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Gastonia Mayor Walker Reid was expecting a mundane City Council meeting on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 5.
Instead, the meeting turned out to be a high point in his life as he was named to the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest civilian honor available in North Carolina. Total and tremendous surprise, he recalled. My family knew. The staff knew. The council knew. Everyone knew but me.
Reid knew something was up, however, when his wife and brother walked into the council chambers and when Sen. Kathy Harrington s face appeared via Zoom on the room s large viewing screen.