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hold of six brothers and sisters and is the only living child of her parents, Lawrence and Pantha Wall Goode. She passionately talks about her family, 15 nieces and nephews and her Spencer Baptist church family and a host of other friends. After Goode made her life-altering decision in March, she began to think her experience might help others who are considering leaving their homes for a living center or rest home. Sitting in her recliner rocker in the comfort of her room last Monday, Goode talked about the changes. While chatting, she

RUTHERFORDTON — The case of a man charged in an alleged vehicle chase in which a man crashed and was killed is on the calendar for the trial session of Superior Court that begins Monday in the Rutherford County Courthouse. Brian Ray Bailey is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Dustin Eugene Allen, 17, on Nov. 21, 2007. Investigators say Bailey was driving a 1991 Honda Accord that was chasing Allen’s 1993 Ford Mustang. Allen, who reportedly was traveling at a high rate of speed, crashed on Bugger Hollow Road. Allen died, and investigators say the chase led to the fatal crash. In September, Philip Tyler Parker pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the case, received a suspended sentence and was placed on probation. Andre Rashod Mills is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, possession of a firearm by a felon and common-law robbery. He is accused of assaulting Robert Karon McEntire with a handgun on March 11, 2008. Jimmy Ray Spurlock Jr. is charged with assault inflicting serious bodily injury. Amy Stafford is charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. A number of people face sex-related charges. David Michael Blanton is charged with four counts of statutory rape/ sex offense where the defendant is more than six years older than the victim and four counts of indecent liberties with a child.

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FOREST CITY — A deer prances across the yard outside Thelma Goode’s window at Oakland Living Center. The very thought of the deer brings a contagious smile on the face of the 86-year-old Spindale native. Seven months ago, Goode made the decision to move to the living center, making the transition from her Rutherfordton apartment for her new home and radical change of lifestyle. She no longer drives a car, goes to work or runs the dozens of errands she was accustomed. Always single, Goode grew up in a house-

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This lake home owned by Steve and Mary JaegerGale on Lake Lure could be one of the properties affected by the new vacation rentals ordinance if it is passed at a second reading on Oct. 13.

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RUTHERFORDTON – Sometimes what you know about yourself doesn’t become truly evident until you hear others say it. And when their words are part of the reason you are chosen for an award, it becomes all the sweeter. “I was shocked,” said Rutherfordton Elementary Fourth Grade Teacher

Ginger Meador, who learned in late September that she had been chosen as the 2009 Layman’s Award recipient. The Layman’s Award of Outstanding Teacher is funded by an anonymous donor for a teacher in the R-S Central school district. The winner receives $1,000 to be used personally or in the classroom. The purpose of the project, according to Please see Award, Page 6A

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LAKE LURE — Renting a home in this resort community has been a summer tradition for many landlords and vacationers, but a new ordinance passed Thursday night will bring big changes to the process if it becomes law on its next reading Oct. 13. Chief among those changes are provisions that limit the

maximum number of people who can occupy a home to 12 individuals — regardless of the house’s size. Another change requires landowners to have a call center for neighbors to phone in complaints, available 24/7. The law will also stipulate parking areas for each home licensed for renting that must be clearly marked on a map when the owner applies for his Please see Rental, Page 2A

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Rutherfordton Elementary Fourth Grade Teacher Ginger Meador reads about Blackbird to her students Friday.

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license. Both sides of the issue were represented in the public hearing Thursday night, with several references to the stakeholder’s committee set up to review the ordinance in 2008. “As part of the stakeholder’s committee I do believe it was biased,” said Carol McKay. “An overwhelming majority of people felt positive about vacation rentals. Are people’s toes going to get stepped on? Yes, The new ordinance they will. Mine have on renting homes been stepped on by in Lake Lure adds year-round residents.... several new requireYou make mention here ments, among them: that vacation rentals are run like commern Property owncial motels and hotels. ers have to acquire a But if a motel or hotel license to rent their were rented out as home commercially. few months a year as A fee for the license vacation rentals the hasn’t been set, yet. hotel would go out of n Parking areas business. They are not for the house for making money renting rent must be clearly these homes, they are marked on a map subsidizing the cost of submitted when ownership.” the property owner For others the quesapplies for his tion of whether rentals license. needed new regulations n The maximum was a question easily number of guests answered. that may stay over “Are you going to be night at one propwishy-washy politierty is equal to the cians or what?” Tyrone number of bedrooms Phillips asked. “I want there, plus two more to put to rest a couple people. But this of comments that are number can’t exceed continually brought up a total of 12. that the stakeholder n If a boat or other committee was stacked. watercraft is to be Bill Bush brought up included in the rental the fact that we had to agreement, that boat extend our time to find must have a license enough to serve on the on file. committee. There are n Property owners well over 2,000 homes must also have a 24 in Lake Lure in R-1 and hour call center with R-2 zones and about 116 contact information vacation rentals. Are we clearly posted on the going to let 10 percent property for neighof the people dictate bors to call with what we want? If you questions or comcan’t afford your home plaints. without a vacation rental fee coming in you shouldn’t own it....wake up Lake Lure and abide by the 95 percent of people who want a nice neighborhood to live in.” Another key component of the the new ordinance will be requiring town officials to keep detailed records of any police calls to the rental properties. These calls might come for noise violations, having too many people at one home or overflowing septic tanks from overloaded sewage systems. “We’ll have a greater documentation and understanding of where the particular rental homes are because of our registration and licensing process,” said Town Manager Chris Braund. “That will help us in the enforcement. A big problem in the past is that it has been difficult to make policy decisions without very good information about whether certain properties are more problematic.” After Thursday’s passage, Braund said the new data would make enforcement easier. Certain elements of the process aren’t set yet — like how much fees will be for homeowners to get their license to rent out their properties. “During this process there were claims or assertions made that you have more complaints and calls for noise ordinance violations from rental homes than you would from non-rental homes,” Braund said. “We don’t have the data to substantiate that or not. Going forward, we will have that information to see how many times did the police have to go out to certain types of homes for various ordinances.” Braund said the failure to adequately enforce existing ordinances for noise, trash and other welfare issues made it tougher to settle on this new ordinance. Former Commissioner Jeanine Noble — who worked many hours on the ordinance before resigning due to illness — was disappointed in the outcome of Thursday’s hearing. “The way certain council members voted disappointed me,” Noble said. “Certain compromises they wanted done — like the elimination of the sunset clause and others — were done, and they still voted to oppose. The council is not doing away with vacation rentals, not at all. And that was never the council’s intent. I thought we’d been working toward this ordinance for two years and that’s just not how certain people voted Thursday night.”

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Senior Chelsea Medford escorted by Mark McFarland was crowned the 2009 East Rutherford Homecoming queen Friday during the halftime event of the football game at East Rutherford High School. Medford is the daughter of Darin and Melinda Medford.

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excused herself to take a cell phone call. It was a niece in Mississippi wondering if Thursday would be a good day to drive up for a visit. “We’ll go out for supper. Right,” Goode told her niece, laughing momentarily. Every time she has visit from a niece or nephew, the fellowship includes a restaurant meal. Goode is in good health and does not need nursing care or even assisted living care right now. In fact, if she had her way about it, she’d be helping the staff cook meals, clean rooms or entertain the other residents. She believes she could even return to her former job as a lawn and garden center greeter at Wal-Mart — the job she enjoyed most in her life. It was in the winter of 2007, Goode began to realize she might not be able to live alone anymore. A resident of Oakwood Village in Rutherfordton for the past few years, Goode had, for the first time ever, experienced a sincere fear of living alone. She isn’t sure why she was afraid, but there was concern. “I became fearful of things and I wasn’t taking my meds like I needed. I had meds left over at the end of the month. “And I was seeing things that weren’t real. I saw a snake in 2007,” she said. Rutherfordton police and other law enforcement officers combed Goode’s apartment but never discovered a snake. “But I saw it across the foot of my bed and I heard it fall. To me it was very real,” Goode quietly said. “When you realize you can’t stay by yourself, you must make a decision and then tell your family what you are planning to do,” she said. After making her decision and even calling Oakland Living Center, she called all her nieces and nephews to share her decision. “Every one of them had a room for me to live, but I knew I wasn’t going to tear up their homes when I could live here for now,” Goode said. “And you can’t back down on your decision. “I did a lot of praying about this. You should never make any decisions without praying,” she said of her relationship with the Lord. She is a firm believer in prayer. “I had my mind made up and was accepted to this place. God just

opened the door right up for me,” she said. When Goode made her decision, she had to get rid of her apartment of furniture, her household things and a closet of clothes. What her family didn’t want or need, she sent to a mission church in Kentucky, started several years ago by Spencer Baptist Church and its Minister of Youth and Senior Adults, Bruce Caldwell. Goode traveled with Caldwell on several mission trips to the poverty stricken areas of Kentucky, and shared chaperone duties. Caldwell has also been instrumental in talking with Goode about her decisions. He also serves as her power of attorney. “I had to choose what clothes to bring here. I couldn’t bring them all. My closet here is about one-half the size of the one at the apartment,” she said. When Goode moved to Oakland on March 7, she knew she was in the right place. “I have not had any regrets since,” she said. On the door to her room, at the end of a long hall, is a sign that reads, “Let it go. Let God have it.” Those words never meant more to her than her first few days at the living center. “I just couldn’t get a grasp on how much it was going to cost me,” she began. “Money was never mentioned when I called to find out about moving here,” she said. But after moving, she experienced two or three days of crying and feeling very sad. “And one night, I was literally in tears, for real,” Goode said. She picked up a book, opening it to a page with the words at the top, “Let it go. Let God have it.” “I said to the Lord, ‘Is this for me?’ I knew it was. I got the peace I needed,” she said. The next day when center owner Mike Smith learned of Goode’s concern about the finances, he visited her room. “He told me there may be some things I’d cry about, but money was not one of them,” Goode said. She received the encouragement she needed and doesn’t think about the expenses any longer. When her father died she was just six years old and there were three younger siblings and three older. Upon his death, her mother had to go to the mill to work to help support the family. Goode

helped out at home with the younger brothers and sisters. “We always had enough to eat and enough clothes to wear to keep us from being arrested,” she quipped. When Goode turned 16 years old, she quit school, following in the footsteps of her older siblings and went to work at Spindale Mills to support the family. After 37 years in the mill, Goode sold insurance for several years before going to work for the Rutherford County Board of Elections. She was the co-janitor at Spencer Baptist four years before going to Wal-Mart as a lawn and garden center greeter where she stayed a decade, receiving minimum wage, but having the best time of her working career. She thoroughly enjoyed meeting people. Goode lived with her mother until her mother’s death 34 years ago and then it was time to look for another home. Although the Goodes owned the home, she decided to move into a house with longtime friend, Mary Crawley of Spindale. “We split the bills and lived that way a long time.” After Crawley’s passing, Goode moved into an apartment in a house formerly owned by Georgia Hamrick. She loved living there, she said, as it brought back memories of Hamrick’s mother, Illa Hamrick. The elder Hamrick was a childhood church teacher. “She was my Sunbeam leader and instilled in me a love of missions,” Goode said. (Sunbeams was a children’s mission program in the Baptist church.) A member of First Baptist Church, Spindale, for years, she later joined Spencer and fell in love with its people and became very active in the ministry there. About 25 years ago, she joined Bruce Caldwell on a mission trip to Carlisle, Pa. The youth, Goode and Caldwell worked in a poverty stricken area. “Every mission trip after that, I went with Bruce and the youth,” Goode said. She was their official chaperone. Prior to going to Pennsylvania with the youth, she worked with missionary Suthell Walker, a Spindale native, in her ministry in Tennessee and Kentucky. Goode also traveled on a couple of occasions with a group of men and women from North

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Carolina Baptist Men’s organization to New York City to help with a lower Manhattan mission church Graffiti. She has always had a heart for missions and the poor. “And I’ve been so blessed with extremely good health,” Goode continued, and until 2007 had no serious health issues. She under went quadruple by-pass surgery in 2007 at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. She traveled to Emory at the request of a good friend, Nikki, who lives near Atlanta and wanted to care for Goode. Nikki was 14-months old when she and her mother, Barbara, moved into the home Goode shared with Mary Crawley in Spindale. Jean Gordon/Daily Courier Nikki lived there until she went off to college. Thelma Goode talks about her life in Rutherford Goode has always been County. a strong support system for Nikki and she never week from Campobello, of the place and the forgot it. kind and professional S.C., to take Goode to Goode has traveled staff. the “store, bank and to Disney World with Long before she other places like that.” Nikki and her husband moved there, Goode Others come or call and shared other vacavisited residents to play regularly. tions with the couple Numerous family pho- Rummy-Cube. and their two young Today Goode received tos line Goode’s dresser daughters, Makahla, 5, outside friends to play and walls. and Peyton,10 months. game with her. As Goode paused Christmas will be spent briefly, the thought Recently she had the with the family in West of moving from home card table set up in Virginia. Walker’s room to play returned. “There will “She is so much come a time when most Rummy-Cube. younger than my nieces folks will need to make A friend from Spencer and nephews,” Goode a decision about their Baptist telephoned to said. senior years and living say she and another After her surgery in situations. friend were running 2007, Goode went back “At about 75 or 80 late, but would be there to Wal-Mart and quit years old, you begin to shortly to play the earlier this year because realize you either have game. she wasn’t quite as to live with a child Goode’s kindness to frisky as she had been. or make a decision, others has followed her “And I couldn’t cut ‘Where I will live?’ I to this new place in her up as much,” she said. made my decision when life and with a firm Her sense of humor, my health was good. belief in missions, she a personality trait That’s when you need continues to minister to she received from her to do that. You ask God others. mother, has also been for help in making the She wants to help othwith her all her life. She decision and when you ers as they transition enjoys making people make the decision, you from home to a living laugh. don’t back out.” center. “I do not have a In addition to Nikki For years, Goode was single regret,” she said. and her family’s close a regular visitor at the connection, niece Carol Oakland Living Center. Contact Gordon at jgorarrives at Oakland don@thedigitalcourier. She said she always Living Center once a com. noticed the cleaniness

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Our Views Cheers, jeers Cheer: To the Rutherfordton Kiwanis Club for its more than $12,000 in donations to organizations who help the youth in our county, The Kiwanis’ auction every year is a popular event that raises much of the money offered in the donations. Cheer: To the tremendous promise offered to county students through the New Century Scholars program at Isothermal Community College. Those selected for this program receive support in building self-esteem, interpersonal skills and development of career goals. More than 400 have been inducted and receive the benefit of paid tuition at ICC if they complete the program. Jeer: To state employees who needed the governor to extend a no-gift ban to cover all employees instead of just those who participate in the awarding of contracts and other state business. It seems incredible that these workers need someone to tell them that these practices are wrong. Cheer: To all those who will volunteer for this year’s annual Week of Caring, which kicks off Oct. 17 and runs through the 24th. Participants will help senior citizens, disabled adults and nonprofit agencies. Cheer: To Rutherford Elementary fourth grade teacher Ginger Meador (see Page One) for her selection as this year’s winner of the Layman’s Award. Offered by an anonymous donor, the award goes to a teacher in the R.S. Central school district who achieves an outstanding performance in the classroom with the resources at hand.

Time for Perdue to clean house RALEIGH — For Gov. Beverly Perdue, scandal can be turned into opportunity. Fire the workers; kill all the lawyers. OK, so I’m not really advocating that she take Shakespeare’s advice. Simply ignoring the lawyers for a while would do just fine. Take no heed of the memos on the State Personnel Act. Don’t take their calls. Don’t go knocking on their doors. And fire the state employees. Fire the Division of Motor Vehicle workers who believe it’s a fine thing to be wined and dined at fancy steakhouses on the dime of a company that’s about to be awarded a no-bid contract by the state agency. Fire any state Highway Patrol troopers not already given the boot for being unable to keep the pants zipped. Fire the Highway Patrol captain who headed then-Gov. Mike Easley’s security detail and seems to believe that destroying public records is a superb idea. Fire the administrative law judges who defend this behavior. All right, she can’t actually fire administrative law judges. Too bad. The fact is, these scandals put

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a big, fat stain on state government. In water cooler conversations, the Highway Patrol has become the butt (no, not that kind) of endless jokes. Average Janes and Joes, whose typical contact with state government involves speaking to their child’s teacher or renewing a car registration, come to see all state agencies as filled with depraved, greedy slackers. Dedicated, hard-working state employees — and plenty of them are out there — become more slandered than anyone by the actions of some that seem incomprehensible to most. Most have difficulty imagining the thought process of DMV workers who believe it’s just dandy to enjoy a high-dollar meal at the Capital City Chop House, paid for Verizon Business, just before the agency delivers a nobid contract to the same Verizon Business.

Most have difficulty imagining how a Highway Patrol trooper, caught having sex on the job in the back of a patrol cruiser, could then have the audacity to proclaim that he should keep his job. For some, no amount of public humiliation is enough. So, Perdue needs to clean out the rats nest. Don’t mind the nervous nervous Nellies. Don’t worry about the legal gobbledeegook. So what if the state is sued? It will probably be sued anyway. If it is, in every court hearing thereafter, people will be reminded that their governor did the right thing, that she had become as tired of this garbage as the rest of us. Fire them. Fire them today. A few year ago, I was told that then-Lt. Gov. Perdue, while interviewing a potential staff member, wanted to know whether the person was “tough enough.” In a rather interesting turn of events, the people who hired Perdue want to know that same thing about her today. Here’s her chance to show them that she is. Scott Mooneyham is executive director of The Capitol News Service.

Creeds play an essential role in what we believe The famous and prolific English author, G.K. Chesterton, once quipped that America is the only nation ever founded on a creed. This is, in many ways, true. Every significant movement in history has begun or at one point acquired a slogan or creed. For the American Revolution, “Give me liberty or give me death!” and “No taxation without representation” come immediately to mind. During the French Revolution, it was “Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!” “Remember the Alamo!” was the battle cry in the war for Texas succession from Mexico. But Chesterton was right in the sense that while the birth of most other nations often focused on ethnicity, geography, ideology, or tradition, America was founded on certain ideas about freedom, human dignity, and social responsibility. Far more than simple slogans, our Declaration of Independence and later our Pledge of Allegiance are “creeds” of our Country and the foundation of our beliefs. The profound peculiarity to which the United States of America was “creedal” was noted by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville when he visited in the early nineteenth cen-

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tury. R.J. Rushdoony, in his book “Foundations of Social Order”, noted that every significant movement in history begins with a philosophy. Jesus said in Matthew 12:34, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks”. And clearly what the mouth speaks very often turns in to the actions that we later take. Many churches regularly recite a creed. In our church the Nicene Creed is recited. This was the first Creed of the Church adopted by the Bishops of the Church, just after the persecution of Christians had ended under Roman Emperor Constantine, who was sympathetic to the Christian faith. According to St. Athanasius, 318 Bishops from churches around the Mediterranean gathered in Nicea, Turkey for this first called meeting of the Bishops of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. The first draft of the Nicene Creed was one result and fruit of this first worldwide Council of Bishops. As Rushdoony points out, many of these attending Bishops

had missing limbs and scars from their former tortures and persecutions during the time that Christianity was illegal. One primary reason the early church bishops adopted a “Creed” was to combat heresy, and most particularly the Arian heresy, which promoted the false idea that Jesus was not creator of all, and not co-eternal and “of one substance” with God the Father. The Arian heresy still exists. And almost seventeen hundred years later most of the worldwide church weekly recites this “Creed”. Christian Creeds, such as the Nicene Creed, the Apostles’ Creed, and the Creed of St. Athanasius, serve at least two purposes: first to establish what is essential Christianity — a standard by which adherence or departure from the essentials of the apostolic faith must be judged, and secondly, to serve as a “historic prologue” by which those new to the faith can made to quickly understand what the faith is about and how it came into existence. A good example of how a “historic prologue” works even in the secular world is in the old television series, “Superman”. I can remember George Reeves in his “pajamas” in front of the US flag, while the announcer proclaimed, “Faster than a

speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…it’s Superman!” This was proclaimed at the beginning of every show, and if you were a newcomer to the show, it immediately informed you of what Superman was all about. The Nicene Creed does much the same thing: it allows those new to the Christian faith to quickly understand the essentials of the faith, and it establishes a plumb line by which authentic and historic Christianity is measured. For example, “You don’t believe in the virgin birth?”. Then — in essence — you do not believe in historic Christianity and it would have been a basis to call one a heretic in the early church. Many that claim to be a part of the Christian faith are too easily embracing distortions that are not compatible with the historic faith of the church. We have come to a true crisis as to what we really do believe. Much of the contemporary church of the 21st century would be unrecognizable to the early fathers of our faith. Many are not sure as to what they really do believe. A new generation is coming of age and asking for something they can believe in that will give them hope for tomorrow. They are looking for something tested by time

that will be there for them and their children. A recovery of the faith of the early church is now essential. Creeds are important to the Church and to us. We need both a synopsis of the essentials of Christianity and the essentials of what makes us Americans. Early American educators understood this, and began to realize that if America’s experiment in liberty was to succeed, informed patriotism must be instilled in the young. Thus, rising citizens were presented with a small handbook, a brief guide to the essential elements of the American Creed. This guide would include the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech, and a few other historical documents. Likewise churches need the Creed. What do we as Christians believe? What are the essentials of the Christian faith? For we do tend to act according to the way we think. Ideas DO have consequences. In this day of vacillation and shallowness let us not only declare our faith but live it everyday. Can we say as the Apostle Paul declared,” I know in whom I have believed?” A faithful Christian will live according to right belief.

