Daily Courier April 13, 2009

Electric fault blamed for fire — Page 3 Sports A great tree shot Phil Mickelson captured his third green jacket on Sunday and shared the moment with his wife, Amy

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010, Forest City, N.C.

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Towns will work together

WILDFIRE ERUPTS

By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer

Nuclear arms summit gets under way

Area fire departments worked together to contain a wildfire by looking for hot spots that erupted from a controlled burn Monday near the PolkRutherford county line. For details, please see Page 10.

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SPORTS

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SPINDALE — The governing boards of neighboring Spindale and Rutherfordton agreed Monday night to work together in a state mandated storm water management project and decided to move forward with studies regarding a possible joint sewer system.

The two town boards met at the Spindale House at the request of Spindale Mickey Bland to discuss a future of working together on at least two projects.

Just recently the towns were designated as Phase II communities under EPA regulations and are required to obtain a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit within 18 months.

The towns will have to develop a stormwater program, submit it to the state for approval and obtain a Stormwater Permit by August Please see Towns, Page 6

Newman was happy, race fans were not Page 7

GAS PRICES

Hearing set on clerk complaint

Candidates for state House listen to questions at Monday night’s forum.

By LARRY DALE and JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writers

Low: $2.73 High: $2.82 Avg.: $2.78

DEATHS Rutherfordton

Nora Jefferies

Forest City

James Sears Sr. Henrietta Devon Roberts Sr. Ellenboro Mary Gowan Mooresboro Nancy McCraw Page 5

RUTHERFORDTON — A hearing is scheduled next month at the Rutherford County Courthouse to hear a complaint filed against Rutherford County Clerk of Court Robynn Spence.

The complaint was filed

by Tony L. McClellan of 158 Dorothy Glen Drive, Forest City, and concerns a child custody case with his former wife, Pamela Luckadoo. The events occurred Easter Sunday, April 4.

The case will be heard May 7 at 10 a.m. by Judge Vance Bradford Long of Asheboro, senior resident Superior Court judge for District 19B. Please see Hearing, Page 10

Scott Baughman/ Daily Courier

Forum’s hot topic — jobs

By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer

SPINDALE — One word dominated the speeches at the meet the candidates forum at Isothermal Community College Monday night — jobs.

Sponsored by Hardin’s Drug and presented by the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce, the first of three scheduled can-

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didate forums saw four candidates for N.C. House District 112 and nine candidates for the various county commissioner districts.

House candidates took the stage first.

“I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been affected by this economic downturn,” said Mike Hager, Republican party chair for the Please see Forum, Page 3

Gardens a way to save, eat well

By JESSICA OSBORNE Daily Courier Correspondent

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78 50 Today, sunny.

Tonight, clear.

Complete forecast, Page 10

INSIDE Classifieds . . . 16-19 Sports . . . . . . . . 7-9 County scene . . . . 6 Opinion . . . . . . . . 4

FOREST CITY – As economic times get tougher, some people turn to gardening to help make their budgets stretch farther.

Catherine Ayers from Union Mills and her husband have had their garden for about 22 years and also had a garden at their previous residence.

Ayers plants green beans, tomatoes, hot peppers, cucumbers, zuccini, eggplant and bell peppers in her garden as well as flowers such sunflowers.

“My garden has definitely has been a big help in saving money,” said Ayers. “Look at the price of tomatoes and green beans and you’ll see how much a garden can save you. I like my green beans better than the ones that I get in the can.”

When they first started their garden, the soil was real rich Please see Garden, Page 6

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Editor’s note: This is the final part of The Daily Courier’s 10-part series on weathering the recession.

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local/state Teenager injured in accident ELLENBORO — Brooke Michelle Caldwell, 17, of Ellenboro was taken to Rutherford Hospital Saturday at 10:25 a.m. when she crashed her car off New house Road.

The North Carolina Highway Patrol said she was driving a 1997 Toyota and ran off the road to the right, down an embankment where the car then overturned in a creek.

She was charged with exceeding safe speed for conditions.

She was transported

by Rutherford County EMS.

Patrolman James Greene, left, and Lt. Steve Bradley of the Forest City Police Department met with Alexander Mills residents last week.

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Alexander residents getting organized

By LARRY DALE Daily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Organizers of an Alexander Mills community improvement effort continued planning for a May 1 cleanup day at a meeting Thursday.

About a dozen people from the Alexander Mills mill village neighborhood came to Element Church on South Broadway Street on a rainy evening to talk about ways to make the former mill area a better place to live.

Julie Fincher is a leader of the effort, and she was in charge of the meeting.

Commissioner Steve Holland and Town Planner Danielle Withrow also attended the session, as did two officers from the Forest City Police Department.

The Saturday, May 1, cleanup day will be the first for the neighborhood group, which hopes to hold cleanups on a regular basis.

The cleanup will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Volunteers will not go onto private property unless they are invited to do so by the owners.

Elderly and disabled people, especially, will be offered cleanup assistance.

Several people at the meeting spoke about the problem of owners who don’t make an effort to keep their property clean and the issue of abandoned houses in the area.

Volunteers who want to help clean the

Alexander Mills area are asked to meet that day in the circular area around Summey and Heritage, near the former mill, to coordinate the effort. Element Church members are planning to help with the effort, but organizers emphasized that members of the community need to be actively involved.

The community group hopes to be part of a Weed and Seed grant effort being spearheaded for the county by United Way of Rutherford County, and Withrow reminded those present that the more the neighborhood is involved, the better the chance of receiving the grant.

Rain date for the cleanup is Saturday, May 8.

guide notes, “If attacked, point the stick at the dog’s nose and keep it there.”

Greene noted that it is best to pick up a small child or small dog when confronted by an aggressive dog, and then walk backward. Never turn your back on the dog or run, he said.

Lt. Steve Bradley of the patrol division of the FCPD talked about the community watch program. “It is all about being together,” he said. “If you see anything suspicious, call us. You are our eyes and ears.”

No issue is too small, he said, if it is a concern for someone.

“Anything that makes you uneasy,” he said. “It will not bother us. Don’t hesitate to call.”

Also assisting at the scene was the Ellenboro Fire Department.

History book club will meet

RUTHERFORDTON — The Rutherford County Historical Society’s book club meets at 7 p.m. today at St. John’s Historic Church, N. Main Street, Patrolman James Greene, animal conto Forest City Daily Courier_Ruth CoPolice People_1.833inx3in PageRutherfordton, 1 of 1 trol officer with the Forest City review two recently pubThe Alexander Mills effort hopefully Department, spoke at the meeting about lished titles, The Most will include a community garden, and it remaining safe around dogs.

They Ever Had, a nonwas pointed out that Grahamtown has a He gave out a flyer that listed the 10 fiction book by Rick donated garden plot. most dangerous dog breeds, as deterBragg, and The Help by The Alexander Mills group, which is mined by the American Veterinary Kathryn Stockett. seeking the involvement of interested Medical Association and the Humane Bragg’s book focuses neighborhood residents, meets the secSociety of the United States. From one to on the life of textile ond Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. at 10, they are: pit bull, Rottweiler, German mill families and the Element Church. shepherd, husky, Alaskan malamute, The next meeting for the Alexander Mill social culture of southDoberman pinscher, chow chows, presa ern textile mills towns. group is May 13. Transportation will be canario, boxer and Dalmation.

Many of the stories provided for elderly or disabled people He also gave out printed information on who want to attend. share the experience of animal safety.

Rutherford County mill Greene pointed out, for example, that families. it would be wise to walk with a stick to Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigitalcouBragg is a Pultizer rier.com defend against an aggressive dog. The Prize winning author.

Energy programs leader says he was forced out

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RALEIGH (AP) — The energy programs chief for North Carolina state government says he’s been forced out after less than a year on the job.

A state Commerce Department memo says Assistant Commerce Secretary John Morrison will leave at the end of the month. Morrison told The Charlotte Observer he couldn’t discuss the circumstances why he’s leaving beyond that there was no single event that led to his departure.

Department spokeswoman Kathy Neal confirmed Monday the departure but said she had no comment from Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco.

Morrison was responsible in Gov. Beverly Perdue’s administration for coordinating the state’s energy programs and promoting the creation of green-energy jobs.

Morrison said he’ll return to the private sector.

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Electrical fault blamed for fire at cafeteria

Local/State county commission that affect Forum me as much as you,” Bill Eckler Continued from Page 1

county. “We’ve suffered together and I’ve had my small business suffer. Our state has the 39th worst business climate in the nation and if we want to grow jobs and have a recovery we need

By JEAN GORDON to get our tax rates under conDaily Courier Staff Writer trol.”

“As a native Rutherford County FOREST CITY — A fire that destroyed the dinand resident of Ellenboro, I ask ing room of Rollins Cafeteria Thursday night appears to have been due to an electrical problem. for your vote to represent you in Raleigh,” Jimmy Wayne Newton Forest City Fire Chief Mark McCurry, electrisaid during his remarks. “As I cal engineer and cafeteria owner Wayne Rollins have travelled the county I see revisted the charred remains of the dining area Monday afternoon as investigation continues. The there are two main concerns for our citizens — job growth and engineer removed some wiring and light fixtures excessive government spending in an effort to determine the exact cause. which is socialism. Job growth The fire was not related to the afternoon storm, comes from for-profit companies McCurry said. and if we want new jobs we have Rollins, who fought tears talking about the cafeteria Friday, was upbeat Monday and said as soon to support them.”

County resident Alan Toney as the engineers finish investigation, a massive said he was running for the clean up of the restaurant will begin.

N.C. House because he felt not “Webb (Hunt) says we’re going to rebuilt it right everyone in the area was being here,” Rollins said. Hunt, owner of the building, was with Rollins Friday morning as fire investiga- properly represented. “We want to prosper and right now we’re tors began arriving. feeling the wrath of over-gov“I don’t know whether it’ll take months or what, but Webb said we’ll rebuild the whole dining room ernment,” Toney said. “Paying 30 cents a gallon for gasoline tax area. It (cafeteria) will be right here,” Rollins addis way too high. I would love to ed. see us take our state back — not “I feel good about the decision,” he added. more tax and spend policies that After revisiting the fire scene Monday, Rollins was going to Employment Security Office in Forest take your money and give it to someone else.”

City to discuss his 18 employees who are out of work because of the fire.

Former state senator Dennis “I hope they can get into something pretty quickly,” Rollins said. He said he has been overwhelmed Davis said he wanted to change the way they do things in by the support of the community. “People I know aren’t capable of doing anything, have volunteered Raleigh. “Our state motto is just to clean stuff,” Rollins said. “The response has esse quam videri — to be rather been great. Once they’ve finished the investigation than to seem. The problem is, right now we seem like a great and clarified everything with the adjustors, we’ll state, but we aren’t,” Davis said. see some dumpsters and bulldozers over there,” “I have the experience to help Rollins added. change things and examine our state budget, some of which hasn’t been looked at since they had line items in there for buggy whips and typewriter ribbons.”

Commissioner candidates also had jobs on the mind.

“Decisions are made by the MORRISVILLE (AP) — The owner of a North Carolina company that sells devices to keep cars from starting if the driver is drunk has accused former state Sen. Tony Rand of trying to force him to sell his business in 2004, a newspaper reported Sunday.

UNION MILLS — The week“He wanted my company,” Larry Mobley, founder end production of “Smoke On and owner of Monitech, told The News & Observer The Mountain Homecoming” of Raleigh. “He’s the guy in charge of writing the begins Friday, April 16 at the laws that deal with drunk driving. You couldn’t Union Mills Learning Center ask for a clearer conflict of interest, and yet he Auditorium. Presented by the assumed I’d be cool with that because we could Rutherford Community Theatre, make money.” productions are April 16 and Rand, D-Cumberland, was Senate majority lead- April 17 at 7:30 p.m. and April er and co-chairman of the Governor’s Highway 18 at 2:30 p.m.

Safety Program at the time.

The auditorium is a valuable Until recently, Monitech was the only company piece of history the Union Mills approved to sell the ignition locking devices that community is trying to preserve, allow people convicted of drunken driving to get said Deborah Keller, RCT’s sectheir licenses back. A lawsuit by a rival has led the retary. state to invalidate Monitech’s exclusive contract to “ In this production, RCT is sell the devices and reopen the bidding process. using the original piano and podium that belonged to the Rand told the newspaper he doesn’t remember school,” Keller said. “We at RCT meeting with Mobley.

“For him to say I offered to buy his company is sort of ridiculous,” said Rand, who resigned his Right Here in the Senate seat in December and now is chairman of the state Parole Commission.

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said. “You and I overpaid for property for the Daniel Road project spending $4.2 million on property that was appraised at around $2 million. We must cut spending.”

Incumbent commissioner candidate Paul McIntosh focused on accomplishments during his time in office. “When I first stood here, I promised to focus on economic development, education and public service,” McIntosh said. “With education, we’ve completed construction on six new schools. And 73 percent of our county’s debt is from that school construction, which is paid with sales tax revenues and lottery money, not property tax.”

Incumbent commissioner candidate Margaret Helton said she wanted to continue to cut taxes and look out for the senior citizens in the county. “I’m a retired postal worker and have been a commissioner for three years,” Helton said. “My slogan in my last campaign was a vote for me is a voice for you and that is still true today. If you vote for me in the May 4 primary I will continue to look out for the taxpayer.”

“My background in computers has helped teach me to think outside the box,” said commission candidate and former county IT director Gail Strickland. “I don’t have all the magic answers but we must all be part of the solutions. Although times are tough I believe tomorrow will be a better day.”

Former county finance director Rob Bole emphasized his experience. “I have 17 years of experience at the county and retired from the Air Force after 20 years. We need to attract more businesses to the county and we can do that with what I call the Rutherford County Gems. One of those gems that we sometimes take for granted is this community college. We need to focus on

our strong points.”

Candidate Bob Howard spoke on leadership. “In the business world, the leaders dictate to their employees,” Howard said.

“But in politics, you are the leaders and you dictate to the public servants that work for you. Just because you register and vote, your job isn’t done, you have to keep them accountable.”

Rodney Robbins spoke about equal representation. “I’m from the White House area of the county,” Robbins said. “I was born here and my roots go deep.

I’m running to represent that area of the county. As a farmer, I learned you have to diversify.

If our leaders 30 years ago had learned that we might not be in the job loss situation we’re in now. And I promise I will work to reduce our debt.”

Candidate Julius Owens spoke on job creation. “I lost my job in 2008 like many of you due to cutbacks. Since then I’ve started my own company and had to make tough decisions everyday.

I know a number of companies have wanted to relocate or expand in the county but for whatever reason have not. We need to focus on job creation.”

Finally, commissioner candidate Harry Waters spoke on property taxes. “I think our current property tax rates are at least 15 percent too high,” Waters said. “The senior citizens in the county are cutting the trees off the tops of their mountains and selling off parcels of land to pay their property tax bill. We should reward hard work, not punish it.”

The next candidate forum will be tonight at 7 p.m. at the Isothermal Community College Library Auditorium and feature candidates for sheriff and clerk of court.

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think it is important to incorporate our past with our present in order to insure that future generations remember their history.”

Everyone attending the shows is asked to bring a nonperishable food item for the New Beginnings Soup Kitchen, Rutherfordton. “Let’s all pull together to help our community during these tough economic times,” Kelelr said.

