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MEET THE CANDIDATES
; ELIZABETH STEWART
lib.kmherald @gmail.com
Kings Mountain voters will go to the polls
Tuesday to elect a mayor and four city coun-
cil members as they join their county neigh-
borsin electing five members of the board of
education and four representatives on the
water board.
Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30
p.m.
Polling places in Kings Mountain are
Kings Mountain North Precinct at the KM
YMCA, 211 N. Cleveland Ave., and Kings
Mountain South Precinct at Mauney Memo-
rial Library, 100 S. Piedmont Ave.
Other No. 4 Township voting places are
Bethware Precinct at Bethlehem Baptist
Church Activity Center, 1017 Bethlehem
Road, Oak Grove Precinct at Oak Grove
Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 1022 Oak
Grove Road, and Waco Precinct at Waco
Community Building, 200 S. Main St.,
Waco. :
The chief interest for area voters has
emerged in the winner-take-all race for the
At-Large seat on Kings Mountain City Coun-
cil. Running are six candidates and no run-
off will be held. Chief interest is also
centered in the school board race where a
For City Council...1B
The Grover Race...2B
- dozen candidates are seeking five open seats
on the board of education.
Perennial mayoral candidate Gilbert (Pee
Wee) Hamrick is contesting the mayor's seat
but'Hamrick has not campaigned outwardly
for the position held by Rick Murphrey, a
veteran of 18 years on city council and the
past 12 years as mayor.
The announcement séveral months ago by
For School Board...1C
In Bessemer City...2B
At-large councilman Houston Corn that he is °
retiring in December after eight years on
council set the stage for a flurry of filing ac- -
tivity and all six candidates for the position
have been pumping hands and responding to
political forums held in the area. Candidate
signs dot a wide area of the city.
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BUSHINGS
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Two-year-old Hunter Tallent rests in a hospital bed in his Hal-
loween costume at Levine Children's Hospital battling an E.
coli infection.
Amendment approved,
rezoning approved
5 ELIZABETH STEWART
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By 5-2 Kings Mountain
City Council last Tuesday
approved a zoning ordinance
text amendment that regu-
lates recreational vehicle
parks or campsites on 1,215
L-I, H-I and R-20 parcels on
11,350 acres in the city’s ju-
risdiction.
In a related action by 7-0,
council rezoned to Light In-
dustrial Mike Brown’s
Raven Drive property for an
RV park.
During public hearings
40 people stood to oppose
the text amendment and 40
people stood in favor of the
rezoning.
Councilman Rick
Moore’s motion against the
text amendment was fol-
lowed by a substitute motion
by councilmen Dean Spears.
and Houston Corn to ap-
prove it. Councilman
Howard Shipp joined Moore
in voting against the text
amendment. Joining Spears
and Corn in supporting it
were mayor pro tem Rodney
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Gordon and councilmen
Mike Butler and ay
Hawkins.
By a 5-4 vote and after a
marathon meeting Oct. 11,
the Planning & Zoning
Board sent a recommenda-
tion to council favoring the
text amendment.
- Wendall Bunch, primary
spokesman for those oppos-
ing ‘the text amendment,
said, “I want to bring closure
for Mike Brown to move
forward”, calling the text
amendment “out of propor-
tion” and detailing how
Brown had hauled off tons of
debris, installed a mile of
silting around the portion of
the Gateway Trails that
crosses the back of his prop-
erty, and cleaned up the old
Park Yarn/Glen Raven Mill
site he owns. “Mike was put
in a corner when all he wants
to do is build a phenomenal
recreation site second to
none,” said Bunch.
“The text change limits
us to what we want to do,”
said Brown’s son, Preston.
“We’re not asking for grants,
we want to produce jobs, we
have bars in town, we want
to build something: for the
kids.”
Preston’s sister, Jayda,
agreed and added “We al-
ways get halted in the mid-
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Toddler spends Halloween in
hospital battling E. coli bacteria
= EMILY WEAVER
Editor
"He seems to be having some better
days. His kidneys still aren't working,"
said Lyndsay Bell Tallent, whose two-
year-old son remains in Levine Chil-
dren's Hospital after contracting E. coli.
