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EDC endorses proposal to get jobs By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer
RUTHERFORDTON — A plan to possibly reopen All American Homes in Rutherfordton — and bring 280 jobs to the county — got the endorsement of the Economic Development Commission Wednesday.
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As part of its February meeting, the board heard from Dane Whitworth of
Pridon Military Communities about working with All American to supply new housing for five Air Force bases around the Southeast. “I am from Catawba County, which is where the Pridon corporate headquarters is in Hickory,” Whitworth said. “Our company is trying to win this project from the Air Force. Our plan is to use the intelligence and experience of our nationwide team to get this project, but to use
local trades and local craftsmen to do that work.” If the company wins the contract from the Air Force, the total number of homes they hope to build is 770. “The Air Force loves to work with regional developers and we are the only regional developer for this project,” Whitworth said. “We think that means Please see EDC, Page 6
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Firefighters take a break on an old loading dock at the former Schneider Mill off Railroad Street in Alexander Mills which caught fire Wednesday around 3 a.m. The building was in the process of being demolished. The fire was reported early Wednesday morning and firefighters were on the scene through the day and into the night. For details, see story on Page 3.
DSS gets job program funds By ALLISON FLYNN Daily Courier Staff Writer
SPINDALE — Rutherford County is one of 23 in North Carolina to receive funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to use for a subsidized employment program. Rutherford County Department of Social Services Director John Carroll explained the program to the board during its February meeting Wednesday morning. Still in the early stages, the program would only last through September. “It would pay employers a 100 percent subsidy for eligible employees,” Carroll said. Eligible employees would be those in the Work First program, North Carolina’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Through Work First, which is based on the premise that parents have a responsibility to support themselves and their children, indi-
viduals can get training and other services to help with employment and self-sufficiency. “The money’s there and if we can put people to work for a temporary time, we should do that,” Carroll said. “And some of these jobs could become permanent.” Carroll told the board there were several employers in the area interested in taking part in the program and that the department would be working with temporary staffing agencies on job placements. Board Member Chuck Hill asked Carroll who would be paying for the fees for employees placed through the staffing agencies. Carroll said those fees and administrative costs are covered by the stimulus funding. “We’re excited about this and hope it will be successful,” Carroll said. “We hope it will give Please see DSS, Page 6
FOREST CITY — The U.S. 221 Bypass project took one step closer to completion Wednesday as DOT officials in Raleigh chose the route for the new road. The path designated as Alternate Three in DOT documents was chosen for the road. “This is the final decision on the route to be taken,” said Josh King, transportation planner with Isothermal Planning and Development Commission. “We don’t have an exact time yet for construction work to begin, but this is the next big step in the project.” The Alternate Three path would involve widening existing U.S. 221 and constructing the bypass on the east side of Rutherfordton. The existing highway would be widened to four lanes with a median from U.S. 74 to Poors Ford Road. North of that area, a new road would be built crossing Thunder Road, U.S. 74 Business and U.S. 64 before connecting back with the existing 221 at Old U. S. 221 north of Rutherfordton. Its total length would be 8.5 miles. “We’re glad to have a realization as to what direction they’re going to be taking, and the town and citizens can start working on new projects,” Rutherfordton Mayor Jimmy Dancy said. “Our intent is to work with citizens and make it as comfortable as we can under the circumstances. We realize this is quite a change in their lives.” Please see Bypass, Page 6
‘Crazy Heart’ producer coming home By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer
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FOREST CITY — Rutherford County native Judy Woody Cairo, producer of the Oscar nominated Crazy Heart will attend the Forest City premiere of the movie Friday night at Retro-Cinema 4, Tri-City Mall. She will participate in a question/answer session with theatre owner Mike Packett after the 7 p.m. showing. “It’s very special to me to have Crazy Heart playing in Rutherford County, and I hope to see lots of friends at the theater,” Cairo said from her Los Angeles home last week. A graduate of East Rutherford High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she attended on a Johnston Scholarship, Cairo Please see Producer, Page 10
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Producer Judy Cairo, director Scott Cooper, and actor Jeff Bridges on the set of Crazy Heart. Contributed photo
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Jury deliberating murder case Two more will vie for Sheriff By LARRY DALE
Daily Courier Staff Writer
RUTHERFORDTON — Jurors in the murder trial of Jack Meredith Martin deliberated about three and a half hours Wednesday but did not reach a verdict. Martin is charged with seconddegree murder in the shooting death of Jonathan Lehi Moore on the night of May 27-28, 2005, at 919 Main St. in Chimney Rock. He also is charged with two counts of attempted firstdegree murder in the woundings of Phillip Chiasson and Philip Salks in the same incident.
Martin was convicted on those charges in 2007, but the N.C. Court of Appeals returned the case and ordered a retrial when an error was found in the first trial. Kent Brown, the defense attorney for Martin, started the court day by presenting his closing argument. He told jurors that the state’s forensic investigation had holes in it. He asked why the prosecution did not get the testimony of the doctor who treated Salks, or why the bullets that struck victims were not entered as evidence. He said no evidence was presented that Moore was struck by a .38-caliber bullet. The gun recovered at the crime scene was a .38-caliber revolver. The defense attorney also questioned the credibility of Chiasson and Salks. He called Chiasson a drug-distributing fugitive who changed the spelling of his name and changed his birth date. “He wanted to hide who he was,” Brown said, “because of a probation violation in Vermont.” Brown pointed out that law enforcement did not test Chiasson or Salks for blood alcohol concentration or for drugs. Brown noted that the gun was not fingerprinted, and he said that although one of the spent cartridges did have DNA evidence, “we haven’t heard the results.” In a Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office videotaped walkthrough of the apartment after the shooting, Brown noted that Chiasson never said he had been shot. Chiasson went into the river when he saw Martin returning to the apartment. Brown questioned why Chiasson entered the water near Martin’s apartment, instead of taking an easy way into the water near Chiasson’s apartment. He said it may have
been because Chiasson was at Martin’s apartment at the time he saw Martin returning. Brown also said Officer Lori Morris of the RCSO had white Sheetrock dust on her arm where she had reached in to retrieve a box of ammunition from under a bathroom sink at Martin’s apartment. He said Martin did not have that dust on him, and there was no way to know if Chiasson did because it would have been washed off in the river when he went in. Also, Brown said, a swab of blood was taken from the trash bag that contained the gun, yet it was not sent for testing. Brown contended that when Chiasson pulled the gun on Martin, probably intending to menace Martin and not shoot, he likely forgot that Martin had military and police training. During the struggle between the two, Brown said, Moore stood up and was shot, and Salks, standing in the apartment doorway, was shot.
Martin has testified he overheard Chiasson and Salks one day talking about killing Martin and taking his body in the trunk of his car to South Carolina and leaving it there. Brown said whether the two actually intended to do that or not, it sent the clear message that “they would like to be rid of him.” Brown said when Chiasson called 911, he told Salks that he was getting help and that he was sorry. The defense attorney said Chiasson had no reason to be sorry if his version of what happened was true. Then he noted that Chiasson didn’t want to look at a photo of Moore during the trial because he had a guilty conscience. “That was his confession to you,” Brown said. District Attorney Brad Greenway then gave his closing argument. Each attorney spoke for about an hour. Greenway said, “This is not a forensics case.” There are two versions of what happened, he said, and the jury faces a choice: “Which story do you believe?” “Chiasson and Salks were not choir boys,” Greenway said, “but that doesn’t justify killing them.” He also noted, “Because Jack Martin is a Vietnam veteran does not excuse a murder.” Greenway said perhaps the most telling piece of evidence was Chiasson’s 911 call, which ended up being connected to an operator in Hendersonville. “He (Chiasson) was scared to
death,” Greenway said. “He was worried about Phil Salks. He was not hiding the fact he did it.” The district attorney asked why Chiasson would be afraid of Martin’s return and jump into the river if, in fact, Chiasson was the killer. He said some of the testimony from Salks and Chiasson may have contained errors. He said Salks likely remained where he had been shot near the wall of Chiasson’s apartment, although he may have thought he tried to crawl back to his apartment.
And he agreed with Brown that Moore probably was not on the couch in the apartment alcove but was on the couch that divided the living room and the kitchen when he stood up and was shot. The evidence also showed, Greenway said, that Chiasson was nearer the card table than the couch when the struggle with Martin for the gun began. He said that whichever story you believe, both Martin and Chiasson admittedly had touched the gun, so fingerprints wouldn’t have shown anything. He wondered how, if Martin’s story is believed, it was possible for Chiasson to get shot in the back of the head. The jury then received instructions on the various charges from Judge Mark Powell before they began deliberations at about noon. In the death of Moore, for instance, he said that second-degree murder is killing with malice, that voluntary manslaughter is killing without malice, that is, in the heat of passion, and that involuntary manslaughter is an unintentional killing. The jury deliberated for about 30 minutes then went to lunch. They returned to continue deliberations at 2 p.m. During the afternoon, jurors asked for and received photos that had been entered as evidence. But when they asked to see Detective Chris Francis’ notes on Martin’s statement, they were told that had not been entered into evidence, therefore they would have to rely on memory. At their request, jurors returned to the courtroom to hear a replay of the 911 tape of Chiasson’s call for help. Judge Powell let jurors break for the evening at 5 p.m. Deliberations are to resume at 9:30 a.m. today. Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@ thedigitalcourier.com
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FOREST CITY— A former law enforcement officer has filed for sheriff Wednesday with the Board of Elections. Jane Noblitt Melton, a Democrat who lives on Bill’s Creek Road, in Lake Lure, paid her filing fee Wednesday stating she wants to be a sheriff for the entire county. “We’re a little scarce seeing anything going on up here,” she said, concerning the presence of law enforcement in the area. “A lot of people have asked me to run and they are interested and also wondering why we have not had much law enforcement up here,” Melton said. “So I said, ‘Well I will give it a whirl.’ I want to be available for all the people in the county.” Melton also said the sheriff’s job has nothing to do with gender as long as a person can do the job. “A woman for sheriff. Why shouldn’t we be?” she added. Melton is retired from the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department where she was a deputy sheriff. She was in law enforcement from 1983 to 2000. Sheriff Jack Conner, a Democrat, filed for re-election when filing opened Feb. 8 and with Melton filing Wednesday, it assures a primary for the Democratic Party on May 4. Republicans will also have a primary election for sheriff as Republican candidates Chris Francis and Darren Hodge have also filed for sheriff. Phil Clark has announced he will run as an independent candidate for sheriff. As an independent, Clark has until June 25 at noon to collect 1,600 signatures on a petition to have his name placed on the ballot. “We need a person that is not attached to any law enforcement,” Clark said of his intention to file for sheriff. “Otherwise the ‘Good Ole Boy System’ lives on.” Candidates have until Feb. 26 at noon to file for the Primary Election. Meanwhle, Mooresville’s Scott Keadle was set to file as a candidate for the 10th Congressional Thursday at the Iredell County Board of Elections in Statesville. Keadle will run in the May 4 Republican primary. North Carolina’s 10th Congressional District currently includes all of Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln and Mitchell counties, along with parts of Gaston, Iredell and Rutherford counties. Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.
Ellenboro VFD gets grant ELLENBORO – Ellenboro Fire Department is among 21 fire departments across the state to receive $1.3 million through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program. Ellenboro is receiving $63,108 and the money will be used to buy new firefighter equipment and a washer and dryer to clean the gear, said Fire Chief Keith Lowery in a statement to 10th Congressional Representative Patrick McHenry.
