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May 17, 2012
Carolina Christian Preschool Graduation

Mackenzie Towery graduated Thursday from Carolina Christian Preschool. She plans to spend her summer traveling.
LOCUST POLICE DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
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The Locust Government Center

Locust Collection Dates
White Goods
The week of May 14, 2012
I hope to see you tonight at the Cruise In an Concert in the Locust Town Center.
Right Turn Clyde will be performing on the Green behind the Locust City Hall.
Check our web site http://www.locustnc.com for latest information about our city or the Locust Patch, Weekly Post and Stanly News&Press.
Have a great a week and listen to my radio show every Monday morning at 7:45 am on WSPC 1010 am or on the Internet at www.1010wspc.com
Best Regards,
Mayor Scott Efird,
City of Locust
Please feel free to contact me via e-mail or through
city hall if I can be of service to you.
Subject: Mayo Clinic on Heart Attacks
Interesting advice.......
Dr. Virend Somers, is a Cardiologist from the Mayo Clinic,
who is lead author of the report in the July 29, 2008 issue of
the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Most heart attacks occur in the day, generally
between 6 A.M.and noon. Having one during the night, when
the heart should be most at rest, means
that something unusual happened. Somers and his colleagues
have been working for a decade to show that sleep apnea is
to blame.
1. If you take an aspirin or a baby aspirin once a day,
take it at night.
The reason: Aspirin has a 24-hour "half-life";
therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the
wee hours of the morning, the
Aspirin would be strongest in your system.
2. FYI
Aspirin lasts a really long time in your medicine chest
for years, (when it gets old, it smells like vinegar).
Please read on.
Something that we can do to help ourselves - nice to know.
Bayer is making crystal aspirin to dissolve instantly on the tongue.
They work much faster than the tablets.
Why keep Aspirin by your bedside? It's about Heart Attacks -
There are other symptoms of a heart attack, besides the
pain on the left arm. One must also be aware of an intense
pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating;
however, these symptoms may also occur less frequently.
Note: There may be NO pain in the chest during a heart attack.
The majority of people (about 60%) who had
a heart attack during their sleep did not wake up.
However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you up from
your deep sleep.
If that happens, immediately dissolve two aspirins in your mouth
and swallow them with a bit of water.
Afterwards:
- Call 911.
- Phone a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by.
- Say "heart attack!"
- Say that you have taken 2 Aspirins.
- Take a seat on a chair or sofa
near the front door, and wait for their arrival
DO NOT LIE DOWN!
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The City of Locust requires a golf cart sticker for driving on city streets. Go by the Locust Police Department located in the Locust Town Center in the Locust Government Center at 186 Ray Kennedy Drive and see Capt. Charles Connell for your permit and sticker.
New Golf Cart Sticker


City of Locust Golf Cars (Cart) Ordinance click here.

Join us in welcoming the new members of the Green Pieces Family:
Alcoa Power Generating, Inc.
American Red Cross -Stanly County
Charlotte Soccer Academy
Criterion Healthcare
Crook Motor Co.
Electronics Recyclers International, Inc.
Fiberon
Fork Stables
Iron Work
JT Russell & Sons, Inc.
Main Street Music-Albemarle
Myers Park United Methodist Church
Stanly Regional Agricultural Fair
Storm Technologies
Thank you and we look forward to working together!
Steve Megson
Green Pieces Recycling
www.charlottewasterecycling.com
Did you know? Locust residents with recycling rollcarts average approximately 30-40lbs of recycling each collection per household totaling 400lbs on annual basis!
Locust and Green Pieces will host a Computer and Electronics Recycling Collection Event Thursday November 3rd in Town Center. More details to follow!

Any
time you call an 800 number
Any
time you call an 800 number
(for a credit card, banking, charter communications,
health and other insurance, computer help desk, etc.)
and you find that you're talking to a foreign customer service
representative
(perhaps in India, Philippines, Mexico, Honduras, Dominican
Republic, etc.), please consider doing the following:
After you connect and you realize that the customer service
representative
is not from the USA (you can always ask if you are not sure
about the accent),
please, very politely (this is not about trashing other cultures)
say, "I'd like to speak to a customer service representative in
the United States of America."
The rep might suggest talking to his/her manager,
but, again, politely say, "Thank you, but I'd like to speak to a
customer service representative in the USA."
YOU WILL BE IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED TO A REP IN THE USA.
That's the rule and the LAW.
It takes less than one minute to have your call re-directed to the
USA.
Tonight when I got redirected to a USA rep, I asked again to make
sure -
and yes, she was from Fort Lauderdale.
Imagine what would happen if every US citizen insisted on talking
to only
US phone reps from this day on..
Imagine how that would ultimately impact the number of US jobs
that
would need to be created ASAP.
If I tell 10 people to consider this and you tell 10 people to
consider doing this -
see what I mean...it becomes an exercise in viral marketing
101.
Remember - the goal here is to restore jobs back here at home -
not to be abrupt or rude to a foreign phone rep.
You may even get correct answers, good advice, and solutions to
your problem -
in real American English.

