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Volume 130 • Issue 21
May 23, 2018
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Blueprint for Downtown
GRADUATES – Pictured are the 2018 graduates of Grace Christian Academy. Bottom left, Chad Gunter and Moriah Nuhrah. Top left to right, Rachel Holiday, Jacob Heafner, Colton Franklin and Kirsten Spangler.
Tom Shytle elected Legion Commander Ret. M/Sgt. T o m Shytle has been elected C o m mander SHYTLE of Otis D. Green Post 155 American Legion of Kings Mountain. The Kings Mountain man is a veteran of the Korean War where he served 25 years, including service in Vietnam. The new officers will
be installed at the June meeting at the Post Home. The American Legion Post Home has been renovated extensively and a smoking area created for non-smokers. New tables and chairs and new carpet is installed, and numerous activities are planned. Free monthly breakfasts for all veterans in the Kings Mountain area have been highly successful with good attendance and breakfasts will resume in the Fall.
Motorists feel Spike at the pump If you drive your car to vacation spots Memorial Day weekend you will pay more for gas. Gas prices jumped 12 cents over the past 14 days, and six-cents since last Monday, landing the national average at $2.93 – the highest price point going into the Memorial Day weekend since 2014. The spike has been felt in the Carolinas as well. North Carolina’s $2.76 average today is 10 cents higher over the last two weeks and six cents higher than just a week ago. South Carolina’s $2.63 is
eight cents higher over the last two weeks and up six cents on the week. “Although prices are 55 cents higher for North Carolinians and 58 cents higher for South Carolinians this year compared to last Memorial Day, we are still expecting over 1.8 million Carolinians to travel this holiday weekend,” said Tiffany Wright AAA Carolinas spokesperson. “Motorists will feel the spike at the pump, but higher prices won’t keep them from celebrating Memorial Day weekend with a road trip.”
Business Showcase Set for June 12 Cleveland County Business Showcase, a premier networking event to maxi-
mize local company’s visibility through displays of products and service, will be held June 12 from 5:308:30 p.m. at Duke Training Center in Kings Mountain. To order a booth or to be a sponsor email bob@clevelandchamber.org
A “blueprint’’ for Kings Mountain presented by N-Focus Planning and the Main Street program envisions a budget of $893,525 by the year 2035 if the downtown plan is implemented. The N-Focus team hired by the city presented the streetscape plan to the Planning Board and the public last week. The plan and pictures are on the city’s website and copies are posted at city hall. Their ideas are incorporated in what they call four rounds and their purpose in displaying the maps as a downtown core area plan, analysis and realities, is for the public to offer suggestions. The blueprint includes: . Plan, design and install Wayfinding signage directing people both into and within the downtown. . Encourage development of new housing products in an around the downtown area where compatible. . Fund Main Street (Battleground Ave.) enhancements between Gold and Mountain streets to add improved surface treatment with brick paver pattern crosswalks, expand sidewalk width. Reallocating the paved area and
A Streetscape of Kings Mountain by N Focus Planning and how Main Street could look in the future. Photo by Mayor Scott Neisler renaming this segment to reflect the identity of Main Street. . Identify pedestrian enhancements to sidewalks linking neighborhoods to downtown. . Designate limits on extended parking along Main Street in prime spaces fronting businesses. . Reallocate pavement on East Gold to provide on-street parking and calm traffic; add bump-outs. . Rename West Mountain. West King, and West Gold to East on the east side of Main
Street (Battleground Ave.) . Expand Kings Mountain’s contribution to the region to benefit local businesses. . Present a diverse Kings Mountain community in community event promotions. Expand variety and functions as needed. . Add mini events such as “music in the park’’, etc. to generate activity on a weekly basis as weather permits. . Continue participation in the Main Street Program with the city funding $525, including $350 dues to Main Street
America and $175 to North Carolina Downtown Development Association. This list is included in Rounds 2, 3, and 4. Round l is ‘’getting our house in order” with updates to the zoning ordinance, adopt a strict sewer extension policy, adopt down zoning of undeveloped commercial property, enforce codes to remove abandoned structures and restore empty buildings to ready to use condition and provide professional development administration services to assist local business and citizens.
Memorial Day Service Monday Ronnie S. Roach, C o m mander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Sons of ROACH Confederate Veterans and Chief of Staff of the NC Division Sons of Confederate Veterans, will make the address at Memorial Day service Monday at 10 a.m. at Veterans Park of Mountain Rest
VFW Events Monday VFW Post 9811, 3800 Margrace Road, will have a Memorial Day celebration Monday, May 28, beginning at 11 a.m. with activities, food, games, music and fun for the whole family. Barbecue Chicken plates will be available with baked beans and slaw and whole chicken with two sides will also be available, according to Steve Buchanan. Everyone welcome.
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Cemetery. Roach is a 35-year member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and a Life member of the Military Order of Stars and Bars. He is a US Marine Corps veteran and is recipient of the Robert E. Lee Gold medal, the second highest award presented by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He also received the Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, among many other
awards. He is retired from the City of Mebane Public Works Department and presented 400 programs in the past seven years to SCV camps and historical societies in Maryland, the two Carolinas, Virginia and West Virginia. Vietnam Veteran Jim Medlin will present the impressive “Toast to the Flag” at the service which will also include special music. The Memorial Day service is a community-wide
observance sponsored by the City of Kings Mountain which pays tribute to the fallen, those men and women of the military who have died for their country. Mayor Scott Neisler, who will preside, said “Our fallen have given what Lincoln called “their last full measure of devotion.’’ They did it to serve America and they did it to serve us. As Scripture tells us, “Well done, they good and faithful servant.” Let us live up to that sacrifice.”
Bank robbery suspect caught Joseph Lee Short, 30, 230 Lennox Court, Lexington, formerly of Kings Mountain, has been charged with armed robbery of Bank of the Ozarks, 300 W. Mountain Street. Shortly after releasing a very clear surveillance photo to police agencies and news outlets, investigators had identified the suspect. He was apprehended by Davidson County authorities after Kings Mountain Police identified him as the suspect and issued a warrant for his arrest. He is in Davidson County Jail in Lexington awaiting a court hearing. Police say Short handed a note to a teller demand-
The suspect in last Thursday’s bank robbery is seen in this surveillance video image provided by KMPD. ing money at 12:16 p.m. last Thursday. Bank employees believed him to be
armed. The suspect left the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash.
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