthy and strong, will
suit him just fine.
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ENGAGED — The engagement of Lisa Renee Tignor and Timmy
Whitaker is announced by the bride-to-be’s mother, Linda Hawkins
Tignor. Lisa is also the daughter of Mr. Ronald Eugene Tignor. Both
parents are of Kings Mountain. The groom-to-be is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Whitaker of Kings Mountain. Lisa is a graduate of Kings
Mountain &nior High School and is employed by Physical Therapy
Associates and is working at Kings Mountain Hospital. Timmy is also
a graduate of Kings Mountain Senior High School and is employed by
Martin Marietta Aggregates in Arrowood, N.C. The wedding will take
place October 18.
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REACT Members Make Donation To Dean Family Fund
In Abingdon, Va.
Mardh To Begin Sept. 24
Virginia Gov. John Dalton
will initiate the 200th Anniver
sary Celebration of the Cam
paign and Battle of Kings Moun
tain with a Sept. 24 speech at
Abingdon, Va.
Gov. Dalton will speak at Ab
ingdon High School at about
7:30 p.m. to members of the
group reenacting the march of
the “Overmountain Men” to the
battle site at Kings Mountain
and to others interested in the
200th Anniversary Celebration.
Frontiersmen from Virginia,
Tennessee, North and South
Carolina and Georgia met and
overwhelmed a British force at
Kings Mountain on (Xn. 7,
1780, after a two-week march
down from the mountains.
Thomas Jefferson called their
victory the “turning point” of
the American Revolution.
Gov. Dalton and his party w ill
arrive in Abindgdon at 5:45 p.m.
to meet guests and have dinner
at the Martha Washington Inn.
He will arrive at the high school
at about 7:15 and will be
escorted into the auditorium by
a fife and drum corps.
The governer, who will be in
troduced by State Sen. Frederick
C. Boucher, will be accompanied
by Park Rouse of Williamsburg,
Capt. and Mrs. Randall W.
Young of Yorktown and Ms.
Betty McLemore of Charlot
tesville.
Rouse is the former Director
of the Virginia Independence
Bicentennial Commission, while
Capt. Young is the present Ac
ting Director. Ms. McLemore is
Director of the Western
Bicentennial Center at Charlot
tesville.
Gov. Dalton will be
represented by Lewis A.
McMurran Jr., Chairman of the
Virginia Independence Bicenten
nial Commission, at Oct. 7
ceremonies at the City of Kings
Mountain and at Kings Moun
tain National Military Park
nearby in South Carolina.
McMurran will be accom
panied on Oct. 7 by Capt.
Young.
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MR. AND MRS. JEFFREY SCOTT PUTNAM
(Sharon Foster)
Shoron Foster, daughter of Vivian and Harold Foster of
Blacksburg, S.C., and Jeffrey Scott Putnam, son of Connie and
Lawrence Putnam of Kings Mountain, were married Sunday.
September 7, at the home of the bride's grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Manuel Wright in Gaffney, S.Q, Officiating in the double
ring ceremony was Reverend Tommy Wright, cousin of the
bride.
The couple is ot home ot Apt. 21, Bottle Forest Apartments.
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BATTLE HATS • Romono Burris, left, and Elaine Grigg model
the Battle of Kings Mountain hats ond T-shirts which are on
sale at Bicentenniol Headquarters in the old First Union No
tional Bank building on South Battleground Avenue. Also at
the headquorters ore a number of other souvenirs of the 200th
anniversary celebration.