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This sweet pup is one-year-old male Cocker Spaniel/Welsh Corgi mix available for adoption at the Rutherford County Animal Shelter on Laurel Hill Drive in Rutherfordton. The shelter’s hours are noon to 4 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. For more information call 287-6025. For the Community Pet Center volunteers office call 287-7738.

ANIMAL SHELTER ACTIVITY Dogs/puppies picked up or surrendered to shelter............ 138/75 Cats/kittens picked up or surrendered to shelter..............121/139 Total number of animals picked up or surrendered................. 475 Dogs/puppies euthanized this month at the shelter............. 72/34 Cats/kittens euthanized this month at the shelter.............104/121 Total number of animals euthanized at the shelter.................. 334 Total number of animals adopted from the shelter this month.. 49 Total number of animals returned to owners this month........... 22 Total number of animals rescued by groups this month........... 21 Animals remaining in shelter as of 08-31-09............................. 67 Animals remaining in shelter at the end of last month.............. 27 Calls for animal pick-up/drop off (does not reflect transports to vet)................................................................................................. 92 Cruelty/complaint investigations................................................ 45 Bite case investigations............................................................... 4 Total number of animal control calls for the month..................141 Money deposited from Kennedy/Boyd....................................$144 Total amount of money deposited for adoptions and rabies shots for the month......................................................................... $2,434.

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FOREST CITY — The awarding of a bid for the Brackett Creek interceptor sewer and pump station improvements is on the agenda for the Board of Commissioners meeting Monday. Nine bids were received for the project. The low bidder was DPI Construction Inc., of Arden, but that company asked to withdraw its bid because of a math error. The next lowest bidder is Ronny Turner Construction of Hickory at $862,443. Scott Hoyle, public workers director, is recommending that the work be awarded to Turner. Also at the meeting, the town will review a proposed animal and fowl ordinance crafted by Police Chief Jay Jackson. Commissioners also will consider adopting a budget amendment for a police department grant. Justice Assistance Grant funds will be used to initiate a polygraph program, purchase covert surveillance equipment and flashlights. In other matters on the agenda: n Property concerns will be cited by Sevil and Nell Horn.

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n The board will consider adopting a North Carolina Department of Transportation utility agreement. n The board will consider making a decision between two signs congratulating the Owls on their 2009 season. n A discussion will be held concerning issues with a community wall joining buildings owned by the town and Chuck Flack.

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Dot Wall Dorothy (Dot) Scruggs Wall, 80, of 409 Chesterfield Road, Cliffside, died Saturday Oct. 3, 2009 at Fair Haven Nursing Center. A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late Chester and Thelma Freeman Scruggs; was the widow of William Avery “Buck” Wall. She was retired from Cone Mills Cliffside Plant; a member of Avondale Methodist Church. She is survived by one son, Randy Wall of Cliffside, one brother, Marion Scruggs of Mooresboro; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held 3:30 p.m. Monday at the A.C. McKinney Memorial Chapel at McKinneyLandreth Funeral Home with Rev. Ernie Cole officiating. Burial will follow in Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be held 2 to 3:15 p.m. prior to the service Memorials may be made to Fair Haven Nursing Center 149 Fair Haven Drive Bostic, NC 28018 or Hospice of Rutherford County P.O. Box 336 Forest City, NC 28043. McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home Cliffside is serving the Wall Family. A guest register is available at www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com

Ed Webb Eskridge Ed Webb Eskridge of Rutherfordton, no age given, died Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, at Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by McMahan’s Funeral Home & Cremation Services.

Immigrant issue on agenda From staff reports

RUTHERFORDTON — County Commissioners will discuss a resolution banning illegal immigrants from attending community colleges during their regular meeting Monday night at 6 at the County Annex. Commissioner Susan Crowe will ask the board to pass a resolution asking the state legislature to pass laws to prevent illegal immigrants from enrolling in community colleges across the state. Also on the agenda will be appointments to the Chimney Rock Volunteer Fire Department board of trustees for fireman’s relief fund, the Jury Commission, the Library Board, Western Highlands Board, Airport Appeals Board, Historic Preservation Commission, SWEEP and the Workforce Development Consortium. In other business, the board will review an updated map

Dot Wall

Dorothy (Dot) Scruggs Wall, 80, of 409 Chesterfield Road, Cliffside ,died Saturday Oct. 3, 2009, at Fair Haven Nursing Center. A native of Rutherford County she was born Dec. 12, 1928, a daughter of the late Chester and Thelma Freeman Scruggs. Dot was retired from Cone Mills Cliffside Plant and a member of Avondale Methodist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Avery “Buck” Wall; one brother, Herbert Scruggs, and three sisters Geneva “Navy” Beason, Martha “Mot” Radford and Sue Hamrick. She is survived by one son, Randy Wall and wife Sharon of Cliffside; one brother, Marion Scruggs and wife Doris, of Mooresboro; one grandson, M. Brent Wall of Cliffside; one granddaughter, L. Avery Earley and husband Nicholas of Forest City; one sister-inlaw, Shirley Goforth Scruggs of Forest City; three brothers-in-law, Charlie Beason of Cramerton, Hubert Radford of Cliffside, Broadus Hamrick of Cliffside; three great grandchildren, Hunter, Trey, Ashlan, and 15 nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, at The A.C. McKinney Memorial Chapel at McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home with the Rev. Ernie Cole officiating. Burial will follow in Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be held 2-3:15 p.m. prior to the service. Memorials may be made to Fair Haven Nursing Center 149 Fairhaven Drive, Bostic, NC 28018 or Hospice of Rutherford County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043. McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home Cliffside is serving the Wall Family. A guest register is available at www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com Paid obit

officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park. The family will receive friends beginning at 3 p.m. until service time at the church. Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the family.

Rebecca Doggett

Rebecca Hewitt Doggett, 70, of Ellenboro died Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009, at her residence. A native of Rutherford County she was born Oct. 6, 1938, to Jessie Lowery Hewitt and the late Horace Hewitt. In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by her husband John Lee Doggett; two brothers Bobby Hewitt and Morris Hewitt. She worked as an accountant for Russ Isham Real Estate. She loved to travel and was a member of First Wesleyan Church of Forest City. She is survived by her mother, Jessie Lowery Hewitt; one daughter, Teresa Bird of Ellenboro; two sons, Kenny Doggett of Panama City, Fla., and Gregg Doggett and wife Amy of Forest City; two brothers, Steve Hewitt of Forest City and Buddy Hewitt of Myrtle Beach, SC; four grandchildren, Toby Bird, Timothy Bird, Adam Doggett, and Amanda Doggett; one great grandchild, Madison Bird. Funeral services will be conducted 4 p.m., Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, at First Wesleyan Church with Reverend Curtis Williams and Reverend Lamar Hewitt officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park. The family will receive friends beginning at 3 p.m. until service time at the church. Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the family. An online guest registry is available at www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com Paid obit

of the Shiloh-DanieltownOakland volunteer fire department’s coverage district. The new map was necessary for the VFD’s insurance certification and has been altered after some annexations. Representatives from the Community Pet Center will also be in attendance for a Memorandum of Understanding between the county and the CPC. “The CPC has been to the commissioners and gotten a general consensus, but before you actually formalize anything you’d have a contract,” County Manager John Condrey said. “But this moves forward with putting that contract into place, which would be the next

step.” The memorandum outlines how the CPC will be required to provide staff for working at the county’s new animal shelter — including feedings, cleanings and maintain all the state mandated records for the animals there. The county’s responsibility will be to provide the new shelter as laid out in the Daniel Road project plan. And the county’s Animal Control department will be responsible for handling all police calls related to animals. No time line is given in the memorandum for when the new shelter will be built. Finally, the board will also review a request from Duke Energy to abandon State Road 1977, B.O. Jones Road.

Esther Bridges McGarity Mrs. McGarity, 89, of Charlotte, NC, died Wednesday, September 30, 2009, at The Haven in Highland Creek following a long period of declining health. Esther was born March 29, 1920, in Rutherford County, NC, daughter of the late Walter Spurgeon and Nancy Noblitt Bridges. She grew up on their dairy farm with four siblings, milking cows and working in the fields during the Great Depression. She attended the public schools of Rutherford County, graduated from Kings College in 1942 and Magna Cum Laude from Queens College in 1987 at the age of 67. Esther was employed as a secretary with various employers for fifty years and was a member of The National Secretaries Association (International), now Professional Secretaries International, for most of her working years. In 1960 she achieved NSA’s Certified Professional Secretary rating, a hallmark of that organization and its successor. She was an active member of St. John’s Baptist Church where she taught an adult women’s Sunday school class for a few years before switching to leadership positions in the Woman’s Missionary Union. She also held membership in Senior Scholars, the Charlotte Chapter of Queens College Alumni Association, and Mecklenburg Senior Democrats. Esther enjoyed homemaking, yard work, serious music and reading. Her main life-long pursuits were continuing education, child welfare, animal rights and environmental protection. Her greatest devotion was to her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, followed by love for and loyalty to her family members and friends. Over the years since her retirement, Esther volunteered at Mecklenburg Ministries, Shepherd Center, Eastover School and Crisis Assistance Ministry on a rotating basis. Esther considered her marriage to hter late husband, Paul P. McGarity to be the greatest blessing of her life, second only to her salvation in Jesus Christ, and the next greatest blessing to be the love and companionship of Paul’s relatives: his two sons and their wives who have predeceased her: Paul P McGarity, Jr. and his wife Marilyn and Gene W. McGarity and his wife Ann; his grandchildren: Gene W. McGarity, Jr. of Austin, TX and Lillian McGarity Chapman and her husband Phillip of Charlotte; his great-grandchildren Brett W. McGarity and his wife Sandy of Denver, CO, David Chapman and his wife, Peggy of Charlotte, Mary Woodall Chapman Oakey and her husband Henry of Charlottesville, VA, Laura Ann McGarity and Ross Michael McGarity of Austin, TX; as well as six great-great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, Esther was preceded in death by her husbands, Thomas J. Moss of Forest City, NC in 1961 and Paul P. McGarity of Charlotte in 1968; her brother and sisters, W.K. Bridges or Fayetteville, NC; Wilma B. Herrin of Charlotte, Edith B. Wright of Rutherfordton, NC, and Ruth Bridges Canter of Moravian Falls, NC. She is survived by two brothers-in-law, Edwin J. Canter of Moravian Falls, James Hill of Rutherfordton; two sisters-in law, Betty Bridges Marsh and her husband Harold of Fayetteville and Feddie M. Moss of Forest City; an aunt, Melba M. Bridges of Rutherfordton; three nieces, Barbara B. Smith and her husband Norris of Cary, NC, Rachel C. Yarbrough and her husband Jack of Greensboro, NC, and Nancy W. Dorsey of Rutherfordton; three nieces-inlaw, Carolyn M. Horne and her husband, Russell, Nancy M. Robbins and her husband Jack of Forest City and Jeanne M. Stowe and her husband Alfred of Belmont, NC; four nephews, John E. Herrin and his wife Nanci of Myrtle Beach, SC, Ted J. Wright and his wife Trudy of Texas; Kim Bridges and his wife Donna of Fayetteville, and Timothy Bridges and his wife Donna of Raleigh. She is also survived by numerous great-nieces, great-nephews, and cousins. A memorial service will be held Monday, October 5th at 2 p.m. in the Chapel at St. John’s Baptist Church with the Reverend Martha Kearse officiating. The family will receive friends following the service at the church. Interment will be prior to the service at at Forest Lawn Cemetery West. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Baptist Children’s Homes of NC, P.O. Box 338, Thomasville, NC 27360, to the Missions Endowment Fund, St. John’s Baptist Church, 300 Hawthorne Lane, Charlotte, NC 28204 or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Harry & Bryant Company is serving the family. Paid obit

6A — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, October 4, 2009

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Health/education Awareness Week: Oct. 4-10 is Mental Illness Awareness Week. NAMI (National Alliance On Mental Illness) Rutherford, the local affiliate, can be reached via the web at www.naminc.org, click on affiliates and locate Rutherford. You may also call 288-3820 and leave a message, or email amyz59@ hotmail.com. Flu vaccines: Flu shots will be given Thursday, Oct. 15, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., at Double Springs Baptist Church FLC; fee $30; free for those Medicare Part B card; must bring card or a copy; for questions, call Karen Bridges at 704-284-0194; this is a service for the community from Double Springs Baptist Church Health Care Ministry.

Meetings/other NAMI Rutherford meeting: Monday, Oct. 5, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Parish Hall of Saint Francis Episcopal Church, Rutherfordton; participation is encouraged from those living with mental illness, family members/care givers, and mental health professionals; NAMI is a volunteer organization promoting education, support, and advocacy; call 288-3820 for more information. DAR meeting: Griffith Rutherford NSDAR Chapter; Wednesday, Oct. 7, 3 p.m., at VFW Post #5204, 940 Withrow Rd., Forest City. Hours changing: All Rutherford County Convenience Centers will be closed on Sundays, beginning Nov. 1. Also the convenience centers will now close at 7 p.m., beginning Nov. 2.

Reunions Alexander Mills reunion: Saturday, Oct. 3, covered dish meal at 3 p.m.; Four Seasons Farm, 1013 Doggett Rd., Forest City; for anyone who lived or attended church in the old Alexander Mills community; for information call 248-1116. Gettys family reunion: Sunday, Oct. 4, covered dish lunch 1 p.m.; Duncan’s Creek Presbyterian Church, Ellenboro; for more information call 704-487-5480. Rollins family reunion: Sunday, Oct. 4, Mountain View Baptist Church fellowship building, Hwy. 221 south, Rutherfordton; lunch will be served at 1 p.m.; bring a well-filled basket; contact Todd Rollins at 287-9748 for more information. Bridges family reunion: Descendants of D.C. and Georgia Bridges; Sunday, Oct. 4, covered dish lunch 1 p.m., Corinth Baptist Church FLC, Ellenboro. Hutchins family reunion: Descendants of Joseph and Mary Thomas Vickers Hutchins; Sunday, Oct. 11, covered dish lunch 1 p.m., at Cane Creek Clubhouse, US Hwy. 64, Rutherfordton.

Fundraisers Bake sale: Friday, Oct. 9, all day event at the Spindale Library; large number of baked goods including cookies, muffins and much more; all proceeds to benefit the library; sponsored by The Discovery 4-H Club. Breakfast, yard sale: Saturday, Oct. 10, Union Mills Learning Center; all-you-eat country breakfast 7 to 10 a.m., adults $6; children $2.50; yard sale set up at 6 a.m., the center is located at 6495 Hudlow Rd., Union Mills. Bike run for Children’s Hospital: Saturday, Oct. 10, registration 10 a.m., at S.D.O. Fire Department; the ride goes through Lake Lure and Hendersonville and ends at Side Street Pizza, Tryon; sponsored by Lauren Davis for her senior project at Chase High School; cost $20 per single rider, $15 with donated toy; $5 (or a toy) for each passenger; toys must be new and unwrapped; for information contact Jimmy Davis at 429-0705; all proceeds (including toys) go to the Shiners Children’s Hospital. Fish fry: Friday, Oct. 16, 4 to 8 p.m., Long Branch Road Baptist Church, Shiloh community; not set price; donations accepted; take outs available; proceeds for a new fellowship hall. Benefit program: For Casandra Staley (kidney transplant patient); Sunday, Oct. 25, 4 p.m.; Zion Grove A.M.E. Zion Church, Rutherfordton; on program — Bethlehem Young Adult Choir, Simpsonville, S.C.; Rev. Michael Smith & The Voices of Inspiration, Marion; St. John Mass Choir; The Dewberry Family and Green Creek Inspirational Choir, Tryon. Benefit Schooling Horse Show: Saturday, Oct. 31, 9 a.m., at The Squirrel’s Nest Farm, LLC; to benefit the Community Pet Center; for more information contact Deana Gilliam at 429-0688, or Sarah Lawing at 828-447-3405, or via email squirrelsnestfarm@skycatcher.net.

Charles Kevin Jackson is charged with two counts of first-degree sexual offense, felony assault on handicapped and indecent liberties with a child. A number of people face drug charges. Larry Timothy Abrams is charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, possession of marijuana up to ½ ounce, resisting a public officer, driving while license revoked and failure to heed light or siren. Michael T. Greene is charged with felony possession of marijuana, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. George Frank List is charged with trafficking marijuana, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, manufacture marijuana, maintain vehicle/ dwelling/ place for controlled substance, misdemeanor simple possession of schedule III controlled substance, two counts of misdemeanor simple possession of schedule IV controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Jeffrey Samuel Poole is charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver schedule I controlled substance, felony probation violation, possession with intent to sell and deliver schedule I controlled substance, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, two counts of felony maintain vehicle/ dwelling/ place for controlled substance, misdemeanor simple possession of schedule IV controlled substance, three counts of misdemeanor simple possession of

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schedule II controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, possess/ sell non-taxpaid alcoholic beverage, two counts of trafficking opium or heroin and possession of controlled substance on prison/jail premises. Phillip Junior Searcy is charged with possession of marijuana up to ½ ounce, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Sammy Mark Smith is charged with possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver methamphetamine, felony maintain vehicle/ dwelling/ place for controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana up to ½ ounce. A number of people are facing driving charges. Joseph Franklin Beam is charged with reckless driving to endanger and driving while impaired. Krista Elaine Bolick is charged with driving while impaired. Jonathan Vernon Hoyle is charged with driving while impaired and failure to comply on license restrictions. Wayne Stuart Humphries is charged with speeding and driving while license revoked. Brandon James Lynch is charged with habitual impaired driving. Michael Alsdorf Miller is charged with failure to notify DMV of address change, two counts of no operator’s license, driving while impaired and driving left of center. Calvin Scott Pearson is charged with driving while license revoked and expired/no registration. Brian Eugene Whitener is charged with five counts of driving while license revoked and possession of drug paraphernalia. Christopher Whiteside is charged

with speeding, driving while license revoked and fictitious information to officer. April Bradley Wyatt is charged with driving while impaired. Charged with felony probation violations are: John Shedrick Carson Sr., Martha Mosley Hamilton and Rashid Armond Phillips. Charged with misdemeanor probation violations are: Justin Keith Bradshaw, two counts; John Shedrick Carson Sr.; Derrick Joseph Reynolds, two counts; Teresea Poteat Rumfelt; Other people on the Superior Court calendar and their charges are: n Donald Richard Bell, resisting a public officer, mislabeled drugs, second-degree trespassing and misdemeanor simple possession of schedule IV controlled substance. n Stephanie Paige Bridges, simple assault. n Jason Bryan Buchanan, three counts of felony breaking and/or entering and three counts of larceny after break/enter. n Paul Green, injury to personal property, communicating threats and harassing phone call. n Michael Kareem Hannon, obtain property by false pretense, common law forgery and common law uttering. n Sheena Carmille Logan, injury to personal property. n Tracey Renae McKinney, misdemeanor larceny and failure to appear. n William Brandon Mosley, firstdegree burglary and driving while license revoked. n Wendall Paul Radford Jr., felony breaking and/or entering, felony larceny, injury to real property and habitual felon status. n Debra Jane Solon, simple assault. n Julie Webb, injury to personal property.

