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Judy Cairo of Forest City holds the Oscar with stars Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall on Oscar night in downtown Los Angeles.
Cairo’s first trip to Oscars was ‘a night to remember’ By JEAN GORDON
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FOREST CITY — “It was a night to remember,” Forest City native Judy Woody Cairo said of the Oscars Sunday night in Hollywood. Cairo was one of the producers of Crazy Heart whose star Jeff Bridges won the Best Actor award. When Bridges took the stage to accept the Oscar, he thanked Cairo during his acceptance speech. “I was thrilled,” she said. “He has been
thanking me at other award shows, the Indie Spirit Awards, the Critics Choice Awards, the Palm Springs Film Festival, but it’s very special to hear your name announced with an audience of a billion people around the world during the Oscars.” According to the Nielsen Company, an estimated 41.3 million people watched the Academy Awards, the most-watched since 2005.
Town will push water hook ups
LAKE LURE — Lake Lure Classical Academy is now officially chartered. The North Carolina State Board of Education approved the official charter March 4. The charter is effective July 1, 2010, and will remain in place for 10 years. In a letter to LLCA Board Chairman Philip Byers, the State Board of Education said the school would undergo a five-year review process in 2015. A preliminary charter was granted to Lake Lure and two other potential new schools in the state in August 2009. With a charter now in place, the opening of the academy in Lake Lure will mark the end of a near 50-year hiatus without a local school in the Lake Lure area. The school will open in temporary modular units this August, Byers said, on the site of the former Lake Lure School. “The mobile units will be installed late spring,” he said. “There are three units with 10 classroom pods each. By tem-
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LAKE LURE — More than a dozen residents of the town of Lake Lure have until June to hook onto the town’s water system, town board decided Tuesday night during its regular business meeting at town hall. The water lines were installed in 2006 to provide water for the new Ingles grocery and will also provide water for the new Lake Lure Classical Academy and the medical park. At that time, residents were given three years to tap onto the water system with the deadline set for this May. But Tuesday night the board agreed to give the 12 to 14 residents another month to make the mandatory water connections. Town Manager Chris Braund said when the water lines were built, residents were mandated by an ordinance to hook onto the system in order to help defray the costs of the new infrastructure. Commissioners asked Braund if there will be enough water capacity for the new school and medical park and he will research the question for an answer soon. Braund was also given the OK to write letters reminding the residents still on the list they need to hook onto the infrastructure no later than June. “There were a lot more than this,” he said of the residents, but over the three years they have come off the well water. The town of Lake Lure Please see Town, Page 6
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Bright yellow fire hydrants will be installed along U.S. 221 south of Rutherfordton as the Broad River Water Authority constructs its new water lines. Kennedy Construction of Shelby is doing the work for BRWA and Monday morning, employees Ken Mabe and Jerry Beam were checking out the new hydrants. Mabe said it will be a few days before the first of the hydrants are ready to be installed along the stretch of the highway.
Ellenboro chasing lost water By LARRY DALE Daily Courier Staff Writer
ELLENBORO — The town lost $21,304 in water last year and is launching an effort to find out where the unaccounted-for water went. The water problem was discussed Tuesday night at the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Aldermen. Board member Jim Rhyne said there are probably a number of reasons why some water is unaccounted for, ranging from leaks in
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lines to people stealing water. Also, part of the water is used by the town’s fire department in its duties. Rhyne said Marty Wilson, with the Rural Water Association, came to town to check paperwork and tallied up the unaccounted-for water. Wilson will return this spring with a meter to check line by line for even minute leaks. “We need to find it,” Rhyne noted. “We’re losPlease see Water, Page 3
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Cast members Jean Liuzzi, Karen Pappas, Katherine Proctor and Lisa Bark, perform the musical comedy “Church Basement Ladies” at The Foundation, Isothermal Community College, Tuesday afternoon. Portions of proceeds from the performances Tuesday afternoon and evening went to “Touching Lives,” Rutherford Hospital’s $500,000 campaign drive to help fund the hospital foundation’s programs, such as Lifeline, Cancer Patient Navigator, Camp WheezKnot, mammograms for non-insured and a fetal-maternal monitoring system for the hospital’s Birth Place.
SPINDALE — The Rutherford County Farm Bureau will play host to a meeting for a review and discussion of on-farm fruit and vegetable food safety issues and proposed federal regulations. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday with a complimentary supper. Reservations are required by Friday so that organizers can plan for the meal. For more than one year, food safety legislation has been pending in the U.S. Congress. This past summer, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation, and a bill awaits action in the U.S. Senate. In addition, the Food and Drug Administration and the USDA have announced that they are working together to develop rules and regulations for on-farm production of fruits and vegetables in the area of food safety. North Carolina Farm Bureau and the N.C. Fresh Produce Safety Task Force would like to hear what you think. Comments from the meeting will be presented to FDA and USDA now, before regulations are written. Fruit and vegetable producers should attend. Small producers with production of less than 100 acres are especially welcome. Wholesale growers, retail/ farm stand growers, growers with CSAs or who sell at farmers markets are encouraged to attend. The meeting is for producers only. The Rutherford County Farm Bureau is at 153 Reservation Drive in Spindale. Call 287-2428 for more information. Meetings are also scheduled Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. at the Cleveland County Farm Bureau (704) 4822436 and at noon at the McDowell County Farm Bureau (828) 652-4525.
30 vendors set for hospital event Carolina Notes By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer
FOREST CITY — Nearly 30 vendors are showcasing their products Friday at “Be Inspired” a Rutherford Hospital Foundation sponsored event at The Foundation, Isothermal Community College. Vendors will exhibit products from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Guest speaker for the event is Sharon Decker of Rutherfordton. Decker is also sponsoring an exhibit for The Link 107.9, the Satisfied Life Network. Decker, Ramona Holloway and Pam Stone are hosts of The Satisfied Life morning talk show every Sunday. Decker is also the founder of The Tapestry Group. She will speak at 11:30 a.m. Friday. “I hope I can guide a few more women down the path of recognizing it’s a tapestry we weave, not a perfect piece of cloth,” Decker says of The Tapestry
Group. Her history offers inspiration for women everywhere. She is a highly successful business executive who has effectively balanced her professional life with responsibilities of the home, service to the community and devotion to her faith. Among exhibitors are: Cancer Resource Center/ Mammo Center/Lifeline; The Foundation, Be Inspired Tee Shirts, 1906 Club memberships; Doncaster Outlet by Tanner; Pampered Chef; Bella Mia – Pandora Jewelry Trunk Show; Positively Paper - Scrapbooking supplies; Tips to Toes; It’s All in the Bag, Handbags and accessories; Green River Designs Home furnishings; RHI - OB/GYN/childbirth education; Freeze Frame, personalized photo frames; Smith Drug – hormone therapy, women’s health; Garrett and Meg’s – Brighton Jewelry and Shoes; The Edge Fitness Center; Mountain
Fresh Technologies; Rutherford Hospital Gift Shop; Monograms and More; Covenant Advisory, Estate Planning, wills, insurance; Foothills Yoga; Morganton Eye; OBAGI, Laser Hair Removal; Glassical Heirlooms; Spindale Drug Gift Shop; Zana Whitmire, Mary Kay; Jafra Skin Care – Daphan Braswell; Essential Bodywear; Rutherford County Visual Arts Guild; Glass Girl Studio – hand blown glass and jewelry; Rutherford Hospital – Community Relations/Women’s Health. Tickets are $30. Proceeds and portion of the sales from the merchants will benefit Foundation’s “Touching Lives” campaign. The Foundation will pay for 120 mammograms in 2010 for women who have no medical insurance.
Reform panel suggests changes RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina government and budget reform panel formed by Gov. Beverly Perdue says she should consider ways to make Medicaid and the state’s motor fleet more efficient. Members of the Budget Reform and Accountability Commission agreed Wednesday to recommend to Perdue more ways to prevent waste and abuse in state government. They voted to suggest strengthening criteria before state agencies can receive a vehicle from the motor fleet division, or reduce rates the division charges to agencies for use of the cars. Departments have been paying millions of dollars for state-owned cars that have often remained in parking lots during the tight budget times. The commission also told Perdue to get outside help for the state Medicaid office so it can better project spending trends.
Perdue wants to restore pay cut
RALEIGH (AP) — Gov. Beverly Perdue wants to repay North Carolina state workers for taking away part of their salaries last year to close a budget Contact Gordon via email:jgordon@ shortfall. thedigitalcourier.com The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that Perdue wants to return the 0.5 percent pay cut she required of 170,000 state employees and teachers. The workers had to take For ATM transactions, custom- 10 hours of unpaid leave. ers who try to withdraw more Perdue says the salary savings helped close a than their balance will have to shortfall of more than $3 billion. The shortfall agree to pay a $35 overdraft fee is expected to be smaller this year and Perdue before they can get the money. already has returned public money she used to eliminate last year’s gap. The bank’s new policy will kick The governor also told the newspaper she expects in on June 19 for new accounts, no pay raises for the second straight year. The and in early August for existing Legislature will consider salaries when it reconaccounts. venes in May.
BoA will limit debit card use to available cash
NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America customers will soon be unable to spend more than they have in the accounts linked to their debit cards. It’s a step that may become a common move ahead of new regulations limiting overdraft fees. Rules set by the Federal Reserve that will ban banks
from charging such fees, without first getting permission from the customer, are set to take effect July 1. But Bank of America is going a step further than the regulations require. It will simply no longer allow debit card purchases to go through if there isn’t enough money in the account.
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ing too much water.” Some people, he noted, may be straight piping water to avoid meters and in some cases people may be pulling up to town hydrants with tanker trucks and stealing water to fill a swimming pool. That, he said, takes 2,500 gallons. In another water matter, the board voted 3 to 2 to give a price break to people inside the town who use less than 2,000 gallons of water a month. The rate for that amount will drop from $22.65 to $15.10 a month. The plan was offered by board member Allan “Bunt” Black, who said the rate will mostly give senior citizens who don’t use much water a $7 a month break, or about $84 a year. Black estimated that the change would affect about 30 customers. “I think people need help,” Black said. Board member Lee Allen agreed that people on fixed incomes need a break. Mayor Teresa Whisnant Wood pointed out, however, that people who don’t get a $7 a month break on their water bill will say that they, too, need the help. Jim Rhyne said his only problem with it was that it would be one more loss of water revenue in addition to the hit in unaccounted-for water. Black, Allen and Mike Rhyne voted for the rate break; Jim Rhyne and Sandra Butler Weeks voted no. The board also moved unanimously to amend how the agenda for the board meeting is handled. Black recommended that all items be placed on the agenda by 5 p.m. the day before board meetings, that employee matters only be discussed in executive session, that discussion on a matter can only begin after a motion has been offered and seconded and that the board do away with “other business” as an agenda category. He said that late-arriving business items can still be discussed if needed, but not as a routine matter at every meeting. Earlier in the meeting, Mayor Wood asked to have the February meetings amended. She said the minutes need to be written verbatim, so that if the mayor said something, for example, the minutes reflect what the reply was from the clerk. She asked for a motion to that effect, but none was forthcoming from board members, so the minutes were approved as written. In other business: n the board once again tabled selecting a citizen representative for the town on the Isothermal Planning and Development Commission. n the process of selecting a new auditor for the town was discussed. Two firms have expressed some interest in the job, the board was told. n board members were updated on plans to return the stretch of U.S. 74 in the town limits to a 45 mph speed limit. The state requires the town to certify that the municipality has asked for the action. The state can then decide if it wants to concur with the change. n $250 was set aside for Isothermal Planning and Development Commission dues. n the board was told that the Woman’s Club is planning its yard sale for May 1 at 8 a.m.
