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PKS Club News
PKS Women's Club
The Pine Knoll Shores Women’s Club is dedicated to the advancement of its members and the promotion of higher social and civic conditions in the community. We make raising funds for charity fun! You can come and join our meetings where we have coffee, tea, snacks and sharing of ideas. We invite you to join our fun-loving group of ladies! Your presence will only add to our collective contribution to our neighborhood, and we would really like to meet you.
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Recently we enjoyed a game of To Tell the Truth at our meeting. Lisa Smith and Mark Kramer each presented their case that they were a poker player. As a group, we asked questions attempting to make a more educated guess as to the real identity of the poker player. Lisa Smith outwitted only half of our group. It was a fun way for everyone to interact and participate.
Our theme this year is Making A Difference and as November directs our thoughts on being thankful, we got an early start this year by deciding to give monthly our many thanks and appreciation to the staff at our local hospital, Carteret Health Care. We are thankful for their dedicated care during the COVID-19 pandemic. This past month our group made a difference with cards and cash, muffins and fruit, puzzles, art and of course chocolate in many forms. Members of the PKS Woman's Club, from left, Kate Taylor (new member), Lynn
We continue to celebrate life with each other with Weedle (new member), JoAnne Ferguson (co-president), Libby Gallagher (coour book clubs, Cooks Night Out, Wine and Tapas president), Sylvia Broadman (new member) and Alicia Durham (new member) Group, raising money for a Carteret Community College Scholarship, Mile of Hope (providing a fun beach weekend for children from various NC Cancer Wards) and supporting many deserving organizations throughout PKS and the rest of Carteret County. Some of these organizations are PKS Police Dept., PKS Fire Dept., Friends of Bogue Banks Library, Broad Street Clinic, The Food Bank of Eastern North Carolina, Martha’s Mission, and the Crystal Coast Autism Center.
If you are not a member of the Pine Knoll Shores Women’s Club but are interested in joining, we welcome any woman to join us who lives or works in Pine Knoll Shores or any woman living or working on Bogue Banks or any surrounding community who is not served by another women’s club. Our meetings are normally held on the fourth Friday at 10am. Please join us. You can also check out our Facebook page. Gracie Bender
Members of the PKS Garden Club
PKS Garden Club
After taking a summer vacation from monthly business meetings the Garden Club of Pine Knoll Shores met on September 8 at McNeill Park to “get rejuvenated’’, welcome new members, Mary Kathryne Cooper and Tori Leahy, and go over plans for the coming year. Mulch and pine straw will be delivered in time for an October garden workday. Attendees were reminded that the annual wreath sale has begun and orders for evergreen wreaths (fundraiser) must be in by November 10. Contact Sheryl Woodberry (252-726-9146) or Kay Howe (252-240-0987) to place an order. Additionally, an order form can be found in the September issue of The Shoreline. Wreaths will be available for pick-up at town hall on December 1 or a club member can deliver an order.
Small teams of gardeners continue to work maintaining the nine town gardens year round. Gardening gloves (really nice ones) are available for purchase from the club. Contact any club member. Monthly meetings will continue despite any new COVID restrictions that may necessitate creative meeting planning. Times and places are subject to change.
When the business meeting adjourned a golf cart tour of gardens belonging to eight club members was a fun, educational and breezy (in golf carts on a hot and humid Wednesday morning) way to end the first meeting of the year.
Deb Frisby
Headache Powders were 'Invented' in North Carolina
North Carolina is the birthplace of “the big three” in the headache powders industry – BC, Stanback and Goody’s.
Into the early 1900s, “local pharmacists concocted their own painkilling remedies, buying raw ingredients and creating dosages on demand,” wrote Dr. Kevin Cherry, a former deputy secretary with the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
“They often sold this medicine in powdered form because creating pills was more difficult and expensive,” he said. Also, the “power of powders” was that they were fast-acting, providing almost instant relief.
In 1906, Commodore Thomas “Conny” Council formulated a headache powder while working in Germain Bernard’s Five Points Drug Co. in Durham. “According to legend, the mixture included crushed aspirin, caffeine and a secret ingredient from Bernard’s not-yet-perfected remedy for sore feet,” Dr. Cherry said.
Thomas Melville Stanback earned a degree in pharmacy in Richmond, Va., in 1906. He was working at a pharmacy in Thomasville in 1910, when he concocted his own headache powder recipe.
Dr. Tom, as he was known, relocated to Spencer in 1911. His powder business remained a sideline to his drugstore until 1924, when he convinced his younger brother, Fred Stanback, to create a sales department.
From that point forward, Stanback Medicine Co. steadily expanded, moving its headquarters to Salisbury in 1931. “Snap back with Stanback” became the marketing motto.
In the early 1930s, pharmacist Martin C. “Goody” Goodman managed the Milam Medicine Co. branch factory in WinstonSalem. Milam was based in Danville, Va.
Its “classic patent medicine” claimed to “cure pretty much anything from ‘impure blood’ to rheumatism…and perhaps make sinners repent as well.”