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Rutherford County Schools, is to recognize the contribution of an outstanding classroom teacher in the R-S district. “You don’t know what your coworkers think about you until you are nominated for an award,” she said. Meador’s coworkers and former students had to write endorsements on her behalf for the award. First grade teacher Mary Beth Francis, who has known Meador for 29 years as a friend, colleague and mother of two former students said in her letter about Meador “It takes a unique teacher to provide such an atmosphere of learning where an entire class becomes excited, amazed and curious about learning. Mrs. Meador is such a teacher. She has the genuine ability to bring out the best in each child.” Meador has been teaching at Rutherfordton Elementary for 25 years. Receiving the Layman’s Award is such an honor, she said. “When you’ve done this all your life and get recognition for it — it’s just really, really good,” she said. Meador said that during her interview for the award at the county office, she was asked if there was anything she wanted to say. “I responded that I saw a T-shirt at the beach that a woman was wearing, and from a distance I memorized what it said,” Meador said. Her eyes filling with tears, Meador said “The shirt said ‘I am a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children.’ I think those are the most beautiful words I’ve ever seen.” Meador received her $1,000 check in the mail last week and said that although she’ll be out of school for the next two months recuperating from shoulder surgery, she already has plans on how she’ll spend at least a

To be chosen for the Layman’s Award, teachers in the R-S Central District were measured by the following criteria: n Demonstrates exceptional skill and dedication to the art of teaching. n Possesses superior ability to inspire love of learning in students of all backgrounds and capabilities. n Makes maximum use of the resources at hand and accepts limitations of resources when necessary. n Has the respect of students, co-workers, and parents. n Has the ambition to keep abreast of developments in the profession. n Visualizes desired educational goals and has the professional integrity to strive to accomplish them. n Maintains poise and dignity in handling difficult situations. portion of it. “I’ve already packed my order for Scholastic News, which is about $5 per student, to take home. There’s that first $100,” she said. Meador, who began her teaching career at Flintgroves Elementary School in Gastonia, has taught third, fourth and fifth grades at Rutherfordton Elementary. The Layman’s Award is not her first honor since beginning at Rutherfordton Elementary – in 1992 she was the school and the county’s teacher of the year and the First Union Outstanding Educator Award winner. She is also a past Soil and Water Conservation Teacher of the Year and was inducted

Musings on Meador Here’s what some of Ginger Meador’s coworkers had to say about her: “Ginger’s extraordinary commitment to teaching excellence is proven in her willingness to spend her summers engaged in programs designed to enrich her educational expertise. Often she can be found in attendance at after school events involving her students as she supports them in their extracurricular

into Delta Kappa Gamma Teacher’s Society in 1998. She has served as a textbook evaluator for social studies and math for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. A 1972 graduate of East Tennessee State University, Meador and her husband have two sons, Rich and John. Over the years she has served as a Sunday School teacher, director of Bible School, T-ball coach, PTA officer, R-S Central Booster Club member, organizer of Fun Day for the Little League and a member of Rutherford Women’s League. Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.

activities. Former students are regular visitors to see this teacher that meant so much to them while in her class. She is a very positive and helpful person...” — Susan Lane, library media center coordinator “Ginger’s students love her dearly. Many greet her with hugs as they pass her in the hallway each day. She always responds with kind words of encouragement and excitement. Ginger is highly respected by coworkers, parents and students. — Sandra Nanney, first grade teacher

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Business Briefs Edward Jones ranking best in 2009 J.D. Power study For the fourth year out of the past five, financial-services firm Edward Jones ranks highest in investor satisfaction with full service brokerage firms, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Full Service Investor Satisfaction StudySM. The ranking was announced the three Edward Jones Financial Advisors in Rutherford County. The study measures overall investor satisfaction with full service investment firms based on six factors: account offerings, convenience, commissions and fees, financial advisor, investment performance and account statements. The J.D. Power and Associates study found that Edward Jones performed particularly well in convenience and account statements. The Rutherford County financial advisors include: Frank and Tracy Faucette, Forest City; David Smith, Rutherfordton. “We’re delighted to be recognized by J.D. Power and Associates as ranking highest in customer satisfaction for full-service investors,” said Faucette. “We believe this is a reflection of our long-time and unflagging commitment to treating our clients as we’d like to be treated.” Edward Jones prides itself on giving their investors a personal, one-on-one relationship personified by their Web site communication of “A bad day is when I don’t meet any clients face-to-face.” “The last year has been incredibly challenging for financial services firms and a long list of significant changes have occurred in the industry,” Smith said. “What hasn’t changed at Edward Jones is our focus on delivering superior client service. It absolutely shapes the way we do business, and more than ever, we intend to stay focused on that objective.” Edward Jones ranked highest in investor satisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates in 2005, 2006 and 2007, and highest in 2002 in a tie.

New owner for Rutherford Large Animal Services FOREST CITY —Dr. Rachel Butterworth-Tice has purchased Rutherford Large Animal Services from Dr. Paul Hinkle. Now operating as Rutherford Large Animal Mobile Services PPLC (RLAMS), will be providing the same professional, quality and personal veterinary care to farm animals for Rutherford and surrounding counties. The practice will continue to have the same office phone number 288-0199 and same office location within Hinkle’s Pet Hospital at 651 West St. in Spindale. Some of the services that Rutherford Large Animal Mobile Services PPLC provides includes: n Veterinary Care For Horses, Goats, Cattle, Sheep, Llamas and Alpacas n Wellness Exams and Preventative Medicine (vaccinations, deworming, etc.) n On-Farm Emergency Services n Equine Dentistry n Reproductive Management n Veterinary Acupuncture

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The Lumbee Tribal Housing Complex is under construction in Pembroke. The turtle shaped building should be finished in late November.

North Carolina tribe prospering By VENITA JENKINS The Fayetteville Observer

PEMBROKE, N.C. — The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina had a little more than $2 million in assets when it formed its government nearly 10 years ago. Today, the tribe has more than $51 million in new homes, rental properties, Boys & Girls Clubs and Community Centers and a $4.5 million housing complex under construction. The Fayetteville Observer reported that tribal leaders say the projects are one way to build the tribe’s wealth and provide affordable housing for its members. “By reaching the magical number of $50 million, it assures that the tribal government will always be here,” said

Tribal Chairman Jimmy Goins. “Our main purpose is the same as when we started in 2000, and that is helping the Lumbee people. We have demonstrated that by being able to bring funding into Lumbee communities.” Goins said if you had asked him in 2001 whether the tribe would have $50 million in assets, he would have said it was impossible. “We would have never thought we would be where we are today,” Goins said. The tribe has secured grants to pay for many of its projects. The tribe receives money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Community Development Block Grants and others. The tribe receives more than $10 million a year from HUD for housing.

Recently, the tribe received $7.2 million in tax credits to build 50 singlefamily homes in Arrowpoint Acres in Pembroke. The homes will be rental homes for low-income tribal members. “There are so many people who are paying rent, and can pay rent, but for whatever reason cannot get financing for homeownership,” said Bosco Locklear, the tribe’s housing director. “This will help alleviate that. They can still have affordable housing and not rent dilapidated mobile homes.” A majority of the projects address housing for low-income Lumbees and older members. Other projects are designed to provide a place for tribal youth and elders to gather for cultural activities. Please see Tribe, Page 8A

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MARSHMALLOW MAKEOVER By MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press Writer

BERKELEY, Calif. — If you’re still using plain old vanilla marshmallows at your campfire or in your cocoa, you’re out of touch. The next generation of marshmallow lovers is amping the flavor of their puffy confections, taking their s’mores to new heights with tricks like slicing and stuffing them. And the marshmallow industry is taking notice. Long a fixture in the baking aisle, marshmallows have been making their way back to candy land lately, thanks in large part to swirled, flavored, stuffed and otherwise jazzed

up versions intended to appeal to consumers ever on the prowl for new tastes. Like chocolate with your marshmallow? Consider the chocolate-drizzled marshmallows called Zebras launched last year by Doumak Inc., the Chicago area-based maker of Campfire brand marshmallows. “I gotta tell you, people are going bananas over it,” says Mark Schuessler, vice president of sales and marketing for Doumak Prefer your chocolate — or jelly — on the inside? Try Keith Baskett’s creation, stuffed marshmallows that he modestly declares “the best thing that

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Above, speciality s’mores heated. At left, This product image (left) released by GuFud shows their fruit stuffed marshmallows. They also have chocolate stuffed marshmallows.

ever happened to a marshmallow.” Retail marshmallow sales (excluding Walmart) totaled about $146 million in 2008, up from $141 million the year before, according to market research firm Information Resources Inc. That’s a fraction of the billions spent on chocolate, “but there are opportunities because we’re back to looking at marshmallows less as a baking ingredient and more as a treat,” says Bernard Pacyniak, editor-in-chief of Candy Industry, a Deerfield, Ill.-based trade magazine. Baskett says his stuffed puffs, sold under the GudFud label, were Please see Treats, Page 8A

Freddie Mac’s pay deal for new chief draws outrage By RACHEL BECK AP Business Writer

NEW YORK — The pay package given to Freddie Mac’s new chief financial officer should have sent a message from Washington to corporate America about how executive compensation standards must change. Instead, it did just the opposite. The government-controlled mortgage finance company is giving CFO Ross Kari compensation worth as much as $5.5 million. That includes an almost $2 million cash signing bonus and a generous salary that could top $2.3 million. The Federal Housing Finance

Agency, which oversees Freddie Mac, approved the pay package. A spokeswoman pointed to a statement that justified the agency’s approval of the pay, which was done in part because the amount was comparable to what others in the financial services industry make. That way of thinking is exactly what helped feed the surge in executive pay over the last decade. Everyone wants to make at least as much, or more, than their peers. Freddie Mac is not just another company. It’s alive today, and nearly 80 percent owned by the government, only because almost $51 billion in tax-

payer funds were pumped into it over the last year. More bailout money also may be needed in the quarters ahead as losses from its troubled mortgages mount. Outside pay experts are outraged. “We are in a period when this shouldn’t be acceptable,” said Paul Hodgson, a senior research associate at The Corporate Library, an independent corporate governance research firm. “Even if pay is competitive to the market, that doesn’t make it OK today.” Lawmakers, regulators and corporate directors have spent the last year Please see Outrage, Page 8A

8A â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, October 4, 2009

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There are 150 members on the waiting list for the tribeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homeownership program, Locklear said. The tribe plans to build two duplexes at Saddletree Estates, an apartment unit for tribal elders just outside Lumberton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We got to keep them independent, keep them around their church family and their kin,â&#x20AC;? said Leon Revels, the tribeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new construction manager. The projects include transitional housing for tribal members who were burned out of their homes or who have lost their homes to acts of nature. Four homes will be built in Robeson, Hoke and Cumberland counties. Tribal members can stay in the homes rent free for 90 days. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The goal is for the tribal members to be able to stay in their communities,â&#x20AC;? Goins said. The tribe also is building a new complex to house its administrative offices. The tribal office is now in a

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inspired by mochi, a Japanese rice cake often stuffed with a filling such as sweetened red bean paste. Baskett, who has â&#x20AC;&#x153;loved marshmallows since the early days of being around campfires,â&#x20AC;? decided to make the concept a little fluffier, then stuffed them with chocolate or grape, orange or strawberry jelly. Launched in 2007, the stuffed marshmallows are sold in brightly decorated packaging that combines Japanese-style graphics â&#x20AC;&#x201D; each product has a different face â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and Germanic type. There are umlauts over the â&#x20AC;&#x153;uâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? in GudFud. Reaction to GudFud seems to depend on how mad you are for marshmallows says candy blogger Rosa Li of Rochester, N.Y., who tried out some samples on her friends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought they were OK,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a lot of my friends that I shared with, some of them loved them and most of them didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to think that highly of them. But the ones that

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talking about how to â&#x20AC;&#x153;fixâ&#x20AC;? executive pay following the outcry over what many Americans deem as excessive compensation. Banks have come under fire for paying top executives big bonuses, which many see as encouraging excessive risk-taking and a focus on shortterm results. The

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Arts council auditions Tuesday Boggs named leader for new GS council FOREST CITY — Rutherford County Arts Council will hold auditions for the musical, “Darby Rumbles’ Dolls,” on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 6:30 p.m. at the Visitors Centre in Globe Park off South Broadway Street. This original musical, which will be presented at The Foundation Performing Arts Center on Dec. 18, is written by Rutherfordton author Diane Tucker (pen name Drew Sherer), and features a panoply of eccentric characters based on her actual doll collection. There are roles for all ages, male and female, singing and non-singing, doll and human, with dancers featured prominently. The musical spends an eventful day in the life of Darby Rumbles, a warm-hearted, frumpy old woman who lives with China dolls, baby dolls, Indian dolls, African dolls, tramp clowns, Irish clowns and many more. They all sing, and there’s many a dance with spins, turns, skips and a few falls on the side. Even in the dead of winter, there’s love in the air, not to mention a few slow-motion battles. It’s not easy to see who’s in charge here, but lots of trouble comes to Darby, from clown fights over a China doll to Darby’s own teenage daughter, who wants her to get rid of all the dolls. Human characters include Darby herself; Bonnie, her teenage daughter; Ermalene, a little orphan girl; and many other orphan children, both boys and girls. Doll characters include Calie, a small, gentle doll; Tramp, a sad, worn-out clown; Anna Marie, a gorgeous China doll; Frank, a happy, Irish doll who is very pleased with himself; a Zulu mother with her baby; Petambi, a Tomboy rag doll with wild hair and eyes of stars; Rens and Joey, two vaudeville comedians; Bonita, a Spanish dancer; Mary, a crosseyed and bad-tempered antique China baby doll; and numerous

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councils serving girls in this area of Western North Carolina merged; Gastonia is headquarters GASTONIA — Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont has named Lynn Boggs as the Chief Executive Officer of the newly realigned organization, which combines four Girl Scout councils into one, high-capacity council. Boggs was selected following a national search conducted by Evergreen Associates. She began her new position on July 6 in preparation for the Oct. 1 launch of the Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont Council (GSCP2P), serving nearly 32,000 girls and adult volunteers in 40 central and western North Carolina counties. Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont is a merger of Girl Scout Council of the Catawba Valley Area (Hickory), Girl Scouts of the Pioneer Council (Gastonia), Girl Scouts, Tarheel Triad Council (Colfax), and Girl Scouts of Western North Carolina, Pisgah Council (Asheville). The business service center for GSCP2P is located in Colfax, along with program and service centers located in Asheville, Gastonia and Hickory. The CEO headquarters is in Gastonia. Boggs brings a wealth of leadership experience and expertise to her new post. She has more than 25 years experience in the healthcare industry in North Carolina. She was most recently the President of Presbyterian Hospital and Presbyterian Orthopaedic Hospital in Charlotte, NC, which is a division of Novant Health. Previous positions with Novant Health included: Chief Operating Officer for the Presbyterian Healthcare System, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for the Novant Health System, and President/CEO of Thomasville Medical Center. She Contributed photo is also a Registered Nurse. Diane Tucker of Rutherfordton is shown with some of her real-life doll Excited about her role with the Council, Boggs collection which provided the inspiration for one of her many children’s eagerly anticipates working with girls, volunteers, stories “Darby Rumbles’ Dolls,” written under her pen name Drew and the board of directors, donors and staff. She is Sherer. Tucker’s story has been selected by Rutherford County Arts committed to advancing the Girl Scout Movement Council to be a part of its ArtWorks program and will be produced as and promoting the Girl Scout mission of building the Arts Council’s Christmas musical event at the Foundation on Dec. girls of courage, confidence and character who 18. Auditions will be Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the Arts Council headquarters. make the world a better place. “It is so important to help girls be successful and others, male and female, child 6:30 to 8 p.m. build a brilliant future for themselves and others,” and adult. Anyone interested is invited to Boggs said. “In Girl Scouts, when a girl leads, she Rehearsals will be held on audition; no previous experience discovers who she is and what she believes. She Tuesdays and Thursdays from is necessary. learns to take pride in the talents and innate gifts. Before you know it, she is taking on challenges and developing astounding critical thinking skills. Ultimately, she feels empowered to make a difference in the world.” The current facilities in Asheville, Colfax, Gastonia and Hickory will remain open as regional n Steven Ray Logan, 27, of 332 centers. In addition, girls will continue to explore with no operator’s license. He Guffey Road, was charged with outdoor and year-round program opportunities at was placed in the Rutherford ten premier sites. GSCP2P will be governed by a County Detention Facility under possession of marijuana possession drug paraphernalia and 23-member volunteer Board of Directors, includa $3,000 bond. (RCSD) maintain a vehicle/dwelling for ing representation from each legacy council. n Anthony Wayne Shubin, 30, controlled substance; placed Boggs has been involved in several mergers and of 216 Arlington St., Forest City, in jail under a $21,000 bond. reorganizations throughout her career, and is senwas charged with resisting pub(RCSD) sitive to change management and communication. lic officer. He was released from n Tosha Nicole Conner, 21, “I am excited to lead the transformation of Girl jail on a $1,000 bond. (RCSD) of 2010 US 64/74, simple posScouting in central and western North Carolina n Geovanni Morales-Aguilera, session schedule VI controlled and the opportunities this alignment presents,” 25, of 655 Glynlee Court, was substance; released on a $1,000 Boggs stated. “Realignment will allow us to focus charged with driving while bond. (RCSD) our efforts on working with girls to develop their impaired; released on a $1,000 leadership skills, connect with others, and take bond. (RCSD) action to identify and address issues facing them VVn Joseph Lee Silver, 22, of Fire Calls and their communities.” 704 Mt. Pleasant Church Road, n Bostic firefighters were disBoggs received her bachelor of science degree in was charged with driving while patched to a tree down call. Nursing from the University of South Carolina. license revoked; released on a n Ellenboro and Lake Lure She earned a master of science degree in Nursing $1,000 bond. (RCSD) responded to fire alarm call. Administration from the Medical University n Mary Lou Lovelace, 55, of n S-D-O firefighters responded of South Carolina and a Master of Business 535 Mamie Hampton Road, to two motor vehicle crashes. Administration from Wake Forest University, Rutherfordton, charged with n Shingle Hollow fire departBabcock Graduate School of Management. driving while impaired; placed ment responded to a structure Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont, a in jail under a $500 bond. fire on Friday. United Way agency, is one of 109 councils nation(RCSD) n Rutherfordton firefighters wide chartered by Girl Scouts of the USA to deliver n Darius Lee Carson, 24, of 191 were dispatched to a structure Girl Scout program within specific geographic Farmside Drive, charged with fire Friday. boundaries. The local council serves 25,000 girls possession with intent to sell and and approximately 7,000 adult volunteers in 40 deliver marijuana, possession EMS Calls counties and maintains ten camp properties and drug paraphernalia and mainfour service centers. For more information on how tain a vehicle, dwelling place for Rutherford County EMS a controlled substance; placed responded to 26 calls Friday and to join, volunteer, reconnect or donate to GSCP2P, call 800-672-2148 or visit www.girlscoutsp2p.org. in jail under a $21,000 bond. Rescue responded to six calls. (RCSD)

Police Notes Sheriff’s Reports

n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 143 E-911 calls Friday.

Rutherfordton

n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 23 E-911 calls Friday.

Spindale

n The Spindale Police Department responded to 23 E-911 calls Friday.

Lake Lure

n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to four E-911 calls Friday.

Forest City

n The Forest City Police Department responded to 58 E-911 calls Friday.

Arrests n Leonardo Santamaria Mendez, 27, unknown address, was charged Saturday morning

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Nation Today Flames threaten homes in northern Arizona

PHOENIX (AP) — Some residents of the scenic northern Arizona city of Williams spent Saturday away from their homes as a prescribed burn that grew out of control threatened the town known as the “Gateway to the Grand Canyon.” The U.S. Forest Service said the Twin Fire has scorched about 800 acres and is burning forest undergrowth and Ponderosa Pines on Bill Williams Mountain. When the wildfire began threatening homes, the Coconino County sheriff’s office used a reverse 911 system to call residents and tell them to evacuate the southwest corner of Williams, about 120 miles north of Phoenix. Mayor John Moore said 64 homes were evacuated and he’s hoping residents won’t have to stay away too long. “As soon as it’s safe, they can return to their homes,” Moore said.

