Daily Archives: 05/15/2013
Pickens CERT group to hold training
PICKENS — The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills.
Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help. CERT members also are encouraged to support emergency response agencies by taking a more active role in emergency preparedness projects in their community.
The group plans to hold a basic training class on June 7 from 6 p.m.-9:30 p.m. and on June 8 and 9 from 8 a.m..-4 p.m. Classes are held at the Pickens County Emergency operations center at 1509 Walhalla Highway just west of Pickens.
Pickens cuts ribbon on water plant
The new renovated City of Pickens Water Plant had its official ribbon cutting on Thursday as Pickens Mayor David Owens cut the ribbon during a special barbecue lunch provided by engineering firm Hulsey, McCormick and Wallace. The firm was instrumental in designing the $4 million in upgrades at the facility. The plant will offer the highest quality water for the citizens of Pickens, Owens said. Above, Owens, city administrator Katherine Brackett, members of city council and water plant operators, along with officials from Hulsey, McCormick and Wallace open the new plant.
Just turning the radio on
Olivia Fowler
On The Way
By Olivia Fowler
There wasn’t a television in my grandmama’s house. So back in the olden days when we were children, we weren’t exposed to Captain Kangaroo. Instead, after supper and before bedtime we’d all join Grandmama in the sitting room.
In winter we’d gather around the big kerosene heater on the old fireplace hearth and sit entranced listening to the radio.
She had a big old upright Emerson. I thought it was a magic box.
An example of a lifetime
Nicole Daughhetee
Life As I Know It
By Nicole Daughhetee
I’m not sure if I’ve ever told you much about my maternal grandparents. Growing up, they were a big part of my life, and I spent a great deal of time with them — especially after they relocated from Colorado to Bartow, Fla.
If they were still alive, they would be celebrating their 76th wedding anniversary today, May 15. I like to imagine them together in Heaven, loving one another more with each passing day of eternity.
Getting things going right
Ben Robinson
All About Ben
By Ben Robinson
When you’re trying to turn things around, it’s easy to get discouraged.
A couple of weeks ago, I went to a small town in Georgia for a job interview.
The town is small and closed off by mountains that surround it. It’s a nice place, a little small for a weekly newspaper, but from what I was told, most people there subscribe to the newspaper there. Their only competition is the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but apparently the AJC no longer sends papers that far. Some guy in town apparently goes to Atlanta a few times a week, buys some papers, and then sells them for quite a profit.
Dr. John R. Brinkley: American Dream or Nightmare?
How a Jackson County, N.C., native went from richest doctor in the world to an infamous disgrace
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-week series written by Courier contributor Dr. Tom Cloer, Jr., about Dr. John R. Brinkley, Jr., born in neighboring Jackson County, N.C., and one of the most famous and successful men in the world in the 1930s before his unconventional methods and deceit led to his own fall from grace.
By Dr. Tom Cloer, Jr.
For the Courier
My maternal ancestors were here in the Pickens District in the 1700’s. But prior to the Civil War, my Great, Great Grandfather, Daniel Van Buren Moody, moved to East LaPorte, North Carolina, in Jackson County. Jackson County at that time bordered the Pickens District. My Great Grandfather, John Thomas Moody, son of Daniel Van Buren Moody, married Emma Wike there, and together they amassed an enormous amount of rich bottom land in the fertile Tuckasegee Valley. Therefore, throughout
Courier Obits 5-15-13
Marvin J. Lewis
Pickens — Marvin J. Lewis, 63, husband of Wendy Howard Lewis, of Pickens, died Thursday evening, May 9, 2013.
Marvin was born in Pickens County, a son of the late Berce William and Alberta (Bertie) Massingale Lewis. He formerly worked in textiles as a weaver and he was a member of Pickens Independent Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Wendy of the home, daughter and son-in-law, Tammy Coates and Randall of Pickens and grandson, Justin Coates. Also surviving are step-children, Katherine Heavlin, Shalane Tompkins, and Dolly Brannen, sister, Betty Haynes, nephew, Joe Hendricks, great nieces, Josie, Hope, and Heather Hendricks, and great great nephew, Weston McJunkins.
Courier Classifieds 5-15-13
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