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' October 22, 2008
LOCAL
The Kings Mountain Herald
Hospice gets go-ahead
to establish a KM home
| EMILY WEAVER
i“ eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com
It's official! “After two years
and tons of paperwork,” the
Certificate of Need for a Hospice
House in Kings Mountain has
been approved.
Les Brown, project analyst with
the NC Department of Health and
Human Resources, said that the
CoN was “conditionally
approved” on September 16, 2008.
Final approval arrived in the mail
on Monday afternoon.
Hospice of Cleveland County
had to seek CoN approval for the
project before they could officially
begin with plans to bring the
house to KM.
Now with the state's okay,
Hospice Executive Director Myra
McGinnis said that the next step is
completing the soil testing at the
proposed KM site near the inter-
section of Phifer Road and Kings
Mountain Boulevard. Once the
tests are complete, she said that
they will seek rezoning of the
property, currently owned by
Wayne and Cameron Ware, from
Residential to Office for the new
facility.
After the property is rezoned,
Hospice of Cleveland County will
purchase the land and begin con-
struction in January 2009. They
hope to have construction com-
pleted in December and to admit
the first patients in January 2010.
“We welcome Hospice to our
community,” Mayor Rick
Murphrey said on Tuesday.
“Hospice is an important corner-
stone in the quality of life founda-
tion in our community. They are a
light and a beacon of compassion
and hope.”
CORRECTION
In last week's Herald, a typo
misidentified Mr. Joe C.
Heddon as Herndon in the
story “DAR recognizes two
who served in WWIL”
In the Oct. 1, 2008 edition of
The Herald, the final sentence
was cut-off in the story enti-
tled, “Johnny Hutchins hopes
to stand for county in 2nd
term.” It should have read,
“Together we can make a dif-
ference!”
Due to an unforeseen power
outage, this week's recap of
last Tuesday's P&Z board
meeting will appear in next
week's Herald.
He has been touched personally
by the Hospice organization.
Before his father recently passed
away, Hospice workers came to
his parents” house to care for him.
“They were just so wonderful to
my dad,” Murphrey said.
Jane Grigg, president of the Tri-
County Horse Club, echoed the
same feelings on Monday after-
noon. She said that one of their
club members Leonard Anderson
passed away at the Hospice in
Shelby. Another one of her family
members received care at their
home from Hospice. She was
touched both times by the com-
passion of the benevolent care-
givers.
The Tri-County Horse Club
decided to give all of the proceeds
from the sale of the club’s estate to
Hospice of Cleveland County.
Grigg handed McGinnis a check
for $65,500 on Monday.
McGinnis said that $50,000 of
the proceeds will be used to estab-
lish a room at the KM Hospice
house, $15,000 will go towards
creating a grief counseling room
at the Wendover center Shelby,
and $500 will be put into
Hospice's support fund.
McGinnis said that they had
raised over $800,000 in pledges so
far for the KM Hospice house. On
Tuesday, they received another
pledge of $100,000 from an anony-
mous donor.
“We have been working on this
important project for almost two
years and are ecstatic to have the
approval from the state to build
the facility From the time
Wendover opened in 1996 with
six bed(s), through the expansion
in 2004 to 14 beds, we have had
100% occupancy,” McGinnis said.
“The Hospice house in Kings
Mountain will be a blessing.”
“Approximately 25% of the
patients we serve are from the
Kings Mountain/Grover area,”
said Vice President of Access Patti
Ellis McMurry. “It is fitting that
Kings Mountain have a Hospice
house. Each of the past two years,
we have had almost 100 people
who wanted to come to
Wendover, but never made it -
they died someplace else. Having
a Hospice house in Kings
Mountain will give us needed
beds and will allow patients to
remain closer to their family and
friends.”
But more donations may be
needed to seal the deal of Hospice
in KM. According to the state
DHHS’ report, Hospice of
Cleveland County estimates that
the “total capital cost of the project
will be $4,058,851, including
$125,000 for purchase of the land,
$161,500 for site preparation costs,
$275,000 for water and sewer
extension, $3,083,350 for construc-
tion and $414,001 for furniture,
equipment, architectural and
engineering fees and other
expenses.”
Plans for the KM Hospice,
include four inpatient and four
residential care beds/rooms, with
private patios overlooking a
courtyard. Private baths are
attached to each room. The facility
will also house a commercial
kitchen and conference room that
will be available for the public's
use, a chapel, two sitting areas, a
family quiet room, living room,
dining room, nurses station, and a
patient spa.
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EMILY WEAVER
eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com
Trick or treat? Twenty-three
of the 25 bales of hay the city
had used for the recent
Gateway Festival and had
planned to use for the kids in
the upcoming Great Pumpkin
Halloween Parade have disap-
peared.
City Special Events Director
Ellis Noell said that he had
gathered all of the hay bales
after Gateway and stacked
them under the Gazebo at
Patriot's Park to keep out of the
weather until the parade. But as
he drove by the Gazebo on
Monday, he noticed the piles of
25 bales had shrunk to two.
“The city is tight for money
just like everybody else is and I
thought, ‘Good I can spread out
the expense of a couple of hun-
dred dollars for hay bales to use
them for two different events,”
Noell said. ;
The price for hay has been
higher recently due to last
year’s drought.
Noell said that they usually
spread the hay over the massive
sand pile at Patriots Park. They
usually hide treats for the kids
in the straw. This year Noell
had hoped to have three differ-
ent mounds of hay for the little
at park
fortune hunters of various ages.
He said that during the city’s
annual Easter Egg Hunt, they
realized that the bigger kids
often find treasures quicker
than the smaller ones. “So we
were going to divide it into
three different hay stacks for
big kids, middle kids and little
kids,” he said. “It’s all for the
kids.”
After the Gateway Festival,
Noell had gathered the five
bales used by reenactors at the
museum and the 20 used at
Patriot's Park and stacked them
in three mounds underneath
the Gazebo. He moved the only
remaining two bales on
Monday to make sure that they
did not join the other 23 in the
disappearing act.
“It's just disappointing. I
never thought anybody would
steal hay bales,” Noell said.
In this recent act of trick or
treat, the trick, unfortunately,
seems to be on the city which
wanted to treat the kids.
The city is asking for dona-
tions to help replace the miss-
ing bales. If you have any infor-
mation on the whereabouts of
the hay or would like to make a
donation, contact the city at
704-734-0333.
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