March 28, 2012
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Herbed Goat Cheese Bites
Ingredients: :
1 tablespoon fresh flat-
leaf thyme leaves
1 tablespoon fresh parsley
leaves
I tablespoon fresh tar-
ragon leaves
1 tablespoon fresh mint
leaves
1 (8-0z.) goat cheese log
1 (8-0z.) French bread
baguette, cut into
1/4-inch-thick slices
2 tablespoons extra virgin
olive oil
1/2 cup sun-dried toma-
toes in oil, drained and
chopped
1/2 cup loosely packed
fresh basil leaves
Combine and finely chop
“first 4 ingredients. Roll
cheese log evenly in herb
mixture; wrap in plastic
wrap. Chill at least 2 hours or
up to 24 hours.
Preheat oven to 350°.
Drizzle baguette slices with
olive oil. Gently press slices
into 24 muffin cups in muf-
fin pans.
Bake at 350° for 7 to 9
minutes or until crisp and
lightly browned. Remove
from oven; let cool in pans 5
minutes. Spread goat cheese
into baguette cups; top with
sun-dried tomatoes and basil
leaves.
Thin French Apple Tart
Ingredients:
1/2 (15- ounce) phcknie
refrigerated pie dough (such
as Pillsbury)
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cin-
namon
2 pounds Golden Deli-
cious apples, peeled, cored,
and thinly sliced
2 1/2 tablespoons honey
1/2 teaspoon vanilla ex-
tract
Preheat oven to 425°.
Place dqugh on a lightly
floured surface; roll into a
12-inch circle. Place on a 12-
inch pizza pan. Combine
sugar and cinnamon. Sprin-
kle 1 tablespoon sugar mix-
ture over dough. Arrange
apple slices spokelike on top
of dough, working from out-
side edge of dough to the
center. Sprinkle apple slices
with remaining sugar mix-
ture.
Bake at 425° for 30 min-
utes. Combine honey and
vanilla in a microwave-safe
bowl. Microwave at high 40
seconds. Brush honey mix-
ture over warm tart. Serve
warm.’
Easy Blackberry Cobbler
Ingredients:
4 cups fresh blackberries
1 tablespoon lenton juice
1 large egg
1 cup sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
6 tablespoons butter,
melted :
Whipped cream (op-
tional)
Garnish: fresh mint sprig
Preheat oven to 375°.
Place blackberries in a
lightly greased 8-inch square
baking dish; sprinkle with
lemon juice. Stir together
egg, sugar, and flour in a
medium bowl until mixture
resembles coarse meal.
Sprinkle over fruit. Drizzle
melted butter over topping.
Bake at 375° for 35 min-
utes or until lightly browned
and bubbly. Let stand 10
minutes. Serve warm with
whipped cream, if desired.
. Garnish with fresh mint
sprig, if desired. For a neat
presentation, bake for the
same amount of time in 6 (8-
0z.) ramekins on an alu-s
minum foil-lined baking
sheet.
service institution.
Health Inspections
Health Department inspections during the period March 19-23
included three restaurants, Lone school lunchroom and one food
They included: Silver Villa, E King St., 96, including two extra
points added to the final score when any employee working at the
facility has attended an approved food handling course; Town and
Country Catering, Park Grace Rd., 96; Woodbridge Golf Club, New
Camp Creek Rd., 96; and Kings Mountain Intermediate School 101
and Summit Place, Phifer Road, 100, both with two extra points
added to the final score when any employee working at the facility
has attended an approved food handling course.
SCHOOLS: adopt 2012-13 calendar
FROM Page 3A
reports Feb. 26; HS/MS
progress reports March 7;
Parent-teacher conferences
and early dismissal March
March planning
la orientation
day March 28; annual leave
day March 29; spring vaca-
tion April 1-5; K-12 report
cards distributed April 11;
April 25; planning day April
29; Elementary/Intermediate
progress reports May 7; an-
nual leave day May 27; last
of 180 days June 10; and
planning days June 11-12,
Page 7A
5 charged 100th Anniversary
in KM
murder
Cleveland County
deputies have charged
five Kings Mountain peo-
ple in the shooting death
of Francis Kwasi Munufi,
a Ghana native who lived
in Charlotte.
