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Matt Sanicola (left) and Brandon Martin prepare their jet skis for a ride on Moss Lake recently.

On Saturday, August 1, the youth of Gloryland Missionary Baptist Church held a fundraising car wash to benefit their youth camping trip.

Food Distribution Day, Casar
Corinth Baptist Church in partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina will have a Food Distribution, Saturday, August 15, 2015, 9:00am - 12:00 noon. Corinth Baptist Church is located at 324 Corinth Church Road, Casar, NC.

Shelby SDA Church
Shelby SDA Church will be having a Food Pantry, Thursday, August 13, 2015, 11:00am - 12:00pm. Zip codes: 28150 and 28152. First come basis, ID is required. 2350 Hoey Church Rd., Shelby, NC.

Hunting season is upon us again. In my home state of Tennessee, squirrel season opens at the end of August and dove season on the first day of September.

Volunteers and staff of the Cleveland County Rescue Mission (CCRM) welcomed 40 residents into the mission's refurnished 18,000-square-foot facility on May 13. Mission residents relocated from a 3,000-square-foot Washington Street facility that had grown too small to house the growing ministry.

Paul Joseph Territo, 77, of 3861 Redman Road, Shelby, passed away Friday,
August 7, 2015 at Carolinas HealthCare System - Cleveland in Shelby.

Blacksburg -- David Eugene Almason, 57, of 331 North Shelby Street, passed away Friday, August 7th, 2015, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.

HENRIETTA - Virginia Ruth Whitaker, 79, of Hog Pen Branch Road, Henrietta, died on Thursday, August 06, 2015 at SECU Hospice House of Rutherford County.

Shelby- Baby Simmie Lee Rogers, Jr., parents of Simmie Rogers, Sr. and Ebony Davis of 513 Northern St., Shelby, departed this life on August 7, 2015 at Carolina Healthcare System- Main, Charlotte

GAFFNEY, S.C. - Betty Deitz Parris, 82, of Cliffside Highway, Gaffney, South Carolina, died on Wednesday, August 05, 2015 at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home.

SHELBY- Becky Poole, 68, of 1152 Mitchell Street, passed away Wednesday August 5, 2015 at Carolinas Healthcare System-Cleveland.

Barry Franklin Greene, age 56 of Cooper City, Florida, passed away on August 3, 2015, at Memorial Hospital Pembroke, Pembroke Pines, Florida.

Juliet Yvonne Lemmons Keller, 92, passed peacefully from this life on August 3, 2015. Juliet was born in Gaffney, South Carolina on February 26, 1923.

Gwendolyn Fegenbush Cagle, 57, formerly of Shelby, passed away on Sunday, August 2, 2015 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following a sudden illness.

Gastonia- Alesia Carter Nixon age 56, of 1320 Baugh St., Gastonia, NC, departed this life on July 27, 2015, at Gaston Memorial Hospital

KINGS MOUNTAIN- George Edward Reever, 86, a resident of White Oak Manor -Kings Mountain, passed away Monday August 3, 2015 at Carolinas Healthcare System-Kings Mountain.

Mr. Robert Sites Sr., age 82 of Shelby, NC, passed away Sunday, August 2, 2015 at Wendover Hospice House.

Linda Mode, age 75, of Casar, NC, died Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at her residence.

Mr. Joel Loyd Gantt, 77 of Gantt Road passed away Monday, August 3, 2015 at
Hospice at Wendover.

Joe Byrum Scism, Sr., 82, of 3412 Robert Cornwell Rd. in Lawndale, passed
away August 2, 2015 at home.

Robert "Bob" Joel Vincent age 67, died Monday, July 27, 2015.

Ella Jay Thompson, 87, of 608 W. Cherokee Street, Blacksburg, SC, entered into eternal rest Monday, August 3, 2015, at Mary Black of Gaffney, Gaffney, SC.

Clover -- David Dempsey Weaver, 83, of 1451 Woodend Lane, passed away Monday, August 3rd, 2015, at Hospice & Community Care in Rock Hill.

Johnny Keith Rich, 59, of 107 Craven Drive, Casar, passed away Monday,
August 3, 2015 at his home.