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Town of Rural Hall
423 Bethania-Rural Hall Rd
Post Office Box 549
Rural Hall, NC 27045
www.ruralhall.com
336-969-6856 PHONE
336-969-9081 FAX
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Inside This Issue
2 Parking Ordinance &
School Parking
Reminders
2 Money Matters:
What Do Your Tax
Dollars Pay For?
3 Employee Spotlight:
RHFD Fire Captain,
Brian McGlamery
3 What is Shmedfest?
Check us out on
social media and be
sure to follow or
like us!
August 2018
Business & Community Spotlight:
Rural Hall Area Business Association Do you operate a local business, or know someone who does? Would you like to get more connected in the business community or work with other local businesses to grow and strengthen the Rural Hall community? Are you interested in supporting local educators?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should consider joining the Rural Hall Area Business Association (RHABA). You do not have to be located in Rural Hall. Monthly meetings are the second Tuesday of the month at Mayflower Seafood in
Rural Hall at 12:30 PM and first-time visitors eat free!
The August 21st meeting would be an excellent meeting to visit, as Pat Ivey (District En-gineer) with the NCDOT will be the speaker and going over the Rural Hall exit 118 bridge project, as well as Northern Beltway updates, and how this will impact the area and local businesses.
The RHABA annually hosts the RHABA Flat & Fast Race. This year they will host their 12th annual 10K/5K on Saturday, October 27, 2018. Go ahead and mark your calen-dar for this event! The race is now open for registration! To find out more information or
register go to: http:\\FlatandFastRuralHall5K10K.itsyourrace.com/
If you are interested in being a business sponsor, contact Steve Hill at 336-969-9511. 100% of proceeds goes to Rural Hall Elementary School.
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electronically rather than mail-
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your email address if we can
switch you from mail to email.
National Night Out 2018
Join us for National Night Out on Tuesday, August 7th 6-8 PM at the picnic shelter at Covington Park, one National Night Out event for our entire community.
Meet your Community Policing Officers, Council members, local firefighters, Town staff and neighbors!
No event would be complete without food, FREE hotdogs courtesy of King’s Hot Dogs and FREE ice cream courtesy of Hawthorne at the Hall.
Cornhole boards will be set up if you would like to challenge your neighbor to a friendly game. The playground will also be open for the kiddos.
Photo booth opportunity - so be sure to bring your phone and/or camera!
Face painting, maze area and more!
Don’t forget to turn on your porch light that evening symbolizing your STAND
AGAINST CRIME.
For more information about National Night Out, you can contact Town Clerk Dora Moore at 336-969-6856 or [email protected]. Keep checking our social media pages and website for more information as it is released.
Movie Night: Friday, August 17th
Join us for our second Movie Night on the ball field at Coving-ton Park! We will have food and snacks for purchase starting at 7:30 PM, including El Taco Vaquero Food Truck, Tropical Sno (Hawaiian shaved ice), Rural Hall Elementary School PTA (popcorn and snacks), and more! We’ll also have emergency
vehicles set up on the field, as well as a bouncy house for the kids! We’ll be showing “Night at the Museum” starting at dusk. Bring your chairs/blankets and join us for this
family-friendly event. (Movie Night sponsored by Waste Management)
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Money Matters - What Your Tax Dollars Are
Doing For You? Waste Management and
Garbage & Recycling Services
The Town of Rural Hall contracts garbage and recycling services through Waste Man-agement. Tax revenue provides our residents with weekly garbage and biweekly re-cycling services. What does this look like per household? The Town currently pays $141 per household per year for these services. This breaks down to $2.71 per week per household.
Waste Management is North America’s largest provider of comprehensive waste man-agement services, largest residential recycler, and a renewable energy provider. They are invested in developing waste solutions for our changing world. Waste Management recovers the naturally occurring gas inside landfills to generate electricity, called landfill-gas-to-energy. They have also recently transitioned to natural gas trucks.
While Waste Management does work to provide a safe, sustainable environment, as well as provide the best service they can, they do make mistakes. If your garbage or recycling is missed, please contact our office and we will report it to Waste Manage-ment on your behalf. Please LEAVE your cart at the curb in the event you are missed, so Waste Management can recover your garbage or recycling. Waste Management works diligently with our office personnel to resolve issues quickly and recover missed garbage or recycling as soon as possible. Please do your part (see above) to make sure garbage and recycling services go as smooth as possible.
