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Volume 129 • Issue 22
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Commencement June 10
KMHS Baccalaureate Sunday, June 4 Commencem e n t exercises for 303 graduating Kings Mountain High DR. ROGER WOODARD School seniors w i l l begin on Sunday, June 4 with baccalaureate service at 7 p.m. at B.N. Barnes Auditorium and end on Saturday, June 10, at 9 a.m. with awarding of diplomas in John Gamble Stadium.
Dr. Roger Woodard, Senior Pastor of Family Worship Center in Kings Mountain, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on the topic, “On Purpose, for a Purpose.” The Kings Mountain Ministerial Association is arranging the baccalaureate program which will also include scriptures and special music. Senior students will participate on the program. Seniors in the Symphonic Chorale will present special music under the direction of Mrs. Sarah Fulton. Junior Marshals will
Teachers of Year
KMIS honors Hicks, Lawson Erica H i c k s , K i n g s Mountain Intermediate School Teacher of the Year, is one of six ERICA HICKS finalists for Cleveland County Schools Teacher of the Year. The winner will be announced August 25. AMY LAWSON A m y Lawson is Teaching Assistant/Bus Driver at Kings Mountain Intermediate
School. Hicks graduated from Limestone College with Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and holds a Master of Arts in School Administration from Gardner-Webb University. She has been a teacher for 22 years and has taught at KMIS 15 years. She is married to Eric Hicks and they have a daughter, Erica, a graduate of Kings Mountain High School, UNC Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt Law University. The family has a Yorkie named Palin. Lawson is originally from Ventura, California and moved to Kings Mountain 16 years ago. She is See TEACHERS, Page 4A
FINAL ROLL CALL – John Parker, Vice-Commander of American Legion Post 155, reads the final roll call of Kings Mountain area men who died in the service of their country at Memorial Day services Monday morning in Kings Mountain’s Mountain Rest Cemetery. More photos by Ellen Devenny and Jan Harris in today’s Herald. Photo by ELLEN DEVENNY
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assist at both the baccalaureate and commencement programs. Finals exercises on June 10 will also include speakers from the senior class and special addresses by the valedictorian, the No. 1 student in academic achievement, and the salutatorian, the No. 2 student in academic achievement. Currently, three senior girls are tied for No. 1 in a class of 303. They are Gretchen Boyles, Abigail Morehouse and Madison Weeks.
Liberty Mountain: A source of community pride By Robert Inman Colonel Hambright is watching. I’ve INMAN thought about him a lot as we begin production for the fourth season of “Liberty Mountain” at the Joy Performance Center in Kings Mountain. When the play opens June 23, I believe he’ll be there in spirit. Frederick Hambright was one of the more colorful figures engaged in the Battle of Kings Mountain in October, 1780. He was a German immigrant who spoke English with a thick European accent. But there was no more dedicated Patriot, no one who believed more in the cause of American independence. Hambright was one of the leaders of a militia band known as the “South Fork Boys,” men from Cleveland, Gaston and Lincoln counties who had been involved in a number of skirmishes with British and their Loyalist allies in the months leading up to Kings Mountain, and they formed an integral part of the attacking force that went against Ferguson and his Loyalist followers on the mountain. Hambright was an older man, and thought it best to put one of his younger colleagues, Major Chronicle, in charge for the fight. The South Fork See LIBERTY, Page 4A
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The charred single wide mobile home of James Partlow was almost completely destroyed by fire early Friday morning. Mr. Partlow died in the fire. Photo courtesy of the Kings Mountain Fire Department
KM Circle K robbed man early Tuesday dies in house fire James Partlow, 66, who lived at 108 Pat Court off Lake Montonia Road, died in a fire that almost destroyed his single wide mobile home early Friday morning. Kings Mountain Police, Kings Mountain Fire Department and Bethlehem Fire Department were called to the residence about 12:30 a. m. Partlow was known for entertaining nursing home residents in the area. He was an active member of Galilee United Methodist Church in the Galilee Community. Cleveland County Fire Marshal Perry Davis said the fire is still under investigation by detectives with the Kings Mountain Police Department. Funeral arrangements, which are incomplete, will be announced by Donnell Gill, FSL. The family is at the Kings Mountain home of his daughter, Tiffany Starr.
The Circle K Convenience Store at 225 Cleveland Avenue was robbed Tuesday morning, May 30, of an undetermined amount of cash. No one was hurt. Kings Mountain Police said the clerk on duty said that an armed individual came into the store and demanded money about 4:09 a.m. The clerk described the individual as a white male approximately 5 feet
10 inches tall and of slender build. The man was wearing a dark hooded jacket and a yellow bandana covering his face. He fled the store on foot. Detectives at KMPD are investigating and ask that anyone with information about the crime contact Sgt. McDougal at the Kings Mountain Police Department 704-734-0444.
MANAGER OF THE YEAR - City Manager Marilyn Sellers, right, receives the Region C Law Enforcement plaque as City Manager of the Year. Lt. Lisa Proctor, on behalf of Region C, makes the presentation. Photo by KAREN TUCKER
City wins awards From Region C T h e City of K i n g s Mountain brought h o m e m a j o r a w a r d s CHIEF PROCTOR from Region C Law Enforcement agencies recently.
All the awards are prestigious awards because the individuals are nominated and the nominations are voted on by Region C committee made up of all law enforcement agencies in four counties: Polk, McDowell, Cleveland and Rutherford Counties. See CITY, Page 4A
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