Wednesday, May 6, 2015
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Greenheck, Rockwood Lithium, among
new commercial, residential builders
Greenheck Real Estate
Holdings bought a commer-
cial master building permit to
up-fit the interior mezzanine
at the plant, asphalt the park-
ing lot and install a new 5100
square foot concrete loading
dock with drive-in concrete
ramp, three dock positions
and a new driveway. Choate
Construction Co. of Charlotte
is;eontractor for the new con-
struction to cost $451,100.
Rockwood Lithium
bought a city building master
commercial permit to build a
18%20 accessory building for
electrical purposes at cost of
$52,500.
Contractor for the new
construction is Roebuck
Buildings Co. of Roebuck,
SC.
Nine residents of Moss
Lake bought permits for res-
idential construction.
* Jeff Latchaw, 112 N. Oak-
wood Dr., is building a new
dock to replace the old dock
at cost 0 £ $10,500.
Joe Ross, 1226 Oak Grove
Rd., is building an addition to
his existing dock at cost of
$4800.
Wanda Rutherford, 148
Harbor Point Dr., Cherryville,
is installing rip-rap along the
northern portion of the con-
trol strip and replacing ex-
isting concrete seawall with
modular block seawall and
new covered boat slip. Cost
$15,000.
Jeff Roark, 2317 Penin-
sula Ave., Shelby, is refresh-
ing rip-rap as needed within
projection limits at cost of
$3,000.
Brian Dwan, 3 Island
View Dr., Shelby, is expand-
ing his existing dock with no
changes to the control strip.
Cost $5500.
Thomas Wilkinson, 76
Fairview Farm Road, Shelby,
is ‘building a new dock to
replace existing pier and re-
pair rip-rap as needed, cost
$20,000.
Lorraine Singalewitch,
148 North Shore Dr., Cher-
ryville, is building a new dock
to replace the old dock with
no changes to control strip or
existing rip-rap, cost $6,000.
Ray Workman & Sons Con-
struction, 104 S. Watterson
St., is contractor.
Anthony Everett, 3210
Sunset Dr., Charlotte, is in-
stalling rip-rap along the
shoreline and removing exist-
ing dock and replacing with
a 20x20 wooden dock at 125
Carroll Dr., Cherryville. Cost
$10,500.
Sylvia Hutchins, 1211
Ridgemont Ave,. Shelby, is
building a new dock to re-
place existing dock at 121
Sunshine Lane, Cherryville,
at cost of $15,000.
Suburban Acres, 331 Oak
Grove Road, is moving a
14x70 mobile home to Subur-
ban Acres. Simmons Mobile
Home Movers, 835 Poplar
Springs Church Road, is con-
tractor. Cost $1800.
Patrick Richey, 106 Water
Oak St., is building a 10x28
foot deck to the back of his
home and changing out the
HVAC system at cost of
$13,641. He purchased a
building master residential
permit.
Jeff Ledford, 1307 Mer-
rimont Ave., plans to add
a 20x30 detached garage
and close in the front of his
existing garage. KF Davis
Homebuilders & Construc-
tion Co.,822 McDaniel Road,
is contractor for the construc-
tion at cost of $20,000.
Jim Smith, 306 Childers
St., is putting up a 20x21
metal storage building con-
structed on 4 inch slab foun-
dation at cost of $6,000. He
purchased a commercial
building permit.
Kenny Walker, 402 N.
Roxford Road, is removing
a wooden deck and replacing
it with 16x22 concrete patio
and adding a walkway across
the driveway of his home.
Cost is $11,000..
Amy Rogers, 905 Rhodes
Ave., is setting up a 12 x6
storage building at cost of
$2500. Steven Frye of Cher-
ryville is contractor.
Michael Tessener, 312 N.
Cansler St., is constructing
a 30x30x9 garage at cost of
$10,000.Douglas Viars, 311
Walker St.,bought a residen-
tial fence permit to close off
access to above ground pool
with 32 feet of privacy fence.
J&R Investment Proper-
ties, Gastonia, bought a resi-
dential fence permit to install
a privacy fence between 902
and 900 First Streets at cost
of $500.
Ralph Johnson, 124
Ebenezer Road, is installing a
175 foot chain link fence be-
tween 124 and 122 Ebenezer
Road at cost of $1200.
Lori Oliver, 161 Crown
Court, is installing 150 feet
of 5 feet chain link fabric
and repair existing fence at
cost of $1400. Stafford Fence
Builders, 167 Crown Court, is
contractor.
Leigh Greene, 409 Mar-
cella Dr., bought a residential
pool permit for a 12x24 in
ground pool and fence. In-
novative Pool Designs, 531
Lake Montonia Road, is con-
tractor for the construction at
cost of $20,700.