In a Tuesday, photo, Treas Ross, 5, flies a minirechargeable airplane with his grandfather, Stewart Colson, at the Arboretum in Greensboro as 70-degree spring weather invited residents outdoors. Associated Press
Mafia suspects arrested in N.C. NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI arrested a reputed U.S. mobster Wednesday on charges he provided protection for a Sicilian counterpart mapping out criminal turf in Florida — part of an international sweep aimed at further crippling the storied Gambino organized crime family and disrupting its ties to the Italian mob. Wiretaps and surveillance revealed that suspected Gambino solider Gaetano Napoli Sr. had a “close relationship” and “communicated extensively” with Roberto Settineri, a suspected member of the Sicilian Mafia facing charges in Florida and Italy, according to court papers charging Napoli and two sons. They said Napoli helped settle a dispute last year between Settineri and members of the Colombo crime family during a “sit down” at a social club in Pompano Beach, Fla. Settineri, 41, an Italian citizen living in Miami Beach, was
caught on tape telling Napoli he wanted his participation to “show everybody good manners” — what authorities say was a reference to the La Cosa Nostra custom that only made members handle such negotiations. At a news conference in Miami on Wednesday announcing three more arrests there, U.S. and Italian authorities told reporters the Sicilian mob had dispatched Settineri to the United States to generate more business with American gangsters. “He had the important ties to the American crime families of Gambino and Colombo,” a top Italian National Police officer, Raffaele Grassi, said through a translator. Napoli, 71, and a son, 44-yearold Gaetano Napoli Jr., were arrested Wednesday in North Carolina on extortion, bankruptcy fraud and other charges contained in an indictment unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn. They were to be arraigned in
Raleigh on Thursday. The indictment alleges the father was overheard admitting he had “schooled” a grand jury witness. He also was charged with threatening someone who owed him a $30,000 gambling debt. “I’m giving you an extension which I shouldn’t even give,” court papers say he warned in one recorded message. “Don’t make me come around and look for you.” A second son named in the indictment, Thomas Napoli, 31, pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn to concealing assets in a bankruptcy of a family business. He was released on $100,000 bond. FBI agents arrested Settineri on Wednesday hours before he was to fly from Miami to Italy, authorities said. He and 39-yearold Daniel Dromberhauser were indicted on charges of obstruction of justice and conspiring to launder $10 million in crime proceeds.
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mid all the increasingly positive reports about the nation’s economy, there are still plenty of signs of trouble and reasons for concern. Chief among the latter is the jobs situation. Recent reports have indicated that the jobs situation may be turning, but at the same time we learn that the unemployment rate for North Carolina in January hit a historic record. Even if the national jobs picture does start getting better, North Carolina is almost certain to lag behind. The reason is that we are still a state that has much of its economy linked to manufacturing and those jobs are among the first to go and the last to come back in economic downturns. With all of that said, we come to a key point. North Carolina leaders needs to redouble their efforts as they go about rebuilding our job base to bring more diversity to the state. As long as we have too much invested in any one sector of the job market, we will suffer longer. If we can create an economic base with enough diversity, no one sector can pull all the others down with it. There is no way to ever eliminate all the potential problems, but we can certainly improve the situation. This is a more difficult task than it sounds. The concept of economic diversity has been around for decades, but achieving it has been difficult. Still, what we have seen in this recession should make the need for diversity more apparent than ever before.
Our readers’ views Says ROTC shooters’ success impressive To the editor: It was with a mixture of elation and a degree of envy that I read the news of the ROTC rifle team’s national championship achievements. I was not much surprised, having kept up with the team’s progress over the years. Some years ago, on a Marine boot camp rifle range in South Carolina, I tried to win a distinction, which though not as laudable, would have been a high honor: expert rifleman. I did not come close, but missed a sharpshooter’s rating by only a few points, ending up as only a marksman. (I did have the dubious consolation of learning that some of my comrades didn’t even qualify.) Justifiably, I think, I blamed my failure on the fact that I was a left-handed, left dominant eye firearms shooter, required on the occasions of practice and shooting for record on that range to perform right-handidly with a weapon engineered only for right-handed shooters. The 30-caliber M-I Garand was neither designed nor reversible for left-handed riflemen.
ment would not have to buy playground equipment for the Frank West Park. Also, RCS could let the Little League or the soccer folks use the school grounds with an agreement whoever uses it would have to maintain the grounds! I do not see any reason why this idea would not work. Johnny Lowery Henrietta
Says thanks to all who helped after accident To the editor: On Saturday March 6, I was involved in a motorcycle accident on Dixie Trail Drive in Forest City at around 4 p.m. I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every person that came to my aid on that afternoon. I am not sure who each and every individual was at the scene because I sustained a pretty good blow to my head, judging by the looks of my helmet, but rest assured whether I remember you or know you, I sincerely thank you for what you did for me. This includes every department that responded to the scene, every person within that depart-
ment, and every person who kept me in your thoughts and prayers. This includes all the churches that put me on their prayer lists. Two of the churches were Goodes Creek Baptist Church and Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. I think there were other churches also, I don’t know their names, but God does. If not for the quick response of everyone involved, I probably would not be able to type this letter. Please take this letter as my personal thanks to you. Donald and Mary Jo Teseniar Forest City
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As it turned out, my subsequent duties did not require much riflemanship. I was assigned to a Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO), armed with a shortbarreled carbine, with which, although I never fired at one, I couldn’t have hit the side of a barn. Sam W. Ayers Rutherfordton
Says park equipment could be donated To the editor: I noticed an article in The Daily Courier entitled “Town says no to RCS park offer!” Here is an idea. They could donate the playground equipment to the Frank West park in Caroleen since the park does not have any playground equipment. That would save the taxpayers a lot of money. The county govern-
Be sure to do Google survey to help county bid Rutherford County needs our help – and by Rutherford County, I mean we need each others help. If you’ve been reading the paper for the past couple weeks, you’ve probably seen more than one mention of the adoption of a resolution in support of a joint application between Rutherford County Schools Board of Education and the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners to Google Fiber for Ultra-High Speed Broadband Network. Essentially, the two orga-
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nizations are agreeing to be joint forces in providing to Google all the many reasons Rutherford County should be chosen as a test site for the entity’s high speed fiber Internet. The county and RCS is working together to create and provide to Google all the
ways in which businesses, industries, schools and others could use the high speed network. And residents are invited to submit their reasons for why individuals and families could benefit from the network as well. If you like to give your opinion – and be honest, who doesn’t – here’s your chance to give it on a sound investment in our community and future. Google has a survey that takes only a few minutes
to complete. In addition to asking questions about your current Internet service, the survey also seeks information on why you think your community could use Google’s high speed. We’re up against competition. In his presentation on the resolution, Rutherford County Schools Chief Information Officer Benny Hendrix told the RCS Board during Tuesday’s meeting that areas like Asheville and Charlotte-Mecklenburg are also vying to be test sites. “We really need to get the
excitement in the community and get as many people involved as we can if we want them to come to a rural area, rather than Asheville or Charlotte-Mecklenburg, who already have the connectivity,” Hendrix said. If you’d like to make your voice heard and potentially aid in getting the high speed in Rutherford County, you can find the survey at https://www.google.com/ appserve/fiberrfi/. Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.
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Obituaries
Deputies probe shootings at care facility
Jack Smart
Marvin Henry “Jack” Smart, 94, of Forest City, died Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at Hospice House in Forest City. A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Robert Anderson Smart and Dovie Mae Ferguson Smart. He was a member of Brittain Presbyterian Church and attended Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. He was an Army veteran, a retired Wrong-way driver charged with DWI quiller for Stonecutter, and ASHEVILLE (AP) — State troopers say a man drove at also worked at AGI. least 15 miles in the wrong direction on an interstate in westHe is survived by his ern North Carolina before they stopped him and charged him wife, Georgianna Smart; with driving while impaired. two daughters, Mary Ann The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that troopers said Smart Waters and Sharon 65-year-old James Mint Barton of Brevard told them he was Smart Buchanan, both of trying to get to the airport Monday. Motorists had reported Rutherfordton; four granda pickup truck heading west in the eastbound lanes in sons; and four great-grandHenderson and Buncombe counties. children. Trooper R.E. Baker says several cars were run off the road as the truck reached speeds of 65 mph. No one was hurt. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Vernon Home invasion terrorizes family Baptist Church with the Rev. RAEFORD (AP) — A North Carolina family has moved out Greg Hathaway and Dr. Jim of their home after two men broke in, beat the father and put Whitlow officiating. Burial a gun in the mouth of his 3-year-old daughter, threatening to will follow in the church cemetery with military honkill her. ors. The family will receive The Fayetteville Observer reported the men broke into the friends Friday from 7 to 9 home of David and Billie Sue Frye of Raeford on Sunday afternoon and terrorized the family for 40 minutes. Frye said p.m. at Crowe’s Mortuary. In lieu of flowers, memothe men kicked and beat him until he passed out and didn’t rials may be made to Mt. leave until they found his rifles in a closet. Vernon Baptist Church, Raeford Police Chief Michael Dummett says he thinks the Paving Fund, 2676 Hudlow break-in is related to gang activity, which he says is increasRoad, Forest City NC 28043. ing in the town of 4,000 people.
JACKSONVILLE (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether an 80-year-old man shot and killed his wife at an Alzheimer’s care center in North Carolina before turning the gun on himself. The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday investigators found an 80-year-old woman dead from gunshot wounds to the head late Tuesday night at Alzheimer’s Related Care in Jacksonville. Deputies said the woman’s husband also had a gunshot wound to the head and remains in critical condition. The sheriff’s office said the wife had been a patient at the Alzheimer’s facility for about two months and that her husband had visited her daily.
Mother, child found dead in apartment
SELMA (AP) — A mother and her child have been found dead in an apartment fire in North Carolina. Multiple media outlets reported the fire was reported about 4 a.m. Wednesday at the Redwood Village Apartments in Selma, southeast of Raleigh.
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Lester Oesch
Lester Dean Oesch, 57, of 147 Melody Lane, Forest City, died Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at Hospice House in Forest City A native of Salem, Ohio, and formerly of New Springfield, Ohio and St. Petersburg, Fla., he was a son impaired and following too of Dona Jean Pauley Oesch closely; freed on a custody and the late Clayton Oesch. release. (RCSD) He was a member of n Jeffrey Charles Taylor, the Lutheran Church, an 23, of 236 Willow Run Drive; auto mechanics instructor, charged with violation of a dive instructor, 32 degree court order and resisting a Mason, 1989 president of public officer; placed under the Penninsula Shrine Club, a $7,000 secured bond. Moose International and (RCSD) American Legion. He was n Kendrick Jerel Lattimore, employed with his father 22, of 107 Cobra Drive; at Pasadena Chevron in St. charged with possession of Petersburg for many years. a firearm by a felon, assault by pointing a gun, and three In addition to his mother, counts of failure to appear; he is survived by his life no bond listed. (Bondsman) partner, Marsha Callahan of the home; a brother, Ed EMS/Rescue Oesch of Ozark, Mo.; a niece and nephew; and great-niece n The Rutherford County and nephew. EMS responded to 28 E-911 Private family services will calls Tuesday. n The Volunteer Life Saving be held at a later date. Memorials may be made and Rescue, Hickory Nut to Hospice of Rutherford Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043; or to Moose two calls Tuesday. Lodge # 2422.
