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Leaving classes at Isothermal Community College at noon Tuesday in the midst of heavy snow, Kyna Robinson of Mill Spring, makes a quick call before starting home.

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County gets a fourth snow

By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — The fourth snow event in Rutherford County since last Dec. 18 created very few problems across the county Tuesday, although schools closed early.

“Safety first,” said Rutherford County Schools Transportation Director Curtis Hodge at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday while communicating with the final bus drivers taking students home from school early because of snowfall.

As the threat of imminent weather and deteriorating conditions arrived, public, charter and private schools across the county were closed by noon.

Rutherford County Schools and Thomas Jefferson Classic Academy began sending students home at 11:30 a.m. and noon and Trinity Christian School in Rutherfordton dismissed all students also at noon.”

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As snow fell all around them, these sparrows found lunch from this birdhouse off Piney Ridge Road in Forest City.

RUTHERFORDTON — Commissioners were unanimous in their endorsement of a school technology plan that calls for $250,000, but the details of how to pay for it have yet to be worked out.

Monday night’s meeting saw commissioners emphasize the importance of spending on new whiteboards for the schools, but financing for their half of a $500,000 joint purchase with Rutherford County Schools is still up in the air.

“Because of lowered sales tax collections and the withholding of ADM funds from the state (ADM funds were about $500,000 per year), the School Capital Reserve Fund will be beginning to show a deficit in approximately June 2011,” County Manager John Condrey said. “The total deficit could reach as high as $2,000,000 based on the debt service payments associated with all the previous school construction and technology purchases.”

The school board will meet next week after postponing its regular meeting due to inclement weather. At that time board members will decide how to pay for their $250,000 share of the plan.

County officials proposed loaning money to the School Capital Reserve Fund from a variety of sources, but haven’t picked one.

“Options could include the County Building Reserve Fund, Solid Waste Reserve Fund, Water/Sewer Reserve Fund and Fund Balance,” Condrey said. “Beginning in fiscal year 2015-2016, sales tax collection estimates show the School Capital Reserve Fund will return to a positive cash flow and begin to pay this fiveyear loan back to the schools and the county.”

Several public comments were directed at the board Monday night to oppose spending the new money.

Leading the charge was Zoran Naskov of the Rutherford 9.12 group — a conservative watchdog organization Please see County, Page 6A

Logging truck flips, loses load RUTHERFORDTON — James Rumfelt, 60, of York, S.C., lost his load of logs Tuesday at about 8:55 a.m. on Hudlow Road at the U.S. 64 intersection.

Rumfelt was traveling northeast on U.S. 64 driving the 1996 Volvo, following another truck driver to the chip mill off Centennial Road, when he turned off the highway onto Hudlow with too much speed, the load shifted and the truck overturned.

Rumfelt was not injured in the accident and was charged with exceeding a safe speed for conditions —traveling too fast for a turn — said N.C. Highway Patrolman D.R. Walker.

Hudlow volunteer firefighters and others worked during the snowfall to clear the wreckage by about 1 p.m.

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James Rumfelt, 60, of York, S.C., (bottom photo) looks at the under side of his truck after (top photo) it flipped and dumped his load of logs Tuesday at about 8:55 a.m. on Hudlow Road at the U.S. 64 intersection.

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2A — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, March 3, 2010

local/state FOLLOWING THE PLOWS Cars follow snow plows as they clear U.S. 176 in Hendersonville on Tuesday after the area received around six inches of snow.

More snow was predicted across parts of the state into Wednesday as a ow pressure system moves up the Atlantic coast.

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Accreditation agency challenges SBI reporting

By MARTHA WAGGONER Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH — The accreditation group that certifies North Carolina’s top law enforcement agency says the agency should have made it clear in crime lab reports from the early 1990s when tests of evidence produced conflicting results, appearing to contradict the agency’s position that they were scientifically acceptable.

“We have always expected that reports would be clear and revealing of anything that should be revealed,” Ralph Keaton, executive director of the accreditation group, said Tuesday.

The director of the State Bureau of Investigation, Robin Pendergraft, has said agents were told to use certain language in the lab reports submitted to courts, and she defended its use at the time. She reiterated her stance Tuesday.

“Back in the ’90s, they com-

plied — as I understand it and I don’t know, I haven’t gone and researched it — with the statutory requirements,” she said. “ ... The language was acceptable in the scientific community, as has been explained to me.”

The issue arose in the case of Greg Taylor, who served more than 16 years behind bars for the murder of a prostitute in Raleigh before he was exonerated two weeks ago in a groundbreaking innocence hearing.

During the hearing, SBI Agent Duane Deaver testified that agents were told to write in lab reports that evidence gave chemical indications for the presence of blood when the first test for blood came back positive.

He said agents were told to use that language even when a follow-up test came back negative.

The information about a negative follow-up test would be part of an agent’s bench notes, but wasn’t included in

the lab reports routinely provided to courts, Deaver said.

Although standards have changed since the society began accrediting crime labs in 1982, the type of language used by SBI was never acceptable, said Keaton, executive director of the American Society of Crime Lab Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board, which certifies SBI’s lab and hundreds of others.

“There should have been a qualification in the report that you might have gotten screening tests that were positive, but the report should have clarified that confirmatory tests were negative,” he said.

One reason is that the average lay person, including a juror, “doesn’t necessarily understand the significance of any test,” he said.

Keaton emphasized that the society has not communicated with the SBI, and he based his comments on what he had read about the case.

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Pendergraft said she didn’t know whether the directive for the wording in lab reports was in writing or was part of SBI culture at the time.

She also said she didn’t know when it ended, although she said that question is part of a review.

The society, which accredits more than 350 labs, first accredited the SBI lab in 1988 and has reaccredited it every five years since. The society would have examined bench notes and lab reports as part of accreditation, but didn’t find the differences between the two, Keaton said.

He declined to say whether the society would re-inspect the SBI lab. Such a decision wouldn’t be made public, he said. He didn’t immediately return a phone call to answer questions about whether the society would re-examine its accreditation procedures because it didn’t catch the differences between SBI lab reports and bench notes.

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In a federal court order issued last year in the case of George Goode, a federal judge said Deaver’s testimony was faulty because he led a 1993 jury to believe that he found blood, when he had only conducted a preliminary test that indicated the possibility it was present.

“A reasonable consideration of the record demonstrates the State, through Agent Deaver, presented misleading evidence about the testing done on petitioner’s boots being conclusive for the presence of blood,” U.S. District Judge Malcolm Howard wrote in his order, which vacated Goode’s death sentence because of ineffective counsel at trial.

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Rutherford Today Bostic helps Lincoln Center BOSTIC — Commissioners on Monday voted to assist the Bostic Lincoln Center.

The Bostic Lincoln Center requested funding to help buy brochures. The cost would be around $1,800 for 10,000 brochures. The board approved the request.

Also at the meeting, Keith Webb with McGill Associates presented the estimated cost of water lines. He recommended the town do the work in phases.

The first phase the board will consider is Roberson Creek Road. Bostic will conduct a survey to find out how many residents would be interested.

Board members also were presented information about required ethics training. Officials must get the training by Jan. 1, 2011.

The Bostic board meets the first Monday of the month.

Commissioners set training date RUTH — Ruth Commissioners will attend mandated ethics training in April in Shelby, the three member board decided at its regular meeting Monday night.

Mandated by Gov. Bev Perdue, all elected officials in the state are required to attend ethics training this year Also Monday night, Mayor Don Baynard and Commissioners Mike Ellenburg and Jim Goode decided to replace some traffic and street signs.

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Obama open to adding GOP ideas to health care

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday he was open to four new Republican proposals on health care legislation, a gesture of bipartisanship meant to jump-start his stalled drive to overhaul the system.

Obama detailed the ideas, all of which were raised at a bipartisan health care summit last week, in a letter to congressional leaders. In a nod to his 2008 presidential rival, Obama also said he had eliminated a special deal for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries in Florida and other states that drew criticism at the summit from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

The proposals Obama listed are: sending investigators disguised as patients to uncover fraud and waste, expanding medical malpractice reform pilot programs, increasing payments to Medicaid providers and expanding the use of health savings accounts. “I said throughout this process that I’d continue to draw on the best ideas from both parties, and I’m open to these proposals in that spirit,� wrote Obama, who will make remarks Wednesday at the White House on a path forward for his legislation.

He rejected the GOP’s preferred approach of scrapping the existing sweeping overhaul bills and starting afresh with step-by-step changes.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Obama’s letter “brings us just another step closer to passing the bill.� “We hope to incorporate some of the suggestions,� she said.

Obama’s announcement did not appear to win over any Republicans, who complained the underlying legislation remained fatally flawed, and the Senate GOP leader warned of reprisals in this fall’s midterms elections if the Democrats go forward.

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President Barack Obama speaks at Savannah Technical College in Savannah, Ga., Tuesday.

But it could give wavering Democrats political cover by showing the White House has been willing to compromise in the wake of last week’s summit. “We’re anxious to get health care done, which we will get done,� Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said after Obama released the letter. Democrats proceed at their own political peril, said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “I want to assure our Democratic friends that if they are somehow able to pass this bill in the House, it will be the issue in every race in America,� McConnell said.

At its core the Democrats’ legislation would extend coverage to 30 million uninsured Americans over 10 years with a first-time mandate for nearly everyone to buy insurance and a host of new requirements on insurers and employers. However, the package soon to reach the House will be less expensive than the one the House passed in November and will

contain no government-run insurance program to compete with private insurers, making it more appealing to some moderates.

Democrats are eyeing a controversial procedure known as “budget reconciliation� to get the legislation to Obama. Under this process, the House would pass the Senate-passed overhaul bill, and both chambers would pass a package of changes to the legislation designed to appeal to House Democrats.

The changes — they could include Obama’s suggested Republican ideas — could pass under budget rules allowing a simple majority vote in the Senate. It’s Democrats’ only way forward because Republicans control 41 Senate votes, just enough block the 60-vote supermajority usually required for action.

But the approach infuriates Republicans, even though they’ve used it in the past, and makes some Democratic moderates uneasy. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel defended the tactic

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after emerging from a meeting at the Capitol with Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “Reconciliation is a vehicle that’s been used many times,�

Emanuel said. “This is a normal procedure, nothing different out of it.�

Obama said he was open to these four GOP ideas: —Conducting undercover investigations of Medicare and Medicaid providers to search for waste, fraud and abuse, an idea put forth by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., at least week’s summit. — Experimenting with specialized health courts as an alternative to jury trials in medical malpractice cases to cut down on defensive medicine. That idea has been promoted both by Democrats and Republicans, including Coburn and Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., who attended the summit.

The approach calls for an expert judge — not a jury — to hear the evidence and make a final determination in cases where a patient has suffered harm. Trial lawyers

are strongly opposed to the concept.

Months ago, Obama budgeted $23 million for states to experiment with alternatives to malpractice litigation, but at the time he stopped short of endorsing health courts. The president now says he wants to more than double the budget for state experiments to $50 million. —Obama also agreed that health savings accounts would be offered in new markets his plan sets up for individuals and small business to purchase coverage.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., brought up the idea at the summit.

The president said he’s open to the tax-sheltered accounts, which go hand-in-hand with high-deductible health insurance policies. Premiums on those policies are lower than for regular health insurance, and people who have them use the health savings accounts to pay their out-ofpockets costs. —Obama also suggested increasing reimbursements to Medicaid providers, a concern raised by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. “That’s just one thing,�

Coburn said of the president’s desire to incorporate his proposal. “We need to start over,� Coburn said, contending the bill doesn’t address underlying issues of health care costs and quality.

Grassley said Obama’s willingness to include his idea didn’t change his opposition to the overall legislation. “There are other things more important,� like its lack of caps on liability damages and its inclusion of an individual mandate, he said.

Democrats argue that the GOP calls to scrap the existing legislation and start anew further their argument that Republicans have been unreasonably opposed to almost any compromise.

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Our Views County cannot stand still now

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utherford County officials had the foresight awhile back to launch a multi-year plan to improve technology in the county’s schools. Now, thanks to the sagging economy, the funding for that project is running short.

That means that the plans will have to be scaled back, but this is not a case where the county can give up completely.

Technology has revolutionized the classroom in recent years and Rutherford County’s students will be at a distinct disadvantage if they do not at least stay somewhere near the mainstream.

On Monday night, County Commissioners agreed to provide $250,000 for the technology program.

The School Board will consider adding $250,000 to that when it meets.

That funding will help keep the program moving forward which is exactly what needs to happen.

Rutherford County, like many places around the country, is trying to work its way through this recession as best we can. The key is we have to continue working. If we do not do all we can to move forward now, we will pay dearly later when we have to try to catch up.

Our readers’ views Defends positions from previous submission To the editor: This letter is in response to Bricen Hoyle’s. He evidently did not understand that I personally called about the process of enrolling a student at TJCA and was told by a staff member that the student would have to go through an “interview process.”

I retrieved my information from the staff member whom I spoke with on the telephone at TJCA. My impression of TJCA’s status cannot be wrong since it is my opinion, and I am entitled to that opinion. Furthermore, just because articles have been written and information has been posted on a web site does not make it so.

To reiterate what I said previously, I do question TJCA’s public status. I will give three more examples.

First, those students who rely on bus service cannot go to TJCA unless they meet at a central location and pay a fee that is close to $100 per month.

Logically, those at an economic disadvantage are more affected by this than those that are not.

Second, TJCA does not offer programs like Head Start, More at Four and Smart Start. Is that because they don’t want to attract the students that are eligible for those types of programs? If not, then why aren’t they offered?

Third, TJCA just recently began offering free/reduced lunch. Is TJCA a Title I school? If not, that would substantiate my presumption about the socioeconomic percentages at each school.

I need to make a few other things clear. I do respect everyone’s choice as to which school they attend. I have no qualms about TJCA’s program. My argument has nothing to do with who attends TJCA or why.

I never said that all students that attend TJCA are rich.

In short, I said that I believe there is a smaller percentage of socioeconomically disadvantaged students who attend TJCA than the traditional public schools in this county. These disadvantaged children will be the ones to suffer most if the programs are eliminated.

Another clarification is that TJCA does indeed receive more money per student than the other county schools because they receive grants and other funds from sources other than Rutherford County Schools (which they do not share).

If TJCA administrators believe they are entitled to the grants and special program funds that are received, then two things should happen, respectively: they should apply for those grants through Rutherford County Schools and receive their 7 percent of those grants awarded and offer the special programs for which they receive funds.

It would be illegal for Rutherford County Schools to give funds to TJCA that are specifically reserved for special programs if TJCA does not offer the programs. This is a no-brainer.

Another major point that I think has been missed throughout these arguments is how expensive this lawsuit is going to be.

I would estimate this into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Is anyone thinking of the amount of money that will be handed to attorneys that should be going toward our childrens’ education?

Bricen stated that he is not aware of the details of the lawsuit. Yet, he wants others to do their homework. Well, I have done my homework and feel I have a pretty clear understanding of this lawsuit.

Betsy Lane Rutherfordton

Cheers choice for school superintendent To the editor: I should like to congratulate our Rutherford County Board of Education on its choice for our “new” Superintendent.

