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Thanks for helping LEC
To the editor:
As a member of the Board of Directors of the Life
Enrichment Center, 1 would like to express my sincere
appreciation to those Kings Mountain business who
donated door prizes for our Sixth Annual Benetit Golf
Tournament at River Bend Golf Club on May 18. The
Lite Enrichment Center provides adult day health care
to residents of Cleveland County who are aging and/or
disabled. and who have impairments which prohibit
their being independent without supportive services.
1 was very fortunate to have been the first student
intern at LEC during my senior year at Gardner-Webb
University and was employed there for a while after
graduation. It was due to my association with the cen-
ter that I became aware of the tremendous need for the
services ‘that the LEC provides the residents of
Cleveland. County. It is a very real possibility that if
we live long enough. we or some of our loved ones
may one day need the services of an adult day care
center and it is comforting to know the LEC is there if
the need arises. LEC is the only specified Alzheimer's
center in our region and if LEC were not there, many
families with elderly loved ones would be faced with
“the dilemma of choosing between premature institu-
tionalization or giving up careers to become full-time
care-givers.
I would like to especially thank AAA Sports, The
Sub Factory, Angie's Etceteras, Mauney Hosiery Mills
Inc.. Timms Furniture Co. and Plonk's General Store
for their support. It is nice to know that these business-
es are concerned about the welfare of senior adults in
our county.
Sincerely,
Monty Thornburg
Support Joyce Cashion
To the editor:
In 1947 when I announced that I had purchased the
Fulton Funeral Home in Kings Mountain, the late Lee
B. Weathers, Editor of the Shelby Star, called me to his
office to ask that I might do all possible to build a bet-
fer relationship between Kings Mountain and Shelby.
Many of you will agree that this has greatly improved.
The purpose of this letter is to support the re-elec-
tion of Mrs. Joyce Cashion as the Kings Mountain area
person to serve on the Cleveland County Board of
Commissioners.
The people of the Kings Mountain area deserve a
seat on the Commission. She is highly qualified and
deserving to continue serving the people of Cleveland
County.
The Shelby area has three of the five seats. Surely
our area deserves one.
This will be in your hands on May 31.
Ollie Harris
Vote for Joyce Cashion
To the editor: i
Kings Mountain, I beseech you to please vote on
May 31. With Joyce Cashion in a runoff, we in Kings
Mountain need to be vocal and visible now more than
ever. For many years, Joyce has served as the voice of
Eastern Cleveland County on the County
Commission. She represents our region well and al-
ways watches out for our best interest. For Kings
Mountain to maintain a say-so in county government
Joyce must remain in office and it is up to us.
I urge everyone to go to the polls on Tuesday, May
31, to vote for our representative, Joyce Cashion.
Kings Mountain deserves representation in the county.
Due. to the small turn out in Kings Mountain on May
3, Joyce is now faced with a runoff. Your vote could
make the difference on May 31.
Teresa Melton
Praise for Senior Center
To the editor:
To the public who may not know of the good being
done at our Senior Center located at 301 N. Piedmont
Avenue in Kings Mountain. Entering into a small lob-
by you are greeted by one of the staff, Mrs. Linda
King, the Transportation Coordinator. If you want to
discuss business, Linda shows you to the office of
Monty Thornburg, director of the operation, who is the
best young, compassionate man who watches out for
all ages, but his empathy for the worn, tired and the
poor has elevated their pride. The joy and peace on
their faces is proof of the love, fellowship and food
given them - just what Christ ordered for us all.
Mr. Thornburg, in cooperation with TACC, has ar-
ranged for senior adults who must see out of town doc-
tors to be driven right to the front door. In the busy
traffic area of the Charlotte area around Medical
Towers, Presbyterian Specialty Hospital, Carolinas
Medical Center, and the many other clinics who
specialize in various medicine, patients are chauf-
feured in wheelchairs. Many people are chauffeured
including diabetics who have lost both legs to a tiny
baby having her esophagus re-attached (KMSC only
funds seniors age 60) and over). All of these necessary
trips are made possible by the blue van called TACC.
Those who are well and are just going to appoint-
ments for check-ups or evaluations ride separate vans
Bloodmobhile to be at First Baptist Thursday
turnout for Thursday's visit of the
Red Cross bloodmobile at First
Give an hour of your time to as-
sure someone in need will have a
life time.
That's the plea of Sandi Bolick,
Cleveland County Red Cross
Chapter Director of Blood
Services, who is encouraging a big
Baptist Church.
ship hall.
