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Page 12 - Rutherford Weekly 828-248-1408 www.rutherfordweekly.com Thursday, April 13-April 19, 2023 Serving you Serving you since 1967 since 1967 132 Blanton Street, Spindale 828-287-0776 Sharing the burden for the benefi t of low income Rutherford County residents in need of a helping hand. Yokefellow Service Center is a non-profi t 501(c)3 non-profi t agency and a member of United Way. BRING YOUR VEHICLE BY FOR US TO LOOK AT! NO APPRAISAL FEE CHARGED! TOP DOLLAR PAID! YOUR VEHICLE VEHICLE We Want We Want to Buy to Buy ©communityfi rstmedia A U T O S A L E S 345 South Broadway, Forest City 828-245-8067 www.mooresautos.com www.mooresautos.com CROSSWORD PUZZLE CLUES ACROSS 1. Atomic mass unit 4. Criticize mightily 7. Sino-Soviet block (abbr.) 10. Stand in for 11. Everyone has one 12. Brew 13. Rectify 15. Popular Dodge truck model 16. Beef or chicken intes- tine 19. Satisfy 21. Of a particular people or localized region 23. Movements in quick tempos 24. Able to pay one's debts 25. 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The habitat of wild animals 40. Artful subtlety 41. Inw elders 42. Keep under control 43. Herb 44. Distressed 47. A way to go down 48. Type of acid 49. Take by force 51. Collected fallen leaves 52. Shout of welcome or farewell 53. Monetary unit 58. Swiss river Even the Golden Arches at McDonald's off Oak Street Extension, Forest City can use a little tender care and upgrading occasionally. Article & Photo Provided By: Jean Gordon Statistics show that voluntary service has a fi nancial value to the U.S. economy of $24.69 per hour, the equivalent to $297.5 billion per year. Beyond statistics, however, volunteers improve lives right here at home in Rutherford County. Just ask any senior who receives a hot meal weekdays from the Senior Center thanks to a smiling volunteer. Just ask any homeowner who had no hope of a new home until Habitat for Humanity volunteers built them one. Or the students encouraged by volunteers of the McNair Foundation. Or watch the tails wag when kind volunteers take in abandoned animals through Heart of the Foothills Animal Rescue. The list is extensive and is celebrated annually during National Volunteer Week – this year, April 16-22. To kick off its celebration, Volunteer Rutherford is inviting volunteer coordinators and managers of local nonprofi ts to a coffee hour Thursday, April 20, at 8:30am at the Habitat for Humanity headquarters, 269 West Main Street, Forest City. Volunteer Rutherford is regrouping after COVID canceled its volunteer recognition efforts, explained Kim Freeman, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Rutherford County, who serves as president of the local group. "We coordinate a banquet each year where local nonprofi ts can say thank you to some of their most active volunteers," she said. "It's a nice event for those of us who depend on volunteers to honor the people who are making such a difference in our work." For the past 44 years, Volunteer Rutherford has been part of a statewide effort managed by the N.C. Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service, a division of the Offi ce of the Governor, to recognize the work of volunteers. The program is sponsored by the Rutherford County Commissioners. The banquet and awards celebration will be this fall, Freeman said. Working with Freeman to manage the group are Arnette Tolhurst, McNair Foundation, vice president; Sheila Cain, Habitat for Humanity, secretary; and Cynthia Robbins, NC Cooperative Extension Service, treasurer. The group meets on the third Tuesday most months. The next regular meeting is Tuesday, May 16, 8:30am, at the Habitat offi ces, 269 W. Main St., Forest City. "Volunteers are the backbone of so many nonprofi ts in this community," Freeman said. "This is one way to let them know how much they are valued." Volunteer Rutherford sets coffee hour; kicks of National Volunteer Week Article Provided By: Jean Gordon Volunteers built this new Habitat home. The N.C. Department of Transportation has received a federal $1.5 million grant to help make driving safer, especially through work zones. The money, which comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, was announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation as the fi rst round of grants totaling $94 million under the law's new Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation grant program, dubbed SMART. The NCDOT's Mobility and Safety Division will use the grant to develop a system that sends alerts to travelers about the need to slow down, stop or change lanes. Currently, the NCDOT is sending alerts to commercial truck drivers about slow traffi c ahead on a small scale. The new project will let the NCDOT expand this real-time traveler alert system to more drivers in more situations, including work zones, by using their own smartphones, navigation apps and other technologies. Kelly Wells, the department's traveler information engineer who helped write the grant application, said equipping drivers with more timely alerts about sudden changes in traffi c conditions will help reduce crashes. The new system that will reach more drivers initially will be deployed in these two work zones by next year: • I-95 widening around Lumberton and Fayetteville • I-40 construction in Haywood County, west of Asheville These two corridors were chosen, in part, because of the long-term work zones in these areas. A crash in a work zone can cause long backups and divert traffi c onto nearby local streets. The NCDOT hopes to be able to expand this new service to other areas of the state in the future. The project includes developing a way to send traveler alerts directly to connected and autonomous vehicles in a future phase. The department will be working with many partners to get the information into a format that can be used by popular traveler apps, such as Waze, Google Maps and Apple Maps. The total project cost, including in-kind labor primarily from NCDOT, is nearly $2 million. The project will not affect the NCDOT's mobile-friendly website for travelers, DriveNC. gov, which will function the same for the public. NCDOT Wins Federal Grant to Expand Traveler Information Article Provided By: ncdot Questions Questions 828-248-1408 828-248-1408 Email news and events to Email news and events to events@rutherfordweekly.com events@rutherfordweekly.com or go to or go to www. www.rutherfordweekly rutherfordweekly.com .com to submit your news and events online. to submit your news and events online. 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