Roger Hypes will be sharing some human interest stories of people, events, and places of our Locust community.
One of the definitions of community is the area itself; people with common interests living in a particular area. The Remember When… column should help us better understand the history, people and happenings of Locust, the place we call home.
Remember When…will help us all to take the time out of our busyness to reflect, reminisce, think back, recollect, go over in the memory and hopefully, be able to share a smile of a memory to make us better appreciate the present. Take a deep breath, lay in the grass and look up in the sky of the cloud shapes, or the stars at night.
I would ask that if you have an event, a crossroads, a person that has helped create the history of Locust, get in touch with Roger Hypes (rogerhypes234@gmail.com. “Remember When…” will not be in every week update of Locust Patch, but when stories are available and to give the story the value it deserves. Be thinking as I feel this will be a good way for all of us to appreciate what we have, and where we live.

North Carolina House of Representatives
Rep. Justin P. Burr
1315 Legislative Building, Raleigh, NC 27601-1096
(919) 733-5908
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Justin.Burr@ncleg.net
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Thank you for allowing me to serve you in Raleigh.
My legislative telephone number is 919-733-5908 and e-mail address is Justin.Burr@ncleg.net. Please do not hesitateto contact my office anytime I can be of assistance to you. My Legislative Assistant, Dina Long, is also available when you call, or you can also e-mail her directly at BurrLA@ncleg.net.
It is my privilege to serve you as your Representative in Raleigh.
At your service,
Rep. Justin P. Burr
North Carolina House of Representatives
67th District - Stanly, Union, and Montgomery Counties
Legislative Office Building, Room 538
300 N. Salisbury Street
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
(919) 733-5908
Legislative Assistant:
Dina Long - BurrLA@ncleg.net
Research Assistant:
Joe Nolan – Joe.Nolan@ncleg.net


NC State Senate, Seat 25

May 17, 2012
It is far too rare these days that I get to report good news to you from Washington. Today, I can. I've been working to eliminate a loophole that was going to allow Afghan army and police uniforms which are purchased with your tax dollars to be made with materials made in China, North and South Korea and Vietnam, skirting the Berry Amendment which requires that military textiles be made in the U.S. It is unacceptable that people in our own government have circumvented the Buy American provisions that our nation once embraced, provisions I've made a point to stand up for and advance. I'm pleased to report that last week we made major progress in closing this loophole and standing up for American industries.
The House Armed Services Committee met last week for consideration of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), legislation that determines the levels by which we will fund the military. This presented an opportunity to help fix this major problem and reiterate to both Congress and the Department of Defense that Buy American should continue to be a top priority. In the weeks leading up to this, I've made phone call after phone call and met with military officials to attempt to determine why this loophole exists, who is responsible for it and how it can be fixed. I decided that an amendment to the NDAA to fix this problem immediately was the best option.
After bringing the draft of my amendment to the committee, it became clear they were not supportive of our efforts. The Department of Defense sent along a message that they "strongly opposed" our language to close this loophole, stating that they supported these exceptions from Buy American. Committee staff from both sides of the aisle asked me not to introduce it, as the Chairman and Ranking Member of the committee planned to vote against it. As the committee met late Wednesday night, just after midnight as I was about to present the amendment, one final staffer made an attempt to talk me out of it, asking, "Are you sure you want to introduce this?" "Absolutely," I replied.
As I introduced the amendment before the committee, I spoke about my 27 years in textiles. I spoke about how our part of the world was hard hit a decade before the recession set in by late 2008. I spoke about how bad trade deals and misguided Washington policies just like this cost us job after job in textiles and furniture and throughout our rich manufacturing sector. These are the precise issues that led me to serve the people of this district, and they're the same issues that I have worked on from the very beginning of that service. And I will continue to fight against these measures that hurt American workers and businesses.
As the vote ended and the clerk read the final vote tally, applause broke out through the committee room. The Chairman kindly asked the clerk to repeat the total. Our amendment had passed 41-20, and would be included in the final House bill to fund the brave men and women of our military. At a time when we constantly see the ways in which government works against American businesses and manufacturers (who pay the taxes that buy the Afghan uniforms) and how they are being kept at a constant disadvantage in contracts just like these, it's important to highlight the ways in which we can bring an end to this unfairness. Folks in our part of the world want nothing more than a fair shot to be successful, government to get off their backs and to show common sense stewardship of their hard-earned tax dollars. This amendment helped to undo a good bit of that form of bad government, and I was proud to see it pass.
Far too often, we hear about bad legislation and 1,000 page bills that sneak through Congress in the dark of night. This time, our common sense, one-page bill was introduced and passed a little after 2 a.m., but this bill will actually benefit our workers and advance our push for American jobs and revitalization of the textile industry. While some of my colleagues opposed the measure, many of them saw that the issue was simple. If taxpayer money is being spent, it should promote U.S. industries and American workers. China already owns far too much of our debt, our military shouldn't also finance their government-owned textile mills.
Lately, we've seen Congress focus more on playing politics and laying blame than actually finding solutions for the challenges we still face. In my opinion, it's beyond time that we replace government inaction with a government in action—working tirelessly each and every day for the American people. I'm proud we were able to win another victory for the textile industry and American businesses as a whole, and I'll keep my focus on common sense solutions that help put folks here at home back to work.
Our Concord district office is located at 325 McGill Avenue, Suite 500 in Concord, and can be reached by phone at 704-786-1612; the Rockingham district office is located at 230 E. Franklin Street in Rockingham, and can be reached by phone at 910-997-2070; and the Fayetteville district office is located at 6257 Raeford Road, Suite 2 in Fayetteville, and can be reached by telephone at 910-920-2070. You can also contact our office directly on the web at www.kissell.house.gov.
Sincerely,
Larry Kissell
Member of Congress






