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Lake levels
are lowered
for repairs
DAVE BLANTON
dave.kmherald@gmail.com
Although it may look
like drought conditions at
Moss Lake in the coming
weeks, there’s no cause for
concern,
The city is partially
draining the 1,500-acre
man-made body of water in
order to make some routine
repairs on the spillway, a
mechanism that protects the
lake’s earthen dam.
In the next three weeks,
millions of gallons of water
will be gushing out of the
lake in order to drop the
water level by eight to 10
feet, according to Dennis
Wells, the City of Kings
Mountain’s Water Resource
Director.
That will give contrac-
tors from Shelby’s Strick-
land Concrete access to
the surface of the spillway,
which they will resurface
and shore up as necessary.
The cost of the proj-
ect, which is expected to
take about six months, is
coming in at just under
$600,000, Wells said. The
city has been draining the
water in the lake for almost
two weeks through a 52-
inch siphon pipe located at
the dam, which is at the
See LAKE LEVELS, Page 8A
Thumbnail facts on the
upcoming general election
OCT. 23: One stop early
voting begins in Kings
Mountain at the Woman's
Club, East Mountain St.,
from 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. on
Thursday, Oct. 23; Friday,
Oct. 24; Saturday, Oct. 25;
Monday, Oct. 27; Tuesday,
Oct. 28; Wednesday, Oct.
29: Thursday, Oct. 30; Fri-
day, Oct. 31; and on Satur-
day, Nov. 1 from 8 a.m.-1
p.m.
“OCT. 28: Last day to
request absentee ballot by
mail from the Cleveland
County Board of Elections,
215 Patton Drive, Shelby,
NC 28150.
Same day registration
won't be allowed during
early voting and Election
Day ballots taken to the
wrong precinct voting place
Nov. 4 won't be counted.
If you don't know location
of the precinct in which
Upcoming
election facts
you should be casting your
vote, call the Cleveland
County Board of Elections
in Shelby at 704-484-4858.
Photo ID is not required
at the Nov. 4, 2014 general
election.
NOV. 4: Polls open at
6:30 a.m., close at 7:30
p.m. at these Kings Moun-
tain area locations: Kings
Mountain North, Patrick
Senior Center, 909 E . King
St.; Kings Mountain South,
Mauney Memorial Library,
100 S. Piedmont Ave., enter
at back of building through
Harris Funeral parking lot;
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Activities Center, 1017
Bethlehem Road; Oak
Grove Baptist Church Fel-
lowship Hall, 2022 Oak
Grove Road; and in Gro-
ver at Grover Town Hall,
207 Mulberry Road; and in
Waco at Waco Community
Building, 200 S. Main St.,
Waco.
EET
Together we fund the fight
to find a cure for cancer
Look
around
you and
you will
see pink
in the
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Kings
Moun-
tain Her-
ald today.
Visit the Kings Moun-
tain Hospital and the Kings
Mountain Post Office this
month and you will see the
staff of the Radiology De-
partment wearing pink, dec-
orating a “Tree of Hope” and
distributing information — the
good news that many women
— and men — can survive
breast cancer if it's found and
treated early.
The 58 member staff of
the Kings Mountain Post
Office is pushing the theme,
"Fund the Fight, Find a
Cure,"and for every single
breast cancer stamp pur-
chased you can place a circle
of hope inshonor or memory
of a loved one on a commu-
nity board designed by Mir-
iam Bell.
For every book of breast
cancer stamps purchased
you can also place a photo
of your loved one in the cir-
cle of hope on the commu-
nity board in the post office
lobby.
The 2014 Breast cancer
research forever semi-postal
stamp, originally issued in
1998, mandated by the U. S.
Congress and signed into law
by President Clinton, has
been reissued this year.
Each stamp costs 60 cents
LibStewart
Managing Editor
which includes the 48cents
first class postage plus 11
cents that directly goes to
Breast Cancer Research.
Kings Mountain postal em-
ployees are first in this
postal district to beef up the
campaign by sporting pink
shirts with the stamp logo
and white shirts with the
stamp logo.
Your mail carrier at your
door delivering the pink Her-
ald will be wearing a pink
shirt today and every day this
month. Postmistress Angela
Greene, lead clerk Teresa
Greene, and clerks Becky
Bennett, Tim Lynch, Pam
Wilson and Sandra Hamrick
will be in pink greeting you
inside the post office.
“Early detection is the
best prescription for success-
fully treating breast cancer,"
says Wanda Summit, As-
sistant Director of the Ra-
diology Department and a
mammography technician at
Kings Mountain Hospital.
The staff, which also in-
cludes-Birector Kyle Hen
tchel and mammography
technicians Elaine Dixon,
Ava Gash, and Susan Por-
ter, have decorated a white
“Tree of Hope” with pink
ornaments to call attention to
the month-long celebration
of life.
Summit said digital
mammography improves
the quality of images as she
pointed to the new Hologic
Selena Dimensions equip-
ment that the hospital has
used for over a year.
Statistics show progress
in the battle against cancer.
By the grace of God and
Locavores delight:
Dinner Saturday night
benefits Farmer's Market
DAVE BLANTON
dave.kmherald @gmail.com
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GARDEN
A FARM t [ABLE EVENT
On Saturday evening,
downtown will be the site of
an unusual — and refreshing
— kind of feast.
Whole chickens from a
Cherryville farm. Squash,
tomatoes and collards from
Bessemer City and Kings
Mountain farms. Baked
goods from Bessemer City.
Local trout and pork barbe-
cue. Harvest in the Garden,
a farm-to-table event and
a fundraiser to benefit the
Foothills Farmer's Market,
will be held in the gardens
next to the Joy Theatre from
6-9 p.m.
Popular eatery 238 Cher-
okee Grill is donating its
manpower and resources to
put together the buffet-style
dinner, which is all made
from locally-sourced foods.
The restaurant’s general
manager Leon Camaj is co-
ordinating the event. And
owner Robert Bolin will be
working a 500-1b smoker
into the wee hours Friday
smoking pork butts.
“It’s a privilege to be
taking part of something
like this,” Manaj said.
“Even though the national
See DINNER, Page 8A
Vivian Duncan, Doris Cloninger and Betty Spears, left to
right, all Pink Ladies at Kings Mountain Hospital, are shown
at the pink and white “Tree of Hope” decorated hy the KMH
Radiology Department in celebration of Breast Cancer
Awareness Month. The Radiology staff is also distribut-
ing materials about how early detection by a mammogram
saves lives.
early detection by a mammo-
gram I am a 26 year survi-
vor. After a mammogram
and two biopsies I was told
that no lump could be found,
yet the mammogram was
“suspicious.”
I left the doctor's office
with great news only to get as
far as the car and was called
back to the surgeon's office.
The late Dr. Sam Robin-
son and retired KM Hospital
pathologist Dr. Gentry had
found the malignant cell and
surgery, which required no
treatment, was performed at
Photo by LIB STEWART
the local hospital on May 23,
1988.
Health officials will tell
you that regular screenings
that result in early detection
and awareness about the
disease will keep statistics
going in the right direction.
National Breast Cancer
Month in October is a chance
to raise that awareness.
Today's pink pages are
dedicated to survivors, fami-
lies and warriors as "together
we fund the fight to find a
cure" and pray that all cancer
will someday be eradicated.
SMITHS TO PARIS - Jack Smith (a former Kings Mountain
resident) and Lindsie Smith took a copy of the Herald to
Paris on October 12. They stand before one of the most pic-
turesque sites in Paris, the Eiffel Tower, holding a copy of
the Kings Mountain Herald.
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