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Volume 125 e Issue 20 Wednesday, May 15, 2013 ¢ 75¢
Dr. Cheryl Lutz, Director of Technical Serv-
ices in Cleveland County Schools, points to
the “brains” of the technology system in the
new Cleveland County Central Offices. With
exception of Turning Point Academy and
three employees in Testing, the administra-
tive staff is complete after moving of depart-
ments in stages over the past several
months.
Photo by LIB STEWART
CC School news
School memories sweet for
some board members
Memories of “the way they were” in what
is now the new Central Services administra-
tive offices of the Cleveland County Schools
between Marion and Sumter Streets in
Shelby are ‘sweet’ for two members of the
school board.
Dr. Jack Hamrick, chairman, walked
across the stage of the auditorium in 1959 to
receive his diploma from then Shelby High
School.
Jerry Hoyle, who retired as principal of
East Elementary School in Kings Mountain,
attended the then Shelby Junior High in that
same building in 1966.
Shelby Middle School occupied the
building before the new Shelby Middle was
See MEMORIES, 5A
Teacher assistants
concered about job cuts
“We have no intent or desire to cut jobs
but we have to live with what the North Car-
olina legislature and Governor says,” school
board chairman Dr. Jack Hamrick said Mon-
day, responding to concerns expressed by
teacher assistants that their jobs may be on
the state’s chopping block.
Two teacher assistants — Jennifer Wilson
of Springmore Elementary and Carolyn Bar-
ringer, President of the Cleveland County
Association of Teacher assistants, said they
fear that jobs may be cut.
“I’m worried I won’t have a job next year
and others share my concerns,” said Wilson.
Both Barringer and Wilson said that assistant
teachers wear many hats in the classroom.
See ASSISTANTS, 5A
Moss to head up North
Elementary next year
Four schools will have new principals
next year in personnel transfers approved by
the Cleveland County Board of Education on
May 13. All four administrative changes be-
come effective July 1.
Molly Blanton, principal of North Ele-
mentary, will become the next principal of
Township Three Elementary succeeding
Tropzie McCluney who is retiring.
Dr. Dustin Bridges, an assistant principal
at Crest High School; has been named asthe
See MOSS, 5A
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The new name of Cleveland
County School’s administrative
offices fits.
Called Central Offices, the $9
million plus former school
building between Marion and
Sumter Streets in Shelby, is built
to house all administrative em-
ployees, serve the public in one
place with a myriad of services,
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and house Turning Point Acad-
emy.
In its heyday the 76-year-old
building was the former home of
Shelby High, Shelby Junior
High, and most recently Shelby
Middle School.
Moving day has been spread
over several months and will be
completed this summer as the
testing program and Turning
Point Academy move into the
first floor of the spacious facility
and campus.
“Before we had people meet-
ing in different places around the
school system,” said Supt. Dr.
Bruce Boyles. Now, there are a
total of 11 conference rooms.
The only new construction was
building corridors to connect
three separate buildings.
Public Relations Director
Donna Carpenter said the work
of the school’s maintenance and
the technology departments
saved major dollars in the reno-
vation.
Dr. Cheryl Lutz, Director of
Technical Service, said her de-
partment completed all the low-
voltage work, from ordering
materials, pulling wire, installa-
tion and setup. She said the orig-
inal low-voltage cost was around
$1.5 million and her department
probably saved 50 percent of the
See OFFICES, 5A
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Keith Ramey’s craft is meticulous
and time-consuming. He begins witha
chunk of wood, strings, some bits of
steel and cow bone and pails of lacquer.
When he’s finished with a project —
often three or four months down the road
— the result is a handmade mandolin,
the small stringed instrument that’s
an indispensible part of any blue-
grass five piece. :
Such a work of art
might fetch $1,500 to
$3,500. But Ramey, a
bluegrass musician
himself, is giving
thisone-away-as
part of an unoffi-
cial fundraiser to
Cleveland County.
and perseverance.
His band — The
Hymn Boys and J. Max McKee.
Making Mandolins ——
benefit Hospice of For Keith Ramey, making mandolins is a matter of ilies
Timberidge Bluegrass Band — and two others are holding a free concert in late June in
downtown’s Patriot Park. On the bill that Saturday afternoon will also be The Gospel
Hospice of Cleveland County is a network of non-profit healthcare facilities that
provides end of life care for the terminally ill. It has a location in Kings Mountain and
Photo by DAVE BLANTON
See RAMEY, 5A
OTM Triathlon Saturday
Saturday’s 14th annual Over the Moun-
tain Triathlon will begin at Moss Lake at 8
a.m, with a one mile swim, a 30 mile bike
ride through four counties and two states
and finish with a 10k run through the streets
of Kings Mountain.
