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November 28, 2002 The Kings Mountain Herald Page 5A
OPINIONS MURAL
From 4A From 1A
In my opinion the pressure will be as great or greater for
him to be successful as it was for him with the baseball pro-
© gram.
In making this decision could the athletic director and
~ principal just be moving these problems from the baseball
program to the basketball program? Was the decision made
because it was just the basketball program or for Mr. Leigh
to keep his coaching supplement?
I believe there needs to be some explanations made to
players, parents and the public for promoting someone a
few months after they resigned a coaching position saying
they were burned out. In my opinion it shows that the kids
or the programs do not always come first.
To me it looks as if very little thought has gone into mak-
ing this and other decisions of filling some coaching posi-
tions for the last few years, especially in football. I would
hope the School Board would be concerned enough to not
let something like this happen again.
[ wasn’t going to comment on our football program at this
time until I saw some of our players wearing a shirt over
the weekend that said “KM Football 3AA Playoffs 2002.” I
am not against the kids being rewarded for winning some
type of championship, but I just don’t see the reasoning for
this type of shizt. I believe the money spent to buy 50 or 60
shirts could have been put to better use. This 2002 team fin-
ished the season 4-8. The four teams KM beat had a com-
bined record of 6 wins and 38 losses. We finished 4th in the
conference and went into the playoffs as a 13th seed.
Mr. Farquharson said the playoffs are all about atmos-
phere. Well, I went to the playoff game at Kernersville and I
sure did not see this atmosphere. I don’t believe KM had
more than 150 to 200 fans and I'd say most of these were the
parents or relatives of the players.
I believe if KM is going to get back to having a proud
football program and the atmosphere that Mr. Farquharson
+ is talking about, it has got to have the support of the whole
community, not just from the parents and relatives of the
football players.
Since the football season is over I think the time has come
for the football program to be seriously evaluated from top
to bottom and go ahead and make the changes that are nec-
essary.
Last year KM's basketball team shared the conference
‘championship and went three rounds in the State playoffs
and I don’t remember seeing any of the basketball players
wearing a shirt that said “KM Basketball 3AA Flayoifs
2002.”
This seems just a little bit odd.
William Martin
Kings Mountain
ABIGAIL
From 4A
praying we weren't holding up the show too long. The
parking lot was teeming with people and cars. Apparently,
my aunts had arrived just in time to miss the throng of
“serious” shoppers that would have held them up. They
came dashing out of the store with two shopping carts
apiece, threw open the trunk and began to arrange their
purchases. They had bought large plastic bins to store their
purchases in for.the day, they informed us, cracking ‘open
the first one, Buy, ane, get two free.” Who canrresist? © *!
In the course of thé few hours before the sun had officially’
risen, we hit fifteen different stores, with my sister and I
actually becoming fully enough awake to participate in the
craziness. Despite my aunts’ obsession with sales, they
actually were very polite shoppers, never ripping items
from other peoples” hands or cutting in front of others in
line. I could not say the same for other shoppers, however.
With the effort to outdo others in sales hit, some of us for-
get that Christmas is supposed to be a season of love and
charity, not selfishness and greed. Even if we do hit the
sales at pre-rooster hours on the day after Thanksgiving, we
need to remember that others are also human beings who
simply want to save a little money as well. We need to play
nice.
JIM
From 4A
weak battery with snow.
"I remembered when I was a boy, I put batteries in: the
freezer to rejuvenate them," Diaz said. The snow-covered
batteries gained new strength after just 30 minutes.
Now that's what I call a good use for a cell phone.
I have never had the slightest inkling to own a cell phone,
and I don't think I ever will. I don't even like to answer the
phone at the office or at home.
I certainly wouldn't have one in my car, and I cannot
think of one good reason why anyone else should either.
Oh, I know people say they don't see how they ever got
along without their cell phones. I suspect that if they'd
never been invented all those who use them would still be
getting along.
The next time you're driving and feel the urge to talk on
your cell phone, pull off the road. The life you save may be
mine.
