Wednesday, July 17, 2013
From page 1A
awards. ;
Can you cook a ham-
burger? Space is available
for you to show off your
skills with the “Best Burger
of Beach Blast”. VFW Post
9811 will be registering en-
tries. Judges will include
KM Fire Department Chief
Frank Burns, the organizer
of the 2013 Firehouse BBQ
Cook-off, Cathy Noell, pop-
ular food writer with the
Hargett Media Group, and
Kings Mountain Mayor Rick
Murphrey.
Contestants are required
to provide their own gas grill
(no charcoal) and any ingre-
dients to make the team’s
entry. Details and registra-
tion forms are at www.city-
ofkm.com and entry fee is
$20. Hamburger meat will
be provided by Ora Super-
market for the competitors to
use as the base for their “best
burger.”
Visitors are encouraged
to bring their appetites and
- participate in the watermelon
eating contest sponsored by
238 Cherokee Grill, Tom’s
Family Mart and Cee Jay’s
Landscaping. The competi-
tion is free and begins at
1:45 p.m. with no registra-
tion required.
Another fun event is the
Ice-cream Crank-off for ben-
efit of Relay for Life, the
Green Banana Project, spon-
sored by the Kings Mountain
Herald. There is a $5 entry
fee and registration is from
11 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday
at Patriots Park. Judging and
public tasting starts at 1 p.m.
Beach music fans can
shag for hours to music by
the Fantastic Shakers, cele-
brating their 30th anniver-
sary of providing classic
beach music, the Free Flow
band from Asheville and the
Craig Woolard band wrap-
ping up a full day of music,
family fun at this popular
foothills summer festival.
Fifty vendors in the Park
will be offering a variety of
goodies plus unique arts and
collectibles for sale to the
public.
The Rotary Splash Pad
and Water Wars will be a
popular spot for kids. Vari-
ous amusement rides will be
a fun spot for youngsters.
At 3:45 p.m. the mayor
‘will conduct the annual
beach ball drop, a highlight
of the event, from high up in
the Kings Mountain Fire De-
partment Ladder 1 fire truck.
“It’s good family funin a
beach setting and everyone
is invited to come out and
enjoy the festivities,” said
Mayor Rick Murphrey.
Shelby Wiley waves to the
judges in the 2012 Teenie-
Weenie Bikini Contest. She
won 3rd place in her age di-
vision last year.
KMH file photo
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BEACH BLAST: Saturday at Patriots Park
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Beach Blast Schedule of Special Events
Saturday, July 20
Patriots Park» 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
~ downtown Kings Mountain
10 a.m. Festival Opens/Gazebo stage opens
: * Welcome - Mayor Rick Murphrey
* Teams will begin grilling hamburgers in the
Best Backyard Burger contest. See details and
registration forms at www.cityofkm.com.
* Craft/Food Vendors
* Waterwars
* Eurobungee
10:15am. - Zumba Party w/lennifer Stacey
11 am. - Dance
11 am. - Registration for the Ice Cream Crank.-off,
a fundraiser for the Green Banana Project.
Look for the registration form
in this week's Herald!
12 noon ~~ — Teenie Weenie Bikini Contest at the Gazebo
and presentation of awards to winners.
1 p.m. — Judging and public tasting of the Green
Banana Ice Cream Specialty of the Year at the
Kings Mountain Herald space in the Park
1 pm. - Concert: The Fantastic Shakers
1:45pm. - Watermelon eating contest.
* No registration required.
2 p.m. - Awards ceremony: Grilling competition
Awards ceremony: Ice Cream Crank-off
3:45pm. - Beach Ball Drop from high up in the
'KMFD Ladder No. 1 fire truck.
4 p.m, - Concert: Free Flow
7 p.m. - Concert: The Craig Woolard Band
10 p.m. - Festival closes
FIELD HOUSE: construction continues despite wet weather
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trainers.
The new field house is
the brainchild of the Kings
Mountain Touchdown Club
and David Brinkley, the or-
ganization’s president and
founder. Together they’ve
raised nearly $874,000 in
cash donations and promised
gifts and close to $184,000
in donated work by local
builders, suppliers and con-
tractors.
“The community has re-
ally got behind the project,”
said Brinkley. “But we still
have a ways to go.”
The Touchdown Club is
$172,000 short of its goal to
complete funding of the $1.2
million project, Brinkley
said, adding that he wants to
raise all the needed money
through contributions. The
initiative has won an ap-
proval for a large bank loan
should fundraising goals not
be met in time to meet con-
struction costs.
Donations have come
from all over the Kings
Mountain community, he
said, from individuals and
business who gave $50 or
$100 to others who con-
tributed up to $10,000.
“We’ve been really
blessed, really lucky that
there is so much pride in the
Mountaineers,” said Brink-
ley, a Valdese native who
played defensive back at
Western Carolina University
before moving to Kings
Mountain in 1978 to teach
history, physical education
and coach varsity football,
girls softball and girls bas-
ketball at the high school.
After a three-year stint in ed-
ucation, Brinkley began an
investment business in town.
The facility, which has
not been named yet, broke
ground in the fall of 2012.
This week, through the wet
weather that has plagued the
area recently, a plumbing
subcontractor was laying
pipes and other foundation
elements at the site, which is
located between the football,
baseball and soccer fields.
Cleveland County Schools
Assistant Superintendent for
Operations John Yarbro and ,
coaches at the school picked
the location, Brinkley said.
Talk of building a modern
facility to anchor the
school’s prep sports began in
2009 when the Touchdown
Club was just four years old.
Board members started to
kick around ideas, research
the numbers and look into
fundraising opportunities.
The non-profit group felt
that Kings Mountain High
School athletics had out-
grown the current field
house, which was built in the
early 1970s and is situated
behind the northern end
zone.
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rick Architecture, which do-
nated all of its services to the
project.
The Touchdown Club,
which had about 120 mem-
bers last year, raises money
in two ways: a spring golf
tournament and through
membership drives. Mem-
bership is $100 a year:
Tax-deductible donations
can be made to the Touch-
down Club by mailing con-
This artist rendering shows the proposed facade of the finished field houses. (
proposal to raise funds for
and build the new field
house was presented to the
Cleveland County Board of
Education. The initiative got
the green light six months
later. All the building and
construction cost for the
the Kings Mountain High
School athletic department,
his organization’s board
members and people in the
community who have done
their part to raise awareness
about the project.
“Gary Stewart has been a
project come from privately
big help,” Brinkley said.
“He’s great at putting this
project in historical context.
He’s the sports historian of
this town and everyone
knows it.”
He also wants to given
special thanks to Roger Hol-
tributions to Kings Mountain
Touchdown Club, P.O. Box
2017, Kings Mountain, NC
28086.
To learn more about the «
organization and the field
house project, visit
http://kingsmountaintouch-
downclub.webs.com/
raised money. Once com-
pleted, it will be maintained
and supported by public
funds.
Hall Builders, owned and
operated by Tommy Hall, ts
contracting the project, a
service he is providing at
cost, Brinkley said.
The construction of a new
field house represents stage
one of a broader goal by the
Touchdown Club. Stage two
will include building a new -
press box, concessions
stands and restroom facilities
for John Gamble Stadium.
Brinkley said he’s
worked hard raising the
money, but insists the credit
goes to the generous donors,
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