The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina (2024)

March 14, 1995

Publication:

The Charlotte Observeri

Location:

Charlotte, North Carolina

Issue Date:

Tuesday, March 14, 1995

Page:

53

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State orders residents out of troubled Shelby rest home (The Charlotte Cbseroer page 1A osetwir Tuesday March 14 1995 Gaston Lincoln And Kings Mountain Edition Lincoln school board OKs Bible class By JOE MARUSAK Staff Writer LINCOLNTON Lincoln County high school students will be able to study the Bible next year and school leaders said they would consider a request to enforce the moment of silence The board of education unanimously agreed Monday night to allow an elective covering the Old provide instructors for the course which will be taught at all three high schools depending on demand School officials had been considering offering a Bible class since last year They've pointed to numerous other NC schools that offer such electives including schools in Mecklenburg Cabarrus Rowan and Iredell counties The Bible left the class and New Testaments of the Bible as well as world religions think we ought to offer school board member Betty Law-ing said of Bible studies "It has a place in literature The community needs it wants it In listening to people the lack of this type of study has caused us to be more unruly I think this would be a good Gaston College will develop and rooms after the school prayer battles of the 1960s But it has returned in recent years in electives that stress its literary and historical significance Opponents have said just a smoke screen to promote Christianity in the public schools a violation of the constitutional separation of church and state Lincoln school officials point to the influence on history literature and politics Supt Martin Eaddy said that's what he expects the course will emphasize Gaston College will put the course together Lincoln school officials said they turned to the college after concluding such a course would create scheduling Please see Biblepage 3 APPETITE FOR RESCUE poisoeec Antifreeze found in food By SHARON WHITE Staff Writer LINCOLNTON Test results confirmed Monday what Lincolnton Police had suspected: Police dog Angel was poisoned Traces of antifreeze were found in a food at FI 1 Angel's kennel on Feb 27 the day 4 she was found dead appeared to be antifreeze that said Chief Terry Burgin lab reports verified Police were shocked that anyone would want to poison the loving dog Burgin said knowing very passive behavior and being gentle with everyone she came in contact No one had been arrested Monday but police said they have received information about a possible suspect Angel also known as K-2 would have turned 6 next month She mainly served a public relations role for the department Hundreds of children and adults got to know her through school day-care and church visits The investigation has been turned over to the Lincoln County Department Burgin said Police said several criminal statutes could be applied in a case of this type one which specifically addresses the killing of a dog used in police work One possibility is the suspect or suspects could be charged with cruelty to animals a misdemeanor A conviction could carry a two-year maximum active sentence Chief Deputy Sheriff Bill Beam said Meantime the search for replacement has been put on hold certainly want to put another animal in the same location or situation" Burgin said Finches keep their promise Every year without fail a pair of house finches builds a nest on my front porch They offer a constancy that little else in life gives People move in and out of our lives We switch jobs move to bigger or smaller houses Children change (every day) our waistlines sag our eyesight fades Sometimes it seems nothing you can count on But these house finches come back I have no idea if the same couple year after year House finches pretty much look alike males with tomato red feathers on their heads and chests and a touch of color at the base of their tails The females are drab like many female birds mostly brown with a striped chest Maybe generations and generations of the same finch family come back to the old home place to raise their own children Monday the nest looked almost finished made it cozy with pine needles and bits of flowered paper towel For decoration they have woven strands of cellophane packing in and out of the needles The nest is a festive green this year Safe from cats My porch has never seemed like a particularly safe nesting place On my porch the column supporting the roof has a little ledge too high for cats or snakes The front door is a busy place If I were a finch I would be a nervous wreck darting startled into the oak tree every time somebody opened the front door Even so they come Every year There are other things in life that are dependable IRS form 1040 comes to mind