Six finalists were picked
Tuesday night by Kings Mountain
City Council and one will emerge
as the city's chief executive officer
following interviews on June 3-4.
Mayor Scott Neisler said that the
Donors will be processed from
1:30-6 p.m. at the church fellow-
"They all look good but it will
be a matter of personal contact
with them and how well we can
work with them,”
The mayor said the original
candidate list numbered 97 and
said Neisler.
making for a calm trip for the anxious ones. The lovely
blue leather seats are very comfortable. The drivers are
very good. One driver is Ursala Walls who takes pro-
fessional care of cach passenger, seeing that all are
buckled up before she safely proceeds.
The trip over with this driver is better than driving
your own car. The charge for trips to senior adults are
based on what you can afford, and if you can not pay
you can still be served.
1 hope these services provided by the Kings
Mountain Senior Center and TACC will continue for-
ever] am told by TACC that more patients from Kings
Mountain use the vans than any other part of the coun-
ty. Though the services are available to many in
Cleveland County, Kings Mountain has the greater
need.
Another driver. Mary Curry, is a caring Christian
leader who as the driver for the nutrition site route also
delivers home meals supplied by the Cleveland County
Department of Social Services toc many in various
neighborhoods. Mary delivers in summer and winter,
sometimes running into angry dogs. She enters the
house, assists the little old patient, brightens her day
and is off to the next one. In the uptown section, she
couldn't do without the meals. The meals are good and
the drivers dependable sii
Monty and his loyal/ assistant, Shiri Eaker, attend
to all aspects of the department taking care of details
both great and small. Sharon's efficiency with the tele-
phone and computer helps seniors in need in a hurry.
Next, I met Carolyn Bell. Carolyn plans the trips,
programs, classes and activities for the senior adults to
enjoy along with arranging friendly visitors for those
who are homebound.
Last, but not least, is Thelma Hicks, who runs the
nutrition site. She oversees the preparation of the food
and for the home delivered meals program. This place
is a state inspected Grade A and serves 50-plus meals
every day. Some pay 50 cents and some pay $1 or
more, but no one asks for money. It is put into a slot in
a box and no one is questioned about the amount they
give. They are only asked to give what they can afford.
The Kings Mountain Senior Center is an act of
Christianity done through federal grant funds but
mostly from your local taxes. Our taxes do a lot of
good here! Mr. John Henry Moss had the vision to put
the senior center in the depot for Kings Mountain. I'm
sure he is proud it is so worthily used.
I will write again to enlighten you on the things go-
ing on at the Center. By the way, the Bridge Club plays
every Tuesday and Thursday from 1:30-4 p.m. Players
are men and women with Mrs. Gerry Myers as the di-
rector. They now have four tables a week sometimes.
Some of the regular guests are Wilson Griffin, Pegg
Hartsoe, Ruth Plonk, Vera Becker, Walter and Doris
Eck, Maude McGill, Dot McNamara, Margaret Spratt,
JoAnn Fredrick, Margarite Plonk, Modie Houston,
Mildred Myers, Sharlotte Sudenka, Oscar and Mary
Barenwald, and Ellen Foster; and soon to join them
will be myself.
Government responsible for erime
To the editor: -
We now hear that President Clinton has suggested
that, in an attempt to "curb violence in public hous-
ing," police should be allowed to raid apartments with-
out search warrants. He also suggested that tenants
sign leases allowing police to search their apartments
at will for weapons, drugs, or criminal contraband.
On another occasion, Clinton's FBI Director, Louis
Freeh, has advocated putting phone tap mechanisms
onto every phone line as a means of reducing crime.
Furthermore, he had the gall to advocate that we be
forced to pay for the phone tap which the government
put on our line.
Now, citizens will no longer be allowed to purchase
over 185 different types of new firearms (the "19" fig-
ure was a blatant lie), and will have to "register" the
ones which they already have, to include the maga-
© zines for them. Of course, the Federal Judiciary has al-
ready declared that registration violates the Fifth
Amendment for criminals, so only "law abiding" citi-
zens will have to "register" theirs so that the BATF can
come blow off their front doors during the middle of
the night when they decide to collect all of those regis-
tered guns, just as was done in New York City.
Once again, our government creates a problem in
order to cause a panic in which our Liberty may be
taken from us. Rather than surrender our Freedom, we
must demand that the Federal Government reign in its
judiciary and restore the rights of the states and local
communities to combat crime. It is the Federal Judges
who_have imposed prison caps, overturned death
penalties, and overturned countless convictions. It is
the Federal Government who has cripple the law en-
forcement efforts of local and state police with ridicu-
lous procedural requirements. It is the Federal
Government which has encouraged crime through its
social and welfare policies.