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Salvation Army Thrift Store closes for move By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer
FOREST CITY — The Salvation Army Thrift Store at Withrow Road closes its doors Saturday at 4:30 p.m. and will open at its new location March 5, said Sgt. Ann Bennett. The new location is 417 Duke St., behind the DMV office and only about 200 feet from its home, Bennett said. “We’ve tried to find the right place and we finally found it,” Bennett said. “With the economy like it is we had to have the right place. We couldn’t afford the other one,” she said. The new facility is 4,000 square feet, 86 percent smaller than the 29,000 square feet facility on Withrow Road. But Bennett said the smaller facility will serve the citizens more efficiently and will include a collections area, thrift store area and an office for social service needs. However, it will not include a Christmas Cheer Center. Bennett said since the Christmas Cheer Center area was used only three months each year, it wasn’t cost effective to have that additional space. Bennett said anyone with social service needs, such as utility, heat or rent assistance, should still call 287-0119 or the Shelby location, 704-4820375, until the new office opens on March 5. She said the new offices for social service clients will be much better than before. A Salvation Army representative is on duty each Tuesday and Thursday in Rutherford County to meet with clients regarding needs. The other days a representative is in Cleveland County. Bennett said she is interested in renting temporary office space for about two weeks to handle the clients in Rutherford County. “We are selling down,” Bennett explained. The store will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Saturday with hopes to sell as much clothing, furniture and bric-a-brac as possible.” After Saturday’s closing at 4:30 p.m., the staff will be at the location next week getting ready for the move. If there are other shoppers next week the staff may open its doors for sales.
Village OKs yard sale plans CHIMNEY ROCK— Village Council gave its approval Tuesday night for a Hickory Nut Gorge-wide yard sale on April 24. From Gerton to Rumbling Bald, yard sale tables will be set up along Hwy. 64/74, Bill’s Creek Road and out to Rumbling Bald, for residents and visitors to sell yard sale items. Mayor Barbara Meliski hopes the gorge-wide sale will become an annual event and will put the area on the map. Property owners along the routes will have opportunity to set up tables along the highway on their own property and non-property owners will be able to rent tables from the Bat Cave Fire Department to sell from the area. Also the Hickory Nut Gorge Chamber of Commerce will rent tables for the public to sell from the chamber area. The public area along Hwy. 64/74, such as the parks where the former Chimney Rock Fire Dept. was located, will not be available for table rentals. “We will keep our public spaces open,” she said. Also Tuesday night, council voted to hire Frank Noel as auditor and also approved replacing Christmas decorations. Council also rescheduled its March 16 meeting for March 30.
Firefighters were on the scene at the old Schneider Mill all day Wednesday.
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Fire burns in old mill building By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Courier
FOREST CITY — A fire under a concrete floor of the old Schneider Mills continued to burn Wednesday night and firefighters were expected to be on the scene most of the night Wednesday and today. The building has been vacant 10 years. Although the mill is undergoing demolition, Forest City Fire Department Capt. Dennis Matheny said Wednesday night, “We can’t walk off and let a three-story building burn.” Forest City firefighters were dispatched at 3 a.m. Wednesday to the area of Pointer Road after Crystal Crawford, paramedic supervisor with Rutherford County EMS, noticed heavy smoke in the area.
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Matheny said when firefighters arrived on Pointer Road at the former Alexander Baptist Church, they saw heavy smoke coming from the mill. As firemen reached the mill, they discovered the fire under the floor. “The way the floors are, there is wood under the concrete and it was burning all under the floor,” Matheny explained. “We were having to bust concrete and that concrete floor is actually sinking so we were concerned about it collapsing and about the safety of firefighters.” “It is whipping us,” Matheny said 17 hours after the fire was reported. “It’s been a bugger, but we are finally making some progress. We’re in good shape now compared to 3 o’clock this morning.”
Throughout the day, firefighters from Cliffside, Sandy Mush, Bostic, Ellenboro, Hudlow and Rutherfordton joined firefighting efforts at the scene, County Fire Marshal Roger Hollifield and Assistant Charles Vassey were also at the scene. “We were rotating the guys out. They were having to run jackhammers and bust up concrete so we were taking them in shifts,” Matheny explained. Firefighters were brought to the Forest City Fire Station for rest and “rehab” before they were sent out again. Matheny said the fire probably started when a member of a demolition crew, using a cutting torch, probably got a spark down into the wood floor. Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.
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he Rutherford County Board of Education Tuesday named Janet Mason as the next superintendent of schools. That decision was greeted with enthusiasm from all quarters. Mason, a county native who has spent her entire career as an educator here, has the resume for the job and we believe she has the passion. It is that latter quality that is important. Many people have the skills, the talents and the experience needed to be a good superintendent. Few have the passion that is needed. Rutherford County needs a superintendent with a passion for seeing our schools reach for excellence rather than settling for pretty good. When push comes to shove, technical ability is needed, but what often makes the greatest difference is just how passionate people are about succeeding. Mason has experience at all levels of the county school system and she has had a chance to see what needs to be done. She has shown that she cares about our schools. If she can inspire the same feelings in the rest of us, there are no limits on where we can go.
Does economic shift make sense? Understanding a problem is the first step to solving it. So when we look at the overriding problem in the country today — the recession and the likelihood of a slow recovery — our initial task is to understand how we got here. Let me see if I can weave a story that makes sense. The starting point is you and me — the consumer — for the simple reason that we drive the economy. Three decades ago our behavior in the economy began to change. First, our wealth started to rise. Driven by the good stock market in the 1980s and 1990s and then the booming housing market in the decade from 1997 to 2007, average wealth per person (after taking out inflation) jumped 100 percent from 1980 to 2007. Never before were consumers so rich! Simple economics dictated what happened next. With more wealth at hand, consumers were motivated to take on more debt. A big part of this debt came directly out of the rising value of our homes in the form of home equity loans. Consumers used this debt to purchase bigger homes, more vehicles and all the electronic gadgets that are so much a part of today’s society. Even with our greater borrowing, consumer debt rose at a slower rate than consumer wealth (75 percent versus 100 percent, again per person and adjusted for inflation). Furthermore, because interest rates on loans were falling after the early 1980s, consumers easily financed this additional borrowing from their budgets. Indeed, consumer debt payments as a percent of their income rose only 30 percent during the period — less than onethird as fast as wealth. And because our wealth was rising from the booming stock and housing markets, we had less motivation to save money out of
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our paychecks. The personal saving rate dropped from 10 percent in 1980 to almost nothing by the mid-2000s. So here’s the situation for consumers in 2007: they had a record level of debt and were spending virtually everything from their paychecks. Yet it didn’t matter because consumer wealth was also at a record high. In fact, on paper, consumers’ financial situation looked very strong. Life was good! Then, literally, the bottom fell out. Beginning in 2007 and continuing into 2008 and 2009, the wheels fell off both the stock and housing markets, causing an unprecedented (at least for modern times) plunge in consumer wealth. At the worst point, consumers collectively lost $13 trillion of wealth, a full 20 percent of what they had before the recession. With wealth down, consumers’ high debt loads became exposed. The only way out of this situation was for consumers to spend less, save more and pay down on debt. Lo and behold, this is exactly what consumers are doing. In the past two years, consumers have paid down 7 percent of their debt and have increased their saving rate from nothing to almost 5 percent. Debt payments as a percent of consumer income have also fallen by a full percentage point. These individual actions are certainly good for consumers. It’s a way for consumers to get their financial balance sheets back in order, and it’s what any financial adviser would recommend. But what’s good for the individual
consumer may not be good for the overall economy. Here’s the issue. Spending by consumers still accounts for the majority of economic activity. If consumer spending is sluggish because people are spending less and saving more in order to reduce debt, then the economy will also be sluggish. A sluggish economy means jobs — even when they start to come back — will return very slowly. This is why the majority of economists think the time period after the recession will continue to be challenging. Although the stock market has regained some of its losses and housing values seem to have stabilized, few forecast a return to pre-recessionary wealth levels any time soon. This means the frugality consumers started during the recession will continue even after the recession — perhaps for several years. Some say we lived high on the hog in the almost 30 years from 1980 to 2007, and now we must pay for that party by tightening our collective belts. I don’t totally agree with this characterization because it implies consumers threw caution to the wind when they spent more and saved less. However, as I’ve tried to explain, this highspending and low-saving behavior made perfect sense when consumer wealth was rising. Perhaps the lesson here is to be cautious of your wealth. We’ve certainly seen in the last three years that wealth can evaporate very quickly. Our wealth will increase again but probably at a slower pace. Yet maybe, you’ll decide, this is a better way! Dr. Walden is a William Neal Reynolds Professor and North Carolina Cooperative Extension economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics of N.C. State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He teaches and writes on personal finance, economic outlook and public policy.
More political scandals lead to more reform talk RALEIGH — More political scandal. More political reform. Legislative leaders say they will again pursue reforms designed to clean up government in the wake of yet another criminal investigation of pay-to-play politics in North Carolina. Around the Legislative Building, the talk sounds a lot like someone agreeing to do 25 jumping jacks while fully expecting to walk around the corner and light up a cigarette a few minutes later. “It puts more pressure on somebody to do something,” Senate Majority Leader Martin Nesbitt, D-Buncombe, recently told the Associated Press while discussing the investigation of former Gov. Mike Easley and the criminal indictment
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of one-time aide Ruffin Poole. If Nesbitt sounds like he isn’t meeting the task with enthusiasm, it’s understandable. Legislators went down a similar road just four years ago. That previous scandal — a criminal investigation that ultimately led to the imprisonment of former House Speaker Jim Black — did lead to real reform. Lobbyists still grumble about gift bans and notions of being “covered persons” under the 2006 ethics and
lobbying laws. They complain of not even being able to buy a beer for a longtime friend. But you no longer see legislators, after a House or Senate floor session, trolling for lobbyists to take them out to dinner at a fancy steakhouse. You no longer see legislators padding their campaign accounts only to convert those dollars to personal expenses. The ethics laws adopted a few years ago curbed or ended those practices. In turn, very obvious conflicts of interest stopped. Poole, though, is accused of crimes including bribery and money laundering that were illegal long before the 2006 ethics law was passed. His indictment also accuses him of ignoring the gift ban put into place that year.
So, what else is to be done to make the political class live up to — rather than down to — public expectations ? The focus appears to be on a bill already approved by the House, and now sitting in a Senate committee, that would ban state contractors from giving to politicians who oversee their contracts and would require appointees to state boards to reveal all their political fundraising. It would also mean that more of those in state government must wait six months before moving from that job into private-sector lobbying. Meanwhile, legislative leaders continue spouting nonsense about how they shouldn’t touch a root cause of corruption -- a campaign finance loophole that allows
political parties to receive and make unlimited donations. Like a moth to flame, the attraction is too powerful. So they talk about how a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on corporate campaign spending makes the party-giving loophole more important than ever. They use phrases like “unilateral disarmament.” And they hope that this scandal won’t mean more public attention on how unlimited party giving has made a mockery of campaign finance limits, encouraged illegality and concentrated political power. For the sake of good government in North Carolina, let’s hope it does. Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Association.
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Obituaries John Hinson Sr.
