September 12, 2002
The Kings Mountain Herald
Page 5A
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of the students,” she said.
“They're the ones that have
done it. Teachers have moti-
vated them and taught them
but the students of Kings
Mountain High School have
something to be very proud
of.
“I have always felt like
Kings Mountain District
Schools has the best voca-
tional program in the State,
and now we have the
proof.”
Sisk added, however, that
the System must now chal-
lenge itself to remain #1.
She would like to see KM's
average score hit 90%, or
Level IV.
“When you're at the top
you have a responsibility to
stay there,” she said.
Sisk said KMHS has given
end-of-course tests in voca-
tional education classes for
the past 10 years. However,
in the past they haven't
been “secured” tests, mean-
ing they were made up by
the teachers rather than the
State. .
“Now the State makes th
test up, so its a secured test
just like end-of-course tests
in academic areas such
English and Biology,” Sisk
said.
The State secured tests
began during the 2000-01
school year, but the 2001-02
school year was the first
year results were
announced.
“It’s really an honor to be
number one in the State,”
Sisk said. “I just couldn’t
believe it. I knew we were
doing well.”
Kings Mountain High has
36 vocational and business
courses, and 14 teachers.
Most of the students in the
high school take at least one
vocational course.
KMHS
From 1A
McClain and Dr. Allen met
with the school’s architect,
Roger Holland, and mem-
bers of the parents’ commit-
tee to discuss the field
house, made the motion.
Mike Smith voted against it.
Before Blanton’s motion,
Smith made a motion to
table the matter until the
Board could receive more
jpublic input. He said the
proposal that originally
came to the Board several
months ago did not receive
jinput from the KMHS
Booster’s Club and others.
When Brinkley originally
proposed the facility, KMHS
principal John Yarbro, ath-
letic director Dave
Farquharson and baseball
coach Tony Leigh were in
the audience, but did not
speak. ; ;
Smith favored a study to
see if the system could build
a much larger “fitness cen-
ter” to serve all of the
school’s athletic programs
as well as provide better rest
room facilities for the foot-
ball stadium. He also nated!
that the field Rouse would
serve only a “very small
group” of athletes such as
the baseball and softball
teams.
He also expressed con-
cerns that most of the ath-
letes on those teams are
white.
“I believe that this project
will meet the needs of only
a very small group of stu-
dent athletes, while at the
same time ignoring the
needs of athletes and fans
that bring in the most rev-
enue to our school system,
that being football,” Smith
said.
He said he was more con-
cerned with the rest room
facilities at the football sta-
dium being upgraded, citing
that there is only one toilet
and a urinal in the men’s
rest room and adding that
some women have told him
Ithey refuse to use the
women’s rest room unless it
is “an extreme emergency.”
“To me this is unaccept-
able,” he said. “I believe we,
as a school system, should
be ashamed that we have
such inadequate facilities.”
Smith’s motion to table
the matter died from lack of
a second.
Before making his motion,
Blanton said the facility has
been “well thought out” and
some of the issues Smith
brought out had been dis-
cussed. He agreed with
Smith that no building
activity should begin before
all of the money was in
-hand, and made that as part
of his motion.
Board vice-chairperson
Stella Putnam agreed with
moving forward with the
plans.
“When you have a group
of people in the community
that wants to do things for
children, it’s good,” she
said. “It would be a real
travesty if we don’t move
forward to do this for the
children.”
Terry McClain said he
feels there is a need for the
facility, and feels it could be
used for public rest rooms
for numerous sports.
“I wish we could do
more,” he said. “Mr. Smith's
proposal to build a fitness
center would be great if
someone could come up.
with the funds to do it.”
“We haven't even investi-
gated it,” Smith said: “I 70
don’t doubt that this facility
can be completed. My ques-
tion is why go in that direc-
tion. You're going to have a
field house here, a field
house there and a field
house everywhere.”
Dr. Allen said there will
be a few minor changes
from the original plans. The
facility would be approxi-
mately 25 feet behind the
home dugout. Originally it
was to be immediately to
the back of it so KM players
could come out of the field
house into the dugout. But
Allen said that would have
obstructed the fans’ view of
the right field line.
The facility will include
both men’s and women's
locker rooms, rest rooms for
athletes and the public, stor-
age rooms and a training
room.
Allen said it will take
approximately $100,000 to
build the facility, but the
group hopes to raise around
$150,000 so some “extras”
can be included.
-
Several companies have
pledged volunteer labor
and/or price breaks on
material, he said.
Sofie Gids oy Dati
SCHOOLS
From 1A
sections and magazines that
discussed the attacks
For sixth grader Levitius
Jeffries, making the link is a
way for him to show patri-
otism and his feelings about
the attacks.
Sixth grader Milia
Simpson said the purpose
of the project was love.
“I think the purpose of
making this is to show love
to all the people who died
‘on September 11,” she said.
One outcome of the
attacks was unity, according
to sixth grader Kenneth
Denton.
