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Lake Montonia Road 739-4636
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N. Cansler Street 739-2606
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Vestibule Church Road 739-7961
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Hwy. 216 739-8331
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206 Mail Road 739-1290
MT. OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
School Road 739-4516
MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
220 N. Waterson Street 739-8354
PATHWAY BAPTIST CHURCH
3100 Parkdale Circle 734-0852
PENTACOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH
508 Branch Street 734-0036
PEOPLES BAPTIST CHURCH
1010 Groves Street 739-0398
REDEEMER INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
CHURCH
3364 South York Road, Gastonia
SHADY GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH
339 Shady Grove Road 739-8920
WESTOVER BAPTIST CHURCH
108 Westover Church Drive 739-2187
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CARSON MEMORIAL BAPTIST
CHURCH
Sparrow Springs Road 739-2247
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Cherokee Street 739-9697
CORNERSTORE INDEPENDENT
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1604 Shelby Road 734-0477
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CHURCH
602 Canterbury Road 739-9939
HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH
144 Ware Road 734-0714
NEW BEGINNINGS BAPTIST
CHURCH
602 Payne Road
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BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH
1017 Bethlehem Road 739-8848
CHESTNUT RIDGE BAPTIST
CHURCH
618 Chestnut Ridge Road ~~ 739-4015
CHRISTIAN FREEDOM SOUTHERN
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246 Range Road 739-4152
CROWDERS MOUNTAIN BAPTIST
CHURCH
730-0029
Mayberry Lane 739-0310
EASTSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH
308 York Road 739-8055
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
1009 Linwood Road 739-8396
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
605 W. King Street 739-3651
KINGS MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH
101 W. Mountain Street 739-2516
LOVE VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH
2032 Bethlehem Rd. 730-0075
MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH
1101 S. Battleground Ave. 739-6811
OAK GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH
102 Oak Grove Road 739-4833
OAK VIEW BAPTIST CHURCH
1511 York Road 739-5509
PATTERSON GROVE BAPTIST
CHURCH 2
301 Oak Grove Road 739-5825
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
120 Linwood Road 739-4216
TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH
612 N. Cansler Street 739-4716
CATHOLIC
CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC
CHURCH
714 Stone Street 739-3214
CHURCH OF GOD
CHURCH OF GOD
1818 Shelby Road 739-7206
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GALILEE UNITED METHODIST
EAST KINGS MTN. CHURCH OF
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Bessemer/Kings Mtn. Hwy 739-7367
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Sparrow Springs Road 739-8401
EPISCOPAL
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
303 Phifer Road 739-1300
FOURSQUARE GOSPE
FOURSQUARE GOSPEL
York Road 739-8496
HOLINESS
TRUE GOSPEL HOLINESS CHURCH
1608 Shelby Road 739-6764
CALVARY WAY HOLINESS CHURCH
310 Long Branch Road 739-2316
LUTHERAN
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CHURCH
600 Crescent Circle 739-5580
ST. MATTHEW'S LUTHERAN
CHURCH
201 N. Piedmont Avenue 739-7466
METHODIST
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CHURCH
113 S. Piedmont Avenue 739-2471
EL-BETHEL-HOLY MEMORIAL 3
739-9174
117 Galilee Church Road 739-7011
GRACE UNITED METHODIST
830 Church Street 739-6000
SAINT PAUL UNITED METHODIST
N. Cansler Street 739-1256
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405 S. Cherokee Street 734-1143
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Edgemont Drive 739-4917
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111 W. King Street
GOOD HOPE PRESBYTERIAN
105 N. Cansler Street 739-1062
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ACTS FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY
141 Ebeneezer Rd., 739-4113
HOUSE OF GOD TABERNACLE
St. Marys Grove Road 735-7000
MIRACLE TABERNACLE MINISTRY
610 E. Gold Street 739-9449
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1802 Shelby Road 739-9441
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701 E. Gold Street 739-3215
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505 N. Piedmont Avenue 739-4266
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202 S. Railroad Avenue 739-5351
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1805 Mountain View Road 739-2996
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111 E. Parker Street 739-1140
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1508 N. Piedmont Ave. 739-9064
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Central United Methodist
Church is planning numerous
Advent and Christmas celebra-
tions.
November 28 - First Sunday
in Advent. Classes will decorate
Sunday School rooms and
church at 5 p.m.; soup and
- sandwiches will be served in
the fellowship hall at 6 p.m.;
“Twinkle” and Bells of Praise
and carols in the sanctuary.
Sun., December 5 - Chrismon
trees will be up; 7 pm.
Moravian Love Feast will be
held in the sanctuary.
Wed., Dec. 8 - Family night
covered dish supper at 6:15
p-m. The program will be hand-
bells, choir chimes and carols.
Fri., Dec. 10 - Children’s choir
rehearsal and lock-in will begin
at 6 p.m.
: November 25, 1999 5
~ Central Methodist sets Advent services
Sun., Dec. 12 - Poinsettias and
pew candles will be in place; 7
p-m., the children’s Christmas
program will be held. Pre-
school children will sing and
The Children’s Choir will pre-
sent “Mr. Funfiddle’s
Christmas.”
Fri., Dec. 17 - UMYF progres-
sive dinner and lock-in will be-
gin at 6 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 19 - The Chancel
Choir will present “Light of the
World” at the 11 a.m. worship
hour; church-wide Christmas
caroling to shut-ins will begin at
4:30 p.m.
Fri., Dec. 24 -
Candlelight/communion ser-
vice will be held at 7 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 26 - “Last Sunday
of the Century - Hope for the
-New Year service,” at 11 a.m.
