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Volume 122 ° |ssue 45 Wetinosdor, November 10, 2010
Governor to
visit city
Monday for
BIG N EWS
By EMILY WEAVER
Editor :
Governor Beverly Perdue will be in |
Kings Mountain Monday afternoon to |
make a big announcement on a new in- |
There was no official word from city
or county officials Tuesday, but rumors
were circulating that the announcement GOV. BEV PERDUE
would be on the new data farm moving
into the former Chris*Craft building.
The Herald reported on Sept. 8, that Infocrossing Inc., a
division of Wipro Technologies Ltd. - coined the "Microsoft
of India", was planning to buy the former boat factory for a
$30 million project to convert it into a highly secure server.
farm, according to sources close to the project.
Wipro, a giant information technology firm based in Ban-
galore, India, has been growing in the U.S. since its 2008
purchase of New Jersey-based Infocrossing - a data center
and infrastructure-outsourcing company.
According to the Charlotte Business Journal, a New Jer-
sey company had an agreement to purchase the former
Chris*Craft property at 140 Riverside Court from T5 Part-
ners of Atlanta, a group that specializes in recruiting data
farm companies.
In a story that appeared in The Herald on Oct. 13th, Dan
Limerick of RST Communications, announced that they had
laid over 16 miles of all-fiber lines (for a fiber optics net-
work) that will extend to the new data center farm being cul-
tivated across from the Cleveland County Industrial Park.
The first goal for the fiber optics network, which branches
out from a central station in Shelby, is to hook up RST Com-
GOVERNOR, 7A
The Veteran’ S Paral rals into Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Veterans Day
service Thursday
at Mountain Rest
Kings Mountain citizens will observe Veterans Day 2010
Thursday morning with a parade from the War Memorial on
Railroad Avenue downtown to Veterans Park of Mountain
Rest Cemetery on East Gold Street for an 11 a.m. ceremony.
In event of rain, the service will be held at Kings Moun-
tain City Hall.
The 11 a.m. ceremony will begin with welcome and re-
marks by Mayor Rick Murphrey. During the ceremony
Shana Adams will sing "The National Anthem" and "God
Bless America" and the Loch Norman Pipe band will per-
form "Highland Cathedral", "Amazing Grace" and "Flowers
of the Forest". Adams and the Loch Norman Band will lead
the procession from the War Memorial downtown, across
from the Joy Performing Arts Theatre, to the cemetery.
The Kings Mountain Police Department and Explorer
Unit Honor Guard will present the colors at the cemetery
where music, Veterans Day prayers and Veterans Day ad-
dresses will be given in tribute to all veterans. Boy Scout
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— WORLD RESERVE CHAMPION —
By EMILY WEAVER
Editor
On exactly a year ago to the date
when she was diagnosed with ag-
gressive breast cancer, Lisa Proctor
and her family’s horse, “My Secret
Troubles” — grandson of “Secre-
tariat”, won the 5D Reserve World
Champion title at the National Bar-
rel Horse Association World Finals
in Perry, Ga.
It was a miracle — one of many.
To even qualify for the world finals
held the last week in October re-
mains a challenge. But Proctor, with
three of her horses “Thunder”,
“Dollar” and “... Troubles” (owned
by her father), was on the right track
in 2009, finishing in the top five of
several barrel horse race competi-
tions throughout the region.
The news she got on October 30,
2009, stopped her in her tracks. At
the young age of 40, she was diag-
nosed with breast cancer with a 98
percent growth rate. Whether want-
ing to or not, she ventured. into a
new ring of competition in a fight
for her life.
In order to qualify for the world
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Lisa Proctor is pictured here on “My Secret Troubles” competing at the
North Carelina State finals in Raleigh, two months before being diagnosed
with cancer.
Proctor’s amazing
race to the top
Read Lisa Proctor’ S |
amazing recount of
her race to the top,
page 5A.
EE i rs
finals in 2010, Proctor would need
to hold onto her top standings in
barrel racing, but how could she
focus on that? Her priorities had
changed.
She hung up her reigns for a
while and was flabbergasted to learn
a few months ago, after being diag-
nosed as “cancer free”, that she still
qualified to compete in the world fi-
nals.
The races that could have put her
out of the running the rest of the
season had either been rescheduled
because of inclement weather and
were subsequently “rained out” or
the ones who could have knocked
her out failed to do so.
“I didn’t know if Id be able to
go,” Proctor said.
PROCTOR, 7A
DOWNTOWN
New Old
Stone on
the way
By EMILY WEAVER
Editor
May the rumors be put to rest...the Old
Stone Steakhouse IS coming.
Construction began Monday morning
on the old Plonk department store, which
is set to, house the new Old Stone Steak-
house and Battleground Bar on the corner
of Railroad Ave. and Gold St.
. The nearly million-dollar renovation
project will transform the southern portion
of the empty downtown building into a
3,600 sq. ft. restaurant, featuring a 35-foot-
long Battleground Bar topped with a mural
on the historic Battle of Kings Mountain,
indoor seating for 150 patrons and an out-
door year-round patio (for up to 30 guests)
that will overlook Patriot's Park.
Father and son restauranteurs Nick and
Rich LaVecchia teamed up with downtown
property owners Bobby Horne and Scott
Campbell and started wotking on the proj-
ect in October 2009. Nick LaVecchia an-
nounced their plans for the restaurant,
which could bring more than 25 full-time
jobs to the city, in early May.
Old Stone Steakhouse and Battle-
ground Bar was initially projected to open
CONSTRUCTION, 7A
Construction workers began hammering
away at the brick wall, which:currently dis-
sects the site of the restaurant, inside the
former Plonk department store Monday.
photo by EMILY WEAVER
Veterans Day special for Burris family
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Staff writer
Veterans Day is a special
day for Marie and Frank
Burris of Kings Mountain
who sent 18 family members
to war.
Their family, which also
includes 10 grandchildren
and six great-grandchildren,
plan to attend the Thursday
morning Veterans Day ob-
servance at Veterans Park of
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Frank Burris, a veteran of
the US Army, served in the
Korean Conflict and son,
Gregory, and daughter-in-
law Lynn served in Vietnam
and a niece, Alice Perry, also
served in the military.
Soldiers and sailors rep-
resenting five generations of
Marie Perry Burris' family
answered the call to military
duty, many of them serving
in Uncle Sam's Army.
Photographs of Harry
Perry Sr., Florence Perry, son
of Harry, and Charles, Otis,
Harry and Anglee, sons of
Photo by LIB STEWART
A "Salute to Veterans" exhibit at Kings Mountain Historical
Museum brings special memories for the Burris family of
Kings Mountain who sent 18 family members to war.
Florence, their sons, grand- wall at the Kings Mountain
sons and spouses are dis- Historical Museum. The
played on a military salute BURRIS. 7A
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Official
canvass
of votes
Friday
The results in a neck
and neck race for one of
two seats on the county
board of commissioners
will become official Fri-
day at 10 a.m. at the offi-
cial canvass of the Nov. 2
election votes in the
Board of Elections office
in Shelby.
Last Friday election
officials announced that
369 provisional votes and
17 mail votes are yet to
be counted which could
change. the outcome.
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