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KMMS students invested in family’s adoption story

Balloon release today will honor Mira Wilson

Pat Chapman stands in one corner of the large room at her Christmas House which houses an original Snow Village she and her family acquired piece-by-piece over the years and is n ow a collection of 164 miniatures. It is every child of Christmas’ delight. See more photos page 5B. Photo by LIB STEWART

Snow Village Unique By all accounts Pat Chapman loves Christmas and every room of her comfortable home is not only a Christmas decorator’s dream but a child of Christmas delight.

It takes a room to display the 164 pieces of the original Snow Village and additional miniatures she and her family and friends have added over the years.

“It took months to put up the original department of 56 Snow Village and then it took months to pack it away so my husband and I decided to add a room on the house for my

growing collection and also a sunroom, my favorite place,’’ said Chapman. She closes the door to her Snow Village after Christmas. But when friends call they like to see the sights no matter the season.

Pat’s creativity isn’t limited to her wall-to-wall snow village. Ceramics and handmade crafts, handmade ornaments of acrylic beads, handmade Elves, 10 big ones and 16 little ones, manger scenes, a tall decorated tree in the living room trimmed with handmade items, and a ceramic manger scene which she designed and painted in

a ceramic class at the Patrick Senior Center enhance the beauty of holiday décor.

She has included in her Christmas collection pieces also given to her by her son, Danny Lovelace. He found a picture of a piece they liked on the Internet and bought it.

She has named every piece in the large collection.

The light blue wall on half of her Snow Village is painted to give the appearance of the sun rising over the mountain and on a darker blue wall there are stars glittering in the sky. The entire See SNOW VILLAGE, Page 7A

Emily gets her Christmas wish All Emily Cloninger wanted for Christmas was a jogging stroller so that she could push Emma, 10 in a race.

Emma suffers from a congenital brain malformation.

Emily got her wish and today (Wednesday) the stroller is being delivered and just in time for Christmas thanks to WBTV anchor Molly Grantham who writes “Molly’s Kids,’’ stories about kids, notably those with challenges and posts them on the WBTV website and Peter Kline, a Facebook reader and marathon runner from Seattle, Washington.

Kline is playing Santa Claus and giving today a jogging stroller to young Cloninger.

Heartbreaking but at the same time uplifting, Molly’s Kids is tracked by people through the hashtag #mollyskids on social media.

Emma’s grandfather Jerry Ledford said the story was posted last Monday and the family has had enormous feedback.

Molly Grantham’s story

EMMA AND EMILY CLONINGER Photo courtesy of WBTV about Emma and Emily Cloninger is reprinted by permission. ‘’CHARLOTTE – WBTV – Jerry Ledford wanted to tell us about his granddaughter.

Emma Cloninger was born with Dandy Walker Syndrome, a congenital brain malformation that means she’ll always be 6-monthsold developmentally. Difficult, because a calendar tells us she’s ten. ‘’Separately, Emma’s

stepmother, Emily, has lost 130 pounds over the last year and a half. She had gastric bypass surgery, took up jogging and has now run a few 10k’s and two half-marathons, including the Veterans Day Novant Health Charlotte Marathon on November 15. ‘’Emily wanted to be able to push Emma in a jogging stroller for that race. She really thought about it, Jerry wrote. She really wanted to See EMILY, Page 7A

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Briana Wilson’s students at Kings Mountain Middle School fell in love with Mira Frances Wilson before she was born on June 20, 2017.

At the baby’s death at four months of age, the students, who had become invested in Briana and Jake Wilson’s adoption journey, were devastated but started immediately planning in Mira’s memory fundraisers for children of heart disease.

Colorful balloons will be released by students at KM Middle today in memory of a baby they never met but a child they loved.

Briana and Jake Wilson’s adoption journey began in January 2016 with Bethany Christian Services, a Christian adoption agency in Charlotte. Mrs. Wilson was sitting at her desk at school in May 2017 when she got the news from a social worker that a baby girl was to be born with a severe congenital heart defect and asked if Brianna and Jake Wilson were interested.

Without a moment’s hesitation Briana messaged that “yes, we want her.”

The Wilson’s older daughter, Makinzy, a 7th grader at KMMS, was adopted by the Wilsons when she was seven years old and could hardly wait to be a big sister. Mrs. Wilson had suffered six miscarriages over the last four years.

The birth parents were a young teenage couple from North Carolina and they made the hard choice to place the baby for adoption. The birth mother even allowed Briana to coach her through labor.

“When Mira opened her eyes at 2:37 a.m. June 20, 2017 I was the first person she saw,’’ said Briana.

Mira Frances Wilson was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, which is the same condition of Panther player Greg Ol-

MIRA FRANCES WILSON sen’s son, TJ. Essentially, she was born without the left ventricle of her heart, which is responsible for pumping blood to the body through the aorta. At three days old

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WILSON FAMILY – Briana and Jake Wilson are pictured with their daughters, Mira Frances, who died at four months of age in October, and Makinzy, a 7th grader.

Cemetery Luminaries to glow 5 nights City-owned Mountain Rest Cemetery will be aglow with thousands of candles beginning Friday night, Dec. 22 and continuing through Tuesday night, Dec. 26, until 11 p.m. each evening.

The City of Kings Mountain sponsors the traditional luminary event which draws hundreds of people who pay respect to loved ones by riding quietly through the beautifully-decorated cemetery

grounds.

Motorists are asked to enter the cemetery at the main gate on East King Street and follow the signs through the cemetery to the exit.

Mayor Scott Neisler said this week that the fantasy light display downtown will run through Jan. 1 and more music has been added to two shows each night that run 25 minutess.

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Meth bust at traffic stop results In arrest of Kiley Philbeck

Lisa Hollifield Black

Ruby Cox KINGS MOUNTAIN: Ruby Jackson Cox, 91, died Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, at Carolina Care Center in Cherryville. A native of Cleveland County, she was the daughter of the late John and Lena Odell Jackson.

She attended East Gold St. Wesleyan Church and retired from textiles In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond Cox; sisters, Dorothy Eury and Betty Shytle; and brothers, Harold and Johnny Jackson.

She is survived by her son, Ricky Cox of Kings Mountain; and sister, Peggy Lawing and husband Bobby of Charlotte.

Funeral services were held 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, at East Gold St. Wesleyan Church, officiated

by Rev. Scott Whitney. The family received friends one hour, prior to the service, at the church.

Burial was in Mountain Rest Cemetery Memorials may be made to East Gold St. Wesleyan Church, 701 E. Gold St., Kings Mountain, NC 28086 Online condolences: www.claybarnette.com Arrangements are entrusted to Clay-Barnette Funeral Home of Kings Mountain.

Joan ‘Joanie” Beth Crawford

Photographer loved children

KINGS MOUNTAIN - Joan Beth Crawford, 64 of Kings Mountain, NC, passed away on December 14, 2017.

Born in Cleveland County, she was the daughter of the late Henry Davis and Elizabeth Davis. Joanie worked for many years as a photographer and especially enjoyed photographing children. She was a member of Boyce Memorial ARP Church and was a former Sunday School Superintendent, Youth Director and church photographer. She loved crafts and baking cakes. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend Surviving are her husband of 17 years, Danny Neil Crawford, of the home; one son, Alex Nolen and wife, Nikki, of Kings Mountain; two grandchildren Maddy Nolen and Dessa Nolen; two brothers, Ernie Davis of Lake Wylie, NC and Tim Davis and wife, Vanassa, of Kings Mountain; two sisters, Terri Southards and husband, Donnie Kings Mountain and Brenda Rikard and husband, Jimmy, Belmont, NC; numerous nieces and nephews.

The memorial service was conducted Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 at 4 p.m. at Boyce Memorial ARP Church, Kings Mountain.

The family received friends from 3-4 p.m. at Boyce Memorial ARP Church prior to the service.

A guest register is available at www.HarrisFunerals.com Harris Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Kings Mountain, NC, was in charge of arrangements.

Gary Michael Yarbro, Sr. US Army veteran

KINGS MOUNTAIN Gary Michael Yarbro, Sr., 70, of Kings Mountain, NC, passed away on December 11, 2017 at his residence.

Born in Cleveland County, he was the son of the late Jesse Hillard Yarbro and Flora Bookout Yarbro.

In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by his wife of 34 years, Dorothy Louise Yarbro; four sisters Judy Marlowe, Grace DiSabato, Becky Roper Hampton, and Shirley Guyton; two brothers Jimmy Yarbro and Doug Yarbro.

Mike was retired from Eaton Corporation. He was a disabled United States Army Veteran who served in Vietnam, a former Commander of the VFW Post 9811 and a member of the American Legion Post 155. He was a loving father, grandfather, husband, brother, and friend.

Surviving are one son, Gary Michael Yarbro, Jr. and wife Natasha Parker Yarbro, Kings Mountain, NC; three grandchildren, Brittany Lynne Rodden, Kayla Noel Yarbro, and Jesse Michael Yarbro; one sister, Kathy Yarbro of Kings Mountain; and one brother, Jeffery Dale Yarbro and wife, Kim, Kings Mountain, NC. The funeral service was conducted Friday, December 15, 2017, 3 p.m.

