The Kings Mountain Herald
August 3, 2006 -
Jessica Falls,
left, of Sharon, SC works with Brenton
Colbert, Landover Hills, Md., right, pulling shingles off a
rooftop in southeastern Virginia. Falls, a member of Sharon
Baptist Church, Sharon, S.C., and a sophomore at Hope
Christian Academy, Kings Mountain, and Colbert, are two
of approximately 850 volunteers participating in the
Norfolk-area World Changers project. An estimated 21,000
students and their leaders will work on substandard hous-
ing in more than 90 cities this summer. Photograph by
Kathleen Murray
Fall registration at CCC
Cleveland Community
College will hold registra-
tion for the Fall 2006
Semester on Thursday,
August 3, 2006. Registration
hours are 9 am. to 1 p.m. or
4 to 8 p.m. in the Jack Hunt
Campus Center at CCC.
Classes begin August 16.
Biotechnology and Multi-
Craft Maintenance are new
programs this fall. The
Associate in Applied Science
Degree in Biotechnology is a
two-year program. The pro-
gram is funded by grants
from GoldenLeaf and the
North Carolina Community
College System BioNetwork.
For more information, con-
tact Emily Sisk, program
coordinator at 704-484-6626
or siske@cleveland.cc.nc.us.
TheMulti-Crafit
Maintenance Program con-
sists of four different certifi-
cates:Multi-Craft
Apprentice, Multi-Craft
Advanced, Mechanical
Maintenance, and Electrical
Maintenance. The program
is funded by a $250,000 grant
from Duke Energy. For more
information, contact Mark
Gengler, program coordina-
tor at 704-484-6619 or gen-
glerm@cleveland.cc.nc.us.
For more information, visit
the website at www.cleve-
landcommunitycollege.edu.
Project Child Find offers help
to children with special needs
An effort is underway in
the Cleveland County area to
identify children and youth
ages 0 through 21 who have
disabilities and need special
education and other services.
The local efforts to identify
children and youth are part
of a concentrated statewide
effort to find children who
need special help which they
are not currently receiving.
Project Child Find is also an
endeavor to inform parents
and/or guardians of these
children of the services avail- .
able trom their local school
system and other state and
community agencies.
Help is available for chil-
dren with special needs,
according to Mary Watson,
Director of the Department
of Public Instruction's
Exceptional Children
Division. This help is in the
form of a complete evalua-
tion, an education program
designed specifically for the
child (individualized educa-
tion program) and a referral
to other agencies which pro-
vide special services.
Project Child Find is look-
ing for children and youth
who have been diagnosed or
are suspected to have men-
tal, physical or emotional
disabilities and are unable to
benefit trom a regular school
program without special
assistance.
Watson and Steve Borders,
local superintendent of
schools, encourage anyone
who knows a child or youth
who may have disabilities
and is not in school or receiv-
ing special assistance to urge
the parent/guardian to con-
tact any of the following:
superintendent, exceptional
children director, principal or
the State Department's
Children Division.
For more information, call
Cleveland County Schools at
(704) 476-8000; the
Exceptional Children
Division at (919) 807-3996, or
parents or guardians may
call the toll-free Information
and Referral Service/CARE-
LINE at 1-800-662-7030 and
ask for the Exceptional
Children Division, or the
Family Support Network at
1-800- TLC-0042.
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Stud Saami
HICKLIN
From 4B
be “down to earth people”
on jaunts from California to
the Mexican Riviera. Just
about every weekend they
are at a Anderson concert or
listening to other well-
known country and gospel
entertainers and having the
time of their life.
“I have loved country
music all my life but gospel
is my heart,” says Hicklin,
who is well known in Kings
Mountain as the talented
pianist at Gaston Christian
Church and the former
entertainer at Peggy's
Restaurant, Olympic
Restaurant and Satterfield
Restaurant. She has worked
in the admitting office at
Kings Mountain Hospital for
26 years and went back to
work full-time two days
after retirement 10 years ago.
She says she loves her job in
the medical field and every
morning goes to work with a
song in her heart.
“Hey, you're good,” said
Anderson to Hicklin when
he heard her rendition of
“Still” on the 2000 cruise
where she met him. “We
were walking down the cor-
ridor of the ship and I was
singing and along came
Bill,” said Hicklin. “I want to
sing with you some day,” she
told Anderson and he
responded “okay” and the
big moment on the Nashville
stage came six years later. At
Christmas time at a concert
in Kinston Anderson asked
Billie if she was ready to sing
with him and they made
plans to sing together at a
concert in June in
Commerce, Ga. Her big
break came in Nashville a
month later.
Billie started singing at age
3 with the encouragement of
her father to play piano by
ear. “Any talent I have comes
from God,” said Hicklin,
who said music has been her
life. She has written several
country and gospel songs,
encouraged by Jim Arp of
WKMT Radio, to get them
produced by Tommy Dee in
Nashville in 1994. “After I
used a backup band I was
introduced to Bill
Anderson’s band,” she
recalled.
A native of Bladenboro,
Billie Kinlaw graduated
from high school and joined
the staff of Valdese Hospital
where she worked for eight
years in the admission office.
Her brother Clifton came
home on leave with his
USAF buddy. Bob Hicklin,
and it was apparently love
at first sight for Bob, former-
ly of Burlington, and Billie,
who were married 53 years
ago. They have two children:
Cliff and his wife, Barbara, of
Delaware and Karen and
husband, Gary Ward, of
Valdese. They have six
grandsons and six great-
grandchildren ranging from
age 29 to age three.
Billie's sister-in-law
Claudie, wife of Clifton
Kinlaw, is a former switch-
board operator at Kings
Mountain Hospital and her
other siblings are Kenneth
and Sarah Kinlaw of Myrtle
Beach, SC, Alton Kinlaw of
Bladenboro and Bobby
Kinlaw of Whiteville.
A former Baptist minister
for many years, Rev. Hicklin
does supply work on occa-
sion but enjoys traveling
with his wife and her music
hobby keeps them both busy.
Anderson fan club members
hear from Mrs. Hicklin in
regular news letters and in
her spare time Billie enjoys
making jewelry and crochet-
ing angels.
“I enjoy life and music just
puts a feeling in my heart I
can’t explain,” she says.
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