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Thursday, July 17, 1997
Barnettes face
another hurdle
by ELIZABETH STEWART
of The Herald Staff
_ If a Mom of the Year award is ever
given certainly Helen Price Barnette .
would be at the top of the list.
The longtime Kings Mountain nurse
and her husband, Butch, have been bat-
tling their grandson Billy Bridges Jr's
life-threatening health problems for six
years but now Helen needs prayers and
some financial support to weather
health problems she faces.
Mrs. Barnette, 57, underwent major
surgery Thursday after being hospital-
ized -at Cleveland Regional Medical
Center since July 4 for diverticulitis
which resulted in removal of 12 inches
"I wanted to lose some weight but
not this way," Helen said this week.
Her health problems first started with a
bad bout of sinus infection January 27.
Little Billy, who requires around the
clock nurses, calls "Mom" four or five
times a day. The little boy talks about
Heaven and God and on a recent day
told Mrs. Barnette, "Let's you and me
go to Heaven and visit, God's up in
Heaven and He's looking after you."
Billy Jr. is on a first name basis with
The Heavenly Father, according to his
doting grandparents who took the little
boy into their home from Carolinas
Medical Center when he was nine
months old.
of her bowel. She has had complica-
tions with elevated white blood count
and low blood pressure.
See Barnette, 3-A
Butch and Helen Barnette and Billy Bridges
Bloadmobile
visit Thursday
at First Baptist
The Cleveland County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross will hold a blood drive.
Thursday, July 17 from 1:30-6
p.m. at First Baptist Church in
Kings Mountain.
Sandi Bolick, Blood Se
and area and encourages all eli-
gible donors to give. at
Thursday's visit.
"Our normal inventory level
of blood to ensure an adequate
supply for three days for use by
patients in local hospitals is
4,300," said Bolick. "As of this
morning, the available invento-
ry of blood was 1,962 units or
46 percent of what is needed,
which means that we are ship-
ping about 50 percent of what
our hospitals are requesting at
this time. This is largely due to
a decreased number of blood
drives held leading into the July
4th holiday period.
"There is an emergency need
for donors with blood types O
positive, B positive, and O neg-
ative and a critical need for
donors with blood types A pos-
itive, A negative and B nega-
tive. Traditionally, summer is a
challenging time of the year for
blood donations as many regu-
lar blood donors are involved in
vacations and other outdoor
summer © activities.
Unfortunately, increased travel
can also result in increased acci-
dents which lead to more blood
usage.
"At other times of the year,
we could get help from other
areas of the country. In the sum-
mer, however, blood collections
are down across the USA so
finding help elsewhere is not an
option. Five areas of the coun-
try are currently going to their.
media to appeal for blood
donors due to critical blood in-
ventory levels.” ?
— BEATING THE HEAT———
When the temperature reached 96 degrees and the heat index hit 100 Tuesday afternoon, Kings
Mountain area people had to have some relief. John Clark, left, and Devin Clark in photo at right
found that a cup of fruit flavored Hawaiian ice hit the spot. The 7- and 3-year-old children of
Melinda and Chad Clark were served by John Eng, left photo, at John and Sandra Eng's stand at
. Parker's Amaco on Business 74.
Three m
The filing of three more can-
didates for
city offices
this week as-
sured con-
tests in Ward
I, Ward II and
Ward V.
Bix ie
Councilman
Jim Guyton,
who lost by
GUYTON one vote to
Jerry Mullinax two years ago af-
ter serving four years as Ward II
Commissioner, Jim Norris, 1003
Sherwood Lane, running again
in Ward V against incumbent
Rick. Murphrey and Rev.
Howard Shipp, of 507 Mitchell
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Street, challenging Phil Hager
in Ward I, threw their hats in
the political ring this week.
Filing for all seven seats open
on the Kings Mountain City
Council and the mayor's ‘seat
closes at noon on August 1 with
the Cleveland County Board of
Elections.
ore men
Three incumbents, Mayor
Scott Neisler, At-large
Councilwoman Norma Bridges
and Ward 4 Councilman Jerry
White have not announced.
In the Kings Mountain Board
of Education race where three
seats are open only the chair-
man of the board, Ronnie.
Hawkins, has announced for
reelection. Both Connie Allison,
who represents the outside dis-
trict seat along with Hawkins,
and Billy Houze, member at
large and current vice-chairman
of the board, have not an-
nounced.
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councilmen, Tim Rowland, °
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City Council approves
‘7-member lake board,
by ELIZABETH STEWART
of The Herald Staff
Whether a lake authority was
created by legislative action or
city ordinance the bottom line,
according to city officials
Monday night, was control of
city-owned Moss Lake.
"We want them to be happy
but we have to look after the
city's business,” Councilman
‘Ralph Grindstaff said in re-
sponse to criticism by Moss
Lake resident Mike Bolt, who
charged after the meeting that
the city deviated from an agree-
ment on the composition of a
lake authority and on a revision
of user fees schedules.
Grindstaff, who was present
‘during talks with property
owners last week, said there
was no "done deal."
"We understood that the user
fees would be.revaluated and
retroactive to July 1," said Bolt.