Library hosts program on Titanic
Titanic! — History / Tragedy
/ Discovery: a multi-media ex-
ploration of the fascinating story
of RMS Titanic, its 1912 sink-
ing, and the 1985 discovery of
the ship’s remains, presented by
Titanic enthusiast Dr. Melinda
Ratchford, is a free public event
appropriate for school-age youth
and adults to be held Monday,
April 2, at 6:30 p.m. in-the Com-
munity Room of Mauney Me-
morial Library, 100 S. Piedmont
Avenue in Kings Mountain.
No reservations are required
‘for individuals and families. Ad-
vanced reservations requested
for organized groups.
Friends of the Library is co-
sponsoring the special presenta-
tion.
14; end of third quarter
HS/MS progress
reports = 2013.
ccs: eyes budget with pay raises and no cuts
FROM Page 1
scale at a cost of $228,460; a 1 percent in-
crease in the non-certified pay scale at a cost
of $151,400; a 10 percent increase in the
principal and assistant principal supplement
scales at a cost of $48.315 and additional
months of employment for eight assistant
principals at the secondary level at a cost of
$43,478.
Local classroom positions offset the po-
sitions lost in the increase of the state discre-
tionary reductions. This is an increase of
approximately 17 positions at the local aver-
age salary at a cost of $704,584.00.
Lee reiterated that CCS lost $1.4 million
in stimulus funds and no more stimulus funds
to CCS will be available after September
2012. He added, "We will use the reserves as
benefit for one more fiscal year. We've been
very conservative with these monies."
He said the amount of discretionary funds
is expected to increase statewide by more
than $74 million - adding up to more than
$503 million in discretionary cuts in the
state's two year budget. He gave a four-year
comparison chart that showed drops and
trends in total budget discretionary reduc-
tions.
"It's significant with the downturn in the
economy, he said, adding, "A trend that is
disturbing, a significant budget impact that
has already occurred and we don't know how
long it will continue in the future."
In other business, the board;
+Hired Martin Starnes & Associates,
CPAs, to conduct the audit of credit cards of
‘nine members of the maintenance depart-
ment with date for completion May 15. Au-
ditors will sample three years (2009-2011)
and select five months of credit card logs
(February, April, July, September. and De-
cember for testing and review supporting
documents for all purchases for personal card
use. They will also randomly select five more
maintenance employees and sample three
. years and select one month (October) for
testing of card logs and purchases. For all
other departments they will randomly select
20 employees with school issued credit cards -
ad sample for three years, selecting the
month of March for testing and review of
personal purchases on the cards.
+approved a three year contract with
Dixon Hughes Goodman to conduct the an-
nual financial audit of CCS accounts at cost
of $38,000.
+approved payment to Holland & Ham-
rick Architects for architectural services on
the Central Services Building (the old Shelby
Middle school) at $334,352 which will house
all the administrative staff and offices and the
alternative school.
+approved the 180-day school calendar,
which includes a State Board of Education
waiver of five instructional days. The an-
nouncement of the waiver and the new cal-
endar, presented by Dianna Bridges, was
quickly followed by motions by Kathy Falls
and Jerry Hoyle for approval, saying the new
calendar was "much better for the commu-
nity." Bridges said the executive team and In-
structional center will work jointly to
determine which workdays will be used for
staff development.
+Casar resident Brenda Cooke reiterated
her opposition to funds being used for reno-
vation of the old Shelby Middle School, say-
ing that the public was not informed of the
strategic plan until it became a "done deal."
She said other needs, such as auditoriums for
Crest and Burns High School and kids in
classrooms out of mobile homes, should
have been priorities of board members. "Do
you want to follow the old board and spend
so much money on so few?" she asked new
members of the school board.; Cooke pre-
sented a petition to the county commission-
ers at a recent meeting asking them not to
release funds to CCS for improvements to
the Central Services Building.
+contracted with McKnight-Smith Ward
Griffin for engineering services for renova-
tion to CTE labs at Burns High School.
+The board appointed KM pharmacist
Allan Propst, Clearwater Paper Co. execu-
tive Vince Reese and Shelby lawyer Daniel
Talbert to the CCS Educational Foundation
board of directors after nomination by the
Educational Foundation.
The board recessed for an executive ses-
sion with its attorney. Upon returning to the
meeting room Chairman Dr. Jack Hamrick
announced no action was taken.
Last week teenagers
Jessica Edwards, 18, of
Galilee Church Road, and
Devonte Shawmar Lyons,
19, of Mauney Avenue,
both of Kings Mountain,
were arrested.
