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Hd © April 25, 2002 The Kings Mountain Herald Page 11A Car wash to aid KM Relay for Life Christian Freedom Baptist Church will sponsor a car wash Saturday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at KM Pools on King Street. All proceeds will go to the Kings Mountain Relay for Life. Car wash Saturday at House of Prayer Kings Mountain House of Prayer for All People, locat- ed on Highway 74 West be-. side Morris Scrap Metal, will hold a car wash Saturday at 9 am. to raise funds for a mission trip to Africa. The cost is $10 inside and out ($15 for vans). For pickup or more infor- mation call Bishop Brady Jackson at 974-4324. BUILDING PERMIT BE The Kings Mountain Building Codes and Zoning Enforcement office issued the following permits for the week of April 15-19. 4/15 - 638 Margrace Road, Michael and Conchita Hoyle, construction of a modular home, $105,550. 4/16 - 219 Commerce Blvd., Sara Lee Corporation, adding shell to existing in- dustrial building, $2,000,000. 4/16 - 705 Canterbury Road, adding shell to exist- ing industrial building, $4,100,000. 4/18 - 508 Rhodes Ave., Willard Millen, installing ~ utility building, $1,000. 4/18 - 806 Southridge Drive, Mark Champion, building modular home, $150,000. 4/18 - 801 Princeton Drive, Keith Bowen, enclos- ing carport to make a sun- room. 4/18 - 303 Landry Drive, Tommy Hall, single family dwelling, $102,000 4/18 - 302 Landry Drive, Tommy Hall, single family dwelling, $92,700. 4/18 - 304] andry; Brive Tommy Hall; single family ~i/11 dwelling, $112,000. 4/18 - 309 Landry Drive, Tommy Hall, single family dwelling, $95,000. 4/19 - 956 Brooklee Drive, Gerald Tate, garage, $60,000. KM FIRE REPORT The Kings Mountain Fire Department responded to the following calls for the week of April 15-21. 4/15 - 610 Meadowbrook Road, service call. 4/17 - 117 Linwood Road, structure fire. 4/18 - South Sims Street and West Gold Street, acci- dent. 4/18 - West King Street and Cansler Street, accident. 4/19 - South Battleground Ave, grass fire. 4/19 - North Piedmont Ave., grass fire. 4/19 - Linwood Road at railroad crossing, grass fire. 4/19 - U.S. Highway 74 & N.C. Highway 216, accident. 4/20 - 113 South Piedmont Ave., gas investigation. 4/20 - York Road & Woodlake Pkwy; accident. 4/21 - First Street, grass fire, : N nN 'BLANTO around the area. Blanton, who was raised in Boiling Springs, has lived in Kings Mountain since 1970, coming to the area when his parents moved. He said he wants to stay with the squad until August, when he will have served 20 years. That will make him a lifetime mem- ber. Seeing the rescue squad ladvance in equipment and training has been some of the things Blanton has seen during his time with the rescue quad. He has also seen an increase in call volume and demands by the state. With his retirement com- ing in August, he plans on spending more time with the Shrine Club. During his time with the rescue squad Blanton has worked a number of 24- hour shifts which took up a lot of weekends during the past years. “We pull, every fourth weekend, a 24-hour shift,” he said. “And we pull a 12- hour shift every two weeks. “So I've given up a lot of weekends in 20 years.” From 1A : Blanton said it started with two softball benefit games. During one of the games in the Double Shoals community he had a close call with a line drive. “I took a line drive to the nose, knocked me out of the game, broke my nose,” he said. “Believe it or not I stayed. I didn’t quit.” His years of service in the rescue squad have yielded the role of captain of the rescue squad, a position he has held since 1987. That role also brings with it meetings and other classes. “There’s meetings to attend all the time,” he said. “We have a couple of meet- ings a month and training sessions.” He also teaches a class through Cleveland Community College. Blanton's leadership roles have not been confined to the rescue squad; he has been a past president of the White Plains Shrine Club and an ambassador for the Oasis Temple, which includes shriners from Events /Public Relations position was created when current mayor Rick Murphrey took office. “I will say every depart- ment has been effected with the budget cuts,” Maney said. Several requests for addi- tional positions and hours were denied. The fire BUDGET From 1A Mountain should support the merged EDC /Chamber. “I think we need to sup- port this issue,” he said. “Both (Cleveland and Gaston) counties have