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- IN OUR OPINION Hey, this isn’t the county fair | remember It was the first time I'd been to the county fair- grounds in about 30 years. And I couldn't find the hoochy- coochy show. But there were a lot of people there. Admission was free, but I bet most of the people in attendance spent more than they would have at the fair. This event was Shelbys annual Relay for Life last Friday night. Although, in my slanted opinion, it doesn’t come close to comparing to Kings Mountain's Relay for Life it was an entertaining and very successful event. Even with a slow economy, I was told the amount raised was within $20,000 of last year’s total of over $270,000 and that figure will probably be topped by the time all monies are in. I'd say there were close to a thousand cancer survivors that braved the rain to walk in the survivor's lap; and probably a couple thousand more that walked with their teams and took part in numerous fund-raising events to help find a cure for cancer. The reason I was in atten- dance is because my wife was walking with the Cleveland Home Health team, and my daughter Leigh Anne, son-in-law Steve Newton,.and. grand Gary Stewart Beit daughter Alyssa were.there to'support and walk with her. The weatherman had been - saying all day that it would begin raining around 6 p.m. and set in for the night, and about 5:30 the sky began darkening over toward KM and my immediate thought was that the KMHS gradua- tion would be a wash-out .+.»and folks would have to crowd into Barnes Auditorium to see their sons and daughters and grand- sons and granddaughters receive their diploma. Thankfully, that didn’t hap- pen and the event was held . at Gamble Stadium so there was room for everyone. Just moments prior to the scheduled 6 p.m. start of the survivors walk, some more dark clouds came over the fairgrounds and the bottom dropped out. Everyone hur- ried for cover, and we found ours in one of the perma- nent fair concession stands beside where Mark Blanton and his Mink Band were performing. The rain didn’t last but See Gary, 5A PICTORIAL EDITORIAL i a» Thursday, May 23, 2002 The Kings Mountain Herald Editor: Gary Stewart ¢ 739-7496 CE i KM Police Department, KM Fire Department and the Highway Patrol checked 40 safety seats during a checkpoint Saturday at Harris-Teeter, and repladed some 14 defective safety seats. The seats made motorists feel safter, and the fire hats made a lot of children happy. How can some things be new and improved? Speaking of overused cliches, there is another one called new and improved. Sometimes it’s used to describe mini- mal changes to a product or service and that change is built up to be the greatest thing. Getting out from the spirit of this phrase, Coca- Cola * introduced a new drink, Vanilla Coke. 5 1 don’t kiiow if it improved on much except maybe its Bovanane line, but I picked up a bottle of it and tried it for flashes and the Ben Ledbetter Sets Writer SEER 4 SS —————— It was definitely full of sugar, but did not contain a lot of greamy smooth, vanilla flavor. I was a little disappoint- a Speaking of new, the Hornets have finally got the votes they need to get to New Orleans. This will not only effect the people who want to buy tickets to go to games, but all those Junior Hornets Recreation Leagues may be gone as well. Another effect would be the people who worked con- cession stands in the Charlotte Coliseum would be out of SER SESS While the Hornets will have a new home, Coke has a new drink out, there will be a new change to the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners. At this writing, the Republican Party’s executive com- mitted scheduled a meeting to talk about finding a replacement to fill Charlie Harry's seat. One of the three candidates for the job is former Kings Mountain Mayor Scott Neisler. If he was named, the board would almost have a rever- sal from the 1999 board that had five people who were active in Shelby. While the party lines would be the same, there would be four people from Kings Mountain on the board. Lower Cleveland County has had representatives on the county board befdte, but it seems like there has never been a majority of candidates on the board from a place other than Shelby. Before getting happy about possibly having four Kings Mountain commissioners, the record of the current three needs to be taken into account. See Ben, 5A SHR —————— SESE ——— Se SENSE ————— Rs When lightning | Hs go out Last Monday afternoon's severe thun- , derstorm was a doozy. Guest Colin It started out with a whippin’ wind, fol- ~*¢® eau; lowed by a blinding rain, all the while punctuated with lightning'and thunder. Of all parts of a storm, I like thunder the best. Just to let you know, a good deep