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By Alan Hodge
April 7, 1983
North Carolina State
University basketball fever was
sweeping the front page of the
April 7, 1983 Kings Mountain
Herald. The lead story and pho-
tograph showed N.C. State
graduate and former athlete
Zeb Plonk proudly displaying
his Wolfpack car tag after learn-
ing that his alma mater had
won the NCAA national basket-
ball championship. Also on the
front page was a photo of nurse
Linda Sanders dressed in her
N.C. State sweatshirt and pants
combo.
School news in the April 7,
1983 Herald was highlighted by
a story about Jennifer Hamrick
winning the District Spelling
Bee. Hamrick had correctly
spelled “sapphire” and “pendu-
lum” to take the top prize. She"
was an eighth grader at Kings
Mountain High School at the *
time. Also in Herald school
news for the first week of April,
1983, winners of the West
School Talent Show were fea-
tured. Winners were Heather
Melton, Abbey Gann and
Rivers Smith. 1554
Herald sports news for April
7 spotlighted a ladies golf tour-
nament that was scheduled for:
the Kings Mountain Country
Club. Over 65 lady duffers were
slated to play in the contest
which had contestants come.
from as far away as Charlotte.
Agriculture also made the
April 7, 1983 edition of the
Herald. In a story and photo
feature, it was announced that
the poultry judging team from
Kings Mountain High School
had placed fifth in the State
Future Farmers of America
competition held in Raleigh.
The students graded eggs as
well as dressed chickens.
A bevy of young beauty
queen’ MAE the Social page in
the April 7 Herald. Sponsored
by the Kings Mountain Booster
Club, a beauty contest was
held at B.N. Barnes Auditorium
that saw Heather Melton
crowned Little Miss Kings
Mountain. Runner-ups were
Venia Elliot and Laura Beth
Moss. 3
Local food stores were big ad-
vertisers in the April 7,1983
Herald. Several full-page color
ads featured Buffet cat food at
just 33 cents a can at Ingles,
Clinomint toothpaste at Winn-
Dixie for $1.79 a tube, and a
whole Mexican pineapple at
Harris-Teeter for $1.59.
Spring Clean
Church youth give up their Saturday
to clean exit ramps in Kings Mountain
By GARY STEWART
Editor of The Herald
Twenty-one young people
from the Kings Mountain
Family Worship Center Church
of God have a better apprecia-
tion of a clean city and hard
work after a massive fund-rais-
ing project Saturday which saw
them clean five major exit
ramps of U.S. 74 Bypass and
Interstate 85, resulting in 165
bags of trash.
Spring Clean 2000, coordinat-
ed by youth pastor Philip
Burton, resulted in $3,000 being
raised to help sponsor the
youth trips summer mission to
the New Mexico State Church
of God Camp, where local
youth will serve as counselors
and recreation leaders while
Rev. Burton preaches and helps
lead worship services and other
activities.
Members of the group will al-
“so take a trip to St. Simon’s
Island, Georgia during spring
break to minister at weekend
praise and worship services
through a joint effort with a
Georgia church.
Members of the group proba-
bly didn’t know picking up
trash would be such hard work
when they signed on to help
with Saturday's project. But the
eight-hour effort was well
worth it, and they have plans to
i do more of it in the future.
“We ended up covering both
. sides of the roads at each exit
_ramp, and covered several areas
in the middle of the highways,”
noted Burton. “In addition, a
group worked inside at the
Crisis Ministry helping orga-
nize closets and get everything
in shape. It was just a great les-
son for the kids. I heard a lot of
them say how it would make
them think twice about throw-
ing out trash. I was really im-
pressed with them.”
The youth plan to apply for a
project in the State’ s Adopt a
Higliway Ploject; att ohg oth
effort by many organizations,
church and school groups to
clear major highways and road-
sides of trash.
“We would like to be able to
just take care of the on and off
ramps in the area,” said Burton.
“That seems to be the area
where the trash is the worst.
Cars are coming to a stop there
and it seems to be a nice loca-
tion to throw out trash.”
Burton, other youth leaders
‘and the youth, who ranged in
age from 12 to 21, were ap-
palled at the number of beer
cans and bottles that we thrown
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along the highways, and many
of them weren't empty.
“We picked up about every-
thing you can imagine, includ-
ing a lot of things you wouldn't
want to print,” Burton said.
Burton receives much of the
credit for the idea behind a
clean-up campaign, but he said
local businesses, individuals
and corporations who spon-
sored the group saw a great
need for it, also. i
“We talked to a lot of differ- -
ent companies, and every one
of them was very repulse by the
trash in the community,” he
said. “It just seemed to be a real
springboard for them Seeing it
done.” Yd
The group planned to evalu-
ate their effort at their regular
night, and begin making plans
for future clean-up efforts.
“The church was very appre-
ciative of their effort,” Burton
said. “They honored the young
people Sunday morning and
definitely let them know that
they appreciated it. They saw
the orange bags all over the
community.
“It was one of those experi-
ences where the young people
left feeling very excited,” he
said. “They looked back at all
the did and just couldn’t believe
that they accomplished that
much. Some said they hadn't
work so hard in their lives.
“It left a lot of them sore - be-
cause they worked a hard eight
* hours - but when they get on
and off those exits and see how
-clean they look they have some-
thing to really be proud of.”
weekly youth meeting last
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Young people from The
Family Worship Center
Church of God of Kings
Mountain spent all day
Saturday cleaning the exit
ramps of U.S. 74 Bypass
and 1-85 of trash and litter.
In top photo, Elizabeth
Carroll picks up trash at the
Moss Lake Exit near
Bethware School. In bottom
photo are other members of
the group who were collect-
ing trash on Business 74.
Front is Karissa Burton.
Back, left to right, are
Richie Wells, Becky Burton,
Philip Burton, Anthony
Fleming, Chris Markcum and
Johnathon Tittle.
Photos by Gary Stewart
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