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Wednesday, November 17, 2010 New directors j join KM Family YMCA By EMILY WEAVER Editor On Monday evening, Oct. 18, at J. Oliveris coffee shop, members of the community stopped to meet two of the newest members of the Kings Mountain Family YMCA. Taffy Allen was hired by the Y more than a month ago to fill the role of wellness director. John Maynard came on board over two months ago as the Yis new sports and aquatics director. : As she was settling into her new role last recently, Allen said she is excited to be a part of the KM fam- ily. Although her job may be a bit - new, her career path hasnit changed too much. ‘She has worked in the field of health and wellness for years. The last position she held was the director of the Activate Gaston Pro- gram through the Gaston County Family YMCA. This year-round healthy living program is focused es- pecially on health and wellness. Activate Gaston, part of the Acti- vate America initiative, is a free, web-based community health, fit- ness and weight management pro- gram for Gaston County. Among other objectives, it encourages par- ticipants to engage in at least 30 min- utes of physical activity five days a week. At Kings Mountain, she looks forward to working with many pro- grams that zero in on the same keys to healthy living. She recently sat in on her first meeting with the Cleve- land County Health Departments x ACHIEVE committee. The Y is a partner in the ACHIEVE Initiative. ACHIEVE (Action Communi- ties for Health, Innovation, and En- Vironmental changE) is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The initiative, with the collaboration of several agencies, looks at ways to increase the health- iness of communities and prevent or manage health-risk factors for com- mon diseases and illnesses, like obe- sity. “lim excited about the opportu- nity and the challenges lying out there ahead of me,” Allen said. She added that she hopes to con- tinue spreading the message of the importance of healthy living and ~ wellness to the community. In her role, Allen will be reaching out to the community, through av- enues such as the ACHIEVE pro- gram and workplace wellness plans. “Itis a big job. Thereis a lot to be done.” i * But she has a passion for fitness. Allen started teaching group ex- ercise at the Y right out of college. “One way or another Iive always been connected with the Y.” She has been married 24 years to Stephen Allen. Together they have two daughters, Katie who is a soph- omore at UNC-Asheville and 14- year-old Mallory. The Allens reside in Gastonia. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts from Greensboro College. With a degree in performing arts and a background in dance, Allen became an instructor of Zumba fla The Kings Mountain Herald dance/exercise craze that has swept the nation in the past few years. Maynard, the new sports and aquatics director, said that sports has been a part of his life since he was four years old. Growing up, he became active in tennis, baseball, basketball, soccer and golf. “Jive always wanted to get into sports” as a career, he said. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in Exercise and Sports Science. After college, he worked at the Y in Chapel Hill, coaching aquatics. He is overseeing six sports, with about 35 participants, going on right now at the KM Family YMCA: soft- ball, t-ball, flag football, youth soc- cer, baseball and adult softball. “This is definitely what I want to do.” Maynard added that, even though heis been in sporting arenas for years, he is learning new things about sports he didnit know and his “love of the game” is growing. “Sports gives you something through childhood that little else an,” he said, adding that so many life lessons can be learned on the playing fields. He said thereis something special about working at the Y, where val- ues, integrity and the sportsman-like . way to play is just as important as learning how to play and win. Maynard is also excited about joining the KM family. He was born -in Wilson and now resides in Gasto- nia. John Maynard sports and aquatics director Page 7A Sports briefs Wingate to play first playoff game The Wingate University foot- ball team, 8-2 and champions of the South Atlantic Conference, will play its first-ever NCAA Di- vision II playoff game Saturday at 12 noon at home against More- house State. Two members of the Wingate team are Kings Mountain High products Casey Cogdill, an offen- sive lineman, and Josh Yon, start- ing defensive tackle. Yon has four solo tackles, 19 assists and four tackles for loss in 10 games. Wingate head coach Joe Reich will be guest speaker at the Kings Mountain Touchdown Club Foot- ball Awards Night