Janet Mason has proved her unusual knowledge of Education and leading people skills at all levels of the field. I have heard a number of folks, including many teachers say how glad they were that we now had someone “local” to lead our endeavors.

I remind you that we have had superintendents both local and from out of the county that have done well; some better than others in my opinion.

I believe it to be an insult to Ms. Mason to even insinuate that she was appointed because she was a lady born and reared in Rutherford County.

Her appointment came because her application was the best received. The fact that she was local is fine if that suits your fancy.

Lets all support our children by supporting all the adults who work with them, keeping in mind some may have to have some career counseling who cannot do the job required.

Ray Crawford Rutherfordton

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N.C. Republicans hopeful, but it’s still very early RALEIGH — Republican political activists see another 1994 about to unfold before their collective eyes.

They don’t want to miss out. So they’re filing for political office in droves.

With election filing in North Carolina just closed, 48 Republicans have filed to run in the 13 congressional districts in the state.

In all 50 state Senate districts, even those overwhelmingly populated by Democratic voters, at least one Republican will be on the ballot come November.

Another round of change, or Obama backlash, would seem to be in the air. Better jump on board.

Sixteen years ago, the crush of electoral change surprised winning GOP challengers nearly as much

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as losing Democratic incumbents.

The result was an historic change in the North Carolina legislature, with Republicans gaining control of the state House for the first time since Reconstruction.

Veteran Democratic congressmen, including David Price of North Carolina’s 4th District, were ousted by political novices. The wave of anti-incumbency filtered all the way down to local races, some not even partisan, as longtime county commissioners and town council

members were left speechless by unexpected losses.

Surely a repeat is just around the corner. GOP officials expect as much.

“Republicans are galvanized and they sense a historic opportunity,” state Republican Party chairman Tom Fetzer said as election filing closed last Friday.

Fetzer and his friends may end up disappointed.

It’s easy to get caught up in the parallels to 1994. Just as then, a first-term Democrat sits in the White House and it’s a non-presidential election year. Just as then, this president has waded into domestic Vietnam -- health care reform.

It’s not quite as easy to delve into what could turn out to be significant differences.

Among the most glaring differences is that the financial collapse of 2008 is still fresh in the minds of voters.

People who’ve seen a third of their retirement savings disappear, who believe that Wall Street and its investment conjurers haven’t been adequately punished for their sins, who still want a pound of flesh, may represent more than a predictable wave of anti-incumbency.

In the aftermath of that financial collapse, people don’t just distrust politicians.

They distrust institutions of authority, period.

Meanwhile, polls continue to show Barack Obama viewed favorably by about 50 percent of the state’s electorate.

His numbers are a lot better than Congress, an insti-

tution of which less than 20 percent of voters express satisfaction.

A more cynical voter and a Democratic president who retains some popularity doesn’t mean that Republicans won’t enjoy some gains come November.

It is a mid-term election, and a Democratic majority in the state Senate is clearly in jeopardy as longtime Democratic incumbents retire in several swing districts.

But predicting exactly how the volatility of the angry voter of 2010 plays out is beyond anyone’s crystal ball.

That anger may skewer some who today believe that they’ll be its beneficiary.

Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Assoiation.

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Obituaries James Self

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Hennis jury being picked Sgt. Timothy Hennis. He was convicted on state charges that he killed Kathryn Eastburn and two of her children in 1985. He was later acquitted in a new trial ordered by an appeals court.

Eastburn had been raped and all three had been stabbed repeatedly in their

Fayetteville home a few days after Hennis adopted the family dog.

The Army forced Hennis back into uniform in 2006 to face a court-martial in the case after civilian investigators reported that DNA testing linked him to the crime.

Former state House Speaker set to get of prison next year

RALEIGH (AP) — Former North Carolina House Speaker Jim Black has gotten a year knocked off his federal prison sentence, likely after completing a substance abuse program while behind bars for a corruption-related conviction, his attorney said Tuesday.

Black’s projected release date is now March 31, 2011, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons Web site — exactly one year less than what was calculated when he received a 63-month prison sentence in 2007 after pleading guilty to a federal felony charge.

Black, who turns 75 later this month, also could leave prison for house arrest three months before the listed date.

A bureau official in Washington couldn’t discuss Black’s case, citing privacy issues. But Black’s attorney, Jim Craven of Durham, said he’s confident the earlier release is related to Black’s completion of a 500-hour program designed to help people with drug or alcohol problems.

“That’s got to be what it is,” Craven said. “That’s bound to be the answer.”

After pleading guilty to

taking thousands of dollars from chiropractors while pushing their agenda at the Legislature, Black asked through his attorneys for a federal judge to recommend alcohol treatment while he was incarcerated. The judge also had ordered Black to abstain from alcohol before sentencing.

Some prisoners who complete a substance abuse treatment program in prison may be released up to one year earlier, said prison bureau spokesman Edmond Ross.

Ross, who wasn’t commenting about Black’s case in particular, said there are other ways prisoners can get time off their sentence.

Craven hasn’t talked to Black recently but keeps up through written correspondence and said the Mecklenburg County Democrat — once one of the state’s most powerful politicians — isn’t doing very well at a federal prison in Jesup, Ga. Craven said Black’s wife has Lou Gehrig’s disease and is now being fed through a tube. Craven asked the Obama administration last year to commute Black’s sentence so he can help care for

Police Notes Sheriff’s Department

n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department responded to 113 E-911 calls Monday. n Michael Drew Jones reported an aggravated assault and larceny of a telephone, valued at $50. n Jack Daniel Padgett reported larceny of an angle, stainless steel vat, claw foot tub, cast-iron tub, metal grate, scaffolding, mobile home axles and an antique stove parts, valued at $2,100.

E-911 calls Monday. n William Jackson reported an incident of breaking and entering and larceny. n An employee of Townsend Tree Service, reported two incidents of breaking into an auto and larceny from same.

The incident occurred on Commercial Drive in Forest City. n Vestennia Lowrance reported an incident of breaking and entering and larceny after breaking and entering.

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n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 37 E-911 calls Monday.

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n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to six E-911 calls Monday.

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n The Spindale Police Department responded to 36 E-911 calls Monday.

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n The Forest City Police Department responded to 45

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Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis leaves the Terry Sanford Federal Building and Courthouse after a federal hearing in Raleigh Friday. Hennis was convicted in 1986 on state charges that he killed Kathryn Eastburn and two of her children. He was later acquitted in a new trial ordered by an appeals court.

Hennis is now facing court martial on the charges after the military forced him back into the Army.

FORT BRAGG (AP) — Jury selection has begun in North Carolina in the court-martial of a retired soldier forced back into the Army to face charges in a triple slaying from a quarter-century ago.

Jury selection began shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday at Fort Bragg in the case of Master

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n Jerome Hill, 50, of Highview Street in Forest City was cited for seconddegree trespassing. The incident occurred on South Church Street. He received a written promise to appear. n Juneitha Quarles, 48, of South Church Street in Forest City was cited for aid and abet second-degree trespassing. The incident occurred on South Church Street. She received a written promise to appear.

Arrests n Adam Michael Stewart,

James Monroe Self, 59, of 1480 Clarence Beam Road, Cherryville, died Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, at Carolinas Medical Center-Lincoln.

A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Enoch Self and Bessie Ellion Lail Self.

He worked 36 years at Shuford Yarns in Longview.

He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Ola Ruth Davidson Self; two sons, Danny Self of Lincolnton and Steven Self of Horner, W. Va.; a granddaughter; four brothers, Harold Self of Vale, Clarence Self of Lawndale, David Self and Sam Self both of Bostic; five sisters, Lula Mae Hudson of Gainesville, Ga., Josephine Ledford of Vale, Mary Sue Hunt of Bostic, Ella Hurdt of Ellenboro and Martha Ann Hamrick of Shelby; and a number of nieces of nephews.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Stamey Funeral Home Chapel, Fallston.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Stamey Funeral Home; burial will follow in the David’s Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery.

A guest register is available at www.stameyfuneralhome.com

Margaret Lee Hayden

Margaret Lee Hayden, 72, of Forest City, died Monday, March 1, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital.

A native of Rutherford her. Craven said that request County, she was a daughter of the late Lonnie and is still pending.

“If they ever see each other Virginia Miller Hayden.

She attended St. John’s again in this life, it will only be unless the president sends Church and was a retired him home,” Craven said. The clerical worker.

She is survived by three Bureau of Prisons moved sons, Dean Scaturro and Black from a Pennsylvania Van Scaturro of Forest City, prison last year. and Anthony Scaturro of Black, who led the House Connecticut; one daughfor eight years as speaker or ter, Donna Scaturro of co-speaker, also entered an Richmond, Va.,; three Alford plea to state charges of bribery and obstruction of brothers, Billy Jackson justice a week after his feder- of Brooklyn, N.Y., Robert al plea in February 2007. The Hayden and Joe Hayden of Alford plea allowed Black to Detroit, Mich.; and one sister Frances Allen of Detroit; acknowledge that the state’s three grandchildren; and evidence could result in his conviction without having to three great grandchildren.

No services are planned at admit any guilt. this time.

State prosecutors accused Black of giving former Online condolences at www. state Rep. Michael Decker, crowemortuary.com R-Forsyth, as much as $58,000 in cash and campaign contributions to switch Patricia Gannon parties in 2003, a move Patricia Lynn Gannon, 66, that helped Black remain of Forest City, died Monday, co-speaker. Black repeatMarch 1, 2010, at her home. edly denied that he bribed She was a native of Chicago.

Decker.

She was retired from Black also satisfied a $1 Mastercraft after 30 years. million fine in state court.

She is survived by her An 11- to 14-month state husband, Michael Gannon; prison sentence currently one daughter, Christie running simultaneously with Ford of Sarasota, Fla.; one the federal sentence will son, Matthew Gannon of expire later this year.

Asheville; and one brother, Jeffrey Freitag.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Rutherfordton Presbyterian Church with the funeral ser19, of 218 Sparks Road; vice to follow at 2 p.m. with charged with two counts Dr. Don Scofield officiating. conspiring to traffic in Private interment will be at cocaine and common law Piedmont Baptist Cemetery. misdemeanor aid and abet; Arrangements are being placed under a $60,000 handled by McMahan’s secured bond. (MCSD) Funeral Home & Cremation Services. n Tuan Logan, 31, of 332 Laurel Hill Drive; charged Online condolences may be made with driving while impaired, at www.mcmahansfuneralhome. driving while license com revoked, fictitious info to an officer and rear lamps viola- George McKinney tion; placed under a $2,500 George F. McKinney, 60, of secured bond. (RCSD) 289 Abrams & Moore Road, Rutherfordton, died at the EMS/Rescue Brian Center in Weaverville, n Rutherford County EMS March 2, 2010. responded to 26 E-911 calls Funeral arrangements Monday. are incomplete and will be announced later by the n The Volunteer Life Thompson Mortuary, Inc. Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to six E-911 calls Monday.

John Rayfield BELMONT, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina state Fire Calls Rep. John Rayfield has died n Cliffside, Ellenboro and Sandy Mush responded to an at age 84.

Rayfield’s daughter, Andrea electrical fire.

Franklin, said her father n Hudlow responded to an died early Monday at the industrial fire alarm.

Covenant Village retirement n Rutherfordton responded center in Gastonia from conto a powerline fire.

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gestive heart failure.

Rayfield was a Republican who served six terms in the House before choosing not to run in 2006 after some health problems.

Rayfield was a World War II veteran who worked at Homelite Textron for 33 years. He was elected to the Legislature in 1994 and represented eastern Gaston County. He was once chairman of the county Republican Party.

Other survivors include his wife of 65 years, Jacqueline, and two stepgrandchildren.

Katherine Brown AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The mother of Texas Longhorns football coach Mack Brown has died after battling pancreatic cancer.

University of Texas officials say Katherine Brown was 82 when she died Sunday in Cookeville, Tenn.

Greg Rita JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Greg Rita, the caddie for Curtis Strange when he won successive U.S. Open titles and for John Daly when he won the British Open, has died of brain cancer.

Rita’s wife, Kelley, said he died Saturday on his 54th birthday at McGraw Hospice Center.

Rita caddied over four decades on the PGA Tour for players that included Gil Morgan, Scott Hoch, David Duval and Mark O’Meara.

Rita made his mark working for Strange in the 1980s when he won the U.S. Open in 1988 and 1989, making Strange the first repeat winner in nearly 40 years. He also was on the bag at St. Andrews in 1995 when Daly won his second major.

Rita collapsed at a Champions Tour event in September 2007, and had surgery to remove a brain tumor two months later. He is survived by his wife and a 4-year-old son, Nicolas.

Fernando Rossi CLIFTON, New Jersey (AP) — Fernando Rossi, the father of Italy striker Giuseppe Rossi, has died. He was 60.

Rossi died last week, according to the Deluccia Locito Funeral Home. No cause of death was given.

Rossi was a successful football coach at New Jersey’s Clifton High School and won more than 300 games over 23 seasons.

His son, Giuseppe Rossi, grew up in northern New Jersey and moved to Italy as a teenager. Now 23, he plays for Villarreal in Spain and has three goals in 14 games for Italy’s national team.

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Calendar/Local READING IN CLASS

Red Cross Blood drives schedule: March 6 — Goodes Creek Baptist Church, Mooresboro, 7:30 a.m. to noon, call 245-3513 for an appointment; March 12 — Rutherford Hospital, noon to 5 p.m., call 286-5338 for an appointment; March 13 — Cliffside Masonic Lodge, Cliffside, 7:30 a.m. to noon, call 245-7606 for an appointment.

March 22 — Red Cross Chapter, Forest City, 2 to 6:30 p.m., call 2875916 Class schedule: Free Adult CPR — March 13, 9 a.m. until noon, ICC gymnasium Adult CPR — March 15, begins at 6 p.m.

Child and Infant CPR — March 16, begins at 6 p.m.

First Aid — March 20, begins at 8:30 a.m., Preventing Disease Transmission All classes must be paid in advance.

Call 287-5916 for further information.

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NSDAR Chapter meeting: Griffith Rutherford NSDAR Chapter will meet Wednesday, March 3, at the county annex. The meeting begins at 3 p.m. A program will be presented about Crossnore School.

Preschool students in Debbie Sersland’s class at Forest City-Dunbar have been reading the works of Dr. Seuss this week in honor of Seuss’ birthday. On Tuesday students wore crazy hats and read “The Cat in the Hat.” Other activities will include wearing wacky things for reading “Wacky Wednesday,” wearing red and blue for “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” and wearing gray for “Horton Hears a Who.” Theodor Seuss Geisel was born March 2, 1904.

Public meeting: Consumer & Family Advisory Committee; to learn about the Medicaid waiver for mental health, substance abuse and developmental disabilities; Wednesday, March 3, 5:30 p.m., Western Highlands office, 356 Biltmore Ave., Asheville; for more information call 800-951-3792.

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Mobile Food Truck: For those in need on Thursday, March 4, at Providence United Methodist Church, Providence Church Road in the Chase Middle School community, beginning at 9:30 a.m., until the food is gone. Bring laundry basket or box, and a valid driver’s license.

