Gaffney folks, Gaffney Ford came to the rescue

Dear Editor:

This letter is to publicly let Gaffney Ford know how much we appreciate their recent help with our Ford Expedition.

We are from Fayetteville, Ga., and received news that my grandmother was seriously ill in Virginia. Our Ford began acting up the day of this news and we took it to our local service dealer for repair before making this 1,200 mile round trip. We began our trip the next morning and the same problems began to occur again. We made it to the Cracker Barrel in Gaffney, where we asked if there was a Ford dealership. The waitress was very nice and gave us directions to Gaffney Ford.

Being halfway from home, already overwrought, and in a vehicle that could completely stop at any moment, we were anxious, to say the least. Jenny Howell, the service consultant, met us at the dealership service department. She went out of her way to make us feel very welcome. We explained our situation and how we needed to get to Virginia and that we had just had an expensive repair job made the day before the trip. We gave her all of our service papers. She showed them to Mike, the service repair supervisor and to Chris, the parts and service director. They made every effort to move our vehicle to priority and repair it correctly.

As we waited, Beth Sexton, the customer relations manager, talked with us and even told us she would be praying for my grandmother.

Chris, Mike, Jenny and several people from the accounting department came out to speak to us. They all searched to find decaf coffee for me. In all our previous experiences with any business, we have never, ever, encountered such thoughtful, caring, and sincere people as you have there in Gaffney, especially at the Ford dealership. What a pleasure it was to have complete strangers embrace us and do what they could to make this emergency more bearable.

As we travel I-85 through South Carolina in these next weeks to say farewell to my grandmother, your town will always kindle a soft place in our hearts due to the gestures of kindness we encountered there. Thank you all so much for helping make our trip safe and for repairing our vehicle the way it should have been repaired the first time. You all are the best.

Warm regards,

Vince and Cathy Falzone

Fayetteville, Ga.

Band member has

high praise for Cotter

Dear Editor:

I am a Gaffney High Band of Gold member. I would like to first tell you what being in band and having Mr. Cotter as our teacher has done for us.

Mr. Cotter cares so much about us. He wants us to succeed in what we want to do. He knows we can do anything we want and he pushes us to do better. He goes to so many lengths to help us. He’s sheltered some and even took one student to the dentist. He has built up a great name for the Band of Gold and even though he would say it’s the students, we couldn’t have done it without him.

He’s taught us respect for others and for ourselves. He’s someone we can relate to and tell our problems to and he understands. There is most likely going to be a decrease in the number of band students.

As for me I think I may stay just because it’s the only thing that is keeping me in the right direction. I can bet that the cooperation between the students and the new director won’t be too well next year. Many of them won’t want to try or even want to come to class.

For a few of the members, band and Mr. Cotter are two of the only reasons for them to stay out of trouble. Lately in the newspaper there have been several articles about Mr. Cotter’s resignation. In the April 13 edition it explained about the TEAM process. There’s a part where it says, “Cherokee County requires all second-year teachers and any teacher hired from out-of-state to go through a TEAM evaluation” but it also says, “Principals have the authority to require any teacher in their school building to be evaluated.”

My question about this is why after five years is Mr. Cotter just now having to go through this evaluation? Fellow members and I are not very happy with Mr. Cotter being pushed out of our lives in this manner. I am a proud student of Mr. Cotter.

Thank you,

Keely Baumgardner

Gaffney, SC

GHS students present

big check to MDA

Dear Cody:

The Beta Club shamrock sales campaign to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association has now ended and I am extremely pleased to report that Gaffney High School students presented a check for $6,451 to MDA on Wednesday, April 13.

Part of the success of this fund raiser is due to the publicity you gave us. The eye-catching placement of the story generated interest and information about our chapter’s project. We would not have reached this impressive total without your support and that of The Gaffney Ledger.

You have always been generous with your personal and your professional support in providing our school and its activities many free pages of much-needed publicity.

On behalf of the National Beta Club members, I should like to send our heartfelt appreciation.

Sincerely,

Joreita C. Shimer

Advisor

National Beta Club — GHS

Thanks for being

so nice to us

Dear Gaffney Ledger Staff:

My husband and I want to thank you for your help in finding Camp’s Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.

We want to thank you for being so nice to us. That really means a lot. We enjoyed visiting your beautiful city. We plan to make another trip as soon as possible.

Roy and Diana Barton

Rossville, Ga.

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