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Ne... school offices pearing completion
Moving Day is just around the
corner for some members of the
Cleveland County Schools staff.
The target completion date for
the Central Services Facility part of
the campus (the former Shelby
Middle School) is March 4th after
a certificate of occupancy is pre-
sented to Supt. Dr. Bruce Boyles,
Director. of Public Information
Business
Showcase
set for Feb. 19
The 15th annual Kings Mountain
Cleveland Chamber Business Show-
case will be held Tuesday, Feb. 19,
beginning at 5: 30 p.m. at City Hall
and the public is invited.
Theme of the show is “The Busi-
ness of Art” and exhibits from Kings
Mountain businesses and Industries
will reflect the theme. Ribbons will
go to the winning exhibits, and there
will be plenty of food, music, and
door prizes. Exhibits will be judged.
on how well they are tied-into the
theme. Thirty-five businesses will be
showcased. Last year 2,000 visitors
visited the exhibits during the four
weeks they were on display.
Highlight of the event will be
presentation of the outstanding busi-
ness or business person of the year.
Last year’s winner was Ron Isbell,
Publisher of the Kings Mountain Her-
ald, Belmont Banner and Cherryville
Eagle.
The exhibits will be on display at
City Hall until March 15.
Presenting sponsors are First Na-
tional Bank and Shelby Savings
Bank. Sponsors are City of Kings
Mountain, Kings Mountain Hospital,
Premier Credit Union, Warlick &
Hamrick Insurance, and Kings Moun-
tain Herald.
Food sponsors are 238 Cherokee
Grill, Food Lion, Kentucky Fried
Chicken, Linwood Restaurant and
Subway.
“This should be a lot of fun for
everyone and the welcome mat is out
for everyone to attend,” said Shirley
Brutko, Office Manager for the Kings
Mountain Chamber.
Relay - shorter
hours, new
events for 2013
Kings Mountain’s 16th annual
Relay for Life on May 3 may feature
fireworks and won’t be an all-night
event at the KM Walking Track. It
will run from 5 p.m. until midnight.
Co-Chairs Frank Burns and
Tammy White told team captains
Monday night they hope the shorter
relay will attract more people.
Cancer survivors will walk the
first lap around the track at 6 p.m. fol-
lowed by a number of fun events in-
cluding a tricycle race, a womanless
beauty pageant, and luminaries at 9
p.m.
Theme of the relay is “$100,000
for 100 years” an appropriate theme
since the year 2013 marks the 100th
anniversary of the American Cancer
Society. Relay monies raised go for
research into cancer and to help pa-
tients needing transportation to med-
ical facilities and other needs. Less
than 10% of the funds are earmarked
for administrative costs. During 2002
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Donna Carpenter said those staffers
remaining in the Administrative
Center on S. Post Road will move
in March and the Board of Educa-
tion will meet in the renovated fa-
cility on March 25.
Other staff from the Instruc-
tional Center on Patton Drive in
Shelby and the Business Center on
East Ridge Street (old Central
School) in Kings Mountain will
move in months afterwards to the
new Central Services Facility.
Carpenter said it will probably be
this summer before all staff is lo-
cated in the renovated building.
Kings Mountain’s old Central
School will continue to house
maintenance staff and the Parent
Center after the other staff mem-
Eddie and Erma Lockhart
Love can overcome all obstacles
«= BETH BROCK
beth.kmherald@gmail.com
What's the secret to a long, loving
marriage?
Eddie and Erma Lockhart of
Grover, married 53 years this year,
will tell you that the biggest thing i$
to always put the Lord first.
Another thing the Lockharts have
learned throughout the years is that
there is no problem too big to face
when you have each other. Yes, they
have had their little spats throughout
the years, but have always been able
to overcome them.
Erma tells of a time when they
had a spat, and she told Eddie to pack
his bags and leave. “I ain’t leaving,”
Eddie told her. Erma replied, “me
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bers move to Shelby.
The county school’s data center
is now located in a building on the
former Shelby Middle School cam-
pus and the technology staff, for-
merly located on South Post Road,
and moved in January. The other
half of the technology center will
house the Office of School Readi-
ness, now located at 124 S. Post
Road adjacent to Food Lion. The
Office of School Readiness staff
will also move this spring.
Renovations on the portion of
the new Central Services Facility
that will become Turning Point
Academy will continue.:
Carpenter said that plans are for
the new facility to be ready for -
Turning Point students in August.
