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Motorists should not be affected by the construction and no detours are planned, King said. Bland was also hopeful that the safety of the intersection would be improved. “I finally got the money that was originally scheduled to build a road between the shopping centers transferred to this project,” Bland said. “Without that money the state didn’t have enough money to complete this intersection project. Representative Bobby England in the legislature gave me some help on this. I think everyone in the county is going to be happy to see that done. It is a safety and convenience issue. With people turning down there to go to Wal-mart at Christmas time, all the Isothermal Community College traf-
FOREST CITY — Rutherford County is tied for fourth on a new AAA Carolinas list of counties with the most substandard bridges in the state. AAA says the county has 133 substandard bridges and 177 that are not considered substandard. That means 42.9 percent of the county’s bridges are rated as substandard. Forsyth County also has 133 substandard bridges, but has a lower percentage, at 32.4 percent. In neighboring counties, 36.8 percent of Buncombe bridges were rated substandard, 36.6 percent of Polk bridges were substandard, 34.6 percent were substandard in Cleveland and 29.2 percent were substandard in McDowell. Statewide, 28.5 percent of North Carolina’s 18,265 bridges are substandard. Although AAA says Buncombe, Guilford, Wilkes, Forsyth and Rutherford counties have the highest number of substandard bridges, counties with the highest percentage of substandard bridges are Transylvania (44.5 percent), Macon (43.5 percent), Clay (43.5 percent), Jackson (41.7 percent) and Vance (41.6 percent). Buncombe leads the state with the number of substandard bridges, at 200. Close behind is Guilford, with 196. Bridges on U.S. 74 bypass were rated the worst of Rutherford County’s bridges. Bridges on both eastbound and
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This silver Nissan Altima — driven by 44-year-old Jody Andrew Tollison of 475 W. Main Street, Forest City — collided with a tree after a high-speed chase that involved officers from Rutherfordton Police Department, Forest City Police Department, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department and the N.C. Highway Patrol. See story, Page 5A.
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Poors Ford, Oakland Road intersection work scheduled By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer
SPINDALE — After seven years of planning and petitioning, Mayor Mickey Bland said he was thrilled that work on a new intersection between Poors Ford Road and Oakland Road would get started this spring. The $1 million NCDOT project was awarded to Tennoca Construction of Candler in December. “The project will realign Poors Ford to meet Oakland and Piney Ridge Road at a four-way intersection with a traffic signal instead of the awkward Z-shaped intersection there now,” said Josh King, a planner with the Isothermal Planning and Development Commission. “Motorists can expect less traffic congestion on Oakland Road and Poors Ford Road once the intersection realignment is complete.”
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Riley Christian Terry in the arms of his mother, Ashley, takes a moment away from sweet potatoes to look at the camera.
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FOREST CITY — Job seekers, students and retirees are all being targeted by the 2010 U.S. Census, looking for part time and full time workers to help count heads. With pay rates set at around $15.25 an hour, the compensation is promoted as a big draw for the temporary assignments. “Most of the jobs will be in five to 10 week increments,” said Dave Harris, the census office manager in Gastonia who handles Rutherford County. “As we go through the phases — there are about six different operations — normally the better producers we’ll try to roll them from operation to operation. Since these are short operations the people that don’t perform well don’t last long.” Harris said the main point of hiring local workers is to capitalize on their familiarity with their own areas. “You are usually on your own, but also close to your local community,” Harris said. “This week we’re doing 59 test sites in Cleveland, Gaston, Rutherford, Polk and Lincoln counties. That is what we’re managing out of Please see Census, Page 6A
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Program benefits families By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer
FOREST CITY — Three-month-old Riley Christian Terry likes sweet potatoes and formula. He weighs 13 pounds and owns at least 20 pacifiers and no one in his family dares go without out. At his home Tuesday morning, he looked dapper in blue jeans, a white long sleeved shirt and his “dress” shoes. Riley’s parents are Ashley Riley, 17, and B.J. Terry, 18, and their little baby is pretty amazing. He took his bottle very peacefully in his mother’s arms, handed over later to his greatgrandmother Reva Gonzales while the couple talked about the pregnancy and Riley’s birth. Ashley and B.J., dating since June 2008, never planned to have a baby at their young
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age so the news last summer of the pregnancy created tears and frustration for them and their parents. But the young couple took the news with maturity and agreed to be participants in the Nurse-Family Partnership, administered by the Rutherford-Polk-McDowell Health District. (See related story). Ashley was 16 when she learned she was pregnant and made a conscious decision to join the parnership to learn all she can about becoming a mother. Since that time she has received one-on-one care from Rhonda Wright, a nurse assigned to Riley’s case. Wright sees 20 other mothers enrolled in the program also. Until Riley is 2- years old, Wright will conPlease see Nurse, Page 3A
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WNCW rebroadcasting MLK orchestral tribute
SPINDALE – Twenty-seven years ago, a nationallyacclaimed student orchestra and a baseball Hall of Famer came together to pay tribute to the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Monday evening, the results of that collaboration will be rebroadcast across the airwaves for the first time. WNCW Spindale and WSIF Wilkesboro will present a special rebroadcast of the historic, Jan. 15, 1983, premiere performance of Joseph Schwantner’s “New Morning for the World (Daybreak of Freedom),” a work for orchestra and narrator performed by The Eastman Philharmonia Orchestra and featuring narration by the late Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Fame first baseman, Willie Stargell. The rebroadcast of “New Morning for the World” can be heard on Martin Luther King Day on Monday, Jan. 18, at 8 p.m. on WNCW Spindale 88.7 FM, WSIF
Wilkesboro 90.9 FM and online at WNCW.org. WNCW can also be heard in Boone at 92.9 FM, in Charlotte at 100.3 FM and in Greenville, S.C., at 97.3 FM. The National Public Radio affiliate is a broadcast service of Isothermal Community College in Spindale. “Schwantner’s ‘New Morning for the World’ is considered by many to be one of the most remarkable and profound orchestral works of the late 20th century,” said WNCW General Manager Dana Whitehair, who has a long history with the work. “I actually listened to the live broadcast of the ‘83 world premiere on NPR’s Music From Washington. I’m not at all ashamed to say that Schwantner’s music and the message within Dr. King’s words – not to mention Willie Stargell’s narration – moved me to tears. It still does, in fact. This piece of music is that powerful
and deserves to be heard. I’m extremely proud that WNCW was granted permission to rebroadcast the 1983 performance.” “WNCW is not exactly known for featuring orchestral performances,” said Dave Kester, WNCW’s Program & Operations Director. “But, we are known for showcasing uniquely American works of music and ‘New Morning’ certainly fits into that category. It’s part of our mission. Besides, WNCW’s audience has come to expect the unexpected.” The composition is an orchestral work with excerpts from the speeches of King. The genesis of the work came from then-director of the Eastman School of Music, Robert Freeman. American Telephone & Telegraph commissioned the work, which was composed for the Eastman School’s student orchestra, the Eastman Philharmonia. The Philharmonia’s conductor at
the time was Maestro David Effron, former music director of the Brevard Music Center. The work premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., during the orchestra’s 1983 East Coast tour. One of the more unique aspects of the 1983 performances was the choice of Pittsburgh Pirates baseball legend Willie Stargell as the “New Morning” narrator. Stargell, who led the Pirates to two World Series wins in 1971 and 1979 and was inducted into major league baseball’s Hall of Fame in 1988, had never before participated in such a project. Yet, his dignified, passionate reading of King’s words was as important to the success of the performances as the orchestra’s performance. Stargell’s widow, Margaret Weller-Stargell, said, “This work was one of Willie’s favorite and most proud
accomplishments outside of baseball.” Stargell passed away on April 9, 2001, after a valiant fight with kidney disease. The Willie Stargell Foundation’s mission is to provide funds to support kidney disease research and treatment for those individuals suffering with kidney disease. The broadcast is the result of a year-long effort by WNCW to contact the “principal players” in the 1983 performance to receive their approval. “Robert Freeman, composer Joseph Schwantner, the Stargell Foundation, Maestro David Effron, National Public Radio, Washington, DC NPR affiliate WETA and Isothermal Community College all had a hand in this remarkable project,” said Whitehair. “This took a lot of work, but the result – resurrecting this monumental work for the first time since 1983 – will be worth it.”
Extension will offer training SPINDALE — The Rutherford Extension County Extension Center will be conducting the Tier 1 N.C. Market Ready Training Workshop beginning on Thursday, Jan. 28. The three-week workshop focuses on good agricultural practices (GAPs) and what it takes to obtain GAPs certification. Tier 1 will address GAPs that are directly related to field production and harvest. Registration fee is $10, which includes course materials and refreshments.
Registration will be taken until Monday, Jan. 25. The workshop will be held at the Cooperative Extension Office, 193 Callahan-Koon Foad, Spindale. For more information contact the Rutherford Extension Center at 287-6011.
ECA to hold Achievement awards program SPINDALE — Rutherford County Cooperative Extension is hosting the annual Achievement Program of the Extension & Community Association (ECA) on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 5:30 p.m. for a meal and awards program. The event will be at the Cooperative Extension Office, Callahan Koon Road, Spindale. Learn about the ECA organization, its service to the community, and its accomplishments during the past year. For more information or to attend, call Tracy Davis, 287-6020.
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tinue weekly home visits. During the time Ashley has been with the partnership program, she completed her requirements for her high school diploma from the Rutherford Opportunity Center. She is enrolled in the nursing program at Isothermal Community College and will begin classes in June. B.J. also completed his requirements for his high school diploma and will graduate with Ashley from the ROC in June. He, too, is enrolled in the Business Management program at Isothermal. And they are planning a wedding this year. Having a baby at her age just about broke her daddy’s heart, she said, but today he wouldn’t take anything for Riley. The couple, her father, brother and sister and Riley live with Gonzales on Old Castle Road, Forest City. There is no mistaking, Gonzales is the matriarch of the six adults, one baby family, but Riley pulls the heartstrings. He’s a good baby, wakes up about two times a night for a feeding and goes right back to sleep. Born a month early on Oct. 3, 2009, “on his baby shower day” at Rutherford Hospital, he weighed a whopping 5 pounds and 14 ounces and “breathed on his own from the first minute he was born,” Ashley said. She had been put on bed rest six weeks before his birth. But the day he was born, Ashley shopped for several hours searching for baby shower items and when she went to bed later that day, she realized she was having labor pains. Throughout the course of the last six weeks, she was experiencing contractions and had to make several visits to the hospital. But these paints were different. “I did not plan to have a baby, but when he was born, B.J. cried,” Ashley said, watching her son take milk. “I couldn’t believe it,” B.J. said. “ I remember holding him and saying, ‘He’s so beautiful’,” Ashley added. Parents and grandparents were equally as excited and were there for his birth. Robertson Creek Baptist Church was hosting a baby shower and family members traveled to the church to hang a sign, “Baby shower cancelled. Riley is coming today,” “We had a baby shower cake at the hospital,” she said. After Riley’s birth, they stayed in the hospital five days. Both had temperatures and had to be on IVs. As a newborn Riley had a few problems digesting his food, but after experimenting with breast milk and several different formulas, his stomach settled down and there have been no other problems. “But if it hadn’t been for Rhonda, I couldn’t have done this,” Ashley said. “I didn’t know what to expect
B.J., Ashley and Riley at their home on Old Castle Road. The young couple is getting support and help for their young family’s health and well being from the innovative Nurse Family Partnership program.
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Nurse Family Partnership growing By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer
FOREST CITY — The Nurse Family Partnership is continuing to add families to its program in Rutherford, Polk and McDowell counties. By the end of September, the program will have about 100 families enrolled in the three county program. In 2008 Rutherford-Polk-McDowell Public Health District was chosen from health departments across the state to receive up to $500,000 each year for five to seven years to fund the program. Evidence has proven, children and families benefit from the investment in their health and wellbeing. Among the goals of NFP is to empower women to be successful in life, said Wright explained. She is among four other Rutherford County women and families enrolled in NPF, a nationally recognized, evidencebased nurse home visitation programs that helps transform the lives of firsttime, low-income parents and their children. Under the program, first-time mothers meet with a registered nurse early in pregnancy and nurse home visits continue through the child’s second birthday. The nurses visit weekly for the first month after enrollment and then every other week until the baby is born. Visits are weekly for the first six weeks after the baby is born, and then every other week until the child is 20 months old. The last four visits are monthly until the child is two years old. and Rhonda helped me a lot and so did she,” Ashley said pointing to Gonzales, who had three children of her own. “I was scared at first and I didn’t think I could do this,” she continued. “But it was a very easy pregnancy and I have nothing to complain about.” She admitted craving peanut butter and sour pickle sandwiches. “She would wake up one morning at 6 and eat dill pickles,” B.J.
According to statistics compiled over its 30-year history, NFP has shown substantial, consistent and dramatic results related to child health, child abuse and neglect, crime reduction and school readiness, including: n 48 percent reduction in child abuse and neglect; n 56 percent reduction in emergency room visits for accidents and poisonings; n 59 percent reduction in arrests at child age 15; n 67 percent reduction in behavioral and intellectual problems at age six; and n 72 percent fewer convictions of mothers at child age 15. The Duke Endowment, The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health, The North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc. and Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina provided significant, long-term support of the program to expand it in North Carolina. All of the Rutherford/Polk/ McDowell funding came from NC Department of Health and Human Services. NFP nurse home visitors work with their clients to achieve three goals: n Improve pregnancy outcomes by helping women engage in preventive health practices, including obtaining thorough prenatal care from their health care providers, improving their diet and reducing their use of cigarettes, alcohol and illegal substances; n Improve child health and development by helping parents provide
quipped. Ashley’s family and friends told her she wouldn’t be getting much sleep after Riley was born. “I had heard it, that I wouldn’t get any sleep. But I didn’t understand it. But you do not sleep,” she said. “But I don’t mind,” Ashley said. “Ever.” The most surprising thing of all for the couple is how fast Riley is growing. “Too fast,” Ashley said. “And I didn’t know a baby could look so much like his
responsible and competent care; and n Improve the economic self-sufficiency of the family by helping parents develop a vision for their own future, plan future pregnancies, continue their education and find work. The nurse assigned to the case will help the mom to: n Have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby; n Build a strong network of support for the mom and child; n Make her home a safe place for the baby to live and play; n Get referrals for health care, child care, job training and other support services; n Find ways to help the mom continue her education and develop job skills. n Set goals for the family’s future and find ways to reach the goals. The baby’s father is encouraged to participated in the program, however, the mothers and nurse decide who to become involved in the program. The mothers are the main focus of the nurse. Any woman who is pregnant with her first child and meets income requirements is eligible. Mothers-tobe can join anytime, but must join before the 28th week of pregnancy. If interested in enrolling or for information on the program, contact director Chris Edwards, 1-828-925-0503, or 1-828-652-6811 or the Rutherford County Health Dept. 287-6100. Contact Gordon via email:jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com
daddy,” Gonzales said. “He is so happy and he never cries unless he is happy,” Ashley added. Gonzales and B.J.’s mother plan to care for Riley when the couple goes to school. They also take care of him now when the couple works part time at Southside Motors, owned by B.J.’s father. Ashley’s father is also employed there. During Wright’s weekly visits, Riley and his mother will receive a weekly visit
from Wright until his second birthday. Each visit is filled with times of games, exercises, playing and singing. Most of the time these days, Riley eats, sleeps, smiles at his family and they smile back. He’s outgrowing his clothes fast and moving right along with his life in the care of his family and Wright. Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.
Man killed on Interstate
RALEIGH (AP) — Authorities say a man trying to get a ladder that fell off his truck out of a busy North Carolina highway was struck and killed on Interstate 40. Police told The News & Observer of Raleigh that 43-year-old Gregory Miles of Zebulon was hit by two vehicles around 7:30 a.m. Friday on I-40 near Raleigh. Investigators say Miles was trying to get the ladder out of the road and had parked his truck a short distance away.
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Our Views Political games yield nothing
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merica today is a nation in chaos and the people who are supposed to be guiding us out of the storm and into calmer, safer waters have left the steering wheel to shout and yell from the deck. The leaders of both of the nation’s political parties have chosen ideology and election strategy instead of facing up to reality. We are all the worse for their failure. The sad fact is that no one in Washington cares about getting something done. They care only about who gets the credit or getting it done their way. Everyone knows our health care system is broken. Instead of putting the best ideas forward and solving the problem, Washington is playing political games. People in this country are out of work or underemployed and instead of looking for ways to help turn the tide, Washington is busy with its political intrigues. Yet, the saddest fact of all is that the people of this nation are just as guilty and are even playing along. Instead of demanding real action, we align ourselves along the political spectrum and cheer, which only empowers the political gamesmanship that is stifling any hope of progress. The political divide in this country has become so sharp that it is cutting us off from achieving anything of significance. Instead of working on great ideas, we are engaged in playing meaningless political games.
Does politics attract arrogance? RALEIGH — It was October 1998, and then-state House Speaker Harold Brubaker was pushing his wheelbarrow full of frogs (his great description of a slim legislative majority) toward the finish line of lengthy legislative session. My colleague at the Associated Press, Dennis Patterson, was given the task of watching the final, fitful days of the legislative session. I was pushed out the door to go chase around two U.S. Senate candidates — crusty Republican incumbent Lauch Faircloth and fresh-faced Democratic neophyte John Edwards. I had interviewed Edwards on a couple of occasions, but hadn’t spent any significant time around him. Then I met him one day in Durham for a series of events and speeches. Like many who came across Edwards’ path as part of that initial political quest, I was struck by how down to earth he seemed. For a while that morning, we simply chatted about the things that guys chat about — sports, family, the newspaper headlines of the day. His apparent ease around people whom he’d only recently met was remarkable, contrasting with the suspiciousness of Faircloth. That John Edwards can’t be
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found in The New York Times Magazine excerpts from Game Change, the new book from John Heilemann and Mark Halperin exposing the inside of the 2008 Edwards presidential campaign as it crumbled amid his infidelity and arrogance. Heilemann and Halperin paint Edwards as a manipulative politician increasingly isolated by an ever-growing, super-duper-sized ego. The question that I’ve always struggled with, and on occasion discussed with others who covered or knew him, is how much of the John Edwards that I saw back in 1998 was ever real in the first place? How much was political façade and how much was the real man? Heileman and Halperin suggest that the power and public adulation that came from Edwards’ first presidential run in 2004 changed him. I’d like to believe that. I’d like to think that I, and those Iowa voters in 2004, weren’t duped. I’m not convinced.
In 2000, while covering the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, I had long conversations with Chuck Fuller, who had been Faircloth’s campaign manager, about Edwards and the Senate race. Fuller was certain that Edwards possessed an arrogance rare even for Washington. He talked about doctors deposed by a callous man. At the time, I dismissed the talk as the bitter residue of an election loss. But stories began circulating around Raleigh about Edwards’ disregard for those looking for time with their U.S. senator. At an event at Wake Medical Center, I remember being shocked watching him harshly deal with staffers only to walk into a room and transform into Mr. Charm. The question is important because it leads to another one: Are the spectacular failings of John Edwards the result of the trappings of ultimate power, or does our political system attract and reward those with such flaws? Either answer probably doesn’t say good things about our distorted, money-driven system of choosing our elected or our celebrity-focused culture. Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Association.