Typhoon crosses U.S. commonwealth

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — A typhoon churning across the western Pacific continued moving away from the Northern Mariana Islands on Sunday as residents began cleaning up after gusting winds and minor flooding. The National Weather Service said only the island of Agrihan in the U.S. commonwealth remained under a typhoon warning. Similar warnings for two other islands — Saipan and Tinian — have already ended. About 2 1/2 inches of rain fell on Saipan in a 24-hour period, including two inches of precipitation over six hours, said weather service senior forecaster Paul Stanko in Guam. The strongest wind gusts topped out at 53 mph, he added.

“It could have been a lot worse,” Stanko said, adding that the island would have experienced more calamity if it was located 20 to 30 miles further south. “They narrowly dodged a bullet.” Tinian experienced similar rain measurements and wind gusts, Stanko said. However, his office has not received an update from Agrihan. But the typhoon warning covering that island is likely to be canceled later Sunday, he said.

Enthusiasm for space tourism starts to wane LOS ANGELES (AP) — When a private spaceship soared over California to claim a $10 million prize, daredevil venture capitalist Alan Walton was 68 and thought he’d soon be on a rocket ride of his own. Walton plunked down $200,000 to be among the first space tourists to make a suborbital thrill-ride high above the Earth aboard a Virgin Galactic spaceship. Now he intends to ask for his deposit back if there’s no fixed launch date by his 74th birthday next April. “This was going to be the highlight of my old age,” he said. It has been five years since SpaceShipOne, the first privately financed manned spacecraft, captured the Ansari X Prize on Oct. 4, 2004, by demonstrating that a reusable rocket capable of carrying passengers could fly more than 62 miles high twice within two weeks — showing reliability and commercial viability. Turning the dream into reality has taken longer than many expected in those days, and spaceflight remains the realm of government astronauts and a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people who have paid millions for rides on Russian rockets to the international space station.

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At the SCORE Award ceremony Thursday in Hendersonville were, from left, Ken Yancey, chief executive officer, SCORE; Deborah Deck DeNatale, incoming president, Rutherford County Visual Arts Guild; Barbara Leddy, branch manager, Rutherford County, SCORE; and Skip Sheldon, chairman, Western NC Chapter, SCORE.

Arts Guild ‘SCORE’s From staff reports FOREST CITY — A Rutherford County small business received a prestigious SCORE award Thursday in Hendersonville. Rutherford County Visual Arts Guild, Main Street, Rutherfordton, received one of four awards presented to area small businesses announced. SCORE-Western North Carolina (SCORE-WNC). Ken Yancey, National SCORE CEO, presented the awards in Hendersonville during a meeting with SCORE volunteers, local business clients, small business association partners and local business leaders. He presented the Outstanding Small Business Success Awards four local small businesses, and announced a new SCORE initiative to help form one million new small businesses over the next seven years. In addition to the RCVAG, other Outstanding Small Businesses Awards were presented Bluewood Gallery, Brevard; Leaves Out Inc. and Kilwin’s Ice Cream Shop, Hendersonville. SCORE-WNC counselors have assisted each of these organizations to become successful, and they are excellent examples of the contribution small businesses make to our area. Additional information on each of these businesses is attached below. Barbara Leddy, SCORE counselor was present to receive the award with Deborah Deck DeNatale, incoming president, Rutherford County Visual Arts Guild. The non-profit Rutherford County Visual Arts Guild was formed in 1999 to promote a wide variety of arts and fine crafts, painting, pottery, woodworking, weaving, sculpture and more. It also provides mutual support for artists to improve marketing opportunities for arts. Beginning in February 2009, RCVAG decided to open a Visual Arts Center in downtown Rutherfordton

to sell artists works and provide studio/classes for the area residents. The Center is staffed entirely by volunteers. SCORE counselors have been providing assistance with non profit management including the business plan, long term planning and fund raising options. Yancey is CEO of SCORE’s national organization. SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” is a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. It is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). SCORE has 370 chapters throughout the United States and its territories, with over 11,000 volunteers nationwide, who donate time and expertise as business counselors. SCORE was founded in 1964, and is America’s premier source of free and confidential small business advice for entrepreneurs. The SCORE-WNC Chapter was organized in 1971, and supports 45 counselors working at four branch locations,including Rutherfordton. In addition to Rutherfordton, the counselors offer expert support and counseling to small businesses in Hendersonville, Brevard, and Franklin and the surrounding counties. The chapter has provided counseling and seminars to over 1,200 clients in the past year, and was recently rated the top chapter in North Carolina in the number of counseling sessions held. It has twice been selected as District Outstanding Chapter of the Year. SCORE-WNC partners extensively with other organizations providing assistance to the local small business community, such as the local Chambers of Commerce, Blue Ridge Community College, Isothermal Community College, Southwestern Community College, Mountain BizWorks, Self Help Credit Union, and several Business Development Councils.

Black leaders at beaten youth’s funeral call for end to violence By CARYN ROUSSEAU Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO (AP) — The funeral of a Chicago teen who was beaten to death on his way home from school drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, both calling for an end to youth violence. Farrakhan said he came to the funeral because he was “deeply pained” by the death of 16-year-old honor roll student Derrion Albert. The boy was walking to a bus stop after school when a group of teens attacked him during a street fight late last month. “Naturally, we wonder why such a beautiful life? Such a future we thought was waiting for this young man,” Farrakhan said. “This was a special young man of righteous bearing who God took from us so young.” Cell phone video footage shows Albert being kicked and hit with splintered railroad ties. Four teens are charged in his death.

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President Barack Obama is sending U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who once led Chicago Public Schools, to Chicago on Wednesday to meet with school officials, students and residents and talk about school violence. “The eyes of the world are watching,” Pastor E.F. Ledbetter Jr. told mourners at the Greater Mount Hebron Baptist Church on the city’s South Side. “This has affected people all over the globe.” Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis and Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman also both attended the funeral along with other city and public officials. Huberman called the Christian Fenger Academy High School sophomore a “bright light.” Jackson demanded children and teens to be given safe passage to and from school. “Derrion didn’t have to die,” Jackson said. “He was murdered. His pain, his suffering, his death have shook the world.”

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Weight: 6 lbs. 6 oz.

Happy Birthday!

Brother: Hunter Lowery

We Love You, Brittany, William, Grandma, Tommy & Bubba

Parents: Brent & Tiffany Lowery Grandparents: Dean & Dianne Dotson Joey & Sherry Lowery

Special Thanks to Rutherfordton Hospital & Dr. Godfrey

The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, October 4, 2009 — 11A

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Obama explores more ways to create jobs By CHARLES BABINGTON Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering steps to ease the burdens of laid-off workers, including possible extensions of unemployment and health benefits, officials said Saturday. The administration has stopped short of calling for a second economic stimulus package to augment the $787 billion measure approved this year. But with the jobless rate continuing to climb, President Barack Obama said Saturday he is exploring “additional options to promote job creation.” Administration aides said possibilities include: n extending enhanced unemployment-insurance benefits beyond Dec. 31, when they are set to expire. n extending a tax credit for laid-off workers who buy health insurance through the COBRA program. That program allows workers to keep their company’s health insurance plan for 18 months after they leave their job, if they pay the premiums. n extending a tax credit for firsttime home buyers. This credit also is set to expire soon. The administration has discussed these possibilities with congressional leaders, officials said, but no decisions have been made. White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers expressed interest in these ideas in an online interview with the Atlantic magazine. “I don’t know what the term ’second stimulus package’ exactly means,” Summers said. “We certainly need to continue to support people who are in need, whether it’s unemployment insurance, or a COBRA program that for the first time provides that people who are laid off get supported in being able to maintain their health insurance.” In his weekly radio and Internet video address Saturday, Obama said his proposed health care overhaul would create jobs by making small business startups more affordable. If aspiring entrepreneurs believe they

can stay insured while switching jobs, he said, they will start new businesses and hire workers. “I hear about it from small business owners who want to grow their companies and hire more people, but they cant, because they can barely afford to insure the employees they have,” Obama said. “One small business owner wrote to me that health care costs are and I quote ’stifling my business growth.’ He said that the money he wanted to use for research and development, and to expand his operations, has instead been ’thrown into the pocket of healthcare insurance carriers.’ “ Dismissive Republicans blamed the continuing job losses on Democratic policies and said the president’s health proposals won’t help. The unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in September, the highest since June 1983, as employers cut far more jobs than expected. The government reported Friday that the economy lost a net total of 263,000 jobs last month, from a downwardly revised 201,000 in August. All told, 15.1 million people are now out of work, the Labor Department said, and 7.2 million jobs have been eliminated since the recession began in December 2007. Obama said he has met people “who’ve got a good idea and the expertise and determination to build it into a thriving business. But many can’t take that leap because they can’t afford to lose the health insurance they have at their current job.” Small businesses create many of the nation’s jobs, Obama said, and some have the potential to become big companies. Obama praised the Senate Finance Committee for crafting a health care bill that includes many of his priorities. Small businesses could buy health insurance through an exchange, he said, “where they can compare the price, quality and services of a wide variety of plans.” The government would subsidize health insurance for many businesses and individuals, the president said.

Afghan options weighed By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is considering a range of ideas for changing course in Afghanistan, from pulling back to staying put to sending thousands more troops to fight the insurgency. A look at the options and their implications for achieving Obama’s stated goal of defeating al-Qaida. GETTING OUT A full, immediate withdrawal of American forces does not appear to be in the cards, not the least because U.S. allies in NATO share the view that abandoning Afghanistan now would hand a victory to Islamic extremist forces such as the Taliban that are aligned in some respects with Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida. Some argue that because the alQaida figures who were run out of Afghanistan when U.S. troops invaded after the Sept. 11 attacks are now encamped across the border in Pakistan, there is no point to a U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. A related school of thought holds that the very presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan adds to the country’s instability and fuels its insurgency. Obama has taken a different view. Less than two months ago he said, “If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al-Qaida would

plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is fundamental to the defense of our people.” SCALING BACK A less drastic alternative to a fullscale retreat is a partial pullback. A reduced U.S. force would stay mainly to train and advise the Afghan national army and police. U.S. special operations forces would continue their hunt for most-wanted extremist leaders in Afghanistan. Pilotless drones such as the armed Predator would take out al-Qaida figures on the Pakistan side of the border. This would essentially end the counterinsurgency mission of U.S. and NATO forces. The reasoning is that the fight is not worth the cost in blood and treasure, and al-Qaida is a more urgent priority. STAYING PUT One of those advocating no shortterm change in the size of the U.S. force in Afghanistan is Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He argues for putting greater emphasis on training the Afghan security forces and accelerating their growth. In this approach, the counterinsurgency campaign against the Taliban would continue on course. Additional U.S. troops would be required for the training mission, but not for combat. The flow of equipment for the police and army would be expanded.

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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, about his trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, and his attempt to help Chicago win the 2016 Olympics bid.

Olympic loss affects Obama? By JENNIFER LOVEN and JULIE PACE Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON — OK, so it wasn’t health care, climate change or war. Still, President Barack Obama’s highprofile failure to win the Olympics for Chicago could feed negative narratives already nipping at his heels — that he’s a better talker than closer, more celebrity than statesman. And this could hamper his efforts on the weightier issues. Despite Obama’s fabled charm and powers of persuasion, his in-person plea for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Games fell flat. It was a hugely embarrassing defeat. His adopted hometown — considered a front-runner heading into Friday’s voting — didn’t just lose, it took last place, shocking nearly all

by getting knocked out in the first round while the remaining three contenders moved on. The defeat could soon be a distant memory, and may never be more than a quixotic-blip trip. But if, for whatever reason, bigger losses start piling up in Obama’s corner, his performance in this case could be regarded as emblematic. Obama tried to put the best face on his trip, saying upon his return to the White House, “One of the things that I think is most valuable about sports is that you can play a great game and still not win.” He said he was proud of everyone’s effort. However, almost every aspect of his involvement this week in the Olympics quest recalls a strain of criticism that has been gaining ground on him: He’s trying to do too much at once.

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n a sun-splashed autumn afternoon Saturday, thousands converged on Main Street Rutherfordton for the annual Hilltop Festival. From the courthouse lawn, music was played by several groups as folks brought lawn chairs for an afternoon of relaxation. The festival was sponsored by Rutherford Town Revitalization and included bike rides, fun runs and a host of games and activities for the entire family.

Roasted corn was a favorite of hundreds including Journey Bradley, 12 of Union Mills (above) and 86-year-old Betty Vanderveen of Rutherfordton, below right.

Keeleigh Bush, 6, had her face painted and enjoyed a cool drink (above) and Mattie, the Yorkie, arrived in her Halloween bows and ties with her master Tammy Drummond, right.

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followed up a newspaper ad online in some way. 33% went to a website after seeing a print newspaper ad and 21% conducted an online search.

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who said they had not read a newspaper in the past week, USED a newspaper during that same week. Usage included: 19% checking sales in local stores, 15% clipping a coupon, 14% checking the weather and 10% checking movie listings.

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Newborn abducted at knifepoint is found safe in Ardmore —police By LUCAS L. JOHNSON II Associated Press Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A newborn boy abducted by a knifewielding woman posing as an immigration agent was safe in the care of a foster family Saturday and awaiting a family reunion as authorities charged a woman with his kidnapping. Nashville police said week-old Yair Anthony Carillo was found in good health at a home in Ardmore, about 80 miles south of Nashville near the Tennessee line. Rob

Johnson, a spokesman for the Department of Children’s Services, said it was unknown when Yair would be returned to his mother. The baby would remain with the foster family as authorities made arrangements for Maria Gurrolla, 30, to be reunited with her son. “This baby is a week old, and this child has spent half his life away from his family. I think it’s time we reunite them,” said My Harrison, a special agent with the FBI in Tennessee. Tennessee Bureau of

Investigation Director Mark Gwyn identified the arrested woman as Tammy Renee Silas, 39, of Ardmore. Federal authorities formally charged her Saturday with kidnapping. The Morgan County Sheriff’s office said Silas was picked up by U.S. Marshals on Saturday morning, though it was not known where she was being taken. The baby and Silas were found about 10 p.m. CDT in Ardmore, and Silas did not resist arrest, Gwyn said. Authorities said they had no word on a possible motive. Police in Nashville did not know if Silas has a lawyer. The infant was taken from his home Tuesday, just four days after he was born. His mother told police a heavyset white woman with blonde hair arrived at her home posing as an immigration agent and attacked her with a knife. Gurrola told investigators that during the abduction, she heard the woman make a phone call and tell someone in Spanish words to the effect of “the job is done” and that the mother “was dying,” said Joel Siskovic, an FBI special agent in the Memphis division. Siskovic said Silas took the victim’s cell phone, which helped investigators locate Silas. He would not comment further on the possibility that Silas was not working alone.

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Off The Wall Scott Bowers

You can’t go back to Shelby Giorgio Lowrance was looking for somebody to hug. The then-senior quarterback had hugged his family, hugged his teammates, hugged his coaches and the only person left was me. I was standing around the 30 yardline as Lowrance gave me one of those ‘man hugs,’ with a smile from ear-to-ear. He had every reason in the world to smile — he had just lead East Rutherford to victory over Shelby. In Shelby. Now, I ain’t from around here, as folks like to say, and I have quickly received an education on just what the word, ‘Shelby,’ does to folks in these parts. There are three or four folks, that I know, that all I have to do is say, ‘Shelby,’ and they just growl. No, they growl like an angry dog that is fixin’ to bite. Not Lowrance. He just smiles. Over the next four weeks or so, you’re going to hear the word, ‘Shelby’ a lot. The Golden Lions are steeped in a rich, winning football tradition. And, like or not, they did it the old-fashioned way. They earned it. Win by win, coach to coach, the program is as solid as any in this state. Coach Chris Norman is one of the finest men that I’ve met and I like him a lot. He has a wonderful mind, he’s witty and funny in just the right way and he is one heck of a football coach. Over the last two weeks, the Hilltoppers have laid claim to the title, ‘best in Rutherford County.’ Somewhere, a Lion just smiled. The Lions have never worried about being ‘best in county;’ no, just best in state. The Lions have held a stranglehold on the 2A for nearly a decade and no preseason poll is complete without them in it. And, this year, the conference crown runs through Shelby. If the Hilltoppers want the title, they will have to beat Shelby. There is no way around that. I learned something that night in Shelby, nearly four years ago. I didn’t know it at the time, but I know it now. Beating Shelby is special. Coach Mike Cheek, head football coach of the Hilltoppers, doesn’t want to talk about Shelby. Not right now anyway. No, this week the talk is all about the Patriots of Freedom High. The focus is on Freedom. But, I’m not a high school coach — I get to look ahead. I get to wonder and ponder on what can be, what might be. In short, I get paid to speculate. The Hilltoppers defense looks sound, the offensive line, a group that has been labeled, “BlueDozers,” by the fans, is very good and Oddie Murray and the rest of the skill players can make things happen. On Friday, Murray sent a towering kick off 73 yards through the air and through the Chase end zone. For just a moment, I thought I could see Blake Bostic out of the corner of my eye. The thenkicker at East, now at Western Carolina, used to boom them that far. Bostic boomed kick after kick at Shelby on that night four years ago. And, Bostic, too, left with a smile. I can only wonder if Central will have a chance to smile.

By SCOTT BOWERS and KEVIN CARVER Daily Courier Sports Reporters

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The Hilltoppers’ Corey Jimerson (7) brings the offense to the line of scrimmage during the game against Chase, Friday. The Hilltoppers improved to 6-1 with a 33-0 win.

RUTHERFORDTON — The Hilltoppers 2009 conference schedule set up in a perfect order, geographically speaking. Central’s first task was to defeat the county teams in the South Mountain 3A/2A Athletic Conference. Central 24, East 0. Central 33, Chase 0. Check. “Our thing is that, the kid’s are getting better after each practice and, right now, they are having fun,” said Central’s Mike Cheek. Next up, a two-game battle with our northern neighbor, Burke County, that includes a visit from Freedom and a trip to Patton. “Freedom is young, but they are good. They had a shoot-out with Please see Football, Page 4B

Chase High inducted seven new members into the school’s Sports Hall of Fame, Friday. Carolyn Dewberry Blanton, Bill Willis, John Keeter and Ken Robinson (left to right) attended the ceremony. Ray Harris and Bill and Phyllis Haynes (not pictured) were unable to attend, but were inducted during ceremonies held at halftime of the football game. Scott Bowers/Daily Courier

Chase High adds seven to Hall of Fame By SCOTT BOWERS Daily Courier Sports Editor

CHASE — Chase High welcomed seven new members into the school’s Sports Hall of Fame on Friday, with ceremonies held during the halftime of the football game between the Trojans and R-S Central. Former Trojans’ coach John Keeter headlined a class that included Carolyn Dewberry Blanton, Ray Harris, Bill Willis, Ken Robinson, and Bill and Phyllis Haynes. Coach Keeter worked at Chase for 19

years as head football, wrestling and track coach. Keeter coached the EastWest All-Star Game and was twice named Coach of the Year in football. Keeter’s 1975 team went 10-0 during the regular season, and sent Chuck McSwain to the Dallas Cowboys and Rodney McSwain to the New England Patriots. Carolyn Dewberry Blanton may have been the finest women’s basketball player to ever play in Rutherford County. Dewberry Blanton scored over a 1,000 points in her career at

Chase and was named to Rutherford County’s Top 50 Women’s Basketball players in 2008. Bill Willis played basketball and baseball while at Chase and earned a scholarship to North Greenville College. Willis later coached the Shelby Golden Lions boy’s basketball team. Willis was named to Rutherford County’s Top 50 Men’s Basketball players in 2007. Ken Robinson was a four-year

Please see Chase, Page 4B

Offseason gambles backfire on Panthers MIKE CRANSTON AP Sports Writer

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Pittsburgh Steelers’ Justin Vincent (28) runs past Carolina Panthers’ Julius Peppers (90) during a preseason NFL football game at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, in this photo taken on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009.