Christian Freedom Baptist Church with Rev. Mike Chambers officiating The family received friends Thursday, December 14, 5-8 p.m. Harris Funeral Home Interment was in Mountain Rest Cemetery, Kings Mountain, NC with full Military Honors Provided by the Foothills Marine Corps League Memorials may be made to Christian Freedom Baptist Church, 246 Range Rd., Kings Mountain, NC 28086 A guest register is available at www.HarrisFunerals.com Harris Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Kings Mountain, NC, was in charge of arrangements.

Rev. William Arnold Bell

Former Grover pastor LENOIR - Rev. William Arnold Bell, 85, of Lenoir, passed away Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care-Lenoir. He was born September 5, 1932 in Cleveland County to the late Samuel O. and Virginia Wright Bell.

Rev. Bell attended Gardner-Webb University, where he was a part of the ministry program. He pastored Bethany Baptist Church in Grover, Old Fields Baptist Church in Ashe County, Clark’s Chapel Baptist Church in Lenoir, Albertson Road Baptist Church in High Point, Amherst Baptist Church in Morganton, and retired from First Baptist Church of Cleveland in Rowan County. After retirement, he served for 12 years as interim pastor at multiple churches.

Survivors include his wife of 68 years, Ruth Canipe Bell, of the home; one son, Dennis A. Bell and wife Brenda of Granite Falls; one daughter, Revonda B. Paff and husband Mark of Lewisville, N.C.; two brothers, Gene Bell and Giles Bell, both of Kings Mountain; one sister, Betty Philbeck of Texas; three grandchildren, Denise Sane and husband Cory, Scott Bell and wife Carla, and Dustin Roberts; and three great-grandchildren, Ashlyn and Brooklyn Roberts, and Angela Sane.

Funeral services were held Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 2 p.m.at Mount Zion Baptist Church conducted by Rev. Stephen Owen, Rev. Scott Bell, and Rev. Dustin Roberts. Interment immediately followed in the church cemetery.

The family received friends Friday evening from 6-8 p.m. at Greer-McElveen Funeral Home.

Online condolences may be left at www. greer-mcelveenfuneralhome.com. Greer-McElveen Funeral Home and Crematory is assisting the Bell family.

New Year’s Eve service Peoples Baptist Church, 1010 Groves St., will hold a New Year’s Eve service on Dec. 31 at 10:30 p.m.

The public is invited to fellowship with Peoples congregation as they bring in the New Year celebrating and thanking God for all He has done and will do I n the lives of His people.

PHILBECK The Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office reported this week that a traffic stop early Thursday morning uncovered thousands of dollars in methamphetamine and a Kings Mountain man, Kiley Arnold Philbeck, 39, of 1510 Bethlehem Road, was arrested on 19 felony drug charges.

Deputies Nick Stone and Josh Drum said they seized 5.6 ounces of methamphetamine from inside the car driven by Philbeck.

The street value for this quantity of the narcotic is $19,200. The quantity amounts to 620 doses. The drugs also included counterfeit meth packaged and comingled with real drugs to increase the profit margin, according to a press release.

Investigators said Philbeck was already the target of an ongoing Sheriff’s Vice/Narcotics investiga-

tion, during which he allegedly sold 4.6 ounces of methamphetamine. This quantity has a street value of $15,480 and equates to 516 dosages, according to the press release.

Philbeck is charged with six counts of possession with intent to sell/deliver methamphetamine, five counts of sell/deliver methamphetamine, three counts of possession with intent to sell/deliver counterfeit controlled substance; three counts create counterfeit controlled substance; one count sell/deliver counterfeit methamphetamine; and one count of possession of methamphetamine.’

He is being held in the

Cleveland County Detention Center on a $300,000 bond.

“A great deal of crime that occurs in our county is the direct result of addicts trying to get something of value in exchange for drugs in order to feed their habit,’’ said Cleveland County Sheriff Alan Norman. “Mr. Philbeck is one of those people who capitalize on crime against our citizens. It is my goal to see that Mr. Philbeck, and those like him, don’t have the opportunity to perpetuate this cycle of misery any longer.

Through the relentless work of our deputies and investigators, we will meet this goal.”

Sheriff’s deputies say they seized these drugs from a Kings Mountain man’s vehicle early last Thursday morning.

Photos by Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office

■ POLICE ARRESTS DEC. 11: James Lee Fraley, 45, 815-5 Bethlehem Road, DWI, $2500 unsecured bond.

DEC. 11: Rebecca Lynn Blanton, 47, 27 Chesterfield Court, failure to appear, $2500 secured bond.

DEC. 12: Christopher Wade Puckett, 32, Gastonia, 2 counts driving while license revoked, $3000 secured bond.

DEC. 13: Randall Ivey Kincaid, 33, Morganton, assault, communicating threats, assault with deadly weapon, $500 secured.

DEC. 14: Mary Megan Franks, 26, 531 Belvedere Circle, resist, delay, obstruct officer, misdemeanor child abuse, $10,000 secured bond.

DEC. 14: Timothy Lamar Davis, 24, 1900 Alpine Drive, resist, delay, obstruct, simple possession marijuana, fictitious registration, $15,000 secured bond.

DEC. 15: Patrick Joseph Rowland, 31, 405 Baker St., DWI, driving while license revoked, $5000 unsecured bond.

DEC. 15: William Duane Stobaugh, 54, Charlotte, order for arrest, driving while license revoked, $1000 unsecured bond, transported to Gaston County magistrate.

DEC. 15: Summer Nicole Holland, 26, 303 Linwood Road, eight counts financial card fraud, $10,000 unsecured b ond.

DEC. 15: Melissa Elaine Proctor, 43, Cherryville, three counts larceny, three counts possession stolen goods, $1,000 secured bond.

DEC. 16: Randall Adams, 27, Charlotte, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, felony. Possession marijuana paraphernalia, failing to stop for steady red light, $15,025 secured bond.

Adams, arrested at a traffic stop, also had an order for arrest for probation violation and failure to comply in paying $25.

DEC. 17: Kevin Ryan Breland, 42, 600 West King St., assault on female and transported to a Cleveland County magistrate for a bond hearing.

CITATIONS DEC. 11: Noah James Whisnant, 18, Shelby, speeding.

DEC. 12: Chrysal Lynn Woods, 38, Gastonia, allowing unlicensed driver to operate her vehicle.

DEC. 12: Toshia Rochelle Floyd, 36, 404 Belvedere Circe, revoked driver’s license.

DEC. 12: Dennis Michael Weaver, 36, Shelby, speeding.

DEC. 12: Mekayla Breanne Arrowood, 19, Bessemer City, speeding.

DEC.12: Henry Michael McDaniel, 70, Gastonia, speeding.

DEC. 12: Michael Craig Garrison, 68, 507 Coman Lane, speeding.

DEC. 12: Elio Roque Chocobar, 48, 345 Range Road, speeding.

DEC. 12: Stacey Jo-Lin Taylor, 38, Charlotte, speeding.

DEC. 12: Jasmine Yvonne Ashcraft, 26, Gastonia, speeding.

DEC.12: Johnna Elise Etters, 24, 800 Henry Street, speeding.

DEC. 13: Jonathan Jake Hamrick, 35, 109 Tepee St., speeding.

DEC. 13: Courtney Marriverhillmonuments.com

lene McGee, 810 Church St., Apt. B, speeding.

DEC. 14: Nicholas Matthew Healey Retie, 20, 850 Sunnyside Shady Rest, possession marijuana.

INCIDENTS DEC. 2: A resident of Cherokee Street reported theft of currency and a debit card.

DEC. 9: A resident of Kings Fall Court reported financial transaction card fraud of a vehicle and debit card.

DEC. 10: A resident of Duke Street reported theft of a bill of sale, registration and title application, insurance card and lighter from his vehicle.

DEC. 10: A resident of Dallas reported theft of his red 16 fee t 2 axle trailer from Shelby Road.

DEC. 11: A resident of Chesterfield Court reported theft of a 50-inch flat screen TV and video game system.

DEC. 11: A resident of McGinnis Street reported financial card fraud.

DEC. 12: A resident of Country Grove Road reported $400 damage to the left front door of his vehicle by a driver unintentionally striking the door with his vehicle.

DEC. 13: A resident of Oak Grove Road reported theft of a Honda motorcycle valued at $3500. From a York Road residence.

DEC. 13: Rhodesdale Farm, 1811 Shelby Road, reported theft of four Christmas trees and stands and an inflatable Santa/tractor yard decoration.

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■ OBITUARIES KINGS MOUNTAIN Lisa Hollifield Black, 50 of Kings Mountain, NC, passed away on December 14, 2017 at her home in Kings Mountain, NC. Born in Cleveland County, she was the daughter of the late Roy “Pete” Hollifield and Brenda Huffstetler Hollifield. Lisa loved cooking, the beach, and the mountains.

The funeral service was conducted at 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 at Ollie Harris Memorial Chapel at Harris Funeral Home in Kings Mountain.

The family received friends from 6-8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017 at Harris Funeral Home.

Interment was in Mountain Rest Cemetery, Kings Mountain.

A guest register is available at www.HarrisFunerals. com Harris Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Kings Mountain, NC, was in charge of arrangements.

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Speaker Tim Moore honored

By NC Sheriffs’ Association The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association has recognized Speaker of the House Tim Moore as a 2017 Defender of Public Safety for the important work he did during the 2017 legislative session to protect public safety in North Carolina.

