“I love this town, I love this county, and I love this state, and I am not willing to see my community ruined by the gambling industry.
“I did not go out looking for a fight, but I guess this fight came looking for me,” Forcade said. However, Adam Forcade, the volunteer leader of the Kings Mountain Awareness Group, is not one to back down from a challenge, especially one to which he believes God has called him. A majority of the Kings Mountain City Council, the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners, and the Cleveland County Chamber of Commerce appear to have wholeheartedly bought into the notion that a casino would bring economic prosperity and needed jobs to the area. If the South Carolina-based Catawba Indian Nation and the gambling interests behind this “project” have their way, a proposed 220,000 square foot casino complex would sit right off of Interstate 85 along the North Carolina/South Carolina border adjacent to Kings Mountain.Īt present, the odds seem heavily stacked against the newly formed Kings Mountain Awareness Group. to a group of pastors and other citizens who are deeply troubled by the prospect of an Indian gambling casino being built in their town. This past Friday night, I had the opportunity to speak in Kings Mountain, N.C.
