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R-S Central JROTC Rifle Team Captain Jessica Eberhart and Cadet First Sergeant Logan Hartzog take a break from snapping off a few rounds at the R.S. Central High School range. Both Eberhart and Hartzong have set national records this year for marksmanship with their .177-caliber air rifles.
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RUTHERFORDTON — R.S. Central High School’s cadets are some real straight shooters — a talent that has recently helped them set three Marine Corps JROTC national records. The rifle team has two individual high score records and one team high score record. And on Wednesday they’ll journey to Ohio to try and win the national cham-
pionships. “Shooting really helps teach you self discipline and patience,” said Logan Hartzog, a senior. “I’ve been doing this since the tenth grade and I really enjoy it.” A perfect score for the shooting sport is 300. Much like bowling’s perfect game, hitting that mark is difficult to achieve. Please see Shooters, Page 6A
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regular meeting of the Grahamtown committee. Several residents of the street and others areas of Grahamtown interested in building new homes or renovating homes on Gypsy Street attended the informational meeting. They began to a long process to complete paper work, with
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FOREST CITY — “My mama is sick and my dad had an operation and only gets to work a little bit because our truck breaks down. We’re having trouble with food and clothes and other people have helped with heat. “I told my teacher I needed help and she helped me. Before I got help I worried and couldn’t do my work. I worried about my mama falling and getting hurt and my daddy had to be operated on. We didn’t have any food at our house.” — Middle school student in Rutherford County Schools
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Previously, all unemployment benefits were considered taxable income. But the first $2,400 of unemployment benefits from 2009 are tax free. “For example, if you received $5,000 in unemployment compensation, you will only be taxed on $2,600,” Thomas said. “For a single taxpayer this could mean a savings of as much as $240 in income taxes. Married taxpayers who both received unemployment benefits during 2009 will see even greater savings, given they are eligible for the exclusion.” Expenses from job searches can also often be deducted for individual returns. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will also make about $7.4 million more available to taxpayers nationwide with most coming from the Earned Income Tax Credit. The income scales for who is eligible for the Earned Income Credit have been adjusted and there is an additional $629 credit available for taxpayers with three or more children. Please see Tax, Page 6A
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FOREST CITY — Changes in the tax law for 2009 could result in bigger refunds for some in Rutherford County, especially those with children and those who are unemployed. “This year we’ve really had to educate the public,” said Dan Thomas, an enrolled agent with the IRS at the Jackson Hewitt Tax Service office on Oak Street Extension. “Most people weren’t aware of some important differences about unemployment benefits and they weren’t expecting the Making Work Pay credit which gives many taxpayers an additional $400 credit on their return.”
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There were 219 students enrolled in Rutherford County Schools for the 2008-2009 school year who, by definition, were homeless. The previous school year the number was Please see Outreach, Page 3A
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Second-grade students at Pinnacle elementary school sing “Down by the Riverside” along with Carolyn Miller, center, Martha Simpson and Kevin Homesley during a special event Thursday at Pinnacle Elementary. Secondgrade students have been studying the Underground Railroad, quilt codes and spirituals as part of Black History Month.
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GILKEY — A bright, colorful quilt yielded responses from second-graders at Pinnacle Elementary School, Thursday, you would have expected if they had seen a favorite television character. Instead, students were excited to recognize the secret codes in the squares of the quilt. The second-grade classes have been studying the Underground Railroad and the quilt code as part of Black History Month. “We have talked about the importance of codes rather than letters because slaves couldn’t read,” said second-grade teacher Ellen Moyer. On Thursday, fifth-grade teacher Carolyn Miller shared her quilt of Underground Railroad patterns. “Hey, that’s the North Star!” “Look, it’s the Log Cabin!” Miller smiled as students recognized the various patterns, saying “I can tell you guys paid attention.” Miller, along with friends Martha Simpson and Kevin Homesley, presented spirituals sang during slavery to students. Miller explained how the spirituals also corresponded to the quilts by using secret codes. Songs performed, Homesley said, were those that originated during the early part of the 1800s. “A lot of the songs sung were when people were enslaved,” Homesley said. “They were filled with a lot of sorrow and fear. All they could do was sing — it was a very important part of life.” Negro spirituals, he continued, influenced most of the music heard today. “It’s all influenced by African American experiences as slaves and their music,” he said. Homesley took a seat behind the piano in the school’s music room, playing a few notes to explain the difference in major and minor chords. Major chords, he said, are happy notes. Minor chords depict sadness. “Most spirituals were sung in context with minor chords,” Homesley said. Students learned about the secret code in songs through the song “Wade in the Water.” It was sung, Homesley said, to relate to different slaves in getting away from slavery. “This song was basically saying if you wade in the water, the hounds couldn’t track you down because they couldn’t smell you,” he said. Other selections included “Steal Away To Jesus,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and “Down by the Riverside.” Miller had taught students who rode on the bus route she drives the words to “Down by the Riverside” and invited them to join in. “Singing was a way of communicating and passing the time by,” he said. Miller’s quilt will be hung where students can look at it as they create their own class quilts using the secret code. Students will be writing what their quilt means and how the classroom quilt might have helped slaves trying to escape on the Underground Railroad. Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier. com.
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Local CHAIN REACTION ACCIDENT Two separate accidents involving five vehicles on U.S. 74A at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday sent one man to Rutherford Hospital’s emergency room. The Highway Patrol was on the scene of the first accident, involving three cars, when the second crash occurred as a driver looking at the first scene hit a vehicle in front of her. Spindale Police investigated the second accident. NCHP said Nathan Landrum was driving a Nissan pick-up truck east when he failed to reduce speed and ran into the back of a multi-use vehicle driven by Everardo Torres of Long Street, Rutherfordton. Torres’ vehicle then struck a 1974 Chevrolet driven by Rauben Behrends of Charlotte. Spindale police said Kristen Ramsey of Bennett Street, Spindale, driving a 1992 Honda was passing the accident scene when her vehicle hit the back end of a Ford truck owned by Joe Guest of Industrial Park, Rutherfordton. Spindale police charged Ramsey with failure to reduce speed. Landrum, who was taken to Rutherford Hospital by Rutherford County EMS was expected to be charged with failure to reduce speed. Also assisting were Rutherford County Rescue, Rutherfordton/Spindale Traffic Control and Spindale Fire. The accident blocked the eastbound stretch of highway about 45 minutes. Scott Bowers/Daily Courier
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238. This year’s total, a litle more than half-way through the academic year, is closer to 300. There are students in this county who have moved four times in the span of three weeks, others who sleep in campers because their parents lost their homes. The system has taken action to help those students in crisis by applying last year for a homeless assistance grant from the McKinneyVento Homeless Assistance Act. Through the homeless assistance grant and a McKinney-Vento American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Grant, three outreach specialists have been hired to help identify and assist those students who are homeless or unaccompanied. “There were things the school counselors just couldn’t do,� said Dr. Renn
Dominguez, middle and high school curriculum director, who helped write the grant. “We decided to apply for the grant because we knew we had a good chance of receiving it because we fell into all the criteria. This grant would allow us to employ other people to help these students.� The outreach specialists - Elizabeth Edmonson, serving East district; Maria Davis, serving Chase district; and Jeff Sappenfield, serving R-S district - began in September. The purpose of the outreach specialists is to identify students in need and provide services or make arrangements for services to meet those needs. The McKinney-Venton Homeless Education Act maintains educational continuity during a time of transition; requires schools to identify and enroll students who meet the definition of homless; and is authorized under the “No Child Left Behind� Act. “To be considered homeless, a student’s housing has
to not be fixed, adequate or regular,� Edmonson said. “Unaccompanied is anyone under age 21 who is not under the legal guardianship of their parents.� Identifying the students isn’t always easy, Davis said. High schoolers often aren’t as willing to share their problems as elementary and middle school students would. Figuring out who needs help sometimes means observing behavior. “A lot of times with older students you find out by word of mouth,� Davis said. “It’s a lot of detective work.� Edmonson said attendance is another key - students who miss frequently or are late often could be in need. To help students, the outreach specialists rely on community support. Area churches have donated school supplies and food. Community organizations like Chase Corner Ministries and Yokefellow have also provided assistance. RCS teachers have also provided
City backs woman in eviction fight GREENSBORO (AP) — A North Carolina city is support a woman’s fight against the managers of a federally subsidized housing complex to avoid eviction. The News & Record of Greensboro reported Saturday the case is the first time the city has used the Fair Housing Ordinance in support of a tenant fighting an eviction order. LaTonya Stimpson is appealing an eviction order by the manage-
ment of the J.T. Hairston Memorial Apartments that is owned by a nonprofit church board. Stimpson is a mother of four and says she is being evicted in retaliation for her efforts to have the property managers replaced. Apartment official Mary Mims has told the News & Record that management complied with all federal housing rules in evicting tenants.
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food and clothing for students. “We have to get really creative,� Edmonson said. “This county’s been hit really hard.� If you’re hungry or worried about where you’re going to sleep, Davis said, you aren’t concentrating on your school work. The specialists also work with the system transportation office to provide transportation, when feasible, if a student has to move. Keeping a student in the same school when they lack stability otherwise, said Janice Baynard, director of federal programs, is imperative. “Every time a student switches schools research says a child loses four months of academics,� Baynard said. Moving from school to school as a result of moving from home to home is a major factor in dropout rates, Dominguez said. “If they can’t assimilate to a new school, often they will drop out,� she said.
Edmonson said their jobs aren’t just to provide students with food and clothing and a way to get to school, but to provide connections for students and their parents - not just a quick fix. “Just giving them food for a week doesn’t help the situation,� she said. “It’s making referrals to community agencies. Our primary focus is to help them succeed in school.� Referrals have been made to education programs at Isothermal Community College and assisting students and their families in enrolling in programs such as Medicaid. “It’s the type of job where you can’t sit around and talk much because someone’s going to suffer longer,� Davis said. It might be an on-your-feet, not always easy job, but it is rewarding, Sappenfield said. “Those students are far better off now than they were.� Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.
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t some point, the light bulb has to click on for America so that we all understand that the most significant issues facing us are all connected. When we speak about government’s impact on the economy we are talking about health care spending, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. When we are talking about deficit spending, we are talking about those same issues and more. When we are talking about reducing spending, the same issues are part of the discussion. When people talk about smaller government a real discussion cannot be had without bringing those same issues to the table. Yet there persists across this country a blind spot when it comes to these links and others. People complain about government spending one day and gripe about not getting a Social Security cost of living increase the next. Until we accept this reality, dealing with our problems in any significant way will be impossible. There is one other great myth out there that needs to be dispelled. There are many who are convinced that the private sector will deal with many of the problems. The truth is the private sector is looking for profit. Private companies are not going to take on any service that will not bring them profits. Until we accept that these are complex issues and there are no ready saviors, we will never be able to deal with them.
So, who does that leave .... ? RALEIGH — The court decision raised important questions easily lost in both the subject matter, and the legal process and language. The subject matter was business incentives, and once again, the North Carolina Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of tax breaks and cash grants handed out by state government to lure new businesses. The questions raised by the decision were more basic, cutting to core issues of representative democracy: When do citizens have the right to challenge the constitutionality of laws? At what point are we, as taxpayers or voters or citizens, damaged by legislative and executive branch actions that may not be constitutional? The case raised these questions because a three-member panel of the Court of Appeals — Judges Sam Ervin IV, John Martin and Barbara Jackson — didn’t decide the lawsuit on its merits. Rather, the judges ruled that the three taxpayers suing to stop incentives given to a Google server farm did not have the legal standing to bring the suit. Essentially, the court said that the taxpayers’ relationship to the
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Google award was far too general, that they couldn’t suffer specific damage simply because they pay taxes that might make up some fraction of the money going to Google. Somehow the judges decided to look at the relationship from the wrong direction. The issue isn’t that some portion of these three taxpayers’ payments to the state — be it a dollar, a penny or a fraction of a penny — went to Google, and therefore the state subjected them to unequal taxation. Unequal taxation occurs on the front end, not the back end. The issue is the hole left by companies like Google who essentially pay no tax or less tax because of incentive legislation, and how that may cause other taxpayers to pay more. Interestingly enough, the decision never makes mention of last year’s $1 billion tax hike. More troubling, Ervin, the
author of the opinion, never provides any context about who could ever bring such a lawsuit. Who, under this court’s view of legal standing and incentives, could challenge a law that was clearly drafted to benefit one and only one company? If the answer can only be dreamed up in the theoretical — oh, you know, another search engine company opening a server farm that was going to invest a half billion dollars here and, because of some technicality, didn’t get incentives -- then the decision on its face is bad law. And if, based on court decisions, classes of taxpayers become so narrow as to undo the whole concept of unequal taxation, then the good judges might as well put a match to the state constitution. Perhaps a business bringing the lawsuit might have been a more ideal plaintiff. But businesses and individuals pay sales tax, and state law makes no distinction between the rates. If that doesn’t make me, and you, and every business and individual a “similarly situated taxpayer,” what does? Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Association.
Spiritual benefits are often realized in fasting Some will not make it past reading of the title of this article since fasting is not something that is enticing to our flesh. That is one primary reason we are told, not asked, to fast. Jesus Christ, in the Beatitudes, speaks of three primary marks of a true disciple. Matthew 6:1 speaks to the giving of alms, 6:5 speaks to principles of prayer and 6:16 speaks to the principle of fasting. These three are of great significance to the whole person being brought into conformity to the nature of Christ. After all, transformation and renewing of mind are essential characteristics of one who is on the path to spiritual maturity. Matthew 5:48 says, “Be you perfect therefore as your Father in heaven is perfect.” The Greek word for perfect is teleios, meaning complete with regard to moral character. Grace performs what the righteousness of the Law has required. Fasting opens up a means of grace in that all else is pushed aside so that we may enter into an unhindered pursuit of fellowship with God. Mind you, fasting is not something we do to gain merit because that would make grace dependent on works. As Paul states, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Hopefully, fasting is not something we do only dur-
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ing the Lenten season. Most know that this past Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, began a 40-day period of soul-searching, repentance and the laying aside of weights and sins that beset us. Again, fasting is not an option but required. It is a mark of a true disciple. I especially like the Puritan pastor Matthew Barker’s definition of fasting, “the devotion of the whole person to a solemn extraordinary attendance upon God in a particular time, separated for that purpose … .” I share with you three reasons why we should fast and the attendant benefit to us as Christians. Again I remind you that all too often fasting is associated with Lent and often done as a work rather than the simply laying aside of distractions, especially food. Fasting is something we see the church do to purify its worship and also as an act of praise. In Acts 13:2-4 we read, “As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and
laid hands on them, they sent them away. “So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.” You will notice that this fast preceded the selection of Saul (Paul) and Barnabas for the work of the ministry. There are times, in choosing deacons, elders or facing a major church decision that fasting with prayer will play a significant part in the leading of what to do. Fasting is a means of afflicting one’s soul as we are too often guilty of pampering ourselves. Part of this thinking is rooted in the notion that we do as Romans 12:3 laments, that we are “not to think more highly of ourselves that we ought.” From dust we came and to dust we shall return is the glaring truth of who and what we are. We also read of the prophetess, Anna, who, in Luke 2, says that she served God night and day with prayers and fastings. So we see in these two instances where fasting was done for praise and worship to God. Next, we consider fasting as something done for repentance or to lament a particular grievous sin. In reading Nehemiah 9, Joel 1 and 2, we see an admonition to turn to God with sackcloth and ashes. Sackcloth was a common article of clothing utilized with fasting as it was rather
rough and plain. Ashes upon one’s head were a sign of mourning, in particular, the sins of Israel as a whole or also an individual. This kind of fasting is strongly associated with mourning whether it be a tragedy of some kind or pronouncement of judgment against a people such as was the case of the city of Nineveh. National fasting was not uncommon. Lastly, we see fasting as something that was done in correlation with a petition, need or supplication, as Paul calls it. In 2 Chronicles 20 we see the Moabites and Ammonites coming against King Jehoshaphat and Judah. Verse three says that, “And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord with prayer and fasting.” Verse 4 says that “Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord.” We also see in 2 Samuel where King David fasted and prayed asking (supplication) God to spare the life of the child conceived in adultery born to him and Bathsheba. God would not spare the child as it could not be heir to the throne of David or progenitor of the Messiah. There are many examples in Scripture of fasting and prayer. These two are inseparably linked because one augments the other. To enter into a fast with prayer is to close out the things of the flesh and have a deep and
humble focus into the presence of God. There is also an admonishment to married couples to abstain from conjugal relations, with mutual consent, while one is fasting. The truth of the matter is we, especially in America, are eating ourselves into an early grave. Regular fasts are not only good for us physically but spiritually. Of course if you have a medical condition or on certain medications, a consultation with a doctor is advisable. But frankly, I have never seen anyone die from abstaining from food occasionally but certainly have from over-indulgence. The Psalmist David said, “I afflicted my soul with fasting,” Psalm 35:13. So then fasting is not the exception but the rule, if you will. There are different kinds of fasts one can pursue. In a future article I will deal with some of those and remind you that one can also fast, or abstain if you will, from other things besides food. God responds deeply to a humble and contrite heart. Lord help us to deny ourselves because our Lord surely did when offered His life to the Father upon the cross. Consider fasting a meal or several. There are great benefits in seeking the Lord with all of our heart, mind soul and strength. Have a blessed Lenten season.
