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Kings Volume 120 » Issue 51 » Wednesday, wetsmuer 17; 2uus wed | Warlick & Hamrick Insuran B 704.739.3611 Kings Mountain I nei clin Sill Aee.co a Historic contract to be signed The largest private-public contract in the history of Cleveland County will be signed Monday at 1 p.m. by Southern Power Company, the City of Kings Mountain, and Cleveland County. The joint meeting is set for 1 p.m. in the H. Lawrence Patrick Senior & Conference Center in Kings Mountain. Southern Power, headquar- tered in Atlanta, Ga., plans to begin initial construction of a natural gas-fueled electric generating plant on 275 acres of land near Grover by 2010. The project represents a $350 to $400 million dollar investment. Kings Mountain will be contracting with the ° company for 12.5 million gal- lons of raw water daily to generate steam to produce electricity. 2009-2010 School calendar adopted A school calendar for 2009- 2010 adopted Monday by the Cleveland County ‘Board of Education sets the beginning of the new term on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 and ending on Wednesday, June 9, 2010. The calendar schedule in- cludes 14 planning days and 9 holidays. The holidays are: Labor Day Sept. 7; Veterans Day Nov. 11; Thanksgiving Nov. 26 and 27; Christmas Dec. 23-25; January Martin Luther King Day Jan. 18; and Easter April 5. The planning days are: Au- gust 17-24; Oct. 30; January 19-20; Feb. 15; March 19; April 2: June 10-11. Snow makeup days are Jan. 20, March 19, April 2, Feb. 15, and June 10. Holiday Trash Schedule The holiday trash pickup schedule for Christmas and New Year is announced by the city sanitation department. For the week of Christmas, Dec. 22-26, city offices will be closed Wednesday through Thursday for the holidays. All containers should be rolled to the road for Monday, Dec. 22, pickup. Crews will not be re- turning to retrieve containers that were not rolled out on Monday. For the week of New. Year, the city will observe Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009 as a holiday. Garbage pickup will be on a regular schedule except for Thursday’s route which will be picked up on Friday, Jan. 2. KM Police Department, community helps Santa bring Christmas to all by ELIZABETH STEWART staff writer Christmas will be merrier for many children and fami- lies in the Kings Mountain area this season because of the men and women in blue, Santas helpers in the Kings Mountain Police De- partment. The city’s police staff, under the di- rection of Police Chief Melvin Proc- tor and his wife, Det. Sgt. Lisa Proctor, are organizing the an- nual appeal to the community for funds, toys and new Ei photo by Lib St SANTA HELPERS - Det. Sgt. Lisa Proctor tells Santa that Kings Mountain police will help fill stockings of many little boys and girls next week with the thousands of items donated by Kings Mountain residents and on display, above, in the KMPD Training Room. tributing hundreds of Christmas if they find a clothes for the needy. . Police will be busy dis- ewa items the week before and after Christmas ular patrol duty. need as they are on reg- See story on page 4. Santa’s Cobblers - shoe giveaway Rr Mayor Rick Murphrey and city councilmen Mike Butler and Dean Spears, far right, show off some of the 1500 pairs of new shoes that will be given away Fri- day at 10 a.m., first come, first served, at the Kings Mountain National Guard Armory. The holiday Santa gifts are provided by Santa Cobblers who want to say merry Christmas. Santa helpers will be on hand to assist shoppers. 2 i Fundraisers to benef by ELIZABETH STEWART staff writer Six weeks ago 38- year-old Kevin Ran- dall, a local landscaper, told his wife Susie that he was extremely tired and they saw a doctor. The tired feeling he had was diagnosed as acute Myelogenous leukemia. Randall is undergo- ing his second round of chemotherapy at Wake Forest Univer- sity Baptist Hospital. His wife is by his side and is keeping contact with friends and rela- tives updating his progress on the web- site Caringbridge.com., friends clicking his name to keep in touch. Meantime, a num- ber of friends and fam- ily members are holding three fundraisers to help the couple defray the costs of medical bills not covered by insurance. An all-wood 8x10 ft. children’s playhouse, complete with siding and lights, will be given away to a lucky ticket holder Tuesday at Hometown Hard- ware where the play- house is on display in the parking lot. The Please turn to page 6 photo by Lib Stewart What started as a small project. a few years ago has mush- roomed and now the training room at the po- lice department is filling up with toys for all age children, clothes, and donations for groceries for needy families. The project began when officers on patrol duty would go on call and come back and tell Chief Proctor families who needed help. Says Lisa Proctor, “My husband has a heart of gold and he asked everyone to help and since then we have about partnered with churches, guidance counselors in the schools, the Crisis Min- istry, and other help agencies to give many families a merry Christ- Please turn to page 6 CCS to send $659K back to state by ELIZABETH STEWART “Less painful cuts” is how Cleveland County Board of Edu- cation members ad- dressed mandated state budget reversions Monday, voting 8-1 to reduce allocations by 5 ¥/2 percent or $658,000, representing 1 percent of state allo- cations, the cuts fig- ured at 39.25 cents per 16,500 students. Board member Ken- neth Ledford voted against Option B which discontinues the practice of hiring spe- cial subs ( teachers paid at their certifi- UNDRAISER.| : FOR KEVIN RANDALL cated and experience rate) when a classroom vacancy is over 10 days. Instead, the state substitute sub pay rate will be $90 per day but salary commitment will be honored for anyone already in a special sub situation as of Nov. 24. The system will continue to pay the state certificated and experience rate for substitutes when posi- tions have been va- cated due to the permanent employee exhausting leave. If a teacher is out, an expe- Please turn to page 6 it Kevin Randall JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS - Johnathon Webster, 11, his sisters Emily, 11, and Abby, 1, show off the big children’s playhouse which will go to some lucky win- ner Tuesday in a fundraiser for 38-year-old leukemia patient Kevin Randall. They are the children of Brian and Jennifer Webster. | Watch future issues for these upcoming Special Sections e Christmas Greetings e Medical Matters
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