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PHIL WEATHERS
The Kings Mountain Herald
KRISTIE BRINKLEY
Tickets are available for $10 each from members of the Hall of Fame Committee and
can also be purchased at the door.
Degree and Brinkley were both multi-sport athletes at Kings Mountain High School.
Degree was all-conference in volleyball, softball and basketball in the late 80s and 1990,
and Brinkley was the most valuable player on Kings Mountain’s first state volleyball
championship team in 1998.
Degree had a spectacular career at Elon University, where she was recently inducted
into that school’s Hall of Fame.
She played both volleyball and softball at Elon from 1990-94 and in 1994 was the
school’s Female Athlete of the Year. She was all-conference three times in volleyball and
twice in softball, and was all-district twice in both sports. She was district MVP in vol-
leyball her junior year and South Atlantic Conference Player of the Year as a senior.
Brinkley was a three-time all-conference volleyball player at KMHS. Her senior year,
she was named SWC Player of the Year and was named MVP in the state tournament
when the Lady Mountaineers defeated East Chapel Hill High for the state crown. She was
also all-conference in basketball at KMHS.
She also played on two Junior Olympic teams that won state championships. Club
South won the South Carolina crown and Team Charlotte won the North Carolina cham-
pionship.
She began her college career at UNC-Asheville, where she was a member of the Big
South All-Tournament team, and transferred to Gardner-Webb where she was All-Tour-
nament in the North Carolina AT&T Classic. She holds the GWU record for career high
kills in a game (29), and ranks fourth in kills per game in a single season, fifth in kills for
a season, and seventh in kills in all-time career records. She had 1,025 kills and 98 serv-
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ing aces during her GWU career.
Weathers served as Kings Mountain Junior High wrestling coach from 1976-1990 and
1990 GOLF CHAMPIONS - Here's the 1990 KMHS golf team after it won the
state championship at Finley Golf Course in Chapel Hill. Left to right Rob-
bie Wilson, Matt Heavner, Brady Goforth, Coach Dennis Hicks, Ryan Broad-
well and Mitchell Morrow.
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compiled a 116-8-2 overall record. His teams won a record 13 straight conference cham-
pionships and was the only team to ever win what was then the Western Junior High Ath-
letic Association. His team won 52 straight conference matches, lost one and then won 45
more in a row.
The 1990 KMHS ‘golf team, coached by Denny Hicks, won the NCHSAA tournament
at Finley Golf Course in Chapel Hill with a two-day total of 635. KM had finished sec-
ond to TC Roberson the week before in the Western Regional Tournament, but qualified
for the state tournament for the third time in four years.
Members of the team were Robbie Wilson, Brady Goforth, Ryan Broadwell, Matt
Heavner, Mitchell Morrow and Lenny Wright. Wilson, Goforth and Broadwell were on
teams that won five straight conference championships (two at KM Junior High and three
at KMHS) and during that time they won all of their regular season matches. At the end
of the 1990 season KMHS had won 27 matches in a row-and had won the SWC four years
in a row.
In the two-day state championship tournament, Broadwell led the team with a 77-77—
154 and tied for second place in individual competition. Goforth shot 156, Wilson 161
and Heavner 164. KM trailed Southwest Guilford by three shots entering the final round
and was 10 shots off the pace at the turn. But all four of the Mountaineers’ top scorers
turned in 40 or lower on the back side, with Goforth leading the way with an even-par 36.
STRANGER
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and Jimmy joined her at the
door.
Jimmy, who had also felt
like something was not
right, had called his mother
at work for advice. Lisa
Zyble told him to ask the
guy to leave a card and they
would get back to him.
Jimmy relayed the mes-
sage to the stranger at the
door, who still offered no
card or information about
the fundraiser, only the
words, “I’ll come back
later.”
Another sighting of a
man, who claimed to be
raising money for the res-
cue squad, recently oc-
curred at the Oak Grove
Volunteer Fire Department.
“This guy came by the
fire department a couple of
days ago,” said Perry Davis,
deputy fire marshal for
Cleveland County and chief
of the Oak Grove VFD, on
Friday. “He wanted to know
where the rescue district
ended.”
The territorial jurisdic-
tion for Kings Mountain
Rescue Squad extends past
the city’s limits.
Davis, known as
“Bubba” by friends and co-
workers, said that the man
was driving a small gray
car. “He appeared to be
somebody in poor health.
