Thursday, September 14, 2000
INSIDE
SPORTS
G. STEWART / HERALD
Lakia Barrow cheers
Mountaineers on to vic-
tory Friday night at
Bessemer City. 1B
Mountaineers host
Lions Friday night
After three weeks on the
road, Kings Mountain's
Mountaineers host arch rival
Shelby in their first home
game Friday at 7:30 p.m. at
John Gamble Stadium. 1B
Mountaineer spikers
post two SWC wins
After dropping their first
Southwestern 3A Conference
match in over six years two
weeks ago, Kings Mountain
High's volleyball team
bounced back last week with
wins over East Rutherford
and Burns. 5B
LIFESTYLES
County Fair slated
to begin September 28
The Cleveland County Fair
is slated for its annual run
September 28-October 7. 8A
SCHOOLS
School merger
decision reaffirmed
The State Board of
Education Wednesday after-
noon voted 8-3 to reaffirm its
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Hayes withdraws suit against city
By GARY STEWART
Editor of The Herald
\ City Councilman Bob Hayes
has withdrawn his lawsuit
against the City of Kings
Mountain and City Manager
Jimmy Maney.
Hayes, the retired KM Police
Chief, filed the suits recently,
claiming that Maney forced him
to resign his job when he chose
to run for City Commissioner in
1997. Hayes claims Maney in-
formed him that he would be
fired for violation of the City’s
Personnel Policy if he filed for
election.
Hayes could not be reached
for comment, but issued a state-
ment Friday through his attor-
ney, Rob Deaton of Shelby.
In it, Hayes said he had in-
structed Deaton to notify the at-
torney for the insurance compa-
ny handling his claim against
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the city that he would take a
“voluntary dismissal” of the
suit “without prejudice.” That
means, Deaton said, that Hayes
has a year to re-file the suit.
Hayes indicated he will work
with City Council to have the
Personnel Policy changed.
“I believe the policy should
allow city employees to file for
elective office, and campaign
for that office on their own per-
sonal time,” Hayes said.
Tim Plonk of Kings Mountain will be one of over 250 competitors taking part in the inaugural
“Over the Mountain Triathlon” this Saturday. Part of the “Good 4 You Festival,” the triathlon wil.
see competitors swim Moss Lake, cycle to downtown Kings Mountain, and run a 5K road course.
KM Good 4 You Festival will
approval of the merger of the
sescecsses
have something for everyone
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Hayes indicated that he had
been given support from the
public, and he has also been
urged to re-think his position.
“It was always my intention
to resign as police chief if I was
elected to the Council and
sworn into my position as a
Councilman,” he said. “My op-
position to the policy related to
the fact that I was told that the
policy would be enforced
against me which would re-
quire me to resign my position
as a city employee at the time I
filed, which was several months
before the election. I was never
offered the opportunity to take
a leave of absence, or was al-
lowed to run without the threat
of termination.
“I continue to believe in the
absolute right of city employees
to exercise their freedom of
See Hayes, 3A
Board member
wants notification
of future hirings
By GARY STEWART
Editor of The Herald
Kings Mountain School
Board member Melony Bolin
requested at Monday night's
meeting that future hirings of
persons to positions shared fi-
nancially with other organiza-
tions be brought to the Board
before approval.
During an otherwise brief,
routine meeting at Central
School, Bolin questioned Asst.
Supt. for Personnel Ronnie
Wilson on the recent Cleveland
County Health Department hir-
ing of a nurse for Kings
Mountain Middle School.
Wilson said a nurse had been
hired for the position vacated
when Dianna Thomas accepted
the position as the system-wide
nurse, and that the new em-
ployee was currently undergo-
ing training. :
Wilson explained after the
meeting that the arrangement
with the Health Department for
a nurse at Kings Mountain
High School began almost 10
years ago and was originally to-
tally funded by the Health
Department. The School Board
voted in June 1991 to accept the
Health Department’s proposal
to place a nurse at KMHS.
In 1994 the contract was ex-
tended to place a nurse at the
Middle School and the School
System agreed to provide
Day of
$12,000 of the cost. The System
has allocated $32,792 (less than
50% of the total cost) in the
2000-01 budget to help pay for
both positions.
Throughout the arrangement,
the Health Department has con-
tinued to be in charge of hiring
the nurses for those schools.
The School System provides full
funding for its system-wide
nurse, which it hires itself.
Wilson also noted that Kings
Mountain Police Department
had recently assigned a new
School Resource Officer at
Kings Mountain High School
and was in the process of inter-
viewing for a SRO for Kings
Mountain Middle School. The
school system and KMPD were
recently awarded a three-year,
$97,864 grant which covers
three-fourths of the cost for an
officer for the middle school.
After the third year, the School
System and City of Kings
Mountain will each pay half
the cost of the position.
~The high school SRO position
was originally funded in 1995
by a grant with a 25% match
from the System, Wilson said.
Currently, KMDS provides
$29,915 for the position.
