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Volume 125 • Issue 42 • Wednesday, October 16, 2013
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‘Building the Future’ Fundraising drive for senior center to kick off Friday The city will unveil a campaign to raise over $1 million dollars for a new expansion of the H. Lawrence Patrick Senior Life & Conference Center Friday at a kickoff luncheon at 11 a.m. “Building the Future� is the theme of the campaign to raise funds for more rooms for senior programs now stretched because of rapid growth. A campaign steering committee will be recognized at the luncheon as well as Carl Elliott, Research Develop-
Homecoming Queen Haley Camp was crowned 2013 KMHS Homecoming Queen during Friday night homecoming festivities. See more photos page 3B
ment director who is fundraiser director, as well as co-chairs of the fund raising effort. Mayor Rick Murphrey will serve as honorary chairman. The 17,000 square feet addition will add new space for a multipurpose room, exercise room, computer lab, nutritionist office, storage space, new rear lobby area, two new restrooms in back of building and renovated existing space for counseling offices, new space for billiard/game room to be dou-
bled in size. Aging Director Monty Thorn burg said new space will allow for meetings for outside business and nonprofit groups that us the facility as a conference center. Plans are also to expand the lunch program to allow the center to prepare and serve meals in house and increase food services for use of conference facilities. The former lunch program had served up to 120 people in the old train depot but because of cutbacks in federal
subsidy the number served in recent months has not met the need for a lunch program. Thornburg said the senior population in Kings Mountain and the county is expected to grow 25% within seven years and 100% within the next 17 years from 2,500 to 5,000 by 2030/ The City of Kings Mountain, which owns and operates the Senior Life & Conference Center, has pledged funds as well as Cleveland County commissioners.
Students say no to bullies DAVE BLANTON dave.kmherald@gmail.com
Think ‘pink’ Events planned for cancer survivors Breast cancer survivors are thinking pink at two events planned by two Kings Mountain businesses Wednesday (today) in Kings Mountain. Howard Elmore, president of Hometown Hardware, is rolling out the pink carpet at 10 a.m. for a morning of entertainment and prize drawings for area breast cancer survivors. Iredell County Fire Fighters Association’s pink fire truck will be on hand with pink tshirts available again this year. Hometown is also selling raffle tickets for $25 for items including a Pink BB gun, pink door decoration, pink tool kit, black Columbia fleece with pink ribbon, and a Case Cares mini trap-
per knife. All proceeds from the raffle drawings will go directly to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Rob Bolin, president of 238 Cherokee Grill, is rolling out the pink carpet at 1 p.m. for the third annual breast cancer survivor’s luncheon at 238 Cherokee Grill in downtown Kings Mountain. Featured entertainment at the luncheon will be an Elvis impersonator, and Cherokee Grill Manager Cynthia Howard says you don’t want to miss him. “We invite every breast cancer survivor to attend both events and invite others who may not have been contacted this week,� said Howard.
Students in the Cleveland County Schools celebrated Bully Prevention Week with a variety of activities last week. A number of elementary schools had guidance counselors visit every room and secure signatures on a no-bullying contract. West Elementary sponsored a Bully Prevention Unity Day rally, featuring orange t-shirts and matching orange balloons that were released into the sky. The day also featured an acrobatic performance by four Gardner Webb University cheerleaders. School administrators have also established a Bully Education Task Force that seeks to continue education and training in schools, develop a database of best practices and techniques to deal with bullying as well criteria for response.
Fourth graders are seen releasing orange balloons into the air on Friday to symbolize unity against bullies. Cleveland County School administrators have established a Bully Education Task Force that seeks to continue education and training for schools, develop a database of best practices and techniques to deal with bullying as well criteria for response. Photo by DAVE BLANTON
The task force was also charged with reaching out to community groups to put a spotlight on Bully Prevention Week, create a web page about bully prevention and
more. “As a therapist serving children and adults in Cleveland County I have seen the effects of bullying,� said Katherine Gordon. “Children
Early detection is key to saving lives
Fall festival today at Woman’s Club Kings Mountain Woman’s Club will hold the annual Fall Festival today (Wednesday) with crafts, home-cooked meals, arts and a bazaar at the clubhouse on E. Mountain Street.
ELIZABETH STEWART lib.kmherald@gmail.com
Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m., dinner from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for children 12 and under and senior citizens. Ham and turkey with all the trimmings will be served.
Inman in KM to talk about latest novel Bob Inman left the local airwaves nearly 20 years ago, but he hasn’t stopped holding a mirror up to his fellow citizens. The news anchor turned novelist, play-
wright and screenwriter has been busy publishing books and seeing his plays come to life on stage all over the United States. His familiar face is coming to the Mauney Memorial Library on Monday at 6 p.m. to discuss his latest novel, which centers around a female governor in an unnamed Southern state. See INMAN, 7A
who are bullied may suffer from depression, low self-esteem, poor grades, and suicidal thoughts. Bullying has lasting effects on children that can be seen into adulthood.�
TREE OF HOPE – Radiologists Phyllis Phillips, Elaine Dixon and Susan Porter, far right, and KM Hospital Auxiliary volunteer Alice Williams show off the pink and white Tree of Hope in the lobby of Kings Mountain Hospital. The Radiology Department is sponsoring Breast Cancer Awareness in a special program Thursday on the theme, “Believe in Hope for a Cure.� Photo by LIB STEWART
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“Believe In Hope for A Cure�- That’s the theme of Breast Cancer Awareness Day Thursday at 2 p.m. at Kings Mountain Hospital. Early detection by a mammogram is the key to saving lives and the local hospital’s newest piece of equipment, Selenia Dimensions by Hologic, digital mammography, is being showcased Thursday when radiology employees will be dressed in pink, distribute literature including questions to ask your doctor after a breast cancer diagnosis, and learn more about breast cancer. Radiologist Phyllis Phillips says that digital mammography allows a radiologist to adjust contrasts and brightness of the image. “We can get a better look, changing the contrast of the picture, magnifying and zooming in on it to detect any subtle changes,� she said. The new equipment See MAMMOGRAMS, 7A
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