Waste Management was very generous in sponsoring our first movie night event at Covington Park in June, and will sponsor our upcoming movie night on Friday, August 17th. See the front page for more details!
Waste Management Recycling Recycling Dates Highlighted Below
Recycling every other Tuesday
Garbage every Tuesday
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Town Parking Ordinance - Fire Entrances, Fire Lanes, School Parking/Traffic
The Town Council recently passed and adopted a parking ordinance for the town limits, in order to protect the health and safety of our resi-dents. The ordinance addresses mul-tiple parking parameters and prohibi-tions. As kids go back to school, we would like to emphasize a few areas of the ordinance.
It shall be prohibited for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle, ex-cept when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, in compliance with law, or the directions of law enforce-ment personnel, emergency person-nel or other traffic-control device, within:
15 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the en-trance to any fire station within 75 feet of the entrance when properly posted,
A designated fire lane,
A lane designated for moving traffic in such a way as to ob-struct the movement of traffic in that particular lane creating a safety hazard to pedestrians or vehicular traffic or impeding the delivery of mail or passage of emergency vehicles, school bus-es and/or sanitation vehicles,
At any place where official signs or markings prohibit stopping, standing or parking,
In the opposing direction of traffic.
This ordinance allows our communi-ty policing officers to issue tickets/civil penalties for violations. A $25 penalty for each violation will be im-posed. If the penalty is not paid with-in the specified time frame, an addi-tional $50 penalty will be issued. To view the entire ordinance, visit the “Ordinances and Policies” section of our website.
Mailboxes For Sale
If you are in need of a new mailbox and live inside town limits, you may purchase one from the Town of Rural Hall. Our Public Works Department will deliver the mailbox to you, as well as install/mount it if needed. The mailboxes are plastic, black, standard size, double-door mail-boxes. We accept cash or check. Call Town Hall if ques-tions or for more information.
Mailbox Only: $55
Mailbox With Treated Post: $65
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Do Your Part!
Garbage & recycle carts should be at the curb by 6:30 AM on Tuesdays.
All garage must be bagged. Recycla-bles should NOT be bagged.
Do not overstuff carts. Lids should be closed.
Do not contaminate recycle cart with trash and vice versa.
No excess garbage or recycling should be outside or around the cart.
Visit www.ruralhall.com or call Town Hall if questions.
Council & Staff Larry T. Williams Mayor John N. McDermon Mayor Pro Tem Timothy M. Flinchum Councilman C. Thomas Griggs Councilman Ricky S. Plunkett Councilman D. Barrett Burge Town Attorney
****** Megan M. Garner Town Manager Dora K. Moore Town Clerk/Office Supervisor Monica S. Thomas Accounting Clerk Misty A. Meadows Administrative Assistant Landon Johnson Town Officer Brandon Jones Town Officer
****** Steve Wall Public Works Supervisor Chris Southern Public Works Crew Leader Jason Hill Public Works Donnie White Public Works
****** Andy Marshall Fire Chief Brian McGlamery Fire Captain Eric Stewart Fire Captain Mark Williams Fire Captain Ryan Hooker Career Firefighter Josh Joyce Career Firefighter Chad Stevens Career Firefighter Josh Wright Career Firefighter
Agenda Briefing
1st Monday, 10:00 AM
(as needed)
Council Meeting
2nd Monday, 7:00 PM
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Rural Hall Lifespan
Center Back to School Bash!
Mark your calendars for the Lifespan’s annual “Back to School Bash” on August 17th from 11 AM until 1 PM at Coving-ton Park. There will be refreshments and entertainment and school supplies will be given out to children in the com-munity in need. The Lifespan Center is a non-profit, youth enrichment organiza-tion. For more information or to make a donation, please contact JoAnne Falls at [email protected] or 336-996-5776. Donations for the event are tax deducti-ble.
Rural Hall
Gardening
Club During warmer months, the Gardening Club looks for beautifully manicured yards and awards a yard in town as the “Yard of the Month”.