Keeping the faith is difficult in challenging times “Easy for you to say preacher, especially since you have not walked in my shoes.” That argument could be aggressively made since I have never lived through a devastating earthquake such as Haiti has seen. Sorrow of heart, uncertainty and downright depression are responses to the harsh realities we endure in simply living our lives. Agnostics and atheists often use tragic events such as we have seen in Haiti to press believers into explaining that if there is a loving God then why horrific things happen to good people. We should not dodge that question. Our answers may do little to quell the challenges to one’s faith, but it is a reasonable question. Life, from a Christian perspective, is not always explainable apart from a Christian world view. As Genesis records, the world, as initially made by God was “good.” This word good is used many times as God peered at His creation and made that positive declaration over it. Eden means Paradise. Sin had not entered in and its effects had not been realized. The fall, as we read in Genesis 3, brought with it a world impacted with evil. Now let me be clear; I am not saying that Haiti or any
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nation is intrinsically evil. What I am saying is that death now rules over this creation as far as physical forms go. Romans 8:21-22 says, “The creation itself also will be delivered form the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know the whole creation groans and travails with birth pangs together until now.” I cannot begin to elucidate all that is in these verses and others in this chapter. I can tell you that it is a language intimating a birthing. When we see an earthquake as we have seen, most understand about the tectonic plates where great pressure builds up and a powerful release occurs, causing a tumultuous event. Stress, pressure, shifting: all these also have spiritual counterparts as well. Creation is in need of redemption. Human beings are in need of spiritual redemption as well as physical redemption. Of course this causes many to shudder because if this is so, then
it becomes incumbent on that individual to face up to where they are in relation to God. To come to that place in one’s life requires a further step called repentance. To return to our previous scripture in Romans, we see that we are in need of redemption as individuals and also that the creation is in need of redemption as well. Yes, all of these things were foretold by Christ as we read in Matthew 24 and other places in the Gospels. Wars, famine, pestilence, earthquakes are but signs if you will; quite similar to a woman who is with child approaching her time to deliver and her body giving signs that her time to have that child is near. So it is true that Christ will be formed within the woman, the church, she will bear that Son, in a spiritual sense, and that the creation as a whole will be set free and given complete redemption both spiritually and physically. Haiti is but another of those signs that was prophesied by Jesus Christ when the disciples asked Him what would be the sign of His coming to earth again and the end of the age. We see signs everywhere, even here in America. We see signs that have to do with moral corruption, apostasy, physical signs as well. Jesus,
in Matthew, gave us several parables that spoke of how the times would be before His triumphant return to earth to complete redemption’s plan. The Scriptures do speak of nations and their demise with regard to their spiritual health and attitude to God. Entire nations can and have come under God’s judgment if they become vilely wicked and perverse. These are all recorded in Scripture for our admonition and learning. America will not get a pass. Christians suffer along with unbelievers because we are all wrapped in humanity. Christians lose loved ones, see their children die early deaths and suffer all of the maladies as others. Christians get sick; have financial problems and even sin. Yes, they sin, but repent and seek not to commit those sins continually. There is only one sphere of life that is not touched by the curse of sin: the regenerated spirit of a human being. That place has received divine life as the very Spirit of God has claimed that place for Himself and resides as Lord and Savior in that unseen place of the soul. Yes, that is where God lives in the human being and that place is a sanctified place, a holy place and a place that has become the new Eden, the
Paradise of God. The plan of God is working itself outward, from an inward place to an outward manifestation. I am not dismayed or perplexed. When we see these signs we are encouraged to “lift up your hearts because your redemption draws near.” The elect will not be deceived. They will not fail. They will be preserved until the end. This is why Christ uttered those glorious words as He breathed His final human breaths, “It is finished.” Our family has watched the horrors of Haiti with tears in our eyes, knowing that they love their families and loved ones as we do ours. And yes, we have prayed and we also will send a meager offering to help and we encourage all who read this to pray and send a gift if you can. But when all is said and done and all than can be done is done, there will still be a need for the world to know God in Christ. We need to be redeemed and we shall. Many will be pulled form the rubble and debris of that event. Many across the world need to be pulled form the debris and rubble that fill their hearts. Let us believe and press on. The Savior and King will overcome.
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Beatrice Cable Beatrice Cook Cable, 87, of Union Mills, died Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010 at Sunrise Rehab and Care. A native of Graham County, she was the daughter of the late James Robert Cook and Rhoda Melton Cook. She was a member of Sugar Hill Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband, Paul Cable; a daughter, Debra Crawley Bradford; and a son, David Cawley. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 11 a.m. at Westmoreland Chapel with the Rev. Bruce Ward officiating. The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. prior to the service. Burial will be in the Sugar Hill Baptist Church cemetery. Flowers are appreciated. Memorial contribution may be made to American Cancer Society, 120 Executive Park No. 1, Asheville, N.C. 28801.
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High-speed chase ends in crash By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer
RUTHERFORDTON — Police officers from four departments were involved in a high speed chase Saturday afternoon, ending in a crash on Piney Ridge Road after about 25 minutes. Authorities say a silver Nissan Altima — driven by 44-year-old Jody Andrew Tollison of 475 W. Main Street Forest City — collided with a tree after officers from Rutherfordton Police Department, Forest City Police Department, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department and the N.C. Highway Patrol pursued. “Officers from RPD responded to Food Lion Shopping Center on Railroad Avenue at 2:15 p.m. in reference to a person harassing patrons in the parking lot,” said RPD Lt. Marc Morgan. “Mr. Tollison began to get
irate and wouldn’t give the officer his name or any identification. He was in a verbal confrontation with one of the store managers when the officer got there.” Morgan said Tollison attempted to leave the scene and jumped into his car. The officer reached in and tried to remove the keys, but Tollison shoved his arm out the window and sped away. “As he fled the parking lot he almost struck a car in the parking lot and a pursuit took place down Charlotte Road,” Morgan said. “At the intersection of Charlotte Road and Main Street, another officer approached the driver’s side and tried to take the keys again. Tollison locked the door and the officer tried to break the window out.” The officer failed to get the keys and Tollison took off through traffic on S. Main Street, Morgan said.
“From there the chase went down Poors Ford Road, Piney Ridge Road and to Bethany Church Road,” Morgan said. “At the intersection of Bethany Church and Piney Ridge Road is where Tollison’s vehicle collided with a tree. Tollison was taken to Rutherford Hospital at his request. He had some minor injuries as a result of the accident and he was released from the hospital. He was placed under a $26,000 secured bond. He is charged with felony speeding to elude, reckless driving, misdemeanor speeding, failure to stop for lights and siren, passing in a nonpassing zone, failing to yield and obstructing a public officer, assault on a public officer.” Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@thedigitalcourier. com.
Police Notes Sheriff’s Reports
n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 188 E-911 calls Friday.
Rutherfordton
n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 26 E-911 calls Friday.
Spindale
n The Spindale Police Department responded to 30 E-911 Friday.
Lake Lure
n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to ten E-911 calls Friday.
EMS responded to 26 E-911 calls Friday. n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to 13 E-911 calls Friday.
Fire Calls n Cliffside responded to a field fire and were assisted by the Forestry Service. n Cherry Mountain responded to a woods fire and were assisted by the Forestry Service. n Rutherfordton respond-
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n The Forest City Police Department responded to 58 E-911 calls Friday.
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n Gary Anthony Robbins, 45, of 211 Wilde Ave. was charged with assault on a female and communicating threats and held for 48 hours. (RCSD) n Joshua Tallon Davis, 19, of 111 Lake View Drive, was charged with two counts of obtaining property under false pretenses and released on a $40,000 bond. (RPD) n Jay Preston Whitten, 61, of 2142 Cedar Creek Road, was charged with second degree trespassing and released on a written promise to appear. (RCSD)
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William “Bill” Gregory Rash, 62, of Forest City, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 at his residence. A native of Rutherford County, he was the son of Wayne Rash and the late Elizabeth Holland Rash. He was known for his work at the local flea market and was of the Baptist Faith. In addition to his father, he is survived by his son, Brian Rash of Spartanburg, S.C.; a daughter, Crystal Belue of Spartanburg, S.C.; and an aunt, Ruth Pye of Alexander Mills. A memorial service will be conducted at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 19 at Harrelson Funeral Home with the Rev. J.J. Powell officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. A private inurnment is planned. Online guest registry at www.harrlesonfuneralhome.com.
Charles Roper Charles “Leroy” Roper, 62, of 119 Boiler Road, Mooresboro, died Jan. 15, 2010 at Hospice House. A native of Rutherford County, he was the son of the late Willie Flay Roper Sr. and Blanche Esma Monteith Roper. He worked as a loom fixer for Stonecutter Mills for 33 years and was of the Baptist faith.
ed to a woods fire. n SDO responded to a motor vehicle accident.
Survivors include his wife, Darlene Roper; a daughter, Teresa Jackson; a son, Charles Roper; a brother, Willie Flay Jr. of Rutherfordton; and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19 at the Harrelson Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Eugene Godfrey and the Rev. Jerry Ruppe officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday. Memorial donations may be made to Hospice of Rutherford County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, N.C. 28043.
Online guest registry at www.harrlesonfuneralhome.com.
Gertrude Feiler Gertrude McMahan McDaniel Feiler, of Neptune Beach, Fla., died Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. She was daughter of the late Lester and Pearl Geer McMahan and the widow of Bill Feiler. She was retired from Southern Bell/AT&T. She was first married to late Boyd McDaniel. She was preceded in death by a brother Clayton McMahan and two sisters; Mae Carroll and Grace Baynard. Survivors include, one daughter: Rose Ann Beason, Neptune Beach; one son: Jerald McDaniel, Sunny Isles Beach.; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a brother, Frank McMahan. Arrangements are being handled by McMahan’s Funeral Home & Cremation Services, where the family will receive friends from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. Graveside service will be at Rutherfordton City Cemetery at noon Tuesday. with the Rev. Dean Baughn officiating In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to to First Baptist Church; P O Box 839; Rutherfordton NC 28139. Guest register at www.mcmahansfuneralhome.com
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n Spindale responded to a motor vehicle accident and a power line fire.
Gertrude McMahan McDaniel Feiler, of Neptune Beach, Fla., died Saturday, January 16, 2010, in Jacksonville Beach, Fla. Formerly of Charlotte, she was daughter of the late Lester and Pearl Geer McMahan and the widow of Bill Feiler. Gertrude was retired from Southern Bell/AT&T. She was first married to late Boyd McDaniel. She was preceded in death by a brother Clayton McMahan and two sisters; Mae Carroll and Grace Baynard. Survivors include, one daughter: Rose Ann Beason, Neptune Beach, Fla.; one son: Jerald McDaniel, Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.; a granddaughter and her husband Dr. Lori Beason-Held and Philip; a grandson, Mark R. Beason; greatgrandchildren; Kailey and Nicolas Held; one brother and his wife, Frank and Charlotte McMahan; and a sisterin-law Margaret W. McMahan. Arrangements are being handled by McMahan’s Funeral Home & Cremation Services, where the family will receive friends from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Graveside service will be at Rutherfordton City Cemetery at noon, Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Officiating Rev. Dean Baughn. In lieu of flowers memorials to First Baptist Church; P O Box 839; Rutherfordton NC 28139. Guest register at www. mcmahansfuneralhome.com
William “Bill” Gregory Rash, age 62, of Forest City, died Monday, January 11, 2010 at his residence. Bill was born on September 9, 1947 in Rutherford County to Wayne R. Rash and the late Elizabeth Holland Rash. He worked in various fields of employment, but was known for his work as a vendor in the local Flea Market. He was of the Baptist faith. In addition to his father, he is survived by his son, Brian Rash and his wife, Missie; one daughter, Crystal Belue and her husband, Jeff, all of Spartanburg, SC; one aunt, Ruth Pye of Alexander Mills; a special friend, Carol McHenry of Forest City and by a number of cousins. A memorial service will be conducted at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at Harrelson Funeral Home with Reverend J.J. Powell officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to service time. A private inurnment is planned. Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the family. An online guest registry is available at www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com
Charles “Leroy” Roper, age 62, of 119 Boiler Road, Mooresboro, NC, died January 15, 2010 at Hospice House. Leroy was born on October 24, 1947 in Rutherford County to the late Willie Flay Roper, Sr. and Blanche Esma Monteith Roper. He worked as a loom fixer for Stonecutter Mills for over 33 years and was a Baptist. He enjoyed NASCAR and was known for his ability to cook BBQ Ribs. Survivors include his wife of 24 years, Darlene Roper; one daughter, Teresa Jackson and her husband, Charles, of Mooresboro; one son, Charles Roper, of the home; four grandchildren, Justin Jackson, Megan Jackson, Anthony Jackson and Sierrah Jackson; two sisters, Barbara Dunkle and her husband, David, of Shiloh and Linda Waters and her husband, Romeo, of Shelby; one brother, Willie Flay Roper, Jr. and his wife, Ella Mae, of Rutherfordton and by several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at the Harrelson Funeral Chapel with Reverend Eugene Godfrey and Reverend Jerry Ruppe officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7:00 until 9:00 p..m. on Monday at the funeral home. Memorial donations may be sent to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043. Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the family. An online guest registry is available at www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com
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Red Cross Blood drives schedule: Jan. 18 — Smith’s Drugs, Main St., Forest City, 1 to 5:30 p.m.; Jan. 25 — Red Cross Chapter House, 838 Oakland Road; Forest City, 2 to 6:30 p.m., call 287-5916 for an appointment; Jan. 28 — R-S Middle School, 2 to 7:30 p.m., call 286-8314 for an appointment.
Health/education Community Health Clinic of Rutherford County provides access to primary medical care, wellness education, medications and preventative programs. The clinic, open Monday through Thursday, is located at 127 E. Trade St., B 100, Forest City. Patients seen by appointment only. The clinic does not accept patients with private insurance, Medicaid or Medicare. Call 245-0400.
Meetings/other Monthly board meeting: Forest City Housing Authority; Tuesday, Jan. 19, 12:30 p.m., in the community room of the Housing Authority office, 147 E. Spruce St., Forest City. PWA meeting: The Professional Women’s Association meets the third Tuesday of each month from noon to 1 p.m. Dutch treat lunch. The next meeting is Jan. 19, at Tuscany Italian Grille, Spindale. PWA meeting: The Professional Women’s Association meets at noon the third Tuesday of each month in the private dining room of Rutherford Hospital. The next meeting is Jan. 19. Guest speaker, Dr. Sharai Amaya, Rutherford OB/ GYN Associates. Lunch is dutch treat. Door prizes. For information, call 286-5218. Rutherford County Humane Society will hold its quarterly meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. at the county annex. Monthly meeting: Rutherford County Beekeeper’s Club will meet Tuesday, Jan. 19, 6 p.m., at the Cooperative Extension Office, Callahan-Koon Road; Edd Buchanan will speak on Spring Startup. Friends of HNG meeting: “Conservation Conversation”; Wednesday, Jan. 20, 6:30 to 8 p.m.; Lake Lure Municipal Center, 2948 Memorial Hwy., Lake Lure; open to anyone interested in the protection and preservation of the natural beauty of Hickory Nut Gorge. Contact Becky at 828-685-8798 or e-mail batcave25@yahoo.com for further details. Senior citizens club: Young at Heart Senior Club will meet Saturday, Jan. 23, at Rollins Cafeteria; meeting begins at 11 a.m.; Dutch treat lunch 11:30 a.m.; fellowship and Bingo; for information call Roy McKain at 245-4800. Annual membership meeting: Saturday, Jan. 30, 3:30 p.m., at Union Mills Learning Center, 6495 Hudlow Road, for all UMLC members and potential members to review the 2009 activities and for an update on what is planned for 2010; for information, call 287-2191.
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westbound lanes were listed in the rankings, at numbers 221 and 222, respectively. The next highest rated Rutherford County substandard bridges were two on U.S. 221, one on U.S. 64 and State Road 2213. AAA points out, however, that none of North Carolina’s substandard bridges pose an immediate threat to motorists. Substandard bridges are officially classified under federal guidelines as “structurally deficient” or “functionally obsolete” with AAA Carolinas assigning extra weight to traffic volume to highlight bridges affecting the most motorists. That weighting process probably accounts for the fact that the first few Rutherford County bridges on the list are U.S. or N.C. highways, instead of less traveled SRs, or state roads, “Structurally deficient” is defined as being in relatively poor physical condition and/or inadequate to handle truck weight. “Functionally obsolete” is defined as having inadequate design for current traffic volume. States inspect bridges to determine their condition and qualify for federal aid replacement funds when a bridge scores less than 50 on a 100-point scale. Forsyth and Guilford counties topped the list with four bridges among the top 20 substandard bridges. Durham County had three bridges in the top 20 and Cumberland County had two bridges at the top of AAA’s list. This is the first year since 1997 that the Department of Transportation has been able to reduce the number of North Carolina’s substandard bridges to less than 30 percent. “Last year, North Carolina was
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this office.” The testing is important, as taking the written exam is the first step in being considered for one of the positions. “People have to be tested first before they can be in contention,” said Kerry Giles, marketing manager for the Rutherford County Economic Development Commission. “The central office is the one in Gastonia, but people have been doing testing at the Employment Security Commission in Forest City and some other locations.” The 2010 census won’t be about going door-to-door and asking questions. About 300 million packets will be mailed out to each of the 300 million households in America. Only after packets are not returned or if more information is needed will workers have to contact citizens. “The packet will go out in March,” Harris said. “Around the first of March they’ll get a postcard saying the census form is coming and around March 15 they’ll get the form and the last week of March they’ll get a postcard reminding them to send it in if they haven’t yet. This is the short-
Spaghetti supper: Saturday, Jan. 23, 4 to 8 p.m., Hopewell-Hollis Community Clubhouse; adults $7, ages 6-12 $4, under 6 free.
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Spaghetti supper: Saturday, Jan. 30, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Union Mills Learning Center, 6495 Hudlow Road, Union Mills; adults $6, and children younger than 12, $4; allyou-can-eat.
fic — it is a safety hazard and inconvenient for everyone. There is going to be some progress on it very soon.” Bland spotlighted the problem intersection of his own personal expe-
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation has taken advantage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by programming approximately $12 million for bridge repairs and about $43 million for replacing 44 bridges in the state. This is in addition to the department’s funding of about $180 million each year of federal aid dollars in the Transportation Improvement Program for bridge replacements. 40th in the nation for substandard bridges; this year they climbed to 31st, a major achievement,” said David E. Parsons, president and CEO of AAA Carolinas. “In a time of constricting budgets, the department of Transportation is to be commended, but still works with a serious deficit of funding to repair or replace our state’s troubled bridges.” Governor Beverly Perdue appointed Transportation Secretary Gene Conti in 2009 as part of an overhaul of DOT to eliminate political decisionmaking on infrastructure projects and to set up a needs list of projects for approval based on professional analysis, AAA Carolinas reports. “Conti has brought a refreshing, professional perspective,” said Parsons. For 13 years, AAA Carolinas has been rating the state’s substandard bridges to highlight the need for legislative funding. Since the first rating the state’s bridge maintenance needs have decreased from a total funding shortfall of $500 million to a total shortfall of $315 million. For this fiscal year Department of Transportation has allocated $96.6 million for bridge needs from the Highway Fund Maintenance dollars to address this backlog of needs. The estimated cost to replace all deficient bridges in the state is $5 billion, twice the $2.5 billion estimate in 2007. When the state legislature capped the gasoline tax in 2006, it
put a stranglehold on DOT revenue and has cost the department as much as $600 million by some estimates, AAA reports. The North Carolina Department of Transportation has taken advantage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by programming approximately $12 million for bridge repairs and about $43 million for replacing 44 bridges in the state. This is in addition to the department’s funding of about $180 million each year of federal aid dollars in the Transportation Improvement Program for bridge replacements. AAA Carolinas rankings found: n The average age of AAA’s top 20 substandard bridges is 47.9 years, slightly better than the average age (51) of bridges in 1996. n The top 20 substandard bridges on AAA’s list carry an average of 59,550 vehicles daily and combined the bridges carry more than 8.3 million vehicles a week. n A total of 5,271 bridges are substandard, down from 5,647 four years ago, or 30.5 percent substandard. An affiliate of the American Automobile Association, AAA Carolinas is a not-for-profit organization that serves more than 1.8 million members with travel, automobile and insurance services while being an advocate for the safety and security of travelers.
