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Page 24 - shelby shopper & info - 704/484-1047 Let Your Voice Be Heard.... If you have concerns with the way our Government Representatives are representing you.... ★ Contact the Congress ★ ★ President Barack Obama 202-456-1111 – White House – http://www.whitehouse.gov.com ★ Senator Richard Burr (R_NC) DC Phone - 202-224-3154 – DC FAX 202-228-2981 http://burr.senate.gov/publicindex.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm ★ Senator Kay Hagan (D_NC) DC Phone - 202-224-6342 – DC FAX 202-228-2563 http://hagan.senate.gov/?p=contact ★ Representative Patrick McHenry (R_10) DC Phone - 202-225-2576 – DC FAX 202-225-0316 http://mchenry.house.gov/zipauth.htm ★ Representative Sue Myrick (R_09) DC Phone - 202-225-1976 – DC FAX 202-225-3389 http://myrick.house.gov/zipauth.shtml Civic Info www.shelbyinfo.com NEIGHBORHOOD Kidz Around Summer Child Care Program The Kidz Around Child Care began our sum- mer program at ELIZABETH SCHOOL on June 10 and operate through August 24, (day before school starts). The program is open to any child who is enrolled in Cleveland County Schools. The program will operate from 6:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. The cost will be $85.00 per week, $80.00 per week for additional siblings. The weekly fee includes the cost for all field trips; parents are responsible for any meals purchased while on field trips and spend- ing money the child may need. Students will be charged on a weekly basis and WILL NOT BE CHARGED FOR THE FULL WEEKS THEY DO NOT ATTEND. Payment is due on Monday in advance each week. We will participate in the Cleveland County Schools Free Lunch Program. The lunches will begin on June 10th and run through August 20th. We will provide a weekly menu for parents with children enrolled in the program. A snack will be provided in the morning and afternoon. KIWANIS CLUB – SHELBY - Every Thursday - Lunch meeting held at the Country Club from 11:45 until 1:00 - 86 year old club. Join the ranks of Professional Business Men and Women! Newcomers that join receive the first quarter free. Lunch and program are provided. Leadership starts here! ROTARY INTERNATIONAL SHELBY Breakfast - Tuesdays at Cleveland County Country Club 7:30 - 704-487-1120 SHELBY Lunch - Friday 12:00 Cleveland County Country Club KINGS MOUNTAIN Thursdays 12 noon at Kings Mountain Senior Center BOILING SPRINGS - Mon Lunch - 12 noon at Ritch Banquet Hall at GWU LIONS CLUB SHELBY - 2nd & 4th Tuesday - 7:00pm - Cleveland Country Club - 704-482-0135 SHELBY COMMUNITY - 1st & 3rd Monday - 7:00pm - Jackson’s Cafeteria - 704-482-8581 KINGS MOUNTAIN - 2nd & 4th Tues. - 6:30pm KM Woman’s Club - 704-739-7616 LAWNDALE - 2nd & 4th Tues. - 7:00pm Lawndale Community Center BOILING SPRINGS - 1st & 3rd Mon. - 7:00pm - GWU Fallston - 1st & 3rd Thurs. - 7:00pm - Dub’s Barber Shop EXCHANGE CLUB SHELBY - Meets 2nd & 4th Monday at 6:00-Jacksons Cafeteria • 704-418-2711 CIVITAN CLUB - 1st & 3rd Wed. - 12 Noon - Cleveland Country Club TOASTMASTERS - 704-434-0639 OPTIMIST CLUB 1st & 3rd Thursday at the Days Inn - SHELBY • 704-482-5658 KINGS MOUNTAIN • 704-739-0296 JR. CHARITY LEAGUE - 704-481-9751 FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE - 704-484-4976 or 704-482-2050 ELKS LODGE #1709 - 704-487-5247 WOODMEN OF THE WORLD - 704-481-8668 SHELBY WOMAN’S CLUB 704-482-1163 - 2nd CLEVELAND CO. VETERANS COUNCIL 704-538-5544 Cleveland County Club UPPER CLEVELAND CO. CHAMBER 704-538-8805 - 1st Mon. every month - 7:00 pm Brackett’s Cedar Park VETERANS ASSOCIATIONS AMVETS 704-482-7471 VFW SHELBY - 704-487-4873 Kings Mtn. - 704-750-4230 AMERICAN LEGION Post #155 - 704-739-6387 Post #82 - 704-482-7416 WR Gary Fallston Post #527 - 704-538-7191 DAV 704-482-8066 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY POST 82 704-482-1163 AMVETS AUXILIARY 704-487-6118 MARINE CORPS LEAGUE 704-487-7545 SCV - 4th Tues. 6:30 pm Jackson Cafeteria VFW CHERRYVILLE Post #5200 704-445- 3933 DAV AUXILIARY 704-482-8066 VFW AUXILIARY 704-487-7103 To Get Your Club Information Included In Shelby Shopper & Info Civic Listings Call 704-484-1047 Thurs. of every month 12:00 pm The program will provide safe, well-supervised activities for grades k-5 (students entering kindergarten and students entering the 6th grade). Children will be divided into separate groups depending on grade and enrollment. Other activities will be geared toward age and will include water days (with special projects); visits from the fire department and swim- ming at Gardner Webb and Shelby City Park for 2nd – 5th Grades. The summer program will be going on field trips, which may include the Hiddenite Emerald Mine, Dan Nicholas Park, Discovery Place, Tweetsie Railroad and Hickory Dickory Dock. All students will be required to purchase a $10.00 camp T-shirt to wear