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By ELIZABETH STEWART
staff writer
Cleveland County Commissioners
Tuesday night indicated they will con-
sider Grover’s request for a moratorium
on sweepstakes businesses at a February
workshop. Commissioners said they
were sympathetic with what county At-
torney Bob Yelton termed a “hot topic”
regarding sweepstakes businesses that
are popping up all over the county.
Commissioners Ronnie Hawkins and
Johnny Hutchins questioned a change in
an ordinance that could affect the whole
county. Grover Mayor Robbie Sides said
that town council would impose a
$1,000 privelege license fee and com-
missioners indicated this may be the
route to take.
In his request to the county planning
board and county manager, Sides also:
asked the county board to consider up-
ping the fee for zoning violations from
$25 a day to the state maximum fee of
$200 in order for the town to try to curb
the influx of sweepstakes businesses.
“A change in the ordinance would af-
fect the whole county and I am person-
ally not ready to vote and would like to
see Grover pursue other avenues until
the state does something about gaming,”
said commissioner Ronnie Hawkins
prior to the meeting.
Yelton said he would research the
matter further.
County Manager David Dear said
that Grover sweepstakes operations are
currently located in the current zone,
general business, but that in order to op-
erate they must obtain a conditional use
permit per county zoning ordinances.
Sweepstakes are games offered for free
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William Montgomery recites a soulful rendition of the "I Have a
Dream" speech.
- MLK - right
prescription
at right time
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Staff writer
. The legacy of slain Civil Rights leader
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was that he had
the right prescription for our country at the
right time, said Rev. Raymond Gardin, Jr.,
Youth/Children's Pastor of Mount Zion
. Missionary Baptist Church, at the annual
community-wide tribute Monday night.
When 200,000 civil rights marchers —
black and white — gathered at the steps of
the Lincoln Memorial in the nation's capitol
on Aug. 28, 1963, they expected to hear
strong words from their spiritual leader, but
what they did not expect was a speech of
such heartfelt passion and poetic eloquence
that it echoes still in our memory.
The "I Have a Dream" speech was pre-
EMILY WEAVER/HERALD
Octavia Gill dances to
a lyrical movement at
the Joy Theatre Mon-
day night during the
to customers who either pirelse Intet- sented in a stirring rendition by William city's "Keeping the
het ine op compuiers of pote fis Montgomery as a large crowd in-Joy Per- Dream Alive" cere-
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ON THE WAR FRONT
Michael Jordan shares war
stories at First Baptist
By ELIZABETH STEWART
staff writer
nel and he had the passion to
tell their story and I think
you will agree that he gives
us all a new appreciation for
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God.
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help 1 to
By ELIZABETH STEWART
staff writer
In response to the tragic
earthquake in Haiti, four
tractor trailer truck loads of
relief items have arrived at
Port-au-Prince from Kings
Mountain's Family Worship
Center Church of God part-
nering with Operation Com-
passion.
"There's good news com-
ing to us in emails that the 90
children inthe orphanage we
support are safe," said Jim
Smith, who led a mission
team to Haiti last March and
most recently in October and
is getting another team to-
gether to go to Haiti at the
end of February or sooner.
Smith said the rock wall
surrounding the New Life
Children's Home in the heart
of Port-au-Prince collapsed
as well as a portion of the
roof. The children, from in-
fant to 18 years of age, are
handicapped, he said, and
are currently sleeping out-
side in a courtyard. There is
a well on the property with
clean water and back-up
generators for power.
The orphanage has to be
guarded because of looting,
Haiti
TERRY HOFFMAN holds
6-year-old Milynn in his
arms in New Life Chil-
dren's Home in Haiti.
he said, and medical sup-
plies, food and clothing are
waiting to be distributed to
Haitians. -
"They are advising us not
to come into Haiti now be-
cause it's impossible for ve-
hicles to get on the streets,"
Smith added.
Last spring the local mis-
sion team built and estab-
lished a school at the
orphanage and hosted a sum-
mer gathering where chil-
dren from other orphanages
came for the programs. Art
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Bt emp e Cit :
Wartime reporter and Sa-
vannah, GA, freelance jour-
nalist Michael Jordan, 36,
formerly of Kings Mountain,
has a passion for telling the
story of military troops over-
seas.
"We're extending = self-
government a-world ‘away.
This is a ‘tough time and
what you can do is pray for
our soldiers," he said.
He shared his fascinating
report of trips overseas as a
TV news anchor with Geor-
gia National Guardsmen, in
a program at First Baptist
Church last Wednesday.
"Don't look to the past for
our heroes," he told the
group. "Our heroes are now
and they are serving in
harm's way putting their
lives on the line for us every
day."
Jordan was introduced by
his father, Rev. Morris Jor-
dan. "Our son has never been
in service but the Lord gave
him love for military person-
. ries of half-hour TV specials
our troops."
Jordan spent August 2009
with hundreds of Georgia
Army National Guard sol-
diers serving in Afghanistan.
His reports, which aired on
Fox 28/WICL-TV in Savan-'
nah and CBS Atlanta News,
are being compiled into a se-
titled, "A Call to Arms."
The 1991 graduate of
Kings Mountain High
School — who ranked No. 1
scholastically in a class of
265 seniors — obviously likes
what he does. He has been to
Afghanistan twice and cov-
ered Georgia military units,
traveling several times to the’
Middle East and Europe and
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