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Steve Davis of the Cleveland County Astronomical Society explains telescope maneuvering and astronomy photography to a few eager students.

KidSenses goes to the stars

By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer

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SPINDALE — The Foundation became a launchpad for imagination Tuesday night.

Astronaut Roger Crouch and author David Aguilar encouraged kids to reach for the stars and dream big during a special event to celebrate astronomy, manned spaceflight and Aguilar’s new book for National Geographic, titled “Super Stars.”

KidSenses Museum sponsored the event along with National Geographic.

“I’m just ready to blast off,” said KidSenses Executive Director Steve Saucier. “I’m electric that we’ve gotten to this point in education for kids and to bring these kinds of human resources together — and KidSenses is at the center of the vortex for all this.”

Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton was in attendance along with North Carolina Department of

the Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Dan Freeman and President of the North Carolina Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Center Sam Houston.

“I’m very proud to have all of this happening in Rutherford County,” Dalton said.

“These kinds of partnerships are the way you make a larger difference,” Houston added.

“NASA and National Geographic are great partners for environmental education,” Freeman said. “Without these kinds of partnerships, we couldn’t do it.”

“This is my third book for National Geographic and my fourth one will be coming out soon,” Aguilar said. “They discovered me doing my astronomical artwork as part of my job with the astrophysics department at Cambridge.”

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DEATHS Gillian Corbett checks out the KidSenses Explorer Dome during the Super Star Evening event at The Foundation, Tuesday night.

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FOREST CITY — The proposed town budget for 2010-11 is a little more than $24 million, which is about $1 million less than the budget for this year.

The tax rate in the plan is unchanged at 29 cents per $100 valuation.

Commissioners shaped the budget at a work session Monday night that was a continuation of their meeting on May 17. They began the budget work session on that date after returning from closed session to discuss an issue with the town’s attorney.

The proposed budget for 201011 is $24,193,736. The budget for 2009-10 is $25,127,188.

Finance Director Pruett Walden said a considerable part of that nearly $1 million reduction is a reflection of not having as much grant money in the proposed budget.

A public hearing on the proposed budget is planned at the regular June 7 meeting, and the plan could be voted on after that.

The town had a total of $32,076,100 in available funds, and $7,882,364 is earmarked for reserves. The reserves include $4 million in the threemonth operating fund, $1 million for raw water intake and slightly more than $1.1 million and $1.7 million, respectively, for departmental reserves and unallocated.

The town operating budget accounts for the lion’s share of expenditures, at $12,011,270, or 49.6 percent, followed by purchased power, at $6,750,000.

Other million-dollar-plus expenditures are capital improvements, at $2,675,167, and the Grahamtown Community Development Block Grant, at $1,047,541.

More than half of the town’s expected revenues come from utility services.

Electric service accounts for $11,640,000, or 44.2 percent of revenue.

Water is next, at $3,200,000, or 12.2 percent. Sewer is $1,282,800, or 4.9 percent.

Slightly more than $3 million of the budget comes from tax revenue. That includes $1,695,500 in ad valorem taxes and $1,401,000 from the state, including sales, franchise, Powell Bill, intangible, inventory and other taxes.

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By JESSICA OSBORNE Daily Courier Staff Writer

SHELBY — Sixteen Rutherford, Cleveland and Polk county high school seniors received scholarships Tuesday from The Lutz Foundation, Inc. The Foundation hosted its 32nd annual awards luncheon at the Cleveland County Country Club.

Six Rutherford County seniors were among the 2010 Lutz Foundation Scholarship recipients.

Master of Ceremonies, Dr. Michael Jon Frost began the luncheon with a brief motivational introduction to all guests and recipients.

The invocation was given by Sherri Lutz Curtis of the Lutz Foundation.

Superintendent Dr. Janet Mason of Rutherford County Schools presented the scholarship to Jessica Osborne/Daily Courier Michael Steadman and Andrew Scruggs of Chase 2010 Lutz Scholarship Foundation recipients are (front row, l-r) )Ashley Ownbey High; Jessica Swink and Chelsea Rush of and Sarah Koonce, R-S Central; Chelsea Rush, East Rutherford; (second row) Please see Lutz, Page 6A

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Andrew Scruggs, Chase High; Jessica Swink, East and Michael Steadman, Chase.

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Local/state

The Lettermen coming to Foundation Saturday

By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Tony Butala, founder of The Lettermen, said this week the concert he, Mark Preston, Donovan Pea are bringing to Isothermal Community College’s Foundation next Saturday night is going to be the best ever.

