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Rayann Campbell took 1st place in the girls
0-3 division of the Teeny Weenie Bikini con-
test.
BEACH BLAST:
From page 1A
dancers and contests, and applauded to the
music of The Fantastic Shakers and Free
Flow.
Mayor Rick Murphrey climbed up in
Kings Mountain Fire Department Ladder No.
1 fire truck for the traditional Beach Ball
Drop which delighted the crowds.
The winners in the girls 0-3 and boys 0-3
categories were Rayann Campbell and Blaze
Teague. The winners in the boy’s 4-6 cate-
gories were Shelby Wiley and Beckett
Stokes. All contestants received prizes from
Reno Chiropractic who sponsored the con-
test that opened the 2012 Beach Blast.
Judges were Jan Harris, Main Street Direc-
tor; Shirley Brutko, local Chamber manager;
and Terri Ellison of Reno Chiropractic.
A big crowd watched as hamburger chefs
turned out “best hamburgers” and the win-
ners were Matthew Holland and Dr. Foo’s
Barnyard Experiments, first; Chris Johnson,
Blaze Teague took 1st place in the boys'0-3
division of the Teeny Weenie Bikini contest.
fun beat the heat!
second place; and Kings Mountain VEW
Post 9811, third, which sponsored the con-
test.
The spiraling temperatures brought peo-
ple to the Ice Cream Crank off that was won
by Erica Carpenter, Teen Miss Cleveland
County and they sampled her yummy choco-
late-chocolate chip ice cream and loved it.
Erica’s mother, Linda Carpenter, took second
place in the contest with her delicious straw-
berry.
In addition to these traditional flavors, a
salted sweet corn ice cream was a first for the
event and festival-goers also sampled mint
chocolate chip, cherry vanilla, and green ba-
nana ice cream. The event was a benefit for
the Green Banana Project with proceeds
going to Relay for Life. The contest was
sponsored by the Kings Mountain Herald
with prizes donated by Subway, Swoogers,
YMCA, Hometown Hardware, Steve Baker
of Nationwide Insurance and Oak Grove
Auto Sales.
Shelby Wiley took 1st place in the girls 4-6 "Beckett Stokes took 1st place in the boys 4-6
division of the Teeny Weenie Bikini contest.
division of the Teeny Weenie Bikini contest.
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Matthew Holland and Dr. Foo’s Barnyard Experiments won first place in Saturday’s Best
_ Burger cook-off at Beach Blast at Patriots Park. Making the presentation to Holland , left, is
Chuck Sperry, representing Kings Mountain VFW Post 9811 who sponsored the cook-off. The
winning team won a $300 first place cash award. Not pictured is second place winner Chris.
Johnson, who took home a $200 cash prize.
photo by Ellis Noell
DIRECTOR: Pondillo to be at ‘The New Charlie Wu’ premier
From page 1A
Pondillo wrote the script for
the film in the summer of
2008 but the idea he said had
been “rattling around in my
head for 16 years.” He had a
dream that put him on a path
that changed his life. “A
woman floated toward me
and said, ‘Be somebody else
before you’re 40.’ I suspect
that in this economy a good"
time that Lawrence and
Pondillo have worked to-
gether.
The “New, True Charlie
Wu” won six awards in 2010
as Best Comedy Short in the
Smogdance International
Film festival, Pomona, CA;
Fifteen Minutes of Fame
film festival, Palm Bay,
Florida; Kent film festival,
Kent, CT; Staten Island In-
ternational film festival,
Staten Island, NY; Wildwood
many folk are waking to the
fact they’ve got to change
their lives too.”
David Lawrence, who
played Mr. Nugatorius in the
film, is a rising Hollywood
actor and was seen as a re-
curring guest star (playing
the villain Eric Doyle) on the
Dr. Bob Pondillo
hit NBC-TV show “Heroes,”
as well as roles on ABC-
TV’s “Lost” and CBS-TV’s
“The Unit.” He recently co-
starred with Frankie Muniz
in “Pizza Man,” a new com-
edy. This: film is the third
festival, Wildwood, WI; and
‘Remi Gold Award, World-
fest, Houston, TX. It will be
featured in its entirety on
Wisconsin Public TV’s “The
Director’s Cut” TV show on
July 29 and streamed on de-
mand from WPT websites.
The choir from the film ‘The New Charlie Wu’
GROVER: {wo file for city council seats
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Ross and his wife, Linda
Gregg Ross, have two chil-
dren. Kayleigh is a student at
Grover School and Logan
Ross is a student at KM In-
termediate School. He is the
son of Lena Ross of Kings
Mountain and J. R. Ross of
Shelby and is employed by
DBA Rentals of Kings
Mountain. The family is
Baptist.
Jackie Bennett has served
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on town council for 10 years.
“I love this town and I am in-
terested in our town and peo-
ple,” said Bennett, who has
lived in Grover 50 of her
nearly 74 years. She has
headed the cemetery com-
mittee since 2003 and is ac-
tive in the Woman’s Club
and is a member of Shiloh
Presbyterian Church. She
lived in Washington state for
20 years and raised her chil-
_ dren there and also lived in
Alaska 2 '; years. Daughter
of the late Dean and Helen
Hope of Grover, she is a re-
tired telephone operator and
has been a caregiver for
many years. Her children are
Martha Allen and husband,
Dennis and Mona Bennett,
all of Grover, Lynn Falls of
Blacksburg, SC, Dude Ben-
nett of Alaska and the late
Tee Bennett. She has seven
grandchildren, including two
grandsons serving in the US
Army, and two great-grand-
children.
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The synopsis of Wednes-
day’s show, rated PG, fol-
lows:
Charlie Wu has been an
accountant for years, stuck in
a job that’s sucking his soul.
He knows he should leave
and go for his dream, but he
just can’t, or won’t quit. If he
leaves his good paying posi-
tion, he fears his parents and
friends will think he’s a stu-
pid failure — and he knows he
could fail. So; Charlie waits
and stews as the seasons
pass. One night Charlie has a
vision where he meets Eu-
daimonia, the Queen of his
soul. She whispers: “Be
somebody else before you're
30” and launches Charlie on
a wild, funny, touching and
ultimately life changing mu-
sical fantasy.
Says the writer, director:
“If you’ve ever lost your way
on life’s journey, if you ever
settled for a paycheck in-
stead of your passion, if
you’ve ever postponed your
special dream, The New,
True, Charlie Wu is for and
about you.”
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