But Grindstaff said City
Manager Jimmy Maney had
only promised readouts on
monthly expenditures. He said
the first business of the new
try to negotiate concerns ov
city imposed user fees and
membership on a lake board.
Negotiations between the
two sides in the controversy be-
gan last week after the N. C.
House delayed the vote on a bill
proposed by Rep. Debbie Clary
that would create a lake author-
ity without a majority member-
ship of Kings Mountain resi-
dents. :
Council voted twice Monday
night before it came up with a
final vote, 5-1, to reestablish the
lake commission by city ordi-
nance with membership to in-
clude five inside-city residents
appointed by Council and two
file for KM City
and Noel G. Spivey are up.
Rev. Shipp, the associate min-
ister of New Life Christian
Church and a Kings Mountain
minister since 1969, is a Kings
Mountain native and retired
employee after 20 years at
Eaton Corporation. He is mar-
ried to Kay Frances Wells Shipp
and they have four children,
seven grandchildren and one
great-grandchild.
"Kings Mountain has been
good to me and now that I am
retired I feel that, if elected, I
can make a contribution to my
community and give something
back to my city," said Shipp in a
filing statement. "I would like to
see us bring new industry to
2 seats for homeowners
"We want them
to be happy
but we have to
look
after the city's
business."
-Ralph Grindstaff
Moss Lake residents appointed
by the Moss Lake Property :
Owners Association. The board
would function, as it had in the
past, as an advisory board.
Attorney Carl Stewart said
House Bill 777, the city's origi-
nal annexation bill, was rewrit-
ten completely by Rep. Debbie
Clary. The new bill proposed a
new way of government for
Moss Lake, he said.
Stewart notified N. C. Senate
and House members that the
bill is unacceptable to the
citizens of Kings Mountain.
Stewart said Rep. John :
Weatherly, author of the city's :
original annexation bill, would -
sked to present substitute
be a
nexation of city owned
at Moss Lake? A proviso wy
include the language that
city would not levy taxes on th&:" ;#
eight vertical feet buffer area it:
owns. :
Would the city reinstate a
lake authority/commission, ei-:
ther by state legislature or by:
local ordinance? Stewart said:
the Clary bill stipulated an au-:
thority of: five people, two from-
City Council, one from the
county board of commissioners
and two lake property owners.
Would the Council visit the
See Council, 5-A
Council
town and I see the reestablish-
ment of an industry-seeking
commission as a way to recruit
new industry," he said. Shipp
said another major concern is
more recreation for young peo-
ple. He said adequate swim-
ming facilities are needed at
both Deal Street and Davidson
Parks.
Norris, of 1003 Sherwood
Lane, an employee of
Commercial Intertech for nine
years and a Kings Mountain
resident sine 1963, is the son of
Maude and Mitch Norris of
Kings Mountain and is married
to Lorraine Wright Norris. The
See Filing, 3-A
JEANINE FISHER
Mrs. Fisher serves where she is needed
(Ed. Note - This is the fifth
in a series of weekly articles
on local leaders in the Jay
Strack Crusade to be held
August 24-28 at John Gamble
Stadium in Kings Mountain.)
Jeanine Fisher's big job as a
member of the Executive
Committee of the upcoming Jay
Strack Crusade is ovér. Now
she's making the rounds of the
community inviting people to
attend. ;
The Kings Mountain District
School's Bible Teacher was a
member of the search team
which invited evangelist Jay
Strack to lead the August 24-28
Crusade in Kings Mountain.
"We chose him after watching
videos of his preaching mis-
sions and then cleared our
choice with the Kings Mountain
Ministerial Association,” said
Fisher. :
"We chose Jay Strack mainly
because we thought he'd appeal
to all age people,said Fisher.
"He has a rapport with youth
and we want youth to come to
the crusade and hear his mes-
sage."
Fisher plans to volunteer to
sing in the choir, to counsel, or
to serve wherever she is needed
as a member of the large execu-
tive committee and sub-com-
mittees running the crusade.
The Strack Crusade will be
Fisher's third in which she has
been active. She sang in the.
choir for both the Clyde Dupin
and Rick Gage Crusades and
said she received a blessing
from her participation.
Kings Mountain Bible teacher
for 18 years, Fisher teaches (he
Old Testament the first term of
the new school year and New
Testament the second term. She
also teaches World History.
"I was working in Laurinburg
and heard about an opening in
Kings Mountain for a Bible
teacher," said Fisher, who was
first hired by Dr. Paul Ausley,
pastor of First Presbyterian
Church and a former president
of the Kings Mountain
Ministerial Association which
co-sponsored the teaching of
Bible in the schools.
"I had worked as a Director of
Christian Education after grad-
uation from High Point College
but I feel like The Lord was
calling me to teach Bible," said
Fisher.
Fisher enjoys the 32 students
in her Bible Class at the high
school. "I feel like young people
are searching for more meaning
in life and I try to help them
find answers through classes at
school or in Sunday School,"
she said.
"I enjoy young people .and
working with young people
and we have so many good
young people in our school sys-
tem,” she said.
See Fisher, 3-A
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