John Roy Hinson Sr., 83, of Old Sunshine Road, Bostic, died Monday, Feb. 15, 2010, at the home of his son in Fredericksburg, Va. Born in Spruce Pine, he him in the crowded jail cell was the oldest of eight chilthey shared and a woman who said she saw the murder dren born to the late Roy W. and Lizzie L. Young Henson. victim with Taylor and his He was also preceded in friend, Johnny Beck. death by his wife of 64 years, But she also said she had Pearl B Hinson. suffered at the time from Mr. Hinson grew up in untreated bipolar disorder Spruce Pine and attended and had consumed several Harris High School before 40-ounce beers, a bottle of joining the Army in 1944, wine and five rocks of crack where he fought in World cocaine. War II as a member of Wake County District Company A, 61st Armored Attorney Colon Willoughby, Infantry Division. He whose office led the charge received numerous accomto keep Taylor behind bars, modations before being immediately walked over to honorably discharged. Mr. Taylor after the verdict. “I told him I’m very sorry he Hinson lived most of his adult life in Virginia and was convicted,” Willoughby moved back to Bostic upon said later. his retirement in 1990. Taylor testified that he He is survived by a daughand Beck went to a deserted ter, Jo Ann H. Bell; two cul-de-sac to smoke crack sons, John R. Hinson Jr. and cocaine. His SUV got stuck Paul A. Hinson; two sisters, in the wooded area, and, as Phyllis H. Barnett and Marie the two men walked out to H Buchannan; one brother, hitch a ride, they saw what Ralph Henson; 11 grandchilthey thought was a body. dren; 14 great-grandchilThey didn’t call the police. dren; two great-great grandAside from the scientific daughters; and numerous evidence and the eyewitnieces and nephews. ness testimony, the stronFuneral services will be gest point in Taylor’s favor held at 11 a.m. Saturday at was his steadfast refusal to Glenwood Baptist Church confess. Police and prosecuwith the Rev. Jason Toney tors — including Assistant officiating. Interment will District Attorney Tom Ford, follow in the church cemwho prosecuted Taylor at trial and handled most of the etery with military honors questioning at the hearing — by the Rutherford County repeatedly offered a reduced Honor Guard. Visitation will be held Friday from 6 to 8 sentence if he would testify against Beck. Taylor refused. p.m. at The Padgett and King Mortuary. The most damning scientific evidence came from an Online condolences www.padgettagent with the State Bureau king.com. of Investigation, who testified that complete blood test Barbara Edwards results were excluded from lab reports presented at trial. Barbara Turner Edwards, SBI Agent Duane Deaver 62, of 951 Ferry Road, testified that it was SBI polHenrietta, died Tuesday, icy to report that evidence Feb. 16, 2010, at Rutherford showed a chemical indicaHospital. tion for the presence of blood A native of Rutherford even when a follow-up test County, she was a daughter came back negative. of Arnold Robert and Willie SBI Director Robin Sue Earley Turner. Pendergraft said in a stateShe was formerly employed ment Wednesday that by the N.C. DMV and was Deaver’s testimony was false. a member of Goodes Creek “The SBI did not then and Baptist Church. does not now have a policy She is survived by her to withhold any evidence or son, Dwayne Edwards of testing results,” she said. Concord; three brothers, North Carolina lawmakArnold Richard Turner of ers established the innoMississippi, Charles Dean cence commission in 2006 Turner of Spartanburg, S.C., after a series of exonerations and Edward Steve Turner of shamed the state’s justice Shiloh; two sisters, Frances system. Turner Robinson of Mauldin, S.C., and Carolyn Turner Jones of Bassett, Va.; two grandchildren; and two step grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday in Nut Gorge EMS and the A.C. McKinney Memorial Rutherford County Rescue Chapel of McKinneyresponded to three E-911 Landreth Funeral Home calls Tuesday.
Police Notes Sheriff’s Department
n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department responded to 119 E-911 calls Tuesday. n Gary Smith reported a breaking and entering and larceny of a surround sound system and speakers valued at $125. n Gary G. Groves reported burglary and larceny of a Nintendo Wii valued at $200 and damages to a door and jam valued at $250.
Rutherfordton
n Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 25 E-911 calls Tuesday.
Lake Lure
n Lake Lure Police Department responded to seven E-911 calls Tuesday.
Spindale
n Spindale Police Department responded to 32 E-911 calls Tuesday.
Forest City
n Forest City Police Deoartment responded to 19 E-911 calls Tuesday. n An employee of the Quick Pantry Store on Oak Street reported an incident of larceny.
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n The Rutherford County EMS responded to 18 E-911 calls Tuesday. n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory
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Judges free man who served 16 years for slaying
RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina man who insisted he was innocent of murder through more than 16 years in prison was declared a free man Wednesday after a groundbreaking exoneration pressed by the nation’s only statewide innocence panel. Greg Taylor’s shackles were removed and he was swept into the arms of his relatives, including a daughter and the son-in-law he met for the first time. Taylor said he was looking forward to a good meal and thrilled that he was no longer considered guilty of murdering a prostitute in 1991. “To think all these years what this day would be like; 6,149 days and finally the truth has prevailed,” said Taylor, 47, after three judges agreed he didn’t kill Jacquetta Thomas. It took Superior Court Judge Howard Manning 5 1/2 minutes to read a ruling that meant Taylor wouldn’t spend a 6,150th day behind bars. The three judges, appointed by the state’s chief justice, heard six days of arguments and testimony at the recommendation of the North Carolina Innocence Commission, the only staterun agency in the country dedicated to proving a convicted person’s innocence. The judges ruled not only that Taylor was not guilty of the beating death of Thomas, but that he proved his innocence after a case that questioned the policies of state investigators and experts whose work put Taylor behind bars. “Today was a great day for the North Carolina system of justice,” defense attorney Joe Cheshire said. Unlike a trial, where the prosecution must prove a defendant’s guilt, the defense was required to prove Taylor’s innocence. The attorneys did that by taking apart almost every aspect of the prosecution’s case, from proving there was no blood on Taylor’s SUV to discrediting eyewitness testimony. By the end, only a few prosecution witnesses held fast to their testimony, including a jailhouse informant who said Taylor confessed to
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Barbara Turner Edwards Barbara Turner Edwards, 62, of 951 Ferry Road, Henrietta, died on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at Rutherford Hospital. A native of Rutherford County, she was born on February 25, 1947, a daughter of the late Arnold Robert and Willie Sue Earley Turner. She was formerly employed by the NC DMV and was a member of Goodes Creek Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by two brothers, Muied Festus Turner and Bobby Lee Turner. She is survived by her son, Dwayne Edwards, and wife, Crystal of Concord; three brothers, Arnold Richard Turner of Mississippi,Charles Dean Turner of Spartanburg, SC and Edward Steve Turner of Shilo; tow sisters, Frances Turner Robinson of Mauldin, SC and Carolyn Turner Jones of Bassett, VA; two grandchildren and two step-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 3PM on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at The A.C. McKinney Memorial Chapel at McKinneyLandreth Funeral Home with the Rev. Cecil Lovelace officiating. Burial will follow at Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1:303:00 PM on Thursday, February 18, 2010. McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home is serving the Edwards family. Paid obit.
with the Rev. Cecil Lovelace officiating. Burial will follow in the Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery. Visitation is Thursday from 1:30 to 3 p.m., prior to the service at the funeral home. Online condolences www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com.
MistyDawn Strong MistyDawn Marie Strong, 28, of Forest City, died Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center after a sudden illness. Born in Springfield, Mass., she was a daughter of Phil Strong of West Springfield, Mass., and the late Lisa Stebbins Strong. She was an honors graduate of Deah Tech High School, and later received a degree in business management and bookkeeping. She was employed by Chili’s in Forest City. In addition to her father, she is survived by her daughter, Alexie; her fiancée, Luis Perez; a brother, James R. Strong; a sister, Amberbrook Strong; her stepmother, Doreen Strong; and several nieces, nephews and friends. A Celebration of Life will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Element Church, 1071 South Broadway, Forest City. The family will receive friends following the service at the church. International Mortuary Shipping, LLC is in charge of arrangements.
Earl Harris Earl Mack Harris, 75, of Rock Hill, died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, at Piedmont Medical Center. A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Noah Coleman Harris and Alice Mae McCrain Harris. He was the owner/operator of Mar-Mac Gardens in Pompano Beach, Fla., before retiring to Sebastian, Fla. Mr. Harris was a member of the South Florida Farm Bureau, where he served as a board member for over 10 years, and was recently named as an honorary lifetime board member. He was also an active member of the Lions Club for 27 years and received the Melvin Jones award. Survivors include his wife, Linda Wolfe Harris of the home; sons, Wayne M. Harris of Charlotte, and Brian Douglas Harris of Rutherfordton; four grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. A memorial service will
MistyDawn Strong MistyDawn Marie Strong, age 28, died Sunday, February 14, 2010 in the Spartanburg Regional Medical Center after a sudden illness. Born February 1, 1982 in Springfield, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of Phil Strong of West Springfield, Massachusetts and the late Lisa Stebbins Strong. She was an Honors graduate of Deah Tech High School, and later received a Degree in Business Management and Bookkeeping. In addition to her father, she is survived by her beautiful daughter, Alexie, her fiancée, Luis Perez, and his daughters, Lilly and Layla; her brother, James R. Strong, his wife, Stacy, and their children, Avalee and Avery; her sister, Amberbrook Strong, and her daughters, Lisalynn and Kyleymarie; her step-mother, Doreen Strong, and her sons, Joseph, Jason, and Timothy, and many friends that were family to her. MistyDawn enjoyed her job at Chilis in Forest City, and the many friendships she made there. She was goal oriented and never backed from anything, had a love of archery, and most importantly, loved her daughter and fiancée unconditionally. She will be remembered as our guardian angel looking over us. A Celebration of her Life will be held Saturday morning , February 20, 2010 at 10 o'clock at the Element Church at 1071 South Broadway in Forest City, North Carolina. The family will receive friends following the service at the church. Paid obit.
be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Greene Funeral Home, Northwest Chapel, Rock Hill, S.C. The Rev. Dan Holloway will officiate. Burial will be private. The family will receive friends immediately following the service at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Southeastern Guide Dogs, 4210 77th Street East, Palmetto, FL 34221. Online condolences www.greenefuneralhome.net.
Deaths Jim Bibby LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Former major league pitcher Jim Bibby, who started for World Series-winning Pittsburgh in 1979, has died. He was 65. Bibby played 12 years in the majors starting in 1972 and pitched the first no-hitter in Texas Rangers history, beating Oakland 6-0 in 1973. He was a member of the Pittsburgh team that won the 1979 World Series, starting two games against Baltimore — including the deciding seventh game. Bibby’s best season was 1980, when he went 19-6 and was a member of the NL AllStar team. Bibby also played for St. Louis and Cleveland, compiling a career record of 111-101 and a 3.76 earned-run average. Bibby’s brother Henry played in the NBA, coached the University of Southern California and now serves as an assistant for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies. His nephew Mike Bibby plays for the Atlanta Hawks. Betty Mabee DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Betty L. Mabee, who with her late husband John helped build one of the West Coast’s major thoroughbred breeding operations and played a key role in the blossoming of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and Del Mar racetrack, has died. She was 88.
Earl M. Harris Mr. Earl Mack Harris, 75, of Rock Hill, passed away Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at Piedmont Medical Center. A memorial service will be held at 3:30pm on Friday, February 19, 2010 at Greene Funeral Home Northwest Chapel with Rev. Dan Holloway officiating. Burial will be private. A native of Rutherford County, NC, Mr. Harris was a son of the late Noah Coleman Harris and the late Alice Mae McCrain Harris. He was owner/operator of Mar-Mac Gardens in Pompano Beach, before retiring to Sebastian, FL. He was an active member of the Lions Club for 27 years, serving in multiple capacities including president, and was a recipient of the Melvin Jones award. He was a member of the South Florida Farm Bureau, where he served as a board member for over 10 years, and was recently named as an honorary lifetime board member. His greatest loves were family, friends and travel, and he will be missed by the many lives he touched as he leaves on his most recent journey. Surviving are his wife, Linda Wolfe Harris of the home; his sons, Wayne M. Harris and his wife, Judy of Charlotte, NC and Brian Douglas Harris and his wife, Amanda of Rutherfordton, NC; four grandchildren, Lindsay, Taylor, Lauren and Alex Harris; his brother-in-law, Thomas Wolfe and his wife, Linda of Myrtle Beach; and many nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends immediately following the service at Greene Funeral Home Northwest Chapel, 2133 Ebenezer Road, Rock Hill, SC 29732. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Mr. Harris’ name to Southeastern Guide Dogs, 4210 77th Street East, Palmetto, FL 34221. Paid obit.
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Red Cross Blood drives schedule: Feb. 19 — Campfield Baptist Church, Ellenboro community, 4 to 8:30 p.m., all 245-5878 for an appointment; Feb. 22 — Red Cross Chapter House, 838 Oakland Road, Forest City, 2 to 6:30 p.m., call 287-5917 for an appointment; All presenting donors (in February) will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $1, 000 gift card. For more information call 1-800448-3543 or visit RedCrossBlood. org.
