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2002
Number
18
Serving Catholics
Inside State March for Life
Raleigh
rallies,
in
Western North Carolina
in
the Diocese of Charlotte
Passionate volunteer honored in
2001 Governor's Award
with
unites ...Pages
4-5 By DIANNE M.A. RIGGS Correspondent
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ASHEVILLE
Respect
Life
Newman
symbols
arrives
never knows what
stolen
When
home
Rick
work, he on his back
after
he'll find
porch: boxes of candy jars, clothes, puzzles,
...Page
7
canister sets. It all comes from St Joan of Arc church members, family, friends or volunteers. They know that the Mountain Area Hospice Foundation will be getting ready for another megasale, called "Superflea."
Because of his work witii hospice foundation, the 40-year-old
Newman was
Local News
Emerson, foundation CEO,
said.
made
Experience prepared him and
him
Death penalty
one
of five Buncombe County residents to receive the Governor's Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service for 2001. Nancv
a natural for the needs of the hospice
For 15 years, he has been asmanager of the Asheville branch of If It's Paper and serves on that corporation's informal think tank for foundation.
activists
sistant
applaud reprieve ...Page
15
goods and merchandizing. Newman first got deeply involved with hospice through the death of a close friend.
Deacon begins new life,
When
dinator asked
the hospice volunteer coor-
him
to help out, he found
himself selling Christmas ornaments at
defines spirituality after
the Festival of Trees, the foundation's
main fund-raising event each
immigrating to United States ...Page
16
The
year.
next year, the foundation sent him to Atlanta to purchase ornaments for the sale. He also decorated one of the trees
He man-
sold to the charity's sponsors.
aged the festival gift shops, which have consignments with local crafters as well as others, for four years.
While he continues
Potter) and assist in other areas, his cur-
rent major involvement "Superfleas."
Entertainment
boasts
...Pages
Editorials
10-11
& Columns ...Pages
"Every child has been
and be
more than an
acre of "treasures"
common
fine antiques to
in 2001.
Newman is a hands-on leader. He is busy with every Superflea detail, including item donation pickup, clean-up, sorting, merchandising, advertising, pricing, selling tickets, cashiering and directing undertaking, which
loved, in the
"stuff."
These Superfleas earned more than
Superflea volunteers. This
created for greater things, to love
from
is leading Each of these rummage sales
$60,000 dollars
12-13
is
is
a year-round
how Newman
ac-
crued more than 550 volunteer hours with
the foundation in 2001. (That
image of God."
equivalent of three-and-a-half
is
the
months of
haps that
sizing
volved.
"It's *
very rewarding," he
get a lot out of it.
back
him by emphacommunity and helping people.
Newman
is
not a cradle Catholic.
said.
"You
What good you do comes
triplefbld, quadruplefbld."
Newman
A
dying Catholic friend introduced him to Father C. Morris Boyd, then-pastor of St. Joan of Arc. Father Boyd invited him to the church and mentored him in the faith through conversations and the RCIA. "I felt drawn to Cathokcism: the community,
communion, homilies," Newman said. "It's a deep, grounded faith." He was confirmed in
1995.
Mountain Area Hospice serves advanced terminally
in Asheville
ill
patients in
homes and at long-term care facilities and Solace, hospice's inpatient facility. Rather than curative care, hospice emphasizes physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of patient and family. Hospice's other prong is its foundation, which provides their
funding for the direct patient
40-hour workweeks.)
- Mother Teresa
finds his faith encourages
Christmas his tree theme was Harry
(last
Every Week
to decorate trees
Photo by Dianne M.A. Riggs
Newman
is
care.
proud of hospice's record: in homes with two
"Hospice has been
maids and
in
homes with
dirt floors." Per-
He
is
why
he
sionate about
—
it
that's
last year, his father
weeks
is
once told his
so fervently infather, "I'm pas-
why
I
do
it."
And
spent his last two
in hospice.
The
Asheville-area native finds like family when one is involved as deeply as he is. "It's hard hospice
work
is
—
sometimes it's a Tylenol day," he quipped. "But it's not difficult." Newman said he has over the years, "thrown stuff and pitched fits." He laughed. "It's like family you get over it." He is so enthusiastic, that he has managed to involve his mother, brothers and sisters, as well as St. Joan of Arc church members. "Volunteering gives me energy it's addictive." he said.
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—
Newman encourages any interested person to volunteer, but especially "younger" persons, those who have not reached retirement age, even if they can only give four or six hours per week.