Rutherford Weekly - Shelby NC
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Graham Street • Shelby, NC NO UPFRONT ATTORNEY NO UPFRONT ATTORNEY FEES FOR FILING CHAPTER 13 FEES FOR FILING CHAPTER 13 Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. I love family gatherings, without the gift giving and expectations of such. Thanksgivings as a child were very traditional. For several years, we had our Thanksgiving dinner at an uncle and aunt's home with all my mother's family gathered together. Years later as families grew, and our immediate family became larger, we'd go back home to our parents house for Thanksgiving Day. There we feasted on the traditional supper of turkey, dressing, giblet gravy, green beans, rice, rolls and pumpkin pie. Thanksgiving Day was also the perfect day, my daddy believed, to get caught up on last minute harvest-time chores. Since school was closed it was the perfect day to work and then later that night enjoy our bounty of blessings around the supper table. For many years, that's exactly what we did. One particular year stands out as one of those I'll never forget. Our parents had planted a crop of corn on a friend's property a few miles away and Daddy decided it would be the perfect day to gather the fodder to feed our three head of beef cattle. That wasn't my idea of how to spend a nice holiday away from school, but a girl has to do what a girl has to do, so early that morning off to the fi eld my twin sisters, Daddy and Grandpa and me went. Mama stayed home and prepared the Thanksgiving meal, just like the Mama Pilgrims, and out there in the fi eld we worked. Our older sister, a member of the world famous East Cavalier Band, didn't have to join us in the corn fi eld. She was off marching through the streets of Charlotte in the annual Carolinas Carousel parade. Although we had very little sympathy for her because she had to march in the parade, we did promise we'd watch her on television that day. CBS was planning to broadcast parts of the Carousel parade on national television and the Cavalier Band was going to be among units feature, the band had been told. But, when we got to the fi eld of corn, parade watching was the least of our worries. Who in the world planted all those long rows? The fi eld seemed to go for miles. How in the world would we ever get fi nished in time for Thanksgiving supper? That was my main concern. Forget the marching band. We worked like mad that Thanksgiving. My grandpa Crawford was an expert at tying the shocks of corn stalks. Daddy cut the corn and we dragged them to Grandpa. We had an assembly line that any auto production company would be proud to claim. Hours passed and fi nally the chore was fi nished. Harvest day was over. There would be meat on the tables next year. Our day's work would make for fatted calves. We hurried to Daddy's truck for the ride back over to the house. We made in time to watch the parade. Bone tired and smelling like fodder and itching like crazy, my parents and sisters and I parked ourselves in front of the television to see the Cavalier Band. For some reason, the band wasn't televised after all, although a portion of the Carousel parade was. We were disappointed, but we could live with it. So on to Thanksgiving supper. Our sister didn't make it for supper, but we saved her a plate of turkey and dressing. When she came home that night, she was more than disappointed. She was extremely tired from marching all day. She threw herself on a bed and cried and cried. Her heart was broken that the band wasn't on national television. And then it hit my other sisters and I. We had been stomping cornstalks all day, tying them up, dragging them to the truck, working like horses in a fi eld, just so we could have hamburgers and here she was crying because she wasn't on television. Talk about upset. We wanted to beat her, but, it being Thanksgiving, we opted to wait a few days. When a few days came, we had forgotten all about it. It was not until years later, after the unexpected death of my older sister at age 30 that we realized that one of life's greatest blessing and joys was just being all together as family. We learned the value of families and loving each other unconditionally. We had taken for granted the fact that we'd always be together. I'm convinced I was never thankful enough for those days when we were all together, until suddenly it was no longer that way. As we gather together with family, friends or even with strangers at a soup kitchen, thankfulness is the best way to live — an attitude of gratitude. MEMORIES OF THANKSGIVING AT OUR HOUSE By: Jean Gordon New fi gures show the nonfatal workplace injury and illness rate for the Tar Heel state's private industry remains at a historic low for 2018 with a rate at 2.4 cases per 100 full-time workers. The 2018 rate for private industry was not statistically different from 2.3 in 2017, which was the lowest on record. North Carolina is one of 12 states and the District of Columbia with rates below the national rate of 2.8 cases per 100 full-time workers. These data are estimates from a Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rate accounts for growth and contraction in total hours worked in industry, which is an important factor in a state like North Carolina that has experienced signifi cant growth. "I am pleased with the survey results for North Carolina especially when you consider the growth our state experienced in 2018," Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry said. "This is positive news for employers and employees who have embraced a safety and health culture from the mountains to the coast." As a State-Plan state, North Carolina's Occupational Safety and Health Division will continue its focus on hazardous industries, like construction and manufacturing, through its special emphasis programs, providing free safety training and education, conducting free safety and health consultative visits, and by establishing partnerships and alliances with industries. The 2018 private industry rate for construction increased from 1.8 cases per 100 full-time workers to 2.5 but remains below the national rate of 3.0. The 2018 private industry rate for manufacturing of 2.8 cases per 100 full-time workers does not signifi cantly differ from 2.9 cases per 100 full-time workers in 2017 and remains below the national rate of 3.4. 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