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Volume 121 e Issue 20 * Wednesday, May 20, 2009
REDEFINING ALCOHOL SALES
Task force fine-tuning ABC law
By ELIZABETH STEWART
staff writer
Since the recent passage of the mixed drinks referendum, a Task
Force committee from the Kings Mountain Planning & Zoning
Board has started putting together definitions and basically defin-
ing and fine-tuning primary uses for establishments that may want
to apply to the state to serv alcoholic beverages.
The city's Planning Board chairman Jim Childers appointed
Dave Allen, Doug Lawing, and John Houze to serve with him on the
Task Force which met last week and plans to meet again this week
to look further at text amendments to present to City Council at a
public hearing in late June. :
Those uses define, for instance, the distance from a restaurant,
pub, sports bar to a church or school and other requirements set out
by the North Carolina Alcohol Beverage Control Board ( ABC).
to serve liquor by the drink.
"Obviously, it won't be an overnight process," said the mayor.
He said the Planning Board is reviewing all the ABC laws that also
include those for private clubs so that Kings Mountain's will mir-
ror the state.
In other actions at last Tuesday's meeting, the planning board
board voted 4-2 to recommend to Council to deny the rezoning re-
quest of Christy McCleary of McCleary-Baer Biofuels Refinery. =
McCleary, of Mirada Lane, wants to develop an alternative fuel in-
dustry in the city's ETJ area on 15 acres off Highway 161.
Tuesday was the second time the planning board denied Mc-
Cleary's request citing lack of public water and sewer to serve the
proposed development. City Council at last month's meeting sent
the McCleary request back to the planning board for a second look
after McCleary said she was checking into additional resources for
The N. C. Elections Board is currently certifying the vote in the ~ Water and sewer to serve the site. City Council will consider the
May 5 mixed drinks referendum. Once that board declares the elec- Matter again at its May 26 6 p.m. meeting.
tion valid, restaurants can begin the Jieps in applying for a permit : by
‘Heart to heart’ BUDGET ADOPTED
New group No raise in
Busey ! taxes, fees
OD for Grover
|| Memorial Day
service Monday
at cemetery
{ Wilson Griffin, retired Kings
{ Mountain businessman and a World
{ War II veteran, will make the veteran's
address at community-wide Memorial
Day services Monday at 10 a.m. in
Veterans Park of Mountain Rest
Cemetery.
Mayor Rick Murphrey will also
give the welcome, make remarks, and
lay the wreath at the conclusion of the
service sponsored by the City of
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Kings Mountain.
Jane Gulden, piper, will give the
prelude of music and also "Amazing
Grace" before the wreath presentation.
Police Chief Melvin Proctor will
give the invocation, Danny Gordon
. will lead the Pledge of Allegiance, and By ELIZABETH STEWART...
iL | Shana Adams will sing "The National staff writer
; Anthem." Bugler Paul Fulton will Heart to Heart. Just say the : _ aBy EMILY WEAVER
present "Taps." | words and it brings a smile as Flossie FLOSSIE JOHNSON Editor |
The public is invited.
Johnson talks about volunteering as a labor of love.
The Kings Mountain woman, now retired, is giving back to the com-
munity in a new organization founded by Kings Mountain medical doctor
Dr. Bernard Thombs that meets on second Mondays of the month at noon
at Mountainview Restaurant on W. King Street.
"Dr. Thombs sees so many patients with family needs and he and 15-20
members of our group are reaching out to do something about it," said John-
son, who is contacting churches and other organizations to get on the vol-
unteer bandwagon.
The goal of Heart to Heart is to help homebound senior citizens to be
able to remain in their homes with a little help from caring individuals.
This group wants to provide free services and they want to encourage those
who will help for a few hours to assist with transportation to doctor's of-
fices, grocery shopping, lawn care, general repairs, light cooking, as sit-
ters or just visiting with people who are alone and want to remain in heir
See GIVE BACK, Page 3A
Grover citizens can rest assured that they will see no
new taxes in the upcoming year.
The Grover Town Council voted unanimously to adopt
the proposed 2009-10 budget, which calls for no increases
in trash fees, water rates, sewer rates or taxes, at its regular
meeting Monday night.
The budget does stipulate, however, that there will not
be any raises for town employees in the upcoming year.
Mayor Robert Sides said that council members, who
haven’t seen a raise in years, will also not see one this year.
Expected revenues for water and sewer are down about
$15,000 from last year, due in part to recent plant closings
fueled by the recession.
The general fund figures are up about $3,000 since the
2008-09 budget, according to the mayor. The cemetery
funds and Powell funds, used for road maintenance, are ex-
pected to be down by about $1,000 and $3,000, respec-
tively.
But the rate of property taxes, at $0.29 per $100 of val-
uation, and sewer fees, at $0.09 per $100 of valuation, are
planned to stay the same.
The nearly $600,000 town budget proposed for 2009-
10 is broken down as follows:
~~ KM gets
grant for
bicycle
routes
By ELIZABETH STEWART
he “SS
HEAD OF THE CLASS
staff writer Category Revenues Expenditures
(expected) (expected)
Ais ; General fund $250,820 $250,820
Anew bicycle and pedestrian grant Cemetery fund _ $6.500 $6.500
for $26,250 to the City of Kings Powell fund $27,000 $27.000
Mountain from the North Carolina Water & Sewer $310,550 $310,550
Department of Transportation is wel- Total $594,870 $594,870
come news, says Mayor Rick Mur-
phrey.
"We are encouraging more people
to walk and ride bikes to promote
healthy lifestyles and these funds with
an additional matching grant of
In the general fund the town has set aside: $43,247 for
* office operations; $39,403 for town hall operations;
$18,000 for maintenance operations; $65,420 for police op-
erations; $14,400 for fire department contributions;
$40,400 for environmental operations; $6,500 for street op-
$11,250 from the city will help us with
this goal," he said.
Murphrey said the funds will be
- used to develop a comprehensive bi-
cycle and pedestrian plan including
the hiring of a consultant to assist city
staff in putting together routes for
overall safety in walking and bike rid-
ing.
The city was among 12 municipal-
ities recently notified of the 2009
awards. This year NCDOT received
applications from 35 municipalities
from across the state competing for a
share of the $315,850 of program
funding available.
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EMILY WEAVER/HERALD
Stylist and salon owner Christopher Leslie instructs a credited
class for hair stylists at Diva-tude on Monday.
Diva-tude
offers classes
close to home
By EMILY WEAVER
Editor
For many years, hair stylists and
barbers have had to travel several
miles to attend classes for certifica-
tion. Cooper said that to get most of
her credit hours she had to travel to
classes in Charlotte, Greensboro
and Atlanta.
But on Monday, credit hours
were offered closer to home. Al-
though this was the first class she
has hosted, she said that it won't be
the last.
"Every 30-45 days we will be
See CLASS, Page 3A
Wanda J. Cooper, owner of
Diva-tude hair salon, hosted her
very first credit class for hair styl-
ists on Monday.
Visit us today at
Kings Mountain
See BUDGET, Page 3A
Coming up...
State of Community
breakfast May 28
The annual State of the Community Breakfast will
be sponsored by the Cleveland County Chamber of
' Commerce on Thursday, May 28, at 7:30 a.m. at the
H. Lawrence Patrick Senior Center.
Big E BBQ is hosting the breakfast, along with J.
Oliver’s, which will feature speakers representing the
City of Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, and
Cleveland County Schools reporting on the "State of
the Community."
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