Kannapolis Friends of the Library event

The Kannapolis Branch Library Friends of the Library will host author Dr. Cathy Pickens as a guest speaker at its annual event and luncheon on Tuesday, April 22, at the Kannapolis Village Park Building at 11:45 a.m. Tickets are $15 each. Pickens has been, under different names, a lawyer, business professor, university provost, clog-dancing coach, church organist and choir director and a typist. She is the author of “Southern Fried,” “Done Gone Wrong,” “Hog Wild,” and the fourth in the... 

County offers free discount drug card to all county residents

Cabarrus County is making free prescription drug discount cards available under a program sponsored by the National Association of Counties (NACo) that offers average savings of 20 percent off the retail price of commonly prescribed drugs. The cards may be used by all county residents, regardless of age, income or existing health coverage, and are accepted at 90 percent of pharmacies in the county. A national network of more than 59,000 participating retail pharmacies also will honor the NACo prescription... 

Kannapolis railroad crossings used to be many

By Norris Dearmon For the Kannapolis Citizen Before there was a railroad in our area, there was the Old Wagon Road, which ran roughly along the ridge where the railroad now runs north and south. The exception was that the wagon road had to vary off the ridge in order to find water for the horses. It left the ridge five times between what are now Kannapolis and Concord. The railroad was built after many problems with the rights-of-way and organization in the late 1840s. Construction began in the early... 

Letters

Beware, county residents: annexation may be in your future If the citizens who live on the Rowan County side of Kannapolis have not been paying attention, involuntary annexation is beginning to get seriously dangerous to the economic stability of the citizens affected. Yesterday it was just going up a road, now it’s growing into a Vision 2020 plan that threatens the tax burdens on thousands of Rowan County residents. Rockwell has plans to also annex 500-plus residents to keep from losing out on... 

By Maggie Blackwell

The Pender’s corner became a meeting place in the late 1930s because everybody had to go to buy groceries almost daily. Cars that could help housewives get the groceries home weren’t plentiful, so there was a family grocery store on almost every corner, says Norris Dearmon, well-known Kannapolis historian. This picture was made on the corner of South Main and A Street about 1938 or 1939. Supermarkets didn’t begin to show up until after World War II. Grocery shoppers in the 1930s still had... 

Garden art can do more than decorate a garden

By Maggie Blackwell For the Kannapolis Citizen A garden is a wide open palette for the gardener. It can be as large or as small as one wants and is limited only by the size of the land and the gardener’s time to tend it well. It can be formal or wild, flowers or vegetables. The outcome is truly up to the person who plans and tends it. Garden art is an open palette as well. When one paints a picture, he is limited by the size of the canvas and the two dimensions available. Garden art can be large... 

Spring, summer and fall planting and gardening calendar

By Darrell Blackwelder For the Kannapolis Citizen April * Still time to fertilize cool season fescue/bluegrass lawns. Do not fertilize lawns after April 15. * April 15 is considered the last frost-free day in the Piedmont. Tender annuals can be set outside. Watch the weather forecast. And be prepared to cover if a sudden late frost should occur. * Post emergence herbicides can be applied 3 weeks after fescue germinates. Dandelions, wild garlic, wild onions, clover and other broad leaf weeds can be... 

NASCAR has more to offer than Sprint Cup

By Cathy Elliott Contributing NASCAR columnist It gets a little upsetting at times, when one of NASCAR’s rare “off” weekends rolls around, to hear the inevitable lament, “Aw, man, there’s no race this weekend.” Let’s correct that statement right off the bat, because it is inaccurate. The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series does not compete every week, but even when the nation’s premier racing series is enjoying a couple of rare and well-deserved days off, there is plenty of action for fans to... 

Public forum on N.C. 3 corridor draws a concerned crowd to ask questions about future plans

Last Tuesday’s public forum on the future of the N.C. 3 corridor, sponsored by the Centralina Council of Governments, drew about 120 people to Bethpage Presbyterian Church. Even though most local elected officials stayed away, residents brought up concerns about water restrictions, public transportation, utility connections and traffic problems. Not all of those problems were focused on the meeting’s central issue, the future of land along N.C. 3. But the residents’ comments reflected a frustration... 

Faces of Faith

Religion symposium First Presbyterian Church in Kannapolis will host a community symposium on “Living as Christians in a World of Many Religions” on Wednesday evenings, April 2-16. The presentations will be in the church’s sanctuary, each beginning at 6:30 p.m., and will be led by faculty from Davidson College. The series will address questions such as: What does the Bible say about relating to those of other religions? Does the Bible legitimize an open and accepting attitude toward other religions?... 

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