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Vol. 109 No. 43
Thursday, October 23, 1997
Kings Mountain, NC Since 1889 *50¢
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Medical Center and is reported
in good condition.
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Department said the
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result of en trav
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was transported by ambu
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Center and then airlifted to.
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"I saw the baby uesday ai
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the home of
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Thursday evening,
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Firemen 's BBQ
Friday, Saturd
Department will sponsor
annual barbecu
the Fire Museum Pr
Saturday.
Barbecue will be
$5 per plate at “th
Department behind City Hall
on Spruce Street. Diners
eat inside the facility o take ou
orders.
Grover Rescue Squad
sets Haunted Hayride
Grover Rescue Squad. will
have a haunted hayride October
24-26 and October 29-31 start-
ing at dusk.
Admission is $3.
Hot dogs and ahr refresh-
ments will be sold.
North fall festival
slated October 24
North School's annual fall
festival will be held October 24
from 5-7 p.m.
Hot dogs with all the trim-
mings will be sold for $3. There
will be a variety of games and
activities, including basketball
shoot, horseback riding, ring
toss, bean bag toss, mini golf,
fishing, moon walk, and face
painting.
Mayor Scott Neisler will be
the prime target in a dunking
booth.
Approximately 20 items do-
nated by local businesses will
be raffled for 25 cents, including
gift certificates, Charlotte
Knights tickets, a crystal mantle
clock, videos, free oil change,
and Carolina Panthers items.
THE HERALD
POLE PAINTER - Harold Usry of Macon, Ga., a self-employed
flag pole painter, paints the 50-foot high flag pole at Kings
and works his way down.
Valerie Boyd, 39, likes a chal-
lenge and she's finding it in a
new task force she heads for
Kings Mountain District
Schools.
The new Assistant Principal
at Kings Mountain High School
and her committee of 12 are
charged with the task of recom-
mending ways to recruit and
keep qualified minority teach-
ers in the local schools.
Currently, Boyd and
Bethware Principal Mary Accor
are the only minority adminis-
trators and there are few teach-
Linwood neighbors oppose rezoning request
Nearly 100 percent of the
| neighbors of the former Ace
Hardware property in the
Linwood section opposed
Tuesday a rezoning request
which would have allowed a
new business in the area.
"I don't want to look at stor-
age buildings and more traffic
when it's hard to get out of my
house in mornings and after-
noons because of traffic," said
‘Boyd ‘welcomes ch
Mountain Community Center Tuesday. Usry says in most jobs
start at the bottom and work their way up, but he starts at the top
~hal ler ie nges f; ak
ers representing the minority
populations of the community
which include Afro Americans,
Asians and Hispanics.
Boyd's committee will recom-
mend Project Teach, which is
geared to the middle school lev-
el and patterned after a pro-
gram in the Gaston County
Schools, to the board of educa-
tion at the November meeting.
Boyd's committee will also
recommend that the school sys-
tem hire a human services coor-
dinator to work with the school
personnel department in re-
Clavon Kelly, a resident of
Woodside Drive.
Quoting a portion of the city's
land use plan, Kelly said the
writers of the plan called a
neighborhood "an important el-
ement of the image of the com-
munity and the intent was to
protect neighborhood charac-
ter!
Kelly presented a protest pe-
tition with the names of about
facing task fol
Deal Street Park
closed for repairs
Little League ball park light poles and fences
were coming down Tuesday as city workers
closed a street at Deal Street Park and launched
major improvements at the Kings Mountain
Community Center complex.
"We're moving along," said City Manager
Jimmy Maney who said that architects are
preparing preliminary drawings on a proposed
new swimming pool and renovation of build-
ings.
Shiney estimates that the city will let the pro-
ject out for bids in about 45 days.
"We met with engineer Al Moretz and set a
construction schedule on the renovation of both
the Deal Street and Davidson Parks and Moretz
has also put together the plans and specifications
for Powell Bill paving," he said. Maney said the
streets to be scheduled for paving will be desig-
nated and bids let as soon as possible.
City Council at the October 6 meeting ear-
marked $500,000 for a new swimming pool; $1
million for a new law enforcement building; and
$300,000 for improvements to Davidson and Deal
Street Parks.
Maney said that Parks & Recreation
Commission members had approved the concept
of the park and had provided input to him and
engineer Moretz who is working with Stewart &
Cooper Architects of Gastonia to develop the bid
specifications.
Architects have recommended the construc-
tion of a 41 foot by 82 foot junior Olympic pool
and a children's wading pool. The swimming
pool would be built closer to the Community
Center, under the recommendations presented to
Council at the recent meeting.
Maney said capital projects on the back burner
cruitment efforts. She thinks a
testing strategy to help teachers
pass the National Teacher Exam
certification is essential.
