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Borders selected
interim superintendent
Steve Borders, retired Director
of Administrative Services in
Cleveland County, has been
named interim school superin-
tendent. He was pulled out of
retirement to fill the gaping hole
left behind upon Superintendent
Gene Moore's departure, June
30. Borders will officially step
back into the education business
on July 3.
Cleveland County School
Board members voted 6-2 to
appoint the new interim. Borders
will serve in the position until a
new permanent replacement can
be found. The board has an
application deadline set for
August 23rd and hopes to fill the
position by the end of the year.
RADAR WATCH
Kings Mountain Police
Department will be running
radar at the following locations
during the week of June 25-July
1:
Sunday, June 25 - 1-85, US 74
Bypass, Gold Street
Monday, June 26 - I-85, US 74
Bypass, Margrace Road
Tuesday, June 27 - 1-85, US 74
Bypass, Shelby Road
Wednesday, June 28 - 1-85, US 74
Bypass, York Road
Thursday, June 29 - I-85, US 74
Bypass, E. King Street
Friday, June 30 - I-85, US 74
Bypass, Cleveland Avenue
Saturday, July 1 - I-85, US 74
Bypass, Kings Mountain Blvd.
DEATHS
Louise Fisher
J.L. Summitt, 77 Page 6A
Dorothy Yarbro, 58
Estelle Turner, 80
INDEX
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Obituaries ' 6A Opinion 3A
Police 6A Schools 4B
Sports 1B Worship 2B
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See Triathlon, 7A
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Thundering echoes of Mount Olympus
rumbled through Kings Mountain on
Saturday morning as athletes resembling
Olympians of old gathered for the Over
the Mountain Triathlon. They would
need the speed of Mercury with his
winged feet, the strength of Hercules, and
the endurance of Atlas to master the
course. Days and nights of practice had
lead them to the beach at Moss Lake.
Some did final stretches and some kissed
their babies and spouses goodbye, while
many others jumped in the water for a
practice swim at the four minute warn-
ing. Participants lined up in their respec-
tive categories. The Elite males and
females were in the water first, ready for
the day’s ultimate challenge to begin.
With the burst of an airhorn, they were
off - moving in sync as a mighty wave for
the “L-shaped” mile-long stretch across
the water. Forced to swim in the wake of
the Elite pack, the next categories, distin-
guished by the color of their swimming
caps, joined the water one at a time. They
OVER THE MOUNTAIN TRIATHLON—
Sara Tussey from Winston-Salem runs to complete the final stage of the Over the
Mountain Triathlon on Saturday. The remainder of her energy was conserved for
that final stretch - that final push to the finish line.
Over the Mountain Triathlon
brings hundreds to KM
David Sokolofsky rides about five min-
utes ahead of the pack, determined to
stay the front runner.
KM Council to
conduct hearing
for annexation
_ ELIZABETH STEWART
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Herald Correspondent
Kings Mountain City Council will conduct a pub-
lic hearing Tuesday night at 7 p.m. on the first of two
requests by developers for voluntary annexation to
the city which, if approved, will take in196 acres in
the city limits and see the building of 618 new sin-
gle-family homes.
Hardyal Shergill and MAG Land Developers want
to annex 84 acres at Phifer Road and Camelot Drive
for the building of 238 single family homes. That
public hearing is slated for Tuesday’s June meeting
of council.
The annexation request by Randy Bates and Mann
Properties for 112 acres at Kings Crossing on
Countryside Road is on the agenda for the July 25
regular meeting of city council. That new subdivi-
sion will house 380 single family residences. Steve
Killian, Director of Planning & Zoning for the city,
and Mayor Rick Murphrey said that the requests for
annexation signal the continued upswing of residen-
tial construction in the Kings Mountain area and the
potential in the next 12-24 months for 700 new sin-
gle-family homes to go up in the Greater Kings
Mountain area. Both city officials noted the growth
mainly in the electric department with the addition
Of mew lines and the potential Of new Ldaastsy Yaa
fuels also residential growth.
The city has received the engineering plans by
Tommy Hall for 50 condos proposed for a new
development, Eagle Run, in the Kings Mountain
Country Club area.Killian said the former Colonial
Woods subdivision off Maner Road, now Hall
Crossing, is one of the fastest growing areas with
about 100 lots in five phases now in phase four of
construction. Hall has completed Avalon Place, five
homes on Phifer Road across from the Kings
Mountain Middle School. Murphrey said he antici-
pates more growth in the Margrace area with the
addition of the city’s new substation.
See Annexation, 3A
KM enjoys its first
Farmer’s Market
ELIZABETH STEWART
Herald Correspondent
The area’s first Farmer’s Market in downtown
Kings Mountain is the place to go Saturday from 8
am-noon to find home-grown vegetables.
Steve Killian, Director of the Kings Mountain
Planning Department, said that the opening of the
market last Saturday beside of Plonk Tire attracted
four farm families who offered varieties of squash,
green beans, potatoes, peaches, corn, cucumbers and
peppers and anticipate taking tomatoes and can-
taloupes to this Saturday’s market.
“Folks were asking for vine-ripe tomatoes and can-
taloupes, so we hope we'll get these good things also
this Saturday,” said Killian.
Funderburke says farewell to KMHS
EMILY WEAVER
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Assistant ~~ Principal Ronny
Funderburke will be saying a sad
goodbye to Kings Mountain High
School on June 30th, as he takes his
next leap into school administration
in a neighboring county. He will
begin his new position as Director
of Personnel for Rutherford County
Schools on July 3rd, where he will
be responsible for finding teachers
for the 20 schools there and other
personnel matters.
“I'm very sad about leaving the
school,” he said. “I hope to find that
Rutherford County is as good as
Cleveland County.”
He said that over the past 20
years he has been at KMHS, he has
developed some amazing friend-
ships. “I can’t imagine working
anywhere that would be any better
than working here,” he said.
Although it will be hard to say
goodbye to his yesterdays, he is
excited about what tomorrow may
bring. He said that his new position
will definitely be a challenge at
first, having no prior personnel
experience in the past and that the
usual progression as he always saw
it was teacher, assistant principal,
principal and then district office.
“So I'm kind of skipping the princi-
pal thing,” he said.
Even though this position poses
many new challenges, he said that
Principal John Yarbro has groomed
him for this form of leadership
since he began leading KMHS as
principal six years ago. “It is unbe-
lievable, the things Ihave learned
from him. There is no doubt in my
mind that the interview process
went so well in Rutherford County
because of the experiences I've
learned by working side by side
with him,” he said. “Skipping that
principal thing is not a big deal
because he has allowed me the
opportunity to have my hands in
every facet of this school.”
~ Yarbro has included Funderburke
in interviews, budget issues and in
everything else it takes to get the
job done. So even though he may
not have carried the title, Yarbro has
let him learn the ins and outs of
principalhood, allowing him to
skip a wrung on the ladder of suc-
cess.
See Farewell, 7A
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