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October 8, 2015

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OUR 23 rd YEAR • ISSUE NO. 40 • OCTOBER 8, 2015 RutherfordWeekly.com 828-248-1408 FREE FREE YOUR #1 ADVERTISING SOURCE! YOUR #1 ADVERTISING SOURCE! ©Community First Media Community First Media FLU SHOTS FLU SHOTS AVAILABLE DAILY AVAILABLE DAILY AT BOTH HARDIN'S AT BOTH HARDIN'S DRUG LOCATIONS DRUG LOCATIONS ALSO AVAILABLE PNEUMONIA--SHINGLES VACCINES INQUIRE ABOUT OTHER VACCINES FOREST CITY FOREST CITY 828-245-7274 • CAROLEEN 828-657-5353 828-245-7274 • CAROLEEN 828-657-5353 Orchard Park 6 th Annual Car Show InÁ atables & Free Rides presents Saturday, October 17 Saturday, October 17 11 11 AM AM - 6 - 6 PM PM 957 Whitesides Rd Forest City 957 Whitesides Rd Forest City 828-287-2640 828-287-2640 828-429-3976 828-429-3976 www.orchardparks.com www.orchardparks.com Welcome Kids! Welcome Kids! 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Only $30 registration Free T-shirt per registration Judging at 2pm ©Community First Media Community First Media New camp will offer community New camp will offer community and families a place to reconnect Garden Club focuses on upcoming Garden Club focuses on upcoming beautification projects beautification projects Articles By: Allison Flynn • allison@rutherfordweekly.com Articles By: Allison Flynn • allison@rutherfordweekly.com "Sow that you may reap, come that you may gain, pay that you may remain." For more than 70 years the Rutherfordton Garden Club has been following this motto, gathering to learn, share and work on projects that help to beautify the Town of Rutherfordton. Members of the club recently gathered to begin planning for the next year's projects. As they waited for the program to begin, members discussed flowers and their summer gardens. "All of our programs pertain to gardening and they are always good," said Joy Deck, who joined the club in 2010. "And you don't have to have experience gardening to be a member." Deck joined after moving to Rutherford County with her husband, who is a county native. She believed it would be a good way to meet new people, while also enriching the community. The Club was organized in 1933, first meeting at the home of Mrs. B.D. Wilson. Now the club meets the second Monday of each month, September through May, at the Rutherfordton Clubhouse. The club is responsible for maintaining gardens around Rutherfordton, including the clubhouse. Those who drive through the town likely have no idea that its the women in the club who maintain the flowers in the circle at the bottom of North Washington Street near Mi Pueblito or the garden at Norris Public Library. The club's largest project - and fundraiser - annually is the wreath project. While Christmas is still several months away, the club has already begun work on the greenery that will adorn businesses around town. "We need to have orders completed and turned in by Oct. 12," said Club President, Debbie Best. Once orders are turned in, the real work begins. Members will attach pre-made bows to the more than 300 wreaths. While there is a lot of work, Best said "we have a lot of fun, too." The club sponsors guest speakers, work days and field trips, and visitors are welcome. Those who would like more information on membership should contact the club online at www.rutherfordtongardenclub.webs.com/contact-us. What was once home to a Boy Scout troop will now serve youth - and adults - again as early as the end of October. Camp McDaniel, which was created out of Hicks Grove Baptist Church, is named for Richard McDaniel, who donated the land to the church with a vision that it would continue to serve youth just as it had when Boy Scout Troop 999 met there. McDaniel proposed the idea of the camp to Hicks Grove pastor, the Rev. Don McIntyre, just after McIntyre began as an interim pastor at the church. "He invited me to visit him and said, 'The Lord told me you were sent here to fulfill what I want to do with this property.'" McIntyre was at first resistant, stating he hadn't planned to stay for the longterm at Hicks Grove. God, he said, had other plans and so began the work to form the camp, which is its own non-profit organization separate from the church. "For a year and a half now we've been working on the legalities and now we have begun construction," he said. As McIntyre prayed over the camp, he said the Lord told him to build it without incurring debt. What seemed impossible has been overwhelming, he explained. "I stood one morning before the congregation and said 'I want to build 10 cabins.' Within 22 minutes, those 10 cabins were paid for." There has been amazing participation from the community, he continued. A trucking company hauled stone for free, another company provided grading equipment for use as long as needed at no cost. A building on the property that was once the Scout Hut will serve as the camp's office, and a house that was built but never lived in will become the home for the camp caretaker. While other Christian camps focus primarily on children, Camp McDaniel will focus on families, McIntyre explained. Marriage and parenting retreats will be held on site, and in the long-term, McIntyre said he sees the camp as being a location for children's homes. "We will have a dining hall that will seat 300," McIntyre said, gesturing to a graded part of the property. "There is a basketball court and four softball fields planned." Areas near the campers cabins has been designated as wildlife feeding areas, and the area will be seeded as such. Recently some women stopped by the camp, McIntyre continued, to see what work was being done. "They asked if they could come here to walk, and we said, of course. Now, they won't have to go all the way to Cowpens to walk." The camp will be open for the community to use for picnicking and fellowship, McIntyre said. "I really want the community to take ownership," he said. "I want people in this community to feel like 'we have something for our family.'" R th in b th is m g "

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