But, with over 300 triathletes compet-
ing, is there a good place to watch the race?
Ellis Noell, Special Events Director for
the City of Kings Mountain, has a few
places in mind for a great vantage point of
all the race segments. “Our triathlon race is
Olympic length, which means that over this
long race course, there are a number of
‘places to watch and cheer these amazing
triathletes,” he says:
Noell recommends:
*The swim start at the old beach near the
Moss Lake Office on Oak Grove Road
where the swimmers take off in the waves.
*The swim finish on the New Camp
Creek Church Road with a hearty jog up the
hill to jump on the bicycles and take off.
*The halfway point of the bike portion
at the water station at the Superintendents’
Office at the Kings Mountain National Mil-
itary Park, the only water that’s provided on
that segment by handed-off bottles.
* *The third transition area from bike to
run on Railroad Avenue in downtown Kings
Mountain.
*The finish line at Patriots Park.
The race has received recognition as the
best triathlon in the Charlotte area and the
best bike portion in the North Carolina
Triathlon Series. Participants have come to
Kings Mountain for this race from England,
Germany, Spain and Thailand as well as
throughout the US.
““We’ve been selected twice in the last
14 years as one of the qualifying races for
the USA Triathlon Series for the National
Photo courtesy of CITY OF KM
Championship. And, then it’s on to the
Olympics in Rio de Janeiro for 2016. So, you
never know who will be competing on an in-
ternational level that may have competed in
the Over the Mountain,” added Noell.
Noell anticipates the race will be included
as a qualifier in 2014 for the 15th anniversary
of the race.
Council sets budget
workshop for May 22
Kings Mountain City Council will
meet Wednesday, May 22, at 5:30 p.m.
for a workshop on the 2013-14 budget at
the H. Lawrence Patrick Senior Life &
Conference Center.
City manager Marilyn Sellers will
conduct the meeting, assisted by the city
finance department, who will present an-
ticipated expenses for the new year, as
well as projections by department heads.
Council will probably set public hear-
ing on the budget for its June meeting.
The budget is on the table for review
by citizens for 30 days pric to final adop-
tion.
. Register
now for new
‘community
alert’ system
A new “community alert” system, free to
the public from the City of Kings Mountain,
will soon provide emergency and non-emer-
gency notification to citizens who live and
work in Kings Mountain.
The city needs your help to fully imple-
ment the system. :
To participate, register your personal
contact preference (work phone, cell phone,
e-mail or text message) at
wwwcityofkm.com.
Based on the nature or severity of an
event, the system may be used to contact
residents by one or all of the preferences you
choose. If you confirm receipt of the mes-
sage on any one of these methods (home
phone, work phone cell phone, e-mail, text),
the system would stop trying to reach you.
If you do not confirm, the system will then
move to the next method of contact until it
has rolled through all the options you have
provided.
Called Mass Notification system, the city
is working with Everbridge Inc., a leading
firm in emergency and incident notification
that communicates emergency and non-
emergency information through phone, text
and email messages. This service is an ad-
dition to the city’s existing weather sirens
that go off from three locations in town in
event of emergencies.
“The City of Kings Mountain is commit-
ted to public safety and is providing our cit-
izens an early warning system already but
these additional tools will enhance the pub-
lic safety of Kings Mountain citizens, neigh-
borhoods, businesses and communities
along with providing other important noti-
fications,” said the mayor.
He said implementation of the system
will involve voluntary participation from
Kings Mountain citizens and businesses
wanting to sign up to receive timely alerts,
information and other notifications.
While the system will be initially popu-
lated with public White and Yellow Page
data, it will be far more effective if you sign
up and provide your information. The public
data collected will only be used for emer-
gencies and can only contact you at listed
home or business number. To be reached by
other means and to get non-emergency no-
tifications you must have signed up for
them.
The system is designed to provide essen-
tial, timely information that may include the
following topics:
Emergency Alerts: Tornado warnings,
storm warnings, evacuation notices, haz-
ardous materials incidents, Amber Alerts
-See ALERT, 5A
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