The production is a family oriented play that is based on a church service one Sunday morning in Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church set in October 1945. The war is over and America’s years of prosperity are just beginning.

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Join Us for National Health Care Decisions Day April 16 from 1pm until 4pm at the Carolina Event and Conference Center 374 Hudlow Road, Forest City, NC 28043

Hospice of Rutherford County, in collaboration with the Rutherford County End-of-Life Coalition, is sponsoring a local event to help people make health care decisions before a crisis occurs. The event features the following:

Saturday, April 17th

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• 1:00 pm until 1:30 pm: Dr. Brian Bell, Palliative Care Physician, will discuss the pros and cons of artificial hydration and nutrition.

• 1:30 pm until 2:00 pm: Dr. Larry Hedgepath, Hospice Medical Director, will discuss the importance of the living will and health care power of attorney in guiding physicians’ treatment.

• 2:00 pm until 3:00 pm: Social workers trained in advance care planning will have documents available and will be available to an-swer questions. Participants can complete living wills and health care powers of attorney. Notaries will also be available to notarize advance care planning documents.

• 3:00 pm until 4:00 pm: Attorney John B. Crotts from King Law Offices will discuss estate planning including wills, trusts, charitable giving, and power of attorney.

This event is offered at no cost, but Hospice requests that anyone interested in participating please register by calling (828) 245-0095 or 1-800-218-CARE (2273).

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Our Views Infrastructure still critical need

T

he news that work will begin soon on the U.S. 221 widening project is certainly good for Rutherford County.

The hopes of getting a north-south four-lane highway have been long deferred here and the lack of such a highway has definitely had an impact on the county’s economic fortunes. The county has lost out in competition for job creating industries because of this problem.

Completion of the project is still many years away, but getting it started will definitely help.

The quality of a county’s infrastructure — roads, utilities and now Internet access — is critical to its hopes of competing for jobs today.

The U.S. 221 project, which has long been envisioned and fought for by county leaders, is long overdue.

Now if we can keep up the effort to bring true broadband Internet to all areas of the county, we may definitely improve our prospects when it comes to competing for much needed jobs.

Our readers’ views Endorses Helton for county commission To the editor: A lot of people don’t follow elections very closely or know the candidates very well. When it’s time to vote, most are not sure who would do the best job. That’s why I would like to offer a few thoughts on Margaret Helton who is a County Commissioner running for re-election.

I attend every County Commission meeting and I have seen Mrs. Helton hard at work for the citizens of Rutherford County. When a vote is coming up on something that she isn’t sure about or is unfamiliar with, she always researches and asks questions in order to find out everything she needs to know in order to make the best decision for our County.

I know every decision will not please everyone every time.

That would be impossible. But I believe you would be happy with her decisions the majority of the time.

That is why after watching her in action for the last three years, I feel she deserves another term as your County Commissioner.

Judy Patterson Rutherfordton

Questions magistrates’ setting of bonds To the editor: It has been written in the paper several times about how people in Rutherford County are released for the same or lesser crimes for different amount of bonds. Some can commit an offense and get a heavy secured bond, then some

can go out and commit crime after crime and not get much bond, and then it not even be a secured bond.

Point in case with the recent beating of the elderly man in Spindale. One suspect has been arrested for shop lifting, trafficking opium and all other kinds of drugs, probation violation too many times to count and now accessory before the fact to a felony containing to this man’s beating.

How would you feel if this was your dad or grandfather? If they had actually done their job to start with, she would not have been out to commit this act.

Then the Magistrate, B.L. Smith made the statement he felt sorry for her. His emotion is not supposed to come to play in his line of work.

I know a young man that was off his medicine which caused him to drink, so he got drunk and called 911 because someone was banging on his door. They left before the officers arrived both times. So they arrested him and put him under a $10,000 secured bond. Yet someone who is an accessory to beating someone, after they have already been arrested several times for other serious crimes, gets out on unsecured bond of $25,000. Now what do you think is the worst of the two crimes — beating someone and leaving them or calling 911.

Our magistrates need to learn how to do their jobs right and by the crime, not on whether they like someone or don’t like someone. Something needs to be done about this.

John White Rutherfordton

Urges voters to back Helton for commission To the editor: We all know that with an unemployment rate at 18 percent, the economy in Rutherford County is in real trouble. During these difficult times, we need a strong leader who will fight for struggling taxpayers by lowering the tax rate and stopping unnecessary spending. For over three years, Commissioner Margaret Helton has been that leader.

Margaret knows that the only way to help struggling taxpayers is to curtail unnecessary spending. She believes that many of the projects that have been proposed over the past year are desirable.

Just as it is with a household budget, however, Margaret understands that money should be spent only on the most important items during tough times.

Furthermore, Margaret introduced a measure that would have given senior citizens relief on their property taxes.

Unfortunately, her proposal was voted down by other commissioners. If re-elected, Margaret plans to introduce this proposal again.

With our county over $70 million dollars in debt and foreclosures rampant, don’t we need a commissioner who has a record of fighting unnecessary spending and standing up for taxpayers?

I urge everyone to join me in voting for a person I have known for over 30 years; a person who is honest, hard-working, and dedicated to making our county a better place to work and live. On May 4, I urge everyone to vote for Margaret Helton.

Joe Camp Green Hill

Sometimes we find home through the eyes of others If we had a choice, would we opt to see the world? Or, instead, would we take an opportunity to see ourselves as others see us?

Last week, I got to do a little of both at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham.

For a hundred years, films have made it possible for viewers to travel almost anywhere and to experience vividly the life stories of other people.

Documentary films have done this job well. But it has been a tough road.

The great expense of securing and using high quality equipment and talented and creative artists put a limit on the number of films that could be made. It has been tough to get enough funding — especially when few documentary films are commercial successes.

But the great improvements in video cameras and editing equipment now make

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it possible for talented filmmakers to shoot and process documentaries on a very low budget.

The result has been an explosion of productions.

For instance, the Full Frame Festival was barraged with more than a thousand entries.

It crowded about 100 films into four days last week, leaving many, many very good films that will have to look for another venue to share their stories.

With one of the selected films, “Last Train Home,” I took a jam-packed, tense train ride from one end of China to the other.

I rode with workers return-

ing from a new factory town to their home in rural China.

There, I experienced with them how China’s industrialization has destroyed traditional family life.

Another film, “Kings of Pastry,” took me to France for a brutal competitive event in which an American chef sought, bravely but unsuccessfully, to gain recognition as a French Master Chef.

Every viewer shared the agony of his defeat and was also inspired by his spirited assertion of the value of the entire experience.

“Garbo: The Spy” told the unbelievable story of a “double agent” whose false reports to his German handlers helped “prove” that the main Allied attack was not aimed, at Normandy, but at the beaches near Calais.

What brought me back home to North Carolina was “How to Fold a Flag,” about four soldiers who fought together in Iraq. When they

got home, they had to fight their personal battles alone.

Every returning soldier’s challenges to readapt are different. The film’s stories shout out that our country is not doing enough to ease the way for soldiers coming home.

For instance, one of the subjects, Michael Goss, who was unfairly dismissed from the army, could not get the medical help he needs to deal with the haunting guilt he feels for participating an incident that inadvertently resulted in the death of Iraqi children.

Another returning soldier, Jon Powers, bravely mounted a hopeful campaign for Congress.

He gained wide popular support based on his military service. But in the end, his rivals’ million dollar negative TV ads denied him success.

In North Carolina, Javorn Drummond, returned to rural Cumberland County

near Fayetteville to live in a dilapidated mobile home while trying to fund the completion of a college education at Fayetteville State by working in a hog processing plant.

It was hard for all of them.

For them the war continues.

Quoting German author Ernst Jünger, the film asserts on its subjects’ behalf, “We were asked to believe that the war was over. We laughed — for we were the war.”

Thanks to Full Frame, I visited China, France, World War II Europe, and Iraq. I saw the inside of the lives of those who lived and fought there.

And through their lenses I saw something of myself, as others may see me.

Martin is hosting his final season of UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, which airs Sundays at 5 p.m.

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JACKSONVILLE (AP) — The start of a trial for a former North Carolina-based Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague has been moved back six weeks.

Multiple media outlets reported that Superior Court Judge Charles Henry ruled Monday that Cesar Laurean will stand trial Aug. 9.

Defense attorney Dick McNeil filed a motion in March seeking an 89-day extension, saying a knee injury prevented him from preparing Laurean’s case.

Onslow County District Attorney Dewey Hudson said he was ready to try the case on June 28.

Laurean is charged with murder in the death of 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach of Vandalia, Ohio. He fled to Mexico before her charred remains were found buried in his backyard in Jacksonville in January 2008. He was arrested in April 2008 and extradited to North Carolina last year.

Escapee captured with boy’s help MOORESBORO (AP) — A 10-year-old North Carolina boy doing farm chores came face-to-face with an escaped prison inmate.

The Gaston Gazette reported Monday that Gage Swink discovered the man after climbing the ladder to the hayloft of his family’s barn near Mooresboro, less than a mile from the South Carolina state line.

Police say the boy found escaped inmate Nathan Tyler, who followed the boy down the ladder and was confronted by his mother and father.

The father said Tyler didn’t threaten the family and had no weapons and simply ran away. Tyler was captured less than an hour later.

Tyler escaped Friday from Lincoln Correctional Center, where he was serving a sentence of more than five years

on robbery and other crimes in Columbus County.

County ensures markets keep signs MOYOCK (AP) — A North Carolina county thinks it’s protecting a rural custom with an ordinance that allows roadside markets to erect long lines of signs hawking produce during the growing season.

The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va., reported that Currituck County commissioners last week passed an ordinance that defines a roadside market.

The move allows business like Powell’s Roadside Market to keep its row of 10-foot-tall wooden signs of a smiling farmer offering cantaloupes, tomatoes and sweet corn.

The county’s planning director said previously any business along the main highway south to the Outer Banks could have put up a line of signs. County Commissioner Janet Taylor says the area’s farming heritage makes keeping the signs for roadside markets special.

Packaging maker to open N.C. plant HAMLET (AP) — A Pennsylvania plastics packaging company says it plans to hire 250 workers when it builds a plant in North Carolina.

Gov. Beverly Perdue’s office said Monday that Plastek Industries plans to open the $19 million plant near Hamlet and complete its hiring in three years.

Perdue’s office says the state will give the company up to $2.25 million if its promises are kept.

Plastek Industries is a family run business in Erie, Pa., that employs more than 2,000 people in the United States, Brazil, Venezuela and the United Kingdom.

The company says it makes plastic packaging for consumer and personal care products like deodorant sticks.

Police Notes Sheriff’s Office n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 215 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Rutherfordton n Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 50 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday. n Gennell Morgan Ruppe reported the theft of a debit card. n Christopher Lee Cook reported the theft of computer equipment.

Spindale n Spindale Police Department responded to 68 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Lake Lure n Lake Lure Police Department responded to 17 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Forest City n Forest City Police Department responded to 109 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday. n An employee Ray Rice School of Karate reported an incident of damage to property. n Amilee Fiddler reported an incident of a lost/stolen pocketbook. The incident occurred on Plaza Drive in Forest City. n An officer of the Forest City Police Department reported an incident of setting fire to woodlands. The incident occurred on North Church Street. The parties involved were juveniles. They were handled within the department and released to their parents. n Mauricio Villegas reported the larceny of a 2007 Ford

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Carolina Today Judge pushes back start of murder trial.

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F-150, red in color, pickup.

The truck was later recovered in South Carolina. n Richard Ireland reported an incident of robbery with a dangerous weapon. The incident occurred in the area of Dunbar Circle. n Anna Ellan reported an incident of larceny.

Arrests n Tyree Murray, 21, of Lowery Street; charged with two counts of possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $1,000.00 unsecured. n Sarah Epley, age 19, of Lowery Street in Forest City was cited for possession of marijuana. She received a written promise to appear. n Marty Metzinger, age 49, of Hardin Road in Forest City was arrested on a warrant for communicating threats. He received a written promise to appear. n William Jones, age 55, of Parmer Street in Forest City was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. He received a custody release. n Martha Lynette Crawford, 55, of 406 Oakland Road; charged with two counts of breaking and/ or entering, and two counts of larceny after break/enter; placed under a $30,000 secured bond. (RCSD) n Marcus Demetrick Murray, 25, of 129 Valley St.; charged with true bill felony possession of cocaine; released on an unsecured bond. (RCSD) n William Lee Cash, 30, of 111 Missouri St.; charged with cyberstalking; released on a written promise to appear. (RCSD) n Cassandra Terese Tessnair, 19, of 170 Bradley Road; charged with assault with a deadly weapon and

Friends, family testify for soldier

Mary Gowan

Mary Ostine Gowan, 82, of Ellenboro, died Sunday, April FORT BRAGG (AP) — Relatives, friends and fellow 11, 2010 at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. soldiers testified Monday at A native of Rutherford the sentencing of a soldier County, she was a daughter convicted of murder in the of the late George Boss and slayings of a North Carolina Lula Bell Bridges Moore. mother and two of her Mrs. Gowan was a selfdaughters, describing him as employed beautician for 49 a caring father and profesyears, a life-long member of sional Army sergeant.

Oak Grove United Methodist “I still love him. I believe Church, and also attended in him,” a sobbing Beth Brumfield testified, crying as New Bethel Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she described how she feels she was preceded in death about her brother, Master by her first husband, Henry Sgt. Timothy Hennis.

Claude Rome.

Hennis was found guilty She is survived by her at a military trial last week husband of 30 years, Elbert of three counts of premediGowan of the home; one son, tated murder in the slayCalvin Rome of Fayetteville; ings of 31-year-old Kathryn three daughters, Janice Eastburn and two of her Dayberry of Casar, Charlotte three daughters in their Vick of Hope Mills, and Fayetteville home in 1985.

Vonda Huss of Charlotte; two Brumfield cried as she stepsons, Carlton Gowan of recalled the events of the past few years, when Hennis Shelby, and Allen Gowan of Rutherfordton; two brothwas recalled to active duty to be tried again and both of ers, Lloyd Moore of New their parents died. “It’s taken Castle, Del., and Jack Moore of Griffin, Ga.; 18 grandchila toll on the family,” said dren; and eight great-grandBrumfield. children.

Also testifying was Anita Funeral services will Pellot of Carolina Beach, be conducted at 2 p.m. the sister of Hennis’ wife, Wednesday at Oak Grove Angela.

United Methodist Church “He was like a father to with the Revs. David me,” Pellot said, sobbing Hawkins and Stephen through her testimony.

Matheny officiating.

Hennis sat stoically Interment will follow in the throughout the testimony. church cemetery. The family He spoke only at the end of the hearing, when the judge, will receive friends Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Harrelson Col. Patrick Parrish, asked Funeral Home. him if he understood his Memorials may be made to right to testify or make an Oak Grove United Methodist unsworn statement. Hennis replied “yes, sir” five times to Church, 1507 Oak Grove Church Road, Ellenboro, NC Parrish’s questions.

28040; or to New Bethel His wife sat behind him, Baptist Church, Building often crying and dabbing at Fund, 223 New Bethel her tears with tissues.

Church Road, Forest City, The Eastburn famNC 28043. ily, including the surviving daughter, Jana, and Kathryn Easburn’s widower, Gary, sat Online condolences www.harrelbehind prosecutors and occa- sonfuneralhome.com. sionally reached for tissues.

