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By Kitsey Burns Harrisonkburns@yadkinripple.com

Guests were lined up outside the doors of Yadkinville United Methodist Church on March 10 for the annual Empty Bowls fun-draiser benefiting Yadkin Christian Minis-tries (YCM). The event sold out more than a week before and guests were eager to get inside and choose their own pottery bowl.

Empty Bowls has become a much-be-loved tradition in the community, as well as the largest annual fundraiser for YCM which served a total of 17,000 family mem-bers in need last year.

“It’s a great event,” said longtime event supporter Lisa Drum. “It is helping people in need in our community as well as it’s a great place to meet your friends.”

Yadkin Christian Ministries Director Beth Steelman said she was thrilled and ex-

cited for this year’s sold-out event.“We are so pleased with the turnout —

the community being so generous and par-ticipating in this event to help us, as a coun-ty, speak to food insecurity,” said Steelman.

In addition to YCM volunteers, this year’s Empty Bowls was made a success with help from the Yadkinville Rotary Club, Forbush Baseball Team as well as donations from Bojangles and Taste of Italy. Local church-es from East Bend also helped prepare the homemade soup served at the event.

Attendees were treated to a fresh salad as well as homemade soup and desserts. Each guest also received a handmade pot-tery bowl donated by local potters. A wide variety of silent auction items were up for bid as well to help benefit Yadkin Christian Ministries.

“I think this is a really special event because the entire community comes to-

gether to support a wonderful cause in the community and that is helping others,” said WXII12 Meteorologist Lanie Pope who served as master of ceremonies. “So by coming in and getting a bowl here today, by sitting down with your friends and eating,

Photos by: Kitsey Burns Harrison | The Yadkin RippleHandmade pottery bowls at the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser.

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Volunteers dish up hot bowls of homemade soup at the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser benefiting Yadkin Christian Ministries. A sold-out crowd enjoys homemade soup at a fundraiser to benefit those in need.

you’re helping others who un-fortunately may not have food on their table. It’s really neat for me to come into this com-munity and see how they are really bonding together. They have such a big heart here, al-ways a wonderful atmosphere and always just so loving and caring.”

While the event serves as a wonderful time of fellowship for community members and volunteers, it is also a stark reminder of the ongoing need facing many in Yadkin County.

”A lot of people who grace our doors are people who have exhausted their resources, who have no other place to turn,” Steelman said. “We are blessed to be a part of a generous, car-ing community who allows us to maintain this service for the residents of Yadkin County. Without the generosity of this community we couldn’t do this,” Steelman said.

The ministry has remained open to provide services for clients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In April Yadkin Christian Ministries received a donation from the Clemmons Founda-tion.

“Yadkin Christian Minis-tries is very appreciative

for this generous donation from the Clemmons Founda-tion,” said Steelman. “During this pandemic, we have seen a decrease in the amount of food items we are receiving from our local grocery stores, our local churches, and individu-als. This gift will greatly assist us in purchasing food items to supplement food supplies in our pantries.”

The Friends of Ted Williams organization has also donated funds to Yadkin Christian Min-istries.

“We are humbled by the car-ing community that God has given us to serve,” said Steel-man. “It seems that every time we feel anxious about the level of support that we are receiv-ing, that God speaks to a heart and they heed His leading to bless us with a gift to sustain this ministry to the residents of Yadkin County.”

”We continue to operate on a regular schedule and have well stocked pantries for our cli-ents,” added Steelman. “If any-one needs our services, please visit our facility in Yadkinville or East Bend.”

For those wishing to donate to Yadkin Christian Ministries, donations may be dropped off at either the Yadkinville or East

Bend location or may be mailed to 117 Woodlyn Drive, Yadkin-ville, NC 27055.

For more information on ser-vices provided by Yadkin Chris-

tian Ministries or to donate or volunteer, visit www.y-c-m.org or call 336-677-3080.

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A birds eye view of the crowd at the 2020 Empty Bowls event held at Yadkinville United Methodist Church.

Lanie Pope serves as master of ceremonies for the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser.

Guests enjoy piping hot bowls of homemade soup at the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser.

Volunteers serve up soup, salad and more at the annual Empty Bowls event in Yadkinville.

Attendees choose a bowl at the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser benefiting Yadkin Christian Ministries.

