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October 3, 2002 The Kings Mountain Herald Page 3A earned his associate degree r county and state representa- W 7 eral areas during the severe CALD WELL from Cleveland Community STATION tives. ATER drought conditions and From 1A College. He is a city mail From 1A Murphrey pointed out From 1A looked at the First Broad pn carrier for the Bessemer City that KMFD is in its 71st year and said "it was scary." Mountain firemen and was Post Office with 29 years plete with a large TV, bed- and has grown from one horse" to start on the project. -Ollis, recognized as the told he’d have to wait until he was 18. Caldwell asked former KM Fire Chief Gene Tignor to put him on the volunteer list but when Caldwell reached his 18th birthday there were no vacancies on the Kings Mountain Fire Department. Some young people might have given up on their dreams but not Johnnie. He talked with former Kings Mountain Rescue Squad Chief Delbert Dixon and joined the Kings Mountain Rescue Squad in 1968, although the dream of his life was to fight fire. At 19 Caldwell joined the Kings Mountain Fire Department as a rookie and stayed on the Rescue Squad for 10 years. He will never forget his first call to a wreck scene. A bus and car hit in the mid- dle of busy East King Street and the bus landed in the woods on what is now Canterbury Road. There were a number of injuries. Caldwell was asked to ride in the ambulance with one of the wreck victims to the hospital. “I had never seen anyone so torn up, bleeding and gasping for breath and Jthere I was a young fella who could only be with him and pray,” he said. But Caldwell also has a lot of good memories of his service with both the Rescue Squad and Fire Department. Caldwell just turned the big 50 on September 2. He celebrated with his family, a priority for him. He is mar- ried to Diane Baity Caldwell and they will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary December 20. They reside on Somerset Drive in Kings Mountain. Their family includes three children: Eddie and Doreen Parker and John and Mistee Caldwell, all of Kings Mountain, and Kim Hanline of Fort Pierce, Fla. There are five grandchildren: Kristen and McKenzie Parker, Brandi Dayis rene ih noo Hailing dict moniinok 0} Johnnie is the son of John and Mildred Childers Caldwll and grandson of Ethel Childers, all of the El Bethel Community, and the late J.E. Childers and the late Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Caldwell, all of Kings Mountain. He has one brother, David Caldwell, of Kings Mountain. Johnnie graduated from Kings Mountain High School in 1970 and while in school he worked at Cooper Furniture. He attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and service. He is also active in Oak View Baptist Church “where he is an usher, directs the sound system and is assistant Baptist Training Union Director. He is active on the Cleveland County Haz-Mat Team and the Cleveland County Arson Strike Team and serves as secretary- treasurer of the Cleveland County Training Officers Association. He recently attended Fire College at Cleveland Community College with 520 firefight- ers. New York City fireman Dan Baron was guest speak- er and related the horror of 9/11 in which 14 of his fel- low firemen at Station 4 lost their lives. Baron, off duty at the time, was on his way to report for duty when the second World Trade Center tower was hit and got to his station just before it fell to help with recovery efforts. Caldwell trains on the average of 200 hours a year, likes to keep updated on the latest in firesaving tech- niques and equipment. He is a certified American Heart Association CPR and Automatic External Defibrillator Instructor, North Carolina Certified Emergency Medical Technician Instructor, North Carolina Certified Firefighter Level I and II Instructor, Certified Emergency Medical Technician, Certified Firefighter Level II, the highest firefighter certifica- tion offered in North Carolina; Certified Fire/ Arson Investigator, ~ Certified Hazardous Materials Level I, and Certified Emergency Vehicle Driver. He is also a member in good standing with the North Carolina Association of Fire Chiefs, The International Association of Arson Investigators, and The North Carolina Chapter of the International Association gf Arson. , 1; Investigators. soja” No one was more excited than Caldwell at the open- ing September 25 of the new satellite Jacob Hord No. 2 fire station in West Kings Mountain. The $702,000 handsome facility was dedi- cated at a ribbon cutting and open house September 28 and serves the west side of the city, the Southwoods and high school area. Johnnie Caldwell’s volun- teer firefighting career start- ed off with his dream as a boy to ride the big red fire truck. Now that dream has become a labor of love. CITY From 1A at Moss Lake is approxi- mately seven miles from town. Other projects on the drawing board, some of which are in design stage, include: +Design of a 16-inch water line on Kings Mountain Boulevard. These improve- ments are on the same side of the road as the new Kings Mountain Intermediate School and run from 74 Business to Phifer Road. +A 36 inch water line from Cansler Street to Oak Grove Road. This line will run off the end of a 16 inch line across the 74 Bypass and connect to the end of a 12 inch line on the South side of US 74 (Countryside Road.) +Pioneer Utilities of Gastonia is the low bidder for sewer main extensions on Floyd and Second Streets. Cost of the Floyd Street extension is $162,534.90 and will serve the new Blachford RF Corporation which has relo- cated to 707 Broadview to manufacture a wide range of highly engineered floor covering. Cost of the Second Street extension is $24,612.50. +Development of a utility plan for relocation of utili- ties at Highway 161 and Interstate 85 intrechange because of Department of Transportation restructur- ‘ing. Moretz said that 95 per- cent of this cost will be shouldered by DOT. Moretz praised city offi- cials and management for "paying for projects as we go." He said that two 36 inch water line extensions will be paid for without bonds. Moretz said that final con- struction is underway on Phase I of a sewer project on Gold Street Extension behind CVS Pharmacy. rooms to accommodate up to nine firemen, office and storage space, and rest rooms. The fire depiinit began staffing the facility last Tuesday night. Paid firemen will rotate their schedules between the substation and KMEFD, which is located at City Hall. Burns said the opening of the station is the culmina- tion of a long dream by the city. Firemen worked on their own time to help with landscaping and installing an