Speaker Moore dedicated time and effort during the session advocating for law enforcement issues important to the Association which impact the office of sheriff, local communities and the state. “Speaker Moore took a leadership role in advancing the legislative priorities of the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association which represents all 100 sheriffs in the state,’’ said Sheriff Carson H. Smith Jr., President of the Association. “As a result, our sheriffs are better equipped to protect the lives, liberties and property of North Carolina’s citi-

TIM MOORE zens.”

Speaker Moore’s legislative district is served by Sheriff Alan Norman of Cleveland County.

During the 2017 legislative session, the General Assembly considered hundreds of bills and enacted dozens of laws that had a direct impact on law enforcement and public safety in North Carolina.

Cormetch fed needy in KM Thursday Sixty members of Cormetech’s staff from the facilities in both Kings Mountain and Charlotte loaded boxes of food into cars last Tuesday in the Cherokee Street Parking Lot to help feed the children in several hundred families.

Alan Harkey, regional director of donor relations for Feed the Children, said he wishes there were more companies like Cormetech (formerly STEAG). The environmental company donated $15,000 to provide the food and transportation for the event.

What better time than the Christmas season to give that gift, said Mayor Scott Neisler who hopes Feed the Children will return probably in Summer. When Cormetech approached the mayor about how they could give back during the holiday season Neisler told them about

The Cherokee Street Parking Lot was probably the busiest place in town last Tuesday morning as cars went through the line to pick up boxes of food for the needy.

Photo by MAYOR SCOTT NEISLER Feed the Children.

Feed the Children and Cormetech teamed up with

the Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry to provide a week’s worth of food to

people in need. Toys and books also were donated to children.

Church services to feature Christmas celebration

The altar of First Presbyterian Church is beautifully decorated for the Christmas season. All churches will have traditional Sunday services and some churches plan evening services.

Photo by SHIRLEY BRUTKO

The Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ will feature Christ-

mas Eve church services in Kings Mountain Sunday.

Virtually all churches

in the area will have traditional morning services Sunday. Several churches

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plan Sunday evening Christmas Eve services.

Good Hope Presbyterian Church will hold 11 p.m. service on Christmas Eve. First Presbyterian Church will hold candlelight communion service at 9 p.m.

Dixon Presbyterian Church will hold a candlelight service at 5:30 p.m.

No Sunday School will be held Sunday but Pastor and Mrs. Randy Patterson will host a fellowship time from 10 until 11 a.m. in the church fellowship building prior to the church worship service at 11.

Central United Methodist Church will hold 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. services.

The Choir of Grace United Methodist Church will sing a Christmas Cantata at 11 a.m. Sunday morning and the church will hold Christmas Eve service at 5 p.m.

60 YEAR MASTER MASON – John Ralph Harrison, seated, received the Diamond Jubilee citation from the Grand Lodge of North Carolina from John Hardin, Master of Fairview Lodge 339 AF&AM, and Jim Medlin, right, who made the special presentation.

Harrison honored as 60-year Mason Kings Mountain resident John Ralph Harrison is a 60-year Master Mason and was recognized with special awards last Wednesday at Summit Place where he is a resident.

Jim Medlin, Past Master of the East LaPorte Lodge in Cullowhee and a Kings

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Harrison has served for 53 years as Certified Lecturer which means he has put to memory the year 1717 coded letters in the “Official Standard of the Work” and presented verbally for 53 years what Masons know in their hearts, said Medlin who noted that with over 80,000 Masons in North Carolina there are only 64 certified lecturers and only three other Masons in the state that “can stand with him.”

The Diamond Jubilee certificate was signed by Gene Cobb, Grand Master, and Walton Clapp, Grand Secretary.

Fairview Lodge Master John Hardin pinned on the Golden Jubilee Pin.

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OPINION

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

TODAY’S QUOTE:

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. – Calvin Coolidge

Take Time to Be Glad this busy last week before Christmas The stores were busy this last week before Christmas and harried clerks Lib Stewart at the Managing Editor mall were attempting to help last-minute shoppers who had not yet made up their minds about what to buy friends on their gift list. ” I wish Christmas would hurry and get here,’’ the clerk said, more to herself than those around her. “Because I will be glad when it’s over.”

How many of us share her frustration?

So much to do, so little time. That gift list still is long.

All those Christmas cards to address and mail. Not enough days left to do all that needs to be done and still there’s the grocery shopping and if I didn’t have to work this busy season, etc. and etc.

Mayor Bill Willis of Grover called the Herald just before we went to press Tuesday

and told how a lady had just walked into his office. He thought she was at Grover Town Hall to pay her utility bill. Not so. She handed him an envelope containing $900 from the contract workers putting in gas lines for Williams Transco and asked him to distribute the gift to needy families. Every year the workers pass the hat for a donation to help the needy in the area in which they are working.

This week they are completing their job in Grover and are headed home for the holidays but they wanted to bring some Christmas cheer before they departed.

Take time to be glad.

More than anything you do during this season of what some are saying is self-imposed pressure be glad.

And Take time to remind yourselves why you are doing so much for so many as you hear in church services this weekend the re-reading of the Christmas Story in Luke Chapter 2.

Luke 2:1-20 The Birth of Jesus

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.

She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

The Shepherds and the Angels And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were

Timothy Tyson’s “The Blood of Emmett Till” revisits the 1955 kidnapping and brutal killing of Till, a 14-year-old black youth from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi.

Other books for such serious readers include “Julius Chambers: A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights” by Richard A. Rosen and Joseph Mosnier. Their account of North Carolina’s leading civil rights attorney and hero persuaded me that a statue of Chambers belongs on the courthouse lawn of every North Carolina county.

Similarly, Kenneth Janken’s “The Wilmington Ten: Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s” deals with unhealed wounds of racial turmoil.

If you think these books are too serious for holiday gifts, how about ones that

deal with food?

For example, “Deep Run Roots” by TV star and Kinston chef, Vivian Howard, is a story-filled book of recipes and descriptions of great North Carolina foods. It is destined to be a classic.

In “Foster’s Market Favorites: 25th Anniversary,” another North Carolina food hero, Sarah Foster, shares recipes and tells how her Durham market came to be and came to thrive.

New Bookwatch guest host Randall Kenan’s “The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food” includes his and other North Carolina writers’ food memories and images.

“Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue” by John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed, and William McKinney, was recently re-issued in paperback and is a surefire

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Looking back Looking back from the Monday, Dec. 24, 1990 edition of The Kings Mountain Herald Longer plant holidays in an already declining textile economy is bad news for Kings Mountain this holiday season.

Kings Mountain’s Empty Stocking Fund reached $3,441 last week after $425 was received Thursday and Friday.

Christmas Eve services are planned at six Christmas churches, three

of which plan 11 p.m. candlelight communion services.

Kings Mountain Mountaineers successfully defended their championship in the Shelby Star Holiday Basketball Tournament Thursday and Friday at the Kings Mountain High gymnasium.

Coach Larry Sipes’ Mountaineers defeated Crest 83-73 in the opening round Thursday night and held off Burns 69-61

treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

Scripture taken from the Holy Bible - NIV

The staff of the Kings Mountain Herald join me in wishing you and yours a happy holiday season. Let us pray as we experience the true meaning of Christmas that New Year 2018 will be the best ever for Kings Mountain, at your house and mine.

How to have a Merry Christmas

Good books for the folks you forgot You forgot somebody, didn’t you?

Somebody who is expecting a present from you? And now, remembering,you DG MARTIN have no idea what to give, do you?

Here are some thoughts from my recent reading.

At the top of your list of books for your friends who are public policy or history nerds should be two North Carolina authors whose books recently made the list of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2017.

Charlotte native Graham Allison’s “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?” puts the dangers in the U.S.-China dynamic relationship in understandable language. Duke Professor

terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ[a] the Lord.

This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, ”Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary

in the championship game Friday night.

Bethware first graders wrote letters to Santa Class as did many other students in the schools this week. Things on their want lists included: a talking computer, a bike, a Nintendo, a black remote-control Chevy, a real dog, a real parrot, a puppy and one youngster didn’t ask for himself. He asked for extra money for Mom and Dad.

Christmas is the most depressing time of the year for many people. New Year’s Eve is another difficult time.

There are lots of reasons why depression and suicide rates soar during these hol- Glenn Mollette Guest Editorial idays. Feeling alone, financial distress, health issues, family problems and the list can actually be long.

Here are some quick tips for you. Keep this column handy for reference over the next two weeks.

Plan to be connected to people during these holidays. Even if it’s sitting on the sofa making telephone calls all day at least you are talking and hearing people. Actually this is a good idea anyway. Make a long list and call people and wish them a Merry Christmas or a Happy New Year. Or, divide your list and call some one holiday and the rest on New Year’s Eve. Too many people sit back with the attitude, “Well, they haven’t called me.” Don’t worry about that because we are talking about your self-preservation here. Have people in your home whether it’s family or people in your neighborhood.

Have them for just coffee and a cookie.

Better yet, if you have family, relax and just roll with the holiday punches. There is absolutely nothing else to do on Christmas.

Your local convenient store or truck stop might be open but that’s it. Enjoy and love the people you might be around - it’s only once a year that you are truly stuck all day with them. You can survive it.