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Obituaries Loree Spurlin Loree Calvert Spurlin, 91, of Forest City, died Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 at Willow Ridge Nursing Center in Rutherfordton. A native of Polk County, she was a daughter of the late Vaughn Calvert and Zoar Riddings Calvert and the widow of the late Tom Spurlin. She retired from the Prep Department of Stonecutter Mills Corporation, and was a member of First United Methodist Church of Forest City where she was a member of the Asbury Sunday School class and was formerly active in the Fannie McKinney Circle. Survivors include three brothers, Jennings Calvert of Boiling Springs, S.C., Grady Calvert of Edenton, Ga., and Dupree Calvert of Forest City; two sisters, Pauline Jenks of Spartanburg, S.C, and Lillian Calvert of Forest City; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today in the This sweet dog is a 3-year-old male Border Collie/Mix named First United Methodist Oreo. He is black and white in color and can be found in Kennel Church with the Rev. 10. Oreo is looking to find a good home, he and many other loving Wesley K. Judy officiatanimals are available for adoption at the Rutherford County Animal ing. Interment will follow in Shelter on Laurel Hill Drive in Rutherfordton. The shelter’s hours the Sunset Memorial Park. are noon to 4 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. For Visitation will be held one more information call 287-6025. For the Community Pet Center hour prior to the service on volunteers office call 287-7738. Sunday in the church parlor. Garrett Byers/Daily Courier
AG touts stimulus benefits for N.C. CHARLOTTE (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday the Obama administration’s $787 billion federal stimulus package has helped put dozens of new police officers on the streets in North Carolina’s largest city. Charlotte is using $8.5 million in stimulus money to hire 50 new police officers. “Without the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we wouldn’t be here today,” Holder told 500 people who attended a graduation ceremony at the city’s
Police Training Academy. Holder’s visit was part of the Obama administration’s effort to mark the one-year anniversary of the stimulus legislation. The administration says the package created or saved more than 2 million jobs, including 60,000 in North Carolina. Critics say it’s done little to turn around the nation’s faltering economy. Charlotte Police Chief Rodney Monroe said the stimulus has been a blessing for his department.
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Department responded to 50 E-911 calls Friday.
FOREST CITY — Natisha Shaquan Hall, 15, and her friend Jodi Nelon, 16, reported missing Wednesday by their parents, returned home Friday night, said a member of Nelon’s family. Hall’s father, Christopher Bernard Hall of Spindale, went to get the teenagers Friday night. Both girls are students at R-S Central High School.
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RUTHERFORDTON — Keith Timothy Johnson of Rutherfordton, remains in Rutherford Hospital after he sustained serious conditions Friday afternoon when he crashed his moped on Poors Ford Road, Rutherfordton. Highway Patrolman Randy Patterson said eyewitnesses said Johnson was riding along and everything appeared to be going fine when he ran off the right shoulder of the road and the moped overturned. He did not hit another vehicle. Another accident victim, Jennifer Hamrick, was released from Rutherford Hospital Friday after being treated from injuries she sustained in a vehicle accident Thursday morning on U.S. 74A when her van struck a Sara Lee delivery truck.
Sheriff’s Reports n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department responded to 109 E-911 calls Friday.
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n The Spindale Police Department responded to 35 E-911 calls Friday.
Lake Lure n Lake Lure Police Department responded to four E-911 calls Friday.
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Hudson, 28, of 178 Lookout Drive, Forest City; arrested on extradition/fugitive warrant; placed under a $100,000 bond. (RCSD)
EMS n Rutherford County Emergency Medical Services responded to 27 calls and eight calls were dispatched to rescue crews Friday.
Fire Calls n Rutherfordton, SDO, Lake Lure, Fairfield and Forest City fire departments were dispatched to motor vehicle accidents. n Cliffside was dispatched to a grass fire. n Forest City responded to an industrial fire alarm. n SDO responded to a smoke report.
Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church, 341 East Main Street, Forest City, NC 28043 or Hospice of Rutherford County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043. The Padgett & King Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. An online guest registry is available at www.padgettking.com.
Annie Belle Robbins Annie Belle Jones Robbins, 93, of Piney Mountain Church Road, Ellenboro, died Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010 at Fair Haven Home. She was a daughter of the late Ralph and Emma Forbes Jones and the widow of Roy Lester Robbins. She was a member of Walls Baptist Church. She is survived by a son, Randy Dean Robbins of Spruce Pine; three sisters, Emma Sue Ayers and Katie Lou Wells, both of Ellenboro, and Joann Blankenship of Henrietta; five brothers, Ray Keever of Oak Ridge, Tenn., Ted Jones, the Rev. Perry Jones, and John Jones, all of Forest City, and Bob Jones of Ellenboro; and one grandchild. The funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at Walls Baptist Church. Rev. Eugene Passmore and Dr. Robert Toney will officiate. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The visitation will be from 2 to 3 p.m, Monday at the church prior to the service. The body will lie in state during the visitation hour. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, THE DAILY COURIER Published Tuesday through Sunday mornings by Paxton Media Group LLC dba The Daily Courier USPS 204-920 Periodical Postage paid in Forest City, NC. Company Address: 601 Oak St., P.O. Box 1149, Forest City, NC 28043. Phone: (828) 245-6431 Fax: (828) 248-2790 Subscription rates: Single copy, daily 50¢ / Sunday $1.50. Home delivery $11.75 per month, $35.25 for three months, $70.50 for six months, $129 per year. In county rates by mail payable in advance are: $13.38 for one month, $40.14 for three months, $80.27 for six months, $160.54 per year. Outside county: $14.55 for one month, $43.64 for three months, $87.28 for six months, $174.56 per year. College students for school year subscription, $75. The Digital Courier, $6.50 a month for non-subscribers to The Daily Courier. Payment may be made at the website: www.thedigitalcourier. com The Daily Courier is not responsible for advance subscription payments made to carriers, all of who are independent contractors.
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Mildred Smith Mildred Head Smith, age 85, of Rutherfordton, died Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital. A native of Rutherford County, she was the daughter of the late Edwin Harrison Head and the late Mavis Padgett Head and the widow of James Ray Smith. She was a longtime member of the Second Baptist Church. She was the bookkeeper for James Smith Motor Co. for many years and worked in the Rutherford County ASCS office for 32 years. She is survived by two sons, Eddie Smith of Rutherfordton, and Phil Smith Charlotte; three grandsons; two great-grandsons: and one sister Betty Watkins, Rutherfordton. A funeral Service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Second Baptist Church, Rutherfordton, with Dr. Keith Stephenson officiating. The family will receive friends from 1-2 p.m. prior to the church service. Interment will be at Rutherfordton City Cemetery.
Deaths Alexander Haig WASHINGTON (AP) — Soldier and statesman, Alexander Haig never lived down his televised response to the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Haig died Saturday at age 85 having held high posts in three Republican administrations and some of the U.S. military’s top jobs. Haig was a four-star Army general who served as adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own. John Kibler PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Longtime umpire John Kibler, seen emphatically pointing fair on the ground ball Bill Buckner missed in the 1986 World Series, has died. He was 81. He called four World Series, four NL championship series, a first-round playoff in 1981 and four All-Star games. Sister Damian Kuhn HOUSTON (AP) — Sister Damian Kuhn, a diehard Astros fan who lived across the street from Minute Maid Park and for years attended games, has died. “She was our No. 1 fan, and she always took it personal,” said Astros owner Drayton McLane.
Memorials may be made to Second Baptist Church, 191 Green St., Rutherfordton, NC 28139. McMahan’s Funeral Home and Cremation Services is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolenceswww.mcmahansfuneralhome.com.
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Mildred Head Smith, age 85, of Rutherfordton, NC, died Friday, February 19, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital. A longtime member of the Second Baptist Church, Mrs. Smith was a graduate of Tri-High and National School of Commerce in Charlotte, NC, was the bookkeeper for James Smith Motor Co. for many years and worked in the Rutherford County ASCS office for 32 years. A native of Rutherford County, she was the daughter of the late Edwin Harrison Head and the late Mavis Padgett Head and the widow of the late James Ray Smith. She is survived by two sons, Eddie Smith and wife Alice Smith, Rutherfordton, N.C.; Phil Smith and wife Chris Smith, Charlotte, N.C.; three grandsons: David Smith and wife Ruth Smith, Weaverville, N.C., Brandon Smith, Charlotte, N.C., Zachary Smith, Charlotte, N.C. two great-grandsons, Jonathan Smith, Weaverville, N.C., Thomas Smith, Weaverville, NC; one sister Betty Watkins, Rutherfordton, N.C., and her children Cathy Lewis and husband Billy Lewis, Chapel Hill, N.C., and Buzz Watkins of Forest City, N.C. A Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 PM Monday, February 22, 2010 at Second Baptist Church, Rutherfordton, NC with Dr. Keith Stephenson officiating. The family will receive friends from 1:00 to 2:00 PM Monday, February 22, 2010 at Second Baptist Church. Interment will be at Rutherfordton City Cemetery, Rutherfordton, N,C. Memorials may be made to Second Baptist Church, 207 Green St., Rutherfordton, NC 28139. McMahan’s Funeral Home and Cremation Services is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolenceswww.mcmahansfuneralhome.com.
Margie Ashe Cline, age 96, of 271 Holly Forest Drive, Rutherfordton, died Friday, February 19, 2010. Margie was born on May 2, 1913 in Jackson County, N.C., to the late Garland Ashe and Margaret Hopper Ashe. She worked most of her life in textiles as a weaver for Cleveland Cloth Mill. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church of Mooresboro and enjoyed gardening and flowers. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Cecil Mills Cline; a son; Robert G. Cline; a daughter, Frances Spake; a grandson, Mike Spake and three brothers, Harlie Ashe, Grover Ashe and Hayes Ashe. She is survived by one son, R.B. Cline and his wife, Judy, of Forest City; one daughter, Lynn Smathers and her husband, Eric, of Rutherfordton; one sister, Fannie Mae Edgerton of Rutherfordton; three brothers, David Ashe of Wayne, MI., Clifton Ashe of Polkville, N.C., and Don Ashe of Sylva, N,C.; seven grandchildren, Lisa Price, Robin Steinbrecher, Robert Cline, Zach Emory, Aaron Emory, Sadie Emory, Lane Smathers, Lisa Bridges, Lori Searcy and Timothy Frashier; 11 great grandchildren, Mellony Harris, Jill Ohmstead, Brandon Terry, Leigh Meece, Jessica Pye, John Humphries, Robbie Cline, Matthew Price, Clint Spake, Emilee Lineberry, Laylah Price and seven great-great grandchildren, Luke Harris, Keleh Meece, Bryn Harris, Judson Ohmstead, Landry Ohmstead, Aiden Meece and Matt Pye. She is also survived by her beloved cat “Boy” and by several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at the Harrelson Funeral Chapel with Reverend Timothy Frashier, Zachary Emory and Chaplain Cecilia Beck officiating. Interment will follow at Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery. The family will receive friends beginning at 1:30 until service time at the funeral home. Memorial donations are suggested to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043 or to the Calvary Baptist Youth Fund, 1509 Ferry Road, Mooresboro, NC 28114. Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the family. An online guest registry and live webcast of the funeral service are available at www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com.
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Red Cross Blood drives schedule: Feb. 22 — Red Cross Chapter House, 838 Oakland Road, Forest City, 2 to 6:30 p.m., call 287-5917 for an appointment; All presenting donors (in February) will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $1, 000 gift card. For more information call 1-800448-3543 or visit RedCrossBlood. org.
Meetings/other Young at Heart Club meeting: Saturday, Feb. 27, 11 a.m., Rollins Cafeteria; fellowship and Bingo; all senior citizens welcome; contact Roy McCain at 245-4800 for more information. Training program: The Employment Security Commission offers a Food and Nutrition Employment and Training Program. If you are currently receiving food stamps and nutrition benefits and looking for work, contact the FNS Coordinator at the ESC office, 245-9841, for further details. Quarterly meetings: Rutherford County Nursing Home and Adult Care Home Community Advisory Committee meets quarterly with the Regional Long Term Care Ombudsman to review facility visitation reports and trends/concerns of residents in long term care facilities. For more information about committee vacancies or meeting date/time, call 287-2281.
Miscellaneous Foothills Harvest Outreach Ministries will hold a sale on all shoes and clothes through Feb. 27. Fill a plastic grocery bag for $5, a tall kitchen bag $7, or 30-gallon bag $9. The store is located at 120 E. Trade St., Forest City. Basic shag lessons: Beginner shag class now forming. Sponsored by Rutherford County Shag Club. Call 287-9228 for more information or to sign up.
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.
Fundraisers Used book sale: To benefit March of Dimes; Tuesday, Feb. 23, 4 to 8 p.m., and Wednesday, Feb. 24, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the Courtyard Room at Rutherford Hospital; large variety of paperbacks and hardbacks. Benefit ride: For 12-year-old Hayden Clark (diagnosed with Myoepithelioma); Saturday, March 20, at Rutherford County Moose Lodge; yard sale begins at 7 a.m.; barbecue plates, 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; benefit ride starts at 2 p.m., $15 per single rider, $20 for doubles; music by Bandana and Double Cross, 6 to 9 p.m.; door prizes, T-shirts, 50/50 tickets and more; for information call 429-5195.
Art classes The Visual Arts Center offers the following classes: So You Want to Be an Artist: Wednesdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m., beginning March 3; for teen students with a serious interest in art; Kay Latham, instructor; fee $48 includes some materials. Basket-Making Workshop: Saturday, March 13, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Ruby Lowery will teach the making of a Williamsburg basket; limited space. Photography Exhibit: The Earthly Treasurers and Flower Photography Exhibit; Rutherford County Visual Artists Guild members Susan Brooks and Nancy Hoopes are on display through March at the Norris Library, 132 N. Main St., Rutherfordton; reception March 5, 3 to 5 p.m.; library hours 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., M-F, and 10 to noon on Saturdays. Located at 160 N. Main St., Rutherfordton. Register for the above classes by calling 288-5009.
Reunions McNair 20th anniversary: The Robert and Janice McNair Educational Foundation will celebrate its 20th year anniversary on May 14, 2010.Contact the foundation at rope2010@att.net or www. mcnairedfoundation.org. Band reunion: East Rutherford Cavalier Band (1966-1976) members under W.W. Jacobus (1966-1976); planned for August 7, 2010 at the high school cafeteria; email cavalierbanderhs@yahoo.com; mail, P.O. Box 934, Forest City.
