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Grover Rural VFD Blood drive at Davi
gets $12,731 grant
EMILY WEAVER
eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com
Grover Rural Volunteer Fire
Department has been awarded a
$12,731 matching grant from the
state Rescue Association, mak-
ing this the 5th grant that they
have received this year.
“We're batting $100,000 this
year with all of the grants we've
received,” said Lt. Jody Byers.
“This year has been a wonderful
year on us with the grants.”
Asst. Chf. Jimmy Hensley said
they will use that grant to buy
needed rescue equipment. “It
will be a 50-50 match. We pro-
vide the same amount that they
give,” he said. Most of it will go
towards purchasing specialized
rescue equipment like rope
equipment to help them in their
new certification pursuit of high-
angle rescue.
“There is some paper work
that we have to complete and
actually purchase the
equipment and then we'll be giv-
ing our half of the grant, $12,731,
once the equipment is pur-
chased,” Hensley said. “We'll
probably have it in service by
early March.”
He said that they are also
working on completing the fed-
eral fire grant and the radio
grant that all of the departments
in Cleveland County received.
Their portion of the radio grant
will cover all of the radios that
they need. “That's a big thing for
us,” he said, adding that they
had a little mgoney set aside for
the new rad, ios, but the grant
helped almost triple their funds
to give them all they needed.
“We have a few other grants
out there that we're trying for
now. We should know some-
thing from those within maybe
six months. Were working hard
on them,” Hensley said.
He handles most of the grant
writing. and said, that. this has,
been a good: year: “There's no
doubt that the grants we've been
able to get has made a difference
for us because we just don’t have
_ the kind of budget without the
grant money,” he said.
GRVED is the first volunteer
fire department, made up of 24
advancing heroes, in Cleveland
County to achieve the status of
heavy rescue. “Back in June we
had been working on it (heavy
rescue certification) for about
two years trying to acquire the
equipment and the training.
What a lot of people don’t
understand is that it is a lot of
equipment. But just as hard as
the equipment is to get we have
to have a certain number of peo-
ple with certain levels of person-
al certification,” he said.
The department was inspected
on June 29, 2006, by the NC
Association of Rescue &
Emergency Medical Services and
was approved the first week of
July. Being the first volunteer
heavy rescue department in
Cleveland County not only gave
the team bragging rights but
filled each member with pride
for their department.
“In addition to the heavy res-
cue, we also received the land
search for like a lost person land
search and still water, which
would be like boat operations.
Not swift water necessarily, but
dragging and that form of rescue
operation,” Hensley said. “There
were several other things that
went along with what we
received that for and we're
working on another one now, the
High-Angle Rescue portion.
Some of this equipment that we
just received on this grant will
help us to meet that objective.”
High-angle rescue is essential
for bringing someone out of an
embankment after a vehicle acci- °
dent or getting someone off of
the top of a building. The new
radios will make those calls
between the 16. county depart-'
ments easier.
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The Kings Mountain Herald
BRIEFS
David: Baptist Church, the
American Red Cross and the
Bachman family of Kings
Mountain will host a blood drive
and bone marrow registry
December 30 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
at David Baptist Church, 2300
David Baptist Church Road,
Kings Mountain.
Zoe Bachman would have cel-
ebrated her third birthday in
December if a horrible disease
had not taken her life. During
her illness Zoe received numer-
ous blood products and her fam-
ily became very aware of the
need for blood, platelets and
bone marrow donors.
The blood drive is open to the
public. Donors must be at least
17 years of age, weigh a mini-
mum of 110 pounds and be in
general good health. Donors
must have a form of positive
identification.
Train exhibit continues
at KM History Museum
The Kings Mountain Historical
exhibit “Trains,
Trains, Trains” continues
through January 6 at the muse-
um at 100 East Mountain Street.
Hours are * Tuesday- Saturday,
10 am.-4 p.m.
Moravian cookies and cheese
straws from Old Salem, NC are
available in the gift shop.
For more information call 704-
739-1010.
Moss Lake committee
to meet on January 4
The John H. Moss Reservoir
Commission will meet at 6 p.m.,
January 4 at Kings Mountain
City Hall.
The group will review individ-
ual piers, seawall and dredging;
receive a revenue and expendi-
ture report; discuss uses without
leases; a proposal for camera and
signs at the dump site, and dis-
cuss the dredging project.
The meeting is open to the
public.
Historic
December 28, 2006
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EMILY WEAVER / HERALD
Tina Hollifield, Emma Kate Hollifield, Ally Hollifield and Emma Goff enjoyed watching the trains go by
at the Kings Mountain Historic Museum. Their story time group at Mauney Memorial Library took a trip
to see the Trains, Trains, Trains exhibit at the museum.
KM trash collection
schedule for next week
Because of the New Year's hol-
iday the City of Kings Mountain
will alter its trash collection
schedule for the week of January
1-5.
Monday's trash will be collect-
ed on Tuesday; Tuesday's trash
on Wednesday; Wednesday's
trash on Thursday; and
Thursday’s trash on Friday.
Seven re-appointed
to various boards
Seven Kings Mountain citizens
have been reappointed to vari-
ous city boards.
They include David Allen, Tony
Ruppe and John Houze,
Planning and Zoning; Margaret
Ledford and Mary Neisler,
Landmarks
Commission; and Bob Myers
and Jim Childers, Kings
Mountain Board of Adjustment.
Snow’s art on display
at KM Art Center
Works of the late A.B. Mauney
Snow are on display at the Kings
Mountain Art Center. The
exhibit “A Painter's Life” will
coincide with the 2007 calendar
sales and the member’s art sale
exhibit. Works by Snow will be
available for sale also. The
exhibits will run through
January 7. : 4
Southern Arts Society mem-
bers will have a variety of artsy
gifts available in their members
gift shop. There will be the 2007
calendars, pottery, paintings,
cards, jewelry, wood, and wear- *
able art. Many items are priced
under $75. For 22 years the
Southern Arts Society has been
producing original silk-screened
calendars for their fund raising
event.
The
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at 301 N. Piedmont Ave. Gallery
hours are Thursday-Friday from
10 am to 6 pm and Saturday-
Sunday from 1-4 p.m. or by’
appointment. For more informa-
tion, call 704-739-5585 or 704-
739-2056. :
Head Start program
accepting applications
Cleveland County Head Start
is accepting applications for chil-
dren for the 2007-2008 school
year. Head Start programs are
available at Bethware, East,
Grover, North, Casar, Fallston,
Graham, James Love and
‘Washington Elementary Schools.
children four years or age or who
will be by October 16 of this year.
They will be given priority and
i thregryear-old, eligible children
will fill remaining openings,
“For more information or an
application call 704-476-8176.
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