Army colleagues also testi- James Sears Sr. fied, including retired Col. James Ray Sears Sr., 81, of Joseph Williams of Portland, Hardin Road, Forest City, Ore., who said he and died Sunday, April 11, 2010 at Hennis worked together at Hospice House in Forest City.

Fort Lewis, Wash., and then A native of Cleveland became friends.

County, he was a son of the late Robert Sears and Irene Owens Sears.

He was retired from Stonecutter Mills Corporation, served in the Army during the Korean War, and was a charter communicating threats; member of the Hardin Road placed under a 48-hour hold. Social Club.

(RCSD) Survivors include his wife n Kathy Louise Couch, of 48 years, Gloria Moreira 47, of 416 Piney Mountain Sears of the home; a son, Church Road; charged James Ray Sears Jr. of Casa with harassing phone call; Grande, Ariz.; three daughreleased on a written promters, Sandra Sears Wright of ise to appear. (RCSD) Forest City, Shirley S. Rich n Jessie Labond Padgett, of Forest City, and Sharon L. 29, of 186 Josie Drive; Sears of Ellenboro; two sons charged with contributing to from his previous marriage, the delinquency of a juvenile Mike Sears and Eddie Sears, and second-degree tresboth of North Carolina; sevpassing; freed on a custody en grandchildren. release. (RCSD) A graveside service will be n Toby Cash Miller, 22, of held at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the 141 Hill St.; charged with Sunset Memorial Park with assault with a deadly weapon Deacon Andy Cilone officiatinflicting serious injury; ing. Visitation will follow the placed under a $25,000 service at the cemetery. secured bond. (RCSD) Memorials may be made to n Joshua Matthew the Immaculate Conception Tessnair, 22, of 629 Dewitt Catholic Church, Building Owens Road; charged with Fund, 1024 West Main St., assault on a handicapped Forest City, NC 28043. person; placed under a $500 The Padgett and King secured bond. (RCSD) Mortuary is serving the Sears n Joshua Ryan Garmon, family.

25, of 181 W. Court St., Rutherfordton; charged with Online condolences www.padgettassault on a female; placed king.com. under a 48-hour hold. (RPD)

Fire Calls n Bill’s Creek firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident. n Ellenboro firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident and a gas leak. n Forest City firefighters responded to an industrial fire alarm, structure fire and grass and brush fire. n Rutherfordton firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident and an industrial fire alarm.

Devon Roberts Sr. Devon Andra Roberts Sr., 55, of 1671 Old Henrietta Road, Henrietta, died Sunday, April 11, 2020 at his residence.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced

by Thompson’s Mortuary.

James Rabb James Rabb, 66, of Old Sunshine Road, Bostic, died Monday, April 12, 2010 at Hospice House, Forest City.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced

by Washburn & Dorsey Funeral Home.

n S-D-O firefighers responded to a brush fire. n Shingle Hollow firefighers responded to a brush fire.

Nancy McCraw n Sandy Mush firefighters responded to a smoke report.

Nancy Jean Smith McCraw, n Union Mills firefighters 66, of 1149 Steel Bridge responded to a wood fire.

Road, Mooresboro, died

Monday, April 12, 2010 at Carolinas Medical Center Born in Patterson, N.J., she was a daughter of the late Harris Smith and Eleanor Steins Smith of Mooresboro.

She retired from Allens Used Cars as the officer manager, and was a member of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Cleveland County.

She is survived by two daughters, Mollie McCraw and Ellen McCraw, both of Mooresboro; two brothers, Harry Smith of Hackettstown, N.J., and Gary Smith of Mooresboro; and one sister, Laura McCraw of Mooresboro.

Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m.

Wednesday at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church with the Rev. Bobby Gettys officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Visitation will be held Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, 1301 Mt. Pleasant Church Road, Mooresboro, NC 28114.

Online condolences www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com.

Nora Jefferies Nora Bell Davis Jefferies, 81, of 237 Tryon Road, Rutherfordton, formerly of 1619 Patrick Ave., Apt. 20, died Saturday, April 10, 2010 at Willow Ridge Nursing Center.

A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late Duck Davis and Maude Petty Davis, and the widow of Willie Lee “Tank” Jefferies.

She was a member of Suck Creek Baptist Church, where she served in many capacities. Mrs. Jefferies was also a member of Victory Chapter No. 25 Order of The Eastern Star, Chensee, S.C., and retired from Cone Mills, Cliffside.

She is survived by six daughters, Nadine Dawkins of Chesnee, Darlene Morgan of Grover, Rosa Norris of Forest City, Kathy Gregory of Shelby, Cynthia Houser of Forest City, Jacquelyn Degree of Shelby; four sons, Nelson Davis of Chesnee, Willie Jefferies Jr., Julius Jefferies and Calvin Jefferies, all of Gaffney, S.C.; a stepdaughter, Lucy Littlejohn of Gaffney; 22 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m.

Tuesday at Suck Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Tony Macomson, Dr. Troy McDowell, Dr. Michael Bridges, and the Rev. Horace Jefferies officiating.

Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The body will lie in state one hour prior to the service.

The family will be at the home of Jose and Selena Davis, 256 North Green Rover Road, Gaffney.

Foster Funeral Home of Gaffney is in charge of arrangements.

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Meetings/other Community park meetings: The following park committees will meet Wednesday, April 14: Frank West Park, Boss Moore Road, Caroleen, 9 a.m.

Ray Henson Park, Cliffside, 10:30 a.m.

Betchtler Mint Site committee, near 339 Gilboa Church Road, Rutherfordton, 1:30 p.m.

Shiloh Park, 318 Big Island Road, Forest City, 3:30 p.m.

PWA meeting: The Professional Woman’s Association meets the third Tuesday of each month. The next meeting is Tuesday, April 20, at Big Dave’s Restaurant in Forest City, beginning at noon. Dutch treat lunch. Guest speaker, Della Rose Stacey from the Homeless Prevention & Rapid Rehousing Program. For further information, call 287-5928.

Humane Society: The Rutherford County Humane Society will meet Tuesday, April 20, at the county annex. The meeting begins at 7 p.m.

NA/AA meetings: Every Monday at 7 p.m., at New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God, 601 E. Main St., Spindale; contact James Keeter at 247-4681 for more information.

Miscellaneous Scholarship applications: Foothills Music Club scholarship applications are now available for students studying vocal and/ or music currently in grades 9-12.

Forms have been given to private music teachers and are also available by calling 828-894-6493.

Deadline Friday, April 16.

Foothills Harvest Outreach Ministries will hold a sale this week, through April 17. All shoes and handbags 50 percent off. The store is located at 120 E. Trade St., Forest City.

Photography Exhibit: The Rutherford County Visual Arts Center will hold a photography exhibit during May. Deadline for applications is April 20. Cash prizes for top three entries. Download an application from the internet at www.rcvag.com or pick up a form at the center, 160 N. Main St., Rutherfordton.

Clothing give away: Saturday, April 24, 10 a.m. to noon, High Shoal Baptist Church, 284 High Shoals Church Road, Henrietta; children and adult clothes will be given away free to those in need; for more information call 657-6448.

Free AARP CARFIT® event: Thursday, May 6, 1 to 5 p.m., at Bennett Classics Museum, 241 Vance St., Forest City; this event is geared toward senior adults who still drive; sponsored by The Little Detroit Car Club of Forest City and the museum; call 247-1767 to make an appointment; Web site www. car-fit.org.

Fundraisers Fish fry: Saturday, April 17, begins at 11:30 a.m., Unionville Lodge, Ledbetter Road, Spindale; fish plates $8; hot dog plates $4; both include beverage and dessert; sponsored by Angel Divine Faith Church.

Buffet breakfast: Saturday, April 17, 7 to 10:30 a.m.; Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant Church Road, Forest City; $5 per person; all you can eat.

Car wash: For the Carolina Rally Katz 16U fast pitch softball travel team Saturday, April 17, starting at 8 a.m., at One Stop Convenience Store, Rutherfordton, across from Domino’s Pizza, 117 S. Washington St., Rutherfordton; proceeds to help buy new uniforms.

2011.

The project will monitor, control and prevent pollution as stormwater re-enters streams and ground water supplies throughout both municipalities.

The towns must undertake a variety of federally-mandated activities to prevent any pollution.

With the joint effort, the towns should be able to control costs and could possibly receive funding for the projects.

David Odom informed Rutherfordton Town Manager Karen Andrews he could do the joint engineering study at a cost of $6,500 per municipality or $9,000 separately.

Meeting at the Spindale Town Hall at the request of Mayor Mickey Bland and the board, Rutherfordton’s Mayor Jimmy Dancy and council members and town managers from both towns discussed the stormwater project and the wastewater services.

After a 60-minute discussion of some pros and cons of a joint wastewater system, the boards directed the respective town managers, Andrews and Cameron McHargue of Spindale, to begin a process of collecting information that will be addressed in a study, if the town decide to proceed with a study.

A study of both towns’ sewer plants was completed in 2006 when Rutherfordton was having difficulty with its operation. Since then Rutherfordton is operating under a different manner which has proven extremely effective in handling the domestic wastewater.

The two town boards meet a few years ago to discuss the possibility of a joint system, but there were too many unanswered questions and Rutherfordton had to move forward to its plant operations and the meet-

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and they put composte on it about every year. It took them about five years to get it fully going.

“Ashes and bone meal are good for composte,” said Ayers. “Put all your peelings like bananas and grass clippings and put them in and stir dirt in with it.”

Ayers is not putting anything out right now because she feels that they could still have another frost.

“Also with a garden you have to be wary of insects and wildlife in the area that can do damage to a garden,” said Ayers.

Ayers does a lot of canning vegetables and freezing of fruits like blueberries, peaches, strawberries, field peas and sugar snap peas. Ayers also dries her hot peppers and grinds them up in to pepper flakes to put in Mexican dishes and chili.

If you are wanting to start your own garden, Jan McGuinn, agriculture extension agent for the Rutherford County Cooperative Extension, recommends starting a garden after April 15 or after the last frost warning. This is a good time to get summer vegetables going such as tomatoes, green beans and bell peppers.

“We can pretty much have one going year round,” said Jan McGuinn. “We have good growing conditions in this area. The only time you would have trouble growing certain things is during the winter months.”

For someone who may just be starting out with a garden, here is an idea on what to put in it.

“The main thing is to grow somthing you like to eat,” said McGuinn.

“Start out with a small amount if you’ve never had a garden before so it isn’t as daunting as a larger garden.”

Spring golf tournament: Saturday, April 17, shot gun start 12:30 p.m., Meadowbrook Golf Course; 4-man team, captain’s choice; $55 per person; includes barbecue meal prior to tournament; hole sponsors $100; cart sponsors $25.

Dinner, auction: Sponsored by Friends of NRA, Thermal Belt FNRA; Thursday, April 22, 6 p.m., National Guard Armory, 890 Withrow Road, Forest City; $25 per person, $40 per couple; for additional information, call 828-4290392.

ings ceased.

However, Monday night both boards agreed the most recent study is out of date and new costs figures need to be received, and agreed to move forward with finding answers to a number of questions, unanswered in the study in 2006.

However, before a study is even requested, Andrews and Cameron McHargue were directed to collect as much information as possible regarding cost, condition of the two plants, costs savings, demolishing of a plant, a third entity actually operating the plant and rate structures, and present the findings to the towns.

The board discussed the possibility of a third entity managing the treatment plant, rather than Rutherfordton or Spindale managing the system for each other.

Although there no definite decisions, the board did agreed it will continue to work together to come up with answers to pertinent questions and if it is cost efficient and the best for the citizens of Spindale and Rutherfordton, to operate one

wastewaste treatment plant, it will be considered.

“I knew this would be a jumping off point,” Bland said. “We would either jump off together or separately.”

The board agreed to move forward with the information gathering process with the town managers and take the process as slowly as necessary as it moves forward.

Details of the plans could take months.

“We could be sitting here next April,” Bland said, “but the study could determine what will be the best way to operate the systems.”

The board members agreed there are a multitude of details to work out, but all agreed the towns could certainly work together if it is possible.

“Everything positive starts somewhere,” Dancy said.

After Andrews and McHargue have had time to find answers to questions, they will report to their respective boards for other joint meetings.

Beggining gardeners can also use containers to start their garden in so they don’t have to use a large area.

“For first time growers, container growing is just as productive as a four-by-four type space,” said McGuinn.

The Cooperative Extension has information on how to help with this type of gardening.

Regarless of size, there are five factors to consider in selecting a garden site. The first is sunlight. All vegetables need some sunlight. The garden should receive at least 6 hours of direct sunlight each day. Eight to 10 hours each day is ideal. Vegetables should be planted away from the shade of buildings, trees and shrubs.

Leafy vegetables such as broccoli, collards, spinach and lettuce tolerate shadier conditions than other vegetables, but if your garden does not receive at least 6 hours of sunlight daily, you will not be successful growing vegetables.

The second consideration is how close it is to the house. The closer the vegetable garden and the easier it is to reach, the more it will probably be used. Vegetables are more likely to be harvested at their peaks and take maximum advantages of how fresh they will be. It is also more likely that people will keep up with jobs such as weeding, watering, insect and disease control, and succession planting if the garden is close by.

The third consideration is soil. You do not need to have the ideal type of soil to grow a good garden.

“It’s also a good idea to test the soil to make sure the area is ideal for planting a garden,” said McGuinn.

The soil should be fertile and easy to till. Avoid any soil that remains soggy after a rain. Heavy clay and sandy soils can be improved by adding organic matter.

The fourth consideration is water.

Including rain and irrigation, the garden needs at least 1 inch of water per week. It is essential to locate the garden near a spigot or some other water source.

The fifth consideration is good air drainage. Avoid locating the garden in a lowspot such as the base of a hill or the foot of a slope bordered by a solid fence. These areas are slow to warm in the spring, and frost forms more readily in them because cold air cannot drain away. Vegetable gardens located on high ground are more likely to escape light freezes, permitting an earlier start in the spring and a longer harvest in the fall.

Some tools McGuinn recommends having to start a garden are having an available water source such as a outside spigot, a watering can, a small hand-trowel, a small hand-cultivator, a hard tooth rake and a shovel.

When buying seeds to start your garden the cost can vary but they are usually $1.25 to $2 a package.

Starting a garden right now can up to two to four weeks to get something growing. To actually get a good garden going McGuinn says it can take one to three months depending on the vegetables that are being grown.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@ thedigitalcourier.

As far as how beneficial a garden will be compared to buying fruits, veggies and herbs in the grocery store based on savings and quality of the product, McGuinn says for freshness and quality it can be used as soon as it’s picked.

“Cost savings again will depend on what is being grown,” said McGuinn.

“It will help in supplementing a families current vegetable needs.”

For more infomation on growing a garden visit www.ces.ncsu.edu.

Contact information for your local extension office and answers to basic questions can also be found on the site.

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Yard sale, breakfast: Saturday, April 17, beginning at 7 a.m., Gilkey Clubhouse; country breakfast, adults $5, children $3; large number of yard sale items; rain or shine; yard sale spaces available ($10), to reserve a spot call 288-4777; all proceeds go to Anath Christian Academy.

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Rutherfordton Mayor Jimmy Dancy (left) and Spindale Mayor Mickey Bland during a joint meeting of the two town boards Monday night in Spindale.