Schools/students Information Night: Chase High School will hold a Registration Information Night on Thursday, Feb. 18; Elective Fair from 6 to 7 p.m., featuring various course and club offerings; beginning at 7 in the auditorium, speakers will explain graduation requirements, online course offerings, ICC Concurrent Enrollment and Huskins courses, graduation project requirements, the McNair Program and more; all rising 9th - 12th graders and their parents encouraged to attend; registration is the week of March 1.
we have the best shot at getting this project and this could mean three years worth of work for this plant in Rutherford County.” The All American Homes plant at the intersection of U.S. 221 and U.S. 74 ceased production in March 2009. “This build-out time would be three years of full production for us,” said Brooks Wolfe, major projects manager for All American. “We’re not looking at starting up a plant and running it for a short time period. We’d hire 250 to 280 employees. “The good part about all that is by the end of that three-year time period the housing market will hopefully have turned around and we can sustain our business with our traditional
work,” Wolfe added. The project bid will have a March 8 submission date, with Air Force selection in July. In March 2011 the work to demolish the old parts of the Air Force bases will begin. The production from All American is likely two years away. “These are not typical military housing projects,” Whitworth said. “This is what privatization does for the government. They put in zero dollars and so it is a win for the taxpayer and the military personnel.” Hunt Builders from El Paso, Texas, is a competitor along with one Australian company and an English company. “When we temporarily shut down the plant we mothballed it so that all the equipment is still there,” Wolfe said. “We still think the Southeast is a
employers a boost because a lot are not hiring simply because they can’t afford to.” The unemployment rate in Rutherford County remains at 16.9 percent, Carroll said, and more than $2 million in unemployment benefits have been paid to those in the county. The high rate of unemployment continues to be seen through the number of those applying for DSS programs, Carroll said. “There was an eight percent increase in food stamps over January and a 45 percent increase over last year,” Carroll said.
Miscellaneous Rutherfordton Little League: Challenger Baseball sign-ups for special needs children ages 5-21(as long as they are still in school); Saturday, Feb. 20, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Spindale House; $25 per player, $15 for each additional player in same family; for more information contact Brian or Angie Scoggins at 287-3183.
Food stamps and Medicaid are big boosts to the economy, however, Carroll said. “For every dollar provided in food stamps it generates $1.84 in economic activity,” said Kandi Bridges, income maintenance supervisor. Carroll also told the board the department is in the preliminary stages of working with Rutherford County schools on the way child protective services cases involving the schools would be handled. “What this is, is DPI (the state Department of Public Instruction) has an agreement with state social services that facilitate collaboration and cooperation between DSS and schools when a CPS investigation is going on,” Carroll said.
Low-cost rabies clinic: Saturday, March 13, noon to 1 p.m.; Thunder Road Animal Hospital; $10 cash, one-year rabies; $12 cash, threeyear rabies; other discounted vaccines available; call 286-0033.
Fundraisers Food sale: Friday, Feb. 19, begins at 10 a.m., St. Luke’s FBH Church; fish and chicken plates, or pork steak plates with sauerkraut, $6.50 each; to place an order call 2450222. Used book sale: To benefit March of Dimes; Tuesday, Feb. 23, 4 to 8 p.m., and Wednesday, Feb. 24, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the Courtyard Room at Rutherford Hospital; large variety of paperbacks and hardbacks.
Carroll said the school system will be working on the ways in which reports are provided to DSS and that one thing that will come of the process is that DSS workers will all have to show ID to school administration when going to interview a child.
Buffet breakfast: Saturday, Feb. 20, 7 to 10:30 a.m., Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant Church Road, Forest City; $5 all you can eat.
Breakfast buffet: Saturday, Feb. 27, 7 to 10 a.m.; Long Branch Road Baptist Church, 621 Long Branch Road, Forest City; no set price, donations accepted; proceeds for a new fellowship hall. Country ham, chicken pie supper: Saturday, Feb. 27, begins at 4:30 p.m., at Mt. Vernon Clubhouse; adults $8; ages 6-12, $5; ages 5 and under free; proceeds go toward the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church children and youth programs; also, please bring one non-perishable food item to help stock the community food pantry.
“They want to be consistent in their schools just as we want to be consistent in what we do,” he said.
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The route chosen will go north almost straight through the area known as old Central High Hill and may affect R-S Central Middle School. Town officials have yet to be given a definitive list of properties that will be affected. “As soon as we can, we want to try and get that list,” Dancy said. “The DOT map of the route is a broad scope of the road bed so it will be within that area. It could be from one side to the other. Now that we know the direction, we’re going to try and get it as detailed as we can as to which homes and businesses it will
Singing: Sunday, Feb. 21, 2 p.m., Faith Baptist Church, 149 West Main Street Ext., Forest City; featuring Blood Bought Trio.
Religion “Spiritual Bonding” luncheon: Saturday, Feb. 20, 2 p.m.; First Baptist Church of Spindale, 105 East Wilson St.; bring a dish or finger food to share (optional); sponsored by United Sisters in Christ; all denominations welcome; call 247-1853. Revival: March 1-5, 7 nightly, Ross Hill Baptist Church, Calton Dairy Road, Sunshine; guest speaker, Brother Charles Worley; special music; Earl Godfrey, pastor.
directly affect.” In Ruth, the choice of Alternate Three was praised as choosing the lesser of two evils.
The medication assistance program through the Community Clinic will be making the move to the DSS building, Carroll said.
“That is precisely the one we wanted,” said Ruth Mayor Pro Tem Jim Goode. “The other route was going to wipe out all of the businesses in Ruth except one. “This route will still take out several of them but it will leave downtown pretty well intact,” Goode said. “It will eliminate Ruth Tire and Freeman Gas most prominently, but they were going to have to move either way. There should only be four or five houses affected in Ruth.”
“Sandra (McGriff) approached us about this because the location they are in now isn’t accessible to all,” Carroll said. That move will occur in the future, he added. The board was also told of the state’s theme for Child Abuse Prevention Month, which is in April. This year’s theme is “Power of Play.”
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The next meeting for the Rutherford County Department of Social Services is March 17 at 8 a.m.
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Music/concerts Gospel Showcase: Friday, Feb. 19, 7 p.m., at Chase High School auditorium; featuring The Millwood Family, In His Glory, Mercy’s Touch, and the Golden Valley Crusaders; $10 at the door; all proceeds go toward the cost of recently purchased band uniforms.
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Young at Heart Club meeting: Saturday, Feb. 27, 11 a.m., Rollins Cafeteria; fellowship and Bingo; all senior citizens welcome; contact Roy McCain at 245-4800 for more information.
Country ham supper: Cane Creek Community Clubhouse; Saturday, Feb. 20, 4 to 8 p.m.; adults $9; ages 6-12, $6; under 6 free.
The EDC board unanimously approved a resolution in support of the project bid. “I would like to see us contact Senators Kay Hagan and Richard Burr, Rep. Heath Shuler, Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton and Gov. Beverly Perdue and Rep. Bobby England and Senator Debbie Clary with a copy of this resolution and a letter of support for this project,” said EDC Board Member Keith Melton. “We should emphasize the unemployment rate in our county and the need to put people back to work.”
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Indoor yard sale: Saturday, Feb. 20, begins at 7:30 a.m.; at OneSource Rehab (beside Belk in Forest City); rain or shine; refreshments and breakfast items also available for purchase; proceeds to provide mammograms for women in need; sponsored by Cancer Resource Center, RHI.
great market and we plan to use this plant in the future.” All American is the closest plant to Sumter, S.C., where 630 of the homes will be sent to rebuild Shaw Air Force base.
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East, R-S ousted from tournament By KEVIN CARVER Daily Courier Sports Reporter
McGwire arrives at spring training JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Mark McGwire has made his first appearance at spring training. The St. Louis Cardinals’ new batting instructor showed up early on Wednesday, the reporting date for pitchers and catchers. McGwire arrived at Roger Dean Stadium toting a couple of bags and asking assembled reporters, “Where do I go?” He didn’t take any questions. McGwire will don the uniform number 25 that the Cardinals have not used since he retired after the 2001 season. The 46-year-old McGwire is returning to baseball a little more than a month after admitting he used steroids and human growth hormone during his time as baseball’s home run king in the late 1990s.
MORGANTON — For the fourth time this season, R-S Central’s girls basketball team fell to Shelby, losing 66-37, in the second round of the SMAC Tournament at Freedom High, Wednesday night. Central was its own worst enemy as Shelby converted 14 first-half turnovers into seven baskets. The turnovers helped the Golden Lions build a comfortable double-digit lead by the half. Shooting woes also doomed the Lady
Hilltoppers. Central shot 5-for-23 in the first half and followed that with a 1-for-17 showing in the third quarter. On top of all that, Central was just 1-of-21 from three-point-land for the game. Though Central slowed the pace down, Shelby’s 3-2 zone continued to foil the Lady Hilltoppers all night. Shelby was led by 17 points from Ebony Whitworth with Kelantra Allen and Clarissa Hunt each pitching in with 15. R-S Central (16-8) was lead by Shannon Hines with nine points and Taylor McDaniel added 7 more in the
loss. Melissa McLaughlin found a wideopen Hines, who converted for two points to give Central the only lead it ever had in the game’s opening moments. Allen, Whitworth, Hunt and Matrice Sweezey of Shelby all contributed in a 14-0 run following that and led 17-6 at the end of the first quarter. Shelby then stretched the lead to 20 off three Central turnovers. The Hilltoppers showed some life as Aaliyah Davis connected on a left Please see Tourney, Page 8
Braves’ Jurrjens has only inflammation
R-S Central swimmers Kendall Corbett and Kaley Holmstrom took part in the 3A State Swimming Championship meet on Friday, Feb. 12, at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary.
ATLANTA (AP) — An MRI on Braves pitcher Jair Jurrjens’ right shoulder has revealed inflammation but no structural problems. The Braves say team orthopedist Dr. Xavier Duralde has prescribed a week of rest and treatment for Jurrjens following Wednesday’s MRI. Jurrjens is expected to start throwing next week. Braves pitchers and catchers report to spring training on Friday. Duralde says the MRI showed anterior shoulder inflammation.
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Swimmers, wrestlers take part in state championships
Local Sports BASKETBALL 2009-10 SMAC 3A/2A Basketball Tournament Boys Semi-Final at East Rutherford High (Admission $6) 6 p.m. No. 3 Burns vs. No. 2 Shelby 7:30 p.m. No. 5 Freedom vs. No. 1 East Rutherford 2009-10 WHC 1A Basketball Tournament Girls 1st Round at Owen High 4 p.m. Thomas Jefferson vs. Mitchell 2009-10 WHC 1A Basketball Tournament Boys 1st Round at Owens Middle 6 p.m. Thomas Jefferson vs. Hendersonville
On TV 7 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball Auburn at Florida. 7 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball Syracuse at Georgetown. 7 p.m. (TS) Women’s College Basketball Virginia Tech at Florida State. 8 p.m. (FSS) Women’s College Basketball Vanderbilt at LSU. 8 p.m. (TNT) NBA Basketball Denver Nuggets at Cleveland Cavaliers. 9 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball Wisconsin at Minnesota. 9 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball Pittsburgh at Marquette. 9 p.m. (TS) College Basketball UCLA at Washington State. 10:30 p.m. (TNT) NBA Basketball Boston Celtics at Los Angeles Lakers. 10:30 p.m. (TS) College Basketball California at Oregon State. 11 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball St. Mary’s at San Diego.
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RS Middle School wrestlers Kailyn Flack, left, and Colin Cope, right, finished the 2009 regular season undefeated. Cope finished in 4th place this past Saturday at the NC Junior High State Championships at Wake Forest. Pictured with Flack and Cope is R-S Middle wrestling coach Aaron Fox.