Police Notes
n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 201 E-911 calls Tuesday. n Joseph John Urash reported the theft of a John Deere tractor. n Damage to a steel donation box was reported at Green River Baptist Association, 159 Darlington Road, Rutherfordton. n The theft of an air conditioner unit was reported at Danieltown Baptist Church, 2361 U.S. 221 South, Forest City. n Sarah Ruth Epley reported the theft of a motor vehicle. n Karkelia Yarnelle Mauney reported damage to the paint on an automobile. n Daryl Lynn Horton reported the theft of a .38-caliber revolver and other items. n Amy Stanley reported the theft of a television.
Rutherfordton
n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 26 E-911 calls Tuesday.
Spindale
n The Spindale Police Department responded to 21 E-911 Tuesday.
Lake Lure
n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to six E-911 calls Tuesday.
Forest City
n The Forest City Police Department responded to 78 E-911 calls Tuesday. n Gwen Shehan reported a larceny.
Arrests
n Jose Gutierrez, 29, of Dunbar Court, Greer, S.C.; charged with no operator’s license and fictitious tag; placed under a $3,000 secured bond. (FCPD) n Christopher Robert Queen, 21, of 155 Royal Blue Drive; charged with misdemeanor probation violation; placed under an $8,000 secured bond. (Probation) n Anna Marie Mooney, 24, of 701 W. Main St.; charged with two counts of misdemeanor probation violation; no bond listed. (RCSD) n Holland Chandler Guy, 44, of 375 Herman St.; charged with driving while license revoked, driving while
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Crowe’s Mortuary and Crematory is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences www. crowemortuary.com.
Lester Dean Oesch Lester Dean Oesch, age 57, of 147 Melody Lane, Forest City died Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at Hospice House. A native of Salem, Ohio and formerly of New Springfield, Ohio and St. Petersburg, FL., he was the son of Dona Jean Pauley Oesch and the late Clayton Oesch. Lester was of a member of the Lutheran Church, an auto mechanics instructor, dive instructor, 32 degree Mason, 1989 president of the Penninsula Shrine Club, Moose International, American Legion and was employed with his father at Pasadena Chevron in St. Petersburg, FL for many years. In addition to his mother Dona, he leaves to cherish his memory his partner of eleven years, Marsha Callahan of the home; brother, Ed Oesch of Ozark, Mo.; nephew, Ian Oesch of Ft. Stewart, Ga.; niece, Summer Brennan of Bradley Beach, NJ, great nephew, Beckett Brennan of Bradley Beach, NJ and great niece, Lily Oesch of Ft Stewart, Ga. Private family services will be held at the home. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Rutherford County or Moose Lodge # 2422. Online guest register is available at: www.crowemortuary.com Paid obit.
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James Oric Morris, 57, of Ellenboro, died Monday, March 8, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital. He was a son of the late Oric and Kathleen Morris. He was a member of Green Creek Missionary Baptist Church, and retired from Duke Energy after 20 years of employment. Survivors include his wife, Fanny Morris of Ellenboro; two sons, James Morris of Greensboro, and Stacy Morris of Cary; one daughter, Joy Mitchell of Raleigh; three grandchildren and a number of other relatives. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Green Creek Missionary Baptist Church in Polk County. The body will be placed in the church at noon. Interment in the church cemetery. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
Jerry Wayne Blanton, 65, of 3743 Elliott Cemetery Road, Shelby, died Monday, March 8, 2010, at Cleveland Regional Medical Center in Shelby. Born in Cleveland County, he was a son of the late William Arthur “Johnnie” Blanton and Lucy Elizabeth Campbell Blanton. He retired after 23 years of service as a dock worker for Carolina Freight Carriers. Mr. Blanton was a lifelong member of Big Springs Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Victoria White Blanton; a son, Wayne Blanton of Shelby; two grandchildren; two sisters, Sheila B. Moses of Marion, S.C., and Kathy B. McFarland of Ellenboro; two nephews; and a greatnephew. A celebration of life service will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday at Big Springs Baptist Church with the Revs. Paul Scott and Joe Edwards officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m., prior to the service in the church fellowship hall. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, Memorial Processing Center, P.O. Box 5216, Glen Allen, VA 23058-5216; or to Cleveland-Rutherford Kidney Association, 1017 N. Washington St., Shelby, NC 28150. Stamey Funeral Home, Fallston, is in charge of arrangements.
Arline Gilson Arline P. Gilson, 97 of Rutherfordton, died Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at Hospice House in Forest City. Born in Mifflintown, Penn., she was a daughter of the late Charles and Susan B. Potter, and also preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth M. Gilson. Before retirement, Arline operated the branch post office in Port St. Lucie, Fla., where she lived prior to moving to Rutherfordton in 1986. She was a member of Rock Springs Baptist Church, Rutherfordton. She is survived by a daughter, Joyce Foshie; one grandson; a great-granddaughter; and two great-great-grandchildren. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Crowe’s Mortuary with the Rev. Greg Huntley and Dr. Herman Nodine officiating. Burial in the Sunset Memorial Park. The family will receive friends Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Crowe’s. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Rock Springs Baptist Church, Building Fund, 111 County Line Road, Rutherfordton, NC 28139; or to Hospice of Rutherford County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043. Online condolences www. crowemortuary.com.
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Deaths Corey Haim LOS ANGELES (AP) — Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. Haim, who gained attention for roles in Lucas and The Lost Boys, had flulike symptoms before he died and was getting over-the-counter and prescription medications.
Erma Sue Butler White Ms. Erma Sue Butler White, 82, passed away on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at Carolina Medical Center-Mercy Hospital in Charlotte, NC. She was born on July 13, 1927 in Cleveland County to the late John and Laura Butler of Casar. She retired from Fasco Industries of Shelby and was a member of Mt. Moriah Methodist Church in Casar. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Eloise White and her brother, Eugene Butler. She is survived by her children, a son, Jerry White and wife, Glenda of Gastonia; daughters, Rita Rogers and husband, Pat and Janell Abercrombie and husband, Harley of Shelby; grandchildren, Aimee Rogers Thomas and husband, Jay of Charlotte, NC, Jamie Abercrombie of Charlotte, John White of Gastonia and David Bowman of Columbus, NC. Her sisters, Jeanette Turner and Fannie Hoyle of Casar, Pauline McCurry of Polkville, Shirley Philbeck and husband, John of Polkville, Mildred McNeilly and husband, Donald of Casar, an aunt, Novella Chapman of Casar and special friend, Leslie Cook. Many loving nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends on Friday, March 12, 2010 from 6:30 to 8:30 at Cecil M. Burton Funeral Home and Crematory. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 2:00 pm at Mt. Moriah Methodist Church in Casar with Rev. Roy Miller officiating. Internment will follow in the church cemetery. Memorials may be made to Mt. Moriah Methodist Church, 820 Moriah Church Road, Casar, NC 28020 Cecil M. Burton Funeral Home & Crematory is serving the family. Guest registry is available at www.cecilmburtonfuneralhome.com Paid obit
Marvin Henry “Jack” Smart Jack Smart, 94, of Forest City, NC, passed away on March 9, 2010 at Hospice House. A native of Rutherford County, Jack was a staff sergeant in the US Army receiving the Purple Heart for wounds received during the Battle of the Bulge. He retired as a quiller for Stonecutter, and also worked at AGI. He was the son of the late Robert Anderson Smart and Dovie Mae Ferguson Smart. Jack was a member of Brittain Presbyterian Church and attended Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Georgianna Hudson Smart; two daughters, Mary Ann Smart Waters of Rutherfordton and Sharon Smart Buchanan of Rutherfordton. He has four grandsons and four great-grandchildren. Also surviving are sister-in-law, Lucille Hutchins of Rutherfordton, and brother-inlaw, Hicks Hudson of Texarkana, Arkansas. Services will be held at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church on Saturday, March 13 at 2:00 PM with Rev. Greg Hathaway and Dr. Jim Whitlow officiating. Burial will be in Mt Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery with military honors. The family will receive friends Friday from 7 until 9 PM at Crowe’s Mortuary. In lieu of flowers please make donations to Mt Vernon Baptist Church Paving Fund, 2676 Hudlow Road, Forest City NC 28043. Online condolences at: www.crowemortuary.com Paid obit
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Red Cross Blood drives schedule: March 12 — Rutherford Hospital, noon to 5 p.m., call 286-5338 for an appointment; March 13 — Cliffside Masonic Lodge, Cliffside, 7:30 a.m. to noon, call 245-7606 for an appointment. March 22 — Red Cross Chapter, Forest City, 2 to 6:30 p.m., call 2875916 Class schedule: Free Adult CPR — March 13, 9 a.m. until noon, ICC gymnasium Adult CPR — March 15, begins at 6 p.m. Child and Infant CPR — March 16, begins at 6 p.m. First Aid — March 20, begins at 8:30 a.m., Preventing Disease Transmission All classes must be paid in advance. Call 287-5916 for information.
Health/education Diabetic Shoe Clinic: Friday, March 12, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rutherford County Senior Center, 193 Callahan-Koon Road, Spindale; for people covered by Medicare Part B; a specialist will measure each patient and provide a prescription form to be filled out by a physician.
Meetings/other Club meeting: Piedmont-Pleasant Hill Community Club will meet Saturday, March 13, at 7 p.m., at the clubhouse. Covered dish meal, bingo, door prizes. Author event: John Ivan Scott of Flint, Mich., author of “Debrief Them,” will speak March 16 at Community Empowerment Resource Center, from noon to 1 p.m., and again from 6 to 8 p.m. The center is at 129 First St., Forest City. Booster meeting: Forest City Owls Boosters will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 18, at Big Dave’s Family Seafood. Contact Cecil Geer at 828-919-0000 for information.
Miscellaneous Free Boating Safety course: March 16 and 17, 6 to 9 p.m., Lake Lure Fire Department; register for class online at www.ncwildlife. org or contact Officer Dan Vogel at 288-1037. *Special notice — On or after May 1, 2010 any person under age 26 must complete a NASBLA approved boating education course before operating any vessel propelled by a motor of 10 H.P. or greater. For more information and exemptions visit the web site. Cosmetology specials: Open to the public March 23-26. The specials include hair cut, perm or relaxer, and style for $10 (regular rates $28). Appointments are requested but walk-ins will be accepted. TWTh, clients will be accepted between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. and Friday 26th, 8:15 and 11 a.m. only.
Fundraisers Spaghetti supper: Wednesday, March 10, 5 to 6:45 p.m., Long Branch Road Baptist Church, 621 Long Branch Road, Forest City; no set price, donations accepted; proceeds for Team Kids Yard sale: Saturday, March 13, 7 a.m. to noon, Trinity Christian School in the school gym. Fish fry, rib plates: Saturday, March 13, begins at 11 a.m., Unionville Lodge, 703 Ledbetter Road, Spindale; plates $6; sandwiches $3; NY hot dogs $2; carry outs available; all proceeds for the building fund.
Music/concerts The Royal Quartet will be in concert Saturday, March 13, at 6 p.m.at Holy Ground Community Church, 139 S. Powell St., Forest City. Singing: Saturday, March 13, 7 p.m., Cooper Springs Congregational Holiness Church; featuring The Kinney Family.
porary it could be two or three years.” With the chartering process now behind them, Byers said the board’s focus will be on the permanent site, which will be on Island Creek Road near Ingles. The building will be “very similar to what you’ll see in Forest City,” Byers said. The new Thomas Jefferson Classical Grammar is under construction on US 221-A and will open for students this fall. There has been no construction on the permanent site as of yet, but there have been environmental assessments done to determine where any streams or wells or other bodies of water are located, said Lake Lure Town Manager Chris Braund. “A couple of years back there was a general development plan tract on the property the town owns, which would encompass the school,” Braund said. “We are working off that plan.” Included in that development plan are plans for a recreation center, ball fields and other amenities, Braund said. “That whole area where highways 9
Singing: Sunday, March 14, 6 p.m.; Harriett Memorial Free Will Baptist Church, 1938 Hwy. 221-A in Caroleen; featuring The Primitive Quartet of Candler.