Bobby Todd with the Yadkin County Chamber of Commerce, Mark Batten with the Clemmons Community Foundation, and Beth Steelman, Yadkin Christian Ministries.

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County Medical Clinic join forces

By Kitsey Burns Harrisonkburns@yadkinripple.com

A local non-profit medical clin-ic began a partnership with the Yadkin County Medical Clinic in early 2020. Yadkin County Gov-ernment, in support of the Yad-kin County Medical Clinic, has joined with Hands of Hope Med-ical Clinic, Inc. The collaborative partnership led to the search for new space for both agencies.

Both the Yadkin County Medi-cal Clinic and Hands of Hope moved to 320 West Maple Street in Yadkinville in January of this year. This space was previously occupied by Mountain Valley Hospice. Both agencies began seeing their respective clients in the new space the week of Jan. 6, 2020.

“We have diligently been working on renovations,” Coun-ty Manager Lisa Hughes said of the space at a recent meeting of the Yadkin County Board of Commissioners. “Everybody’s very pleased with it so far.”

In addition to a new and shared facility, the agencies also plan to share a newly hired prac-titioner. Jennifer Dollyhigh Eas-ter, FNP, began working for the County on Nov. 18, 2019 Easter received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from East Carolina University and her Master of Science in Nursing from South University. She comes to the community with more than eight years of critical care nursing ex-perience and medical volunteer experience through Samaritans Ministry in Winston-Salem. She has also participated in medical mission trips, visiting locations such as Nicaragua, Lebanon, Cambodia, Haiti and Ecuador.

These changes coincide with the expansion of the county’s

Adult Health program policy.

The new policy will allow non-established patients to enroll and to allow the care and man-agement of some basic chronic conditions.

Representatives of both agen-cies are hopeful that the shared space, shared provider and ex-pansion of services will allow them to better serve the resi-dents of Yadkin County and help limit the gaps in care that some people may experience in the community.

“Beginning this new partner-ship with our county medical clinic may very well be the first of its kind in our state,” said Hands of Hope Director Marty Driver. “Sharing the same provider who will know which clinic can pro-vide the best possible care for the patients will be such a ben-efit for our community. We are so appreciative to all the county government and staff who have made this all possible for Hands of Hope and our patients.”

Hands of Hope Medical Clinic sees patients on a walk-in ba-sis each Tuesday evening and chronic care patients by appoint-ment only during the day each Tuesday. The Medical Clinic will see provider based appoint-ments Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays and nurse based appointments Tuesdays and Fri-days.

A ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony was held on Jan. 13.

The Hands of Hope Medi-cal Clinic was among two local recipients of a $1,000 donation from The Friends of Ted Wil-liams organization in April.

“Ted Williams was a strong supporter of all things positive in the Yadkin County area,” stated a press release from the organiza-tion. “He was instrumental in the campaign for the Yadkin YMCA and a supporter of many non-

profits. Ted lost his life on April 5, 2000, from complications of a bone marrow transplant. Ted was a beloved member of this community and will never be forgotten.”

The organization also donated $1,000 to Yadkin Christian Min-istries.

“This donation enables our ministries to continue offering residents of Yadkin County in need of food or healthcare a place they can go for help. Collabora-tion between these two commu-nity resources is nonstop and we are grateful for the acknowledge-ment from the Friends of Ted Williams through this generous donation,” said Driver.

The clinic is the primary health care provider for more than 300 patients in Yadkin County. All residents between the ages of 19-64 without any type of health insurance such as Medicaid, Medicare or disabil-ity are eligible to be seen at the clinic on Tuesdays. This also in-cludes full-time employees who are unable to afford insurances offered by their employer.

For more information about the Yadkin County Medical Clin-ic contact Jessica Wall, Assistant Director, at 336-849-7588 or jwall@yadkincountync.gov. For more information about Hands of Hope, contact Marty Driver at 336-677-1444.

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By Kitsey Burns Harrisonkburns@yadkinripple.com

Yadkinville Elementary School kindergartners, first and second graders spent time at the Yadkin County Public Library on March 13 for the annual Read Across America program, honoring the birth-day of beloved children’s au-thor Dr. Seuss. The program is hosted annually at the li-brary by the Yadkinville Ro-tary Club. New books for chil-dren are purchased with grant monies from Rotary Club and members of Rotary Club take turns reading books aloud to students.

