This feature mines the McDowell News archives for what was going on this week in local history.
Twenty-five years ago this week, West McDowell Junior High School celebrated Women’s History Month with daily historical facts, weekly trivia questions, videos and a poster contest. The poster contest winners who each received a $15 prize were (from left) Kristina Hendley (seventh grade), Tiffany St. Bernard (eighth grade) and Laura Decker (ninth grade). The events were sponsored by the Student Council and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
Matt Smith decorated The Wall, a student exhibit on display at MACA, as fellow East McDowell Junior High School student and artist Jamie Vance watches. The exhibit, created by Support Our Students participants, featured graffiti which expressed the student’s individual views. The artists invited the public to sign The Wall.
City of Marion employees worked to clear a tree that had fallen on some power lines as Marion police officers navigate traffic down East Court Street. A winter storm system for the start of spring downed several trees and caused plenty of traffic accidents.
During the week of March 24, 2001, McDowell Titans pitcher Drew Dillingham gets set to deliver a pitch. The Titans were scheduled to travel to Alexander Central for a game that had been postponed from the previous week.
A snow storm system during the start of spring caught many people off guard. But 10-year-old Zachary Wall used the unexpected day off from school to play in the snow.
During the week of March 24, 2001, Ryan Davis, assistant manager of Walmart, presented Nebo Elementary kindergarteners with a check of $1,000 toward a new playground. Kindergarten teachers Joyce Poplin and Maria Bristol accepted the check with representatives of other kindergarten classes Sarah Bristol, Haley Buchanan, Andrina Morgan, James Bailor, Karl Eisenbraun and Megan Gaffigan.
Anne Englebach lets her daughter Emily get a good whiff of one of her handmade soaps. Englebach made the soaps from scratch at her Montford Cove home. Her soaps came in a host of different scents like wine and roses, strawberry, honeysuckle and patchouli.
Marion’s Willis Truesdale caught this nice largemouth bass on Lake James. Truesdale’s fish was 22 inches long and weighed 6 ¼ pounds.
Fire shot from these downed power lines on U.S. 70 West in Pleasant Gardens sending smoke billowing along the highway. P.G. Fire Chief Bobby Anderson said a glass insulator on the top of the power pole broke, causing the live wires to fall to the ground. Traffic on U.S. 70 was stopped for 10 to 15 minutes while Duke Power employees reset the pole and changed everything out, making it safe for motorists to pass again. Members of the sheriff’s office were also on the scene.
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This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history.
This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history.
This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history.
This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history.
