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North Carolina Press Association
Vol. 108 No. 48
Thursday, December 12, 1996
Have a Mountaineer Christmas
Celebration
in downtown
Friday 5-9 p.m.
Friday the 13th should be a
lucky day for citizens attending
"A Mountaineer Christmas
Celebration" from 5-9 p.m. in
downtown Kings Mountain.
Railroad Avenue is the place
to be for the opening festivities
at 5:30 p.m. followed by carol-
ers and other musical entertain-
ment, horse and buggy rides,
hotdogs, popcorn, and hot
chocolate and cider.
"We hope that everyone will
come out for the festivities and
also shop the merchants for spe-
cial sales and door prizes," said
Kathy Neely, president of the
sponsoring Kings Mountain
Business & Professional
Association.
Neely will welcome the cele-
bration crowd after which
Mayor pro tem Phil Hager will
bring greetings and Bobby and
Cathy Rhea will give the invo-
cation.The audience will pause
in silence in memory of the late
Darrell Austin, who was a
member of the sponsoring
group.
Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus will
be the stars of the show and
will be available for children to
have their pictures taken inside
the Kings Mountain Antique
Mall. Polaroid pictures in com-
memorative folders will be
available for/ $2 and commemo-
rative mugs will be available for
$4 and $4.50 on Railroad
Avenue and also at Loui's
Restaurant on King Street
where the buggy rides will be-
gin and proceed on North
Piedmont Avenue through the
historic home district. Rides for
children under 12 are $1 and for
adults the cost is $3 or $5 for a .
couple.
A live nativity scene on
White Oak Manor neighbors
plan to fight rezoning request
Neighbors of White Oak
Manor are fighting a rezoning
request which could add 60
beds in an area they say is al-
ready congested with traffic.
Wednesday morning officials
of the nursing home were meet-
ing with Lou Ballew, Mr. and
Mrs. ‘Dan Finger, Mrs. N. H.
Reed and Klaus Kopruch, all
adjoining property owners, to
try to resolve what may have
turned into an emotional issue
and to review a new site plan.
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for alzheimer patients, and is
_ applying to the state for a cer-
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_ City Council Tuesday night
“denied a request by Ingles
Supermarkets to amend new
“parking lot'Tandscaping condi-
tioris-that’are part of the newly
adopted city zoning ordinances.
Charles Murdock, a real es-
tate agent for the firm planning
a 350,000 square foot building
on Qak Grove Road, said that
Ingles is concerned about the
portion of the ordinance that
tificate of need for a total of 60
beds expected to be available in
1997 in Cleveland County.
Alexander says that before
her board can make the applica-
tion the zoning must be
changed from residential to
conditional use. She submitted
the new site plan on the recom-
mendation by vote of 7-1 of the
Planning and Zoning Board
last month with Lou Ballew
voting against.
White Oak Manor is now lo-
sidential area on Sipe
behind Kings Mountain
Hospital.
would require the placement of
56 canopy trees in an around
350 parking spaces.
"Ingles has met more than the
spirit of the law in offering to
place buffer trees around Gold
Run and the adjoining proper-
ties and we are concerned that
our liabilities would increase
with visibility problems and
dangerous situations for shop-
pers," he told Council.
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Alexander said another
stumbling block which devel-
oped this week is that Carolinas
Medical Center, which runs
both Kings Mountain Hospital
and Crawley Memorial
Hospital, has applied for the
same certificate of need for the
60 beds to be built at the
Boiling Springs location.
Ballew, Carolyn Reed, Mr.
and Mrs. Dan Finger and Jean
Barber are among the 100 resi-
dents of the Edgemont Drive,
ams Street, Sipes Street
he
See White Oak, 7-2%
"I just don't believe Kings
Mountain wants this new busi-
ness," Murdock said to Mayor
Scott Neisler after the meeting.
Neisler said the new ordi-
nances replaces outdated ordi-
nances that go back to 1966 and
are a much valuable addition to
the codes.
Ingles’ point of contention is
that when the firm bought
property on Oak Grove Road
Battleground Avenue will be
presented by Assembly of Faith.
Carolers will sing familiar car-
ols, the Swinging Mountaineer
Band will perform and Grover
Elementary Multi Age group
will sing carols at 7 p.m. fol-
lowed by Jamie Lakey dancers
who will perform "Nutcracker"
and "Santa Is Coming To Town."
Visitors can register for a
drawing for an old fashioned
sled. Hometown Hardware will
present a puppet show,"His
Laboring Few" and sponsor a
children's coloring contest.
There will be plenty of fun
~ for the whole family," says
Neely.
port rezoning.
KM Tree ordinance may hinder Ingles progress
and were subsequently annexed
by the city to build the shop-
ping center that the deal was
struck under the old ordi-
nances.
"This is crucial to the estab-
lishment of the Ingles store,"
said Murdock who offered two
amendments which the board
ignored.
See Ingles, 7-A
Grover Christmas parade is Saturday
GROVER - A 100-unit
Christmas parade, the first in
the community since 1994, will
wind down the main streets of
Grover at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Bobbi Spivey, general chair-
man, said the parade will form
in Spring Acres and proceed on
Carolina Avenue to Main Street,
turn right on Laurel Avenue
and onto Cleveland Avenue
where it will disband in the
by ELIZABETH STEWART
of the Herald Staff
Losing most of the use of his right hand hasn't
slowed down retired minister Bob Davis, 62.
