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on WKMT, will be off the Mullinax says that he Thursday’s broadcast he Hawkins said that he {
air until after November's never mentioned the Ward received angry phone calls, tried for 10 weeks to talk Ie a ce
election. Three race on air. telling him he was shame- with station owner Kevin #
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Gateway Festiva
a look back to
good ole days
ANDIE BRYMER
abrymer@kingsmountainherald.com
Historic re-enactors, tasty barbecue, a wagon ride
through town and good music were just part of Kings
Mountain's Gateway Festival held Saturday.
Dressed in clothing from the late 1700s, Darrell
Thornburg and Doug Bell tended a campsite at Patriots
Park. Thornburg cooked squash, apples, pork chops and
"pintos over the coals.
Necklaces Thornburg fashioned from buffalo teeth, glass
trading beads, turquoise and deer jaw were for sale. He also
exhibited knives with handles of deer stag and elk horn.
Nearby Victoria Johansson spun wool and Lynn Eskridge
wove an egg basket.
Terry Poovey sat behind a table filled with his carvings
including ducks, peanuts, spoons, snowmen, wooden shoes
and turtles.
Thomas Tucker set up his Woodwright Shop under a tent.
He displayed a great wheel lathe and demonstrated a
spring pole lathe.
From the gazebo, Steve Padgett hosted the Cute Critters
Contest.
“I see some cute critters and the dogs aren’t bad looking
either,” he joked.
Dogs were decked out in pink tee shirts, aviator goggles
and red, white and blue bows for competition in best look-
ing, most patriotic, most unique, best personality and
owner look-a-like categories.
Canines weren't the only critters in on the action. Spencer
Bagwell brought his guinea pig.
Festival goers could visit the Kings Mountain Art Center
and Barber Log House and tour the Central School Historic
District by riding a tractor-pulled wagon.
At the Art Center the Gateways to the South 2005 show
was on display. Cama Tadlock took first place with her
painting First Light. Shirley Brutko’s Kings Mountain
Daylily won second place; Cottage at Wrightsville Beach by
Ada Offerdahl took third and honorable mentions were
awarded to Grateful Hearts by Mary Pressley and Morning
View by Pat Edwards.
Downtown businesses decorated their building fronts for
a competition. Corry & Luptak took first; Kings Mountain
Florist, second and Dellinger’s Jewel Shop, third.
There was a car show and pumpkin carving contest, craft
and art vendors.
Musicians including Praise in Blue, Log Cabin String
Band, Kathy and Mark Bradley and Rod Croft on dulcimer
played during the day. Dance Magic performed.
The King Pup Radio Show took the stage Saturday night
and featured Phil and Gaye Johnson, Powder Creek, Far
City Boys and Flint Hill.
Pretty in Pink
pictures on 10A.
Grover teachers are cancer survivors
Grover Elementary is pretty in pink, espe-
cially on Fridays.
Staff and faculty are making a $1 contri-
bution to the school’s Relay for Life team for
the privilege of wearing pink on each Friday
during October.
“It promotes awareness and gets people
geared up for Relay,” teacher Margaret
Ledford said.
Ledford and fellow teacher Lana Sills,
both breast cancer survivors, are spearhead-
ing the effort. The two women are attempt-
ing to wear pink every day throughout
October.
That's not hard for Sills who favors the
color and calls herself a “pink person.”
Ledford said her sister has kept her stocked
in pink ribbon jewelry. The ribbon symbol-
izes breast cancer awareness.
On Tuesday, pink popped up in Sills’
bracelets, earrings, watch and angel charm.
Her pants were pink and white checked and
her shirt sported a pink ribbon..Even her
socks were pink.
Ledford wore the signature ribbon Her
shirt and a bracelet also featured pink.
Both women were diagnosed and had
mastectomies in 1998. Ledford, who had an
estrogen fed cancer, underwent chemothera-
py and radiation and takes Femara, an anti-
cancer drug. Sills” cancer wasn't estrogen
fed. She was spared chemotherapy, radia-
tion and additional medicine.
Sills” doctor ordered an ultrasound for a
suspicious lump. It had disappeared when
she underwent the procedure but a different
lump was discovered.
“Thank the Lord we were checking,” she
said.
The mammogram that followed Ledford’s
discovery of a rectangular lump didn’t indi-
cate cancer. Her doctor ordered a sonogram
which found it.
See Grover, 10A
JOSEPH BRYMER / HERALD
Darrell Thornburg, front, and Doug Bell show off backcountry living for visi-
tors to Saturday’s Gateway Festival in downtown Kings Mountain. See more
Grover teachers Lana Sills, left, and Margaret
October to promote breast cancer awareness.
. ANDIE BRYMER
iii abrymer@kingsmountainherald.com
Jim Potter, former Chief Democrat
Judge for Kings Mountain Precinct
Three, is accusing the Cleveland
County Democrat Party of sending a
“double message” by not reappointing
him.
Party Chairperson Betsy Wells
defends the move saying Potter did not
set a good example by having a sign
for a Republican candidate in his yard.
Several Democrats complained, accord-
ing to Wells.
“It looked bad for the party,” Wells
said Monday.
In a letter to The Herald, Potter
defended the sign, writing that it
belonged to his wife.
“In my position as Chief Judge, r
have always tried to maintain a posi-
tion of neutrality regarding electioneer-
ing. However, my wife has the privi-
lege of expressing her beliefs as she
chooses, Potter wrote.
“Can my wife not practice her consti-
tutional right to support in the way she
chooses the candidate of her choice? I
have always believed that the
Democrat Party attempted to proclaim
a message of equal rights among all cit-
izens. Perhaps I was wrong.”
Wells said that chief judges, who
serve two year terms, are not always
reappointed. -
“It’s not a lifetime appointment,” she
said.
Wells praised the job Potter did and
said she was grateful for the time he
served. She called the new appoint-
ment an opportunity for someone else
to serve and learn.
Each of the county’s 28 precincts
have a chief judge and two additional
judges. The party of the current gover-
nor determines which party chairper-
son gets to appoint the chief judge and
Bessemer City Express
poker permit renewed
Kings Mountain's Board of
Adjustment renewed one video poker
permit Tuesday night, heard findings
of fact for another and asked for addi-
tional information from a third appli-
cant.
Bessemer City Express, Inc., 501 East
King Street, had its permit renewed.
A request for Roadside Truck Plaza,
400 Dixon School Road, will be voted
on next month.
-Andie Brymer
ANDIE L. BRYMER, HERALD
Ledford are wearing pink every day of
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