MERGER
From 1A
said they knew nothing ot
. Crawley’s statement prior to its
publication in The Star. The
statement was not issued to the
school systems. The Herald
didn’t receive a copy until
Monday afternoon after
Commissioner Charlie Harry
had the County Manager's of-
fice send it by fax.
Crawley and Harry are both
members of the Executive
Roundtable, although they did
not serve on the special educa-
tion committee. However,
Hawkins said several members
of the committee are not em-
ployed in Cleveland County
and he also questioned how
two members of the Board of
Commissioners could legally
serve on a Roundtable that is
discussing merger, and later
vote on it as members of a gov-
erning board.
“If they're on this roundtable
and talking education, and they
have to make a decision on
merger, it’s illegal,” Hawkins
claimed.
Both Hawkins and McRae
said they felt the educators ade-
quately answered the commit-
tee’s questions on students’ pre-
paredness for the workforce.
Some business leaders said stu-
dents had been tested for entry
level jobs but could not pass the
test, but both Hawkins and
McRae said the business leaders
could not tell the group if those
persons tested were recent
graduates of any of the county
schools or if they were persons
from other counties, or even
older persons who were facing
a career change after a number
of years in another job.
“We have asked the Business
Roundtable for information on
who's taking the test, and they
can't tell us,” said Hawkins.
“We've asked Cleveland
Community College, which ad-
ministered the test, and they
can’t tell us. It could be people
from other counties or it could
be people who are 50 years old
and have been working in tex-
tiles or other industries that
didn’t require math and verbal
skills, and now they want to
work in high tech industry.
They can’t tell us if they are re-
cent graduates of Kings
Mountain, Crest or Shelby, or
whatever.”
Hawkins said KM District
Schools are willing to work
with industry “anyway we can”
within the constraints of what
the state tells them they can do.
“We really want a partnership
with business and industry - to
work with those students who
are not college bound and help
prepare them for the work-
force.”
McRae said he feels the State
testing programs are more than
adequate to indicate students’
preparedness for the workforce,
. but added that “we’ve said all
along that if there is a problem
in the preparation of our stu-
dents that we want to know
about it and want to work to
address it. I do think the ABCs
(testing programs) have as
much promise for that as any-
thing I’ve heard in a long time.”
McRae said if the county is
going to push for merger, he
feels the matter should go be-
fore the public and “let the peo-
ple talk about their concerns.”
Hawkins pointed out that the
county commissioners have the
authority to declare merger
anytime they want to, but
frankly said “they don’t have
the guts to come out publicly
and make the decision on their
own. They hide behind a group
so they can come back later and
say, ‘well, industry wanted us
to do this.”
Hawkins pointed out that
many of the business leaders
are not permanent residents of
“Cleveland County, but simply
come here for awhile to run a
business and then move on.
“To me, it’s like ministers,”
he said. “They can either build
up a church or tear it down, and
then they're gone and the peo-
ple have to deal with it.
“A lot of the CEOs of these
companies, when they start get-
ting their taxes increased be-
cause of school merger, are go-
ing to come down and put a
whipping on their heads.”
Hawkins said his statements
will probably draw the ire of
business leaders and commis-
sioners, but added “if they
think I'm doing this to perpetu-
ate my seat on the School
Board, I'll resign next month
and fight this thing.
“They've got to come up with
some good reason why merger
will be in the best interest of our
kids before I'll go along with
it,” he said. “It’s not because in-
dustry wants it. Their hidden
agenda is that the Shelby school
system is a locked in district,
and they want them more pow-
er,”
Hawkins said a merger
would be just the beginning of
many problems, comparing it
with the U.S. sending tons of
money to foreign countries to
keep certain people in power
only to later see the government
fail anyway.
“They're wanting to build
something up that’s dying,” he
said. “If Shelby wants to build
up, they ought to reduce their
taxes and entice people'to move
back into the city.”
Several efforts to contact oth-
er members of the Board of
Commissioners and Roundtable
‘committee failed, but The
Herald was successful in talk-
ing with Harry. He said he had
nothing to do with preparing
the statement to The Star, but
“assumed (Jim Crawley) pre-
pared it after having conversa-
tions with us individually.”
Harry said the commissioners
did not meet as a group to dis-
cuss the matter.
“During the week last week
he (Crawley) met with me and
as he could catch the others he
would meet with them and talk
about it,” Harry said. “I think
the letter evolved from that pro-
cess.”
Harry did not say if he is
pushing merger, but did say
“my mind is wide open. I be-
lieve we need to explore it as
thoroughly as we can.”
The letter did not specify
who would be responsible for
studying the merger issue, but
indicated commissioners did
not want anyone from the out-
side doing it. It also said “com-
missioners would reserve fur-
ther comment on this matter
until their merger assessment
has been completed.”
Harry said he was “sure I'll
know more in 90 days than I
know today,” but added the 90-
day statement was one he just
pulled out of the air (“I could
have said 120 days,” he said)
and not a deadline for a merger
vote.
By state law, commissioners
can at any time vote on school
merger or they can put it to a
vote of the citizens. The state al-
so has the power to dictate
school merger.
But Hawkins said he is tired
of hearing it.
“What we do as a school sys-
tem is based on what the state is
sending down telling us what
to teach. It's not based on what
industry wants us to teach,” he
said. “This issue runs a lot
deeper. If they could show us
one reason that merger would
be in the best interest of our
children, I don’t think you'd
have anybody standing in their
way. The problem is they can’t .
show that. I don’t think they
can get any better cooperation
than what we're already giving
them. If merger ever comes they
should let the people say what
they want.”