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Cheryl Lovingood teaches math to her third grade class at North Elementary School.
Lovingood North
Teacher of Year
BY ANDIE L. BRYMER
Staff Writer
Just in her third year of teaching, Cheryl
Lovingood has earned accolades from her
colleagues. Lovingood was chosen North
Elementary’s Teacher of the Year.
As a child, Lovingood “played school”
like many youngsters do. However, she fol-
lowed through with her early dreams and
now has a third grade classroom of her own.
She credits teachers at West Elementary
for inspiring her to become an educator.
“They really. taught. Frey gave their heart
torus,” she said. +
Lovingood returned to West for student
teaching where she worked under Amy
Bailey.
“She taught me the practical stuff. Things
they don’t teach you in college,” Lovingood
said.
The award winning teacher comes from a
family of educators. Her father teaches at
Cleveland Community College. Her brother
is an assistant principal at Kings Mountain
Middle School while her sisters teachers
kindergarten at Grover. Lovingood has an
aunt who also teaches.
The profession is something Lovingood
describes as a calling.
“It’s something God called me to do. He
gifted me. I don’t take any of the credit,” she
said.
Watching a student grasp a complicated
concept - like borrowing figures in subtrac-
tion - is one of the biggest rewards for
Lovingood.
“They get it. It’s great,” she said. “The
best thing (about teaching) is you get to see
them grow.”
Lovingood stresses reading and math to
her class of 18. The subjects are basics they
must have to function in the world, she
believes.
Lovingood describes North as a place
where people work well together. She says
Principal Joey Hopper is an encourager who
cares about what the kids are doing.
Being voted as teacher of the year by her
peers - the people who see her and her stu-
dents every day - means more, Lovingood
said, than any award she could get at the
county-level...
Lovingood graduated from UNC-
Charlotte with a degree in elementary edu-
cation and a math minor.
“I love little kids. These kids are my kids.
I take care of them,” she said.
Lovingood advises aspiring teachers to Be
prepared for both hard work and rewards.
“You know at the end of the day no mat-
ter how stressed you are, these kids love
you and you've made a difference to them,”
Lovingood said.
The most taxing part of the job is concern
over students’ progress.
“Have I done what I'm suppose to? Will
they get it?” Lovingood worries.
Her classroom philosophy is to make
everyone responsible.
“I tell them everyone has a job. Mine is to
teach. Their job is to learn,” she said.
Lovingood and her husband Eddie, a
Gastonia police officer, have two dogs
Mattie, a Pomeranian and Chihuahua mix
and Max, a German Shepherd. The couple
enjoy playing tennis.
Widening of Phifer Road should
help traffic flow at KM High School
BY ANDIE L. BRYMER
Staff Writer
Parents will have an easi-
er time picking up their chil-
dren from Kings Mountain
High School thanks to the
Small Urban Fund.
A $50,000 project to widen
the right turn lane on Phifer
Road has been approved.
“I'm pleased the DOT has
seen the need in this area for
traffic improvement and the
state legislature is in the
position to appropriate the
funds,” said Representative
Tim Moore.
Moore received a memo
about the funds from
Transportation Secretary
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Local scholarship fund
to benefit KM students
BY ANDIE L. BRYMER
Staff Writer
The Kings Mountain Student Scholarship
Fund will award its first four scholarships
this spring.
Fund raising for the four $1,000 scholar-
ships began formally with a September ban-
quet. The board, however, began meeting 13
months ago when scholarship founder
Ricky Hall approached seven friends who
agreed to serve.
Hall first saw the need for a scholarship
when his son Adam Hall enrolled at Duke
University. While the scholarship will not
benefit Hall nor other board members’ fami-
ly, it will help Kings Mountain High School
seniors.
The scholarship will pay for most pro-
grams at community college, excluding
nursing, Hall said. Recipients can also apply
the money toward larger tuition bills at uni-
versities. The only Zensen) is the school
be accredited.
The student will receive $500 initially.
Students must show proof of passing grades
to qualify for $500 more at the beginning of
the second semester.
A fund raiser is planned for later this
spring. Hall hopes to set up a booth in the
Food Lion parking lot and give away toma-
to seedlings to customers who agree to link
their bonus cards to the scholarship fund.
Through the program, Food Lion donates a
percent of bonus card purchases to a local
fund. That money is then evenly distributed
between local non-profit organizations,
according to Hall.
Students will be able to volunteer with
that project and with a publicity booth at
the Cleveland County Fair in the fall. Hall
said this will help students meet a commu-
nity service requirement which is part of
many scholarship applications.
The scholarship is being publicized
through the high school guidance office and
with bookmarks at the school and Mauney
Memorial Library.
Long range plans include establishing a
$100,000 endowment with scholarships
being awarded from the interest.
For more information, visit
www.kmscholarship.org. Donations may be
mailed to P.O. Box 32, Kings Mountain, N.C.
28086.
Gaston to ask legislators for bill to
allow money to follow KM students
BY ANDIE L. BRYMER
Staff Writer
After hearing from parents of students
living in the Gaston County portion of
Kings Mountain, Gaston County
Commissioners directed County Manager
Jan Winters to ask the local legislative dele-
gation to sponsor a bill which would allow
the county money, approximately $900 per
pupil, to follow the students.
If the legislative short session cannot
accommodate a local bill, Winters said the
two counties could work out an interlocal
agreement.
Eight or nine parents addressed the
Gaston County Commissioners last week,
asking for their help in keeping their chil-
dren in Cleveland County Schools. Prior to
the merger of the three Cleveland County
systems, money for these students was fun-
neled to the former Kings Mountain District
Schools through an interlocal agreement.
The merger dissolved that agreement.
According to Winters, the Gaston County
School Board has agreed to release those
students. That means that between $4,000
and $6,000 per pupil will go to Cleveland
County Schools.
It remains unclear if this money will be
released with each individual student or if it
will follow students in blocks of 100 pupils.
If the money comes in blocks, Cleveland
County would be reimbursed per 100 stu-
dents which means if more than 100 stu-
dents come from Gaston but less than 200,
the number of students over 100 would not
be paid for.
Approximately 186 students currently live
in the effected area. Of that number, approx-
imately 49 attend East Elementary; approxi-
mately 37, Kings Mountain Intermediate
School; approximately 33, Kings Mountain
Middle School; approximately 54, Kings
Mountain High School and approximately
12 attend other elementary schools and one
attends Davidson School.
Free cowboy movies at Joy
BY ANDIE L. BRYMER
Staff Writer
Saddle up and ride on out
to the Joy Performance
Center Saturday for some
classic cowboys flicks.
The Silver Screen Saddle
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Other events
“It’s continuous entertain-
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Doors will open at 9 a.m.
with the Saddle Pals. Movies
begin at 10 a.m.
Performance Center include
Free Flicks which are usual-
ly the third Saturday. A chil-
dren’s movie is at 10 a.m.,
teen movie at 2 p.m. and an
R-rated movie in the
evening.
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