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Chase, East play to 1-1 tie on pitch

By KEVIN CARVER Daily Courier Sports Reporter

Panthers ink S Aaron Francisco, add depth CHARLOTTE (AP) — The Carolina Panthers have made an upgrade with their struggling special teams by signing safety Aaron Francisco.

The six-year veteran has played for Arizona and Indianapolis, and had two special teams tackles for the Colts in last season’s Super Bowl.

A four-year starter at BYU, the 6-foot-2, 207-pound Francisco went undrafted out of college before signing with Arizona in 2005. He served as the Cardinals’ special teams captain in 2007 and ’08.

Monday’s move is a boost for the Panthers, who ranked near the bottom of the league in punt and kickoff coverage last season.

FOREST CITY — Following 100 minutes of soccer, that included two overtime periods, East Rutherford and Chase came to a 1-1 draw at the Lady Cavs’ Bryan Harrill Stadium.

Both sides were physical in the first half as the two combined for 18 fouls (Chase 11 and East 7), but it wouldn’t end without East finding the net first.

In the 37th minute, East’s Tamara El-Amoor launched a long outlet pass to Margaret Ireta. Ireta settled the

ball, dribbled towards goal and used her left foot to push the ball past a defender and Chase keeper, Erica Lamb for a 1-0 East lead.

Chase out-shot East Rutherford eight to six in the first half, but Ashley Silvers’ look was saved by East Rutherford keeper Paige Gettys and Chase’s Dulce Martinez free kick was just a shade high as the game went to the half with East holding the lead.

In the second half, Chase answered with a tying goal in the 53rd minute as Martinez had the initial shot, but

East’s Gettys blocked it and Chase’s Silvers retained the rebound to score the goal.

From there, defense played critical roles for both sides. Chase put up three shots on one possession from inside the box, but Gettys and Smith (who was cleared to play with a broken arm) stood tall to deny Chase.

Lamb, who drew her first start at keeper, came up big with not only a great catch save in the first half, but Please see Prep, Page 8

Masterful Conclusion A solid return for Woods

Mickelson said, his eyes watering. “When Amy and I hugged off 18, that was a very emotional moment for us. I’ll cherish every moment of this week.”

Eleven months ago, Amy Mickelson was diagnosed with breast cancer. While the prognosis is good, she’s worn down physically. It’s tough to get out among the crowds at a place such as Augusta National.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Except for watching Phil Mickelson slip into another green jacket, Tiger Woods should have few complaints about his week at the Masters.

He tied a tournament record by making four eagles. He was never out of the top 10 from the opening round.

He had his best 72-hole score at Augusta National in five years.

None of that might have Woods been possible without a spontaneous and warm reception on the first tee Thursday.

Woods might have looked like the same player, but he wasn’t the same person. The fans who came to watch his golf could not ignore the sordid lifestyle that kept him away from the game in the first place.

That’s why the cheers were so important.

They put him at ease from the start, and he felt more comfortable as the week went on, even as his swing got worse.

“Overall, it was a good week,” Woods said Sunday after he tied for fourth.

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Tar Heels’ Davis declares for draft CHAPEL HILL (AP) — North Carolina forward Ed Davis is skipping his final two seasons of eligibility to enter the NBA draft.

The 6-foot-10 forward was the team’s second-leading scorer. He was also the Tar Heels’ top rebounder and shot blocker before missing the last 13 games with a broken left wrist sustained against Duke in February.

In a statement from the school, Davis said he is pursuing a “lifelong dream of playing in the NBA” and that he would continue to work toward his degree.

Davis averaged 13.4 points and 9.6 rebounds this year and was a key reserve as a freshman in North Carolina’s run to the 2009 national championship. He had 11 points and eight rebounds in 14 minutes against Michigan State in that title game.

New coach Major ready for challenge CHARLOTTE (AP) — Alan Major says he plans to make Charlotte into a regular contender in the Atlantic 10 by focusing on defense after fulfilling a goal since he was 13 to become a head coach.

Saying he’s humbled and excited, Major was introduced on Monday. In his first head coaching job, he replaces Bobby Lutz, who was fired last month after 12 seasons and a five-year NCAA tournament drought.

The 41-year-old Major spent the past nine seasons working for Thad Matta, the first three at Xavier and the past six at Ohio State. He’s credited with helping develop Greg Oden and other big men in his coaching stops.

He’ll take over a program that started 18-5 last season before a 1-7 finish left the 49ers without an NCAA tournament or NIT bid.

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Phil Mickelson kisses his wife Amy after winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga., Sunday, April 11, 2010

One for Amy

Lefty claims his third green jacket AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — As Phil Mickelson strolled up to the 18th green, his third green jacket locked up, he wondered if his wife would be waiting for him.

She’d been there the first two times he won the Masters, but he would’ve understood if she decided to skip this victory celebration.

Yet there she was, waiting with an embrace they’ll remember for a lifetime.

“I normally don’t shed tears over wins,”

Ryan Newman burns his tires in celebration after winning the NASCAR Subway Fresh Fit 600 auto race Saturday, April 10, 2010 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz.

Local Sports BASEBALL 7 p.m. Chase at E. Rutherford 7 p.m. TJCA at Owen SOFTBALL 4 p.m. Chase at East Rutherford

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Fans frustrated with Fox race coverage

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer

On TV 2:54 p.m. (ESPN2) English Premier League Soccer Chelsea vs. Bolton Wanderers.

8 p.m. (TNT) NBA Basketball Boston Celtics at Chicago Bulls.

10:30 p.m. (TNT) NBA Basketball Denver Nuggets at Phoenix Suns.

CHARLOTTE — Sagging television ratings have made NASCAR an easy target for critics who have panned everything from the cars, the races and the drivers themselves as reason for tuning out the past several seasons.

Listen carefully, though, and many a die-hard fan will explain that it’s actually the quality of the broadcast, not NASCAR, that has driven them away.

What had been a slight grumble about unsatisfying TV coverage

— an animated gopher, negative announcers, unbalanced coverage and missed story lines — turned into a roar of frustration from fans following Saturday night’s Sprint Cup Series event at Phoenix International Raceway.

Fox had no post-race reaction from Kyle Busch, who had victory snatched away by a late caution and NASCAR’s version of overtime. And after devoting considerable air time on Denny Hamlin, who raced just 10 days after surgery to repair a torn knee ligament, Fox did not follow up on Hamlin’s decision to stay in his car

the entire event.

Fans instead sat through two commercial breaks after the checkered flag that totaled almost seven minutes, then were shown brief interviews with only the top three finishers.

After investing almost four hours into the broadcast, the payoff just seemed sort of flat.

The frustration is not lost on Fox race producer Barry Landis, who two days after the event had the hindsight to recognize what the network could have done differently.

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Padres crush Braves Scoreboard

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Will Venable’s two-run homer highlighted a 10-run fourth inning and Kyle Blanks homered, doubled and drove in a careerhigh five runs as the San Diego Padres routed the Atlanta Braves 17-2 in their home opener on Monday.

The Padres hit and scored as if they were playing in a bandbox rather than spacious Petco Park.

Their 17 runs, on 19 hits, were the most by any team at the downtown ballpark since it opened in 2004.

Venable (triple, single, homer) and Blanks (double, homer, single) each finished a hit shy of the cycle.

No Padres batter has ever hit for the cycle.

Venable scored four runs and drove in two, and Blanks scored three times.

Kevin Correia (1-1), a San Diego native who made the start because of to Chris Young’s balky right shoulder, held Atlanta to two runs on four hits in 5 2-3 innings. He also had a two-run single in the fourth.

Correia and relievers Edward Mujica and Adam Russell held the Braves to four hits.

The sellout crowd of 42,843 gave the Padres a standing ovation after the fourth, when they scored 10 runs on seven hits, three walks and a fielder’s choice. The Padres sent 14 batters to the plate, with Chase Headley and Venable each getting two hits and scoring twice.

San Diego had its highest run total since scoring 18 at Houston on July 29, 2007.

The previous Petco Park record for runs was 15 by the Braves on July 14, 2006. The most ever by the Padres were 13 against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Aug. 6, 2004.

The first six Padres batters reached base in the fourth before David Eckstein flied out. The Padres scored all 10 runs before their second out.

Jackson has 17 as Bobcats beat Nets

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Stephen Jackson had 17 points and nine rebounds and the Charlotte Bobcats got a big game from their bench to beat New Jersey 105-95 Monday night in the Nets’ final game at the Izod Center in the Meadowlands.

Gerald Henderson led the bench crew with 14 points, while fellow reserves Tyrus Thomas and D.J. Augustin added 13 and 11.

With Miami’s win over Philadelphia earlier Monday, the Bobcats were cemented into the No. 7 playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and will meet the defending conference champion Orlando Magic in the first round of the playoffs this weekend.

Devin Harris had 22 points and Terrence Williams added 21 and 13 rebounds for the Nets, who will play the next two seasons at the Prudential Center in Newark, before moving into a new arena in Brooklyn in 2012.

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also stopped East’s two penalty kicks before the game went to overtime.

East had three shots and Chase two in both extra frames.

TJCA 3, Owen 0 BLACK MOUNTAIN — Thomas Jefferson’s girls soccer team kept their win streak alive at nine by dispatching of Owen on the road, 3-0, Monday night.

Thomas Jefferson was paced by Anna Dedmon’s hat trick, who scored all three of the Lady Gryphons goals as they moved to 9-0 overall and 5-0 in conference play.

Dominique Capaldo, Eleora Albala and Lynsie Stevens each added an assist in the contest for TJCA. Thomas Jefferson put up 33 overall attempts to just three for Owen and led by 1-0 score at half.

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BASEBALL National League East Division W L Pct 6 1 .857 4 2 .667 3 4 .429 3 4 .429 2 4 .333 Central Division

W L Pct St. Louis 5 2 .714 Cincinnati 3 3 .500 Pittsburgh 3 3 .500 Milwaukee 3 4 .429 Chicago 3 4 .429 Houston 0 7 .000 West Division

W L Pct San Francisco 5 1 .833 Arizona 4 2 .667 Colorado 3 3 .500 San Diego 3 4 .429 Los Angeles 2 4 .333

Philadelphia Florida Atlanta Washington New York

GB — 1 3 3 3 1/2 GB — 1 1 1 1/2 1 1/2 5 GB — 1 2 2 1/2 3

Sunday’s Games Cincinnati 3, Chicago Cubs 1 Florida 6, L.A. Dodgers 5 Washington 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Philadelphia 2, Houston 1 Colorado 4, San Diego 2 San Francisco 6, Atlanta 3 Arizona 15, Pittsburgh 6 Milwaukee 8, St. Louis 7 Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs 9, Milwaukee 5 Philadelphia 7, Washington 4 St. Louis 5, Houston 0 San Diego 17, Atlanta 2 Cincinnati at Florida, late Pittsburgh at San Francisco, late Tuesday’s Games Arizona (I.Kennedy 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 0-0), 4:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Arroyo 0-0) at Florida (N.Robertson 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Maine 0-0) at Colorado (G.Smith 0-1), 8:40 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Maholm 0-1) at San Francisco (Cain 0-0), 10:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

Pittsburgh at San Francisco, 3:45 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Florida, 7:10 p.m.

Houston at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

Atlanta at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

American League

Toronto New York Tampa Bay Boston Baltimore

Minnesota Detroit Kansas City Chicago Cleveland

Oakland Texas Los Angeles Seattle

East Division W L Pct 5 1 .833 4 2 .667 4 3 .571 3 4 .429 1 6 .143 Central Division W L Pct 6 2 .750 5 2 .714 3 4 .429 2 4 .333 2 5 .286 West Division W L Pct 6 2 .750 4 3 .571 2 5 .286 2 6 .250

GB — 1 1 1/2 2 1/2 4 1/2 GB — 1/2 2 1/2 3 3 1/2 GB — 1 1/2 3 1/2 4

Sunday’s Games Detroit 9, Cleveland 8 Toronto 5, Baltimore 2 N.Y. Yankees 7, Tampa Bay 3 Chicago White Sox 5, Minnesota 4 Boston 8, Kansas City 6 Texas 9, Seattle 2 Oakland 9, L.A. Angels 4 Monday’s Games Kansas City 10, Detroit 5 Texas 4, Cleveland 2, 10 innings Minnesota 5, Boston 2 Oakland 4, Seattle 0 Tampa Bay 5, Baltimore 1 Chicago White Sox at Toronto, late Tuesday’s Games Kansas City (Bannister 0-0) at Detroit (Willis 0-0), 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (E.Santana 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 0-0), 1:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Niemann 0-0) at Baltimore (Matusz 1-0), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Floyd 0-0) at Toronto (Romero 0-0), 7:07 p.m.

Oakland (B.Anderson 1-0) at Seattle (Fister 0-1), 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Kansas City at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Boston at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m.

Texas at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct y-Boston 50 30 .625 Toronto 38 42 .475 New York 28 52 .350 Philadelphia 27 53 .338 New Jersey 12 68 .150 Southeast Division

W L Pct y-Orlando 57 23 .713 x-Atlanta 51 29 .638 x-Miami 45 35 .563 x-Charlotte 43 37 .538 Washington 25 55 .313 Central Division

W L Pct z-Cleveland 61 20 .753 x-Milwaukee 45 35 .563 Chicago 39 41 .488 Indiana 32 48 .400 Detroit 26 54 .325

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct y-Dallas 53 27 .663 x-San Antonio 49 31 .613 Houston 41 39 .513 Memphis 40 40 .500 New Orleans 36 45 .444 Northwest Division

W L Pct x-Denver 52 28 .650 x-Utah 52 28 .650 x-Oklahoma City 49 31 .613

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31 .613 65 .188 Division L Pct 24 .700 28 .650 52 .350 55 .313 55 .313

3 37 GB — 4 28 31 31

x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Sunday’s Games Orlando 98, Cleveland 92 Portland 91, L.A. Lakers 88 Chicago 104, Toronto 88 Miami 111, New York 98 New Orleans 114, Minnesota 86 Golden State 120, Oklahoma City 117 Phoenix 116, Houston 106 Monday’s Games Orlando 118, Indiana 98 Miami 107 Philadelphia 105 Toronto 111, Detroit 97 Charlotte 105, New Jersey 95 Washington at New York, late Atlanta at Milwaukee, late Minnesota at San Antonio, late Memphis at Denver, late Houston at Sacramento, late Oklahoma City at Portland, late Dallas at L.A. Clippers, late Tuesday’s Games Boston at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Utah at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Denver at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games San Antonio at Dallas, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Houston, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Cleveland at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Charlotte, 8 p.m.

Indiana at Washington, 8 p.m.

New York at Toronto, 8 p.m.

New Jersey at Miami, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Orlando, 8 p.m.

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

Golden State at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Utah, 10:30 p.m.

HOCKEY National Hockey League Playoff Glance FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Washington vs. Montreal Thursday, April 15: Montreal at Washington, 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 17: Montreal at Washington, 7 p.m.

Monday, April 19: Washington at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 21: Washington at Montreal, 7 p.m. x-Friday, April 23: Montreal at Washington, 7 p.m. x-Monday, April 26: Washington at Montreal, 7 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 28: Montreal at Washington, TBD New Jersey vs. Philadelphia Wednesday, April 14: Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 16: Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 18: New Jersey at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, April 20: New Jersey at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. x-Thursday, April 22: Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m. x-Sunday, April 25: New Jersey at Philadelphia, TBD x-Tuesday, April 27: Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.