But the Hilltopper team has come very close this year, and closer than any other team with a record breaking combined score of 1,061. Team Captain Jessica Eberhart set her own national record with a score of 269 in October. Last month, Hartzog broke her national record with a score of 272. “I like this sport because it is something I can relax in,” Eberhart said. “And it is a very personal sport which is something I enjoy. It is still a team sport, but it isn’t something like football or soccer where you have the whole group playing for one goal. There’s more opportunity for the individual to shine, but still contribute to the whole.” Wednesday’s trip will be to the headquarters for the governing body of the sport, the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) in Camp Perry, Ohio. Any national records must be fired
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Withrow, Forest City Planner said. She said there didn’t appear to be any problems with discussions with McGill’s engineering team. The Town of Forest City received a $1.4 million Community Development Block Grant last April to begin revitalization of the Grahamtown Community, starting with housing projects on Gypsy Street. The 30-month project funding comes from the Department of Housing and Urban Development through the N.C. Department of Commerce/Division of Community Assistance. The town of Forest City has also allocated $100,000 over the 30-month period. According to the grant, 30 percent of the funds will be spent on housing rehabilitation, 25 percent on new construction and first-time homeowner assistance, and 38 percent will be on infrastructure improvements. Also 7 percent will be for planning, building oversight and administration. Gypsy Street has 32 parcels, 17 houses, 12 occupied houses and 15 vacant parcels. The grant will build four new homes
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The new amounts for the EITC are: n $5,657 credit with three or more qualifying children n $5,028 credit with two qualifying children - a $204 increase n $3,043 credit with one qualifying child - a $126 increase n $457 credit with no qualifying children - a $19 increase But Thomas cautions taxpayers there are income limits for qualifying for the credit. The income limits are: n limit for taxpayer claiming three or more children $43,279 ($48,279 if married filing jointly) n two chidren claimed: $40,295 ($45,295 if married filing jointly) n one child claimed: $35,463 ($40,463 if married filing jointly) n no qualifying children: $13,440 ($18,440 if married filing jointly) “These beneficial changes further strengthen the importance to inform taxpayers who may qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Making Work Pay Credit of the significant tax benefits, including these increased amounts,” Thomas said. “The addition of a higher credit for large families, higher income limits and larger credit amounts can help in these tough economic times.”
in a CMP sanctioned match and all targets must be sent in for review before the records are declared official. “What makes these two shooters so good is that they treat every practice shot just like it’s the national championships,” said Major Russ Armentrout, the team’s commanding officer. “They never shoot just for the sake of shooting.” Reviewing their technique is a big part of making better scores for the team. But it’s also about having fun. “I like holing that rifle,” said Martina Carson, a junior. “When I’m shooting, I don’t really think about it a lot. I just do it. Sometimes you can get too stressed about it and over think it. I’ve been in a lot of competitions and I usually average a 250. I think we’re going to do well at the nationals.” Two teams of five will be attending the national championships: Team A will be Cadet Second Lieutenant Jessica Eberhart (senior); Cadet First Sergeant Logan Hartzog (senior); Cadet Sergeant Martina Carson
(junior); Cadet Sergeant Jessica Swink (senior) and Cadet Lance Corporal Steven Murphy (sophomore). Team B will be Cadet Gunnery Sergeant Jacob Yant (senior); Cadet Staff Sergeant Alex Murray (junior); Cadet Staff Sergeant Jon Russell (senior); Cadet Lance Corporal Samantha Morris (sophomore) and Cadet Lance Corporal Amber Swink (sophomore). Team A is the same four member team plus one alternate that set the national record. “Each of the past several years, team members go to a CMP-sponsored shooting camp for a week in the summer,” Armentrout said. “Shooters receive individualized instruction from top level college shooters at these camps. This has been a key factor in the team’s success. At $325 per shooter, this is an expensive proposition. The team is soliciting financial assistance for this year’s camp, being held in Anniston, Ala. in June.”
and interested homeowners have begun the process of completing paper work. Withrow said the property for new homes will be cleared and then turned over to the private sector. A prospective homeowner will have to get a traditional mortgage for a home .The new homeowners can quality for $8,000 in new home ownership money from the federal government. “And we’ll work with them on getting every single penny we can,” Withrow added. Rutherford Housing Initiative has conducted Financial Literacy/ Home Ownership, “Housing Hope” to prepare first time homeowners to own a home, said Scott Carpenter of RHI. As RHI continues to work with prospective clients, including the Grahamtown clients, they will try to recruit and prepare others for homeownership. One of the biggest issues is for homeownership is repairing credit and sometimes the factor has been the primary stumbling block for prospective homeowners, but with Housing Hope and Consumer Credit Counseling, people are becoming more financially educated to become home owners. In addition to building four new homes, several Gypsy Street homes
will be renovated over the next year years as the street undergoes a massive renovation. Wilford McDowell, chair of the GTeam said just the presence of new water lines and fire hydrants on the street will increase the value of property and will lower insurance rates for homes. “This is going to be a great street when the work is done,” Withrow said. “The new houses are designed like little cottages with porches,” Withrow said. “Folks will be able to choose from three or four different designs in building their homes. But they will have to quality the homeowners before construction is started,” Withrow added.
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The GT committee meets the second Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at New Bethel AME Zion Church and anyone interested in the renovation projects on Gypsy Street is encouraged to attend the informational meetings. Housing officials will be available to assist with questions and paper work, Withrow said. For more information, call McDowell at 245- 3135. Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.
Need help with taxes? The IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) and the Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) Programs offer free tax help for taxpayers who qualify. Trained community volunteers may help with special credits, such as Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Credit for the Elderly or the Disabled. In addition to free tax return preparation assistance, most sites also offer free electronic filing (e-filing). Individuals taking advantage of the e-file program will receive their refunds in half the time compared to returns filed on paper – even faster when tax refunds are deposited directly into one’s bank account. The VITA Program offers free tax help to low- to moderate-income (generally, $49,000 and below) people who cannot prepare their own tax returns. Certified volunteers sponsored by various organizations receive training to help prepare basic tax returns in communities across the country. VITA sites are generally located at community and neighborhood centers,
libraries, schools, shopping malls, and other convenient locations. Most locations also offer free electronic filing. To locate the nearest VITA site, call 1-800-829-1040. The Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program provides free tax help to people aged 60 and older. Trained volunteers from non-profit organizations provide free tax counseling and basic income tax return preparation for senior citizens. Volunteers who provide tax counseling are often retired individuals associated with non-profit organizations that receive grants from the IRS. For more information on TCE, call 1-800-829-1040. To locate the nearest AARP Tax-Aide site, call 1-888227-7669 or visit AARP’s Internet site. Local workshops: VITA - Isothermal Community College, business science building on Mondays from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Volunteers will be available to help with e-filing. AARP tax Aide - Rutherford County Senior Center by appointment, please call 287-6411
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Getting lost jobs back may take years
Business Notes Tryon Estates gets a new executive
COLUMBUS — ACTS Retirement-Life Communities, parent company of Tryon Estates, the only fully accredited not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Columbus, recently announced the appointment of Nancy McKinstry as Executive Director. Tryon Estates opened 28 years ago, and its success helped to further the company’s vision and mission to expand into six states and 19 continuing care retirement communities. As executive director, McKinstry will have overall operational responsibility for the daily management of the continuing care retirement community, including financial management and budgeting, policy enforcement, staff support, and leadership. Tryon Estates currently has approximately 454 residents and 210 employees. The 215acre campus has 276 independent living apartments and boasts accreditation by the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission. Previous to taking this Columbus position, McKinstry was an executive director for The Lakes at Litchfield in Pawleys Island, S.C. She brings a wealth of administrative leadership to her new position, having extensive senior living and health care experience. McKinstry and her husband, Robert, currently reside in Tryon. She is active in the community being both a member of the Rotary International and American Red Cross.
Utility wants to cut natural gas rates CHARLOTTE (AP) — A Charlotte utility wants to reduce natural gas rates in North Carolina and South Carolina. Multiple media outlets reported that Piedmont Natural Gas is asking regulators in both states to reduce it rates about 5 percent, based on lower wholesale costs for natural gas. The new rates would go into effect March 1 if approved the North Carolina Utilities Commission and the South Carolina Public Service Commission. Piedmont spokesman David Trusty says the request also reflects a reduction in demand for natural gas at a time when supply has increased. Trusty says the recession has reduced the amount of natural gas its customers are used.
By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer
Web searches. Phones are becoming more sophisticated and wireless Internet access is spreading across the globe. These trends play directly to Silicon Valley’s strengths in software and the Internet. Meanwhile, voice service, the mainstay of the wireless carriers, is becoming less lucrative and less important. Carriers are losing control over other phone functions as well. Ringtones are one example: Wireless network operators used to pull in hundreds of millions of dollars a year selling those in the U.S. alone. But sales are declining as smarter phones allow their owners to use their own audio snippets as ringtones, bypassing the carriers. Advertising keyed to Web searches is a small but growing business, and one Google dominates, along with Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. This worries the CEO of British-based Vodafone Group PLC, part owner of Verizon Wireless and one of the largest carriers in the world. Vittorio Colao said in a speech at the
WASHINGTON — Job creation is stuck on an uphill treadmill. So many jobs have been lost that the U.S. must run hard just to keep from losing more ground. Despite the electionyear emphasis on job creation by both parties, the short-term outlook is bleak. While many economists believe the recession is technically over, nearly 15 million Americans remain unemployed. Six million of them have been out of work for more than half a year. President Barack Obama is asking for almost $300 billion more for recession relief and job formation. The House last December passed a $154 billion spending bill focused on jobs. The Senate is due to debate a far more modest version on Monday, but appears bogged down in partisan bickering. With or without new legislation, reducing a jobless rate that’s now just under 10 percent to prerecessionary rates of about half that won’t happen soon, especially as government efforts to prop up the economy begin to wind down. It could take up to five years or more just to get back to even. There are limits to how many jobs can be created by government action — either directly or with tax and other incentives for the private sector — and how quickly. “We’ve gone though a period of enormous job loss,” said Robert Shapiro, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton and now chairman of Sonecon, an economic advisory firm. “The long-term problem is exacerbated by the fact that credit’s still not available because we really haven’t reformed the financial system. People don’t have confidence
Please see Wireless, Page 8A
Please see Jobs, Page 8A
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In this Feb. 17 file photo, a man walks past a banner at the Mobile World congress in Barcelona, Spain. Silicon Valley is looking like a winner in the tug-of-war with carriers over who’s going to control the new world of Internet-connected phones.
Silicon Valley takes lead in the new wireless world BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Silicon Valley is looking like a winner in the tugof-war with wireless carriers over who will control the new world of Internetconnected phones. The tension between the largely U.S.based PC and Internet industry and the world’s wireless carriers was palpable this week at the world’s largest cell phone trade show, Mobile World Congress. Google Inc. was one of the headliners, and Apple Inc. was the ghost hovering over it all. While many wireless carriers are cooperating or working with Google and Apple, many are also signaling that they don’t want to cede power and be reduced to simple utilities. For consumers, the reduced power of wireless carriers could mean more choices. Traditionally the network operators tried to limit the content people could access on their devices, before the rise of “app stores” and Web-based services dramatically expanded ways for us to customize our phones. On the other hand, Internet companies such as Google might crowd out other services, the way it already dominates
Stimulus Watch
President Barack Obama looks towards Vice President Joe Biden, left, as he is introduced before delivering remarks on the economy on the one year anniversary of the signing of the Recovery Act Wednesday in the South Court Auditorium of the Old Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington.
Oil prices up 12 percent in 2 weeks NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices are again flirting with $80 a barrel after a two-week rally fueled by promising economic reports and worries that troubles in Europe and the Middle East could eventually tighten supplies. Benchmark crude for March delivery added 75 cents to settle at $79.81 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The price of the March contract, which ends Monday, has increased by 12 percent since Feb. 5. Most of the trading already has moved to the April contract, which added 64 cents Friday to settle at $80.06 a barrel. An extended surge in crude prices will force gasoline and other fuels higher as well. Retail gas prices already have started to increase this week, and experts predict the national average will hit $3 a gallon this summer.
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Public response grows more negative WASHINGTON (AP) — The jobless got a hand. Taxpayers got tax breaks. And a sinking economy stabilized. But the public’s response to President Barack Obama’s recessionfighting policies has been increasingly dreary. And the reason is simple: six months of unemployment above 9.6 percent. “It doesn’t yet feel like much of a recovery,” Obama had to concede Wednesday, even as he sought to promote his year-old massive economic stimulus bill. Unemployment trumps all else. It provides a lens through which the public reads an economic narrative of bank bailouts, executive bonuses, expensive health care remedies and
exploding debt. In that environment, gross domestic product growth is an abstraction. Obama gets little credit for an economic turnaround under his watch. And Republicans seek political advantage by merely asking, “Where are the jobs?” This week, on the anniversary of the stimulus plan, the White House is seeking redress. Obama and the president’s political arm at the Democratic National Committee are casting the program — initially priced at $787 billion and now estimated at $862 billion — as a demonstrable success and its critics as hypocrites. It’s a political necessity. As with previous instances of high
unemployment, the public’s skepticism — anger, even — poses a threat to the president’s party in Congress. In 1982, with unemployment above 10 percent and Ronald Reagan in the White House, Republicans lost 26 House seats. The public’s frustration also threatens efforts in Congress to win the kind of new short-term spending the White House believes the economy needs to stay on a positive trajectory. Support for the stimulus plan has gone from 55 percent last June to 38 percent, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center this month. More worrisome for Obama’s allies in Please see Stimulus, Page 8A
8A — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, February 21, 2010
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in the future and people are poorer so demand is down. All these things are coming together,” Shapiro said. Returning to prerecession employment levels and keeping up with working-age population growth will require the creation of 10 million or more jobs. It’s a very big order. Under the administration’s own estimate, the economy will create an average of just 95,000 jobs a month this year; that’s not enough to make much of a dent in the jobless rate. “You can argue, rightly, that we haven’t made as much progress as we need to make when it comes to spurring job creation,” Obama acknowledged last week in marking the first anniversary of his $787 billion stimulus package. When he took office, the jobless rate was 7.6 percent. After topping 10 percent in the last three months of 2009, it retreated to 9.7 percent in January. The White House predicts it will stay above 9 percent into 2011. Senate Democratic leaders were struggling to build support for a pared-back $15 billion jobs bill that would exempt companies from paying Social Security payroll taxes for new hires, fund highway and public works projects and extend tax benefits to small businesses. Efforts to craft a larger, bipartisan $85 billion package that included more GOP-supported business tax breaks collapsed amid Senate infighting. Republicans are planning election attacks intended to club Democrats for lack of progress on jobs and portray the stimulus measure as ineffectual and wasteful. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, keeps asking, “Where are the jobs?” Well, where are they? There are some crucial reasons why jobs are so slow to return this time: n While employment always lags other parts of the economy in bouncing back from recessions, this time the depth and length of the worst downturn since the 1930s means the process will take extra long. n Projected near-term growth isn’t strong enough to speed the process. Generally it takes a 2 percentage
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point rise in the gross domestic product above a “normal” level of about 2.5 percent to drive the unemployment rate down each single percentage point. With unemployment near 10 percent and GDP generally forecast to grow at no more than 3 percent to 4 percent, it could take five or more years for employment to get back to prerecession 2007 levels. n Continuing weakness in home construction and U.S. auto manufacturing removes two major engines of past recoveries from the equation. n By holding interest rates at historic lows for so long, the Federal Reserve has lost its usual power to jump-start job creation by slashing interest rates. Instead, it must now weigh gradually raising them to keep potential inflation at bay. n The demographics are different: Male heads of households were among the hardest hit by layoffs and are having the hardest time finding new work; a generation of baby boomers is reaching retirement age, yet many are opting to hold onto their jobs. “They’re delaying retirement, in part because they looked at their 401(k)s and decided they couldn’t afford it,” said David Wyss, chief economist for Standard & Poor’s in New York. That means fewer openings for younger people. Wyss said he doesn’t see a return to prerecession employment rate until at least 2015 at the earliest. He noted that while jobs bounced back fairly quickly after post World War II recessions through the 1980s, it has taken much longer in more recent recessions. For instance, after the relatively mild eight-month recession in 2001, the jobless rate kept rising for 19 more months. The recession-dating National Bureau of Economic Research said the recession began in December 2007. It has not yet set an end date. Christina Romer, head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, agrees it could be years before employment levels return to normal, even though the White House forecast for four years of growth of 4 percent or higher is rosier than those of private forecasters. “There’s probably not been — for a very long time — as great a set of economic challenges” as the country endured the past two years, Romer said.
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Congress, support for the stimulus fell 18 percentage points, to 60 percent, among voters who identified themselves as Democrats. With that in mind, the White House dispatched Cabinet members and Vice President Joe Biden to 35 communities across the country to promote programs funded by the stimulus. Biden issued a glowing first-year report, and the president declared, “We have rescued this economy from the worst of this crisis.” In an e-mail to Obama’s vast network of presidential campaign supporters, his former campaign manager, David Plouffe, boiled down the pitch: On the first anniversary of the stimulus package, job losses have seen a reversal of the trend experienced in the last year of the Bush administration. It’s a simple and effective message, even though many economists say a financial sector rescue initiated by the Bush administration and by the Federal Reserve are also factors affecting the changing, positive turn. White House officials maintain that the stimulus suffered a certain guilt by association with the unpopular $700 billion Wall Street bailout. “People have conflated money lent to banks — much of it paid back with interest — to stabilize the financial system, or investments that had to be
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show that regulators such as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission should examine Google’s power over this market and see whether more competition is needed. Sales of downloadable programs known as applications for smart phones are also growing — and forcing carriers to struggle to stay relevant. When Apple took skills honed in the computer industry to create the iconic iPhone, it also created an application store where it gets a 30 percent cut of the sales, and the carrier gets nothing. Google has followed the same path with its application store for phones that run the Android software it’s created.