On Tuesday, Aryka
Roberts, 18, was arrested
along with Rashad Mar-
kee Schenck, 21, and
Sheldon Gerard Thomp-
son, 25, according to the
Cleveland County Sher-
iff’s Office.
Both Thompson and
Schenck live on Branch-
wood Circle, which is a
half mile from where
Munu was killed.
All five have been
charged with first-degree
murder, attempted rob-
bery with a dangerous
weapon and conspiracy to
commit robbery with a
dangerous weapon. They
are being held without
bond in the Cleveland
County Detention Center.
Munufi was shot to
death March 13 outside a
vacant house on Putnam
Place north of Kings
Mountain, according to
reports of law enforce-
ment officers.
Road.
Sweat to speak April 16
Using humor and her own experiences, acclaimed mo-
tivational speaker Holly Sweat will present a message of
hope and inspiration at the annual Ladies Night Out at Dou-
ble Springs Baptist Church Monday, April 16.
Accomplished pianist and cancer survivor Bryte War-
rick will give her testimony and provide music for the
evening, which begins with dinner at 6 p.m.
Tickets are $10 each and may be ordered by calling the
church at 704.434.2258 by April 12.
Double Springs is located at 1130 Double Springs
Church Road, near Lattimore just off Washburn Switch
Will you be 18
~ by Nov. 6?
You can vote!
High school students who turn 18 before the Nov. 6 gen-
eral election can vote in the May 8 primary and the deadline
to register to vote is Friday, April 13.
But while they can vote at age 17 in the primary they
won't receive a ballot for Amendment One, the proposed con-
troversial amendment that would ban same-sex marriage.
Residents must be 18 years of age to vote on referenda. iy
As long as 17-year-olds turn 18 before the general election
they will be eligible to vote in their first presidential election.
One stop early voting will run from April 19-May 5, ac-
cording to the Cleveland County Board of Elections website.
VOTERS: Constitutional decision to make in May
FROM Page 3A
day, April 13.
Sample ballots for the May primary for
Republican and Democratic parties are listed
on the Cleveland County Board of Elections
website.
Kings Mountain's Republican voters will
vote on:
~Presidential Preference = Newt Gingrich,
Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, or
no preference
- US House of Representatives District 10
- Ken H. Fortenberry, Patrick McHenry, or
Don Peterson
- NC Governor - Jim Harney, Scott A.
Jones, Jim Mahan, Pat McCrory, Charles
Kenneth Moss, or Paul Wright
- NC Lieutenant Governor - Dale Folwell,
Dan Forest, Tony Gurley, Grey Mills, or
Arthur Jason Rich
- NC Auditor - Joseph Hank DeBragga,
Greg Dority, Debra Goldman, Fern Shubert,
or Rudy Wright
- NC Commissioner of Agriculture - Bill
McManus or Steve Troxler
- NC Commissioner of Insurance - James
McCall, Richard Morgan, or Mike Causey
- NC Secretary of State - A. J. Daoud,
Kenn Gardner, Ed Goodwin, or Michael
‘(Mike) Beitler
- NC Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Ray Ernest Martin, David Scholl, John
Tedesco, Richard Alexander, or Mark Craw-
ford
- NC Treasurer - Frank Roche or Steve
Royal
TRAE LS
- NC House of Representatives District |
110 - Pearl Burris Floyd or Kelly E. Hastings
. - Board of County Commissioners - Jeff
Gregory, Ronnie Hawkins, Johnny Hutchins,
or Susan K. Allen
= Constitutional Amendment
Kings Mountain's Democratic voters will
vote on:
- Presidential Preference - Barack Obama
or no preference
- US House of Representatives District 10
- Patsy Keever, Timothy Murphy, or Terry
Michelle Bellamy
- NC Governor - Walter H. Dalton, Gary
M. Dunn, Bob Etheridge, Bill Faison, Gar-
denia M. Henley, or Bruce Blackmon
- NC Lieutenant Governor - Eric L.
Mansfield or Linda D. Coleman
- NC Commissioner of Agriculture - Wal-
ter Smith or Scott Bryant
- NC Commissioner of Labor - Marlowe
Foster, Ty Richardson, or John C. Brooks
- NC Treasurer - Ron Elmer or Janet
Cowell
- County Register of Deeds - Bonnie E.
Reece or Shelly Wray Roberts
- Constitutional Amendment
into action?
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