Buffalo vs. Boston Thursday, April 15: Boston at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 17: Boston at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Monday, April 19: Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 21: Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m. x-Friday, April 23: Boston at Buffalo, 7 p.m. x-Monday, April 26: Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 28: Boston at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Ottawa Wednesday, April 14: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Friday, April 16: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Sunday, April 18: Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 20: Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 7 p.m. x-Thursday, April 22: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. x-Saturday, April 24: Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 7 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE San Jose vs. Colorado Wednesday, April 14: Colorado at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Friday, April 16: Colorado at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 18: San Jose at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 20: San Jose at Colorado, 10 p.m. x-Thursday, April 22: Colorado at San Jose, 10:30 p.m. x-Saturday, April 24: San Jose at Colorado, TBD x-Monday, April 26: Colorado at San Jose, TBD Chicago vs. Nashville Friday, April 16: Nashville at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 18: Nashville at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 20: Chicago at Nashville, 9 p.m.

Thursday, April 22: Chicago at Nashville, 8:30 p.m. x-Saturday, April 24: Nashville at Chicago, 3 p.m. x-Monday, April 26: Chicago at Nashville, TBD x-Wednesday, April 28: Nashville at Chicago, TBD Vancouver vs. Los Angeles Thursday, April 15: Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Saturday, April 17: Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Monday, April 19: Vancouver at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

Wednesday, April 21: Vancouver at Los Angeles, 10 p.m. x-Friday, April 23: Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10 p.m. x-Sunday, April 25: Vancouver at Los Angeles, TBD x-Tuesday, April 27: Los Angeles at Vancouver, TBD Phoenix vs. Detroit Wednesday, April 14: Detroit at Phoenix, 10

p.m.

Friday, April 16: Detroit at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Sunday, April 18: Phoenix at Detroit, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, April 20: Phoenix at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. x-Friday, April 23: Detroit at Phoenix, 10 p.m. x-Sunday, April 25: Phoenix at Detroit, 2 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: Detroit at Phoenix, TBD

GOLF Masters Par Scores At Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. Final Round (a-amateur) Phil Mickelson, 67-71-67-67 — 272 (-16) Lee Westwood, 67-69-68-71 — 275 (-13) Anthony Kim, 68-70-73-65 — 276 (-12) Tiger Woods, 68-70-70-69 — 277 (-11) K.J. Choi, 67-71-70-69 — 277 (-11) Fred Couples, 66-75-68-70 — 279 (-9) Nick Watney, 68-76-71-65 — 280 (-8) Hunter Mahan, 71-71-68-71 — 281 (-7) Y.E. Yang, 67-72-72-70 — 281 (-7) Ricky Barnes, 68-70-72-73 — 283 (-5) Ian Poulter, 68-68-74-73 — 283 (-5) Miguel Jimenez, 72-75-72-66 — 285 (-3) Jerry Kelly, 72-74-67-72 — 285 (-3) Ryan Moore, 72-73-73-68 — 286 (-2) David Toms, 69-75-71-71 — 286 (-2) Trevor Immelman, 69-73-72-72 — 286 (-2) Steve Marino, 71-73-69-73 — 286 (-2) Ernie Els, 71-73-75-68 — 287 (-1) Scott Verplank, 73-73-73-68 — 287 (-1) Adam Scott, 69-75-72-71 — 287 (-1) Angel Cabrera, 73-74-69-71 — 287 (-1) Heath Slocum, 72-73-70-72 — 287 (-1) Tom Watson, 67-74-73-73 — 287 (-1) Ben Crane, 71-75-74-68 — 288 (E) Matt Kuchar, 70-73-74-71 — 288 (E) Kenny Perry, 72-71-72-74 — 289 (+1) Geoff Ogilvy, 74-72-69-74 — 289 (+1) Bill Haas, 72-70-71-76 — 289 (+1) Yuta Ikeda, 70-77-72-71 — 290 (+2) Jason Dufner, 75-72-75-69 — 291 (+3) Soren Kjeldsen, 70-71-75-75 — 291 (+3) Fran. Molinari, 70-74-75-72 — 291 (+3) Sean O’Hair, 72-71-72-76 — 291 (+3) Charl Schwartzel, 69-76-72-74 — 291 (+3) Steve Stricker, 73-73-74-71 — 291 (+3) Lucas Glover, 76-71-71-74 — 292 (+4) a-M. Manassero, 71-76-73-72 — 292 (+4) Steve Flesch, 75-71-70-78 — 294 (+6) Retief Goosen, 74-71-76-73 — 294 (+6) Dustin Johnson, 71-72-76-75 — 294 (+6) Camilo Villegas, 74-72-71-77 — 294 (+6) Zach Johnson, 70-74-76-75 — 295 (+7) Robert Karlsson, 71-72-77-76 — 296 (+8) Mike Weir, 71-72-76-77 — 296 (+8) Robert Allenby, 72-75-78-73 — 298 (+10) Chad Campbell, 79-68-80-71 — 298 (+10) Sergio Garcia, 74-70-76-78 — 298 (+10) Nathan Green, 72-75-80-75 — 302 (+14)

TRANSACTIONS

Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Placed 2B Brian Roberts on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 10.

Recalled INF Justin Turner from Norfolk (IL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Placed 2B Aaron Hill on the 15-day DL. Called up OF Jeremy Reed from Las Vegas (PCL).

American Association GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS—Traded C Landon Hernandez to Gateway (Frontier) for future considerations.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS—Signed RHP Chris Britton.

SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CAPTAINS—Signed INF Chris Garcia.

SIOUX FALLS PHEASANTS—Signed LHP Chris Salberg.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS—Released RHP Walker Whitley.

BASKETBALL NBA Development League RIO GRANDE VALLEY VIPERS—Reacquired G-F Sean Barnette.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL—Suspended New York Jets WR Santonio Holmes for the first four regular-season games for violating the league’s substance abuse policy.

CAROLINA PANTHERS—Signed S Aaron Francisco.

CHICAGO BEARS—Re-signed LB Pisa Tinoisamoa.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Agreed to terms with G Bobbie Williams on a two-year contract.

DETROIT LIONS—Agreed to terms with DE Jared DeVries on a one-year contract.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS—Agreed to terms with OT Zach Strief.

MEW YOR JETS—Acquired WR Santonio Holmes from Pittsburgh for a 2010 fifth-round draft pick.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS—Signed DE Nick Eason to a one-year contract extension.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Signed QB Jason Campbell to a one-year contract.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Signed QB Buck Pierce.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS—Recalled F Justin Abdelkader, F Brad May, F Mattias Ritola, D Doug Janik, D Jakub Kindl and G Daniel Larsson from Grand Rapids (AHL). Reassigned RW Willie Coetzee to Red Deer (WHL). Returned D Brian Lashoff to Kingston (OHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Fired general manager Brian Lawton and coach Rick Tocchet. Promoted assistant general manager Tom Kurvers interim director of hockey operations.

American Hockey League HARTFORD WOLF PACK—Loaned D Jared Nightingale to Charlotte (ECHL). Released D Julien Brouillette and F Derek Couture.

MANITOBA MOOSE—Signed LW Lucas Bloodoff and G Mark Guggenberger.

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE—Loaned F Gavin Morgan to Reading (ECHL).

TORONTO MARLIES—Assigned F Greg Scott and G Andrew Engelage to Reading (ECHL).

COLLEGE CHARLOTTE—Named Alan Major men’s basketball coach.

COLORADO—Named Linda Lappe women’s basketball coach and signed her to a five-year contract.

EAST CAROLINA—Named Antonio Huffman director of football operations.

MIAMI—Named Jesse Marks assistant athletic director for major gifts.

MUHLENBERG—Named Trey Brown quarterbacks and wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator.

NORTH CAROLINA—Announced sophomore F Ed Davis will enter the NBA draft.

SYRACUSE—Announced junior F Wes Johnson will enter the NBA draft.

WEST VIRGINIA—Announced sophomore F Devin Ebanks will enter the NBA draft.

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Wake talks with Buffs’ Bzdelik

RALEIGH (AP) — Wake Forest is talking to Colorado’s Jeff Bzdelik about its coaching vacancy.

A Wake Forest spokesman told The Associated Press that Bzdelik arrived on campus in Winston-Salem, on Monday and would be interviewing for the job through Tuesday.

Colorado athletic director Mike Bohn says he’s monitoring the developments “on a daily, basis, on an hourly basis, actually.”

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Former Master’s champion Angel Cabrera, left, of Argentina helps Phil Mickelson put on his Masters jacket after his win at the 2010 Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga., Sunday, April 11, 2010.

Lefty Continued from Page 7

“She didn’t feel well and she doesn’t have energy,” her husband said. “To have her here and share this moment and share the joy of winning on 18, and to share this with my kids, is something that we’ll look back on the rest of our lives.”

So, a tournament that started with the focus on a guy who committed serial adultery, ended with a victory celebration that was much more family friendly.

This has been a trying year for Mickelson, who not only dealt with his wife’s illness, but his mother’s, too. She also is battling breast cancer. Not surprising that he’s been distracted from the game he plays for a living.

Lefty arrived at Augusta National without a top five finish all year. But he’s always felt as comfortable at this course as any other, winning his first major here in 2004, then another two years later.

When his family arrived — Amy, their three kids and his mother — Mickelson knew this might be the week he started playing like himself again.

Tiger Continued from Page 7

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will not face charges after a college student accused him of sexually assaulting her at a nightclub last month, authorities said Monday.

Ocmulgee Circuit District Attorney Fred Bright said the 20-year-old student’s accusations could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and her lawyer said in a letter that she did not want to press charges.

“Therefore there will be no arrests made nor criminal prosecution against Mr. Roethlisberger,” Bright said.

The woman told an officer Roethlisberger sexually assaulted her early March 5 at the Capital City night club, where he was drinking with friends shortly after his 28th birthday.

Bright said the investigation showed the woman was heavily intoxicated that night. She and her sorority sisters had met Roethlisberger at a different bar earlier in the night, and he invited them into a VIP area at the Capital City club and ordered them shots. When the woman walked down a hallway to a small bathroom, Roethlisberger followed her.

What happened in that bathroom is unclear, Bright said.

A doctor who examined the woman could not say if she was raped, and while some DNA was found, there was not enough to determine whom it belonged to.

“We are not condoning Mr. Roethlisberger’s actions that night,” Bright said. “But we do not prosecute morals. We prosecute crimes.”

He said local and state investiThe next step? gators spent weeks questioning Woods didn’t say when he would play again. He witnesses even though the womsaid he needed to “take a little time off and kind an sent a letter urging prosecuof re-evaluate things.” If he sticks to a normal schedule, Woods could show up at Quail Hollow or tors not to move forward with charges.

The Players Championship or even the Memorial.

“I know when I have a case Those are the three places he typically plays before and I know when I don’t,” Bright the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. said. “And I do not have enough Just don’t get the idea the next step will be forevidence to convince 12 jurors ward.

All of those tournaments, or any others he choos- beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Roethlisberger was guilty of es to play this year, will be everything Augusta rape.”

National is not.

Bright said the woman told They will be public golf tournaments, with fans who won’t worry about losing their season badges. him it had been an “unnerving experience” and that she and her What he hears from the crowd sitting around the island green on the 17th hole at the TPC Sawgrass family made it clear they did not want the matter prosecuted. might be a little different from what he heard in One of the 20-year-old womAmen Corner. an’s attorneys, David Walbert, And the scrutiny will not stop. said in a letter to Bright that his client was not recanting her accusation. But the letter, released to the media Monday, said she did not want to go to Continued from Page 7 trial because it would be “a very intrusive personal experience.”

“We didn’t show exactly what happened: Mr. Kyle Busch didn’t decline, but adamantly refused to be interviewed,” Landis said Monday. “Denny Hamlin’s situation, we followed him all day and certainly would have loved to do a follow up. But the desire to get him out of the car to see the doctors ... we were standing by him waiting.”

And time is at the core of this particular broadcast, which is now being singled out as the prime NEW YORK (AP) — Newly example of why fans have grown frustrated with acquired Jets wide receiver watching races on TV. Santonio Holmes was suspended But in fairness to Fox, the network was backed Monday without pay by the NFL into a corner Saturday night largely because of for the first four regular-season PIR’s quizzical decision to lengthen its race by 63 games for violating the league’s laps. Because of NASCAR’s standard start teams substance abuse policy. this season, Phoenix officials shortsightedly petiThe league announced the tioned NASCAR to add laps Saturday night so that suspension a day after the Jets it’s estimated crowd of 70,000 would see an actual acquired the talented but trounight race. bled Holmes from the Pittsburgh Doing so wreaked havoc on both Fox’s national broadcast and East Coast viewers who had to stick Steelers for a fifth-round pick in with the broadcast until almost midnight for what this month’s draft.

Holmes, the 2009 Super Bowl turned out to be incomplete coverage.

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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger warming up prior to the start of an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens, in Baltimore, in this Nov. 29, 2009 file photo.

Lee Parks, another attorney for the woman, said in a statement that he was pleased Bright honored his client’s request.

without consent, and that’s difficult especially if both parties consumed alcohol,” said Morgan, who is now a sole practitioner.

Ed Garland, Roethlisberger’s attorney, refused to say during a brief news conference Monday whether the quarterback had been threatened with a lawsuit or whether he was considering filing one against his accuser.

Garland said he had spoken to Roethlisberger today and “he was glad that this matter is over and he’s looking forward to going back to football practice next week and having a successful season.”

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell still plans to meet privately with Roethlisberger, said league spokesman Greg Aiello.

That meeting is expected to happen later this week.

J. Tom Morgan, a former DeKalb County district attorney, said Georgia laws set a high bar for proving sexual assault and require proof that force was used.

“If this is sexual assault, it has to be proven that it happened

Roethlisberger was seen out with a few friends at several different bars that night. The Capital City club is a popular spot for students at the neighboring Georgia College & State University. Roethlisberger owns a home about 30 miles north on Lake Oconee, in central Georgia.

The two-time Super Bowl champ is being sued by a different woman who says he raped her in 2008 at a Lake Tahoe hotel and casino, an allegation he denies. Roethlisberger has not been criminally charged in that case either and has claimed counter-damages in the lawsuit.

As Pittsburgh’s first-round draft pick out of Miami of Ohio in 2004, Roethlisberger led the Steelers to Super Bowl victories in 2006 and 2009. He frequently has donated time and money to charities, and his charitable foundation awards a police dog to a department near every Steelers road opponent.

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MVP, is eligible to participate in the team’s offseason program and in all preseason practices and games. He would be suspended for an entire season if he violates the league’s policy again.

The 26-year-old Holmes is coming off his best season, with 79 catches for 1,248 yards and five touchdowns. But he is also facing a lawsuit in Florida from a woman who claims he threw a glass at her, cutting her above the eye, in an Orlando night-

club. A witness has since taken responsibility, according to Holmes’ lawyer.

The Jets appeared unfazed by the off-field issues, adding a game-breaking player to an offense that already included second-year quarterback Mark Sanchez, wide receivers Braylon Edwards and Jerricho Cotchery, tight end Dustin Keller, running backs Shonn Greene, Leon Washington and the recently signed LaDainian Tomlinson.

