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Page 4A The Kings Mountain Herald May 12, 2005 nm OUR OPINION Pearson will be missed The death of Roy Pearson earlier this week took from Kings Mountain one of its best friends. Throughout his lifetime, Roy was a strong advocate of youth sports, as evidenced Parks and L- Recreation Gary Stewart for the City Editor of Kings Mountain. But even before Roy assumed that position, he was very active in youth baseball and softball. He played on numerous “mill” softball teams during his young adult years and helped coach and volun- teered in the little league in supervisory capacities as far back as the league’s begin- nings in the early 1950s. As recreation director, Roy helped organize a number of sports which kept kids and grown-ups alike busy year-round. Under the guid- ance of Elmer Ross, and later Roy, the recreation department grew from a few little league and pony league teams to one that included activities for hun- dreds of people a year. In 1966, Roy, Bob Moore and Bo Goforth coached one of the best baseball teams to ever come out of Kings Mountain - the VFW Teener League All-Stars. That team won the North Carolina and - Eastern Regional champi- - onships and finished third in the Teener World Series in Hershey, PA. Three years later the members of that team led Kings Mountain High School to its first-ever state baseball champi- onship. Roy always had the best interests of young people at heart, and he was very cooperative with this news- paper. He made sure that all of the games were reported to The Herald because he knew there are a lot of proud mommas out there that love to see their chil- dren’s names in the paper. Roy was one of a very few people to be elected to the Kings Mountain Sports Hall of Fame the first time he was norninated: It usually takes several years after nomination to get the num- ber of votes necessary to be elected, but everyone who has ever known Roy or saw him work on behalf of youth knew that there was no one more deserving of the honor. Roy will be missed by a lot of people. Elvia, Butch, Margaret, Linda, Billy, the grandchildren and the rest of his family and friends have our sympathy and best wishes. YOUR OPINION Shoe box collection big success To the editor: Staff Writer The Christian people and churches of the greater Kings Mountain and Cleveland County area made the Easter shoe box collection a big success. God blessed us with 417 shoe boxes, donations of $150 which went to purchase fishing nets, a case of T- toys. Give God the glory for all of this. His people really came through! These were delivered on Saturday, April 2, 2005 to Samaritan’s Purse in Boone. I personally want to say thank you to all who helped : : with this project for the 2 Yalpatich, Tsunami Relief effort. God told us that we are to reach out to our fellow brothers and sisters when they are in need. We did just that and once again, thank you to my Spectrum Dyed Yarns has closed its Hic oy plant and moved that portion turn over others were new positions, of production to the King s Mountain facility, officials say. The Hickory plant closed in November leaving 140 people out of work, according to state officials. “Many were laid off. They all had the opportunity to apply and bid on : ositions here and in Marion,” said shirts, and a bag of stuffed - Rick Kilpatrick, Spectrum director of human resources. Some opted to come to Kings Mountain while others enrolled in the Trade Assistance Act. That program extends unemployment benefits, makes health insurance available and pays tuition for retraining, according to The plant is operating six to seven - Five salaried positions were elimi- KM Middle School soccer team nated at the Kings Mountain plant, according to Kilpatrick. In the last few weeks eight to 10 hourly workers were hired. Some of those hires were due to Kilpatrick said. U.S. Department of Labor records indicate that the Kings Mountain plant filed for Trade Assistance Act designa- tion in 2002. The Labor Department determined that sales and production declined from 2001 to 2002 and from January through May 2002 and 2003. The drop was due to “increased imports of dyed yarns during the rele- vant period.” The TAA designation expires July 29. The purpose of the consolidation was to increase production, according to Kilpatrick. He says it has done that. days a week. Rick Murphrey, who is both mayor Spectrum closes Hickory plant, part of production moved to KM BY ANDIE L. BRYMER of Kings Mountain and vice-president of sales at Spectrum, said he didn’t want to speak for the company but is confident it will continue operating here. Gene White, a former city council- man, isn’t so sure. He says during his tenure on City Council that Spectrum’s water usage dropped from 2 million gallons to 1 million. White went off city council at the end of 2003. He wants the city manager to write a for- mal letter to the plant asking if it plans to stay in Kings Mountain. According to the company’s website, it is headquartered in Kings Mountain with production facilities here and in Marion and through a partnership with Elcatex, operates a facility in Honduras. Sales offices are located in Kings Mountain, Marion, Greensboro and New York. memes ying conference with 10-0 mark I also want to thank the members of my church who so kindly opened our doors as a collection point. Thank you, Macedonia Baptist. I also want to thank the following. Without their help we could not have done ~~ Meagan Reynolds scored this task: