Young volunteers provide an extra lift on moving day
Unexpectedly and amazingly, the east Rowan community rallied to support Connie and me again. Going back to September 2010, East Rowan YMCA folks and high school teachers organized a productive fund-raiser/barbecue. This helped offset my chemotherapy costs.
Now, I’m blessed with another supportive surge of love. This time from baby boomers: parents, Mark and Ashley Huneycutt; also coaches at East Rowan cross country, Rick Roseman and Billy Mills.
Special thanks to family owned Salisbury Moving and Storage employees, Darrell, Dean and Walker. This family donated use of a large moving truck and their personal labor of love, alongside the efforts of friend and columnist David Freeze.
But now the extraordinary part of the story. East Rowan’s team did the majority of the work on a 92-degree day. Probably 30 boys and girls, including some recruits from Erwin Middle, were instrumental in this project. These are 15-year-old children who volunteered a care-free summer day to help Connie and me move from Woodleaf.
The toughness and character exhibited under Coach Roseman’s supervision has shown me a side of youth I wasn’t looking for. The manners and compassion I experienced in watching these girls and guys lifting heavy furniture up stairways, smiling all the time, was something just short of tremendous.
In conclusion, thanks again, guys! I and other parents probably need to refrain from giving the next generation such an undeserving “bad rap” and get involved. I guess you find what you’re looking for.
I found how proud and blessed we parents should be of those “darn kids.” When you look deeply in their hearts of gold, they’re often very impressive.
— Joe and Connie Endres
Salisbury
Cheers for winning cyclists
Congratulations to two of our local young athletes. On June 25 in the USA Cycling 2011 Junior Elite Road Nationals held in Augusta, Ga., Emily and Katherine Shields finished second and third, respectively. Their finish, in identical times, was only one second out of first place. Although there was no local news coverage of this race, recognition is due to Emily and Katherine for their impressive performance in this national event.
— Mike Mills
Salisbury
Waiting for a higher response
I thought it rather amusing that city officials made getting a permit so complicated for those who wanted to protest the recent gay-lesbian event. If anybody wants to protest this despicable parade of depraved human activity, I would advise you to protest Mayor Susan Kluttz who gave her blessing and any other pertinent government officer responsible for allowing this to happen. They are the ones who will be held accountable to an even greater degree at the judgment bar of God.
Evidently, none of these elected officials knows anything about world history. Every past civilization was corrupted and destroyed by this very activity. In every society, it is those who have the power to govern people and enforce laws who will be held to a higher standard of accountability when the hearts of men and women will be judged by almighty God one day. The sentence he renders will be final.
It doesn’t matter if people believe that or not. Nobody believed in Noah’s day, either, and look what happened to them. The fool hath said in his heart there is no God.
People make their own choices. It’s evident that none of thes city officials realize the danger and trouble they have placed upon Salisbury and this area. God is not mocked. He still rules in the affairs of mankind, and he will have the last say in this matter as well. I wonder what kind of response God is going to send for his “protest.”
— Larry Beaver
Faith