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Thursday, September 6, 1990
Tving The Knot In Kings Mountain
tions at a reception attended by 200.
this month as a honeymoon trip.
by Willie's sister-in-law.
wife of 48 years.
50 years.
ETHEL AND WILLIE BLACK
Ethel Yarbro, Willie Black
Starting Over At Age Of 82
At the age of 82 when most of their contemporaries are content to stay
at home by the fireside, Ethel Barber Yarbro and Willie James Black
have embarked on a new life as Mr. and Mrs.
Yarbro, a widow, was introduced to the Bethany Community farmer
four months ago and after a whirlwind courtship they were married Aug.
26 at the bride's home. After the ceremony, they received congratula-
"I liked her the minute I saw her," said the proud bridegroom, who
says he and his bride visited his daughter in Canada and also went to
Niagara Falls, New York but plan to travel to Dollywood in Tennessee
"I really didn't have marriage on my mind," said the happy bride, who
said she was introduced to Willie by a close friend in the local DAR and
"Like Grant I plan to hang around," laughed Black, who affirms that
the two plan to enjoy each other, dance, and travel. "We're giving up gar-
dening and I've sold my tractors," said Black, who owns a farm in the
Bethany Community near Clover, S.C. The couple plans to maintain
both his residence there and her residence on Shelby Road.
Black was widowed March 8, 1989 by Geneva Owens Black, his
Mrs. Black was widowed 11 years ago by Ab Yarbro, her husband of
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CYNDI AND KEVIN KING
They Drove Over 750 Miles
To Be Wed In 'King' Town
Dr. Eric Faust and First Presbyterian Church played "Here Comes The
Bride" Saturday for a New Jersey couple who drove 750 miles to be
married in Kings Mountain.
Cyndi Hawks, 30, and Kevin King, 30, applied for their marriage li-
cense Thursday at the Cleveland County Courthouse but found some
difficulty in finding a preacher to hear the vows.
"Are you serious?" asked several Episcopalian and Baptist ministers
after hearing the story of how the couple wanted to be married in a
town the same name of the bridegroom. Friday, they called First
Presbyterian Church and asked Dr. Eric Faust if he would perform the
ceremony.
The bride, a dancer and actress, and the bridegroom, a stage set de-
signer, met backstage at Attic Ensemble in Jersey City. They dated for a
year and decided to tie the knot. The bride is Catholic and the bride-
groom is Baptist.
"Our friends in the theater wanted us to stage a big production for our
wedding. Our parents had ideas about where we should get married. We
wanted a simple wedding away from the crowds," said the bride, who
graduated from Jersey City State College and is from Eayonne, N, J.,
population 70,000, daughter of Neil and Delores Hawk.
The bridegroom, a 1981 graduate of Catawba College at Salisbury,
had worked at Carowinds in summer 1980 , and although he was origi-
nally from Delaware, had never been to Kings Mountain but he wanted
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Ministry Gives Help
In Times Of Crises
In July, Kings Mountain Crisis
Ministry marked six months of
ministry to the Kings Mountain
community. This helping arm of
the Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association lends help to area fam-
ilies in crisis times through provid-
ing food, assistance with rent, elec-
tricity, and referral services.
Sherry Hamrick is the director of
the ministry located in the
Community Center on Cleveland
Avenue.
The ministry is governed by the
Ministerial Association through a
advisory board of local citizens
representing a strong community
base. Members of the advisory
team are Hallie Blanton, Cindi
Borders. Martha Bridges, Rev.
Charles Davenport, Rev. Frank
Gordon, Dr. Grady Howard, Rev.
Harwood Smith, George Wood and
chairperson Dr. Eric Faust. This
board meets monthly to review the
ministries progress.
The Kings, Mountain Crisis
Ministry is supported by funds
granted by the Kings Mountain
United Fund, local churches, grants
and individual donations. The min-
istry has received a $2500 grant
from the 2 cents a meal program of
the Presbyterian Church (U. S. A)).
Some civic clubs and school
groups have been very generous in
their gifts of money and food col-
lections.
During the period January-July,
the crisis ministry has offered the
following aid to area individuals:
food, 371 families or 1,521 indi-
viduals; utilities, 11 families for
$749.90; medicine, 19 individuals
for $582.35; rent, 9 families for
$575. The crisis ministry has also
provided families with furniture
and other needs. Those eligible for
aid are Cleveland County residents
of the Kings Mountain School
District. As a rule, help is not given
to clients who are on full public as-
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Electric Bids
To Be Opened
Scrambling for $580,000 more
to pay for higher-than-anticipated
bids on renovations to the T. J.