rumble ‘of thundet a little way off sounds just exact: ly like the dull ‘thud 6f ¢annon fire’ from 12-patnd fuods Napoleons, 10-pound Parrotts, and three- inch ordnance rifles. Anyway, lightning is another story. I am skeered of it. When I am on the front porch listening to the sweet sound of thunder and imagining that somewhere in the distance a great battle is being fought and the old flags are flutter- ing in the breeze again, lightning sends me back in the house. The trick is to not run back in, for as General Lee once said “never let them see you run,” but to act cool and unperturbed as you move as fast as male ego and dignity will allow back to the safety of the hooch. For over 30,000 households, Monday's storm alse meant that electric service was out for a period of time. In the case of our hacienda, it was off from about 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. It was a space of four hours that translated into a step back of many, many decades of years. It is amazing how folks react when something like an electrical outage hits. The first thought is often one of denial..this can’t be happening. Other ideas that no doubt race through minds at that time include- will the grub in the refrigerator spoil, how will I blow-dry my hair, how can [ see to pluck my eyebrows, will I miss the ball game on TV, how can I microwave something to eat, etc. For people who depend upon a well, driven by an elec- tric pump, a power outage also causes you to try and esti- mate how many trips you will need to make to the toilet before the tank runs dry. An extreme example of this situ- ation took place when Hugo came and I had to dip water out of the creek to flush the toilets. One trip deposited a crawdad in the cammode..but that’s another story. Being someone who cannot function without a liberal dose of TV, my wife Lil” Petey made her first task after the juice went off Monday to quickly grab up the Sony Walk-TV thing and check out its batteries. That done, she See Alan, 5A Alan Hodge LOOKING BACK Alcohol vote was in news in ‘83 Excerpts from the Thursday, May 17, 1983 edition of the Kings Mountain Herald: | ; - The long awaited ques- tion of whether the city of Kings Mountain will have another election on the sale of alcoholic beverages has been answered. It will. The city elections board has set the date for Tuesday, July * 19. Polls will open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. and will be at the same places (the National Guard Armory and the Community Center) as the general elections. City Elections Board Chairman Luther Bennett said today that the board has verified the signatures contained on petitions received last week by the Kings Mountain Citizens for Legal Control, the group seeking the sale of beer, wine, and liquor for off premises consumption. - No upset bids have been offered for the old Compact School property, which is for sale by the Kings Mountain Board of Education. | - The first annual Shriners Weekend, spon- sored by the White Plains! Shrine Club of Kings Mountain, was termed a huge success. The Shriners, who organizedilast nnn ! November, hisld a barbeblie sale Saturddls thorning afd afternoon, rode in a parade downtown, which featured Lieutenant Governor Jimmy Green as marshal and sponsored a successful three-day softball tourna- ment which drew some of the top slow pitch teams from the two Carolinas. _- Donald Deal, band director at'Kings Mountain Senior High School, received the first annual / Excellence in Teaching Award Tuesday night at ¢ the third annual Top Ten’ Academic Awards Banquet at the KMHS Cafeteria. - Kings Mountain will * field an American Legion baseball team for the first time since 1978 in Area > Four competition this surn: mer. Post 155 will open play Friday night, May 27 at City Stadium against olc rival Hickory. KM will play an 18-game first round schedule. Game time is at 7:45 p.m. - Kings Mountain Yoni High finished second in the Western Junior High § Athletic Association track meet last week at Burns. SIDEWALK SURVEY BY BEN LEDBETTER THE HERALD ® What do you think is the toughest issue facing the area? | guess it's the roads. There really ain't too much around here. Curtis Perkins Kings Mountain Ashley McKinnish Kings Mountain I'd say employment. (It’s) Cleveland County ¢ unemployment. We lost Richard McCraw all our textile industry. ‘Vale Charles Neal Cherryville Got a question you'd like to submit to Sidewalk Survey? Send your question by mail to us here at The Herald. If we use your question, we'll give’ you the credit. | guess the school district. wr BRIT ATS BLED ERASE SHLD EDI MRI DI ID PBI DIAN 0 FIT IA Gon © = om £ 08, * ® -y : Kings Mountain; Fale rrr nr a REN EA EE TORR ERAS AE
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