Belmont bags Phone Books
Keep Belmont Beautiful, a local affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, hosted its annual phonebook recycling drive through the month of January.
On January 31, representatives of KBB counted almost 16,000 phone books at area schools.
Belmont Central was the top collecting school with 11,287 books, most of which were stacked neatly in the gym and in the entrance hallways to the school.
Piza parties were awarded to the winning classes in each school and top collectors will be awarded certificates and KBB t-shirts.
Top collectors this year were:
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JB Page: Sarah Neil, 130 books; Carson O’Brien, 100 books; school total-1,418
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North Belmont: Chance York, 365 books; Audrey Williams, 342 books; school total -2,486
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Belmont Central: Jordan Lathe, 7,188 books; Tyler Grigg, 2,015 books; and, Lindsey Johnson, 201 books; school total -11,287
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Belmont Middle: Yash Patel, 75 books; school total -625
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South Point: 42 books total
(KBB photo)
WHAT? !!!
Permit guns in schools to stop massacres
Yeah, that’s the title of a community columnist in today’s Charlotte Observer.
Mr. Lane is an older person, having grown up in a completely different age and time. His assertion that when researching his opinion for the above article link, that, “…What changed? When guns were readily available to students, when they were often actually inside the schools themselves, there were no killings — none! …”.
With all due respect for the Observer, offering opinions such as this person proposes, just brings out the nut-jobs and wackos from our area society.
We already have school resource officers (county or local police officers) in most — if not all — middle schools, and every high school. We believe that “arming a responsible adult” is achieved by this practice in Gaston County already. We don’t need teachers, certified/tenured, or substitutes, packing heat in the hallways.
SNOW
Not much, but it was enough to cancel school for the day.
Anybody have kids home, besides us? Gonna drive us crazy for one day. Then three days next week for the Martin Luther King holiday. Several folks are planning ski trips up to the mountains. Click here for mountain view webcams.
In a related note – the South Point HS phone tree is pleading for test proctors on Friday. If you can help, call 704-825-3351. It is a teacher’s workday today and the office staff are present.
(Gazette Photo – Mike Hendsill)
Everyone gets excited when we get a snow pattern in the weather. Please drive safely when the roads are wet and possibly slick.
The Belmont Front Porch 
