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Page 4A MRS. MICHAEL GENE KINMON (Christy Darlene Walker) Walker-Kinmon Christy Darlene Walker and Michael Gene Kinmon exchanged marriage vows Saturday, May 8 at Christian Freedom Baptist Church, Kings Mountain. Rev. Michael Chambers officiated the 3 p.m. ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Jeff and Patsy Walker of Kings Mountain. She is the grand- daughter of Jonas and Geraldine Hayes and Leo and Frances Walker, all of Kings Mountain. She is p graduate of Manna Christian School and Cleveland Community College. She is co-owner pf The Heartfelt Music Group and is employed by WKMT Radio in Kings Mountain. i The bridegroom is the son of Gene and Wanda Kinmon of Shelby and Joy and Steve Braswell of Independence, VA. He is the grandson of Dorothy inmon and Robert and Frances Cribbs, all of $helby, and Gaynelle Payne of Mt. Holly. He is a graduate of Manna Christian School and is em- ployed with PPG of Shelby. The bride was given in marriage by her father, Jott Walker. She wore a formal gown of Italian silk dnd satin with a square neckline and fitted bodice dll sequenced in pearls. The full-length train was also covered with white pearls. She carried a bou- duet of yellow roses. i Vocalists were Nikki Bliss Leslie Bliss, Shawn Dejournette, Michael Chambers and Christy Walker. Curt Hollifield was sound engineer. i Jeffrey Walker, brother of the bride, was the than of honor... pt sik % i The bridesmaids were Chasity Hayes, Carrie Hardin, Erika Melton, Amber Nichols, all of Kings Mountain, and Patricia Vaughan of Shelby. i Brooke Hayes and Brittany Hayes of Kings Mountain were the flower girls. Matt and Macey Sheppard of Kings Mountain were the miniature bride and groom. Attending the register and dis- tributing the programs were Kristal Sansing and Kristen Evans of Shelby. Distributing the bubbles were Jason Finch and Chad Perrell of Shelby. Beth McDaniel of Kings Mountain was wedding direc- tor. : Gene Kinmon was his son’s best man. Groomsmen were Daniel Nichols, Michael Lee Cribbs, Matthew Fitch and Patrick Kinmon, all of Shelby, and Chad Hayes of Kings Mountain. A reception was given by the bride's parents in the church fellowship building following the cer- emony. Assisting at the reception were Mr. and mrs. Paul Keener, Kathy Woods and Carolyn Allen, all of Shelby. A rehearsal dinner was given by the groom’s parents at Satterfield’s of Shelby. CATHERINE MAIREE BRANNON CHAD WAYNE GUY Brannon-Guy Mr. and Mrs. Dean Brannon of Kings Mountain announce the engagement of their daughter, Catherine Mairee Brannon, to Chad Wayne Guy of Kings Mountain, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Guy of Gastonia. The bride-to-be is a 1997 graduate of Kings Mountain High School and currently attends Gaston College. She will attend Carolina’s College of Health Sciences in the fall. The bridegroom-to-be is a 1995 graduate of Ashbrook High School and is employed by The Cookson Co. in Gastonia. A June 12 wedding is planned. Council again tables S.C. water request City Council Monday night again tabled until the May 25 meeting the issue of extending a water line into South Carolina to serve McDonald Entertainment's new gaming business and a pro- posed hotel. Mayor Scott Neisler said Grover Town Board is meeting this week to air concerns and to consider an agreement with Kings Mountain that Kings Mountain would not take any Grover water customers and Grover would continue to serve Fastfare and Wellco Truck Stop which constitutes 17 percent of the water Grover buys from Kings Mountain. “South Carolina is aggressive in recruiting industry and we have the water, so why not sell it, the more water we sell the less it Herald/Times costs to produce,” said Neisler. Councilman Gene White, call- ing the project “another make up as you go” project by the mayor, said Kings Mountain had not received a letter from Grover Industries outlining their participation in the project nor from the Town of Grover outlin- ing their concerns. Grover Mayor Max Rollins and Councilman Jack Herndon were at Monday night’s meeting. White also called for a com- plete set of plans from consulting engineer Al Moretz, easements required and dedicated, said the city should hire a consultant to evaluate the plans submitted by Moretz Engineering to include the viability of the plans, the im- pact upon the city system and possible areas of expansion. Moretz serves as engineer for several city projects but repre- sented Grover Industries and McDonald in approaching the city with the idea. Moretz