Do not fuss about anything. Be nice to everybody. Let the stupid things that people say to you roll off your back. Smile and act like you are having a wonderful time even if some relative is driving you crazy. Just laugh and have fun.

Keep it simple. Don’t overspend your bank account. Don’t rack up a big credit card debt. Let other people help you with any cooking, kitchen details and clean up.

Share the joy with other people. Most people are happy to chip in and it makes them and you feel better.

Allow yourself plenty of time. My wife

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starts cooking Christmas dinner two weeks early. She makes something and then puts it in the freezer. If she makes one thing every day we normally end up with enough food for the neighborhood. There was a time when she tried to do it all on one day. This drove her and all of us crazy. Last minute cooking, shopping and leaving home late to travel a long trip is all nerve racking and takes some of the fun out of the holiday.

Help one or two people along the way. No one person can save the world but you never know when your assistance might be a miracle for someone.Years ago a man had tied up all of his money into a house when suddenly he lost his job and had no way to keep the house. The bank secured everything he owned and there were zero dollars available to do anything.

He didn’t know what he was going to do including buy groceries or even find another place to rent. A financially secure man in the town heard about the plight of the other guy and called him into his office one week before Christmas to announce to him he was going to buy his house from him.

The man was overwhelmed with joy and was able to eventually secure another place to live, another job and move forward with his life. However for sometime he lived each day feeling and knowing that his life and family were in severe peril. He told me once that what happened was truly a life saving miracle.

You probably aren’t in the position to just buy somebody’s house in order to financially save him or her. However, maybe a good word, a small financial gift, or even trying to help somebody find a job might be miracle life saving acts that you might give to someone.

Christmas only comes once a year if we are blessed to see and enjoy the day.

Be thankful. Give thanks to God Almighty for His blessings. Don’t give ugly gestures to people on the highway. Be nice to Republicans and Democrats and Independents and all other parties - at least on Christmas.

We need more joy, smiles and happiness in America. Do your part. You are one person. If every person contributes we can truly all have a more Merry Christmas.

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■ MEDITATION

A Gift for Jesus On enworry about what I am tering the going to get my famhouse, they ily and friends. I look saw the in a variety of stores child with and check out different Mary his items online. I ask my mother; and children, “What do you they knelt want for Christmas?” I down and want to give them what Rev. paid him they want, of course, Jill Rhinehart homage. within reason.

Pastor T h e n , As Christmas apCentral United o p e n Methodist Church proaches, I continue to ing their check my list and the treasure presents. chests, they offered him I ask myself, “Did I get gifts of gold, frankincense, everyone’s present? Did I and myrrh. Matthew 2:11 forget someone?

NRSV Do I have all of my Every Christmas I presents wrapped?” Then,

on Christmas Day, as presents are distributed, I look at all their faces to see if I got just the right gift for everyone. Reflecting on the process of gift giving made me ponder what gift Jesus would want for Christmas.

Honestly, I have no idea what I would get for my Savior and Creator.

I mean, eventually this infant would suffer great torture and eventual death for me. It would seem that an Apple iPhone, or even the most recent Lamborghini is nothing compared to the sacrifice of one’s life for another. I definitely

think a Wal-Mart gift card just doesn’t seem to be the right gift.

Is there any handmade gift that I could possibly make that would say, “Thank you Jesus for eternal life!”? No amount of Christmas cookies, pies, cakes, or hand sewn quilt seems to be the perfect gift.

As the wise men knelt before the Messiah, they gave the baby Jesus the gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Each of these gifts had a special spiritual meaning. The gold was a gift that recognized Jesus’ kingship on earth. The frankincense was the gift of incense that symbolizes Jesus as a deity. The myrrh reflected the eventual death of Jesus because it was used as an embalming oil.

Three gifts with three separate meanings. Each one of these gifts costing a great

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What gifts would be grand enough to give Jesus today? I think in order for us to understand the gifts God desires we need to look at what God asks of us as God’s children. In the Old Testament, the prophet Micah asks the question “Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”

(Micah 6:7 NRSV) No this is not what God wants from us.

Micah 6:8 reads “He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” In the Bible’s New Testament, Matthew writes

about the religious leaders who tried to test Jesus by asking “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest? [Jesus] said to him, ’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment.

And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:36-40 NRSV) This Christmas, there is the need for one more gift. Give Jesus the gift of your love and reveal your love of Jesus by loving others as well. This gift of love for God and others can change a world for the better. Merry Christmas, everyone!

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Faith Holiness Church Hwy. 161/Bessemer City Rd. 704-739-1997 Family Worship Center 1818 Shelby Road 704-739-7206 First Baptist Church 605 W. King Street 704-739-3651

East Gold Wesleyan Church 701 E. Gold St. • Kings Mountain, NC KINGS MOUNTAIN Advent Lutheran Church, NALC Member 230 Oak Grove Rd. 704-750-0171 Anew Beginning Baptist Church 415 Dixon School Rd. 704-473-1372 Ardent Life Church 420 Branch Street 704-739-7700 Arise Church 830 E. King St. Bethlehem Baptist Church 1017 Bethlehem Road 704-739-7487 Boyce Memorial ARP Church Edgemont Drive 704-739-4917

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Carson Memorial Baptist Church 262 Sparrow Springs Road 704-739-2247

Cornerstone Church Of God 202 Margrace Road 704-739-3773

Central United Methodist Church 113 S. Piedmont Avenue 704-739-2471

Cornerstone Independent Baptist 107 Range Road 704-737-0477

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I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.

Ephesians 3:14-21

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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

■ LIFESTYLES

(Ed. Note – The recipes in today’s cooking column comes from “Star Spangled Recipes” published by the American Legion Auxiliary of North Carolina.)

HOURS OF KNITTING – Deborah Hoyle, Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Chairman for the American Legion Auxiliary, spent hours knitting scarves, gloves and caps for veterans at Summit Place, White Oak Manor and for the Crisis Ministry. She is pictured with the gifts that were presented to veterans last week.

Photo by Lib Stewart

NEW ENGLAND SWISS STEAK Laura Snell 4 pieces of cubed steak, browned 1 large onion, sliced 1 large can tomato sauce 1 large bell pepper, sliced 1 large can tomatoes Cook until done. Serve over rice.

CROCK POT PATTIES Ruth Conder 2 lbs. ground beef 1 cup onion, chopped ½ cup cheddar cheese ½ cup cracker c crumbs 1 egg, beaten 2 Tbsp. ketchup 2 Tbsp. evaporated or plain milk Salt and pepper to taste Mix above ingredients well. Form patties. Roll in flour and brown in frying pan. Drain.

2 cans cream of mushroom soup Layer mushroom soup with patties in crock pot.

Cook on high 3 ½-4 hours.

KNITTING CLASS DONATES – Members in the Knitting Class at the Senior Center donated a number of warm items to help decorate the warm tree that the American Legion Auxiliary decorated at the American Legion. The warm items will be presented to the Crisis Ministry this week by DeAnn Burton, chairman of the warm tree project.

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PRIME RIB Julie Baker Start at 3 p.m. to serve at

dinner. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cook 1 hour. Turn oven off. Keep oven door closed. 45 minutes before serving turn oven to 300 degrees.

YUM YUM POTATOES 2 lbs. frozen hash potatoes 1 lb. Velveeta cheese shredded ¼ lb. bacon, cooked and c rumbled 2 cups mayonnaise Mix together all ingredients. Pour into an 11x9 casserole. Bake at 325 degrees for 50 minutes.

VANILLA BUTTERNUT POUND CAKE Hilda Pope 2 sticks of margarine 5 eggs 1 small can milk and add water to make 1 cup ¼ tsp. salt 2 Tbsp. vanilla butternut flavoring 3 cups sugar ½ cup Crisco 3 cups plain flour Cream shortening, sugar

and salt. Add eggs one at a time. Add flour and milk alternately, ending with flour.

Fold in flavoring, by hand.

Bake in tube pan for 1 hour 45 minutes at 325 degrees.

Start in cold oven, do not open oven door.

BANANA PUDDING Sandra Dukeman 2 packs Jell-O vanilla instant pudding 1 cup sour cream 1 tsp. vanilla flavoring 12 oz. vanilla wafers 3 cups milk 8oz. Cool Whip 6 bananas (if large, use less) In large mixing bowl, add pudding, milk, sour cream and Cool Whip. Mix well until consistency of pudding.

Then add vanilla flavoring and mix into pudding.

Layer pudding, wafers, and bananas in 9x13 Pyrex dish.

So do not use too much pudding on bottom to insure you have enough for the middle and top layer. Crumble a few wafers on the top if you like Refrigerate overnight.

STORY OF CHRISTMAS – The First Baptist Church Worship Choir, Praise Band and Orchestra presented “The Story of Christmas” Sunday night. The story in music and song took each person on a journey through the various perspectives of the Christmas Story.

Each song told another view in a different musical genre.

Happy Anniversary

DANCE GROUP -The liturgical dance group from Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church accepted toys for the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree as admission for their Sunday afternoon performance.

Toys for Angel Tree Project of dancers On their toes for the second consecutive year, the liturgical dance group from Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Waco accepted toys for The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree mission as tickets for their festive Sunday afternoon

performance on Dec. 10.

