Ron Overcash served on Town Council from 1994 to 2000. This was before the town had a full-time manager.
“At that time, each council member had a department to oversee,” Overcash said.
It was an inefficient system, Overcash said, because council members could not devote their full attention to the department.
“I was not fully involved,” Overcash said. “And it was very difficult to see what’s really going on in a department when your only interaction is at a monthly meeting.”
Overcash works at Food Lion in inventory control and said he is running again for council because he wants to make sure the town is not reverting back to its own ways.
“We need a full-time manager to keep a watch over things,” Overcash said.
Overcash enjoys playing golf and fishing, but his main pasttime is a classic American institution: Baseball. He coached Little League baseball, but since 1988, he has been the local commissioner of the Cal Ripkin Baseball League in China Grove.
“I’ll keep doing that for as long as I can,” Overcash said. “I’m not much for the professional game, but I love kids’ baseball.”-Ben McNeely