Religion Revival: March 12-14, Sandy Springs Baptist Church, Rutherfordton; Friday and Saturday, 7 nightly; Sunday services 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; guest speaker, Rev. George Pauley of Alum Creek, W.Va. Guest speaker: Sunday, March 14, Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, 130 Pleasant Grove Road, Rutherfordton; Cody Hill will speak during the 11 a.m. worship service.
University. She also holds of master of school administration from N.C. State University. “We went through an intense search and interview process and did about a dozen interviews,” Byers said. “One of the people we interviewed mentioned her and she applied. When we interviewed her she really seemed to be the right fit for the community.” Upchurch will be working out of an initial school office in the arcade building in Lake Lure and can be reached at 828-625-9292. Upchurch will be working to not only process student applications, but begin hiring teachers for the upcoming year. Byers said it’s unbelievable the process of bringing a school to Lake Lure began a little over a year ago. “We were approached in December 2008 about bringing a school to the area, and we’ve run pretty hard since that time,” he said. With the chartering process behind them and construction set to begin soon, Byers said “There’s not a minute to spare and there is a lot of hard work ahead.” Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.
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“It was my first time at the Academy Awards, so to be there as producer of a film with three Academy Award nominations was an absolute thrill,” Cairo said. Cairo’s father, Joe Woody of Rutherfordton said he is so proud of her and equally proud Bridges thanked her on stage. “I’m sure back there when they were making that film, they never thought ‘Oscar’,” he said. Crazy Heart also won for Best Song, “The Weary Kind” written by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett. Maggie Gyllenhaal was also nominated as Best Supporting Actress. “Walking down the red carpet before the awards ceremony was a surreal experience,” Cairo said. “There were literally hundreds of press and cameras from all over the world, and everyone was shouting out the names of the celebrities in order to get their attention. Cairo’s husband Michael Simpson, who was an Executive Producer on Crazy Heart, walked the carpet with her and they posed for pictures and did a few interviews, she said. “It was a once in a lifetime experience,” she continued. “We were seated on the floor level in the Kodak Theater, with Jeff Bridges’ entourage. Then after the show, we attended the Governor’s Ball, at which we ate Wolfgang Puck’s famous Oscar meal (including Baked Alaska with an Oscar on top). We ended the night at around 1 a.m. at the 20th Century
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accepted three pieces of lake front property off Buffalo Shoals with the agreement it will pay the 2009 taxes on the property. Property taxes are $5,170. The property is located about onefourth mile from Rumbling Bald Resort. The lots are gifts from John and Regina Moore, and could some day become an area of green space and possible public access, said Braund. “This is a very generous gift.” Also Tuesday, Commissioners agreed to allow the demolition of a structure at 147 Sidney Lainer; n Adopted a resolution authorizing Braund to enter a purchasing contract with an appointed official regarding
Judy Woody Cairo with husband Michael A. Simpson on the Red Carpet at the Oscars Sunday in California.The couple posed for pictures and did a few interviews as they proceeded in for the annual Hollywood awards gala. Contributed photo
Fox after-Oscar party at Boulevard 3, a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard, where we toasted Jeff, T Bone, and Ryan once again. It was a night to remember,” she said. On Friday night before the Academy Awards, the stars attended the “25th Film Independent Spirit Awards,” which honors films which are made
and financed independent of the “studio” system. The films awarded have budgets under $20-million. Crazy Heart won “Best First Feature” an honor which was bestowed on director Scott Cooper, and the producers of the film, Cairo, Robert Duvall, T Bone Burnett and Rob Carliner.
the Chemical Purchasing Contract; n Appointed Valerie Hoffman and Carl Nelson to the Parks and Recreation Board and William Miller as alternate; n After a public hearing adopted an ordinance regarding regulations for windows and window signs, allowing greater flexibility for the signs; n After a public hearing, also passed an ordinance concerning the design of commercial buildings, providing, “more business friendly” options, making sure the design complies with the guidelines of new commercial construction; n Police Chief Eric Hester presented Lt. Christopher Todd Francis a Law Enforcement Certificate Award from the state’s Department of Justice for completing education and training standards commission; n And approved eight items in a
consent agenda—waiving fee rentals for use of the community hall; approving a budget amendment for the new school site; adopting policy recommendations for community hall rentals; approving a request from Betsy Ross to suspend the alcohol ordinance to serve beer and wine at the June 26 annual meeting; approving a Fabric Structure Permit for the Pediatric Brain Tumor foundation’s Ride for Kids’ event; approving a request from Lake Lure Tours, Inc. to use the same structure as last year regarding payment arrangements for the commercial boat fees; and approving a request from Human Resources Director Anita Taylor regarding the state governmental employees’ retirement funds. Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.
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Singing: Sunday, March 14, 6 p.m., Grays Creek Baptist Church; featuring The Phillips Family of Gaffney. The Primitive Quartet of Candler, will sing Sunday, March 14, at 6 p.m. at Harriett Memorial Free Will Baptist Church, 1938 Hwy. 221-A in Caroleen. Love offering concert.
and 64/74 intersect is a critical piece in our overall growth plan,” he said. Applications for LLCA are being taken now through April 15 and are available online at www.llca.teamcfa. org. The school will offer two class sections each in kindergarten through seventh grades with class sizes targeted at 22 students. Eighth grade will be added in fall 2001 and another grade added each year. If any grades have more applications than seats available, a lottery will be held. Parents who previously submitted a letter of intent must also complete an application for enrollment. Byers said around 275 letters of intent were submitted to the school, with 65 percent of those coming from families in Rutherford County. Twenty percent of the letters came from Polk County and the remainder from Henderson and Buncombe counties. The school will be led by Caroline Upchurch, Byers said. Upchurch was most recently the assistant principal at Vance Charter School in Henderson. She is a graduate of Barton College and received a master of fine art degree in photography from Virginia Commonwealth
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Cavaliers run down Wolves
TJCA Middle tennis team earns win
By SCOTT BOWERS Daily Courier Sports Editor
every way possible tonight, but we will be back.” Things turned south for the Hilltoppers in the opening frame with five hits by the visiting Jets, which plated three runs. An error and a passed ball scored the other two runs as Enka held a 5-0 lead before R-S Central even had a chance to step to the plate. Seth Orr and Christian Pfaff for R-S Central earned walks, but were stranded
FOREST CITY — East’s Drew Reynolds struck out 18 in a brilliant one-hit, shut out performance as the Cavs downed Lincolnton, 7-0, Wednesday. Reynolds only allowed a comebacker for a hit in the third inning, and two walks as he faced 24 batters over seven complete innings of work for the win. “I felt good,” said Reynolds. “I was just trying to fill the strike zone and give our team a chance to win.” Reynolds’ teammate Dakotah Thomas helped out with a strong 3-for-4 day at the plate with 2 RBIs. Reynolds scored twice after reaching base on a walk in the first inning and an error in the sixth. The Cavs (6-0) will now turn their attention to a tough first week of conference play that will see them open on the road against rival, R-S Central on Tuesday, March 16, and a home game with South Mountain powerhouse, Patton on Friday, March 19. “We’re feeling good right now, but it’s a long season and we have to keep battling,” said Reynolds. East jumped out to an early 1-0
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AVONDALE — Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy Middle School’s tennis team defeated Lincoln Charter on Monday, 8-1. TJ’s singles winners included Joseph Pate, Kira Jordan, David Advent, Jerishma Patel, Logan Folk and Max Teddy. Doubles winners included the tandem of Bethany Cantrell and Janice Dilgert, and Erin Brown and South Bright.
Garciaparra retires FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Nomar Garciaparra has retired as a member of the Boston Red Sox. The two-time batting champion and 1997 Rookie of the Year signed a one-day contract with his former team.
Local Sports MEN’S TENNIS 4 p.m. R-S Central at Patton
On TV 12 p.m. (WBTV) (WLOS) College Basketball ACC Tournament, First Round: Boston College vs. Virginia. 12 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball Big East Tournament, First Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. 12:30 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball Big 12 Tournament, First Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. 2 p.m. (WLOS) College Basketball ACC Tournament, First Round: Wake Forest vs. Miami. 2 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball Big East Tournament, Second Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. 2:30 p.m. (WBTV) College Basketball ACC Tournament, First Round: Wake Forest vs. Miami. 2:30 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball Big Ten Tournament, First Round: Teams TBA. 3 p.m. (FSS) College Basketball Pac-10 Tournament, First Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. 4:30 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball Big Ten Tournament, First Round: Teams TBA. 7 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball Big East Tournament, Third Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. 7 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball ACC Tournament, First Round: Georgia Tech vs. North Carolina. 7 p.m. (TS) NHL Hockey Atlanta Thrashers at Columbus Blue Jackets. 8 p.m. (TNT) NBA Basketball Chicago Bulls at Orlando Magic. 9 p.m. (WMYA) College Basketball ACC Tournament, First Round: Clemson vs. N.C. State. 9 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball Big East Tournament, Fourth Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. 9 p.m. (FSS) College Basketball Pac-10 Tournament, Third Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. 9:30 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball Big 12 Tournament, Fourth Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. 10:30 p.m. (TNT) NBA Basketball Portland Trail Blazers at Golden State Warriors. 11:30 p.m. (FSS) College Basketball Pac-10 Tournament, Fourth Quarterfinal: Teams TBA.
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Central’s Dylan Hampton tries to glove the throw as the Enka baserunner swipes second base during the baseball game at R-S Central Wednesday.
Central battered by Enka By KEVIN CARVER Daily Courier Sports Reporter
RUTHERFORDTON — Enka’s Dale Innes slammed two home runs and Kyle McCain pitched a two-hitter in four complete innings to dispatch of R-S Central, 12-2, in a game-shortened five innings, Wednesday night at home. “The top half of the first inning really killed our momentum before we ever got to bat,” R-S Central baseball coach Chadd Fowler said. “They beat us in
Thomas Jefferson bombed by Asheville By JACOB CONLEY Daily Courier Sports Reporter
FOREST CITY — Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy’s baseball team could not overcome a rocky first inning as they fell to Asheville, 14-1, in five innings Wednesday. Asheville plated three runs before an out was recorded, and by the time the Griffs ended the inning, four more runs had scored and TJCA found itself in 7-0 hole. TJCA drew three consecutive walks in the bottom half of the first to load the bases, but Aaron Conner rapped into a double play to end the inning. Gryphon starter Ethan Cole settled down in the second and held Asheville off the scoreboard, but his offense could not take advantage. The Griffs offense was held hitless until Jonathan Bass roped a double that one hopped the fence to lead off the bottom of the fifth. Bass moved to third on a ground out and scored TJCA’s only run on a wild pitch to account for the final margin.
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Thomas Jefferson’s Mark Tribble (11) connects for a hit in the baseball game against Asheville Wednesday.
2010 ACC Tournament
Can Duke, Terps stay on top? By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer
GREENSBORO — Duke and Maryland ended the regular season atop the Atlantic Coast Conference with plenty of separation from the rest of the league. Their last meeting was a tense fight that went to the final minute. Yet they could have a difficult time setting up another matchup in this week’s Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. Fourth-ranked Duke (26-5, 13-3 ACC) is a good team, but coach Mike Krzyzewski acknowledges this year’s squad hardly has the powerful look of Blue Devils past — no matter how good struggling North Carolina made it look in last weekend’s rivalry romp in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Meanwhile, Associated Press No. 19 Maryland (23-7, 13-3) didn’t Wake Forest’s Al-Farouq Aminu looks up as he stretches during practice for their exactly overwhelm the league in the final Please see ACC, Page 9
NCAA college basketball game in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Greensboro, Wednesday. Wake Forest plays Miami on Thursday.