QUALTECH:
From Page 6A
eligible for a local indus-_
trial. incentive grant from.
“What I seeds anybody who
the City of Kings Mountain; 2
Mayor Rick Murphey’
both Cleveland County and
was given a tour of the fa-
cility last Tuesday and was
impressed with the addition
underway with its high bay
to house the big machines
SoaiLean, has become the
pa ‘machining, the shop
‘also makes parts smaller
‘than a dime and everything
in between, with a list of
‘workpiece: materials that in-
‘clu
oo nless steel and 4140 and
Hi moved out of
to work as a program
manager and program spe-
‘cialist for FANUC. During
des aluminum, cast iron,
is different word from a typical job shop
Xe wi
one of his visits, Latchaw
inquired of Dechant about
‘what he saw occurring in
‘the industry. He recalled,
has big machines is busy
but you don’t see many job
..shops with big machines
because of the investment
and software required and
the programming and engi-
neering talent to run them”’.
As it turned out, Jeff
Latchaw had a line on a
big machine, a new Okuma
. VIM-120YB, a unique.
+ -machine he bought i in mid
» 2009 and then purchased a
building in Kings Moun-
‘tain, NC later that year to
house it and QualTech was
born.
Joe Latchaw had grad-
uated from Penn State in
plastics engineering and
had been working for eight
years in Charlotte as a plas-
tics engineer for John Deere
at the time and resigned to
become president/co-owner
of the new job shop in
‘Kings Mountain. Dechant
made the jump to parts
manufacturing in mid-2012,
becoming vice-president
and co-owner of QualTech.
By 2009 the shop even
received an order before it
was open for business and
still preparing the building.
The rehab on the Qual-
Tech building involved
fixing roof leaks, securing
doors, tearing out carpeting
and organizing the building
while installing about twice
as much air conditioning as
1 NITORIA LLC —- GAFFNEY, SC
A Division of American Services, Inc.
ining services provider is now hiring an
rienced working janitorial supervisor to
see janitorial staff and cleaning for a
) processing foolity located in Gaffney.
i Duties include:
* Filling in for absent employees
* Training and supervising janitorial staff
* Stripping/waxing floors
e Completing weekly payroll
e Ordering supplies
* Daily contact with client
Required experience:
° One year supervisory experience
5 - 7 day operation, hours must be very flexible
$500 week plus overtime
Apply in person:
AMERICAN SERVICES, INC.
Creekview Village
1252 Overbrook Drive, Suite 5
Gaffney, SC 29341
Or send resume to: bareiza@amsvcs.com
“Eric Dechan and Mayor Rick Murphrey note the high bay
‘which is necessary to take care of the huge machines.
was needed based on the
square footage - because
temperature has a bigger
impact on large parts than
small ones and this would
allow better control of these
parts and their tolerance.
The Okuma works
well with another machine
purchased: by QualTech- a
Honor Seiki VL-125CM
4 axis turning lathe which
was demonstrated to the
mayor during the tour.
Everything takes a lot
of expertise at QualTech
and to make sure mistakes
aren’t made, QualTech
spends a lot of time plan-
ning jobs to make sure the
part programs have all the
needed information, also
providing illustrations for
operators that indicate how
. a part needs to be posi-
tioned in the machine, De-
Photo by DILLON LACKEY
chant pointed out during the
tour with the mayor.
Dechant explained. “I
have talked to quite a few
machinists who are gen-
eral job shop-type machin-
ists, operating small 3-axis
milling machines and
2-axis turning machines.
When they walk into our
shop, they go, ‘Oh boy.!”
They’re frightened a little
bit by these machines. But
he added that the shop has
attracted skilled employ-
ees, including a father-son
team, James and Josh Gue-
rard, and Patrick Hamm
who was hired directly out
of high school who have
all been with the company
from nearly the beginning.
QualTech is a very dif-
ferent world from a typical
job shop.
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VFW Ladies Auxiliary
Taps Lib Hammett
as President
Elizabeth (Lib) Bolin
Hammett is excited and ready
to travel as the incoming state
president of the Ladies Aux-
iliary to Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
The retired customer
service representative, who
still works part time at War-
lick-Hamrick Insurance
Agency, will be packing for a
number of trips she plans to
take after her installation June
7 in Columbia, SC.
Hammett joined the
VFW Auxiliary in 2004 in
Blacksburg, SC and imme-
diately went to work, mov-
ing through the chairs from
guard, conductress, chaplain,
junior vice-president, senior
vice-president, to the top of-
fice in the South Carolina
Department which has 5,096
members in 60 units. She
is a member of Unit 3447
in Gaffney, SC and she and
her husband, Clarence, and
their son, Edward, reside in
Blacksburg, SC.