Goodman sold the business to Alva Thad Lewallen Sr., a Winston-Salem tobacco and candy wholesaler, in 1936. Lewallen delegated operational authority to Hege Hamilton, who had started as a soda fountain worker for Goodman. Hege’s full name was George Hege Hamilton III. He took the reins of the company in 1945 when Lewallen died. (His son was the noted pop and country singer George Hamilton IV.)
Anna Manning, a former contributor to The John Locke Foundation, said there once were hundreds of local headache powder brands. “While most were content to sell their powders on drug store counters, three companies from North Carolina distinguished themselves by marketing directly to laborers and consumers.”
“BC and Stanback distributed free samples to people that they believed would be repeat customers – the thousands of people who worked on farms, railroads, textile mills and other manufacturing and industrial enterprises,” Manning wrote.
N.C.’s ‘Headache Dynasty’ Continues … Sort Of
Headache powders are a “Southern thing” – one that makes darn good common sense. If your head is pounding, the powdery compound brings speedy relief.
That was important to those hard-working folks who toiled on farms and in textile and furniture mills.
If you grew up in North Carolina and other southern states, knowing how to take BC, Goody’s and Stanback powders was second nature.
Did you know there are specific instructions? Goody’s
recommends a three-step process for adults and children 12 and older. Step 1 is to “tear open the stick pack where indicated. (Before tearing, shake the stick pack so the powder settles away from where you tear.)”
Step 2 is to “pour powder on your tongue. (It’s easier if you pour the powder on the back of your tongue. As you pour, tap the sides of the stick pack to get all the powder out of the sides and corners. Hold your breath so you don’t accidentally inhale the powder.)”
Step 3 is to “chase with a beverage (water or soda).” Warnings are: Take only one powder every six hours while symptoms persist, and for children under 12, consult a physician before use. The main ingredients are aspirin and caffeine.
Block Drug Company of Brooklyn, N.Y., ended up acquiring North Carolina’s headache powder companies.
Block Drug bought BC in 1967; it acquired Goody’s in 1995 and then Stanback in 1999. The brands are now owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. of Tarrytown, N.Y. The company reported revenues for fiscal 2021 of $943.4 million.
BC and Goody’s have benefited from contemporary advertising targeted toward lovers of the NASCAR racing and country music.
The first celebrity spokesperson to hawk Goody’s was racing legend Richard Petty of Randleman, N.C. BC latched onto country music recording artist Trace Adkins of Sarepta, La. They were “dueling idols” for a spell in 2011-12. One of the funniest television commercials featured the 6-foot6 Adkins trying to get into Petty’s No. 43 race car. Adkins was distraught when he discovered there was no door latch, only an open window.
He had to slither his big body through the window opening in order to get in the driver’s seat. Yet, in the process, his knees dislodged the steering wheel.
It was a grand competition to “pick a powder” online, which was dubbed “Like, Share, Change the World.” Proceeds benefited charities that were near and dear to Adkins and Petty.
Adkins selected the Wounded Warrior Project, while Petty channeled his share to Victory Junction, a racing-themed summer camp for terminally ill children in Randolph County.
Goody’s recently signed driver Thad Moffitt, 21, a grandson of Richard Petty, to pitch the product to younger generations. Thad is the son of Brian and Rebecca Petty-Moffitt, youngest daughter of Richard and the late Lynda Petty.
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A Handful of Nests Remain
Our sea turtle season is winding down. As of this writing we are down to a handful of nests waiting to hatch. Throughout the fall and winter, at a state level, DNA results will be coming in that will give our team a clearer picture of nesting female turtles patterns for this year. On a local level, we will use those results to identify new nesting females and females who have nested here before and their nest success rates.
This year, we had a rash of nests that resulted in undeveloped eggs and little to no success rates in those nests. Our overall hatch success rate to date is at 63.6% (compared to 70.3 in both 2019 and 2020 which were also lower than average). There are so many factors that could have contributed to these results. Our weather was surely a contributing factor. In the Spring we started with unseasonably cool and wet weather ... these conditions may have contributed to undeveloped eggs. King tides and nest overwashes, at critical stages of egg development, certainly could create nest damage as well. We will also study the DNA results to decide if perhaps new female nesters were contributing factors.
We have an excellent website: eiseaturtlepatrol.org. Within that site you will find answers to FAQs , sea turtle book lists (separated by age ranges), archived Island Review articles, photos/videos of sea turtles, the link to our Facebook page, contact information and lots more information. If you are interested in joining our awesome team of volunteers, watch our website and Facebook page for information about a mandatory training session in early Spring 2022!
A special thanks to our webmaster Wanda Verreault.
Along with our website, there are other ways to get information and/or to visit and observe sea turtles*. Our local North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores is an excellent facility and provides opportunities to view sea turtles and other marine animals. You can even call and arrange for an online small group video session. Participants can find out specific information about sea turtles and ask questions! Further down the coast is the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center and it’s an amazing facility. Depending on the current “patients” you can see sea turtles receiving treatment. You can also learn protection tips and even “adopt” your own sea turtle. *Please check before you visit for Covid related restrictions and requirements.
As always, please remember to leave nothing behind on the sand but your footprints!
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