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Lady Hilltoppers win on diamond; Lady Griffs win on the pitch
RUGBY — Chelsea Smith worked six innings from the mound with Mariah Lattimore working the seventh as the Lady Hilltoppers dropped West Henderson, 7-3, Wednesday. Smith struck out four, walked two and surrendered seven hits in the start for Central. Lattimore posted a strike out in a quick inning to shut the door on the Lady Falcons. The Lady Hilltoppers’ Taylor Sullivan smashed a solo home run in third frame, while Smith drove in two to help herself. Lattimore finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored in the win. Central improved to 3-0 on the year with the win and will play host to East Rutherford on Tuesday, March 16.
Girl’s Soccer Thomas Jefferson 4, Bandys 1
CATAWBA — Bandys struck first, but Thomas Jefferson’s girls soccer team collected four unanswered goals during the next 79 minutes of play to win 4-1 on the road, Wednesday. Bandys scored in the first 45 seconds of the contest, but Thomas Jefferson calmly put up two goals by half and pushed two more goals into the net during the second half in what was a dominating game for the Lady Gryphons. Thomas Jefferson (4-0) was led by two goals from Anna Dedmon, while Eleora Albala and Courtney Flack added a goal each.
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lead after Reynolds reached on a walk in the bottom of the first. One batter later, Thomas smashed a solid single that plated Reynolds. The Cavs added a lone run in the second and third innings to climb out to a 3-0 lead. Mark McFarland scored in the second, after reaching on a double, when Wesley Tarlton singled him home. Derek Deaton crossed in the third, after also reaching on a double, and he scored on Blake Myers sacrifice fly to center. East plated three runs in the fourth. Lucas Owens, McFarland and Tarlton all crossed as East sent seven batters to the plate in the frame to claim a 6-0 lead. The Cavs final run came in the seventh when Reynolds reached on an error by the Wolves’ second baseman. Reynolds came around to score following back-to-back singles by Myers and Thomas. It was the single by Thomas that pushed Reynolds across the plate. On the other side of the offensive carnage, Reynolds was working like a man with an important dinner date. He struck out the side four times and was never in any real trouble from the Wolves in the contest.
Braves win in 10th, 7-6 KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Derek Lowe could only stare at his foot in disbelief. Braves manager Bobby Cox said he had never seen anything like it. Lowe was hampered Wednesday by a blister on his right foot, forcing him out of Atlanta’s 7-6 victory over the New York Mets after just one inning. Lowe said the recurring blister on his pushoff foot popped with Daniel Murphy at the plate, after he had faced two batters. He tried to hang in there but he told Cox he couldn’t go another inning after yielding three runs and five hits in the first.
Scoreboard Orlando Atlanta Charlotte Miami Washington
45 20 .692 40 23 .635 32 31 .508 32 32 .500 21 40 .344 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 50 15 .769 Milwaukee 34 29 .540 Chicago 31 32 .492 Detroit 22 41 .349 Indiana 21 43 .328 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Dallas 44 21 .677 San Antonio 36 25 .590 Memphis 33 31 .516 Houston 32 31 .508 New Orleans 32 32 .500 Northwest Division W L Pct Denver 42 21 .667 Utah 41 22 .651 Oklahoma City 38 24 .613 Portland 38 28 .576 Minnesota 14 50 .219 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Lakers 47 18 .723 Phoenix 40 25 .615 L.A. Clippers 25 39 .391 Sacramento 21 43 .328 Golden State 17 46 .270
BASEBALL Major League Baseball Spring Training Glance AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct 5 0 1.000 7 1 .875 5 2 .714 4 2 .667 5 3 .625 4 3 .571 3 3 .500 4 4 .500 4 4 .500 4 5 .444 2 3 .400 2 4 .333 1 4 .200 1 6 .143 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct San Francisco 7 1 .875 Atlanta 6 3 .667 Colorado 6 3 .667 Florida 5 3 .625 New York 6 4 .600 Chicago 3 3 .500 Philadelphia 3 3 .500 Houston 3 4 .429 Milwaukee 3 4 .429 Pittsburgh 3 4 .429 Cincinnati 2 3 .400 Arizona 2 5 .286 San Diego 2 5 .286 St. Louis 2 5 .286 Los Angeles 1 3 .250 Washington 0 8 .000 Cleveland Tampa Bay Toronto Kansas City Boston Minnesota Chicago Detroit Seattle New York Los Angeles Oakland Texas Baltimore
Tuesday’s Games Minnesota 7, St. Louis 6 Pittsburgh 12, N.Y. Yankees 7 Tampa Bay 8, Baltimore 3 Detroit 9, Washington 4 Boston 9, Florida 0 Houston 8, N.Y. Mets 4 L.A. Angels 6, San Diego 5 Colorado 12, L.A. Dodgers 0 Milwaukee 5, Chicago Cubs 3 San Francisco 6, Chicago White Sox 2 Kansas City 11, Oakland (ss) 10 Arizona 10, Cincinnati 4 Cleveland 6, Seattle 4 Oakland (ss) 8, Texas 8, tie Philadelphia 7, Atlanta 4 Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay 8, Boston 6 Philadelphia 4, Toronto 2 Atlanta 7, N.Y. Mets 6, 10 innings Florida 16, Houston 4 St. Louis 6, Washington 4 N.Y. Yankees 9, Detroit 8 Cleveland 10, San Diego (ss) 5 L.A. Dodgers 4, Arizona 4, tie Cincinnati 6, L.A. Angels 0 Seattle 6, Texas 3 Chicago White Sox 9, Oakland 5 San Francisco 5, Chicago Cubs 1 San Diego (ss) 5, Milwaukee 4 Kansas City 5, Colorado 0 Baltimore vs Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., late Thursday’s Games Toronto vs Tampa Bay (ss) at Port Charlotte, Fla., 1:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (ss) vs Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 1:05 p.m. St. Louis vs Florida at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m. Houston vs Washington at Viera, Fla., 1:05 p.m. Detroit vs Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 1:05 p.m. Boston vs N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 1:10 p.m. Cleveland vs Chicago White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs vs San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. Oakland vs Milwaukee (ss) at Phoenix, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. L.A. Angels vs Arizona at Tucson, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers vs Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. Milwaukee (ss) vs Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. Seattle vs San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. Texas vs Colorado at Tucson, Ariz., 3:10 p.m. Atlanta vs N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 7:05 p.m. Baltimore vs Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 7:05 p.m. Friday’s Games Philadelphia (ss) vs Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 1:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees vs Washington at Viera, Fla., 1:05 p.m. Florida vs Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 1:05 p.m. Houston vs Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 1:05 p.m. Philadelphia (ss) vs Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 1:05 p.m. Pittsburgh vs Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m. Boston vs St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets vs Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 1:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs (ss) vs Milwaukee at Phoenix, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. Oakland vs Arizona at Tucson, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. Kansas City vs Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (ss) vs Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (ss) vs L.A. Angels (ss) at Tempe, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. Cincinnati vs L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. San Diego vs Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. San Francisco vs Colorado at Tucson, Ariz., 3:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (ss) vs Chicago Cubs (ss) at Las Vegas, Nev., 10:05 p.m.
BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 40 22 .645 Toronto 32 30 .516 Philadelphia 23 40 .365 New York 22 41 .349 New Jersey 7 56 .111 Southeast Division W L Pct
GB — 8 17 1/2 18 1/2 33 1/2 GB
— 4 12 12 1/2 22 GB — 15 18 27 28 1/2 GB — 6 10 1/2 11 11 1/2 GB — 1 3 1/2 5 1/2 28 1/2 GB — 7 21 1/2 25 1/2 29
Thursday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, ppd., snow Tuesday’s Games Charlotte 83, Miami 78 Indiana 107, Philadelphia 96 Houston 96, Washington 88 Orlando 113, L.A. Clippers 87 Utah 132, Chicago 108 Milwaukee 86, Boston 84 Portland 88, Sacramento 81 L.A. Lakers 109, Toronto 107 Wednesday’s Games Charlotte 102 Philadelphia 87 Memphis 111, Boston 91 Utah 115, Detroit 104 Miami 108, L.A. Clippers 97 Denver at Minnesota, late New Orleans at Oklahoma City, late New Jersey at Dallas, late New York at San Antonio, late Toronto at Sacramento, late Thursday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 7 p.m. Chicago at Orlando, late Portland at Golden State, late Friday’s Games L.A. Clippers at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Indiana at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at Miami, 7:30 p.m. New York at Memphis, 8 p.m. San Antonio at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Denver at New Orleans, 8 p.m. New Jersey at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Washington at Detroit, 8 p.m. Utah at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Portland at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
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Tuesday’s Games Florida 3, Minnesota 2, SO Toronto 4, Boston 3, OT Nashville 2, Atlanta 1 Calgary 4, Detroit 2 Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Islanders 2 Montreal 5, Tampa Bay 3 Vancouver 6, Colorado 4 Ottawa 4, Edmonton 1 Columbus 5, Anaheim 2 Wednesday’s Games Buffalo 5, Dallas 3 New Jersey 6, N.Y. Rangers 3 Washington 4, Carolina 3, OT Los Angeles at Chicago, late Vancouver at Phoenix, late Thursday’s Games Tampa Bay at Toronto, 7 p.m. St. Louis at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Boston at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Columbus, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Montreal, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Florida at Colorado, 9 p.m. Ottawa at Calgary, 9:30 p.m. Nashville at San Jose, 10:30 p.m. Friday’s Games Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Tampa Bay at Washington, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Nashville at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
TRANSACTIONS Wednesday’s Sports Transactions
NCAA Mens Basketball TOURNAMENT Big 12 Conference First Round Nebraska 75, Missouri 60 Texas Tech 82, Colorado 67 Big East Conference Second Round Georgetown 69, South Florida 49 Marquette 57, St. John’s 55 Conference USA First Round Houston 93, East Carolina 80 Southern Miss. 57, Tulane 47 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference First Round Md.-Eastern Shore 64, Coppin St. 58 Mountain West Conference First Round Air Force 59, Wyoming 40 Southland Conference First Round Stephen F.Austin 77, Texas-Arlington 54 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 78, UTSA 66 Southwestern Athletic Conference First Round Ark.-Pine Bluff 69, MVSU 66
HOCKEY National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 66 40 22 4 84 211 New Jersey 64 38 23 3 79 169 Philadelphia 65 35 26 4 74 198 N.Y. Rangers 66 29 28 9 67 170 N.Y. Islanders 66 26 32 8 60 171 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Buffalo 64 35 20 9 79 174 Ottawa 67 37 25 5 79 185 Montreal 68 33 29 6 72 183 Boston 65 29 24 12 70 160 Toronto 66 21 33 12 54 172 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 66 44 13 9 97 260 Atlanta 65 28 27 10 66 195 Tampa Bay 65 27 27 11 65 175 Florida 65 27 28 10 64 171 Carolina 66 27 32 7 61 185 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Chicago 65 43 17 5 91 217 Nashville 66 36 25 5 77 184 Detroit 66 31 23 12 74 177 St. Louis 65 30 26 9 69 177 Columbus 67 26 30 11 63 175 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF Vancouver 66 41 23 2 84 217 Colorado 66 37 23 6 80 196 Calgary 66 33 24 9 75 170 Minnesota 65 31 28 6 68 180 Edmonton 66 21 39 6 48 163 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF San Jose 65 42 14 9 93 212 Phoenix 66 39 22 5 83 176
Los Angeles 65 39 22 4 82 200 Dallas 65 29 24 12 70 184 Anaheim 66 30 28 8 68 185
GA 189 154 175 179 209 GA 161 190 188 168 223 GA 186 211 201 188 204 GA 161 188 182 182 217 GA 170 176 167 188 225 GA 160 164
BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE—Voided the New York Mets claim of LHP Jay Marshall, who has been returned to Oakland. Suspeneded N.Y. Mets minor league P Melvin Colon, Cleveland minor league OF Steven Lebron, N.Y. Yankees minor league C Josue Rodriguez and N.Y. Yankees minor league P Israel Tolentino 50 games after testing positive for substances in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. MLBPA—Named Tony Clark director of player relations and Steve Fehr special counsel. American League BOSTON RED SOX—Agreed to terms with INF Nomar Garciaparra on a minor league contract, who then announced his retirement. CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Reassigned C Miguel Gonzalez, C Josh Phegley and OF Jared Mitchell to their minor league camp. CLEVELAND INDIANS—Agreed to terms with RHP Hector Ambriz INF Brian Bixler, OF Michael Brantley, INF Asdrubal Cabrera, RHP Carlos Carrasco, OF Shin-Soo Choo, OF Trevor Crowe, LHP Kelvin De La Cruz, INF Jason Donald, RHP Jeanmar Gomez, INF Wes Hodges, LHP David Huff, INF/OF Matt LaPorta, LHP Aaron Laffey, RHP Jensen Lewis, C Lou Marson, INF Andy Marte, RHP Justin Masterson, RHP Chris Perez, LHP Rafael Perez, INF Carlos Rivero, RHP Hector Rondon, C Carlos Santana, LHP Tony Sipp, RHP Joe Smith, LHP Jeremy Sowers, RHP Mitch Talbot, RHP Jesse Todd, C Wyatt Toregas, INF Luis Valbuena, OF Nick Weglarz and RHP Anthony Reyes on one-year contracts. OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Released LHP Jay Marshall. National League NEW YORK METS—Agreed to terms with INF Anderson Hernandez, INF Daniel Murphy, C Omir Santos, INF Nick Evans, OF Fernando Martinez, OF Chris Carter, OF Jason Pridie, C Josh Thole, INF Shawn Bowman, RHP Nelson Figueroa, RHP Fernando Nieve, LHP Pat Misch, RHP Bobby Parnell, LHP Jonathon Niese, RHP Tobi Stoner, RHP Eddie Kunz, RHP Jack Egbert and LHP Arturo Lopez on one-year contracts. Reassigned RHP Carlos Muniz to the minor leagues. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA—Suspended Minnesota F-C Ryan Hollins two games for punching Dallas G DeShawn Stevenson and Dallas F Dirk Nowitzki during Monday’s game. FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS—Signed FB Eddie Williams to a one-year contract. DETROIT LIONS—Signed CB Jonathan Wade. HOUSTON TEXANS—Signed OL Wade Smith to a four-year contract. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Signed DT Shaun Smith. NEW YORK JETS—Re-signed TE Ben Hartsock to a two-year contract. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Agreed to terms with DB Marlin Jackson on a two-year contract. TENNESSEE TITANS—Agreed to terms with LB Will Witherspoon on a three-year contract. WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Signed NT Maake Kemoeatu.