CHARLOTTE — It started with Julius Peppers, continued with Jake Delhomme and ended with a bold draft-day deal. The normally conservative Carolina Panthers spent the offseason gambling. They bet that forcing an unhappy Julius Peppers to stay — with an NFL-high $16.7 million salary — wouldn’t make him a disgruntled nonfactor. The scenario also meant the Panthers would have to remain healthy, because Peppers would eat up about 14 percent of the salary cap and limit depth in other areas. They risked that Jake Delhomme’s abysmal playoff performance was an aberration and gave him a lucrative extension and no competition in training camp. Finally, they decided undersized, overlooked defensive end Everette Brown was so good they sent next year’s first-round pick to San Francisco to grab him in the second round of the draft. Now after one sack from Peppers, seven interceptions from Delhomme and Brown’s bum ankle, the injury-ravaged Panthers (0-3) are facing a bleak season where the corresponding high draft pick will go to the 49ers. Talk about a bad hand. With their season spiraling out of control, the Panthers scattered for their bye weekend holding out hope there’s still time to get Peppers in gear, end Delhomme’s turnover parade and shore up a leaky run Please see Panthers, Page 8B

2B — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, October 4, 2009

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Scoreboard Denver San Diego Oakland Kansas City

BASEBALL National League East Division W L Pct 92 68 .575 86 74 .538 86 74 .538 68 92 .425 57 103 .356 Central Division W L Pct y-St. Louis 91 70 .565 Chicago 83 77 .519 Milwaukee 79 82 .491 Cincinnati 76 84 .475 Houston 74 86 .463 Pittsburgh 62 97 .390 West Division W L Pct x-Los Angeles 93 67 .581 x-Colorado 92 68 .575 San Francisco 87 73 .544 San Diego 74 86 .463 Arizona 69 92 .429 y-Philadelphia Atlanta Florida New York Washington

GB — 6 6 24 35 GB — 7 1/2 12 14 1/2 16 1/2 28 GB — 1 6 19 24 1/2

x-clinched playoff berth y-clinched division

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Carolina Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward stops a shot on goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Philadelphia Flyers in Raleigh, Friday.

’Canes have look of ’06 Stanley Cup squad By JOEDY McCREARY AP Sports Writer

RALEIGH — The Carolina Hurricanes look much like the team that won the Stanley Cup in 2006. Here’s the big question: Will they play like them, too? The offseason was eventful for the Hurricanes, who brought back yet another player from the team that won the franchise’s only championship. Three years later, defenseman Aaron Ward is back in the fold and livening up a dressing room that includes the nucleus of that Cup team. That’s one reason why the lasting anecdote from Carolina’s not-short-enough summer was the text message sent by forward Erik Cole to Ward: “We’re getting the band back together.” With the season starting Friday night against Philadelphia, the challenge now is to make sure the songs still have harmony. “He’s always wanted to come back here, so it’s nice to see,” captain Rod Brind’Amour said. “We know he’s a quality player, and I’m all about getting quality players in this room. He’s going to be a great fit.” The Hurricanes apparently have decided that the best way to replicate their ’06 success is to bring back many of the players who got away in the years that followed that title. Cole and fellow forward Matt Cullen also returned to Raleigh at varying stages of the past few seasons, once the organization figured out that the best way to replace them was to reacquire them. That means Carolina’s roster is now dominated by veterans and void of rookies. “We don’t have any ... I don’t want to say, ’babies,’ out there, but we don’t have any of those,” Brind’Amour said. “Everyone knows what’s out there for us.” The team’s youngest player — 24-year-old Eric Staal — is a two-time All-Star who already has his name on the Cup and has established himself as the face of the franchise. “We like to think we have a good knowledge base of what our players are capable of,” coach Paul Maurice said. They certainly were capable of plenty of surprises last spring. After missing the playoffs in each of the two seasons that followed their Cup title, the Hurricanes sneaked in as the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference. They pulled off upsets of both No. 3 seed New Jersey and top-seeded Boston in consecutive Game 7s on the road to reach the East final, where they were swept by eventual Cup champion Pittsburgh. “I think there’s something to build upon, but there’s still that bit that you want more,” Staal said. “I think it was, for everyone in the organization, it was exciting to be back in the playoffs. It felt like it had been forever since we were in the playoffs. Just the atmosphere around here, our building was unbelievable. ... It’s fun to be involved in those types of games. We want that back, and we want to make sure that we start off on the right foot and make sure we have that fire to get all the way.” For all the veterans in the lineup — 10 players are at least 30 years old — the team is built around Staal and young goaltender Cam Ward. Among the new pieces to complement them are defenseman Andrew Alberts, who spent last season in Philadelphia; and 35-year-old forward Stephane Yelle, who teamed with Aaron Ward in Boston. Yet while the Hurricanes are optimistic about their offseason acquisitions, they know they weren’t the league’s only team to improve.

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Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs 5, Arizona 0 N.Y. Mets 5, Houston 1 Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 4 Florida 4, Philadelphia 3 Washington 6, Atlanta 4, 11 innings Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, late San Francisco at San Diego, late Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, late Sunday’s Games Houston (W.Lopez 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Figueroa 2-8), 1:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Karstens 4-5) at Cincinnati (H.Bailey 7-5), 1:10 p.m. Florida (Jo.Johnson 15-5) at Philadelphia (Happ 12-4), 1:35 p.m. Washington (J.Martin 5-4) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 2-1), 1:35 p.m. Milwaukee (Suppan 7-12) at St. Louis (Pineiro 15-12), 2:15 p.m. Arizona (D.Davis 8-14) at Chicago Cubs (Dempster 11-8), 2:20 p.m. San Francisco (J.Sanchez 8-12) at San Diego (Ramos 0-1), 4:05 p.m. Colorado (Marquis 15-12) at L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 12-11), 4:10 p.m. American League East Division W L Pct 102 58 .638 93 67 .581 83 77 .519 75 85 .469 62 98 .388 Central Division W L Pct Detroit 85 75 .531 Minnesota 84 76 .525 Chicago 78 82 .488 Cleveland 65 95 .406 Kansas City 65 95 .406 West Division W L Pct y-Los Angeles 95 65 .594 Texas 87 73 .544 Seattle 83 77 .519 Oakland 75 85 .469

y-New York z-Boston Tampa Bay Toronto Baltimore

GB — 9 19 27 40 GB — 1 7 20 20 GB — 8 12 20

y-clinched division z-clinched wild card Saturday’s Games L.A. Angels 4, Oakland 2 Minnesota 5, Kansas City 4 Chicago White Sox at Detroit, late Toronto at Baltimore, late N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, late Cleveland at Boston, late Texas at Seattle, late Sunday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Danks 13-10) at Detroit (Verlander 18-9), 1:05 p.m. Cleveland (Ohka 1-4) at Boston (Buchholz 7-4), 1:35 p.m. Toronto (R.Romero 13-9) at Baltimore (Guthrie 10-17), 1:35 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (A.Burnett 12-9) at Tampa Bay (W.Davis 2-1), 1:38 p.m. Kansas City (Hochevar 7-12) at Minnesota (Duensing 5-2), 2:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (J.Saunders 15-7) at Oakland (Ed. Gonzalez 0-4), 4:05 p.m. Texas (Feldman 17-7) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 18-5), 4:10 p.m.

FOOTBALL National Football League Glance

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF N.Y. Jets 3 0 0 1.000 64 New England 2 1 0 .667 60 Buffalo 1 2 0 .333 64 Miami 0 3 0 .000 43 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 3 0 0 1.000 72 Jacksonville 1 2 0 .333 60 Houston 1 2 0 .333 65 Tennessee 0 3 0 .000 58 North W L T Pct PF Baltimore 3 0 0 1.000 103 Cincinnati 2 1 0 .667 61 Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 47 Cleveland 0 3 0 .000 29 West W L T Pct PF

PA 33 50 72 69 PA 45 69 86 71 PA 53 56 50 95 PA

3 2 1 0

0 1 2 3

0 0 0 0

1.000 .667 .333 .000

62 73 36 48

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF N.Y. Giants 3 0 0 1.000 80 Dallas 2 1 0 .667 86 Philadelphia 2 1 0 .667 94 Washington 1 2 0 .333 40 South W L T Pct PF New Orleans 3 0 0 1.000 120 Atlanta 2 1 0 .667 57 Carolina 0 3 0 .000 37 Tampa Bay 0 3 0 .000 41 North W L T Pct PF Minnesota 3 0 0 1.000 88 Green Bay 2 1 0 .667 81 Chicago 2 1 0 .667 57 Detroit 1 2 0 .333 59 West W L T Pct PF San Francisco 2 1 0 .667 67 Seattle 1 2 0 .333 57 Arizona 1 2 0 .333 57 St. Louis 0 3 0 .000 24

16 64 57 85 PA 48 61 72 49 PA 56 53 87 91 PA 57 63 54 86 PA 53 48 68 73

Sunday’s Games Detroit at Chicago, 1 p.m. Oakland at Houston, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Washington, 1 p.m. Seattle at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Baltimore at New England, 1 p.m. Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Buffalo at Miami, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Jets at New Orleans, 4:05 p.m. Dallas at Denver, 4:15 p.m. St. Louis at San Francisco, 4:15 p.m. San Diego at Pittsburgh, 8:20 p.m. Open: Arizona, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Carolina Monday’s Game Green Bay at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m. College Football Major Scores EAST Albany, N.Y. 27, St. Francis, Pa. 6 Boston College 28, Florida St. 21 Brown 28, Rhode Island 20 Bryant 6, Wagner 2 Bucknell 14, Georgetown, D.C. 6 Cent. Connecticut St. 24, Sacred Heart 12 Cent. Michigan 20, Buffalo 13 Colgate 45, Cornell 23 Columbia 38, Princeton 0 Duquesne 34, Robert Morris 20 Fordham 34, Old Dominion 29 Harvard 28, Lehigh 14 Hofstra 24, James Madison 17 Holy Cross 42, Northeastern 21 Lafayette 31, Yale 14 Marist 34, Campbell 13 Navy 16, Air Force 13, OT New Hampshire 57, Towson 7 Penn 30, Dartmouth 24 South Florida 34, Syracuse 20 Stony Brook 52, Presbyterian 14 Tulane 17, Army 16 Villanova 28, William & Mary 17 SOUTH Alabama 38, Kentucky 20 Alabama A&M 35, Tuskegee 15 Appalachian St. 30, The Citadel 27, OT Charleston Southern 47, Savannah St. 10 Dayton 30, Morehead St. 15 East Carolina 21, Marshall 17 Elon 19, Furman 12 Gardner-Webb 27, VMI 23 Georgia Southern 26, Wofford 21 Howard 7, Winston-Salem 3 Jacksonville 27, Davidson 21 Jacksonville St. 52, Tenn.-Martin 7 LSU 20, Georgia 13 Liberty 45, W. Va. Wesleyan 7 Louisiana-Monroe 48, Fla. International 35 MVSU 61, Texas College 6 Maryland 24, Clemson 21 Morgan St. 24, Bethune-Cookman 13 Samford 16, W. Carolina 3 UCF 32, Memphis 14 Virginia 16, North Carolina 3 Virginia Tech 34, Duke 26 Wake Forest 30, N.C. State 24 Wyoming 30, Florida Atlantic 28 MIDWEST Butler 25, San Diego 24 Cincinnati 37, Miami (Ohio) 13 Drake 34, Valparaiso 14 E. Kentucky 36, E. Illinois 31 Illinois St. 27, N. Dakota St. 24 Iowa 24, Arkansas St. 21 Kansas St. 24, Iowa St. 23 Michigan St. 26, Michigan 20, OT Missouri St. 17, Youngstown St. 7 N. Illinois 38, W. Michigan 3 N. Iowa 62, Indiana St. 7 North Dakota 27, South Dakota 12 Northwestern 27, Purdue 21 Notre Dame 37, Washington 30, OT Ohio 44, Bowling Green 37 Penn St. 35, Illinois 17 Temple 24, E. Michigan 12 Toledo 37, Ball St. 30 Wisconsin 31, Minnesota 28 SOUTHWEST Sam Houston St. 41, St. Joseph’s, Ind. 0 Texas Tech 48, New Mexico 28 FAR WEST E. Washington 38, Idaho St. 3 Montana St. 26, Weber St. 21 Nevada 63, UNLV 28 S. Utah 38, Texas St. 16 Sacramento St. 31, Portland St. 14 Stanford 24, UCLA 16

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Philadelphia 1 1 0 0 2 2 Pittsburgh 1 1 0 0 2 3 New Jersey 0 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Islanders 0 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Rangers 1 0 1 0 0 2 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 1 1 0 0 2 4 Toronto 1 0 0 1 1 3 Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ottawa 0 0 0 0 0 0 Boston 1 0 1 0 0 1 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 1 1 0 0 2 4 Florida 2 1 1 0 2 4 Atlanta 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 0 0 Carolina 1 0 1 0 0 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Chicago 2 1 0 1 3 7 St. Louis 1 1 0 0 2 4 Columbus 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nashville 0 0 0 0 0 0 Detroit 1 1 0 0 0 3 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF Calgary 1 1 0 0 2 5 Colorado 1 1 0 0 2 5 Edmonton 0 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vancouver 1 0 1 0 0 3 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF Anaheim 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dallas 0 0 0 0 0 0 Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 0 Phoenix 0 0 0 0 0 0 San Jose 1 0 1 0 0 2

GA 0 2 0 0 3 GA 3 4 0 0 4 GA 1 7 0 0 2 GA 4 3 0 0 4 GA 3 2 0 0 5 GA 0 0 0 0 5

Saturday’s Games Chicago 4, Florida 0 St. Louis 5, Detroit 3, at Stockholm Colorado 3, Vancouver 0 Boston 7, Carolina 2 Montreal at Buffalo, late Philadelphia 5, New Jersey 2 Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, late N.Y. Rangers 5, Ottawa 2 Washington 6, Toronto 4 Atlanta 6, Tampa Bay 3 Columbus 2, Minnesota 1 Nashville at Dallas, late Calgary at Edmonton, late San Jose at Anaheim, late Phoenix at Los Angeles, late Sunday’s Games No games scheduled

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Women’s National Basketball Association Playoff Glance FINALS (Best-of-5) Indiana vs. Phoenix Tuesday, Sept. 29: Phoenix 120, Indiana 116, OT Thursday, Oct. 1: Indiana 93, Phoenix 84, series tied 1-1 Sunday, Oct. 4: Phoenix at Indiana, 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, Phoenix at Indiana, 7:30 p.m. x-Friday, Oct. 9, Indiana at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

RACING NASCAR Nationwide Kansas Lottery 300 Results (Start position in parentheses) 1. (7) Joey Logano, Toyota 2. (2) Kyle Busch, Toyota 3. (19) Brad Keselowski, Chevrolet 4. (14) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet 5. (3) Greg Biffle, Ford 6. (18) Justin Allgaier, Dodge 7. (5) Carl Edwards, Ford 8. (11) Scott Speed, Toyota 9. (34) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet 10. (13) Reed Sorenson, Toyota 11. (10) Jason Leffler, Toyota 12. (15) Scott Wimmer, Chevrolet 13. (26) Jason Keller, Ford 14. (8) Brian Scott, Toyota 15. (27) Steve Wallace, Chevrolet 16. (1) Parker Kligerman, Dodge 17. (22) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet 18. (12) Erik Darnell, Ford 19. (6) David Gilliland, Chevrolet 20. (37) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet 21. (36) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet 22. (31) Robert Richardson Jr., Chevrolet 23. (40) Tony Raines, Chevrolet 24. (41) Kevin Conway, Dodge 25. (42) Eric McClure, Ford 26. (29) Shelby Howard, Chevrolet 27. (39) Matthew Carter, Ford 28. (4) Brian Vickers, Toyota 29. (17) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet 30. (9) Michael Annett, Toyota 31. (16) John Wes Townley, Ford 32. (23) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet 33. (32) Peyton Sellers, Chevrolet 34. (35) Jarit Johnson, Chevrolet 35. (25) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet 36. (43) Casey Atwood, Chevrolet 37. (38) Patrick Sheltra, Dodge 38. (33) Mark Green, Chevrolet 39. (21) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet 40. (28) Kevin Lepage, Dodge 41. (30) Terry Cook, Chevrolet 42. (24) Johnny Chapman, Chevrolet 43. (20) Danny O’Quinn Jr., Chevrolet

HOCKEY National Hockey League

Logano burns Kyle Busch again KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — That horrific barrel roll at Dover, the one that looked more like a scene from “Talladega Nights” than a real NASCAR wreck? Turns out it gave Joey Logano confidence, not fear. Passing points leader Kyle Busch with three laps left, Logano won at Kansas Speedway on Saturday, pulling out his fourth Nationwide victory less than a week after that spectacular crash during a Sprint Cup race. “If you can barrel roll a race car like that and come out OK, it’s going to give you confidence to drive it harder,” Logano said. “I didn’t think it was a big deal at all coming into today. I knew a lot of people did and were wondering how I was going to be. This should put it all to rest, I hope.” In the days leading up to Kansas, Logano assured every-

one the Dover crash wouldn’t affect his aggressiveness on the track. Sure, he was shaky, even after walking away from the care center. Rolling a car seven times will tend to do that to a driver, even if he walks away unscathed, as Logano did. Whether it was the nerves of a 19-year-old or the nature of a race-car driver, Logano wasn’t about to let fear climb into his head. He proved it at Kansas. Overcoming early handling problems, Logano stayed near the front for most of the race, then made his move after a late caution. Even a near wreck didn’t slow him down; Logano regrouped, hit the accelerator and passed Busch for his fifth career Nationwide win. “I had no fear,” Logano said. “I didn’t think about anything like that and I don’t think 90 percent of these race car drivers think

like that.” Busch came up short against Logano yet again. He had the strongest car most of the day, leading 173 of the 200 laps on the 1.5-mile oval. Busch has led 2,226 laps this season, breaking the season series record of 2,127 set by Sam Ard in 1984. He just didn’t have enough to hold off Logano, who came back to beat him in the final 10 laps for the fourth time this season. Busch still extended his lead over Carl Edwards (seventh) to 245 points with six races left, but has finished second in all four of Logano’s Nationwide wins this season. Brad Keselowski finished third. “It’s pretty self-explanatory: it is frustrating,” said Busch, who has 25 top-10 finishes this season. “I’ve done that about 12 times this year so it ain’t the first time, ain’t going to be the last.”

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Spartans shock No. 22 Wolverines

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North Carolina senior Cam Thomas (93) hangs his head on the Tar Heel’s bench after a 16-3 loss to Virginia in an NCAA college football game, on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 in Chapel Hill.

What? Virginia beats North Carolina, 16-3

CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Mikell Simpson ran for the game-clinching touchdown in the fourth quarter while Virginia’s defense turned in a dominating performance to beat North Carolina 16-3 on Saturday. Robert Randolph kicked three field goals for the Cavaliers (1-3, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who came out of a bye week with a desperately needed win after a terrible start to the season. The Cavs didn’t need much offense the way their defense locked down on the Tar Heels’ offense, holding North Carolina (3-2, 0-2) to 174 total yards. Simpson ran for 100 yards while Jameel Sewell threw for just 136, but the Cavaliers avoided momentum-killing turnovers and kept the Tar Heels playing catch-up all day. T.J. Yates threw for just 135 yards and had an interception that led to Simpson’s touchdown with 5:49 left, while the Tar Heels managed just 39 yards rushing.

No. 6 Virginia Tech 34, Duke 26

DURHAM (AP) — Tyrod Taylor threw two long touchdown passes and sixth-ranked Virginia Tech dodged a letdown and beat Duke 34-26 on Saturday. Taylor was 17 of 22 for a career-high 327 yards with TD tosses of 36 yards to Danny Coale and 28 yards to Jarrett Boykin. Josh Oglesby had two late touchdown runs for Virginia Tech (4-1, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference). Playing one week after dominating then-No. 9 Miami, the Hokies were nowhere near that sharp this time — but they were good enough to claim their ninth straight victory over the Blue Devils. Thaddeus Lewis was 22 for 40 for 359 yards with two touchdown passes, including a 4-yarder to Austin Kelly with 25 seconds left.

