WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006
GERMANY TRIP
In addition, said
McCulloh, the students
visited museums, fine
restaurants, the famous
Hockenheimring race
track, rented bikes to
ride around the cities,
took a train ride from
Mannheim to Munich,
and had a brief visit to
Heidelberg.
McCulloh said while
she kept a close watch on
the students, she also encouraged them to venture
out on their own. While in
Munich, she said, several
of the students did just
that – they visited the former Nazi concentration
camp Dachau on their
own.
“They really embraced Munich,” she
said.
McCulloh said that
this year’s trip was made
up of a really “wonderful” group of students,
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Mooresville group in front of European Union sculpture in Frankfurt.
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which made the experience even more enjoyable. She said she’s
proud of how they behaved and what they
learned.
“They are open to new
ideas, they are tolerant,
and they are polite,” she
said.
The trip, she said,
wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the parents, the
host families, and several
other contributors. John
Franklin, Ltd., Dr. James
Fryar, Dr. Lane Putnam,
Getrag, and the Mooresville-South Iredell Sister
Cities Organization all
helped make this year’s
trip a great one.
After their experience,
said McCulloh, many of
the students may wish to
do more traveling, because three weeks was
not enough.
“They really wanted to
stay longer,” she said.
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Janet Bush was affectionately known as “Nana”
throughout the Morrison
Plantation neighborhood for
the way she treated all the
community’s children.
“We’re all transplanted
from all over, and she took in
all the kids in this community,” said Jeanette Diekman, a
Morrison Plantation resident for nearly five years.
Added five-year resident
Craig Schwartz: “We were
from Wisconsin, and they
(the Bushes) were kind of
pseudo-grandparents to my
kids.”
Residents say the Bushes
loved big holiday celebrations with friends and family.
“It’s just a bond that they created,” Shwartz said. “They
are friendly, welcoming and
outgoing.”
A memorial mass will be
held for Janet Bush at 7 p.m.
on Friday, Sept. 22 at St.
Therese Catholic Church.
Bush’s death – the second
in two years at the intersection – has re-ignited a heated
debate over who is responsible for the development’s
streets, including a needed
stoplight at the problematic
intersection.
Developers
blame the Town of Mooresville, and the Town of Mooresville blames the developers.
But while they continue
their spitting match, residents of the development
wonder how many more
lives will be lost before
something is done.
They don’t intend to wait
to find out.
“Let’s get a stoplight put
in here now,” said Schwartz,
who organized a candlelight
vigil Sunday evening in
memory of Bush. More than
300 people gathered on the
Lowe’s YMCA grounds and
walked solemnly to a makeshift memorial for Bush at
the site of the accident.
Neighbors are petitioning
for a stoplight and say they
collected nearly 200 signatures during the vigil alone.
They say they expect to add
hundreds more.
Many of the development’s
residents have been trying for
years to convince the developer, town or state to do
something about the roads in
Morrison Plantation. Many
have attended homeowner’s
meetings, where they say
they’ve met with developers
Ed Kale of Carolina Income
Management and James “Jimmy” Flowers of Carolina Income Properties.
The developers have clearly stated that they will not
make needed repairs to the
development’s roads or install
a stoplight at the problematic
intersection, the homeowners say.
Sherry Arnella, a Morrison
Plantation resident, said she
has advocated for two years
for speed bumps, stop signs
and stoplights throughout the
neighborhood.
She said she realizes that
the developer is responsible
for the condition of the development’s roads, but she believes the town could step in
and help. “We pay taxes that
people living on (adjacent)
Brawley School Road don’t
have to pay,” she said. “We
pay town taxes, but the town
wants no responsibility.
“There are well over 200
kids in our neighborhood,
and nobody’s keeping our
kids safe. I just want my community to be safe.”
Morrison Plantation residents formed a homeowners
association about three
weeks ago, said Interim President Mark Thompson. He
said everyone knew that the
intersection of Morrison
Plantation Parkway and Plantation Ridge Drive would be a
huge issue.
However, he said, “It’s upsetting that some resolution
could not have been reached
by now. We hate that more
than one tragedy has occurred there.”
Thompson said Chris Carney, the town commissioner
who represents Morrison
Plantation, plans to attend an
upcoming
homeowners
meeting to talk with residents.
Until a permanent solution
is found for the intersection,
Thompson said the homeowners association board will
recommend that the Brawley
School Road end of the Morrison Plantation Parkway be
closed – but the N.C. 150 end
remain open – to effectively
eliminate “through traffic” on
the parkway.
A memorial fund has been
set up in Bush’s memory at
RBC Centura Bank. Donations can be made at any
branch or mailed to RBC Centura Bank Attn: Laurie Wheeler, P.O. Box 880, Cornelius,
NC 28031.
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Ballroom dancing lessons to begin Sept. 26
The Mooresville Recreation Department will offer
American Style Ballroom
Dancing classes on Tuesdays
from Sept. 26 through Nov.
14, at the War Memorial
Building.
Beginning students will
learn East Coast Swing and
Foxtrot from 7:45-8:45 p.m.
Intermediate students will
work on East Coast Swing
and Rumba from 6:30-7:30
p.m. The cost is $50 for singles or $100 per couple.
Details: 704-483-1624.
One-Call Scheduling 704.660.4920
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