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made in restructuring auto companies, with the recovery plans,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. What’s more, the White House and the national Democratic Party have launched a counterattack on Republicans, noting that while many in the GOP criticize the stimulus package, several have applauded spending in their own home districts. Still, the administration has had to make its own corrections along the way, which haven’t helped the salesmanship. Before Obama took office in January 2009, his economists promised that a sizable jolt to the economy would keep employment below 8 percent. It didn’t. To be sure, few economists back then saw the recession plunging as low as it did and many agreed with the Obama team’s projections. But Obama has borne the criticism for that misjudgment. The administration also sought to make the program a model of transparency, posting data on spending, projects and contracts. New or saved jobs, administration officials said, would be counted. But the data exposed serious counting flaws. In the end, the White House was left estimating job creation after all. With the public losing faith in the stimulus, the White House is begging for some patience. “We’ve only been halfway through the act,” Biden said on CBS Wednesday. “The job-creating portions are really loaded at the second half.” Two dozen of the world’s largest wireless carriers struck back at the show, announcing that they would create a “Wholesale Applications Community.” The idea is that software developers will write their applications once, following a standard set by the community, which can then distribute them to carrierrun applications stores across the world. U.S. carriers Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA are part of the group, which has 3 billion customers globally. Phone makers LG Electronics Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and Sony Ericsson, none of which have significant applications stores, also said they would support the group. It remains to be seen whether it will have a significant impact.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Desperate turn to the federally funded, statethough they are to fill gaps in their operated aid program. States can use budgets, more than half the states the cash to provide basic financial in the country haven’t touched a $5 assistance to families, as well as to billion pot of federal stimulus funds pay employers to create or fill lowmeant to find work for welfare recipi- level jobs with unemployed TANF ents. recipients or low-skilled workers who Leaders in most states have hesimight otherwise turn to the welfare tated to pony up the matching funds program. the program requires to create jobs States have long been able to subsithat might not last after the federal dize such jobs but have often balked subsidy’s Sept. 30 sunset date. at implementing programs that can The Department of Health and be costly and hard to run. Typically, Human Services has handed out the federal government covers up to Associated Press $1.2 billion of the emergency cash 80 percent of wages, with states payIn this Feb. 2 file photo, the Senate Budget Committee’s ranking Republican Sen. for general welfare programs. That ing the rest. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Lisa includes $124 million that went to 21 With Arizona still $700 million Murkowski, R-Alaska, watches at left. Unlike some of his lame-duck colleagues, states and the District of Colombia to short of balancing its budget, “we’re Gregg isn’t disillusioned with Congress. Bipartisanship isn’t dead, he says, and nei- help them ease caseloads by paying just not in a position where we’re able ther is health care reform. employers to hire low-skilled, lowto take on that challenge,” said Steve income workers. Meissner, a spokesman for the state’s States such as California, Tennessee Department of Economic Security. and Georgia — where officials have Other states say they can’t afford seen unemployment rates spike not to take advantage of the federal among recipients of Temporary funds. Assistance for Needy Families — are Georgia has received $7 million to eagerly tapping the fund to subsidize subsidize entry-level jobs in green the creation of thousands of jobs they technology. California will fund at say keep these workers from sinking least 10,000 positions, such as park WASHINGTON (AP) — Coming while moving to close the Medicare further into poverty. ambassadors, over the next year. soon to daytime television: America’s prescription coverage gap, and makThe short-term appeal is plain, at Tennessee has funded 800 jobs in long-running civic drama over how to ing newly available coverage for least for those on welfare rolls: In places such as Perry County, where provide better health care to more of working families more affordable. Georgia, for instance, an unemployed layoffs contributed to a more than 27 its people without breaking the bank. It would add about $200 billion to mother of two earning $270 a month percent unemployment rate, one of President Barack Obama sumthe cost of the Senate bill, originally in TANF support could earn three the nation’s highest, before the subsimons anxious Democrats and aloof under $900 billion over 10 years. The times as much in a subsidized, minidies put many back to work. Republicans to a White House sumsource spoke on condition of anomum-wage job. “Our unemployment has come back mit Thursday — live on C-SPAN and nymity because of the sensitivity of Still, critics contend states could down to 16.9 percent, so we’re still perhaps cable — and gambles that he the deliberations. suffer in the long run, as employers high, but much better,” Perry County can save his embattled health care are encouraged to focus on creating Mayor John Carroll said. overhaul by the power of persuasion. Republicans cheap, disposable positions rather And more states likely will get on Adversaries and allies alike were than long-term job growth. board, said Russell Sykes, chair of GOP leaders in the House and surprised by Obama’s invitation to States should “offer incentives the National Association of State Senate say they cannot accept the reason together at an open forum, as to businesses to hire more qualiTANF Administrators. Democratic bills, and they want to risky as it is unusual. fied people, since there is a better Similarly, while the temporary start over to shape narrower legislaAhead of the meeting, the White chance these people will be retained nature of the cash has scared off tion that cuts costs for small busiHouse will post on its Web site a once the incentives are removed,” some employers, others have gladly nesses and uses federal dollars to set health care plan that modifies the taken the extra help, even knowing it up special insurance pools for people said Don Sabbarese, director of the bill passed by Senate Democrats last Econometric Center at Kennesaw might not last. with medical problems. year. The modification is an effort to State University in Georgia. David Richardson, a land developer Obama doesn’t want to stop there. address the concerns of their House The federal infusion does little to in Linden, Tenn., said he’s been able counterparts. get people permanently off welfare, to clear new properties with the two Republicans want to place limits The plan is important, but not as while draining money that could be subsidized employees he recently on medical malpractice judgments, critical as the political skill Obama used to make long term economic added. He hopes to make the men an approach the Congressional can apply to an impasse that seems repairs, he said. part of his permanent team, though close to hopeless in a pivotal congres- Budget Office says would save monThe emergency fund created he made no promises. ey by reducing defensive medicine. sional election year. by the American Recovery and “There’s no guarantee in life,” he Obama has toyed with the idea, say“It’s a high-stakes situation for him Reinvestment Act of 2009 is said. “If things keep going the way ing he agrees that something should more than anybody else,” said Gerald designed to help states that have seen they are right now, I’m going to be done, but thinks limits on jury Shea, the top health care adviser for a rise in TANF costs as more families retain my guys.” awards go too far. the AFL-CIO. “If the judgment is Some Republican leaders have either that it’s a political farce, or if it fails to move the ball forward signifi- questioned whether there’s any reason to go to the summit, but a boycantly ... that would be very damagcott would play into Obama’s hands. ing to the issue and to him.” To complicate matters, Democratic A viewers’ guide to the White liberals have begun an effort to get a House meeting, looking at Obama government insurance plan back in and his plan, Republicans in the bill, a nonstarter for Republicans. Congress and divided Democrats: “If the president’s intention for the health care summit is to finally Obama show that he is ready to listen and He has two main goals. One is to work in a bipartisan way to proshow the American people that the duce incremental reforms that the Democrats’ health care plan is reaAmerican people support, he is off to sonable, and much of its complexity a rocky start,” said Rep. Eric Cantor, reflects the sprawling nature of the R-Va., the No. 2 Republican in the insurance system. The other is to House. Republicans are not going argue that lockstep Republican oppo- to embrace a Democratic bill that’s sition is not reasonable and could tanking in the polls, he said. spoil a historic opportunity on a problem that concerns all Americans. Democrats “I don’t want to see this meeting Before Republican Scott Brown turn into political theater, with each pulled off a Senate upset in side simply reciting talking points Massachusetts to claim the seat and trying to score political points,” long held by Democrat Edward M. the president said Saturday in his Kennedy, Democrats were within radio and Internet address. “What’s reach of passing a health care remake being tested here is not just our abiltheir party pursued for more than a ity to solve this one problem, but our half-century. ability to solve any problem.” They no longer have the 60 votes needed to overcome Republican Obama’s main audience will be Funeral Director/Owner Democrats, who must overcome their delaying tactics in the Senate, but they still control both chambers. Yet divisions — and ease their qualms passing anything but a very modest — to get a final bill. He will also bill would likely mean using spetune his pitch to independents, who cial budget rules that let Democrats soured on the Democratic bills after override Republicans in the Senate initially being open to health care with a simple majority. Using the changes. budget route — called reconciliaThursday’s meeting at Blair House tion — to resolve differences between — the presidential guest quarters the House and Senate bills probably across from the White House — would enrage Republicans. comes nearly a year after Obama That means Democrats will have to launched his drive to remake health stick their necks out, and some may care at an earlier summit he infused lose their seats this fall if they supwith a bipartisan spirit. The presiport an all-or-nothing push on health dent will point out that Republicans care. have supported individual elements of the Democratic bills. Democrats are looking to Obama to But his latest plan has little chance give them the confidence they need of getting GOP support. Built on the to get back on track. He did it once Senate bill, it would require most before, with his address to Congress Americans to carry coverage, with federal subsidies to help many afford last September, after a summer of town hall meetings at which angry the premiums. grass-roots activists attacked the It would bar insurance companies Democrats on health care. from denying coverage to people with medical problems or charging Democrats “tried to climb a taller them more. Regulators would create mountain than they thought existed,” a competitive marketplace for small said former House Speaker Newt businesses and people buying their Gingrich, architect of the 1994 own coverage. The plan would be Republican election victory that folpaid for with a mix of Medicare cuts lowed the collapse of the Clinton and tax increases. health care plan. “They went on a A Democratic source familiar with bigger trip than they prepared for.” the details said the White House proNow it seems they’ll be asked to posal would scale back the Senate give it one more try. bill’s tax on high-cost insurance plans. It would also strip out special On the Net: White House: http://www. Medicaid deals for certain states, whitehouse.gov/issues/health-care
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U.S. Marine Lt Scott Holub of Pasadena, MD and from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment runs carrying an Afghan National Army soldier who was shot in the lower leg during a battle with the Taliban in Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand province on Saturday.
Fighting rages as NATO engages Taliban fighters MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah on Saturday under withering gunfire from Taliban fighters shooting from mudbrick homes and compounds where families huddled in terror. President Hamid Karzai urged NATO to do more to protect civilians during combat operations to secure Marjah, a southern Taliban stronghold and scene of the biggest allied ground assault of the eight-year war. NATO forces have repeatedly said they want to prevent civilian casualties but acknowledged that it is not always possible. On Saturday, the alliance said its troops killed another civilian in the Marjah area, bringing the civilian death toll from the operation to at least 16. Addressing the opening session of the Afghan parliament in Kabul, Karzai held up a picture of an 8-yearold girl who lost 12 relatives in a NATO rocket attack during the second day of the Marjah assault, which began Feb. 13. Karzai said NATO had made progress in reducing civilian casualties and thanked the top commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, for “standing with us honestly in this effort.” But Karzai said more needed to be done to protect civilians caught up in the fighting. “We need to reach the point where there are no civilian casualties,” Karzai said. The Marjah operation is a major test of a new NATO strategy that stresses protecting civilians over routing insurgents as quickly as possible. It’s also the first major ground operation since President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 reinforcements to Afghanistan to curb the rise of the Taliban. Once the town is secure, NATO plans to rush in a civilian Afghan administration, restore public services and pour in aid to try to win the loyalty of the population and prevent the Taliban from returning. As the assault entered its second week, Marines and Afghan soldiers faced hours of sporadic but intense gunfights from insurgent snipers — often firing from compounds where families could be seen taking shelter. Troops crouched for cover in muddy ditches, firing rifles, machine guns, and grenades as Taliban bullets whizzed by. “We’ve been hurling lead all day,” said Lt. Carl Quist, who commands a platoon in the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. U.S.-led troops have been pushing south from the town center against a pocket of Taliban fighters. “They are running out of space now, that’s why they gotta fight and stand their ground,” Sgt. Melvin Adair, 28, of Clinton, Maryland, said. A NATO statement said fighting was raging in the northeast and west of the town “but insurgent activity is not limited to those areas.” A Marine spokesman, Capt. Abe Sipe, said Taliban fighters seemed to be running low on supplies and ammunition “but at the same time we do expect them to be putting up resistance for some time.” Twelve NATO troops have died so
far in the offensive in Helmand province, and senior Marine officers say intelligence reports suggest more than 120 insurgents have died. NATO reported two more service member deaths — one Friday by rocket or mortar fire in eastern Afghanistan and another Saturday in a bombing in southern Afghanistan. Neither was related to the Marjah area fighting, NATO said without identifying the victims by nationality. By sundown Saturday, Marines reached a large abandoned school compound that residents warned had been entirely rigged with explosives. A small line in the dirt could be seen runnng through the unpaved street. Residents said the line was a marker for the minefield around the compound. “Nobody, no motorbike nor car, has gone on this road for five days,” said Mamad Jan, a terrified farmer who huddled in one room of his home with his ailing wife and children. All other residents had fled the area ahead of the expected showdown. “I can’t leave. My wife just gave birth,” Jan told the Marines, some of whom handed out their food rations to his hungry family before taking cover from sniper fire. The offensive had been moving slowly due to stubborn Taliban resistance and strict NATO rules aimed at limiting civilian casualties. Troops cannot call in airstrikes to clear snipers from buildings if they believe civilians are inside. Troops cannot fire on suspected insurgents unless they are seen carrying a weapon or discarding one. The U.S. general who oversees operations in Afghanistan and the Middle East defended the policy of restraint, saying it was scoring points with the Afghan population whose support is essential to turning back the Taliban. The United Nations says most of the civilian deaths last year were due to Taliban attacks. “We’re going to be able to beat the enemy around the head with civilian casualties that he is causing,” Gen. David Petraeus said at Princeton University. Most of the civilian deaths came on the second day of the operation when a pair of rockets struck a building on the outskirts of town, killing 12 people — at least nine of them civilians including the family of the 8-year-old girl. The alliance first said the rockets strayed 300 yards (meters) off course but later acknowledged they hit the intended target. The civilian was killed Friday after he dropped a box which soldiers feared contained a bomb and began running toward a coalition position, NATO said. The box contained materials that could be used to make a bomb but no explosives NATO said. In a cemetery marked by green and white flags in Helmand’s provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, 20 miles (30 kilometers) northeast of Marjah, men buried one Marjah resident who died of his injuries suffered in what his brother said was coalition bombing three days ago. “I buried him here, because I couldn’t take him back to my village,” the brother, Sayed Wali, a thin man in a faded blue tunic, told Associated Press Television.
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Richardson remains a role model Bobby Richardson was 14 years old when he found the Lord. Richardson’s friend and former New York Yankees teammate Mickey Mantle was in the final weeks of his life when he did. To Richardson, there is simply no difference. Two men took two different journeys to end up in the same place. A good place. Richardson came to Ellenboro, at the behest of Dick Redfoot, on Saturday to speak at the 7th Annual Sportsman Banquet at Liberty Baptist Church. The crowd was nearing 540 when Richardson took the stage to deliver his message about his relationship with the Lord and men like Mantle, Yogi Berra, and, of course, Billy Martin. Richardson is a man committed to his faith, in a world committed to seemingly everything but faith. As a Yankee, Richardson played in the ‘capital of the world;’ a city where the vice of Richardson’s day — alcohol — could be found everywhere. Richardson never strayed. In 1961, Mantle was making the huge sum of $750,000 — nearly four times more than then President John F. Kennedy. Today, well, as a yankee might say, ‘forget about it.’ Ballplayers make hundreds of times the amount that current President Barack Obama earns. Richardson, although not making ‘Mantle money,’ was being well-paid to guard the bag at second next to his close friend, shortstop Tony Kubek. Richardson was just 30 years old when he walked away from the New York Yankees. “I was young, even in that day, to retire, but being with my family was more important to me,” said Richardson, who is a father of five and a grandfather of 15. In 1960, Richardson was named MVP of the World Series. I can find no other MVP, in any major professional sport, that has won the honor for a losing team. It is an honor that Richardson would, perhaps, pass on. “Oh, it was terrible,” said Richardson. “Mickey just sat at his locker and cried and cried. We all did. Losing to the Pirates just hurt so bad.” That World Series is always remember for the ‘other’ second baseman. Pittsburgh’s Bill Mazeroski hit a 9th inning, home run that lifted the Pirates to a 10-9 win in Game 7, and gave them the world title. Richardson, though, was named MVP after clubbing in 12 RBIs. The 1960 Series also featured Rutherford County native Smoky Burgess, and there is a great picture from that time period of Burgess, behind the plate, with Richardson batting. On Friday, like many of you, I watched a very public confession by, arguably, the biggest athlete in the world today, Tiger Woods. I asked Richardson about our long cultural history of putting athletes onto pedestals. “In my day, the reporters knew about the things that went on with Mickey or Billy or who have you, but in that day, there was a protection by those reporters to not tell those stories. Today, athletes don’t have that,” Richardson said. There is no easy answer, but one thing is clear — Richardson remains a good role model.
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Western Carolina’s Tyler White, above, smacks a single in his first at-bat during Saturday’s game. Gardner-Webb’s Zeke Blanton, left, watches a pitch sail wide of the strike zone. Blanton and White are Forest City natives and this was the first college game at McNair Field for both. Scott Bowers/Daily Courier
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White’s 4 hits lead WCU over GWU By JACOB CONLEY Daily Courier Sports Reporter
FOREST CITY — Tyler White had quite a homecoming going 4-for-5 at the plate, including a game-tying single in the top of the 9th with two outs to send the game into extra innings where Western Carolina pulled out a 6-5 win over Gardner-Webb, Saturday, in the season debut of McNair Field. Future Forest City Owls pitcher Brett Stackhouse drew the start for GWU and breezed through the top half of the first registering, one strikeout. The Bulldogs offense could not take advantage, going 1-2-3 in the bottom of the first. WCU got things going in the next frame as former Chase Trojans’ White picked up his first collegiate hit, a sharp
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Gardner-Webb’s Brett Stackhouse delivers a pitch during Saturday’s game against Please see Baseball, Page 2B Western Carolina. Stackhouse, a crafty lefty, will join the Owls this summer.
