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Newspaper
The Gaston Gazette
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 2000
Page
5
Local folk dancers from Gastonia's Sister City Otha, Germany, will give a lecture and demonstration of traditional dances at Gaston Day School as part of the Arts Enrichment Series open to the public with a charge for reservations. Call 704 864 7744 ext ce for details.
Local page invites readers to submit school news military updates club items and awards with ways to reach the Gaston Gazette. It lists fax mail and in person addresses and asks for a telephone number for verification while noting information cannot be taken by phone and that Polaroid photos are not accepted.
First Financial Resources has been approved as the firm of choice for the North Carolina Bankers Association after the Sept. 7 board meeting. The Gastonia firm will run the Insurance and risk management component of a three-prong program to help small community banks offer full financial services. The initiative also involves Capital Investment Group’s Richard Bryant coordinating the investment component, with pilot participants Bank of Granite and First Gaston Bank.
Laura Suzanne Page of Gastonia crowned Little Miss Gastonia at the Stanley County Festival. She won talent and swimsuit, age nine, daughter of Randy and Gayle Page, granddaughter to Hamiltons and Pages of Gastonia and Cherryville, and great granddaughter to Oates and Goodman of Gastonia. An A honor roll student at Gaston Christian School.
Calendar items from Gaston County list sessions at Cherryville and Be ssem er City Branch Libraries in October with 9 45 a m starts and $15 fees for a workshop on dividing unique family possessions. Other events include International Festival Day at Lucile Tatum Center and Footsteps for Tomorrow with U S Rep Sue Myrick.
The American Red Cross reports a historic blood shortage with hospitals delaying surgeries due to low supply. The Carolinas Blood Services Region covers 80 counties across NC SC GA TN and has less than a day of type O A and B blood. Staci Cowart urges both repeat and first time donors to help, noting there is no substitute for life.
Several Gaston area blood drives are listed with times and locations including Pathways, Chapel Grove Elementary, TM Gaston Memorial Hospital, and Matthews Belk at Eastridge Mall. Donors must be healthy and at least 17 years old, weigh 110 pounds, and donation takes under an hour. Call Gaston County American Red Cross at 864-2623 for details.
Kathryn R. Grice will share poetry personal anecdotes and family sketches from Rat Tales at the Gaston County Main Library Meet The Author program at 10 a.m. Nov. 2. The event is free and sponsored by Friends of the Gaston County Public Library. For more information call (704) 922-3621.
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