but most of them are tainted by change Tax deductions come and go incomes and tax brackets fluctuate Right up there with taxes is medical insurance This month your deductible is $300 next month 1 300 Last quarter you had a carrier out of Connecticut next quarter Pennsylvania No we use THOSE forms anymore You have to have THESE forms now Children change the most of all Last year it seems they needed help tying their shoes this year graduating from high school Last week they wanted to be astronauts this week pharmacists Yesterday they were going with John today Chris or Bill or maybe Tom More constant than love Even love which is supposed to be constant changes People leave They change their minds They die Even in long marriages maybe especially in long marriages iove seems to ebb and flow Our places in the world change We grow more or less comfortable in our own skins I suppose that all this uncertainty keeps us on our toes Excitement keeps us interested and our minds interesting These days they call it stimulating our cognitive skills those skills that keep us going long after our bodies slow down Still in the midst of all this stimulation comforting to know some things are constant: That every year a pair of house finches is drawn back to a ledge atop a column holding up my porch That every year two or three new little finches hatch and start their lives there on the porch That every year the people in this house can quietly inch a chair up to the front door window and get a peek at birds faithful to their nature That some things change ODD Becky Moser's column runs on Tuesday ROBERT LAHSERStaff The kindest cut: Bessemer City Rescue Squad to open a car during a drill Saturday The tool EMT Sean Bumgardner uses a "jaws of tool reduces minutes of rescue time to seconds Jaws Cause Gaston firefighters yearn for tool that takes a bite out of time By CHIP WILSON Staff Writer firefighters think they should have frustrating to know technology that could help us save lives but not have it available to said Lindsey Masters one of the firefighters who handled the wreck was a prime example of why we needed the tool It took us 15 minutes for a job that would have taken only 30 Please see Rescuepage 3 reaching the two victims inside Only after 1 5 minutes passed and a volunteer rescue squad from Ranlo showed up did the firefighters peel open the roof and pull the victims to safety The volunteers had a tool the professionals did not a gasoline powered of life" a motorized clamp that reduces minutes of rescue time to seconds a device that a group of Gastonia GASTONIA he car have crashed into the truck at a more convenient place for a rescue But even though the wreck happened only steps away from the Gastonia fire station at Ozark Avenue four trained firefighters had no way of Mildred Hfetety Sadler When Mildred Sadler was named Woman of the Year in 1 993 it capped a lifelong devotion to education and civic work By the time Sadler retired in 1991 she had spent more than 28 years working in Gaston schools She began teaching home economics in 1948 in York SC She has served as assistant principal at Highland Junior High School and as secondary education supervisor for Gaston schools Sadler was named Gaston Outstanding Woman in 1988 and Civitan Woman of the Year in 1985 Her son is Ed Sadler Gaston Schools assistant superintendent and a finalist for superintendent Ex-Wildcat homers after crossing picket line LJHHIilCl you play games then you accomplish Sanders said he has not heard from the players union made a move right or wrong" Sanders said from Port St Lucie Fla on Monday get anything accomplished without making a move" His day started poorly Monday He was hit in the mouth by a baseball before the game resulting in a cut on the lower lip John Clennon do what I thought was best for my career" said Sanders a 25-year-old North Gaston High graduate playing right field Sanders who has spent the last three seasons at the Class AA level had earlier decided not to cross the picket lines saying he feel the atmosphere was right But he said the strike is delaying minor league games and he felt he needed to face game conditions is spring training and here to play he said Dallas' Tracy Sanders said he got tired of waiting to play minor league games in spring training So he changed his mind and crossed the Major League Baseball picket line on aturday played in three games for the NY Mets since making his decision and had his best day in Monday's 5-1 loss to the Atlanta Braves Sanders hit a ninth-inning home run the first for the Mets in 80 innings of exhibition play had to change my mind and A former neighbor is arrested in the beating rape and stabbing of a 62-year-old Crouse wom-annext page Jack Lucas never had a formal lesson but writing and performing music was the love of his life Gerry Hostetler columnpage 4 Sanders.

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