Thursday, Jan. 6 at B.N. Barnes Auditorium. The event honors the members of the 2010 KMHS football team. Wellness Director Taffy Allen FROM Page 1 this year, with plans to attract data centers. TR ‘Historic day for Cleveland County’ The governor said the Kings Mountain announcement falls on the heels of the recent t= RA ERR largest social networking site, that it will open a data center in Forest City, Rutherford County. “More than 20 states wanted our site,” Kishore said, adding that the company had = Xa et a min ER TEES i | home when their sights settled on Kings Mountain. Wipro selected North Carolina after an “ex- tensive search” to identify a location with the right combination of a technically proficient workforce, access. to telecommunications and electrical infrastructure, and favorable operating costs. In August, Wipro purchased the vacant boat manufacturer’s building and plans to convert it into a data center that will house their corporate clients’ computing op- erations. Kings Mountain Mayor Rick Murphrey, ¥ county commission chairwoman Jo Boggs, i Rep.Tim Moore, and county commissioner [ Eddie Holbrook praised the teamwork of many people in a vision for new industry to bring jobs to Cleveland County. “We welcome Wipro, it took a team effort by the county, state and city,” said Murphrey. He added that city officials will make the transition for Wipro as easy and as quickly as possible. An “historic day for Cleveland County,” is how Holbrook described the plans for a data center as he recognized the hard work of many to bring the plans to fruition. “This is ‘my 38th trip’ to Cleveland County,” said Secretary of Commerce Keith Criscoe, “a great moment for Kings Moun- tain and the county. Cleveland County will embrace Wipro and make you feel like home.” “Kings Mountain is a great town and a town that cares about its people,” Moore said. He called the move by Wipro a “new direction” for the Greater Kings Mountain area and said the passage of a NC House Bill (1793) on incentives has paved the way to bring more jobs not only to Kings Mountain and Cleveland County but throughout the announcement by Facebook, the world’s spent nearly two years shopping for a new - Both the governor and Kishore said that. _ state. “Wipro is a sign that things are getting better and North Carolina is on the radar screen for getting jobs,” Moore added. “Google, Apple and now Wipro. North Carolina continues to be a prime location for growing and expanding global technology companies,” Perdue said. “Technology lead- ers recognize our state’s talented workforce, our comprehensive infrastructure and low cost of doing business when choosing to ex- pand operations and making investments to North Carolina.” Kishore said that they recognized them. ‘Cloud’ with silver lining “At Wipro Infocrossing, we are always looking for ways to‘increase the value we de- liver to our customers,” Kishore said. “Our vision for our Cleveland County site is to not only increase our data center footprint but build a facility that brings the best infra- structure technology to our clients. We look forward to becoming a part of the Cleveland County community and tapping into its tal- ented pool of technology experts to build our state-of-the-art data center.” Kristin Fletcher, Executive VP for the Cleveland County Economic Development Partnership, said “Cleveland County has de- veloped a strategic effort to target the grow- ing data center industry and with Wipro’s announcement we can finally say that we are now part of the region’s information tech- nology corridor. Our available product which has the geographic and infrastructure advan- tages coupled with our local focus and de- termination, gives credence to the idea that our county could quite possibly establish one of the largest data center clusters in the re- gion. By recruiting data centers, we are not only diversifying our employment sector, we are preparing for the innovation and technol- ogy economy that is already upon us.” Boggs said, “We are excited to welcome the Wipro Data Center to Cleveland County. We appreciate very much the relationship that has been established with this company and look forward to a long and prosperous relationship with them. In these tough eco- nomic times that we have endured, compa- nies have continued to find Cleveland County an attractive place to locate. We ap- preciate the confidence in our citizens that Wipro has demonstrated by choosing to lo- cate in our county.” FROM Page 1 ; Another student asked, "What can we re- cycle?" The list of "please do recycle" items in- = cludes: flattened cereal and food boxes, plas- 4 tic bottles and jugs, glass bottles and jars, | metal cans, office paper, magazines, cata- ER