He couldn’t walk very
well,” he said. “This guy
appeared nervous to me.”
The man did not produce
any identification or offer
his name to Davis, although
he admitted that he did not
ask him. He said that the
man mentioned he was
working with the rescue
squad to raise money.
After a brief chat the
man left.
Although these curious
events infer that the man
was running a scam or con-
fidence game, his intentions
were not to harm or frighten
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or swindle. He was raising
money for the Kings Moun-
tain Rescue Squad, accord-
ing to KMRS Capt. J.R.
Scruggs.
He said that the man was
helping the department
raise money in their annual
picture drive.
Davis said that the res-
cue squad and volunteer fire
departments will often con-
duct a picture drive to raise
money. Picture drives offer
residents the chance to have
professional photography
sessions on certain dates for
family members. Proceeds
from the drives benefit the
departments. Sometimes the
drives are conducted door-
to-door.
But Cleveland County
Fire Marshal and Emer-
gency Management Direc-
tor Dewey Cook said that
all personnel conducting the
picture drives are supposed
to show some proof of iden-
tification. He said that they
should have credentials,
should be wearing a uni-
form to clearly identify
themselves, and should pro-
vide a cover letter to explain
the drive: and identify the
department.
Marilyn said that the
man who came to their door
did have some papers in his
hand and a pen. But he
never shared them or left
behind any information for
a follow-up visit. He only
said that he would return.
Scruggs said that he
would remind their helper
to wear his identification
around his neck, so that no
one else would be confused
of his intentions. The de-
partment will have its pho-
tography session this
Saturday, marking the end
of the drive.
Although the man who
came to the Zybles’ door
was not trying to invade
their home or, burglarize it,
one can never be too safe.
Cook advises anyone
who feels wary about a
door-to-door fundraising
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campaign to call the police.
Sometimes, door-to-door
campaigns will be regis-
tered with the local police
or sheriff’s department. Al-
. though, the sheriff’s depart-
ment admits that they are
not always made aware.
Davis said that the Oak
Grove VED does not con-
duct door-to-door cam-
paigns.
“We’re not going to do a
(fundraising) drive this year
because of the economy,”
he said. “We’re being con-
siderate of the people who
are unemployed and we’re
not going to burden some-
one with asking them to do-
nate money this year.”
Although, he added, the
department will accept do-
nations if offered.
City sewer projects complete
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Staff Writer
Two major sewer projects - Westover and Ingles - have been completed by the
city and ahead of allotted schedules.
Steve Killian, project administrator and the city’s Director of Planning and Eco-
nomic Development, said taps and connections were made to 31 single family
homes in the Westover Community and paid for by a $440,000 Community De-
velopment Block Grant. He said sewer lines were installed to serve the new In-
gles with CDBG grant money of $130,000 provided that the new food market
would provide a minimum of 14 jobs to low to moderate income families and he
said Ingles had exceeded that goal. . “The bids were so good on the Ingles proj-
ect that we are returning $40,000 of CBDG funds,” he said.
Teresa Spires, g ant administrator coordinator from Isothermal Planning and
Development Commission, presented a report on the Ingles project Tuesday night
at the regular city council meeting and Steve Austin, grant coordinator for the
Westover project, also reported on accomplishments of the project during the grant
closing fours In accordance with CDBG guidelines, the city was required to
hold public hearings to officially close out the grant
programs.
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City Council was highly pleased that the projects
were finished ahead of the allotted schedule allowed
by the NC Division of Community Assistance.
In other city construction news, Killian said that site
work has been completed at the site of the new apart-
ment complex on E. Gold Street and bids have been
awarded for construction of a sewer line and side-
be receiving a post card in the mail with that information," Blan-
ton said.
She retumed on Tuesday from meetings with the state Board
of Elections in Raleigh. She said that the Cleveland County
board will be discussing some of the the recent items that have
been confirmed by the state.
Among those items, are the two polling locations and the
use of electronic poll books.
At the last meeting, Blanton said that she hoped they could
be able to try out the new equipment for little to no cost, since
this will be a dual county (Cleveland and Gaston) election. But
she said on Tuesday that they will have to pay to rent the equip-
ment.
The total cost of the election continues to sit at close to
$60,000. Blanton said that depending on how the results are re-
ported, it could cost "slightly more."
The board is waiting to hear back from the city to determine
how they will report the results. At the meeting, the board will
also review a proof of the ballot, which Blanton has received.
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