FOREST CITY — R-S Central swimmers Kaley Holmstrom and Kendall Corbett took part in the 3A State Swimming Championship meet which was held on Friday, Feb. 12, at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary. Holmstrom, sophomore, advanced out of 3A West Region Swimming to compete at the state meet. She finished 4th in the 100-yard Breaststroke at the regional meet and was seeded 5th at the state meet. Kaley finished in 6th place at the end of preliminary competition and finished in 8th place at the end of finals competition. Kaley also advanced to the state meet in the 200-yard Individual Medley. She was seeded 11th at the state meet and finished 10th at the end of preliminary competition. Kaley finished in 13th place at the end of finals competition. Kendall Corbett, freshman, qualified Please see Prep Report, Page 9
Richardson brings message to town Throughout the course of my life, I have had opportunities to meet some of the various sports heroes of my youth. On Saturday, I get to meet one of the sports heroes my dad always admired. Former New York Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson is the featured guest speaker at the 7th Annual Sportsman Banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Ellenboro, on Saturday, Feb. 20. The banquet starts at 6 p.m., and will include a barbecue dinner plus a chance to win a 30-06 rifle. Richardson, a native of Sumter, SC, played his entire professional career with the Yankees from 1955 to 1966. He was a 7-time All-Star and to this day the only baseball player to ever win the World Series MVP award for a losing team. Richardson earned the honor in the 1960 World Series as the Yankees fell to the Pittsburgh Pirates. In Game 3, Richardson’s 6 RBI set a record that stood alone for 49 years until the Yankees Hideki Matsui tied the mark this past fall.
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Richardson was best known for his glove work at second base and he took home five Gold Gloves, finishing his career with a .979 fielding percentage. Former Yankees manager Casey Stengel, who spent a lot of time defending the antics of superstar Mickey Mantle, once quipped about Richardson, “Look at him. He don’t drink, he don’t smoke, he don’t chew (tobacco), he don’t stay out too late, and he still don’t hit .250!” That of course wasn’t entirely true, Richardson was a .266 lifetime hitter, but he played on a team that featured hitters such as Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, and Moose Skowron. In 1961, those four guys made up
the legendary line up known as, ‘Murderer’s Row.’ There are only 500 tickets available for the event and you can reserve yours by calling 453-0186. Tiger Talk: On Friday, Tiger Woods will make his first public appearance at a tightly controlled press announcement. No questions will be allowed, but Tiger will say he is sorry, roughly, 162 times in a 15 minute statement. SMAC Talk: I like No. 1 seeds East Rutherford (boys) and Freedom (girls) to win the conference tourney. Upsets can happen, but those two squads are playing very well. Super Talk: Congrats to Janet Mason on being named Rutherford County Schools superintendent. And, best wishes to outgoing superintendent, Dr. John Kinlaw. Danica Talk: Ron, you were right. I was too harsh on Sunday.
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L.A. Lakers Phoenix L.A. Clippers Sacramento Golden State
Winter Olympic Medals Table At Vancouver, Canada Wednesday, Feb. 17 3 of 6 medal events 24 of 90 total medal events Nation G S B United States 3 3 4 Germany 3 4 2 France 2 1 4 Canada 2 2 1 Norway 1 2 2 South Korea 3 1 0 Switzerland 3 0 1 Austria 0 2 2 China 1 1 1 Russia 1 1 1 Italy 0 1 2 Sweden 2 0 0 Slovakia 1 1 0 Czech Republic 1 0 1 Poland 0 2 0 Japan 0 1 1 Netherlands 1 0 0 Australia 0 1 0 Estonia 0 1 0 Croatia 0 0 1 Slovenia 0 0 1
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Duke center Brian Zoubek (55) grabs a rebound as Miami center Julian Gamble (45) looks on in the first half during an NCAA college basketball game in Coral Gables, Fla. Wednesday.
No. 6 Duke rallies past Miami, 81-74 CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Kyle Singler scored 22 points and No. 6-ranked Duke used smothering defense to rally from a 12-point halftime deficit and beat the Miami Hurricanes 81-74 on Wednesday night. Jon Scheyer missed his first nine shots and Nolan Smith missed his first six for the Blue Devils, who shot 31 percent in the opening half to fall behind 37-25. But 22 turnovers doomed the Hurricanes, who attempted only 45 shots to 60 for the Blue Devils. Duke outscored Miami 29-9 to start the second half and shot 9 for 15 from 3-point range after halftime. The Blue Devils (22-4, 10-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) increased their league lead with their fifth win in a row. Miami (17-9, 3-9) lost for only the second time in 13 home games.
National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct 33 18 .647 29 23 .558 20 33 .377 19 33 .365 5 48 .094 Southeast Division W L Pct Orlando 36 18 .667 Atlanta 33 18 .647 Miami 27 27 .500 Charlotte 26 26 .500 Washington 17 33 .340 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 43 11 .796 Chicago 26 26 .500 Milwaukee 24 27 .471 Detroit 19 33 .365 Indiana 18 34 .346 Boston Toronto Philadelphia New York New Jersey
WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Dallas 32 21 .604 San Antonio 30 21 .588 New Orleans 28 25 .528 Houston 27 25 .519 Memphis 26 26 .500 Northwest Division W L Pct Denver 35 18 .660 Utah 33 19 .635 Oklahoma City 31 21 .596 Portland 32 24 .571 Minnesota 13 41 .241
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Tuesday’s Games New Jersey 103, Charlotte 94 Miami 105, Philadelphia 78 Detroit 108, Minnesota 85 Chicago 118, New York 85 Phoenix 109, Memphis 95 Oklahoma City 99, Dallas 86 Utah 104, Houston 95 Boston 95, Sacramento 92 Portland 109, L.A. Clippers 87 L.A. Lakers 104, Golden State 94 Wednesday’s Games San Antonio 90, Indiana 87 Washington 108, Minnesota 99 Memphis 109, Toronto 102, OT Orlando 116, Detroit 91 Miami at New Jersey, late Chicago at New York, late Houston at Milwaukee, late Utah at New Orleans, late Phoenix at Dallas, late Sacramento at Golden State, late Atlanta at L.A. Clippers, late Thursday’s Games Denver at Cleveland, 8 p.m. Boston at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. Friday’s Games Cleveland at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Denver at Washington, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Miami at Memphis, 8 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Indiana at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Milwaukee at Detroit, 8 p.m. Toronto at New Jersey, 8 p.m. Dallas at Orlando, 8 p.m. Atlanta at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Utah at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. Boston at Portland, 10:30 p.m. Wednesday’s College Basketball Major Scores EAST American U. 57, Army 54 Boston U. 93, Binghamton 51 Bucknell 78, Lafayette 67 Buffalo 64, Bowling Green 51 George Washington 66, Massachusetts 60 Lehigh 91, Colgate 81 Maine 72, New Hampshire 53 Navy 83, Holy Cross 80 Seton Hall 59, St. John’s 50 St. Peter’s 69, Loyola, Md. 61 Temple 73, St. Bonaventure 55 Vermont 74, Hartford 56 West Virginia 88, Providence 74 SOUTH Campbell 66, S.C.-Upstate 46 Coll. of Charleston 73, Appalachian St. 72 Duke 81, Miami 74 Duquesne 83, Charlotte 77 Elon 70, UNC Greensboro 65 Florida St. 69, Virginia 50 Georgia Southern 79, Furman 77 Longwood 96, S. Virginia 77 Louisville 91, Notre Dame 89, 2OT Marshall 64, Tulsa 58 Memphis 77, Tulane 64
Morehead St. 77, E. Kentucky 64 Morgan St. 68, Delaware St. 65 N. Carolina A&T 87, S. Carolina St. 69 Richmond 84, Fordham 56 Tennessee St. 76, Jacksonville St. 57 Wofford 73, Davidson 51 MIDWEST Akron 61, Miami (Ohio) 56 Ball St. 69, Cent. Michigan 63 Butler 73, Ill.-Chicago 55 E. Michigan 58, Toledo 42 Kansas St. 91, Nebraska 87 Kent St. 74, Ohio 67 Purdue 60, Ohio St. 57 W. Michigan 90, N. Illinois 81 Wright St. 70, Detroit 53 Xavier 88, Saint Joseph’s 52
HOCKEY National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF New Jersey 61 37 21 3 77 162 Pittsburgh 62 36 22 4 76 195 Philadelphia 60 32 25 3 67 179 N.Y. Rangers 62 28 27 7 63 161 N.Y. Islanders 62 25 29 8 58 159 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Ottawa 63 36 23 4 76 178 Buffalo 60 33 18 9 75 166 Boston 60 27 22 11 65 149 Montreal 63 29 28 6 64 164 Toronto 61 19 31 11 49 162 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 62 41 13 8 90 247 Tampa Bay 61 26 24 11 63 160 Atlanta 60 26 24 10 62 182 Florida 61 24 27 10 58 155 Carolina 61 24 30 7 55 168 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Chicago 61 41 15 5 87 199 Nashville 61 33 23 5 71 170 Detroit 61 28 21 12 68 159 St. Louis 62 28 25 9 65 163 Columbus 63 25 28 10 60 166 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF Vancouver 61 37 22 2 76 194 Colorado 61 35 20 6 76 178 Calgary 62 30 23 9 69 156 Minnesota 61 30 27 4 64 171 Edmonton 61 19 36 6 44 153 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF San Jose 62 40 13 9 89 204 Phoenix 63 37 21 5 79 167 Los Angeles 61 37 20 4 78 185 Dallas 61 28 21 12 68 175 Anaheim 62 30 25 7 67 177
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Panthers sign former Colts starting DT Ed Johnson
CHARLOTTE (AP) — The Carolina Panthers signed Ed Johnson to a one-year deal on Wednesday, adding a needed, run-stopping defensive tackle while taking a chance on a playContinued from Page 7 er with a checkered past. The 6-foot-2, 296-pound Johnson will be reunited with wing 3 to end a quick 5-0 Central run, cutting the Carolina defensive coordinator back to 29-14. Central could get no closer though Ron Meeks, who had the same and ended the half down to Shelby 33-16. The third quarter would go even worse for Central as Shelby built a 26-point lead by the end of the period and Central rung up just 11 field goals overall in the contest.
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job in Indianapolis in 2007 when Johnson started all 16 games and recorded 63 tackles as an undrafted rookie. Johnson’s career has declined since. The Colts waived him early in the 2008 season following his arrest on a marijuana possession charge. He was re-signed, then cut again early last season because coach Jim Caldwell said
his play had slipped. The 26-year-old Johnson also ran into trouble at Penn State, where he was temporarily kicked out of school and later suspended from a bowl game. The Panthers, who have been wary of signing and drafting players with off-field issues in the past several years, decided to take a chance on Johnson.
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Freedom 64, East Rutherford 27 MORGANTON — Freedom’s Chelsea Connelly and Jewel Walker struck down East Rutherford in the second round of the SMAC Tournament, as the Lady Cavs lost, 64-27, Wednesday night. East showed similar problems that Central faced earlier in the night. The Lady Cavs shot just 6-of27 from the field in the first half and produced 15 turnovers by the end of the third quarter as Freedom cruised to victory. Connelly led with 15 points and Jewel Walker posted 12 more in the win. Kiziah Miller led East Rutherford with 12 points. Freedom jumped out to a 7-0 lead, ending on a 3 by Keyonna Lewis, but later Shaquisha Dawkins buried a 3 to cut it back, 9-6. However, a fastbreak lay up off an East turnover by Tooey Pearson allowed the Lady Patriots to hold an 11-6 lead after the first quarter. Things went awry following that as East (14-10) had four turnovers and Freedom none in the second quarter. Freedom built a 26-8 lead to begin the frame, but Miller got earned three straight inside buckets to cut the lead to 26-14. The game soon turned south for East Rutherford. Freedom got points from the foul line as well, making it into the double bonus midway through the second quarter. Freedom was 10-of-12 from the charity stripe during the second period and built a 34-14 lead at the half. East continued to struggle in the third period, managing just 2-for-10 in the period as Freedom broke away to a 53-20 lead at the end of frame.
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R-S Central’s Jonathon Fuller, seated middle, signed with N.C. Tech Prep Christian Academy to play football in the fall. Fuller’s parents, Darius and Diana joined Jonathon at the signing. Joining the Fullers were R-S Central Principal Phil Rogers (back, l to r), athletic director Sam Hooper, head football coach Mike Cheek, coach Bud Grissom, coach Ryan Sherburn and coach Jason Watson.