GOLF LPGA—Named Bill Susetka chairman of the board. HOCKEY National Hockey League ATLANTA THRASHERS—Recalled D Chris Chelios from Chicago (AHL). Reassigned D Mike Vernace from Chicago (AHL) to Hamilton (AHL). BOSTON BRUINS—Assigned G Matt Dalton from Providence (AHL) to Reading (ECHL). CAROLINA HURRICANES—Recalled LW Oskar Osala from Albany (AHL). MINNESOTA WILD—Recalled D Jaime Sifers from Houston (AHL). Reassigned RW Petr Kalus to Houston. MONTREAL CANADIENS—Reassigned F Greg Stewart from Hamilton (AHL) to Chicago (AHL). SOCCER United Soccer League FC NEW YORK—Named Don O’Riordan technical director/coach. COLLEGE MID-EASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE— Extended provisional membership to Savannah State, effective July 1. CLEMSON—Announced the resignation of women’s basketball coach Cristy McKinney. DENISON—Named Jack Hatem football coach. MONTANA STATE—Named Milo Austin running backs coach.
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sports ACC First Round Breakdown Editor’s note: The Daily Courier’s sister paper, The Herald-Sun breaks down the games of the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament.
No. 7 Georgia Tech vs. No. 10 UNC
Time: 7 p.m. Records: Georgia Tech 19-11, 7-9 ACC; UNC 16-15, 5-11 Previously this season: Georgia Tech won both meetings beating UNC 73-71 in Chapel Hill and 68-51 in Atlanta. UNC will win if … It can find a way to contain Yellow Jackets’ big men, Derrick Favors and Gani Lawal, as well as making sure guard Iman Shumpert does not light them up for 30 points the way he did in their first meeting. The Tar Associated Press Heels also will need to shoot better, as they were below 40 Duke’s Nolan Smith (2) and Jon Scheyer (30) celpercent from the field in both ebrate Scheyer’s basket against Clemson during the meetings this season. second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Georgia Tech will win if … Durham in this Jan. 2010 file photo. It can get off to a quick start. In both games this season, the Yellow Jackets led by double figures at halftime and the Continued from Page 7 Tar Heels could never recover. Despite losing the final two games of the regular season, month even as it caught up to the Blue Devils and Georgia Tech is favored today shared the regular-season title. and should have few problems “We have to fight hard, and I’m sure every with a struggling UNC squad. team in the league will,” said Maryland’s Greivis Courier’s pick: UNC. Vasquez, who was voted ACC player of the year this week. “It’s an even league. Nobody really stands No. 5 Wake Forest vs. out and is like, ’This is the best team.’ Every game’s No. 12 Miami going to be close. It’s going to be so much fun this Time: 2 p.m. weekend.” Records: Wake Forest 19-9, Duke, the defending champion, earned the top 9-7; Miami 18-12, 4-12 seed and will play the winner of Thursday’s firstPreviously this season: round game between Boston College and Virginia Wake Forest and Miami split on Friday afternoon. Last year’s title was the the regular season series, with eighth in 11 years and 17th overall for the Blue Devils, pulling them in a tie with the Tar Heels for the Hurricanes winning 67-66 in Coral Gables and WFU winning most championships in ACC history. the rematch 62-53 in Winston“A lot of times, we’ve been playing our best basketball at the end of the season, which is what you Salem. Wake Forest will win if … try to gear for,” Krzyzewski said. “Then you put a The Demon Deacons don’t level of importance on the tournament. Hopefully, self-destruct. They lost four of it touches the guys so that they use their talents and their experience at this time and not look for- their final games — falling to UNC and N.C. State — with ward to just the NCAA tournament.” sloppy play on offense and poor Maryland enters the tournament with momenplay at both ends down the tum after seven straight victories, though the stretch. They got some of it back Terrapins had to work their way through nearly with a season-ending win over every one of them. They needed a last-second Clemson, but not all of it. 3-pointer at home to beat NCAA bubble team Miami will win if … Georgia Tech, won by four in double-overtime at Senior forward Dwayne Collins Virginia Tech and had to rally from 15 down to beat Clemson. Its “easy” win in that stretch? Rallying from 10 down at halftime to win 67-58 at North Carolina State, the tournament’s No. 11 seed. Last week, Maryland got several clutch baskets Continued from Page 7 from Vasquez late to beat Duke 79-72 in College Park, Md. Duke won the first meeting by 19 points. “We obviously would love that opportunity to get in the bottom of the frame. Enka took little time to push more another chance at them (in Sunday’s championruns across in the second inning. ship),” Duke senior Jon Scheyer said. “But that’s a McCain slapped a single to long ways away. First of all, we need to get there right field and the first pitch and worry about ourselves. There are six other Enka’s Connor Cox looked at teams in that side of the bracket. We can’t worry floated over the left field fence about who comes out.” Third-seeded Florida State — which lost to Duke for a two-run shot. The hit forced R-S Central’s starting in last year’s final — and fourth-seeded Virginia Tech finished three games back of the Blue Devils pitcher, Dylan Hipp to exit the game as the scoreboard read 7-0. and Terrapins. That quartet earned a bye into Hipp allowed seven hits, seven Friday’s quarterfinals, and will face the winner of matchups featuring teams playing for NCAA seed- runs and struck out one on the evening, leaving the pitching ing, postseason invitations or just plain pride. duties to Kevin Miller. Wake Forest is the fifth seed, yet lost to North Carolina and N.C. State — both of which manThe change didn’t mean much aged just five wins. Clemson had a chance to earn to Enka’s Cody Jones, who the third seed, but lost to the Demon Deacons in lined a double into right and Sunday’s season finale to fall to sixth. then teammate, Innes knocked Next up is Georgia Tech, which has lost three of his first round-tripper of the four games entering Greensboro to put its NCAA game to post a 9-0 lead after an chances in jeopardy. The Yellow Jackets face the inning and a half of play. Tar Heels with the winner facing the Terrapins the Hipp, who stayed in the game next day. to play the field in right, finally “There are teams in our league that are good produced R-S Central’s first run basketball teams that might feel they need to in the bottom of the second. win a game (for NCAAs),” Maryland coach Gary Hipp singled into right field Williams said. “Anytime you get in that situation, and two consecutive passed balls you have to be ready to play.” allowed him to trot all the way Making matters more difficult for the teams to third base. On Miller’s ground playing in the first-round games is the fact that no out to second, Hipp (2-for-2) was team has won four games in four days in the tour- able to score to cut the lead to nament. N.C. State has come the closest, winning 9-1. three games to reach the finals in 1997 and 2007 However, the Jets came up before falling in the final each time. with three more runs in the That’s the challenge awaiting the defending third inning. A double by Cox national champion Tar Heels, who have their low(3-for-4, 3 RBI) brought home est seed ever at 10th. After a miserable season a run and then Innes (2-for-4, filled with injuries and youthful mistakes, North 4 RBI) smacked a second twoCarolina knows its NCAA chances are reduced to run homer of the game for a 12-1 winning the title. “We really have no choice but to play as many games as it’s going to take,” senior Deon Thompson said. “If it’s four games, it’s four games.”
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gets healthly. Miami’s leading rebounder and scorer missed the regular season finale with a stress reaction in his tibia and his status for the ACC Tournament is in doubt. Collins scored a season-high 23 points in the Hurricanes’ win over the Demon Deacons and his production will be desperately missed if he can’t play. Courier’s pick: Wake Forest.
No. 8 Boston College vs. No. 9 Virginia Time: Noon Records: Boston College 15-15, 6-10; Virginia 14-15, 5-11 Previously this season: Boston College won 68-55 in their lone meeting, just last week. Boston College will win if ... The Eagles simply play up to their capabilities. They have a lot of interesting parts — notably Reggie Jackson out front and Joe Trapani and Rakim Sanders on the wings — but sometimes their whole doesn’t seem as good as the sum of their parts. They must play as a team. Virginia will win if ... They can recapture the spirit of their near comeback in the season finale against Maryland. The Cavaliers have lost nine straight
games and have lost leading scorer Sylven Landesberg to suspension, but they found something late in the finale and late in the season with emerging big man Jerome Meyinsse. Courier’s pick: Boston College.