County Convention: The Rutherford County Convention will be Saturday, March 6, at the county annex; registration begins at 8:30 a.m.; Precinct organizational meetings at 9 a.m.; Convention 10 a.m.; all registered republicans are encouraged to participate.

Lincoln Day dinner: The Rutherford County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner will also be Saturday, March 6, at the Rutherfordton Clubhouse, beginning at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $25. Guest speaker, Tom Fetzer, NC GOP State Chairman.

Carolina Nature Photographers Association, Foothill Region, Rutherford County, will meet Monday, March 8, at the county annex Building at 6:30 p.m. For more information call 429-5096.

Sports recognition program: Chase High Athletic Boosters will hold its winter sports banquet Monday, March 8. Refreshments 6:30 p.m., awards program at 7 p.m., in the auditorium.

Miscellaneous 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.

Preschool registration: The kindergarten preschool of First United Methodist Church, 341 East Main St., Forest City, is now taking fall registration for ages 2-5. Limited openings. Contact Preschool Director Jill Smith at 245-6446, or drop by the church office.

Fall registration: The Tot Learning Center at First United Methodist Church, Rutherfordton, will begin registration for fall classes on March 1. Contact Cathy Watson at 287-3704 for more information.

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“We’re doing good,” Hodge said.

“We’ve had no problems and everyone is almost home. We’ve got a few more out there (buses) but there have been no problems.”

Since schools operated until lunchtime, the day was counted for attendance of the 180 day state mandated school year.

Whether or not school was to be closed Wednesday depended on the range of temperatures after the snow stopped falling and the condition of roads, Hodge said. If Rutherford County Schools are closed today, students will make the lost day up Saturday.

Schools were scheduled to attend only for one-half day Wednesday with

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After listing many details of the county’s current debt load and specifying the debt related to the school’s technology purchases, Naskov proposed privatization as an alternative.

“Somehow, we are supposed to believe that all (this spending) will not result in new tax increases,” Naskov said. “Some of the commissioners might ask what a solution might be. One, stop spending money.

Bingo: Friday, March 5, 6 to 9 p.m., at the Spindale House; $1 per card; sponsored by the ‘98 Rutherford Rumble Team.

Relay for Life fundraiser: March 5 and 6, at Rutherford Internal Medicine; Friday from 6 to 8 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon; wedding dresses and formal gowns (new and used) on sale.

Benefit singing: Saturday, March 6, 7 p.m., Isothermal Community College, library auditorium; sponsored by REaCH students Shelley Stacy and Carina Escalera as part of their senior project; proceeds for Terry Griffin (kidney transplant patient) and children’s kidney research.

and roads close to the Henderson County line.

Chimney Rock State Park was closed for the day.

Just a bit toward the east, at the Lake Lure Fire Department, Wendy Craig said there had been no problems on the roads up to 2 p.m.

Rutherford/Polk Smart Start cancelled its regular monthly business meeting scheduled Tuesday at noon and the meeting of the Rutherford County Schools Board of Education was cancelled Tuesday night. Both boards will hold its March meetings next Tuesday.

Two, privatize services which end up causing everyone in the county to pay for expenses incurred by just a few.

Rutherford County Schools can live without electronic whiteboards if that keeps us out of debt and away from increased taxes.

Condrey said the county estimates on when the loan would be paid back were very conservative and the projected deficit in the fund might not be quite as large as expected.

Commissioners also approved three new water line extensions.

Broad River Water Authority will build a new line on Big Island Road

and Plantation Drive. Cleveland County Water District will build a Dobbinsville Extension that includes Holtzclaw group home.

Isothermal Community College closed at 5 p.m., cancelling evening and night classes Tuesday.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.

The board approved a new contract with auditors Gould Killian for the next three years. Commissioners also encouraged the public to visit https:// www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi to help promote Rutherford County as a test site for Google’s high speed fiber optic Internet service.

Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@thedigitalcourier.com.

ICC offers class on utility management SPINDALE – If your last few power bills have sent you into shock, Isothermal Community College can help.

On March 16 and 18, the college’s continuing education department will offer the course “Residential Energy Savings and Utility Management” from 6 to 8 p.m. The four-hour course provides tips on how to read and understand the information on our utility bills, the North Carolina Energy Code and energy-related products for new construction and retrofitting an existing home.

“The course explains the ways of saving not only on your power bill, but water, sewer and gas,” said Karen Marshall, Lifelong Learning coordinator for the college. “Part of what will be covered is understanding how your utilities are billed and the significance of the Star ratings.”

Course instructor is Jason Ruff, assistant director of inspections for Rutherford County. Ruff holds a degree from Western Carolina University in Engineering Technology, where he graduated magna cum laude. In addition, he has several state

level certifications pertaining to the construction trade, including whole house weatherization. Ruff also holds a General Contractor’s License.

The course is limited to 25 participants and costs $35. Marshall said it is one the college would like to continue to offer.

“I think there is something for everyone in it,” she said.

To register, contact the continuing education department at 386-3636, ext. 346 or drop by the department on the lower level of The Foundation building.

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Preschool registration: Crestview Baptist Church Preschool is now accepting students for the 2010-11 school year. Ages 2 1/2 to 4 1/2, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call 245-1924 for more information.

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staff development the remainder of the day. If school was closed, students will go one-half day Saturday with staff development Saturday afternoon.

Matt Taylor, maintenance director for DOT in Spindale, said at 1:45 p.m. there had been no problems with snow sticking on primary or secondary roads.

“Temperatures have held up pretty well,” he said.

To prepare for the fourth winter snowfall, Taylor said the DOT trucks sprayed salt and brine on all the roads Monday. “And we put spreaders and plows on the trucks and got them ready and also serviced any equipment that needed it and repaired anything else before the storm,” he said.

In western Rutherford County, Chimney Rock Village was receiving heavy snow at 2 p.m. and it was beginning to stick on some driveways

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Hanging In The Balance Boykins, Gray invited to Carolina Challenge FOREST CITY — East Rutherford junior guard Devince Boykins and sophomore guard Rob Gray were selected to participate in 2010 Dave Telep Carolina Challenge at Cary Academy on March 27.

Telep is a national recruiting analyst for Scouts.com and annually invites the state’s top underclassmen for a day of play and evaluation.

Hurricanes activate LaRose from IR RALEIGH (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have activated forward Chad LaRose from injured reserve and say he is eligible to skate in Tuesday night’s game at Toronto.

LaRose missed seven games with an upper body injury. He has three goals and six assists in 35 games and also missed 17 games in December and January with a lower body injury.

Iowa jury convicts man in coach killing ALLISON, Iowa (AP) — A jury found an Iowa man guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder in the shooting of a nationally known high school football coach.

It took the jury 24 hours over four days to reach its decision, finding Mark Becker, 24, guilty in the June 24, 2009, killing of Aplington-Parkersburg coach Ed Thomas.

Becker gunned down Thomas, 58, in the school’s makeshift weight room in front of students, shooting him at least six times before walking away. Becker told police that Thomas was Satan and that the coach had been tormenting him.

Maryland-based psychiatrist Michael Spodak, hired by the prosecution, agreed Becker suffered from severe mental problems, including paranoid schizophrenia, but said he still understood right and wrong.

The shooting was especially shocking to Parkersburg residents because Thomas was known both for producing winning teams and for leading the community.

He amassed a 292-84 record and two state titles in 37 seasons as a head coach — 34 of them at Aplington-Parkersburg — and coached four players who have played in the NFL. He also was a leader in rebuilding Parkersburg after nearly one-third of the 1,800-person town was wiped out in May 2008 by a tornado that killed six people.

Local Sports GIRLS SOCCER 6 p.m. East Burke at Chase 6 p.m. West Henderson at R-S Central Subject to change, due to weather.

On TV 2:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Soccer Netherlands vs. United States.

7 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball Connecticut at Notre Dame.

7 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball Wake Forest at Florida State.

7 p.m. (TS) NBA Basketball Philadelphia 76ers at Atlanta Hawks.

9 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball Duke at Maryland.

9 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball Oklahoma State at Texas A&M.

Associated Press

Maryland’s Grievis Vasquez hits a 3-pointer during an NCAA college basketball game against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., in this Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010, file photo.

Duke, Maryland meet again; title on line COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — When Maryland’s 2009-2010 basketball schedule came out, forward Landon Milbourne quickly checked to see when the Terrapins were hosting Duke.

The game against the Blue Devils is always the most anticipated matchup on Maryland’s home schedule. This season, however, it’s far more important than most.

Soon after the fans in the sold-out Comcast Center salute departing

seniors Milbourne, Greivis Vasquez and Eric Hayes on Wednesday night, the 22nd-ranked Terps will turn their attention toward avenging an earlier loss to No. 4 Duke and gaining a share of first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

“In the beginning of year, when I looked at the schedule and saw Duke on Senior Night, I got pretty excited,” Milbourne said Tuesday. “Now, it’s even bigger because we’re fighting for the regular-season title. We’ve been

trying to get this chance since I’ve been here, and it’s finally here.”

Picked by the ACC media to finish in fifth place, Maryland (21-7, 11-3) has already clinched second. The Terrapins have won five straight and are 14-1 at home, but they’ve dropped six in a row to Duke — including a 77-56 defeat on Feb. 13.

Maryland hasn’t lost since.

“Sometimes you need a little knock Please see Duke, Page 8A

’Canes win in return to ice

Associated Press

Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere, left, makes a save as teammate Tyler Bozak, center, and Carolina Hurricanes’ Brandon Sutter skate in during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto on Tuesday.

TORONTO (AP) — Chad LaRose had a goal and two assists, Justin Peters stopped 32 shots and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-1 Tuesday night in the teams’ first game since the break for the Vancouver Olympics.

Tuomo Ruutu, Brandon Sutter, Jussi Jokinen and Sergei Samsonov also scored for the Hurricanes, and Joni Pitkanen had two assists.

LaRose returned to the lineup after missing the previous seven games before the break due to injury, and Peters was making just his third NHL start. He stopped every shot the Leafs threw his way until John Mitchell finally broke the shutout bid with just 5 minutes left.

Youth will be served as Tipton takes reins In the summer of 2009, Brian White stepped away from the head coaching job at Chase High and the Trojans quickly tapped White’s assistant coach Matt Tipton to take the reins.

Tipton is certainly no stranger to Rutherford County baseball.

“My last year at East Rutherford was 2001, which was the last year they played in the 3A,” said Tipton. “After that they moved to 2A and won a slew of state titles.”

Tipton, 27, played college ball, first at Montreat and then at Belmont Abbey. It was at Belmont Abbey that Tipton earned his degree. Upon graduation, he returned home to teach civics and world history at Chase, in addition to working as a baseball coach.

This year will mark Tipton’s first as a head baseball coach and the challenges became clear right away.

“There is a lot more that you are personally responsible for, whereas before I might help out on this or that,” Tipton said. “Now, it’s up to me to take care of the field, or set up the schedule.”

Setting up the 2010 schedule for the Trojans is an important task. In

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2009, the Trojans captured their only Southwestern 3A/2A Conference title and five of the teams, including Chase, from that conference made the switch this season to the new 3A/2A South Mountain Athletic Conference.

“There will be some teams gunning for us,” admitted Tipton.

That is a unique position for the Trojans to be and one that is not lost on the history teacher inside of Tipton.

“It makes a difference,” said Tipton.

“Whether you see a team’s number one pitcher or their number three guy.

We have to get our kids to be focused on every play, of every game, and to understand that bad things will happen, but how you handle those things matter.

“Look as a coach, yeah, I think we will win every game. I want to win

every game. But, as a coach, you know you have to be prepared for those nights, or that stretch where say you lose two in a row. How do we, as a team, handle that? We are going to learn that about ourselves.”

Tipton will take over for a team that will also be minus its’ top three hitters from a season ago, due to graduation.

It will be incumbent, according to Tipton, for a core of players to quickly pick up that slack and become leaders.

“There are three or four who are going to have to lead — by actions or by words,” said Tipton. “We need Robert (Johnson), Brandon (Holland), and Cameron Wilkins to all play big roles for us.

“And, Jay Turner may be the kind of guy who will be more of a leader due to his actions on the field than anything he might say or not say in the dugout.”

Tipton also referenced his catcher, sophomore Dakota Whitaker as being a young man who will play a pivotal role.

The 2010 Prep Baseball season is going to be one to watch for a variety

Please see Tipton, Page 8A

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Scoreboard San Antonio Houston New Orleans Memphis

34 24 .586 30 29 .508 31 30 .508 30 30 .500 Northwest Division

W L Pct Denver 39 21 .650 Utah 38 22 .633 Oklahoma City 35 23 .603 Portland 36 27 .571 Minnesota 14 47 .230 Pacific Division

W L Pct L.A. Lakers 45 15 .750 Phoenix 38 24 .613 L.A. Clippers 25 35 .417 Sacramento 20 39 .339 Golden State 17 41 .293

BASEBALL Spring Training Glance AMERICAN LEAGUE

W L Baltimore 0 0 Boston 0 0 Chicago 0 0 Cleveland 0 0 Detroit 0 0 Kansas City 0 0 Los Angeles 0 0 Minnesota 0 0 New York 0 0 Oakland 0 0 Seattle 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 Texas 0 0 Toronto 0 0

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W L Pct New York 1 0 1.000 Arizona 0 0 Chicago 0 0 Cincinnati 0 0 Colorado 0 0 Florida 0 0 Houston 0 0 Los Angeles 0 0 Milwaukee 0 0 Philadelphia 0 0 Pittsburgh 0 0 San Diego 0 0 San Francisco 0 0 St. Louis 0 0 Washington 0 0 Atlanta 0 1 .000

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Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox watches his team during spring training baseball practice in this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, file photo in Kissimmee, Fla. Cox coached his first pre-season game of 2010 on Tuesday.

Atlanta lost 4-2 to the New York Mets.

Play Ball!

Mets down Braves in first spring game

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — Tommy Hanson threw two scoreless innings for Atlanta, but the New York Mets spoiled the last spring training opener for Braves manager Bobby Cox with a 4-2 victory Tuesday.

Jason Pridie, Jesus Feliciano and Ruben Tejada each drove in a run in the fifth inning for New York. The Mets scratched Jose Reyes and all of their regulars from the lineup when morning showers drenched the field.

Hanson allowed a leadoff single to Feliciano before retiring six straight batters. The right-hander went 11-4 with a 2.89 ERA last year as a rookie.

Cox has said he’s going to retire after this season.

He had to enjoy watching top Atlanta prospect Jason Heyward in this year’s major league spring opener. Heyward walked twice and singled.

NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 2 Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay vs Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Detroit vs Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Toronto vs Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Washington (ss) vs Florida at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore vs Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Washington (ss) vs Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

St. Louis vs N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 1:10 p.m.

Milwaukee vs San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Oakland vs Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Colorado vs Arizona at Tucson, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 5:05 p.m.

