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Accused child abuser Richard
Nunez of Kings Mountain was
charged with second degree murder
Monday and is in Cleveland
County Jail under a $1 million
bond.
Rebeka Coleen Nunez, his 11-
month-old daughter. died Thursday
at Carolinas Medical Center in
Charlotte. After getting results
from the autopsy. an earlier felony
child abuse charge against Nunez
was upgraded.
Kings Mountain Police Chief
Warren Goforth said investigators
2nd degree murder charge filed
reviewed medical reports from
Carolinas Medical Center and con-
ferred with the District Attorney
and Department. of Social Services
before upgrading the charge
against Nunez.
If found guilty, Nunez could face
up to S50 years in prison and/or a
fine.
Abuse was first suspected
October 9 when the child was tak-
en to the emergency room at Kings
Mountain Hospital. She was not
breathing and was airlifted to
Carolinas Medical Center.
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TECH PREP
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Mills.,son of Dennis and Diane
Mills, is in his third year in Tech
Prep. He loves to cook. so it was
natural for him to enroll in Food
Service courses. He plans to attend
Johnson & Wells College in
Charleston, SC for two years and
receive his associate degree in culi-
nary arts. He wants to cook for a
resort hotel someday or own his
own restaurant. During his second
year of Home Economics he has
been a peer teacher. Although he
admits he likes to cook sweets, he
gets excited about all kinds of cui-
sine, including international foods.
He hopes to receive a two year
chef's degree and then pursue a
bachelor's degree. Creative arts
programs like ice sculpting are
among the courses he hopes to take
in college.
Byers, daughter of Derice Byers,
has been enrolled in Tech Prep for
two years and plans to major in
pre-pharmacy at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro. She
loves to work on the computer and
is enrolled in office technology
courses such as keyboarding. ;
For Phanthalack, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Onchanh Phanthalack, third
year drafting has offered the oppor-
tunity to draw his plans for a one-
level, 2,000 square foot house on a
Cad 12 system. Computer assisted
drafting helped him land a summer
job at Wise Industries where he
drew blueprints.
Starting in the 9th grade, stu-
dents at Kings Mountain High
School put a career development
’
plan on file and Tech Prep teachers
guide them in preparation for their
future in technically oriented
fields. Joining Tech Prep also gives
a student scholarship opportunities
and entry into community or tech-
nical colleges where he or she can
earn associate degrees.
The sky's the limit for Tech Prep
students, according to Gamble,
who says students may choose
from many interesting subjects, in-
cluding business, drafting, weld-
ing, home economics and food ser-
vice, cosmetology, auto
technology, agriculture and parent-
ing and child development and also
receive a strong core of academic
courses. Cosmetology students are
encouraged to also take chemistry
and Algebra I is now required for
all students to graduate.
Academic and vocational teach-
ers, thanks to Tech Prep, integrate
their curriculums.
Carpentry and math teachers
team up in projects as do business
and English teachers to do techni-
cal assignments.
Agriculture, Home Ec and
Science teachers combine activi-
ties.
"Kids see the relevance to these
hands-on experiences through Tech
Prep when the experience begins in
the classroom,” said Gamble.
Kings Mountain Schools admin-
istered the Tech Prep grant that was
awarded to the three school sys-
tems. Staff development was a part
of the training and integrated cur-
riculum workshops were held in
Kings Mountain, Shelby and
Cleveland County Schools in coop-
eration with Cleveland Community
College.
COMMITTEE
From Page 1-A
Martin, who said that Lexington's
* altérnative school works well; «The
hired police officer also teaches
entry from the outside, all visitors
and non-campus. personnel wear a
name tag and a new two-way inter-
com system in each classroom has
been installed at Lexington Senior
safety in’ the efementavy schools “A. zero tolerance’ level forall
and peer mediation is an important
program in the middle schools
where young people are trained to
help others. ?
Miller said that since January 29,
1993, over 3,338 Lexington stu-
dents were screened using hand-
held detectors through a random
classroom selection. Random lock-
er searches have coincided with
some of the classroom searches
and other measures in place are the
use of portable two-way radios in
all schools, the installation of new
fire alarm systems in all schools
and the elimination of student
parking at the back high school lot
to help eliminate visitors prior to
school and at lunch. Since
November, 1990, exterior doors are
locked, where possible, preventing
weapons is in the policy which in-
cludes cellular telephones, beepers,
pagers and facsimiles. A 100 per-
cent screening using walk-through
metal detectors is used at all home
varsity football and basketball
games. Fences have been erected
around the playgrounds to provide
campus security.
“Students can't do a good job if
they don't feel safe," said McRae.
Will Hendricks, a middle school
student on the task force, admitted
that sometimes young people don't
feel safe on campus.
"We don't have an extremely
dangerous situation now in Kings
Mountain but we want to be sure
that we don't have any more fights
at school and this committee is the
starting point,” said McRae.
Kings Mountain Weather Report
(Compiled by Kenneth Kitzmiller)
. Oct. 13-19 Last Year -
Total precipitation .01 0
Maximum one day .01 (16th) 0
Year to date 35.85 47.01
Minimum temperature 49 (14th) 34 (18th, 19th)
Maximum temperature 85 (19th) 80 (14th)
Average temperature 66.9 58.4
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Jayda Biddix named
Senate Youth finalist
Jayda Denise Biddix, senior at
Kings Mountain High School, has
been selected as one of eight state
finalists for the United States
Senate Youth Program.
The program will award scholar-
ships and a week in Washington,
D.C. to two students from North
Carolina. Jayda was selected on the
basis’ of outstanding academic abil-
ity, demonstrated qualities of lead-
ership, an essay on term limits, and
a test on American government.
The finalists will be interviewed by
a panel of judges to determine the
two winners.
Jayda is the daughter of Jay and
Brenda Biddix and is Student Body
President at Kings Mountain High
School. She is a candystriper at
Kings Mountain Hospital and is ac-
tive in East Gold Street Wesleyan
Church.
TECHNOLOGY
From Page 1-A
has spent $1,513,120.89 for com-
puters over the past three years.
"The networked program is
working well and smoothly at the
schools and we are pleased with re-
ports we are getting from the
teachers," said King. She said stu-
dents in grades 3-8 read and work
math problems on the computers at
their own levels 30 minutes each
day and are tested by the teachers
who have individual printers to
check the accuracy of the student
work and the speed at which they
finish their lessons.
"This self-paced instructional
program enables children to move
and try at higher level and the basic
content is reading and math but
East School students also have a
writing processor,” said King.
"Computers makes us realize
that keyboarding should be taught
at an early age in line with the state
curriculum which emphasizes that
teachers teach kids basic knowl-
edge but also how to think logical-
ly to solve problems and apply
them to other situations,” said
King.
King said that the software is
updated annually to keep abreast
with the computer curriculum.
"Our teachers have the state-man-
dated curriculum, but textbooks are
obsolete, and our computer en-
hancements make the difference,”
she said.
King said high school students
use a networking lab in the math
! department and also in the library
{ whee they research and write pa-
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