‘Buchanans to host
5/10K race to raise
funds, awareness
== ELIZABETH STEWART
lib.kmherald@gmail.com
Haley Buchanan, 5, will
be cheering from the side-
lines as her parents, Laura
and Will Buchanan, launch a
big 5K and 10K trail race
Feb. 28 for benefit of all rare
diseases, including Joubert
Syndrome, which Haley has
battled since she was 12
months old.
«Four years ago the young
couple used physical exer-
cise as a way to cope with
the diagnosis of their daugh-
ter. Both had run track in
high school but took up run-
ning seriously.
“Running became a great
stress reliever but it turned -
into something much more
special as well,” said Haley,
the daughter of Krista and
David Smith of Kings
Mountain.
Haley, the couple’s only
\child, will start Kindergarten
+ this Fall. She still receives
Haley Buchanan
physical, speech, occupa-
tional and visual therapies
but speech is a challenge.
Her parents say she is mak-
ing monumental progress.
Joubert Syndrome is
found in 1 in 100,000 people
worldwide and causes devel-
opmental delays, including
balance and coordination
and speech.
Laura and Will started
Jog for Joubert Syndrome in
2010 as a way to throw their
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KM Boy Scouts go to work at City Hall
Kings Mountain Boy Scouts “shadowed” city
department heads Friday and learned about the op-
eration of the city.
Longtime Scouters W. Donald Crawford and
Tommy King said it was a fun three hours for the
young men and very productive as they were treated
to workings of the city they had never seen, for in-
stance, the water plant, electric department, fire and
police departments.
The city staff treated the Scouts to a pizza party
afterwards at the Senior center.
Mayor Rick Murphrey sent the Scouts to their
_ assignments with a message: “This is a lesson in
government and we are always glad to welcome
you.” The mayor recounted some of the history of
. Kings Mountain, noting how diversification has
changed the workplace in the city from the textile
plants of years ago.
None of the Scouts knew their “shadow” partner
until the names were drawn by the mayor, assisted
by Special Events Coordinator Ellis Noell. Depart-
ment heads and/or their representatives were on
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Gateway Trail receives S140K grant
thanks to this generous grant.
This will give us approximately 7
total miles of trail when finished.
A great big thank you to this 15-
county initiative for seeing that
we’ are a worthy cause. I am
thrilled to be part of this project.”
Awards from The Thread help
communities build trails that will
add to the 113 miles of trails that
are currently open to the public
throughout The Threads
county region. Cleveland County
has adopted a countywide green-
way master plan, making the
county, cities and towns within
Cleveland County eligible for
grant funding from The Thread.
In 2012 Gateway Trail on S.
Battleground Avenue was en-
joyed by 110,000 visitors.
Two more miles of Kings
Mountain’s Gateway Trail will be
extended thanks to a, $140,550
grant announced Tuesday by The
Carolina Thread Trail governing
board.
Grant money will be used to
fund the design and construction
‘drawings for the extension as
well as construction of the 2-mile
segment of gravel trail. Once this
extension is complete, the portion
of the trail that is part of the Car-
.olina Thread Trail will be approx-
imately five miles long.
This phase will include up-
grades to an existing vehicle
bridge over 1-85 that was once
used buy Chemetall Foote, now
Rockwood Lithium, which do-
nated land for the community
project. Thread Trail Communi-
cations Director Carmen Bray
said “This presents an incredible
opportunity for the trail to utilize
an existing bridge that is no
longer open to vehicles”
With future phases, the Gate-
way Trail will eventually connect
to Crowders Mountain State P
ark, where users can then connect
to Kings Mountain State Park and
the Kings Mountain National
Military Park. . :
This grant is awarded as part
of The Thread’s quarterly imple-
mentation award .
Gateway Trail past President
Shirley Brutko said of the award,
“The Kings Mountain Gateway
Trail’s project is absolutely awe-
some and is still moving forward
Beauty and the
Beast takes the
stage Friday
The Kings Mountain High School
Performing Arts Department will
present its Disney’s “Beauty and the
Beast” Friday and Saturday, Feb.
15,16, 22, 23 at 7 p.m. and Sunday,
Feb. 17 and 24 at 3 p.m.
Tickets for the show at Barnes Au-
ditorium on the campus of KMHS
will be $8 for adults and $6 for senior
citizens and Cleveland County Ren-
aissance Blue, Black and Silver Card
holders. Renaissance Gold Card
holders and children 5 and under get
in for free. Princess Day will be held
at each Sunday performance. Any-
one who comes dressed as a princess
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