B4 | Thursday, December 31, 2009 Lexington County Chronicle & The Dispatch-News | www.lexingtonchronicle.comCOMMUNITY NEWS

It was a great year in GilbertWayne and I

would like to wish all of you a

Happy and Prosperous New Year for 2010. We are looking forward to serving our Gilbert community in 2010. This week we have a recap of highlights of the main stories that we wrote about last year.

We began our January 2009 column with news of a Veterans Memorial for the town. This was discussed at the January Gilbert Town Council meeting with Mayor Clamp asking for a committee to be formed to begin working on the memorial. Mayor Clamp said the committee should also consist of veterans in the community as he believed their input would be very important. Plans are to have the Veterans Memorial completed later in 2010.

In February the gIlbert Athletic Booster Club sponsored a Sports Award Program which recognized the 2008-09 GMS coaches and student athletes for their hard work and achievements.

Former gIlbert-SummIt reSIdent dep-uty Marty Longshore held a Community Awareness and Public Safety meeting in March at Gilbert High. Deputy Longshore introduced Master Deputy Joe Auckerman, who became the new resident deputy for our community.

In aprIl an electIon for the mayor of Gilbert and two Council seats was held April 14, but the election was cancelled be-cause no one registered to run against in-cumbent Mayor Randy Clamp, and incum-bent Council members Barbara Reeder and Gwyndell Taylor. Mayor Clamp, and Coun-cil members Reeder and Taylor were sworn in in July for another four years.

In may, Four memberS from the Gil-bert-Summit Senior Center were chosen as Volunteers of the Year at a special recogni-tion ceremony. They are Rose Nix, Diane Mosher, Adam Mosher, and Emma Barbet-ta. The Gilbert Town Council voted to have a sign placed in town honoring the Gilbert High School Choral Department’s accomplishments and awards.

Scout maSter preSton SImonS wel-comed everyone to the dedication ceremo-ny of the new Gilbert Boy Scout Troop 60 and Pack 60 Eagle Lodge building on Sat-urday, June 6. Several hundred people at-tended the ceremony and open house.

on July 4, gIlbert welcomed everyone to the 51st Lexington County Peach Festi-val. On July 13, Mayor Randy Clamp and Council members Barbara Reeder and Gw-yndell Taylor were sworn into office at the

Gilbert Town Council building. They will serve another four year term for the town of Gilbert.

rev. ruS StIlWell oF Grace Lutheran Church invited the community to celebrate the

church’s 116th anniversary with a home-coming worship service on Aug. 9. Senior Members were honored during the service and new residents, neighbors, members, friends, and former members were invited to bring a covered dish and enjoy dinner following the service.

In September the gIlbert-SummIt Fire Department firefighters were treated to a pancake supper by the Gilbert United Mer-ry Methodists or M&M’s who wanted to honor the GSFD personnel and volunteers. The Gilbert Town Council members passed a proclamation designating the 4th Mon-day of every September as “Family Day – A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children™” which was celebrated on September 28.

october began WIth the “Recycled Teenagers Antique Tractor, Truck and Car Show.” Nellie Rish, Director of the GSSC said her recycled teenagers would have their Antique Tractor Truck and Car Show with the proceeds benefiting the “Meals on Wheels” program.

Gilbert’s #1 House of Terror celebrated its 13th year as a fun fright time for Hal-loween. They have raised thousands of dol-lars for local charities scaring folks for fun since they started.

art Work by gIlbert High School pho-tography students was chosen to be exhib-ited at the Columbia Art Museum in No-vember. The GHS student’s exhibit enti-tled, “From Behind the Lens,” was in con-junction with the Ansel Adams: Master-works exhibit which was on display at the museum. Folks learned that chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows at the an-nual Lexington County Farm-City’s annual job exchange program. Jim Kinard of the Gilbert IGA and Stanley Shumpert of Shumpert’s Dairy participated in the job exchange and gave a short video presenta-tion to the members who attended.

In early december the “Battle of the Badges,” a dinner theater and basketball game was presented by the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department and the Gil-bert-Summit Fire Department to raise money for the “Make A Wish” foundation. The annual Community Carol Lighting was held at the Gilbert Community Park with many folks bringing hundreds of canned goods for LICS.