No. 6 Clemson vs. No. 11 N.C. State Time: 9 p.m. Records: Clemson 21-9, 9-7; N.C. State 17-14, 5-11 Previously this season: Clemson won 73-70 in Raleigh. Clemson will win if ... The Tigers play defense the entire game like they did in the early going of the teams’ first meeting. The Tigers overwhelmed N.C. State by holding the Wolfpack to just one field goal attempt over seven minutes and built a 21-point lead, then let up. N.C. State will win if ... Someone gets hot and the team doesn’t go collectively cold. In addition to avoiding the type of offensive drought that often has derailed the Wolfpack, it needs a guard — Javi Gonzalez or perhaps Scott Wood — to consistently give big man Tracy Smith some help. Courier’s pick: Clemson.
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Nation Today Robber gets $6
Resident Susan Longacre takes a walk each morning in Wilbraham Park, where several tree branches and light poles have gotten the treatment. She thinks it’s great.
THERMAL, Calif. (AP) — They say crime doesn’t pay. For one robber in California, it did — but not much. Authorities in Riverside County say a woman with a gun robbed 11 customers at a market and got away with $6. A Sheriff’s Department statement says the woman was armed with a semi-automatic pistol when she went to La Chicanita Market in the town of Thermal on Tuesday afternoon. Deputy Herlinda Valenzuela says the woman confronted 10 customers in the store and also demanded money from one person who was entering the market. She then fled in an old car.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Relatives of four women and a 12-year-old girl who were brutally slain in the late 1970s exploded in applause Tuesday as the jury recommended death for Rodney Alcala, a convicted serial killer whose bizarre defense strategy included lyrics from an Arlo Guthrie song and showing an episode of “The Dating Game.” Jurors took just an hour to return the death recommendation after a six-week trial.
Midnight knitter strikes
Child workers charged
WEST CAPE MAY, N.J. (AP) — Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town. An unknown person dubbed The Midnight Knitter by West Cape May residents is covering tree branches and lamp poles with little sweaters under cover of darkness. Mayor Pam Kaithern says police are looking into the guerrilla crocheting, which technically is against the law because it is being done on public property without permission. The mayor and many residents admit they’re enthralled by the rainbow of colors that has popped up.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Two former Ohio day care workers accused of slipping an over-the-counter dietary supplement into candy and giving it to their charges to help them sleep at nap time were charged with misdemeanors Wednesday. Pamela Hartley, 56, of Cleves, and Donna Scott, 41, of Cincinnati, have been charged with three counts each of child endangering and three counts each of misrepresentation by childcare provider, Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph Deters said. The women could be sentenced as many as 18 months in jail.
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‘Jihad Jane’ case shows new twist in terrorism PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend’s father in a second-floor apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia. But online, federal authorities say, the devoted caretaker developed a daring alter ego, refashioning herself as “Jihad Jane” while helping recruit and finance Muslim terrorists — and eventually moving overseas to kill an artist she perceived as an enemy to Islam. LaRose, 46, was charged Tuesday with conspiring with jihadist fighters and pledging to commit murder in the name of a Muslim holy war, or jihad. The indictment was announced hours after authorities arrested seven suspected terrorists in Ireland allegedly linked to LaRose, who has been in prison since her Oct. 15 arrest while returning to the United States. In e-mails recovered by the FBI over 15 months, LaRose agreed to marry an online contact from South Asia so he could move to Europe. She also agreed to become a martyr, the indictment said. But perhaps she felt like one already. Born in Michigan, LaRose moved to Texas as a girl and had married twice by age 24. Her first marriage came at 16, to a man twice her age in Tarrant County, Texas, public records show. There are no records or reports of any children from either union, both of which were long over by the time she met Pennsylvanian Kurt Gorman in 2005 or thereabouts. LaRose lived with Gorman and his father in Pennsburg, caring for the older man while Gorman worked at his family’s small business in another town, Gorman said this week. “She was a good-hearted person,” he said Wednesday. “She pretty much stayed around the house.” But online, she grew increasingly devoted to a loose band of what authorities say were violent co-conspirators from around the world. They found her after she posted a YouTube video in June 2008 saying she was “desperate to do something somehow to help” ease the suffering of Muslims, the indictment said. She eventually agreed to try to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had angered Muslims by depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog, according to a U.S. official who wasn’t authorized to discuss details of the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Despite Web images that show LaRose in a Muslim head covering, Gorman said he never picked up on any Muslim leanings. She never attended religious services of any kind, he said. Gorman, 47, sensed
nothing amiss in their five-year relationship until the day after his father’s funeral last August. “I came home and she was gone. It doesn’t make any sense,” he said Wednesday outside his small business in nearby Quakertown. That same day, LaRose had removed the hard drive from her computer and set off for Europe — federal authorities won’t specify where. She had swiped Gorman’s passport and planned to give it to the co-conspirator she had agreed to marry, the indictment said. It’s unclear how she was able to travel overseas, given that the FBI, presumably tipped to her online postings, had interviewed her July 17. According to the indictment, she denied soliciting funds for any terrorist causes or making the postings ascribed to “JihadJane.” By Sept. 30, she wrote online that it would be “an honour & great pleasure to die or kill for” her intended spouse, the indictment said. “Only death will stop me here that I am so close to the target!” she is accused of writing. Her federal public defenders, Mark T. Wilson and Ross Thompson, declined to on the case. Irish police disclosed, though, that they had arrested two Algerians, two Libyans, a Palestinian, a Croatian and an American woman married to one of the Algerian suspects. They were not identified by name. “I’m glad she didn’t kill me,” Vilks told The Associated Press on Wednesday, saying the suspects appeared to be “low-tech.” LaRose is scheduled to appear in court March 18 on the indictment, which was returned March 4 and unsealed Tuesday. She is unusual in being one of just a handful of U.S. women ever charged with terrorism, the Justice Department said. And her online conversations suggest she knew that to be an advantage — as she thought her blond, American profile would help her move freely in Sweden to carry out the attack. The case “shatters the conventional wisdom that somehow the U.S. is immune to the heady currents of radicalization that have affected citizens of other Western countries,” said Georgetown University professor Bruce Hoffman. LaRose lived in a tidy red brick apartment building on Main Street, a busy roadway lined with porchfront houses, many decorated with American flags, and a post office. “It’s a great place. A quiet little town,” said Pennsburg real estate agent Debbie Turner. “But you never know who your neighbors are. You have to be careful.”
Check did not reveal shooter’s true record COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University says a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors didn’t reveal a criminal record, even though he had spent five years in prison. The university released a background check compiled last fall
on Nathaniel Brown. He fatally shot a supervisor Tuesday morning, injured another and killed himself. Prison records say Brown had a criminal history that included about five years in prison on a charge of receiving stolen property. He was released in 1984.
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Stocks post slight gains again NEW YORK (AP) — Scant buying lifted stocks for a second day Wednesday after the government reported a drop in companies’ inventories. The Dow Jones industrials rose only 3 points as the market remained in a lull that began on Monday. Many investors stayed on the sidelines amid an absence of news that could influence trading. The Commerce Department said that wholesale inventories fell 0.2 percent in January after dropping 1 percent in December. Companies’ sales rose 1.3 percent, the 10th straight gain. The drop in inventories and the rise in sales suggests that companies are working through inventory to meet demand and will have to begin restocking. The report was the latest bit of economic news to help nudge stocks higher. The numbers on the economy haven’t been strong enough to galvanize traders because many improvements are already reflected in stock prices. Stocks have been drifting higher this week in light trading volume. That signals that there isn’t much conviction underpinning the market’s climb. The Labor Department’s report that
employers cut fewer jobs than expected in February sent the Dow up 122 on Friday but its moves since then have been modest. Reports on weekly jobless claims, retail sales and consumer sentiment will be released in the coming days and could give investors a better sense of where the economy stands. Investors were also cautious ahead of an inflation report in China. Traders speculated that the report, due Thursday, could show that prices are rising quickly as the economy there continues to grow at a fast pace. If prices jump, the Chinese central bank might boost raise interest rates. The concern is that higher rates in China would mean a slowdown in the global recovery. The Dow and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index have also been flirting with the 15-month highs set in January, making investors hesitant to place big bets. Alan Valdes, vice president at Hilliard Lyons in New York, said traders aren’t finding enough to power the market above its recent highs. “It’s more like a trading range right now,” he said.
The Dow rose 2.95, or less than 0.1 percent, to 10,567.33. The S&P 500 index rose 5.16, or 0.5 percent, to 1,145.61. The Nasdaq composite index rose 18.27, or 0.8 percent, to 2,358.95, an 18-month high. The index is still down by about half from its peak of 5,048.62, which was 10 years ago Wednesday as the tech stock boom crested. Major indexes all rose modestly Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of the Dow and the S&P 500 index hitting 12-year lows. Bond prices dipped. The yield on the benchmark 10-year note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 3.73 percent from 3.71 percent late Tuesday. Gold fell. Crude oil rose 60 cents to settle at $82.09 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Some analysts see the week’s subdued trading and light volume as the kind of ominous quiet that can leave investors unprepared for big moves in the market. Two stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.1 billion shares, in line with Tuesday.
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N.C. jobless rate reaches historic high
RALEIGH (AP) — The recession pushed North Carolina’s unemployment rate to 11.1 percent in January, a historic high, the Employment Security Commission reported Wednesday. January also marked a year that the state’s jobless rate has been stuck above its previous high. January’s unemployment rate rose from a revised 10.9 percent in December to the highest level since states started their current calculation method in 1976. Before this recession, the state’s peak unemployment rate was 9.7 percent in March 1983, a level topped in February 2009 and exceeded ever since. Experts say the latest unemployment rate is certainly the worst since the Great Depression. “This is pretty bad,” said Andrew Brod, an economist at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. “Not since the 1930s have we seen this.” Unemployment in January increased by 8,325 workers to more than 500,000. The past year has been frustrating for Bob Chipman, who lost his job with a software sales company in January 2009. “I’m looking for anything now,” said Chipman, 58, of Raleigh. “It’s just a really, really difficult market.” While his wife works, Chipman said he continues his daily search for work on Internet job sites, social networking sites and the newspaper classified section. He said he gets a lot of initial nibbles from employers, but the competition from the growing numbers of unemployed is so stiff that he gets crowded out. “They can hire a bank president to be an accountant,” he said. The country’s January unemployment rate decreased slightly to 9.7 percent. Since the U.S. fell into recession in Dec. 2007, North Carolina has lost 275,000 nonfarm jobs, including 101,500 manufacturing workers. That means the state’s employers would have to hire 4,600 more workers every month for five years to get back to the level preceding the recession. The high unemployment rate has meant longer periods before workers like Chipman are able to find new jobs. About 40 percent of the country’s unemployed have been out of work six months or longer. But in one encouraging sign, the U.S. Labor Department reported last week that the number of long-term unemployed fell for the first time since November 2008.
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DEAR ABBY: Last week I suggested to a co-worker, “Zack,” that I treat him to a beer after work. Before our pints arrived, he disappeared to a corner of the pub to text on his phone, and 10 minutes later his girlfriend showed up. Her being there obligated me to buy her a drink, and it derailed the work-related discussion I had initially had in mind.
The following Monday, I mentioned to Zack that he should have asked me first if it was OK to bring someone else. He was none too pleased to hear that I thought his behavior was rude. How far off base was I? I’ll bow to your opinion. -- WONDERING
DEAR WONDERING: Did Zack know when you invited him for a beer that you wanted to discuss business? If not, then you’re being too hard on him. But if he did know, then asking his girlfriend to join you was presumptuous -- and he should have offered to pay for her drink in any case.
DEAR ABBY: My 12-year-old daughter, “Jenna,” is in the closet -- literally. About a week ago, she moved into her closet. She put her dresser in there, threw some blankets on the floor and that’s where she hangs out now. When asked why she doesn’t hang out in her room, she says, “I just like it in the closet.”
