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■ KM 13-15 girls win district, to play in state tournament
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Main Street Program accredited Kings Mountain is one of 44 North Carolina Main Street Cities and 806 Main Street America™ communities across the nation that earned national accreditation this year. The Main Street program accreditation process evaluates local Main Street programs according to 10 performance standards and provides national recognition to those that meet these standards. The national accreditation program strives to: * Provide local and national visibility to local Main Street programs that understand and fully utilize the Main Street Four-Point Approach® and eight Main Street principles and that continue to evolve organizationally to meet new challenges;
*Provide national standards for performance for local Main Street programs; and *Provide realistic goals and a tangible incentive for local Main Street programs that do not yet meet the criteria for national recognition. Receiving National Main Street Program status is a prestigious designation. While every designated local Main Street program can work toward accreditation, not every Main Street program receives it. Main Street coordinating programs evaluate their local programs every year and submit their eligible programs to the Main Street Center. National Main Street America annually releases the list of accredited
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By 6-1 Kings Mountain city council approved the $45.5 million 2016-17 city budget after public hearing Thursday night. Councilman Curtis Pressley cast the dissenting vote, saying there were several items that needed more discussion. Voting in favor of the final budget were Mayor pro tem Mike Butler and
Councilmen Howard Shipp, Tommy Hawkins, Rodney Gordon, Jay Rhodes and Keith Miller. Mayor Scott Neisler only votes in event of a tie. There was one major change in the original proposed budget by City Manager Marilyn Sellers. She cut the original proposed cemetery fees for outside-city residents from $3,000 to $2,000 for lots and from $3,000 to $1500 See BUDGET, Page 8
Fundraiser Saturday for Aaron Evans A fundraiser for 14-yearold Aaron Evans will be held Saturday, June 25, at Oak Grove Baptist Church fellowship hall. Hotdogs and hamburgers will all the trimmings will be available for a $6
Liberty Mountain'' returns to the Joy Performance Theatre Friday night for a four-weekend run and its third season. A opening night party, for which tickets are $100, will be held at 5:30 p. m. The evening performance starts at 7:30 p .m. Beginning Saturday, June 25, you can get free $10 discount tickets, courtesy of the City of Kings Mountain, and 3,000 tickets are available free as long as they last. Caleb Sigmon, director, and Bob Inman, playwright, predict this season will be the best ever. New scenes, new music,
donation from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. You don't have to have a ticket but tickets may be purchased from members of the church or call 704-7394833. Young Evans is fighting grade 3 Anaplastic Astrocytoma, a brain tumor, and all monies donated will be applied for medical expenses. Aaron is the son of Charlie and Jennifer Evans of Kings Mountain.
Photo of the 2015 production by TORRENCE PHOTOGRAPHY
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A Night in June: We only have each other ELIZABETH STEWART lib.kmherald@gmail.com
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Budget approved by City Council ELIZABETH STEWART
Revolutionary drama opens Friday night
The attack on an Orlando gay nightclub was the deadliest mass shooting in American history and the worst strike on US soil since 9/11 with 49 lives lost and many injured. Former Kings Mountain resident Dr. Joel J. Santora, a KMHS graduate of 2003, was working the night shift at Orlando Health in Orlando, Florida, a block from where the tragedy happened and where many of the injured were treated.
JOEL SANTORA The Orlando family moved to Kings Mountain in 1997 and Joel was president of the KMHS National Honor
Society and was a member of the high school soccer, swimming and golf teams. He attended Medical School at the American University of the Caribbean, completed Internal Medicine Residency at Orlando Health, completed a Critical Care Fellowship at Orlando Health and is currently a Critical Care Physician at Orlando Health in Orlando, Florida. He and his wife, Hailey, are expecting their first child, Ella Marie Santora, in September. Joel's parents, Marsha and Joe Santora, recently
moved from Kings Mountain to Cocoa, Florida. His sister, Michelle, and nephew, Lucas, live in Grover and his aunt and uncle, Angie and Jeff Payne, live in Shelby. Dr. Santora shares for Herald readers his experiences” “A Night In June – We only have each other.” by JOEL SANTORA Critical Care Physician Orlando, Florida Special to The Herald
My evening started like any other evening shift at ORMC on the critical care medicine service. We get a See NIGHT IN JUNE, Page 9
Music is healing talent for KM artist Libby Spires Kings Mountain song writer and music publisher Libby Spires calls her ministry of helping artists “reach their full potential” a healing talent. A two-time cancer survivor, Spires, 68, is sponsoring a benefit for the Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry Saturday with dinner catered by Love's Fish Box at 6 p.m. at Masonic Hall and music by Crimson Rose from 7-9 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are available at Chloe's Boutique, 309 S. Battleground Avenue. The Crimson Rose Band is a six-piece variety band from Kings Mountain that plays country classic, beach
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From the top of Crowders Mountain you can see forever. Just ask Shirley Goode, 70, who gave herself a birthday present that she will long remember - a two mile round trip hike to the summit of Crowders Moun-
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