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Filing opens
on Monday
Candidate filing for the May Demo-
cratic and Republican Primary elections
will open Monday, Feb. 10, at 12 noon and
end on Feb: 28 at noon at the Cleveland
County Board of Elections in Shelby.
A number of local candidates are ex-
pected to pay their filing fees to be on the
ballots in the upcoming Primaries. Several
candidates are already announcing their
plans to offer for reelection.
Sheriff Alan Norman has said he plans
to run again and county commission in-
cumbents Jason Falls and Eddie Holbrook
are expected to seek reelection.
A contest is already developing in the
NC House 111 seat held by five-term Rep-
resentative Tim Moore. Nick Carpenter, 20,
chairman of the Cleveland County Demo-
cratic Party, has announced that he expects
to challenge the Kings Mountain lawyer.
Politicking is also picking up steam in
other areas where US Senator Kay Hagans
is expected to face challengers.
Rep. Kelly Hastings, 111 House Dis-
trict, announced this week he is running for
reelection.
US Congressman Patrick McHenry is
also expected to file for reelection.
NC Senator, 46th District, Warren
Daniel is expected to file for reelection.
Three seats are open on the NC Court of
Appeals, those of Stillman, Calabria and
Elmore.
Cleveland County colons will also
elect a District Attorney and District Court
Judge. Terms of DA Rick Shaffer and Dis-
trict 27 Judge Ali Paksoy are expiring this
year.
Cleveland County voters‘ will elect a
new coroner in 2014. Dwight Tessneer,
who has served as assistant coroner, coro-
ner and medical examiner for 14 years is
retiring.
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Themed “Dreams Do Come
True,” the program focused on
the fight for equality, faith and
a number of African American
pioneers who have made ad-
vances in science, technology
and social programs.
Members of the community
rang in Black History Month in
a program that emphasized re-
silience through adversity and
an urging to never give up on
one’s dreams.
“I’m not Martin Luther
King, Jr., but I had a dream
too,” said Rev. John Houze, the
keynote speaker of the event,
which was hosted by the H.
Lawrenee Patrick Senior Cen-
ter. “As a boy, I saw the mail-
Singers from the Patrick Senior Center Chorus, directed by Carol Dixon, led the Black History Month
program with a selection “Standing in the Need of Prayer”.
Photo by ELLIS NOELL
Community kicks off
Black History Month
man running up and down the
street and [ made that my goal.”
But Houze, now a pastor at
People’s Baptist Church, found
resistance. “They told me
they’re’d never been a black
mail carrier at the Grover Post
Office.”
Houze persevered, gaining
employment at the small post
See BLACK HISTORY MONTH,
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786 Bell Rd., Kings Mountain
Grover
prepares
for sewer
hook-up
GROVER- By early
2015 town council expects
to hook up sewer to Kings
Mountain at construction
cost of $1.2 million.
Bob Froneberger, project
manager for W. K. Dickson
of Charlotte, gave a
timetable for the project at
Monday night's’ maging of
the town board.
He said that contracts for
construction could come as
early as August 1. Engineer-
ing reports and plans and
specifications have already
been submitted to NCENR,
the state environmental and
natural resources agency,
and approval is expected
April 1.
Froneberger gave an up-
date on the project during a
public hearing.
The new project is eligi-
ble for a 20-year loan at a
rate of 2% from NCDENR's
infrastructure finance sec-
tion's clean water state re-
volving fund (CWSRF)
program.
By their 20-year agree-
ment with Kings Mountain,
Grover citizens will pay the
inside residential rate for
sewer. Grover is already a
water customer of Kings
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Cleveland County Board of Elections is See GROVER, 4A
located on Patton Drive in Shelby. The of-
fice ‘hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
Energy bills
may go up
in February
Kings Mountain area citizens can expect
to receive higher energy bills this month,
which reflects January’s higher than normal
energy consumption. :
January 2014 temperatures were colder
than normal so customers will likely expe-
rience increases when opening their Febru-
ary bills.
Bills vary by customers depending on
the size and age of the home, the number
of gas and electrical appliances, number of
people in the home, thermostat settings,
and levels of insulation.
Shirt sleeve weather last Monday, snow
on last Tuesday and Wednesday, and more
cold predicted have resulted in the ther-
mometer plunging.
Last week city officials asked residents
to cut back thermostats by 2 degrees to con-
serve energy.
I would like to thank everyone for their
continued assistance in shedding natural
gas loads. This is extremely important in
assisting and reducing our overall whole-
sale natural gas costs,” City Manager Mar-
ilyn Sellers said last week.
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‘Be the
match’!
Love’s Fish Box
open after fire
ws DAVE BLANTON
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Love’s Fish Box has opened its doors after
a fire broke out in a storage area of the popu-
lar eatery a week ago. No one was inside the
restaurant at the time of the blaze and the
damage was mostly confined to a back room,
a part of the ceiling and a water heater.
The cause of the Tuesday, Jan. 28, fire was
traced to clean rags, according to the restau-
rant’s owners and the Kings Mountain Fire
See LOVE'S, 7A
Co-owner Danny Love points out the area where the blaze
broke out near midnight on Tuesday last week. The section
of the restaurant is directly behind the kitchen and is used
for prepping food.
Area businesses, citizens lauded by chamber
A bone marrow drive will be
held Feb. 15 for 20 year old
Taylor Haraszkiewicz who is
fighting cancer.
Taylor (Faris) Ha-
raszkiewicz, the 20-year-old
newlywed fighting acute
« myeloid leukemia, returns to
Wake Forest Baptist Med-
ical Center Feb. 25 for her
second booster round (five
days) of chemotherapy.
Friends and family are
praying that a bone marrow
donor will be found on Sat-
urday, Feb. 15, at a “Be the
Match” at the Otis D. Green
American Legion Post 155
from 12 noon until 4 p.m.
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Taylor won’t have to take
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L-R: Lisa Zyble, Lib Stewart, Wendy Isbell, and Wayne Conner of the Kings Mountain Herald; Betty Sue
Morris of Warlick and Hamrick Insurance; Ken and Virginia Deal of Ditto Consignment; and Marty and Stormy
Mongiello of Inn of the Patriots were all recognized for their service by the Cleveland County Chamber at the
annual awards banquet Thursday, January 30.
PRO BY ELLIS Nort the third and fourth round of
Three Kings Mountain area awards banquet that attracted 270 the Kings Mountain Herald, and chemo,” said her mother,
businesses were recognized as people Thursday at the Le Grand Inn of the Patriots of Grover. Robin Knight. She said her
“Emerging Small Business Entre- Center in Shelby. Betty Sue Morris, insurance daughter is upbeat but a
g IG Sa preneurs” by the Cleveland Honored with engraved woman at Warlick & Hamrick,
County Chamber at the annual plaques were Ditto Consignment, See CHAMBER, 7A See BE THE MATCH, 4A
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