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to swim at the 3A State Meet in the 100-yard Backstroke. Kendall was seeded 15th going into preliminary competition. Kendall did not qualify to swim in finals competition and finished in 18th place overall.
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Lindsey Vonn is airborne during the Women’s downhill, at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Wednesday.
Vonn overcomes injury, wins gold VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Lindsey Vonn crossed the finish line, saw her time, then yelled and fell backward onto the snow. Joy? Relief? Pain? All the emotions that come with being a gold-medal winner. Despite a bruised right shin that made it painful to even wear a ski boot, Vonn dominated a crash-marred downhill to win the first of her five events at the Vancouver Olympics. (Or, as the hats seen in the crowd read: the Vonn-couver Olympics.) “I gave up everything for this,” she said. “It means everything to me. ... I dreamed about what this would feel like, but it is much better in real life.” Teammate and childhood rival Julia Mancuso was a surprising second, giving Americans the top two medals in an Alpine race for the first time in 26 years, and vaulting the United States back atop the medals chart. U.S. athletes have combined to win 10 medals, one more than Germany. With three golds, the Americans are back in a tie for the most. Vonn’s victory put the United States off to a great start in what could be a big day for the delegation. Shaun White and Shani Davis defend their Olympic tiles, White in halfpipe and Davis in 1,000-meter speedskating. Short-track speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno also will be in action for the first time since matching Bonnie Blair for the most medals won by a U.S. Winter Olympian.
WOMEN’S DOWNHILL Since getting hurt in practice two weeks ago, Vonn spent more time with Austrian curd cheese smeared on her shin than being on the slopes. Several weather delays bought her time and kept her competition from getting too comfortable on this course. She kicked out of the gate strong, building a quick lead and building on it. Just when it seemed she might lose control, she regained her form and kept charging toward the finish. A small bump just before the finish cost her a few ticks, but she still wound up winning by 0.56 seconds. “I fought the whole way down,” she said. “It wasn’t a perfect run. I attacked, and I made it down.”
FOREST CITY — The Chase Swim team competed in the 2A State Swimming Championships this past weekend against 72 teams. Evan Morse brought home a bronze medal with a third place finish in the 100-yard Butterfly. The Trojans started out with a 200-yard Medley Relay of Zane Kingery, Morse, Alex Hutchins, and Joseph Toney that finished 19th in that event. The foursome of Morse, Toney, Kirk Abraham and Hutchins swam in the 200-yard Free Relay and finished 15th overall. The grouping of Kingery, Morse, Hutchins, and Toney swam the 400-yard Free Relay to an 11th place finish. In individual competition, Hutchins placed 19th in the 50-yard Freestyle; Haley Hunt placed 28th in the 100-yard Breaststroke; and Kingery competed in 100-yard Freestyle and 100-yard Backstroke and placed 25th and 17th, respectively.
Middle School Wrestling RS Knights RUTHERFORDTON — RS Middle wrestler Chris Cope placed 4th, this past Saturday, at the NC Junior High State Championships at Wake Forest. Cope and teammate Kailyn Flack completed the regular season undefeated.
East Vikings FOREST CITY — East Middle had 14 wrestlers take part in the NC Elementary and Middle School State Tournament, this past weekend. Jerry Burke, a 7th grader, claimed 1st place in the Heavyweight Division for the Vikings. Burke’s teammates Nathan Daisley (7th grade, 132-pounds), Shay Henson (6th grade, 112-pounds), and Wesley Philbeck (6th grade, 120-pounds) each claimed 4th place at the tourney.
Pro fishing: Not just a Southern thang anymore
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Silver medallist Julia Mancuso of the United States, left, dances in celebration as gold medallist Lindsey Vonn looks on, during the flower ceremony for the Women’s downhill event, at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Wednesday.
Maria Riesch of Germany, Vonn’s best friend and usual rival of late, finished eighth. The course was tough, as evidenced by all the crashes. Swedish standout Anja Paerson went down hard, and another competitor had to be airlifted out. Yet another crashed across the finish line and disappeared under a logo of a skier; in trying to get up, she stuck out one ski, making for a bizarre image. The only times Americans took gold and silver in an Alpine race both happened at the 1984 Sarajevo Games, with brothers Phil and Steve Mahre going 1-2 in the slalom and Debbie Armstrong and Christin Cooper doing so in giant slalom. Vonn will be favored in two more races. It remains to be seen how much this event took out of her — or if it’s the start of a Phelps-like domination. “I have what I want, and I’ll just keep fighting every day,” she said. “It’s definitely a huge relief that I finally did it.”
HALFPIPE White qualified for the finals without using his patented Double McTwist 1260 trick —
two flips with 3½ spins — but said he’ll bring that out in the final later Wednesday. Teammate Louie Vito hit his backside on the edge of the pipe on his first qualifying run but nailed the second one to advance.
MEN’S HOCKEY With an assist on Finland’s opening goal in a 5-1 victory over Belarus, Teemu Selanne matched the record for most career points in the Olympics. Selanne has 20 goals and 16 assists in five Olympics. Also with 36: Valeri Kharlamov of Russia, Vlastimil Bubnik of the former Czechoslovakia and Harry Watson of Canada. There were initial concerns Selanne would not be able to play because of surgery last month for a broken jaw.
CURLING The U.S. women fell to 0-2, losing to Germany when skip Debbie McCormick’s squad couldn’t make up a two-point deficit in the final end. The men also are 0-2 going into a match against Switzerland.
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COLUMBIANA, Ala. (AP) — Skeet Reese’s welcome to pro bass fishing moment hit him like a splash of cold water about a dozen years ago. He was sitting in a meeting with the other anglers the day before a tournament when an organizer noted Reese and other Californians who were trying to dangle their lines into the sport’s traditionally Southern-style waters. Then, a dead-serious voice drawled from the back of the room, “We don’t recognize anglers from the West.” That Southern fella is out of the business now. Reese and others from the West Coast and places like suburban Philadelphia are thriving in a sport that increasingly blends hip-hop with Hank Williams, city boys with good ol’ boys. The sport hasn’t migrated north quite yet. Twothirds of the 51 competitors at the Elite Series’ signature event, the Bassmaster Classic, will still be from the South when it begins on Lay Lake south of Birmingham on Friday. But Reese and Philly native Mike Iaconelli finished 1-2 in the Classic last year. Michigan’s Kevin VanDam won in 2001, California native Jay Yelas took the prize the next year, followed by Iaconelli. “I think it’s cool that now we’ve got people from all different parts of the country,” Reese said. “It’s not just a Southern thing. We’ve got people from New York and Maryland to California and Oregon and Arizona and Texas. We’ve got the country pretty well covered.” Japan is well represented, too. The field includes two Japanese anglers, Kataro Kiriyama and Takahiro Omori, who in 2004 became the first Classic winner not born in the U.S. By contrast, in 2002 and 2003 there were a combined 21 anglers from outside the Deep South with slightly larger fields than this year’s event. An Elite Series event has been held in Syracuse, N.Y., the last four years, and the two events following the Classic will be in California. Still a Southern-dominated sport, pro bass fishing has at least gradually started to branch out.
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Nation Today Toyota faces more issues WASHINGTON (AP) — First it was gas pedals, then brakes. Now Toyota and the government are looking into complaints that the popular Corolla is difficult to steer straight, raising a new safety concern ahead of next week’s congressional hearing about the automakers recalls. But how worried should drivers be? Or is this an example of how any problem at the Japanese company now gets intense scrutiny? The executive in charge of quality control said the company is reviewing fewer than 100 complaints about power steering in the Corolla. Toyota sold nearly 1.3 million Corollas worldwide last year, including nearly 300,000 in the United States, where it trailed only Camry as Toyota’s most popular model.
Plane hits N. Calif. home EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — A twin-engine plane carrying three employees of electric car maker Tesla Motors struck a set of power lines after takeoff Wednesday and crashed into a fog-shrouded residential neighborhood, raining fiery debris over homes, sending residents running for safety and killing everyone aboard. But the crash somehow caused no injuries or deaths on the ground
despite a wing slamming into a home where a day care center operated. The seven people inside the house, including an infant, all escaped moments before the home went up in flames.
Imitation pot debated JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — There may be nothing like the real thing, but some industrious marijuana users have seized on an obscure but easily accessible substance that mimics the drug’s effects on the brain — creating a popular trade in legal dope that has stymied law enforcement authorities. The users are buying a product known as K2 — or “Spice,” Genie” and “Zohai” — that is commonly sold in head shops as incense. Produced in China and Korea, the mixture of herbs and spices is sprayed with a synthetic compound chemically similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Users roll it up in joints or inhale it from pipes, just like the real thing. Though banned in most of Europe, K2’s key ingredients are not regulated in the United States — a gap that has prompted lawmakers in Missouri and Kansas to consider new legislation. “This isn’t Jerry Garcia’s marijuana,” said state Rep. Jeff Roorda.
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Judy Woody Cairo with Maggie Gyllenhaal, one of the stars of Crazy Heart.
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majored in Radio/TV/Motion Pictures. While in Rutherford County she was an active member of the Performing Arts Guild during high school and also the East Rutherford drama club. “I feel very fortunate that my parents, Mary Woody of Forest City, and Joe Woody of Rutherfordton, encouraged me to explore all phases of the arts while I was growing up in Rutherford County, and that there were opportunities through Matthew and Diane McEnnerney’s Performing Arts Guild, through Lynne Tanner dance lessons, and Anita Wilkie’s drama club to experience different aspects of the arts,” she continued. Crazy Heart is based on the novel by Thomas Cobb, about a hard-living, broken-down country music singer, Bad Blake, who has had two many marriages, too many years on the road, and one too many drinks. And yet, Blake reaches for salvation when he meets Jean, a young journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, and Colin Farrell, with original music by T Bone Burnett (Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Walk the Line) and Stephen Bruton. Cario was shown the screenplay, written by Scott Cooper, by the ICM talent agency during the Cannes International Film Festival in May, 2007. She said she read the screenplay immediately and knew she wanted to produce it. “The story was heartfelt, and the dialogue and characters were colorful, vivid and authentic, and I loved the idea of telling a story about a
country music singer,” Cairo said. “My mother’s family had always been very musical, and I remembered many a Sunday afternoon sitting in my grandfather’s 100-year-old farmhouse parlor in Polkville listening to my relatives play country and bluegrass music on the fiddle, guitar and piano,” she said. Before Crazy Heart, Cairo produced 20 television movies, including “Elvis,” the four-hour mini-series for CBS which won the Golden Globe for Best Actor (Jonathan Rhys Meyers,) and “Gleason,” the CBS film about Jackie Gleason. But Crazy Heart is the first feature film for her company, Informant Media. She is a partner in the company with her husband Michael Simpson and Eric Brenner, the film’s executive producers. “We at Informant made the offers to the actors, arranged the financing for the film, and I was on location in New Mexico doing the hands-on producing for the 10-week period in the summer of 2008. “I had a wonderful collaboration with the director/writer/producer, Scott Cooper (who is from Virginia,) and with the other producers, Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner, and T Bone Burnett. Crazy Heart is nominated for three Academy Awards – “Best Actor,” “Best Supporting Actress,” and “Best Song.” The film has already won two Golden Globes, for “Best Actor” and “Best Song.” It has a number of other awards, including the Critic’s Choice and Screen Actor’s Guild. Crazy Heart also has four Independent Spirit Awards, including Cairo’s nomination for “Best First Feature.” Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@ thedigitalcourier.com.
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Director of Photography Barry Markowitz, Robert Duvall, and Judy Cairo on the set.