on each field trip. A full set of operational policies and field trips along with a weekly schedule will be available to parents with children in the program. Partnership for End-of-Life Issues “Funeral Home Tours” – Tour includes a look into the embalming room (optional), a visit to the selection room, and presentation by a funeral service professional discussing pre-needs, pre-planning, cremation, and ways to memorialize your loved ones. Stamey Funeral Home – Fri., Sept. 3 at 10:00 am – 846 E. Stagecoach Trail, Fallston. Cleveland Funeral Services – Wed., Oct. 6 at 10:00 am – 2518 W. Dixon Blvd., Shelby. For more information on Journey, please contact Len Byers at 980-487-3855. South Mountains State Park Summer Kid’s Club Join a Park Ranger this summer to learn all sorts of fun stuff about water critters, trees, animals, and fish just to name a few. Programs will be offered now to August 19th. The same program will be offered twice a week every Tuesday at 11:00 am and Thursday at 2:00 pm. See below for program schedule and descriptions. July 1 – “Skulls and Skins” – Join a Park Ranger and learn about some of South Mountains animals and their adaptations. Please meet at the Picnic Shelter in the Jacob Fork Parking Area. 7/3 – “Animals of the South Mountains” – Join a Park Ranger and learn about the many animals that call South Mountains home. The program will begin at 11:00 am in the Visitor Center auditorium. “Black Bears: Majestic Creatures of the Wild” – How dangerous are black bears? Can we co-exist? Why are black bears so unique? What should I do if I see a black bear? The program will begin at 2:00 pm in the Visitor Center. 7/4 & 7/11– “Tree ID Hike” – Join a Park Ranger for a 1.0 mile hike along the Hemlock Nature Trail. Tree identification will be the focus of this hike. Meet at the Jacob Fork Parking Area at 11:00 am. “Creatures of the Night” – Meet in the Visitor Center auditorium at 2:00 pm to learn about some of our local nocturnal creatures. Note: Thi program will NOT have any live specimens. 7/10 – “Animals of the South Mountains” – Join a Park Ranger to learn about the many animals that call South Mountains home. The program will begin at 11:00 am in the Visitor Center auditorium. “Tree ID Hike” – Join a Park Ranger for a 1.0 mile hike along the Hemlock Nature Trail. Tree identification will be the focus of this hike. Meet at the Jacob Fork Parking Area at 2:00 pm. 7/17 – “Animals of the South Mountains” – Join a Park Ranger and learn about the many animals that call South Mountains home. The program will begin at 11:00 am in the Visitor Center auditorium. “Streamside Hike” – Join a Park Ranger at the Jacob Fork Parking Area at 2:00 pm for a streamside hike along theh Jacob Fork River. 7/18– “Tree ID Hike” – Join a Park Ranger for a 1.0 mile hike along the Hemlock Nature Trail. Tree identification will be the focus of this hike. Meet at the Jacob Fork Parking Area at 11:00 am. “Caddisfly Cases” – Kids are introduced to the life cycle of an aquatic insect and its adaptation as they construct their own caddisfly cases. Join a Ranger at the Visitor Center at 2:00 for this fun activity. 7/24 & 7/25– “Streamside Hike” – Join a Park Ranger at the Jacob Fork Parking Area at 11:00 am for a streamside hike along theh Jacob Fork River. “What’s in the Water?” – How many different kinds of critters live in the river?? Join a Park Ranger in the stream to turn over some rocks and learn more about what you might find there. Come prepared to get wet!! Meet at the Visitor Center at 2:00 pm. 7/31 – “Animals of the South Mountains” – Join a Park Ranger and learn about the many animals that call South Mountains home. The program will begin at 11:00 am in the Visitor Center auditorium. “Birds of Prey” – Join a Park Ranger at the Visitor Center at 2:00 pm and learn about some of the birds of prey found in the South Mountains. You will learn about the distinguishing characteristics of these animals, and find out why they are called birds of prey. Thursday, July 1-July 7, 2010 EIGHBORHOOD CALENDAR Guidelines For Submitting Community Events ALENDAR Please be sure to include the Event Name, Complete Address where event will take place, and Phone Number for contact, plus description of the event. Also, please include a contact person responsible for your info/event for us to contact if we have questions. e-mail: events@shelbyinfo.com South Mountains State Park, 3001 South Mountains Park Avenue, Connelly Springs, NC 28612. (South Mountains State Park is located south of Morganton off of old Highway 18.) We welcome the community to join us for our monthly educational interpretive programs. Call the park office at (828) 433-4772 or www.ncparks.gov/Visit/parks/somo for more information. Cleveland County Memorial Library Now-7/8 – Thursday – 10:30 am - 12:00 noon – Cleveland