A warm welcome

I've been working at The Star now for four months. But I just moved to Shelby about a month ago. Before coming here I had heard that Shelby's hospitality was legendary. I got a first-hand example of it the day I moved in. The movers and I had spent the day getting everything loaded up in Gastonia and unloaded in Shelby. I was exhausted and hadn't eaten anything all day. Out of the blue, a woman pulls her car over and gives me two cheeseburgers and a cold drink. She told me she lived down the street and could see I was tired and she just wanted to do something to help. To me that was an extraordinary act of kindness and one I'll never forget. I've never had something like that happen to me when moving somewhere. I can only say the good people of Shelby make it the friendly place that people talk about.