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LOCAL
The Kings Mountain Herald
City seeks grant for back-up
generators required by state
© REBECCA PISCOPO
|] rdickinson@kingsmountainherald.com
In a special called meeting
Tuesday night, City Council
agreed to apply for grant appli-
cations from the North Carolina
Rural Center to help pay for
back-up generators now
required for municipal water
pumps across the state.
Right now Kings Mountain
has storage tanks from which
water must be pumped. The
North Carolina Rural Center
decreed that back-up genera-
tors be put in place in every
+ community. KM does not have
any.
“The state requires them to be
here in the event of a power
outage. One will be at the water
plant and one at the booster
pump station,” said Dennis
Wells, director of the Water and
Sewer Department.
CHURCH BRIEFS
“The Rural Center has a con-
siderable amount of money. We
got a Rural Center grant a cou-
ple of years ago to help start the
new lake (Moss Lake),” Mayor
Rick Murphrey stated.
The matching grant for the
generators would be for
$500,000. The City of Kings
Mountain would have to match
it, according to Murphrey, giv-
ing the total projected cost of $1
million.
“Whatever we do it won't be
in this year’s budget. We're
looking to the future...putting
ourselves in the position to
obtain one of those grants,”
Murphrey stated.
The Rural Center itself is, as
city Planning Director Steve
Killian had stated, “an agency
funded by the state. It provides
infrastructure funds for local
governments for either capital
projects like this or economic.”
In addition to the generators
Killian brought a “Rural Center
Supplemental Grant
Authorizing Resolution for con-
verting distribution systems
from a chlorinization treatment
system to a mineral oxidation
(MIOX) treatment system” to
the board for approval. In other
words it’s a plan to change the
chlorinator into osmosis, he
said. The state has passed cer-
tain restrictions on chemical
input.
“They want us to get rid of
them, but that’s going on across
the state. It’s (the cost is) a little
over a million but were not
doing anything at the moment,”
Murphrey stated.
In other ‘action, the Council
voted to “undertake a water
and sewer rate study.”
Any possible infrastructure
plans for projects will not be
decided on at least until the fall.
Haley Feemster will preach
her initial sermon at 6 p.m.
Sunday, July 20, 2008, at St.
Peter Baptist Church, 116
Poplar Drive in Grover.
Family Worship Center, 1818
Shelby Road, is hosting a Kevin
White Camp Meeting at 6 p.m.
Sunday, July 27, 2008 and
Monday July 28th. The meeting
will be a week-long session of
“Power and Praise.” Services
will be held on Thursday and
Friday, August 1st and 2nd at 7
p-m. For more information, call
704-739-7206.
Carolina Praise and Worship
Center, 201 N. Main Street,
Grover, will be holding a Gospel
Singing and Auction Sale Fund
Raiser at Grover Rescue Squad,
107 N. Main Street, from 3-9
p.m. August 9, 2008. The event
will feature clowns, cupcake
and cake walks, grab bags, hot.
dogs, an auction and the gospel
music of “By Grace” at 3 p.m.,
“Carolina Praise and Worship
Center” at 5 p.m., and the “Roof
Family” at 7 p-m.
Cinderella Rose
International Outreach
Ministries, Inc., will be hosting
a women’s retreat “Can we
Talk” from 7 p.m.-10 p.m.
Friday, July 25, 2008 at Econo
Lodge, 825 W. Dixon Boulevard,
"Church,
Shelby; from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Saturday, July 26, 2008 at Gaston
County Library, 1555 Garrison
Boulevard, where brunch will
be served; and, from 2 p.m.-5
p.m. Sunday, July 27, 2008 at the
Kings Mountain Family YMCA,
211 Cleveland Avenue. Events
are free to the public. For more
information view the ministry
page at myspace.com/cinderel-
laroseone, email:
laroseone@yahoo.com or call
retreat Coordinator Odesser
Brevard at 407-760-8425.
Kings Mountain Baptist
101 W. Mountain
Street, will be holding Vacation
Bible School, beginning at 9 a.m.
Sunday, July 20, 2008 with an
informal devotional service
with other activities throughout
the rest of the week. Bible school
cinderel-
will be held in the building
behind the church.
Hardin Baptist Church, in
Dallas, will be offering two new
programs this fall: a half-day
preschool from 8:30-11:30 a.m.
for children ages 2-4 and an
after school program for K-5th
grade children on Monday-
Friday 2:30-6 p.m. All staff
members have received training
in CPR and for Food Allergies.
Discounts are available for mul-
tiple children. For more infor-
mation, call the Children’s
Ministry Director at 704-689-
3474. :
The Cleveland County Health
Department inspected the fol-
lowing food handling facilities
in and around Kings Mountain
during the weeks of June 30-
July 11.
**Denotes 2 extra points
when an employee attended an
approved food handling
course. SF denotes that the
restaurant is smoke-free.
RESTAURANTS
Carolina Crossing, S. Main
Street, Grover, 100.0**
‘Grandpa’s Country Store,
LLC, Bethlehem Road, 97.0, SE
Country Cafe and BBQ,
Mulberry Rd., Grover, 94.0
Elite Cafe, Main St., Grover,
July 17, 2008
Foob REPORT
97.0**, SF
EDC, Battleground Ave., 96.0,
SF
Holiday Inn . Express,
Woodland Pkwy., 97.0, SE
Kings Mountain Country
Club, Country Club Dr., 97.5, SF
SCHOOL CAFETERIAS
~ Kings
Mountain
Intermediate, Kings Mountain
Boulevard, 100.0**
Kings Mountain Middle,
Phifer Rd., 99.0
INSTITUTIONAL FOOD
SERVICE
White Oak Manor, Kings
Mountain, 98.5**, SF
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REBECCA PISCOPO/HERALD
Director of Member Services of Public Relations at the Electric
Cooperatives of SC, Van O’Cain, shows Kings Mountain State
Park campers the ranging brightness and power of Compact
Fluorescent Light bulbs during “Do the Light Switch.” The dis-
play is built to grab kids attention. On the front end is a regu-
lar light bulb using 56 watts of power. When kids press the but-
ton they can see the 4 CFLs all together produce 53 watts.
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