County Memorial Library, Small Conference Room. Come join the Library Morning Book Club. The book for July is South of Broad by Pat Conroy. Now-7/28 – Make Waves @ Your Library Teen Summer Reading Program, 3:00-4:00 p.m. – Cleveland County Memorial Libary, Large Meeting Room. Make Waves with the Library and enjoy our summer reading program. The program is open to all young adults in grades 7th through 12th grade. Summer reading will begin on Wednesday, June 16th at 3:00 p.m. The program will be every Wednesday, except for the week of July 5th-9th, 2010. The program is free and open to all young adults who wish to attend. There will be special events throughout the summer and ou can read books on your reading level for fantastic prizes. So Let’s Make Waves this summer at the Library. For more details, please contact Kimberly Logan, Adult Services Librarian at 704-487-9069 ext. 238. Now-7/30 – Water Your Mind – READ, Adult Summer Reading Program: Cleveland – Don’t let your mind dry up this summer. Cleveland County Library System. Register and use your book review prize entry forms to enter into weekly drawings for fabulous prizes! Some of these priz- es include: a Fatz Café coupon book worth $20.00, a Ruby Tuesday’s Gift Card, where there is a new Sunday Brunch from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., an Alston Bridges Barbecue dinner for two coupons, an Arnold’s Jewelry Store Gift Set, and much, much more. Registration begins June 14th. So Water Your Imagination this summer and READ! For more information, please contact Kimberly Logan, Adult Services Librarian at 704-487-9069, ext. 238. Now-8/5 – Make A Splash @Your Library Children’s Summer Reading Program - June 14-August 5, 2010, 10:00-11:00 AM – Come to the Cleveland County Library system and Make a Splash with our Children’s Summer Reading Program. The program is for children ages pre-school to 6th grade will meet every Wednesday. Children will read books on their reading leveland the books must come from the library. Prizes will be awarded for the number of books read. Books are recorded on a reading log, which is provided by the library. For more information, please contact Barbara Wakefield, Children’s Librarian at 704-487-9069, ext., 233. Cleveland County Memorial Library now offers Mango Languages Online Database – The Cleveland County Memorial Library is now proud to offer Mango Languages. Mango Languages is an online language learning system that helps you learn a variety of foreign languages, such as Spanish, Italian, French, German, Russian and English as a Second Language. It uses real life situations and actual conversations to teach a new language. You can utilize Mango Languages Basic Courses to learn some basic words and phrases for your business trip or an overseas vaca- tion. You can also utilize Mango Languages Complete Courses, to learn more than just basic language skills. Mango Languages ccan be accessed both in the Library and from your home. You can access mango Langauges by clicking on the Mango Icon on the Cleveland County Memorial Library website (http://www.ccml.org). If you are using a computer outside the Library, it will ask for your library card number. For more information, please contact Cleveland County Memorial Library at 704-487-9069. Cleveland County Arts Council “A Day in the Life of Cleveland County” – Thursday, July 1 – 5:30 - 7:30 pm & Exhibit: July 5th - July 29th – You’re invited to the Opening Reception. This is a viewers choice competition, come vote for your favorite photograph. “Shavings & Thrums” – A juried exhibition that seeks to show- case a wide range of outstanding works related to fiber and wood media. Contemporary, innovative and traditional works created with fiber or wood as the primary media are welcome. Entry deadline: July 30. “Made for Each Other” – September 9 – October 14 – A Juried Art Exhibition Featuring Ceramic Cream & Sugar Sets. American Red Cross Bloodmobile JULY 2010 OPEN & CLOSED BLOOD DRIVES DONOR APPEAL!! 0 NEG AT CRITICAL LOW (Please call for an appointment --- LESS WAITING TIME!) 7/6 – Tuesday – Polkville Baptist Church (20) – 2:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Hwy 226, Polkville, NC. For appointment call Jenny at. 7/9 – Friday – Telerx (Employees Only) (30) – 10:00 am – 2:30 pm – 110 Commerce Blvd., Kings Mountain, NC. Free Cleveland Mall Chick fil-A Coupons. 7/10 – Saturday – Walls Memorial Church (25) – 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm – 22223 Elizabeth Ave., Kingstown, NC. Free Cleveland Mall Chick fil-A Coupons. 7/12 – Monday – Double Springs Baptist Church (25) – 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm – 1130 Double Springs Church Road, Shelby, NC. For appointment call 704-434-2583. Continued on Page 25

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