“My husband is a Korean
War veteran and my two
brothers, Thomas H. Bolin
of Shelby and Dennis Bolin
of Gastonia, served with the
Navy in Vietnam and so it
was only natural that I join
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ladies Auxiliary," said Lib.
She's looking forward to
visiting members in South
Carolina and very excited
to be able to attend national
meetings beginning with the
national convention in Pitts-
burgh, Pa. July 17-21. She
has already made her plane
reservation for a trip to An-
chorage, Alaska in September
to attend the homecoming of
the incoming national pres-
ident, Francisca Guilford,
and the midwinter national
conference Feb. 9-14, 2016
in Dominican Republic. In
August she has made plans
to attend a national meeting
in Minneapolis, Minnesota
and a Southern conference
‘of members from"15. states.
in Augusta, Ga. November
14-15.
“Going to Bat for Our
Veterans” is her state theme
and she plans to push mem-
bership all over the state of
LIB BOLIN HAMMETT
South Carolina. Since she has
chaired both the legislative
and scholarship committees,
she plans to push Voice of
Democracy contests in grades
9-12 where $30,000 in na-
tional scholarships are avail-
able and Patriots Pen essays
for grades 6-8 for which a
$5,000 national scholarship
is available.
The Buddy Poppy pro-
gram is another of her big in-
terests and proceeds from the
distribution of poppies are all
earmarked for veterans.
Welcomed at meetings
as “the lady with the smile,”
Lib is dedicated to the work
ahead,
Growing up in Grover,
Lib is the daughter of the
late James Henry and Alma
Turner Bolin. She has a sis-
ter, Myrtle Bolin Bowles, of
Kings Mountain, and she has
signed up eligible relatives
and friends in the Auxiliary to
the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Lib retired after 35 years
service with Warlick-Ham-
rick but returns to. town every
Thursday. She has has her
& Company salon by Arlene
McMurtry and then reports
for work. Her boss, Lanty
Hamrick Jr.,encouraged her
to run for president of the
auxiliary, as did her husband
and son.
Lib loves to fly and often
times she meets newcomers
and. they talk VEW Ladies
Auxiliary. She always chiries
with her a membership Rapli-
cation.
Lib Bolin Hamarier does
what she loves and loves what
she does.
Budget work session
set for May 18
City Council will get
their first look at a proposed
city budget for 2015-16 at a
budget session May 18 at 5
p.m. at the H. Lawrence Pat-
rick Senior Life & Confer-
ence Center.
Council set the date for
the budget session at last
Tuesday's meeting and also
approved the following con-
sent agenda:
+Resolution 15-08 au-
thorizing execution of rental
and lease agreements for
one year or less by the city
manager and/or designee of
the city manager.
+Resolution 15-09 be-
tween the City of Kings
Mountain and Cleveland
County in which the city
manager would designate
one or more inspectors from
Cleveland County to serve
as a member of the city's in-
spection department for an
extended period April 28-
June 30.The county would
be compensated at a rate of
$65 for each service call.
+set public hearing for
May 26 for discussion of an
industrial incentive grant to
QualTech.
+set public haring for
May 26 on request from
Roger Woodard Ministries
Inc. to rezone a portion of
property located at 206 W.
Ridge Sreet from Heavy In-
dustrial to Residential R-6.
+ set public hearing for
May 26 for a request by
Philip Bunch ( agent for
Peggy Levergood) to re
zone her property located at
923 Cleveland Avenue from
R:S-8 to Neighborhood
Business.
+set public hearing for
May 26 for request by Gayle
and William Phillips to re-
zone property at 1737 Beth-
lehem Road from residential
10 to Conditional Use R-20.
Special presentations
and recognitions by Mayor
‘Rick Murphrey included
certificates to Danny Rob-
inson, gas mechanic I,
5-year service with the city;
and David Warlick, Police
Officer/K9, 5S years service
with the city; awards to
three firemen — Eric Car-
roll, Tyler Walker and Noah
James Allen — for complet-
ing Fire Academy Class 12
at Cleveland Community
College, and Richelle Meek,
for completing training pro-
gram for grade III Biolog-
ical water pollution control
system operators.
The mayor also pro-
claimed s National Day of
Prayer May 7; National
Police Week May 11-17;
and National Public Works
Week May 17-23.
During citizen recog-
nition Beauford Burton,
Adam Forcade, and Debbie
Keeter reiterated their oppo-
sition to a proposed casino/
resort.
The Council took the oc-
casion to thank Ellis Noell
on his retirement as Director
of Special Events and Pub-
lic Relations and the audi-
ence gave Noell a standing
ovation.