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Eric Boyd pitches a 3-hitter to
lead Kings Mountain's
Mountaineers to victory over
Burns. 5A
Mountaineer grid star
signs with E. Tennessee
Kings
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Julius Curry
has signed a
1 letter of intent
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education and
play football at
East Tennessee
| State
~ University. 5A
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SCHOOLS
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KM science students
kayak on NC coast
Kings Mountain High School
students recently spent five
days on the North Carolina
coast; where they camped, went
sea kayaking and learned about
ecology and biology. 8B
KM School Board
approves local budget
The Kings Mountain Board of
Education Monday night ap-
proved its proposed local bud-
get for the 1999-2000 fiscal year.
The budget will now go to
County Commissioners for final
approval. 5B
LIFESTYLES
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Newlyweds restore
the Summers mansion
Newlyweds David Mayes
and Terry Bryant have restored
the Summers mansion on North i
Piedmont Avenue in Kings :
Mountain. 1B
Get ready for a big
The 12th annual Kings Mountain Sports Hall of
Fame banquet and induction ceremony will be held
Monday at Kings Mountain High School.
The meal will begin at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria. The
induction ceremony will begin promptly at 7 p.m. in
Barnes Auditorium. :
Tommy John, former major league baseball player
and now Director of Community Relations for the
AAA Charlotte Knights, will be the guest speaker.
Jay Rhodes will be the master of ceremonies.
The 1999 inductees are:
The late James Gibson, Kings Mountain's first All-
State football player and a member of N.C. State's
1946 Gator Bowl team. He will be inducted by his
nephew, former KMHS baseball player and coach,
Barry Gibson.
Bryan Jones, former KMHS and University of
North Carolina tennis All-American.He will be in-
ducted by his college coach, Allen Morris, who is
now Athletic Director at Presbyterian College.
Bobby Hussey, former KMHS baseball and basket-
ball coach who won two conference and one associa-
tion baseball title in four years as coach, and two
conference championships in three years as basket-
ball coach. He will be inducted by Dr. Rick Finger,
who was a forward on Hussey’s championship team
in 1968 which posted a 25-1 record.
Special Achievement Awards will be presented to
Michael Jolly, a KMHS senior who won the 1998
North Carolina High School Athletic Association golf
Cancer survivors lead the first lap in the annual Relay for Life Friday night at the Kings Mountain Walking
ALAN HODGE / THE HERALD
Track. The event raised over $21,000 for cancer research. ;
CELEBRATE LIFE
Relay for Life raises $21,000 for cancer research
BY ALAN HODGE
Staff Writer
Cancer took a whipping Friday and Saturday at
the Kings Mountain Relay For Life event. Held at
the Kings Mountain Community Center walking
track and field, the gathering of cancer survivors, re-
lay walkers, barbecue cook-off contestants, enter-
tainers and spectators was a celebration of life.
speakers including former Kings Mountain mayor
Kyle Smith.
"With you supporting things like Relay For Life,
we can defeat this monster called cancer," Smith told
the crowd.
Relay For Life organizer Mike Neely called the |
gathering a "special event for a lot of folks."
"Nearly everyone here knows someone who has
crop of strawberries
Strawberries
will be ripe early
next month, and
Kings Mountain
‘Wand Cleveland
Gay County has some
of the best farms in the county
for the public to pick-your-own.
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Even before the Relay For Life fund raising walk-
ers got under way around 6:30 pm, the atmosphere
on the field was festive. In additon to brightly col-
ored rides and tents, the air was saturated with the
intoxicating aroma of cooking barbecue. As cars
or has had cancer," Neely said.
The Relay For Life was not about giving in to can-
cer. Rather it was a celebration of life, a time to re-
member those who had lost their battle with the dis-
ease, and a chance to make more people aware of
lined up to get close to the field, friends old and
new greeted each other warmly.
cancer.
_ Opening ceremonies featured several keynote
Group home may share
site with Senior Center
“A model home to call their
home” is how City Manager
Jimmy Maney describes a
shared group home that could
become a reality for some se-
nior citizens on possibly the site
of the proposed new Kings
Mountain Senior Center.