Why is census so important? Why is the census important? Every ten years the county of citizens in the country helps provide information not only for government programs, but is used by all manner of companies and organizations to support research or make important decisions like where to build new facilities or where to focus their services. “Just like we can’t survive without roads and bridges, the country doesn’t function well without an updated Census to distribute funds to areas that most need them and to support community decisions about their own future,” said Robert M. Groves, Director of the United States Census Bureau, in a press release at the Census Web site. Census information also affects the numbers of seats a state occupies in the U.S. House of
Representatives. “People from many walks of life use census data to advocate for causes, rescue disaster victims, prevent diseases, research markets, locate pools of skilled workers and more,” Groves said. “When you do the math, it’s easy to see what an accurate count of residents can do for your community. Better infrastructure. More services. A brighter tomorrow for everyone.” The information the census collects helps to determine how more than $400 billion dollars of federal funding each year is spent on infrastructure and services like: n Hospitals n Job training centers n Schools n Senior centers n Bridges, tunnels and otherpublic works projects n Emergency services
est form that has been used in my lifetime. It is 10 questions and takes about 10 minutes. The big thing about it is it will determine the disposition of federal funds for the next 10 years.” The positions also include mileage reimbursement at 50 cents a mile.
Those interested in testing can check out the schedule and other information at www.2010censusjobs.gov or call the office at 1-866-861-2010.
rience with delays there and after hearing numerous complaints from citizens over the years. “This is a successful project that was brought to the DOT’s attention by Mayor Bland through the Isothermal Rural Planning Organization,” King said. “If citizens know of any other problem spots for traffic they are
encouraged to contact me via email at isothermalrpo@hotmail.com or by phone 287-2281 ext 1264. We can’t promise solutions to every problem but we can try to address the largest ones.”
Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@thedigitalcourier.com.
Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@thedigitalcourier.com.
Miscellaneous Foothills Harvest Ministry will hold a 25 cents sale Jan. 18-23 on all men and women’s slacks and jeans. Located at 120 E. Trade St., Forest City. Workshop: Tier 1 N.C. MarketReady Training Workshop; Thursday, Jan. 28 - Feb. 4, 11; Cooperative Extension Office, 193 Callahan-Koon Road, Spindale; the workshop focuses on Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) and what it takes to obtain GAPs certification; fee $10, includes course materials and refreshments; registration deadline Jan. 25; for more information call 287-6011. Achievement Program: ECA Annual Achievement Program; Tuesday, Jan. 26, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; meal and awards program at the Cooperative Extension Office, 193 Callahan Koon Road, Spindale; for more information, contact Tracy Davis at 287-6020. Walk-in soccer registration: Spring recreational season; Saturdays, Jan. 23, and Feb. 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day; bring birth certificate; $40 first player, $35 each additional sibling;
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Bonus comeback
30-year loan rates fall for a second week
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rates for 30-year home loans edged lower for the second straight week, a report said Thursday, but remained above last month’s record lows. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was 5.06 percent this week, down from 5.09 percent a week earlier, mortgage company Freddie Mac said. Rates dropped to a record low of 4.71 percent in early December, pushed down by an aggressive government campaign to reduce consumers’ borrowing costs, but then rose steadily for the rest of the month. Freddie Mac collects mortgage rates on Monday through Wednesday of each week from lenders around the country. Rates often fluctuate significantly, even within a given day, often in line with long-term Treasury bonds. The Federal Reserve is pumping $1.25 trillion into mortgage-backed securities to try to bring down mortgage rates, but that money is set to run out next spring. The goal of the program is to make home buying more affordable and prop up the housing market. While it’s possible that the program could be extended, analysts believe the Fed is reluctant to do so. The average rate on a 15-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to 4.45 percent, down from 4.50 percent last week, according to Freddie Mac. Rates on five-year, adjustable-rate mortgages averaged 4.32 percent, down from 4.44 percent a week earlier. Rates on one-year, adjustable-rate mortgages rose to 4.39 percent from 4.31 percent. The rates do not include addon fees known as points. One point is equal to 1 percent of the total loan amount. The nationwide fee for loans in Freddie Mac’s survey averaged 0.7 point for 30-year loans, 0.6 point for 15-year and five-year loans and 0.5 point for one-year loans.
Perdue tells business leaders of her goals
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From left, JPMorgan Chase & Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officers James Dimon; Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack; Bank of America Corporation Chief Executive Officer and President Brian Moynihan, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington,Wednesday before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Bailout and lobbying help boost bank pay By RACHEL BECK and STEVENSON JACOBS AP Business Writers
NEW YORK — The fat cats were supposed to get their comeuppance. After Wall Street’s most prominent firms — by their own admission — helped cause the 2008 financial meltdown and got bailed out by the government, they were supposed to stop handing out million-dollar bonuses to their employees. No one was supposed to get seven- and eightfigure rewards, not after the Great Recession left one in 10 Americans unemployed. Not after President Barack Obama — who on Thursday called such pay “obscene”
— had promised to clamp down on lavish bonuses. It turns out little actually changed. Americans saw that starting Friday when JPMorgan Chase & Co. released its 2009 financial results. The other big banks will follow. The messages will be the same: compensation is at nearrecord levels. The form of the pay is changing. Instead of cash, bonuses will be paid mostly in stock that can’t be redeemed for years. But the numbers are still staggering. Together, the six biggest U.S. banks are on pace to pay $150 billion in total compensation for 2009, slightly less than the record $164 billion
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GREENSBORO (AP) — Gov. Bev Perdue gave some North Carolina business leaders a look at her own goals for the remainder of her first term. The News & Record of Greensboro reported that Perdue spoke to 700 business leaders Tuesday night at the Greensboro Partnership’s annual dinner.
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Entrepreneur has a new board game By SUE STOCK The News & Observer of Raleigh
She outlined some specific proposals, hinted at a few more and used the speech to talk about creating jobs. The Greensboro appearance was the first in a series of speeches. She is scheduled to speak in Kannapolis and Charlotte on Wednesday. Republican lawmakers in the audience were skeptical of Perdue’s plans, especially regarding taxes. Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, suggested that the state should try to lower the overall tax rate for all instead of looking at tax breaks. “I’m not so sure that government paying the salaries of private sector businesses is really a good long-term program for us to get into and I don’t think on a short-term basis it’s necessarily what we need,” Berger said. Rep. John Blust said he has heard similar proposals before and no action has ever been taken.
in 2007 before the financial crisis struck, according to the New York state comptroller’s office. How this happened is complicated, like most things involving Wall Street and Washington. It involves a remarkable financial turnaround by the banks, but one that was fueled by the federal bailout. It shows the power of the financial lobby. And it highlights the age-old debate about how much U.S. companies need to pay to retain talented bankers and traders. Scott Talbott of the Financial Services Roundtable says keeping those workers from going to overseas firms is critical.
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This 2002 picture shows the Johnson & Johnson corporate headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J. Johnson & Johnson issued a massive recall Friday of over-the-counter drugs including Tylenol, Motrin and St. Joseph’s aspirin because of a moldy smell that has made people sick.
RALEIGH (AP) — Lou Serotta has been selling women’s fine clothing and furs in the Triangle for 57 years. Now his oldest daughter, Diane Hill, is stretching her own entrepreneurial legs with a retail venture. Hill and her husband, Kyle, are the inventors of Baffle!, an educational board game that is designed to teach reasoning and math. Baffle! can be played eight different ways and by one person or many people. The board game has five rows of five spaces and 25 colored pieces that come in five different shapes. In the most basic, one-player version of the game, the idea is to get one piece of each color and shape in each row and each column. The Hills live in Cincinnati, where Diane Hill invented the game during her 30-year career as a teacher, using it in her math classes. After she retired in 1996, the idea to mass produce the game nagged at her. “She had cut the pieces out of felt and put them on a felt game board and kind of rolled it up and put it away with her teaching stuff,” said Kyle Hill, a former television anchor and former spokesman for the Bell telephone company. “Finally, she said, ‘Let’s do it and see what happens.”’ Their timing is good. Sales of board games totaled $1.1 billion in the 12 months ending in November, according to research firm the NPD Group. And board game sales are increasing despite the cutback in consumer spending. From November 2008 to November 2009, they rose 1 percent. But breaking into the board game business can be tough. “The size of the prize is what attracts a lot of folks into this area,” said NPD analyst Anita Frazier. “It is very difficult for an independent newcomer to the
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“The market will find a way to pay these people what they’re worth,” says Talbott, who is chief lobbyist for the industry group representing some of the largest financial firms. “This is not a giant talent pool. There’s only a few people who can catch a touchdown in the Super Bowl.” But others aren’t so sure most Americans buy that. Says Douglas Elliott, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former investment banker, referring to the government’s bailout money: “The way the general public sees it is that we wrote a $700 billion check to the banks, and they got to burn through it as they pleased.” Here’s a look at how the clamor for reform ended up the way so many previous efforts did — with the triumph, for now, of Wall Street’s bonus culture. And a look at what may lay ahead.
The bailout
The government played a big role in the compensation bonanza by bailing the banks out. In the days after the financial meltdown, banks were given access to cheap government loans and other federal subsidies. Since the banks weren’t required to put that money toward lending to businesses and consumers, they could use it as they pleased. Many bet on risky securities that paid off when the financial markets surged. The result: Big profits and
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big bonuses because pay on Wall Street is tied to performance. Profit at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. nearly doubled to $8.4 billion during the first nine months of 2009 from the previous year’s level, and analysts expect its full year profits to top $10 billion. Goldman set aside $16.71 billion from January through September for compensation, which includes salaries, bonuses and associated costs such as benefits and payroll taxes. That puts it on pace to meet the record $20.2 billion in compensation costs it had for all of 2007. Should Goldman’s annual compensation go that high, it would work out to more than $600,000 each for its 31,700 employees. It won’t be distributed that equally, of course. The best performers and executives stand to earn millions. “What we’ve allowed is for the banks to be nursed back to health with various forms of assistance provided by the government, but they haven’t been required to change their ways,” said Rep. Brad Miller, a Democrat from North Carolina. The nation’s biggest banks all took money from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. Some needed it to survive, while others were pressured by federal officials to take it. Regardless, the banks weren’t restricted in how they had to spend the bailout funds. They did face limits on compensation, including for bonuses. But that only lasted for as long as they held the bailout funds, which gave
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them an incentive to pay the TARP back fast. That happened by June. In total, the banks took $245 billion from the TARP, and have already paid back $162 billion. Appearing Wednesday before a congressional panel probing the financial crisis, several Wall Street chiefs, including Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein, acknowledged that taxpayer help likely prevented the industry’s collapse.
Lobbying machine Bonus outrage and the momentum to do something about it peaked last February when crippled insurer American International Group Inc. moved to pay $165 million in bonuses to hundreds of employees in the same financial unit that brought down the company. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called Wall Street pay “out of whack” and vowed to rein in the practice. The fact it didn’t happen speaks to the industry’s powerful lobbying machine, which is spending millions to fight a raft of financial reform measures, including proposals to tax or limit lavish pay packages. During the past decade, no industry has spent more lobbying dollars than Wall Street and its related offshoots. From 1998 to 2009, the so-called FIRE lobby — or finance, insurance and real estate — spent $3.8 billion promoting its interests in Washington, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. By comparison, the energy and defense indus-
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tries spent $2.6 billion and $1.08 billion, respectively, during the same time. Meanwhile, Wall Street’s generosity to political candidates ramped up even as the industry began careening toward collapse in 2008. Financial firms contributed a record $476 million in the last election cycle. That’s more than double the No. 2 donor, the health care industry, which gave $166 million, even as Congress began to debate landmark health care legislation. The most lavish Wall Street donor during the last election: Goldman Sachs, which gave $5.8 million, followed by Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase. All three banks gave more heavily to Democratic candidates, reflecting the shifting power in Washington. “The bank influence in Washington is shocking,” said Ira Rheingold, executive director of the Washingtonbased National Association for Consumer Advocates. “They still spread a lot of money around here, and it appears nothing has really changed.” Financial lobbyists say the industry has taken many steps to curb excessive pay, including adopting “clawback” provisions to recover undeserved pay and shifting more money into deferred stock instead of cash.
What’s next Washington is now scrambling to get something done to temper the populist anger. The financial lobby still could block those efforts. The Obama administration
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industry to get shelf space at retail, which is why many toy inventors try to secure deals with established toy manufacturers to help with the sales, marketing and distribution.” Because such companies typically offer the game inventor only a small percentage of sales, the Hills have chosen to go it alone. “They would give us about 6 to 8 percent on net sales, which would mean in some cases it’s dollars on a game,” Kyle Hill said. “So in order to make anything, you have to sell a ton of them.” But Hill didn’t entirely rule out a partnership with a big game company. “If we got a good deal, we would do it,” he said. So far, the Hills have invested a “six-figure sum” in the game. They are hoping the first run of 2,500 copies will sell. They’ve sold about 500 since they began actively marketing the game in May. Baffle! sells for $29.99 both online at www.bafflegame.com and in stores in five states. Locally, Baffle! can be found in a number of
is proposing a 10-year tax on the country’s largest banks to cover a projected $117 billion shortfall in the government’s bailout fund. The Federal Reserve is reviewing a plan that would give it more oversight on compensation by reviewing pay practices at thousands of banks. The central bank would be able to veto pay plans if it found them to encourage excessive risk-taking by executives, traders or loan officers. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which regulates most of the nation’s banks, is seeking public input on a plan that would tie the fees that banks pay for deposit insurance to how much a company’s compensation plan encourages workers to take risks in order to achieve higher returns. A few in Congress want to go further. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, introduced legislation Tuesday to impose a 75 percent bonus tax on what he sees as windfall profits earned from massive taxpayer support of the financial services industry. Britain and France recently announced plans for a similar tax. Few expect the measure to be adopted in the U.S., although Kucinich is betting that the public’s “pent-up frustration” could build momentum to pass his legislation. “What you’re seeing is a public-be-damned attitude from the banks,” Kucinich said. “They’re rolling in dough while the taxpayer has to sacrifice. “That’s an outrage,” he added. “It’s like welcome to the new gilded era.”
stores, including The Play House in Durham, Science Safari in Cary and the Marbles Kids Museum in downtown Raleigh. Learning the toy business was not easy, and the Hills faced additional dilemmas because they wanted to manufacture the game in the U.S. and maintain control over the product. “I know we talked to 100 companies,” Kyle Hill said. “We just spent weeks and weeks. We traveled to every manufacturer in the Cincinnati area that we knew about.” Eventually, the Hills ended up splitting up the manufacturing operations. The acrylic pieces are made in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the board, box and cards are produced in Battle Creek, Mich. “We found a lot of junk out there,” Kyle Hill said. “We were just determined we were going to make it in the United States, and we looked until we found a manufacturer who could do it.” The effort appears to have paid off. “We’ve been selling it since late summer, and we’ve been selling out,” said Donna Frederick, owner of The Play House. For Christmas, her store had a waiting list of half a dozen people.
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CAMP LEJEUNE (AP) — A U.S. soldier who tried to go to Canada to avoid being deployed to Iraq has been released from a military prison after serving nearly a year for desertion. The War Resisters Support Campaign says that Cliff Cornell left a prison at Camp Lejeune on Saturday and is trying to return to Canada. The solider from Mountain Home, Ark., went to Canada in January 2005, a month before his 3rd Infantry Division unit was scheduled to deploy to Iraq. Cornell said he feared for his own life and couldn’t stomach the thought of killing. He returned to the U.S. when Canada refused his refugee status. Cornell worked at a grocery store on Gabriola Island in British Columbia while in Canada and hopes to return to the area.
Man charged in killing
ROCKY MOUNT (AP) — Police say a man wanted in the killing of a woman found dead in a North Carolina hotel was arrested after hospital employees recognized him from media reports. Authorities told the Rocky Mount Telegram that 41-year-old Ronald Ricks Jr. was arrested Friday after he was released from Wake Medical Center in Raleigh for an undisclosed medical problem. Investigators say workers at the hospital recognized Ricks when he was admitted late Thursday. Ricks is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 38-yearold Melissa Jo Wise. Her body was found in a Rocky Mount hotel room Wednesday by a housekeeper.
Ricks is being held in the Nash County jail.
Suspect dies in S.C. jail ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — A man arrested on drug charges has died after having medical problems in a South Carolina jail. Rock Hill police say 47-year-old Reginald McCullough was arrested Friday and charged with crack cocaine possession after officers saw what they thought was a drug transaction. Police say the officers then noticed white powder around McCullough’s mouth and offered to get him medical help several times, but he refused. Authorities say McCullough was taken to the Rock Hill jail and began having medical problems, dying a short time later at the hospital.
JFK terminal evacuated NEW YORK (AP) — A busy terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport was evacuated Saturday after a passenger opened a restricted door and set off an alarm, officials said. The incident delayed some flights for hours and caused headaches for hundreds of travelers who had to exit the terminal, wait for police to sweep through the building, and then return for a second security screening. “I just hope I’m not late for my flight,” said Victor Medina.
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Members of a rescue team from Israel carry a man they freed from the rubble of a building that collapsed during the earthquake in Port-au-Prince Saturday,
Earthquake survivors begin getting supplies PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Precious water, food and early glimmers of hope began reaching parched and hungry earthquake survivors Saturday on the streets of the ruined Haitian capital, but the island’s despair threatened to spark a frenzy in places. “People are so desperate for food that they are going crazy,” said accountant Henry Ounche, standing in a crowd of hundreds who fought one another as U.S. military helicopters clattered overhead carrying aid. Across the hilly, steamy city, people choked on the stench of death, and hope faded by the hour for finding many more victims alive in the rubble, four days after Tuesday’s catastrophic earthquake. Still, here and there, the murmur of buried victims spurred rescue crews on, even as aftershocks threatened to finish off crumbling buildings. “No one’s alive in there,” a woman sobbed outside the wrecked Montana Hotel. But hope wouldn’t die. “We can hear a survivor!” search crew chief Alexander Luque of Namibia later reported. His men dug on. Nobody knew how many were dead. In a fresh estimate, the Pan American Health Organization said 50,000 to 100,000 people perished in the quake. Haiti’s prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, told The Associated Press that 100,000 would “seem to be the minimum.” Truckloads of corpses were being trundled to mass graves. A U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman declared the quake the worst disaster the international organization has ever faced, since so much government and U.N. capacity in the country was demolished. In that way, Elisabeth Byrs said in Geneva, it’s worse than the cataclysmic Asian tsunami of 2004: “Everything is damaged.” Also Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Portau-Price to pledge more American assistance, and President Obama met with former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to urge Americans to donate to Haiti relief efforts. The U.N. also announced that the body of Haiti mission chief Hedi Annabi had been found in the rubble of collapsed headquarters. Yet, despite the obstacles, the pace of aid delivery was picking up. The Haitian government had established 14 distribution points for food and other supplies, and U.S. Army helicopters were reconnoitering for more. With eight city hospitals destroyed or damaged, aid groups opened five emergency health centers. Vital gear, such as waterpurification units, was arriving from
The security breach apparently involved a passenger who arrived on a flight from Orlando, Fla., and, while exiting Kennedy’s Terminal 8, opened a door that was supposed to be used only by airport workers.