Cheryl, Dean, three goals, Ramey Kerns - Michael, David Creighton, had two goals and Jordan and also little Noah, my Doty had one goal. ; brothers and sisters in Alex Edwards, Ashley Christ. Witherspoon, Chelsea God tells us to plant the Champion, Mallory seed and he will water and Mansfield and Megan Loftin fertilize it. We will never all had great games as the know this side of heaven Lady Patriots completed how many people we reached during this effort. God bless each of you who 10-0 record. Steve Wilson Kings Mountain Opinion ~ Page Policy The Herald welcomes your letters to the editor for publication in each must be signed, and for veri- address and phone number. Letters should be limited to 500 words. Mail your letter to Editor, The Herald, P.O. Box 769, Kings Mountain, NC 28086; fax to (704) 739-0611; or e- mail to KMH Letters@kingsmountainher- ald.com. Letters sent by fax name, mailing address and Staff Writer phone number. for verification purposes. Letters may be edited. Letters to the editor and columnists who appear on the editorial page do not necessarily represent the tions people had with views of the Kings Mountain Cleveland HealthCare Herald. Chaplain Len Byers. When Byers talked with people about living wills and other advanced direc- tives he often heard, “I don’t - want to end up like the Kings Mountain Middle School's girls soccer team defeated Lincolnton 6-1 last week to win the Tri-County Conference championship. their season with a perfect For the year, the KM ladies helped with this great cause. scored 82 goals and allowed only two. They became the first team in the Tri-County in'seven years to finish the season undefeated. Coach Bryan Feldman gave credit to eighth graders Jordan Doty, Alex Edwards and Ashley Witherspoon for providing leadership. “I asked them to lead by example on the field and they certainly achieved that goal,” he said. “Without their leadership things Thursday's paper. All letters would have been tougher. “So much can be made of fication purposes include the the goals that we scored that we forget how good our defense was,” he added. “Destiny Pitman, Chelsea Champion, Mallory Mansfield and Taylor After Terry Schiavo gained national attention in March and early April, the Florida woman's name came up frequently in conversa- Kings Mountain Middle School’s girls soccer team recently won the Tri-County ’ Conference championship. Front row, left to right, Miranda Davis and Brittany Rodden. Second row, Mallory Mansfield, Ramey Kerns, Kelisha Goodson, Brittany Baucom, Chelsea Champion, Erica Moore, Megan Loftin and Courtneigh Bumgardner. Third row, Victoria Greene, Alex Edwards, Meagan Reynolds, Brooke Hayes, Taylor Niesler, Jordan Doty, Ashley Witherspoon, Destiny Pitman and Rachel Perkins. Back, coaches Bryan Feldman and Donald Bell. Niesler all started and Brooke Hayes, Rachel Perkins and Brittany proud of them.” Feldman said he has a “dynamic” group of seventh bench and contributed to Bumgardner and Victoria Greene all came off the Baucom came off the bench. graders that will return next our success,” he said. They took pride in not let- ting teams score and they along with our keepers Brittany Rodden and Miranda Davis had eight tender again. goal games. They worked year to make KMMS a con- “Meagan Reynolds, Megan Loftin, Ramey Kerns, added. “They played so well Mallory Mansfield, Chelsea shutout games and two one- Champion and Taylor | Niesler all started for us and joy to watch on the field.” “This was a great group to work with and I had a lot of fun with them,” Feldman together and they enjoy the game so much. They were a great as a unit and I am very Erica Moore, Courtneigh woman in Florida.” Byers advice is simple. “Talk to your family,” he said. “If we don’t know we have to guess.” Byers defines family as family members, a living will gives people a chance to a violation of God's will. put their wishes in writing. After spending years coun- seling families who strug- gled with whether to discon- sistent vegetative state only Living Will eliminates guesswork and e-mail must also include BY ANDIE L. BRYMER persistent vegetative state is Byers looks at the matter differently. He questions if for those who are in a per- the people who would be at tinue life support or not, the kept alive with medical the hospital if something creation of living wills 20 happened. years ago was an answered “All the loved ones, the prayer for Byers. young, present family and family of origin,” he said. “(Those) who would feel like they had a part in the decision.” In addition to talking with tube feeding of someone in a intervention, did the initial medical intervention violate God’s will. Was it not then The Schiavo case has gen- time for that person to die. erated controversy about when to discontinue life support. Some believe that to remove ventilators or stop and advanced directives. In To avoid the dilemma, again Byers recommends conversations with family See Will, 5A SIDEWALK SURVEY BY ANDIE L. BRYMER THE HERALD B Do you think Kings Mountain can become a tourism/vacation destination? Yes I do. We've got the Yes. battleground and all. Kathy Costner Shelby Kings Mountain Shannon Allen Sure. Anything is possi- Highly unlikely. ble. We've got the state Shirley Pearson park, Crowders Mountain ~~ Kings Mountain and the national park. We need a water slide. Larry Laws Blacksburg, S.C. I think Kings Mountain is all right with what it is. It’s quiet, peaceful. LaDonna Taylor Kings Mountain
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