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yy Thursday, September 30, 1999 SPORTS Heather Causby performs with the KMHS cheerleaders at halftime of Friday’s KM- Crest game at Gamble Stadium. KM Mountaineers open conference play Friday Kings Mountain's Mountaineers, 2-2-1 after last week's loss to Crest, travel to Forestview Friday for a 7:30 p-m. Southwestern 3a Conference matchup with the surprising Jaguars. 1B Cross country teams looking to the future | Kings Mountain High's cross country teams are filled with young players, giving Coach Robert Golembeski high hopes for producing championship teams in the fu ~ ture. 4B KM students suspended in separate incidents Several Kings Mountain High School and Middle School students were sus- pended from school last week in separate incidents of fight- ing and carrying a pocket knife to school. 5B LIFESTYLES Festivals, fair offer lot of fun and thrills Several fairs and festivals are slated for the area this week and next, including the Cleveland County Fair, Renaissance Festival, and Cotton Ginning Days. In addi- tion, Kings Mountain is gear- ing for a big Mountaineer Days celebration October 13- 16 featuring a lot of entertain- ment, including world renown jazz musicians Calvin and Jett Edwards. Pages 5-8A COMMUNITY n po om money to finish gazebo Kings Mountain City Council voted Tuesday night to contribute $18,000 to finish work on the gazebo in the new downtown park on Gold Street. The gazebo is sched- uled for completion in time for Mountaineer Days. 3A Fire Prevention Week set in Kings Mountain October 3-9 is National Fire Prevention Week. One of the ways Kings Mountain firemen educate the public on fire safe- is through programs for in in the schools. 5A FIRST NATIONAL BANK RNC ZA RC II rr mi ms, KINGS MOUNTAIN Vol. 111 No. 39 § a NA hi. or sn ls SAG oa AIR 4 Since 1889 50 Cents “A heart to help KM folks trucking aid to east coast BY ALAN HODGE - Staff Writer Even though flood waters in eastern North Carolina have slowly started to recede, help is still desperately needed in the wake of Hurricane Floyd's dev- astation. With damage esti- mates from Floyd's waters topping $1 billion, people al- lowed to return to where their homes once were are finding heartache and loss. Answering the call that’s going out from re- lief agencies Down East, folks all over the rest of North Carolina and beyond are pitch- ing in with goods, time , and money to aid flood victims. Folks in Cleveland County and Kings Mountain have been rolling up their sleeves and working hard to help our fel- low Tar Heels. From students to corporations, the full spectrum of Cleveland citizenry is in- volved in the massive effort to restore normalcy to those whose lives have been shattered by Floyd's floods. The American Red Cross in Shelby is still taking donations of cash for the flood victims. According to Claudia Rose of ~ the Red Cross in Shelby, their . office has collected about od See Flood, 3A. Kings Mountain area residents are re- sponding generously to pleas for food, sup- plies and financial contributions to east- ern North Carolina families who have been displaced be- cause of Hurricane Floyd. Kings Mountain Fire Chief Frank Burns (right) hands another box of goods to fire- fighter Bill Ware at the trailer park at City Hall (top picture), and Vicki Homesley gives a donation to Ware and Burns in lower photo. A trailer is still parked at the KM Fire Department for any- one wishing to do- nate. ° ALAN HODGE/ THE HERALD le i a a an hina A a afl Re ait White urges supervision of consultants But his motion to Council dies for lack of a second By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald Councilman Gene White's proposal that City Council request City Manager Jimmy Maney to evaluate the performance of every city consultant to determine if the city should solicit proposals from other consultants on city-financed projects fell on deaf ears Tuesday night when his motion died for lack of a second. In a lengthy discussion, White spoke in general of all city consultants, including the gas, electri- cal, and engineering consultants and the city at- torney, but he particularly stressed that any con- sultants doing business with the city should not be allowed to do business with other clients that may border on a conflict of interest. White urged a “tightening up” of the oversight of all consultants, particularly the city’s consult- ing engineer “since they have the largest share of city projects.” White pointed out that the consulting engineer was paid $114,000 during the past fiscal year for engineering services. “I