“It was a smaller number of participants (K-2nd) and was pushed back a week due to school and students’ sched-ules, but we felt Read Across America is a worthwhile pro-gram that still makes a big im-pact,” said Branch Librarian Christy Ellington. “We have 149 new books for our com-munity to use because of the gracious support of the Rotary Club of Yadkinville and their literacy grant. We were still

able to reach students, read and share books, talk and read Dr. Seuss books, and share the love and fun of reading and promote literacy, in my ‘book’, that is still a win!”

Encouraging young readers is the goal of the program, ex-plained Rotarian Linda King, who helps organize the event each year.

“The idea is to get them excited about reading so they will learn to read, if they are not yet, or read better. We try to pick out really fun books like Dr. Seuss, especially since this coincides with his birth-day. It’s all about literacy. The more they can read, the better their future is going to be.”

Dr. Seuss classics such as “Green Eggs and Ham” as well as new stories such as “Sloths Don’t Run” and “Never Let a Unicorn Get Spots” were read aloud to younger students from Yadkinville Elementary.

Yadkinville Elementary School Principal Kelly Kirk-land called a “great” program that was “helpful by allowing students to see members of the community reading new

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model the importance of the love of reading,” Kirkland said. “We really appreciate the support of our local library and Yadkinville Rotary Club in celebrating Read Across America week.

Ellington also praised the work of the Yadkinville Ro-tary Club members who work

tirelessly to raise money for a variety of local as well as inter-national charities and for their work in promoting the impor-tance of literacy.

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Rotarian Tina Phillips reads “Sloths Don’t Run” to a group of Yadkinville Elementary School kindergartners.

Rotarian Susie Tickle reads to Yadkinville Elementary School students as part of the groups annual Read Across America literacy program.

Yadkinville Elementary School students take a quick “wiggle” break while listening to stories being read aloud by Yadkinville Rotary Club members.

The Cat in the Hat graces the front door of the Yadkin County Public Library.

A colorful scene from a Dr. Seuss book decorates the front entrance way at the Yadkin County Public Library.

34% of our children entering kindergarten lack the basic pre-literacy and language skills needed for them to learn to read and write. Research shows that reading aloud, book sharing and even the

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have in their home contribute to a child’s pre-literacy and language development and success in school.”

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File photoClaire Sellars and new Habitat homeowners Travis Martin and Angela Sparks speak at a meeting of the Yadkinville Rotary Club.

Photos courtesy of Yadkinville Rotary ClubMark Diachenko at the Read Across America Library Project in 2018.

Rotarians

By Kitsey Burns Harrisonkburns@yadkinripple.com

Rotarians have been active in Yadkin-ville and the surrounding communities since 1998. While it is only one organiza-tion, it supports many causes locally and worldwide.

The Children’s Center Real World Proj-ect, Yadkinville Public Library’s annual Read Across America program, American Red Cross blood drives, Boonville Elemen-tary School’s backpack food program, Net-worX Yadkin, Smart Start, Solus Christus women’s addiction center, the Yadkin Arts Council and programs at the YMCA are just a few of the local projects the Yadkin-ville Rotary Club helps support both finan-cially and with volunteers’ time.

The Yadkinville Rotary Club also spon-sors several scholarships for local stu-dents. The annual Yadkin Valley Harvest Festival is supported by Rotary as well as trash pick up in the community.

Rotarian Linda King called the group the most “caring and generous group of people” she’s ever been involved with.

“Rotarians not only give donations, but something even more important, their time and actions to make the world a better place, especially right here on the home front where the need is great,” King said. “You will see Rotarians volunteer-ing at food pantries, clinics, meal-packing programs for the hungry, educational and literacy programs, and so much more. I am proud to be a part of it all.”

Like King, other members of the organi-zation say it’s all part of upholding impor-tant values.

”I joined Rotary June 25, 1998, so I have been a Rotarian for more than 20 years,” said charter member Tommy Jester. “Our club was chartered with the help of the Clemmons club and it has been a fantas-tic journey supporting local, district and global projects. I joined Rotary to stay con-nected to the community, but more impor-tantly I appreciated the values of Rotary as

identified by the four-way test: Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it

build goodwill and better friendships? And will it be beneficial to all concerned?

“We have 30 active/honorary members and for a small club we do a lot to help oth-ers,” Jester continued. “Another strength of our club is the fellowship and ‘Family of Rotary’ feel that you experience when working together on a project or enjoying a night out with other Rotarians and their families.”

