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SALISBURY POST
A CENTURY OF SCOUTING
SATURDAY May 15, 2010
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Student brings stun gun to school A 12-year-old student who was playing with a stun gun at Knox Middle School faces a charge of possession of a weapon on school grounds. Salisbury Police report that fellow students at Knox observed the child playing with the stun gun in the classroom. At some point, teachers, school administrators and the school resource officer were notified. During a search for the device, the resource officer found it in the locker of another student. Chief Rory Collins said at no point was anyone at the school threatened by the student. Knox Principal Rodney Burton used the school system’s Connect-Ed telephone service to notify parents of the incident. The child is being charged through a juvenile petition. The school system is expected to take additional action.
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Linda Bowman has been working on setting up a Boy Scouts of America gallery at the Rockwell Museum for the centennial celebration of the founding of Boy Scouts of America.
Linda Bowman puts collection of Boy Scout memorabilia on display at Rockwell Museum BY SHELLEY SMITH ssmith@salisburypost.com
Linda Bowman, the mother of five Boy Scouts, has accumulated quite the collection of patches, pictures and other scout memorabilia over the years. She is putting her collection on display at the Rockwell Museum Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Boy Scouts of America. Bowman, of Rockwell, has worked on the display all week, and some items are more than 90 years old. It all began 30 years ago when her first son became a Boy Scout. Her next four sons followed, with four of the five becoming Eagle scouts. She and her husband, Chuck, immersed themselves in scouting, going to the National Jamboree, camps and other events. Bowman loves the Boy Scouts so much, she has worked for the National Council Shop in Kannapolis for the past 10 years. “You start out by getting a patch, a mug and a T-shirt from each event,” she said, noting her collection covers anything and everything related to Boy Scouts in the past 30 years. Her collection includes hundreds of patches, T-shirts, National Jamboree mugs, board games and photos. One board game, Philmont, she found at a yard sale, and is a rare find, she said. “I didn’t even know this game existed,” she said. National Jamboree mugs date back to 1937, the first National Jamboree, with the collection ending with 2005, the last year of the event. Until last weekend, Bowman had every Jamboree mug for the past 30 years, but was missing 1977. “I went into Salisbury Square antiques and there it was,” she said, noting that she purchased a lot of her collection from antique stores and yard sales. “You never know where you might find something.”
Two drivers on Interstate 85 face drug charges after traffic stops Wednesday. In separate stops for speeding, Salisbury Police found marijuana in both vehicles. Salisbury Police Chief Rory Collins said one of the motorists, Andre Jones, admitted he had marijuana in his socks. Officers recovered .8 grams. And in the second incident, a narcotics dog found marijuana hidden in two locations in a vehicle driven by Michael Lee King. Both stops occurred on I-85 at Jake Alexander Boulevard. Jones was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana. King was charged with felony possession of marijuana with the intent to sell and deliver.
“I’m just passionate about it. My kids loved it, and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.” LINDA BOWMAN Boy Scouts memorabilia collector
The older mugs belong to Harold Driver, scoutmaster of Troop 350 in Rockwell. He has been scoutmaster for the past 34 years. He also loaned Bowman a set of framed Barnhardt patches. One special item on display is a photo of former Scoutmaster Harold Barrier, sitting on a tractor clearing the land for Camp Barnhardt. The photo is 44 years old. Barrier was Driver’s scoutmaster when he was in scouts, and Driver took over years later. Bowman has patches as far away as Saudi Arabia and Transatlantic military bases, which have their own Boy Scout troops. A mannequin is also on display, sporting a Boy Scout uniform from the 1960s. The sash, neckerchief and slide belong to Jimmy Misenheimer, an Eagle Scout who lives in Rockwell. A campsite will also be on display, complete with backpacks, a tent and vintage Dutch oven. Bowman also has two new items on display — 2010 Boy Scouts of America Centennial silver dollars, which she ordered in April. Bowman said she stores her collection in closets throughout her house. However, after going through everything the past few weeks, she is thinking of renting a storage unit. “It really adds up over the years,” she said. “This past week has been like walking down memory lane, remembering people and places.”
Iredell sheriff confiscates pills
A case holds items pertaining to Camp John J. Barnhardt. Bowman hopes to one day donate some of her collection to a museum. But for now, she’ll keep her collection for her grandsons, who are beginning Cub Scouts. “I’m just passionate about it,” she said. “My kids loved it, and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.” Bowman’s collection can be seen Sundays from 2-4 p.m. at the Rockwell Museum, 105 E. Main St. in downtown Rockwell. The grand opening is this
Sunday, and a Boy Scout birthday cake will be served, along with punch. The collection will be on display through July, and can also be shown by appointment.
Money to help make campus more energy efficient create jobs, Gov. Bev Perdue announced Friday. “Green energy is one of my top priorities,” Perdue said in a press release. “These federal recovery funds will help put people to work, help our schools and reduce cost for communities throughout the state.” At RCCC, the money will go toward lighting improvements,
occupancy sensors and heating and air conditioning system upgrades. Total cost of the project is $194,546. The grants program is administered by the North Carolina Energy Office, part of the state’s Department of Commerce, to encourage energy conservation and economic investment in counties, municipalities, com-
STATESVILLE — A traffic stop Thursday on Interstate 77 netted $150,000 worth of oxycodone pills. The Interstate Criminal Enforcement Team of the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office stopped a rented 2010 Chevy on I-77 near Union Grove around 8 a.m. Thursday. Officers became suspicious when the person who rented the vehicle was not present. The driver, John L. Sanders, 24, of Port Orange, Fla., told officers he was traveling to Virginia Beach to visit friends. According to a press release from the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office, Sanders gave officers consent to search the vehicle. Officers trained in finding hidden compartments found two black packages concealed in the wheel well. The packages were smeared with axle grease. The packages contained a total of 1,502 oxycodone pills with a street value of $100 each. Sanders was charged with trafficking opium by transportation, trafficking by possession of opium and maintaining a vehicle to keep and transport a controlled substance. He was placed in the Iredell County Detention Center under a $700,000 bond.
Man involved in chase faces additional charge
RCCC gets $177,000 in stimulus funds Rowan-Cabarrus Community College will get $177,521 to help pay for improvements to make the school more energy efficient. The funding comes from a $5.4 million pool of federal stimulus money distributed by the state to help 38 public school systems and community colleges save on utility and fuel bills and
I-85 traffic stop results in drug charges
munity colleges and public schools. A total of $7.2 million is available to local government agencies and $6.3 million to public schools and community colleges. Additional grants are expected to be announced in the coming weeks as funding applications are reviewed and acted upon, the press release said.
A Salisbury man who wrecked while trying to escape police has been charged with felony speeding to elude arrest. Salisbury Police charged Timothy Mickel Brown, 50, of 5630 Old Mocksville Road, on Friday. He was placed in the Rowan County Detention Center under $1,500 bond. The chase Thursday morning started when police say Brown passed a Salisbury officer on Old Mocksville Road. The officer, W.B. Lamm, said Brown, who was driving a brown Ford pickup, was going at a high rate of speed and passed on a double yellow line. Lamm pursued the vehicle for several miles until it crashed in the 5000 block of Old Mocksville Road. The vehicle hit a ditch, rolled several times and came to rest upside down. Brown was taken to Rowan Regional Medical Center. He was arrested after being released. The N.C. Highway Patrol charged Brown with driving while impaired and reckless driving.