September 19, 2002
KM pee
wees
rout Lincolnton
by 51-13 score
Kings Mountain Optimist junior pee wees defeated
Lincolnton 51-13 Saturday.
Blake Hollifield scored on a 55-yard run on the first drive
of the game. Tyler Humphries added the extra point.
Humphries later scored on a 15 yard run to put KM up
13-0. Lincolnton threatened to cut into the lead but Brain
Brown tackled the ball carrier short of a first down.
Michael Thompson's pass interception and 35-yard return
set up a 15 yard touchdown run by Shuantrell Jordan.
A sack of the quarterback by Keiffer Hamm stoped
Lincolnton on another potential scoring drive. Hollifield got
loose on a 35 yard touchdown run and Humphries added
the extra point.
Kings Mountain recovered a fumble on the ensuing kick-
off and Brent Stevens tossed the ball to Lamar Belton for a
45 yard touchdown. Stevens through to Thompson for the
extra point.
Belton scored on a 65 yard run and Jordan added a 45-
yard touchdown:
Defensive standouts for the Mounties were Adams, Black,
Bridges, Cobb, Everson, Hutchens, Rippy, Snider and
Webster.
BEN LEDBETTER / THE HERALD
Rusty Carringer, foreground, Shannon Carringer and Fonda
Barnes hold candles at the conclusion of Kings
Mountain’s September 11 observance at City Hall.
The Kings Mountain Herald
WATER
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make sure we're not in this
fix next summer,” Philbeck
said.
Philbeck had little to say
“after the water discussion.
“I’ve said all I'm going to
say right in there until after
the meeting next week,” he
said.
According to a study from
a Forest City engineering
firm, Kings Mountain would
contribute $2 million;
Cleveland County $5.9 mil-
lion; the Cleveland County
Sanitary District $2.25 mil-
lion; Boiling Springs
$350,000; and Shelby $3.5
million.
While cities would have
other options for raising the
revenue for this plan,
Cleveland County officials
said raising property taxes
would be the way to raise
money for the plan.
But County
Commissioner Ronnie
Hawkins said the tax and
proposed water plan are just
that - proposed.
Hawkins said the propos-
9/11
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While many people were
hurt that day, they had to be
helped.
Joining in the processional
were the three public safety”
units that operate in Kings
Mountain. All workers were
in uniform and later gave
their name during a roll call.
The workers were also
mentioned in a poem that El
Bethel United Methodist
Pastor Bruce Hobson read.
“Many of those lives were
the men and women in the
fire department, police
department and the emer-
al is the way to get all par-
ties involved in discussing
water resources for the
future.
“What we really need to
tell the public is there is
more to the talk they've
been hearing than a tax,”
Hawkins said.
He said the tax increase is
only one option in funding
the plan.
With Kings Mountain
moving ahead on its second
lake, commissioners
endorsed the Sanitary
District's reservoir plan.
Although the tax has been
suggested for all county res-
idents to pay, not all county
residents have access to
water.
In southern Cleveland
County, the area near Dixon
School Road does not have
service from any of the
county’s three water
providers.
Commissioner Mary
Accor lives in the Dixon
School Road area and men-
tioned that during the dis-
cussion.
“There are some untarget-
ed pockets in the county,”
she said about the areas
gency medical workers who
wanted to help,” he said.
Following the service was
a candle lighting, then the
recession of the emergency
workers and the bagpipe
band.
While most people from
Kings Mountain witnessed
the attacks on television,
some will be actively partic-
ipating in the war effort that
came in their aftermath.
~ Kings Mountain's
National Guard unit, which
is part of the 505th
Battalion, has been called
into active duty.
The battalion, which is
scattered across the state,
* has not been federally mobi-
lized since the 1940's.
Kings Mountain Weather Report
(Compiled by Kenneth Kitzmiller)
Sept. 11-17 Year Ago
Total precipitation 2.74 : 0
‘Mak. one day, 1.45 (14th) Z feat Qelaual
Month to date 2.74 ZANE OF (RU)
Year to date 26.96 32.16
Low temperature 64 (12th) 50 (16th)
High temperature 91 (11th) 85 (13th)
Average temperature 70.2 66.6
EAST
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about 86 percent of students
at or above grade level,
Kings Mountain Middle
School did not receive recog-
nition.
Statewide, more than 43
percent of North Carolina
schools are Schools of
Excellence or Schools of
Distinction, the state’s two
highest recognition cate-
gories, according to the
2001-02 ABCs accountability
results released and
approved by the State Board
of Education today. This
shows that the state’s
accountability model, just
entering its seventh year, is
working as planned and
increasing the number of
students performing at
‘grade level or better, accord-
ing to State Superintendent.
Mike Ward.
"The goal of the ABCs
accountability model is to
reward growth in student
achievement. In the first
year of the ABCs, only 12
schools qualified as Schools
of Excellence and only 158
were Schools of Distinction.
Today, we have 299 Schools
of Excellence and 648
Schools of Distinction. And,
we achieved this improve-
ment even after tightening
the requirements for Schools
of Distinction," said State
Board of Education
Chairman Phil Kirk.
The number of schools of
excellence, the highest per-
formance level recognized,
increased to 299 or 13.6 per-
cent of all schools. In 2000-
01, 7.9 percent of schools, or
171 schools, were in this cat-
egory. Schools of Excellence
are schools that have met at
least expected growth goals
for student achievement and
where 90 percent or more of
their students’ scores are at
or above grade level.
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decline in 2001-02 and is
down to 18. Low-perform-
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01, 31 schools were low per-
forming.
Goforth said the school
system continues to progress
each year.
“We're making progress,
sort of like catching up in a
race,” he said. “We've got a
long way to go but we're
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where residents still use (
wells.
Hawkins said one ques-
tion that needs to be
addressed in next week’s
meeting is county residents
paying a tax for the Sanitary
District without having its
water.
The two providers that
could provide water for the
Dixon School Road area are
the Sanitary District and the
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the governmental entities
that control water and try to
find a way to protect the cit-
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Sanitary District Manager
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what the district's board SSID. totes oes iecats $1.00
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Chairman John Cline said alti 2 Hh
Taesday that he was opento. [op paisect 1 . 50¢/1b.
participating in a county-
wide discussion.
“Anytime you get people
together talking, you sort of
get things worked out,” he
said.
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