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Candidates speak out at KM forum
DAVE BLANTON
dave.kmherald@gmail.com
Candidates seeking seats on the
Kings Mountain City Council and
the Cleveland County Board of Ed-
ucation introduced themselves to
the public and explained their plat-
Police hunt
robbery
suspects
Police are looking for two men they
say robbed a Kentucky Fried Chicken em-
ployee after smashing her car window and
threatening her in the restaurant’s parking
lot Saturday evening.
A female employee had just closed up
the store for the night and was in her car
about 10:15 p.m. when two black males
approached her and demanded money, ac-
cording to Kings Mountain Police Depart-
ment detectives. After the victim complied
and handed over cash from the day’s busi-
ness receipts, the two robbers fled north
behind KFC. Police did not disclose what
kind of weapon was used or-how much
money was taken. The victim was not hurt
in the incident.
Police have released the following de-
scriptions of the suspects: 1)- Light-
skinned black male with slender build
standing 5°10” to 6” wearing a black
hoodie, black hat and black face mask. 2)-
Black male standing 5°10” to 6’ wearing a
red hoodie and a red bandana.
“ Police are asking the public to report
any information they may have on the
case to Det. S.D. Shockley at (704) 734-
0444.
More forums
are scheduled
The Cleveland County Branch of the
NAACP is hosting forums for the 2013 can-
didates for the board of education and the
City of Kings Mountain.
The Cleveland County school board
forum will be held Monday, Oct. 7, at 6 p.m
in the Library of Cleveland County School's
Service Building, 400 W. Marion Street,
Shelby.
The forum for candidates for three seats
open on the Kings Mountain city council
will be held Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 6:30 p.m.
At Bynum Chapel AME Zion Church Fam-
ily Center, 213 N. Cansler Street, Kings
Mountain.
All candidates seeking office for the
school board and city council have been in-
vited. Contact Brenda Lipscomb, Political
Action chairman, for further information at
704-974-9721.
Early voting for school board races and
the Kings Mountain municipal election will
begin Oct. 17 and end on Nov. 2 at the
Board of Elections office, 215 Patton Drive,
in Shelby.
Also of interest to Kings Mountain
See EARLY VOTING, 6A
8 HI 0020
forms Monday evening in a forum
hosted by the Kings Mountain
Woman’s Club.
“My kids are grown, but I still
believe our children deserve the
best,” said Jeff Gregory, a retired
Postal Service employee running
for a seat on the school board. “I’m
dren
all about family, all about family
and all about doing the right thing.”
Other candidates for the school
board echoed those and similar
thoughts before about 35 people as-
sembled in the downtown club.
“I have a big heart for our chil-
.. we need to supply what-
Jousting, Ruights,
FT adies and more!
Read all about it on page 3A
Benefit planned for Surber
Sandy Sheppard Surber, 47, is in
the battle of her life fighting cancer at
Kings Mountain Hospice House.
The single mother's close-knit
family is sponsoring a benefit Satur-
day at 1 p.m.at 2049 Bethlehem Road
to help pay for medical expenses,
household bills and needs for Sandy
and her two children.
Fighting colon cancer since late
last year, Sandy lost her mother to
cancer. Her father, Randy Sheppard,
died in an accidental explosion in his
garage January this year in the Love
Valley community.
Shrimp boil and fish fry plates will
be available for $5 and $7 and enter-
tainment during the day will include
a Spacewalk, raffle, auction, corn
hole tournament, music, Southern
Drawl concert, and karaoke, culmi-
nating in a bonfire. The family is ask-
ing for a $2 donation per carload at
the gate.
Sandy Sheppard Surber, middle, with
her two daughters, Hannah and
Magan
Sandy's sister, Sharon White, and
her brother, Scott Sheppard, will be
assisting in the benefit. They invite
the public to attend.
“Our thoughts will be on Sandy
but we want her friends to enjoy the
entertainment planned and the fish fry
and shrimp boil," said White.
