Rutherford Weekly

Thursday, December 29-January 4, 2023 www.rutherfordweekly.com 828-248-1408 Rutherford Weekly - Page 3 NCDHHS, in partnership with StarMed Healthcare, has launched a time-limited telemedicine program to help people who test positive for COVID-19 have better access to treatments, particularly those who are uninsured. Free telemedicine appointments to screen for COVID-19 treatment eligibility will be available, while funding allows, to North Carolinians who have tested positive for COVID-19 with an at-home test or other method. To set up an appointment visit starmed. care/nc or call 704-941- 6000, 7 days a week from 9am-7pm. If the telemedicine provider determines a patient is eligible for oral antiviral treatment, such as Paxlovid, they can send a prescription to the patient's chosen pharmacy or through a mail-order pharmacy. If you have insurance, StarMed Healthcare will bill your health plan and NCDHHS will pay for any additional balance. If you do not have insurance, you will not be charged for your appointment. Business & Services Directory.......11 Obituaries................................18-19 Local Churches............................15 Outdoor Truths................................9 Classified Ads.........................22-23 Rutherford County Weather...........16 Fast Way Oil Kids Corner...............14 Community Calendar.....................17 B siness & Ser ices Director 11 I n s i d e T h i s W e e k I n s i d e T h i s W e e k Smith's Drugs has sold more than 43 copies of the book "It's About Jesus" WE WILL BUY WE WILL BUY YOUR CAR TODAY! YOUR CAR TODAY! www.mooresautos.com www.mooresautos.com 345 S Broadway, Forest City 828-245-8067 M O O RE ' S AUTO S ALES ©communityfi rstmedia Joseph forges a sword by fi re. Billy working on a project just before Christmas. The family selling products to fund mission trips. Continued from front page. "At the end of the presentation, we give away the knife and invite people to give their lives to Christ. There is always and amazing response. We try our best to get these people plugged into their local church community, who will follow up and continue to serve them after we leave," Billy said. One of the best things about the mission trips are the Salyers go as a family. Wife Sheila, a postmaster in Glen Alpine, travels on the mission trips and she helps in planning and building. "Joseph and I run Yellow Rose Forge to help fund our mission work," Billy said. "This is the reason for everything. The Lord provides. Everything we do is based on this one thing," he said. "Orders for our knives typically take about six to eight months because we are in such high demand," Billy said. They recently completed making 1,000 knives for a buyer in Montana. Their travel is also extremely busy. "We are almost never more than a month away from our next trip to somewhere. But both of those are great problems to have. Having a high demand means people like what we make and are willing to wait for the quality they know they will get from us. And we love to travel, but we are fi nding that some of the places we want to serve are having to wait longer for us to get there than we would like," Billy said. Yellow Rose Forge is expanding in the future to help meet the needs of their business and mission trips. "Our hopes are to be able to offer more to our community in both goods and services, having a retail outlet for high quality handmade knives, and a school of metal working where we can teach smithing to people from all over the world and offer a place where locals can come learn the craft themselves," Billy said. Classes are already taught on Saturdays, but they stay booked up months in advance. When the new shop is completed, there will be more space and certainly more accessibility. Billy quickly says it is not about building a business. "It's about building a kingdom. We are an unapologetically Christian company run by a Christian family. And we don't do what we do to make money. There are far easier ways to make a living," Billy said. "For some reason God has seen fi t to allow the Salyers to have a craft that is not only our job and our ministry, but it is also still our hobby," Billy said. "When we're not working, you'll still often fi nd us in the shop, making something cool just for the fun of it. And we'll be doing that together as a family. That's another reason why we're in Rutherford County. It's home. And this is a place where that still means something." "This is our home, and we both love living beside and serving the people here," Billy said. HammerIn 2023 in Polk County Everyone will have an opportunity to meet the Yellow Forge Rose bladesmiths, family and others at the Hammer In 2023 at the Tryon International Equestrian Center. The 5th Annual Redeemed Steel Hammer In will be July 15. There will also be a Custom Knife and Craft Show. Tables are available fi rst to Redeemed Steel Network Members. Tables will only be $50 each and more than 2,000 people are estimated to attend the HammerIn. Table reservations will be taken soon. Check the latest news on their Facebook post. There will be a VIP Dinner July 14 with the HammerIn and Show starting at 9am the 15. A chef knife forged just before Christmas. Time-Limited COVID-19 Telemedicine Program Available Article Provided By: ncdhhs

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