Bobby Richardson Visits Liberty Baptist Church
Former New York Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson was the featured speaker at the 7th Annual Sportsman Banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Ellenboro, Saturday. Scott Bowers/Daily Courier
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NCHSAA Basketball Scoreboard Playoffs start Monday OLYMPICS By KEVIN CARVER
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FOREST CITY — East Rutherford’s and R-S Central’s boys and girls teams will enter the basketball playoffs Monday night and both schools found out who their opponents will be on Saturday afternoon. East Rutherford’s boys, who won the SMAC regular season title, will face new school Cuthbertson out of the Rocky River Conference in the first round. The hometown Cavs (20-2) are a number one seed, while the Union County school has a 12-13 record and are the number four seed from their conference. Coincidentally, Cuthbertson are also nicknamed the Cavaliers, but East will be at home. East Rutherford has been solid this season with underclassmen Rob Gray and high-flying Devince Boykins in the line-up. East Rutherford’s Lady Cavs (14-10) will hit the road to face Rocky River Conference number two seed, North Stanly (24-3). Both are two seeds from their respective conferences, but due to the NCHSAA’s seeding priority the Comets will have the homecourt advantage. Tamara El-Amoor leads the Lady Cavs and is the only senior on the club. Shaquisha Dawkins is the team’s leading scorer. Symphonie Richardson is North Stanly’s leading scorer at 12 ppg and stands 6-foot-1 in the post. On the western side of Rutherford County, R-S Central will have one team on the road and the other at home. The Lady Hilltoppers (16-8) got the nod as the number two seed from the SMAC conference and will host the number three seed, Fred T. Foard (1013). Shannon Hines and Melissa McLaughlin, who both average double-figures in scoring, pace the Lady Hilltoppers. On the boys side, R-S Central (13-9) has the number three seed from the 3A portion of the SMAC league and will travel to Gastonia to take on Hunter Huss (20-3). Huss is the Big South Conference champion. R-S Central will rely on seniors, Shaq Wilkins and Kyle Holmstrom. Huss is led by highly-touted Jihad Wright.
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BASKETBALL 2009-10 NCHSAA Basketball Playoffs 3A Boys 7 p.m. R-S Central at Hunter Huss 2A Boys 7 p.m. Cuthbertson at East Rutherford 3A Girls 7 p.m. Fred T. Foard at R-S Central 2A Girls 7 p.m. East Rutherford at North Stanly
WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct 34 21 .618 31 22 .585 28 25 .528 29 26 .527 27 27 .500 Northwest Division W L Pct Denver 36 19 .655 Utah 35 19 .648 Oklahoma City 31 21 .596 Portland 32 25 .561 Minnesota 13 43 .232 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Lakers 42 14 .750 Phoenix 33 23 .589 L.A. Clippers 21 33 .389 Sacramento 18 36 .333 Golden State 15 39 .278 Dallas San Antonio Houston New Orleans Memphis
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Friday’s Games Charlotte 110, Cleveland 93 Washington 107, Denver 97 Philadelphia 106, San Antonio 94 Miami 100, Memphis 87,2OT Chicago 100, Minnesota 94 New Orleans 107, Indiana 101 Milwaukee 91, Detroit 85 Toronto 106, New Jersey 89 Dallas 95, Orlando 85 Phoenix 88, Atlanta 80 Utah 100, Golden State 89 Boston 96, Portland 76 Saturday’s Games Toronto 109, Washington 104 Oklahoma City at New York, late Philadelphia at Chicago, late Miami at Dallas, late Indiana at Houston, late Charlotte at Milwaukee, late Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, late Sunday’s Games Cleveland at Orlando, 1 p.m. Boston at Denver, 3:30 p.m. San Antonio at Detroit, 6 p.m. Memphis at New Jersey, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Houston at New Orleans, 7 p.m.
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North Carolina head coach Roy Williams, left, yells instructions to his team in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Boston College, Saturday, in Boston. Boston College won 71-67.
NCAA Basketball SOUTH Alabama A&M 65, Southern U. 54 Alabama St. 91, Alcorn St. 64 Appalachian St. 81, Tennessee Tech 68 Auburn 92, Arkansas 83 Clemson 72, Virginia 49 Coastal Carolina 47, Charleston Southern 37 Davidson 61, Furman 58 E. Kentucky 77, Winthrop 57 Elon 84, Gardner-Webb 79 Florida 64, Mississippi 61 Florida A&M 72, Howard 67, OT Florida Gulf Coast 85, Belmont 80 Georgia 76, Alabama 70 Georgia St. 67, S. Carolina St. 52 Hampton 71, Bethune-Cookman 44 Jackson St. 84, Grambling St. 79, OT Jacksonville 76, Mercer 64 Kentucky 58, Vanderbilt 56 Liberty 76, High Point 67 Lipscomb 85, Stetson 71 Longwood 68, Savannah St. 54 MVSU 62, Texas Southern 44 Maryland 76, Georgia Tech 74 McNeese St. 65, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 62 Md.-Eastern Shore 66, Coppin St. 52 Memphis 76, SMU 63 Mississippi St. 60, LSU 59 Murray St. 75, Morgan St. 66 N.C. State 68, Wake Forest 54 Nicholls St. 66, Texas St. 63 Norfolk St. 74, Winston-Salem 50 North Florida 66, Kennesaw St. 60 Northwestern St. 82, Lamar 79 Radford 76, UNC Wilmington 68 Richmond 74, George Washington 70 SE Louisiana 66, Stephen F.Austin 56 Samford 60, Chattanooga 54 St. John’s 74, South Florida 58 Tennessee 63, South Carolina 55 UNC Greensboro 59, The Citadel 53 Va. Commonwealth 70, Akron 53 Wofford 82, Georgia Southern 76, OT Xavier 81, Charlotte 67
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Atlanta at Golden State, 8 p.m. Sacramento at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Utah at Portland, 10:30 p.m.
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single through the left side of the infield. But, White was stranded at third after GWU turned in BOSTON (AP) — Boston College slowed down an a strike-em out, throw-em out double play. already reeling North Carolina team even more. The Bulldogs broke through Reggie Jackson, making his first start of the in the bottom half of the second season at point guard Saturday, scored 13 of his when O.J. McFarland plated two 17 points in the second half to lift the Eagles to a runs with an RBI single. 71-67 win over the struggling Tar Heels. Jackson said Boston College focused all week on WCU wasted little time tying controlling North Carolina’s fast-break offense. the score as Austin Schultz “We know they want to get out and run. That was blasted a home run to center our main focus,” said Jackson, who started in place field that knotted the score at of Biko Paris. “If we would have stopped that at the 2-2. beginning we probably would have been up 10 at The score remained the same the half.” until the top of the 6th when the
BC beats reeling UNC
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Catamounts put together backto-back singles before White gave his team a 3-2 lead with a double down the left field line. McFarland tied the game at 3-3 with an RBI single in the bottom half of the inning and GWU took a 4-3 lead when Matt Sapp singled home McFarland. Western threatened in the top of the 7th, putting runners on first and second with 1 out, but Bulldogs relief pitcher Adam Izokovic came in and induced a popup and a strikeout to preserve the lead for GWU. The Bulldogs tacked on another run with a Josh Drewery RBI single to give the home team a 5-3 advantage going into the 8th.
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WCU mounted another threat in the 9th putting the first two men on. After a double steal and a sac fly cut the lead to 5-4, White delivered a game-tying single to force extra innings after GWU failed to score in the bottom half. Western took control of the contest plating a run in the top of the 10th to score a 6-5 win. In addition to White, the game featured another local product. Zeke Blanton, a member of East Rutherford’s 2007 state title team went 0-for-4, a day after going 2-for-5 in his Bulldogs’ debut. WCU goes for the sweep tomorrow at 2 p.m.
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Kentucky guard Darnell Dodson (3) drives to the basket as Vanderbilt’s Lance Goulbourne (5) defends in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday. Associated Press
No. 1 Kansas wins; No. 2 Kentucky survives
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Cole Aldrich had a double-double and Xavier Henry scored 24 points Saturday to lead No. 1 Kansas to a 94-74 victory over Colorado. Tyshawn Taylor, back in the starting lineup after a ninegame absence, had 17 points for the Jayhawks (26-1, 12-0), who entered the day with a threegame lead in pursuit of their sixth straight Big 12 championship. Senior point guard Sherron Collins scored 13 points and took part in his 123rd victory, tying him for the most by a player in school history. The Buffaloes (12-14, 3-9) were consecutive victim No. 57 on Kansas’ home court. It’s the longest home streak in the nation and getting close to the schoolrecord 62 set during the Roy Williams era. Alec Burks had 17 points and Marcus Relphorde added 16 for Colorado, which could not stop the Jayhawks from scoring their highest point total since beating Radford 99-64 on Dec. 9. Aldrich had 17 points and 10 rebounds for his seventh doubledouble in nine games and 13th this season.
No. 2 Kentucky 58, No. 17 Vanderbilt 56
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — John Wall sank a pair of free throws with 20 seconds left and had a big blocked shot to send Kentucky to a win over Vanderbilt. Kentucky (26-1, 11-1 SEC) grabbed a two-game lead over Vanderbilt in the SEC East and dealt the Commodores (20-6, 9-3) their first home loss this season. Wall’s free throws gave the Wildcats a 57-53 lead, but John Jenkins answered with a 3-pointer to pull Vanderbilt within a point. Kentucky’s Eric Bledsoe missed a pair of free throws, but Wall responded by blocking a 3-pointer by Jenkins on the other end and grabbing the ball. He made one of two free throws for a two-point lead with 2.5 seconds to play, and the Commodores had one more chance.
No. 4 Purdue 75, Illinois 65
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Robbie Hummel had 22 points and 12 rebounds to lead Purdue to its ninth straight win. E’Twaun Moore added 18 points and Keaton Grant scored 13 of his season-high 15
points in the second half for the Boilermakers (23-3, 11-3 Big Ten), who moved into a tie with No. 11 Michigan State for the conference lead. Demitri McCamey of Illinois scored six points, and his 16 assists tied for the fourth-most in Big Ten history. Mike Davis had 16 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks and Brandon Paul added 13 points for the Fighting Illini (17-10, 9-5).
No. 7 Kansas State 83, Oklahoma 58 NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Denis Clemente scored 27 points and led a 3-point barrage by No. 7 Kansas State, propelling the Wildcats to a victory against scuffling Oklahoma. The Wildcats (22-4, 9-3 Big 12) won their fifth straight away game and assured themselves of a winning road record in conference play for the first time since the 1987-88 season. In the process, they kept top-ranked Kansas from clinching at least a share of the Big 12 regular-season title.
No. 8 West Virginia 75, Seton Hall 63 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Kevin Jones and Devin Ebanks scored 16 points apiece to lead West Virginia. Da’Sean Butler added 14 points for West Virginia (21-5, 10-4 Big East). Seton Hall trimmed a 19-point deficit to 63-60 with 3 minutes left, but West Virginia outscored the Pirates 12-3 the rest of the way. All the Mountaineers’ points in the run came on free throws. Jeff Robinson scored 16 points and Robert Mitchell added 10 for the Pirates (15-10, 6-8).
No. 12 New Mexico 59, Air Force 56 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Darrington Hobson scored 17 points, including a putback with 16.9 seconds remaining, and Dairese Gary made two free throws with 2.5 seconds left as New Mexico avoided a major upset. Grant Parker scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half for the Falcons (9-16, 1-11), including a layup with 27.8 seconds left that put them ahead 56-55. But Gary drove and found Hobson on New Mexico’s ensuing possession.
No. 15 Texas 71, Texas Tech 67 LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Gary
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North Carolina State’s Tracy Smith, left, goes over Wake Forest’s Chas McFarland (13) to score during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Raleigh, Saturday. Smith scored 14 points in N.C. State’s 68-54 win.
NC State upsets Wake Forest, 68-54
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina State didn’t blow another big halftime lead against an upperJohnson scored a career-high 22 division Atlantic Coast Conference team. points to lead Texas. Farnold Degand hit two 3-pointers in the deciThe Longhorns (21-6, 7-5 Big sive second-half run that helped the Wolfpack beat 12) led by 13 points in the secNo. 23 Wake Forest 68-54 on Saturday, snapping a ond half then held off a lategame surge by Nick Okorie, who five-game losing streak with their first league win in a month. scored 11 straight points for the Tracy Smith scored 14 points to lead the Red Raiders to pull them within Wolfpack (15-13, 3-10), who led the entire game 69-67 with 58 seconds remainbut needed three straight 3s from Degand and Javi ing in the game. Gonzalez with about 6 minutes left to get firm control. It was quite a reversal from Wednesday’s loss to No. 16 BYU 85, Wyoming 63 Maryland, a game in which the Wolfpack blew a LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — 10-point halftime lead in an ugly second-half colJimmer Fredette and freshlapse. This time, N.C. State led 28-18 at halftime, man Tyler Haws both scored but protected that lead and even pushed ahead by 22 points and BYU rolled past 17 in the final seconds to release some of the presWyoming. sure that had built in the RBC Center. The Cougars (25-3, 10-2 “Some relief? Absolutely,” NC State coach Sidney Mountain West Conference) led Lowe said. “When you’ve been struggling as we’ve comfortably the entire way to been, it’s more frustrating because I know the guys stay within one-half game of want it so bad and I’ve said it all year: we’ll lose a first-place and 12th-ranked New tough game and the next day the guys will come Mexico, which beat Air Force on back in practice and they won’t let anything get Saturday. them down. Freshman Desmar Jackson “I’m glad that something good happened for them scored a season-high 26 points with all the work they’ve put in and the positive for Wyoming (2-11, 9-18), which attitude they’re keeping. I’m glad to see that those has lost seven straight games shots went down.” and 10 of 11. N.C. State hadn’t won an ACC game since its upset of Duke on Jan. 20. Six of its seven league losses since had come by at least nine points with No. 18 Butler 70, Siena 53 two against struggling rival North Carolina, which INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — has just three league victories. Shelvin Mack scored 23 points The only streak worth talking about after this and Gordon Hayward had 15 game was the Wolfpack’s five straight wins against points and 12 rebounds to lead the Demon Deacons (18-7, 8-5) in Raleigh. Butler to its 17th straight victory, “Definitely you get tired of losing,” said senior tied with Murray State for the Dennis Horner, who had 10 points and 12 nation’s longest winning streak. rebounds. “This puts us on a path to finish the ACC season and hopefully we can get a streak No. 20 Tennessee 63, going of wins now that will lead us into the ACC South Carolina 55 tournament.” Al-Farouq Aminu had 15 points and 14 rebounds COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — for Wake Forest, which had a miserable afternoon Bobby Maze scored 14 points from the tip. The Demon Deacons hadn’t lost in and Tennessee reached the nearly three weeks before blowing an 11-point lead 20-victory mark for the fifth at Virginia Tech on Tuesday night, then shot just straight season. 35 percent and went 0 of 12 from 3-point range while committing 23 turnovers Saturday. Their first-half numbers were even more abysNo. 21 Temple 75, mal: the Demon Deacons had twice as many turnSaint Joseph’s 67, OT overs (15) as field goals (7) and shot 26 percent. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The game marked the first time the Demon Ramone Moore had 24 points Deacons hadn’t hit a 3-pointer since beating and nine rebounds and Lavoy Tulane in February 1992. Allen notched his 10th doubledouble of the season for Temple.
Oklahoma St. 82, No. 22 Baylor 75 STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — James Anderson matched his season high with 31 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for Oklahoma State.
No. 24 Texas A&M 60, Iowa St. 56 AMES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Sloan scored 14 points and Texas A&M won for the fifth time in six games
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sports Rutherford County Sports Profiles Kingery continues family tradition in pool
Brennon is artistic in pool and in class
Thompson treads well in pool and on field
Whitesides contributes in class, on court
Chase senior Zane Kingery has been a member of the Trojans swim team from the moment he stepped foot on campus. “I first joined the swim team to stay in shape, but now I like it for the competition.” Kingery said. Zane’s parents are Trent and Trisha and he has two siblings, Brianna and Brennon. Trent is a Marine and Trisha works at Spartanburg Regional Hospital. Trent formerly played baseball and swam the pool while at Chase High. Trisha was a member of the swim team and ran track during high school. In the classroom, Zane likes the subjects of Art and Science. Away from the classroom, Zane enjoys playing music in a band and drawing during his free time. When watching TV, usually the tube will be turn to the Discovery Channel, but he also prefers viewing The Family Guy and Scrubs for a laugh. His favorite sports moment came in the 2008 Summer Olympic games when Michael Phelps barely won the 100-yard Butterfly.