irrigation system to keep the cost down, he said. “Last September 11 changed a lot of things in regard to fire protection,” Burns said, referring to the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC. “We're proud to have this facility on the west side of town so we can better serve our citizens.” Mayor Rick Murphrey called the new station “a great day for the city of Kings Mountain.” Five of the seven city council mem- bers, including Dean Spears, Jim Guyton, Clavon Kelly, Rick Moore and Carl DeVane, were on hand for the ceremony along with truck and a handful of vol- unteer firemen to seven full- time, four part-time and 25 volunteer firemen. The fleet now includes there engine fire trucks, one ladder truck, three brush trucks and one light truck. “The fire department has continued to serve the city well during this time,” he said. “We have doubled our square miles and one of our main objectives in building this substation was to have adequate fire protection for all of our citizens, and also to reduce the response time on this side of town. “Our fire department is committed to excellence,” he : added. “When the alarm goes off the never hesitate to risk their own lives to pro- tect the property and lives of others. They are the very best and we're proud of all of them.” Ken Newell of Stewart- Cooper-Newell Architects, who designed the building, called the new department one of the most “first-class” - facilities in the state. “This station should serve Kings Mountain well for many years to come,” he said. . ~ From 1A REQUEST Larry Smith spoke against the rezoning from residential to conditional use at Tuesday's meeting but Scism said all his imme- diate neighbors, most of whom are relatives, support the idea. Scism and his wife own a home beside the store building in which Scism operates Kings Mountain Urns. Childers said the plan- ning board expressed con- cerns about the rezoning since the property is cur- rently zoned residential with a non conforming use and the area is residential and agricultural. a i Scism said his father, the late Raymon Scism, owned and operated a grocery store at the site for 50 years. One former industry, across the road from the Scism site, is closed. “A crematorium is a service that people fear but many people are using this service because of the econ- omy and because cemeteries are running out of space,” said Scism, who said funeral services are not included in his plans for the crematori- um. The free standing metal building would be built a the back of the 150x200 feet lot with parking spaces in the front of the building. ~The building would include a small office, a viewing room with a plexiglass win- dow overlooking the crema- tory where a family could observe the process. ) Estimated cost of the new construction, including the state of the art equipment, is $150,000. Scism said he observed the Power Pack II Cremation System he wants to install in opertion in Hudson, Florida. The equip- Published every Thursday Periodicals postage at Kings Mountain, NC 28086 USPS 118-880 by Republic Newspapers, Inc. Postmaster, send address changes to: P. O. 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Over the past 30 years he has sold caskets and built caskets for a major casket company and worked an apprenticeship at a funeral home in Florida. Since he returned to Kings Mountain three years ago he has been fashioning unique cremation urns of wood and laminated wood in cherry, cedar, black walnut, teak, persimmon, and some in brass. immediately until a new water line from the water plant at Moss Lake to the city is completed. Two phas- es of the water line project have been completed with city officials paying "as they go" and no bond money required. But Ollis said with the sluggish economy and with the cutoff of state funds to municipalities that phase 3 of the water line project could take longer to complete. "We can't get more than eight million gal- lons to town now and if we complete only a mile of pipe a year that could take about five years," he said this week. Kings Mountain is running a 36 inch line from the Kings Mountain water plant to Kings Mountain, seven miles from the lake. If Shelby, as it proposes, runs a 36 inch line to the Big Broad, Southwest of Shelby, that is approximately 11 miles," says Moretz. "Shelby is wise to begin looking at alternative sources for water because their flow is not sufficient to cover the future,” said Moretz. “Kings Mountain built Moss Lake in the 1960s and exceeded our needs at the time but where would we have been without the lake during this severe drought?” Ollis said this area has already seen more rain in September in four years and this is the fifth year of the drought. With recent rain, Moss Lake is up about three inches but the rain fell and ground just "sucked it in," he said. The lake was down four feet, seven inches, he said. Ollis said he visited sev- water authority for the City of Kings Mountain with 25 1/2 years experience, says Kings Mountain has proven that it can put in a line into the Cleveland County District and supply water to its neighbors at any given time. He said the Cleveland County Sanitary District has more options for water than any of the other providers in the county. "Shelby - has two options in my opinion, the Big Broad and Kings Mountain.". Moretz said that currently the city has three connec- tions on the county system. "Because Shelby needed water we first started pumping one million gal- lons and then two million when we put in an eight inch line along the’creek from Copeland Industries," he said. "We are planning an expansion of our treatment plant but at this time we could not take care of all water Shelby needs." Moretz said Kings Mountain has one booster station on Highway 74 across the road from Crocker Ridge Road pump- ing water from the plant to the booster station and the rest of the way to town to the storage tank. Moving water from Point A to Point B would require another booster station. Ollis said the average flow of water from the water plant in September was a little over four million gallons a day. Kings i Mountain customers and Grover use approximately five million gallons. The city's treatment plant can treat eight million gallons of water a day. Go treasure hunting today in the esiiots! 3 Fine period pieces, antiques and collectibles are always on sale in the classified section. Start your collection or discover that piece to make it complete when you use our listing of garage and estate sales. Ye end gf lj 6s a part of lies Xs pegple, we go Useough own lives with the knowledge that a lifeiime doesn ¢ last fowesen. 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