Farmers Market will be ‘cooking’
in downtown KM this weekend!
Now accepting EBT & debit cards
Saturday's Farmer's Market in
downtown Kings Mountain will be a
little different.
In addition to the vegetables on
display and available to the public
Nancy Pinkerton, a chef with Black
Tie to BBQ, will be cooking on site
and live music will entertain shop-
pers.
A culinary instructor at Central
Piedmont Community College,
Pinkerton has been in the catering
business 12 years and is a National
Restaurant Association Certified
ServSafe instructor and a National
Restaurant Association Certified
Culinary Instructor. She is also a
Kansas City BBQ Society Certified
Master Judge and Table Captain and
a member of the Central Piedmont
Community College Hospitality
See Farmers Market, 7A
ever it takes for those teachers,”
said Danny Blanton, who said that
while technology has its place in
education, it should not replace tra-
ditional instruction.
Darius Griffin, Kenneth Led-
ford and Donnie Thurman Jr.
rounded out the candidates for
case.
with
school board. All candidates were
given three minutes to make their
The format didn’t allow for
questions from the audience but
members of the public mingled
the candidates over refresh-
ments afterwards.
See CANDIDATES, 6A
$5.2M water line
project to begin
This drawing by city staffer Holly Black depicts how the down-
town railroad area is proposed to look after a beautification
and enhancement program proposed by railroad officials and
the city with the railroad payin
g the tab. The railroad closed
two crossings to truck traffic after a slew of wrecks caused
hy-iruck drivers not heeding “do not cross” signs. The area
of the downtown tracks will get a new look when the project
is completed.
su ELIZABETH STEWART
lib.kmherald@gmail.com
The city is expected to
begin in October a $5.2 mil-
lion water line rehabilitation
project, the start-up of major
water and sewer improve-
ments expected to be com-
pleted in late 2014, at a price
* tag of $33.8 million.
Mayor Rick Murphrey
said the money to pay for the
projects will come from a no
interest 20-year loan from
the State Revolving Fund.
He made the progress re-
port at a city-sponsored cus-
tomer appreciation breakfast
Thursday morning at the H.
Lawrence Patrick Senior
See WATER PROJECT, 6A
5K to open Gateway Fest
, “Gateway to a Cure 5K”
will open the 11th annual
Gateway Festival in Kings
Mountain Oct. 121i in Patriot
Park.
The Sk run/walk event is
a benefit for Scotty Hill, a
freshman at Kings Mountain
High School, who is battling
Rhabdomyosarcoma Renal
Tumors.
The young man missed
most of his 8th grade year.
Proceeds from the race at 8
a.m. will help him and his
family with medical ex-
penses.
Runners and walkers will
step off at 8 a.m. at Patriot
Park and wind its way down
Gold Street through the Cres-
cent Hill area and back to Pa-
triot Park. Festival events
downtown kick off at 10 a.m.
And continue until 5 p.m.
Register before Oct. 1 for
the race and receive a t-shirt.
For details and race informa-
tion call 704-692-8141 or
email thewytes@carolina.
rr.com or click on raceson-
line.com for registration in-
formation.
The Gateway Festival
draws hundreds to the city for
a variety of events sure to
please the whole family.
Artisans, craftspeople and
registration
vendors can still register to
set up a booth for their dis-
plays by clicking on the city’s
website — cityofkm.com- for
information.
Colonel Frederick Hambright
Chapter DAR is sponsoring
this portion of the event and
Scotty Hill
the $30 fee for vendors goes
to the chapter for its scholar-
ship fund.
Music, muskets and mer-
riment are all a part of the big
event. The cute critters com-
petition. is. always a crowd
pleaser as well as the Revo-
lutionary War historic en-
campment and battle
re-enactment. A free shuttle is
available to all venues, and
much more is being planned
by the Special Events com-
mittee headed up by Ellis
Noell.
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