Man had told of suicide
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An eastern Kentucky census worker found naked, bound and hanging from a tree had told a friend he intended to kill himself and that he had chosen the time, place and method to do it, police records show. Those records about the death of Bill Sparkman were released Friday to The Associated Press by the Kentucky State Police. Sparkman, 51, was found strangled with a rope around his neck near a rural cemetery in September with the word “fed” scrawled on his chest. It triggered a state and federal investigation that ultimately determined he had committed suicide.
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celebrates his 3rd birthday on January 17. His proud parents are Ryan and Stephanie Holley of Caroleen. He has three brothers, Calob, Cameron and Rylan. Maternal grandparents are Frank and Judy Burnett of Caroleen. Paternal grandparents are Pete and Debbie Camp of Rutherfordton and the late Roger Holley. Great grandparents are the late Walter and Mary Goode, Martha Burnett of Forest City and the late Howard Burnett, Nell Camp of Green Hill and the late Mary and John Holley.
abroad. On a hillside golf course overlooking the stricken capital, paratroopers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division set up a base for handing out water and food. After the initial frenzy among the waiting crowd, when helicopters could only hover and toss out their cargo, a second flight landed and soldiers passed food out to an orderly line of Haitians. More American help was on the way: The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort steamed from the port of Baltimore on Saturday and was scheduled to arrive here Thursday. More than 2,000 Marines were set to sail from North Carolina, to support aid delivery and provide security. Hillary Clinton offered assurances that the U.S. would be “as responsive as we need to be.” But for the estimated 300,000 newly homeless in the streets, plazas and parks of Port-au-Prince, help was far from assured. “They’re already starting to deliver food and water, but it’s mayhem. People are hungry, everybody is asking for water,” said Alain Denis, a resident of the Thomassin district. Denis’s home was intact, and he and his elderly parents have some reserves, but, he said, “in a week, I don’t know.” Aid delivery was still bogged down by congestion at the Port-au-Prince airport, quake damage at the seaport, poor roads and the fear of looters and robbers. The problems at the overloaded airport forced a big Red Cross aid mission to strike out overland from Santo Domingo, almost 200 miles away in the Dominican Republic. The convoy included up to 10 trucks carrying temporary shelters, a 50-bed field hospital and some 60 medical specialists. “It’s not possible to fly anything into Port-au-Prince right now. The airport is completely congested,” Red Cross spokesman Paul Conneally said from the Dominican capital. Another convoy from the Dominican Republic steered toward a U.N. base in Port-au-Prince without stopping, its leaders fearful of sparking a riot if they handed out aid themselves. The airport congestion touched off diplomatic rows between the U.S. military and other donor nations. France and Brazil both lodged official complaints that the U.S. military, in control of the airport, had denied landing permission to relief flights. Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, who has 7,000 Brazilian U.N. peacekeeping troops in Haiti, warned against viewing the rescue effort as a unilateral American mission.
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2010 MLK Holiday Hoops Classic
Scott Bowers
Kiffin tosses UT under bus Alright, fine, I’ll write all about it, because I know you are out there wondering — just what in the heck was Lane Kiffin thinking? Or, is Kiffin thinking? Kiffin left the University of Tennessee this week, after just one year on the job. In the process he threw players, fans, and the administration of UT under the bus. One of those fans is R-S Central Principal Phil Rogers. Rogers has been a strong and vocal fan of the Volunteers since his teenage days. Fans like Rogers deserved better than Kiffin’s casual treatment. The funny thing is that many fans, like Rogers, are fine with Kiffin’s decision to leave. Rogers is a fan of the Volunteers; not a fan of Kiffin. So who the head football coach is, will not effect the passion and love of all things Tennessee that Rogers, and fans like him, have. As for Kiffin, well, he is taking one of the top five jobs in all of college football. The University of Southern California is every bit as passionate about their football as Tennessee is and, like the Volunteers, they are more than willing to throw busloads of money at a 34-year old coach who hasn’t won anything. Ever. Kiffin rattled and prattled, poked and pushed at Urban Meyers and Florida. Kiffin made great public statements that left much of the SEC and college football fans around the nation either smirking, or head scratching. He dared to poke Gator Nation? Yes, he did. But, for all of Kiffin’s bluster and bravado, for all of his emotional words to players and recruits, when the phone rang and USC was on the other end, he bolted quicker than Usain Bolt. I doubt Kiffin ever unpacked his suitcase. Heck, he may have been living at a Motel 6 near the campus while waiting on his next gig. If I were the Trojans AD, I’d make sure that we took Kiffin’s cell phone and he’d be forced to wear an ankle bracelet with a GPS device. Next year, he may try and land a job with Notre Dame. The silver lining of this story is that Tennessee may have just landed someone of great personal integrity — Derek Dooley, son of former UGA head coach Vince Dooley. The elder Dooley dedicated his life to all things Bulldog, and if the younger does the same for the Vols, well, fans like Rogers will get the last laugh. In November of 1979, I was 10 years old and living in the woods outside of Lawrenceville, Georgia. Roughly 100 miles away, Stacy Lail was about to lead his Hilltoppers on a march that would end in the Dean Dome in March of 1980. Lail lead that group of Toppers through an undefeated season, a season in which they had to defeat the very tough Burns Bulldogs four times — twice in conference, once in the conference finals, and once in the sectionals. I never stood in line at the Pit, waiting to see Vincent Hamilton and the rest of the Toppers like many in this community once did. But, after talking with Lail, I wish I had. I wish I could have played for Lail. Please see Wall, Page 4B
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Coaches and players of the 1979-80 Hilltoppers’ basketball team were on hand to be honored during the MLK Classic, Saturday, at East Rutherford High. The 1979-80 team went 32-0 and claimed the 3A state title. The team included: Coach Stacy Lail, Assistant Coach Ken Hines, team managers Tommy Crowe and Bill Perry; and players: Vincent Hamilton, Johnny Smith, Billy Smith, Chris Michael, Donald Bridges, Robert Gray, Rimpson Duffy, Dale Tomblin, Tony Landrum, Bobby Gray, Marty Koon, Marcus Cash, Leroy Calhoun, Troy Harris, and Mickey Miller.
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Hilltoppers honored at annual hoops event By KEVIN CARVER Sports Reporter
FOREST CITY — The 2010 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Hoops Classic was held at East Rutherford, Saturday. The tourney drew eight teams over seven games, and included a special tribute to the undefeated 1979-80 Hilltoppers team, who claimed the 3A state title. “I thought the tournament went great this year,” said organizer Donnell Burch. “The teams were matched up better this Scott Baughman/Daily Courier year and it made the games more comCentral’s Darrien Watkins (34) looks to line up a free throw during the game against Please see MLK Classic, Page 4B
Kings Mountain at the 2010 MLK Holiday Hoops Classic at East Rutherford.
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North Carolina’s Deon Thompson (21) falls as Georgia Tech’s Iman Shumpert (1) drives to the basket during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Chapel Hill, Saturday. Associated Press
Heels fall to Jackets CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Georgia Tech overcame everything — a blown 20-point lead, the ear-ringing screams of North Carolina’s blue-clad crowd and a second-half scoring barrage from Will Graves — to prove it has plenty of fight to go with all that talent. Now the defending national champions have to find the same kind of confidence. Zachery Peacock made the go-ahead shot with 25.7 seconds left to rescue the 20th-ranked Yellow Jackets, who shook off that blown big lead and held off the 12th-ranked Tar Heels 73-71 on Saturday. Iman Shumpert finished with a
career-high 30 points to lead the Yellow Jackets (13-4, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who figured out a way to pull out a win after falling behind in the wild final minutes. Peacock managed just six points with one second-half field goal, but that shot in the lane rolled around the rim before dropping through to give Georgia Tech its first win in Chapel Hill since 1996. “They made plays down the stretch,” Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt said of his team. “It wasn’t about Xs and Os.” North Carolina’s comeback seemed Please see Heels, Page 3B
Clemson’s Trevor Booker (35) shoots over North Carolina State’s Dennis Horner (31) during the first half an NCAA college basketball game in Raleigh, Saturday.
Clemson holds off NC State RALEIGH (AP) — Clemson again had a letdown late. This time, the Tigers had just enough left to overcome it. Trevor Booker scored 20 points and No. 24 Clemson held on to beat North Carolina State 73-70 on Saturday. Tanner Smith added 11 points, including two late free throws, to help the Tigers (15-3, 3-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) claim what center Jerai Grant called “maybe the most important win of the year for us.” Clemson never trailed but blew nearly all of a 21-point lead before making two defensive stops in the final minute to snap a pesky streak of post-victory letdowns that dated to 1997-98. “It’s a sign that we’re maturing, but at the same time, we can’t let teams come back like that,” Booker said. Julius Mays had a season-high 17 points for the Wolfpack (12-6, 1-3), Please see Clemson, Page 3B
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Scoreboard FOOTBALL NFL Playoff Glance Wild Card Round Saturday, Jan. 9 N.Y. Jets 24, Cincinnati 14 Dallas 34, Philadelphia 14 Sunday, Jan. 10 Baltimore 33, New England 14 Arizona 51, Green Bay 45, OT Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 New Orleans 45, Arizona 14 Baltimore at Indianapolis, late Sunday, Jan. 17 Dallas at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX) N.Y. Jets at San Diego, 4:40 p.m. (CBS) Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC, 3 p.m. (CBS) Dallas-Minnesota winner at New Orleans, 6:40 p.m. (FOX) Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Miami AFC vs. NFC, 7:20 p.m. (ESPN) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 At Miami NFC champion vs. AFC champion, 6:25 p.m. (CBS)
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Charlotte Bobcats’ Gerald Wallace (3) drives past Phoenix Suns’ Robin Lopez (15) and Grant Hill (33) in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, Saturday.
Bobcats rout Suns behind Wallace, Jackson
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Stephen Jackson scored 29 points to surpass 10,000 career points, Gerald Wallace added 29 points and 13 rebounds, and the Charlotte Bobcats continued one of their best stretches in franchise history with a 125-99 rout of the Phoenix Suns on Saturday night. Winning their fourth straight game and extending their team record to seven consecutive home wins, the Bobcats (19-19) were never threatened in a record-setting night that saw them reach .500 at the latest point in team history. They toyed with the Suns, who trailed by as many as 39 points a night after losing on a buzzer-beater at Atlanta. Amare Stoudemire also reached 10,000 points, finishing with 19 for Phoenix, which has dropped 10 of its past 11 road games. This one was never in doubt. The Bobcats set a team record for points in a quarter with 43 in the first and tied a team mark with 74 points in the first half. Jackson, who has keyed Charlotte’s transformation since his November acquisition, reached his milestone on a layup with 7:15 left in the second quarter. When the feat was announced to the crowd at the next timeout, Charlotte led 58-27. The Bobcats, who hit their first six 3-point shots, led 74-47 at halftime and Wallace already had 24 points. And to fans in Phoenix, it was the continuation of a rough day. Just as the Cardinals’ ugly playoff loss to New Orleans went final, fans who turned the channel to basketball found the lethargic Suns down 31 points. Later, Goran Dragic, who had been seeing increased playing time ahead of Jason Richardson, collided with DeSagana Diop early in the fourth quarter and limped to the locker room. At least this time Phoenix didn’t blow a big lead in what’s been a brutal 0-3 road trip. After Indiana rallied from 24 points down to win on Wednesday, Phoenix gave up another lead and lost to Atlanta on Friday on Jamal Crawford’s 3-pointer at the buzzer. Not even Alvin Gentry’s return home — he grew up about an hour away in Shelby — could keep the Suns from losing their third straight. Gentry called a timeout 1:17 into the game and moments before Charlotte took a 12-0 lead on Jackson’s 3. It was 43-22 after the first quarter and not even Gentry picking up a technical early in the second quarter could get Phoenix out of its slumber. While the Bobcats entered as one of the league’s lowest-scoring teams and the Suns the highest, the roles were reversed. It was Charlotte beating the lifeless Suns in transition and from the outside. The latest the 6-year-old Bobcats had been .500 was at 6-6 in the 2007-08 season. But with seven wins in the last eight games, they are looking increasingly dangerous. Stoudemire became the youngest player in Suns history to reach 10,000 points on a bucket midway through the third quarter that made it 85-54.
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BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 27 11 .711 Toronto 20 20 .500 New York 16 23 .410 Philadelphia 13 26 .333 New Jersey 3 36 .077 Southeast Division W L Pct Atlanta 26 13 .667 Orlando 26 14 .650 Miami 20 18 .526 Charlotte 19 19 .500 Washington 12 26 .316 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 30 11 .732 Chicago 18 20 .474 Milwaukee 16 21 .432 Indiana 14 25 .359 Detroit 13 25 .342 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Dallas 26 13 .667 San Antonio 24 14 .632 Houston 22 18 .550 Memphis 20 18 .526 New Orleans 20 18 .526 Northwest Division W L Pct Denver 25 14 .641 Portland 25 16 .610 Utah 22 17 .564 Oklahoma City 21 18 .538 Minnesota 8 33 .195 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Lakers 30 9 .769 Phoenix 24 16 .600 L.A. Clippers 17 20 .459 Sacramento 15 23 .395 Golden State 11 27 .289
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Thursday’s Games Chicago 96, Boston 83 Utah 97, Cleveland 96 Friday’s Games Charlotte 92, San Antonio 76 Philadelphia 98, Sacramento 86 Chicago 121, Washington 119,2OT Memphis 135, Minnesota 110 Atlanta 102, Phoenix 101 Detroit 110, New Orleans 104, OT Indiana 121, New Jersey 105 Toronto 112, New York 104 Dallas 99, Oklahoma City 98 Miami 115, Houston 106 Milwaukee 113, Golden State 104 Portland 102, Orlando 87 L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, late Saturday’s Games New Orleans 101, Indiana 96 Charlotte 125, Phoenix 99 Washington 96, Sacramento 86 New York at Detroit, late San Antonio at Memphis, late Miami at Oklahoma City, late Milwaukee at Utah, late Cleveland at L.A. Clippers, late Sunday’s Games Dallas at Toronto, 12:30 p.m. Utah at Denver, 9 p.m. Saturday’s College Basketball Scores EAST Albertus Magnus 87, Rivier 80 Albright 59, Elizabethtown 58 Alderson-Broaddus 89, Pitt.-Johnstown 72
KAANAPALI, Hawaii (AP) — Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson took the first seven skins worth $220,000 on Saturday to build a big lead after nine holes of the Champions Skins Game. The 2007 champions and Hall of Fame duo set the pace early with birdies on five of the first seven holes. With the first four skins carrying over to the par-4 fifth, Nicklaus hit an aggressive wedge from 115 yards to 3 feet. Watson dropped the birdie putt to capture five skins and $150,000. Two holes later, Watson drained a 10-foot downhill birdie putt for two more skins worth $70,000. Just as impressive was
HOCKEY National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF New Jersey 45 32 12 1 65 130 Pittsburgh 49 30 18 1 61 155 N.Y. Rangers 47 22 18 7 51 120 Philadelphia 46 23 20 3 49 140 N.Y. Islanders 47 20 19 8 48 124 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Buffalo 45 29 11 5 63 125 Boston 46 23 16 7 53 119 Montreal 48 23 21 4 50 124 Ottawa 48 23 21 4 50 129 Toronto 49 16 24 9 41 130 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 47 29 12 6 64 177 Atlanta 46 20 19 7 47 144 Florida 47 19 20 8 46 135 Tampa Bay 46 18 18 10 46 120 Carolina 46 14 25 7 35 115 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Chicago 47 32 11 4 68 155 Nashville 48 29 16 3 61 137 Detroit 46 24 16 6 54 118 St. Louis 46 20 19 7 47 120 Columbus 49 18 22 9 45 125 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF Colorado 47 26 15 6 58 138 Calgary 48 26 16 6 58 126 Vancouver 47 27 18 2 56 149 Minnesota 48 24 21 3 51 131 Edmonton 46 16 25 5 37 126 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF San Jose 48 30 10 8 68 153 Phoenix 48 27 16 5 59 125 Los Angeles 47 26 18 3 55 139 Anaheim 48 21 20 7 49 133 Dallas 47 19 17 11 49 134
GA 98 133 125 132 144 GA 103 112 129 147 170 GA 133 152 147 139 157 GA 102 132 117 131 161 GA 134 115 117 140 155 GA 121 118 130 150 152
Friday’s Games Washington 6, Toronto 1 Nashville 1, Calgary 0 Saturday’s Games Chicago 6, Columbus 5 Dallas 3, Detroit 2, SO Colorado 3, New Jersey 1 Los Angeles 4, Boston 3, SO San Jose 4, Edmonton 2 Ottawa 4, Montreal 2 Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, late Florida 5, Tampa Bay 2 Atlanta at Carolina, late N.Y. Rangers at St. Louis, late Minnesota at Phoenix, late Pittsburgh at Vancouver, late Sunday’s Games Chicago at Detroit, 12:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington, 3 p.m. Montreal at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Calgary at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Monday’s Games Ottawa at Boston, 1 p.m. New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 2 p.m. Tampa Bay at Carolina, 7 p.m. St. Louis at Columbus, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Toronto at Nashville, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Dallas, 8 p.m. Edmonton at Colorado, 9 p.m. Calgary at San Jose, 10 p.m.
how he persuaded Nicklaus to switch from a 6-iron to a 5-iron on the approach. Fred Couples, making his Champions Tour debut, and Nick Price were in second place with one skin worth $40,000. Defending champions Fuzzy Zoeller and Ben Crenshaw, who earned a record $530,000 last year, were shut out on the first day of the alternate-shot event, as were 74-year-old Gary Player and Loren Roberts. Couples, who turned 50 in October, and Price clearly outhit the competition, but had trouble finding the generous fairways on this course located at the base of the West Maui Mountains.
From the right rough, Price almost took out a banyan tree on the third hole and Couples’ drive two holes later sailed over spectators and into the shrubs of one of mansions that line the course. The newcomers did earn a skin on No. 8 with Price sinking a 12-foot birdie. It was an uncharacteristic performance for Couples. He played 14 original Skins Games, winning five times and earning a record $4.1 million. “Freddie Couples is the King of Skins,” Nicklaus said. “He plays more skins, wins more money in November than anybody else. The only difference is, it’s not November.”