The reach of volunteers in Yadkinville extend well beyond the immediate commu-nity as the organization works with several international causes as well.

Rotary is made up of three parts, local clubs, Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation, said Rotarian Susan Gmeiner. The mission of Rotary International is to provide service to others, promote integ-rity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders. The mission of The Rotary Foun-dation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.

The eradication of polio is just one of the many international causes that Ro-tary supports. ShelterBox, which provides emergency shelter and vital supplies to stabilize, protect, and support communi-ties affected by disasters and humanitar-ian crises, is another organization Rotary donates to each year.

Rotary also works with UNICEF to pro-vide technical guidance in the development and implementation of the WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) in Schools Target Challenge and with IHE Delft Institute for Water Education to support scholars.

Rotary also sponsors the Interact Club at the Yadkin Early College. Interact clubs bring together young people ages 12 to 18 to develop leadership skills while discover-ing the power of “Service Above Self.”

The most recent event hosted by the Yadkinville Rotary Club was its annual Read Across America event at the Yadkin County Public Library. The group raises

funds for new children’s books each year and spends the day reading to area stu-dents.

Jester said he is grateful for the contin-ued support that Yadkinville Rotary Club receives.

“We could not exist without the support of our community and many businesses and individuals have provided financial support to allow us to do what we do,” he said.

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The sound of hammers, drills, pressure washers, laughter, music and prayers filled Yadkin County last June, just as it has every other year for the better part of a decade. The only county in North Caro-lina with no rail road tracks was full of volunteers of all ages who dedicated their time to be part of Impact Yadkin.

Since 2011, Impact Yadkin has been making a difference in the communities of Yadkin County. The bi-annual event brings together people of all ages that volunteer their time to help improve the lives of local residents with home im-provements and community outreach.

“This week has been awesome. It has been a great week, and God has done some amazing things through these young people,” said Brent Winslow, one of the coordinators of Impact Yadkin. “It has been great to see. The theme was ‘United’ and that is truly what this week has been about. People from different churches, different areas, different fami-lies, just coming together to work in this community.”

Impact Yadkin is a collaboration of vol-unteers from several different churches whose mission is to share the message of Jesus Christ and His love with the people

of Yadkin County. In addition to reach-ing out in the community, Impact Yadkin desires to see students and adults grow in their relationship with Christ through nightly worship, Bible study, missions, ministry and outreach. This was the fifth year of Impact Yadkin with more than 1,200 volunteers coming together to make the community a better place.

“This year we had 154 applicants,” said Winslow. “We have supervisors who are construction people, they go out and look at every home and interview the homeowner. Once the application is re-ceived, the process begins and in the end our construction people determine what we can do. We are doing work with sixth graders and up, so there are some things that we just cannot do — whether it be too hard or too dangerous. Sometimes projects are just too big for us to handle in a week. We try to assist in those where we can.

In the end, our construction guys take our crew chiefs, who are all volunteers and some of the crew chiefs are construc-tion guys and some of them know very little about construction. Blue Hutchens tries to match up the construction guys with what they can do — it can be paint-ing, yard work, roofing or putting on a deck. All of that determines what proj-ects we can actually do.”

With red road signs telling onlookers

that labor was provided by Impact Yad-kin, there were over 83 job sites scattered across the county. There were 63 crews, 68 crew chiefs, 107 crew encouragers and five junior crew chiefs which volunteered their time for Impact Yadkin.

Bonnie Prescott was among the homeowner whose home was improved through Impact Yadkin in 2019.

“They have replaced my two decks, front deck and back deck, and they are beautiful decks. They did my skirting on my home, trimmed all of my bushes all around my house, took care of my grand-daughter and spoiled her, they fixed her a beautiful yellow chair, they painted my outbuildings and painted a big yellow Im-pact Yadkin on the side. It is beautiful,” said Prescott. “This week has been won-derful, just very very heartwarming. Ev-eryone had been so nice and just so won-derful. It is so heartwarming that people do this for you. I just appreciate everyone so much, I just appreciate it all. I recom-mend that people that need help, apply.”

Prescott’s house was improved by crew members who are local to Yadkin County and some who were from out of state. One crew member who worked on Prescott’s house was Miranda Bellanger, a senior at Forbush High School.

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Another home owner whose life was changed in 2019 was Gail Sexton, who lives in Yadkinville.

