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STALLINGS
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these with Senate and House members and on sever-
al occasions at the request of local legislators has met
with Senate and House Committees on issues of im-
portance to Public Health. She promotes public
health by speaking to local medical, civic, church an
professional groups. In doing so, she articulates the
needs of the Health Department and invites dialogue
that builds understanding and support that is avail-
able for problem solving.
Each year over 1,000 ninthgraders in the county
schools participate in health screenings offered by the
Health Department and educational opportunities of-
fered by the Red Cross, Cancer Society, Lung
Association, Drug Abuse Prevention Council, and
law enforcement officers.
Denese has assumed a leadership role in AIDS ed-
ucation and the county agency is recognized for hav-
ing a well trained staff which is responsive to re-
quests for meetings and in-service programs.
Before coming to Cleveland County, Mrs.
Stallings was director for 2 1/2 years at the
Alexander County Health Department. She also was
a health nurse 6 1/2 years at Catawba County Health
Department.
One of the most recent achievements Mrs.
Stallings has carried out is getting full-time nurse
practitioners or physicians assistants at each high
school in the county. She feels this program is an out-
reach program that can make the biggest impact on
_ prevention. "The carlier we can work with kids and
their families, the more we can get them to change
their lifestyles and be headed toward a healthier life."
Stallings and her husband, Dr. Martin Stallings,
have both been health care specialists for many
years. Dr. Stallings is a Kings Mountain pediatrician.
Out of the office, Denese is busy with family ac-
tivities. The couple's two children, Jackie, 12, and
Kenny, 10, are active in sports. Weekends find the
whole family traveling and enjoying tennis tourna-
ments in which the daughter is involved and baseball
in which the son is involved.
"I'm my family's biggest fan," says Denese.
Indigent care is a big concern for Denese, who has
tapped community resources to meet some of the
needs. There have been 615 women screened at the
free mammogram clinics and a number of indigent
adults have received free dental care. Jail Health
Care is another program that was upgraded early af-
ter Denese arrived in the county. Recently, Denese
worked with the three board of education to expand
school health services to include primary care clin-
ics. :
"Denese takes to public health like a duck to wa-
ter," says associate Eunice Davis, public health nurse.
"She is always in motion, thinks fast, moves fast, and
is always looking to provide more and better service
to Cleveland County residents.
Stallings said her love for children got her in-
volved in Project Graduation and she was instrumen-
tal in its organization in the county in 1989. Her job
was to enlist volunteers and schedule assignments for
the night's activities.
Her "can do" attitude motivates those around her.
BUDGET
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drug control and system grant, a
typewriter, replacement of outdated
portable.radios, and replacement of
three police vehicles.
Funded for Parks and Recreation
is a restroom, concessions building
at City Stadium, Deal Street pool
repairs, playground development
and equipment at cost of $55,000.
The Community Center will get
five tables and 50 chairs, aerobic
dancing replacement flooring, and
a marquee sign at cost of $10,500;
the Lake Authority will replace
lawn mowers, install an audible
alarm system, and rip-rap to pro-
tect existing boat ramps and repair
the missing interior paneling of the
picnic area restrooms at cost of
$2700.
Public Work Administration will
get $55,500 for design of storm
water runoff at the garages, and for
engineering design standards, and
roof and cupola repairs at the old
post office.
SUMMIT
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well by the schools. The system
used to be acceptable because there
were low skill, low wage jobs
available for these students. Now
more jobs are becoming automated
and highly mechanized. Students
need to stay in school, said Causby.
“I don't think there's a more im-
portance challenge in communities
today than to sit down and face
these problems, said Causby. The
whole community needs to come
together to tackle the problems, he
said.
Williams cited a speech by Hugh
McColl, chairman of Nations
Bank, which outlined seven things
communities could do to raise the
quality of students coming out of
the schools.
The first was to get rid of assem-
bly line education. The second was
to stop measuring accomplishment
. by inputs. In other words, focus on
“what students learn, not on how
teachers taught.
The third is to give principals
The Central Garage will get a
freon recycling system, improved
structural integrity of the garage
canopy, and money for required fu-
el tank inspections and state per-
mits and an antifreeze recycling
system.
Street Department is funded for
$7,000 for Hawthorne Street rail-
road crossing signals.
The Fire Department will re-
ceive $9,800 to replace a riding
lawnmower, fireworks remote fir-
ing system, airpacks and radios re-
placement, and early warning
siren.
