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Gary York

Gary resides in Pilot Mountain with wife, Charlotte, at Vintage Rose Wedding Estate. A 1965 graduate of Guilford College, he received his MBA from Bucknell in ’68. His early career included service at York Oil Company and Neighbors Stores. Gary's passion for celebrating community servants led him to produce People Doing Good For Others on WPAQ, which in-turn fueled his interest in broadcasting and ultimately his purchase of 100.9 WIFM in 2004. He’s a member of the Surry County Educational Foundation and Board Member of the Elkin Rescue Squad.

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Giving God Something to Bless –At Any Age I’m at a disadvantage when it comes to knowing a lot about retirement. I’ve heard all about it, but I can’t talk about it from a personal level. I know what they say about relaxing and enjoying your time. I know you can travel and call your own shots. I don’t think all of that applied to my family though. I don’t know of a soul in my family who actually retired and lived a life of leisure like AARP depicts in their ads. Now that’s not to say they all kept going full steam ahead for years on end. Some of them had to slow down a little now and then. When I think about the elders in my family in their later years, one of my pa’s older sisters – my great aunt Esther – comes to mind. She passed away at age103. Although in her last couple of years she was forced to take it easy, up until then she was a go-getter. When her family stopped growing a crop of tobacco every summer, she still carried a hoe around chopping every weed in sight. That is the ones she didn’t stoop over to pull up with her hands. That woman hated weeds and loved to pull them up. She was busy year ’round doing something. She also liked to straighten up the woodpile. I remember one time driving up to visit when she was in her late nineties. There she was throwing gravel back in the dirt road that the rain had washed down into the side ditch. Great Aunt Esther and all her brothers and sisters were taught that God would bless their efforts, and if you ain’t making any effort you can’t expect to be blessed. I can say with certainty they all had plenty of efforts to be blessed. Then there is my momma. She beats anything I’ve ever seen. In December this year, she will celebrate a birthday ending in a zero. She worked a public job until a little over two years ago when she had to stop. That only means stopped her public job. She assigns work to herself every day. To hear her tell it you would think her house was a disaster. But every time you walk in, it is as neat as a pin and decorated for whatever major holiday that is next on the calendar. I guess she irons every stitch she puts on and starches it too. She declares that everybody needs a purpose, and I reckon she has decided that if she isn’t punching a time clock in a factory, she will self-impose hard labor at home. A strong work ethic runs deep on both sides of my family and I thank them all for instilling it in me. I don’t know any of them that made an easy living. When I think of it, I never heard any talk about retiring. While I don’t pretend to hold a candle to them, I do find a lot of joy and fulfillment in continuing to think I have a purpose – and that I am giving God something to bless. So, as I said in the beginning, I really don’t know that much about retirement.

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THE KEY TO YOUR LIFE

by Larry VanHoose

The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. – Søren Kierkegaard Ahh, birthdays. Celebrated in our childhood, pursued in our teens, cherished as young adults, winced at in our middle age, and perhaps all of that and more in our latter years. The quicker than quick passage of time that we practically devour in our youth, becomes something we endearingly cling to near our end. I have a red t-shirt I picked up on a mission trip. “You will surely die,” it says boldly on the front (with no further explanation). For us that have been there, it’s a playful reminder of a common saying by Dr. Donald Gillette, the leader of Because We Care Ministries, a mission organization to the Central American countries of Nicaragua and Honduras. Don is heard saying almost daily, “You will surely die,” to some unsuspecting missionary – whether he catches them chewing their fingernails, wearing opentoed shoes, leaving food or drink uncovered, or a hundred other things they might not think twice of back home – but in the remote villages of a third world country, those seemingly innocent habits could literally get you dead. So, imagine the looks I get when I wear that red shirt out in public. One young lady who had just purchased the same shirt one year, wore it without thinking to the airport as we traveled back to the USA. After many shocked, even fearful looks from security personnel and others, we kindly asked her if she might change her shirt or wear something over it. As quirky and funny as that shirt is and the reminder to use care on the mission field, did you know that God himself said the same thing? It’s right there, in the Bible, the book of Genesis … The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:15-17 ESV) Well, the bad news is that the man (Adam) ate from the tree he wasn’t A dear old friend used to greet me, supposed to, and we are all suffering because of it. There is Good News each time our paths crossed, with a big though and as we contemplate our remaining days, perhaps we should grin and the determined statement, consider the gift given to us of God’s own Son. As we choose from those paths that lie before us, let us go forward in triumph ... “I’m not dead yet!” Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:16-17 NLT) A dear old friend used to greet me, each time our paths crossed, with a big grin and the determined statement, “I’m not dead yet!” I hope and pray that, as you are reading this, that you’re “not dead yet.” Look to God’s Word and find inspiration for the time you have left. Find, as it were, the key to your life. Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! You can make this choice by loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life. (Deut. 30:19-20 NLT, emphasis mine)