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THE MARKET IN REVIEW
STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS
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Chg +.59 +.63 +.25 +.21 +.31 +.25 +.33 +.17 +.27 +3.74
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267 238 43 548 18 3 111,267,640
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10.92 26.86 27.25 46.74 57.09 32.39 15.25 25.46 101.50 100.83 95.78 36.44 24.32 30.69 24.86 10.92 26.63 32.13 2.02 16.24 28.61 11.89 101.51 27.26 68.21 13.79 10.92 100.84 20.81 30.17 35.37 10.37 2.94 13.54 14.73
+7.1/A +2.6/B +0.9/B +3.2/C +4.1/A +4.8/A +2.4/B +1.4/B +0.3/C +0.4/C -0.7/C +6.5/A 0.0/C +4.1/A +5.3/A +6.8/A +2.5/D +3.6/A +3.4/B +2.1/C +4.5/A +2.6/E +0.3/C +1.0/B +4.8/A +4.1/B +6.6/A +0.4/C +0.5/B +3.2/A +1.1/B +4.8/A -1.9/E +0.5/B +0.3/D
NL 5,000,000 5.75 250 NL 3,000 5.75 250 NL 2,500 5.75 250 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL 3,000 NL 5,000,000 NL 2,500 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL 2,500 5.75 250 NL 5,000,000 NL 2,500 5.75 250 4.25 1,000 5.75 250 NL 10,000 3.75 250 NL 100,000 NL 100,000 NL 2,500 NL 3,000 3.75 1,000 NL200,000,000 NL 2,500 5.50 1,000 5.75 1,000 1.50 1,000 4.25 2,500 5.75 1,000 4.75 0
CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -Foreign LargeGrowth, FV -Foreign Large Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar.
Good news gives markets another boost NEW YORK (AP) — A stream of good news has the stock market back on an upward path. Encouraging corporate and economic reports Wednesday raised hopes that a recovery is taking hold although investors are still concerned about unemployment in the U.S. and debt problems in countries like Greece. Deere & Co. and Whole Foods Market Inc. jumped after their profit reports topped expectations and the companies raised their forecasts. Upbeat reports on home construction and production at factories also helped lift the market. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 40 points a day after it jumped 170. That rally was also in response to stronger economic and earning news. Treasury prices fell Wednesday as demand for safe investments eased. Investors could get more insight into the economy Thursday from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which are scheduled to report earnings. Stocks have fallen over the past month on overseas concerns, including Greece’s debt crisis and moves by China to keep its economy from growing too fast. Investors are still uneasy, but they’ve been able to turn their attention to a stronger domestic economy. The Commerce Department said construction of homes and apartments rose to an annual rate of 591,000 in January, better than the 580,000 units forecast by economists polled by Thomson Reuters. A collapse of the housing market helped push the economy into recession, but recent reports have suggested the market is stabilizing. Applications for building permits, a barometer of future activity, fell 4.9 percent. A drop was expected after two months of big growth. The Federal Reserve, meanwhile, said production at the nation’s factories, mines and utilities rose 0.9 percent last month. It was the seventh straight month of growth and better than the 0.6 percent gain forecast by economists.
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In this photo made Jan. 23, people wait at a job fair in Santa Clara, Calif. Fed policymakers said in a forecast released Wednesday that it will take “some time” for the economy and the jobs market to get back to normal. Associated Press
Fed carefully eying next moves
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the economy healing, Federal Reserve officials debated last month when to reel in the extraordinary stimulus aid they injected into the economy. Some officials wanted to start selling assets on the Fed’s books “in the near future,” documents released Wednesday show. Selling assets would sop up some of the stimulus money and shrink the Fed’s $2.2 trillion balance sheet. But many members expressed concern that such transactions could drive up interest rates and hurt the economic recovery. Last week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said he didn’t expect any asset sales soon. The documents on the Fed’s closed-door meeting last month pointed to divergent thoughts about the timing and tools to reverse course and start tightening credit. “The upshot is that as it stands The Dow rose 40.43, or 0.4 percent, to 10,309.24. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 4.64, or 0.4 now, nothing is set in stone,” said Paul Ashworth, economist at percent, to 1,099.51, while the Nasdaq composite Capital Economics. index rose 12.10, or 0.6 percent, to 2,226.29. The Fed also released a foreBond prices fell, pushing yields higher. The yield cast Wednesday predicting on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to unemployment will stay high 3.73 percent from 3.66 percent late Tuesday. The dollar rose against most other major curren- over the next two years because recession-scarred Americans are cies. Gold prices fell. likely to stay cautious. Crude oil rose 32 cents to $77.33 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
At the Jan. 26-27 meeting, the Fed left rates at a record low near zero to help nurture the recovery and drive down unemployment. And it pledged to hold rates at “exceptionally low” levels for an “extended period.” One Fed official, Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, objected to maintaining that pledge. He feared it would increase inflationary pressures, the documents show. Instead, Hoenig wanted to change the language to say rates would stay low for “some time.” Hoenig said he thought such a change would give the Fed more flexibility to start raising rates, the documents said. Hoenig also thought a move toward “modestly higher” interest rates should happen soon. Bernanke, in remarks last week, suggested the Fed is still months away from raising rates and draining money out of the financial system. The recovery is still fragile and unemployment, now at 9.7 percent, is high. In its economic forecast, Fed policymakers said it will take “some time” for the economy and the jobs market to get back to normal. They did not spell out how long that would be.
Previously, they suggested it could take five or six years for economic conditions to return to full health. A “sizable minority,” though, said they thought it could take more than five or six years for the economy and the job market to return to normal. The Fed said the unemployment rate this year could hover between 9.5 percent and 9.7 percent and between 8.2 percent and 8.5 percent next year. By 2012, the rate will range between 6.6 percent and 7.5 percent, it predicted. Those forecasts are little changed from projections the Fed released in late November. But they suggest unemployment will remain elevated heading into this year’s congressional elections and the presidential election in 2012. A more normal unemployment rate would be between 5.5 percent and 6 percent. Fed policymakers “expect that the pace of the economic recovery will be restrained by household and business uncertainty, only gradual improvement in labor market conditions and a slow easing of credit conditions in the banking sector,” according to the forecast.
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Empathy for menopausal spouses Dear Abby: You asked female readers if we have anything to add to your advice to “Hot Flash Hilda” (Dec. 16), whose husband says she’s “mean” and “freaky” because she doesn’t want to snuggle when she’s having a hot flash. I have had 18 years of menopause. I told my older son once that menopause constitutes justifiable homicide, and he’d better tread carefully. Hilda should tell her husband that hot flashes are like claustrophobia. You’re heating up from the inside out and have no way to escape. There are times when my skin actually hurts. Maybe if she uses “justifiable homicide” it will get through to him. — Linda Dear Linda: When I printed the question from “Hilda,” I had no idea that menopause was such a hot topic and that I’d not only receive responses from women, but also from male readers. Read on: Dear Abby: My wife has also been dealing with hot flashes. Her comments to me fell on deaf ears until my doctor prescribed a niacin-based drug for triglyceride issues. He failed to advise me to take an aspirin shortly before taking the niacin. When I took the niacin for the first time, I had an instant understanding of what hot flashes were and what my wife had been subjected to for several years. — Gets it now
Dear Abby Abigail van Buren
Dear Abby: My husband also didn’t understand my need for distance during a hot flash. So I took him to a spa for a day of couples pampering and suggested he get into the sauna to relax. When he was good and hot, I joined him and suggested we “snuggle.” He exclaimed, “But I’m all hot and sweaty!” I smiled and said, “You’re having a hot flash.” That’s when he finally got it. Now he not only gives me space during a hot flash, but offers me a cool drink of water or a chilled cloth to put on my neck for the duration of the “heat wave.” — Diane Dear Abby: Thank you for that reply! Men need to try and understand what women feel during a hot flash. A 450-degree oven about sums it up. I bought books on the subject for my husband, but have yet to give them to him. I most certainly will now. — Michelle Dear Michelle: Another way to educate a clueless spouse is for both of them to consult the wife’s gynecologist or their primary physician.
Alternative for Tourette syndrome Dear Dr. Gott: My adult son suffers from Tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder. Because it is a mild case, it doesn’t warrant some of the medications and side effects that are used to treat TS, but daily life can be miserable. Do you know of any supplements or alternative treatments that are now being used to lessen his symptoms? Dear Reader: I must admit your question took me to my reference material before I could proceed with an answer. Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary movements and vocalizations known as tics that are classified as simple or complex. Simple tics are brief, repetitive movements that involve a limited number of muscles. These may include eye blinking, head or shoulder jerks, facial grimacing and more. Vocalization includes grunting, sniffing, throat clearing and other sounds. Despite popular
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belief, vocal tics are uncommon, occurring in less than 15 percent of sufferers. Complex motor tics involve a greater number of muscles and may include shoulder shrugging, head twisting, hopping or jumping, inflicting bodily harm by punching oneself and touching things. Verbal tics may include the use of profanity and the repetition of words or phrases. Some TS sufferers find the compulsion to repeat words or phrases a specific number of times before the urge subsides. Tics can vary in type and severity; stress or periods of excitement can exacerbate them.
IN THE STARS
Your Birthday, Feb. 18;
In the year ahead, a number of ambitious goals are likely to be fulfilled because of the wonderful ways you’ll go about achieving them. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — It’s natural to use your magnetism and charisma in ways that will prove the most effective. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — If you need a favor, go to friends who are both kind and compassionate. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — One of your greatest assets is a natural ability to deal with large groups. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Don’t limit yourself to achieving merely one goal because you’re quite capable of handling several large projects. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Because of your natural finesse in handling touchy situations, even your criticisms are likely to sound like compliments. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Advantageous changes are in the works because they are likely to put you in a position of achieving an elusive personal objective. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Don’t waste time with intermediaries who can’t do a thing for you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — A kind word or deed can cure what ails a fellow worker and put him or her in a good frame of mind. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Spending time with a friend who takes life too seriously won’t pose any problems for you. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Find time and ways to express your creative or inventive ideas. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — You’ve heard that actions speak louder than words. That’s exactly what you can expect. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Be on your toes for developments that could add to your resources.
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Mayor, board debate town hall access By LARRY DALE Daily Courier Staff Writer
ELLENBORO — Aldermen on Tuesday night declined to act on Mayor Teresa Whisnant Wood’s request for the town to buy her a laptop computer and printer so she could conduct municipal business from her home. The action was the latest development in a long-running dispute between Wood and the town council over access to Town Hall. The discussion Tuesday night became heated and continued to be volatile after the meeting was adjourned. When the mayor asked for a computer and printer, Alderman Allan “Bunt” Black said, “All correspondence needs to go through this office,” and not through a personal computer. Alderman Lee Allen said an office, a computer and a printer need to be made available to the mayor. When it was pointed out that there is an office in Town Hall the mayor can use, Wood said there are problems with that arrangement. She said office staff has asked her to leave Town Hall when they close for lunch, and they have asked her to leave at 5 p.m. when Town Hall closes for the day. She also said she is locked out of Town Hall after council meetings end. Black, a former mayor, said he didn’t object to the mayor having a key to Town Hall, but not to the main office. Jim Rhyne, a board member and another former mayor, said he did not have a key when he was in office. Mayor Wood noted that when she had asked for a list of water customers both inside and outside the town limits, she was told she could not have it because it would be a violation of the “red flag policy” to protect privacy because the list contained driver’s license numbers,
birth dates, and some Social Security numbers. Town Clerk Vivian Skipper said she is unable to print just the names, and Jim Rhyne said the personal information on the customers could not leave the office. Mayor Wood also said she is concerned because mail with her name on it is opened and read at Town Hall before she receives it. Skipper said she has been told by the board to open every piece of mail that comes in. Jim Rhyne noted that Town Hall workers open mail and look at it to see if it is something that requires immediate action. Otherwise, he said, “it falls through the cracks” because the mayor and council members may not be at Town Hall on a daily basis. Allen reiterated that the mayor should have dedicated space in Town Hall, should have a computer and have access to it at any time, and should have e-mail. The burden would then be on her to come by more often and check for correspondence, he added. Jim Rhyne said when anyone asked him for an e-mail address, he just gave them the Town Hall e-mail address. As the discussion continued, the town’s attorney, Gene Mitchell, said the mayor needed to seek a motion from a council member in response to her request, adding that if no one did, the request would die. The mayor said, “I don’t need to.” And she called for the meeting to be adjourned at that point. In other action at the meeting, the board: n tabled a request from Doyle Hollifield to cut off a water meter on a piece of property he owns so he would receive only one water bill instead of two. Black asked for time to consider
the matter, since what the board does for him it would have to do for everyone. n agreed to allow Jim Rhyne and Assistant Clerk Alberta Madigan to negotiate an agreement on giving a break on a water bill of more than $250 that had occurred because of a line break. The request for help was made by Bonita Whisnant on behalf of the Whisnant family. n made two budget amendments, moving money from one line item to another. One was for $756 and the other was for $710. n heard about mandatory ethics training planned April 14 in Shelby. n agreed to offer names at the next meeting for someone to serve on the Isothermal Planning and Development Commission board. The board member does not need to be an alderman, so a member of the community probably will be selected. The IPDC board meets on Tuesday evenings, and so does the Ellenboro board, precluding a town board member from taking the IPDC position. n agreed to allow Skipper, with the assistance of Black, to send letters of inquiry to auditors who may be willing to perform the town’s audit. Mitchell said the person must be a certified public accountant that is approved by the Local Government Commission. The only qualified auditor in Rutherford County is Don Heath, who has declined to perform Ellenboro’s audit next year. n 02182010courieragreed to buy six new tires for the town’s big truck. Board member Sandra Butler Weeks did not attend the meeting, so four board members were present. Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigitalcourier.com
N.C. officials drop plan to focus on recent history
RALEIGH (AP) — After critics complained that the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers and the Civil War would get short shrift in the classroom, the state education agency is reworking a plan for high school students to focus on the U.S. history since the 1870s. North Carolina state schools superintendent June Atkinson said Wednesday the uproar was caused by “misinformation” about the first of several planned drafts for the revised approach to teaching history. “We were going to add more American history in grades K through 12, not less,” Atkinson said. North Carolina’s planned revision is part of a national trend to more deeply examine the events of recent decades like the Depression and the Cold War, education experts said. “It is the events of the 20th century that have had the greatest impact on the events of the 21st,” said Peggy Altoff, past president of the National Council for the Social Studies.