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Becker 57, Elms 50 Bentley 81, Assumption 59 Brooklyn 88, Hunter 73 C.W. Post 113, Mercy, N.Y. 75 Canisius 63, Manhattan 61, OT Cent. Connecticut St. 88, Sacred Heart 65 Clarion 70, Gannon 51 College of N.J. 71, Rutgers-Newark 63 Cornell 74, Columbia 53 Curry 72, Regis 66 DeSales 64, FDU-Florham 48 Delaware Valley 75, Eastern 69 E. Connecticut 77, S. Maine 69 Edinboro 82, Slippery Rock 80 Farmingdale 68, Mount St. Mary, N.Y. 48 Franklin & Marshall 67, McDaniel 49 Geneva 75, Westminster, Pa. 57 Gettysburg 67, Haverford 59 Gordon 81, E. Nazarene 58 Gwynedd-Mercy 90, Marywood 68 Hartford 56, New Hampshire 53 Holy Cross 82, Bucknell 69 Iona 64, Niagara 47 Ithaca 85, Stevens Tech 83 Kings, Pa. 67, Wilkes 57 Kutztown 83, Millersville 63 Maine 67, Stony Brook 61 Mansfield 81, Cheyney 72 Maryland 73, Boston College 57 Merrimack 82, Adelphi 74 Mount St. Mary’s, Md. 86, Long Island U. 67 N.J. City 57, Rutgers-Camden 38 N.Y. Maritime 84, Mount St. Vincent 69 Northeastern 79, UNC Wilmington 56 Penn St. Behrend 74, Penn St.-Altoona 61 Penn St.-Harrisburg 92, Penn St.-Berks 73 Pittsburgh 82, Louisville 77, OT Quinnipiac 80, Bryant 66 Rhode Island 85, Fordham 67 Rowan 79, Montclair St. 70 Siena 81, Fairfield 73 Stonehill 72, New Haven 58 Susquehanna 85, Scranton 74 Syracuse 72, West Virginia 71 Temple 76, Massachusetts 64 Towson 71, Delaware 68 Ursinus 75, Swarthmore 54 W. New England 97, Endicott 91, 2OT Wentworth Tech 71, Roger Williams 64 West Chester 78, Bloomsburg 77, OT Widener 66, Lebanon Valley 65 William Paterson 63, Richard Stockton 57 Worcester Tech 68, Coast Guard 55 SOUTH Alabama St. 83, Alabama A&M 69 Appalachian St. 72, UNC Greensboro 64 Austin Peay 79, Tennessee St. 77 Bellarmine 95, St. Joseph’s, Ind. 81 Brescia 86, Indiana-East 75 Bridgewater, Va. 64, Hampden-Sydney 59 Bryan 58, Bluefield 39 Campbell 81, Stetson 55 Clemson 73, N.C. State 70 Coastal Carolina 75, High Point 58 Coll. of Charleston 90, Chattanooga 66 Delaware St. 77, Bethune-Cookman 60 E. Kentucky 79, SE Missouri 63 E. Mennonite 86, Randolph 74 ETSU 73, Florida Gulf Coast 51 Faulkner 78, Truett McConnell 53 Florida St. 63, Virginia Tech 58 Furman 69, Georgia Southern 45 George Mason 82, James Madison 71 Georgetown, Ky. 64, Campbellsville 51 Georgia Tech 73, North Carolina 71 Guilford 71, Va. Wesleyan 56 Howard 82, N. Carolina A&T 77 Jacksonville 82, Belmont 66 Kentucky 72, Auburn 67 Kentucky Wesleyan 88, Ill.-Springfield 75 Louisiana-Monroe 64, Denver 53 MVSU 80, Alcorn St. 70 Mississippi St. 72, Georgia 69 Montevallo 72, Flagler 66 Morehead St. 73, E. Illinois 51 Morehouse 62, Lane 60 Mount Olive 68, Erskine 50 Mountain St. 100, Lambuth 81 Nicholls St. 70, Stephen F.Austin 63 Norfolk St. 66, Hampton 50 Richmond 67, La Salle 63 Sam Houston St. 84, SE Louisiana 79 Tenn. Wesleyan 78, Reinhardt 76 Tennessee 71, Mississippi 69, OT Texas Southern 74, Grambling St. 59 The Citadel 51, Samford 50 Thomas More 91, Thiel 88 Trevecca Nazarene 74, Cumberland, Tenn. 67 Union, Tenn. 84, Freed-Hardeman 75 Va. Commonwealth 82, Georgia St. 69 Vanderbilt 89, South Carolina 79 Winston-Salem 55, Coppin St. 42 Wis.-Parkside 62, N. Kentucky 61 MIDWEST Anderson, Ind. 74, Hanover 70 Aquinas 75, Michigan-Dearborn 64 Augsburg 73, Carleton 70, 2OT Bethel, Minn. 54, Gustavus 52 Bradley 74, Missouri St. 56 Briar Cliff 109, Midland Lutheran 69 Butler 91, Youngstown St. 61 Calvin 68, Adrian 61 Cincinnati 60, Notre Dame 58 Cornerstone 81, Concordia, Mich. 66 Creighton 57, Wichita St. 56 Defiance 99, Franklin 83 Ferris St. 80, Ashland 69 Findlay 77, Michigan Tech 55 Grand Valley St. 63, Tiffin 54 Heidelberg 71, Muskingum 69 Hillsdale 78, N. Michigan 62 Hope 79, Kalamazoo 63 Houghton 78, Cedarville 76 IUPUI 74, Centenary 58 Indiana Tech 76, Madonna 73
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Wall’s free throws secure UK win
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North Carolina’s Deon Thompson, bottom, looks to pass as Georgia Tech’s Zachery Peacock, left, and Mfon Udofia (0) defend during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Chapel Hill, Saturday.
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perfectly tailored for the program’s storied history, but the Yellow Jackets regrouped and kept the pressure on the Tar Heels (12-6, 1-2), refusing to let the game slip away. After Graves buried a 3-pointer to give North Carolina its first second-half lead at 64-63, Brian Oliver responded by knocking down an off-balance jumper from the right side. D’Andre Bell answered Marcus Ginyard’s hanging layup with a jumper of his own. Then, after freshman Travis Wear put the Tar Heels up 71-70 on a short hook shot with 41.4 seconds left, Peacock answered with what turned out to be the game-winner. The teams traded the lead seven times in the final 4 1/2 minutes. “I wasn’t surprised that they came back,” Shumpert said. “I was surprised that they got a lead on us. I knew they would make their run, so we just had to take the blow and come out and win the game.” The game bore an eerie similarity to a matchup between the teams four years ago, when the Yellow Jackets led by 20 points at halftime before a freshman named Tyler Hansbrough led the Tar Heels back with a 40-point effort in the 82-75 victory. This time, Graves did his best to rally the Tar Heels by scoring 22 of his career-high 24 points after halftime, but missed a desperation 3-pointer at the final buzzer. “It shows our toughness,” Peacock said. “To come into a tough environment like this and get a win, it just shows how tough we are.” Shumpert had 17 points in the first half and finished 10 of 17 from the field with six assists in his best game since returning from knee surgery, while Gani Lawal added 12 points and 12 rebounds for Georgia Tech. Still, there’s no escaping just how disastrous a loss this would have been for the Yellow Jackets, who ran out to a 29-9 lead and led by 16 points with about 12 minutes to play. They followed last weekend’s upset of Duke with a loss at Virginia — a team picked to finish near the bottom of the ACC — and squandering this one would have left a lingering sting. Instead, the Tar Heels — who have lost two straight and three of four — are the ones questioning themselves. “I’m not used to coaching (Kansas) Jayhawk basketball or Tar Heel basketball without any confidence,” coach Roy Williams said. “We put ourselves in this spot and we’ve got to figure out a way to dig out of it. We can go belly up, but I choose not to do that and I told them that in the locker room.” They were coming off an 83-64 loss at Clemson on Wednesday night, the most lopsided defeat for the Tar Heels in seven seasons under Williams. In that game, the Tar Heels fell behind by double figures in the first 4 1/2 minutes and trailed 35-12 midway through the first half.
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who trailed 71-70 and had the ball when Grant appeared seemingly out of nowhere to block Richard Howell’s open layup with about 35 seconds left. “It’s just an effort play,” Clemson coach Oliver Purnell said. “You can look at it and wave at it ... but he had the courage and the energy, the will, to go get it.” Clemson milked some clock before Smith hit his free throws with 18.6 seconds left and N.C. State called its final timeout. The Tigers refused to give Wolfpack sharpshooter Scott Wood an open look, and Mays’ 3-pointer with about 5 seconds left went around the rim and out with the rebound going out of bounds under the basket with 2 seconds left. Mays launched a desperation 30-footer that went off the front of the rim at the buzzer. “The play kind of broke down. I saw my man help off on Scott, so I took a couple dribbles and got a good look,” Mays said. “It just got the last little bounce on the rim, and it was the wrong bounce. It just came out.” Grant finished with 11 points for
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — John Wall hit two free throws with 8.9 seconds left to help No. 2 Kentucky remain unbeaten with a 72-67 victory over Auburn on Saturday. The Wildcats (18-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) had a 13-point halftime lead wiped out and the freshman star had an uncharacteristically shaky game with seven turnovers. But his foul shots secured coach John Calipari’s 52nd consecutive victory in a regular-season conference game at Memphis and Kentucky, breaking Adolph Rupp’s NCAA record. DeWayne Reed cut Kentucky’s lead to 70-67 with two free throws with 1:08 left. Eric Bledsoe missed an open 3-pointer and the ball went out of bounds to the Tigers (9-9, 0-3) with 37 seconds to play. Reed missed a 3 and after a foul, Kentucky inbounded the ball to Wall, who was fouled and made the free throws that continued Kentucky’s best start in 44 years. DeMarcus Cousins had 16 points, 11 rebounds and four blocked shots for the Wildcats. Reed led Auburn with 19 points.
No. 3 Kansas 89, Texas Tech 63 LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Marcus Morris had 20 points and Xavier Henry added 14 as Kansas overcame a sloppy start to rout Texas Tech. Kansas (16-1, 2-0 Big 12) wasn’t sharp at the start of its conference home opener, but it worked the ball inside to start the rout and extend their nationbest home winning streak to 52 straight. John Roberson had 16 points for Texas Tech (12-5, 0-3), which hadn’t won at Allen Fieldhouse in 10 previous trips.
No. 5 Syracuse 72, No. 10 West Virginia 71 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Brandon Triche scored 16 points for Syracuse, which nearly blew a 10-point lead in the final minute. Kris Joseph and Wes Johnson added 13 points apiece for Syracuse (17-1, 4-1 Big East), while Andy Rautins had 12. Syracuse led 65-55 with 1:18 remaining after a free throw by Johnson. Darryl Bryant led West Virginia (13-3, 4-2) with 18 points and he hit two 3-pointers in the final 33 seconds, including one with 3 seconds left for the final margin.
No. 7 Michigan St. 73, Illinois 63 EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Kalin Lucas shook off a slow start and scored 20 points to lead Michigan State. The Spartans (15-3, 5-0 Big Ten) broke a first-place tie in the conference. Demetri McCamey scored 15 points for the Fighting Illini (126, 4-1). Lucas’ first and only basket in the first half gave Michigan State its first lead 4½ minutes before halftime and Illinois couldn’t come back. The Spartans closed the first half with an 18-5 run — taking
the Tigers, who have been plagued by the letdowns that have followed some significant victories. After beating a ranked team, they had lost the following game 14 consecutive times before this one — which down the stretch bore a strong resemblance to the Tigers’ most recent attempt. After upsetting then-No. 12 Butler in November, they blew a 23-point lead and lost to Illinois. “We wanted (this game) more. We dug deep,” Grant said. “We couldn’t let that first-half lead go to waste.” But this time, Clemson, which routed North Carolina by 19 points last time out, made just enough plays to hold off an N.C. State team that was trying to win consecutive games against ranked teams for the first time since 2006-07. “It’s just a tough thing (when) you have a big emotional win and then you’ve got to go on the road in the ACC, on Tobacco Road, and win,” Purnell said. Tracy Smith scored 16 points and Howell finished with 13 points and 12 rebounds. Wood, a freshman who had a season-high 31 last time out, and Farnold Degand added 11 points apiece for N.C. State, which was coming off an upset at No. 25 Florida State.
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Kentucky’s DeMarcus Cousins (15) shoots over Auburn’s Brendon Knox during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday.
a 36-29 lead — and scored the first seven points after halftime.
No. 9 Tennessee 71, No. 21 Mississippi 69, OT KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Wayne Chism scored 26 points, including six consecutive free throws in overtime, for Tennessee. The Volunteers (14-2, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) had hit only 60 percent of their free throws before DeAundre Cranston’s fifth foul sent Chism to the line with 49 seconds left and the game tied at 65. Chism was perfect on all 10 of his free throw attempts in the game and had his 14th career double-double grabbing 12 rebounds. Chris Warren, who helped Mississippi (13-4, 1-2) control most of regulation with his shooting, coughed up the ball twice after Chism hit free throws — even though the Vols weren’t applying much pressure. Warren led the Rebels with 19 points while Cranston grabbed 11 rebounds.
No. 13 Kansas St. 87, Colorado 81 BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Jacob Pullen scored 18 points and Denis Clemente added 15 as Kansas State held off Colorado.
The Wildcats (15-2, 2-1 Big 12) handed the Buffs their first loss at the Coors Events Center in 10 games this season. The Buffaloes hadn’t started 10-0 at home since 1979-80. Cory Higgins scored a seasonbest 30 points for Colorado (107, 1-2), which upset Baylor on Tuesday night and was seeking to beat ranked teams in consecutive games for the first time in the program’s history.
No. 16 Pittsburgh 82, Louisville 77, OT PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nasir Robinson scored a career-high 26 points and Pittsburgh staged a frantic rally in the final minute of regulation to force overtime and avoid a third consecutive home loss to Louisville.
No. 19 Temple 76, Massachusetts 64 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ryan Brooks hit seven 3-pointers and scored a career-high 29 points to lead Temple.
No. 22 Baylor 83, Oklahoma St. 70 WACO, Texas (AP) — LaceDarius Dunn had his third consecutive 20-point game, finishing with 25 points and eight rebounds for Baylor.
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petitive.” The Cavs won the final game of the night to improve to 14-1 on the season, while Thomas Jefferson’s girls team pulled off an upset by defeating Chase, 56-39.
East Rutherford 63, Veritas 49
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Roger Federer, above, expressed concern for his friend, Tiger Woods, in a recent interview.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Roger Federer is reluctant to discuss the scandal surrounding Tiger Woods, except to say he wants to see his friend back on the golf course doing what he does best. Federer is one of the few who have spoken to Woods since the golf star’s Nov. 27 car accident and subsequent firestorm over extramarital affairs. Although the 28-year-old Swiss, who has won 15 Grand Slam singles titles, admits only to “just following it from afar.” “All I can say, I’m not going to talk about his personal life,” top-ranked Federer said Saturday, replying to a question from The Associated Press, “but I wish him all the best getting back, hopefully on the golf course, resolving his problems, and see how he goes. That’s about it.” Federer and Woods are among the world’s most recognizable sports stars and a friendship between them has evolved — they’ve even appeared together on TV advertisements. Much of the criticism of Woods in the wake of the scandal has pointed to his diminished status as a role model. Federer said he doesn’t feel any pressure to stay squeaky clean. “I just try to be myself, not change for the press or the public or the fans,” he said. “If they like me, that’s great. If they don’t, that’s too bad.” He said it was most important to him that he upheld the principles of fair play, respect for the game and his rivals and to be polite to people he meets. “Those are key things my parents have taught me,” he said. “You know, I try to do the same thing. “Sure, I’m doing a lot of press conferences, and not being able to hide on the tennis court is not an easy thing sometimes,” he added. In an interview published Friday by French sports daily L’Equipe, Federer said he’d expressed his support to Woods in a telephone call, and predicted Woods will be back soon “as the wonderful golfer we know.” He said that Woods’ car accident in November and subsequent reports about his private life have been hard on the golfer and his family. “The tabloids are going crazy, sponsor contracts are falling apart ... I’ve always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute,” Federer was quoted as saying. “It scares you a bit.”
FOREST CITY — East Rutherford buried 10 triples on Saturday night and held off sizable Veritas Christain Academy late to win, 63-49 in the final game of the MLK Classic. Rob Gray swished three 3s alone in the third quarter as he completed a 13-point effort during that time for East manage a small lead. With the Cavaliers holding a 42-40 lead after three periods of play, East opened up the fourth quarter with a Zach Price 3-ball to go ahead by five, 45-40. Devince Boykins left no doubt as to who would be the victor, grabbing a rebound going downcourt for the two-handed jam with 33 seconds to go for a 56-49 lead. East held a slim 9-4 lead after the first period and held a second quarter advantage of 26-22. Gray ended up 20 points and Price added 10. Boykins finalized a double-double with 16 points and 12 boards. Tall forwards, Edge Warren and Connor Duermit led Veritas with 22 and 11 points each.
Thomas Jefferson 56, Chase 39 (Girls) FOREST CITY – Thomas Jefferson’s Lady Gryphons posted a 15-4 third quarter and took down Chase, 56-39, Saturday at East Rutherford. Thomas Jefferson’s Anna Dedmon, sped away for three outlet lay ups and Murphy Doyen canned another in the third period to hand the Lady Gryphons a 33-24 lead after the third period. Chase had held a 20-18 lead at half. The Gryphons were in the double-bonus with seven minutes to go in the fourth period, but fouled just twice themselves in the second half. TJCA was up by as many as 14 to start the fourth, but Chase trimmed it 10, before Victoria Bennett put the game out of reach. Bennett’s strong move under the basket for a bucket with a free throw on the side pushed the comfortable lead to 48-33 with less than three minutes to play. Chase went 7-of-60 from the field for the first three periods of play, and made only seven more field goals in the final period. TJCA, who shot 16-of-30 in the second half, was led by Dedmon’s 21 points. Bennett had 18 and Doyen 8 more points. Chase was led by Kaitlyn Smart with 18 points and Euletha Davis added 10.
Bishop McGuinness 81, Chase 59 (Boys)
FOREST CITY — Bishop McGuinness’ Aaron Toomey put up 21 of his 47 points in the first half to pull away from Chase, Continued from Page 1B 81-59. McGuinness held a slim 18-15 lead at the end of the first quarWhen Andrew Harding, Class of 1987 and a ter, but Toomey swished three member of the 1986 3A title team, said, “He was 3’s and completed a 3-point play the kind of coach you wanted to play for,” I knew to during a 17-6 run to open the exactly what he meant. second period and led 35-21 at Lail is one of the good ones, and our community that point. McGuinness held a could use more like him. 43-30 lead at the half. The Trojans with Carlos File this under ‘mouths of babes.’ Watkins and Wesley Roach in Taken from an actual conversation in my house. the paint sliced the lead to 57-53 Rio: “Fiona, you need to say your sorry.” by the end of the third quarter. Fiona: “Why Rio?” However, a 15-4 McGuinness Rio: “You need to ‘pologize to me!” run in the first five minutes Fiona: “Why?!” of the final frame, closed out Rio: “‘Cause you’re so beautiful.” Chase. Toomey did most of the Fiona: (laughing) “Rio, you are so crazy.” damage during that stretch. Rio: (sweetly) “Thank you.” Chase was led by Watkins with 20 and Roach had 17 points.
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R-S Central’s Shannon Hines (21) goes up for a shot against Kings Mountain during the 2010 MLK Holiday Hoops Classic at East Rutherford High Saturday.
first half leading St. Matthias boys to a 82-41 win over Thomas Jefferson. St. Matthias built a 44-20 lead at the half and Thomas Jefferson got no closer the rest of the game. Richard Petty led the way for Thomas Jefferson with 14 points.
R-S Central 65, Kings Mountain 57 (Girls) FOREST CITY — R-S Central girls basketball team was clutch in the second half, reclaiming the lead in the third period and went on to a decisive 65-57 victory over Kings Mountain. Shannon Hines and Melissa McLaughlin paced Central’s comeback in the third period. McLaughlin hit from 14-feet to retake the lead at 43-42 and Hines scoop shot in the lane ended the third with the Lady Hilltoppers up 47-44. Central never lost the lead again following those moments. Central (11-5, 4-2) produced an early 13-7 lead in the first quarter, but Britnee Roberts of Kings Mountain went on a 7-0 run by herself to take the lead. The Lady Mountaineers kept a 16-15 lead at the end of the first period. The Lady Mountaineers Evan Bragg dropped in a 3-ball during the second quarter and that allowed Kings Mountain to hold a 34-30 advantage at halftime. Central then overtook the game in the latter half of the third. In the fourth, a block by Mercedes Davis, which McLaughlin finished at the other end for a lay up, running the lead 55-48 sealed it for Central. Hines led R-S Central with 29 and McLaughlin had 14. Roberts led Kings Mountain with 18 points. Tiara McClain and Bragg had 12 each for Kings Mountain.
