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Board
approves
Softball facility, gym,
robotics get school funding
The Cleveland County Board of Educa-
tion on Monday approved spending
$297,000 to build a new ladies’ softball
field house at Kings Mountain High
School. The move comes after a Title IX
audit found the school did not offer equal
facilities to male and female student ath-
letes.
School administrators had opened con-
struction bids for the project in late March.
It was not clear when construction on the
facility, which is situated between the base-
ball and softball fields, would begin. The
bulk of the cost — $269,500 — will go to
general contracting, with the balance slated
for architect fees, dressing room lockers,
benches and printing.
The board also gave the green light for
spending around $130,000 for renovations
to the Kings Mountain Middle School gym-
nasium. A new wooden floor will replace a
worn out rubber one at a cost of a little
mere than $71,000. The second largest part
of the expenditure is replacing 12 rows of
bleachers for slightly more than $55,000.
Part of the renovation costs also includes
removing and replacing the bleachers and
adjustments made to the court’s basketball
See SCHOOL BOARD, 4A
Moore tops for
effectiveness
A ranking of North Car-
olina lawmakers for effec- =
tiveness by the North
Carolina Center for Public
Research, a public policy
think tank, has Rep. Tim
Moore (R-Cleveland) in
the number two spot.
Only Speaker of the
House Thom Tillis ranked
higher than the Kings Mountain lawyer,
who represents the 111th House District
and is on the short list of seven legislators
being mentioned as a possible candidate for
the House’s top leadership post in 2015.
Tillis is not seeking re-election as he
runs for U. S. Senate.
Moore is chairman of the powerful
Rules Committee, which helps determine
the flow of legislation to the House floor.
Running for his seventh term in the NC
House, he faces a Democratic challenge
from Nick Carpenter of Shelby, immediate
past chairman of the Cleveland County
Democratic Party.
- Moore has said consistently that part of
being effective comes from working to-
gether and that legislators from Gaston and
Cleveland have formed a bond to make
economic development and jobs high pri-
ority.
The ranking of area legislators included:
Rep. Kelly Hastings (R-Gaston/ portion
of Cleveland) No. 74.
Senator ~~ Warren
Cleveland/Burke) No. 28.
Tim Moore
Daniel R-
98525
Who's got the
best barbecue?
DAVE BLANTON
dave.kmherald@gmail.com
It will be a weekend of barbeque
in Kings Mountain as nearly 70
teams from around the Carolinas,
Virginia and as far away as Florida
and Maryland pull into town to vie
for the North Carolina Firehouse
Barbeque State Championship.
The 18th annual Firehouse Cook-
Off is sanctioned by the Kansas City
Barbeque Society, which is supply-
ing more than 70 trained and certified
judges. Those judges will grade the
delicacies in four categories — ap-
pearance, taste, tenderness and over-
all impression.
The deadline for registering for
the competition is 5 p.m. Friday.
“We're at a size we like — it’s very
said Kings Mountain
“But we
manageable,”
Fire Chief Frank Burns.
won’t turn anyone away.” The regis-
tration fee is $300 after April 1.
The prize money for the best
cooks is as savory as the meats at this
year’s contest. The State Champion
— the team that gets the highest com-
bined score for beef brisket, pork
ribs, pork (shoulder or butt) and poul-
— is $4,000. Second place pays
$1,000. First place in each of the four
categories pays $550, with second,
third, fourth and fifth collecting
$300, $200, $150 and $100, respec-
tively. The highest placing team from
Cleveland County will also pick up a
$100 prize. Judging for the State
See FIREHOUSE BBQ, 4A
‘Hundreds of children are
expected at 10 a.m. Saturday
at the Mayor Rick Murphrey
Children’s Park at the YMCA
on Cleveland Avenue for the
city’s annual Easter Egg Hunt
to greet the Easter Bunny who
will arrive in a city fire truck.
