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VALDESE HEADLINES - 2007

IMPORTANT
INFORMATION

 

HEADLINE ARCHIVES

10/22/07
Effective today, the Town of Valdese will be under Stage 3 Water Restrictions. Stage 3 is a more restrictive mandatory requirement stage. The Town's Water Department is instructed to take the following actions and advise citizens of the new requirements.

• Communicate current conditions to employees, customers, and community users.
  • Lawn watering is prohibited:
  • No residential vehicle washing.
  • Limit public building, sidewalk, and street washing activities except as required for safety and health regulations.
  • Bubble / drip or hand irrigation applied to trees and plant beds is not restricted.
  • No outdoor ornamental water use (fountains and ponds without fish).
  • No filling or refilling swimming pools.
  • Limited construction uses, street washing or hydrant flushing except to maintain water quality and regulatory compliance.
  • Encourage industrial water use reductions through process changes.
• Enforce mandatory restrictions through assessment of fines.
• This level as a goal of water usage reduction of 10-20%.
• Fines for violations:
  • First Offense: $100
  • Second Offense: $200
  • Third Offense: $300

07/29/07
The Town of Valdese is hosting the Second Annual Scrappin' at the Rock scrapbooking event at the Old Rock School. This scrappin' party will be filled with demonstrations, classes and a huge crop room to crop til you drop!

Cropping begins Friday, October 5th, from 6:00 p.m. until midnight. Snacks, Goody bags, and Door Prizes are included, Dinner is available: Vendors include: Creative Memories, Close to My Heart, Stampin' Up, and Forever Your Memories.

The Crop Room is open again on Saturday, October 6th, from 9:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Classes begin on Saturday with Stampin' Up demonstrator Wendy Martin. Learn to make Greeting Cards, altered clipboards, seasonal layouts, coaster creations and many projects with a 5 in 1 template. Michelle Teffeteller with Creative Memories will offer Scrapbooking 101 and Story Book Creator - the newest inovation in digital scrapbooking.

Pauline Chiz from Forever Your Memories Scrapbook Store in Morganton with be teaching two classes. Her first class is BoBunny Bags, Tags and Cards and the second is Daisy D's Mistletoe Memories Christmas album. Pauline will be drawing for prizes in each of her classes. Debbie Little with Close to My Heart will offer classes in vintage christmas ornaments, Fall "Scrappin At the Rock" layouts, Girly Girl Purses, and a beautiful 9X9 accordian album. Christine Ritch-Neal from Girl Scouts will offer classes using a brand new line of coordinating papers and embellishments from K&Company to create contemporary and vintage inspired designs.

Lunch is offered along with snacks and drinks. Please call 828-879-2129 or email jdraughn@ci.valdese.nc.us to pre-register. You will not want to miss this event!

07/22/07
The 32nd Annual Waldensian Festival in Valdese will be held on August 10th and 11th with a variety of crafts, food, music, rides and games.

Beginning at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 10th, children’s rides will be open behind the Old Rock School and at 7:00 p.m., the Opening Ceremony for the festival will begin in the Town Parking Lot beside the Wachovia Bank. Following the ceremony, free entertainment will be provided by “The Extraordinaires."

Several food vendors will be set up during the Friday night entertainment to provide a wide variety of delicious foods. Main Street will be closed to allow for over one hundred vintage cars and trucks to set up for a cruise-in.

The celebration continues on Saturday, with over 150 food and craft vendors. Live entertainment will continue through out the day with various local bands.

For further information, call 828-879-2126.

04/15/07
Valdese Rotary Club Scholarship Auction Committee Chairperson Ron LaSalle has announced the Eleventh Annual Rotary Scholarship Auction.

The auction, with heavy hors d'oeuvres and live musical entertainment by guitarist Bobby Denton, will be held on April 21st, Saturday, at the Valdese American Legion Post 234 on 709 North Church Street from 6:30 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. Tickets are $ 10.00 and can be purchased from club members or at the door.

Activities include a silent auction and a 50-50 drawing. The live auction will begin at around 8:00 pm with a professional auctioneer Charles Hollar. Items for the live auction include: A 23” color TV provided by Major Electric; four rounds of golf at Mimosa Hill County Club; living room furniture; gift certificates from area merchants; pottery; Tweetsie Railroad tickets and, many other items.