been good about extending serv- ices.” department requested three Cleveland County full time and four part time Chamber President Rob positions and special events Youngblood and County requested a 10-hour increase for its administra- tive assistant, which cur- rently works 10 hours a week. Approximate savings gen- erated from not granting the requests is $152,000. And while savings may be generated other utility funds could be in trouble because of weather and the Manager Lane Alexander presented a presentation to council at the beginning of the meeting. “It’s exciting to see what could happen from the chamber’s standpoint,” Youngblood said. According to the merger plan, Kings Mountain and Shelby would contribute $60,000 a piece. state’s financial woes. Council member Gene According to city figures, White did not agree with the water/sewer fund and the amounti. i 1 10 the gag fund had the lowest, Sixty thousanidiisot © 210, J pajance projections. of cost effective under any cir- ,] the utility funds. cumstances,” he said. The water /sewer fund Although he did not : had a balance of $1,308,632 agree with the figure, White 4 the beginning of the last said the city plans to contin- fc.) year and has a pro- ue working with both jected balance of $633,372 Cleveland and Gaston by the end of June. Counties. Cuts of staff vacancies are also part of the city’s new proposed budget as one PC assistant was cut from administration, one crew leader and two laborers are cut from the streets depart- ment, one building inspec- tor from codes and one Smart Start Library Assistant which will gener- ate approximately $170,000. The PC assistant worked with computers in a techni- cal support role. Other cuts came from planning and economic development which went from $359,514 to $301,810 in the proposed budget for this year. The special events /public relations department’s budget was slashed from $465,378 in the current budget to $109,495 in the proposed budget for The gas fund’s balance at the end of the last fiscal year was $793,031 and is projected to be at $330,339 by the end of this fiscal year in June. Maney said the electric fund was one of the utilities funds expected to make money in the upcoming fis- cal year. And while some fund balances are low Maney said it’s because the city has been providing service to more people. “You've been providing more services more effi- ciently than you ever have,” he said comparing now and 1990. Kings Mountain's area was doubled in 1998 by annexation. ’ HOSPITAL From 1A Humphries said he would like to see CHS pay more to taxpayers for use of the facility. He also ques- tioned a clause about the board of a consolidated hos- pital and said that a criteria about geographic represen- tation could dilute a Kings Mountain presence. Bob Bridges said he remembered the hospital helping one of his children. “One of my youngest .. children is alive today because of Kings Mountain Hospital,” he said. “We need to save our hospital.” While people talked about saving the hospital others said a merger of the two hospitals was already planned when CHS took over management of Kings Mountain. “I will tell you, it was a done deal,” Lou Ballew said. Committee member Stella Putnam said in response to Ballew’s comment that county commissioners took the best they could get when giving CHS manage- ment control. Putnam said commissioners will have to get involved with the issue eventually. When Putnam asked * where people in Kings Mountain would go if the hospital closed, people in the crowd said “Gaston”, “Charlotte.” “We've got to take what we've got and make it bet- ter,” Putnam said about keeping the hospital. City council member Clavon Kelly said he can remember when the hospi- tal was once full and thriv- ing, and that has changed. “People now say if you want to die go to Kings Mountain Hospital,” he said. “The administration was sent here to give this hospital away and they've done a good job of it.” Kelly talked about a situ- ation where he said he was ignored by hospital staff. “They paid absolutely no oattention to me when I had ja problem,” he said. “If the hospital doesn’t listen, it should be closed down.” While he expressed his anger about one situation, Kelly said the hospital does have good doctors there. Hospital lab employee Christine Stewart said some staffers are stressed out and are working with equip- ment that is older, but could be updated. 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