Dear Abby Abigail van Buren
Some of her girlfriends claim to be bisexual or gay. Is she telling me that she’s “in the closet” or is she messing with my mind? Some of her friends are into cutting, and Jenna seems to be curious about it. I don’t know what to make of any of this. Any advice? -- CONCERNED DEAR CONCERNED: How close are you and your daughter? Are you the kind of mother she feels safe talking to about anything that might be troubling her? Happy, outgoing girls don’t usually take refuge in dark, confined spaces. She may be overwhelmed or depressed, or something may be going on in Jenna’s life she needs help with but is afraid to tell you. Stay closer to your daughter for a while. If her change in behavior persists, keep probing until you find out what’s going on. Cutting can be an attempt to mask emotional pain, and if she starts, a licensed psychotherapist should be consulted.
Patient takes raft of pills daily DEAR DR. GOTT: For some time, I have thought I’ve been overdosed by my physician. I am presently taking 31 pills a day. Recently I was prescribed Lyrica. I lost use of my limbs, falling several times. That much medication mixed together can’t be good for a person. Please tell me what a person should do. DEAR READER: Unfortunately, you do not provide a medical history outlining what conditions you might have that require medication, but obviously there are a few. Some medications are most effective if taken three or four times a day -- such as at breakfast, lunch, dinner and at bedtime. That might account for some of your drugs. Another thought that comes to mind is that you may be seeing more than one physician. Could this be the caser? I am inclined to think that you are not “overdosing,” but you may be overprescribed. Make a list of all your medications,
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their strengths and the number of times per day you take each one. Request an appointment with your physician to discuss the regimen you are on. Ask what, if anything, can be reduced or eliminated. Keep in mind that some medications prescribed for a specific condition are sometimes used for an entirely unrelated disorder. And they work well. So determine why you are taking each prescription and if there are common side effects of which you should be aware. Determine why you take what you take. If appropriate and acceptable, ask your physician to consider a trial without some of them.
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Your Birthday, Mar. 11
Keep everything in proper perspective in order to make good things come from them. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- You could meet an exciting new someone who will have an immediate impact on your life. ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Keep your opinions and advice to yourself. You could come off as a knowit-all. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- You could let your feelings rule your head and react emotionally. Don’t embarrass yourself. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Even though you know better, you could let someone who has duped you in the past do so again. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- If you’re too busy listening to what you have to say, you won’t hear the constructive information. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You may solicit help from someone not up to the task. Do what needs doing yourself. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Don’t go to a place where someone you dislike hangs out because it’s going to make you uncomfortable. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- It’s likely to be indifference or lack of faith in yourself that brings you down in a competition. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- If you take on something complex hoping to achieve desirable results, follow procedures. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Be extra careful in partnerships with friends, especially when money is involved. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- You have a lot of good ideas, but you might not be able to disseminate the concepts to others. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- There will be a number of people who will gladly think for you, but also take advantage of you.
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New standards for English, math drafted SEATTLE (AP) — Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform — and more rigorous — standards Wednesday as draft new national guidelines were released. Supporters of the project led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers hope the lists of things kids should learn at each grade level will replace a patchwork of systems across the country. The effort is expected to lead to standardization of textbooks and testing and make learning easier for students who move from state to state. The federal government recently opened bidding for $350 million to work on new national tests that would be given to students in states that adopt the national standards. People involved in the effort endorsed by 48 states, two territories and the District of Columbia said the new standards will raise expectations of student achievement in some states and be in line with the educational expectations of top-performing states and countries. Unlike most efforts to revise standards at a state level, this document was not built on consensus, said Chris Minnich, director of standards and assessment for the Council of Chief State School Officers. “We really used evidence in an unprecedented fashion.” In contrast, states that have engaged in consensus-building have not made the tough decisions about what should be contained in the standards and what shouldn’t, Minnich said. Some have criticized the process, saying adoption of the new standards will not be voluntary. “First they tried to tie it to Race to the Top money ... now they’re trying to tie it to Title I funds,” said Robert Scott, Texas’ commissioner of education. President Barack Obama told the nation’s governors last month that he wants to make Title I dollars for public schools contingent on adoption of college- and career-ready reading and math standards, but the president said the states would not be required to adopt the coalition’s standards. Texas and Alaska are the only states not participating in the national standards effort and Texas also opted out of the federal Race to the Top competition for $4.35 billion for education reform. On the Net: Common Standards Initiative: http://www. corestandards.org/
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Sen. Claire McCaskill D-Mo., arrives at LambertSt. Louis International Airport in St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday prior to speaking about health care reform and attending fundraising events for McCaskill. Associated Press
Obama takes pitch to Missouri WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top health official challenged insurers on Wednesday to join President Barack Obama’s push to overhaul the medical system, arguing that if the effort fails it will hurt them as well as other Americans. Obama is to speak Wednesday in suburban St. Louis and then travel to northeastern Ohio on Monday, his third health care event in a week. His speech comes as congressional Democrats stand on the brink of delivering the president a dramatic success with passage of his massive overhaul legislation — or a colossal failure if they can’t get it done. As part of the administration’s campaign, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sketched out a stark choice for insurers: oppose reform and eventually lose customers, or work with the White House to improve the legislation. She told insurers in a speech that if the overhaul fails, premiums will continue to rise and employers will cancel coverage. She said the industry may make money initially, but “this kind of short-term thinking won’t work in the long run for the American
people or our health care system. It won’t work for you.” Sebelius called on insurers to take the millions they might spend on attack ads and give Americans relief from rising double-digit premium increases. Groups that oppose the legislation are stepping up their criticism, with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announcing a coordinated campaign to spend as much as $10 million on ads, starting Wednesday, saying, “Stop this health care bill we can’t afford.” Karen Ignagni, the insurance industry’s top lobbyist, said the companies don’t believe the legislation will reduce costs. The industry is preparing a list of cost control ideas for Obama. But Sebelius’ speech calmed the war of words between the administration and insurers — at least temporarily. “I am certainly not here to vilify the hard working employees of insurance companies ... or blame insurance companies for all the problems in our system,” she said. Ignagni, who has accused the White House of waging a “campaign of vilification,” told reporters afterward she appre-
ciated the gesture. “We think now could be the beginning of a change, and we could move from vilification to problem solving,” she said. Leaders in the House and Senate are awaiting a final cost analysis from the Congressional Budget Office in the next day or so that will allow them to start counting votes — and twisting arms — in earnest. In the House, in particular, getting the needed majority will be touch and go. The two-step congressional approach now being pursued calls for the House to approve a Senate-passed bill from last year, despite House Democrats’ opposition to several of its provisions. Both chambers then would follow by approving a companion measure to make changes in that first bill. An Associated Press-GfK Poll released Tuesday found a widespread hunger for improvements to the health care system, but also found that Americans don’t like the way the debate is playing out in Washington. About four in five Americans say it’s important that any health care plan have support from both parties.
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14 — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, THURSDAY, March 11, 2010 NOTICE TO CREDITORS
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Having qualified as Executor of the estate of AUGUSTUS EUGENE FORD of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said AUGUSTUS EUGENE FORD to present them to the undersigned on or before the 18th day of May, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This is the 18th day of February, 2010.
Pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 44A-44, various items of personal property contained in warehouse number 27 will be sold at public auction at Jack’s Self Storage, 603 S. Main St., Rutherfordton, NC at 10:00 AM on Saturday, March 13, 2010.
Jeffrey Scott Ford, Executor 405 Painters Gap Road Rutherfordton, NC 28139
Jeff King, Owner Jack’s Self Storage 146 W. 7th St. Rutherfordton, NC 28139
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the estate of ROBERT E. WOODBRIDGE JR. of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said ROBERT E. WOODBRIDGE JR. to present them to the undersigned on or before the 4th day of June, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This is the 4th day of March, 2010.
Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of DAVID LYNN HULL of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said DAVID LYNN HULL to present them to the undersigned on or before the 18th day of May, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This is the 18th day of February, 2010. Teresa Daree Early Hull, Administrator 501 Clark Road Rutherfordton, NC 28139
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT Town of Lake Lure The Lake Lure Board of Adjustment will hold its monthly meeting at the Town of Lake Lure Municipal Center, 2948 Memorial Highway, Lake Lure, North Carolina on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 1:00 p.m., or shortly thereafter, to consider the following: (1) CU-2010001, a Conditional Use Permit request from Lake Lure Classical Academy for a temporary school in the CG-Commercial General Zoning District. The Property (Tax PIN 1605470 & 1629228) is located 2771 Memorial Highway, Lake Lure, NC.
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RUTHERFORD COUNTY 10 sp 31 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY ROBERT W. SMITH AND RHONDA M. SMITH DATED JANUARY 17, 2002 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 657 AT PAGE 585 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:00 PM on March 24, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in Rutherfordton Township, Rutherford County, N.C. and being the same property as that described in deed from George R. Enloe and wife, Jean R. Enloe, to Wayne Yelton and wife, Elizabeth H. Yelton, recorded in Deed Book 652, Page 137, Rutherford County Registry, and described according to said deed as follows: Lying and being on the south side of Highway No. 20 and being lots Nos. 28, 29, and 30, said lots being 25 feet front, and running back 150 feet, and known as J.E. Grose Subdivision, as shown on a map duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County in Plat Book 4, Page 61. The same being the property described as "Third Tract" in the deed from N.O. Pitts and wife, Maude Pitts, to First National Bank of Morganton, North Carolina, dated January 20, 1993, and recorded in Deed Book 153, Page 413, in the Office of the Register of deeds for Rutherford County, to which deed reference is hereby made. Further reference is made to Book 153, Page 148, Rutherford County Registry. Being the same and identical property conveyed by Jean R. Walker (former Jean R. Enloe) to Rhonda Smith and husband, Wayne Smith by deed dated August 3, 2000 and of record in Deed Book 759, at Page 744, Rutherford County Registry. And Being more commonly known as: 214 California Street, Spindale, NC 28160 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Robert W. Smith and Rhonda M. Smith. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. The date of this Notice is March 3, 2010. Grady Ingle Substitute Trustee 8520 Cliff Cameron Drive, Suite 300 Charlotte, NC 28269 (704) 333-8107 http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/ 05-69894
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RUTHERFORD COUNTY 09 SP 526 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY DOUGLAS HARDIN AKA DOUGLAS EARL HARDIN DATED FEBRUARY 5, 2003 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 712 AT PAGE 732 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:00 PM on March 24, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot #9 of the WINDY HILL SUBDIVISION as shown on plat duly recorded in Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, in Plat Book 22 at Page 9, to which reference is hereby made for a more full and complete description. And Being more commonly known as: 137 Cobra Dr, Forest City, NC 28043 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Anglea Marie Watkins aka Angela Marie Watkins. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. The date of this Notice is March 3, 2010. Grady Ingle Substitute Trustee 8520 Cliff Cameron Drive, Suite 300 Charlotte, NC 28269 (704) 333-8107 http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/ 05-70734
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Palestinians deserve a “viable” independent state with contiguous territory, seeking to reassure them of U.S. support after Israel announced plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood in disputed east Jerusalem. The Israeli move has overshadowed Biden’s visit, meant to promote a new round of U.S.led negotiations, and drawn Palestinian accusations that Israel is not serious about peace. Israel apologized for embarrassing Biden with the timing of its announcement, but made clear it has no intention of reversing its plan. Capping a day of meetings with Palestinian leaders, Biden told his hosts that the U.S. is committed to brokering a final peace deal — something that has eluded U.S. leaders for decades. “The United States pledges to play an active as well as a sustainable role in these talks,” Biden said. He stressed the Palestinians deserve an independent state that is “viable and contiguous,” meaning the territory should not be broken up by Israeli settlement enclaves.
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