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WARTICK jp HAMRICK INSURANCE 704.739.3611 106 East Mountain Street Kings Mountain, NC www. KMinsure.com Music, kmherald.com Gateway Fest has something for everyone nm ELIZABETH STEWART lib.kmherald@gmail.com “Music, Muskets & Merriment”, the theme of this Saturday's big Gateway Festival, gets underway at 8 a.m. with a 5K race begin- ning at Patriots Park, only the start of fun events and entertainment for the whole family. A Gateway Festival Time line is on page 7A of today's Herald, a calendar of activi- ties which gives you the time and schedule of all events. The festival is free to the public and all venues are open until 5 p.m. with a free Gateway shuttle that will run continuously all day. “Park your car and enjoy the shuttle to and from Patri- ots Park," says the City of Kings Mountain Director of Events Ellis Noell. The Shuttle will take festival- goers from Patriots Park to activities at Southern Arts Homecoming Royalty Tevin Robertson (left) was named Homecoming King, and Mackenzie Smith, shown with her fa- ther Marvin Smith, was crowned Homecoming Queen at halftime of Friday’s Kings Mountain - Draughn football game at John Gamble Stadium. Photo by GARY STEWART INSIDE SE CO A Battle of (Ji 00¢ x 0 WA i 0 * NORTH 000s x Order your revolutionary license plate! Pg 2A Liberty Mountain a success! Pg 3A Opinion Pg 4A Gateway Festival Schedule of Events Pg 7A Mountaineers down Draughn 62-0 Pg 1B Kickers 7-7-1 Pg 2B KM Netters Pg 68 School News Py 98 TH West Elementary is Blue Ribbon School U.S. Secretary of Educa- tion Arne Duncan has named West Elementary School one of only five North Carolina public schools as 2014 National Blue Ribbon Schools. West Elementary is among 287 public and 50 private schools where stu- dents either achieve very high learning standards or are making notable im- provement in closing ‘the achievement gap, according to Duncan. West Elementary is one of two schools in the state honored as an Exemplary High Performing School. “Parents and community members are supportive of our mission and are united with us to provide the best educational experience for their children," says Heather Pagan, Principal of West El- ementary. “Together we know that children are our future and we can make a difference one child at a time.” “The students and staff at West Elementary exemplify classroom excellence,” says Heather Pagan Principal, West Elementary Dr. Stephen Fisher, Superin- tendent of Cleveland County Schools. “The everyday work ethic, creativity, and rigorous expectations are to be attributed for achieving this esteemed recognition.” For the past 32 years, this prestigious award has been bestowed to just under 7,900 of the nation’s most success- ful schools. Schools selected model excellence in leader- ship, teaching, curriculum, student achievement and parental involvement. The school will be honored at a Nov. 10-11 See WEST ELEMENTARY, 8A Volume 126 eo Issue 41 o Depot, Gateway Trail, the Historical Museum and a special departure from the Museum to Kings Mountain National Military Park. A new addition to the fun this year is a Pumpkin Roll down Railroad Ave. near Hometown Hardware. The popular Cute Critters beauty pageant will return at 10:45 a.m. at Patriots Park. Who will win the top prize for the cutest pet and will the pumpkins survive for a “pumpkin pie? Another fun event is the pie baking contest and good cooks should turn in their entries for “Farm to Table” to Cathy Noell at 10 a.m. at the information booth. Also new this year is the “Ready Animator” available for public play at Joy Per- formance Center, home of the new play, “Liberty Mountain”. From bluegrass Kok skkkoksk kk kok kkk kk kkk kkk kETRM 28086 307 04-17-15 0024A00 535 MAUNEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 100 S PIEDMONT AVE KINGS MOUNTAIN NC 28086-3450 FA] Wednesday, October 8, 2014 15¢ Muskets, and Merriment’ Revolutionary reenactors will be on hand to give demonstrations all day during the festival. gospel to Celtic and new grass music will be provided by five bands in concert in- cluding Timberidge, Log Cabin String Band, Three- scorel0, Dirty Grass Soul and Angela Easterling & the Beguilers that will entertain KMH File Photo festival crowds. More blue- grass music will be at the. Commons at the Museum and at the Gateway Trail. Young dancers from Dance Magic will open the See GATEWAY FEST, 7A Senior Center getting big