Newspapers / The Kings Mountain Herald … / July 30, 2014, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Tn Harr Funeral Howe | Locally Owned & Operated Since 1947 A Family Tradivion of Dignity, Service & nderstding % 108 S. Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, NC Nl 1392591 56-unit apartment building going up in KM DAVE BLANTON Volume 126 e [ssue31 e Wednesday, July 30, 2014 dave.kmherald@gmail.com Work is under way on a new apartment complex on the east side of town that will include 56 units, a clubhouse, as many as two small ponds and a covered picnic area. Cambridge Oaks Apartments, which will offer affordable tax- credit housing, will occupy just under eight acres on Hwy. 74, close to Canterbury Rd. and about a mile from the Hwy. 74/1-85 inter- change. Builders say the soft pro- jection for completing the project is next spring or early summer. A sub-contractor based out of Shelby began the grading work in early July and that phase of the project is expected to last three to four months and overlap the start of the building of the dwellings, according to Jason Patterson of Davis Grading. Charlotte-based Greenway Res- idential Development LLC is the developer for the project, which gained zoning approval months ago from the Kings Mountain City Council. The main contractor is WXZ Construction SE, which is a subsidiary of Greenway. Its recent projects in western North Carolina include a similar complex in Morganton that was completed in 2010 and one in Asheville that is about half fin- ished, according to Mark Richard- son, the company’s assistant vice president of development. He added that this is the company’s first project in Kings Mountain. Ten percent of the units will be See HOUSING, 7A Workers for Davis Grading position a storage box Monday at the King Street site for a new apartment complex that is scheduled to be completed by spring or summer of next year. Owens 1 thankful to have survived plunge off waterfall ; ELIZABETH STEWART lib.kmherald @gmail.com we By all accounts Patrick Merino Owens, 17, is a walking miracle. “God was with me," the Kings Mountain High football player and wrestler said Monday as he recu- perated at his home on Open Lane in Kings Mountain. “One minute I was there with my dad and other family members and the next minute I was gone," said Owens, who didn't remember being swept over the High Shoals waterfall in the South Mountains State Park and landing on rocks 92 feet Patrick Owens below. “God was with us every step of the way," say his par- ents, Ramone and Robin Merino. See OWENS, 3A Queen benefit Saturday Leslie Queen, 51, is wait- ing on a liver transplant. He will be ready when the tele- phone call comes from Car- olinas Medical Center. In the meantime, Karen “Doodle” Dellinger, a friend of the family, wants Queen to have everything he needs and Cherokee Street Baptist Church is sponsoring a fundraiser — a chicken din- ner and live auction: Satur- day, Aug. 1, at 4:30 p.m. at Boyce Memorial ARP Church fellowship hall, 111 Edgemont Drive. The auc- tion starts at 6:30 p.m. and includes valuable prizes do- 8 Il Il 1 nated by Kings Mountain businesses and homemade cakes baked by good cooks of the community. “We are trying to raise $10,000 to help Leslie and Rosemary Queen," said Dellinger. “They will need help with medical expenses and Rosemary will need to be at the hospital with Leslie." The chicken dinner also includes baked beans, slaw, rolls and dessert for a $8 do- nation or two hot dogs, slaw, chips and dessert for a $6 donation. Queen was diagnosed a little over a year ago with non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. The Queens have two children: Justin and Vic- toria. Mrs. Dellinger wel- comes donations of auction items and money for the Queens. Call 704-718-2300 for more information. Rokk kkk RRR RRR KKK RETRY 2D 4903 04-17-15 0024A00 5p Ses h% lL: MEMORIAL LIBRARY 100 S PIEDMONT AVE h% 1: MOUNTAIN NC 28086-3450 15¢ New housing in the works Energy Center funding approved ELIZABETH STEWART ] lib.kmherald@gmail.com Kings Mountain Energy Center is expected to go into construction in the next nine to 12 months. NTE Energy, St. Augustine, Fla., an- nounced this week comple- tion of financing of 1.1 billion dollars to build the Kings Mountain plant and two others, one in Ohio and one in Texas. Kings Mountain Energy, + the $450 million, 475 MW combined cycle natural gas- fired power-generating facil- ity, will be built across from the access road along I-85 and Dixon School Road, and employ 350 during con- struction and about 30 once production is underway. Mayor Rick Murphrey said at the announcement of the new industry-in late Feb- ruary that it would be one of the cleanest and most effi- loc { ns kf IE Department of the Interior. n Ty i yore Pt cient sources of capacity and energy in the Carolinas. It will employ Mitsubishi's GAC turbine technology in a combined-cycle configura- tion, recovering exhaust heat from the gas turbine to pro- duce steam, which is then passed through a steam tur- bine to generate additional energy from the same initial fuel. Once complete, the Kings Mountain Energy Center will be capable of rarbli WWID 29 PICKETING CITY HALL - The Kings Mountain Awareness Group, above, pub- licly protested during Tuesday's regularly scheduled Kings Mountain city coun- cil meeting. The peaceful demonstration was in opposition to city government supporting plans for a casino. The Catawba Indian Nation resort/casino project proposed at Dixon School Road at 1-85 is currently being decided by the U. S. Kings Mount Gils Energy Center powering 400,000 homes. NTE's development will build on 20 acres of the 290- acre site during the initial stages. At the announcement in February, company offi- cials said the facility could bring a half-billion dollars in financial investments to the county, money that will help lighten the tax load on resi- dents by contributing a prospective $2.5 million in county revenues each year. And unlike many economic Photo by DAVE BLANTON development projects, the company is not set to re- ceive tax breaks and other incentives from local gov- ernment. The site is near the pro- posed site of the Catawba Indian Nation resort/casino. The Catawbas are also not set to receive local govern- ment incentives. The ‘casino project is pending approval by the US Bureau of Indian Affairs. Seth Shortlidge, CEO of NTE Energy, said, “As we take this important step in the development of these three projects, we are proud to work with industry lead- ers, Guggenheim Partners and Capital Dynamics. The depth and talent at both ‘Guggenheim Partners and Capital Dynamics only strengthens NTE Energy's ability to bring clean, reli- able and efficient power to the market." Wells honored Betsy Hart Wells, retired Kings Moun- tain High School drama/English teacher, community volunteer, political leader and civil rights advocate is a 2014 Distin- guished Woman among three nominated from Cleveland County to receive the prestigious award August 8. The Cleveland County Commission for Women asked for nominations from the public and will honor Wells; Dr. Linda H. Hopper, teacher, school admin- istrator, role model and community advo- cate; and Libbey Canipe Lavender, businesswoman, community worker, po- litical activist and supporter of veterans at the annual banquet at the LeGrand Center at Cleveland Community College in Shelby. Tickets for the banquet are $35 and may be picked up at the Cleveland County Arts Council on the court square in Shelby from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, through Aug. 6. No tickets will be sold at the door. Wells taught theater and English at KMHS for a total of 24 years and retired See WELLS, 7A Creating Dazzling Smiles that Brighten Your Life Preventative, Restorative & Cosmetic Dentistry To schedule an appointment contact Baker Dental Care today! Call 704-739-4461 703 E. Kings St., Suite 9, Kings Mountain * www.BakerDentalCare.com Fridays! Now Open on
The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 30, 2014, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75