Rebecca Brennon loves being on the East Rutherford swim team. She was named the teams Rookie of the Year as a freshman and earned MVP honors as a sophomore on the team. She has lettered all four years at East Rutherford in swimming. “I chose swimming because I was interested in it and I wanted to a be a lifeguard when I was younger and then swimming just became a love,” Brennon said. Rebecca parents are David and Angela and she has one brother, Dustin. David was a baseball player in high school and competes in community softball now. Angela played in the band in high school.
Sarah Thompson is a member of the Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy swim and soccer team. “Swimming and soccer is a great way to make friends and they are both challenging and fun at the same time,” Thompson said. Sarah’s parents are Craig and Linda Thompson and she has an older sibling, Sammi Jo. Craig works as a dentist and Linda is a confectioner. Sarah’s family also has a background in sports as Craig swam and played football in high school while mom, Linda ran marathons. While away from the classroom and not playing sports, Sarah likes to key it up on the piano. In school, she takes part in the Orchestra Club and the National Honor Society.
As a member of the R-S Central varsity girls basketball team, Chasity Whitesides is in her senior year with the club. Whitesides easily answered why basketball was her chosen sport in high school. “I just love competing and I have been playing since I was little,” Whitesides said. Chasity’s parents are Paula and the late Harry Whitesides Jr. Making up the rest of her family is one sister, Najah and one brother, Shawn. Chasity’s aunt, Christina Davis holds the career record in rebounding at R-S Central High School, for the Lady Hilltoppers. In school, she is a member of the Ebony Club and her favorite subject is math. Away from school, Chasity enjoys shopping, eating and riding four-wheelers. On the tube, Chasity is more than likely watching the TV show, The Game. Musically, Chasity is usually listening to Rap or R&B. Her most enjoyable time from the high school sports memory bank came when she and her fellow Lady Hilltoppers teammates blasted Burns earlier this year, putting up 102 points on the conference foe. Chasity’s favorite sports team is the Duke Blue Devils. She is also interested in going to college at Duke or Appalachian State and studying to be an anesthesiologist.
During swim meets, Zane swims the 200-yard Medley Relay, the 100-yard Freestyle, the 100-yard Backstroke and the 400-yard Medley Relay. His favorite happens to be the 200-yard Medley Relay since it is fairly competitive, according to Kingery. His uncle Brian, was the first high school swimmer in the Rutherford County.
Rebecca’s favorite subject is Art, but French is not far behind on her list. She likes alternative music and Alkaline Trio is her favorite band. Her favorite TV show is Law & Order SVU. She is a freshman mentor and takes prides in being involved in the Art and Anchor Clubs. She also participates in cross country and was elected their homecoming representative. She also works at Big Dave’s Seafood in Forest City. On swim days, Rebecca races in the 50-yard Freestyle, 100-yard Freestyle, 500-yard Freestyle and 100-yard Backstroke. “Of all the events, I like the 50-yard Freestyle the most,” Brennon said. “The reason is because its quick and the nerves don’t last as long.”
Sarah listens to a bit of everything when it comes to music and likes pretty much every subject as a Lady Gryphon. Sarah’s favorite sports teams are the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Florida Gators. While she wasn’t alive to see it as it happened, her favorite sports moment is the Pittsburgh Steelers “Immaculate Reception.” Her favorite TV shows to watch include, Say Yes to the Dress and How I Met Your Mother. In the pool for TJCA, she swims the 100-yard Breaststroke, 200-yard Freestyle and the 200 Individual Medley. Although, she doesn’t compete in it for TJCA, she loves the 200-yard Breaststroke.
Daily Courier sports correspondent Kevin Carver complies the Profiles twice a month.
Austrian wins super-G; Lindsey Vonn takes 3rd
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Lindsey Vonn admits she let up at the end — and it cost her. Austria’s Andrea Fischbacher upset Vonn in the super-G at the Vancouver Olympics on Saturday. Vonn earned bronze behind surprise silver medalist Tina Maze of Slovenia. While many of the favorites struggled with a sharp right turn midway down, Vonn made it through that section without a problem. She then lost nearly half a second on the botAssociated Press tom section of the course. “Once I got past those difficult secGreat Britain skip David Murdoch delivers the stone in a match against China in men’s curling at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, tions, I kind of backed off the gas Saturday. pedal,” Vonn said. “I felt like I just didn’t ski as aggressively as I could have, and I think that’s where I lost the race.” The Austrians, who won 14 Alpine medals including four golds in Turin, had gotten off to a slow start. Elisabeth Goergl’s bronze in the downhill had been their only medal so far. Fischbacher was reduced to tears after placing fourth in the VANCOUVER, British Columbia cessful, and that’s the way you have downhill, finishing only 0.03 seconds (AP) — The British men’s curlto look at it. Both teams want to behind Goergl. ers made easy work of China on make the semifinals, and Canada is “At first I was really sad,” Saturday, and they were happy to most of the way there now. For us, Fischbacher said. “Then I was just have the afternoon to rest up for an we’re slightly behind, so probably for saying, ‘OK, maybe I make it in the even bigger matchup: rival Canada. us the game’s a bit more important super-G.’” Scottish skip David Murdoch’s team than it is for them.” Her coach, Juergen Kriechbaum, defeated China 9-4 in nine ends in The Brits (3-2) had beaten Canada their final tuneup before a showthe last four times they played, start- set the super-G course according to International Ski Federation rules down with Kevin Martin’s unbeaten ing with the 2009 world champithat rotate the job to correspond Canadians on Saturday night. onships and most recently at the with the higher-ranked super-G skiPerhaps a preview of the game for Toronto Skins event last month. ers. Fischbacher navigated her way gold next week? Some think so. Murdoch raised his fist in the air down Franz’s Run in 1 minute, 20.14 “It’s going to be a spectacle in that after the morning match was over, seconds. it’s a game everyone’s looking foracknowledging the cheering crowd. Maze was 0.49 behind, and Vonn ward to and has been for a long It’s going to get even wilder. was 0.74 back. time,” Murdoch said. “I think from In other morning matches, the Vonn had already wrapped up the both teams’ perspective, it’s another United States defeated Sweden 8-7 in season-long World Cup super-G title win on the board for whoever’s sucan extra end. by winning three of the five races so far; Fischbacher was third in the event standings. Vonn won the downhill to open her Olympics, then wiped out in the slalom leg of the super-combined. On Saturday, she was denied a sweep of the speed events. Depending on how her bruised right shin holds up, the American still has two events remaining in Vancouver — giant slalom and slalom.
Britain beats China in tuneup for Canada
SKI JUMPING Switzerland’s Simon Ammann won the large hill to become the first ski jumper with four individual Olympic titles. Ammann put down the best jump in both rounds. He used his disputed bindings again, beating four
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Austria’s Andrea Fischbacher, the gold medalist, center, is flanked at left by Slovenia’s Tina Maze, silver, and bronze medalist Lindsey Vonn of the United States during the flower ceremony for the Women’s super-G at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Saturday.
Austrians who weren’t happy about his equipment. Polish veteran Adam Malysz took silver, and 20-year-old Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer earned bronze — the exact same finish as in the normal hill jump a week ago.
CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Marcus Hellner of Sweden won the men’s 30-kilometer pursuit, pulling away from three rivals after entering the ski stadium and building enough of a lead to sprint alone to the finish. He was timed in 1 hour, 15 minutes, 11.4 seconds. Germany’s Tobias Angerer finished 2.1 seconds behind for the silver medal. Sweden’s Johan Olsson took the bronze, 2.8 back.
FREESTYLE The finals for women’s freestyle aerials will be missing defending champion Evelyn Leu of Switzerland. Leu fell on her second of two jumps in the qualifying round and did not make the final 12. Alla Tsuper of Belarus won the qualifying, followed by China’s Li Nina, the 2006 silver medalist.
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Wagner makes big first impression with Braves
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Billy Wagner makes a big first impression, even when he’s not trying. Wagner was just being himself when he walked into the Braves clubhouse for the start of spring training wearing a cowboy hat, boots, jeans and a western shirt. Oh, and he was carrying a football. That’s an entrance that gets noticed. “He has a presence,” said catcher Brian McCann of the left-hander who has 385 career saves with Houston, Philadelphia and the New York Mets. Wagner threw what manager Bobby Cox called a “great” bullpen session on Saturday. The Braves’ new closer then threw batting practice. He says he was excited and “trying to impress everybody” in his first workout with his new team.
George Steinbrenner back at the ballpark
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — George Steinbrenner was back at the ballpark on Saturday. The 79-year-old New York Yankees principal owner said he is “feeling good” when he arrived at the team’s spring training complex to watch his grandson play in a high school game. Steinbrenner has made few public appearance since handing over
daily control of the Yankees to his sons, managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner and co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner, in late 2007. George Steinbrenner’s daughter, Jessica, and Yankees manager Joe Girardi joined him in watching the game.
Pirates look to cut down on Zach Duke’s workload BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates are looking to cut down on All-Star pitcher Zach Duke’s workload this season. Duke has made at least 30 starts in three of his first four full seasons in the majors. The exception was 2007, when shoulder problems limited him to 19 starts. Duke didn’t miss a start last season but faded over the final two months. On Saturday, pitching coach Joe Kerrigan said the amount of work Duke put in between starts might have been the culprit. “We’ll have to take a look at that,” Kerrigan said. “Maybe that has something to do with the wear and tear in August and September.” Last season, Duke was injury-free and pitched 213 innings, tops on the team and 12th in the National League. The left-hander also was tied for third in the NL with three
complete games, the most by a Pirates pitcher since Jeff Suppan had three in 2003. “I take a lot of pride in the fact that I take the mound every time and, most of the time, I give us a chance to win,” Duke said. Eight victories and a 3.29 ERA in the first half of last season earned Duke his first trip to the All-Star game. After that, however, things changed dramatically. “His ERA for August and September was in the middle 5.00s,” Kerrigan said. “Yeah, he was pitching his butt off the first two months and was going eight or nine innings, but did those outings take a toll in August and September?” Duke’s string of 15 straight starts in which he pitched six-plus innings was snapped Aug. 4 in a 6-0 loss against Arizona. Duke put up ERAs of 5.76 in August, and 5.84 in September and October, winning just twice in his final 11 starts.
GM Ed Wade gets 2-year extension KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — The Houston Astros extended the contract of general manager Ed Wade through the 2012 season. The team made the announcement on Saturday, when pitchers and catchers reported to Houston’s spring training
Ask the Guys Dear Classified Guys, I've owned a number of dogs over my lifetime. Most have been "mutts" that I gave a good home to. The other day I was reading the classifieds and came across someone advertising Labradoodle puppies. I thought it was a joke. Labradoodles? Who ever heard of such a thing? I was even going to mail you the ad until someone told me that they are a real breed. Are they pulling my leg? Do Labradoodles really exist and what are they?
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tail, Labradoodles are a real breed. And as one might suspect, they are a cross between a Labrador Retriever and a Poodle. Carry: It looks kind of like a hunting dog with a bad perm. Cash: Actually, like most puppies, they are adorable. And often they are referred to as simply "doodles". Carry: The breed is said to have been created in Australia through the efforts of The Guide Dog Association. It seems a vision-impaired woman needed a guide dog, but her husband suffered from dog allergies. The association's research led them to cross the Poodle with a Labrador
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to create a non-shedding, allergy-friendly dog. And it worked. Cash: As with any breed, the dogs can vary in looks. While some resemble their Labrador ancestors, others look like oversized Poodles. Their hair is usually wavy or curly and several inches long, but typically the breed does not shed. That's enough to make any dog owner interested. Carry: The dogs also tend to be easily trainable. Although as most of us know, it's still more of a challenge to train the owners than the dogs. Cash: Labradoodles typically have the warm and loving personality of the Labrador with the genetic allergy-relief
characteristics of a poodle. It's become a popular breed among people who suffer from asthma and animal allergies. They are not yet recognized by clubs or organizations so there are no formal standards like there are for other breeds of dogs. Carry: It's important to note that not all Labradoodles are non-shedding or allergy friendly. It's a common misconception. Like any crossbreeds, the genetics can vary. Some may still aggravate allergies or shed their coats. So that can result in a lot of hair around the house. Cash: And like any puppy, given the chance, they'll try to outfox the owner whenever possible. So if you get one, be sure to hide your socks.
complex near Orlando. Wade, who was originally hired as Astros GM on Sept. 20, 2007, was given a two-year extension on his original contract, which was through the 2010 season. “We feel this is very appropriate,” owner Drayton McLane said. “Ed is an outstanding baseball man. He’s organized and has surrounded himself with a good, solid staff. Much of the work Ed did in Philadelphia had a lot to do with them becoming a champion. We feel he has us moving in the right direction to be a champion as well.” Houston went 74-88 last season, its second losing record in three years. Wade is in his 34th season in professional baseball. Prior to his stint with the Astros, he served as the Philadelphia Phillies GM from 19982005 and then spent two seasons (2006-07) as a scout for the San Diego Padres. “I’m tremendously gratified that Drayton has shown his faith in what we’re doing here and what we hope to accomplish, both in 2010 and for years to come,” the 54-year-old Wade said. “Drayton has been very supportive of our approach. The Astros also said the contracts of assistant GMs Ricky Bennett and David Gottfried and scouting director Bobby Heck were all extended through 2012.
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I grew up with puppies around the house, so I know how mischievous they can be. When my son wanted one, I told him that he would have to train the dog every day. As much as he tried, our new puppy ran around the house stealing and chewing my shoes. "You have to discourage the dog from chewing," I explained to my son. "Sprinkle one of the shoes with hot sauce or something that tastes bad." The next day, I came home to see the puppy gnawing on the newly seasoned shoes. "What did you coat it with?" I asked. "The hickory-smoked steak sauce I don't like," he replied.
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involved in the exciting finish. On the final restart, created after Brendan Gaughan spun out on lap 145 to bring out a caution, Biffle quickly pushed by Logano and Busch followed him. Busch then got around Biffle on the final turn and beat him for his 31st Nationwide victory. Logano was trying to win from the pole at California for the second time in a row. But Busch still gave Gibbs its fifth consecutive Nationwide victory in Southern California. When the race restarted after a caution for debris, Logano was in 11th place behind several cars who decided not to pit and 1.5 seconds behind Biffle, who had taken the lead. Logano needed only four laps to move up to fifth and two more laps to get into third behind Biffle and Kevin Harvick. Then on lap 100, Logano regained the lead when he
went low on the track and passed Biffle coming out of Turn 4. It looked as if that was where he might stay until he stumbled on the final restart, respinning his tires. Patrick started the day 36th and quickly dropped to the back of the field. She was passed by Logano only 17 laps into the race. Yet, it took another 43 laps before Logano lapped her again. On her first two stops, Patrick was penalized for speeding on pit row. So was veteran driver Carl Edwards, who finished fourth. Patrick repeatedly said this week that the difficult part for her is not knowing for sure how things are supposed to feel in a stock car. It was clear she was trying to figure that out and she accomplished what she has to do â&#x20AC;&#x201D; focus on running laps and gaining experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You progressed a lot in this race, girl. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proud of you, what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
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As always, I am my sister’s keeper We think we’ve had a tough winter. Penn Dameron told me one day last month as he stood at the Mile High Swinging Bridge at Grandfather Mountain, it was minus 5 degrees. The wind chill fact was minus 42. Whew. Now that’s cold. Penn has a dream job for those of us who love the mountains of North Carolina. He said Grandfather Mountain was about the only thing that would tempt him to leave his job last year as the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area executive director. As a college student he worked at Grandfather and thought he’d always go back there to work. Penn said everyone should have as much fun at work as he is having, at least some time in a career. His wife, Vicki, is having a good time, too, photographing Grandfather Mountain beautifully. The late Hugh Morton would be proud. Grandfather Mountain is one of my favorite places. I’ll always remember the trip our church youth group made a long time ago. Our youth directors borrowed one of the those three-quarter ton trucks for the trip. Of course the youth rode in the back of the truck with all our camping gear and food for the weekend trip. There was a missing part. The truck’s tail gate wasn’t working or it wasn’t closed and as we started up the long, steep curvy drive to Grandfather Mountain, we felt as though we were slipping out the back. Looking back on that day, even Olympian Shaun White would have thought it was quite the wild ride. We hiked all over the mountain that day and walked as far past the Mile High Swinging Bridge as was allowed. We hung out there on the rocks for a long time. It was us and God and the heavens. Magnificent. My last hiking at Grandfather Mountain was just a couple years ago with my sister. Only 39 years had past since I was in the youth and I didn’t venture past the bridge. The walk on the bridge was wonderful as always. My sister continued hiking way past the bridge out to the rocks and to the open air and I began to be nervous. For a minute I was in control but moments later, I lost it when I saw her out there on what appeared to me the wild blue yonder. As dozens of tourists surrounded me, I began in my quiet voice, “You’re out too far. Come back.” She didn’t respond. “You’re out too far. Come back. Mary, come back.” Never mind the fact I was in the midst of a lots of people, I kept pleading, “Come back. Too far.” The pleas became tears. I knew she had heard me when I saw the fire in her eyes. “What’s wrong with you?” she hollered in a boisterous ringing voice from high on the mountain top. When she finally calmed down, she told me it was just like we were kids again playing in the ocean, standing in knee deep water and she’d hear those same words, “Come back. You’re out too far.” I am my sister’s keeper. Jean Gordon is The Daily Courier Features Editor/Senior Reporter. Contact her via e-mail at jgordon@ thedigitalcourier.com.