He said he saw the need for and published a
book because as congregations reach unsurpassed
numbers and ministry roles increase formalities,
many active church members endure tribulations
parking lot of First Baptist
Church.
Senator-Elect Walter Dalton
of Cleveland-Rutherford
Counties will serve as grand
marshal.
The Grover Woman's Club,
Grover Rescue Squad, Grover
Fire Department and town offi-
cials are sponsoring the event.
A highlight of the celebration
will be a holiday tour of homes
sponsored by the Woman's
Club from 5-9 p.m.
The homes of Mike and
Kathy Neely, Edith Morgan and
Clyde and Myrtle Horton, the
former Renn's Cafeteria, and
historic Shiloh Presbyterian
Church will be open to the pub-
lic. The $5 tickets may be pur-
chased at any of the tour stops
and refreshments will be served
at the Horton home.
Davis takes day at time
"Tt was such a mountain I didn't know where to
climb," said Davis, recounting horror tales of
homebound and hospitalized people who never
hear from their minister.
Davis has not walked since June of 1993. His
right leg was amputated in April 1995 and his left
arm was amputated in November. He bought a
computer in May and has a typing aid which
Floats, pretty girls, marching
bands, Piedmont Pistons and, of
course Santa Claus, will be fea-
tured in the parade.
The town's holiday celebra-
tion will conclude on Sunday at
5 p.m. with the lighting of the
community Christmas tree at 5
p.m. in front of Town Hall on
Mulberry Street.
See Grover, 7-A
White Oak resident John
McGill and his wife, Lena, sup-
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HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS - Santa Claus waves to the
crowd during Saturday's Christmas parade in downtown Kings
Mountain. More photos are on page 4-A.
Council dissolves
Lake Commission
Moss Lake Commission was
disbanded Tuesday night by
vote of 6-1 by Kings Mountain
City Council.
The 23-year-old board, initial-
ly formed as an Authority and
then changed in 1991 to a
Commission or advisory group
answering to City Council, will
be replaced by a city staff yet to
be named.
Only Councilman Jerry
Mullinax opposed the change,
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mission'was saying to citizens
"your input is no longer need-
ed.”
Mayor pro tem Phil Hager
suggested that an advisory
committee be named but then
changed his opinion and said
that he didn't believe that
Council should micromanage
and he was backing the city
manager.
City Manager Jimmy Maney
said the lake commission had
no tools and administrative per-
sonnel to handle the growing
problems at the city-owned lake
which represents a big invest-
ment in dollars for the citizens
of Kings Mountain.
He acknowledged that the
people who pay fees and pay
for lake licenses may see their
rates rise because he said the
lake will function like other de-
partments of the city and will
‘be expected to stay within a
budget.
"We will put some teeth in
collecting of fees," he said.
Maney said the dissolvement
of the commission is not saying
that the lake commission hasn't
done a good job. He contended
the lake should be run by staff
as a business and he said the
city staff had not been doing its
SR
job because there was no one in
charge.
Maney said the lake will be
patrolled and policed every day
and the first order of business
will be videoing every inch of
shoreline.
"There are all kinds of liabili-
ties that the city is responsible
for along with EPA regulations
and the lake has grown into a
big business that's not paying
off for the citizens of Kings
J he said.
Maney said there are no re-
serve funds to take care of big
repair bills or emergencies and
money from other departments
have paid the bills.
"The staff's accountability
will increase," he said. 0
Maney did not indicate who
will serve as the lake adminis-
trator or supervisor but he said
that several positions need to
be filled.
Mullinax asked why the city
was having problems collecting
fees and Maney said the prob-
lem was that no one was in"
charge and city staff was not
following through as it should.
That will all change with the
new organization, he said.
He said the current operation
at the lake is losing money
and the city needs to have con-
trol of the operation.
Both G. C. Kelly and Gary
Joy, a member of the commis-
sion, urged Council to back the
city manager and M. C. Pruette,
a member of the lake board
since 1973, urged Council to
make the right decision.
Joy reminded citizens that
they paid a 90 percent sur-
charge on their water bills to
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slips on his hand but typing is a slow process. He
is already working on a second manuscript,
"Trips Down Memory Lane," which are actual
letters to his family about real life experiences.
In his book, Davis, a career missionary,
recounts experiences several active members
have sustained - deaths of loved ones, brutal
beatings and afflicted children - without even a
condolence call from their ministers. But severe
and intense crises often break the spirit and ac-
cent the aloneness of the victim, according to
Davis, and in these times, Christians need their
ministers the most to help them keep their faith
and understand the will of God. :
See Davis, 6-A
without benefit of clergy.
Once a phrase referring to those who live to-
gether outside the bonds of matrimony," without
benefit of clergy,” has obtained a new meaning: si-
lence of the minister in times of crisis.
In "Without Benefit of Clergy: A Challenge to
Ministers," he beckons ministers to return to pro-
viding pastoral care to the members of their con-
gregations rather than limiting their duties to
preaching sermons. ;
Davis started writing his book by hand four
years ago and planned to send copies to graduat-
ing seminary students to correct a situation that
he had observed first hand. It was published re-
cently by Providence House Publishers.
WRITING Is CHALLENGE - Rev. Bob Davis at his computer types the manuscript for his
second book. "Without Benefit of Clergy: A Challenge to Ministers" is just off the press. |