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See more Christmas WARLICK anoHAMRICK INSURANCE 704.739.3611 106 East Mountain Street Kings Mountain, NC 1 1G vu Volume 122 e |ssue 51 » Wednesday, December 22,2010 © 113100 = Cre al “Mow View captured at Mountain Rest Cemetery on Christmas Eve. Cemetery luminary service Friday night City-owned Mountain Rest Cemetery will be aglow with 3 candles Friday night for’15 hours as citizens continue a Christmas Eve tradition in Kings Mountain. “We had a big crowd last year and expect even more this year if the weather is good,” said Cemetery Supt. and Public Works Director Jackie4Barnette. He invites volunteers to come to the cemetery at 2 p.m. Friday to help light the can- dles in the milk jugs being placed all around the entrances to - the cemetery and on every grave. City crews will place the milk jugs filled with sand and a candle on each grave earlier in the week. The City of Kings Mountain sponsors the Christmas Eve event which draws hundreds of people who pay respect to loved ones by riding through the beautifully-decorated ceme- tery grounds. “The candles the city is using this year will burn for 15 hours and we invite citizens to enjoy the beauty and rever- ence of the city’s special Christmas gift to the community,” said Barnette. ‘Mountain people ‘Grinch’ steals Christmas Thief breaks into church's storage, swipes toys for local families, but incident a ‘blessing in disguise’ By ELIZABETH STEWART Staff writer A veritable Grinch stole Christmas spirit from 18-20 families six days before Christmas, pilfering eight bikes and 10 boxes of toys. "Rev. Roger Woodard and volunteers from Family Worship Center found the dastardly deed when they ar- rived at the church’s ware- house on W. Ridge Street early Saturday to make a big food and toy distribution, an annual ~~ Christmas-season project the church has led for nine years. 1 hope that whoever did this crime was desperate,” said Kings Mountain Police Department Captain Derek Johnson. But he added that he had faith that Kings would LIB STEWART PHOTOS THE GRINCH left food and toys behind, taking hikes and hig boxes of Christmas presents. Rev. Roger Woodard, pastor of Family Worship Center, shows other items being donated this strengthen the church drive and take Santa Claus to needy children. Pastor Woodard says that calls to help are coming in from all over the community - and Greater Kings Moun- tain. SPOKES of Charlotte week by a caring public. this week to replace the stolen presents and Toys for Tots, the Gastonia Fire De- partment, Gaston College students and people from all over Kings Mountain are do- ish the church’s loss. Kings Mountain Police and Pastor Woodard agree that the holiday | Grinch was selective, “They knew what they The bikes had been on display at the church for some time and he suspects that “The Grinch” liked what he saw. Church members bought the bicycles and do- nating Christmas to replen- ~ delivered eight new bikes wanted,” said Woodard. “See GRINCH, 7A EXPLANATION In “Sleep Tight, Don’t Let the Carpet Beetles Bite”, a story that appeared in last week’s Herald, we chose not to identify the “one local hotel” that was investigated after two complaints of bed bugs because the complaints were unfounded. No bed bugs were found. In both investigations, officers of the Cleveland County Health Department found no signs of any living bugs. A few dead bugs were found and were sent off to the state lab in Raleigh for identification. The dead bugs were identified as carpet beetles, not bed bugs. Carpet beetles feed on fibers, not humans. And they seem less’ likely to follow a traveler home. According to the CCHD, there are still no confirmed cases of bed bugs i in Cleve- land County. We hate to say a certain hotel has bed bugs or was ru- mored to have bed bugs when those initial claims turn out to be false. Patrick plugs into the sun By ELIZABETH STEWART Staff writer With the sun you never get a bill and Patrick Yarns is cashing in on the benefits of solar energy. The Kings Mountain plant, an innovative industry leader in technology, is now a first in the area in generat- ing electricity with solar en- ergy. Partnering with the City of Kings Mountain in its re- cently adopted Regeneration electric rate, the company will be selling back the kilo- watts it produces to the city. Patrick Yarns President Gilbert Patrick said that Patrick Yarns is installing 3798525700200 . lotte area. 468 solar modules for a total system size of 105.3 kilo- watts (KW). The mounting system is a ballasted, non- roof penetrating system, one of the largest privately Alliance Banks Trust R——————— CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS Workers brave the cold, installing solar panels at Patrick Yarns on York Road at the Kings Mountain industry putting in one of the largest privately-owned systems in the Greater Char- owned systems in Cleveland County and in the Greater Charlotte area. Patrick said the new sys- tem is expected to generate over 140,000 kilowatt hours (kwH) per year, enough elec- tricity to power 12 average US homes with annual envi- ronmental impact. Accord- ing to EPA calculators, over See SOLAR, 7A County gets $150K for new data center The North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center has approved a grant-worth $150,000 for Cleveland County. The grant money will aid in the installation of fiber optic ca- bles at the site of Wipro’s Infocrossing, a new data center which is setting up shop in the former Chris-Craft building on Riverside Court, Kings Mountain. According to the Rural Center, the project is set to create 15.jobs. 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, at an industry announcement last month . attended by Governor Bev Perdue. In August, Wipro purchased the vacant boat manufac- turer’s building. He said that he plans to convert it into the See GRANT, 7A Ta} Tre “Good Samaritan’ Injured while trying to help motorist Police say William Scott Belt, 39, of 202 Hall Cross: . ing isa modern-day Good Samaritan. Ptl. H.W. Carpenter said that Belt and his wife, Regina, stopped at a wreck at 7:58 a.m. Friday on US ‘Highway 74 East “below Spectrurh” to help a woman out of her car. But before he could free her, another ve- hicle headed toward them. Belt pushed his wife to safety and became pinned between the vehicle and guardrail. ~ Carpenter said rescue workers extricated Belt and Na- talia Zapata Myers, 151 Old Home Place, from the. wreckage and transported them to Cleveland Regional Hospital where they were treated for injuries. Belt suf- fered a broken leg and Myers suffered a broken nose. Two people in a truck - the third vehicle involved in the smash-up, complained of back pain ‘and were taleen to the hospital. see WRECK, 7m Building Confidence Building Trust. Building Smiles, 209 S. Battleground Ave., Kings Mountain ® 704.739.5411 www.alliancebanknc.com « memzer ric
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