The Mile High Swinging Bridge at Grandfather Mountain in January held temperatures that were minus five degrees but held a wind chill of minus 42 degrees. Penn Dameron of Rutherford County, executive director of the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, said the even with a bitterly cold winter he wouldn’t trade his job for anything.
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enn Dameron is back at work on the mountain. Nearly 40 years after he worked at Grandfather Mountain as a young college student, Dameron, who lives part-time in Union Mills, is enjoying his new job there, despite a very brutal winter. The wind chill one day last month was -42 degrees as he stood at the Mile High Swinging Bridge. Dameron and his wife, Vicki, lived in Rutherford County 14 years and still call Union Mills home. He began his new job at Grandfather Mountain last fall and Vicki has recently resigned from several jobs here to move to Linville. In addition to numerous other jobs as a professional photographer, Dameron has been the official photographer for Rutherford County’s Relay for Life for years. Dameron talked about his summer job and his return to Grandfather Mountain recently. Dameron sold tickets and pumped gas at the attraction entrance gate as a college student, but his most memorable task was assisting with the “Mildred the Bear Shows,” which took place twice a day back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, said Landis Wofford, news director at Grandfather Mountain. His duties included coaxing Mildred and her cubs to pose for photographs at Grandfather Mountain’s daily “bear shows.” The decision to display its animals in natural habitats literally started Grandfather Mountain on its path toward becoming a center for quality environmental education, Wofford said. When Mildred the Bear came to Grandfather Mountain, jars of honey and cans of grape soda were used to lead Mildred and her cubs to an amphitheater so guests could see the bears and laugh at their antics while they posed for pictures. Dameron was one of the first of those “bar” tenders and spent many a summer afternoon putting honey on the “Welcome to Grandfather Mountain” sign before jumping out of the photographs. “Since the first time I worked at Grandfather in 1970 I have always felt somewhere in my mind that I’d like to come back and work there again,” Dameron said “The chance to
Above, Penn Dameron posed with his old friend, Mildred the Bear, in August 1983, a decade after Mildred moved into her spacious environmental habitat. In college Dameron had a summer job that included coaxing Mildred and her cubs to pose for photographs at Grandfather Mountain’s daily “bear shows.” At left, Dameron on the mountain in January. Below, Vicki Dameron, Penn’s wife, poses for her own photo high atop the mountain.
help insure the future of this ecological treasure is more than I would ever have hoped for.” His thoughts of returning to Grandfather Mountain came true when he became Executive Director of the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation. “It isn’t radically different from my job as Executive Director of the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area,” Dameron said from his office at Grandfather Mountain. “I’m still involved in protecting and preserving the landscape and the culture of Western North Carolina, it’s just that now I’m focusing on one specific, very wonderful place, rather than 25 counties. “Some of my experience in my former job as a Superior Court Judge also comes in handy here. I have to make important decisions every day, just as I did then. Grandfather Mountain is one of the most dramatic and beautiful places in the country, and is also one of the most ecologically diverse and important areas anywhere,” he said. “Our job is to preserve it as it is,
and to make it an even better place to visit if we can.” “As brutal as this winter has been, at times the mountain has been even more dazzling than it is at other times of the year,” Dameron said. “I know it’s hard to believe, but when I’m at the Swinging Bridge on a January morning under a crystal Please see Dameron, Page 8C
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Mayor Dennis Tarlton visited Forest City-Dunbar Elementary School on Tuesday to read the daily “Words of Wisdom” over the intercom to students. Staff members rotate the reading each morning, and at the beginning of each month a guest from the community is invited to read. Words of Wisdom is a character education program, which encourages students to take responsibility for their choices and actions, to build confidence by empowering students to do and be their personal best, and promote respectful behaviors. Several students have written their own words of wisdom that have also been shared. Contributed photo
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Women’s lifestyle show in March SPINDALE — The 2nd annual Foothills Women’s Lifestyle Show will be held Saturday, March 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the new Carolina Event & Conference Center in Forest City. The center will be transformed into a festive hub of activity. More than 40 booths and interactive exhibits will fill the new facility including experts on health and wellness, fashion and beauty, business and finance, home improvement, recreation, giveaways and more. The event offers free mini-massages, facials and other beauty treat-
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Chase High Beta Club recently took home several awards and honors at the North Carolina State Beta Club Convention. Using an “Aladdin”-theme, members danced and performed, helping Blakeney Oliver secure the office of state secretary for the upcoming year.
Chase Beta Club, state convention FOREST CITY — The Chase High School Beta Club took part in the North Carolina State Beta Convention Feb. 12-14. Students competed for state offices and took part in many different academic competitions. Blakeney Oliver was elected N.C. Beta Club Secretary and will run for National Beta Secretary in June. This is the fourth consecutive year Chase Beta has had a state officer. All Beta Club members won first place in the campaign skit for Oliver. The club will present the skit again at nation-
als; last year the club won first runner-up for skit. Emma Zarriello won first place in oratory, presenting a speech from memory in front of 1,500 teens. She will compete in the national oratory Oliver competition. Austin Ingle won fourth place in biology and Zach Splawn won third place in social studies.
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Karen Levinson’s 1st grade class at Trinity Christian School celebrated the 100th day of school with a penguin party. After completing a unit on the Arctic and Antarctic, the students dressed as their favorite kind of penguin. They will also do a penguin presentation on Grandparent’s Day, Tuesday, Feb. 23. Pictured are (l-r): in front — James Tuong, Chloe Nicholson, Ella Parton, Lindsey Halliday, Logan Striff; in back — Grace Ruppe, Jessie Harbby, Jenna Brackett, Michaela Parton, Carrie Levinson, Katelyn Davis, Madison Tuong and Mrs. Levinson.
Registration now open for Hills Fun Run FOREST CITY — Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy (CMLC) is set to host its first annual Run for the Hills Fun Run at Fletcher Community Park May 2, 2010. Outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to support conservation efforts by signing up for the fun run. Registration is now open and all proceeds go toward CMLC’s mission to save the places you love. Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy is excited to hold Run for the Hills at Fletcher Community Park in the Town ofFletcher. This event is designed to raise community awareness about local conservation and the Town’s Cane Creek Greenway. This non-competitive race is 5K in distance, and will be followed by a finish line festival featuring various vendors and educational activities. Participants can expect a fun-filled afternoon of fitness, music, and conservation. CMLC has worked with the Town of Fletcher and other partners since 2004 to create and expand the Fletcher Greenway system and improve water quality along Cane and Hooper’s Creeks.
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The Cane Creek segment of the Town’s greenway system begins at the Town’s Community Park, crosses the Cane Creek via a newly-installed bike/pedestrian bridge, and continues on property contributed by the Blue Ridge Metals Corporation. With the support of partners including Rivercane LLC, the Pigeon River Fund, the North Carolina Recreational Trails Program, and the North Carolina Department of Transportation, work will commence in 2010 to extend the greenway beneath Mills Gap Road and along an additional1,500-foot section of Cane Creek. The comprehensive greenway system plan was developed by the
Town of Fletcher. The trail system will eventually connect the proposed “Heart of Fletcher” Town Center and Community Park to the Fletcher Elementary school and major residential developments, employers, and proposed regional trails within the Town of Fletcher. The greenway trail system helps conserve streams, wetlands, and wildlife corridors, and provides a healthy commuting alternative for many local residents. Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy helps landowners protect local land and water resources vital to our natural heritage and quality of life. As a local nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the places you love, CMLC is helping to create a regional network of more than 20,000 acres of protected farm, forest, park and natural lands. Founded in 1994, CMLC has protected land in Henderson, Transylvania, and parts of neighboring counties. CMLC offers monthly hikes and a variety of volunteer opportunities for members and the public. More information about Run for the Hills can be found online at www.carolinamountain.org.
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Beta members presented a skit to help get member Blakeney Oliver elected as the state secretary. Blakeney’s candidate number had to be used as part of the skit so this team placed it on their jerseys.
Little Miss pageants scheduled in March GASTONIA — The Miss Gastonia Scholarship Association will present the Little Miss Cleveland County Princess and Little Miss Lincoln County Pageant on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at Burns High School, 307 East Stagecoach Trail, Lawndale. Girls from Cleveland, Lincoln, Gaston and surrounding counties (including Rutherford County) are eligible to enter. The pageant for girls up to age 8, begins at 10:30 a.m. and the competition for girls 9-19 years begins at 1:30 p.m. The younger girls participate in casual wear and beauty categories with photogenic optional. The
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New Arrivals RUTHERFORDTON — The following babies were born at Rutherford Hospital. Lee and Lynn Brooks, Rutherfordton, a boy, Ayden Cole Brooks, Feb. 8. William Matthew Hollifield and Jessica Ann Dixon, Rutherfordton, a boy, William Riley Hollifield, Feb. 9. Alan and Megan Duncan, Forest City, a girl, Sarah Lynn Duncan, Feb. 12.
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Engagements Ashley Yelton and Jesse Baker Ashley Nicole Yelton and Jesse Terry Baker are engaged and plan to be married May 22, 2010 at Cane Creek Baptist Church. Their engagement is announced by the bride-elect’s parents, Michael and Sherri Yelton of Forest City. The groom-elect is the son of Terry and Regina Baker of Union Mills. Ashley is a 2005 graduate of Kings College, and Jesse is a 2004 graduate Central Piedmont Community College. He is employed
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ERMS Jr. Beta Club Mr. and Mrs. Billy Melton Sr. recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The Meltons (left) pictured on their wedding day in 1959.
Meltons honored on 50th wedding anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Billy Melton Sr. of the Chase community recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple was married December 26, 1959 in Gaffney, S.C. Judge W.R. Douglas performed the ceremony. A reception was held in their honor at Bethany Baptist Church fellowship hall, hosted by their son Billy Jr., his wife, Lynn, and grandson, Matthew. The area was decorated with white, gold and crystal accents. An assortment of hors d’oeuvres was served with lemonade, tea and coffee. The three-tiered anniversary cake was made and served by Mrs. Melton’s niece, Angela Hill.
Reception attendants were Mrs. Melton’s sister and niece, Wanda Teseniar and Victoria Belue, Mr. Melton’s sister and niece, Ann Russ and Miranda Russ, and family friends Beverly Dill, Vanessa Baynard, Pat Millwood and Bobbie Bostic. Mrs. Melton is the former Evelyn Hill, daughter of the late G.C. and Minnie Hill of Caroleen. She is employed by Rutherford Hospital. Mr. Melton is the son of the late Gene and Irene Melton of Mooresboro. He is the retired owner/ operator of an auto mechanic shop. Approximately 80 guests attended the celebration.
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The East Rutherford Middle School Junior Beta Club attended the North Carolina National Junior Beta Club Convention in Greensboro, Feb. 8-9. The following students participated in events at the convention. Blake Henderson – colored photography; Victoria Craig – black and white photography; Caroline Simpson – jewelry making; Rebekah Hensley, Cragan Hardin, Julie Martin, and Jordan Wilson – poster contest; James Hunt – math competition; McKenzie Morrow – leadership; and Meredith Bennett, Rachel Camp, and Cari Greene – Robert’s Rule of Orders. Farrin Eddy (pictured) represented ERMS in the special talent portion of the convention and placed 3rd in the overall competition.
College News CULLOWHEE — Western Carolina University conferred degrees on 661 students who completed their studies during fall semester 2009. Gina Nicole Harrill, was among those students. Harrill earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and gradauted Magna Cum Laude. A total of 176 undergraduate students received academic honors, with 40 graduating summa cum laude (with highest honors), 67 graduating magna cum laude (with high honors), and 69 graduating cum laude (with honors).
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Forest City-Dunbar Elementary School students collected $787.89 to help in Haiti. They presented this check to the American Red Cross. Pictured are (l-r) peer helper students Savannah Hutchins, Jordan Gray, Vinson Lowrance and Whitley Tate; Linda Bridges, assistant principal; Carol Bailey, Red Cross volunteer; Sally Blanton, principal; and Karen Bailey, counselor. Kneeling are peer helpers, Corey Daves and Lakeisha Camp.
Nominations open for North Carolina awards RALEIGH – Nominations for the 2010 North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the state, are now being accepted. Created by the General Assembly in 1961, and administered by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the award recognizes significant contributions of individuals in the fields of fine arts, literature, public service and science over time.
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Members of the Marine Corps JROTC at R-S Central High School were recognized Feb. 9, during the first semester awards program. Mt. Vernon Ruth Elementary School held a Literacy Day celebration on Feb. 9, where all classrooms participated in literature activities throughout the day. Keith Ezell (above, far right), principal of Mount Vernon-Ruth, gets students lined up for the character parade. Ezell was in fine character as Woody from the Toy Story. The event was held to promote literacy in the classroom, at home and in the community. The celebration extended into the evening with a hot dog supper, book making, snowman crafts, retelling of stories and drama plays with by the book characters.
MCJROTC holds awards program RUTHERFORDTON — R-S Central High School Marine Corps JROTC held its first semester awards program to recognize cadet accomplishments on February 9. The following cadets were recognized for earning promotions, service awards and achievement awards during the first semester: Gabe Abele – Civic Service Award (5th), Color Guard Award (4th), Drill Team Award (3rd), Band Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Amber Adkins – Civic Service Award; Cliff Alexander – Civic Service Award (4th); Katie Atkins – Civic Service Award (3rd), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (3rd), Distinguished Conduct Award (2nd), Rifle Team Award; Nick Beaver – Civic Service Award (5th), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (5th), Distinguished Military Training Award (3rd), Athletic Participation Award (5th), Longevity and Fidelity Award (3rd), Distinguished Conduct Award (2nd); Bransom Benfield – Civic Service Award (5th), Distinguished Military Training Award (2nd);
Ashley Fromson portrays “Willy Wonka,” attired in a bright purple jacket and brown hat. The students and faculty dressed up as favorite book characters and classroom doors were decorated. Other characters included Dr. Seuss, Horton, Junie B. Jones, Miss Wishy Washy, A Case of the Bad Stripes, The Relatives and Fancy Nancy, to name a few.