Bolin said she didn’t disagree
with the people hired for those
positions, but she wants to be
advised before they assume
their responsibilities.
See Board, 3A
Caring
set Saturday
The United Way of
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between the hours of 8 a.m. and
Kings Mountain, Shelby and Cleveland County is getting set 5 p.m. before the day of the
Cleveland County School { BY ALAN HODGE ii : for its annual Day of Caring, wash. In the past, Day of Caring :
: : return for a grand finish at the Z oa i
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approved the Ch i i + 8am - “Over the oyentis Ssnoicned Dy lisa {to identif A needin 8 scaped the grounds i
arp hi ski i One of the biggest events ev- AEA : Triathlon. 5 hr y Sail i t EE ’ bin Do
ounty SU Hil ier held in Kings Mountain will Mountain Triathlon Another aspect of Saturday's Coal €d by vo ys 2 SO In nes Say ain, Day
meer P an La June, ! u : take place Saturday, September begins at Moss Lake fun willbe the Good 4 You : Uni $ 4 2fongles ze os g yng vo un i om 3
awyers tor oe Te d i 16 when the inaugural “Good 4 | 9am - Bluegrass Jam Health Fair, Sponsored by country. Indivi gly 5 ; icona, KoSa, an e oval and. .
Mountain School Board ap- ! You Festival” comes to town. downtown Kings Mtn. es, corporations, and schools Medical Center will be doing
Kings Mountain Hospital, the
pepled the dafision fo fair will enable the public to ex- :
: Featuring over 250 athletes, are then given the opportunity = home repairs, cutting grass, and
Office of Administrative :
+ 9am-4pm Sports Art
e thousands of spectators, and a : lore and better understand hi to lend one day’s time to the doing other yard work at sever- K
Hearings. Judge Fred o variety of HRA the action : ou Chyhel 4. You pe health istics of project of their choice. al locations. The Kings oa :
Morrison upheld the Board's will begin at 8 a.m. P nS Relationships, Medicine, and : The Day of Caring in : Mountain Baptist Association 8
ruling. The Good 4 You Festival will Health Fair : Dict and Fitness One dizen {Cleveland County will kick-off will be volunteering at homes
feature the Over the Mountain . 1lam-4pm Kings Mtn. torts will be'Set up to provide i with a breakfast at the as well as the Men’s Homeless
RADAR . i Triathlon, a Health Fair, Historical Museum Opens | (blood pressure, cholesterol, Cleveland Community College Shelter and Homeless Shelter
: . | Bluegrass Jam, and a Sports Art | 11am - Mini Trike and glucose screenings. Also in- amphitheater. The breakfast for Women and Children in
WATCH © i Competition. The event is spon- | Triathlon cluded will be educational sem- : Will end at 8 am. and volun- Shelby.
po . # } sored by 14 corporate and cul- +12 Noon - Mayor's inars and information on sports teers will then report to their In Shelby and the rest of
worksites. Volunteers will re-
ceive a t-shirt and box lunch.
In Kings Mountain, the Day
of Caring will be observed by a
free car wash for seniors at the
Senior Center at 301 N.
Piedmont Avenue. The car
Cleveland County, volunteers
from Sharonview, Gardner-
Webb University, KMBA, B
Rockwell, Bernhardt, Cleveland
Community College, Troops 321
and 341, PPG, Pleasant Ridge, ds
Eaton, Artee, Copeland, KoSa, :
tural groups as well as the City
of Kings Mountain. Food will
be available during the event at
a court operated by the Kings
Mountain Business and
Professional Association. Also
on hand will be the 24-foot tall
medicine, back pain, stress
management, pain manage-
ment, breast, prostate, testicular
and colon cancer awareness,
prevention of osteoporosis, skin
care, nutrition, and cardiac re-
Invitational Bike Ride
Kings Mountain Police
radar schedule for the week of #
September 18-22:
Monday - N. Cansler St.
Tuesday - Highway 74 at
yard swim across that body of
water to the Moss Lake Park
picnic area.
secsscsee
: Exiting the lake at the transi- habilitation. Kings Mountain :
Food Lon ay - E. King St. at Michelin Tire character. tion area, they will then mount Hospital will also sponsor a Sp will be held from 8 aan, Cleveland Home Health,
Canterbury Rd: - The action will get underway bicycles for the 15 mileride to “Rejuvenation Station” for the until 5 p.m. and seniors with a Cleveland Regional Medical
Tar Heel Card are eligible.
Copeland is volunteering. If
you do not have one these
Center, Ticona, Universal, City. y
of Shelby, Kemet, Christopher
Road Baptist, YUW, and City of
at 8 a.m. at Moss Lake when
the first leg of the Over the
Mountain Triathlon will see
downtown Kings Mountain.
. Dismounting, the athletes will
have a 5K run to Kings
competing athletes. The event
Thursday - Phifer Road. !
will conclude at 1 p.m.
Friday - N. Cansler St.
competitors begin their 1200 Mountain High School and then See Festival, a cards, visit the Senior Center See Share, 3A 1 |
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