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VOTE 2009
Voters to cast ballots Tuesday |
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Staff writer
- Kings Mountain voters will
go to the polls Tuesday to elect
three members of City Council and help elect three
members of the Cleveland County Board of Edu-
cation in what, election officials predict, could be a
light vote.
In Grover, voters will decide on whether to ap-
prove a beer and wine referendum that concerned
citizens say could help land a major grocery store.
Up for grabs also in ‘Grover are three seats on the
town board for which none of the three incumbents
have filed, although all have
indicated they will serve if
their names are written in on
the ballot. The incumbents are
Cindy O'Brien, Brent White and J. D. Ledford.
Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. In
Kings‘ Mountain the polling place for Precincts 1 oh Boveri
‘ and 2 is the Kings Mountain YMCA on Cleveland Running for school boar d
Avenue and Precincts 3 and 4 is Central United ; ud,
Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. In Grover, the Ye a il
INSIDE
Meet the candidates.
Running for city council :
K. PENDERGRASS
PASSING IT ON
Author to
polling site is Grover Town Hall.
Although there has been little outward political
-See VOTE, 3A
give back
in honor
of mother
Book discussion,
fundraiser at
Patrick Center in
honor of Annie
Mitchem; funds to
benefit center
By EMILY WEAVER
Editor
The Patrick Senior Cen-
ter was one of Annie Lee
Blair Mitchem's favorite
places. She volunteered out
at the center and partici-
pated in many of its pro-
grams and activities.
"She loved that place
and loved the people there,"
said Mitchem's daughter
Katherine Hardy Pender-
grass.
Mitchem passed away in
a tragic car accident on Oct.
23, 2008, less than a week
after her 87th birthday.
Hundreds of people packed
Mount Zion Baptist Church
to full capacity for her fu-
neral. Ms. Mitchem left be-
hind a lot of loved ones, a
lot of friends and a lot of
© wisdom.
Pendergrass captured
some of the many things
she learned from her mother
and from life and put the
knowledge into a book:
"Words to the Wise
about...Money; A Collec-
tion of True Stories".
She dedicated her book
to her mother, "who always
said, 'It ain't how much you
bring in; it's how much you
let out."
Pendergrass plans to
honor her mother and that
"passing it on" spirit with a
special book discussion and
signing at the Patrick Senior
Center on Saturday, Oct. 31,
mother loved.
"She was one of our
1-3 p.m. Copies of her book By ELIZABETH STEWART party from P 1i | i
will be sold for $12 each. | Staff writer : 4-6 p.m. at O 1Ce seek
Most of the proceeds raised Dudley Carroll (D. C.) Hughes, 90, likes their home c . o : E
from the event will be do- | to talk about the “good ole days on the On ells : 2 }
ee to the center her | farm” and shies away from talking much : tr : e Ls PO 1 e Cro O
‘ riends an /
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phrey.
are encouraged to pass out candy.
$25 gift certificate to a local toy store.
Great Pumpkin Parade Oct. 30
The City of Kings Mountain will host the annual “Great Pump-
kin Halloween Parade” on Friday, Oct. 30. Participants will gather
at city hall plaza at 10 a.m. for a sendoff by Mayor Rick Mur-
The parade will start at the plaza on the corner of Cherokee
and Gold streets and will continue to Battleground Ave, then
to Mountain St. and down Railroad Ave.
Patriots Park. Local merchants along the parade route
The Mauney Children’s Library, in cooperation
with Partnership for Children, will provide enter-
tainment, games, Halloween stories and songs at
the gazebo. There will be an inflatable “Bounce
Castle” and a hay stack search for Halloween good-
ies. One lucky individual in each of the three age
groups can find the “Gold Pumpkin” and receive a
The Kings Mountain Police Department will pro-
. vide reflective bags for trick-or-treating and the Kings
Mountain Fire Department will have a fire truck on display. Chil-
dren and parents are welcome to stay and bring a picnic lunch.
For more information call 704-734-0333.
to the gazebo at
Children search through the hay stacks after last year’s s Great Pumpkin Parade to
find the coveted golden pumpkin. Two-year-old Javon Smith, below, was the first
photos by EMILY WEAVER
D.C. Hughes, 90, to celebrate
about his World War II experiences.
But many Kings Mountain automobile
relatives are
NO BUTTS ABOUT IT
City bans
smoking
_ By ELIZABETH STEWART
Staff writer
A ban on smoking on all City of Kings
Mountain properties was approved by the
Kings Mountain City Council Tuesday
night.
The resolution expands the present ordi-
nance adopted Aug. 31,1993 which has
banned smoking in buildings owned or
leased by the city. Added is the restriction
on smoking of a lighted pipe, cigar, ciga-
rette or other combustible tobacco product
at the walking tracks, (Watterson Street and .
Cleveland Avenue) all Deal Street Park fa-
cilities, the park and playing fields, the Jake
Early Complex in its entirety, Davidson
Soccer Complex and all fields and Patriot's
Park. :
Victoria Green, a senior at Kings Moun-
tain High School and daughter of Connie
and Dale Green, had a hand in the council's
decision. She had been working with
Mayor pro team Rodney Gordon who said
the board had been considering the addi-
See SMOKING, 2A
photo by LIB STEWART
Victoria Green, center, is congratu-
lated by Mayor Rick Murphrey, left,
and Mayor Pro-tem Rodney Gordon.
Armed robbery
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Kings Mountain police say they never saw any-
longtime volunteers," said [ OWIeIS remember him as the versatile me- invited to thing like last Wednesday's armed robbery in Kings
Monty Thornburg, director chanic who used to work with Glenn Grigg Ome by and Mountain. :
of the Patrick Center. "She and Frank Hamrick at Grigg Garage behind share men On his way out the robber thanked the clerk at One
would be tickled to Know | What is now the Red Cross Building (the Se ii Stop 125, 2120 Shelby Rd. : %
her daughteriiwas doing Ge a te prefers, could fix with : be Poliee ate oa l Soihing he anit A
his." LC. ] IS, scribed as a white man, 5 feet 8 inches tall weighin,
i had plans for | Most any car ailments, but his love was the brother, 140-180 pounds and wearing a onde
Tho center BS PIons 107 {ifr 15 was bom October 20-1910:-and + Erwin, ‘and D:G. HUGHES Pp : >
expansion, but the economy
quickly put those plans on
hold.
"] want to do this for the
center because they do so
much down there," Pender-
grass said. "My mother was
very active at the center.
She volunteered in the
kitchen and did so much
else."
So her sisters and she de-
cided to take the center on
as a special project: In
honor of their mother they
See FUNDRAISER, 3A
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was raised on the family farm in the Dixon
Community by Conrad and Eva Hughes - a
family of seven sons and two daughters.
~ His wife, Nell, will honor him on Sat-
urday at a 90th birthday Halloween drop-in
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Gene Hughes, and Bill Hughes.
See HUGHES, 3A
checkered flannel shirt, jeans, black boots and black
gloves. His face was covered with a yellow bandanna
topped by a brown toboggan with two white rings. If
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See ROBBERY, 3A
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