Patrick Sr. Center March events

By Lynn Lail

The Patrick Center is a SHIIP site and can help with Medicare questions and check to see if you qualify for Extra Help with your drug costs. We can also assist with transportation, loan equipment, incontinence supplies, nutritional supplements, and other services. Please call the center at 704-734-0447 for more information or to sign up for programs. Classes/Activities open to age 55 and up unless otherwise noted.

Upcoming March Special

Events:

• Financial Fraud Presentation by SECU: Tuesday, March 14, 9-10am. Call to sign up.

• St. Patrick’s Day Bingo Party: Thursday, March 16, 10-10:30am.

• Tips for Disasters and Emergency Preparedness: Tuesday, March 21, 9am12pm.

• Medicine Drop-Off: Tuesday, March 21, 9am12pm and Thursday, March 23, 1-4pm. KM Police will be at the center to collect old medications.

Intermediate Computer

Classes: Mondays and Wednesdays, 10am-12pm starting on March 13 through April 19. You must attend one of the first two classes to complete the session.

• 2023 Cleveland County

Senior Games: March 27-31.

Registration deadline: March 17, 2023. Please call the center for more information.

• 2023 SilverArts: Display Dates: April 10-14.

Registration deadline: March 31, 2023 at 12 Noon. Please call the center for more information.

Pieces

From Page 4A time to spend at leisure. His next editorial, “Room For Library,” published on 11 July 1935, reflected the ongoing efforts of city leaders to secure federal public-works funding to construct a new city hall for Kings Mountain. “We notice by our favorite paper that Kings Mountain is going to erect a new city hall building. We would like to urge, and have our many readers, to urge the city fathers to include a room in this new building for our city library.” So certain of this was he, Lynch state, “Because sooner or later Kings Mountain is going to be able to boast of a city library, so now is the time to make plans where it shall be housed.”

In another editorial, “Our Town Library,” published on 3 October 1935, Mr. Lynch called on town residents to provide financial support for a library. Months passed, with apparently little movement, until Haywood Lynch penned another editorial, “A Reminder,” that was published on 2 January 1936. The Editor of the Herald has not forgotten the need of a Library in the Best Town In The State. We have been writing for almost a year now about a library for Kings Mountain. Lots of people have stopped us to remark that they are wholeheartedly in favor of a library for Kings Mountain. We need the LIBRARY. The people want a LIBRARY. There is no reason why we should not have a Library. The Herald will offer next week a plan whereby Kings Mountain can have a Library without a great cost to anyone. Watch for it.”

The “Plan For A Library For Kings Mountain,” was published on the front page of the Kings Mountain Herald on 9 January 1936. In carefully developed language Mr. Lynch

Ongoing Activities at the Patrick Center

• Ceramics: Mondays, 9:30-10:30am.

• Smartphone Clinic by Trey Ross with Mauney Memorial Library: 2nd Mondays, 10-11am.

• Facebook Chat: Mondays, 10-10:45am. (Online via Facebook)

• Seniors in Motion: Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays, 10:30am-11:30am. Suggested donation of $1 per class for non-YMCA members.

• Quilting: Mondays, 12:30-3pm.

• Beginner Quilting: Thursdays, 1-3pm.

• Intermediate Line Dance (Dance Floor Rockers): Mondays, 1-3pm.

• Intermediate Line Dance (Southern Class): Thursdays, 10-11:30am.

• Beginner Line Dancing: Mondays, 11:30-12:30pm.

• Clogging: Mondays, 3:30-4:30pm & Thursdays, 12:30-1:30pm.

• Knitting: Tuesdays, 8:30-10:30am.

• Veterans Meeting: 1st Tuesdays, 9-10am.

• Bible History: Tuesdays, 10-11am.

• REFIT Dance Exercise: Tuesdays, 11am-12pm.

• Monthly Birthday Celebration: 4th Tuesdays, 1011am.

• Dutch Lunch Bunch: 2nd Wednesdays. Please sign up at the Front Desk and pay called for one out of every 100 of King’s Mountain’s 8,000 citizens to contribute $5 each to raise $400 for books, shelving, and equipment. He proposed housing the library in a room in the town hall on Piedmont Street recently vacated by Mrs. Mae Hamrick, who was in charge of federally funded local relief work.