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Courtney Blair – Civic Service Award (3rd), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award, Distinguished Military Training Award (2nd), Rifle Team Award, Distinguished Conduct Award (2nd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Jacob Blair – Civic Service Award; D.J. Bradley – Civic Service Award, Athletic Participation Award; Tyler Brown – Civic Service Award (4th), Distinguished Military Training Award, Physical Achievement Award (3rd), Athletic Participation Award (3rd), Distinguished Conduct Award, Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Hunter Bumgardner – Civic Service Award, Distinguished Conduct Award, Drill Team Award; Shakeia Burgin – Civic Service Award (5th), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (4th), Distinguished Military Training Award (4th), Color Guard Award (5th), Drill Team Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award (2nd); Martina Carson – Civic Service Award (5th), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award, Superior Marksmanship Award, Rifle Team Award (2nd), Cadet Leadership
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Awards Continued from Page 5C Tiffany Edgerton â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (5th), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (3rd), Distinguished Military Training Award (4th), Physical Achievement Award (4th), Color Guard Award, Drill Team Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Austin Elfers - Physical Achievement Award, Athletic Participation Award (2nd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Cole Flack â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (5th), Distinguished Conduct Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Nicole Flack â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Promotion to Cadet Corporal, Civic Service Award (3rd), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (2nd), Distinguished Military Training Award (2nd), Distinguished Conduct Award (2nd); Richard Francois â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (3rd), Longevity and Fidelity Award (2nd); Ryan Gerth - Promotion to Cadet Private First Class, Athletic Participation Award; David Gettys - Distinguished Conduct Award (2nd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Travis Gibson - Athletic Participation Award; Jasmine Glenn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Promotion to Cadet Sergeant, Civic Service Award (5th), Superior Marksmanship Award, Rifle Team Award (2nd); Lucas Hamrick â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award, Drill Team Award, Distinguished Conduct Award; Logan Hartzog â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (5th), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (4th), Distinguished Military Training Award (4th), Physical Achievement Award (7th), Superior Marksmanship Award (2nd), Athletic Participation Award (3rd), Longevity and Fidelity Award (3rd), Distinguished Conduct Award (3rd), Rifle Team Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Holli Hayes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Promotion to Cadet Lance Corporal,Civic Service Award, Distinguished Military Training Award, Drill Team Award; Matt Higgins â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (3rd), Distinguished
Scholastic Achievement Award (2nd), Distinguished Military Training Award (2nd), Distinguished Conduct Award (2nd), Drill Team Award (2nd); Cody Hill - Civic Service Award (4th), Color Guard Award (4th), Drill Team Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Charles Hill â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award, Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award, Drill Team Award; George Holt - Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award; Taylyr Johns â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Promotion to Cadet Sergeant, Civic Service Award, Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Alex Keough - Distinguished Conduct Award; Dakota Kesterson - Athletic Participation Award, Drill Team Award; Austin Lee - Distinguished Conduct Award (3rd), Drill Team Award (2nd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Chantel Lewis - Athletic Participation Award; Cierra Logan - Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award, Distinguished Conduct Award; Paige McCombs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (5th), Color Guard Award (5th), Drill Team Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award (2nd); Rebecca McFarland â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (6th), Distinguished Military Training Award, Longevity and Fidelity Award (3rd), Rifle Team Award (2nd); Hailey Melton â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (2nd); Shaq Miller â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Promotion to Cadet Corporal, Civic Service Award (4th), Athletic Participation Award (2nd); Akasha Miller - Drill Team Award (2nd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Samantha Morris â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award, Rifle Team Award; Steven Murphy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (2nd), Superior Marksmanship Award, Rifle Team Award, Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Alex Murray â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (3rd), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (2nd), Distinguished Military Training Award (2nd), Distinguished Conduct Award (2nd), Rifle Team Award, Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Chris Noffke â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (6th), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (5th), Distinguished Military Training Award (6th), Physical Achievement Award (7th), Superior
Marksmanship Award, Longevity and Fidelity Award (3rd), Distinguished Conduct Award ( 3rd), Rifle Team Award (2nd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award (2nd); Tyler Osborne - Promotion to Cadet Private First Class; Amanda Parker â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (2nd), Distinguished Military Training Award; Savannah Parton - Drill Team Award (2nd); Dominique Petty â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (5th), Distinguished Military Training Award (3rd), Physical Achievement Award (4th), Athletic Participation Award (6th), Longevity and Fidelity Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Daniel Pruett - Promotion to Cadet Private First Class; Chris Ramsey â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award, Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award; Geryko Reep - Athletic Participation Award; Bradley Roper â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Drill Team Award; Jon Russell â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (6th), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (2nd), Distinguished Military Training Award (2nd), Superior Marksmanship Award, Longevity and Fidelity Award (3rd), Distinguished Conduct Award (3rd), Rifle Team Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award (2nd); Katie Russell â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (3rd), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (2nd), Distinguished Military Training Award (2nd), Distinguished Conduct Award, Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Malik Sanford - Promotion to Cadet Corporal; Cody Sims - Distinguished Military Training Award, Drill Team Award; Corey Smith â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (3rd), Distinguished Military Training Award (2nd), Physical Achievement Award (3rd), Distinguished Conduct Award (2nd), Drill Team Award (2nd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Jeremiah Spencer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (5th), Color Guard Award (3rd), Drill Team Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award (2nd); Josh Stephens Athletic Participation Award; Nick Stoehrer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award, Distinguished Conduct Award; Tommy Stover â&#x20AC;&#x201C;
Promotion to Cadet Lance Corporal, Civic Service Award, Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award, Distinguished Military Training Award, Drill Team Award; Brandon Suttle â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award; Jessica Swink â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (5th), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (3rd), Superior Marksmanship Award, Longevity and Fidelity Award (3rd), Rifle Team Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award (2nd); Amber Swink â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (2nd), Rifle Team Award, Distinguished Conduct Award, Cadet Leadership Camp Award; Dylan Swink â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award; Cole Taylor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Athletic Participation Award; Lori Townsend â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (4th), Athletic Participation Award (5th), Distinguished Conduct Award (2nd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award (2nd); Jamel Twitty - Distinguished Conduct Award (2nd); Adam Van Wormer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Promotion to Cadet Lance Corporal,
Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award, Athletic Participation Award, Distinguished Conduct Award; Beth Verner - Distinguished Conduct Award; Tyler Wallace - Physical Achievement Award (2nd); Emily Weeks - Rifle Team Award; Dustin Whitaker â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award, Distinguished Military Training Award, Drill Team Award; David Wilkins - Athletic Participation Award; Rusty Woody â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award, Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (2nd), Rifle Team Award; Jacob Yant â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Civic Service Award (7th), Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award (6th), Distinguished Military Training Award (6th), Superior Marksmanship Award, Athletic Participation Award (4th), Longevity and Fidelity Award (3rd), Distinguished Conduct Award (4th), Rifle Team Award (3rd), Cadet Leadership Camp Award Students were also recognized for receiving Wall of Honor awards.
Cadets of the Semester: 1st Platoon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cadet Staff Sergeant Alex Murray; 2nd Platoon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cadet Corporal Katie Russell; 3rd Platoon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cadet Lance Corporal Tommy Stover; 4th Platoon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cadet Lance Corporal Holli Hayes; 5th Platoon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cadet Corporal Akasha Miller. 1st Platoon was selected as the Platoon of the Semester. Platoon members were Cadets Staff Sergeant Bransom Benfield and Alex Murray; Cadets Sergeant Katie Atkins, Tyler Brown, Martina Carson, Lindsey Cathcart, Cole Flack, Jasmine Glenn, Taylyr Johns and Lori Townsend; Cadets Corporal Richard Francois, Shaq Miller, Malik Sanford and Rusty Woody; and Cadets Lance Corporal Cliff Alexander, Jason Cuthbertson and Amanda Parker. Physical Fitness Awards were awarded. High male average â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cadet Captain Chris Noffke, avg score 297 points. High female average â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cadet Staff Sergeant Ashley Davis, avg score 263 points. Possible score is 300 points.
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The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, February 21, 2010 — 7C
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Stepson’s drug use puts marriage on the rocks Dear Abby: I have been married five months, and a problem has come up. It’s my wife’s 20-year-old son, “Danny.” He uses drugs, and he does it in our house. He also allows the garbage to pile up in his room to the point that the stench invades the entire house. We have had to install locks on all the internal doors because Danny steals from us. He also has his girlfriend and drug-using cousin over for “sleepovers.” Last night I was so upset I told my wife I was tired of the drugs and the filth, and if Danny doesn’t straighten out, I am going to turn him in to the authorities. My wife
Dear Abby Abigail van Buren
now barely speaks to me, and she’s making me feel like I’m the enemy. Was I wrong to put my foot down? — Conflicted Dear Conflicted: Not in my book. Danny appears to be an addict living the lifestyle of an addict, which includes stealing and hanging around with others who use drugs. The garbage may be piling up because he’s so stoned he doesn’t notice. I don’t know how long you all have been living like this,
but if you married your wife under these circumstances, she may expect you to continue to tolerate it. As long as she allows her son to use drugs and live the way he is, nothing will change. Please recognize that your wife is her son’s enabler. A loving mother should insist that he get help and clean up his act. What you must decide is whether you’re willing to live like this for the rest of your life, because you can’t change this lady and her son. Only they can do that, and they do not appear inclined to do so. Dear Abby: My 6-year-old son, Perry, is autistic and loves to say “Good morning”
to people when we’re out — no matter what time of day it is. It surprises me how many people will not reply. Why is that? Would it be so difficult to just say something in return? Have we become lost in cell phones, iPods and other electronic devices to the extent that we have forgotten how to be polite? You never know when a simple “good morning” will make someone happy — and you might even find yourself smiling more. — Parent Dear Parent: Your child’s disability may make some of the people he’s greeting uncomfortable. Because the greeting is not appropriate,
they may be unsure how to respond. It’s sad, because it only takes a moment to say, “Hi,” and the validation would give your son a jolt of pleasure. If, however, you are disappointed because your son is getting no response from individuals who are using their cell phones, please know you’re a member of a very large club. I hear the same complaint from mothers, fathers and grandparents who would also like a little courtesy from distracted relatives who are too absorbed in their cell phones, iPods and Blackberrys to make eye contact or converse.
Cortisone appropriate for arthritis
So you’ve adopted a cat . . . now what?
Dear Dr. Gott: I am a 54-year-old female with osteoarthritis in both hips. When I discussed this condition with my general practitioner, he sent me to an out-of-state specialist who recommended cortisone injections. When I tried to have cortisone injections done by a local specialist, I was told that they would not help me because I don’t have bursitis. I am most uncomfortable when I stand still, sit or lie down for any length of time. Using a heating pad several times during the night helps alleviate the muscle cramping, though. I have more pain in my lower back/sacral area, knees and thigh muscles than in the hips themselves. Who is right? Would the cortisone injections really help? Dear Reader: I must side with the out-of-state specialist. Cortisone injections are often beneficial as one of the initial steps toward relieving the pain of arthritis. A randomized placebocontrolled trial of glucocorticoid injections for osteoarthritis of the hip demonstrated benefits lasting up to three months. Over-the-counter
If you have been lucky enough to be adopted by a kitten or cat (we adopt puppies and dogs, but kittens and cats adopt us!), then you probably know exactly what to do. Here are a few tips that may help you introduce you new pet into your household: Start of in a small room so as not to overwhelm your new addition. Make sure to provide food, a bowl of water, litter box and comfy bed. A small toy or two to help your new kitten or cat feel secure. A room with a window and ledge can be fun for your new pet to watch the outside world. A box or cat carrier with soft bedding may help your pet feel more secure and comfy. Your new pet may need some quiet timethis is normal. Visit her or him to bring food so that your pet will get used to a regular mealtime. Petting and brushing and calling your pet by his or her name. Cats are more easily stressed and can take some time to settle in. Once your new pet has settled in and your house is relatively quiet, allow him or her to explore it’s new home. Make sure that there aren’t any hazards such as poisonous plants, small objects, cleaners and chemicals, or open doors or windows. Cats are neat freaks by nature-moving the litter box and food or water bowls can be distressing to you new pet. Accidents do happen, but if this becomes a chronic problem, a trip to the vet may be necessary to check for a urinary tract infection. If you have other cats, introductions need to be made slowly, allowing short periods of time together several times a day. Make sure that each kitten and cat have sufficient litter box space-it this is not taken care of-accidents, fights, and problems can arise. Just like people, each kitten or cat has its own distinct personality-some are loves and enjoy being petted while others are more
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medications such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen or naproxen, topical capsaicin or menthol ointments (especially those made with castor oil), and ice packs or heat may also provide relief. If these options fail to provide satisfactory results, consider physical therapy, low-impact exercise programs or enter a chronic-pain class to learn other ways to manage the pain. A final option for those with severe joint deformity, pain and dysfunction is surgery, such as joint realignment or replacement. Seek out another local specialist or return to the out-of-state physician for further advice and treatment. To provide related information, I am sending you a copy of my Health Report “Understanding Osteoarthritis.” Other readers who would like a copy should send a self-addressed stamped No. 10 envelope and a $2 check or money order to Newsletter, P.O. Box 167, Wickliffe, OH 44092. Be sure to mention the title.
IN THE STARS Your Birthday, Feb. 21; Before considering a career change in the year ahead, be sure that you have exhausted all possibilities for growth. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — You’re capable of handling difficult developments. When others butt in, however, they’re likely to throw you off track. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — If you’re trying to make a convincing point, stick to the cold, hard facts. Fabricating the truth will only arouse opposition. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Using strong, realistic tactics should work well in all commercial dealings, but when it comes to negotiating something with friends, use warmth and sentimentality. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — All your good intentions, plans or ideas will be for naught if you fail to execute them as outlined. If you want success, be sure that your actions do not deviate from the blueprint. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Be extremely selective when it comes to revealing confidential information either to a business associate or a friend. If the wrong person gets hold of it, your words could be twisted. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Be exceptionally careful about how you deal with a friend regarding an issue over a shared expense. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Allies might support you but only up to a point with regard to your personal ambitions. If you overstep the limit and ask too much of them, you’ll be left standing alone. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Competitive games should be played merely for the fun of the challenge, especially with friends. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — In order to enjoy yourself with whatever you choose to do, you must keep your mind focused. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — You’ll have plenty of enthusiasm to pursue an idea, but if you are an uninspired finisher, the desired result is likely to fall short. Know what you want, and be tenacious about it. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Getting along with people you see every day shouldn’t be problematic. When it comes to a boring social obligation you could be unfriendly. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — You’re likely to have a hard time managing your resources, so when it comes to handling the funds of others, keep your hands off.
The Pet Project Produced by Jo-Ann Close and Lynne Faltraco Community Pet Center
aloof. So, you have dogs too! Again, slow and easy are the best approaches. Most kittens and cats tolerate dogs well. Often, cats and dogs become best friends. Patience pays off and keeping your home as quiet and peaceful as possible will help make the transition go smoothly. Cats are wonderful companions-handsome or beautiful as well as entertaining and comforting. If you are interested in adopting a kitten or cat, please consider adopting from the Rutherford County Animal Control Facility and saving a shelter pet’s life. Call the Community Pet Center’s office at: 287-7738 for ore information or check out the kittens and cats at: www.rutherfordcountync.gov and then go to Departments and click on Animal Shelter and scroll down to view the kittens and cats.
Use a favorite frugal ingredient Pasta is a frugal staple. It’s economical and easy to prepare, and its versatility makes it a budget-friendly favorite. You can serve it hot or cold, make a meal for one or a big crowd, and dress it up for an elegant meal or toss together as a casual dish. Plus, there are so many types of pasta that it never has to be boring. Slow Cooker Pasta Fagioli 1 pound lean ground beef, browned and drained 1/2 large red onion, chopped 1 cup carrots, chopped 2 celery stalks, sliced 1 can kidney beans, drained and rinsed 1 can white beans, drained and rinsed 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, with juice 1 jar (16-1/2 ounces) pasta sauce 4 cups beef broth salt and pepper, to taste 2 teaspoons oregano 1 tablespoon Tabasco sauce 1/2 cup dry pasta, to add at end of cooking time Use a large slow cooker, or cut the recipe in half. Brown the meat on the stovetop and drain well. Let it cool a bit. Chop up the onion, carrots and celery. Add them to the empty slow cooker. Drain and rinse the beans, and add them. Add the tomatoes and the pasta sauce. Add the beef broth. Add the salt, pepper, oregano and Tabasco sauce. Stir in the meat. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours or on high for 4. When the vegetables are tender, stir in the dry pasta. Cover and cook for another hour on low, or until tender. It will swell quite a bit. — Bella, Iowa
Frugal Living by Sara Noel
Easy Gnocchi 1 cup mashed potatoes 1 egg 2 cups flour Mix and knead ingredients into a ball. Shape portions into snakes and cut into half-inch pieces. Drop pieces into boiling, salted water. Cook for 5 minutes or until gnocchi have risen to the top. Delicious with red, white or cheese sauces, or primavera. — Constance, New Jersey Springtime Spaghetti 2 medium squash, 1 yellow and 1 green, cut into thin 2-inch matchsticks 2 medium carrots, cut into thin 2-inch matchsticks 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 tablespoon olive oil 4 tablespoons margarine, divided 8 ounces spaghetti 2 teaspoons flour 1/2 cup milk 3/4 pounds cooked shrimp 2/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 teaspoon salt In skillet, cook veggies and garlic in the olive oil and 1 tablespoon of the margarine until tender. Remove from pan. Get your pasta cooking, and while it is, add remaining margarine to skillet and melt. Stir in flour, cook for a minute, and slowly add milk, stirring constantly. Cook until slightly thickened. Add veggies, shrimp, cheese and salt, cooking to heat it through. Drain pasta, toss and serve.
8C — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, February 21, 2010
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blue sky with two feet of snow, minus 7 degrees temperature, and a minus 42 degree wind chill, I can’t help but think how magnificent nature is and how lucky I am to be able to experience it, for a couple of minutes, maximum, I wouldn’t trade with anyone.” “I am excited about having a chance to work in a place that has always been special and magical to me,” he said. “I am excited to have the chance to work with people whose company I enjoy and whose values I admire. “It is exciting to commit myself to a purpose that is bigger and more important than I am,” continued Dameron. “I am extremely humbled to have been asked to do this.” Dameron, is a Marion native and Vicki is a native of West Palm Beach, Fla. When Dameron first moved to Rutherford County, he was a successful trial lawyer and served
Kubota the buck peers over a rock at Grandfather Mountain.
as a Superior Court Judge. Vicki’s work has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines, brochures, reports, management plans and Web sites. Murals of her work are displayed in the Asheville Regional Airport and the spa at Rumbling Bald Resort in Lake Lure. The couple’s children are in Los Angeles, Chicago, Greensboro and Union Mills. Above, When there is not snow on the mountain, Grandfather Mountain can often be found shrouded in fog. At left, deer play in the snowfall.
Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.
Nikita the panther is one of many animals to be found at Grandfather Mountain.
I am excited about having a chance to work in a place that has always been special and magical to me. I am excited to have the chance to work with people whose company I enjoy and whose values I admire. Penn Dameron, executive director of Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation
Penn Dameron’s wife, Vicki, captured this picture of snow on the mountain at Grandfather Mountain.
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