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Art celebration
Citizens are invited as “Belmont Celebrates the Arts,” Saturday.
The free event is sponsored by the Belmont Downtown Merchants Association.
Activities will start downtown at with a children’s art festival, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. There will be such art activities as face-painting, working with clay and coloring and painting pictures. Look for the balloons to indicate participating merchants.
The second annual “Belmont Art Crawl” will follow, 5-8 p.m., with works by local artists on display in Main Street storefronts. The event’s guest will be potter Michael Ball of Vale, a specialist in face jugs. Ball will perform demonstrations on a potter’s wheel. Other artists, including Anne Cowie, Amy Jones, Lou Zepeda, Sarah Monteleone and Mike Hensdill many others, will be on hand to showcase their work. Also on display will be work by the Holy Angels Art Club
And Belmont City Hall will be open to display the recently renovated mural of Maj. William Chronicle.
All artists are invited to join in the fun. Those interested should call local art teacher Jeaniene Dibble at (704)825-1819.
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Relay for Life sets goal of $75,000
By THOMAS LARK
- Thu, Feb 21, 2008
BELMONT—When Suzanne Wallace lost her father to cancer, it made her even more determined.
“We have simply got to find a cure,” she said Monday.
Wallace, a computer applications teacher at South Point High School, was devastated when her dad, Jack Nivens, lost his battle to this killer disease at the age of 74.
“It was testicular cancer,” she said, “and it metastasized to his prostate gland, then to the lungs and finally to his brain.”
Wallace’s life has been touched by cancer multiple times. She’s also lost grandparents, aunts, uncles and a step-sister to the disease.
When faced with such losses, most people would simply give up and figure that the deeply sad outcomes are inevitable. But not Wallace.
For nine years, she’s been involved with Relay for Life. The nationwide event raises money for cancer research by sponsoring walking teams that walk through the night on high school tracks across America. Local response to the event has been so great that it has actually broken off into four versions in Gaston County. The Belmont Relay for Life, for which Wallace serves as event chairman, will be held May 16-17 at SPHS Stadium.
For four years, she has also served as the Relay team captain for SPHS.
“There are sponsorships available at all levels,” she said, “individual, small business and corporate.”
This year’s goal for the Belmont Relay for Life is $75,000.
“And I fully anticipate that we’ll easily exceed that,” said Wallace.
A lot of the money raised stays at the local level, she explained, and goes to support such programs as “Look Good, Feel Better.”
“It helps ladies who’ve lost their hair due to chemotherapy,” she said. “It supplies them with wigs and shows them new things to do with scarves. But most of the money benefits the research efforts of the American Cancer Society.”
In connection with the Belmont Relay, a golf tournament fundraiser will be held June 23 at Pine Island Country Club in Charlotte.
A big part of every Relay is the lighting of luminaries in stadiums. Every year, Wallace said, the lights are arranged to spell H-O-P-E.
“And there is reason for hope,” she said. “There’s a lot of new advances in breast, colon and lung cancers.”
Luminaries are available in honor of survivors or in memory of cancer’s victims for $10 each.
Also for cancer survivors, a dinner will be held in their honor on May 6 at 6 p.m. at Queen of the Apostles Catholic Church in Belmont.
Speaking for cancer’s many victims and their families, Wallace expressed hope and optimism.
“My life has been extremely affected by cancer,” she said. “I want to find a cure. We’ve got to do something, and we’ve got to fund the research. That’s how we’ll find a cure.”
Want to know more about Belmont Relay for Life? Call Wallace at (704)825-9621 or (704)813-3318 or write her at 4042 Belle Mead Circle, Belmont, N.C. 28012.
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