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IN OUR OPINION i AR uueriesisnrvaisrareeesinainsnernsesvananssaraninsnenaenees i Look back at a special lady, special event With the year winding down I've been going through this year’s papers looking for what will be the top ten stories of the year. They will be printed next week. But during this process you always come across some stories - most of them Gary Stewart postive - that Editor won't make a the top ten but deserve another mention. After seeing some of those I've wondered why Kings Mountain doesn’t give a Citizen of the Year Award. Most cities do. I remember back many years ago when the Jaycees used to give the Young Man of the Year Award. Sometimes I agreed with the selections and sometimes I thought they were very political. Usually, the award went to a member of the club or to a person from a prominent family. My idea of a Citizen of the Year is one who does some- thing not for personal gain, but to benefit someone less fortunate. In thumbing through those old papers I was reminded of a very special event this year that was spearheaded by a very special lady. Of all the people I know of in the Kings Mountain area, she would be my choice as Citizen of the Year. That person is Joyce Roark, who has giving unselfishly over the past two years to head the Joseph R. Smith =. Relay for Life at the Kings Mountain Walking Track. This is an event that began about five years ago, and as well as I remember off the top of my head raised about $20,000 for cancer research and programs. Through the efforts of a lot of people - individuals, churches, fami- lies and businesses - the event has inceased in participation and financially each year since. This year’s event, which was held in June, raised $84,000. For the past two years, that effott headed by Joyce has helped Cleveland County rank as one of the top ten counties in the United States in per capita giving. I don’t have a plaque for her, but I know her reward is coming someday. Meanwhile, I hope some organization or special com- mittee will take it upon them- selves to begin officially rec- ognizing a citizen of the year. A lot of clubs already recog- nized top educators, firemen, police personnel, etc., and they're to be commended. But let’s get the whole communi- ty involved. A i SA pre OPINIO SR ss Thursday, December 26, 2002 The Kings Mountain Herald PICTORIAL EDITORIAL Tony Gordon Santa will try his best to grant : everyone's wishes | aR Dear Editor: Abigail Wolford ia 1 Staff Writer Abigail gave me permission to use smssmsm———5" her column this week to bring a Christmas message to you and to Kings Mountain. I recently received a copy of the Herald with all of the letters from the Kings Mountain children and the one from. you as well; Its not often I'find a man of your age with such profound faith in me. You certainly must have a lot of faith with that list you gave me. Iwill try very hard not to let you down. I was very touched this past week by your concern ; with the lack of peace in the world. My job gets more dif- ficult each year with all of the people trying to hurt the | children in the world. Maybe they are not really trying to hurt them. Maybe they have simply forgotten about | them. Each year I see thousands of children in the world die of starvation. Thousands others are wounded in senseless among adults who should know better. What goes on in the twisted hearts of people is a realm beyond that which I can penetrate. I find at times that I simply have to yield my grief to the One who is much greater than I will ever be. Perhaps with His help and the help of a few adults with some sense, the children will have a better world to live in. My elves and I are in the toy business. How I wish we were also in politics. A few children in the world give me hope in the future, however. One young man named Billy Bridges shows more courage in a single minute than it took my friend Rudolph to muster to face the reindeer who laughed at him because of his nose. Billy, if all children were as strong as you, the world would be a much better place. I wish you the best with your knee. Because it is time to hitch up my team of reindeer, I am afraid I'm going to have to cut this letter short. To all of the children who wrote to me, I will certainly try my best to fulfill your wishes. My elves have been working around the clock since your letters arrived. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Love, Santa Claus GARY STEWART / HERALD COUNTY UNITY - Kings Mountain Police and Cleveland County Sheriff's departments pledged “unity” In fighting the drug bat- tle during a press conference Thursday morning at KMPD after 59 charges were filed against 21 individuals. Left to right are Kings Mountain Mayor Rick Murphrey, Kings Mountain Police Chief Melvin Proctor, Sheriff Raymond Hamrick and Chief Deputy Lott’s probably going to have to give it up As this is written, Trent Lott is hanging Jim Heffner on to his job as Senate Majority Leader Columnist by the barest of threads. Chances are he mss will have to give it up. Frankly, a man who obviously speaks without thinking, regardless of the venue, should not be the person to chart the course of any presidential program. I have never been a Lott fan, but I see his probler asd 1 one the liberals love. All of the usual suspects are lining up trying to get a little camera time on the evening news by piling on one man. Even the women’s organizations are putting their two cents worth in. It's funny how the N.O.W. gang refused to chastise Fuzzy Clinton when he was fondling and abusing women. It’s also funny how the New York Times, Washington Post and the TV networks never saw fit to call Clinton when he praised William J. Fulbright, one of the authors of the 1954 Southern Manifesto. Let any conservative have a slip of the tongue, and he is dead meat, but the news media always gives liberals a pass. It’s so obvious you'd think they would be embar- rassed, but they aren’t. The funny thing about the Lott fiasco, is that many Democrats would like to leave him alone, because they think it will give them an issue in the next election, and they could be right. What really bugs me about an incident such as this is that it gives all the south haters an opportunity to spout off about everything they don’t like about us. I get really tired of hearing about marriage between rel- atives, bigotry, how bad a senator Jesse Helms has been, ad nauseam. Geraldo Rivera made a statement the other night which pushed my hot button. “I've always thought,” he said, “that if you scratched the surface of a Republican, espe- cially a Southern Republican, you'd find a Dixiecrat.” In other words, all Southerners are racists. I have witnessed two incidents of open prejudice in my life and both were ugly, but I guess, somewhere along the way I've been deprived. I honestly am not acquainted with any racists I know about, and I've never even seen a KKK robe. Rivera is just like most Yankees. They have blinders JIM See Jim, 5A Han Editon 2 60. Stewart e 739- 74%¢ LOOK BACK - KMHS looking - for grid coach in December ‘70 From the December 23, 1970 edition of The Herald: Kings Mountain Schools Supt. Donald Jones said he has already begun official interviews with prospects for the post of football coach and athletic director at Kings Mountain High School. Kings Mountain is looking for a replacement for Bill Bates, who resigned a week after the 1970 sea- son to take the post of director of school-commu- nity relations. Kemp Mauney, Kings Mountain freshman at NC State University, won fourth place among fresh- men in the School of Electronics in Lock System awards recently. Members of the Kings Mountain Merchants Association in mail ballot- ing declined to merge with the Chamber of Commerce by a vote of 22 to 13. The vote represented 51 percent of the eligible membership. Joe R. Smith, president of Kings Mountain Nursing and Convalescent Center, foresees construction of the projected 100-bed unit in the near future. Kings Mountain native Jimmy Kimmell has been named South Carolina Eastern 4-A Conference coach of the year for the second straight season. Kings Mountain's George Adams has picked up where he left off last bas- ketball season as he leads ihe Gardner-Webb, ~~ ,» , Bulldogs to one victory , after another. fn is averaging 26.4 points and 14 rebounds per game. Kings Mountain’s United Fund campaign for 1971 reached $27,764.42 this week. SP/4 Jesse W. “Rocky” Martin was promoted to his present rank while serving with the Army in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division (Radar) at Phu Lac. Rev. Ansel Center Jr. of Greer, SC has assumed new pastorate duties at Piedmont Baptist Church. The 1970-71 basketball season is only three weeks old but Kings Mountain’s girls have already won more games than they did all of last season. Coach Blaine Froneberger’s Mountainettes captured their fourth victory in five games Friday at home, defeating South Point 25- 20. Patricia Ann McDaniel became the bride of Mark Elwyn Hughes Friday evening in a 7:30 candle- light wedding in Grover’s Antioch Baptist Church. SIDEWALK SURVEY BY ABIGAIL WOLFORD THE HERALD 0 What is your fami- ly’s most special holiday tradition? “Celebrating the birth of Christ.” “Sitting around the fire- place having Christmas dinner.” Bartolo Vega Figueroa Kings Mountain Octavia Childers Kings Mountain “On Christmas day, I cook breakfast for all my kids and grandkids, and then we go over to my dad's for dinner.” “Family gatherings.” Earnest Hamrick Grover Brenda Short Kings Mountain “Being together.” Helen Thombs Kings Mountain
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