King’s City Church teams complete basketball season

The King’s City Church recently completed its inaugural 2023 Spring Basketball League.

League Commissioner

Shane Cole said the church started with four co-ed teams geared toward middle school ages with the hopes of giving young people in the area and chance to continue to play basketball. “We want to bring basketball year-round to Kings Mountain,” he said.

King’s City Church along with the KM Blaze organization is sponsoring the league.

“It’s an outreach toward basketball and ministry,” Cole said. “We had a spring season and are looking forward to another season in the fall. “We started with 21 kids and expanded to 26 by season end,” Cole noted.

“By next fall we want to add a few more players in the middle school division with the hopes of adding a high school division in the future.”

Final standings were Hoops Dreams in first place, Bulldogs second, Kangaroos third and Hornets fourth.

The Bulldogs defeated Hoops Dreams 31-25 in the championship game. The Bulldogs were led by Malachi Powell with 18 points. Jayqwan Dawson and Jayvon Dawson led Hoops Dreams with 10 and nine points, respectively.

Jordan Mull receives GFWC Woman’s Club scholarship

The winner of the GFWC NC Kings Mountain Woman’s Club, the District 3 and the GFWC of NC state award is Jordan Michael Mull, son of Mike and Nikki Mull, Grover, NC. Jordan won at the local, district and state levels to win the Sallie Southall Cotten Scholarship.

This scholarship is available to any student who will attend a 4-year university or college in the state of North Carolina. Sallie Southall Cotten (June 13, 1846 – May 4, 1929) was an American writer and clubwoman, based in North Carolina. She helped to organize the North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs. She was the organization’s fifth president, and wrote the federation’s anthem, as well as a history of the federation.

Jordan graduated from Kings Mountain High School, where he was president of the Math Club and secretary of the National Honor Society. He also has been a volunteer at the Patrick Senior Center, a math tutor, and has received the AP Scholar with Distinc- tion award. Jordan plans to major in mathematics and philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then attend graduate school.

The Women’s club shared, “The GFWC NC Kings Mountain Woman’s Club is proud to have this young man representing our club and community. He is an outstanding example of a young person with determination, intelligence and a heart for the community. We are excited to see what his future holds.”

Author Dan Pezzoni featured at Earl Scruggs Coffee with Curator

June 21

Do you enjoy local history? Grab your coffee and join Earl Scruggs Center on Wednesday, June 21, at 10:30 a.m. for Coffee with the Curator in the museum’s Great Hall.

Many people have an original copy of Architectural Perspectives of Cleveland County, North Carolina in their homes. The book serves as one of the greatest individual documentations of Cleveland County’s beautiful historic structures.

Now ter Assistant Director Zach Dressel and author Dan Pezzoni as they introduce this new project and show the process that the Historic Shelby Foundation is using to see it through.

As always, come prepared to join in on the discussion and be sure to register in advance so we will have plenty of coffee for everyone. You won’t want to be dozing off during this fascinating Coffee with the Curator.