Ellison Water Treatment Plant and
Moss Lake Dam could result in the
city canceling out several items in
the $3 million water project for
which only $2,534,000 was ap-
proved in the water bonds package
and budgeted by council.
City Manager George Wood was
meeting Wednesday with engineer
David Pond of W.K. Dickson
Company, the city's consulting en-
gineers on the project, to come up
with answers. The low bid among
14 general bids for the construction
work came in over a half million
dollars higher than expected.
The city can take $312,000 now
out of bond money approved for
renovations to the dam and use it
now for water plant improvements
or cancel out some items in the de-
sign of the project. Community
3 Services Director Tom Howard
aid the higher than anticipated
1e after additions were
Meantime, Howard said
work on the water bonds project
Tuesday at 2 p.m. at City Hall. He
estimated the electrical improve-
ments could run between
$100,000-$200,000.
Preliminary excavation and de-
livery of pipes and materials got
underway this week on Bridges
Drive for Phase one of the major
water and sewer improvements
project. Public Works employees
were cutting down huge trees on
Sims Street and Gold Street which
had been a problem for electricity
lines and preliminary tree cutting
on the electrical line extension at
KM Industrial Park is slated to be-
gin next week. Howard said the
city is working on plans to provide
gas service to the Northwoods area
of the city, the only area of the city
which Kings Mountain hasn't ser-
viced gas. "Hopefully, we'll have a
lot of customers convert to gas
which is a cheaper heating system
than electricity,” he said.
Howard said the naming of an
architect for the renovations to the
old post office, the proposed home
of the Kings Mountain Law
Enforcement Center, is expected at
the Sept. 25 council meeting.
; hat the
city will open bids for electrical
Officials
Counting
KM Homes
Kings Mountain city officials
will be counting houses next week
to make sure the federal census
takers didn't miss any.
A counting of housing units in
Kings Mountain will get underway
Thursday by some 12 city employ-
ees, an effort by the city to find ad-
ditional population census takers
may have missed in preliminary
U. S. Census figures which report-
ed the city's population down to
8804. :
Community = Development
Director Gene White will head the
house count, which is to be com-
codes department to count each
block of houses identified on the
post census review map. They will
determine the total number of
housing units in approximately 300
census blocks in the city which
roughly coincides with a normal
city block, said White. After the
actual count is made, the census
taker will put the figures on on a
form and White will mail the infor-
mation to the census office.
"If we can give them sufficient
evidence that we have more houses
they will recount,” said White, who
said that the numbers matter for
pride, accuracy and money-state
and federal programs dispense
sales tax revenues and other money
based on population.
The preliminary census gave
Kings Mountain a final housing
count of 3,673 housing units and
242 vacant units and a population
count of 8,804, which White thinks
should be upwards to nearly
10,000. The final population count
isn't due until April 1991.
"Because 8,804 is only a prelim-
inary figure, we can't challenge
them now but we can check and
verify, if possible, the number of
houses and point out any discrep-
ancies," said White.
ETHEL McGINNIS
Still Enthusiastic About Life
Ethel McGinnis
Still Keeps Busy
Mrs. Paul McGinnis lives her
philosophy that "you only get old
when you lose enthusiasm for life."
The well-known Kings
Mountain woman is one of the
busiest senior citizens in town and
any visitor to her house gets the red
carpet treatment. You can be sure
she will show you her beautiful
quilts that were her therapy when
she had to quit the profession she
loved in 1975 as a beloved dieti-
tian, first at West School and then
at North School.
With every new year of school
opening in the fall, however, Ethel
goes back to work but in her own
quilting classroom at her comfort-
able home on Hawthorne Road.
Her new lap quilting class -and she
can teach six students in three
classes a day starting Sept. 10-11-
is expected to draw novice quilters
and also those well-seasor 2d in the
art which has undergone 2 revivai
in recent years. Classes wll be on
Mondays from 9 a.m. untii 11; 3:3C
t0 5:30 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
With as much interest ir: quilting
in this area, Mrs. McGinris could
probably teach every day but she
devotes only one day a week to her
hobby. She does volunteer work at
the KM Crisis Center, enjo/s an in-
terdenominational Bible class, is
active in Resurrection Lutheran
Church, and helps out at the family
business, McGinnis Department
Store, which was founded by her
late husband, Paul McGinnis.
An expert cook and seamstress
who learned form her mother,
Ethel was the youngest daughter of
nine children of Lillie Carroll and
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