The Kings Mountain Herald, Thursday, July 20, 2006
BUMGARNER
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in action. Members of his
family served in every war
from WWI through Vietnam.
Even though he entered the
service immediately follow-
ing graduation from Western
Carolina University in 1981,
Colonel Bumgarner hasn't
been on the battlefield yet.
As much as he’s moved
around, though, it wouldn't
surprise him to eventually
end up fighting “in Iraq or
somewhere else.”
Bumgarner credits his
father and Coach Jones as
the two role models who
shaped his career.
“To me, there’s not a better
man on the face of the earth
than Bob Jones,” he says.
“He taught me so much
more than football. A foot-
ball coach can have his ups
and ‘downs. Just like
Guantanamo, he’s in a fish
bowl all the time. People crit-
icize coaches at the drop of a
hat. But he was a man of
principle. He taught me dis-
cipline. He taught me about
life. His influence is why I
have two boys that Ihave
kept in sports. They're very
disciplined kids that will go
out and do something good
in life, because of guys like
Coach Jones who taught me
and I passed it on to my
boys. If everybody played
sports we'd have fewer
problems.”
Bumgarner’s sons are both
collegiate athletes.
Being a college quarter-
back at West Point was
Bumgarner's dream when he
was at KMHS. He earned an
appointment to West Point
and a $100,000 scholarship.
He was the quarterback on
the freshman football team,
but he was unhappy there
and dropped out.
With the help of Coach
Jones and the late Western
Carolina University football
coach, Bob Waters, he
entered WCU to play foot-
ball but then learned that the
NCAA would require him to
sit out of football for a year.
Needing a way to finance his
education, he turned to
ROTC and focused on a mil-
itary career.
But he would have loved
to be a football coach in
Kings Mountain or some-
where close by.
“Thats what I really want-
ed to do,” he says. “When I
was coming out of high
school Thad two dreams -
either be a secret service
agent or a football coach.
Coach Jones was my idol
and he was everything in the
world to me. The sun raised
and set on that man. I want-
ed to be just like him. I want-
ed to be on that sideline on
Friday night.”
The lessons he learned on
the field at KMHS come back
to him daily, he says, and
were especially useful dur-
ing his time at Guantanamo.
“It’s all about being disci-
plined and dedicated to
what you're doing - willing
to give your all to the effort,”
he says. “If you go into a job
like Guantanamo net disci-
plined, it would be very easy
for the detainee. They taunt
you constantly. If you ever
lose control or do something
to one of them it will hurt
you personally and also hurt
the United States.”
Bumgarner worked 20-
hour days, seven days a
week during his time there.
He says the dedication he
learned in football got him
through it. “In football it’s
team before self,” he says.
“It’s the same thing in the
Army. It’s not about you. It’s
about your organization and
your country. It’s about your
team.”
Bumgarner says when giv-
ing a speech to his men, he
always draws on football
experiences to drive home
his points of dedication,
pride discipline and profes-
sionalism.
“There’s so much nega-
tive press about what's
going on down there in
Guantanamo,” he says.
“When people call you up
from home and say ‘what are
you doing down there?, ‘are
you torturing somebody?’ I
always tried to paint the pic-
ture that we're doing things
exactly right because we're
professionals.
“Coach Jones talked a lot
about being professional,”
he said. “I carried this over
to the job down there. He
never believed in anything
being half-way. You did
everything right. He'd say
doing something half-way
was ‘bush league.’ I use that
very same thing with my
folks. You can do things 100
percent and do them right.
There’s no room for bush
league. We are playing in the
major leagues. We're profes-
sionals at what we do.”
With 26 years of service
behind him and having
reached the highest pay scale
for a colonel, Bumgarner
thinks often of retirement
and coming home to the
Kings Mountain area, maybe
as early as next year. He said
he’d love to be a police chief
in a small town near Kings
Mountain. At age 47 and
with his education, he could
follow his dad’s footsteps
into education. And even be
a football coach.
“We moved a lot when my
dad was in service,” he
recalled. “He retired when I
was in the seventh grade. We
lived in a lot of different
states but when he would go
overseas mom would always
come back to Kings
Mountain because that was
her home. Kings Mountain
is still my home.”
Annexation hearing Tuesday
City to consider taking in new Countryside Road development
ELIZABETH STEWART
Herald Correspondent
The city will probably annex
during a public hearing Tuesday night
‘by city council. ;
Randy Bates and Mann Properties are
applying for voluntary: annexation of
Kings Crossing on Countryside Road
where the developers plan a new subdi-
vision of 380 single family residences
bringing the total to 196 acres and 618
proposed new homes announced by
developers in recent weeks.
On June 27 the city annexed 84 acres
on Phifer Road and Camel
paving the way for Hardyal Shergill
and MAG Land Developers to build 238
single family homes.
