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News from a neighbor! Volume 88 • Issue 33
• Belmont • Cramerton • Lowell • McAdenville • Mount Holly • Stanley
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Veteran’s Healing Garden in Mt. Holly making progress By Alan Hodge alan@cfmedia.info
Volunteers from all walks of life have been coming together in Mt. Holly for several months working to make the new Veteran’s Healing Garden a reality. The project is a collaboration between the Mt. Holly Farmer’s Market and several other Mt. Holly groups. The
garden is located downtown on Main St. on the Farmer’s Market site. The garden features a wide variety of plantingsespecially those favored by pollinators- ornamental grasses, and most importantly, a walkway of brick pavers engraved with the names of veterans. So far, the entrance to
the garden and a set of steps leading from the street to the Farmer’s Market trellis has been completed. Many plantings have been installed including a large swath of Black-eyed Susan flowers. Engraved bricks in alphabetical order by surname have been installed in front and See GARDEN, Page 5
Leigh Brinkley and friend Jax Allen pulling weeds at the Mt. Holly Veteran’s Healing Garden. Photo by Alan Hodge
Belmont trolley project chugging along
Cramerton fire chief Lance Foulk with the winning trophy.
Cramerton celebrates its golf heritage By Doug Glenn The Inaugural Cramerton Legacy of Golf Tournament was held on Friday July 29th at the Cramer Mountain Club. The event, held in partnership with the Montcross Area Chamber, was a
celebration of the 100th anniversary of golf in the town of Cramerton and fund raiser for the Cramerton Historical Society and Montcross Chamber. Over 100 golfers participated and included teams
representing Stuart Cramer, South Point and Kings Mountain High Schools. The Cramerton Volunteer Fire Department team took home the Cramer Cup as the overall winner and the Mountaineers See GOLF, Page 8
Edited by Alan Hodge The 1913 Brill trolley in Belmont is in its final stages of restoration and recently got its coats of finish paint applied. Belmont Trolley Inc. vice president Nate Wells described the paint selection process and gave some other updates on the project. “The thinking behind the car colors was: we knew the two Charlotte cars were coming to Belmont and one of them already had the red and cream color scheme,” Wells said. We didn’t want to have two cars that had a similar appearance, given their age, and a similar paint scheme. We want to differentiate the two cars. Also, as it pertains to the choice of the colors, we want to something that had classic colors, like the antique red and cream, but had a local flavor. We narrowed down the choice between two color
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The main colors for the trolley will be red and cream. schemes: red, cream, and teal as a nod to Belmont’s new branding colors or orange and cream that we discovered from some research were the classic Piedmont and Northern colors. Ultimately, most
of the board was attracted to the red and cream of the Belmont branding and the thinking also went that the 1913 car did not historically run in Belmont, so it didn’t make See TROLLEY, Page 4