Kings Mountain 53, R-S Central 40 (Boys) FOREST CITY — One play changed the momentum of the game between the R-S Central and Kings Mountain boys game, which led the Mountaineers to a 53-40 win. The change in momentum swung Kings Mountain’s way just before the first half con-
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cluded. Following a miss shot by the Mountaineers, the ball was given back to Kings Mountaineer, although nobody touched the ball as it rolled out of bounds. With six-tenths of a second remaining, Brian Brown converted a runner in the lane and a free throw on the inbounds play. Instead of a Mountaineer lead of 21-19, it went to 24-19 at the break. In the third quarter, it all fell apart for the Hilltoppers, following the 1980 State Championship team being recognized. Central shot 2-for-13 in the period and 9-for-41 overall through three quarters. Jacob Kinlaw led Central with 12 points on the afternoon. Brown carried Kings Mountain with 25 and Cedric Thompson had 20.
Veritas 60, East Rutherford 43 (Girls) FOREST CITY — An early fourth quarter run was too much for East Rutherford to overcome as they lost, 60-43, to Veritas Christian Academy. Veritas posted an 11-0 run, including two Jamie Jordan 3’s during that stretch. Jessica Reece’s old-fashion three-point play push the Lady Warriors lead to 48-36 and it stood. Jordan had six total 3’s and 22 points to lead Veritas. The visiting Warriors had eight 3’s overall in the contest. An interesting first half took shape and ended in unique fashion. The Lady Cavs held the ball for over two minutes for the last shot of the first half. It didn’t work out as planned, but they still got the same result. Shaquisha Dawkins was designed to shoot for three on the play call, but it fell short. Shanay Watkins earned the rebound for East, made the putback and the freebie to untie the game for a 30-27 Lady Cavalier lead at the break. Veritas took a slim 37-36 to end the third, before breaking the game open in the fourth period. Dawkins paced East with 15 points while Watkins chipped in for 14.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Derek Dooley has the Southern accent, the coaching pedigree and is doing his best to reassure Tennessee fans their new coach appreciates where he’s working. “How can you ask for anything more than the University of Tennessee?” Dooley said Friday. The son of longtime Georgia coach Vince Dooley was introduced as the Vols’ second new head coach in 14 months, replacing Lane Kiffin days after he bolted for Southern California. Among his first challenges will be reassuring fans and players that he wants to be at Tennessee. “The times of worrying about what happened is over,” Dooley said. Dooley talked about how he learned early that Tennessee represented the essence of college football, and remembers watching the weekly television shows of former coaches Johnny Majors and Phillip Fulmer. He also promised he will not try to sell Tennessee in a sound bite, perhaps taking a shot at Kiffin, who was reprimanded by the Southeastern Conference for brash comments. “Everything we’re going to do is going to be done with a foundation
of integrity with every aspect of the program,” Dooley said. “We’re going to represent this institution with class on and off the field.” Dooley was offered the job late Friday afternoon, resigned as coach and athletic director of Louisiana Tech, and flew into Knoxville for the late news conference. He brings along a son with a name popular in Tennessee — Peyton — just like Kiffin, who named his young son Knox after taking the Vols’ job in December 2008. “I am finally happy to be in a state where Peyton will be well received,” Dooley said of his 8-year-old son, whose name conjures memories of Vols’ star and four-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning. Like his predecessor, Dooley comes with a short head coaching resume. He went 17-20 in three seasons at Louisiana Tech and was the only coach in major college football to also serve as the athletic director. He holds a law degree and previously worked for several years under Nick Saban at LSU and with the Miami Dolphins. Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton said Dooley agreed that
coaching the Vols is a destination job. He praised him for a five-year tutelage under Saban and for helping the current Alabama coach land two No. 1 recruiting classes at LSU. “I’ve talked to a number of folks over the past 24 hours,” Hamilton said. “He’s been described as very intelligent, intense, disciplined, hardnosed, a tenacious recruiter, a family guy and extremely well-organized.” The Volunteers introduced him three nights after Kiffin abruptly quit, bolting to USC only 14 months into his tenure with the Vols. Dooley was hired from a list of candidates believed to include Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, Air Force coach Troy Calhoun, Duke coach David Cutcliffe and Utah coach Kyle Whittingham. Dooley’s limited head coaching experience — like Kiffin, whose only head coaching stint had been a brief, bad one with the Oakland Raiders — makes him a risky pick. But the new coach’s uncle, former North Carolina and Virginia Tech coach Bill Dooley, voiced his support. “He’ll do well anywhere he goes, and at Tennessee, he would do very well,” Bill Dooley said in a
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phone interview from his home in Wilmington. “When you get a law degree, it gives you a little notch up. He’s got his feet on the ground.” Dooley’s father coached at rival Georgia from 1964-88 and won the 1980 national title. He did not return a call to his cell phone seeking comment, but his son said his father is excited. Tennessee defensive end Chris Walker said some players might have considered transferring if they weren’t impressed with their new coach. After meeting with Dooley just minutes before he was introduced to the media, they seemed satisfied with their new leader. “He reaffirmed everything that they wanted to come to Tennessee for,” Walker said. “He said he wants to embrace the tradition.” Dooley worked as LSU’s recruiting coordinator and tight ends coach from 2000 through 2003’s signing day, landing classes rated No. 1 in 2001 and ’03. He coached LSU’s running backs and special teams in 2003-04, followed Saban to the Dolphins as tight ends coach in 2005, and left for Louisiana Tech in December 2006.
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MAINTENANCE LEAD PERSON Aallied Die Casting of NC has an immediate opening for a Maintenance Lead Person for 2nd shift. This position requires minimum 5 years of maintenance exp. in a manufacturing environment and supervision experience is required. This position is completely a hands on job that requires someone who can handle multiple tasks under high pressure deadlines. We are seeking applicants w/electrical, hydraulics, & welding experience. Must be capable of troubleshooting and repairing all machinery problems in a timely manner. Experience in die casting or plastic injection a plus. Pay commensurate with skills and experience level. Aallied offers medical/dental insurance, vacation, & 401k retirement plan. Successful candidate must apply in person at: Aallied Die Casting 401 Aallied Drive Rutherfordton, NC 28139 EOE
WAITRESS/CASHIER Apply in person at Scott’s On Broadway, 753 S. Broadway, FC. between 2-5PM MonFri. No phone calls. Must be 21. Exp. a + but not necessary.
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INSURANCE ASSOCIATE AGENT Applicant must be able to perform a variety of general office duties. Applicant must hold both Property and Casualty Insurance licenses within a prescribed time frame. Applicant will be expected to assist our agency force in marketing insurance products. Applicant must possess strong people skills and be able to work with the public in a professional manner. Mon.-Fri. 8a-5p. Employer performs credit check & aptitude test and is an equal opportunity employer. Please send resume: Attn: Job Opening 105 Reservation Dr., Spindale, NC 28160
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PART TIME HOUSING COUNSELOR position available with CCCS. Starting salary $12/hr. D.O.E., with partial benefits and daytime hours. Minimum qualifications: Graduation from a four year college with a degree in Counseling, Business, Human Services or related field; OR High School diploma or equivalent & five yrs satisfactory work experience in banking, mortgage lending or related field. NO PHONE CALLS! Mail letter of interest &
resume to: Executive Director, PO Box 6, Spindale, NC 28160 Pre-employment drug testing required. EOE. Substance Abuse Care Managers to provide assessment & case management to clients involved in the criminal justice system. Stable, full-time position with benefits. Must be highly organized and able to work independently. Minimum of BA/BS (no exceptions) & human services experience. Positions are available in Marion, Lenoir, Rutherfordton, Shelby and Gastonia. Please send resume to Region4TASC@ nctasc.org
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PT HABILITATION TECHNICIANS Providing services for individuals with MR/DD diagnosis. Min. req.: proof of HS diploma/ GED, proof of CPR/FA Certification (training available), criminal/ DMV background checks, proof of valid DL & vehicle insurance. Contact Judith at 828-247-0622 or 284 West Main St., Forest City
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6:30 am at Wee The People 30-35 hrs./ wk. Must have 18 hrs. EDU classes or 2 yrs exp. in child care. 289-8774 or 288-2844 Part-Time Director Needed for non-profit organization at the Washburn Community Outreach Center. Responsibilities include overseeing the daily and long-term operations of the resale store and assistance program. Strong oral and written communication skills. Associate degree preferred. To apply, please send interest letter, resume, and three references to: Outreach Director PO Box 220 Bostic, NC 28018 or submit by email to salemumc@rfcinet For a complete job description call 245-5603, or email the address provided.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of DOROTHY SUE SWINK RANDALL of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said DOROTHY SUE SWINK RANDALL to present them to the undersigned on or before the 10th day of April, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This is the 10th day of January, 2010. Linda Carol Jenkins Randall, Administrator 1671 Doggett Rd. Forest City, NC 28043
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2010 NFL Divisional Round Brees, Saints go marching all over the Cardinals
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Maybe a little rest was all Drew Brees and Reggie Bush needed to shift the Saints’ league-leading offense back into overdrive. That, and a visit from Arizona’s porous defense. Brees threw three touchdown passes, Bush scored on an 83-yard punt return and a spectacular 46-yard run, and New Orleans overwhelmed the defending NFC champion Cardinals 45-14 in their divisional playoff game Saturday. “We came off a stretch where we had all the advantages of being rested,” New Orleans coach Sean Payton said. “We played with a lot of energy.” One win from the Super Bowl, the Saints will host an NFC title game for the first time in franchise history next weekend when they play the winner of Sunday’s game between Dallas and Minnesota. “There’s been a lot of firsts since Sean Payton has been here in the organization and we want to keep that going,” Brees said. “We want to bring this franchise a championship.”
Jeremy Shockey caught a touchdown pass in his return from a three-game absence. Devery Henderson and Marques Colston also had touchdown catches, and Lynell Hamilton had a short touchdown run for the Saints. Coming off its 51-45 overtime win over Green Bay in the wild-card round, Arizona wound up yielding 90 points in the postseason, the most ever allowed in consecutive playoff games in one season. Even the Saints’ sometimes soft defense played well, forcing two turnovers, harassing Warner often and knocking Arizona’s 38-year-old
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Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald (11) collides with New Orleans Saints cornerback Tracy Porter (22) and Darren Sharper for an incomplete pass during the second quarter of an NFL football divisional playoff game in New Orleans, Saturday.
quarterback out of the game briefly when, during Will Smith’s interception return, he was blind-sided by Bobby McCray’s block. Warner was 17 of 26 for 205 yards, but was unable to move Arizona consistently. The Cardinals punted
twice and missed a long field goal in the first half before heading into halftime down 35-14. Arizona punted twice more in the third quarter, with Bush scoring on the second to make it 45-14. Bush finished with 84 yards rushing, 24 yards
Two different storylines on tap
SAN DIEGO (AP) — In typical Southern California fashion, the San Diego Chargers have been chillin’ since the end of the regular season. They’ve rested, rehabbed, practiced and largely kept their mouths shut about their chances of finally winning the Super Bowl. The NFL’s hottest team and AFC’s No. 2 seed, the Chargers (13-3) will try to win their 12th straight game when they host the New York Jets (107) in the divisional round on Sunday. It’s the first stop along the road that they hope ends with their first NFL title. It’s just that they’re not openly talking about being a Super Bowl favorite, something they’ve done in the past, only to fall short. “You have a team in the Jets that is very physical and wants Associated Press to come in and kick our (rear),” Chargers outside linebacker Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis leaves Shawne Merriman said. “Here the field after their 37-0 loss to the New York Jets we’ve got a team in this locker in an NFL football game at Giants Stadium in East room that is very focused, humRutherford, N.J. ble about winning, not saying much, that’s eager to get on the field and play on Sunday. It’s going to be a battle.” The upstart Jets, on the other hand, aren’t shy about proclaimNEW YORK (AP) — Marvin Lewis had much ing themselves as Super Bowl more than game plans to deal with this season. favorites, starting with their Lewis won The Associated Press 2009 NFL rookie head coach, Rex Ryan. Coach of the Year award for guiding his team to Ryan even created a postthe playoffs during a season marked by tragedy. season itinerary for his players The Bengals won the AFC North with a 10-6 that included the Super Bowl in record, just their second division title since 1990, Miami followed by a parade two both under Lewis. They did so despite the deaths days later. of wide receiver Chris Henry and Vikki Zimmer, He’s not sure of the exact route, the wife of defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer. “but I sure hope we find out,” Several players’ families also were directly affected said Ryan, who has presided over by the tsunami in the Samoan Islands. six wins in the last seven games. For holding his team together under such cirIt’s a bold proclamation, concumstances and leading a turnaround from a sidering that a few weeks ago, 4-11-1 record in 2008, Lewis earned 20 1/2 votes Ryan thought the Jets were out Saturday from a nationwide panel of 50 sports of the playoff picture. writers and broadcasters who cover the league. “I think the vision that we He beat Sean Payton of New Orleans (11 1/2), have for our football team is we Norv Turner of San Diego (9) and Jim Caldwell of only have one goal, and that’s to Indianapolis (7). Andy Reid of Philadelphia and win a Super Bowl,” Ryan said. Ken Whisenhunt of Arizona had a single vote each. “Anything less than that is going “I’m flattered,” said Lewis, whose seventh season to be a disappointment for us. as Bengals coach ended with a 24-14 home loss to That’s just how we go into it. It’s the Jets in the wild-card round. “I never took any not a slight on who we play or credibility to it, that it could occur, but I am flatanything else, it’s a belief that we tered. I would trade it to still be playing.” have that this is why we’re here.”
Bengals’ Marvin Lewis is AP NFL Coach of the Year
receiving and 109 yards on three punt returns. Colston caught six passes for 83 yards. “We had a plan the whole time,” said Brees, who passed for 247 yards. “It was hard for anybody to understand that plan if you’re not a
member of my team, but we trusted in that plan, that process. We executed throughout the week and it showed in the game.” The victory wound up being so easy for New Orleans that Payton began pulling his regulars early in the fourth quarter and going with basic run plays to chew up the clock. It was more like what Saints fans had gotten used to in the first 12 weeks of the season, when New Orleans was blowing out opponents en route to a 13-0 start. The Saints then finished the season on a three-game skid, averaging 14.7 points during that stretch. But New Orleans finished as the NFC’s top seed anyway, and players said after their bye week that they’d return healthy and in early season form. Looking to inspire the club, Payton on Friday signed fan favorite Deuce McAllister, who was inactive but led the team out onto the field before the game alongside Bush, who was wielding a black baseball bat. It didn’t appear as though the Saints would be delivering a beating when the game started, though. Arizona took the opening kickoff, and with the Superdome crowd howling madly to fire up the defense, Tim Hightower burst through a huge hole on the first play from scrimmage, cut back left and stunned the crowd into silence with a 70-yard TD run. It was the fourth rushing touchdown of 66 yards or more given up by New Orleans this season. The good news for the Saints was they had 59:41 left to make up for it. They needed one series to tie it, with Hamilton’s 1-yard run capping a more methodical 10-play, 72-yard drive.
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Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre throws during football practice Wednesday, in Eden Prairie, Minn. The Vikings hosts the Dallas Cowboys in an NFL divisional playoff football game on Sunday, Jan. 17, in Minneapolis.
Cowboys expect a very loud Metrodome IRVING, Texas (AP) — Brett Favre vs. Tony Romo? Nah. AP vs. the 3-headed Cowboy? Nah. How about the Cowboys vs. the Vikings fans? Yep. Cowboys linebacker Keith Brooking remembers the loudest game of his career coming in Minnesota’s Metrodome. And he remembers winning it — a victory that sent his team to the Super Bowl. So as the Cowboys prepare for a trip to Minnesota for a secondround playoff game on Sunday, the message from the Dallas locker room is clear: Bring it on, Vikings fans; make all the noise y’all want. “We have pretty good experience facing a hostile crowd,” Brooking said. “The way you
have to handle the situation is, obviously, you can’t allow them to get the momentum going early in the game. You’ve got to go for their heart. If you can put a little doubt in their minds in the beginning, that can go a long way. ... But we’ve got to be ready for a 3½-hour battle and fight to the end.” The Cowboys followed that game plan four weeks ago in New Orleans. They jumped on the Saints with two quick touchdowns, silencing the crowd with a 14-0 lead. “I think it does help that we played in New Orleans,” Cowboys coach Wade Phillips said. “We have to have the same kind of focus and concentration that we did in that game. ... It’ll be loud in there, but that’s part of being the visitor in this league.”
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The Haitian tragedy calls us all to respond Watching the news Tuesday night, my heart hurt for the Haitians and my soul was heavy for Webby Williams Jr. When Webby answered his telephone, the pain of the earthquake tragedy was evident. He and his wife, Evelyn, had tried for hours to get information about “their children” at The Jesus Way Orphanage near Port Au Prince. No one answered. They couldn’t sleep and continued making calls up into the morning, hoping and praying but afraid to let their minds wander too far. For 28 years, Williams has been traveling to Haiti to support the orphanage where hundreds of children have grown up and moved on with their lives. During the past two decades, Webby has traveled to Haiti three or four times a year to minister. He went to love the children on behalf of God, he says. Webby is quick to remind everyone, his efforts in Haiti have always been his response to the Lord. Webby, Evelyn and their daughter, Mattie, spent Christmas in Haiti, taking Christmas gifts, supplies and completing the work on the new orphanage begun two years ago. They’ve actually spent a lot of holidays in Haiti and when he was working, his vacations were to Haiti. Chase Middle School donated the first blocks to build the new orphanage. The older facility was in such bad condition, they had to rebuild. About 10 years ago, Webby nearly lost his life in Haiti, while on a routine mission trip. He was in a vehicle crash, thrown from the back of a pickup truck. He was unconscious when he was airlifted form Haiti to a Miami, Fla., hospital. Another missionary riding in the truck died. Webby survived to return to Haiti with an entourage of supporters and the work continues today with the help of churches in Rutherford County, the Carolinas, Kentucky and Tennessee. It takes about $1,000 per month to meet the food, medicine and tuition needs for the children. When the earthquake struck on Tuesday, there were 15 children, ages 2 to 10 years old, a 15-year-old and a 20-year-old living at the orphanage, and the house parents. We look at the newspapers and television reports and wonder how much this little country, hit five times last year by natural disasters, can take anything else. We’re told these people, living in the poorest country in the western hemisphere, though devastated, are resilient. They’ll keep on, but they are going to need a lot of help. Among ways you and I can help include — n American Red Cross, is receiving donations at its chapter house, 838 Oakland Road Forest City, NC 28043 or visit www.redcrosswnc.org or call 828- 287-5916 to designate the donation to the International Relief Fund; n Habitat for Humanity will be receiving donations — RCHFH/Haiti Recovery, PO Box 1534, Rutherfordton, NC 28139. Please make Checks payable to Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity and write Haiti Recovery in the memo line. Also contact your local church, civic groups and whisper a prayer Webby, “the children” and every person affected by the Haitian tragedy. We can do no less.
The ballroom at the Carolina Event and Conference Center will seat 408 people around the tables. Located at Hospice of Rutherford County, the facility can be rented for business conferences, weddings, receptions and other events. Proceeds from the rental fees go directly to care for Hospice’s home care patients.