East Carolina 21, Marshall 17

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Patrick Pinkney scored on a 30-yard run and East Carolina’s defense forced two turnovers in the fourth quarter to beat Marshall 21-17 on Saturday. Pinkney was 14-for-23 with 131 yards and an interception for the Pirates (3-2, 2-0). East Carolina’s Dominique Lindsay broke a 7-7 tie before halftime with a 3-yard touchdown run. Marshall (3-2, 1-1) pulled ahead 17-14 on Craig Ratanamorn’s 28-yard field goal and Darius Marshall’s 20-yard TD run in the third, setting up Pinkney’s game-winning run. Pinkney’s only carry came on a 30-yard score to put East Carolina ahead 24-17 in the third quarter. The Pirates defense held strong in the fourth, as Marshall’s Brian Anderson was intercepted early in the fourth by Emanuel Davis and again late by Jeremy Chambliss to help seal the win.

Appalachian State 30, The Citadel 27, OT

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Appalachian State’s Jason Vitaris kicked a 30-yard field goal in overtime to lift the Mountaineers to a 30-27 victory over The Citadel on Saturday. Appalachian State’s Brian Quick blocked a field goal on the final play of regulation after he caught a 74-yard pass from Armanti Edwards to tie the score at 27 with 4:28 left in the game.

Gardner-Webb 27, VMI 23

LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — Stan Doolittle threw for 301 yards and one touchdown to lead GardnerWebb past Virginia Military Institute 27-23 on Saturday. The Runnin’ Bulldogs (3-1, 1-0 Big South Conference) took a 27-23 lead on a 3-yard touchdown run by Patrick Hall with 8:33 left to play. The Keydets (1-3, 0-1) then started a rally when Greg Walker blocked Graham Purvis’ punt, taking over possession on the Gardner-Webb 29-yard line. VMI threw four incompletions, however, and Gardner-Webb prevailed.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Freshman Larry Caper ran for a 23-yard touchdown in overtime, giving Michigan State a 26-20 win over No. 22 Michigan on Saturday for the Spartans’ first consecutive victories in the series since 1967. Chris L. Rucker had intercepted Tate Forcier in the end zone on the Wolverines’ overtime possession to keep Michigan (4-1, 1-1 Big Ten) from scoring. Forcier had led the Wolverines on yet another last-minute touchdown drive to tie the game at 20 with 2 seconds left in regulation. It was the third late-game comeback led by Michigan. Michigan State (2-3, 1-1) snapped a three-game losing streak. It won three straight over Michigan from 1965-67.

No. 3 Alabama 38, Kentucky 20 LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Mark Ingram ran for a careerhigh 140 yards and a touchdown. Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy added a pair of scoring passes as the Crimson Tide (5-0, 2-0 SEC) pulled away from the Wildcats (2-2, 0-1) during a dizzying stretch in the second and third quarters when Alabama scored 24 points in just over 5 minutes. Derrick Locke ran for 76 yards and added another 63 yards receiving for Kentucky, but fumbled late in the first half. Alabama’s Courtney Upshaw picked the ball up and sprinted 45 yards for a touchdown to give Alabama a 21-6 halftime lead. Alabama turned four Kentucky turnovers into 17 points and had little trouble moving the ball after a sluggish start.

No. 4 LSU 20, No. 18 Georgia 13 ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Charles Scott scored on a 33-yard run with 46 seconds remaining to cap a wild finish. No touchdowns were scored through the first three quarters, but the teams went back and forth over the final 3 minutes before the Tigers (5-0, 3-0 SEC) won their second straight close call.

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Georgia’s A.J. Green (8) makes a catch for a touchdown as LSU’s Chris Hawkins defends late in the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game in Athens, Ga., Saturday. The touchdown gave Georgia the lead briefly but LSU went on to win 20-13.

With Georgia (3-2, 2-1 SEC) ahead 7-6 after finally scoring in the opening minute of the fourth period, LSU reclaimed the lead, 12-7, on Scott’s 2-yard run with 2:53 remaining. The Bulldogs bounced back on Joe Cox’s 16-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Green with 1:09 left, going up 13-12 before missing a 2-point conversion. But LSU, starting in good field position after an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Georgia, was already in field goal range when Scott broke two tackles at the line and went all the way to the end zone.

No. 10 Cincinnati 37, Miami (Ohio) 13 OXFORD, Ohio (AP) — Jacob Ramsey ran for 103 yards and three touchdowns in Cincinnati’s pass-oriented offense, and the Bearcats broke open a close game in the fourth quarter. The oldest rivalry west of the Allegheny Mountains has been

a mismatch since coach Brian Kelly showed up at Cincinnati and turned the Bearcats (5-0) into Big East champs. The Bearcats won their fourth straight over Miami (0-5) in front of the biggest crowd at Yager Stadium in six years.

No. 13 Iowa 24, Arkansas State 21 IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Ricky Stanzi threw for a seasonhigh 296 yards and three touchdowns to give the Hawkeyes their best start since 1995.

No. 15 Penn State 35, Illinois 17 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Evan Royster and Stephon Green each ran for more than 100 yards and Darryl Clark added a pair of TDs rushing on a wet, windy day. Green had 120 yards on 13 carries and Royster added 105 on 17.

Ochoa surges to the front at Navistar Classic PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Defending champion Lorena Ochoa shot a 6-under 66 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead in the Navistar LPGA Classic, leaving 14-year-old Alexis Thompson eight strokes behind. Ochoa, second last week behind Sophie Gustafson in California, had a 16-under 200 total on The Senator course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail’s Capitol Hill complex. She birdied six of her final 12 holes in the bogey-free round. The top-ranked Mexican star is winless in her last 11 starts. She has two victories in 17 events this season after winning 21 times the previous three years. Thompson, the Florida ninthgrader who was part of a fiveway tie for the second-round lead, had a 74 to drop into a tie for 13th at 8 under.

Sandra Gal (66) was second at 13 under, and Janice Moodie (68) and Brittany Lang (68) were 12 under. Michelle Wie (72) matched Thompson at 8 under.

Senior Players Championship TIMONIUM, Md. (AP) — Tom Watson shot a bogey-free 6-under 64 on the one-year anniversary of his left hip surgery to take a four-stroke lead in the Senior Players Championship, the final Champions Tour’s major of the year. The 60-year-old Watson, trying to become the oldest senior major winner, had a 12-under 198 total on Baltimore Country Club/Five Farms’ East Course. Loren Roberts (65), John Cook (65) and Mark Wiebe (66) were 8 under, and Jay Haas (67) was 8 under.

Turning Stone Resort Championship VERONA, N.Y. (AP) — Scott Piercy shot a 6-under 66 for a share of the lead with Matt Kuchar after the third round of the Turning Stone Resort Championship. With the sun shinning after two days of heavy rain in the Fall Series opener, Kuchar had a 67 to match Piercy at 14-under 202 on the Atunyote Golf Club course.

Alfred Dunhill Links Championship ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Gale force wind forced the postponement of the third round of the Dunhill Links Championship without a shot being played.

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Wake Forest 30, North Carolina State 24.

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Riley Skinner threw three touchdown passes to become the Wake Forest’s career leader, the defense ended Russell Wilson’s NCAA record streak by intercepting him twice, and the Demon Deacons beat North Carolina State 30-24 on Saturday. Skinner won the matchup of elite ACC quarterbacks by throwing for a career-high 361 yards, while the Demon Deacons (3-2, 1-1) became the first team to intercept Wilson in more than a year.

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sports Hilltoppers 33, Trojans 0 RS — 14 13 6 0 — 33 CH — 0 0 0 0 — 0 First Quarter RS — L. Brown 13 yard run (C. Owens PAT) RS — O. Murray 3 yard run (C. Owens PAT) Second Quarter RS — D. Goode 15 yard fumble return (2-point failed) RS — O. Murray 13 yard run (C. Owens PAT) Third Quarter RS — W. Lynch 5 yard run (PAT no good)

East’s Adrian Wilkins (21) turns on the speed during a run against Patton, Friday. Garrett Byers/ Daily Courier

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Burns Friday,” said Cheek. “It’s hard to tell how good they are, but we’re going to find out. “On Patton, I’ll talk to Clint (Bland) and Brad (Causby) and see what they have to say, but right now the focus is on Freedom.” On the backside of that, the Hilltoppers will turn south to battle Cleveland County’s powerhouses, Shelby and Burns. The Shelby date could prove to be the most important, in terms of a possible conference crown, but only if Central takes care of business with Burke County and then follows that up with a strong performance against Burns. “We want the mind-set of our kids to be right,” said Cheek. “Right now, it’s Freedom. I’m not thinking about anything or anyone else.” Three items stood out in Friday night’s win over Chase: The kicking of senior Oddie Murray, the continued strong play of the defense and three turnovers that left Coach Cheek talking to his charges about protecting the football. On Murray: “Ask any football team in this state, or anywhere for that matter, it is hard to go 80 yards,” said Cheek. “Sure, some teams have a weapon that can do that in one play, but when your defense stands up and forces them to run 12 to 14 plays — it’s tough. On Central’s defense: “They are getting better and better on that side of the ball,” Cheek said. “It makes us look a lot better on the offensive-side that’s for sure.” On the turnovers: “We talked about the turnovers right there and then on the sideline,” said Cheek. “It appeared that William (Lynch) was down, but that’s the call. “Jacob (Kinlaw) took a bad snap and was trying to make a play, but the throw floated on him. We just want to be aware that it doesn’t get any easier from here. We have to be smart with the football.”

Chase turns to Burns CHASE — The Trojans have

struggled over the last two weeks to generate offense. Chase has scored just one touchdown in the last two games. “We have to do some basic things in this offense in order to run it well,” said Brad Causby. “As we learned this offense we taught people to stay low. “We listened to (Georgia Tech coach) Paul Johnson speak, he talked about playing Pitt and the Panthers wearing extra knee pads. Right now, I don’t think anyone is worried about us hitting them low.” Part of the problem has been a revolving door on the offensive line. “The offensive line is short four kids that are not on the team currently and we’ve had to replace nearly the whole line throughout the season, so, it’s tough,” Causby said. “We’ve moved a receiver and a tight end to the line and when you play quality football teams that’s going to show.” The challenge doesn’t get any easier. The Trojans will face a Bulldogs group coming off its’ first win of 2009 after a brutal non-conference schedule. “Burns is the best 1 and whatever team in the state,” said Causby, referring to Burns’ winloss record. “The QB is a quality back, the team is big and fast and, yes, they are young. But, they have the look of a quality football team.”

Cavs respond with win FOREST CITY — One week after getting shut out by rival R-S Central, all eyes in the eastern-part of Rutherford County were watching to see how the Cavs would respond. They responded on the opening kick. East Rutherford’s Tyler Hamilton took the ball at the Cavs six-yard, ran 24-yards, stopped, then found a seam along the right hash and bolted through that for a 94-yard touchdown on the opening kickoff in a 36-14 win over Patton, Friday night. “I thought that kick off set the tone of the game,” East Rutherford football coach Clint Bland said. “Hamilton needed that to build some confidence. We know he can make that kind of play.”

Hamilton also found some offense with 11 rushes for 59 yards and a rushing touchdown. The touchdown, a 31-yarder, showed the Hamilton we have all missed at times this season, as he weaved his way into the end zone for his second score of the contest. It was Adrian Wilkins once again though, who gathered the biggest yardage for the Cavs’ rushing attack. Wilkins, who ended up with 143-yards on Friday night, earned the turning point touchdown to begin the second quarter after Patton had marched in for two straight scores. On second-and-four at the East 33-yard stripe, Wilkins went left at first, withstood arm tackles by two different Panthers, reversed field and raced down the visitors sideline for his only touchdown of the night. Wilkins chewed up another 58-yards on a play that set up Tadjre Wilkerson’s touchdown later on in the period. In giving up 14-first quarter points to Patton, East Rutherford’s defense also rose up to the occasion through the next three quarters. Chris Ross had two sacks and two more tackles for a loss, while Ricky Wilkerson and Preston Childers each picked up a halfsack each. Jason Johnson had a number of stops at the line of scrimmage for East and even Matt Murray, who was carried off the field on a stretcher against Forestview earlier in the season, registered a sack on the night. “It’s tough to defend the option,” Bland said. “They (Patton) were able to chew up some yardage early, but our defensive coaches made some adjustments at the half, blitzed the linebackers and got some pressure on the quarterback. The defense executed well through the final three quarters.” Of note, East Rutherford executed an excellent fake punt in the game. The fake allowed East to run two more minutes off of the clock as Patton had used all of its’ time outs before that on a fourth-and-five at the Patton 35-yard line. On the play, Richard Johnson, who hasn’t carried the football all year long, rushed to right side for a 21-yard gain.

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RUSHING RS — C. Green 10-80; W. Lynch 7-40-TD; O. Murray 6-56-2 TD; L. Brown 4-57-TD; C. Jimerson 4-7; J. Kinlaw 1-16; D. Petty 1-3; T. Lynch 1-5. CH — T. Gossett 15-(-28); K. Crawford 12-62; D. Hines 11-53; J. Miller 8-51; T. Gaffney 2-5. PASSING RS — J. Kinlaw 3-4-INT-69; C. Jimerson 2-2-15; T. Abrams 0-1. CH — B. Moffitt 0-1-INT. RECEIVING RS — T. Abrams 2-15; W. Brown 1-31; O. Murray 1-30; C. Jimerson 1-8.

Cavaliers 36, Panthers 14 ER — 7 22 0 7 — 36 PA — 14 0 0 0 — 14 First Quarter ER — T. Hamilton 94-yard kickoff return (R. Bailey PAT) PA — J. Bristol 5-yard run (K. Stone PAT) PA — J. Reed 4-yard run (K. Stone PAT) Second Quarter ER — A. Wilkins 67-yard run (R. Bailey PAT) ER — T. Wilkerson 2-yard run (M. Baxter pass to A. Wilkins for 2-point conv.) ER — T. Hamilton 31-yard run (R. Bailey PAT) Fourth Quarter ER — M. Baxter 34-yard pass to Z. Price (R. Bailey PAT) RUSHING ER — A. Wilkins 7-143-TD, T. Hamilton 11-59TD, T. Wilkerson 5-13-TD, M. Baxter 3-7, C. Ledbetter 5-11, C. Ross 4-3, R. Johnson 1-21 PA — T. Buchanan 11-45, J. Reed 10-41-TD, J. Bristol 7-31-TD, Z. Cole 6-7, B. Bethel 3-9, T. Conley 1-11, D. Flowers 1-0 PASSING ER — M. Baxter 3-6-TD-76 PA — T. Buchanan 5-14-INT-25 RECEIVING ER — Z. Price 3-76-TD PA — C. Pressley 3-20, J. Reed 2-5

Avery 51, Thomas Jefferson 0 TJ — 0 0 0 0 — 0 AC — 16 21 14 0 — 51 PASSING TJ — W. Beam 12-18-2 INT-92. RUSHING TJ — W. McCraw 2-11; A. Connor 1-3 yards; W. Beam 7-(-4). RECEIVING TJ — A. Connor 6-62; M. Martin 2-15; R. Spurlin 2-14; A. Helton 1-2.

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starter at Chase and averaged 14 points and 14 rebounds a game before attending Erskine College. Robinson was inducted into the Erskine College Hall of Fame in 1998 after scoring 1,000 points and pulling down 1,000 rebounds. Ray Harris was long considered to be one of the fastest football players to ever pass through the halls of Chase. Harris was a senior on the 1975 undefeated team, before playing football for N.C. State. Harris set then-conference records in the 100 yard dash, 440 relay and triple jump. Bill and Phyllis Haynes have been long-time supporters of the Chase athletic programs. The Haynes have provided much financial support through the years and were instrumental in the construction of the football field house. Harris was unable to attend the ceremonies do to a work-related committment. The Haynes were unable to attend do to a medical issue. Dewberry Blanton, Keeter, Willis and Robinson accepted their plaques on the field during halftime.

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Man in court on charge of stalking ESPN’s Andrews

CHICAGO (AP) — A man accused of taping surreptitious nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews while she was alone in hotel rooms appeared in federal court Saturday and was ordered returned to California. Michael David Barrett made an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys, who ordered him returned to Los Angeles, where charges against him were filed. Keys set another hearing for Monday to determine if Barrett

will be freed on bond to return or must go in custody. Barrett, 48, was arrested Friday night at O’Hare airport as he arrived from Buffalo, N.Y., the FBI said. He faces federal charges of interstate stalking for taking the videos, trying to sell them to celebrity Web site TMZ and posting the videos online, the FBI said. Defense attorney Rick Beuke told reporters after court that he had known Barrett for about 10 years and

never known him to be in trouble. “I don’t think he’s even had a traffic ticket,” Beuke said. “He’s as regular a guy as you’ll ever meet — a great friend. I must have calls from 30 people wanting to know what they could do to help.” Beuke said he did not discuss the particulars of the charge when he met briefly with Barrett on Saturday morning in court. He said he would study the complaint and try to visit Barrett at the government’s Metropolitan Correctional Center

Ask the Guys Dear Classified Guys, When it comes to selling a home, how important are good neighbors? My neighbors are very friendly people, but they have a few quirks that can catch you off guard. Both the husband and wife mow their lawn in bikinis to work on their suntans. It may sound exciting, but as nice as they are, they sure wouldn't win any beauty contests! The first time I saw them years ago, I was shocked. To make matters worse, they hang out their underwear and other unmentionables on the patio for all to see. I know you can't choose your neighbors, but now that I've put my house up for sale, I'm worried. I doubt that asking them to add a layer or two while mowing the lawn would work, nor would asking them to put their unmentionables in the dryer. While some people say I need to tell potential buyers about the neighbors, others say there's no problem. What should I do? Do I need to mention the unmentionables to interested parties?

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where he is being held over the weekend. Asked how Barrett had gotten interested in Andrews if the allegations are true, or how he managed to get adjacent hotel rooms, Beuke said, “I assume it’s not true. But we’ll know more on Monday.” Chicago FBI spokesman Ross Rice said he did not know how Barrett allegedly became interested in Andrews. Asked how he had managed to get rooms next to hers, if he did, Rice said Barrett asked.

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Many people judge how well they are doing in life by comparing themselves to their neighbors, often referred to as "Keeping up with the Joneses". But where did the phrase originate? It's actually a term popularized by a comic strip of the same name created by Arthur Momand in 1913. After living in Cedarhurst, New York and experiencing people trying to keep up with the well-to-do class, he and his wife moved to a cheap apartment in Manhattan. He used his experiences in Cedarhurst to create the comic strip that ran in newspapers for 28 years.

My two boys have started playing practical jokes around the neighborhood. While most of their pranks are harmless, like moving lawn ornaments or turning on sprinklers at night, they've begun to get a little more mischievous. Last week they played a joke on my neighbor next door. It seems he went to use the lawnmower he kept on his back porch and found that the kids had removed two wheels and propped it up on blocks. When he realized it was another prank, he had no choice but to call and tell me about it. "I'm so sorry," I started to apologize. "Oh there's no need to apologize to me," he interrupted. "I borrowed the mower from your husband last week!"

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NEW YORK (AP) — Many players have worn No. 4 for the Vikings, most of them kickers. Brett Favre most decidedly is not a kicker. His presence in purple galls nearly everyone in Packers Nation, and the nausea level among Cheeseheads could be off the charts Monday night if Favre leads his latest team past the one he quarterbacked so successfully for so long — a true kick in the rear. Even worse for Packers backers is that a Minnesota win would put the Vikings at 4-0 and Green Bay at 2-2. With Chicago also in the mix in the suddenly potent NFC North, the Packers could be chasing two archrivals the rest of the season. The only way this matchup could grab more headlines is if it took place at Lambeau Field. That won’t be until Nov. 1. Still, there’s plenty of intrigue for a game that even ESPN can’t overhype. “This is probably the most anticipated game I think, for a regularseason game, that I’ve ever been a part of,” Vikings linebacker Ben Leber said. Favre is the reason, of course. This is his chance to get back at an organization he epitomized for 16 seasons, but which he felt forced him to make a retirement decision before he was ready last year. That led to his whole jitterbug in and out of retirement. “It doesn’t even cross my mind,” Favre said. “I’m the quarterback here, I think this team has accepted me, I feel good about where I am. I feel very good about what I did in Green Bay those 16 years. I was not going to play there forever and I’ve said that over and over. You can’t take away 16 years I spent there and what I was fortunate to accomplish and the great teams I played on. Can’t take that away. There is no afterthought really.” There remain plenty of afterthoughts among Cheeseheads. Other key games: Baltimore (3-0) at New England (2-1) A shocking early season fact is

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the Ravens leading the AFC and ranking second overall in offense. They’re gaining 430 yards a game, and because they allow a mere 282, they’re unbeaten. To remain spotless, Baltimore will need its three-headed monster at running back (Ray Rice, Willis McGahee, Le’Ron McClain) to dominate time of possession, allowing the rapidly maturing Joe Flacco time to pick out receivers when he must

throw. Flacco has won 14 of his first 19 starts, just as Tom Brady did back in 2001. That season, the Patriots won their first Super Bowl. They haven’t looked particularly sharp thus far, although their win over Atlanta last Sunday was the Pats’ most impressive performance. Brady has been feeling defensive heat most of the season, and few teams can bring it like Baltimore.