A second public hearing slated for
Tuesday night is a petition for rezoning
by Jimmy Payseur who plans to build
residences in
community.
Planning and Zoning Board heard the
request at a recent meeting and voted to
recommend the rezoning to the city
112 acres
single family
Meadowbrook
council.
ot Drive
The third public hearing is a request
from Ruppe & Woody Associates,
applying for an incentive grant to buy
new equipment at its Charles Street
plant. Mayor Rick Murphrey said the
city has an incentive grant program
available to new and existing industries
and that Ruppe & Woody are expand-
ing with plans to add additional shifts
the and the
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and create additional jobs.
Other business on the agenda will
include an update by HDR Engineering
Moss Lake ad hoc committee.
Several months ago the mayor appoint-
ed the new committee to look into the
feasibility of a second lake adjacent to
Moss lake and the members have been
meeting with engineers to develop an
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Storm blew limbs against mobile home on Highway 216 south of Kings Mountain.
STORM
From 1A
the storm and returned to
find her neighbor's trailer
seven feet closer and limbs,
still partially connected to a
large Oak tree, resting on her.
roof. The landlord for
Country Woods left for a
week's vacation Sunday.
Traffic lights on
Battleground Avenue were
still flashing around 1 pm
Monday and a tree was rest-
ing on power lines about a
mile further down Highway
216. Trees that line Margrace
Road at Bradford Place trail-
er park were split in half. But
Chris Revels at Kings
Mountain National Park said
that what has been labeled
the worst storm this season,
could have been a lot worse.
“The damage we had was
normal during some of these
heavy thunderstorms,” he
said. “We haven't checked all
of the trails yet, but I'd say
we had light to moderate
(damage). We try to do a
pretty good job of keeping
weak looking trees cut back
so they won't cause as much
damage if they do fall.”
Ranger Traci Bash at Kings
Mountain State Park said,
“We had some limbs come
down and some structural
damage but we're cleaning it
up.” Neither parks con-
firmed any tornado-like
activity.
There is not much that
people can do to prepare for
wild, unpredictable storms.
But authorities say that dur-
ing a tornado watch or warn-
ing residents in the caution
areas should go to the safest
room or spot in their house,
like in the basement, storm
shelter, or in a first-floor
room or hallway that has no
windows. People are told to
squat close to the floor with
pillows, cushions or a mat-
tress over their bodies.
Bathtubs are secure struc-
tures to squat in if your bath-
room is a safe place. Anyone
stuck outside or driving
should try to find some form
of shelter. According to tor-
nadoproject.com, “Many
people have been killed in
cars while they were trying
to outrun the tornado, and
although it is sometimes pos-
sible to escape, it is generally
not a good idea.” An under-
pass can sometimes be a safe
place but debris flying
underneath it can be deadly.
If absolutely no shelter can
be found, people are urged
to find a ditch to lie in.
Tornadoes are often charac-
terized by loud, train-like
noises and funnel shape
clouds, dark, greenish-black
skies and an eerie calm
before the storm. They are
caused when different tem-
peratures and humidity meet
to form thunderclouds.
A Tornado Watch means
that the conditions are right
for a tornado to appear and
people should take precau-
tions and be on the look-out.
A Tornado Warning means
that one or more has been
spotted and the possible
threat is now a reality.
assessment plan. Members of the ad hoc
committee are John Henry Moss, chair-
man; John Harris, Houston Corn, Jim
Childers, and Dr. John C. McGill.
City Council meets at 7 p.m. in coun-
cil chambers at Kings Mountain City
Hall. The public is invited.
City gets
$700,000
grant
ELIZABETH STEWART
Herald Correspondent
The city has been awarded
a $700,000 grant from the
State ~~ Department of
Commerce, Division of
Community Assistance, for
sewer lines and rehabilita-
tion of homes in the Galilee
Community of Kings
Mountain.
Mayor Rick Murphrey said
the grant will provide 10
homes with sewer, rehabili-
tate seven homes, dismantle
one vacant residence and
replace two mobile homes.
The city’s matching portion
of the grant is $75,000.
“This grant will eliminate
severe water and waste-
water problems for these
homeowners and create a
healthy environment for
many of our citizens,” said
the mayor.
Murphrey said it will be
late fall before the city takes
bids on the project and it
will probably be late spring
of 2007 before improve-
ments are completed.
The North Carolina
Department of Commerce
will announce the 46 recipi-
ents of grants at a July 31
meeting at 12:15 in Raleigh
at the North Carolina
Museum of History
Auditorium. The 2006 CD
Block Grants are for concen-
trated needs in scattered
sites across the state where
municipalities have applied
for funds to correct sewer
and environmental concerns
and where residents qualify
for housing assistance.
The CDBG funds will reha-
bilitate a total of 267 homes
in North Carolina.
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