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Ready… Set… SPRING at Patriots Park this Saturday City of Kings Mountain welcomes the Gaston Symphonic Band to Patriots Park, Saturday, May 20 at 1 p.m. Bring your family and enjoy a day filled with music from the band's Spring concert, Ready...Set...Spring! The event begins at 1:00 p.m. Patriots Park is located at 220 South Railroad Avenue, Kings Mountain. Don't forget your lawn chairs.
City of KM seeks citizen’s Margaret Horn opinions on stormwater MARGARET HORN
turning 101 By Loretta Cozart Margaret Horn has seen a lot in her 101 years in Kings Mountain. “I feel like Methuselah,” she said in an interview with the Herald last week. “It is hard to believe that I am 100 years old and about to be 101.” Margaret was born on March 20, 1922, in the family’s home at 220 Walker Street, to Arthur Wright
Huffstetler and his wife Doshia Ella Dover Huffstetler. Together the couple would have 10 children: Howard, Arthur “Lucio”, Jacob, Margaret, Ernest, Juanita, Kermit, Bobby, Corrie, and William. Margaret has outlived all her siblings. When she was a young child, Margaret lived on Walker Street and then See HORN, Page 5A
City of Kings Mountain is required by their stormwater permit to provide a survey for citizens take to determine the knowledge and views of citizens with respect to stormwater and stormwater issues.
The city has a new survey for citizens to complete online. This is a voluntary anonymous survey to assist the City of Kings Mountain Stormwater department in gauging public awareness about stormwater and environmental issues. Results of this survey will be used to enhance the City's Stormwater Management Plan
(SWMP) and improve your experience as a citizen of the City of Kings Mountain. Questions range from the quality of streams and ponds in the city, stormwater education, where citizens believe water goes after reaching a storm drain, sources of pollution in the city, whether pet waste contributes to water pollution,
Kings Mountain couple trip the light fantastic during “Night To Shine” Feb. 10 event, sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation by MICHAEL E. POWELL Special to the Herald
Pictured, L-R: Selena Watson, Teacher Assistant of the Year and Michelle Mack, Teacher of the Year for North Elementary. Photo by Anna Hughes
North Elementary teacher and teacher assistant of the year By Loretta Cozart Last week, North Elementary School in Kings Mountain named their
teacher and teacher assistant of the year. Michelle Mack was named the school’s Teacher of the Year. Selena Watson was selected as North Elementary’s Teacher Assistant of the Year Michelle Mack has been working for Cleveland County Schools since See NORTH, Page 4A
and the maintenance of stormwater drains, ditches, or outfalls being properly near you. The Stormwater Department’s survey for Kings Mountain Citizens can be completed online at https:// www.surveymonkey.com/ r/6VYJ8G5 Please take a minute to visit the survey and share your opinion.
For handsome Chad Gunter, Jr., and his beautiful date, Katie Reese, dancing the night away among friends and family at the Feb. 10, 2023 Tim Tebow “Night To Shine” event, was a night they will never, ever forget. The event was hosted by Anthony Grove Baptist Church, located in Crouse, N.C. That said, it’s not every day a guy gets to take his best girl out, twirling her around to tunes meant to make you tap your toes and shake a leg, but Feb. 10, 2023 was that “night of all
Miss Katie Reese and date, Chad Gunter, Jr., posing right before heading out to dance the night away at their, “Night To Shine.” (Photo provided)
nights” for the young Kings Mountain couple. According to Tebow’s web site, “Night to Shine” is a “…complimentary event for people with special needs hosted by local churches around the world. The event is open to anyone living with disabilities, ages 14 and older. Although each event is a little bit different, some activities included are a red-carpet entrance, limousine rides, dancing, karaoke, gifts, a catered dinner, a Respite Room for parents and caregivers, a crowning ceremony where every honored guest will receive a crown or tiara, and more – Night to Shine is a celebration of God’s love for YOU, our Kings and Queens!” Chad’s father, Chad Gunter, Sr. said his son is 23, and his girlfriend Katie See NIGHT, Page 4
ABC Board gives $40,000 to city for KMPD On March 8, City of Kings Mountain’s ABC Board delivered a check to the city in the amount of $40,000, to be used by the City’s Police Department to purchase an unmarked vehicle for use by the Investigation Division. “The ABC Board, in addition to its State-mandated
distributions for alcohol education and rehabilitation, along with law enforcement relating to alcohol; distributes any remaining surplus funds deemed to be profits to the City of Kings Mountain. This however occurs after all expenses, including the maintenance of a significant fund
pool of retained earnings for capital replacement or new construction,” City Manager Jim Palenick shared with city council and the Herald. “This $40,000 came before retained earnings and not as part of what would be expected as the normal yearly return of profits, but rather
somewhat, over and above. As such, our gratitude goes out to the ABC Board for its assistance to Chief Childress and the Police Department for what would have otherwise had to have been budgeted for in the City’s 2023-24 General Fund.”
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