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The extra visitors to the
city each year would help
strengthen the already
strong economy in Kings
Mountain as well. Plus the
citizens of Kings Mountain
will be able to enjoy looking
at their heritage each time
they drive downtown,
bringing them a sense of
community pride in their
city’s heritage.
“As a historical city, we
need to have sites for people
to observe,” said Murphrey.
The murals will also serve
as part of the revitalization
effort in the downtown area,
said Murphrey.
“It will assist in the revital-
ization of the downtown
area. We look forward to
bringing more murals into
Kings Mountain,” said
Murphrey.
These two murals are not
the end of the revitalization
effort, said Murphrey.
Future murals and renova-
tions will also celebrate and
honor the heritage of Kings
Mountain and its citizens.
“We'll continue to work on
having different sites of
interest so that we can bring
people into town in an effort
to revitalize the downtown
area,” said Murphrey. “It’s a
slow process, but I think
we'll just continue to work
to bring more activities to
the downtown area.”
The lights will be above
the mural on the side of the
Minit Grill and below the
mural on Plonk’s
Department Store. They will
have sensors so that they
come on at night, said
Murphrey.
At the lighting ceremony,
the First Baptist Church
choir will sing, and Mayor
Murphrey will recognize
those that served on the
Kings Mountain Mural
Commission. Refreshments
will be served.
The mural artist, Clive
Haynes, from England, also
did a mural in
Rutherfordton. The Mural
Commission went to look at
{tthe other murals that he did
«before they hired him; said
Murphrey. Haynes also did
the paintings representing
the different wars on the
Veteran's Memorial, said
Murphrey.
Margaret Ledford, a mem-
ber of the Mural
Commission, did the
research for the historical
+ significance of each of the
buildings portrayed in the
“Discovering Gold” mural.
The “Discovering Gold”
mural, located on the side of
the Minit Grill restaurant on
Gold Street, depicts many of
the original buildings in
Kings Mountain in the
1800s. Among the scenes in
the many scenes in the
mural, the title scene is
taken from the time when
Mrs. Ben Briggs, a farmer’s
wife, discovered gold in a
spring near her house. The
Kings Mountain Gold Mine
was built and ran continu-
ously until 1895. Most of
the gold from the mine was
sold to the U.S. Mint in
Charlotte.
The buildings depicted in
the mural include: Briggs
Tavern, which was the first
house built in Kings
Mountain; the first hotel in
Kings Mountain, which
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A lighting ceremony will be held across the street from the “Discovering Gold” mural on
the corner of Battlegroud and Gold Streets on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 6 p.m. The
“Revolutionary War Era” mural on the side of Plonk’s Department Store will also be lit.
Refreshments will be served.
accommodated people on
the railroad; W.T.R. Bell
Military Academy, which
served as the town’s public
school system until 1886;
Ware's Mill, a grist and saw
mill which was the first
industry in Kings Mountain;
freight station; and First
Baptist Church, which was
built in 1890.
The railroad is also depict-
ed because it played an
important part in the found-
ing of Kings Mountain
because it brought people to
the city. Presidents Herbert
Hoover and George Bush
have even traveled through
Kings Mountain on the
train. One train carried
Franklin Roosevelt's body
through Kings Mountain on
the way to Washington, D.C.
in 1945.
This mural was funded
through private donations,
said Shirley Brutko, the
chairman of the Mural
Commission. The donors
are giving the mural to the
city as a Christmas gift, she
said.
The “Revolutionary War
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Era” mural depicts sites that
existed in Kings Mountain
at the time of the pivotal
Revolutionary War battle
that was fought to the south
of Kings Mountain.
Depicted sites include:
Revolutionary War patriot
leader Col. Frederick
Hambright’s home;
Revolutionary War soldier
John Wells” home; Long
Creek Presbyterian Church;
Wann Iron Furnace, or
Ormand Furnace, which was
used to make house tools,
farm equipment, and can-
non balls for the war; and
Kings Creek and Beason
Creek, which both start in
Kings Mountain.
John O. Plonk, Jr. donat-
ed the wall for this mural,
and the City of Kings
Mountain sponsored the
painting of the mural, said
Murphrey.
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