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The Weaverville Tribune
Feb 12 - 18, 2009 Vol. 7 No. 7 Woodfin • Weaverville • Barnardsville Fifty Cents
Teen, family fight through disease
Kevin Roberts was in his second year
By Matt Tate
at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte when he started feeling le-
A 2007 study in the Transfusion jour- thargic. Much like how young children
Lowe’s opens
nal indicated less than 10 percent of the are introduced to a host of new germs
eligible population gives blood. Many at a day care, college students are often
are not eligible to give blood. Those who susceptible to illnesses because of their
are often say they are too busy; others close proximity to others in their living
say they are too squeamish. quarters. A student health physician at
interview office
Weaverville resident Gary Roberts UNCC chalked it up as mono. Typical
ness, Lowe’s.
is in the minority. He gives blood. diagnosis, Kevin’s parents thought. Bed
By Clint Parker
Patti Page, the store manager
However, a Christmas Eve phone call rest is all he needs to get better.
for the new Lowe’s, and her staff
changed his perspective on the impact However, on a vacation over Thanks-
Area residents looking for a are interviewing and accepting
of donation. He now sees how several giving break last year, mom Kathy
job might have luck finding one applications for employment at
minutes in the donation chair can help noticed he was not getting better. When
with Weaverville newest busi-
save a life – maybe even his son’s.
Continued on page 4
Kevin Roberts.
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Man receives six years for meth
a place for a controlled substance
By Matt Tate
and possession and distribution of
a meth precursor.
A Weaverville man pleaded Officers from the Weaverville
guilty to several drug charges in Police Department arrested Fox
Buncombe County Superior Court on June 23 of last year. Acting
on Thursday (Feb. 5), receiving at on evidence obtained, officers
least six years in prison. arrested Fox for maintaining a
Buncombe County District methamphetamine laboratory. A
Attorney Ron Moore said Paul team of specialized agents from
Wayne Fox, of Church Street in the N.C. State Bureau of Inves-
Weaverville, received a sentence tigation processed the residence,
of 70-93 months after pleading dismantled and secured the lab
This sign on the front of the old fire station on South
guilty to charges of manufacturing and provided the safe transport
methamphetamine, maintaining
Main Street points individuals to the office.
Continued on page 16
Paul Wayne Fox.
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