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KW’s Shonda Cole SEC and National Volleyball Player of the Week sB You can win big bucks in The Herald’s football contest 6A v MEM ANE i wauNEl 2 oh < Va iN ~ KINGS MOUNTAIN Herald Vol. 118 No. 38 Since 1889 Sports... Mounties drop 4th straight game of year, Sth straight 50 Cents overall Thursday, September 21, 2006 ‘She was an angel he saved my life’ HOMEFRONT City of KM to host customer breakfast at Patrick Center The City of Kings Mountain will be holding its annual Customer Appreciation Breakfast on Friday, September 29 from 7-9 am in the H. Lawrence Patrick Senior Life and Conference Center to extend the city’s appre- ciation to all of their industrial customers for their valued busi- ness. Mayor Rick Murphrey, city council and staff will also be giv- ing an update on the progress Kings Mountain has made in the Gateway Commissioners unanimous in insurance support for trail last year and the challenges the community faces in the future. People who wish to attend are asked to RSVP with Ann Sessom to connect city and parks EMILY WEAVER eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com by Monday, Sept. 25 at 730-2153. Booths available for Gateway Festival in KM October 14 Calling all artisans and artists! Booths are available for displays at the upcoming Gateway ; Festival October 14 from 10 am-5 pm. Applications can be accessed online at cityofkm.com or con- tact Ellis Noell at 704-730-2103. Tuesday night's Cleveland County Commissioners meeting marked a big vic- tory for Gateway Trails, Inc. The 60-day feasibility study, conducted to measure the potential financial support for a 5-6 mile trail connecting the city of Kings Mountain to state and national parks, has been com- pleted. It was presented to the board of commissioners at the meeting and presi- dent of Gateway Trails, Inc., David Ozmore and Vice President Shirley Brutko asked the county for their support to continue the project. County Commissioners in a unani- mous vote, agreed to 90 percent ownership JOSEPH BRYMER / HERALD Wrecked tractor-trailer blocks railroad tracks after being hit by train Monday afternoon. Below,driver Hebert Bonello talks with a Kings Mountain police officer. Driver escapes truck stuck on track Booths are 10’x10” with a fee of 8 of the trail (with Kings Mountain owning $25. Application deadline is ow the other 10 percent) and that the county October 7. will provide the liability insurance, provid- ed that an environmental study, testing the proposed land, comes back clean. The first phase of the Kings Mountain Gateway Trails was five years in the mak- ing. The feasibility study tested the waters for financial support and the market looks good right now, Brutko said. The group needed the county to provide liability and to give 10 percent ownership back to the city so that they could move forward with a minute before it was hit by train EMILY WEAVER | eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com Museum Foundation fund raiser Saturday can get you $12,000 An unidentified blonde-haired, blue-eyed female driving a white truck pulled up along- side Hebert Bonello. His semi-truck was stuck on the railroad tracks, between Railroad and Kings Mountain Historical Museum Foundation will hold its third annual Reverse Raffle and Live Auction to support the Foundation's preservation proj- ects September 23 at the Kings Mountain American Legion on York Road starting at 6 pm. A $100 dollar ticket admits two and includes a social hour and heavy hors d'oeuvres. The reverse raffle will start around 7:30 pm. Every tenth ticket will win a prize and the last ticket drawn, the winner, will have the choice of a Ford Focus, Harley Davidson Motorcycle, diamond ring or $12,000 cash. The live auction will begin at 8 pm with 12 items to bid on including beach condos, portraits, a Shaw rug, and Panthers tickets. The event is sponsored by First Charter and First National Bank. Tickets are being sold at the Museum, 100 East Mountain Street, Kings Mountain and by members of the Foundation's Board. For more information call 704-739-1019. COMMUNITY WATCH The Kings Row Community Watch group will meet Thursday, September 21 at 6 p.m. DEATHS Battleground avenues, Monday afternoon. She looked at him and yelled, “Get out! The train is coming!” As quickly as she appeared, she seemed to vanish. “She was.an angel. She saved my life,” Bonello said. Within a minute after he stepped out of the cab of his truck, his load was struck by a Norfolk Southern train, traveling south on the tracks beside NC 216. Bonello said that he had just left one of his route’s pick-up sites and had been instructed to turn right and cross the railroad tracks. So he took the first right he came to, not noticing the signs that bode all truckers to turn at the fol- lowing crossing. “My landing gear got stuck on the tracks. I tried all the gears. I tried going for- ward and backward. I tried going fast. The truck wouldn't budge,” he said, in his heavy latino accent. “Then came my angel saying ‘Get out! The train is coming!” So I did and here came the train.” The boisterous boom could be heard across the city as the mile-long train, that tried desper- ately to stop in time, ripped through the rear of the trailer, spewing forth the truck’s cargo of over 100 car batteries. The batteries strewn the tracks and road side. The tangy smell of battery acid penetrated the air. The train engineer suf- fered minor burns from some of the acid that he was sprayed with upon impact. Within a couple of hours, Norfolk Southern brought in an environmental expert to survey the scene and Hepaco a haz-mat team out of Charlotte, conducted the battery acid clean-up. The Mountain Police Departments were the first to respond. “They got here so quick. In no time at all,” Bonello said. The perimeter of the wreck was quickly marked off with a caution ribbon. “We're very fortunate that the train did not derail and that the batteries did not explode when they flew out of the truck,” said Fire Inspector Joey Davis. The train was also carry- and Fire See Train, 3A the next phases of the project. “The wonderful thing about this process in the Gateway Trails is that there is a precedent already set with the Broad River Greenway, which is in the western part of the county,” Ozmore said. “Broad River Greenway was built 10 or 12 years ago in the 90s and the county led that project.” Because of the Greenways success in turn- ing a once tumultuous environment into a healthy, safe trail boosting land value, the commissioners envision a similar success. for Kings Mountain. The proposed trail would begin off of Battleground Avenue, about half of a mile from the intersection of Battleground and Gold Street, on land owned by Martin Marietta. The trail would then connect to Chemetall Foote, who owns the land that would utilize 4-5 miles of the trail, and runs through the mine property with views of “The Pit,” where people have mined for years. It would cross over I-85 and enter into more Chemetall Foot property, extend- ing to the two city lakes, Davidson and Police Club. The trail may give the city of See Gateway, 8A Sign of time Local politicians are getting ready for November election Ricky Waddell, 49 Darrell’ Morrison, 56 With the November 7 general see and hear most of them in Cynthia Eaker, 49 Page 3A election day just around the cor- one setting as candidate forums — ner, politics is heating up in will be held October 16 and 19 Kings Mountain and Cleveland from 6:30-9 p.m. at the INDEX County. Cleveland Community College es Signs are popping up on auditorium. Pane b> nd A every street corner and soon Candidates for Cleveland Police 3A Sports 1B advertisements will appear in County Sheriff and the This week’s advertising sections: Food Lion CVS/Pharmacy To advertise or subscribe call 704-739-7496 ing their signs around Kings Mountain. fe JOSEPH BRYMER / HERALD Local politicians getting ready for the November general election are post- the media and in your mailbox. Numerous local and state can- didates are already making the rounds with house-to-house vis- its and meet the candidates events. And next month the public will get an opportunity to Cleveland County Board of Commissioners will participate in the October 16 forum. Republican Don Allen is chal- lenging incumbent Democrat Raymond Hamrick in the sher- See Election, 2A
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