Pastor Les Howard and First Lady Howard, and dance director and event coordinator Angela Littlejohn posed with the Macedonia Praise Dancers after the program. “Everyone that came and all the dance team

brought toys,” Ms. Littlejohn said. “Our young people were very excited to be doing it.” The gifts are being added to other donations that go to nearly 500 children in Cleveland County this year.

To help, call 704-482-0375 or 704-692-8515.

I want to take some time to wish my beautiful and amazing wife a Happy 8 Year Anniversary and a very Merry Christmas.

Denise Cobb, 8 years ago on December 21st God blessed me with the most loving, honest, faithful woman to be my wife, my best friend and my soul mate.

I can honestly say I never knew a love and an awesome loving marriage like we have ever even existed. God knew what he was doing when he gave you to me. He knew we needed each other, and after some of the things we have been through the past 8 years he was right. Babe, I have never come close to feeling a love like ours. I cherish our love and marriage so much and I cherish the love we both share for God always. Babe, you are more beautiful today than 8 years ago. I’m so blessed to be your husband and I thank God many times a day for you. I love you more and more each day and just that text from you during the day is so special.

The best part is knowing that at the end of each long day you are coming home to me and that is such a blessing to me. A blessing, I will cherish and always remember how perfect we are for each other. Denise, you are so special to me and so many other people.

Your love for God and your family and friends show each day. I am one blessed man. Babe, you could look in all the world and never find a love as true as mine.

Love you forever, Pete

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First Day Hike begins On Van Dyke Road Join a statewide and national effort to celebrate parks and healthy living on January 1. Park staff will be leading an approximately 5-6-mile hike on a moderate section of the Ridgeline Trail beginning at 9 a.m. at the Boulders Access Area (108-2C Van Dyke Road, Kings Mountain, at Crowders Mountain State Park, NC and end in the Kings Mountain State Park, SC camping area.

Take water, snacks, suitable clothing, and appropriate footwear. Participants must arrange for their own transportation back to the start.

There will not be shuttle service as there has been in the past.

The hike will be canceled in the event of heavy rain, below normal temperatures, or winter weather. If the weather is questionable, please call the Crowders

Mountain State Park Office at 704.853.5375 to confirm.

Pets are not allowed on this hike. All children 16 years and younger must be accompanied by an adult.

On January 9 at 6 p.m. the Friends of Crowders Mountain will meet for election of officers and Park updates in the Sparrow Springs Visitor Center, 522 Park Office Lane, Kings Mountain.

SNOW VILLAGE

Hard Rock Café, Cinema 56, American Band Stand and Dick Clark, Gus’ Restaurant and drive-in, No. 3 Fire Department, Harley Davidson factory, Smokey Mountain Retreat, 13 churches, one with a cemetery, Minnesota Mall of America, a sign which says Christmas Barn Dance Tonight, Ronald McDonald House Jefferson School, Paramount Theatre, 13 new pieces of the Original village her husband bought and gave her as a gift, her oldest piece, Nantucket House, which her son found on the Internet in the 1980s. There’s Campbell Soup, a recruiting station, a train, skating rink, airport, Coca Cola, bed and breakfasts, Krispy Crème, bus depot, radio station, a space ship, barn and animals, dairy barn and cows, The North Pole nine pieces Dept.

56, a skating rink that works,

r reindeer barn and Santa House and much more.

Pat retired from Spectrum after 32 years in the Lab office. Daughter of the late Corrie Ridings Grigg, she has six siblings: the late Clinton Grigg, Melba Shaver, Gene Grigg, Brenda Edmonson Reba Snedecor and James Ros Grigg. Her family also includes her stepdaughter is Cindy Wallace and Pat’s two grandchildren are Jay Wallace and Emily Wallace Green and the two great-grandchildren are Clara Green, 4, and Camille Green, 2.

Her friends from Second Baptist Church visit during the holidays as well as those from the community and everyone who has enjoyed Chapman hospitality and the story of the Snow Village receive the warm feeling of the season that is Christmas.

attempted to speed up before a lane ended on US 74 Bypass and struck a 1994 Honda operated by Shenetta Littlejohn of Waco. Property damage was estimated at $2,000.

DEC. 7: Officer HW C carpenter cited Dillon Gregory Ledford, Gastonia, with no driver’s license and failure to reduce speed after a collision after his 2013 Nissan collided with a 2004 Chevrolet operated by William Daniel Shirah, 1558 York Road. The accident happened on NC 216 at the traffic light at the intersection of West Gold Street. Property damage was estimated at $10,000.

DEC. 8: Officer K. L. Putnam cited Marcus Danyell Garvin, of Bessemer City, with driving while license revoked and failure to reduce speed after a collision with a 2002 Pontiac operated by Matthew Phillip Burris, 40 Chesterfield Court. Garvin had stopped at the entrance of Palmetto Storage on York Road to provide room for a tractor-trailer truck to turn into Wendy’s parking lot, 713 York Road. Burris did not recognize the vehicle had stopped and the two vehicles collided. Burris said he was dazed from the collision and allowed his vehicle to roll forward to the Wendy’s parking lot e exit. Cleveland County EMS transported injured to Carolinas Medical System-Kings Mountain. Property damage was estimated at $8500.

DEC. 8: Officer S. D. Shockley said that a 1994 Nissan operated by Nicholas Alexander Broome, 509 Bell Road, slid on ice on Waco Road, spun around in the roadway and struck a private fence owned by Charles Ison, 124 Herndon Farm Road with estimated damage of $5,000.

DEC. 12: Officer HW Carpenter said that Donyetta Nicole Simms, 200 Spruce St. Apt. 5F, operating a 2008 Honda, backed into a 1996 Volvo operated by Regina Towana Sellars, 121 Wildbrook Drive. The accident happened at 200 Spruce Street parking lot. Property damage was minor DEC. 12: Officer HW Carpenter said that Paula Canipe of Lawndale, operating a 2004 Chevrolet, was attempting a right turn onto W. Gold Street and his a 2005 Volkswagon operated by Nicole Robinson Canady, 114 Parkdale Circle, at a stop sign at the intersection of Spring Street and W. Gold Street Extension. Property damage was estimated at $9500.

DEC. 13: Officer D.K. Davis said that a 2015 Kia operated by Shirley Anne Day Davis, Mary’s Grove Church Road, Cherryville, and a 2003 Chevrolet owned by the City of Kings Mountain and operated by Richard Keith Ford, Grover, were damaged slightly when Ford merged into a turn lane on US 74 Business.

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collection is lighted and is a fabulous hobby of a family who loves everything about the Christmas season and the reason for celebration as is also pointed out in her displays. She has crafted all the characters of Christmas found in her home, including many snowmen of all sizes and variety of dolls. The family has helped fold sandwich bags for some of her crafts.

Elvis Presley fans would love Graceland, the singer’s home, and the most expensive piece and miniature in the collection. You would not believe some of the pieces accumulated by Pat and her husband, Boyd, over the years. There’s TV stations, Hershey Candy, NASCAR, POLICE From Page 2A West Gold Street reported that his 2013 Ford was broken into and the driver’s side window damaged.

DEC. 15: Walgreen 15110, 900 Shelby Road, reported shoplifting of 10 items totaling $66.97.

DEC. 15: Dollar General Store 7613, 1103 Shelby Road, reported shoplifting of six items totaling $60.67.

DEC. 15: Roses 465, 1314 Shelby Road, reported shoplifting of items totaling $56.65.

DEC. 15: A resident of Plant City, Florida reported that her 2017 Nissan truck was broken into on Holiday Inn Drive and stolen were a $200 black handgrip and silver slide handgun and a $500 black 9-inch screen tablet. Damage to the right rear door window was estimated at $400.

DEC. 16: A resident of Ringold, GA reported that his 2012 Kia was broken into on Katilyn Lane and stolen were a $312 9mm semi-automatic handgun and a $35 holster.

WRECKS DEC. 6: Officer J. L. Dee said that Randy Dean Phillips, Gastonia, operating a 2010 Nissan, struck a fixed pole in the parking lot of 1001 Shelby Road. Property damage was estimated at $5,000.

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EMILY From Page 1A make it happen. ‘’’But jogging strollers are expensive. Her budget didn’t allow for one. So, Emily did what many do – she posted on social media asking if anyone knew about used ones. ‘’That’s where Peter Kline came in. ‘’Peter is from Seattle.

WILSON From Page 1A The plan was to have the next surgery, the Glenn, at six months of age and then she would have the Fontan surgery at three years old.

These procedures would make her heart operate as a single ventricle until young adulthood, when she most likely would have a heart transplant. Unfortunately, at four months of age Mira developed pulmonary hypertension and the Wilsons were back to the hospital for the last month of her life. “You can live with a

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Page 7A Since 2015, he has run in 100 plus marathons where he pushed rider-athletes in jogging strollers. (Yes, 100 plus marathons, it’s not a typo.) He saw Emily’s post and responded that he had a stroller for Emma. ‘’He wanted to give her one. ‘’Peter couldn’t ship it across the country in time for the Veterans Day race but he has promised he will get it to her. ’’Oddly enough, be-

cause he runs all the time, (100 marathons), Peter was also in Charlotte for the Nov. 15 race and made it a point to meet Emma and connect. ‘‘So, that’s what the post is. A cross-country feel-good story – a way to remind us of the power of people, and how good we can be. ‘’Also, a way to pay Peter on the back. Thank you for wanting to help, just because.’’

sick heart, but not so much if your lungs are sick too,’’ said Briana, adding, “my baby was a strong fighter.”