upgrades w=: DAVE BLANTON i dave.kmherald@gmail.com Organizers behind the Monday morning ground- breaking of the expansion of the H. Lawrence Patrick Senior Life & Conference Center obviously got a big- ger crowd for the cere- monies than they expected. By five minutes before 10 a.m., volunteers were busy pulling more chairs from in- side to the sunny back lot to make room for the more than 60 who showed up. Such a turnout is fitting for the senior center, which is going from big to bigger in the coming months with an expanded game room, computer room and exercise facility. Both the game room — which is getting an addi- tional pool table — and the Shelby Children’s Clinic opens in Kings Mountain Parents now have an- other option in primary care locations for their children. Shelby Children’s Clinic has opened a location in Kings Mountain. The community is in- vited to an open house at the new location on Wednesday, October 15, 6 p.m. — 8 p.m and meet the physicians. Christopher Cerjan, MD and Morkor Newman, MD. The new clinic is located at 2202 Carolinas Place, Kings Mountain, which is beside Ingles on Highway 74 Business. Services available at that location include pediatric and adolescent medicine, newborn care, physicals, im- munizations, prevention and management of chronic ill- nesses. The Kings Mountain office is open Monday—Fri- day, 8 a.m.—5 p.m. Call 980- 487-2950 for more information. October 18th * Liver Mush * Little Miss Liver Mush Pageant * Pumpkin Painting * Liver Mush Eating Contest * Pet Activities computer room will be dou- bling in size to match the in- creased interest in the popular destination for many of the area’s residents who are 55 and older. Shortly after 10 a.m. Kings Mountain Mayor Rick Murphrey and mem- bers of the city council took up golden shovels to take part in a ceremonial ground- breaking for the addition, which is to be named the Dover Foundation Annex. The Kings Mountain Senior Center was renamed the H. Lawrence Patrick Senior Life & Conference Center after making the East King St..address its new home in 2001. "Our seniors are an im- portant cornerstone in Kings Mountain’s quality of life," said Murphrey, adding a thank you to the city’s busi- ness leaders and generous individuals who make the addition possible. “They have earned the right to have a place they can call their own.” For Monty Thornburg, the center’s longtime direc- tor, the success and expan- sion of the center are natural functions of an aging popu- lation. He spoke of the ex- plosion in numbers of the 55 and over demographic in America and the need for this community to answer that need. “We’re the only munici- pality in North Carolina that has its own Department of Aging,” he told the crowd, which included members of the Cleveland County Board See GROUNDBREAKING, 7A Fall Festival Oct. 15 . There's something for everyone at the Kings Mountain Woman's Club Fall Festival Wednesday, Oct. 15. The 111th annual festival draws festival-goers to a bazaar, arts and crafts, a showcase of table appoint- ments from the city's garden clubs and a home-cooked lunch and dinner featuring ham and turkey with all the trimmings. Adult tickets for the meal are $10 and chil- dren under 12 pay $6. The club dining room opens at 11:30 am. and lunch is served from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The evening meal is from 5:30-7 p.m. “The fall festival is the highlight of our year and the See WOMAN'S CLUB, 8A NAACP to host political forums The Cleveland County Branch of the NAACP will spon- sor two political forums next week at the Cleveland County Administration Building (Commissioners Chambers) at 311 E. Marion Street in Shelby. Tuesday evening the forum will feature the race in the US Congress District 10 between the incumbent Patrick McHenry and Tate McQueen and the NC State Senate Dis- trict 46 race between the incumbent Warren Daniel and Emily B. Church. Thursday evening, Oct. 16, the forum will feature the race for District Attorney 27-B between Mike Wayne Miller and John Bridges, the sheriff's race between the incumbent Alan Norman and Carl W. Jensen and the race for county coroner between Robert S. Morgan and Tott D. Griffin. The forums begin at 6:30 p.m. and the public is invited. 8am to4 pm Historic Court Square in Uptown Shelby, NC * Inflatables * Pef Parade and Costume Contest * Banjo Petting Zoo ie * Food and Craft Uendors
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