N.Y. Jets (3-0) at New Orleans (3-0) With 75 percent of the teams that started a season 3-0 making the playoffs since 1990, there’s a good chance these two resurgent clubs will be busy in January. This is a juicy October matchup, with a superb attacking defense that has allowed just 33 points facing the most prolific offense in the league with 120 points. Not since Dallas in 1968 (132) has anyone scored so much so early. Jets coach Rex Ryan might get even more aggressive trying to pressure Drew Brees, whose record-setting passing pace slowed a bit at Buffalo. Watch the battle between outstanding cornerback Darrelle Revis and Saints star receiver Marques Colston, although Revis is battling hamstring issues. San Diego (2-1) at Pittsburgh (1-2) The Steelers never have lost a regular-season home matchup with the Chargers, and beat them twice last year at Heinz Field on the way to the championship. But Pittsburgh’s defense has folded late in its last two games, both losses. “We need to finish football games better,” coach Mike Tomlin said. “That’s the mark of a champion, and that’s not us at this point.” The Chargers hope to get back star running back LaDainian Tomlinson (ankle), who has missed the last two games. Dallas (2-1) at Denver (3-0) Denver has gone from a sieve on offense to the stingiest of teams, yielding a mere 16 points, easily the least in the league. That includes no TDs allowed in the last two weeks. But the Broncos have played the Bengals, Browns and Raiders, hardly a murderer’s row. Still, they could get a big break against Dallas, which is hobbled at running back and might be down to Tashard Choice as its choice to tote the ball. The Cowboys generally struggled in their first two home games at the new stadium, so hitting the road might be a good idea.

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defense. “When you turn it over 12 times in three games, an average of four a game, I don’t care who you’re playing, you aren’t winning, especially (against) good teams,” coach John Fox said. “That’s something I think we can get cleaned up. “Defensively, as far as our fits in run and pass, I definitely think we can get fixed.” It might be too late. Only three teams since the current playoff format was adopted in 1990 have made the playoffs after starting 0-3. And the Panthers have numerous problems eight months after they won the NFC South. “When we first looked at the schedule and saw the bye week was Week 4, we were saying that was early and we may be just getting on a role,” Brown said. “But actually it’s come at a good time for us to regroup and get ready for the 13 weeks.” Brown hopes the time off will allow him to return quickly from a high ankle sprain that kept him out of Monday’s loss to Dallas. Brown so far hasn’t become the consistent passrushing specialist the Panthers had hoped. He’s yet to record a sack or win a starting job. The bulk of the pressure was sup-

posed to come from Peppers, the franchise’s all-time sacks leader, who was voted a captain by his teammates despite spending the offseason trying to force the Panthers to let him leave in free agency. Though Peppers delayed signing his franchise tag tender and skipped all offseason workouts, new defensive coordinator Ron Meeks designed his Cover-2 system around him. Peppers was expected to match or exceed his career-high 14½ sacks of last season. Instead, Peppers hasn’t even gotten a quarterback pressure in two games, looking a lot like the 2007 player that ended with a career-low 2½ sacks. After managing only two tackles against Dallas, Peppers told reporters the Cowboys didn’t have an elaborate scheme to stop him. “I can’t go over every play and how they blocked me,” Peppers said, “but I didn’t see anything special.” Fox publicly remains firmly behind Peppers and Delhomme, who has committed 15 turnovers in his last 15 quarters dating to the Arizona playoff debacle. Delhomme still has the support of his teammates, too. “Guys are not quitting,” Delhomme said. “Guys are not giving up.” With no clear backup, Fox has to bet that Delhomme’s mistakes stop. They also have no option except to hope Peppers begins earning his $1 million-a-game salary. They need to find a defensive tackle who can help stop the run, too.

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2009 North Carolina State Fair

Where: Raleigh When: Oct. 15-25 The fair showcases the value and importance of agriculture to North Carolina’s economy through food, fun, rides, competitions, entertainment, while also providing a venue to showcase all the products made and grown in North Carolina. The Fair also includes a Folk Festival, a crowd favorite that showcases North Carolina dance and music traditions. www.ncstatefair.org (919) 821-7400

Caldwell-Hohl Artworks Kiln Opening Where: Seagrove When: Oct. 17-18 The Caldwell-Hohl Artworks Kiln Opening showcases new work and an array of one-ofa-kind pots, sculpture and fiber arts. The event will feature guest artists, refreshments, demonstrations and tours of the studios and the Hohl’s log home, and live music. www.caldwellhohl. com (336) 879-9090

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18th Annual Hog Happnin’

Where: Shelby When: Nov 6-7 Don’t miss the 17th Annual Tar Heel BBQ Championship, car and cycle show, arts and crafts and lawnmower racing. Thousands attend this annual event and compete from Illinois, Pennsylvania and more. The cook-off is sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society (KCBS). www.hoghappnin.com (704) 739-7760

62nd Annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands

Where: Asheville When: Oct. 15-18 The Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands showcases the rich diversity of original crafts created by members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, a non-profit organization with more than 900 members throughout the mountain region. Connoisseurs and novices alike come together and craft a collection, connect with tradition and invest in regional culture. www.southernhighlandguild.org (828) 298-7928

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Have you cast your vote yet for a $20,000 grant to build handicapped ramps here in Rutherford County? You can vote at least 26 more times before the Oct. 30 deadline. To vote, visit www.50statesforgood.com and scroll down to Rutherford Housing Partnership’s “Project Access” click “Submit Vote.” You will have voted. RHP is one of only two North Carolina projects nationwide being considered for one of five $20,000 grants from Toms of Maine. Toms of Maine is awarding $100,000 for five projects such “Project Access” across the nation on Oct. 30. Project Access is a ramp building project to provide handicap access to an estimated 15 to 20 low-income homeowners in Rutherford County who are unable to safely access their own homes. RHP’s executive director Nell Bovender submitted the grant request and when it was announced, RHP was one of the five finalists, there was shouting all over the place. RHP provides Contributed photo urgent Church of the repairs Nazarene volunteers for lowbuilding a handiincome capped ramp. homeowners, and ramps are one of the most common needs RHP sees. Volunteers provide all of the labor; donations and grants provide materials. Last year, RHP built 23 ramps, giving people the freedom to get out of their homes. For those who’ve never had to face such a situation, it’s a tough thing to be bound to the indoors because of steps. If “Project Access” is accepted, it will help county homeowners making less than 50 percent of the median income, mostly elderly and disabled living on fixed incomes, and all unable to get in and out of their own homes safely. Handicap ramps provide safe access to and from the home, giving disabled homeowners independence and the dignity they deserve. What freedom it provides for those bound by steps. The project will provide disabled low-income homeowners with safe, dignified and independent access to their homes. Every homeowner receiving a ramp receives a follow-up from RHP to make sure the ramp meets the needs. “There is no reason we can’t win this thing,” Bovender says. In such a time as this, when giving is down a bit due to the economy, receiving $20,000 to help build more ramps will be awesome. An average size ramps cost $500 and larger ramps cost between $1,200 and $1,300. Don’t put it off. Go vote right now. www.50statesforgood. com and scroll down to “Project Access.” With a click of the computer, you may be helping a neighbor,

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In celebration of his birthday, September 26, Johnny Appleseed (aka Principal Jason Cole) dropped by the TJCACFA Grammar School. He visited many classrooms and shared facts of his journey with our students.

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local RHI earns distinction, Aster Awards Neely Completes Internship

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Carter Neely (center) is pictured with News Anchors Melanie Sanders and Donald Jones on the set of NBC17, where he recently completed an internship at the NBC affiliate in Raleigh. Carter will graduate from North Carolina State University in December with a degree in communications. He is the son of Steve and Carol Neely of Rutherfordton.

Buchanan named Allan Scholar, Class of 2013 for Dr. D. Maurice Allan, Class of 1916, a long-time professor of philosophy and psychology. Allan Scholars are recognized for outstanding academic achievement and scholastic aptitude. They are offered a wide variety of intellectual challenges and independent study, thereby broadening and compelemtning their traditional academic pursuits. A private college for men, Hampden-Sydney is ranked in the top 100 best liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report. The college is known for its liberal arts curriculum, the Honor Code which stresses individual and collective responsibility and a focus on the needs of young men.

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turing this design can be seen at the intersection of U.S. 74 Business west at Bi-Lo in Spindale. The 2009 Aster Awards consisted of approximately 3,000 entries from across America. Participant’s entries competed against similar-sized organizations in their category. Entries must score at least in the top 85 percent to receive an award. Judging criteria includes creativity, layout and design, functionality, message effectiveness, production quality and overall appeal. Consulting on the creative design of the project was Cross Associates of Raleigh. Rutherford Hospital this year was named a Top 100 National Hospital by Thomson Reuters for the fourth consecutive year. Only Duke University Hospital was the other hospital in North or South Carolina to earn this distinction.

Junior Miss registration now open FOREST CITY — The deadline for accepting applications for the Rutherford County Junior Miss Scholarship Program is Oct. 31.

Students Today FOREST CITY — Matthew Jack Buchanan, a graduate of Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy, has enrolled at Hampden-Sydney College with the Class of 2013 as an Allan Scholar. Matt Buchanan is the son of Sharon S. Buchanan of Rutherfordton and Tony Buchanan of Green Hill and the grandson of Jack and Georgianna Smart of Forest City. The Allan Scholarshipo is the highest academic scholarship awarded by the college. The scholarship is named

RUTHERFORDTON – Rutherford Hospital Inc. recently learned that its series of advertisements for Rutherford Plastic Surgery and Spa won “Silver Winner” distinction from the 2009 Aster Awards, an elite competition recognizing the nation’s most talented healthcare marketing professionals for outstanding excellence in advertising. Winning entries, judged by a diverse panel of experts, are published in the Marketing Healthcare Today magazine. A Best of Show Trophy, Judge’s Choice Awards, as well as Gold, Silver and Bronze certificates are granted to winning entries exemplifying excellence. The advertisement of a Shar-Pei puppy with the tagline “The Only Time Wrinkles Are Cute” won in three different categories, including magazine and billboard entries for hospitals. Currently the billboard fea-

All high school junior girls are encouraged to investigate this program realizing that those who participate truly grow in self-confidence, self-esteem, and develop new friendships as they work with each other, said Junior Miss Co-Chair Rhonda Owens. There is no entry fee for the Junior Miss Program.

Caroline Pocock, Rutherford County’s Junior Miss 2010, received more than $5,500 in cash scholarship monies, $53,000 in extended college scholarships, $500 wardrobe from Tanner Companies, oneweek trip to Greensboro for the state finals, medallion, 11X14 portrait, and an engraved memento. This year’s program date is set for April 24, 2010. Please contact Jeff Arrowood at 245-8397 or e-mail to rhonda. owens@rutherfordcountync.gov if interested in participating.

Lost Playwrights give performances FOREST CITY — Lost Playwrights of Western North Carolina participated in the performances of short plays on Sept. 26. Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan, director of English as a Second Language services for Rutherford County Schools, and local author Dante Elaine Calderin performed “Golden Days of Yesteryear” written by Rutherford County Schools teacher Ludy Wilkie. Calderin also appeared in Life Saving 101 by Joe Feinstein. Rutherford Community Theatre veterans Clyde and Debbie Keller performed in “Costumes” by Stephen Hyers; “Dancing All the Way Home” by Joe Feinstein; and were joined by

Gordon Pendarvis of Forest City in “Delayed Reaction” by John Bohane. Pendarvis also presented a monologue, “The House on King Street” by Frank Talley of Forest City. He also appeared in appeared in “That Which Doesn’t Kill Us” by James McLindon; and joined Clyde Keller in “Orville and Wilbur Discuss Aerodynamics” by John Weagly. Lost Playwrights meets the fourth Saturday of every month at 4 p.m. at Doc’s Deli to read scripts. Some previously selected are performed at 7 p.m. at the Deli. All persons interested in any aspect of theatre are invited.

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The Adopt-A-Highway group “In Memory of Ricky and Tony Hodge” recently comContributed photo memorated their 15th year of service to Rutherford County and the State of North Kent Upton of Ellenboro (left) was the winner of a 21-speed mountain bike that Carolina. Despite the rainy weather, more than 16 people participated in the annual was given away at the Ellenboro Fair by the Rutherford County Republican Party. Fall Litter Sweep campaign. For more information on adopting a two-mile stretch Also pictured is Rutherford County Clerk of Court Robynn Spence. Proceeds from of highway, contact Shirley Sims at the local State Road Maintenance Department, the drawing will be donated to the Sheriff’s Department. 286-3433.

Weddings/Engagements … Must be submitted in a timely manner for publication in The Daily Courier. Limited space. Copy edited. All wedding accounts will be written according to Courier guidelines. Forms may be obtained at The Daily Courier , 601 Oak St., Forest City. The information may also be submitted by email — abyers@thedigitalcourier.com Contact Abbe Byers, 245-6431, ext. 215

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RHP in need of votes for ‘Project Access’ By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Rutherford Housing Partnership has been selected as a finalist to receive a $20,000 project grant from Tom’s of Maine. The project, called “Project Access” has been selected as one of only two North Carolina finalists out of hundreds of project entries from across the nation, said Nell Bovender, executive director of Rutherford Housing Partnership. “Now that we have made it this far, we need your help,” Bovender said. Five winners will be chosen from the 50 finalists and it will depend on public vote. Bovender is asking everyone to go to: 50statesforgood.com and vote for RHP’s “Project Access.” People can vote every day until Oct. 30. On that day, votes will be tallied and the five organizations with the most votes each win $20,000. During the voting period, visitors can cast votes for up to five projects per day. Bovender explains, the Web site will allow a person to vote five times for five different projects each day. “When it says you have four more votes, it is referring to the fact that you can vote for up to five projects each day. You don’t have to use all five of your votes daily,” Bovender said. Once you have voted for Project Access, you have four more votes that day, and the next day you once again can vote for five projects. “We ought to be able to win this thing,” Bovender said. She also said two people cannot vote from the same computer even if they are getting on the

Web site from different e-mail addresses. The five top winners will be announced in November and funding will be distributed by the end of this year. Project Access is a ramp building project to provide handicap access to an estimated 15 to 20 low-income homeowners in Rutherford County who are unable to safely access their own homes. RHP provides urgent repairs for low-income homeowners, and ramps are one of the most common needs we see. Volunteers provide all of our labor; donations and grants provide materials. If “Project Access” is accepted, it will help county homeowners making less than 50 percent of the median income, mostly elderly and disabled living on fixed incomes, and all unable to get in and out of their own homes safely. Handicap ramps provide safe access to and from the home, giving disabled homeowners independence and the dignity they deserve, Bovender said. The project will provide disabled low-income homeowners with safe, dignified and independent access to their homes. Every homeowner receiving a ramp receives a follow-up from RHP to make sure the ramp meets the needs. Tom’s of Maine has a long history of supporting local communities with a focus on clean waterways and greater access to quality, affordable dental care. After 40 years of donating profits back to the community, this year the company earmarked $100,000 for the public to direct towards grass roots initiatives

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important to them. The 50 finalists, including Rutherford Housing Partnership, are featured at www.50statesforgood. com, where the public can learn more about community efforts around the country and vote to determine which five projects will split $100,000 in funding. Tom’s of Maine is a leader in natural personal care with a long standing commitment to putting good, socially responsible business practices first. For almost 40 years, the company has donated 10 percent of its profits back to the community and encourages employees to volunteer by giving 5 percent paid time off. Each day, Tom’s of Maine employees contribute to high substainability standards and their ideas from wind power to recycled and recyclable packaging are critical to the company’s sensitive way of doing business. Rutherford Housing Partnership Inc. is a local nonprofit organization founded in 1995 by a group of concerned citizens who believed strongly that everyone had a right to safe and livable housing. The organization’s purpose is to assist low-income homeowners with urgent repairs imminent to life or safety. RHP provides repairs using volunteer labor with materials purchased through donated funds. RHP is also the parent organization of The Women Roofers. Later this month RHP and United Way are coordinating their efforts for Week of Caring across Rutherford County. Contact Jean Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.

Chris Cates to perform at Cleveland County Fair

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Chris Cates and his band, the Master Plan, will be the featured band Oct. 9, at Cleveland County Fair.

SHELBY — Chris Cates & the Master Plan will be the featured band on Friday, Oct. 9, at the 85th annual Cleveland County Fair. The Asheville-based performers will showcase their versatility by playing rock, soul, R&B and beach music during a three-hour set from 6 to 9 p.m. on the performing arts stage. This is the band’s first appearance at the Cleveland County Fair, although it regularly plays in the Shelby area. “We’re going to mix it up. We’ll play a lot of well-known tunes, including rock, R&B, funk and Southern rock, along with our fun, funky originals,” said Cates. “It will be a

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show for music lovers of all ages and all genres.” Cates is a prolific recording artist who sings, plays guitar and harmonica. He is joined by the Master Plan: bassist Chris Singleton, drummer Jason Peeler and saxophonist John Kell. Cates will also perform a selection of hits from his solo album, “Carolina Songs.” In typical fashion, Cates will man the stage the entire three hours, including an acoustic set in the middle of the performance. Admission to the fair is $7 for adults and $2 for children ages 6-12. For more information, visit www.clevelandcountyfair.com.

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Jerred Roberts, an employee with BB&T, works on the playground equipment at Noah’s House, Forest City, on Tuesday morning. Roberts and nearly 30 other BB&T employees from Rutherford County did handson work at Noah’s House, PATH Shelter and American Developmental, in conjunction with the bank-wide Lighthouse Project. The bank spent $3,700 and volunteered more than 70 hours Tuesday for the children’s projects.

In Uniform COLUMBIA, SC — Army Pfc. Georgina Gray has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises. Gray is a 2006 graduate of R-S Central High School. She is the daughter of Adelheid Gray of Rutherfordton.

Leisure Events FOREST CITY — The following fall activities are planned in and around Rutherford County: n Ghost Train® Halloween Festival: Tweetsie Railroad celebrates the 20th season of its Ghost Train® Halloween Festival. The event begins Friday, Oct. 2, and runs every Friday and Saturday night through Oct. 31. The Ghost Train Halloween Festival’s non-stop excitement has made the event one of the most popular Halloween celebrations in the High Country. Gates open at 7:30 p.m. Limited number of tickets available. Advance tickets required. Admission — $26 for adults and children, ages 2 and under free. Please See Leisure Page 6C

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R-S Central MCJROTC was named overall meet champion at Carolinas Military Championships at McDowell High School.

R-S Central MCJROTC named overall military champions

RUTHERFORDTON — R-S Central MCJROTC took top honors at the Carolinas Military Championships at McDowell High School on Sept. 26. The meet included marksmanship, drill and athletic competitions.

The Rifle Team finished third against a strong field which included two of the strongest teams in the eastern United States. The Drill Team finished second in a very wet competition, being edged out by a score of 2855 to 2852. The

Physical Fitness Team dominated the field taking first in four of the five events contested and finishing second in the fifth. At the end of the day, R-S Central was named the meet’s Grand Champion. Over the course of the day, R-S Central captured trophies in 12 of 14 events, including eight first-place finishes and three second-place. Drill commanders for the day were Cadets Sgt. Gabe Abele and Tiffany Edgerton; and Cadet Lance Cpl. Corey Smith.

