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Kings Look for Part 6 of Destination: Downtown in next week’s KM Herald county jambo hall meeting Four-year-old Trace Phillips, left, and Samuel Stallings, 2, splash in the kiddie . pool. oT oy 08 -06- 10 0025 MALNEY WVEMORI AL 4100 S PIEDMONT KI NGS MOUNTAI MN KMHS to host Page 1B McHenry changes location of town Page 5A = Harris Funeral Home : ®. Locally Owned be & Operated Since 1947 A Family Tradition of Digniey, v Service & U ndersanding ree 108 S. Piedmont Ave. # A. Kings Mountain, NC oF. 739.2501 CAR. RT LOT xe 008 5A00 10P 8S aull ean 750) Volume 121 © Issue 33 ¢ Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Man, who died on walking track, looks back on the many miracles and blessings that gave him new life By EMILY WEAVER Editor Gary Lowery, of Kings Mountain, is a walking miracle. His wife says that and after their testimony, everyone they come in contact with seems to'agree. He had come to the walking track next to the YMCA on the morning of Friday, April 17th, for his regular daily ex- ercise with his normal group of buddies. For the past six years, six days a week, he and his friends had come to the track to walk their usual four miles. Only this morning was different. Gary was about to die. Minutes after 10 a.m., without warning he dropped dead from a massive heart attack. On any other day a few random walkers would have oc- cupied the track. But on this Friday, a few of the cooking teams in the 13th annual Firehouse BBQ Cook-off had de- cided to set up early. Members of the Kings Mountain Fire Department were also there getting ready for the annual event. When Mr. Lowery fell, “Big Mo” of the cooking team ing miracle’ gives credit t God |” “Big Mo and the AHO BBQ” saw him collapse. He called * B IN THE BUSINESS EMILY WEAVER/HERALD Gary Lowery recovers from a massive heart at- tack that gave him new life. Joe Amore of “Smoky Mountain Smokers,” who he knew had an automatic external defibrillator. Amore, stationed at the other end of the track, had car- See MIRACLE, Page 7A ses sn sanz cons Dr. McGill honored for over 50 years of service By ELIZABETH STEWART 4-6 p.m. and presented him Staff Writer an engraved plaque recog- Bank mergers over the NIZINg long service. years brought name McGill joined Kings changes but Dr. John C. McGill's service as a board member and former presi- dent remained constant for 53 years. First National Bank hon- ored McGill Tuesday after- noon at a reception from Keep up with The Herald's ‘tweets’ at twitter.com/kmhe raid Mountain Building & Loan Association April 10,1965, then in February 1972 was elected president of Kings Mountain Savings & Loan and became chairman of the board of First Federal S&L in February 1989 and of First Carolina Federal be- - Kings Mountain medical fore merger with First Na- tional Bank in 1999. The personable and highly respected and retired doctor, affectionately called "Dr John," marked his second retirement at the event attended by bank of- ficials, family and friends. "Dr. John" took down his shingle at McGill Clinic See McGILL, Page 3A Dr. JOHN C. McGILL SHOWBUSINESS By EMILY WEAVER Editor Kings Mountain Little Theatre's "Sample the Season" Saturday night at the Joy Performance Cen- ter was a "scream." The first scream pulled the "live-audience" of the "Ricky & Nickie Rivers Show" into a com- ical who-done-it. The final scream brought the audience of regular ticket-holders to a stand- ing ovation. Kings Mountain Little Theatre holds a special screening for their pa- trons and guests before the beginning of a new season, each year, to show their appreciation and give them a: preview of the shows to come. Close to KMLT players, I-r, Karen 150 people attended Satur- day night's black-and- white soiree. Jim Champion, presi- EMILY WEAVER/HERALD Grover Elementary teachers "round up for a : new year." Left to right; Margaret Ledford, # Lana Sills and Martha Sloan. By ELIZABETH STEWART Staff Writer School bells ring Tuesday morning in Cleveland County for 16,400 students in 29 schools in grades K- 2 i 12. The 2009-10 term opens with 3,405 students in Kings Mountain's eight schools. More than 2,200 school employees in the county § reported for work Monday morning and for most of § them it was a day of putting up bulletin boards, staff § i meetings and readying for classrooms, a normal, busy # procedure. Buses will start rolling in time to deliver children to 1 | school for first bell at 7:50 a.m. Some new faces will § school freshmen. new faces among staff members. Principal Henry Gilmore. : See SCHOOLS, Page 3A Sample the Season 'screams’' new shows EMILY WEAVER/HERALD Lattimore, Andy Neisler, Teresa Williams, Bethany Falls, Michael Medlin and Susan Champion act out a scene in last Satur- day's special performance at the Joy. dent of the KMLT board, prepared the hors d'oeuvres through his new catering business, "Harvey's Cater- ing." After an hour of so- cializing, the honored pa- trons were invited to be the live audience of a special See SAMPLE, Page 3A Building cd & Visit us today at 209 S. Battleground Avenue -Kings Mountain 704.739.541 1e www.alliancebankandtrust.com MEMBER FDIC ne wisi be seen at Kings Mountain's eight schools. Former 4th § graders will be moving up to Grade 5 at the Kings § Mountain Intermediate School and former 8th graders § at Kings Mountain Middle School will become high § Staffs are staying ' ‘pretty consistent" with a few i § Kings Mountain Intermediate School is ready to i welcome 680 students in grades 5-6, according to i
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