He next called on the city government to provide funding to employ a librarian. “The plan outlined above” he noted, “will not give Kings Mountain a big, elaborate Public Library, but it will be a start.” He then offered the offices of the Herald as a collection agency for donations.

Under the headline “Public Library Meeting Held” the Kings Mountain Herald informed its readers on 19 March 1936 of a meeting of representatives of local civic and professional groups on 16 March at which Mr. Lynch was elected general chairman and a series of four resolutions in support of a public library were adopted.

Among those present, representing the Junior Woman’s Club, was Mrs. Samuel Aubrey (Katharine Shenk) Mauney, the wife of the eldest son of Jacob Augustus Mauney (18741952) who, in turn, was the eldest son of Jacob Simri Mauney.3 Articles in the Kings Mountain Herald published through the spring and early summer of 1936 reported gifts to the library and a gathering momentum.

These culminated in two important articles published in July 1936, both under front-page headlines. The first, appearing on 2 July under “Town Appropriates Funds For Library,” announced the decision by the Town Council to appropriate “$25 per month for the maintenance of a public library here providing the citizens of Kings Mountain would raise the necessary funds to start the library.”

$1 bus fee.

• Jewelry Class I: Wednesdays, 10-11am.

• Jewelry Class II: 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 1-2pm.

• Canasta: Tuesdays, 1-3pm.

• Chair Yoga: Wednesdays, 11:45-12:45pm. (Fee required)

• Blood Pressure Clinic: 1st Wednesdays, 1011:30am.

• Food Giveaway: 3rd Wednesdays, 1-2:30pm. Please call to sign up each month.

• Online Book Club: 4th Wednesdays, 4pm via Zoom. Please call Mauney Memorial Library to join.

• Leaving a Legacy: 1st Thursdays, 11am-1:30pm.

• Bridge: 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 1-4pm.

• Caregiver Support Group: 4th Wednesdays, 1-2:00pm.

• Healthy Lifestyles Class: Thursdays, 8-9:30am.

• Gentle Exercise: Thursdays, 9:30-10:15am.

• Bingo: Thursdays, 10:30-11:15am.

• Coffee & Conversation: Fridays, 8:30-10am.

• Chorus: Fridays, 1011am.

• Friday Lunch: Fridays, 11am-12pm. (Call to sign up by Thursday at Noon. Cost is $3)

• WII Bowling League: Fridays, 12-1pm.

• Chair Volleyball: Fridays, 12-2pm.

• Ping Pong/Corn Hole: Fridays, 1:30-2:30pm.

• Shred Truck: Bring your items to be shredded at any time the center is open and put them in the locked bin in the lobby.

The second article appeared on 16 July under the headline “Location For Public Library Secured.” Day by day the assurance that Kings Mountain will have a Public Library is becoming more secure. This week a location for the library has been selected and approved. Dr. J. E. Anthony, (a) public spirited citizen(,) has donated the use of a room over Keeter’s Department Store. The room is to be used temporarily until space can be had in the new Town Hall which is hoped that will be built soon. The room adjoins the law office of E. A. Harrill. The place selected is centrally located and will be accessible to everyone.

A third critical step was to gain the support of the North Carolina Library Commission. This advance was announced in the newspaper on 8 October 1936. Marjorie Beal, Secretary and Director of the North Carolina Library Commission, of Raleigh, made a trip to Kings Mountain last week to confer with those interested in having a Public Library here.

She offered the services of her office in selecting the books, setting up the proper United States system. She also said that a Librarian could be secured from W. P. A. or N. Y. A. and that shelves, desk and other equipment could be secured through Federal agencies. Meanwhile, cash contributions and book donations for the library continued. Fundraising, which had reached $284.80 in early November, accelerated when Mrs. Hunter Ramseur (Anne Lutz) Neisler (1909-1982) became finance chairman of the library drive. On Christmas eve 1936 the newspaper reported donations had nearly doubled to $543.27, exceeding the goal of $500 for book purchases. (To be continued March 15)