An E. coli outbreak has been linked
to the North Carolina State Fair, which
the Tallents attended. Seven children
and two adults have been infected with
the bacteria and 15 more cases are
under investigation. All 24 victims re-
portedly attended the State Fair in
Raleigh.
State health. officials linked more
than 100 cases of E. coli infection to a
petting zoo at the State Fair in 2004, ac-
cording to the Associated Press, but the
‘source of this outbreak is unknown.
placing first in sauce.
EMILY WEAVER
Editor
Eric Pardo, chef and restaurant
owner of Big E Original BBQ Com-
pany, returned home to Kings Moun-
tain from the Carolina Smoke-off
BBQ contest this weekend in Gasto-
nia with three top 10 finishes and a
first place grand trophy for having the
Best Sauce.
Thirty-five teams, including cooks
featured on television, traveled from
as far away as Oklahoma, Texas and
Lyndsay said that they didn't visit
the petting zoo. "We walked through a
barn, but didn't touch any animals," she
added. Her two sons, Hunter, who is
two, and Riley, 5, are used to animals.
Lyndsay, -owner of Pawsitive Touch
Grooming, operates her shop on her
family's farm.
Lyndsay said they went to the State
Fair on Saturday, Oct. 13; but never ex-
pected "to cote home with this". On
Wednesday, Oct. 19, Hunter started
throwing up. Lyndsay thought he had a
stomach virus. When Friday came and
he was still sick she took him to the
doctor.
"They told us it was a bug," she said.
They came home and on Saturday
young Hunter was worse. Vomiting and
diarrhea had drained him of strength.
Big E brings home big trophy -
Eric Pardo, the Big E of Big E's BBQ, returned home from the Carolina Smoke-off this weekend with a tind trophy for
New York to compete in this Kansas
City Barbecue Society-sanctioned -
event. When the awards were an-
nounced on Sunday, Pardo said he
was thrilled to hear Big E's called for
first in sauce. ;
And to the victor goes the spoils. ..
A tall, shiny new trophy sparkles
among several others ‘he's won
throughout the years; on a table at the
entrance to his restaurant. He also
placed in the top 10 in the pork,
.chicken and ribs contests.
"I'm hoping we can carry this mo-
The Tallents went to the hospital for
testing.
"They still suspected it was a bug,”
Lyndsay said. Tests revealed his hemo-
globin was good, but little else.
"They thought maybe it was Salmo- *
nella poisoning," she said. But tests de-
termined it wasn't that. "They didn't
know what it was."
On Monday, he was much worse.
"He was laying on the floor of my of-
fice just lifeless," she said.
They rushed him back to the hospi-
tal and there this nasty "bug" revealed
itself to be a dangerous strain of E. coli. *
Hunter was transported to Charlotte
* Presbyterian Hospital. With his kidneys
failing and a lack of specialists on-
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mentum into Hog Happnin'," Pardo
said with a grin.
This weekend, he will travel to the
Cleveland County Fairgrounds to
compete in the final local-BBQ con-
test of the year, Hog Happnin'.
Around 70 teams have registered to
compete in the contest. Among them
will be a skilled contender - a man
who has continued to place in the top
10 for pork in every contest he's com-
peted in since 2009 - Kings Moun-
tain's own, Big E's BBQ.
City awards $18K in facade grants
Downtown incentive facade grants
totaling $18,000 were awarded last
Tuesday night by Kings Mountain City
Council for three Kings Mountain
properties.
Tulloss & Sons, Inc., a Texan Cor-
poration and owners of ‘the Clark Tire
and Auto Site at 407 S. Battleground
Ave. in Kings Mountain, was awarded
a $6,000 grant and Kings Mountain
property owner Robert Bolin was
awarded $6,000 for property at 130 W.
Gold Street and $6,000 for property at
238 Cherokee Street.
The maximum facade grants pre-
sented by the city are reimbursed for el-
igible expenses payable upon
completion of the construction and is-
suance of a certificate of occupancy.
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