“Mira was full of joy.

We are doing our best to continue on without her but we miss her so. She was worth it,’’ said her mother who has been home on maternity leave and Pam Donica has been interim teacher during her absence.

Jake Wilson is also an educator. He is principal of Union Elementary School.

Briana is proud of her older daughter. “Makinzy has blossomed into the most amazing young lady

and she had wanted to be a big sister for a very long time.”

Mrs. Wilson is proud of her students too. Briana taught 7th and 8th grades last year, so many of her current 8th grade students were in her class last year and were along with the Wilsons in the process of waiting for a baby. She also taught brothers and sisters of her present class as well so really, she says that much of the entire Kings Mountain community has been their support team.

And the Wilsons appreciate them.

Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry” shows how college basketball became a part of our culture.

Scott Ellsworth’s “The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph” uses a forbidden game between a team from North Carolina College for Negroes and an all-white team from Duke in 1944 to help us understand radical transformations of the sport and our culture.

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“Hide” by North Carolina native Matthew Griffin. It tells a moving story that pushes our understanding of gay lives and the challenges of aging.

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DEDICATION- Officials are pictured after the unveiling of the dedication plaque at the T. J. Ellison Water Treatment Plant, Kings Mountain Mayor Scott Neisler, left, NC Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Michael S. Regan and Representative Tim Moore, Speaker of the House of Representatives, North Carolina General Assembly.

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Robert Olsen, left, Unit 155 American Legion Auxiliary Children and Youth Chairman Kathy Hambright, Glenn McCants, Deborah Hoyle, VA&R chairman for the Auxiliary, Bud Medlin, and Unit 155 President Pat Lemmon are pictured at Summit Place last week where Olsen, McCants and Medlin, all veterans, were honored with special presentations.

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Ellison plant dedicated Michael S. Regan, N. C. Department of Environmental Quality Secretary, congratulated the city of Kings Mountain for the major rehabilitation and expansion of the T. J. Ellison Water Treatment Plant at a visit here last Tuesday.

The expansion increased capacity from eight million gallons per day to 12 million gallons of water per day.

“This expansion allowed Kings Mountain to continue to be a regional water supplier and allow economic growth in the area,’’ said Regan. He said

the project increases capacity in delivering water to the city and region and increases plant reliability and overall water quality, all bringing benefits to the environment, public health and economic opportunity.

The project is funded through a $33 million-dollar zero interest loan from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Water Infrastructure.

Kings Mountain Native Representative Tim Moore, NC Speaker of the House of Representatives, called the water project an amaz-

ing work by many people and invited Representative Kelly Hastings, who also represents a portion of Cleveland county, to stand with him at the podium.

Moore also praised the vision of the late Mayor John Henry Moss for whom the city’s Moss Lake is named and the source of the city’s water supply.

Mayor Scott Neisler presided and made the introductions.

Refreshments were served after the unveiling of the dedication plaque and employees offered visitors a tour of the plant.

Vietnam veterans were presented Christmas candy from the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 155 at the recent meeting of the group. More than 50 veterans attended the recent breakfast meeting. The veterans meet monthly for breakfast at Mountain View Restaurant.

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Pictured are veterans who attend meetings each month at the Patrick Senior Center. They received gifts from the American Legion Auxiliary.

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Bob Wells, left, a veteran, receives a gift from the American Legion Auxiliary, a knitted scarf, gloves and hat. Unit 155 Auxiliary President Pat Lemmon makes the presentation to Wells at Summit Place in Kings Mountain.

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Sharon Wilson, second from left, accepts gifts for veterans at White Oak Manor from the American Legion Auxiliary. Also pictured are Deborah Hoyle, Unit 155 VA&R chairman, left, President Pat Lemmon, third from left, and Kathy Hambright, Children and Youth Chairman.

The handknitted gifts were made by Hoyle.

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Pictured right – Vietnam veteran and Green Beret Abraham Ruff recites “The Salute to the Flag” at the recent meeting of veterans at Patrick Senior Center.

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Riley Hazen won two individual events and competed on two winning teams as the Kings Mountain High swim team defeated three other Big South 3A teams last week at Neisler Natatorium.

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Second half burst lifts KM over NG

Swimmers dunk three BSC teams Kings Mountain’s girls took first place and the boys second in a Big South 3A Conference swim meet Thursday at KM’s Neisler Natatorium.

The Lady Mountaineers, led by double individual winner Rileigh Hazen, won with 427 points to Ashbrook’s 245. North Gaston was third with 190 and Crest was fourth with 137.

North Gaston won the boys competition with 363 points, followed by KM 290, Ashbrook 250 and Crest 161.

Kings Mountain led in combined scores with 717 points, followed by North Gaston 553, Ashbrook 495 and Crest 298.

Hazen won the women’s 200 yard IM in 2:34.13, and the 500 free in 6:07.67.

Alex Yates won the women’s 200 yard freestyle in 2:32.2.

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Isaiah Grier (42) puts up two from the lane for Kings Mountain’s Mountaineers in Friday’s 79-63 Big South Conference win over North Gaston’s Wildcats

KM sweeps Stuart Cramer Kings Mountain High’s varsity basketball teams opened Big South 3A Conference play Tuesday at Parker Gym with a sweep of Stuart Cramer.

The KM girls won the opener 47-20 and the boys prevailed in the nightcap 72-64.

Niya Kelly scored 15 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the Lady Mountaineers. Leeasia Rhodes added 11 points and Hannah Clark had six

points, five steals and four assists.

Kings Mountain jumped out to a 16-4 lead after the first period and cruised to its fifth win in six starts.

KM led 23-8 at halftime and 32-11 going into the fourth quarter.

Haley Bourhill led the Cramer girls with 10 points.

The Mountaineers placed three players in double figures. They rebounded from a 20-17 first quarter deficit to lead by 38-33 at

the half and 57-53 going into the fourth quarter.

Zeke Littlejohn led the scoring with 23 points, and also dished out five assists.

Adrian Delph added 17 points and nine rebounds, and Eli Paysour had a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds. Kobe Paysour contributed seven points, three steals and three assists.

Dezure Moulden scored 29 points and John Griffin 11 points and 11 rebounds

for the Purple Storm.

GIRLS GAME KM (47) – Kelly 15, Rhodes 11, Clark 6.

SC (20) – Bourhill 10, Craig 4, Womack 2, Short 4.

BOYS GAME KM (72) – K. Paysour 7, Raby 7, Littlejohn 23, E. Paysour 11, Delph 17, Hughes 6, Grier 1.

SC (64) – Heath 2, Moulden 29, Griffin 11, Massey 4, Glenn 4, Karr 2, Murrell 10.

Kings Mountain’s Mountaineers went into last night’s final pre-Christmas game tied for first place in the Big South 3A after a big come from behind victory over North Gaston Friday night at Donald L. Parker Gymnasium.

Senior guard Adrian Delph, who sat out most of the first half with two fouls, returned at the start of the third period and scored 16 of his team-leading 24 points, plus did an outstanding job of rebounding and dishing out assists as the Mountaineers defeated the Wildcats 79-63 to take a 2-0 BSC record into last night’s conference game at Hunter Huss.

It was the fourth straight win overall for the Mountaineers, who started their season 1-3 with non-con-

ference losses to perennial powers Charlotte Christian, Concord First Assembly and Cox Mill.

Kings Mountain’s girls weren’t as fortunate in the opener. They saw their BSC record fall to 1-1 in a lop-sided 54-34 loss to the Lady Wildcats. The Lady Mountaineers carried a 1-1 conference and 5-2 overall record into last night’s game.

Following his threepointer to give the Mountaineers a 15-12 lead, Delph went to the bench with his second foul at the 1:53 mark of the first quarter and North Gaston rallied to take a 19-15 lead into the second period.

The Mountaineers clawed their way back and tied the game at 31-all following an old-fashioned three-point See KM OVER NG, Page 2B

Mountaineers to host Christmas Tournament The annual Cleveland County Christmas Basketball Tournament will be played at Kings Mountain High’s Donald L. Parker Gymnasium Wednesday through Friday, December 27-29.

Opening round match-ups on December 27 include Crest against Concord at 3 p.m., Burns against Australia at 4:30 p.m., Shelby against Collins Hill at 6 p.m. and Kings Mountain against Gaston Christian at 7:30 p.m.

Second round games will be played on December 28 with first round losers playing at 3 p.m. and 4:30, and the first round winners facing off at 6 p.m. and 7:30.

On the final day, December 29, the seventh place game will be at 3 p.m., the fifth at 4:30, third at 6 p.m. and the championship game at 7:30.

Kings Mountain will resume Big South 3A Conference play on January 2 at Gastonia Ashbrook.

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BIG SOUTH 3A BASKETBALL STANDINGS (Through Friday, Dec. 15)

(Boys) Teams Kings Mountain Ashbrook Forestview Stuart Cramer Hunter Huss North Gaston Burns Crest (Girls) Ashbrook Hunter Huss Forestview Kings Mountain Stuart Cramer North Gaston Burns Crest

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Kings Mountain’s Zeke Littlejohn drives the lane for two of his 23 points in last week’s Big South 3A opener with Stuart Cramer at Parker Gym. KM won 72-64.