logs, newspapers and inserts, aluminum : i cans, flattened cardboard boxes. ana 5 A = Recyclables in blue bins will be picked up every other week on your regular pick-up 1 day. Barnette said there is no need to remove paper clips, stamps, address labels, staples, tape, wire metal fasteners, rubber bands, spi- Ni bindings and plastic tabs. Do flatten all fe ardboard boxes, and empty and rinse all ‘containers but don't flatten containers. ~The mayor said that recycling reduces ollection costs because collection can be au- mated, and collection routes can give serv- e more efficiently. More paper grades can collected, including junk mail and mixed sidential paper. . Barnette said that single-stream recycling i sor Zedes® Eko ey hid t FIFI PF Rr i 3 fr eo of Es FFF > 2 RECYCLING: the message at local schools cycled and less waste will end up in the land- fill. He also noted that in addition to greener practices, there is a potential cost saving as .every ton of trash recycled will save Kings Mountain money. The mayor said that recyclables would be picked up every other week and taken to a recycling point in Gastonia and then to Char- lotte via conveyors. Every ton of garbage sent to the Cleveland County landfill costs the City of Kings Mountain $33, and for every ton of recyclables the city will be cred- ited that same amount. With all your recyclables collected in one can, Kings Mountain residents can use the second (garbage) can for compostable mate- rials like food scraps, etc., and you don't have . to sort things like you've been doing but make sure you're recycling only the items ac- cepted. It is also good for recycling if ever- increasing amounts of materials are kept out of the landfills and sold in good clean condi- tion to the remanufacturing companies that make new products from recycled materials. Single-stream helps to increase this volume of materials, city officials point out. ier Reich is Wingate’s winningest football coach ever. Heading into Saturday’s game the Bulldogs are 65-42 overall in nine seasons under Reich. They were 8-3 in 2008 and 7-3 last season. Reynolds, Loftin start in title game Kings Mountain freshmen Meagan Reynolds and Megan Loftin started for the Gardner- Webb women’s soccer team in the recent Big South Tournament championship game against High Point in Radford, VA. ; : High Point won 1-0 in over- time. GWU had advanced with a 1-0 first round victory over Rad- ford and a 4-2 shootout win against Liberty following a score- less tie in regulation. Reynolds was named to the league All-Freshman team. She finished the season with three goals and two assists for a total of eight points, #2 on the team. Loftin had one assist for one point. WIPRO: announces plans for company’s 17th data center in Kings Mountain £ photos by EMILY WEAVER Mayor Rick Murphrey, left, welcomes Wipro Infocrossing President Sameer Kishore to Kings Mountain at the industry announcement Monday that the worldwide info tech firm is coming: to Kings Mountain. Wipro plans to construct the data center to meet the Uptime Institute’s requirements for a Tier III rating, which defines architec- ture and redundancy requirements to main- tain operations in the event of unplanned . system failures. The site will feature multi- ple levels of security and incorporate “green” technologies designed to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certifica- tion. The data center will support all major computing platforms including mainframe, iSeries, Windows, Unix and Linux server, and will house the company’s Dynamically Adaptive Infrastructure cloud computing platform. © “Cloud computing” is like a computerized electricity grid - a network of computers and technology that share information and feed other devices. Data centers, or server farms, have been popping up across the country to expand the reach of these “clouds”. Google set up its own data center near * Lenoir in Caldwell County in 2008. In neigh- boring Catawba County, Apple Inc. an- nounced last year that it plans to build a $1 billion facility. And just last week, Facebook announced that it has “friended” Rutherford County with a data center. Other partners that helped with the In- focrossing Data Center project, codenamed “Project iFox” by county officials in incen- tives deals, include: the NC Department of Commerce, NC Community Colleges, Cleveland County Economic Development Partnership, City of Kings Mountain, City of Shelby and Golden LEAF Foundation. Reason |, al Give Thanks Please join us for aFREE Community Thanksgjving Meal Monday, November 22nd 4pm — until Kings Mountain American Legion Bldg. 613 E. Gold Street For more information visit + www.arisechurch.net
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