Jim Harkins knows how to campaign. He ran unsuccessfully for the council in the last municipal election. He said he thought he should try again.
“I’m trying to get involved with the city’s decision-making,” Harkins, 54, said.
Owner and operator of the Cash-N-Check on Cannon Boulevard for 19 years, Harkins moved to Kannapolis from Oklahoma City in 1998.
His mother grew up in in Kannapolis and always talked about what a nice place it was to live in.
“There are a lot of things going in Kannapolis right now,” Harkins said. “We need to make sure to keep the water supply going.”
Harkins has served as a lay minister for seven years at Midway United Methodist Church. He said friends and church members talked him into running again.
He runs his check-cashing business with his two dogs — Labradoodles named Thelma Lou and Roscoe, named for characters from “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Harkins would like to see the city set aside some land for a dog park.
“With the research campus coming, I’d like to see a little bit of land set aside and fenced in for a dog park.”
-Ben McNeely
