Local Weekend Events and Charity Fundraisers in Gastonia
Friday events include Lions Club barbecue at noon with $6.50 4% chicken plates and delivery for 10 plus. Tryon School Fall Festival offers games, cake walk, bingo, crafts, fun jump, slime-a-principal trailer. call for details. Haunted Trail at Hickory Grove runs nightly through Oct 31 with $10 adults, $6 kids. call for info. Singles dance at Rankin Lake Clubhouse features costumes and prizes. Saturday events cover yard and bake sales, barbecue plates, and a home buying workshop at the Gastonia library. Pang’s Taekwondo Academy hosts a martial arts demonstration benefiting the Salvation Army. Sunday Gaston Day School hosts Leonard Pitts Jr. lecture on black fatherhood, tickets $10 adults $5 children.
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Gastonia
Lions Club
International Minute Press
Tryon
Tryon Courthouse Road
Bessemer City
Hickory Grove
Hickory Grove Road
McAdenville
Stanley
Cail
Rankin Lake
Rankin Lake Road
Rankin Lake Clubhouse
Gastonia Parks and Recreation Department
Union Presbyterian Church
Union Road
Lowell
Gaston County Public Library
E. Garrison Blvd
City of
North Carolina
Cooperative Extension Service
Habitat For Humanity
Pang’s
U.S
First United Methodist Church
E. Franklin Blvd
Salvation Army
Boys and Girls Club
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Peer Power Weekend Educates Youth on HIV in Gaston County
The Gaston Chapter of the American Red Cross, Girl Scouts of the Pioneer Council, and AIDS Council of Gaston County host Peer Power Weekend November 10 to 12 at Camp Rotary. Since 1995 the event trains students to inform peers about HIV prevention. 475 Gaston residents have been diagnosed since 1987. Registration is $20, due by November 1, includes meals lodging activities and materials, nonrefundable.
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Gaston
The
American Red Cross
Girl Scouts of the Pioneer Council
Aids Council of
Gaston County
Rotary
Peer Power
Health Department
Barbecues and Benefits At Area Methodist Events
Community events in Mount Holly and Gastonia feature barbecued plates to fund local relief efforts and church projects, plus a soup fundraiser, and a family possession workshop. Activities include a tethered hot air balloon ride, 3 on 3 soccer fundraiser for The Gazette Empty Stocking Fund, and a health event with U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick at Myers Memorial Methodist Church.
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NEW Beginnings
First United Methodist
Mount Holly
Fellowship Hall
Community Relief Organization of
N. Main St
First United Methodist Church Family Life Center
E. Franklin Blvd
Gastonia
Interagency Resource Project For
Health Cardmont Health
U.S
Sue Myrick
Myers Memorial Methodist Church
North New Hope Road
Gaston author Kathryn Grice visits library program
Author Kathryn R Grice promotes Rat Tales with poetry anecdotes and family sketches at 10 am Nov 2 at the Gaston County Main Library. Free for adults, sponsored by Friends of the Gaston County Public Library. Call (704) 922-3621 for details.
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Kathryn R. Grice
Ina
Gaston County
Grice
Friends of the
Gaston County Public Library
Gastonia
Belmont student Glenn Cook named to Who's Who list 1999 2000
Belmont's Glenn Cook, a South Point High School senior, earns a place in the 34th annual Who's Who Among American High School Students. Cook, 17, participates in tennis and bands, serves as band co captain, and engages in Beta and Spanish clubs plus church missions. He also traveled to England Ireland as a student ambassador and to Jamaica on a church mission. Leonard Pitts Jr will speak at Gaston Day School as part of the Kilpatrick Lecture Series, with tickets $10 for adults and $5 for children.
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Glenn Cook
Belmont
Cook
South Point High School
Legislature School For Young Leaders of America
Western Carolina University
South Point Baptist
Jamaica
Tracy Kerley
England
Ireland
South Point Baptist Church
Glenn
Gisela Cook
Siglinde Cook
Korina Hammon
Siglinde Mullins
Leonard Pitts Jr
Eunice P. Kilpatrick
Pamela Kimbrell Warlick
Gaston Day School
Gaston Mecklenburg group to honor human relations work milestone
The Gaston County Human Relations Commission with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Human Relations Committee hosts a regional millennium celebration titled A Decade of Gems at Cramer Mountain Country Club. Oct 24 attendees include former state Sen Marshall A Rauch and Mildred J Sadler. Special honorees include Dr Jerry Drayton and Dr Harold S Diggs with Joseph Martin inducted into the Hall of Fame. Tickets are 35 dollars. mail checks to JP David & Associates.
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Gaston County Human Relations Commission
Charlotte- Mecklenburg Human Relations Committee
Cramer Mountain Country Club
Gaston County Commission
Marshall A. Rauch
Mildred J. Sadler
Gaston County
Gaston Together — Communities United For Positive Progress
NAACP
Gaston County Organization For Concerned Citizens
The
Glenn Foundation
United Way
Jerry Drayton
North Carolina Human Relations Commission
Harold S. Diggs
North Carolina
Martin Luther King Jr. Commission
Joseph Martin
Bank of America
Human Relations Hall of Fame
JP David & Associates Inc
P.O
Gastonia
Monica Smith
Hugh Grant
Gastonia Branch Earns President's Club Award
Phillips Staffing of Greenville South Carolina awarded its Gastonia branch the President's Club Award for surpassing sales goals in the 1999 2000 fiscal year. The Gastonia operation is led by Branch Manager Georgeanna Bentley.
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the Gazette
Blanton Phillips
S.B. Phillips Co
Georgeanna Bentley
Gastonia
Joe McIntyre
Phillips
Tracy Franklin
Charles Emory
Richard Payne
Phillips Staffing
Greenville, S.C
Gaston County Extension Calendar Highlights Local Quilts and Crafts
The Gaston County Extension schedules events at Lucile Tatum Home Center in Gastonia. An area meeting covers funeral planning and food theme, a Granny Square Christmas stocking class costs four dollars, and a Community Quilt Show on Oct. 28 features antique quilts, demos, and a vote for favorite pieces with a People’s Choice Award. Deadline for registration is Tuesday.
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Extension Homemakers
Gaston County Extension Homemakers Association
Lucile Tatum Extension Homemaker Center
Osceola St
Gastonia
Gaston County Extension and Community Association
Lucile Tatum
Gaston County
Laura Smith
Grace Flowers
Linda J
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Gastongazette
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Christopher
St. Michael’s
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Cherryville
NEW Hope Optimist Club
New Hope
Stowe Road
Miss Mount Holly
Wanda McElveen
Daphne Barton
Spencer Mountain Road
Ranlo
Belmont Chamber of Commerce
Beth Rutledge
Gaston School OF the Arts
Unity Place
W. Franklin Blvd
Call Tiffany Carper
Call
Ralph Griffin
Griffin
Gaston Art Guild
AARP
Hawaii
GASTON/LINCOLN
Alliance For the Mentally Ill
Piedmont Pioneer House
Roberts Drive
Pam Poteat
Bob Davis
First Presbyterian Church
Kathleen
DAY OF
South Point High
Community Foundation of
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