Cadets also brought home numerous medals in individual competitions. Cadet Staff Sgt. Shakeia Burgin; Cadets Sgt. Gabe Abele and Tiffany Edgerton; and Cadet Lance Cpl. Briana Blackwood each earned medals in the knockout drill event, while Cadet Lance Cpl. Savannah Parton was named the overall knockout champion. In marksmanship, Cadet 1st Sgt. Logan Hartzog finished second overall, winning a total of four medals. Cadet 2nd Lt. Jessica Eberhart and Cadet

Students earn AP Scholar recognition

FOREST CITY — Sixteen students at East Rutherford High School have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP Exams. The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program (AP) provides motivated and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous, collegelevel courses while still in high school, and to earn college credit, advanced placement or both for successful performance on the AP Exam. About 18 percent of the nearly 17. million students worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently high level to also earn an AP Scholar Award.

The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on students’ performance on AP Exams.

At East Rutherford High School: n Three students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades three or higher on five or more of these exams. These students are Catherin Alexander, Eliza Allen and Timothy Hamrick.

n Three students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grade of three or higher on four or more of these exams. These students are James Cilone, Laura Isenhour and Patrick Millwater. n Ten students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with grades of 3 or higher. The AP Scholars are Arminda Boone, Lacy Brigman, Mara Chambers, Sarah Dale, Mara Davis, Jordan Hawkins, Eric Riberdy, Porscha Street, Kari Strickland and Morgan Wood. Of this year’s award recipients at East Rutherford High School, seven were sophomore or juniors: Lacy Brigman, Mara Chambers, Sarah Dale, Mara Davis, Jordan Hawkins, Eric Riberdy and Patrick Millwater. These students have at least one more year in which to complete college-level work and possibly earn a higher-level AP Scholar Award. Through more than 30 different college-level courses and exams, AP provides motivated and academically prepared students with the

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Sgt. Jon Russell won one a piece. Also participating in the competition were Cadet Lance Cpl. Courtney Blair; Cadet Sgt. Paige McCombs; Cadet Capt. Chris Noffke; Cadet Cpl. Morgan Lowery; Cadets Pvt. Tommy Stover and Ryan Thompson; Cadet Lance Cpl. Amber Swink; Cadet Lance Cpl. Tyler Wallace; Cadet Lance Cpl. Austin Elfers; Cadet Pvt. Dakota Kesterson; Cadets Cpl. Katie Atkins and Martina Carson; Cadet Lance Cpl. Samantha Morris; Cadet Staff Sgt. Ashley

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Steven Murphy; Cadet Pvt. Keith Michael; Cadets Cpl. Cody Hill and Cole Flack; Cadets Pvt. Bradley Roper and Cody Stafford; Cadet Lance Cpl. Lori Townsend; Cadet Pfc. Aron Moon; Cadet Pvt. Hunter Bumgardner; Cadet Lance Cpl. Taylor Johns; Cadet Pvt. Colby Smith; Cadet Pfc. Emily Weeks; Cadet Pvt. Brandon Pauley; Cadet Lance Cpl. Matthew Higgins; Cadet Sgt. Jessica Swink. R-S Central’s next competition is the Carolinas Drill and Rifle Meet at Asheville High School.

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Silver Arts Follies Present ‘Thriller’

Mandy Parker, Brian Bradley

Mandy Lee Parker and Brian Lee Bradley are engaged and plan to be married Saturday, November 7, 2009 at fellowship Holiness Church in Spindale. The ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. The bride-elect is the daughter of Glenn and Patty Kelly of Union Mills. The groom-elect is the son of Donnie and Peggy Bradley of Bostic. Mandy is a student at Isothermal Community College and employed by East Mountain Quick Mart in Rutherfordton. Brian is a 2002 graduate of Catawba Valley

This enthusiastic group of senior citizens represented the Rutherford County Senior Center at the North Carolina Senior Games Silver Arts Follies in Raleigh, on Sept. 25. The group performed their routine to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Participants include Cindy Ammons, Sam Berger, Joyce Dwyer, Linda Jeanne Harrill, Freda Ledford, Tom Milo, Rosalie Silvers, and Wayne and Linda Wilson. The group also performs for private or corporate groups.

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RCAC sets auditions

FOREST CITY — Rutherford County Arts Council will hold auditions for the musical, “Darby Rumbles’ Dolls,” on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 6:30 p.m. at the Visitors Centre in Globe Park off South Broadway Street. This original musical, which will be presented at The Foundation Performing Arts Center on Dec. 18, is written by Rutherfordton author Diane Tucker (pen name Drew Sherer), and features a panoply of eccentric characters based on her actual doll collection. There are roles for all ages, male and female, singing and non-singing, doll and human, with dancers featured prominently. The musical spends an eventful day in the life of Darby Rumbles, a warm-hearted, frumpy old woman who lives with China dolls, baby dolls, Indian dolls, African dolls, tramp clowns, Irish clowns and many more. They all sing, and there’s many a dance with spins, turns, skips and a few falls on the side. Even in the dead of winter, there’s love in the air, not to mention a few slow-motion battles. It’s not easy to see who’s in charge here, but lots of trouble comes to Darby, from clown fights over a China doll to Darby’s own teenage daughter, who wants her to get rid of all the dolls. Human characters include Darby herself; Bonnie, her teenage daughter; Ermalene, a little orphan girl; and many other orphan children, both boys and girls. Doll characters include Calie, a small, gentle doll; Tramp, a sad, worn-out clown; Anna Marie, a gorgeous China doll; Frank, a happy, Irish doll who is very pleased with himself; a Zulu mother with her baby; Petambi, a Tomboy rag doll with wild hair and eyes of stars; Rens and Joey, two vaudeville comedians; Bonita, a Spanish dancer; Mary, a cross-eyed and bad-tempered antique China baby doll; and numerous others, male and female, child and adult. Rehearsals will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Anyone interested is invited to audition; no previous experience is necessary.

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n Little Mountain Pottery will hold its 35th Annual Holiday Open House on Oct. 10 and 11. The Studio of Claude Graves with guest craftsmen and Mountain Music. Richard Beard of Rutherfordton will be displaying and selling his musical instruments. Beard is well-known for the Appalachian dulcimers, guitars and Irish bouzukis. Kiln openings Saturday at 11 a.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. Little Mountain Pottery is located at 6372 Peniel

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Topless photos land wife in hot water with hubby Dear Abby: Several months ago I made a terrible mistake and e-mailed “Tom” — a friend I had a crush on — some topless pictures of myself. Tom rejected me because he is happily married. I am married, too, and when my husband, “Jake,” discovered the pictures on our computer and realized what I had done, we discussed it and agreed to put them aside and never talk about them again. Because Tom and I are friends and he was doing some repair work on our home, I have spoken to him on my cell phone numerous times. When Jake saw the phone records and realized

Dear Abby Abigail van Buren

I was still talking to Tom, he posted my pictures on an Internet porn site for all the world to see and blamed Tom so I wouldn’t speak to him anymore. Abby, Jake never told me I couldn’t speak to Tom. That he made me believe that Tom was the bad guy is upsetting, even though I was wrong in the first place for sending my pictures to him. Do two wrongs make a right? I’m so upset by what Jake did that I don’t want him to touch

Drops cause weird heart rate Dear Dr. Gott: In May 2001, I suddenly developed an irregular heart rate. It would sometimes go two or three beats and then miss one. At times, my heart rate was only 41 beats per minute. During the summer, I contacted my family physician, who ordered some tests. It took until October 2003 for the mystery to be solved, and it wasn’t my physician who discovered the problem. My drug company changed my glaucoma eye-drop medication from latanoprost to travoprost. I didn’t know that some glaucoma eye drops could affect the heart, but my family physician should have. Some of these medications are beta-blockers, similar to those used to treat hypertension. Timolol maleate is one of them, and the latanoprost, which caused my irregular heart rate, is a prostaglandin analog drug. These are quite effective, and many people use them without any heart problems. When anyone starts a new drug, he or she should write down the date as well as any strange side effects. Rare side effects are quite important if you are that one rare person affected. Dear Reader: Glaucoma is often treated with betablocker eye drops because the condition is essentially

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hypertension of the eyeball. It should be treated by an ophthalmologist and monitored closely, since it can cause permanent changes to vision or even blindness. You say you were changed from latanoprost (a prostaglandin analog) to travoprost (a synthetic prostaglandin analog). After this change you indicate your symptoms disappeared. But you then mention a third medication, timolol maleate (a nonselective beta-adrenergic receptor blocking agent) as causing heart symptoms. In my experience, if one class of drugs causes side effects, others in that class will, too. This is not always the case, but more often than not, I have found it to hold true for my patients. A situation I believe to be more likely is that the timolol-causing side effects ceased when the medication was changed to travoprost or latanoprost. Other than this confusion, you make an excellent point. It is important to know what medications are being taken, what the dosage is, and the date they were started.

me. In fact, I want a divorce. I don’t know what to do. Please help me. — Linda Dear Linda: Your husband was willing to forgive and forget the fact that you were trying to start an affair by sending the photos to Tom. When you “discussed it and agreed never to talk about them again,” he took for granted that you would end the “friendship.” And you should have. Your actions weren’t platonic and were a threat to your own marriage. When your husband realized that the flirtation was ongoing, he punished you in a cruel way. Two wrongs do NOT make a right. And my advice to you

and Jake is to sit down with a marriage counselor, figure out where your relationship went off track and decide, calmly, whether your marriage is worth saving. Dear Abby: My son, “Jeremy,” age 25, married his high school sweetheart a little more than a year ago. They live about 4 1/2 hours away. When Jeremy was growing up, he and I were very close. Since his marriage I have tried not to call as often as I did when he was single. I do call, but now I limit it to once every few weeks, although he rarely answers his phone. I wanted to let him call at his convenience.

He has told me that e-mail is the best way to reach him. The problem is, he doesn’t respond to my e-mails, doesn’t answer my calls and rarely phones me to see how our family is doing. I was recently ill and Jeremy didn’t even call to see how I was. I’m hurt, and part of me wants to tell him so. I’m afraid if I do I’ll alienate him, but I feel he’s already alienated. What should I do? — In a Spot Dear In a Spot: Your son’s life has changed and he has new responsibilities since his marriage, but that’s no excuse for him not to answer calls and e-mails from you.

Life Saving Tips from Dr. Jon PetPlace.com offers an online newsletter called Dog Crazy. It is filled with practical information and helpful hints for keeping your dog happy and healthy. The following common sense tips are excerpts from a recent issue written by Dr. Jon. 1. Pet-Proof Your Home . Prevent common accidents in your home by pet-proofing! Check your home for possible poisons, toxins and plants that your pet can get in to. Common dangers include antifreeze, rat or mouse bait, slug bait, medications, drugs, electrical cords, paper shredders, and insecticides. Remove access to children’s toys, strings or small objects that can be chewed on or swallowed. 2. Check Collars. Check your pet’s neck at least weekly to make sure the collar is not too loose or too tight ... and that it’s still there. 3. Make Sure Your Pet Is Identified . Pets can lose their collar and in many case their “identification” along with it. Tags can fall off. Consider having a microchip placed for permanent identification. A tag is very important if your dog is hit or runs away. It is the best and fastest way to get you in touch with your pet in the case of an emergency. We recently tested some different ID tags and really like one product called Top Tag . It is a pet ID tag in a waterproof durable case that actually contains a little thumb or USB drive. It holds all of your contact information, medical and care information and photos. This tag not only holds your contact information in the case your pet is lost but also his medical history and photos. For more information - go to www.petproductadvior.com/toptag. 4. Keep Dogs Supervised. The safest approach for allowing your dog out is by taking him on a leash! This way you can not only monitor what they are getting into but also watch their urine and bowel movements for abnormalities. The next safest thing for dogs is a fenced-in yard. Monitor the yard and fence frequently for problems. Keep pets inside in extreme cold or hot temperatures. 5. Don’t Let your Dog Ride in an Open Truck Bed . Dogs that are allowed to ride in

IN THE STARS Your Birthday, Oct. 4; The year ahead could be an exciting one, holding exceptional promise in areas where you use creative abilities. Put your imagination to work. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — You may get a chance to utilize an asset that someone you respect didn’t know you had. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Today could be a time when an old problem is finally terminated. Once this happens, it will open the door to fresh hopes. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Circumstances are exceptionally positive with regard to your personal interests. As things loosen up, events will develop new ways to find solutions. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Although another person might be involved, something big is in the making that could destroy the barriers that block your path to success. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — You might benefit from a project on which you have worked long and hard. What you gain might come about quite suddenly. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — An important but problematic relationship could work out quite advantageously. After a bumpy start, the road will be made smooth again. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Pessimism doesn’t become you. Be both realistic and positive about your ability to achieve. It’s all in your mind. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You’re far more competitive than you think, so when an invitation is extended to take part in a rival situation, jump onboard. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Restless stirrings about generating more funds could get your mind flowing in this direction. Once you think about it, your cleverness will come up with something good. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Sensing that now is a time for new activities and encounters, you’ll find ways to break from daily routines so that fresh elements can be introduced into your personality. Don’t hold back. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — This is a day when all of the pieces could suddenly fall into place, putting together something that has lucrative potential. Move on whatever you’re working on. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — A willingness to assist someone who could use the help may take a surprising twist; when aiding him or her, events move in a direction that brings more glory to you.

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open bed pick up trucks are the frequent victims of trauma. Sudden starts, stops, and turns can toss your pet onto the highway where it can get hit by oncoming traffic. 6. Keep Head and Paws Inside. Dogs love to stick their heads out open windows however the wind, insects and debris in the air can hit your pet. Many pets are taken to emergency hospitals after something hits their eyes or face. 7. Know What to Do and Who to Call . Find out if your veterinarian does emergency work after hours or where your closest emergency hospital is located. Know the numbers and directions just in case you need it. Call anytime you have a pet concern!

Be thoughtful with secondhand gifts Dear Sara: A friend’s birthday is coming soon, and, before I started being frugal, I used to spend about $30 on friends for birthdays. But I need to get that number down now. I was wondering if you have given thrift-store finds as gifts and if there were any negative reactions from it. I think this particular friend wouldn’t mind, because she shops at them and is also thrifty, but I don’t know if it would go over so well with other people I know. Any thoughts on this? Good or bad experiences? — Lisa H. Dear Lisa: I’ve given and received secondhand gifts without any bad reactions. It depends on what you’re giving and the person to whom you’re giving the gift. You have to have the same thoughtful consideration when giving gifts, whether they’re secondhand, discounted or expensive. These are your friends. Ask them. It’s also helpful to know if they collect anything. Collectors tend to appreciate older items. Think about it: If you’re buying an older item from a thrift store, estate sale, flea market or antique shop, how would anyone know which place you actually bought the gift or for what price? And if it’s new and still packaged, they wouldn’t know at all. But if you want to be safe, there are plenty of opportunities throughout the year to buy brand-new items on sale or at dollar stores. Or invite them over for lunch, treats and a movie rental. The important thing is to keep in mind their hobbies, interests, needs or wants and not your own. The items you love may not be gifts anyone else would enjoy. Listen for small clues

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throughout the year, and try to avoid last-minute shopping. Dear Sara: I am making cookies, and I would like to freeze some for another day. What is the best way to defrost them, on a rack or plate? Do they go soggy afterward? — Kelz Dear Kelz: Place them on the counter still wrapped, so a rack or plate is unnecessary. They’ll defrost at room temperature quickly and without getting soggy. When freezing them, make sure that the cookies are cooled, and aim for a single layer or with wax paper between layers to prevent cookies from sticking together. Cookie dough freezes well, too. You can roll it into logs. To make dough logs, place the cookie dough onto wax paper or plastic wrap, roll the dough into a log, twist the ends, and freeze the logs. You can place this in the freezer wrapped with just the wax paper or plastic wrap, or place the wrapped log in a plastic baggie, too. When you’re ready to use the dough, thaw in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Then you can slice and bake. Or use a cookie scoop, or roll the dough into balls and drop the dough onto a wax- or parchment-paper-lined cookie sheet. Freeze for about an hour to harden so they hold their shape, then transfer into plastic baggies and freeze. When you’re ready to bake, you can thaw for 30 minutes at room temperature, but you don’t have to before baking.

8C — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, October 4, 2009

LOCAL

Events

Bank of America 500

Where: Concord When: Oct. 17 Continued from Page 1C Round five of the 10-race Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, the Bank of America 500 sure to play a pivotal role in deciding the 26th Annual isseries championship. This 500-mile classic will Barbecue once again run under the lights on Saturday night at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. www.lowesFestival motorspeedway.com (704) 455-3200 Where: Lexington When: Oct. North Carolina Festival 24 Visit Uptown by the Sea Where: Holden Beach Lexington, When: Oct. 24-25 where more than The largest festival in the South Brunswick 100,000 people enjoy Islands starts with a parade on the causeway the exhibits, exciting entertainment and and kicks off the events under the bridge on 11,000 pounds of bar- Holden Beach. Hundreds of food vendors, crafts and visitors attend this annual festival. The fesbecue. www.barbetival includes a 5K and 10K race, horseshoes, cuefestival.com (336) sandcastle contest, live entertainment and 956-1880 more. www.hbmerchants.com (910) 842-3828

Annual Woolly Worm Festival

this family event offers the chance for “your” woolly worm to win $1,000! More than 20,000 attendees flock to the festival, looking for a good laugh. The fuzzy patterns on the woolly worms will forecast the winter weather to come. averycounty.com (828) 898-5605.

Where: Banner Elk When: Oct.17-18 Named one of the Top Ten Fall Festivals in North America by the Society of American Travel Writers,

s Fishing report posted each week ORIENTAL — Captain Gary Dubiel owns and operates Spec Fever Guide Service from his home in Oriental. United States Coast Guard (USCG) licensed and insured, Gary runs both a fly rod and light tackle year-round charter service, fishing for a wide variety of both salt and brackish water game fish. He is an International Game Fish Association (IGFA) Fly Rod World Record holder. Gary has written for a number of magazines and he had served

as regional editor for Shallow Water Angler magazine as well as lecturing at a number of sports fishing shows, fly-fishing events and fishing clubs. Captain Gary and his original fly patterns have been featured in books and magazines and he has appeared in sports fishing show across the state, the country and the Atlantic. Beginning last Wednesday, North Carolina’s Coast fall fishing report is posted on VisitNC.com: www.

visitnc.com/journeys/ articles/fall-color-l-fallfishing/1/weekly-fallfishing-reports

Every year in the fall, a change in the Gulf Stream blesses North Carolina’s coast with a bounty of fish, giving fishing enthusiasts a great opportunity to cast their lines in our waters. Check each week, for the latest fall fishing report: www.visitnc. com/journeys/articles/ fall-color-l-fall-fishing/1/weekly-fall-fishing-reports.

Brunch Hospice Volunteer Training

Continued from Page 1C

October 12-14 10am-3pm

Hickory Nut George Office

October 19-22 6pm-9pm Carolina Event and Conference Center

$15 Material Fee refunded when participates become active volunteer Call Kim Freeman To register for classes 828.245.0095

friend or family member have the freedom to get out of the house. If there is not a computer in your home, go to a library; then call your friends and relatives to ask them to do the same. Tom’s of Maine has a long history of supporting local communities with a focus on clean waterways and greater access to quality, affordable dental care. After 40 years of donating profits back to the community, this year the company earmarked $100,000 for the public to direct towards grass roots initiatives important to them. Tom’s of Maine is a leader in natural personal care with a long standing commitment to putting good, socially responsible business practices first. Rutherford Housing Partnership Inc. is a local non-profit organization founded in 1995 by a group of con-

cerned citizens who believed strongly that everyone has a right to safe and livable housing. The organization’s purpose is to assist low-income homeowners with urgent repairs imminent to life or safety. RHP provides repairs using volunteer labor with materials purchased through donated funds. RHP is also the parent organization of The Women Roofers. By the way, RHP and United Way are coordinating their efforts for Week of Caring, Oct. 17-24. Volunteers are urgently needed for many projects for senior, low income and disabled people across the area. Want to get outside and enjoy the weather and make a difference? Call 248-3431 to volunteer during the week of Caring. And do you want to make sure people can actually get outdoors, please vote today, Project Access. Contact Jean Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.

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