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City officials hoping to attract "Project
Cardinal" to ‘the city are applying for
more than $1 million in grant applica-
tions, which if approved, could build
water lines to serve a potential new in-
dustry.
Citing confidentiality agreements, city
and county officials say they can't speak
about specifics of "Cardinal," a code
name for a new potential economic de-
velopment deal rumored for 100 acres in
the new data center park on Countryside
Road in Kings Mountain.
Landing the deal could bring jobs to
Cleveland County. "We need jobs," says
Mayor Rick Murphrey.
Kings Mountain City Council last
Tuesday authotized the mayor to submit
applications for two grants totaling nearly
$1 million for water line extensions asso-
ciated with the expansion of "Project Car-
dinal."
A third grant application for up to
$400,000 will be submitted for a water-
line extension, a loop by Spectrum Tex-
tured Fibers to connect to the Project
Cardinal extensions.
The grant applications are being sub-
mitted to the NC Rural Center and the NC
Department of Commerce for construc-
tion costs and the maximum grant amount
possible is ultimately limited by the in-
dustry's commitment to jobs, according to
Planning Director Steve Killian. He said
the project involves up to 11,000 linear
feet of 12 inch water line along Country-
side Road and the estimated number of
new jobs is currently being developed for
the first phase. The city's initial match ob-
ligation will be $15,000. -
Killian said the supplemental grant ap-
plication for $400,000 to the N.C. Rural
Center involyes up to 4,200 linear feet of
12-inch water line along Countryside
Road and Patterson Road to tie into the ~
other proposed 12-inch line along Coun-
tryside that would serve "Project Cardi-
nal." Killian said the city is seeking
enough grant funds to cover 90% of a
projected construction cost of $330,000
and the city's match obligation would be
approximately $10,000.,
Killian said that the supplemental
grant has increased in importance because
the water line that would have resulted
from the Spectrum facility reopening as .
Spectrum Mills on Patterson Road was
not built because the Spectrum Mills, Inc.
project has yet to commit to creating jobs
required per that grant.
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* Local college has ‘piece of history’ - steel
from one of the Twin Towers
» Native New Yorker watched as his city
began to crumble
* Our chiefs speak out on 9/11 - where do
we stand today? Are we safer? :
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sot STI growing
Sunday textile plant
The City of Kings
Mountain will have a Pa-
triot Day observance at 2
" p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11,
at the North Carolina Na-
tional Guard Armory in
Kings Mountain. This
marks the. city’s 10th an-
nual 9-11 commemorative
service.
“On September 11,
2001 life changed forever
across America and every
part of the globe,” states
Mayor Rick
Murphrey. “Sunday, we
will honor a very’ special
group—our local city police
and fire departments, state
highway patrol, emergency
reserve personnel, county
sheriff’s ‘department and
thank them as they risk
their lives every day in per-
the flag in front of city hall observance.
at 8:46 a.m. to half-staff,
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(STI), plans to add jobs and Page 0A~ Sixty-five new
; : : full-time jobs could be
expand its textile business ; th t
with the help of a $56,000 CoH fo S Suny
grant from the One North Car- “ooo De a
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Dies announced last Tues- mining and hermetic
The Kings Mountain com- a ns fot
pany employs approximately Mountain.
170 workers today and, with
* the expansion phased in over
the next three years, will add 62 full-time positions to the
payroll. While other textile industries have fallen to'the way-
side, STI continues not only to survive but thrive, hitting a
growth spurt at age 47 and standing firm in its American
forming their jobs.” fe oh 0% se roots.
1 The Kings Mountain Fire Chief Frank Burns rings the bell re- “We believe in domestic manufacturing,” said STI Presi-
Fire Department will lower membering the victims of 9/11 at last year’s dent R. John Kay. “Five years ago people came to us and
said, ‘you're not going to survive without a Chinese platform.
You better get a Chinese platform or you’re going to be out
the same time that Ameri- nye 42 p.m. with the Patriot Day program of business.’ And now they come to us and say, ‘You guys are
can Airlines Flight #11 was at the National Guard Armory. The public is so smart because you never.went to China in a big way,
flown into the North Tower jp vited to participate. You're doing this business here and that’s a good thing to do
at the World Trade Center. gor more information about the event, now.” It’s interesting how your IQ goes up and down de-
The observance will con- 411 704- BY 0333. pending on what’s going on in the marketplace.”
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in the wake of Irene
City crews bring power back to Kinston
“Next time it could be us needing help,”
said City of Kings Mountain Electric Supt.
Nick Hendricks, deployed last week with 16
electric linemen - seven from Kings Mountain
and nine from Gastonia - to restore power to
the town of Kinston hard hit by Hurricane
Irene.
Local people said it was some of the worst
destruction they had ever seen.
Hendricks said that 12,000 power cus-
tomers were in the dark when the City of
Kings Mountain and the City of Gastonia
joined together as one crew to help in the
restoration efforts.
"Kinston is a Public Power Community
like Kings Mountain and our cities are both
members of ElectriCities of North Carolina
which manages an emergency assistance pro-
‘ gram, said Hendricks.
Kings Mountain took three bucket trucks,
one line truck and one pickup truck to Kin-
“ston. Crews, including city personnel and
workers from 10 regional contractors and
three public power communities - Kings
Mountain, Gastonia and High Point, worked
double shifts or more to get lines up and
power on in Kinston which had 00 percent
customer outage.
Area linemen in eight trucks from this area
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City crews work to restore power in Kinston, NC. ;
arrived in Kinston at 6 a.m. Sunday, August the mayor, city council and city manager for
29 to repair power lines snapped by Hurricane our participation in Public Power." said Hen-
Irene. dricks.
We are fortunate to have the support of See CITY CREWS, 7A
Building Confidence
Building Trust, Building Smiles.
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