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The Gastonia Transit System (GT), is a municipally-owned operator of public transportation in Gastonia, North Carolina. The agency provides service from 5:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Monday through Friday; and from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday.
Stewart was born in Gastonia, North Carolina and raised in Fort Mill, South Carolina. [1] [2] He began swimming competitively at the Johnston Memorial YMCA in Charlotte, North Carolina. [2] He attended Fort Mill High School until partway through his junior year at the school.
The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary.
The Charlotte metropolitan area is a metropolitan area of the U.S. states of North and South Carolina, containing the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.The metropolitan area also includes the cities of Gastonia, Concord, Huntersville, and Rock Hill as well as the large suburban area in the counties surrounding Mecklenburg County, which is at the center of the metro area.
Gastonia is the most populous city in and the county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is the second-largest satellite city of the Charlotte area, behind Concord. The population was 80,411 in the 2020 census, up from 71,741 in 2010. [7] [8] Gastonia is the 13th-most populous city in North Carolina.
Scouting came to the United States a short time later. There were already boy organizations in the US under the leadership of Daniel Carter Beard (Sons of Daniel Boone), Ernest Thompson Seton (Woodcraft Indians) and the YMCA. Chicago publisher William D. Boyce learned about Scouting during a visit to London in 1909.
The following is a list of mayors of the city of Gastonia, North Carolina, USA. Gastonia is in Gaston County. Elections in North Carolina; Federal government.
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]