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ooking for an absolutely breathtaking wedding venue? A reunion, meeting or training location for 400 people? The Carolina Event and Conference Center just may be one of the county’s newest and until now, could have been the area’s best kept secret. Stepping into the conference center, a Hospice owned facility, warmth and good cheer greets folks from Rutherford County and visitors beyond. In meeting the needs of those planning events and its own internal needs, Hospice is also meeting the needs of those in their final days through the Carolina Event and Conference Center. Hospice board members first began planning for the building in 1995, said Heidi Owen, director of community services, but at the time, it wasn’t financially feasible to build. Originally, the building was going to be just a volunteer training facility for 100. What was built is four times larger than what was envisioned. “We feel blessed we waited,” said Rita Burch, executive director. There are now around 300 volunteers for Hospice, Owen added. In waiting, the organization now has, not only a place for training, but also, a source of revenue to fund the home care portion of its mission. The entire building or portions of it may be rented for events such as weddings and receptions, trainings, retreats and various other events. Since the mortgage on the building is paid, all proceeds will go to home care patients. “It’s a big relief,” Owen said of knowing there would be a revenue stream for the program. “It’s kind of like with the resale store, something
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Lu Ann Hodge, a cook at the Carolina Event and Conference Center, works to prepare lunch for patients at the Hospice House. The new center features a commercial kitchen where meals for patients are prepared by Chef Roy Montalvo and his staff, who also provide in-house catering for those who utilize the facility for events.
that brings in over $100,000 per year, which we couldn’t possibly ask people for. A lot of organizations, and we too, are struggling. In response to the economy, we had to decided ‘What can we offer to make it better’.’” Construction on the 13,000 square foot facility began in October 2008 and the building officially opened in August 2009, at the same time as the new Hospice House. The stateof-the art facility has video and teleconferencing capability, and wireless Internet, high quality microphones, video cameras and other equipment are also available. “Obviously if we’d built in 1995 we would not have had the video and audio capability – it would’ve been antiquated in two years,” Owen said. The facility also features a commercial kitchen and a full-time chef, Ray
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Montalvo, Owen said. “We can do our own in-house catering and he also prepares the meals for our Hospice House patients,” Owen said. The building, like others located on the grounds, was designed by Tom Mullinax. The interior has an open, cozy feel, keeping it in line with the other facilities, Owen said. “We wanted it to complement our Hospice House and grief center,” she said. “Those have a homey atmosphere. That was what we kept in mind first. We didn’t build it thinking ‘We’ve got to be the wedding center of the region.’” But it has become a hot spot for events already, Owen said. McDowell
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ing of chicken rossini, marinated tomato salad, rice pilaf, green beans with roasted red peppers and black forest cake. To obtain tickets for Hearts for Hospice, visit the Carolina Event and Conference Center, where the event will be held, or call Karen Jarson at 245-0095.
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Out & About Military Police Corps Ball
Does Your Engine Purr? When the owner of a Honda Fit noticed her car making a squealing sound, she took the car into Forest City Honda’s service department for a thorough check. When Keith Fruitticher (right) and David Whisnant, service technicians, lifted the hood, they discovered the problem. Sitting on the power steering rack next to the exhaust manifold, which is 100s of degree hot, was a black and white kitten. “These two little eyes were looking, scared to death and would not come out on its own,” said Williams. “It was in there so tight, and it wouldn’t come out by itself,” he said. Although the cat didn’t belong to the car owner, she found it a good home.
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Sgt. 1st Class and Mrs. Eric (Laura) Neely recently attended the 68th Annual Military Police Corps Ball held at Nutter Field House, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. A native of Rutherford County, Laura is the daughter of Bill and Denise Gardner of Forest City. The couple returned last week from a trip to Las Vega, Nev., celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary. Eric is now stationed in Fort Polk, La.
Don Hutchins, zoning administrator for the town of Rutherfordton, remembers the days he and his brother played in the snow in Rutherford County decades ago. To protect their feet from the snow and ice, they too, wrapped their feet in loaf bread bags. Although they had socks on under the bags, they also wore socks on top of the loaf bread bags. Those were the days, he said.
Dr. Hobart and Helen Rogers of Rutherfordton will return home today from a medical mission trip in the coastal
town of San Cruz de Barahona, Dominican Republic. The town is east of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and according to the couple’s son, David, the town is about 45 miles from the quake’s epicenter. There was no damage to the area, David said, but by Wednesday refugees were fleeing Haiti to the Dominican Republic. The Rogers couple joined medical professionals from churches in Shelby, Rutherfordton and High Point to work during the past two weeks. Others on the trip were Dr. Mike Barringer and his wife, Paula, a nurse; Dr. Doug Boyette and
his wife, Joyce; Dr. Dawn Herring and her husband, Chris, an ER nurse; Dr. Doug Hobson, and his wife, Annette; Bob Mori, Cleveland Community College, and wife, Judi Mori, a nurse anesthetist, all from Shelby. The North Carolina United Methodist Church organized the teams to assist the Rev. Connie DiLeo, a missionary who has served in the Dominican Republic for several years. Earl Owensby’s wife Sandra K. Owensby, writes this week her husband is mentioned in a new biography
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Forest City’s Parks and Recreation Director, Jody Wright, grounds keeper, Brian Blanton and assistant grounds keeper Matthew Gowan, were in Orlanda, Fla. last week to receive an award from Sports Turf Management Association, on behalf of McNair Field and the town of Forest City. Earlier this year McNair Field was selected as the #1 basefield field in America by Sports Turf Management Assoc. McNair Field joins the likes of legendary Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI., Community America Ballpark in Kansas City, KS and War Memorial Stadium in Union City, TN as one of the 14 fields to be honored in Orlando. The award presentation was Friday night. While in Orlando, the Wrights enjoyed Disney World in Orlando on Thursday afternoon.
The Lake Lure Dragon Boat Race & Festival organization of Lake Lure is seeking beneficiary applications from non-profit programs and organizations whose purpose is to improve the quality of life and future of the local and regional children within Buncombe, Henderson, Polk and Rutherford counties. The Lure of the Dragons Race & Festival will take place May 8. The past two years has attracted approximately 2,000 spectators per event. Each year, the group raised and distributed $10,000 to selected organizations. Contact Diane Barrett, 6252812 or 691-1104.
“I’m in cold Minnesota,” said Miles Cooper Tuesday morning. Cooper, formerly of Rutherford County, is a tour bus driver, transporting Broadway shows to other parts of the country. He’ll be bringing “Church Basement Ladies” to the Foundation, Isothermal Community College on March 9 for a 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. show. The play is a down to earth musical comedy celebrating the church basement kitchen and the four distinct characters who work there, their relationships, and their challenges as they solve the problems of a rural Minnesota church about to go through changes in 1964. They stave off potential disasters, share and debate recipes, instruct the young, and keep the Pastor on due course. Audiences will recognize these “steel magnolias” from their own community.
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In the midst of winter, Patricia Cole Ferullo offers a workshop that will awaken creativity and imagination, Jan. 23. 9:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Visual Arts Center in Rutherfordton.
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Mark and Maribeth White (from left) donate conservation easement, accepted by Tom Kenney, Foothills Conservancy’s Land Protection Director.
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FOREST CITY — Wildlife habitat and forests protecting the water Contributed photo quality of Big Camp Creek are now permanently conserved on a 136-acre tract near Union Mills. The Maribeth Yoder-White Trust donated a conservation easement on the property to Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina in degree in fine art and commercial December ensuring the land will art, Pat studied painting and jewelry never be developed. The easement’s making with nationally recognized forested floodplains and slopes will artists as well as at the Instituto de help protect the downstream water Allende in San Miguel de Allende, supply of Forest City. Mexico. “Maribeth and I wanted to leave a “The Artist’s Magazine” published a lasting gift to preserve this land valfeature article about Pat and her cre- ued by our family as wildlife habitat,” ative approach to painting in 1999. said Mark White. “The easement will Recently, she lived in Italy for two allow us to continue to own, use and years soaking up the culture, sea enjoy the land while conserving its and sky. She returned in 2008 to her natural resources forever.” roots in Tryon, where she maintains Landowners who donate permaher studio and teaches classes in nent conservation easements to water media. non-profit land trusts like Foothills Pat’s work has won top awards in Conservancy on land that offers national and international competiscenic open space or hosts signifitions and is in many private and pub- cant habitat for plants and animals, lic collections in the United States including working farms and forests, and Italy. and the permanent collections of the Fort Lauderdale Florida City Hall, and The Tryon Fine Arts Center.
can take advantage of attractive federal and state tax incentives. “Foothills Conservancy is very grateful to Mark and Maribeth for the generous gift of this conservation easement,” said Tom Kenney, Foothills Conservancy’s Land Protection Director. “It is a wonderful legacy they will leave for the land and its wildlife.” The Yoder-White Trust easement is in the foothills between the Blue Ridge and South Mountains, which is one of Foothills Conservancy’s conservation focus areas. A near-by state-significant natural area includes Rocky Face Mountain and Cedar Knob. Foothills Conservancy also holds an easement on 900 acres of working farmland in the Gilkey Community. Conservation easements on private lands are an important tool to help buffer and connect habitat and wildlife corridors between state-owned game lands and state parks in the South Mountains and at Chimney Rock and Pisgah National Forest.
‘Painting Light’ with Tryon artist
RUTHERFORDTON — Artist Patricia Cole-Ferullo of Tryon is offering a workshop Saturday, Jan. 23 at the Rutherford County Visual Arts Center, Main Street, Rutherfordton beginning at 9:30 a.m. “Painting Light” will be a day for painters (of any skill level) to enjoy a playful exploration of color in acrylic abstracts. The class is sponsored by the Rutherford County Visual Arts Guild. Download details and registration form from www.rcvag.com or call 288-5009 for an application. Class size is limited. Cole-Ferullo was born in West Virginia, but spent her formative years in Daytona Beach, Fla., developing a strong connection to the world of sea, sand, and all of nature. After attending Florida State University where she earned a BA
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Blood supply drastically decreased after holidays in Carolinas Region
FOREST CITY — As a result of the recent bad weather across the country, on the heels of the holiday season, the blood supply has drastically decreased in the Carolinas Region. Type O negative and type B negative blood supplies have dropped to emergency levels and help is needed now. Since type O negative blood can be used for any patient when there is not time to determine the patient’s blood type, it is crucial that there is a sufficient supply. Blood drives scheduled by the American Red Cross in Rutherford County are: n Monday, Jan.18 — 1 to 5:30 p.m., Smith’s Vital Care Drug Store; Call Karen Marshall at 245-4591 for further information or to schedule your appointment. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $1000 gift card
n Monday, Jan. 25 – 2 to 6:30 p.m., American Red Cross Chapter House, Oakland Road. Call 287-5916 for further information or to schedule an appointment. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $1,000 gift card.
n Thursday, Jan. 28 – 2 to 7:30 p.m., R-S Middle School, Charlotte Road, Rutherfordton. Call 286-8314 for further information or to schedule your appointment.
All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $1,000 gift card. Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood. The American Red Cross Carolinas Blood Services Region provides lifesaving blood to 103 hospitals and must have 1,600 people give blood and platelets each weekday to meet hospital demand. Accident victims as well as patients with cancer, sickle cell disease, blood disorders and other illnesses receive lifesaving transfusions every day. There is no substitute for blood and volunteer donors are the only source. The Red Cross encourages people who are in good health to donate so that hospital patients have the blood or platelets they need to make a full recovery. Blood is needed to help treat a variety of patients including accident victims and individuals undergoing surgery and cancer treatment. Blood can be safely donated every 56 days. Most healthy people age 17 and older, or 16 with parental consent, who weigh at least 110 pounds, are eligible to donate blood and platelets. Donors who are 18 and younger must also meet specific height and weight requirements.
Peace College dean’s list
BANNER ELK – Dr. Kacy Crabtree, dean of the faculty at Lees-McRae College, announced the Dean’s List for the fall semester 2009. A minimum GPA of 3.5 is required to make the Lees-McRae College Dean’s list. Students who made the list include Kristie Ruppe of Ellenboro. Lees-McRae College is a private, four-year, liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church U. S. A., located in the mountains of western North Carolina in the town of Banner Elk. The college is dedicated to service learning and offers majors in twenty-three academic disciplines.
RALEIGH — Peace College has released its dean’s list for the fall 2009 semester. Margaret Rachel Bradley of Spindale, was among those students named to the dean’s list. To be included on the dean’s list, students must earn a grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.40 on a 4.0 scale. Peace College is a four-year baccalaureate arts and sciences college that offers a challenging program of study that provides women strong intellectual and personal foundations upon which to build successful and meaningful professional and academic careers.
Maryville College dean’s list
Mars Hill dean’s list MARS HILL — The following Mars Hill College students were named on the honor roll of the Academic Dean at the end of the Fall 2009 semester. Rutherford County students included on that list are Heather Lynn Huckabee of Bostic, and John Richard Williams, III of Rutherfordton.
MARYVILLE, Tenn. — Myra Cowan of Rutherfordton has been named to the Maryville College dean’s list for the 2009 fall semester. Qualification for the dean’s list includes a grade point average of at least 3.6 in all work undertaken with no grade below a “C.” Only full-time students are considered for the dean’s list.
To qualify for the dean’s list, students must earn a grade-point average of 3.5 on a minimum of 12 semester hours, and carry no grade below a C.
Cowan, who graduated from the Asheville School in 2009, is majoring in international business at the College. She is the daughter of James and Myra Cowan of Rutherfordton.
Mars Hill College is a private, four-year liberal arts institution. Founded in 1856 by Baptist families For more information or to locate a of the region, the campus is located nearby blood drive, please call 1-800- just 20 minutes north of Asheville in the mountains of western North GIVE LIFE (448-3543) or visit Carolina.www.mhc.edu. RedCrossBlood.org.
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local Carson begins term as chair of trustees for Rutherford Hospital RUTHERFORDTON — The Rutherford Hospital Inc. Board of Trustees began its new year Jan. 11, with a new chairman. Joe Carson, owner of Carson Contracting Company in Rutherfordton, will serve a two-year term as chair through 2011. He succeeds Mike Wheeler, M.D., in that role. Carson is a lifelong resident of Rutherfordton and has been a member of the Rutherford Hospital Board of Trustees since 1988, serving two years as vice chair and on various board committees. He attended R-S Central High School and was a business major at Western Carolina University with a concentration in marketing and management. He is a former president of Rutherfordton-Spindale Jaycees and has served as a Scoutmaster for Boy
Scout troop #132. Carson and his wife, Nancy, have two married children, Ben Carson of Greensboro and Katherine Church of WinstonSalem. He is an active member of Rutherfordton Carson First United Methodist Church, serving on the church council, the board of trustees and as the head usher. Carson is an avid hunter and enjoys many outdoor activities and sports.
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The Hines family of West Street received the last Habitat for Humanity home, which was dedicated in December.
Habitat for Humanity will host an informational session for the public
FOREST CITY — Do you know of someone who is interested in becoming a Habitat homeowner? It takes 20-30 applicants to find one family for a home. Rutherford County’s Habitat for Humanity is hosting an informational session on Tuesday, Jan. 26at 6:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of First Baptist Church in Rutherfordton. In this brief meeting Habitat officials will explain the qualifications and requirements of owning a Habitat house. There must be a housing need, be able to pay the low mortgage, and be willing to provide sweat equity in building their house. If you have any questions, please Fred Bayley at 245-7411. Since its beginning here in 1987, Habitat for Humanity has put more than 50 Rutherford County families who could not obtain a home by conventional financing means into new houses. Another four families could move into their new homes this year. The organization does this by building affordable homes with totally volunteer labor. Thus, the new owner buys the house for only the
cost of the land and materials. And Habitat homeowners must also volunteer their labor to build the house. This “sweat equity” entitles them to an interest-free mortgage, which is repaid over 20 years. The mortgage payments are used by Habitat to build future houses. Prospective homeowners are screened, interviewed and counseled by the Family Selection Committee. Those approved by the Habitat board as potential homeowners are then assigned a Family Support volunteer who guides them through the housebuilding process and beyond. After the initial presentation – which will cover in detail the qualifications applicants should have, the description of the home to be built, the potential owners’ role in building that house, the cost of the house and terms of the mortgage, etc. – interested attendees can meet with a Habitat volunteer who will assist them in filling out a pre-application worksheet. The worksheet is used to determine eligibility for a Habitat house. Those who are found eligible will be given a full application form.
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Wilbert K. Kimple will lead The Symphony of Rutherford County in its 22nd annual winter concert on Jan. 24. Contributed photo
Symphony announces winter concert date FOREST CITY — The Symphony of Rutherford County, under the direction of Wilbert K. Kimple, will present its 22nd annual winter concert on Sunday, Jan. 24, at 3 p.m. at the Foundation Performing Arts Center. Admission is free and open to the public. The program will include an eclectic mix of both popular and classical music. Some of the selections are Morten Gould’s “American Salute,” Richard Hayman’s “Pops HoeDown,” Tschaikovsky”s “Finale— Symphony No. 2 in C,” the overture to Jacques Offenbach’s “La Belle Helene,” Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks,” and Hans Zimmer’s “Music from Gladiator.” As Conductor Kimple says, “we’ll play something for everyone.” The Symphony’s upcoming performance is dedicated to the memory of former members, Ralph Clum and Kevin Sorensen, both of whom died in 2009. After retiring as an elementary school principal, Clum moved to Rutherford County where he immediately immersed himself in the community. He was a member of the Fairfield Mountains Chapel Choir and the Thermal Belt Brass Quintet, as well as, the Symphony of
Rutherford County. He played trombone in the orchestra, and in many ways exemplified the mission of the orchestra, serving the community through music and music education, by mentoring a number of young trombonists. Sorensen, a native of Florida, played violin and did private violin instruction. The Symphony of Rutherford County is an all volunteer, multi– generational community orchestra consisting of approximately 60 members. It is a tax-exempt organization that depends largely on funding from individuals (including members), foundations, and corporations. It is also supported by a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. The Symphony is an open-door organization that requires no auditions. It welcomes anyone who plays a symphonic instrument and who is willing to devote time for regular attendance at Saturday morning rehearsals. At this time, additional string players are especially needed. For more information about the Symphony of Rutherford County, the upcoming concert, or about becoming a member, please go to the WEB site, www.rcsymphony.org or contact Nancy Womack at 828-288-0212.
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Builders continued to work on a new facade for the front of the Lakeside Mills building in Spindale. The carpentry work is part of an ongoing renovation project at the local flour and cornmeal mill. Normal operations continue while the construction is underway.
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Frantz graduates basic training PARRIS ISLAND, SC — Pfc. Corey Frantz completed basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C. on Jan. 8. Pfc. Frantz successfully completed 13 weeks of training designed to challenge new Marine recruits both physically and mentally. He and his fellow recruits began their training each day at 5 a.m., by running three miles and performing calisthenics. In addition to the physical conditioning program, he spent numerous hours in classroom and field assignments, which included learning first aid, uniform regulations, combat water survival, marksmanship, hand-to-hand combat and assorted weapons training. They performed close order drill and operated as a small infantry unit during field training. Pfc. Frantz also received instructions on the Marine Corps’ core values — honor, courage and commitment, and what the words mean in guiding personal and professional conduct. He and fellow recruits ended the training phase with the Crucible, a 54-hour team effort and problem solving evolution. After graduation from Parris Island, Pfc. Frantz will be stationed at Camp Geiger for 29 days of combat training. He will then begin additional training at Presidio Monterey Bay, Calif., as a linguist. Pfc. Frantz is a 2008 graduate of R-S Central High School. He is the son of Mike and Lynn Frantz of Shelby.
