KM Herald 11-21-18

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November 21, 2018

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YMCA volunteers build playground By Loretta Cozart More than 25 volunteers participated in the YMCA Togetherhood 2018 project on Saturday Nov 3 and Thursday November 8, 2018. The Kings Mountain Family YMCA’s Togetherhood program connects people from all backgrounds to plan and carry out volunteer projects that address a need in the community. This project benefited the Kings Mountain Nazarene Church, giving youth an outdoor play area. Togetherhood leverages the YMCA’s charitable mission to unlock people’s potential to improve lives and create a more connected society. Sandie Dee, YMCA

Board Member and Togetherhood Chairperson said "Being a part of the YMCA's Togetherhood is something I look forward to each year. This year we met a great group of people from the Kings Mountain Church of the Nazarene. We are so happy to be able to give their youth a place to play outside at their church...thanks to all of us working together we made this happen!" Del Ford, Pastor of KM Nazarene Church said, “This being my first project, new to the area, and Youth pastor of Kings Mountain Nazarene Church, working with Togetherhood has been a wonderful experience. Not just because of our Church being the recipient of the

project but by the way it drew all of us together toward one common focus, ‘Working together for a better community.’ “Our Lives become so busy that we often forget what an impact this can be on a need. Small things become big successes one Heart and Hand at a time. We are so grateful for everyone that participated and all the sponsors that donated their time and materials to make this playground come to reality. My hope Is that in the future we can all come together even more and make Kings Mountain shine as an example of what true community is supposed to be, the heartbeat of who we should truly are.” See YMCA, Page 3A

Kings Mountain Nazarene Church Youth Pastor Del Ford is all smiles at his churches’ new playground site. (Photo provided)

“Home for Christmas” in Downtown Kings Mountain Feed the Children held December 7 Portion of Cherokee St. parking lot closed for distribution Cormetech, formerly STEAG, will join forces with the global anti-hunger organization Feed the Children and Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry, to provide 400 families with food and essentials on Friday, Dec. 7 from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. This event will take place on “Feed the Children Day,” a proclamation declared by Mayor Scott Neisler and the City of Kings Mountain in honor of the organization and their mission to help children in need. The food distribution will take place in the Cherokee Street Parking Lot. The middle section will be closed from 8 p.m. Thursday until 7:30 p.m. Friday. In case of inclimate

weather, an alternate location will be utilized. This will be announced prior to the event date. Families receiving support have been pre-identified by Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry through local school counselors that work with the children in most need of assistance. Each family will receive a 25-pound box of food such as canned vegetables, peanut butter and mac ‘n cheese; a 15-pound box of essentials that include personal care items such as lotion, shampoo and conditioner; and toys. “We are honored and humbled to be able to give a little something back to the Kings Mountain community that gives our company so much,” said Mike Mattes, president and CEO of Cormetech. “Our hope is that, by partnering with Feed the Children to make See CHILDREN, Page 7A

Food drive for low income seniors The H. Lawrence Patrick Senior Center is partnering with Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market and Ingles to hold a food drive for low income seniors in the Kings Mountain area. Non-perishable food

items can be dropped off at the Patrick Senior Center at 909 E King Street, at the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market at 1011 Shelby Road, in Kings Mountain or at Ingles 2111 Shelby Road through December 10, 2018. For more information, please call the Patrick Senior Center at 704-734-0447.

By Loretta Cozart The holiday spirit is in the air as Kings Mountain readies for free family festivities leading to Christmas. City employees have been working non-stop in preparation for the newest event, "Home for Christmas" in Downtown Kings Mountain. Events begin on December 1 at 3 p.m. with the "Home for Christmas Parade," featuring largerthan-life inflatables, local floats, bands, and Santa Claus himself visiting all the way from the North Pole. Line up along the parade route in Downtown Kings Mountain to kickoff the holidays. When the parade is over, Patriots Park will host the Winter Wonderland with live performances, a living nativity, food vendors, crafts and activities for the entire

Visit Santa at the Gazebo. Santa will be posing for free photos.

family. The Grinch plans to steal Christmas in Kings Mountain. Come to Patriots Park at 5:30 p.m. for a chance to meet him in person (and his dog, Max) as they bring Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" to life in their own special, silly way. Make sure to stick around

The Grinch will be in Patriot’s Park at 5:30.

after this fun, family program for photos and silliness during their exclusive Meet-and-Greet. Your heart will "grow three sizes this day." Kings Mountain is known for its synchronized downtown light show orchestrated to radio broadcasted music. At 6 p.m. the City will flip the switch and turn downtown into a Winter Wonderland. Join Mayor Scott Neisler at 6:30 p.m. at the Gazebo as he reads the classic story "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" and passes the spotlight over to the Big Man himself for his arrival atop a blazing red fire engine! Santa will meet with children of all ages, listening to Christmas wishes and posing for free photos on the Gazebo stage. See CHRISTMAS, Page 7A

Nurse Berry serves patients 42 years Special to the Herald from Atrium Health The recent name change to Atrium Health Kings Mountain occurred some 67 years after the hospital first opened in 1951. And Beverly Berry, a progressive care nurse, has been serving patients in that facility for two thirds of that time. Berry started as a fresh-outof-nursing-school grad from Beverly Berry Gaston College in 1975 (a year when Gerald Ford was president). And she has enjoyed all her specialties since then, including surgery and intensive care, before her current assignment. “Beverly’s tenure would be exceptional in any profession,” says hospital administrator Alex Bell, “especially so given the profound changes she’s seen in healthcare over the last four decades.” Atrium Health Kings Mountain currently has 67 licensed

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beds. Bell points out that it is difficult in today’s world for community hospitals that small, situated in rural areas, to survive financially. He attributes the hospital’s continued success to its longstanding partnership with its sister hospital in Shelby, Atrium Health Cleveland, and the Atrium Health system itself. That partnership dates back to 1994, when Kings Mountain Hospital signed its first management services agreement with Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS). Bell himself has a lengthy tenure with Atrium Health, having started out as an administrator at Carolinas Medical Center in 1993. He says the various administrative transitions at Kings Mountain – from a CHS management agreement, to a lease agreement, to full ownership – were all positive and all relatively seamless. “We had a 20-year partnership before we finally got married to CHS,” Bell says, “so the benefits of full integration were clearly understood.” Bell doesn’t hesitate to name the biggest change he’s observed during a lengthy career in Kings Mountain: the impact of technology. “Even though we’re a small hospital,” he says, “we can serve patients in a way that combines the best of two worlds. The quality of individual care is extraordinary, because the See BERRY, Page 7A

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