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Volume 123 Issue 48 » Wednesday, November 30, 2011 © 75¢ Find out WoW you can enter to win on page 4B | WARLICK ano HAMRICK INSURANCE 704.739.3611 106 East Mountain Street Kings Mountain, NC www. KMinsure.com We can save e you money! 4 Santa Glaus & comin’ te tean KM Christmas parade starts Saturday at 3 The annual "Home for Christmas" 100-plus unit Kings Mountain Christmas parade will step off at 3 p.m. Saturday in downtown Kings Mountain. The holiday parade will form on East Gold Street near. Mountain Rest Cemetery, proceed down S. Battleground av- enue, turn right up Main Street and right at the overhead bridge on King Street (74) and disband on East King Street in the vicinity of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Parade-watchers can enjoy the sights and sounds of Christmas - pretty girls, floats, the jolly ole man, Santa, from the North Pole, high stepping bands, and a plus for the kids who line the parade route plows of candy pitched from cars, $ trucks, and floats. Registration applications are still available online at www.cityofkm.com or at City Hall. New this year is judging of entries and awards to the best corporate, small business, service group, church, and the most artistic and best overall : Jolly Ole’ Saint Nick waves to the crowd in a recent parade. Will you be there with ‘bells’ on? in parade. See KINGS MOUNTAIN, 6A Jingle Bell Rockin' Run starts Saturday morning Close to 300 participants have signed up for Saturday morning's 11th annual Jingle Bell Rockin' Run to raise money for the Y's We Build People Scholarship Fund. This year's event, featuring a 2-mile race and a 600-meter fun run for kids, and a 5K and 10K walk/run for all ages, will kick off at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3rd, hours before the city's annual Christmas Parade downtown. The race will start at the corner of Gold St. and Railroad Ave. Runners in the SK will race down Gold Street, turning left on Crescent Hill Road, right on Hawthorne Road, left on Marion Street, left on Meadow- brook Road, right on Joyce Street, right on Hillside Drive, left on Marioh Street / S. Sims Street, and a final left on Gold Street, racing down past Silver Street before turning around to complete a run Saturday, Dec. 3rd, corner of Gold St. and Railroad Ave. Costume contest will be held before the race. Best costumed child and adult will win a prize. 5K / 10K races start at 9 a.m. 600-meter fun run and two-mile kid's run will start after the 5K / 10K races start. + Event will feature live . music from "Southern Experience”, perform- ing at the gazebo in Patriot's Park. Contests of cornhole games will also be of- fered at the event. - Special guests include "Santa Claus". - Registration will be available at the event, before race begins. Makin’ a difference Robert Bolin fills one of two shopping carts full of cans he col- lected at his restaurant, 238 Cherokee St. Tavern, for delivery to the Crisis Ministry last Wednesday. With the help of Dance Re- flections, which donated 100 cans, and the community, Bolin said they collected over 300 pounds of food for the Ministry. to the finish line on Gold Street. Run- ners in the 10K will repeat the 5K course with an additional sprint down Phifer Road before turning and heading back to the finish line. All 5K and 10K runners will receive a hoodie. As of Monday, 79 Kings Mountain contestants ranging from age 11 to 69 were scheduled to compete. Two run- ners from as far away as Lexington, Kent., had also signed up to run. "A group from the Cleveland County Girls On the Run program will be participating in their first-ever SK race (at Saturday's Rockin' Run)," said YMCA's Candace Hyde, an organizer for the event. More participants have signed up for the Jingle Bell Rockin' Run so far than last year at this time, Hyde noted. Members of First Baptist Church, local Boy Scouts and city personnel will be helping along the race route. Before the race kicks off at 9, a cos- tume contest will begin after 8:30 a.m. During the race, Southern Experience will rock the stage with tunes. Precision Timing Systems will calculate and record the results. This year's event will also feature a visit from Santa, a corn- hole tournament, free childcare for par- ticipants and a pre-race Vendor Fair during packet pick-up. See ROCKIN RUN, 6A Grover parade steps off Saturday at noon GROVER - Santa Claus is coming to town in the Grover Area Woman's Club. sponsored Christmas parade at high noon Saturday. Thirty-three units will be high stepping downtown to the lively sounds of Christmas music, flashing lights and sirens - and plenty of candy pitched to children lined up along the route. Grover Fire Department volunteers will line up parade participants at the Spring Acres entrance to the town and the parade will proceed down Main Street to Cherry Street, Mul- berry Street and down Cleveland avenue, disbanding near Linden Street behind First Baptist Church. "We invite everyone to come out and celebrate the holi- days," said Anna Grace Hughes, co-chairman with council- woman Jackie Bennett for the event. Rev. Eddie Lockhart, popular minister and longtime em- ployee at Grover School who is also-a school crossing guard for Cleveland County Schools, is parade marshal for the event. See GROVER, 6A #8 Cash for Christmas § ‘earn big bucks "We want to keep Christmas shoppers downtown and keep them shopping," said Suzanne Amos, presi- j dent of Mountaineer Partnership, the lead agency in "Cash for Christmas," an incentive underway to en- courage shopping at home. ~The contest for the big prize money ends Thursday, Dec. 1 and a drawing will be held at 11:30 a. m. on Sat- ~ urday at Patriot's Park. It's simple. Spend $50 at three Tottiaget in down: town Kings Mountain, turn in your entry card at the last place you shop, and you could win up to $15001 in ~ cash plus gift certificates. ‘The promotion is a partnership of Mountaineer _ Partnership, The Kings Mountain Herald and the Printin' Press. Eleven downtown businesses are pro- viding the cash prizes. They include: Amos Agency, 1 Life Nutrition, Darrell Keller CPA, Hometown Hard- ware, Battleground Steakhouse, Suzy B's, Body Junc- tion, Bridges Hardware, 238 Cherokee Street Tavern, . Scissor Smith & Company Salon, ‘and Warlick and Hamrick Insurance. | "We are seeing lots of cards filled up and Shoppers are finding that downtown shops have lots to offer," said Amos, adding, "We are excited because the beauty. of this promotion is that every single merchant i inthe ‘downtown area can participate." Tree] is lit. Christmas time is here. Christmas is everywhere. The traditional tree-lighting last Tuesday night in front of Jacob S: Mauney Memorial Library set the stage for the community's celebration of - the season. "What is Christmas about?" asked Mayor Rick Murphrey as he welcomed hundreds of people who stood and sat on the curbs of the closed Piedmont Avenue street facing a huge platform erected near the tree which ‘was lighted prior to Santa's arrival on a Kings Mountain fire truck. See TRADITION, 6A Kings Mountain Mayor Rick Murphrey welcomes the crowd at the city-sponsored annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in front of Mauney Memorial Library Dec. 22. 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