City Council still hasn't
picked the site for the proposed
$1 million senior center buta
site report is on the agenda for
Tuesday night's city council
meeting. Council gave the city
manager the green light last
week to negotiate for three or
four acres of land to cost no
more than $75,000.
The Western N. C. Housing
Partnership Inc. proposes to de-
velop the shared living resi-
Jes
dence for at least eight older
adults, rooms may be shared by
couples. Residents must be 62
years of age or older and meet
income eligibility guidelines.
The house, including porches,
will be 4,200 square feet and
contain eight private bedrooms
with private baths and shared
common areas. Commons areas
will include a living room, din-
ing room, laundry room and a
fully equipped kitchen. Each
private tenant’s room will con-
tain a small refrigerator so that
he or she may store drinks and
snacks in his or her room. Total
construction costs for the facili-
ty are estimated to be $320,000
with total development costs es-
timated at $420,000.
Ne
See Relay, 3A
“This shared living residence
is for independent, older
adults,” said Maney. Residents
may come and go as they please
and there will be no live-in care-
taker or skilled nursing provid-
ed.
Maney called the home an al-
ternative for people who do not
want to live alone, live with
family members or live in a rest
home or assisted living facility.
Kings Mountain Senior
Center, of which Monty
Thornburg is Director, is work-
ing in partnership with the
WNCHP and Isothermal
Planning of Rutherfordton to
make the services available to
residents.
See Council, 3A
Hall of Fame ceremony Monday
championship; the 1998-99 KMHS volleyball team
which won the NCHSAA championship; and 1999
KMHS wrestlers Anthony Ash and Julius Curry, who
won the NCHSAA championship.
Special Recognition Awards will go to the 1998
KMHS football team which won the Western N.C.
championship, and the KMHS women’s swim team
which won the Southwestern 3A Conference.
Four deserving KMHS student athletes will receive
$500 scholarships. Three will be given by the Hall of
Fame, and the fourth will be presented by Grafton
Withers in honor of his father, former KMHS baseball
coach and Hall of Fame member Fred Withers.
Tickets, which include the meal and the induction
ceremony, are on sale at various locations for $10
each. They may also be purchased at the door.
C.D. “Red” Ware,
a KM treasure,
dies at age 91
The flags flew at half mast Monday at city
hall in memory of the late C. D. “Red” Ware,
a 46-year veteran of the Kings Mountain Fire
Department, who died Friday after a lengthy
illness.
Captain Ware was a
familiar figure on the
Kings Mountain fire -
truck for years. Even
before he became a
full-time employee in
1951 he had served for
10 years as a volunteer
and also drove the
ambulance for Harris
Funeral Home before
the chartering of the
Kings Mountain
? ief Frank Burns
worked with Ware for RED WARE
two years. “He taught me a lot and he also
taught me how to cook because he had the
reputation of being the best cook around,”
said Burns.
Bill Herndon, who has been with the local
fire department for more than 25 years, re-
called that Ware loved his work. “He was a
big hunter and fisherman and he did most of
the cooking for firemen. This was his second
home,” said Herndon.
Herndon and Bill McDaniel, the latter who
worked with Ware at Harris Funeral Home,
recalled that when the old fire department
moved from the old police department beside
of Harris Funeral Home that firemen carried
Red's big freezer from the firemen'’s quarters
upstairs to the present fire department build-
ing. When Red retired, the freezer went to his
home on West Mountain Street that he shared
with daughter and son-in-law, Phyllis and
Gene Austin and their family.
“Red never wanted to be chief, he was con-
tent just to be Red,” said former Fire Chief
Gene Tignor who was Red's “boss” for a
number of years. Tignor said Ware was “neat,
punctual, dedicated, easy to work with and
good to the men of the department.”
: Red and the late T. C. McKee were fire-
i fighting partners and Tignor called them
: among the first firemen hired by the city, in-
cluding were Stormy Farr, P. D. Fulton, the
city’s first fireman and police dispatcher, Ted
See Ware, 3A
GARY STEWART / THE HERALD
Judy Gibson, left, receives the Excellence in
Teaching Award from last year’s winner, Leslie
Martin, at the KMHS Academic Awards
Ceremony Thursday night at Barnes
Auditorium. For a complete list of the students
who were honored, see page 5B
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