Minnesota vs Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 7:05 p.m.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct 36 21 .632 31 28 .525 22 37 .373 20 39 .339 6 53 .102 Southeast Division

W L Pct Orlando 41 20 .672 Atlanta 38 21 .644 Miami 29 31 .483 Charlotte 28 30 .483 Washington 21 36 .368 Central Division

W L Pct Cleveland 47 14 .770 Chicago 31 29 .517 Milwaukee 30 29 .508 Detroit 21 38 .356 Indiana 20 39 .339

GB — 15 1/2 16 25 26

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Monday’s Games Dallas 89, Charlotte 84 Cleveland 124, New York 93 Orlando 126, Philadelphia 105 Atlanta 116, Chicago 92 Portland 103, Memphis 93 San Antonio 106, New Orleans 92 Houston 116, Toronto 92 Phoenix 101, Denver 85 L.A. Clippers 108, Utah 104 Tuesday’s Games Boston 105, Detroit 100 Miami 110, Golden State 106 Sacramento at Oklahoma City, late Indiana at L.A. Lakers, late Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Cleveland at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Memphis at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Denver, 9 p.m.

Indiana at Portland, 10 p.m.

Phoenix at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Memphis at Chicago, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Miami, 8 p.m.

Utah at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS Tuesday’s Sports Transactions

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 62 29 21 12 70 162 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 62 35 21 6 76 180 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

GA 144 179 160 169 194 GA 179 152 154 176 208 GA 177 182 194 177 194 GA 146 173 166 172 203 GA 152 161 156 178 211 GA 153 158 166 186 189

Monday’s Games Detroit 3, Colorado 2 Tuesday’s Games Montreal 4, Boston 1 N.Y. Islanders 5, Chicago 3 Atlanta 4, Florida 2 Vancouver 4, Columbus 3, OT Carolina 5, Toronto 1 N.Y. Rangers at Ottawa, late

No. 1 Orange Duke closes in on Continued from Page 7A the head to wake you up,” said Big East title on Milbourne, the team’s second-lead-

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Fifth-year UNC’s Roy Williams. seniors Andy Rautins and Arinze Onuaku made their final home game at Syracuse one to remember, combining for 35 points and the Orange beat St. John’s CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Deon Thompson scored 85-66 on Tuesday night 14 points in his final home game to help North in their first game in Carolina hold off Miami 69-62 on Tuesday night two decades as the No. 1 and become just the second team in NCAA history team in the nation. with 2,000 victories.

Syracuse (28-2, 15-2 Fellow senior Marcus Ginyard added 12 points Big East) beat No. 9 as the Tar Heels (16-14, 5-10 Atlantic Coast Villanova 95-77 on Conference) won consecutive games for the first Saturday night before time in 2010. Coming off a surprise win at Wake an NCAA record onForest, North Carolina got off to a fast start campus crowd of 34,616 against the Hurricanes, then used a 13-0 first-half to move from No. 4 to run to go ahead for good. the top spot on Monday.

Hitting the 2,000-win mark provided an achieve- It was the first time the ment in an otherwise frustrating centennial seaOrange were there since son for North Carolina, though Kentucky already a six-week stint in 1989reached that milestone in December. No. 2 Kansas 90 and they apparently has 1,997 victories heading into Wednesday’s game like the view. against No. 5 Kansas State.

They close the reguThe Hurricanes (18-11, 4-11) made the Tar Heels lar season on Saturday work for it, cutting an 18-point deficit to one in the at Louisville looking to final 3 1/2 minutes. finish 9-0 on the road.

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“That’s pretty much what that loss did.”

The Terrapins’ chances of winning depend heavily on Vasquez, who scored a career-high 41 points Saturday in a 104-100 double-overtime win over Virginia Tech. Vasquez will probably feel a mixture of emotions during the ceremony before his final home game, but he knows the night is really only about one thing.

“It means a lot to me because I want to win. Obviously we want to beat Duke,” he said. “It’s about winning. It’s not about anything else.”

It’s all there for the Terrapins: A chance to honor their three hardworking seniors, end their skid against the hated Blue Devils and step into first place in one of the nation’s most prestigious basketball conferences.

“This is a dream,” Vasquez said.

“We’re just so excited. We don’t have the pressure that we had in years past, that we have to make the tournament, we’re on the bubble. We just want to have fun. There’s no pressure. We’re playing against a great team, and we’re becoming close to being great.”

Duke (25-4, 12-2) knows what to

Tipton Saturday, March 6th

Buffalo at Pittsburgh, late Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, late Edmonton at Nashville, late Los Angeles at Dallas, late St. Louis at Phoenix, late New Jersey at San Jose, late Wednesday’s Games Washington at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Calgary, 10 p.m.

Colorado at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Toronto at Boston, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at Carolina, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Nashville, 8 p.m.

St. Louis at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Colorado at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Montreal at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS—Agreed to terms with RHP Alfredo Figaro, RHP Armando Galarraga, RHP Ryan Perry, LHP Fu-Te Ni, LHP Daniel Schlereth, INF Don Kelly, OF Ryan Raburn and OF Clete Thomas on one-year contracts.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Agreed to terms with RHP Luke Hochevar and RHP Carlos Rosa on one-year contracts.

National League FLORIDA MARLINS—Agreed to terms with C John Baker, RHP Chris Leroux, OF Cameron Maybin and OF Chris Coghlan on one-year contracts. Renewed the contracts of LHP Andrew Miller and OF Brett Carroll.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Agreed to terms with RHP Ramon Aguero, RHP Daniel McCutchen, RHP Jose Ascanio, RHP Evan Meek, 1B Jeff Clement, OF Lastings Milledge, SS Argenis Diaz, RHP Bryan Morris, RHP Joel Hanrahan, RHP Charlie Morton, RHP Kevin Hart, C Brandon Moss, OF Gorkys Hernandez, RHP Ross Ohlendorf, RHP Chris Jakubauskas, 1B Steve Pearce, C Jason Jaramillo, OF John Raynor, OF Brandon Jones, OF Jose Tabata, OF Garrett Jones, RHP Ronald Uviedo, 3B Andy LaRoche, LHP Donnie Veal, RHP Brad Lincoln, 3B Neil Walker, OF Andrew McCutchen and OF Delwyn Young on one-year contracts.

American Association EL PASO DIABLOS—Released RHP Johnny Dillard.

SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CAPTAINS—Signed C Brian Peterson and OF Bryan Frichter.

WICHITA WINGNUTS—Traded OF Greg Porter, RHP Joe DAlessandro, RHP Greg Johnson and cash to Grand Prairie for OF Jarred Ball and RHP Nick Singleton.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS—Announced the contract of INF Myron Leslie has been purchased by New York (AL). Acquired 1B-OF Matt Stiffler from Florence (Frontier) for future considerations.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA—Suspended Sacramento F Andres Nocioni for two games after pleading no contest in California to drunken driving.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS—Announced G Allen Iverson will not return to the team this season.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ATLANTA THRASHERS—Signed D Chris Chelios and assigned to Chicago (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Activated C John Madden from injured reserve.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS—Activated RW David Clarkson off of the injured reserve list.

OTTAWA SENATORS—Acquired D Andy Sutton from the New York Islanders for a 2010 secondround draft pick.

PHOENIX COYOTES—Re-assigned D David Schlemko to San Antonio (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Recalled RW Brandon Bochenski from Norfolk (AHL).

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS—Traded D Brett Westgarth to Worcester Sharks for future considerations.

SYRACUSE CRUNCH—Traded C Mike Radja to Bridgeport for future considerations.

COLLEGE CENTRAL ARKANSAS—Announced the resignation of quarterbacks coach Zak Clark resigned.

Named Nathan Brown quarterbacks coach.

SAM HOUSTON STATE—Named Bob DeBesse offensive coordinator, Johnny Jernigan defensive line coach, Derek Warehime offensive line coach and Anthony Johnson running backs coach.

expect. The Blue Devils have won eight straight and will be jeered mercilessly from the time they walk onto the court for warmups until the final buzzer.

“We’re ready for the test,” Blue Devils guard Nolan Smith said.

“There’s a lot at stake in this game and I’m ready. The team’s ready.”

Duke senior Jon Scheyer, who scored 22 in the first meeting, said, “Obviously, it’s a big game. It’s a game you love to play in.”

Maryland coach Gary Williams and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski have been on opposite benches in many of these showdowns, but rarely have the stakes been this high.

Each team still has one game left after this one — the Blue Devils host North Carolina and the Terps travel to Virginia. Then there’s the matter of the tiebreaker for seeding in the ACC tournament, which would be decided by Duke and Maryland’s record against the third-place team, or teams, in the conference.

The Blue Devils and Terrapins are both going to the NCAA tournament, but that doesn’t undermine the importance of winning the regularseason title.

“We didn’t talk about it until we got eight (ACC) wins and we thought were qualified for the NCAA tournament with eight and 20 (overall) and our strength of schedule,” Krzyzewski said. “We just take it in order. What’s the next thing?”

may make a graphic so everyone can keep up.

In addition, Tipton played for Continued from Page 7A Chris White at Rutherford County American Legion Post 423, when of reasons.

White was the head coach.

One of the reasons is all the links Another reason to watch will be to between current coaches, at all four see if anyone can overcome a muchcounty prep baseball programs. hyped Patton team that many have In Tipton, Chase will have a former pegged as the top team in the new student of Bobby Reynolds at the conference. A ‘Patton and everybody helm; while at R-S Central, Chadd else’ theme is beginning to emerge.

Fowler takes the reins from his forSo, with young coaches, ‘mature’ mer high school coach, at Chase, coaches, and quality programs allChris White, who is now at Thomas around, it should be another exciting Jefferson Classical Academy. Got it? I season of baseball.

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South Africa marks 100 days to World Cup

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — With 100 days to go before the World Cup, jackhammers shuddered and bulldozers rumbled Tuesday as workers wearing “Proud to be building Soccer City for 2010” buttons readied South Africa’s main stadium.

Inside, the grass was smooth and inviting. But not far away stacks of pavement tiles waited to be laid, and parking lots and access roads were still to be tarred.

The site could well be a metaphor for the June 11-July 11 tournament: While most of the big pieces are in place, all the details haven’t been worked out.

Over the years, World Cup organizers have been repeatedly and sometimes sharply questioned about whether South Africa, a country with high rates of poverty and crime, was capable of hosting one of the planet’s biggest sporting events.

Now talk has gone from whether South Africa is equipped to host the World Cup to what kind of host it will be.

Visitors may have to make do with half-finished hotels at exorbitant rates — not to mention college dorms or even campground tents. There are worries of traffic jams, as fans who can’t get hotel rooms in host cities head out after games to accommodation farther afield. South Africa’s public transit system is erratic at best.

And will those fans be safe?

Despite the uncertainties, the mood Tiger Woods was celebratory and determined Tuesday at 100-days ceremonies across the country. South Africans performed a dance based on soccer moves and sang the national anthem, stressing that hosting the tournament requires enthusiasm and national unity.

“As South Africans we have encounBy DOUG FERGUSON tered a lot of skepticism but today, as we celebrate this milestone, we can AP Golf Writer confidently say to the world that we JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Tiger Woods is closer will be ready,” Danny Jordaan, head to competing again.

Woods is back home after a week of family coun- of the South African organizing committee, said in Durban, where the seling in Arizona and is trying to get back into a South African national team was to routine that includes fitness and his first significant practice in 15 weeks, a person with knowledge play Namibia at the new stadium there Wednesday. of his schedule said Tuesday.

Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, Woods returned to his home near Orlando on said soccer’s global governing body Saturday and has been hitting balls on the range at has never questioned South Africa’s Isleworth, not far from where he ran his SUV into ability to organize the tournament. a fire hydrant and a tree in a middle-of-the-night “Everything is on track and ready,” accident on Nov. 27 that set off shocking revelasaid Blatter, who joined Jordaan in tions of infidelity.

Durban, one of nine host cities. “The The person, who spoke on condition of anonymAfrican continent will host the World ity because only Woods is authorized to release Cup. So why don’t certain groups such information, said golf’s No. 1 player still has in the world want to believe it? It is not decided when he will return to competition. so easy to just trust and have confiWoods was photographed hitting balls at dence.”

Isleworth on Feb. 18, the day before he ended Half of the 10 stadiums where nearly three months of silence by speaking to a small group of associates at the TPC Sawgrass in a World Cup matches will be played are new, and Soccer City in 13½-minute statement that was televised around Johannesburg underwent an overthe world. Those photos of Woods were arranged haul so thorough it might as well be to counter the paparazzi trying to follow his every new. Other preparations included move since Thanksgiving. major roadwork across the country.

Woods has not practiced in earnest since winning the Australian Masters in Melbourne on Nov. Seven airports were renovated and an eighth was built.

15 for his 82nd victory worldwide.

“I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don’t Journalists on a tour of Soccer City know when that day will be,” Woods said in his last week found stadium seats in statement at Sawgrass. “I don’t rule out that it will place, their orange plastic contrasting be this year.” with the glistening grass. Goals were Woods said he had attended inpatient therapy up and sprinklers were running. “for the issues I’m facing” for 45 days, from the Outside, however, workers were end of December to early February. He said he still laying pipe deep under what will was leaving the next day for more therapy, witheventually be roads. Stacks of bricks out saying what kind. The person who spoke to lay scattered about and wires danThe Associated Press said he went to Arizona for gled from unfinished light fixtures. a week of family and marriage counseling with his The United States will make its wife, Elin. sixth consecutive World Cup appearWoods said at Sawgrass of his infidelity, “As Elin ance in South Africa, and Americans pointed out to me, my real apology to her will have been the most aggressive fornot come in the form of words; it will come from eigners when it comes to ticket sales, my behavior over time. We have a lot to discuss; however, what we say to each other will remain between the two of us.”

News of him getting back into a routine is sure to begin speculation when he might return to the PGA Tour. Woods announced on Dec. 4 that he was taking an “indefinite break” to try to salvage his marriage.

To date, he has missed only two tournaments he typically would have played — Torrey Pines and the Match Play Championship — although he had been leaning toward playing Pebble Beach this year because it will host the U.S. Open in June.

Woods is not likely to play next week in the World Golf Championship at Doral, where he has won three times.

His next possibility on the PGA Tour is the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, where he is the defending champion and a six-time winner. The Masters, which Woods has played every year since 1995, would follow. Augusta National officials have not indicated whether they expect Woods to compete.

“When he does come back, I hope it’s in the Masters, and I hope he’s in great form,” Masters champion Angel Cabrera said Tuesday on a conference call.

The fallout from Woods’ sex scandal has been immense. He already has had three sponsors drop him — Accenture, AT&T and, most recently, Gatorade — while other companies like Gillette have suspended promotions of Woods while he takes his break from golf.

When he does return, he will have a different logo on his golf bag, replacing AT&T, if he can find a deal.

AP Source: Woods back from counseling

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Children blow on plastic vuvazelas, trumpets, in Pietermaritzburgn, South Africa, Tuesday, during the 100-day count down celebrations to the FIFA World Cup.

purchasing more than 84,000 as of November, according to FIFA. Another sign of U.S. interest: ESPN and ABC will have crews on site for all 64 games, a change from 2006 in Germany. ESPN2 will go all-soccer for a 24-hour countdown before the opener and ABC expects a huge rating for the U.S.-England game on June 12.

Still, the worldwide economic downturn — along with those nagging concerns about security, adequate transportation and hotels — is diminishing expectations for a tourism bonanza. FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke said last month that South Africa wouldn’t get 450,000 visitors as it had predicted and turnout could be as low as 350,000.