“We invite children to
bring their baskets and fill
them up with hundreds of col-
orful eggs that the Easter
bunny will hide,” says Ellis
Noell, Events Director for the
Mayor Rick Murphrey
presents the plaque
i that will be perma-
#1 nently displayed on the
81 brick column at Shu
8 Carlton Stadium. For-
merly City Stadium, the
stadium where Carl-
Bel ton’s teams began the
i great Mountaineer
Wl football tradition was
8 dedicated Sunday.
8 Looking on are George
Harris, left, and Coach
Carlton’s widow,
Louise.
Photo by ELLIS NOELL
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Moss using experience from
stage and screen to enrich lives
ELIZABETH STEWART
lib.kmherald @gmail.com
If you noticed a familiar face
on a recent WalMart TV commer-
cial you were right, it was KM
hometown girl Laura Beth Moss.
The successful Broadway, film
and TV actress is also a top-tier
New York City real estate profes-
sional who grew up in Kings
Mountain. She graduated from
The University of North Carolina
School of the Arts and went
straight to the Big Apple.
Laura Beth played the leading
role of Amanda Corry on the for-
mer NBC soap opera, “Another
World,” and was on Broadway in
“Death of a Salesman.” She had
an independent film released last
year, Cloned. She has been on
Law and Order and done many
national commercials in her ca-
reer.
Moss was in town last week to
introduce her fiancé, Evan
Lozada, to her parents, Linda and
Larry Moss, and to talk with them
about a new direction her life is
taking and share the good news
that she hopes to start spending
more time at home.
“I want to give back to peo-
ple,” said Laura, who attended
Kings Mountain schools, complet-
ing her Senior year at N. C.
School of the Arts at age 17 and
then graduating from The Univer-
sity of North Carolina School of
the Arts in’ 96.
In order to begin her new jour-
ney, she became a Certified Inte-
grative Life Coach through the
International Association of Coun- -
selors and Therapists and went on
to become a Certified Anger Man-
agement Specialist III (CAMS-III)
as an Authorized Supervisor for
the National Anger Management
Association (NAMA).
Laura is now a Diplomate with
the NAMA and flys all over the
world training men and women to
Laura Beth Moss
become specialists who help peo-
ple deal with their anger. She
teaches and gives trainings with
Dr. Rich Pfeiffer, of Arizona, co-
director and founder of Growth
Central as well as president of
NAMA. Dr. Pfeiffer is moving to
See MOSS, 4A,
Children invited to annual
Easter Egg Hunt Saturday
City of Kings Mountain. He
said the children who find the
three gold eggs hidden with
hundreds of other eggs will
receive $25 gift certificates
from Toys R Us.
“It’s a fun morning for
children who can enjoy a pet-
ting zoo, baby bunnies, duck-
lings and peeps,” says Noell.
Games, storytelling and other
activities will be led by the
staff of Mauney Memorial Li-
brary.
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IS a Wiln-win
K ELIZABETH STEWART
© lib.kmherald@gmail.com
A 14-year partnership be-
tween the City of Kings
Mountain and the YMCA
has taken recreation to a
level it’s never been before.
Obviously, Kings Moun-
tain taxpayers are getting the
bang from their buck for
recreation.
“It’s a win-win situation
for citizens,” said Mayor
Rick Murphrey and Kings
Mountain Family YMCA
Director Kevin Osborne
Monday morning as they re-
counted how the recreation
program has grown in Kings
Mountain.
Improved playing fields,
the popular city swimming
pool, the adjacent, renovated
Mayor Rick Murphrey Chil-
dren’s Park in the Jake Early
Sports Complex, and the
nearby city walking track all
ad up to more amenities
people enjoy.
The Y — once the Kings
Mountain Community Cen-
ter - is operated seven days
a week from 5 a.m.-9 p.m.
and on all holidays except
Christmas and Easter. Addi-
tionally, it serves a host of
groups at no cost to them for
meetings, a church which
holds services on Sundays
and Saturday nights, and the
previous site for three voting
sessions in the Y gymna-
sium.
Last year some 419 peo-
ple used the facility every
day with over 150,000 visits
See YMCA, 4A
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