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NC BeachBlast Festival returns to Kings Mountain August 19 & 20 Water! Sun! Music! Fun! The Carolina Beach Music Award winning NC BeachBlast Festival is back! The City of Kings Mountain will bring the Beach to downtown as the NC BeachBlast Festival presented by Two Kings Casino comes back to Patriots Park, Friday, August 19 and Saturday, August 20, 2022. The festival will open Friday, August 19 at 6:00 pm with DJ Eric Bowman. Blackwater Band will take the stage at 6:30 pm. East Coast Party Band will follow at 8:30 pm. Beginning at 10:00 am August 20, beach music fans can enjoy a full day festival of food, music, and fun with DJ Johnny B and five of the hottest bands in the Southeast; The Embers featuring Craig Woolard, Carolina Coast Band, The Catalinas, and Gary Lowder and Smokin’ Hot. Closing the NC BeachBlast Festival are Carolina Beach Music legends, The Original Drifters scheduled to perform at 9:00 pm. Come hungry! Vendors will be on hand offering great food and beverages. Shop till you drop at the Boardwalk Vendor Market with over 50 vendors onsite. Did we say fun? During the full day festival, Patriots Park will be filled with many activities for the whole family. Inflatables, games, the Rotary Splash Pad, continuous rounds of
THE ORIGINAL DRIFTERS THE CATALINAS
CAROLINA COAST BAND
GARY LOWDER & SMOKIN’ HOT Water Wars, Watermelon Eatin’ and Hula Hoop contests, Tiny Tots and Tee-
nie Bikini contest, the Big Beach Ball Drop and much more!
THE EMBERS FEATURING CRAIG WOOLARD Patriots Park is located at 220 South Railroad Avenue, Kings Mountain.
For more information visit www.kingsmountainevents. com/nc-beachblast-festival
or call 704-730-2101. See ad and additional article on page 2A and 3A.
Back-to-School Prayer Rally The Back-to-School Prayer Rally is scheduled for Sunday, August 14, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. at David Baptist Church, Kings Mountain. This year’s Prayer Rally will be mostly led by students who are enrolled in our Kings Mountain schools. Everyone is invited to come and pray for our schools. It is our hope that each of our eight (8) schools will be represented by administrators, teachers, assistants, and
other school employees along with parents and students from our various schools. It is also our plan to have our pastors and churches to partner with the schools in Kings Mountain during this upcoming school year and to pray daily for our schools and to offer whatever help we can provide. We look forward to seeing you at this year’s rally. Following the rally there will be a time of food and fellowship. Please note that there are no plans to have a prayer walk at each school. Come and pray with us!
Streetscape continues along W. Mountain Street. During the week, concrete was poured and stamped on the South side of the street from the old Griffin’s Drug to just shy of the corner at Battleground. Photo by Loretta Cozart
KM Streetscape update By Loretta Cozart Streetscape work on W. Mountain Street continues, as sidewalks are being poured and stamped. The project is running late, as this section was to be completed by the
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end of July. Nonetheless, merchants are pleased for the progress and hopes are high it will be finished quicker than expected. Merchant Iris Hubbard is holding a contest that ran through the end of July asking
her patrons to guess when W. Mountain Street will reopen. Winner gets a free lunch for six. If multiple guests choose the same date, a drawing will be held between them. Other merchants have kept their chins up during this
time, struggling with rents and loss of revenue. On Tuesday, August 11, city council discussed a low or no-interest loan for merchants who struggled during this period. Details will be shared as soon as they are known.
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