“People don’t like to come halfway across the world for what they perceive to be an adventure,” Jaime Byrom, executive chairman of the FIFA partner in charge of organizing accommodation during World Cups, told reporters recently.

The government has ordered investigations into price-gouging accusations.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Jordaan said transportation was among the “things we have to fine tune.”

Under apartheid, little was done to meet the transportation needs of the black majority, and the government has struggled to catch up since democracy was ushered in, back in 1994.

The World Cup lent urgency to plans for government-run rapid bus transit systems to supplement the erratic, often dangerous private minibus services on which commuters in South Africa’s cities rely. But construction delays have slowed the new service, which was violently resisted by private operators and met objections from residents of wealthy, mostly white neighborhoods through which proposed bus routes have been drawn.

The Gautrain, a new light-rail service linking Johannesburg, Pretoria and Johannesburg’s international airport, will not be fully operational in time for the World Cup.

O’Neal has surgery on thumb INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Now that his regular season is all but ended, Shaquille O’Neal promises he’ll make it up to Cleveland in the playoffs.

The Cavaliers center had surgery on his injured right thumb Monday and seems likely to miss the rest of the regular season. He should miss about eight weeks, the team said.

He was examined Sunday by specialist Dr. Thomas Graham at the National Hand Center in Baltimore, who operated Monday morning.

He was acquired in a trade by the Cavs in the offseason to help them win the NBA finals in LeBron James’ final year under contract in Cleveland. Shaq immediately took to the challenge, saying he was there to win LeBron his first NBA title.

“Will be out for a min but when I return it is on,” O’Neal posted on his Twitter account Monday morning. “Win da ring for da king! Luv my team, Cavs baby!”

O’Neal was averaging 12 points and 6.7 rebounds in 53 games.

He injured the thumb Thursday at Boston when his shot was blocked by Glen “Big Baby” Davis with just over 7 minutes left in the first half.

Making things worse for the Cavs, they had just traded away longtime center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who had come to overlap roles with O’Neal.

The recovery timeline means O’Neal, who turns 38 on Saturday, may not be ready for the start of the playoffs April 17.

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Nation Today Teen’s body said found

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A body found in a shallow grave Tuesday is believed to be that of 17-year-old Chelsea King, whose disappearance led to the arrest of a registered sex offender, authorities said.

The remains were found buried in a park about 10 feet from the shoreline of Lake Hodges, San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said.

“While the body has not been positively identified, there is a strong likelihood that we have found Chelsea,” he told reporters.

Gore said he had informed the teen’s parents.

“Obviously they are devastated and I ask that you respect their privacy during this extremely difficult time,” he said.

Police, meanwhile, said the registered sex offender suspected in King’s disappearance likely assaulted a jogger in December in the same park.

Police said evidence has linked 30-year-old John Albert Gardner III to both cases but further details have not been released.

Collins, however, said a swab taken from the elbow of the Colorado woman did not match Gardner’s DNA.

Mad emu attacks

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A mad emu gave deputies a Texas-sized hard time.

El Paso authorities say the big bird was running loose Tuesday, snarling rush-hour traffic near Interstate 10 and attacking deputies trying to restrain it.

Deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office tried to prevent the tall, flightless bird from running into traffic. But when deputies neared the emu, it became aggressive and slashed one deputy’s pant leg.

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Iowa jury convicts man ALLISON, Iowa (AP) — Mark Becker stood passively Tuesday as a jury found him guilty of murder in the shooting of a nationally known Iowa high school football coach.

He seemed far removed from the man whose mind was filled with images of angels and horned demons who lurked in the shadows of every room, telling him that the community was plotting against him and that AplingtonParkersburg coach Ed Thomas — known for his winning record and town leadership — was Satan.

Becker, 24, had explained to psychiatrists that after months of torment, he shot Thomas at least six times in the high school weight room, then kicked his body before walking away.

Jurors deliberated more than 24 hours over four days before convicting Becker of first-degree murder, rejecting his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.

NY chief abruptly quits ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York State Police Superintendent Harry Corbitt is abruptly retiring effective Wednesday amid a domestic violence scandal threatening Gov. David Paterson.

Corbitt announced his retirement late Tuesday on Capital News 9 and didn’t give a reason. He is the second law enforcment official claimed by the scandal.

Corbitt has acknowledged that a police official had contact with a woman who had accused a top Paterson aide of roughing her up last fall in the Bronx. Soon after, the woman dropped her case against the aide, David Johnson.

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Travis Warner, left, Annette Lee, and Lisa Tanner hold signs at a protest against Kentucky U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning’s stand on extending unemployment benefits in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday.

Bunning ends hold out, Senate approves bill WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday passed a $10 billion measure to maintain unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provide stopgap funding for highway programs after a holdout Republican dropped stalling tactics that had generated a Washington firestorm.

Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning had been holding up action for days but conceded after pressure intensified with Monday’s cutoff of road funding and extended unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless.

Bunning wanted to force Democrats to find ways to finance the bill so that it wouldn’t add to the deficit, but his move sparked a political tempest that subjected Republicans to withering media coverage and cost the party politically. Bunning’s support among Republicans was dwindling, while Democrats used to being on the defensive over health care and the deficit seemed to relish the battle.

The bill passed by a 78-19 vote.

It passed the House last week and President Barack Obama is likely sign the bill into law quickly so that 2,000 furloughed Transportation Department workers can go back to work on Wednesday.

Doctors faced the prospect of a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments, and federal flood insurance programs had lapsed with Monday’s expiration of an earlier stopgap bill that passed late last year.

Tuesday’s action will provide a monthlong extension of the expired programs to give Congress time to pass a yearlong — and far more costly — fix that’s also pending.

Without the legislation, about 200,000 jobless people would have lost federal benefits this week alone, according to the liberal-leaning National Employment Law Project.

Jobless people normally get 26 weeks of unemployment benefits and 20 more weeks in states with higher unemployment rates. The legislation extends several additional layers of

benefits added since 2008 because of the stubborn recession.

Earlier on Tuesday, Bunning objected to a request by Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a fellow Republican, to pass a 30-day extension of jobless benefits and other expired measures.

When asked Tuesday if Bunning was hurting the Republican Party, Collins said, “He’s hurting the American people.”

Other Republicans were more diplomatic in their assessments of Bunning, who has a stubborn and often irascible personality. Bunning is reluctantly retiring at the end of the current term and enjoys a tense relationship with homestate colleague and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who privately urged Bunning to step aside.

Bunning had blocked the stopgap legislation since Thursday, insisting that Democrats find offsetting revenues or spending cuts to finance the bill. Instead, he settled for a vote to close a tax loophole enjoyed by paper companies that get a credit from burning “black liquor,” a pulp-making byproduct, as if it were an alternative fuel. The amendment failed.

Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, said that Bunning was accepting an offer that he had rejected for days.

“Democrats had promised to force Bunning to repeatedly lodge objections to bringing the bill to a vote.

Otherwise it could take almost a week to slog through the procedural steps required to take up the measure and defeat Bunning’s filibuster.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has called up a $100-billion-plus measure to provide a longer-term extension of unemployment benefits that would last through the end of the year, along with a full-year extension of higher Medicare payments to doctors, help for states with their Medicaid budgets and a continuing a variety of expired tax breaks for individuals and businesses.

Postal Service renews bid to drop Saturdays WASHINGTON (AP) — The post office is renewing its drive to drop Saturday delivery — and plans a rate increase — in an effort to fend off a projected $7 billion loss this year.

Without drastic action the agency could face a cumulative loss of $238 billion over 10 years, Postmaster General John Potter said in releasing a series of consultant reports on agency operations and its outlook.

“The projections going forward are not bright,” Potter told reporters in a briefing. But, he added, “all is not lost ... we can right this ship.”

Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., chairman of the Senate subcommittee with oversight authority over the Postal Service, called on Congress to give the post office the flexibility to deal with its future needs.

“In light of the serious financial challenges facing the Postal Service, postal management must be allowed

to make the business decisions they need to stay competitive and viable in the years to come. As we have seen, it is not productive for Congress to act like a 535-member board of directors and constantly second-guess these necessary changes,” Carper said.

Frederic V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, also urged Congress to provide the post office with “financial breathing room,” but he opposed eliminating one day of delivery.

As Americans turn more and more from paper to electronic communications, the number of items handled by the post office fell from 213 billion in 2006 to 177 billion last year.

Volume is expected to shrink to 150 billion by 2020.

At the same time, the type of material sent is shifting from first-class mail to the less lucrative standard mail, such as advertising.

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Signs of optimism are a boon for stock markets

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market had its third straight winning day on signs that companies are becoming more optimistic about the economy.

The Dow Jones industrial average edged up 2 points Tuesday but closed off its best levels. The Dow had managed to erase its losses for the year during trading but was down 22 points for 2010 by the close. Broader indexes pushed into the black for the year on Monday and extended their gains Tuesday.

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by Qualcomm Inc. to buy back stock brought reassurance that business leaders expect the recovery to continue. The economy’s health had been in doubt in recent months after reports indicated the pace of improvement was slowing and as countries including Greece struggled with heavy debt loads.

In deal news, CF Industries made a new offer for fertilizer maker Terra Industries, which last month agreed to be sold to Norway’s Yara for $4.1 billion. Dow Chemical Co. sold its Styron plastics business to private equity firm Bain Capital for $1.63 billion. Investors often see takeovers as signs of confidence in the economy.

Meanwhile, Qualcomm said it would buy back $3 billion in stock and raise its dividend by 12 percent.

Shares of the maker of wireless chips and other mobile technology rose 6.7 percent.

Markets got a lift from upbeat economic reports abroad and growing hopes European leaders will come up with a bailout for Greece. The Greek government is scheduled to detail deeper spending cuts on Wednesday.

Manufacturing exports in India rose for a third month in January and new orders reached an 18-month high last month. Japan’s unemployment rate dropped for the second straight month in January and household spending grew.

The array of reports about dealmaking and global economic readings are clues for investors who are trying to determine how fast a recovery will take place. A long climb in

the stock market began to stall in mid-January following mixed economic reports and concern about debt in Greece and other relatively weak European economies like Portugal and Spain.

Major stock indexes stand at their highest levels in more than a month but the gains have come in light trading volume. That indicates many investors are staying out of the market as they await more evidence about the economy.

Darell Krasnoff, managing director at Bel Air Investment Advisors in Los Angeles, said the rebound after the slide in January and early February is a sign that the market needed a break before it could proceed. Still, he said that investors feel burned by the slide in 2008 and early 2009 and have concerns about the economy.

“There is still tremendous anxiety about the state of the global economy,” he said.

The Dow rose 2.19, or less than 0.1 percent, to 10,405.98. It is up 85 points in three days and is at its highest level since Jan. 20.

The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 2.60, or 0.2 percent, to 1,118.31, and the Nasdaq rose 7.22, or 0.3 percent, to 2,280.79.

Bond prices were little changed.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was flat at 3.61 percent from late Monday.

The dollar mostly fell against other major currencies. Gold rose.

Crude oil rose 98 cents to $79.68 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Stocks rose Monday after American International Group agreed to sell its Asian life insurance business for $35.5 billion. The bailed-out insurer is selling off divisions to help repay government loans.

A bad report on jobs could puncture the improved mood because unemployment is seen by many analysts as the biggest obstacle to a sustained recovery. The Labor Department’s February employment report is due Friday. It is expected to show the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent from 9.7 percent in January.

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In this 2009 file photo, a Chevrolet HHR SS sits on display in the Renaissance Center in which General Motors has its headquarters in Detroit. General Motors Co. says its February sales rose 11.5 percent compared with the same month last year thanks to new models and pent-up demand from rental car companies and other fleet buyers.

U.S. auto sales are up DETROIT (AP) — Automakers plowed through a snowy February to better-than-expected sales, and new incentives led by beleaguered Toyota will keep the momentum going into spring.

Despite some analysts’ predictions of single-digit gains, sales rose 13 percent over last February and all major automakers but Toyota Motor Corp. reported higher U.S. sales. Most took customers from the Japanese automaker, which has been struggling with a series of massive safety recalls. Toyota’s U.S. market share fell to 12.8 percent, its lowest level since July 2005, according to Ward’s AutoInfoBank.

To win back sales, Toyota said it will offer zero-percent financing on most models this month plus two years of free maintenance to returning customers. General Motors Co. and Chrysler LLC matched the financing deals.

Toyota’s U.S. sales fell 9 percent last month, besting some analysts’ predictions that its sales would fall by double digits. Meanwhile Ford, GM, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai and BMW all reported double-digit growth

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Ford’s sales shot up 43 percent and the automaker outsold GM for the first time since August 1998, when GM was in the midst of a strike.

Ford’s gains were led by cars, which rose 54 percent, with sales of the midsize Fusion, a Toyota Camry rival, more than doubling. Those results included Volvo, which Ford is preparing to sell.

Other winners included Kia Motors Corp. and Subaru. Even struggling Chrysler saw a slight increase in sales.

Honda Motor Co. said sales of the Accord sedan, which competes directly with the Camry, rose 41 percent. Honda’s sales climbed 13 percent overall. Hyundai Motor Co. said its sales rose 11 percent, partly because of a 58 percent increase in sales of the Sonata, another Camry competitor.

February was the first full month since Toyota suspended sales of eight popular models on Jan. 26.

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nation/world World Today Landslides kill 70; 250 missing

BUDUDA, Uganda (AP) — Rivers of mud swamped houses, stores and at least one school after heavy rains in this Central African country, killing at least 70 people with some 250 still missing, officials and survivors said Tuesday.

Rains that began Monday evening continued through the night, triggering landslides in the Bududa region, 170 miles (275 kilometers) east of Kampala.

Uganda’s minister of state for disaster preparedness said the army would join the rescue effort.

Wilson Watira, a district chairman, said that rescuers had recovered 70 bodies by Tuesday evening but that around 250 people were still missing.

Greek PM: More cuts needed

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Prime Minister George Papandreou called on Greeks to brace for more painful spending cuts to deal with an unprecedented financial crisis, saying their sacrifices were essential to national survival.

In a dramatic speech Tuesday to his Socialist party’s deputies in Parliament, Papandreou said time was running out to pull the country out of the crisis. His government is to announce further spending cuts on Wednesday — likely to include more tax hikes and deeper reductions in civil servants’ pay.

The cuts are aimed at reducing the deficit, winning firm backing from the European Union and convincing bond investors that Greece is creditworthy so they will keep lending.

Ukrainian coalition dissolves

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s pro-Western Orange coalition dissolved Tuesday as her former allies turned against her, setting her up to be ousted in a noconfidence vote.

The development spells the final repudiation of the Orange Revolution Tymoshenko helped lead in 2004, and paves the way for Ukraine’s new Kremlin-friendly president to consolidate his power.

President Viktor Yanukovych defeated Tymoshenko in last month’s election, but she has been a thorn in his side, refusing to resign and challenging the vote results.

Paisley to quit Parliament

DUBLIN (AP) — Ian Paisley, the hard-line Northern Ireland evangelist who led Protestants into power-sharing with Catholics, announced Tuesday he will retire from the British Parliament after a 40-year career.