Sarah Drennan puts up a runner in last week’s game with Stuart Cramer at KMHS.

KINGS MOUNTAIN MIDDLE 2018 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE JANUARY 3 – Crest 4 – at Shelby 9 – at East Lincoln 11 – Lincolnton 18 – North Lincoln 22 – at Crest 23 – Shelby 25 – at Burns 30 – West Lincoln

FEBRUARY 1 – East Lincoln 8 – at Lincolnton 13 – at North Lincoln 15 – Burns 20 – at West Lincoln 22 – First round playoffs 27 – Tri-County championship (Games begin at 4:15 p.m.)

KM SPORTS THIS WEEK Fri., Dec. 22 TBA – High school wrestling, Kings Mountain in John Wallen Memorial Duals at Sun Valley High School.

Sat., Dec. 23 TBA – High school wrestling, Kings Mountain in John Wallen Memorial

KM’s Dontavius Hughes drives through heavy traffic on his way to the basket in last week’s game with Stuart Cramer.

Kings Mountain’s Treazure Hopper breaks past the Cramer defense for a bucket in last week’s Big South game at Parker Gym.

Duals at Sun Valley High School.

Wed., Dec. 27 TBA – High school wrestling, Kings Mountain at South Point.

TBD – Cleveland County Christmas Tournament at Kings Mountain High.

KMHS JVs whip Cramer, Wildcats Kings Mountain High’s JVs defeated Stuart Cramer 74-56 Tuesday and North Gaston 46-42 Friday at Donald L. Parker Gymnasium Against Cramer, Rasheem Hughes led the scoring with

22 points and Marcus Odums added 12.

Against North Gaston, Hughes led with 16 points.

Titus Clark and Weston Hughes scored nine and seven points, respectively.

Kings Mountain’s cheerleaders keep the fans in the game during last week’s Big South opener with Stuart Cramer.

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KM OVER NG From Page 1B

Kings Mountain’s Tristan Stenger won the 100 yard backstroke in last week’s meet with North Gaston, Ashbrook and Crest at Neisler Natatorium.

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SWIMMERS From Page 1B Ashley Stenger won the 50 yard freestyle in 27.61.

Aly Yang won the 100 yard backstroke in 1:13.32.

For the Mountaineers, Tristan Stenger won the 100 yard backstroke in 1:03.82.

The Lady Mountaineers were first in three team events.

Aly Wang, Katie Tucker, Hazen and Ashley Stenger won the 200 yard medley relay in 31.31.

Hazen, Tucker, Bailey Dulin and Bella Sherrin won the 200 freestyle relay in 2:05.73.

Aly Wang, Yates, Stenger and Belle Hollifield won the 400 free relay in 4:42.22.

Finishing second for KM were: -Belle Hollifield in the women’s 200 yard IM. -Tristan Stenger in the

men’s 200 yard IM. -Katie Tucker in the women’s 50 yard freestyle and women’s 100 yard breaststroke.

-Ashley Stenger in the women’s 100 yard butterfly.

- Aly Wang in the women’s 100 yard freestyle.

-Gabe Stroup in the men’s 500 yard freestyle.

-Bryce Kornegay, Randy Horn, Gabe Stroup and Tristan Stenger in the men’s 400 yard freestyle relay.

Third place finishers for KM were: -Bailey Dulin in the 200 yard freestyle.

-Randy Horn in the 200 yard freestyle.

-Paloma Dettloff in the 200 yard IM. -Olivia Moss, Paloma Dettloff, AnnaLisa Yanero and Bella Sherrin in the 400 freestyle relay.

-Bella Sherrin in the 100 yard backstroke.

play by Eli Paysour with 1:07 left in the half. Dontavius Hughes hit two free throws to send the game into intermission tied at 33-all.

Behind Delph’s allaround sound play from the point guard position, the Mountaineers opened the third quarter with seven straight points to go up 4033, and they never trailed again. After reserve forward Isaiah Grier scored from close range to put KM up 35-33, Delph canned a three pointer, fed Grier for another basket, and then assisted Eli Pasour on another for a 42-33 lead.

North Gaston did rally and cut the margin to 50-49 before Eli Paysour’s three ended the third quarter with KM on top 53-49.

Delph’s old-fashioned three put the Mountaineers up 56-49 less than a minute into the fourth period, and it was all KM after that.

Zeke Littlejohn’s basket off an assist from Delph put the Mountaineers up 58-49 and Littlejohn’s dunk off a feed by Delph gave the home team a double digit lead of 61-50. The Wildcats couldn’t get any closer than nine points after that.

Littlejohn finished with 17 points and Eli Paysour added 14 to aid the KM scoring attack. North Gaston’s biggest weapon was guard Tyrese McNeal who finished with 23 points.

Drew Shaw scored 11 and L.T. Thomas added 10.

A tight zone defense that

Paige Rollins scores from close range for the Lady Mountaineers in Friday’s loss to North Gaston at Parker Gym. forced Kings Mountain to The win evened both goals. miss numerous long outside teams’ BSC record at 1-1 GIRLS GAME shots and also resulted in and a game off the pace of KM (34) – Rollins 2, numerous steals on inside league-leaders Ashbrook Clark 6, Roberts 2, Hopper pass attempts was the dif- and Hunter Huss, both 2-0.

5, Kelly 4, Rhodes 15. ference for the North GasThe Lady Wildcats NG (54) – Britton 14, ton girls in the opener. placed three players in dou- Baldwin 9, Hayes 13, Lang North Gaston rolled to ble figures, led by Spencer 7, Good 11. an 18-6 first quarter lead Britton with 14 points and BOYS GAME and was on top 24-16 at Sara Grace Hayes with 13.

KM (79) – Delph 24, intermission. That was Leeasia Rhodes was KM’s as close as the KM ladies only double-digit scorer Littlejohn 17, E. Paysour could come as North Gas- with 15 points, with all four 14, Raby 7, Grier 6, K. Payton moved on to lead 41-31 of her baskets coming from sour 6, Hughes 2, Melton 2.

NG (63) – Thomas 10, at the half and outscored three-point range. North the home team 11-3 in the Gaston’s hawking defense Finger 2, McNeal 23, Hall 7, fourth quarter to win going inside held the KM gals Shaw 6, Bradley 3, Rainey2, away. to just six two-point field Primm 7.

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kings Mountain High junior Natalie Lutz is pictured above with her All-Big South 3A Conference trophy and her state tournament participation award. Lutz has participated in the state tournament all three of her high school years.

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Adrian Delph drives the lane for two points in last week's Kings Mountain win over Stuart Cramer at Parker Gym.

Mountaineer wrestlers win four Kings Mountain High’s wrestling team opened its home schedule last week with four-way match against Lincolnton, Hickory and East Henderson.

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Wortman, Black tie for low gross John Wortman and Elmer Black shared low gross with 79s in last week’s Cleveland County Senior Golfers match at Kings Mountain Country Club.

Benny Grigg (86-10) and Dean Bowen (83-16) tied for low net with 67s. Grigg won with a par on the first playoff hole.

Bill Lovelace was closest to the pin on hole three, and Sammy Leigh sank the longest putt on hole nine.

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GIFTS TO POLICE – Members of Otis D.Green Unit 155 American Legion Auxiliary presented 60 Christmas gifts to the staff of Kings Mountain Police Department. From left, Unit VA&R Chairman Deborah Hoyle, Ptl. Josh Bryant, Cpl. D. K. Davis, Auxiliary President Pat Lemmon, Auxiliary Children and Youth Chairman Kathy Hambright and Lt. Chris Moore.

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FBI sends out warnings for holiday shoppers The FBI, Charlotte office, wants to help raise awareness this holiday season about the scammers who are lurking online.

Shelley Lynch, Public Information Officer at the FBI Charlotte Division noted in a recent media release that with the holidays coming up and seasonal shopping in full swing, criminals are also gearing up for a busy season.

“Criminals do not take the holidays off. In fact, they are especially busy trying to steal your money and personal information,” she wrote, in the media release.

“Shoppers should be more vigilant than ever for scams designed to steal their money and personal information. Though criminals are often aggressive and creative in their efforts to obtain such money and personal information, there are certain red flags and common schemes holiday shoppers can guard against this holiday season.”

Said Lynch, “Here are some additional steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of cyber fraud this holiday season.”

• Check your credit card statement routinely. If possible, set up credit card transaction auto alerts, or check your balance after every online purchase to ensure the proper amount was charged to your account. It is important to keep checking your card after the holiday season, as many fraudulent charges can show up even several weeks later.

• If purchasing merchandise, ensure it is from a reputable source. Do your research to ensure legitimacy of the individual or company you are purchasing from.

• Ensure a site is secure and reputable before providing your credit card number online. Don’t trust a site just because it claims to be secure.

• Beware of purchases or services that require you to pay with a gift card.

• Beware of providing credit card information when requested through unsolicited e-mails.

• Do not respond to unsolicited (spam) e-mails.

• Do not click on links contained within an unso-

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GIFTS TO FIREMEN - Kings Mountain firemen were all smiles as three members of the American Legion Auxiliary presented candy to all members of the Fire Department. From left, Kathy Hambright, Deborah Hoyle and Pat Lemmon, fourth from left, make the presentation in front of the city fire truck.