Boyd loves children. Seeing
their eyes light up when they
master a particular problem is
worth the midnight oil she
burned in high school and col-
lege to get her degree.
A native of Kings Mountain
and daughter of James Boyd
and the late Sarah Boyd, she
graduated from Kings
for 10 years have been moved to the front burner
with money on hand to do the projects.
Stewart & Cooper Architects are also in process
of finalizing the design and development stage
for the new police department with construction
documents to go out for bids soon.
Chief Richard Reynolds and Maney are meet-
ing with the architects Friday.
Reynolds said a major concern is how to repo-
sition a communications tower, now on top of the
current police department building which is slat-
ed to come down.
In other building progress Maney reported that
the city is working with Johnson Development
Company on coordinating of construction plans
and engineering for water and sewer for the new
industrial park to go up off York Road. Grading i is
still underway at the site.
Maney met with Isothermal Commission's
Glenn Rhodes this week to submit a grant appli-
cation to the state on behalf of Ingles which is
proposing a new supermarket on Oak Grove
Road. If approved by a state grant, the money
would be used to run water and sewer lines to
serve the new business.
Kentucky Fried Chicken has poured the foun-
dation for their new building on King Street and
obtained a variance for the parking lot addition.
Construction on a new Holiday Express is un-
derway and Maney said the work is "proceeding
nicely."
Maney is working with election officials to post
the results of the November 4 city and school
board elections on the Internet. Plans are to use
the big screen in Council Chambers at City Hall
to post the Internet vote totals.
oning matter
goes to Council
The Planning & Zoning
Board voted 3-1 Tuesday night
to rezone only the parcel of land
occupied by Chesterfield Arms
Apartments and not the two
side parcels on the nine acre
tract at the Margrace.
John Houze's motion to re-
zone all the property from R-10
to R-6, multiple housing, failed
for lack of a second. Voting to
See Boyd 8-A
VALERIE BOYD
rezone only the tract of land on
which the apartments sit were
Lou Ballew, Jim Guyton, and M.
C. Pruette. Jim Childers stated
he had a conflict of interest and
30 property owners.
City Planning Director Steve
Killian said that the Ace
Hardware property owned by
Warren Reynolds Heirs had
been vacant for over 180 days
and the ordinance sets out that
after 180 days that the property
if used again must conform to
the underlying zone. Currently
the property is zoned
Neighborhood Business and
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD - Young people at First Baptist Church are filling shoe boxes to
be given to Samaritan's Purse's Operation Christmas Child project. Left to right are Lauren Dye (in
chair), Ryan Doty, Hannah Dye, Jordan Doty, Stuart Smith, Michael Davis, Samuel Dye, Ryan
Davis and Reid Smith (standing at box).
- YOUR BEST SOURCE FOR KINGS MOUNTAIN NEWS
Residential 10.
Jody Champion, representing
the heirs, wants to rezone the
property to G-B. Kelly said if
the rezoning is allowed by the
City Council Tuesday that any
number of businesses could lo-
cate there.
Kelly showed maps of
Katherine Street and said that
See Neighbors 2A
3
was excused from the discus-
sion.
Attorney Doug Robinson of
Gastonia and Dr. and Mrs.
Charles Hutchins, owners of
Chesterfield Apartments, joined
Houze in speaking in favor of
the total property rezoning.
Hutchins said that the 50
units were originally HUD pro-
See Zoning 2-A
Christmas shoe box project
will help kids around world
Kings Mountain's First
Baptist Church is calling on lo-
cal churches, civic organiza-
tions, school groups, and indi-
viduals to help them with a
Christmas project to provide
Christmas gifts to needy chil-
dren around the world.
The church is going to be the
drop-off point in Cleveland
County for the Samaritan's
Purse Operation Christmas
Child project.
Persons are asked to fill shoe
boxes with toys, hygiene items,
school supplies, etc. for boys
and girls in a specific age cate-
gory: infant, age 2-4, 5-9 and 10-
14 and take them to the church
no later than November 21 .
The church has already hand-
ed out 375 shoe boxes wrapped
with ~~ Christmas paper.
According to Debbie Dye, coor-
dinator for the project spon-
sored by First Baptist's Mission
Friends, GAs and RAs, the
church's goal is to fill at least
625 boxes.
Interested persons may pick
up a box at the church week-
days between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Or you may take a regular size
shoe box, fill it and tie a rubber
band around it and take it to the
church. Boxes do net have to be
wrapped, but if they are
wrapped with Christmas paper
the box and lid must be
wrapped separately and closed
with a rubber band.
For each box, enclose at least
$5 to cover the cost of shipping
and handling. Persons or orga-
nizations filling several boxes
may write one check to cover all
of the boxes. Checks are pre-
ferred over cash.
Dye said First Baptist will
have a shoe box dedication ser-
See Church, 7A
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CALL 739-7496