The 83-year-old Paisley spent decades opposing compromise with minority Catholics, particularly the Irish Republican Army supporters of Sinn Fein. He did a stunning U-turn in 2007 by forging a Northern Ireland administration alongside Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness.

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A police officer aims at people that were looting goods from a store damaged during the magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Talcahuano, Chile, Tuesday.

Clinton brings phones, promise of more help to Chile’s leaders SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a small dent in Chile’s growing needs following a massive earthquake, handing over 25 satellite phones Tuesday while promising more in the country’s capital.

“We stand ready to help in any way that the government of Chile asks us to. We want to help Chile who has done so much to help others,” Clinton said during a brief visit that took her nowhere near areas with heavy damage. She spent most of her time at an undamaged area of the airport.

Clinton toured an area of the airport where tea, flour and other supplies were being loaded into boxes for shipment to parts of the country where supplies are short.

Meeting with the country’s president-elect, Clinton said she is sure Chile is handling the disaster well. “There is no doubt in my mind, as we stand here at an airport that thankfully is functioning and relief flights are coming in, that Chile is prepared, is dealing with this massive disaster and will be on the road to an even better recovery in the future,” she said.

Clinton said there has been no discussion of sending U.S. troops to help distribute aid or keep order, as was done in Haiti following the far more deadly earthquake there in January.

She gave one of the donated phones directly to current President Michelle Bachelet, who had said shortly after Saturday’s predawn quake that her country did not need much help from other nations. That changed as the magnitude of the disaster became clear — power, water, food and medical care are urgent needs in the country’s second-largest city, Concepcion, and along a coast hit by both the quake and a resulting tsunami.

The United States has pledged additional help, including a field hospital with surgical facilities that Clinton said is “ready to go.”

The United States is sending more satellite phones, which work in areas where land lines and cell phone towers are out of commission. Chile identified the phones as a high priority, Clinton said.

Also on the way are eight water purification systems, generators, medical equipment and supplies. Other donations could include mobile kitchens, temporary bridges and helicopters. The amount of such aid will depend on what Chile requests, Clinton said.

If the initial U.S. donation seems small, U.S. officials say it is in part a reflection of Chile’s initial reluctance to ask for more. U.S. officials said Chile would not have to repay any U.S. assistance. Officials could not offer specifics as to when the additional U.S. aid would arrive.

Chile’s neighbors have already acted.

Argentina on Monday flew in an Air Force C-130 with much of a hospital — including a surgical and intensive care unit, ambulance and laboratory — three water treatment plants and power generation units, the military announced.

Five other planeloads of aid were supposed to arrive by Tuesday night.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited Chile on Monday. He said a first planeload of aid would arrive Tuesday, followed later by a full army field hospital.

Peru said it was sending a mobile hospital and doctors with 15 tons of blankets and tents.

U.S. officials said they made clear to Chilean government officials soon after the quake that Washington was prepared to assist, but they also said privately that they were careful not to presuppose that Chile would want outside help or to give the impression of underestimating Chile’s disaster preparedness.

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President-elect Sebastian Pinera said the disaster has not canceled his plans for economic expansion. He did not directly criticize the current government for what others have called a slow response.

“This is not the time to cast blame or say that anything has been done wrong,” Pinera said.

“This is a time to provide solutions.”

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ers at the State Department on Monday that the Chilean government had made it known on Sunday that it was prepared to accept foreign help.

Simons said the embassy is in touch with the foreign ministry in Santiago “on a continuous basis to see what exactly it is that Chile needs and to match that up with some of the resources that we have available.”

Bachelet’s recent requests for outside help come amid rising criticism that her government has been slow to reach with its own resources and slow to ask others to step in. Bachelet has said her government needed time to determine where the needs were greatest.

“We have these things in our country, but how can we get them to the people if we don’t have bridges and roads?” said Bachelet, who is nearing the end of her term in office.

Distribution of supplies is being done, Bachelet added, but “we need to do it very fast and get it to the remotest corners of the country and get it there soon.”

Lawlessness and hunger are on the rise. The central government was forced to send thousands of troops to guard against looting and other crime in Concepcion.

Bachelet said it is impossible to know the extent of damage now, but that one estimate is that it will cost $30 billion to rebuild.

With 2 million people affected and 500,000 homes damaged, “I can only say it will be a lot,” Bachelet said.

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Argentina asks US help to end Falklands spat BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina asked for U.S. help Monday in resolving a brewing dispute with Britain over the Southern Atlantic islands that were the subject of a brief war more than 25 years ago and where Britain has begun drilling for oil.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said she made the request during an unexpectedly lengthy meeting with visiting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton said the United States will encourage the two countries to talk.

“What we have requested is mediation as a friendly country of both Argentina and the United Kingdom,” Fernandez said.

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The town of Williams, Ariz., is named for Rutherford County native Bill Williams, who lived in the county until he was 6. Williams and his family moved out West, and Williams is credited with creating the Santa Fe Trail.

Abbe Byers

Colloquialisms: a language of its own

Get the bucket.

While swapping stories in the newsroom last week, we touched on the subject of colloquialisms. I was telling about a cousin who was almost the victim of a car jacking years ago.

Long story short – the cousin was in college (not around here), when he and some classmates were riding in his car.

They stopped at a traffic light, the carjacker approached and made his demands. The cousin, riding in the back seat, reached under the driver’s seat and removed a weapon that only he knew was there. He pointed it toward the driver’s side window and said “not today.” The carjacker ran away and others riding in the vehicle were rushed to a nearby emergency room in order to unlock their jaws, which at that time were gaped open.

Now, I told that story to get to this one. As I ended the more detailed version with my coworkers I said, “he’s not a big guy, but he’d fight a circle saw.”

Our native South Carolinian in the newsroom said, “What did you say? He’ll fight a what?

Did you say a circle saw?”

This got us started on other colloquial sayings and here are a few we came up with.

Referring to weather: The rain sounded like a cow peeing on a flat rock, or pouring pee out of a boot; wind blew so hard eggs went back up the chicken’s rear end; colder than a well digger’s butt; or I wish it would snow axle deep to a Ferris wheel.

Financial standing: So poor I can’t pay attention, or if it took a quarter to get around the world I couldn’t get out of sight.

Common sense (or lack there of): Both oars are not in the water; not the sharpest knife in the drawer; his clutch is slipping; few bricks shy of a load; lights are on but nobody’s home.

In reference to good food: If you hear, it’ll make a puppy pull a freight train, or make you slap your mama .... then you need to get a bite of whatever they’re having.

If you’re in a real pickle, you could be between the devil and the deep blue sea, between a rock and a hard place or caught by the short hairs (those on the back of your neck).

Questions alluding to a state of agitation: Got a bee in your bonnet? Who peed in your corn flakes? Who licked the red off your candy?

Have you ever been as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs or had a dollar waiting on a dime?

Maybe you’re a diamond in the rough or a fish out of water.

Did you know you can’t borrow yourself out of debt or drink yourself sober?

A little birdie told me if it cost an arm and a leg, you might want to think about it.

When someone is lying to you or trying to pull the wool over your eyes (another good one), you might say “that dog won’t hunt.”

But, if it’s a trustworthy person .... when they tell you the huckleberry’s are ripe, you better get the bucket.

Byers is lifestyles editor for The Daily Courier. Contact her via e-mail at abyers@thedigitalcourier. com.

What do Arizona and Rutherford County have in common?

Old Bill Williams, of course Text by Kevin Carver n Contributed Photos He was a number of things during his lifetime, a mountain man, a preacher, but he was also from right here in Rutherford County, North Carolina.

Bill “Sherley” Williams grew up on a family farm in Horse Creek, near present-day Columbus, in 1787.

At the time, Rutherford County extended to the east from the current Old Post Road in Cleveland County, to as far west as where the present-day Haywood and Transylvania county lines meet.

Williams lived in the county until he was 6 years old, when his family sold the farm they owned and headed west, before settling in present-day Missouri.

Still in Missouri, Williams, who lived off the land with pride, wandered away while hunting at the age of 16 and encountered the Osage Indians.

He was so amazed and impressed with the culture, that he made them his family for nearly 25 years of his life.

He married into the tribe and fathered two children.

Fascinated with politics, literature and history, Williams, whose family was very religious, shared his beliefs and became a traveling Baptist

preacher, among other things in his lifetime.

Though he was an intimidating height of six feet, one inch tall, with red hair and blue eyes, Williams loved kids and was known as a smart and gentle soul. Those traits weren’t lost in his work, either.

During the War of 1812, Williams perhaps did some of his best work for the United States. He volunteered for military service and was sent to a region of Missouri where his works were documented as an interpreter and guide for the Mounted Rangers.

Things took a turn when New England missionaries arrived at the A statue in honor of Bill Williams.

Osage Tribe in 1822.

Williams at first helped the misgiven the nickname “Old Bill” by peosionaries adapt to Osage life, and produced the first dictionary of Osage, ple of the region.

At the time, no one realized how “Osage First Line of Writing.” valuable his latest voyage across the When the missionaries around the land was until 1824. village began to question his translaThat year, Bill was instrumental to tions of Osage, Williams left. He was the government in the development of tired of the white man’s civilization the Santa Fe Trail. It was a road that and religious practices. began from Fort Osage, Mo., and carWilliams explored further west and ried all the way to Santa Fe, N.M. The founded the area around present-day Williams, Arizona. Later, the town Please see Williams, Page 8B was renamed in his honor as he was

The Bill Williams Mountain Men, established in 1953, is named in Williams’ honor. The group has been involved in the Fiesta Bowl festivities and presidential inaugurations.

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local Honor Roll R-S Central High School

The third six weeks and first semester honor rolls at R-S Central High School has been announced by Phil Rogers, principal.

Those students named to the list are: 3rd Six Weeks A Honor Roll 9th Grade Amy Arante, Dustin Atchley, Megan Long, Taylor Miller, Christa Oglesby, Kendra Person, Christy Powell, Brittany Putnam, Tracy Ross, Tyler Sims, Kyle Watson.

10th Grade Amanda Baynard, Ashley Bechtel, Colleen Burns, Jamila Burns, Cassie Crowe, Brittany Desgages, Hannah Fry, Sydney Griffin, Kierstyn Hammett, Jessica Hernandez, Matthew Higgins, Mackie McMahan, Lindsey Pizzo, Jonathan Staley, Kaitlyn Yelton.

11th Grade Olivia Baumann, Shakeia Burgin, Sarah Coyne, Sean Dickinson, Vaughn Freeman, Kelly Hamby, Jennifer Hutchins, Kevin Miller, Whitney Murray, Julie Padgett, Brittany Patterson, Cody Salyards, David Schafer, Sara Stegemoller, Leah Whitton.

12th Grade Harley Bowen, Heidi Crowe, Amber Cruz, Whitley Dobbins, Jessica Eberhart, Hannah Enloe, Michael Fall, Kayla Fox, Ezekiel Gillespie, Laurel Godfrey, Breanna Hager, Brian Hampton, Michael Heffner, Morgan Herfel,

Aimee Hines, Andrea Hooper, Richard Huntley, Chacorey Jimerson, Chandler Jones, Alyssa Karam, William McBrayer, Kalie McCurry, Raven McGregor, Melissa McLaughlin, Holly Melton, Heather Morrison, Christopher Noffke, Ashley Ownbey, John Parker, Nicholas Pope, Brooke Price, Sydney Pugh, Kayla Rikard, Shontay Singleton, Aris Smith, Sharis Smith, Stacie Stott, Candice Tessneer, Alex Thompson, Forrest Thurman, Stevie Turner, Anthony Walke, Devyn Walke, Danielle Watson, Caleb Wilkie, Jacob Yant.

A/B Honor Roll 9th Grade Elliot Alton, Ali Bovender, Klinnin Carson, Scharnice Carson, Anna Cobb, Aaliyah Davis, Chelsea Desgages, Simona Dinovetskiy, William Doggett, Arely Dominguez, Travis Ensley, Madison Evans, Colby Fagan, Zoe Forney, Zachary Fowler, Joshua Frye, Alex Godlock, Christian Godlock, Kelsea Greene, Turandus Hampton, Calabrianna Head, Morgan Helton, Karen Hernandez, Christian Hewitt, Charles Hill, Kiara Hines, Kyla Hines, Kaylee Hollifield, Kayla King, Leah King, Spencer Lane, Ginger Logan, Kaitlyn Mesich, Tyler Morgan, Danny Mossburg, Alexander Owens, Mihaya Pitts, Daniel Pruett, Joshua Pruitt, Christopher Ramsey, Levi Ramsey, Iindia Rorie, Alison Ross, Adam Schopeck, Shelby Smith, Alex

Splawn, Cameron Taylor, Tiffany Thrower, Cody Watson, Ridge Wilkerson.

10th Grade Kristina Baynard, Courtney Blair, India Blanton, Michael Bowers, Courtney Bradley, Alison Brandle, Randy Brown, Cameron Bynum, Josue Castellon, Austin Conner, Kent Craig, Mikayla Davis, Hailey Fetherolf, Lindsay Frazier, John Greenway, Christina Gutierrez, Alexander Harris, Heather Hayes, Johnny Hunt, Simon King, Curtis Koone, Caleb Levinson, Jared Logan, Kenya Logan, Sally Lovelace, Jada Martin, Roxanne McDowell, Jonathan Michael, Claire O’Neil, Emily Ostrander, Deanna Parker, Katie Russell, Kaitlyn Schoenfeldt, Kaitlin Summers, Emily Tuttle, Corey Washburn, Casey Whiteside, Annalee Whitlock, Bobby Wilkins, Jessica Wyatt, Jerry Yelton, Misty Yelton-Lane.

11th Grade Joshua Boggs, Daryl Brown, Thomas Caouette, Dominic Carlisle, Martina Carson, Chelsey Crawford, Andrew Dalton, Cassondria Forney, Kayla Frady, Joshua Greene, Timothy Guffey, Jennifer Hall, Jaylen Hammett, Amanda Hill, Justin Jackson, David King, Jacob Kinlaw, Lindsay Koonce, Harry Lane, Kreig Langley, Courtney Ledbetter, Amanda Lewis, Melanie McEntire, Michael McEntire, Jordan McKinney,

Kaitlyn McNeilly, Sarah Miller, Alexis Morgan, Michaela Norville, Joseph Pauley, Lindsey Reed, Lauren Rivas, Emily Rothrock, Adam Russell, Jessie Scofield, Rachel Scoggins, John Self, Kathryn Snyder, Ashley Stephens, Nicole Struble, Lauren Taylor.

12th Grade Michael Barnes, Miyisha Battle, Marianne Beasley, Nick Beaver, Erica Biggerstaff, Stephanie Boykins, Wesley Brown, William Brown, Carsyn Butler, Davis Choun, Austin Conner, Leah Cooke, Phonecia Davis, Brian Deck, Kevin Dinga, Rachel Enloe, Kelsey Field, Corbie Ford, Candena Fowler, Jesse Gilliam, Ivonne GonzalezJimenez, Holly Guffey, Jessica Hancock, Logan Hartzog, Marissa Hill, Allison Holtzclaw, Grayson Hudson, Ashley Hutchins, Abigail Jones, Kelly Jugar, Amy Kemper, Sarah Koonce, Alexsandra Krikshtanas, Paige Leslie, Yasmin Littlejohn, Megan Logan, Cameron Long, William Lynch, Tyler McCrary, Rebecca McFarland, David McLaughlin, Kaysie Miracle, Brittney Monteith, Denisse Morales, Jessica Ownbey, Dre’ Person, Christian Pfaff, Caroline Pocock, Kayla Robertson, Holly Roper, Jonathan Russell, Matthew Simmons, Darya Smith, Aaron St. Clair, Jennifer Street, Savannah Swofford, Justin Templeton, Drew Thompson, Brett Thompson, Jamilah Toms, Leslie Uy,

Chasity Whitesides, Garrett Williams.