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14 — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, THURSDAY, February 18, 2010 NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as Executor of the estate of AUGUSTUS EUGENE FORD of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said AUGUSTUS EUGENE FORD to present them to the undersigned on or before the 18th day of May, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This is the 18th day of February, 2010.
Having qualified as Ancillary Executor of the estate of BETTY JO NELSON RADFORD of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said BETTY JO NELSON RADFORD to present them to the undersigned on or before the 11th day of May, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This is the 11th day of February, 2010.
Jeffrey Scott Ford, Executor 405 Painters Gap Road Rutherfordton, NC 28139
Tommy S. Radford, Ancillary Executor 25 Alta Vista Circle Travelers Rest, SC 29690
NORTH CAROLINA RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK FILE NUMBER: 09 SP 595
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD NOTICE OF SALE File No: 10 SP 006 TAKE NOTICE THAT: Raintree Realty and Construction, Inc., Substitute Trustee, has begun proceedings to FORECLOSE under the Deed of Trust described below, and by under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in such Deed of Trust, and an Order entered by the Clerk of Superior Court of the above County, will sell the below described property at public auction as follows: 1. The instrument pursuant to which such sale will be held is that certain Deed of Trust executed by Pisgah Property Solutions, LLC, original mortgagors, and recorded in the Office of the Rutherford County Register of Deeds in Deed of Trust Book 943, at Page 670. The record owner of such property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to posting this Notice of Sale, if not the original mortgagors, is: N/A. 2. The property will be sold by the Substitute Trustee at 1:30 p.m. on the 3rd day of March, 2010 at the above named County Courthouse door in the City of Rutherfordton, North Carolina. 3. The real property to be sold is generally known as Lot #’S 92 and 94 in the Queens Gap Subdivision, Rutherford, NC, and is described as follows:
IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF THE DEED OF TRUST OF: GODIN ENTERPRISES, LLC Grantor,
LYING AND BEING IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
TO
Any property described in the Deed of Trust which is not being offered for sale is described as follows: N/A.
BEING ALL OF LOTS 92 AND 94 of Queen’s Gap, Phase 1, as described on that plat recorded in Plat Book 27, at Pages 280-292 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.
Jarald N. Willis, Substitute Trustee,
4. Any buildings located on the above-described property are also included in the sale.
As recorded in Deed of Trust Book 527, Page 763 Rutherford County Registry ____________________________________
5. The property will be sold by the Substitute Trustee to the highest bidder for CASH. The highest bidder will be required to deposit IN CASH with the Substitute Trustee at the date and time of the sale the greater of five percent (5.0%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty and no/100 Dollars ($750.00).
NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by Godin Enterprises LLC, to A. Jervis Arledge, Trustee for Topo Inc., dated February 17,1998, and recorded in Deed of Trust Book 527, Page 763, of record in the Rutherford County Registry, N. C.; and under and by virtue of an Order of the Clerk of Superior Court of Rutherford County, N. C., made and entered on the 26th day of January, 2010, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and said deeds of trust being by the terms thereof subject to foreclosure and the holder of the indebtedness thereby secured having demanded a foreclosure thereof for the purpose of satisfying said indebtedness, the undersigned trustee will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the courthouse door in Rutherfordton, North Carolina at 11:00 AM ON THURSDAY THE 4th DAY OF MARCH, 2010, the property conveyed in said deed of trust, same lying and being in Chimney Rock Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Situate, lying, and being in Chimney Rock Village, Chimney Rock Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being described by metes and bounds in accordance with a survey and plat by Nathan Odom, dated June 27, 1985, as follows: TRACT ONE: Being the Southern portion of Lot Number 13 and Lot Number 14 of Chimney Rock Terraces in Block "A" as shown on a plat recorded in Plat Book 1, Page 56, Rutherford County Registry, being that property conveyed by deed from George W. Padgett to Douglas Edwards and wife, Sandra J. Edwards dated August 2, 1978, of record in Deed Book 396, Page 181, Rutherford County Registry and being described by metes and bounds as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pin in the margin of the right-of-way of U. S. Highway 64-74, said iron pin being located South 64 degrees 10 minutes 44 seconds East 701.00 feet from NCGS monument designated "Entrance" (coordinates of which are Northern=630768.61 and Easting=1032492.53); thence from said beginning point along and with the common boundary with McLeod North 22 degrees 42 minutes 08 seconds East 54.97 feet to an iron pin; thence, along and with the common boundary with Garity, South 54 degrees 59 minutes 34 seconds East 50.60 feet to an iron pin; thence South 22 degrees 22 minutes 27 seconds West 55.03 feet to a point in the margin of the right-of-way of U. S. Highway 64-74; thence North 55 degrees 00 minutes 22 seconds West 50.92 feet to the point and place of beginning containing .06 acres more or less.
6. All bidders bid for the property AS IS on the date of sale. Absolutely no warranties are made as to the condition, value or title of the property. While the Substitute Trustee believes the title to be good, all bidders are advised that they should obtain independent counsel to examine record title as the property is sold subject to prior record interests. The Noteholder has reserved the right to withdraw the sale up to and until the Deed is delivered by the Substitute Trustee. 7. The property will be sold subject to all unpaid taxes and special assessments. 8. The property being sold is all of that property described in the Deed of Trust except as specifically set forth above. It is the intention to extinguish any and all rights or interests in the property subordinate to the Deed of Trust. 9. Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential with Less Than 15 Rental Units: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the County in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the Notice of Sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to Title VII of 5.896 - Protecting Tenants as Foreclosure Act which became effective May 20, 2009. THIS the 3rd day of February, 2010. /s/__________________________ A. Robert York, Substitute Trustee Raintree Realty and Construction, Inc. PO Box 8942 Asheville, NC 28814 Dates: February 18, 2010 and February 25, 2010
TRACT TWO: Being Lots numbered 15, 16, 17, and the Western one-half of Lot 18 in Block "A" of the subdivision known as Chimney Rock Terraces as shown on a plat recorded in Plat Book 1, Page 56, Rutherford County Registry, and being described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the margin of the right-of-way of U. S. Highway 64-74, said point being located South 64 degrees 10 minutes 44 seconds East 701.00 feet and South 55 degrees 00 minutes 22 seconds East 50.92 feet from NCGS monument designated "Entrance" (coordinates of which are Northern=630768.61 and Easting=1032492.53); thence from said beginning point North 22 degrees 22 minutes 27 seconds East (crossing an iron pin at 55.03 feet) a total distance of 124.8 feet to an iron pin in the margin of Terrace Drive; thence, along the margin of Terrace Drive South 56 degrees 36 minutes 23 seconds East 86.74 feet to a locust hub; thence, along and with the common boundary with Austell and Brazzell South 22 degrees 21 minutes 58 seconds West (crossing an iron pin at 124.93 feet) a total distance of 127.27 feet to an iron pin in the margin of the right-of-way of U. S. Highway 64-74; thence, along and with the margin of the rightof-way of U. S. Highway 64-74 North 55 degrees 00 minutes 22 seconds West 87.27 feet to the point and place of beginning, containing, .25 acres more or less. Being the same and identical property which was conveyed by Topo Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New Mexico, to Godin Enterprises LLC, by deed dated February 17, 1998, and of record in Deed Book 706, at Page 458, Rutherford County Registry. The record owner of the above described real property as reflected on the records of the Rutherford County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is Godin Enterprises, LLC. Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b) and North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.9A, and the terms of the Deed of Trust, any successful bidder will be required to deposit with the Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the greater of 5% of the total bid or $750.00 of the bid as a forfeit and guarantee of compliance with this bid, the same to be credited on his /her bid when accepted. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or by certified check at the time the Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time , he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statute Section 45.21.30(d) and (e). This sale shall be subject to all outstanding taxes, prior liens, judgments and encumbrances, rights of ways, easements, and restrictive covenants of record. This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to Title VII of 5.896 – Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act which became effective on May 20, 2009. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OF ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This the 26th day of January, 2010. Jarald N. Willis, Substitute Trustee 120 E. Court Street Rutherfordton, NC 28139 Telephone (828) 287-3338 Bar No. 13215
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in Qari Sahib village a day after it was reclaimed by the government. Afghan military officials finally changed it to an Afghan flag on Monday. Inside the town of Marjah, the poppy business boomed under the Taliban. Nearly every house in the north of the city has a plot of poppy growing in the yard. Sharecropper Mohammad Khan said the Taliban didn’t use draconian methods such as public executions and limb amputations to impose their reign in Marjah as they did in Kabul and other parts of the country when they ruled most of Afghanistan. “Honestly, they didn’t bother us. They mostly just came and went,” the roughfaced 55-year-old with a long beard said as Marines searched his neighborhood of northern Marjah.
Haiti frees 8 of 10 Americans PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Eight American missionaries were freed from a Haitian jail Wednesday, nearly three weeks after being charged with kidnapping for trying to take a group of children out of the quake-stricken country. The eight — looking bedraggled and sweaty — walked out of the Haitian jail escorted by U.S. diplomats just after dusk. They waited until they were safely inside a white van before flashing smiles, waving and giving a thumbs up to reporters.
Hours earlier, judge Bernard SaintVil told The Associated Press that eight of the 10 missionaries were free to leave without bail or other conditions after parents testified they voluntarily handed their children over to the missionaries. “The parents of the kids made statements proving that they can be released,” he said, adding that still wants to question the group’s leader and her nanny. The group planned to fly out of Haiti late Wednesday.
Pakistan confirms Taliban arrest ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan confirmed for the first time Wednesday that it has the Afghan Taliban’s No. 2 leader in custody, and officials said he was providing useful intelligence that was being shared with the United States. The confirmation came as the Pakistani government defused a political crisis that threatened to distract from the fight against militancy by backing off on judicial appointments opposed by the Supreme Court.
The Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was arrested earlier this month in a joint operation by CIA and Pakistani security forces in the southern port city of Karachi, U.S. and Pakistani officials said on condition of anonymity Tuesday. “At the conclusion of detailed identification procedures, it has been confirmed that one of the persons arrested happens to be Mullah Baradar,” chief army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said in a written message to reporters.
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