♥ Star makes plans for Heritage Day

As published in the Courier-Tribune on May 15, 2014

by Hugh Martin
biscoewriter@yahoo.com

STAR — Star Mayor Mary O’Brien made a plea for help for the annual Heritage Day celebration during the monthly town commissioner meeting on May 12.

“We have some new events this year and we are going to need some help that day,” she told the board.

Star Heritage Day started several years ago as a class reunion and has since expanded to include the entire community. The event is held on the first Saturday in June which, this year, falls on June 7.

Some of the new events are the grand opening of the new building for the Montgomery County Community Health Center, at the corner of South Main Street and Cotton Creek Road. The center will also be offering free blood pressure screenings that day.

Other events will include an open house at the Community Kitchen, a two-hour game of Minute to Win It, the dedication of the Little Train and food and fellowship at the town hall. A complete agenda for the celebration is not final, but O’Brien promises a full slate of events.

In other business, O’Brien and commissioners Eddie Bernard, Alice Clemens, Jennifer Fountain and Mark Maynard:

* Scheduled a budget workshop for May 27 at 5 p.m.

* Will have town attorney Max Garner renegotiate a lease for the town-owned medical clinic building on Okeewemee-Star Road.

* Tabled discussion on the relocation of the town’s branch of the public library to the Star Heritage Center building, also known as “The Pink House.” The building is adjacent to the Town Hall and is owned by the town.

* Received the monthly police report from Chief Tracy Phillips. Police responded to 391 events that occurred during April.