said at a recent utilities meeting that Grover Industries and McDonald will pay for total costs of the pro- ject. “These folks contacted us and they are ready to put in the line,” said Neisler who said he talked with Grover Industries official Charlie Harry earlier this week. Neisler said Grover Industries needs more water for fire protec- tion. McDonald wants water for its gaming establishments and a new hotel projected in the area. Neisler said the line to Grover Industries inside the city’s line May 13, 1999 would become the Grover line and a meter would be installed in an agreement with the two towns. The city lines will run down Highway 29 and won't hook onto any inside city Grover system but hook up to McDonald which is outside the Grover city limits, explained Neisler. Neisler said the availability of water in the area would draw more industries and help Grover Industries and McDonald retain jobs. Neisler said the new business- es are located only a half mile from Kings Mountain's water hookup but it’s four miles to Blacksburg, SC. The mayor’s rationale didn’t suit well with White who said he would vote against the proposal on May 25. War and peace, what does it mean? To the editor: Most of the policy and com- mentary concerning Kosovo, and NATO's policies there is misguided; this because so few understand the nature of either war or peace. War is the violent clash of in- dependent and irreconcilable wills. By this definition, the conflict in Kosovo is without doubt a waz, albeit a limited war, a “low intensity conflict.” Two independent wills (that of the West and that of a Serb ultranationalist state) are vio- lently clashing, and these wills are irreconcilable short of the imposition of one over another by force. That is why diplomacy has no place here: diplomacy presumes that the sides may be reconciled; war comes when it is clear that there is no middle ground. War's essence is violence, whether limited in cool conflicts or wholesale in world wars, and its aims cannot be achieved short of violence. Thus any hopes for resolution without the death of combatants (or at least American combatants) is feck- word victory was expunged. peace that we take for granted may God richly bless you. less. The decision to commit Only vigorous dissent and de- in our own nation. ; ground troops or not is a purely feat within the US military after That there will be peace of Tom and Shirley Sees and wholly a miliary considera- the Vietnam War restored that some kind in Kosovo I have no Grover OUR OPINION BI cies rsin din ide dn ise bsg i ea nee aa dass ibd sas Sr Anko Suse a Ata hes dnd sath en sies oa a Ae er hh Ur el eats aera fara end rsa Sid he sei sd “ PINION ST $900000000000000000000000000000000s000000000000st0ne tion, and the vast majority of war aims will be unachievable with only air assets. If NATO, prodded by American, has de- cided to pursue a course of war, but makes purely military deci- sions of force selection based on a fear of casualties, then NATO will lose their way. In essence, we may be too frightened to stare at “the while elephant” be- cause our will is too weak na- tionally. That Serbia’s will is strong enough to countenance the effusion of blood is without doubt. Serbia will have im- posed its will on the West by virtue of the credible threat of violence. In the lexicon of war, this is known as defeat. Talk of an “exit strategy,” or “endgame” from members of the military, commentators and national leaders is befuddling then; exit strategy is a code . word for the mitigation of de- feat. What we should speak of is victory: what our aim is in this bloody game of wills, and ~~ what will best achieve it. It is instructive to reflect on an occurrence after the Korea War. Previous to that war, the US Army's premier field manu- al referred to “victory” as the end of war. After Korea the word (Col. Harry G. Summers, USA, discusses this strange mil- itary aphasia in On Strategy). I find these word games signifi- cant, for as C.S. Lewis pointded out, language is not an infallible guide, but we ignore it at our peril Words like defeat and vic- tory have been largely ignored in respect to the war in Kosovo, and this is disturbing, for it is only in victory that peace has any chance of flowering. Just as the word war is mis- understood, so is the word peace. In English usage, there are two valid but disparate meanings to peace. I shall call one pax, the other shalom. The former refers to an absence of conflict, without respect to jus- tice. Thus the Soviet Union, at her most powerful, could have