Others planning obser-
vances for Wednesday
included East, West and
Grover Elementary Schools.
At West, faculty, staff and
students were asked to
wear red, white and blue
clothing and a flag lapel
pin. Pre-school and kinder-
garten students received
patriotic pencils.
The school also honored
civil servants on
Wednesday.
On October 14-18, West
students will observe a
patriotic theme by writing
an essay on patriotism and
dressing as a famous
Americans. An activities
day, talent show and picnic
on the lawn are also
planned for that week.
Family and community
members are invited to the
talent show. A day or time
for the week's show was
not known at press time.
East School held a 9/11
patriotic observance at 8:15
a.m. Wednesday. Mayor
Rick Murphrey and repre-
sentatives of the Kings
Mountain police and fire
departments were on hand.
The city held a 9/11
memorial service
Wednesday night on the
back lawn of City Hall.
Numerous pastors, city staff
and dignitaries, and the
Loch Norman Bagpipe
jipated. Assn vd bali
-Band’ of Huntersville partic-
HAMRICK
“Hearing their support,
and hearing their excite-
ment when the numbers
were posted was very excit-
ing for me,” Hamrick said
about his group of support-
ers Tuesday night.
Hamrick is a former
Cleveland County Sheriff's
Deputy.
The Republican primary
was a complete contrast of
the Democrat primary with
Grover resident Richard
Hill defeating Mike Drake
1,433 to 1,262 unofficially.
Hill was pleased to win
and advance to the general
election against Hamrick.
“I just took my campaign
to the people to find out
what was important to
them, to find out what
issues they had on their
minds and to find out if I
was elected sheriff, what -
would they like to see
changed within the county
and within the services that
the sheriff's department
currently renders to them,”
he said. :
- Hill said he would like to
see the sheriffs office give
more services and support
in the county.
“It motivated me to try to
do my part in doing some-
thing about it,” he said.
LEDFORD
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Ledford, who has been a
member of the Cleveland
County School Board and
the Cleveland County
- Economic Development
Commission, said he had
positive expectations for
Tuesday's vote.
“I had good hopes,” he
said. “I didn't feel the peo-
ple would let me down. I'm
very pleased with what hap-
pened.”
Ledford said his top three
issues are education, eco-
~ nomic development and the
current water situation with
the city of Shelby and the
Cleveland County Sanitary
District.
In other races around the
state, Democrat Erskine
Bowles and Republican
Elizabeth Dole will meet
each other in the general
election in November for
Jesse Helm’s U.S. Senate
seat. >
Helms, a Union County
native, is retiring after his
current term.
Bowles had 201,274, or 45
percent of the votes unoffi-
cially while Dole had 82
percent of the vote on the
Republican side.
All of Tuesday's figures
are unofficial.
Dole’s closest competitor,
Lexington lawyer Jim
Snyder had 12 percent of
Tuesday's vote.
Bowles’ closest foe was
former State House Speaker
Dan Blue who had 130,760
votes, or 29 percent.
For the N.C House 110th
District Debbie Clary defeat-
_ ed Gaston County County
Commissioner Joe
Carpenter in the Republican
primary.
Clary unofficially received
80 percent of the vote in
Cleveland County and 60
percent in Gaston County.
The victory earns her
another trip to Raleigh since
she has no Democratic
opposition in the November
election.
For the Associate Justice
of the state Supreme Court,
Bob Hunter defeated
Bradley Greenway by
300,561 to 117,252.
Ralph A. Walker defeated
Edward Thomas Brady
144,735 to 143,933.
For the two seats open on
the N.C. Court of Appeals,
Democrat George R. Barrett
defeated Beecher Reynolds
Gray for the Walker seat.
For the Thomas seat, Martha
Geer defeated Marcus W.
Williams.
For the three republican
seats available, Eric
Levinson defeated Lorrie L.
Dollar for the Campbell
seat, Rick Elmore defeated
Fritz Mercer for the Walker
seat and Ann Marie Calabria
defeated Nathanael K. :
Pendley for the Bryant seat.
September 20!
704-739-6363
ATTENTION KMHS CLASS OF ‘73!
Don t miss this fun get-together!
* TAILGATE REUNION
HOMECOMING SEPTEMBER 27TH
We Il meet in the parking lot
of Gamble Stadium at 6:00
PM for food and fun .... then
we Il watch our Mounties win
in the homecoming game
against Fred T. Foard!
RSVP by
Avis Morrow
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have a tough time actually
campaigning for office.
Maybe not. Remember the
never-ending session will
keep the person who has a
job they can’t leave all the
time away from seeking
state office. And instead of
having citizen legislators,
N.C. is going toward a pro-
fessional legislature. In that
case, a lot of them need to
be sent back to the minors.
GARY
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While many of our citi-
zens still suffer the anguish
of that day, September 11
has made us stronger.
Here's hoping that anoth-
er disaster like this never
occurs again in the U.S. - or
anywhere for that matter -
but we need to remember it
and become better people
because of it.
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