Powell Bill funds will account
for $126,953 and will be used to
pay for street overlays, two traffic
signals, biennial bridge inspection,
a map update, and for one pickup
truck for the Street Department.
The Cemetery Perpetual Care
Fund of $14,225 will pay for a new
chain link fence between Fulton
and Dwelle Gates; replace old
power tampo; replace 555 giant
trail vacuum; buy two rear baggers
with twin hoppers; and fill in and
landscape the old pool.
and teachers training and flexibility i
and the support they need, then
hold them responsible for the job.
Stop writing off some students,
was the fourth suggestion.
Fifth, don't measure the schools
by the amount of money put into
them -- measure them by the prod-
uct.
The sixth suggestions was not to
succumb to delusions that all the
problems are somewhere else.
And seventh, remember that the
first step in making an omelet is
breaking an egg -- we need radical
change.
"The object of public education
is not to make professionals hap-
py," said Williams, "but to educate
children.
"If schools are going to change,
it will be because of a community
mandate to do so."
Between speakers, the audience
broke down into eight groups,
which discussed important issues
and goals for the school board.
McRae concluded by saying that
as he sees it the most pressing is-
sues confronting the schools in
Kings Mountain are student
achievement and the drop-out rate.
McGILL
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Norman McGill started pumping
gas at age 11. He graduated from
Kings Mountain High School and
Erskine College, Class of 1952,
and joined his father as a partner in
the business in 1953. The two
McGill sons, Trip McGill and Chip
McGill, have both worked in the
business, as well as Norman's wife,
Nancy, who will continue to help
her husband in his new work build-
ing on their farm. A service area
and pit have been installed in the
spacious building furnished with
tools and equipment. Stan McCrary
will continue with the firm as ser-
vice technician.
McGill notified his customers
this week that no gasoline would
be sold at the King Street site after
Monday. He has changed the name
.of his business to McGill's Service
beginning July 1 and will operate
from Monday through Friday from
+ 8 a.m,-5:30 p.m. offering pickup
and delivery service at no extra
charge.
McGill, son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Fuller McGill Sr. and a Kings
Mountain native, confessed to
"mixed emotions about leaving the
"Kings Mountain business district.
"I will miss the close contact with
* the folks downtown," he said.
McGill said his earliest memo-
ries of the store were occasions
when his father and the late
Clarence Plonk and the late Grady
Patterson got together around the
kerosene stove which centered the
station. "Although we were work-
ing 12 hours a day, it was fun," he
said. Born in 1892, Fuller McGill
Sr., Kings Mountain native, died in
1976. He was 38 when he opened
the station, built in 1924. The fa-
ther-son team received a 40-year
service award. A life-long member
of Boyce Memorial ARP Church,
Norman McGill is a Mason and
Shriner.
McGill, 63, who has worked on
one corner in town for 52 years, is
a popular merchant with adult cus-
tomers and children, always hand-
ing out candy to the kids when
their parents pull up at the gas
pumps. One of his favorite visi-
tors is his two-year-old grand-
daughter, Hannah, daughter of
Poppie and Chip McGill.
McGill's across-the-street neigh-
bor J. Ollie Harris at Harris Funeral
Home and his next door neighbor,
W. Donald Crawford, said the ser-
vice station would be missed." You
don't stay in one place that long
and not feel you lost a part of your-
self when you move," said
Crawford.
"That corner just looks dead this
morning," said Harris.
The water and sewer fund of
$153,000 will pay for dam mainte-
nance at Moss Lake; permit fees,
dam inspections at Moss Lake and
Spillway; Davidson Lake and City
Lake dam repairs, inflow/infiltra-
tion contract services; and wastew-
ater permit fees.
The electric fund will receive
$38,425 for PCB testing and dis-
posal and $28,425 to increase the
existing supplies account from
$120,000 to $148,425.
The natural gas department will
receive $89,500 to complete the
Cansler Street tie in project, re-
place one vehicle, pay for a com-
puter upgrade, and to install and re-
build two regulator stations.
MORETZ
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group is to see what role the county
will play in regional growth.
Kings Mountain, says Moretz, is
perfectly positioned to benefit from
a new BMW auto plant at
Spartanburg, SC, which is only
hous 40 miles fromthe Proposed.
site"
He said he is optimistic that
Kings Mountain will get some of
the spillover development and that
new jobs will be created for Kings
Mountain people.
"This should have a ripple effect
on this whole area,"
he said. He said the plant will ini-
tially employ 2,000 people with a
prediction that 2,000 more will be
- utilized for support services.
