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                May 30, 2019.
             
 
    
        
                                                
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                                The future is in their hands. And they are learning some pretty dramatic facts about environmental damage from longtime science teacher, Karl Bradley, at RS Central. Maybe they will lead us to a cleaner, healthier future. Bradley calls them, "among the most courteous, hard working groups of students I have ever worked with." 
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                                Anna Kimbrell Byers, age 76 of Forest City passed away on Friday, May 24, 2019. 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                Benjamin Franklin McDaniel, a Retired Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force, born on December 27, 1930 in Chimney Rock, NC to Ruth Cynthia Robertson and James Roland McDaniel. 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                Betty Brooks, age 80, of Forest City, passed away Saturday, May 18, 2019. 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                David Norman Wallace of Rutherford County passed away on Tuesday May 21, 2019. 
                                                        
                            
                            
                                Eula Ruth Nichols Hollifield, 91, passed away on May 18, 2019. 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                James (Jim) V.  Tilley of Forest City, passed away on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                Jamie Leigh Conner formerly of Rutherford County passed away on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. 
                                                        
                            
                            
                                JoAnne Wanciak, age 85, of Rutherfordton passed away Sunday, May 26, 2019. 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                Kathy Hooper, age 54, of Forest City, passed away Sunday, May 19, 2019 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                Louise Epley Cuthbertson, age 80, of Bostic, passed away Saturday, May 18, 2019. 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                Margaret Putnam Green, age 81, of Forest City, passed away Friday, May 24, 2019. 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                On May 19, 2019, Ray G. Bailey of Bostic, age 94, "slipped the surly bonds of Earth ...and touched the face of God." 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                Ronnie Taylor, age 73, passed away on Thursday, May 23, 2019. 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                Shirley Elizabeth Helton, age 93, of Forest City, passed away on May 24, 2019.  
                                                        
                            
                            
                                Stephen Leon Connor, 76, of Spindale, passed away Tuesday, May 21, 2019 
                             
                                
                                                        
                            
                            
                                Thomas Ralph Farr, age 73 of Forest City passed away Wednesday, May 22, 2019 
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                                Saturday, June 1 What: FREE Clothes Closet When: June 1, 9-11am  Where: Pleasant Grove UMC, Hudlow Road, Forest City  More Info: All welcome. 828-245-5471 
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                                Saturday, June 1 What: Relay For Life Shooting For A Cure When: June 1, 9am-1pm Where: Old Hickory Rifle & Pistol Club, Gun Club Road, Bostic More Info: $5 per shoot. Beginners welcome, bring own shotgun, pistol & ammo. Ammo available for purchase. Hot dogs & hamburgers for sale. Proceeds benefit Relay for Life.  |  | 
                                
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