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Firefighters worked looking for hot spots and keep those area well saturated.

Area firefighters battle large grass, woods fire RUTHERFORDTON — Firefighters from at least three volunteer departments and the North Carolina Forest Service battled an out of control fire off Moonlight Lane for nearly seven hours Monday.

The fire burned about 15 acres belonging to Rowell Timber, said Greg Ruppe, SDO Fire Chief.

Ruppe said the timber company was burning undergrowth on the property, near Hestermill Road, when the wind started began to blow and blew the fire onto a pile of

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“We did a lot of back burning and dozer work,” Ruppe said. A spotter plane and helicopter, dumping water, were also utilized to bring the fire under control.

Also assisting were Cliffside, Sandy Mush fire departments, the Forest Service, Rutherford County Fire Marshal Roger Hollifield and Asst.

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Nation Today Teen bubbles over dress

GARNER, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa teen is all bubbly over her one-ofa-kind high school prom dress she made out of gum wrappers.

Elizabeth Rasmuson made her dress — and matching vest for her date — out of blue and white wrappers from Wrigley’s “5 gum.”

The high school junior says she got the idea after hearing about someone making a dress out of duct tape.

She and her boyfriend began collecting gum wrappers last August.

Rasmuson says she quit counting after 200.

Since the wrappers break easily, Rasmuson finished her dress with a vinyl top coat.

Firefighter killed in blast

HOUNSFIELD, N.Y. (AP) — A fire in an animal-feed silo triggered an explosion that killed a firefighter at a farm in northern New York where, just three days earlier, a barn blaze killed more than 100 cows.

Authorities say they believe the barn fire Thursday night at North Harbor Dairy Farm in the town of Hounsfield, 60 miles north of Syracuse, might have kindled the explosion at the nearby steel silo Sunday.

“We believe this is a leftover from the first fire ... a re-ignition, more or less,” Jefferson County Sheriff’s Lt. Michael Peterson said. “It’s not unusual to have a rekindle at such a large scene as that. A silo can burn for weeks because of the way they’re constructed.”

Authorities don’t suspect sabotage but haven’t ruled anything out, Peterson said, noting that the cause of both fires remains under investigation.

Sackets Harbor’s new assistant fire chief, Garrett Loomis, 26, was near the top of the burning silo when it exploded Sunday morning. He was

pronounced dead at a hospital in nearby Watertown.

Loomis, a career firefighter in Fort Drum, previously worked in Wilmington, N.C. The son of a retired firefighter, he grew in Sackets Harbor on Lake Ontario’s eastern shore and became assistant fire chief in the small community’s volunteer department last Tuesday.

The farm’s owners said that they managed to rescue three calves from the 10,000-square-foot barn before it was engulfed in flames, but that two of the calves later died. The barn was loaded with hay.

Astronauts celebrate CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex celebrated two big anniversaries Monday as they geared up for the third and final spacewalk of their mission.

And the world was treated to the first recital of traditional Japanese music and poetry in space.

Monday marked the 49th anniversary of the first human spaceflight — by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961 — and the 29th anniversary of the first shuttle launch.

‘Dragon’ partly reopens TALLASSEE, Tenn. (AP) — As of Monday, motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts will once again have access to most of a twisty stretch of road known as “The Dragon.”

But a rock slide that caused the segment of U.S. Route 129 to be shut down in March will still block access from the Tennessee side of the road that winds into North Carolina.

Warmer weather usually marks the beginning of the busiest time of the year for merchants clustered on both ends of the stretch of road famous for its 318 curves in 11 miles.

Calling it the worst “political move I’ve ever seen in my life,” Spence said the complaint is unfounded and she believes it was filed against her just before the May 4 Primary Election for obvious political reasons.

Spence is seeking re-election and her Republican opponent is Edna Walker, daughter-in-law of Judge (Laura) Bridges.

“It was filed strictly because her daughter-in-law is against me,” Spence said.

Spence has retained out of county legal counsel.

A hearing on the complaint was first scheduled for April 23, just two weeks before the primary but was rescheduled to May 7.

Judge Bridges, senior resident Superior Court judge for Judicial District 29B, which includes Rutherford and McDowell counties, said on Monday, “I want you to know how devastated I am that someone would file a complaint against our clerk of court, and that it was filed at the time that it was filed. And that I have done everything I could to make sure she gets a fair and impartial hearing on the matter. I called AOC (Administrative Office of the Courts) and followed their directions on what to do. And they have appointed a judge to hear it.

“It (the complaint) landed on my desk last Tuesday, and I have been trying to deal with it ever since.

I don’t know any of the parties involved in it except the clerk, and there will be a hearing by a judge that has not ever been in this division, and that judge will make the decision on what to do.”

The dispute arrives over which custody order, one from 2006 or one from 2008, should have been followed in the case.

According to the complaint, Spence used the 2006 order. McClellan says in his complaint that the current order was signed on Jan. 18, 2008, by Judge J. Thomas Davis.

The 2008 custody order, part of the file in the case, states, “Beginning Friday, Jan. 25, 2008, the father shall have visitation with the minor child every other weekend beginning on Friday when the child leaves school on school days or at 3:30 p.m. on Friday when school is not in session that day and continuing until the immediately following Monday when school starts on school days or at 12 noon when school is not in session that day.”

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That order was signed on Jan. 18, 2008, by Judge Davis.

Two sheriff’s officers, Patrolmen Trey Hooper and Joshua Johnson, came to McClellan’s house.

McClellan says, “Ms. Spence told officer Hooper to come to my house and remove child ASAP per her orders.”

The complaint continues, “Officer Hooper called Ms. Spence back and told her she had the wrong custody order 2006 and he had the correct custody order 2008. She said NO (emphasis in complaint) that 2006 was the order and the last order and she wants the child returned.”

McClellan alleges that when Spence “found out she had made an error with the wrong custody order, she didn’t let it end.”

McClellan says that taxpayer money was wasted as the officers spent hours at his residence trying to determine what to do.

He then continues, “Ms. Spence told officer Hooper that Judge Davis had written a new order that week and to return son immediately.”

McClellan alleges that Ronald Shelton, the RCSO officers’ supervisor, told him that Davis had signed the new order.

McClellan writes in his complaint, “I asked Mr. Shelton for a copy of the ‘new custody order’ that Ms. Spence said she has. He said he had one and he would return and bring a copy. He never came back with it because it didn’t exist. Then the officers told me that word from Judge Thomas Davis was that he did not sign anything that week.”

McClellan says the officers eventually left, and adds that Hooper told him he would call Luckadoo and inform her that her son would be returned at noon Monday, as per the custody order.

McClellan, in his complaint, says that his ex-wife and Spence are friends, having worked together at the Department of Social Services.

And he alleges that Luckadoo and Spence “conspired” to go by an outof-date 2006 order.

He adds, “She (Spence) has no business interfering with custody orders.

She’s not an attorney, district judge or the sheriff.”

McClellan says the events were stressful to his family, noting that his son has a seizure disorder.

The complaint was filed with the Rutherford County Clerk of Superior Court last Friday. The complaint was sent to Bridges and to Judge Randy Pool.

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigitalcourier.com

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THE MARKET IN REVIEW

STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS

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7,641.75 +12.70

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Chg AmbacF h 2.25 +1.15 DynCorp 17.41 +5.66 AmbacF pfZ19.14 +5.89 StratABK37 2.38 +.64 Valhi 32.20 +5.85 Mirant 12.68 +1.95 Ambac3-03n7.91 +1.11 RRI Engy 4.53 +.58 Ambac2-03 7.95 +.86 GreenbCos14.93 +1.55

%Chg +104.5 +48.2 +44.5 +36.8 +22.2 +18.2 +16.3 +14.7 +12.1 +11.6

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last GlimchRt 6.22 MI Devel 13.17 RAIT Fin 2.49 GrubbEl h 2.12 MassCp 25.67 TorchEn lf 4.83 SemiMfg 6.11 HeliosStrMt 6.23 DrxSOXBr 32.74 Lubrizol 91.61

Chg %Chg -.46 -6.9 -.89 -6.3 -.16 -6.0 -.13 -5.8 -1.58 -5.8 -.28 -5.4 -.33 -5.1 -.33 -5.0 -1.66 -4.8 -4.64 -4.8

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg Citigrp 4048280 4.64 +.09 AmbacF h 4039368 2.25 +1.15 BkofAm 1262450 18.66 +.07 FannieMae 1183001 1.24 +.14 S&P500ETF 999526 119.74 +.19 SprintNex 751265 4.15 +.11 GenElec 713622 18.71 +.19 FredMac 579053 1.56 +.19 Alcoa 536575 14.57 +.18 FordM 499476 12.77 +.05 Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

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1,747 1,321 129 3,197 437 5 4,642,113,209

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Name Last JavelinPh 2.15 RadientPh 2.19 CompTch 2.11 RexahnPh 3.65 CoreMold 5.77 BootsCoots 2.95 B&HO 3.90 SL Ind 10.67 NTS Rlty 5.12 PyramidOil 6.65

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Name Last Engex 5.40 CheniereE 16.90 PolyMet g 2.40 MetroHlth 3.12 NA Pall g 4.53 Servotr 8.40 CheniereEn 4.80 PudaCoal n10.76 ThaiCap 10.28 Continucre 3.42

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Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

266 232 40 538 34 3 224,855,386

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GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

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Chg +7.12 +.85 +.80 +1.73 +.36 +.37 +1.60 +.64 +.88 +.69

%Chg +43.2 +37.8 +23.1 +19.9 +19.6 +19.5 +19.4 +18.1 +17.1 +16.9

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

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Last 3.21 3.06 2.15 7.10 2.05 6.67 5.84 9.63 2.38 3.69

Chg %Chg -.51 -13.7 -.44 -12.6 -.22 -9.3 -.70 -9.0 -.20 -8.9 -.62 -8.5 -.53 -8.3 -.86 -8.2 -.21 -8.1 -.31 -7.8

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)

Name Vol (00) Palm Inc 1429725 Intel 487704 PwShs QQQ430024 Microsoft 359890 MicronT 357952 ETrade 328781 Cisco 275872 HuntBnk 242802 ApldMatl 236139 Oracle 229201

Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

Last Chg 6.04 +.88 22.54 -.01 49.07 +.04 30.32 -.02 10.82 +.09 1.71 ...

26.53 -.07 6.03 +.17 13.63 +.17 26.20 +.12

DIARY

1,483 1,208 148 2,839 261 6 2,008,837,040

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Dow closes above 11,000 NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 11,000 for the first time in a year and a half on investors’ rising hopes about the economy.

The Dow edged up about 9 points Monday to almost 11,006. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index came within a point of hitting its own milestone of 1,200 during trading but closed just short of that mark.

Analysts said the Dow’s move above 11,000 could provide a psychological boost and perhaps draw more investors to the market.

“There is a huge stockpile of cash on the sidelines earning virtually nothing,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank in Chicago. “Maybe this can help shake a few people into the market.”

Stocks have been rising this year on growing expectations that the economy will shake off job market weakness and housing problems. A test of whether the Dow can hold the 11,000 mark will come in the next three weeks when companies report earnings. Investors also will want to see whether the government’s next employment report, due in early May, shows that employers added jobs in April as they did during March.

On Monday, a loan agreement for Greece allowed U.S. investors to focus on domestic economic and corporate news, including announcements of two big deals. Meanwhile, the latest round of corporate dealmaking signaled that business leaders are more confident about a recovery.

Mirant Corp. agreed to acquire rival power company Reliant Energy Inc. for $1.61 billion, while the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management is buying DynCorp International, a provider of support services to U.S. national security operations, for $1 billion.

The Dow rose 8.62, or 0.1 percent, to 11,005.97.

It was the Dow’s first close above 11,000 since Sept. 26, 2008. The index climbed above 11,000 in the final moments of trading Friday before fading below the threshold.

The Dow has posted six straight weekly advances, its longest winning streak in a year. The index has added 1,000 points in two months. The index’s only close below 10,000 this year came on Feb. 8.

Since then, it’s up 11 percent.

It has risen 68.1 percent since hitting a 12-year low in March last year though it is still down 22.3 percent from its peak or 14,164.53 in October 2007.

In other trading, the S&P 500 index rose 2.11, or 0.2 percent, to 1,196.48. It traded has high as 1,199.20. It hasn’t topped 1,200 since September 2008. The Nasdaq composite index rose 3.82, or 0.2 percent, to 2,457.87.

Bond prices rose, and the advance pushed down interest rates. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 3.85 percent from 3.88 percent late Friday.

Gold rose. Crude oil fell 58 cents to $84.34 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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Survey: Recovery sluggish this year WASHINGTON (AP) — The pillars of Americans’ financial security — jobs and home values — will stay shaky well into 2011, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists.

The findings of the new AP Economy Survey, released Monday, point to an economic recovery that will move slowly and fitfully this year and next.

As a result, the Federal Reserve will be forced to keep interest rates near zero until at least the final quarter of this year, threefourths of the economists said.

The new AP survey, which will be conducted quarterly, compiles forecasts of leading private, corporate and academic economists on a range of indicators, including employment, home prices and inflation. Among the first survey’s key findings: n The unemployment rate will stay stubbornly high the next two years. It will inch down to 9.3 percent by the end of this year and to 8.4 percent by the end of 2011. The rate has been 9.7 percent since January.

When the recession started in December 2007, unemployment was 5 percent. n Home prices will remain almost flat for the next two years, even after plunging an average 30 percent nationally since their peak in 2006. The economists forecast no rise this year and a 2.3 percent gain next year. n The economy will grow 3 percent this year, which is less

than usual during the early phase of a recovery and the reason unemployment will stay high. It takes growth of 5 percent for a year to lower the jobless rate by 1 percentage point, economists say.

The economy began growing again last summer, 18 months after the recession started. To keep the recovery on track, the soonest the Federal Reserve will begin raising short-term interest rates is the fourth quarter, 34 of the 44 economists surveyed told the AP. Those continued low rates will help stimulate home sales.

Economists think sales of previously occupied homes, the biggest chunk of the market, will tick up to 5.4 million this year and to 5.9 million in 2011. That would mark continued improvement from the low of 4.9 million in 2008 and be in line with sales in a healthy economy.

But there’s a catch. Sales are forecast to rise in part because of another anticipated wave of foreclosures. That will keep prices from rising — and consumers from spending freely. Surging home equity spurred spending during the housing boom.

By keeping interest rates at record lows, the Fed intends to encourage people and companies to spend more and invigorate the recovery. But anxiety over unemployment, and a reluctance or inability to borrow, will also restrain consumer spending.

“We’re not going to see any

irrational exuberance from consumers this year,” says Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors.

Economists say it may take until at least the middle of the decade for home values to begin rising normally again. The biggest asset for many Americans, homes have appreciated an average 4 percent a year since World War II, economists say.

National house prices have never remained flat while the economy was growing, says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, which reviewed data going back to 1969. Adjusted for inflation, however, home prices were essentially flat throughout the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, says Zandi.

The recession wiped out 8.2 million jobs. Zandi and other economists had previously forecast that unemployment, which reached 10.1 percent in October, would peak at 11 percent this year. Zandi now expects joblessness to climb again from the current 9.7 percent and reach 10.2 percent by December. That’s because many people who have quit looking for work and aren’t counted as unemployed will start looking again.