want projects organized and carried out in the most cost effective way possible, with a mini- mum of change orders and that sort of thing,” he said. “We need oversight of the whole process.” White said after the meeting that the ideal situ- ation would be to hire a city engineer “whose goal is to protect one hundred percent the interest of the citizens of Kings Mountain,” but that’s probably not going to happen. “So the next best alternative is to have rigid oversight of the con- sultants that we do have in place. “What that simply means is that they perform : their duties for which they're being paid in a most cost effective way possible - in other words; the best job for the money,” he said. White said he knows of no conflicts of interest, but said that occasionally the city’s engineering consultant represents other clients in city busi- ness. : “That may or may not be harmless,” he said, “but conflict of interest, either apparent or real, ; pretty much comes out the same to me. If some- i body’s going to represent the city I don’t want them representing other interests, but the other council members either didn’t agree with me or I failed to explain it adequately.” See White, 3A Candidate forum Tuesday at B.N. Barnes Auditorium A forum for all Kings Mountain City Council and school Board candidates will be held Tuesday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. at B.N. Barnes Auditorium. The forum is sponsored by Kings Mountain Citizens for Effective Government. Jay Rhodes will be the moderator. Candidates will be in the lobby of the auditori- um from 6-7 p.m. to talk to the public. People with questions for the candidates should submit them to the committee from 6-6:30 p.m. in the lobby. Senior Center seeks county funds By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald Supporters of the proposed new $1.2 million Senior Center in Kings Mountain will go be- fore the County Board of Commissioners Tuesday night asking for a $150,000 pledge which would put the project within $75,000 of its goal. Carl Elliott, President of Research Development, who Tuesday was given an extra month’s extension to his origi- nal four-month agreement with the City of Kings Mountain to coordinate the fund-raising ef- fort, will speak to the Commissioners along with the four co-chairs of the project, Stella Putnam, Charles Mauney, Jim Belt and Johnny Harris. Elliott recently coordinated the successful $630,000 fund- raising effort for a new chil- dren’s wing at Mauney Memorial Library. Construction is well under way on that pro- ject and should be completed by the end of the year. Although pledges have slacked off recently, Elliott said he hopes to have the Senior Center fund-raising wrapped up by the end of October and feels it will be tremendously successful. “] feel very good,” he said. “The response has been really tremendous from the communi- ty. It's been a very broad sup- port from business, individuals, professional groups, and fami- lies. It's been a very good over- all community effort, and I think it’s definitely going to be something everybody's going to be proud of. It’s going to be a beautiful facility.” The Senior Center has operat- ed out of the old Southern Railroad depot for several years. It had its beginning in the Kings Mountain Community Center. The new facility will be built on East King Street near the Kings Mountain 300 W. Mountain St. Gaston County line. Elliott said $980,000 has been committed thus far. The County Commissioners committed $100,000 to the library project, and he said he’s confident they will support the Senior Center project. Their pledge would be payable over a three-year peri- od. After the pledges are secured, Elliott said an architect will be hired to do the detailed draw- ings, and then the project will be bid out for construction within 60 days. or Elliott reported that the Kings aid Mountain Rotary and Kiwanis ‘ Clubs are jointly sponsoring a special fund-raising project which they hope will raise enough funds to build one of the rooms inside the center. Individuals, businesses, civic clubs and other organizations are urged to have rooms named in honor or in memory of loved ones. Chumpion 739-4781 EERE! 3 Gastonia 529 New Hope Rd. 9 06S. Lafayette St. ALAN HODGE/THE HERALD Kevin Champion (left) and Jim Belt look over landscaping plans for the new Kings Mountain Senior Center. Champion and Belt were on the seven acre lot at Highway 74 and Canterbury Road last week as crews began clearing the land. N] iT 1) ERY ETN OTH ITO Te Te 484-6200, PI Sa NSAID a a
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