LaSalle noted, ”We really appreciate the generosity of our local merchants and businesses in providing some special gifts to help our club raise funds for our scholarship program.”

Proceeds from the auction will go to the Rotary scholarship fund.

03/26/07
The Valdese Tourism Department sponsored a Tour Day for several different media personnel on March 17, 2007. Each participant was able to experience a typical “Day Trip” tour that the Valdese Tourism Department offers tourist groups.

Barbara Hefner, Valdese Tourism Director, met the group at the Rock School and provided information about the town of Valdese. Their tour day consisted of visiting the Rock School, Rock School Art Galleries, Piedmont and Western Railroad Club, Waldensian Museum, Trail of Faith and luncheon at the Waldensian Winery.

02/23/07
Reese Volk is the grandson of Reese S. Scull, formerly of Valdese. This is an official press release.

The Volk family has been chosen to serve as the official 2007 State March of Dimes Ambassador family for Virginia. Reese Volk, born sixteen weeks prematurely in 2001, will serve as the poster child for WalkAmerica events across the state of Virginia for the 2007 March of Dimes annual prematurity campaign. Reese was WalkAmerica Ambassador for Rabun County, Georgia in 2003 and co-ambassador in 2004, and was last year's LENOWSICO chapter ambassador for Wise County, Virginia, where he has lived with father David, mother Heather and brother Julian since 2005. David Volk is employed as Assistant Professor of Music and Music Division Academic Coordinator at the University of Virginia's College at Wise and Heather teaches at Playcare preschool and King's Christmas Academy in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, where the couple's sons Reese and Julian also attend school. Reese's grandparents Reese S. and Faye McEntire Scull are former residents of the Valdese and Rutherford College area.

As state ambassadors, the Volk family will travel around Virginia to participate in March of Dimes events and speak to WalkAmerica sponsors, teams, volunteers and other families in an effort to showcase the valuable work of the March of Dimes and help raise money for the national prematurity prevention campaign. When Reese was born extremely prematurely in 2001, his life was initially saved by artificial lung surfactant, which allowed his undeveloped lungs to breathe oxygen provided by a mechanical ventilator. That artificial lung surfactant was developed in 1975 by the March of Dimes and Reese's parents credit the voluntary health organization with helping give their son a fighting chance for survival when premature birth was the leading cause of newborn death in the US. Reese spent 120 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Greenville's (South Carolina) Children's Hospital and finally got to go home with his parents two weeks after his original due date in late April 2002. Reese turned five years old on New Year's Eve 2006.

The family's WalkAmerica family mission team, TEAM REESIE participates in WalkAmerica each spring and fall in several states where they help raise awareness for the prematurity prevention campaign and collect donations to help fund the March of Dimes mission. Team Reesie walks in honor of Reese and in memory of his twin brother Evan, who died eighteen hours after birth from complications of prematurity. Reese's mother, Heather Volk was recently recognized as "Volunteer of the Year" for the state of Virginia's Greater Blue Ridge Division of March of Dimes and serves as honorary Chair for the LENOWISCO chapter in the family's hometown of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Reese Volk is the great-grandson of Dorothy McEntire and the late Glen McEntire of Valdese and the late Reese W. and Norma Rostan Scull of Rutherford College.

02/17/07
The Waldensian Presbyterian Church celebrated the 159th anniversary of the Edict of Emancipation with a pasta dinner, followed by a guest speaker and the traditional bonfire. The guest speaker was Rev. Daniele Garrone, dean of the Waldensian seminary in Rome and a visiting professor at the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University. Rev. Garrone also spoke to a group of about twenty ministers at Covenant Center Chapel in Morganton on Thursday.

The bonfire was a collection of discarded Christmas trees and wreaths with a health dose of gasoline (or some flammable liquid) to help it start. A crowd of approximately forty braved the cold night to gather on Rodoret Street in the vacant lot between Nationwide Insurance and the railroad tracks to watch the fire burn. A gusting wind threatened to push the flames over to the parked cars and sent onlookers back several steps. But in the end, the fire stayed contained and was extinguished after about an hour.

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