Employers have begun to add jobs recently, including 162,000 in March. Economists surveyed foresee additional job creation over the next three months, but not enough to reduce the unemployment rate significantly. They

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“We can’t find empirical support for that,” Groves said, regarding evidence of lower participation among conservatives. He noted that perhaps 1 or 2 percent of the 10-question forms returned so far have been incomplete, which is what officials previously anticipated.

Groves’ comments, which came at a news conference to urge Americans to mail back their census forms by Friday, seemed to tamp down anecdotal reports in recent weeks that anti-government sentiment might spur a mass boycott among conservatives who consider the census form to be overreaching.

Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Ron Paul, R-Texas, are among those who have been vocal in expressing their intent to refuse to provide information about anything except the number of people in their household, saying that providing anything more would be an invasion of privacy.

“Things are going quite well,” Groves said.

With five days left for people to mail back census forms, about 65 percent, or more than 77 million households, have completed and mailed back their census forms. That number puts the U.S. on track to match or surpass the 2000 mail-back rate of 72 percent. The Midwest leads, while the southern and western U.S. and big cities such as New York, Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia are lagging.

Groves said most of the lagging areas are either rural or have dense populations, or have more minority and non-English speaking people. That was also the case in 2000.

He urged those in big cities and border regions to step up their response to avoid visits by census takers.

Small paper wins Pulitzer Prize NEW YORK (AP) — The Bristol Herald Courier, a small paper in the coalfields of Appalachia, beat out journalism’s powerhouses to win the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for uncovering a scandal in which Virginia landowners were deprived of millions in natural gas royalties.

The seven-reporter daily was honored for what many regard as an endangered form of journalism in this age of wrenching newspaper cutbacks — aggressive reporting on local issues.

The Washington Post received four Pulitzers — for international reporting on Iraq, feature writing, commentary and criticism. The New York Times won three — for national reporting, for explanatory reporting, and for investigative reporting for collaborating with the fledgling nonprofit news service ProPublica for a story on the life-and-death decisions made

by New Orleans doctors during Hurricane Katrina.

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The Pulitzer Board also recognized the way newspapers are branching out with new media.

The Seattle Times employed Twitter and e-mail alerts to help inform readers about a deadly shooting, and used the social media tool Google Wave to encourage reader participation.

Pulitzer administrator Sig Gissler said there were about 100 online entries from 50 sites this year, up from 65 entries last year.

The 33,000-circulation Bristol Herald Courier won for reporter Daniel Gilbert’s computer analysis that showed how a state board allowed the energy industry to funnel into an unaudited escrow fund tens of millions of dollars in royalties owed to people in one of the poorest regions of Virginia.

Gilbert, 28, called the award “a hell of an honor” and said it underscores the importance of public service reporting in rural areas.

With its small staff, two bottles of cheap champagne were all the newsroom needed to mark the occasion.

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The Pulitzer for local reporting went to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a series of stories on fraud and abuse in a child-care program for poor working parents.

The Dallas Morning News won for editorial writing.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The election-year jobs agenda promised by President Barack Obama and Democrats has stalled seven months before voters determine control of Congress.

Democrats have no money to pay for the program. That’s because both Republicans and the Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee objected to taking money left over from the fund that bailed out banks, automakers and insurers and using it for the jobs bill.

Such a move, they insisted, would add tens of billions of dollars to the $12.8 trillion national debt.

An $80 billion-plus Senate plan promised an infusion of cash to build roads and schools, help local governments keep teachers on the payroll, and provide rebates for homeowners who make ets, and they insist the nation is gled with clinical depression and energy-saving investments. Two months after the plan was introduced, most of those main elements doomed. diabetes.

As Snyder sees it, Westboro Snyder fought back against the remain on the Senate’s shelf.

Obama’s proposed $250 bonus payment to Social isn’t engaging in constitutionally church in part because he felt Security recipients is dead for the year, having lost protected speech when it pickets Westboro paid special attention a Senate vote last month. funerals. He argues that Phelps to his son. Several weeks after What’s going ahead instead are small-bore iniand his followers are disrupting the funeral, the pastor’s daughtiatives.

That includes modest help for small busiprivate assemblies and harassing ter, Shirley Phelps-Roper, wrote ness or simple extensions of parts from last year’s people at their most vulnerable in an online diatribe that Snyder economic stimulus measure. None is expected to — behavior that’s an incitement and his ex-wife taught their son make an appreciable dent in an unemployment to violence. “to defy his creator.” rate, stubbornly stuck at 9.7 percent, which is more “This is more than free speech.

Westboro also protests nonThis is like yelling, ‘Fire!’ in a military events, such as the 2007 that double what it was three years ago.

Even legislation to help the jobless has run into crowded theater. Somebody’s funeral of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, trouble now that Republicans, following the lead of going to get hurt,” Snyder said, and the deaths of 29 miners the tea party movement, have decided to make trilhis voice rising and eyes welling last week in West Virginia. The lion-dollar-plus budget deficits a campaign issue. with tears. group first grabbed widespread Before Congress went on spring break, Snyder’s lawsuit accuses the notice in 1998, when members Republicans blocked a one-month extension of Topeka, Kan., church of invadappeared outside the funeral of health insurance subsidies and additional weeks of ing his privacy and intentionally Matthew Shepard, the gay stuinflicting emotional distress. dent whose murder drew nation- unemployment insurance for people who have been out of work more than half a year.

He has the backing of his exal attention.

“You never know in politics when that magwife and his two daughters, but Lawyers Sean E. Summers ic moment comes when things really begin to Snyder insisted on being the only and Craig T. Trebilcock, both change, but I believe that it has occurred now,” plaintiff. military veterans, agreed to take said Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, the second-ranking Except for the 40 hours per Snyder’s case pro bono.

Republican. “I think you’ll see a much greater comweek he works selling indusSnyder won the first round mitment now to fiscal responsibility.” trial equipment, the case takes decisively, when a jury in fedThe idea of a jobs agenda arose late last year up nearly all his time. He says eral court in Baltimore awarded when the unemployment rate hit 10 percent and it’s more stressful than a second him $10.9 million in damages Democrats voiced concern that the majority parfull-time job. in October 2007. A judge later Snyder, who lives in York, reduced the award to $5 million. ty wasn’t doing enough to spur job creation. In December, House Democrats passed a $174 billion about 85 miles west of Last September, the 4th measure focused on public works spending, aid to Philadelphia, is soft-spoken U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the jobless and help to struggling state and local and polite. But anger and sadreversed the verdict, ruling ness flare up quickly, with little Westboro’s protest was constitu- governments. warning. The litigation has tionally protected speech. forced him to relive the anguish The Supreme Court agreed of his son’s death, and his grief is last month to consider whether still raw. the protesters’ actions, no matThe fight has taken its toll ter how provocative and upseton Snyder’s health. The broadting, are protected by the First chested 54-year-old has strugAmendment.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The budget deficit for March showed a dramatic decline as the Obama administration formally entered a lower ultimate cost for the government’s $700 billion financial bailout program.

The Treasury Department said the deficit for March totaled $65.4 billion, compared to a $191.6 billion imbalance a year ago. However, $115 billion of that improvement occurred because the administration lowered its estimate of the total costs for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The lower bailout estimate had already been included in the administration’s budget which it sent to Congress in February but it had not been included until March in the Treasury Department’s monthly accounting of outlays and receipts.

The deficit through the first six months of this budget year totals $716.99 billion, a drop of 8.2 percent from the same period a year ago. However, the administration is projecting that the deficit for all of 2010 will hit an all-time high of $1.56 trillion, up from last year’s record of $1.4 trillion. f o e Nam The projected full-year deficit is being driven r o ry upward by the severe impact of the worst recession ta re c e S since the 1930s, which has cut sharply into governe v ment tax revenues while driving up spending.

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High court will hear funeral case YORK, Pa. (AP) — Some nights Albert Snyder wakes up at 3 a.m.

Other nights he doesn’t sleep at all, tormented by thoughts of the hateful signs carried by a fundamentalist church outside his Marine son’s funeral.

“Thank God for Dead Soldiers.”

“You’re Going to Hell.”

“Semper Fi Fags.”

Hundreds of grieving families have been targeted by the Westboro Baptist Church, which believes military deaths are the work of a wrathful God who punishes the United States for tolerating homosexuality.

Most mourners try to ignore the taunts. But Snyder couldn’t let it go. He became the first to sue the church to halt the demonstrations, and he’s pursued the group farther than anyone else.

Now, more than four years after his son died in a Humvee accident in Iraq, Snyder’s legal battle is headed to the Supreme Court. And his tireless efforts have drawn support from across the country, including a wave of donations after he was ordered to pay the church’s court costs — a $16,500 judgment that the congregation plans to use for more protests.

Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, 20, was not gay. But for the Westboro church, any dead soldier is fair game. Pastor Fred Phelps oversees a congregation of 70 to 80 members — mostly his children and grandchildren.

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 — 15 SHOE by Chris Cassat and Gary Brookins

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Community calms aging fears Dear Abby: I am writing about the letter from “Afraid to Be Alone” (Feb. 15), who is moving to a new state and has no family except for her husband. As a teacher of health policy and administration, I agree that she shouldn’t be overanxious about her future to the point of distraction.

There are concrete steps she and her husband can take to protect themselves and have some security as they age. These include purchasing long-term care insurance, creating a living will and medical power of attorney, and communicating their wishes about heroic measures should either of them ever face that decision.

They should also look into moving to a continuing care retirement community (CCRC), most of which have differing levels of care — from assisted living to nursing home care — with guaranteed access to its members. — Chris Dear Chris: Thank you for your helpful suggestions. Like you, many readers were quick to offer reassurance to “Afraid.” Read on: Dear Abby: My husband and I allayed our own fears by choosing to live in a community with close neighbors and many activities.

Avoiding isolation is what is important. Knowing what caregiving and other support services are available also helps, whether or not they are needed right now. “Afraid’s” thoughts

Dear Abby Abigail van Buren

of death, if frequent, could be a symptom of depression and should be evaluated by a doctor if they persist.

— Happy to be Alone Dear Abby: “Afraid” should take stock of her life now, and consider her interests and hobbies. Gardening, art, reading, clubs, sewing, shopping, theater, antiquing or volunteering are all possibilities for her future if the need or interest arises. Last, but not least, the right pet can go a long way toward providing company and comfort. As soon as I walk in the door, I yell to my cat, “I’m home!” — Definitely not Lonely Dear Abby: Where are “Afraid’s” current friends? Moving means nothing to true friends. My mother kept in touch with her childhood friends until her death in her 70s — and they were spread all over the country.

Like “Afraid” I am an only child, plus I have never been married. I have a few faithful friends from high school and college who are there for me regardless of their location. I, too, would drop anything to be there for them. — Grateful

Acupuncture eases carpal tunnel syndrome Dear Dr. Gott: You recently answered a letter on carpal tunnel syndrome. I am a 74-year-old woman who has had tremendous relief from acupuncture for about 12 years. Back then, I had six treatments, and, until recently, I have had few symptoms.

Now, owing to overuse of my hands by gardening, cooking, using the computer, etc., I am starting to have trouble again. Still, I do not awaken in the night and have to get up and shake my hands as I once did. Have you other input on this?

Dear Reader: The carpal tunnel is literally a passageway on each palm side of the wrist that protects the main nerve to the hand and accompanying tendons responsible for allowing the fingers to bend. The syndrome occurs when pressure is placed on the median nerve, causing pain, tingling, numbness and eventual weakness of the affected hand. Repetitive motion for extended periods of time, such as swinging a

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hammer, and diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, some thyroid problems and amyloid deposits are a few of the possible causes. Amyloid is an abnormal protein manufactured in bone marrow. Symptoms of the syndrome typically begin slowly but can progress to the stage at which a physician should be consulted.

Confirmation might be made by an electromyography or through a nerve-conduction study.

Initial nonsurgical control for mild nerve impairment might include a wrist splint, over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, supplemental vitamin B6 or a cortisone injection.

IN THE STARS

Your Birthday, April 13; In the year ahead you might get an opportunity to participate in an endeavor that could turn out to be quite gratifying.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Appearances are important if you want to be a leader today.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Use your common sense today, but don’t underestimate a hunch.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Be tolerant and understanding when hanging out with your friends today.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Don’t expect any free rides or special treatment from your peers today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) This could be either a good or bad day for you, depending on your own attitude.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) - Your talents for probing and detecting are much keener than usual at this point in your life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Look at and review both sides of an issue without prejudice, and you should be able to make a good judgment call.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Let others go off on tangents, but unless you find ways to utilize your time productively, you’re likely to feel unfulfilled.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Instead of issuing orders to others about what they should or should not be doing today, set the example.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - There isn’t any secret to getting a lot accomplished today; all you have to do is get an early start.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - Don’t ignore that little voice within you that keeps telling you to get in touch with someone.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - You might want to cement in place a more solid financial base.

16 — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 16 — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TUESDAY, April 13, 2010

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Ukraine’s uranium move gives summit a boost WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama optimistically opened a 47-nation nuclear summit Monday, boosted by Ukraine’s announcement that it will give up its weapons-grade uranium. More sobering: Obama’s counterterrorism chief pointedly warned that al-Qaida is vigorously pursuing material and expertise for a bomb.

Ukraine’s decision dovetailed with Obama’s goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear materials worldwide within four years — an objective that the White House hopes will be endorsed by all summit countries at a closing session Tuesday, even if the means to accomplish it are unclear.

Before formally opening the summit with a reception and working dinner, Obama held a series of one-on-one meetings with leaders from China, Jordan, Ukraine, Armenia and Malaysia.

Presidential aides billed the summit as the largest gathering of world leaders hosted by an American president since the 1945 conference in San Francisco that founded the United Nations.

In a brief exchange with reporters, Obama said of the summit: “It’s impressive.

I think it’s an indication of how deeply concerned everybody should be with the possibilities of nuclear traffic, and I think at the end of this we’re going to see some very specific, concrete actions that each nation is taking that will make the world a little bit safer.”

The talks are a centerpiece of Obama’s broader agenda for ridding the world of nuclear weapons, a long-term process that he says should include gradual disarmament by the nuclear powers, stronger steps to head off a nuclear arms race and more

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Vice President Joe Biden, left, delivers remarks during a luncheon in conjunction with the Nuclear Security Summit, Monday at the Naval Observatory in Washington, attended by Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, center, and Thai Deputy Prime Minister Trirong Suwankiri, right.

urgent action to lock down tons of plutonium and highly enriched uranium that are the key building blocks of atomic weapons.

Not all countries share Obama’s view that the nuclear-materials problem is a priority. Some think the bigger emphasis should be on disarmament, particularly by the United States and Russia, which despite recent reductions still possess 90 percent of the world’s nuclear arms.

At a parallel unofficial conference of more than 200 international nuclear experts, participants said too many leaders don’t share Obama’s urgency about nuclear ingredients.

“There is a great complacency among policymakers around the world that terrorist groups couldn’t make a nuclear bomb,” said Matthew Bunn of Harvard.

Pakistani physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy focused on his

home region, where both Pakistan and India are building up their nuclear arsenals.

“Unfortunately, I do not see this concern either in Pakistan or India about nuclear terrorism,” he said.

“Both countries do not see the seriousness of this situation.”

