Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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Kings Mountain High School honored
at 2014 NCTC High School Play Festival
Beth Jennings and Landon Ervin
The Theatre Department at Kings Mountain High School
has much to celebrate, as they bring home honors from
the 2014 NCTC High School Play Festival, held at Gard-
ner-Webb University on November 7 and 8. The theatre
program, led by Dan Treharne and Heather Achter, made
the school and community proud with their presentation of
The Bells of Charlemont by Don Zolidis and Apostrophe’s
by Bradley Hayward at the Festival, and is thrilled to bring
home the following awards:
Excellent Rating, “Apostrophe’s Excellent Rating,
“The Bells of Charlemont” Excellence in Comic Timing —
Jack Pearson and Austin Willis, “Apostrophe’s” Barbizon
Lighting Award for Excellence in Student Design & Pro-
duction — Sean Anderson, Technical Direction and Stage
Direction (“The Bells of Charlemont” and “Apostrophe’s”)
Excellence in Acting — Beth Jennings, “The Bells of Char-
lemont” Excellence in Acting — Rielly Neal, “The Bells of
Charlemont”
For more than 30 years, the NCTC High School Play
Festival has strengthened arts education in schools by
bringing curriculum to life, challenging students to do their
very best work, and contributing to the development of
future audiences for live performing arts. The program is
the largest high school theatre event in the Southeast, with
more than 3,000 students from 91 schools performing 128
plays this year.
Each fall, professional theatres, colleges and high
schools across the state host a regional Festival, and the
top two outstanding productions from each of the eight sites
advance to the NCTC State High School Play Festival, No-
vember 20-21 at Greensboro College. Winners there go on
to represent the state of NC at the Southeastern Theatre
Conference’s annual convention.
The atmosphere at the Play Festival is positive and ex-
citing, and students are filled with energy as they watch
shows, learn from their peers and make new theatre friends.
Schools travel with theatrical sets and load-in to a 10’x10°
backstage area:
Before their ‘45 minute
time limit begins, students
eagerly await hearing the
starting phrase, “Your time
begins NOW!”, to which
they respond with an enthu-
siastic reply. The 45 minute
time limit includes setting
up, performing the play and
clearing the stage.
Following their perfor-
mance, students join their
peers in the cheering audi-
ence to receive feedback
from professional actors and
directors with Broadway and
Hollywood credits. Actors,
designers, writers, directors
and teachers are celebrated,
and bring home awards that
are displayed beside school
sports trophies.
The NCTC High School Play Festival is made possible
with support from the North Carolina Arts Council, a divi-
sion of the Department of Cultural Resources; The Beattie
Foundation; Lincoln Financial Group; UNC School of the
Arts’ School of Design and Production; Wells Fargo; the
Moore County Unrestricted Endowment Fund; and Barbi-
zon Lighting Company.
NCTC has served as the leader of the statowids theatre
industry since 1970, working to strengthen and support the-
atres, schools, students and artists with professional devel-
opment events, education programs and advocacy efforts.
The organization produces several events throughout the
year, including the NCTC Producing Gathering, NCTC
College Discovery Day, the NCTC Awards and statewide
NCTC Middle School and High School Play Festivals. For
more information ‘on NCTC, please contact Executive Di-
rector Angie Hays at 336-369-1984 or visit www.nctc.org.
NEW YMCA FLOOR OPEN- Pictured are city officials, Y staff and children from the YMCA After-School program admiring the new YMCA floor which will be ready for the YMCA basketball
season. Capital outlay funds of $100,000 was funded by the city of Kings Mountain, which owns the Y building- the YMCA and City of Kings Mountain partnership a great collaboration for
the community, say officials of both the city and YMCA. Pictured also from left, Councilman Rodney Gordon, Public Works Director Rickey Putnam, Mayor Rick Murphrey, City Manager
Marilyn Sellers, YMCA Executive Director Kevin Osborne and YMCA board member Doyle Campbell along with staffers from the Y.
photo by ELLIS NOELL
Murphey's Toy Run
Riding for a Cause
Motorcyclists will be
riding 39 miles for a cause
Saturday in the 20th annual
Murphey's Toy Run which
starts at 12 noon from
the Scooter Shed at 114
Camelot Court, off Phifer
Road in Kings Mountain.
The benefit is for Shri-
ners Burn Center, Oxford
Orphanage, Masonic Home
for Children and the Kings
Mountain Police Depart-
ment's Shop with a Cop.
Riders will be asking for $5
and a new toy per rider and
after the ride will return to
the Scooter Shed for barbe-
cue with all the trimmings
and music by Backroad
Band.
Police will escort the
riders and the Cleveland
County Sheriff's Office and
Bethlehem and Grover Fire
Departments will assist.
Bikers will depart 114
Camelot Court at noon,
turn right onto Phifer Road,
then left onto Bethlehem
Road, left onto Margrace
Road, right onto Kings
Mountain Boulevard,
straight onto Dixon School
Road, left onto old High-
way 29 into Battleground,
go through Battleground
then left onto 161, High-
way 161 turns into York
Road, turn left onto East
Volunteers are needed
to help light the luminar-
ias beginning at 4 p.m. on
Christmas Eve at Moun-
tain Rest Cemetery. If
Gold Street, turn right onto
S. Battleground Avenue,
go straight, road turns into
Stoney Point, turn left onto
Oak Grove Road, left onto
Borders Road, past Moss
Lake, left onto Marion
Street at Cleveland Mall,
left onto Highway 74, right
onto Bethlehem Road, and
left onto Phifer Road, then
left onto Camelot Court.
Wanted: volunteers to light luminaries
at Mountain Rest Cemetery
you can volunteer, call the
city's Public Works Of-
fice at 704-734-0735. The
luminaria presentation at
Mountain Rest Cemetery
is a highlight of the holiday
season and the lights will
be on from dark until 11
p.m. Cars will enter at the
King Street gate.
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