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Page 6 - shelby shopper & info - 704/484-1047 www.shelbyinfo.com Thursday, January 28-February 3, 2021 ACCUTROL INCOME TAX SERVICE Monday-Friday 9am-7pm; Saturday 9am-4pm Or Stop By At: 416 N. Lafayette St. • Shelby, NC A A C C U T R O L • FREE E-Filing • FREE E-Filing • No Up Front Fees On Bank Products • No Up Front Fees On Bank Products • Personal/Corporate Returns • Personal/Corporate Returns • All State Returns • All State Returns Contact us at Contact us at 7 0 4 - 4 8 7 - 5 5 3 3 7 0 4 - 4 8 7 - 5 5 3 3 American Legion Post 82 Conducts Oratorical Contest Shelby American Legion Post 82 conducted its' annual oratorical contest on Saturday, January 9. First place winner was Burns High student Savannah McGlothlin, who spoke on "What Comprise Means to the Constitution" and in second place was Allie MacArthur of Crest High, whose oration was entitled "A Modern Constitution and Your Duty." Each received a cash award, with a gold medal going to fi rst place winner and a silver medal to second place contestant. Judges for the event were Les Farfour, a local Shelby Attorney and founding member of Greater Shelby Community Theatre; Dale Koontz Guffey, Associate Professor of Law at Limestone College and Shelby City Council member and veteran, the Rev. Charles Webber. Savannah will advance to the district competition, hosted by Forest city American Legion Post on January 23. She is the daughter of Nicole and Theodore McGlothlin and Allie is the daughter of and Noel and Lucinda MacArthur. The Post 82 contest was held at the Shelby Boys and Girls Club Gymnasium, which allowed for social distancing. The Shelby Legion Post was awarded the honor of hosting the North Carolina state contest this year. That event is scheduled to take place on Sunday, March 7, 1:00 pm at the LeGrand Center. Five students from across North Carolina will be competing for $7,000 in scholarship funds and the right to represent North Carolina at the National Contest, which will be held in Indianapolis in April. Submitted by Ludie Wilkie Pictured left to right: Savannah McGlothlin and Allie Macarthur Pictured left to right: Judges Les Farfour, Dale Koontz Guffey, and the Rev. Charles Webber. Hearts abound on Feb- ruary 14, and few symbols (and gifts) are more widely associated with a holiday than heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are with Valen- tine's Day. C h o c o l a t e s b e c a m e trendy in the mid-19th cen- tury when the first chocolate bar was made by British company J.S. Fry & Sons by combining cacao powder with sugar and cacao but- ter to make a rich, melt-in- your-mouth treat that was markedly different than the gritty and greasy drinking chocolate that was losing popularity in Europe. Within a few years, competitor Cad- bury introduced the first box of chocolates. It was called the "Fancy Box" and it didn't take long to become wildly popular. The marriage of choco- late and heart-shaped boxes seemed a natural pro- gression, but the National Valentine Collectors Associ- ation says that heart-shaped boxes actually predate choc- olate boxes. Various heart- shaped vessels, including "betrothal pendants" and silver boxes in the shape of hearts, were popularized a century earlier. There even were heart-shaped porcelain boxes as well as ones for sewing. Having already intro- duced a chocolate box, Richard Cadbury marketed the first Valentine's Day box in 1861. It was filled with de- licious chocolates, and later could be saved as a keep- sake to store special notes or other mementos, accord- ing to the North American Packaging Association. Furthermore, the gift fit with Victorian sensibilities in that it was demurely suggestive, NPR reports. Its introduc- tion coincided perfectly with Valentine's Day, which also soared in popularity around the same time. Giving chocolate on Val- entine's Day also proved popular in North America. The American chocolate company Hershey's intro- duced its Hershey's Kisses in 1907, and in 1912 the Whitman's Sampler ar- rived. In the 1920s, Russell Stover unveiled their own heart-shaped boxes, which today still include the "Red Foil Heart" and the "Secret Lace Heart." Russell Stover has since become the No. 1 boxed chocolate brand in the United States. Today, more than 36 million heart-shaped boxes holding 58 million pounds of chocolate are sold each year, reports the education resource SoftSchools. They have become a quintessen- tial symbol of Valentine's Day celebrations. Origins of heart-shaped chocolate box Hearts abound on February 14, and few symbols (and gifts) are more widely associated with a holiday than heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are with Valentine's Day. 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