“This is great, I love all of the jobs they are doing for me, and I love all of the people I have met,” said Sexton. “It has really just been a great ex-perience. This is just a great Jesus ministry. In fact, Jesus is the one that I give all of the credit to for Impact finding favor in doing all of this for me.”

At Sexton’s home, the crew re-roofed the house, painted the carport, painted the eaves and the overhangs, put in a trench for the drain and put a new drain near the basement.

“I will never forget this. I will never forget the people,” said Sexton. “I love it when all of the workers are taking a break, and they are just gath-ered around and just being, it seems like, they are just calm and being normal people. They are sitting around con-versing at my house, and it is special. This was a great expe-rience and I would definitely recommend other people ap-ply because it is great for the teenagers to learn, and they enjoy it too. They are among people their age and doing things together. It is just great.”

Dr. Steve Corts from Cen-ter Grove Church in Clem-mons spoke for the event. Center Grove’s worship band provided entertainment for the week.

“Steve did an excellent job,” said Winslow. “We

have had wonderful

crowds every night and peo-ple were moved to make deci-sions about their life.”

People around the county also helped out through wa-ter services, providing food, supervising crews and various other activities. At Flat Rock Baptist Church in Hampton-ville, Lynn Brown helped with food service for several crews in the area.

“This is my second year helping with Impact, but I have been on several mission trips throughout the years,” said Brown. “I love serving our Lord and trying to uplift the young people who are working on the sites. It has been amazing to see so many young people taking a whole week of their summer vaca-tion to help serve others and praise God. I think just com-ing in and seeing the faces of the crews, hearing the stories of what they have done that day, hearing how they bond with the homeowners, and just making friendships. It has been a blessing.”

At one site in Hampton-ville, Russell’s Muscles built a new deck. The crew was run by Keith Russell, a resident of East Bend who has been help-ing with Impact Yadkin since the beginning. During the crew’s down time, they played wiffle ball and had fun with each other.

One member of Russell’s Muscles was Camden Cave, who is a 13-year-old from East Bend who participated in the construction aspect of Impact Yadkin for the first time.

“I really liked helping the homeowner with their home,” said Cave. “Getting to help out and help them have a bet-ter life is what I like about Impact. I also liked paint-ing and putting together the deck. Playing wiffle ball is the best too, I have the best crew chief in the world because he is funny and he talks a lot. He makes everyone laugh. I had fun this year.”

Kaitlyn Suarez is from the

Forbush community and is an-other 13 year old who helped out for the first time this year.

“I really like helping people, and I like that I was able to share more about Jesus and was able to learn more about him,” said Suarez. “Painting was my favorite part of this week. I plan to help out next time too.”

Russell’s Muscles was just one of the many crews spread around Yadkin County.

“I like helping the home-owner with her house, spend-ing time with Lori, the home-owner, was my favorite part of this week,” said Zoie Wilkins, who is 14 and was another first-time helper. “I was able to share Christ with her and share some of what I know about him, with her.”

Along with the job sites across the county, there were also Party in the Parks hosted at schools and local parks. Boonville Elementary, Courtney Elementary, East Bend Elementary, Fall Creek Elementary, West Yadkin El-ementary, Lila Swain, Yadkin County Park, Yadkin Town Park and Alpha & Omega were the host sites. Enon Baptist Church and Baltimore Methodist Church also hosted Party in the Park. Over the course of the week, Party in the Park averaged over 300 kids per day; around 50 kids at each park.

The participants played games, tie-dyed shirts, had

snacks, participated in crafts and even had water games on the last day. The kids had smiles on their faces and were able to meet new friends during their time at the parks.

The Impact Yadkin coordi-nators plan to keep going with the event for as long as they are able to.

“We do plan to keep doing Impact,” said Winslow. “We thought back in 2011 that this would be a one-time thing. God blessed us there and brought all of these churches together. This is a non-de-nominational thing, it is just awesome that churches from different denominations can join together. I believe that is how it should be, and this has enabled us to keep going.”

On Friday night, there was a closing event and worship service. It was standing room only in the Forbush gym, with people from across the com-munity coming together to celebrate another successful year. It was evident that the lives of Yadkin County resi-dents have improved tremen-dously since 2011.

Application forms will be available in August 2020 for the next Impact Yadkin. If someone wants to apply, forms are available at social services, senior centers, and they are available at all of the different churches. ImpactY-adkin.org will have all of the information.”

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