First Semester A Honor Roll 9th Grade Dustin Atchley, Aaliyah Davis, Dillon Hemphill, Charles Hill, Kayla King, Spencer Lane, Megan Long, Danny Mossburg, Christa Oglesby, Kendra Person, Christy Powell, Joshua Pruitt, Brittany Putnam, Adam Schopeck, Cody Watson, Ridge Wilkerson.

10th Grade Amanda Baynard, Colleen Burns, Cameron Bynum, Hailey Fetherolf, Lindsay Frazier, Hannah Fry, Sydney Griffin, Christina Gutierrez, Jessica Hernandez, Mackie McMahan, Jonathan Michael, Lindsey Pizzo, Katie Russell, Casey Whiteside, Jessica Wyatt, Jerry Yelton, Kaitlyn Yelton.

11th Grade Daryl Brown, Shakeia Burgin, Jennifer Hall, Kelly Hamby, Amanda Lewis, Kevin Miller, Brittany Patterson, Lindsey Reed, Cody Salyards, Lauren Taylor, Leah Whitton.

12th Grade Marianne Beasley, Carsyn Butler, Amber Cruz, Jessica Eberhart, Hannah Enloe, Corbie Ford, Kayla Fox, Laurel Godfrey, Ivonne Gonzalez Jimenez, Brian Hampton, Andrea Hooper, Richard Huntley, Chandler Jones, Alyssa Karam, Yasmin Littlejohn, William McBrayer, Christopher Noffke, Ashley Ownbey, Jessica Ownbey, John Parker,

Caroline Pocock, Nicholas Pope, Brooke Price, Sharis Smith, Stacie Stott, Candice Tessneer, Stevie Turner, Anthony Walke, Danielle Watson, Caleb Wilkie.

9th Grade Elliott Alton, Amy Arante, Justin Babb, Julian Bailey, Ali Bovender, Sarah Brandle, Scharnice Carson, Austin Clarke, Anna Cobb, Simona Dinovetskiy, William Doggett, Arely Dominguez, Travis Ensley, Madison Evans, Colby Fagan, Zachary Fowler, Joshua Frye, Christian Godlock, Kelsea Greene, Lucas Hamrick, Morgan Helton, Tyler Herfel, Karen Hernandez, Christian Hewitt, Kiara Hines, Kyla Hines, Kaylee Hollifield, Kayla Kearns, Leah King, Ashley Lambert, Harrison Lave, Ginger Logan, Heather McCrary, Kaitlyn Mesich, Kayla Mesich, Taylor Miller, Tyler Morgan, Alexander Owens, Mihaya Pitts, Daniel Pruett, Christopher Ramsey, Levi Ramsey, Tracy Ross, Alison Ross, Benjamin Satterfield, Patrick Simmons, Tyler Sims, Stephen Snider, Alex Splawn, Kelsey Stanley, Dylan Swink, Cameron Taylor, Tiffany Thrower, Shaquisha Twitty, Kyle Watson.

10th Grade Morgan Atchley, Kristina Baynard, Ashley Bechtel, Courtney Blair, India Blanton, Michael Bowers, Alison Brandle, Randy

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Man lies about little blue pill Dear Abby: I am a 76-year-old man who is romantically involved with a 65-year-old lady. She knows I take Viagra. I recently had to go out of town for a week. Before I left, she demanded that I give her my bottle of Viagra. She said she would return it as soon as I got back.

What I did not tell my lady friend is that I don’t always need Viagra to “perform.” Should I remain silent and let her believe that without the little blue pill I’ll be forced to remain faithful?

Honesty is the best long-term policy, but is there a limit to just “how” honest one should be? — A Vital Man Dear A Vital Man: In this case, keep your own counsel. If you tell your lady friend you don’t always “need” Viagra, she may start wondering why you always need it with her and find the implication insulting.

Dear Abby: As a child, it was painfully obvious that my mother favored my brother, “Clint,” over me.

Everything he did was considered perfect and was bragged about.

Because I was a girl, I was expected to step and fetch for him. To this day, my opinions hold no weight against those of my brother. I have always been hurt by this, but I have lived with it.

Clint moved 3,000 miles away years

Dear Abby Abigail van Buren

ago. I am the one caring for Mom, although Clint contributes financial assistance. When he and his family came to visit for a week, my daughter asked me why Grandma respects and is prouder of Clint’s children — all boys — than of her.

Grandma is proud that one of the boys knows about computers, but my daughter has BUILT computers.

Grandma is proud because one of the boys is studying piano. My daughter has played flute for 10 years.

Grandma brags about another of the boys’ ability at rowing, but never about my daughter’s achievements in academics.

How do I keep my daughter from feeling resentful, and what should I tell her? — Less Valued Dear Less Valued: Tell your daughter the truth — that your mother always favored your brother, and that this is just more of the same.

Tell her that she is a terrific daughter and that YOU are proud of her.

And explain that there is no pleasing Grandma, which is why she should keep her distance.

Honey helps reader’s cough and RLS Dear Dr. Gott: I am a 57-yearold female. My height and weight are proportionate, and I am healthy overall. When I get fatigued, or just very tired at the end of the day, I am often bothered by Restless LegsSyndrom. It is annoying to say the least. Generally, I take an aspirin or two, which helps calm things down, but I already have thin blood and don’t like to take more than is necessary.

One night, I had both a hacking cough and RLS symptoms. I got out of bed and took a spoonful of honey to coat my throat. Minutes after I went back to bed, the RLS symptoms settled down. Just a fluke, I thought.

Well, I have learned over time that taking a spoonful of honey has indeed helped the situation. I don’t need it every night, but when I do, it is nice to know that there is something in the house apart from medicine to help me. Oh, and the honey helped to quell my cough, too.

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Ask Dr. Gott Dr. Peter M. Gott

Dear Reader: There is no one cause of RLS, and in many instances, no cause can be found. The current thought is that it may be the result of an imbalance of dopamine, the brain chemical that helps control muscle movement. There is a known hereditary link in approximately 50 percent of all cases. Pregnancy can cause temporary RLS symptoms, but most women experience relief shortly after delivery. Peripheral neuropathy, kidney failure and iron deficiency may also cause or worsen symptoms.

Honey as a remedy to RLS is new to me. So, readers, here is another one to try. Try it, and let me know your results.

IN THE STARS Your Birthday, March 3; Owing to a new relationship in the year ahead, your outreach could be considerably extended.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — If you rely more on yourself and less on others, it will pay off.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — This is an excellent day to figure out what is good in your life.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — All the excuses in the world won’t minimize what isn’t working.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Fresh ambitions could be aroused through some new developments.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — It would pay to sit down and make some longrange plans.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — The possibilities for achieving long-range plans are better.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Someone you never considered a supporter may make an abrupt turn.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Make yourself as valuable as possible to the powers-that-be.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Both Lady Luck and Dan Cupid could team up to make sure that something good happens.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — A disturbing domestic issue that has caused a certain amount of anxiety could begin to dissipate.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Should you conceive a unique idea or concept, do not ignore it just because it is different. In fact, the weirdness makes it such a worthy possibility.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — When it comes to your financial affairs, a change for the better is indicated. Don’t look to become wealthy overnight, but a difference in your wallet.

4B——The The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 4B Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2010

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Want to have fun and do something for kids, too?

“Paddy” Wants You! to form your own Dragon Boat Team or plan to attend the 3rd annual “Lure of the Dragons” Boat Races and Cultural Festival, May 8th in scenic Lake Lure “PADDY”, the 2010 mascot for the Lure of the Dragons Boat Race and Children’s Charity Fundraiser Festival, has been unveiled – and to view Paddy for the first time, click here. Paddy wants YOU to take a ride and join in the fun for a good cause on Saturday May 8th. If you like paddling, you’ll LOVE dragon boat racing, and now is the time to sign up your team.

Anyone who can hold a paddle and get in a canoe can do this team sport. It doesn’t take expertise, just a desire to have fun and to do something good for children. Teams are formed from many different sources, including, friends, businesses, churches, schools, youth groups, civic organizations, municipalities, and families. 2010 race divisions will include the following team types: Youth (12-18), mixed (at least 4 female paddlers), All Women, Commercial/Business, Community, Breast Cancer Survivors, Municipalities, Open, and Masters (50 & over).

Paddy urges you to act now! You simply need to build a team of 10

ment is supplied. The paddlers’ say “there’s usually more laughing than paddling until the quarter finals and then teams get real serious about wanting to win their division and the overall festival champion’s title”.

paddlers and a drummer that are willing to compete and raise money for children in our area.

What is Dragon Boat Racing? Dragon boat racing originated in China 2300 years ago and now attracts 50 million people around the world and over 80 festivals in the USA. A dragon boat is a 30foot long canoe that holds ten paddlers, one drummer and one steersperson. The boat is “dressed out” with an authentic Chinese dragon head and tail and scales along the sides. A winning team is not necessarily the strongest team, but rather the team that paddles in sync to the beat of their drummer and has the best stroke technique.

What is involved in participating? Before race day, each team will get two one-hour onthe-water instruction sessions so they know how to paddle and race the boat down the 250 meter course. All equip-

Paddy hopes this year’s festival will more than double that amount.

It all depends on how many teams enter and you can help Paddy reach this goal.

About the “Lure of the Dragons” Last year’s “Lure of the Dragons” festival drew 22 teams, 264 paddlers and over 2,000 spectators. It was a wonderful familyoriented day of racing and cultural festivities at Morse Park in beautiful Lake Lure. You too can experience the fun and excitement of head-to-head competition paddling a dragon boat right here in scenic Lake Lure, North Carolina.

Money raised goes to this year’s regional beneficiaries which are: ARC of Rutherford/ Polk Counties, Camp Lurecrest, Friends of Mountains Branch Library, Western NC Down Syndrome Alliance. The Dragon Boat Festival is dedicated to improving the quality of life and future of our children in Polk, Buncombe, Henderson and Rutherford counties.

Each team also has the opportunity to direct 50% of their total team’s pledge money to their local children’s charity of choice.

Last year’s festival raised over $10,000 and

For more information: Call Nancy @ 828-6259814 for information

on race fees and assistance in forming your own team or getting on a team. Visit www. lureofthedragons.org website for all festival information, including information for vendors and exhibitors. Help Paddy help thousands of area children achieve

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Flack, Jesse Fowler, Kayla Frady, Vaughn Freeman, Jasmine Continued from Page 2B Glenn, Timothy Guffey, Taylor Hammett, Rachel Harris, Brown, Jamila Burns, Dylan Hipp, Jennifer Austin Conner, Kent Hutchins, Justin Craig, Shonda Davis, Jackson, David King, Brittany Desgages, Lindsay Koonce, Harry Nathan Dinovetskiy, Lane, Kreig Langley, Rosajean Flack, Maggie Lave, Courtney Duran Gonzalez, John Ledbetter, Joel Lowery, Greenway, Kierstyn Melanie McEntire, Hammett, Alexander Michael McEntire, Harris, Heather Hayes, Erin McMahan, Matthew Higgins, Kaitlyn McNeilly, Johnny Hunt, Simon Sarah Miller, Alexis King, Curtis Koone, Morgan, Alex Murray, Caleb Levinson, Jared Whitney Murray, Logan, Kenya Logan, Michaela Norville, Roxanne McDowell, Julie Padgett, Susan Akasha Miller, Billie Richardson, Lauren Murray, Claire O’Neil, Rivas, Brandon Roark, Emily Ostrander, Cody Emily Rothrock, Adam Smith, Jerry Smith, Russell, David Schafer, Kaitlin Summers, Rachel Scoggins, John Tyler Wallace, Corey Self, Kathryn Snyder, Washburn, Annalee Sara Stegemoller, Whitlock, Bobby Ashley Stephens, Nicole Wilkins, Misty YeltonStruble, Shelly Von Lane.

Briel, Randy Whitener, 11th Grade Miranda Williams, Olivia Baumann, Rusty Woody.

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a better life.

Presenting Sponsors for the Saturday, May 8th festival are: Pinnacle Sotheby’s Intl. Realty of Lake Lure, the Hickory Nut Gorge Chamber of Commerce, Camp Lurecrest, and Timken Company.

Blake Dula, Bennett Evans, Katherine Fetherolf, Kelsey Field, Ezekiel Gillespie, Jesse Gilliam, Holly Guffey, Brianna Gurley, James Hampton, Jessica Hancock, Logan Hartzog, Michael Heffner, Morgan Herfel, Marissa Hill, Aimee Hines, Grayson Hudson, Ashley Hutchins, Chacorey Jimerson, Abigail Jones, Kelly Jugar, Sarah Koonce, Paige Leslie, Joshua Levinson, Cameron Long, Cory Lowery, Megan Mayse, Tyler McCrary, Rebecca McFarland, Raven McGregor, David McLaughlin, Melissa McLaughlin, Denisse Morales, Heather Morrison, Seth Orr, Dre’ Person, Christian Pfaff, Kayla Robertson, Jonathan Shelton, Matthew Simmons, Shontay Singleton, Jennifer Street, Jessica Swink, Savannah Swofford, Justin Templeton, Alex Thompson, Brett Thompson, Forrest Thurman,Jamilah Toms, Leslie Uy, Devyn Walke, Chasity Whitesides, Garrett Williams, Jacob Yant.

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2010 — 5B NORTH CAROLINA, RUTHERFORD COUNTY

AUCTION NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 09 SP 594

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Alan Dean Stinn and Jeffrey Wade Brown to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated October 26, 2005, and recorded in Book 869, Page 290, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door in Rutherford County, North Carolina, at 10:00AM on March 17, 2010, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: Being all of Lot 60, Phase IV of Laurel Lakes as shown on that plat recorded in Plat Book 23, at Page 167 of the Rutherford County, NC Register's Office; reference to which Plat is hereby made for a more particular description of said Lot. Together with and subject to restrictive covenants of record, including but not limited to those recorded in Book 779, at Page 831, in Book 817, at Page 613, and all amendments thereto, of the Rutherford County, NC Register's Office. Together with and subject to those easements and rights of way shown on the above-referenced Plat and as recorded in the Rutherford County, NC Register's Office. And being a portion of that property described in deed recorded in Book 776, at Page 743 of the Rutherford County, NC Register's Office.

