Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Sunshine School & Weather Underground
Sunshine School now sports a full featured weather station in co-operation with Weather Underground. Log in at http://wunderground, choose Bostic, choose Sunshine Elementary. Scroll to the bottom of the page and find the Sunshine station. You can copy and paste and share the link, or grab the embed code for your blogs and websites.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Cherry Mountain Fire Department Auxiliary
We NEED you!
The Cherry Mountain Fire Department Auxiliary Club is always looking for new members. And we don't have to have 100% committment from all or any of our group. What we need is for people who are available to respond to our call, to come to the fire department in the event of a fire and stand by to prepare and/or to carry food, drinks and other requested items to the scene of a fire. Sometimes we just need people to help with fundraisers, and to make meeting announcements at church. Sometimes we just need someone to help serve at one of our dinners. We also need to add to the core group of regulars who meet monthly, on the second Tursday, who plan and arrange and sell doughnut holes and cook books and tee shirts and whatever else they can do to get behind and to help our firefighters. Volunteer - Men and Women - We need you!
The Cherry Mountain Fire Department Auxiliary Club has a few cookbooks left. At $10.00 each the cookbooks have been a great fund raiser for the Auxiliary and all of the recipes in the book were given by members of the community. "Recipes to the Rescue" is the Cherry Mountain Fire Department's first cookbook and we've almost sold out. If you want one, call Karen or any of the auxiliary members.
The Cherry Mountain Fire Department Auxiliary Club is always looking for new members. And we don't have to have 100% committment from all or any of our group. What we need is for people who are available to respond to our call, to come to the fire department in the event of a fire and stand by to prepare and/or to carry food, drinks and other requested items to the scene of a fire. Sometimes we just need people to help with fundraisers, and to make meeting announcements at church. Sometimes we just need someone to help serve at one of our dinners. We also need to add to the core group of regulars who meet monthly, on the second Tursday, who plan and arrange and sell doughnut holes and cook books and tee shirts and whatever else they can do to get behind and to help our firefighters. Volunteer - Men and Women - We need you!
Washburn Community Outreach
The Community Outreach, 828 245-5603 at Washburn is open on Friday and Saturday. The Washburn Community Outreach Center is serving 3 school backpack programs - Ellenboro, Sunshine and East Middle School. Volunteers stuff backpacks for school children to take home over the weekend. See what to donate: Feed Our Children
The center has a donation box on site. Store hours are 9 - 2 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
A big thank you to the director Crystal Tate.
If you have a few hours available you can volunteer, just putting clothes on hangers is a help. There's always something to do.
Golden Valley Community Club FAQ
The Golden Valley Community Club was chartered in 1952. We traditionally meet on the third Monday of the month at 7:00 in the evening. Meetings usually dismiss before 9:00. This is generally a potluck dinner meeting. The first time you come please, come as our guest. The second time you come you come as a member, bring a dish and a dollar.
Google Map
Friday, February 10, 2012
Golden Valley, Duncan's Creek, Sunshine Insurance Rates May Incerease
Karen here:
I received a call from an upset home owner yesterday – the story is long but here’s the gist. You might get a letter from your insurance company about an increase in insurance rates since it’s significant. Evidentially this is NOT affecting everyone, just the insurance agencies that have subscribed to a certain mapping service.
Here’s the short-short: if I understand correctly, a mapping company has geo-coded our area (served by the Cherry Mountain Fire Department) for Insurance Districts. In order to get the best rate you have to live within 5 miles of our fire department. Anyone/any household falling outside of the district (and this is as the vehicle drives and not as the crow flies) is billed at the higher rate. People are not actually losing their rate, it seems that they’ve been getting a break and with the new mapping they won’t be getting that anymore. To add an interesting twist to the story, the mapping is from the old fire station at Bostic Sunshine and Duncan’s Creek and not from the new station. Consequently, for now, it’s a muddle.
If this turns out to affect a lot of people I’ll talk with the Fire Chief and will do an indepth article about it. Meanwhile, I am telling people to contact Randy McKinny of Allstate for insurance information. He is local; so he’s aware of the situation and its ramifications. 828 287-8010.
February 2, 2012
I received a call from an upset home owner yesterday – the story is long but here’s the gist. You might get a letter from your insurance company about an increase in insurance rates since it’s significant. Evidentially this is NOT affecting everyone, just the insurance agencies that have subscribed to a certain mapping service.
Here’s the short-short: if I understand correctly, a mapping company has geo-coded our area (served by the Cherry Mountain Fire Department) for Insurance Districts. In order to get the best rate you have to live within 5 miles of our fire department. Anyone/any household falling outside of the district (and this is as the vehicle drives and not as the crow flies) is billed at the higher rate. People are not actually losing their rate, it seems that they’ve been getting a break and with the new mapping they won’t be getting that anymore. To add an interesting twist to the story, the mapping is from the old fire station at Bostic Sunshine and Duncan’s Creek and not from the new station. Consequently, for now, it’s a muddle.
If this turns out to affect a lot of people I’ll talk with the Fire Chief and will do an indepth article about it. Meanwhile, I am telling people to contact Randy McKinny of Allstate for insurance information. He is local; so he’s aware of the situation and its ramifications. 828 287-8010.
February 2, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
January 2012 Community Newsletter
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Community-Newsletter.html?soid=1102382229068&aid=PnOthuP8_7s For those of you who missed it, here's a link to the January Newsletter. You may subscribe here, too.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
WLOS ABC 13 News :: Top Stories - Tornado Strikes Rutherford Co.
Rare twister touches down WLOS ABC 13 News :: Top Stories - Tornado Strikes Rutherford Co.
The Cherry Mountain Fire Department was called out this evening around 5:30 to assist on scene after a freak storm leveled at least one home and damaged several others on Piney Mountain Church Road. According to the news release as many as 10 people may have been injured.
Follow up story, The Aftermath Blog Post by Rutherford County @ RCCatalyst. You'll find a couple of pages here at RC Catalyst, a local ezine.
The Cherry Mountain Fire Department was called out this evening around 5:30 to assist on scene after a freak storm leveled at least one home and damaged several others on Piney Mountain Church Road. According to the news release as many as 10 people may have been injured.
Follow up story, The Aftermath Blog Post by Rutherford County @ RCCatalyst. You'll find a couple of pages here at RC Catalyst, a local ezine.
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