We must not allow petty would-be tyrants in
Washington, DC to usurp our God-given
Constitutional rights as the solution to crime, a prob-
lem which they created in the first place.
Tr
/ Respectfully,
Richmond C. Beecher
Bolick says the Blood Services
Carolinas Region is in critical need
for O negative, B positive and B
negative blood.
"O negative is at a one day sup-
ply at this time," says Bolick.
list narrowed to six Tuesday
dates cach and then voted, narrow-
ing the list to six.
Neisler would not give the cities
from which the candidates are
coming for interviews. "lI would
not want to jeopardize their present
seven-member board was pleased was then trimmed to 60. At jobs." he sind.
The mayor said he hoped the
new manager would be on the
scene by early July
with the final candidates, all men
and all from North Carolina
Tuesday's two-hour session of the
hoard. Council selected 10 candi-
Elizabeth Simmons Bynch
Moss Lake Beach
to open May 28
The beach at Moss Lake will
open Saturday, May 28 from 11
am-0 pan.
Regular hours will be Monday-
Friday from 12 noon-6 p.m.
Saturday from HF am-6 p.m, and
Sunday from 1-6 p.m.
Admission is $2 for adults and
$1 tor children,
For more information, cal 482-
7926.
Deal Street Pool
to open on June 4
The Deal Street swimming pool
will open Saturday, June 4 at 10
am.
Regular hours are Monday-
Friday from 1-6 p.m., SAturday
from 10-6 p.m., and Sunday from
1-6 p.m.
Admission is $1.50 for adults
and $1 for children.
For more information, call the
Kings Mountain Parks and
Recreation Department at 734-
0449 or 739-9251.
Summer eamps set
at Cleveland YMCA
Summer sports camps have been
scheduled at the Cleveland County
Family YMCA. Boys and girls
ages 5-15 are eligible to partici-
pate.
Camps include soccer June 13-
17 and July 18-22; basketball June
20-24 and August 1-5; tennis June
27-July 1 and August 8-12; and all
sports, July 11-15.
Each camp will meet Monday-
Friday from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cost is $30 per session for mem-
bers and $45 per session for non-
members.
For more information, call 484-
YMCA.
Sanctuary Choir
To Sing May 29
The Praise oy Sanctuary
Choir of Second Baptist Church
will sing "God With Us," Sunday,
May 29, at 7 p.m.
The public is invited.
Singing Godwins
To Sing May 28
The Singing Godwins are com-
ing to Lighthouse Pentecostal
Holiness Church, 508 Branch St.,
across from the city walking track,
on Saturday, May 28, at 7 p.m.
The public is invited.
Cherryville church
sets special programs
Cherryville Church of God, 810
East Main Street, will observe bac-
calaureate services Sunday, June 5.
In the 10:45 a.m. service, church
graduates will wear their cap and
gown as they are honored. Rev.
Todd Phillips, pastor, will speak.
The church will have a world
missions service on Sunday, June
12 at 10:45 a.m. A special presen-
tation will be given, pledges taken,
projects presented, and Rev. Todd
Phillips, pastor, will speak on mis-
sions.
The public is invited to both ser-
vices.
For more inf¢ymation, fall 435-
4735 or 435-9788.
Macedonia Church
to host Vince Tharpe
Macedonia Baptist Church will
host a performance of Vince
Tharpe of Art Alive Ministries
May 22, 15 6 p.m. in the church
sanctuary.
Tharpe presents a unique blend-
ing of art and music to present the
Gospel of Christ.
A love offering will be taken to
support his ministry.
Rev. David Philbeck, pastor, in-
vites the public.
GAS
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Spectrum and Anvil comprise 90)
percent of the city's water business.
"Council hasn't taken seriously
what local industry has been saying
in recent months,” said Parsons.
"Perhaps they thought the indus-
tries were just threatening but they
meant business.”
Parsons said the pull out, even if
it should be temporary, of the three
plants will mean bad news for
city fathers already wrestling with
next year's budget and unable to
make ends meet on the current
budget.
Parsons said that local industrial
leaders say that fuel oil is much
cheaper than natural gas.
"It's very frustrating dealing with
day-to-day operations when what |
really need to do is spend all day
on finances for which I am trained
and like to do.” said Parsons, who
became the city's chief executive
officer March 21 after George
Wood resigned alter six years as
manager (o take a similar position
in Cleveland, Tennessee
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