"Kings Mountain has a number of
trucking terminals here and we're
positioned at the intersections of
US 74, 1-85, and Highway 216," he
said.
"I'm excited about what's develop-
ing for Kings Mountain and see us
coming out of the recession,” he
said.
Kings Mountain, which strad-
dles Cleveland and Gaston
Counties, also benefits from mem-
bership on the Gaston County
EDC, said Moretz.
MORRISON
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square dance music. Butch wanted
to mention his friends -- Earl Clay,
Roy Burns and Garland Patterson
from Shelby and Noble Evans and
Gary Byers from Grover.
Butch received his high school
diploma after studying at home
with a special teacher. He graduat-
ed like every other student, wear-
ing a cap and gown and his father,
before he died, wheeled him across
the stage.
The Morrisons are a close fami-
ly. Butch has a sister and a brother
and for his birthday he will visit his
relatives in Atlanta for two Braves
games.
Butch likes to get out of the
house and go out to eat and shop.
He is hoping to get a motorized
wheelchair, which will allow him
to be more independent. Christine
said a company out of Charlotte
somehow got his name and has of-
fered to give him a new chair. It
hasn't come about yet, but . . .
"We're just hoping," she said,
"it's going to happen.”
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PET SHOW - The kindergarten classes at Bethware School recently had a pet show. Shown with their
pets, left to right, are Lee Smith, Kyle Short, Kasey Sizemore, Jessica Spiering, Kristin Chapman, Maria
Peralta, Tara Harris, Richard Champion, Richie Parnell and Michelle Queen.
KM and Grover students
make Dean's List at Gaston
Thirty students from Kings
Mountain and Grover are listed on
the President's List and Dean's List
for the spring quarter at Gaston
College.
Listed on the President's List
with a 4.0 grade point average with
at least 12 credit hours are Diane
Condrey and Chasity Tindall, both
of Grover, and Lisa Buckner,
Hot dog sale
The Senior Citizens of East Gold
Street Wesleyan Church will spon-
sor a hot dog sale on Friday, June
26, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Hot dog
plates are $2.50 and include 2 hot
dogs, potato chips and dessert.
Individual hot dogs are $1.
Deliveries will be made of orders
that consist of five or more plates
or 10 hot dogs. To place orders,
please call 739-3215 or come by
the fellowship hall. We will pre-
pare orders needed before 11 a.m.
Bazaar and breakfast
Macedonia Baptist Church will
sponsor a Senior Adults Bazaar
and breakfast on Saturday, June 27.
The breakfast will be served from
7 to 10:30 a.m. Cost is $3 a plate.
Baked goods, home canned
goods, handmade items, pillows,
quilts, aprons, wood crafts, etc.,
will be sold at the bazaar from 7
_ a.m. till noon. Proceeds to go. for
senior adult trip to Pennsylvania.
HB "Sounds of Praise" will sing
on July 5 at 11 a.m. at First Church
of the Nazarene, 405 S. Cherokee
Street. The public is invited.
H Join the Crowders Mountain
State Park staff on a study of life in
the shallow coves of the lake
Sunday at 2 p.m. Children can get
wet and muddy while sampling the
waters for aquatic life. The 90-
minute program is free and open to
the public.
Janice Bullard, Kimberly Butler,
Don Crocker, Mary Dilling, Amy
Dixon, Ann Gray, Sue Kelly,
Jimmy Maney, Jennifer Moretz,
Pamela Moss, Michael Rainey,
Tina Thombs, Andrea Tucker and
Derek Ware.
Listed on the Dean's List with a
grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0
scale are Jennifer Greene,
Kimberly Roper, and Teresa Roper,
all of Grover, and Robert Bruss,
Revonda Crockett, Kim Day, Toby
Deaton, Ricky Dellinger, Glenda
Henderson, Kimberly Huffstetler,
Leigh Humphries, Tessie Ruff, and
Sandra Tessener.
Fish Day
It's Time For Stocking
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Fathead Minnows, Large Mouth Bass, Black
Crappie and Triploid Grass Carp (for Pond
Weed Control). The Hybrid Blue Gill will reach
a weight of 2 to 2-1/2 pounds.
Delivery will be:
Wednesday, July 1, 1992
At the following location:
Southern States Co-op
Shelby, NC - (704) 487-6348
Time: 10:30-11:30 am
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Toll Free 1-800-643-8439
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