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He designs screen prints on regular screen doors. He does fire fighter designs, does branches of the military, vintage signs ie Merita Bread, Texaco, Shell, Sundrop etc. He also does different beach themes ie crab, sail boats, beach umbrella/chairs and many more designs. If interested, please contact Lane Ross at 704 467 7880 or by email, JLROSS90@hotmail.com. Prices are approx $110 for a design.
Red Bridge Golf & Country Club
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704-781-5231
Red Bridge Golf & Country Club
CHARLOTTE GOLF ACADEMY
Golf teaching professional Lew Farwell has been in the industry for 30 years. From taking his first lesson at the age of 12, from a not so well known (Fred Funk). To playing on the professional tour and learning the game from 10 of the top 50 golf instructors in the US. He has traveled all over the country and has been fortunate to be a part of PGA Tour winners at their best. This has given him the insight and knowledge he now shares with you.
Lew owned and operated Charlottes first indoor teaching facility, and now continues teaching at Red Bridge Golf & Vineyard. This will be home of the new golf academy CGA.
For more information or to reserve a spot call us at:
704 345-5623 direct
704-781-5231 office
Email: lew@redbridgegolfclub.com
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Lew Farwell
: Has been in the industry 20 years.
Opened Charlotte's first indoor teaching center in 1999
Worked with 5 of the top 25 golf instructors in the United States
Competed at a professional level
Taught several PGA Tour players
Lew teaches all aspects of the game
Long game
Short game
Mental game
Understanding how the body works is key to a repetitive swing.
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Directions to our course: We are closer than you think!
We look forward to seeing you at the course.
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704-781-5231ridge Golf Club : 6801 Gatehouse Rd : Locust, NC 28097 :
Phone:
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Specializing in Brick, Block, Stone and a Good Job
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The West Stanly Business Association is a group of local
business owners who meet on the first and third Wednesday, of every month at 12
noon until 1:00 pm at Stanly Community College in the Honeycutt Room. Lunch is
$5.00 per person, annual dues are $35.00 per company. Our main focus is to
discuss the issues in the community related to local business: marketing ideas
and strategies, small business issues, community development issues and the
like. Most meetings involve a guest speaker to discuss pertinent issues. We
welcome all business owners in and around Locust, Oakboro, Red Cross and
Stanfield. Business owners in Midland are also welcome to join us as we share
services even though we are in different counties. This is an open forum for the
exchange of ideas related to local business. So come on down and join in. We
just might be what you have been waiting for!
For more information, please feel free to contact Mike Harwood at the Bank of
Stanly

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