Seeking to highlight the urgency of the threat posed by terrorists in pursuit of a nuclear bomb, John Brennan, the White House’s counterterrorism chief, told reporters that al-Qaida is actively in search of the key ingredients for a bomb and the expertise to assemble it.

He said such an improvised device could be obtained through criminal gangs or by infiltrating nuclear labs in Pakistan or other nuclear nations.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Obama’s conference offers a way to reinforce

existing global controls on nuclear materials.

“It’s an area that people talk about a lot, but frankly there hasn’t been the concerted international attention in these two areas that there might have been,” Gates said at the Pentagon.

“I think that it creates some real opportunities.”

Ukraine, which gave a major boost to arms control in 1994 when it agreed to surrender the nuclear weapons it inherited in the collapse of the Soviet Union, agreed to get rid of its weapons-grade fuel by 2012, according to the White House. Some details are yet to be worked out, including how and where the fuel will be disposed of, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.

Gibbs said the material could be sent to the U.S. or Russia. He declined to specify the amount, other than

to say it was enough to make several nuclear weapons.

After a private meeting, Obama and Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych issued a statement in which Obama praised the agreement as historic and pledged U.S. technical and financial assistance to support it. No dollar amount was mentioned.

As for nuclear risks from terrorists, Brennan said that al-Qaida and other groups “know that, if they are able to acquire highly enriched uranium or separated plutonium and turn it into a weapon, they would have the ability not only to threaten our security and world order in an unprecedented manner but also to kill and injure many thousands of innocent men, women, and children, which is al-Qaida’s sole agenda.”

The counterterror chief said international criminal gangs, aware of al-Qaida’s interest, are a potential source of key materials. He said some criminal groups have tricked al-Qaida by offering sales of phony materials, but al-Qaida has responded by developing the scientific expertise it needs to weed out scams.

Al-Qaida also is a threat to penetrate the nuclear establishments of countries like Pakistan, where al-Qaida leadership resides, Brennan said.

“Al-Qaida is looking for those vulnerabilities and facilities and stockpiles in different countries that would allow them to obtain the byproducts of nuclear reactors and materials that they can use, but also to go after those individuals that might have access to the materials, as well as individuals who have the expertise that they need to actually fabricate and improvise a nuclear device,” he said.

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TUESDAY, April 13, 2010 — 17 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 09 SP 22 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Hazel Dean Dover (Hazel Dean Dover, Deceased) (Heirs of Hazel Dean Dover: Hazel Dean Dover (Hazel Dean Dover, Deceased) (Heirs of Hazel Dean Dover: Buffy M. Dover Reep, James Donald Dover, Melissa Dover Wiliams and any other unknown Heirs of Hazel Dean Dover to First American Title Insurance Co., Trustee(s), dated the 1st day of August, 2006, and recorded in Book 912, Page 459, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on April 20, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Situate in the Town of Ruth, and being Lots Nos. 23 and 24 of the J. W. Hampton lands as shown by a plat thereof made by W.N. Willis, Civil Engineer, in June, 1919, and which said plat was originally recorded in Deed Book 112 at Page 500 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, a new plat thereof being recorded in said Register of Deeds Office in Plat Book Number 4 at Page 49; and being also the same land which was conveyed by Bell Walker, and others to L. B. Rollins and wife, by Deed dated September 1, 1944, and which is recorded in Deed Book 154 at Page 39 of the Rutherford County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; Said property being located at: 527 Long Street, Rutherfordton, North Carolina Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

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/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the 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, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 23rd day of March, 2010.

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Interested candidates should submit resume to Sonia Crisp, Administrator, 401 North Morgan Street, Shelby, NC 28150

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Licensed Insurance Agent Carolina Insurance, currently has an opening for a licensed personal lines agent in our Forest City, NC location. Candidate should possess the following skills and experience: • Highly energetic • Strong, proven customer service and writing skills • Excellent computer skills - Microsoft Office proficient • Experience working in an office environment with solid interpersonal skills Carolina Insurance offers a competitive compensation/benefits package (22-26k plus bonus), including medical, dental, and retirement plan with company match.

Additional benefits include a business casual environment, paid holidays, and endless opportunities for future growth.

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IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 10 SP 28 IN THE MATTER OF ELIZABETH THOMASINA GRIFFIN, File No. 09 E 503 Merri Burwell Oxley, Guardian of the Estate of Elizabeth Thomasina Griffin, Petitioner.

NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of Order entered by the Assistant Clerk of Superior Court of Rutherford County, NC, on January 25, 2010 in the above entitled Special Proceeding, the undersigned Commissioner and Guardian of the Estate of Elizabeth Thomasina Griffin will on the 17th day of April, 2010 at 10 o’clock A.M. on the premises located at 1403 Chase High Road, Forest City, Rutherford County, North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate with home, together with personal property of the Estate: Being located on the East side of Chase High Road (SR 2210) and being a 4.22 acre tract shown on the survey for Elizabeth T. Griffin by Donald R. McEntire, Professional Land Surveyor, dated March 12, 2010, and described by metes and bounds as follows: BEGINNING at an existing iron pin in the center line of the right of way for Chase High Road; and runs thence with the Stanley line (Deed Book 703 Page 12), South 87 deg. 52 min. 49 sec. East 27.77 feet to an iron pin; thence continuing with the Stanley line, South 87 deg. 52 min. 49 sec.

East 297.03 feet to an iron pin in the Teague line (Deed Book 209 Page 384); thence continuing with the Teague line, South 87 deg. 56 min. 18 sec. East 478.08 feet to an iron pin in the Ledbetter/Melton line; thence with the Ledbetter/Melton line described in a Deed recorded in Deed Book 979, Page 442, and the United States of America line described in Deed Book 908 at Page 299, South 39 deg. 45 min. 40 sec. East 283.93 feet to an iron pin; thence with the Rutherford County Board of Education line (Deed Book 238 Page 161), North 87 deg. 14 min. 48 sec. West 669.87 feet to an iron pin; continuing thence North 87 deg. 11 min. 50 sec. West 290.40 feet to a concrete monument; continuing thence North 87 deg. 14 min. 05 sec. West 29.95 feet to an iron pin in the center line of Chase High Road; thence with the center line of said road, North 01 deg.

28 min. 00 sec. East 199.72 feet to the place of BEGINNING. The above described property was conveyed to Elizabeth T. Griffin by Margaret J. Mellon, et al, by deed dated March 14, 2002, which is of record in Deed Book 794 at Page 02, Rutherford County Registry. (See also Deed Book 734, Page 378).

The above described property has an address of 1403 Chase High Road, Forest City, NC, 28043.

There is a home located on the property.

Also to be sold is a 2006 Nissan Sentra.

The record owner of the real property described above, as reflected in the records of the Rutherford County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is Elizabeth Thomasina Griffin.

This the 15th day of March, 2010. ________________________________ Merri Burwell Oxley, Commissioner/ Guardian of the Estate of Elizabeth Thomasina Griffin P.O. Box 549, 312 North Main St. Rutherfordton, NC 28139 Telephone: (828) 287-3726

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 53

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Wendy Campbell to Stewart Title, Trustee(s), dated the 31st day of July, 2006, and recorded in Book 911, Page 30, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on April 27, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Rutherfordton, in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Deborah A. Lukasik to John C. Warren, Trustee(s), dated the 29th day of September, 2005, and recorded in Book 862, Page 742, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on April 27, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of High Shoals, in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

Situate lying and being Rutherfordton Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being the same identical property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 836, Page 1, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said deed as follows:

Situate, lying and being in High Shoals Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being part of the land described in deed recorded in Deed Book 435, Page 731, Rutherford County Registry, NC and described according to a map and survey by Charles D. Owens, Jr., dated June 23, 1982 and being more particularly described as follows:

Situate lying and being in Rutherford Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being on the South side of Crestview Street in the Southern part of the Town of Rutherfordton, Rutherfordton Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being designated as Lot Number Two (2), Block "B", of Hillcrest Subdivision Number Three (3) as shown on plat of said subdivision duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, in Plat Book 6, at Page 36, and being described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning on an iron pin in the southern edge of the sidewalk of said Crestview Street, said iron pin being the common corner of Lots Numbers 1 and 2, and running thence with the common line of Lots Numbers 1 and 2, South 56 degrees 20 minutes West 140 feet to an iron pin in the outside line, said iron pin being the common corner of Lots Numbers 1 and 2; thence with said outside line South 33 degrees 40 minutes East 105 feet to an iron pin in said outside line, said iron pin being a common corner of Lots Number 2 and 3; thence with the common line of Lots Numbers 2 and 3, North 56 degrees 20 minutes East 140 feet to an iron pin in the Southern edge of said sidewalk, said iron pin being a common corner of Lots Numbers 2 and 3; thence with the Southern edge of said sidewalk North 33 degrees 40 minutes West 105 feet to the place of beginning. Together with improvements located thereon; Said property being located at: 187 Crestview Street, Rutherfordton, North Carolina

Beginning at a nail in the centerline of the intersection of SR 1935 with the center of an old roadbed, which old roadbed is located North 51 degrees 50 minutes 50 seconds West 312.24 feet from a railroad spike in the intersection of SR 1935 and a gravel road; and running thence from said beginning point with the old roadbed, North 62 degrees 24 minutes 40 seconds West 175.49 feet to a nail; thence North 43 degrees 49 minutes 10 seconds West 121.89 feet to a nail, thence North 13 degrees 31 minutes 50 seconds West 95.13 feet to a nail, thence North 06 degrees 34 minutes 20 seconds East 12.78 feet to a point, which point lies South 37 degrees 30 minutes West 20.5 feet from the eastern end of a culvert; thence North 70 degrees 27 minutes 10 seconds West 800.96 feet to a point in the centerline if the old Second Broad River Bed; thence with the centerline of the old second broad river bed, South 11 degrees 31 minutes 05 seconds West 29.11 feet; thence South 12 degrees 45 minutes 25 seconds West 335.85 feet; thence leaving said river bed , South 32 degrees East 42 feet to a 20 inch poplar stump on the East bank of the river, thence South 82 degrees 00 minutes 15 seconds East (crossing an iron pin at 1020.29 feet in the line) 1083.83 feet to the beginning, containing 6.29 acres. Together with improvements located thereon; Said property being located at: 751 Walker Store Road, Ellenboro, North Carolina Being the same and identical property by Citifinancial Services, Inc. to Deborah A. Lukasik by deed dated September 29, 2005 and of record in Deed Book ____, at Page ____, Rutherford County Registry.

Subject, however, to all restrictions as set forth on the aforesaid plat or map referred to above.

Being the same and identical property which was conveyed by J.M. Gilbert and wife, Margaret Gilbert, and Charles S. Andrews and wife, Margie Andrews to Earl H. Hatcher (now deceased) and wife, Louise B. Hatcher by deed dated June 28, 1958 and of record in Deed Book 233, and Page 624, Rutherford County Registry.

Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

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/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the 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, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A cash deposit or cashierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 daysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 6th day of April, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE BY: Attorney at Law The Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A. Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 http://sales.hsbfirm.com Case No: 141.137876

Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

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/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the 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, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A cash deposit or cashierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 daysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 6th day of April, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE BY: Attorney at Law The Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A. Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 http://sales.hsbfirm.com Case No: 1027219

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Elsewhere in the northwest, a suspected U.S. missile killed five alleged militants in a house in North Waziristan, the latest in a series of strikes in the region, Pakistani officials said. North Waziristan is home to al-Qaida and Taliban commanders, many of whom play a role in the insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan.

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This March 25 file photo shows a view of St. Peter’s Basilica during a youth meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s square, at the Vatican.

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Vatican: Report abuse to police VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Monday responded to allegations it long concealed clerical sex abuse by making it clear for the first time that bishops and clerics worldwide should report such crimes to police if they are required to by law.

The policy, spelled out in a guide for laymen and posted on the Vatican’s Web site, matches the policy worked out by U.S. bishops after an explosion of sex abuse cases in 2002.

Unlike the American norms, however, the Vatican guide contains no call for “zero tolerance” for priests who rape and molest children, and victims immediately criticized it as insufficient.

The Vatican insists it has long been the Catholic Church’s policy for bishops, like all Christians, to obey civil reporting laws.

But such an explicit policy had never been spelled out — until Monday.

“Civil law concerning reporting of crimes to the appropriate authorities should always be followed,” said the guideline.

That phrase was not included in a draft of the document obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The Vatican offered no explanation for the addition. However, Pope Benedict XVI has come under increasing pressure to show the Vatican is serious about confronting clerical abuse and cracking down on church officials who let it go on virtually

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The Rev. Thomas Reese, a Vatican analyst, said the guidelines will help parishioners hold bishops accountable.

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In addition, the guideline makes clear that bishops are to report “crimes” — not just allegations.

Victims were not impressed.

“Let’s keep this in perspective: it’s one sentence and it’s virtually nothing unless and until we see tangible signs that bishops are responding,” said Joelle Casteix, western regional director for SNAP, the Survivors Network for Those Abused by Priests, the main victims’ group in the U.S. “One sentence can’t immediately reverse centuries of self-serving secrecy.”

She said if the Vatican truly wanted to change course “it

would be far more effective to fire or demote bishops who have clearly endangered kids and enabled abuse and hid crimes, than to add one sentence to a policy that is rarely followed with consistency.”

The document falls far short of U.S. norms. That policy, approved by the Vatican as church law in the U.S., bars credibly accused priests from any public church work while the allegations are investigated.

Diocesan review boards, comprised mostly of lay people, help bishops oversee cases. Clergy found guilty are permanently barred from public ministry and, in some cases, ousted from the priesthood.

In a letter to the Irish faithful last month, Pope Benedict XVI told Irish bishops they should cooperate with civil authorities in investigating abuse. However, this is the first time the Vatican has issued a guideline for the church as a whole.

None of the core public Vatican documents that address the handling of abuse direct bishops to report cases to police. Nor does canon law make such an explicit requirement.

Jeffrey Lena, the Vatican’s U.S. lawyer, said a 1965 document from the Second Vatican Council, Gaudium et Spes, contained an implicit understanding of the need to follow civil laws that are just. The reference is vague, however.

Russia: Human error was cause of fatal plane crash WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Russian investigators suggested human error may have been to blame in the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others, saying Monday there were no technical problems with the Soviet-made plane.

The Tu-154 went down Saturday while trying to land in dense fog near a Smolensk airport in western Russia. All aboard were killed, including President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of Polish political, military and religious leaders.

They had been traveling in the Polish government-owned plane to attend a memorial in the nearby Katyn forest for thousands of Polish military officers executed 70 years ago by Josef Stalin’s secret police.

The pilot had been warned of bad weather in Smolensk, and was advised by traffic controllers to land elsewhere — which would have

delayed the Katyn observances.

He was identified as Capt.

Arkadiusz Protasiuk, 36, and the co-pilot as Maj. Robert Grzywna, 36. Also in the cockpit were Ensign Andrzej Michalak, 36, and Lt. Artur Zietek, 31.

In Warsaw, there was concern the pilots may have been asked by someone in the plane to land at Smolensk instead of diverting to Minsk or Moscow, in part to avoid missing the ceremonies.

Polish Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet said Polish investigators talked to the flight controller and flight supervisor and “concluded that there were no conditions for landing.”

“The tower was advising against the landing,” Seremet said.

The plane was equipped with an instrument landing system, or ILS, said Col. Wieslaw Grzegorzewski of the Polish Defense Ministry.

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