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Wishes you Blessings of Peace, Joy & Health in the New Year! Volume 117 • Issue 1
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
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It was a very good year…we look back on all that’s happened in 2022 Part 2 of our series encompasses July through December
by MICHAEL E. POWELL Editor michael@cfmedia.info
(Ed. Note: This is Part Two of the Eagle’s twopart series looking back on the last six months of 2022 and how we brought your hometown, community news and local issues to you, our faithful readers.) JULY • Mainstreet America accredits Cherryville’s Main Street Program again. This National Accreditation is city’s 7th consecutive designation. • St. John’s Lutheran Church’s Mobile Food Pantry fulfills Christ’s command to feed the hungry. Also have a school supplies giveaway in August. • Cherryville “Y’s” beloved Butch Boyd retires after 15-plus years. Many friends and co-workers came by and shared pizza and memories of good times. • City’s Fourth celebration at Rudisill Stadium ranks as one of the best. CFD thanks First United Methodist Church for use of parking lot as fireworks
A wide-angle view of the Cherryville July 4, 2022 celebration held at Rudisill Stadium. (Eagle file photos)
The 2022 Post 100 Area IV American Legion baseball champs and their coaches.
launch site. • Cherryville Elementary has a new principal in the person Mr. Patrick Watson. He takes over the helm from Mrs. Audrey Hovis. • Council recognizes Gaston County DA; City safety award winners at meeting. Public hearings set for August for proposed annexation; two Planning and Zoning proposals. • Missing Lincoln man with Cherryville address located. Daniel E. Neal found in Morganton by authorities. • Cherryville’s own Joshua White is the new principal at WBBI. He is looking forward to the start
of school on Wednesday, Aug. 17 • Venerable Stroup Memorial Park gets a fantastic makeover. Though small, the park has a big impact on all who seek a bit of quiet, beauty and solace. • Cherryville Dixie AllStars receive Sportsmanship Trophy and medals. Coaches, players excited to receive prestigious award. • Cherryville’s Miss Fourth of July Pageant winners announced. The Miss Fourth of July Pageant winners were Tiny Miss Gabrielle Shedd, Majestic Miss Skylar Blackburn, Miniature Miss Chrislyn Shook, Baby Miss Bella Mae Flowers, Young Miss Savannah Hubbard, and Little Miss Vivian Medrano. • Cherryville’s Post 100 are 2022 Area IV champions. Coach Bob Reynolds’ Legion ball players win 20th Area IV championship 5-4. AUGUST • Trent “Bam Bam” Rayfield is new chief of Hugh’s Pond VFD. Young chief serious about getting new volunteers to serve the community. • Last of July Council work session covers zoning, See 2022, Page 4
Cherryville New Year Shooters, Inc. has pre-shoot at local radio station Right before things got under way in this photo taken a few years ago at a previous Apple Drop, Traditional New Year Shooters member and group Vice-President, Gary Dellinger (center, in dark hat and long coat), chants the group’s traditional blessing to the hosts. (photo from TNYS Facebook page)
TNYS start New Year shoot off right on Dec. 31, 2022 at Lincolnton Apple Drop Countdown; blessing by Cherryville Traditional Shooters always a welcome part of the New Year for the city by MICHAEL E. POWELL Editor michael@cfmedia.info
Before the Traditional New Year’s Shooter’s
group – one of two such groups in Cherryville – sets about shooting in the New Year in Cherryville, for the past few years TNYS Vice-President, Gary Dellinger noted they have been invited guests at the popular Lincolnton “The Apple Drop New Year’s Eve Street Party”. Regarding this year’s Apple Drop, Gary said, “(The) Apple Drop went well. We had about 75 shooters that went over for that. We had a good Lincoln See TNYS, Page 6
Thursday, Dec. 29 event the only pre-shoot they had scheduled this year by MICHAEL E. POWELL Editor michael@cfmedia.info
On Dec. 29, the Cherryville New Year Shooters, Inc. (CNYSI) had an exhibition pre-shoot at a local radio station from 10:30 to 11 a.m. The group had about 20 members there shooting their muskets in what has been a ritual now for them for a number of years – being hosted by the local radio station, WCSL – KTC Broadcasting. Group Secretary Rusty Wise said the station, located at 1416 Shelby Hwy., held the morning shot at 10:30 a.m., and is, according to Mr. Wise, “…the only pre-shoot we had scheduled this year.” Wise said their group is growing adding, “We signed up 392 members, and will have well over 400 members signed up by the end of our 2023 shoot.” Wise noted that while there are many things as-
A couple of the Cherryville New Year Shooters, Inc. members fire their guns at the Thursday, Dec. 29 exhibition pre-shoot at WCSL radio station in Cherryville. (photos provided) sociated with their group of New Year Shooters, many of which are static and as a rule don’t change over the years, they have, of late, been trying, as he noted, “… to push people to the Cherryville Historical Museum to view the Shooters exhibit there and to view the historic movie reels and such that chronicle the group’s rich tradition and how it has evolved in this part of the state. Rusty noted the venerable old museum, housed in the city’s old courthouse and located on Main Street,
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CNYSI President Charles Sisk and Secretary Rusty Wise talk with WCSL DJ Milton Baker at last Thursday’s, Dec. 29 exhibition pre-shoot in Cherryville. is open on Saturdays from 10 a.m., to 2 p.m., and sometimes by appointment only.
Wise said information on the museum’s Shooters exhibit can be found on the See CYNSI, Page 9