been said to be in this sense peaceful while brutally repress- ing her people and that of client states. _. The second meaning of peace presumes ah enjoyment of the fruits of a just peace. Shalom peace implies the freedom to live and raise families without living in mortal fear, property rights that are not subject to gangs of men with automatic weapons, and other fruits of May 13, 1999 ERE doubt, but as to its nature I do. If the West is defeated because they fear the violent loss of young warriors’ lives, then it may well be that Kosovo enjoys pax, after a suitable period of ethnic cleansing and ethnic lig- uidation. It would only be through victory that those in Kosovo may enjoy shalom. W.M. Marcellino Grover couple : appreciates support To the editor: We wish to extend our heart- felt thanks and appreciation to the Salvation Messengers gospel singers, Christy Walker, Pathway Baptist Church, . Holiness Christian Mission, and * the Hayes Family, all of Kings Mountain, and the Word of Life Baptist Church of Polkville, Mellon Memorial Baptist = Church of Shelby, and various individuals who supported our recent mission trip to Jamaica. Your love, prayers, and finan- cial support were the reason so many hearts were touched, lives were changed, and souls were saved. Thank you all, and Colorado tragedy example of lack of values The recent tragedy ata Colorado high school has once again stirred up a hornet's nest of debate and activity con- cerning gun control. Lobbyists and citizens both for and against more stringent gun control laws are seeing whose voice can shout the loudest and so carry their particu- lar message to lawmakers. Instead of a mass knee-jerk reac- tion to gun control, it might help Alan Hodge Staff Writer to stop and look back at the histo- ry of firearms and the United States. The Bill of Rights guarantees every U.S. citizen the "right to keep and bear arms." This impor- tant provision in our Constitution is not only a safeguard which al- lows citizens to maintain the means to defend their property, but is also inexorably linked to the American premise of free- dom. For the government to take this right away, or restrict it to a point where the purchase or own- ership of firearms would be so much trouble as to be punitive, would leave the other freedoms we enjoy flapping in the wind. Guns and violence are not new things on the American scene. Our nation was forged in blood and guns drew a lot of it. The massacre in Colorado is shocking, but not the first time that mental- ly unbalanced people or persons have shot others. Just a few exam- ples of this are John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the shootings in Texas in the 1960s when a gunman in a tower in Texas claimed many victims. If someone wants to get a gun and shoot someone else, all the laws in the world will not stop them. Background checks before a gun purchase are O.K. by me, but this will not stop anyone from getting the type of weapon they desire. I think that the glamoriza- tion of shoot-outs and violence by the media is more of a danger to the nation than law abiding citi- zens pursuing their right to own a gun. In the case of the Colorado shootings, where were the par- ents of the shooters while their sons were storing weapons, bombs, and Internet information on mass destruction at home? A gun is just a machine. Just like a car, it can be used for good or evil. The government can no more control the actions of every driver any more than it can con- trol the deeds of everyone who owns a gun. The root of the prob- lem is in the lack of values and re- spect for others that is eating away at our nation, and will eventually eat away at our basic rights unless something is done to stop it. oe LE aE esiaiee ass SIDEWALK SURVEY By ALAN HODGE Herald/Times Should there be [§ a curfew for | teens 16 & under, and if so, what time? Got a question you'd like to submit to Sidewalk Survey? If so, call Alan Hodge at 739-7496. If we use your question, we'll give you the credit. Teens should be in by 11pm. After that time, they will get into trouble. o'clock. It's after 11 that all the meanness goes on. Francis Laye They should be in by 11 Donna Gann waitress cook I think that teenagers should have a curfew Weekdays should see teens at home by 9pm. Teenagers should be in their homes by of 11pm. Weekends they can 11pm. If they are out stay out until 11 later than that, they o'clock. can get into something. Lindsey Bledsoe Cindy Davis Robert Wilson student waitress store clerk
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