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SPORTS, 2B
South Point hands KM
fourth straight loss
EMILY WEAVER tow of Kings Mountain,
Editor . Last year, she had just received an ap-
: , pointment to pastor a new church and a phys-
They've battled cancer and now, through ical was required. The cancer may have gone
the sweat, laughter, tears and stories they've unnoticed otherwise.
shared, five courageous women’ are living
strong. The Kings Mountain YMCA gradu-
-ated its first class of Live STRONG survivors.
last Wednesday afternoon with a private
party in a boardroom at the Y.
Over the past 12 weeks, each participant
has tackled new challenges in her own pri-
vate journey of survival - a walk they didn't
have to take alone with the help of instructors
and the support of each other.
Four of the five courageous women sat
around a table before the party March 28,
swapping jokes and stories.
She was diagnosed with two types of
stage 3 breast cancer. One was ductile, the
other invasive.
"I didn't know there were two types, " she
said.
"You learn a lot. You do a lot of research”
after you get the news, said Army veteran
Nancy Hillman of Shelby. From the time she
was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer in
July 2011 up until her surgery in October, she
said she was researching everything she
could about her condition.
"I wanted to know everything before I
Left to right, around the table, Willen Griffin, Marsha Bristow, Ramona Duncan, LiveSTRONG "When the doctor told me I had (breast) made any decision," said Hillman, who had
. instructor Candace Hyde and Nancy Hillman swap stories of survival and some of the humor id. 'Well Dr. Sit Iv
cancer, I said, 'We r. Singh, I always See LIVESTRONG, 6A
that brought them through cancer at the Y. wanted new boobs'," laughed Marsha Bris-
Rankings show Open meeting
county not April26on |
8 looking so well pedestrian plan |
Cleveland County has regressed in health rankings from - A public meeting on Kings Mountain's pedes-
77 in 2011 to 80 in 2012 in annual ratings by the University trian plan will be held Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m.
of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert at Kings Mountain City Hall.
Wood Johnson Foundation. : Planning Director Steve Killian says that input
A ranking of 1 - Wake County - indicates the healthiest from the public will go farin determining priorities
county and a ranking of 100 indicates the least healthy county for building projects in the city in the months and
- Columbus - in North Carolina. Neighboring Gaston was years ahead. {4
No. 76 and Mecklenburg County was No. 4. Other counties Blair Israel of Centralina Council of Govern-
ranked in the top 10 are: Orange, 2; Union, 3; Dare, 5; ments will facilitate the meeting and is currently 3
Watauga, 6; Cabarrus, 7; Durham, 8; Guilford, 9; and New working with city staff, a stéering committee and i
Hanover, 10. various focus groups made up of community mem-
DeShay Oliver, spokesperson for the Cleveland County bers to develop a pedestrian plan.
Health Department, says "county scores have improved in For more information contact Israel at 704-372-
many measurable outcomes that are used to determine the 2416 or email at bisrael@centralina.org
overall rankings." Included in those improved health out-
Firehouse Cookoff
comes are many factors, she said, that affect morbidity in-
kicks off April 20
cluding a decrease in self-reported poor health, poor physical
Grab a napkin and bring your appetite to the
health days and poor mental health days.
Oliver said the county also displays improvements in so-
_ 15th annual Kings Mountain Barbeque Cook#off,
April 20 and 21 from 5 p.m. on Friday - 2 p.m. on
cioeconomic factors including increased high school gradu-
Saturday. The Walking Track will be the location
. ation and completion of some college, and a decrease in a os Tey ee
unemployment. JACKSON McKEE, 5 weeks old, in the arms of the Easter Bunny,
Oliver said that contributing to the county's regression in was just too tiny to hunt eggs at the big city-sponsored egg hunt
health rankings are the health outcomes that fall under the | Saturday morning. His parents, Brandon and Catherine McKee,
category of health behaviors, decreasing from a score of 59 his aunt Carol and his grandparents, Mayor pro tem Rodney and
in 2011 to a score of 65 in 2012. Vickie Gordon, took baby Jackson to the KM Fire Department and
This is the second year in a row the county's health rank- there he was - the tall bunny with the big ears and blue eyes. and the source of BBQ aroma for this state cham-
ing for health behaviors has degenerated and she said this “The bunny seemed awfully familiar to Jackson, the baby didn't pionship with over 50 teams expected to partici- :
demonstrates the importance of concentrating prevention even cry," said his proud Grandpa. pate. : |
See RANKINGS, 6A
KINGS MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
Bowman turning wood into functional works of art
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enjoyment of friends and total of 1,848 projects. He
family. numbers each one and his fa-.
ELIZABETH STEWART
lib.kmherald @gmail.com
Gene Bowman, ava) at his lathe i in his workshop uring out wooden bowls in intricate shapes and
photos by LIB STEWART
designs.
"It's a great stress re-
liever," says Kings Moun-
tain's Gene Bowman of the
“magical art of wood turning,
a form of woodworking that
he taught himself 20 years
ago as a hobby in Kentucky
and started in earnest again
six months ago in his work-
shop on Cherryville Road.
Creating wooden objeets
on a lathe is an involved and
time-consuming process but
Bowman says he finds noth-
ing more relaxing than craft-
ing bowls of all sizes for the
Bowman, who lost his
right lung nearly five years
ago, said he considers his
move from Winchester, KY
to Kings Mountain, North
Carolina "a fresh start." Up-
beat and positive in his recu-
peration from surgery,
Bowman said he took a "hia-
tus" for four years and one
lung "kinda limits my time
in my workshop."
He spends two or three
hours a day in his back yard
workshop and last count was
that he had 500 all sized
bowls in the works, a career
vorites are wild cherry de-
signs, from 2-3 inches in size
up to 20 inches in diameter.
Gene's workshop was
once a storage building for
lawnmowers. "I got tired of
just mowing grass and
watching TV, so Margie and
I decided to build shelves
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