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KINGS MOUNTAIN KEXKA AK pg RD i 307" 1121 XXEXKCAR pT oN ( KINGS LIEDHONT a(iBRARY <P 7s time to 5 MOUNTATN NC 2800, 241 visit NC's A Ct Ly = of 3 4 - scenic byways iB Thursday, October 19, 2000 Vol. 112 No. 42 Since 1889 50 Cents GARY STEWART / THE HERALD Lynn Welborn address Planning and Zoning Board at Tuesday's meeting at City Hall. Even if he’s just two years old, Casey Black is learning how to operate the computers in the new Harris Children’s Wing at Mauney Memorial Library. Countryside residents said Council ‘arbitrarily’ rezoned land industrial Tracts were listed reisdential on ETJ maps sent from P&Z Board By GARY STEWART the P&Z Board to City Council. the city sent property owners such a big secret?” asked Editor of The Herald But, sometime between the said it was R-10.” Welborn and many of his neigh- P&Z action and last month's Members of the P&Z Board bors. While walking his dog re- City Council meeting, someone had requested more informa- But the bottom line, they cently, Countryside Road resi- dent Lynn Welborn made a startling discovery. He learned that land near his home which . he and his neighbors thought had been zoned by the City of Kings Mountain as residential, had in fact been zoned for Light Industry. After a marathon 3 1/2-hour session by the Planning and Zoning Board Tuesday night at City Hall, the Board recom- mended that the city take an- other look at the issue. The area in question, which includes two tracts of land owned by the Elam and Plonk families totalling almost 200 acres that an unnamed industry is looking to locate on, was list- ed as Residential-10 on the re- cent ET] zoning map sent from requested that the city change the zoning to L-L. Council did, without any pri- or notification to adjoining property owners, and that’s what prompted Welborn and his neighbors to come out in force Tuesday nigh to protest the way the matter was han- dled. Welborn said when he walked his dog that day he saw some men out in a pasture tak- ing soil samples. When he in- quired what they were doing, he was told they were “taking soil samples for an industrial building.” “We had been told this was R-10,” Welborn said. “We knew nothing about any impending change All of the maps in the newspaper and all of the letters OCTOBERFEST 2000 tion about the intended use of the land and its impact on ad- joining property, the environ- ment and infrastructure, but said they had not received that information at the time the pro- posed zoning maps had to be sent to Council. They also stressed that their Board only makes recommendations, and Council has the final authority on zoning matters. Many members of the Board said the industry looking at the site would provide from 150 to 400 jobs, invest $25 to $30 mil- lion, would be environmentally clean, and would be a great as- set to the area, but they did not know the name of the industry. That, also, drew the ire of res- idents. “If this is so great, why is it Downtown KM activities feature entertainment, battle of bands BY ALAN HODGE Staff Writer A lively and eclectic blend of The sounds of Crimson Rose will kick the weekend off Thursday afternoon when they perform at the “KM @ PM” entertainment and activity will Tid iloncert, downtown at Patriots be coming to Kings Mountain when “Octoberfest 2000” gets underway this week. Scheduled to run from 5 p.m, Thursday, October 19 until 11 p.m. Saturday, October 21, Octoberfest 2000 will keep the town hopping with music and more. The new $600,000 Harris Children’s Wing at Mauney Memorial Library in Kings Mountain will be officially dedicated Saturday at 10 a.m. Armed robbery reported Monday at Ramada Ltd. Kings Mountain Police are in- vestigating an armed robbery - that occurred late Monday - night at the Ramada Ltd. near I- 285. According to Det. Lisa Proctor, a black man entered the front entrance of the hotel at . 11:20 p.m., displayed a long gun * (possibly a shotgun), and de- manded money from two clerks. No injuries were report- ed. : According to Proctor, the man told the two female clerks to go > into another room and “wait See Robbery 6A DEDMON DAVIS (Second in a three-week se- ries of the important local races in the November 7 gener- al election. This week: State House District 48. Next week: Cleveland County Board of Commissioners). By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald Education, the needs of a growing elderly population, state spending and re-district- ing are some of the top priori- ties of the six Cleveland County men and women who are run- ning for three seats in the November 7 NC State House 'Park beginning at 5 p.m. The show will wrap up at 8 p.m. A talented group of musi- cians consisting of Kim Truelove, Debbie Terry, Rick Terry, Ronnie Whisnant, Kathy White and Danny Bridges, Crimson Rose plays a variety of tunes with energy and style. Next on the Octoberfest 2000 menu will be a “Fireworks Extravaganza” after the Kings Mountain High School football game Friday night. ‘Sponsored by the City of Kings Mountain, the fireworks will go off behind Barnes Stadium at KMHS. October 21 has been dubbed “Xtreme Saturday” in Kings Mountain. Octoberfest 2000 events slated for that day will See Saturday 6A Harris Children’s Wing to be dedicated Saturday BY ALAN HODGE Staff Writer Saturday, October 21 at 10 a.m. will be a date long remem- bered by patrons and support- ers of Mauney Memorial Library in Kings Mountain. That day will see the official dedication of a dream come true- the Harris Children’s Wing. “The dedication will mark a milestone in the development of library services for children in Kings Mountain and Cleveland County,” said head librarian Rose Turner. “It will celebrate the commitment of the citizens of Kings Mountain to the intellectual development of children.” In actual use now since its WEATHERLY GREENE District 48 race. Incumbents Debbie Clary, Andy Dedmon and Jim Horn are facing a challenge from for- mer NC legislators Dennis Davis and John Weatherly, and July 4th opening, the Harris Children’s Wing is 4,516 total square feet of bright and airy space. This in marked contrast to the cramped and convoluted arrangement that had for many years characterized the juvenile literature section of the library. Time to build the addition was 18 months at a cost of around $600,000. One of the primary driving forces behind the new wing is the Harris family. Harris Funeral Home is located next door to the library. “I lost my grandparents and father in a short period of time during 1996,” said John O. Harris III. “In early 1997, the li- brary committee approached See Library 6A former Cleveland County School Board member Connie Goforth-Greene. Greene, Horn and Davis list Health insurance and drug costs are mest important to Dedmon. The state budget is Weatherly’s major concern, and improving the quality of life for the elderly is most important to Clary. The Herald asked each candi- date to list his or her top two priorities: (Republicans) Dennis Davis: #1 - Education. education as their top priorities. 2h . stressed, is that the proposed in- dustry is not the problem. Most of them said they were not op- posed to industry. The problem, they said, is that the city failed to notify them of the impending action. “You have an obligation to in- form citizens when something like this is taking place,” said Kings Mountain School Board member Ronnie Hawkins, who lives on Countryside. “In the last month or so someone has arbitrarily placed their finger on the zoning map and said ‘I want this changed to Light Industry.” You're not doing your job when you arbitrarily allow changes without citizen input.” Citizens stressed that such an See Zoning 6A Man found dead at KMH may have been Grover burglar Kings Mountain Police and the Cleveland County Sheriff's Department are investigating the possibility that a man found dead on the grounds of Kings Mountain Hospital Saturday was involved in an earlier bur- glary attempt in Grover. According to the Sheriff's Department, it received a call at 4:06 a.m. about an attempted burglary at the home of Alan Skidmore, 132 Buren Drive,, Grover. Skidmore told officers he was awakened by the sound of someone banging on his front door and the sound of someone breaking into his resi- dence through a window. Skidmore told deputies he fired shots at the suspect coming through the window, and thought that he hit the suspect. He said the suspects fled the scene in an older model blue car. At 5:40 a.m., a security guard at Kings Mountain Hospital re- portedly found Fledell Alvin Glover, 110 Velvet Drive, Kings Mountain, lying in a semi-fetal position near the front entrance at the hospital. The guard noti- fied Kings Mountain Police. The man was pronounced dead by a hospital doctor. Lt. Derek Johnson of the Kings Mountain Police said an autopsy was performed Sunday morning in Chapel Hill, and of- ficers are awaiting the results. But, he said, it appeared the man was shot by a handgun in See Hospital 6A House candidates list priorities He said many people, includ- ing major universities, are ques- tioning the validity of the state’s ABC testing plan and are sug- gesting that the state would be better off to use a more stan- dardized national test, “which would give us more compara- ble results with other states.” Davis said critics feel that North Carolina “is judging ourselves against ourselves...and that those instruments are not well constructed and do not ade- quately reflect the educational progress we are making.” Davis, a teacher at Crest See Election, 3A i . ] Cit G Kings Mountain Gastonia Shelby Bessemer y XI FIRST NATIONAL BANK 300 W. Mountain St. 529 New Hope Rd. 106 S. Lafayette St. 1225 Gastonia Hwy. br Celebrating 126 Yeare 739-4782 865-1233 484-6200 629-3906 i Member FDIC am om
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