Said property is commonly known as: Lot 60 Shuttle Mill Crossing, Laurel Lakes Phase IV, Lake Lure, NC 28746 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Alan Dean Stinn and Jeffrey Wade Brown.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 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. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, that tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. __________________________________________ Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. Substitute Trustee 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (770) 234-9181 Our File No.: 158.0935759NC /c Publication Dates: 03/03/2010 & 03/10/2010

Pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 44A-40, State of North Carolina, various items of personal property contained in warehouse(s) #2, 68, 88 & 90 will be sold at public auction at Bob’s Storage Center, 502 U.S. Highway 74 Business East, Forest City, NC on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 2:00 PM. Sale is being made to satisfy the warehouse lien on said goods for storage charges due and unpaid. Due notice has been given.

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#2 - Vickie Sturgil #68 - Amanda Burnette #88 - Jackie Hampton #90 - Rodney Robbins

Bob’s Storage Center Robert A. Fields, Owner 502 U.S. Highway 74 Business East PO Box 704 Forest City, NC 28043

CARPENTER DESIGN, INC. 217 Belt Court, Rutherfordton, NC 28139 PALLET MANUFACTURER AND WOOD GRINDING APPLYING FOR NC AIR PERMIT MODIFICATION TO ALLOW THE ADDITION OF 1 GRINDER.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the estate of ESTELLE P. SHEHAN of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said ESTELLE P. SHEHAN to present them to the undersigned on or before the 3rd day of June, 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 3rd day of March, 2010.

Patricia S. Sutton, Executor 104 Winners Circle Perry, GA 31069

4806.0003758 10-SP-010 NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Lester J. Crowe a/k/a Lester J. Crowe, Sr., unmarried, dated July 14, 2008 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, recorded on July 22, 2008, in Book 1016 at Page 223; and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at Rutherford County Courthouse, in Rutherfordton, North Carolina at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, that parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situated, lying and being in the City of Spindale, County of Rutherford, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: SITUATE IN THE TOWN OF SPINDALE, NORTH CAROLINA, ON THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF WEST MAIN STREET AND ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF DEVINEY STREET; AND BEGINNING ON AN IRON PIN SET AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF THE SIDEWALK ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF WEST MAIN STREET AT A POINT 1.5 FEET WEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTH SIDE OF SAID SIDEWALK WITH THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE CURB ON THE WEST SIDE OF DEVINEY STREET; AND RUNS THENCE ALONG THE WESTERN EDGE OF DEVINEY STREET SOUTH 33 DEGREES 34 MINUTES 41 SECONDS WEST 150.2 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; THENCE NORTH 55 DEGREES 17 MINUTES 36 SECONDS WEST 125.36 FEET TO AN iRON PIN IN THE OLD DICKERSON-HUNTLEY LINE, WHICH IS THE ORIGINAL OLD LINE BETWEEN THE DICKERSON AND WASHBURN (LATER HUNTLEY) PROPERTIES; THENCE WITH THE SAID OLD LINE NORTH 40 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS EAST 151.5 FEET TO AN IRON PIN AT THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE SIDEWALK ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF WEST MAIN STREET; THENCE ALONG THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF SAID SIDEWALK SOUTH 54 DEGREES 55 MINUTES 54 SECONDS EAST 108.43 FEET TO THE BEGINNING, CONTAINING 0.4 ACRES, MORE OR LESS. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY AS THAT DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 910, PAGE 350, RUTHERFORD COUNTY REGISTRY. PARCEL ID:1603257.

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Commonly known as 701 West main Street Spindale, NC 28160 However, by showing this address no additional coverage is provided.

Address of property: 701 West Main Street, Spindale, NC 28160 Present Record Owners: Lester J. Crowe a/k/a Lester J. Crowe, Sr. The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. In the event that the Owner and Holder or its intended assignee is exempt from paying the same, the successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee's Deed, and any Land Transfer Tax. The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale "AS IS, WHERE IS" and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required.

NORTH CAROLINA, RUTHERFORD COUNTY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 09 SP 516 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Edith L Hansen to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated May 07, 2007, and recorded in Book 956, Page 1, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door in Rutherford County, North Carolina, at 10:00AM on March 17, 2010, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: Being all of Lot 59, Phase IA, as shown on subdivision plat for GreyRock at Lake Lure Subdivision, recorded in Plat Book 25 at Page 191, in the Office of the register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, said plat being one of a series of plats, recorded in Plat Book 25, page 188-92, all of the Rutherford County, NC, Registry; reference being hereby made to said recorded plat for a more particular metes and bounds description, pursuant to North General Statutes, Section 47-320(G). This conveyance is made together with and subject to all easements, restrictions, and rights of way of record and a non-exclusive, appurtenants easement for ingress, egress, and regress is conveyed over and upon all private subdivision roads for GreyRock at Lake Lure, as shown on the above-described plats, and the Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for GreyRock at Lake Lure as recorded in Book 858, Page 122, of the Rutherford County, NC, Registry, and also recorded in Book 3827, Page 764 of the Buncombe County, NC, Registry (hereinafter the "Declaration"). This conveyance is further made together with and subject to easements for the installation, repair, and maintenance of a community water system as set forth in the Declaration, said water system to consist of a shared system of wells and water lines to be installed upon the lots. Each lot is conveyed together with appurtenants for all shared water line and wells making up the water system as the same may or will be installed in the reserved easements areas as set forth on all record plats and described in the declarations. The above described property is identical to that conveyed to Edith L. Hansen, unmarried, by that certain deed from I.R Buffalo Creek, LLC, a Georgia Limited Liability Company, dated April 11, 2005, and recorder on April 14, 2005, in Book 870 at Page 458, Rutherford County Registry.

Said property is commonly known as Lot # 59 Buffalo Shoals Road at Grey Rock, Lake Lure, NC 28746 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Edith L. Hansen.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 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. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, that tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. __________________________________________ Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. Substitute Trustee 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (770) 234-9181 Our File No.: 158.0931990NC /c Publication Dates: 03/03/2010 & 03/10/2010

If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in his sole discretion, if he believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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 at Foreclosure Act which became effective on May 20, 2009.

Dated: February 17, 2010 David A. Simpson, P.C. Substitute Trustee By:_________________________ Attorney at Law Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC Attorneys for the Substitute Trustee 704-442-9500 Posted:_____ Witness:_____ Assistant/Deputy Clerk of Superior Court

6B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2010 NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of SARAH HAMRICK JOLLEY of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said SARAH HAMRICK JOLLEY to present them to the undersigned on or before the 24th 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 24th day of February, 2010.

Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of EVELYN MARIE SMITH FOUNTAIN of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said EVELYN MARIE SMITH FOUNTAIN to present them to the undersigned on or before the 24th 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 24th day of February, 2010.

Delois Hamrick Bass, Executor 13426 Latta Gordon Road Huntersville, NC 28078

Evelyn Sherry Fountain Kistler, Administrator 1200 Poors Ford Road Rutherfordton, NC 28139

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK 10 SP 017 Foreclosure of Real Property Under Deed of Trust from WILLIAM J. GOLD and wife, PATSY M. GOLD, in the original amount of $600,000.00, payable to CAROLINA TRUST BANK, dated August 28, 2008 and recorded on August 28, 2008, in Book 1020, Page 438, Rutherford County Registry Current Owner(s): William J. Gold and wife, Patsy M. Gold Peter E. Lane, Substitute Trustee NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Pursuant to an order entered February 16, 2010, by the Assistant Clerk of Superior Court for Rutherford County, and the power of sale contained in the captioned deed of trust (the "Deed of Trust"), the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at auction, to the highest bidder for cash, AT THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY COURTHOUSE DOOR IN RUTHERFORDTON, RUTHERFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA ON MARCH 9, 2010 AT 12:00 NOON the real estate and the improvements thereon secured by the Deed of Trust, the real estate lying and being in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Exhibit "A" Description of Property Situate, lying and being in Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being the same and identical property described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 515, Page 625, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows: Situate, lying and being in Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being bound on the north by US Highway 74 (Business), on the East by the property of Lee Bright as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 120, Page 26, Rutherford County Registry, on the South by the property of Joe Y. Bennett as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 493, Page 551, on the West by Duke Street (SR 2184) and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the center line of the intersection of US Highway 74 (Business) with the intersection of the center line of Duke Street and runs thence with the center line of Duke Street South 14 degrees 8 minutes 50 seconds West (passing through a nail at 15.49 feet in the line) 394.51 feet to an iron pin; thence South 55 degrees 46 minutes 30 seconds East 394.74 feet to an iron pin at a fence corner; thence North 6 degrees 17 minutes 5 seconds East (passing through an iron pin at 451 feet in the line) 485.96 feet to a nail and cap in the center line of US Highway 74 (Business); thence South 10 degrees 59 minutes 15 seconds West 258.44 feet to an iron pin on the north bank of an old road; thence North 70 degrees 15 minutes 10 seconds West 106.83 feet to an existing iron pin at an axle; thence North 13 degrees 18 minutes 50 seconds East (passing through a railroad spike at 234.51 feet in the line) 265.08 feet to a point in the center line of US Highway 74 (Business); thence with the center line of said road North 65 degrees 33 minutes 30 seconds West 68.98 feet and North 68 degrees 12 minutes West 140.79 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 2.731 acres, according to a map and survey by Charles D. Owens, Registered Licensed Surveyor, dated September 1, 1987.

Property location: 1163 W. Main Street, Forest City, NC 28043 A five percent cash deposit, or a cash deposit of $750.00, whichever is greater, will be required of the last and highest bidder. The balance of the bid purchase price shall be due in full in cash or certified funds at a closing to take place within thirty (30) days of the date of sale. The undersigned Substitute Trustee shall convey title to the property by non-warranty deed.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS WHERE IS". There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale will be made subject to all prior liens of record, if any, and to all unpaid ad valorem taxes and special assessments, if any, which became a lien subsequent to the recordation of the Deed of Trust. This sale will be further subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days following the date when the final upset bid period has run.

If the Substitute Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Substitute Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Substitute Trustee, in his sole discretion, if he believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

The purchaser of the property described above shall pay the Clerk’s Commission in the amount of $.45 per $100.00 of the purchase price (up to a maximum amount of $500.00), required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). If purchaser of the above described property is someone other than the Beneficiary under the Deed of Trust, the purchaser shall also pay, to the extent applicable, the land transfer tax in the amount of one percent (1%) of the purchase price.

To the extent this sale involves residential property with less than fifteen (15) rental units, you are hereby notified of the following: a. An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to Section 45-21.29 of the North Carolina General Statutes 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; and b. 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.

This sale will be made subject to all prior liens of record, if any, and to all unpaid ad valorem taxes and special assessments, if any, which became a lien subsequent to the recordation of the Deed of Trust. This sale will be further subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days following the date when the final upset bid period has run.

This 16th day of February, 2010.

By: Peter E. Lane, Substitute Trustee 131 East Court Street PO Box 1519 Rutherfordton, NC 28139

NORTH CAROLINA, RUTHERFORD COUNTY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 09 SP 416 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Stuart K Campbell and Elise M. Campbell to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated February 20, 2007, and recorded in Book 942, Page 605, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door in Rutherford County, North Carolina, at 11:45AM on March 10, 2010, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in Morgan Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: Being Lot Number 8 of Queen's Gap, Phase I, as described more fully in plat recorded in Plat Book 27, Pages 280-292, ("the Plat"), Rutherford County Registry, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more full and accurate description.

Subject to Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions for Queen's Gap as recorded in Book 917, Page 402-442, Rutherford County Register of Deeds, and recorded in Book 891, Page 624-664, McDowell County Register of Deeds, and any amendments and supplements thereto.

Subject to all matters shown on subdivision plat of Queen's Gap, Phase I, as recorded in Plat Book 27, Pages 280-292, Rutherford County Register of Deeds, and Plat Book 13, Pages 60-72, McDowell County Register of Deeds, hereinafter referred to as "the Plat".

Said property is commonly known as: Lot 8 off of Shire Ext Road in Queens Gap Subdivision, Rutherfordton, NC 28139 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Stuart K Campbell and Elise M Campbell.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 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. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, that tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. __________________________________________ Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. Substitute Trustee 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (770) 234-9181 Our File No.: 158.0930570NC Publication Dates: 02/24/2010 03/03/2010

NORTH CAROLINA, RUTHERFORD COUNTY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 09 SP 591 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Samir Roumayah and Nawal Roumayah to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated September 02, 2005, and recorded in Book 860, Page 206, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door in Rutherford County, North Carolina, at 10:00AM on March 17, 2010, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: Being all of Lot 199 as shown on survey R. L. Greene, PLS entitled "Greyrock Subdivision Phase 2A as recorded in Plat Book 26 at Page 117, said plat being one of a series of plats recorded in Plat Book 26, Page 114 through 118 of the Rutherford County, NC Registry, reference to said recorded plats being made for a more particular description of said Lot 199. Together with and subject to all easements, restrictions and rights of ways of record and a non-exclusive appurtenant easement for ingress, egress and regress is conveyed over and upon all private subdivision roads for GreyRock at Lake Lure as shown on the above-described plats and the plats for Phase 1A as shown on plats recorded in Plat Book 25, at Pages 188 through 192; plats for Phase 1B as shown on plats recorded in Plat Book 25, at Pages 205 through 208 and to the Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for GreyRock as recorded in Book 858, at Page 122 of the Rutherford County, NC Registry and also being recorded in Book 3827, Page 764 of the Buncombe County, NC Registry. Being a portion of that property conveyed to LR Buffalo Creek, LLC by deeds recorded in Deed Book 866, at Page 816 of the Rutherford County, NC Registry and as recorded in Deed Book 3793, at Page 665 of the Buncombe County, NC Registry.

Said property is commonly known as: Lot 199 Bison Meadows, Greyrock Subdivision, Lake Lure, NC 28746 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Samir Roumayah.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 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. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, that tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. __________________________________________ Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. Substitute Trustee 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (770) 234-9181 Our File No.: 158.0934669NC /c Publication Dates: 03/03/2010 & 03/10/2010

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road provided a better way of trading as Williams marked and surveyed the land that led many miles and in to Santa Fe. He was later credited as the initial founder of the trail.

While on the Santa Fe Trail, Williams became a big name trapper, hunter and trader of fur. Though records shed little light on his life between 1825 and 1841, there was one significant piece of history in the late 1840s.

The weather was so bad during the trek, a number of men lost their lives, forcing Williams and others to retreat in February.

Fremont blamed Williams’ guidance for the expedition going bad. However, Williams and a few men went back to salvage those supplies left behind in the Fremont expedition a month later.

On the way back, Williams, who carried great relationships with Indian tribes throughout the United States, unfortunately succumbed to bullets of the Ute Tribe in March of 1849.

In 1848, John C. Fremont, a U.S. Topographical Engineer, was adamant to find a route that was suitable to build a railroad from Arizona to California. Though it was November and the weather becoming harsh, Fremont was able to persuade Williams to be the guide of the Fremont expedition.

Unfortunately, the exploration became Williams’ downfall and led to his death.

As to how Williams’ story came to the forefront?

My family and I actually ran into the information nearly 13 years ago on a weeklong vacation out west. We came across this piece of historical ties to the county when we stopped at the Williams, Ariz., information center and stayed a night in town before traveling

A historic photo of downtown Williams, Ariz., named for Rutherford County native Bill Williams.

to the Grand Canyon the following day.

Neighboring Polk County has recognized Bill with a sign near Columbus, but even Rutherford County historians didn’t uncover his ties until recent research was documented.

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