CHS superlatives announcedThe votes have been

counted and the winners an-nounced. The CHS senior su-perlatives are completed. The winners are as follows:

Best Style: Asht Schumpert and JD Scheper

Most Attractive: Ali Olt-man and DJ Roberts

Best Smile: Kathleen Bar-rett and Connor Morvay

Most Artistic: Katelyn Chapman and Jonathan Redmond

Prettiest Eyes: Lindsay White and Paul Edwards

Best Hair: Zoe Whittaker and Alex Fish-er

Most Likely to Succeed: Daphne Sims and Lawt Burkhalter

Most Likely to Be Facebook at 2 a.m.: Allis Dempsey and Max Mayo

Most Likely to be So You Think You Can Dance: Noelle Chasmar and Jonathan Fors

Most Likely to make the world go Green: Allis Smetana and Dylan Matthies-sen

Best Profile Picture (most photoge-nic): Alainah Farrell and Evan DeYoung

Most Likely to have the most friends Facebook: Amber Engel and Alex Kirby

Most Spirited: Olivia Bueno and An-drew Flowers

Biggest Flirt: Morgan Nalley and Lucho Mariaca

Most Athletic: Jordan Broadway and Victor Frick

Class Clown: Grace Powlas and Drayton Dillon

Mr. and Mrs. Congeniality: Tony Downs and Briana Chalmers

Most Likely to be Famous: Celeste Mor-ris and Walker Lane

Most Likely to be a Contestant Jeopar-dy: Lauren Rhodes and Jacob Lebar

Biggest Redneck: Tara Wallace and Jim-my Dennis

chapIn amerIcan legIpoSt 193 collect-ed more than 90 toys and delivered them to Boland’s Hardware for the local Toys for Tots Christmas program. The member-ship of the post wishes all happy holidays and a blessed new year.

reSIdentS oF the chapIn/lIttle Moun-tain/Ballentine communities gathered at the HUB Thanksgiving morning to pre-pare and deliver 457 meals to our neigh-bors in need. With the food provided by 17 area churches, nearly 200 volunteers prepared the Thanksgiving dinners and drivers delivered hot meals. Thanks to all who volunteered at the HUB.

chapIn hIgh School boyS’ Soccer

Team was one of 165 boys’ teams selected to receive the NSCAA Team Academic Award. This is the fifth year in a row that our program has won the award. The team GPA was a 3.36.

happy bIrthday dec. 31: Lillie Free, Denise Mack, Sherri Hinely, Alis Greco,

Pam Harper, Davy Fisher, Amelia Taylor, Maegan Taylor, Christopher Boland, Carley Long, Carley Long, Abby Johnson, Cooper Bemis, Laws Bemis, Brittney Boland, Kath-ryn Scott, Hilary Suber, Christopher Trett, Bob Wessinger, Kathy Wilkes, Clark Cosert, Linda Emmerling, Ann Gainey, Ashleigh Lewis, Kayla Geen, Cole Hodges, Isaac Sta-gle, Kelsey Tisdale, John Stroke, Janice Shealy, Denise Mack, Cynthia Cox, Court-ney Cannon, Joseph Knuckley, Elizabeth Amick, Gene Huffstetler, Elizabeth Cross, Joe Stoudemire, Barb Washington, Adams O’Cain, Emily Coleman.

Jan. 1 to: David Hedges, June Hedges, Jaclin DuRant, Dan Svoboda, Holly Azari-gian, Gary Williams, Emma Carter, Derrell E. Frick, Mary Anne Frick, Donnie Martin, Velma Mole, Stan Howe, Emily Smith, Rick Roe, Cindy Roe, Lawrence Blackmer, Jen-nifer Bowers, Darrell Clark, Sandra Davis, Jeff Gohean, Jane Rich, Shelby Smith.

Jan. 2 to: Jim Davis, Brooke Clyburn, Mary Roberts, Beth Anne Lamar, Erika Lon-don, Jeremy Ellisor, Johnny Mayo, Preston Diggle, Jeffery Tucker..

Jan. 3 to: Linda Goodwin, Ella Frederick, Alan Wilson, Tyler Morris, Margaret Rat-liff, Stephen Kreidler, Loretta Price, Richard Amick, Ruby Lake, Tammy Addy, Eric Stal-cup, Sylvia Stidham, Jackie Rhame, Cheryl Bates, Bill McCrary, Linda Grimes.

Jan. 4 to: Leslie Campbell, Deems Knight, Laurie Veronee, Cornelia Smith, Ty-ler Haltiwanger, Anna Wicker, Chris Eskew, Dan Meek, Todd Comalander, Drew Bry-ant, Mari Ploussard, Hunter Howe, Hailey Jan Cooke

Jan. 5 to: Craig DeFelice, Lisa Hofferth, Katherine McGreevy, Sandra Newell, Laura Wilson, Janene Long, Deborah Chaddock, Debra Morris, Cyndi Jones, Joshua Street-man, Rick Gibbons, Smoke Matthews, Fran Cass, Charles Slice, Janene Long, Debo-rah Chaddock, Debra Morris, Cyndi Jones, Joshua Streetman

Jan. 6 to: Janet Bailey, Gail Bundrick, Ernie Nivens, Stephanie Cooke, Luke Tru-luck, Evan Lovelady, Sydney Beckett, Sam-uel Bendziewicz, Max Braun, Gary Jacobs, Joanna Prokop, William Furman., Diane McKinzie, Maria Kendall, matt Hambrick, Kaylee Browder.

KAY GORDON 932-9114 kaygordon@ bellsouth.net

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