Habitat accepting donations for Haiti diaster recovery
FOREST CITY — Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity will be accepting donations for the next 60 days to help with Habitat for Humanity International’s recovery efforts on the devastated island nation of Haiti. “Habitat for Humanity International will mobilize all available resources to address shelter solutions for low-income families affected by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday,” said Allyson Shroyer, executive director of Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity. “They are closely monitoring the situation and have been in contact with Habitat for Humanity Haiti. They will begin Habitat’s recovery efforts as soon as possible.” Early media reports estimate that three million people were affected. All donated funds will be sent directly to Habitat for Humanity International in the form of a special tithe to a fund set up for Haiti Recovery. Habitat for Humanity International’s ability to respond effectively to this disaster will require support from donors, volunteers, corporate partners and other community organizations. “At times like this, many folks want to help, but they want to be assured that their donations are getting to the right place and the right people,” said Shroyer. “Folks can be assured that their donations will go directly towards Habitat International’s relief efforts in Haiti.” Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity has previously recognized extreme poverty and need in Haiti and designated their tithe to that area. Habitat Inernational’s Global Disaster Response focuses on the housing needs that arise from natural disasters and humanitarian emergency conflicts. Habitat offers expertise in technical information; program design and implementation; and disaster response policies, protocols and procedures. They also provide support and informational resources for disaster mitigation and preparedness, helping communities in disaster-prone areas protect themselves against future threats. Anyone interested in helping, can send donations to RCHFH/Haiti Recovery, PO Box 1534, Rutherfordton, NC 28139. Please make Checks payable to Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity and write Haiti Recovery in the memo line.
Newly installed officers (above) of Cliffside Masonic Lodge No. 460 are (l-r): in front — Bronny Hamrick, senior steward; Clint Ingle, senior deacon; Tim Miller, master; Daren Gibson, junior warden; Randy Ingle, junior deacon; Don Luckadoo, junior steward; middle — Cutler Dillion, installing secretary; Jack Huskey, installing marshal and Mason of the Year; Nigel Hawkins, past master and chaplain; in back — Wayne Millis; Charles Maxwell, installing master; Frank Holtzclaw, Tyler, Firpo Epley, secretary; Melvin Dobbins, treasurer. Absent from the photograph is Steven Lovelace, senior warden. Wayne Millis (photo at right) was elected by the Supreme Council 33rd Degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonary Southern Jurisdiction, USA, to receive the 33rd and final degree of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. The 33rd degree is awarded in honor of exceptional service to humanity and/or to the Scottish Rite. Contributed photos
New Arrivals RUTHERFORDTON — The following babies were born at Rutherford Hospital. Jacob Hodge and Chelsey McElrath, Spindale, a boy, Jonas William Hodge, Dec. 29. Ronnie Mode Jr. and Jessica Green, Forest City, a girl, Hannah Marie Mode, Jan. 2. Kristen Danielle Edwards, Mooresboro, a boy, Landon Michael Edwards, Jan. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Davis, Ellenboro, a girl, Sierra Elizabeth Davis, Jan. 4. Mr. and Mrs. James Coffey, Bostic, a boy, Ephraim Allen Coffey, Jan. 4. Mr. and Mrs. Jon Behrns, Spindale, a girl, Isabella Violet Behrns, Jan. 5. Philip and Shannon Pruett, Boiling Springs, a girl, Aubrey June Pruett, Jan. 6. Michael Jolley and Holly Stewart, Mill Spring, a girl, McKenzie Marie Jolley, Jan. 6.
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50th Anniversary
FOREST CITY — Jennifer Thompson-Cannino will speak at Fireside Books & Gifts Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 5 p.m. to discuss her book, “Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice & Redemption.” Co-authoring the book is Ronald Cotton, and Erin Torneo. The book is the story of Jennifer Thompson’s rape at knife point by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. Wearing only a blanket, she escaped and told police she was certain she could identify the man who raped her. Eventually she picked Ronald Cotton out of a line-up. He insisted she was mistaken, but Jennifer’s positive identification was the compelling evidence put him behind bars. After serving 11 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Newton of Rutherfordton, celRonald Cotton was released ebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Friday, when a DNA test proved his January 1, 2010. Mrs. Newton is the former Jeanette innocence Yelton of Rutherfordton. The couple’s children are Randy Newton and wife, Tami, of Union, S.C., and their Two years later, Jennifer and children Kyle, Ashley and McKenna; Sharon Newton Ronald met face to face — of Carolina Beach; and Sandra Francis and husband, forged an unlikely friendship Andy, of Forest City, and their daughter, Hope. that changed both of their lives. In the story, Jennifer and Ronald offer an unprecedented first-person glimpse into what happens when the system fails both the victim and the accused. The public is invited to meet Thompson-Cannino and discuss Tiffany Swinkey, Brennan Reavis the book. She will sign books Tiffany Swinkey of Conover, and Brennan Reavis until 6:30 p.m. Former U.S. Attorney General of Lakeland, Fla., are engaged and plan to be marJanet Reno said about the book, ried October 9, 2010 in Hickory. “Few people have done more The bride-elect is the daughter of Gary and Nancy Swinkey of Conover, formerly of Rutherford to put a human face on issues involving wrongfulc onvicCounty. The groom-elect is the son of Dr. Mack tions than Jennifer Thompsonand Doris Ann Reavis of Lakeland. Cannino and Ronald Cotton. Yet Tiffany is a 2004 graduate of Gardner-Webb through their shared pain, they University in 2004. She is employed by Carolina have been able to forge a friendFirst Bank in Fort Mill, S.C. as a money manager. Brennan is a 2006 graduate of Gardner-Webb University with a masters in business. He is employed by Verizon Wireless in Charlotte as an assistant manager.
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ship that most of us search our lives for.” Thompson-Cannino lives in North Carolina with her family. She speaks frequently about the need for judicial reform, and is a member of the North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission, the advisory committee for Active Voices, the Constitution Project, and Mothers for Justice. Her op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, the DurhamHerald Sun, and the Tallahassee Democrat. Cotton lives with his wife and daughter in North Carolina and works at an insulation plant. He has spoken at various schools and conferences including Washington and Lee University, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Georgetown Law School, and the Community March for Justice for Troy Anthony Davis in Savannah, Ga. Torneo is a writer who divides her time between Los Angeles,
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Chase Lions Club
Training workshops set
SPINDALE — The Rutherford Extension County Extension Center will be conducting the Tier 1 N.C. MarketReady Training Workshop beginning on Thursday, Jan. 28Feb. 4, 11. The threeweek Workshop focuses on Good Agricultural Practices(GAPs) and what it takes to obtain GAPs certification. Tier 1 will address GAPs that are directly related to field production and harvest. Registration fee is $10, which includes course materials and refreshments. Registration will be taken until Monday, Jan. 25. The workshop will be held at the Cooperative Extension
Office, 193 CallahanKoon Road, Spindale. Also, the Rutherford County Cooperative Extension is hosting the annual Achievement Program of the Extension & Community Association (ECA) on Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 5:30 p.m., for a meal and awards program. The event will be at the Cooperative Extension Office, Callahan Koon Road, Spindale. Learn about the ECA organization, its service to the community, and its accomplishments during the past year. For more information or to attend, call Tracy Davis, 287-6020.
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Chase Lions Club hosted approximately 164 Lions Club members and visually impaired individuals during a gathering on Dec. 13, at Floyd’s Creek Baptist Church. Chase Lions Club members pictured are (l-r): Bill Seay, Harry Walton, John Bradley, Chuck Sane, Dan King, Jo Ward, Ed Spicer, Jerry Alexander, Mary Ruth Alexander, Roger Phillips, Ruby Parris, Michael Trubey and Jimmy Cole. In addition to the meal, fruit baskets, Christmas gifts, and large number 2010 calenders were given to guests. Clubs in the Rutherford County zone include Chase, Lake Lure, Forest City and Rutherfordton.
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The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, January 17, 2010 — 7C
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Woman mourns friends lost during her affair Dear Abby Abigail van Buren
his wife nor did he promise he would. It was just a onenight stand that went on way too long. I did have relationships in between, but I’d always go back to him. Can you please give me some suggestions on how to rebuild my self-esteem and learn to love myself again? — Kicking Myself Dear Kicking Yourself: Gladly. A giant step in the right direction would be to stop kicking yourself because you appear to be
Rectocele may need treatment Dear Dr. Gott: I am a 73-year-old female. I have always been active, have three children (all born naturally), and had a total hysterectomy at age 45 because of a fibroid tumor. I thought that as long as my osteoarthritis didn’t bother me too much, I could do just about anything. Boy was I wrong! I developed a condition known as a rectocele after doing some heavy pruning. I could live with the condition, except that the burning is bothersome. What are my options? Can I continue to be active? How effective is surgical repair? Dear Reader: Rectoceles occur when the wall of tissue (fascia) that separates the vagina and the rectum weakens, allowing a part of the rectal wall to bulge into the vagina. The condition typically develops after menopause when estrogen levels decrease, further weakening pelvic tissues. Small rectoceles do not usually cause symptoms and may go unnoticed until diagnosed during routine gynecological examinations. Larger ones may cause difficulty when having or controlling a bowel movement; could cause a soft bulge of tissue that may protrude from the vaginal opening; a sensation of rectal pressure, fullness
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or of not having completely emptied the rectum following a bowel movement; and the need to press on the bulge of tissue to help push stool out during evacuation. In many cases, this may be accompanied by other conditions such as cystocele (bladder pushed into the vagina), enterocele (small intestine pushed into the vagina) or uterine prolapse (uterus pushed into the vagina). Rectoceles are usually the result of childbirth or other activities that put pressure on the fascia. These can include repeated heavy lifting, chronic constipation or straining, being overweight, or having chronic bronchitis or cough. There are also several risk factors that may predispose a person to developing this condition, such as having a hysterectomy, vaginally delivering more than one child, age, and being born with weaker-than-normal pelvic connective tissue. Treatment is not necessary unless the rectocele causes discomfort or pain or is bothersome.
plenty bruised already. Then, instead of isolating yourself, get out and get busy: Join a gym. Scout out organizations where you can volunteer. No one will know whether you have dozens of friends or only a few — and don’t volunteer the information because it’s no one’s business. Take a class or two. Join a church if you feel you need spiritual guidance. And make a vow never to involve yourself with a married man again. Dear Abby: I work for a veterinarian, and I would appreciate it if you would please print some “tips” for pet owners to make their visits go more smoothly.
1. When you call for an appointment, please give us YOUR name. Do not say, “This is Fluffy’s mother,” because we care for 23 cute, cuddly cats named Fluffy and also a couple of Pomeranians. 2. Always have your dog on a leash and your cat in a cat carrier. If you don’t own one, place him/her in a cardboard box taped firmly shut. Cats are more secure in an enclosed space, so it will be calmer during the visit. Loose cats can bolt at the sight of a strange person or pet and become injured, or even dash out an open door. 3. Please do not bring your other pets along “for compa-
ny.” It is distracting for you and also for the pet who is being seen. Also, it’s important that you be able to fully concentrate on everything. 4. Please do NOT offer advice to others who are waiting. 5. DO ask us about anything you’re curious or worried about. We have heard it all and won’t be shocked, embarrassed or think you are “dumb.” It is our job to make sure you are comfortable and knowledgeable about your pet. Feel free to tell us the funny thing he did this week, or how she comforted you. We love to hear about our “patients.” — Front Desk Lady
2009 Animal Control Year-End Summary The 2009 Summary Report from Rutherford County Animal Control has been released. We have prepared a snapshot of highlights and will be summarizing them in this and future columns which will review the progress being made for the animals in our County. The accompanying chart shows that in 2009, the total intake of dogs and cats was 4055-down from 4292 in 2008. The destruction rate was 2921-also down from 2008’s 3092. While each adoptable animal destroyed is very sad, we are starting to see positive results. Efforts to educate and promote spaying and neutering options are beginning to put a dent in Rutherford County’s pet over-population. The chart also shows that the adoption rate decreased last year (compared to 2008) because of the personal economic challenges of County residents. Many families had to choose between feeding their families or their pets. To assist local pet owners as much as possible, The Community Pet Center expanded our Pet Food Pantry to help fulfill this need and provided emergency veterinary support through our Peticare Fund. Dogs generally continue to fare better than cats because more dogs are rescued or adopted. However, efforts to get cats adopted from Animal Control and through our Cat Foster Program has helped to save more lives. Overall, these 2009 statistics highlight the impact that our efforts are making. Positive results and continued downward trends will require everyone’s continued support in promoting responsible pet ownership, education, spaying and neutering and adoption and rescue. In a perfect world, we would like to guarantee that every cat and dog coming through Animal Control is assured a wonderful forever home. However, we also know that this isn’t entirely possible. Some of these cats and dogs are sick, aggressive, or abused beyond rehabilitation and sadly, there just aren’t enough homes even for the highly adoptable ones. Continuing to work to bring
IN THE STARS Your Birthday, Jan. 17; If you’ve felt stymied with things over which you’ve had little control in the past, be of stout heart. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — This is one of those days when making friends is likely to be easier for everyone, including you. Two people in particular could become real good pals. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — If something is in the pipeline from which you could derive substantial gains, deal with it now. You are especially fortunate with regard to material affairs. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Although you do well in joint endeavors, it is likely that you will gain more from individual activities at this time. If possible, be your own person. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You might not know it, but someone who cares a great deal is trying to put something together that will please you. When you hear about it, you will be happy. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Dare to be an optimistic visionary because Lady Luck is clearly in your corner right now. You have plenty of justification for your high hopes and great expectations. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You must have done something well lately because several people with real clout are speaking on your behalf to make sure that you get exactly what you’re going after. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Hang out with the gang if you get the opportunity because your greatest benefits will come during a social situation. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Even though you might be involved in working on behalf of another, you will somehow benefit in the process as well — and quite handsomely, too. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Put the emphasis on the positive when making an analytical evaluation of something vital to several people. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Although your initial goal is to be of service to another, a unique twist could put you in a unique position of coming out as the primary beneficiary. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — If you have felt left out of the romance department lately, don’t despair — things could take a turn of the best. Cupid has singled you out to meet someone special. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Whether this is a workday or not, you’re in line for a special bonus for something you do quite well. It could be a prize for being exceptional at a sport or a game.
The Pet Project Produced by Jo-Ann Close and Lynne Faltraco Community Pet Center
the intake and destruction numbers down will help the community take care of the animals that do come through Animal Control. The Community Pet Center continues to have an active adult and youth volunteer base overseeing our numerous Programs and maintaining an office at Animal Control. We rely on local interest in our work and ongoing financial support from both private and corporate donors to maintain our Programs. Our ongoing goal is to find homes for all adoptable pets, and wve appreciate everyone’s support in 2009. As we look towards 2010, we encourage pet owners in need of spay or neuter assistance to contact the Community Pet Center Office at 287-7738. Rutherford County Animal Control Intake & Destruction 1998-2009 6000
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Dear Abby: After an onagain off-again affair with a married man for almost 10 years, our relationship finally ended today. During the time we “messed around,” I lost most of my friends because we socialized in the same circles, and I felt ashamed of what I was doing, so I stopped going around with any of them. So here I sit, lonely and embarrassed. How do I explain to people I meet why I don’t have many friends? I know time heals, and I need to focus on the good things in my life and move forward, but I feel isolated and stupid. I never asked him to leave
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Consider slow cookers for easy meals
One of the best appliances I’ve ever purchased is a Crock-Pot. I use it throughout the year, but I especially like to use it in the sumby Sara Noel mer so I don’t heat up the kitchen by using the oven. I enjoy the freedom of prepping a meal early in the day and not having to tend to it until mealtime. I just set it and forget it. It keeps the meal hot until it’s ready to be served, which is great for busy families large and small. Years ago, I used my slow cooker only for meals such as soups, stews and an occasional pot roast. I was thrilled to discover that I could also make baked potatoes, casseroles, desserts and dips, to name a few. I was excited to find that newer models come in different shapes and sizes and have programmable features. Rival has made two worth mentioning. One is the VersaWare Crock-Pot, which is stoneware so versatile that you can use it on the stovetop, in the oven, under a broiler, in the refrigerator and freezer, and in a microwave. The other is the Duo, which allows you to make two separate recipes simultaneously and at different temperatures. Either of these would make wonderful gifts. It’s important to note that if you’re looking to purchase a slow cooker, there are two kinds — one has a pot that sits on top of a nonstick griddle-type heating base. If you have a slow cooker collecting dust, pull it out and give it a prominent place in your kitchen. It’s a frugal appliance that can help you save time and money. The benefits are many, including easy cleanup and minimal prep time. It’s difficult to overcook slow-cooker meals, and less expensive cuts of meat become flavorful and tender. Many of your favorite meals can be converted for it, too. Use the following guide: — Five to 30 minutes of conventional cooking time equals one and a half to two hours on high (or four to six hours on low) in a slow cooker. — 35 to 45 minutes of conventional cooking time equals three to four hours on high (or six to 10 hours on low) in a slow cooker. — 50 minutes to three hours of conventional cooking time equals four to six hours on high (or eight to 18 hours on low) in a slow cooker. Additional tips: — Decrease any liquids added, because they don’t boil away in a slow cooker. — Browning meat before placing it in the slow cooker will improve the flavor, appearance and texture. — Don’t use your slow cooker to reheat leftovers. — Don’t open the lid repeatedly. This adds to the cooking time. — Consider spraying with cooking spray to prevent sticking, or use the available liners for easier cleanup. Baked potatoes are easy in a slow cooker. Prick them with a fork, and wrap them in foil as though you were placing them in the oven. Place them in the Crock-Pot, and cook on high for four hours or on low for eight hours. Works for sweet potatoes, too.
Frugal Living
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High School is hosting its prom there and a church in Chesnee has booked the facility for a pastor appreciation service. “We have had a lot of regional interest, with businesses wanting to do conferences out of here,� Owen said. “The calendar is booking up really quickly.� Hospice will host an event for the public in the event center on Feb. 12. “Hearts for Hospice� is a Valentine luncheon, the first the organization has ever held. “We want more people to see what we have to offer and showcase our chef’s abilities,� Owen said.
“It would be 400 people, hopefully who wouldn’t have seen the building otherwise.� Training for volunteers and Hospice workers will also be held at the facility. Both Owen and Burch have been with Hospice of Rutherford County throughout the fund raising and construction of the building. Seeing it’s completion, Burch said “is awesome.� Owen agreed. “It’s such a blessing, with fundraising since the 90s, to see it come full circle,� she said. For more information on the Carolina Event and Conference Center, contact Event Coordinator Karen Jarson at 245-8873 or visit the facility’s Web site at www.carolinaevent.org.
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Cost to attend the meal is $10 per person. Owen said she hopes Contact Flynn via e-mail at the community will take aflynn@thedigitalcourier. com. part in the luncheon.
The services that Hospice provides for Rutherford
Hospice of Rutherford County currently has 130 home care patients, 150 palliative care patients and 18 who live in the Hospice House. “Anybody can utilize Hospice, at any age,� said Director of Community Services Heidi Owen. “And anybody can make a referral.� Hospice of Rutherford County admits patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, Owen said. “We are the only organization I know providing that number of crisis care hours. We make every effort to have a nurse in the home or wherever a patient is living while they are dying.� Hospice is also one of the most utilized volunteer programs in the state. “We saved over $600,000 in volunteer labor last year,� Owen said. Hospice of Rutherford County currently has 300 active volunteers. For more information on volunteering or Hospice services, call 245-0095.
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