July Yard of the Month
Larry & Patty Agee (7200 Brook Valley Road)
The club meets the 4th Monday of each month. Visitors are welcome. For fur-ther information, call 336-642-4240 or 336-985-5354.
Rural Hall Library 336-703-2970
PJ Storytime
Families with children of all ages are welcome to sing, dance, and listen to stories.
Tuesday, August 14th at 6:30 PM
Teen Anime Club
Teens (ages 12-17) are welcome to join us as we make and eat Sushi Balls. Please call 336-703-2970 to register.
Friday, August 17th at 4 PM
Family Movie Night
Please call the front desk to find out the movie title of this PG rated movie.
Monday, August 20th at 6 PM
Rural Hall Historical
Museum Come check out the unique history and memorabilia of Rural Hall! If you have never been to the museum, you need to plan a visit! They are open each Saturday from 10 AM - 1 PM. Call to schedule a group visit outside of Saturday hours. Contacts: Roger Scott 336-969-9842 / Mary Lee Smith 336-969-6905 / Marvin Morris 336-969-2468
Crisis Control Ministry
Shmedfest Event August 25th, 4-10 PM Join CCM for the 14th annual Shmedfest - a family-friendly music event benefitting their ministry. The event keeps growing each year – so it’s on the move! Shmedfest will be held at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds this year. There will be great food, bands, and activities for the whole family! Live music will be provided by local bands with dinner and beverages provided by K&W Cafeteria, Pepsi and R.H. Barringer. Shmedfest is FREE, but donations to CCM are encouraged. You must reserve your spot by texting FEST on your mobile device to 41444, or register online.
https://www.facebook.com/shmedfest/
https://crisiscontrol.org/shmedfest/
Employee Spotlight
Fire Captain Brian McGlamery ran into a
familiar face at the Dairi-O on Tuesday,
July 3rd. About 10 years ago Brian ran a
call and delivered Abbey Lankford as a
baby, pictured with him here. Her mom,
Kendra, recognized Brian right away! She is
still so grateful for Brian’s help that day 10
years ago, when she could not make it to
the hospital in time. She credits Brian with
saving her and her daughter’s lives. Thank
you Brian, and all of our firefighters, for
serving our
community
and making
a difference
each and
every day!
TOWN OF RURAL HALL
423 Bethania-Rural Hall Road
Post Office Box 549
Rural Hall, NC 27045
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TOWN WELLNESS EVENTS (Through October)
Covington Park at 7450 Church Street
First Friday Line Dancing: 6 PM Under the Picnic Shel-
ter and $3-5 DONATION SUGGESTED
Completion of a one-time waiver is required. No ex-
perience necessary. Line Dancing is led by Pat Ad-
kins. Check Pat out on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/pat.adkins.1257.
Third Thursday Yoga in the Park: 7 PM (*Note the time change)
In the Grass By the Picnic Shelter
No charge for this event; Sessions led by Stokes
YMCA; Completion of a one-time waiver is required.
Please bring your own yoga mat. No
experience necessary.
Medicine Drop
Rural Hall Fire Department
Saturday, August 18 from 9 AM - Noon
Bring unused or expired medications for safe disposal. No
creams, liquids, needles, syringes, or illegal controlled sub-
stances accepted. This event is sponsored by the Forsyth
County Sheriff’s Office.
Dates to Remember… Aug 3: 6 PM First Friday Line Dancing
Aug 7: 6-8 PM National Night Out
Aug 14: 11:30 AM Food Truck Tuesday with
BACONESSENCE
Aug 16: 7 PM Third Thursday Yoga
Aug 17: Movie Night (Food starts at 7:30 PM,
movie starts at dusk)
Aug 18: 9 AM - Noon Medicine Drop
Aug 27: First Day of School
Sept 3: Town Offices Closed for Labor Day
Sept 11: 11:30 AM Food Truck Tuesday with
Sliders
Town Flag Program
Flags can be purchased at the Town
of Rural Hall for $20 in memory or
honor of someone or a group.
Recent Flag Purchases:
July 2018
In Memory of Donna Miller Golden by
Dana Golden & Dedra Malloy
