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Tree
lighting
Tuesday
The City of Kings Mountain will
have its annual Christmas Tree Light-
ing ceremony in front of Mauney Me-
morial Library at 7 p.m. Tuesday,
Novi23.,
Mayor Rick Murphrey will give
the welcome. Dr. Jeff Mauney, chair-
man of the board, will give the state
of the library address.
~~ Carolers from West, East and
_ North elementary schools, led by
Monica Martin, will sing Christmas
tunes. The mayor will read the Christ-
mas story from the Bible, Luke 2:7-
14
A special performance of a holiday
selection will be sung and then Mur-
phrey will invite the children to gather
around him on: the front steps of the
library as he reads "'Twas the Night
Before Christmas". :
_ After the story, Santa will arrive, -
escorted by the Kings Mountain Fire
Department. Then, the farge fir tree in
front of the library will be set aglow 3
with Christmas lights.
A reception with Santa Claus will
be held inside the Christian Activity
Center, across the street from the li-
brary, at Central United Methodist
Church. Children will be able to whis-
per their Christmas wishes into
Santa's ear'during the reception.
‘Mayor, students
talk recycling
Recycling doesn't have to be just an-
other household chore:
That is the message Mayor Rick Mur-
phrey and Public Works Supt. Jackie Bar-
nette are taking to the schools inan effort
to pitch the upcoming new "single-
stream” recycling program that cranks up
Jan. 1.
Barnette said that the city has ordered
a new garbage truck to handle the collec-
tion of recyclables and as soon as the
truck arrives the 95-gallon blue contain-
ers will be delivered to every household.
Included will be specific guidelines on
what can and cannot be recycled as well
as the pickup schedule.
"Can we recycle pizza boxes?" asked
"one student at Kings Mountain Middle.
In brochures, the city. is circulating
lists of things that can and cannot be re- «
cycled. Pizza boxes are on the list of "no-
no's” - items that are banned from the
blue containers.
No pizza boxes, no paper towels, no
toilet tissue, no plastic bags, no plastic
lids or caps, no shredded paper, no hard-
back books, no scrap metal, no plastic mi-
crowave trays, no Styrofoam’ or
paper-to-go containers, no frozen food,
no ice cream or frozen juice containers,
no mirrors, ceramics or Pyrex, no light
bulbs, plates or. vases, no drinking
glasses, no window glass, no hazardous
or bio-hazardous waste, no plastics (other
than those listed in the brochure), no
waxed paper or waxed cardboard, no
Kraft (orange/brown) envelopes, or wire
coat hangers. These items can be placed
among other things in the regular green
garbage bin and picked up on your regu-
lar pickup day at curbside.
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a
HISTORIC DAY
State, county, local officials
welcome Infocrossing data
center to Kings Mountain
By ELIZABETH STEWART,
EMILY WEAVER
it’s official! Infocrossing, a divi-
sion of Wipro Technologies Ltd., a
worldwide info tech firm based in
Bangalore, India, plans to open its
11th state-of-the-art, highly secure
data center in approximately six
months in southwest Kings Moun-
tain, Mayor Rick Murphrey said
yesterday.
Sameer Kishore, president of
Wipro Infocrossing, said the firm
will bring 17 high tech jobs over the
first four years of its operation and’
invest $75 million over the first
three years in the new facility. He
said the Kings Mountain location
will be the company’s flagship data
center.
The mayor said that a team from
city staff will be assigned by City
Manager Marilyn Sellers to work
+ with Wipro officials in an “efficient
and smooth transition” as the tech
firm, nicknamed the “Microsoft of
india”; moves“into the former
215,000 square feet Chris Craft
building on Riverside Court, The
new company will be a water,
sewer and gas customer of the City -
of Kings Mountain.
City, county and state officials
welcomed Kings Mountain's first
data center and the first for Cleve-
land County Monday. North Car-
olina Governor Bev Perdue, who
made ‘the official industry an-
nouncement, touted the move as the
first step in marketing 250 acres in
Riverside Court in the Countryside
Community as a nationally known
data center park.
Perdue made the announcement
in the Chris-Craft building before a
cheering crowd of city, county and
state leaders. She said one of the
. reasons Wipro chose Kings Moun-
tain was because they “felt at home
here.”
Wipro will be the first tenant in
the proposed 260-acre technology
farm that may sprout five or six
new data centers in the near future.
Courity leaders have been working
t
EMILY WEAVER/HERALD
Governor Bev Perdue tells Wipro Infocrossing President Sameer
Kishore about the significance of the North Carolina-made plate,
which bears the state seal, that she is giving him. She gave it to
him along with a hearty “thank you” for deciding to locate his new
data center in Kings Mountain.
to attract clients to the park for
several years.
Former Gov. Mike Easley
flew into Cleveland County to
announce that Chris Craft, one
of the world’s leading manufac-
turers of boats and yachts,
would "be moving into. the
Countryside park in July 2006,
But the recession hit the boat
manufacturer hard. The build-
ing was once again empty in
2009. :
Atlanta-based T5 Partners
purchased the property earlier
‘See WIPRO, 7A
City pays tribute to Veterans
Lt. Col. Maury Alexander Williams, 26-year career veteran of the NC
National Guard, of Kings Mountain gives a stirring keynote address.
Bugler Paul Fulton sounded a
somber "Taps" Thursday after a
cominunity-wide tribute to veter-
ans in Thursday's Veterans Day
service at Mountain Rest Ceme-
tery..
A graveside service on a hill-
side facing Veterans Park had just
ended at 11 a.m. and the people
gathered in front of the cemetery
cross could see a flag-draped cas-
* ket as the music from the Loch
Norman Pipe Band and a parade
led by a color guard and veterans
entered the cemetery.
Crowds gathered in front of
the cemetery cross and around the
flag-marked final resting places
of veterans suddenly became very
quiet on a beautiful Indian Sum-
mer morning as they realized the
significance of what they were
witnessing.
Lt. Col. Maury Alexander
Williams, a 26-year career vet-
eran of the North Carolina Na-
tional Guard, and Kings
Mountain Mayor Rick Murphrey
were keynote speakers. Williams
said that Veterans Day is a "cele-
bration of those who make vic-
tory possible."
"We sometimes take for
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Shana Adams sings the National Anthem while American Legion Dis-
trict 23 Commander Claude Pearson, Police Chief Melvin Proctor,
Marie and Frank Burris and Mayor Rick Murphrey, I-r, salute the flag.
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photos by EMILY WEAVER
Mia Bridges, left, and Meile Songaila stake their flag in the ground of Veterans Park at Mountain Rest
Cemetery during the city’s Veterans Day service.
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