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Helen Williams Bullock, 100-year-old US Army veteran in the WACS, receives hand-knitted gifts from the American Legion Auxiliary. Bullock is a resident of White Oak Manor. Making the presentation are Unit 155 VA&R chairman Deborah Hoyle, left, Unit President Pat Lemmon and Unit Children and Youth Chairman Kathy Hambright.

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• Avoid filling out forms contained in e-mail messages that ask for personal information.

• Be cautious of e-mails claiming to contain pictures in attached files, as the files may contain viruses. Only open attachments from known senders, and scan all attachments for viruses if possible.

• Verify any requests for personal information from any business or financial institution by contacting them using the main contact information on their official website.

• Secure your credit card accounts, even rewards account, with strong passwords. Change passwords and check your account routinely.

• Be wary when replying to unsolicited e-mails for work-at-home employment.

• Be cautious of exaggerated claims of possible earnings or profits.

• Beware when money is required up front for instructions or products for employment.

• Do not give out your personal information when first interacting with a prospective employer.

• Be leery when a job posting claims “no experience necessary.”

• Be cautious when dealing with individuals outside of your own country.

Here’s more information on our site about the Internet Crimes Complaint Center: https://www.fbi.gov/ news/stories/ic3-virtualcomplaint-desk-for-online-fraud.

By LORETTA COZART At last month’s meeting of American Legion Post 155, attendees were informed about a VA Pension known as Aid and Attendance (A&A) that is available to war-time veterans or their surviving spouse.

Aid & Attendance is a lifetime, tax-free VA pension for senior veterans and surviving spouses who need the help of another individual to perform daily living activities. It is a reimbursement for care, including home care, board, and care, adult day care, assisted living, skilled nursing and, under certain circumstances, independent living.

Monthly benefits can range from $1,149 for a surviving spouse to $2,837 for two married veterans.

The single veterans benefit is $1,788 and the married veterans benefit is $2,120.

Assistance with daily needs can be costly and these benefits can ease that cost burden significantly.

Veterans and survivors who are eligible for a VA pension and require the aid and attendance of another person, or are housebound, may be eligible for additional monetary payment.

These benefits are paid in addition to monthly pension, and they are not paid without eligibility to Pension.

Since Aid and Attendance and Housebound allowances increase the pension amount, people who are not eligible for a basic pension due to excessive income may be eligible for a pension at these increased rates. A Veteran or surviving spouse may not receive Aid and Attendance benefits and Housebound benefits at the same time.

The Aid & Attendance (A&A) increased monthly pension amount may be added to your monthly pension amount if you meet one of the following conditions: • You require the aid of another person to perform personal functions required in everyday living, such as bathing, feeding, dressing, attending to the wants of nature, adjusting prosthetic devices, or protecting yourself from the hazards of your daily environment • You are bedridden, in

that your disability or disabilities requires that you remain in bed apart from any prescribed course of convalescence or treatment • You are a patient in a nursing home due to mental or physical incapacity • Your eyesight is limited to a corrected 5/200 visual acuity or less in both eyes; or concentric contraction of the visual field to 5 degrees or less Housebound This increased monthly pension amount may be added to your monthly pension amount when you are substantially confined to your immediate premises because of permanent disability.

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The Winston-Salem Regional Benefit Office for North Carolina is located at 251 North Main Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27155 – Phone: (800) 827-1000.

You should include copies of any evidence, preferably a report from an attending physician validating the need for Aid and Attendance or Housebound type care.

The report should be in sufficient detail to determine whether there is disease or injury producing physical or mental impairment, loss of coordination, or conditions affecting the ability to dress and undress, to feed oneself, to attend to sanitary needs, and to keep oneself ordinarily clean and presentable.

Whether the claim is for Aid and Attendance or Housebound, the report should indicate how well the applicant gets around, where the applicant goes, and what he or she is able to do during a typical day.

In addition, it is necessary to determine whether the claimant is confined to the home or immediate premises.

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Pat Chapman’s Christmas House

Photos by Lib Stewart

Graceland was Chapman’s most expensive collectible.

Pat Chapman’s snow village decorates one room of her home.

Snow village is 164 pieces of Christmas.

Trees and decor in sun room.

There is everything in Pat’s collection.

Pat Chapman made these delightful Christmas characters.

13 churches are included in the snow village.

Mickey and Minnie Mouse and snowmen crafted by Pat.

Comical elf

Pat painted the manger scene.

Ceramics by Pat

Mantel scene in living room.

More creativity of Pat Chapman is displayed.

Christmas tree of homemade decorations in the living room.

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THE MOUNTAIN – Todd Holbren took this 5x14 feet photograph of Kings Mountain and it was printed in vinyl and hangs in the foyer at City Hall. The painting of the Battle of Kings Mountain was returned to the Kings Mountain Historical Museum.

Photo by MAYOR SCOTT NEISLER

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with special needs and students who are considered ‘at-risk’ and helping them to overcome challenges to achieve success. Through her efforts, it is evident that she cares deeply for students and doing all that she can to ensure that they are successful in school and in life despite the obstacles they face. There is no doubt that Meghan LeFevers is an effective educator who is making a difference in the lives of children.”

In her notification letter to LeFevers, NCPAPA executive director Shirley Prince said, “We congratulate you on your selection, and we know that you will be an excellent representative of secondary assistant principals in North Carolina.” At the national conference in Chicago, Prince said LeFevers will “engage with school leaders from across the country, gain unique recognition before a national audience, and benefit from premier professional development offerings.”

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A Gaston County educator has been named the 2018 North Carolina Secondary Assistant Principal of the Year.

Meghan LeFevers, an assistant principal at Bessemer City High School, received the statewide award from the North Carolina Principals and Assistant Principals’ Association (NCPAPA). She will be formally recognized at the NCPAPA annual meeting in April and represent North Carolina at the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) conference in Chicago, July 11-13, 2018. Additionally, she will vie for the distinction of NASSP Assistant Principal of the Year.

“This is a very significant recognition for Ms. LeFevers, Bessemer City High School, and Gaston County Schools, and we are extremely pleased to congratulate her on earning this state honor,” stated Superintendent of Schools W. Jeffrey Booker. “This award recognizes Ms. LeFevers for her outstanding work and dedication as an assistant principal. It also brings attention to her success as an educational leader in Gaston County, both as a middle school teacher and a school administrator.”

LeFevers joined Gaston County Schools in 2007 and has served as an assistant principal at Bessemer City High School since 2014. Prior to becoming as assistant principal, she was a science, math, and social studies teacher at W.C. Friday Middle School in Dallas (2007-2013) and spent the 2013-2014 academic year completing a North Carolina Principal Fellows internship at Bessemer City High School.

A native of Cherryville, LeFevers graduated from Cherryville High School in 2003. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Appalachian State University in 2007 and a Master of School Administration from UNC-Charlotte in 2014. She completed her undergraduate and graduate coursework with ‘summa cum laude’ academic status and was inducted into the Kappa Delta Pi National Honor Society at Appalachian State. She also received the North Carolina Teaching Fellows scholarship.

As an emerging leader in K-12 public education, LeFevers created professional development series about poverty and at-risk students and inclusion practices for students with disabilities.

She has served as a presenter at numerous conferences and seminars, including the Winthrop University Inclusion Conference, the Conference on Education Leadership in Greensboro, the Council for Exceptional Children National Conference in Boston, and the National Principals Conference in Philadelphia.

Booker added, “One of Ms. LeFevers’ most significant achievements is her diligent work with students

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NEW RESCUE VEHICLE - Visitor donations, membership fees, and cash snack purchases provided sufficient funding for the Friends of Crowders Mountain, Inc., 501(c)3, to purchase a 2018 Kawasaki Mule PRO FXT for Crowders Mountain State Park. The vehicle will be used for rescue needs, as well as park maintenance. Pictured above are Friends of Crowders Mountain, Inc. officers (l-r) Stephanie Falls, Secretary, Verna Neal, Vice President, Kelly Cooke, Park Ranger, and Dewey Matherly, President

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WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY STUDENTS - These students from Washington Elementary School in Waco entertained residents of Summit Place in Kings Mountain last Thursday with a program of Christmas songs.

Photo by Lib Stewart

Seven area students Receive degrees

OOPs! – What happened to Shirley Brutko’s Christmas village? The Christmas tree truck hit a deer, the deer got up and ran and the trees were delivered on time.

Photo submitted

Seven Kings Mountain and Grover students are among 240 students, including 44 from Cleveland County, who received degrees in Fall commencement exercises Dec. 16 at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs.

From Grover, Victoria Powell received her BS d

degree in Physical Education and Health Education and JoAnn Appleman received her BSN degree in Nursing.

From Kings Mountain, Summer Cheek received her BS degree in Human Services, Jeremy Putnam received his BS degree in Accounting, William Sell-

ers received his BS degree in Physical Education and Health Education, Lisa Smith received her BS degree in Business Administration and Charles Crisp received his MBA degree in Business Administration.

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As we celebrate this holy season, let’s remember to treat one another with kindness, love and understanding. We hope you’ll join us in the true spirit of the season with prayers of peace and goodwill toward all mankind.

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