The concert is a part of The Lettermen’s 50th anniversary.

“This is the best Lettermen combination we have ever had,” Butala said from Pennsylvania.

In the Lettermen’s 50 years history, Butala said there have been seven personnel changes in the five decades but today’s group is the best combination ever.

“What this show isn’t, is three old Contributed photo pot-bellied, balding guys with crew Cayla Elizabeth Green (center) shown with Joy Cromer (left) and Steve Holland, is cuts singing love songs,” Butala said the 2010 Young Citizen of the Year selected by the Forest City Kiwanis. of the group billed in the 1960s as the entertainers for the romantics.

“We are a 2010 entertainment package that just happens to have hits in the 1960s.

“You’re not going to come to see recording artists. You are coming to see entertainers,” he continued.

“People are going to see recording artists they love. Sometimes people From staff report Holland said Cayla has “far exceeded just stand up there and sing with us. the expectation that I had for the We are entertainers.

FOREST CITY — An East youth council members.” He said she “If people saw us once in 1960 or Rutherford High School senior was had demonstrated great persever1961, they will want to see us again.” named Young Citizen of the Year ance and initiative. He also said she It’s been a long time since The Monday by the Forest City Kiwanis. displayed the most outstanding lead- Lettermen referred to their enterCayla Elizabeth Green, the daughership skills he had even seen in a tainment schedule as a “tour” ter of David and Libby Green of young person.

“We don’t call them that anymore,” Sunshine, was nominated for the he said. award by ERHS faculty member Joy Joy Cromer said Green has exemWhen the group was organized and Cromer, Forest City Commissioner plified the qualities of good citizens in subsequent years, they spent two Steve Holland and her pastor, Rev. as well as a positive role model and or three months consecutively on the Paul Scott, Big Springs Baptist leader in academic, school service road.

Church. and community endeavors.

“Now we park the bus and truck, She also described her as “one hop on a plane and fly to a gig and A member of the Forest City Youth young adult who through her involve- come back home. It’s like we’re in the Council, Cayla is also student body ment with the underprivileged has National Guard,” he said. president at East, year book edibenefited in her own character build“We are the weekend warriors,” he tor, member of the National Honor ing.” said.

Society, is a member of the youth About eight or nine crew members council, member of puppet ministry Her pastor said Cayla’s integrity is travel now, unlike years ago when praise team and a member of the unquestionable and her work ethic interpretive movement praise team at is exemplary. “Most important to me there was a truck, a bus, musicians, the crew and staff all traveling down Big Springs. She is a volunteer in the as a pastor, she has a devotion to the the road and across the country. community and church.

Lord and a love for all people,” Scott “We still have a tour bus when we She was also voted Most Creative by said do certain Christmas Shows,” he said. the Forest City Youth Council.

She will attend East Carolina Butala said he is always concerned Youth Council director Steve University this fall. for the concert promoters during these days of a slower economy, however, “If there are two people, 200 or 20,000 people, we’ll do the same show. It doesn’t matter how many people are there. We’ll get involved in the audience and they’ll get involved with us.”

Since 2007, the Lettermen have been doing 100 to 125 shows per year, about 20 percent less than their normal schedule.

Upscale Casual Dining • Banquet/Private Dining • Wedding Cakes Butala said entertainers are competing with 65 to 70 inch plasma televisions with surround sounds at home.

“So we better give them something to entice them so they will fill their cars with gas, walk through the

Kiwanis honors Green as Young Citizen of Year

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The Lettermen, Tony Butala, Donovan Pea and Mark Preston, will perform at The Foundation at Isothermal Community College Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available by calling the box office, 286-9990.

lobby, buy the tickets, the CDs, and pop corn. That’s a lot for people to go through to see the show,” he said, affirming The Lettermen show will be well worth the effort.

“We do every show like it is the last one,” Butala said. “We do a lot of audience participation, we encourage people to take pictures during the shows. We are user-friendly.”

Butala said he’ll be the last to leave The Foundation next Saturday night.

“We will take pictures with anyone and everyone,” he said.

He even encourages people to send their photographs to them after the shows.

“We will sign them and send them back if they give us a self-addressed envelope.”

Joining Butala are Donovan Pea, who has been with The Lettermen more than 20 years, the longest time of anyone except Butala; and Mark Preston.

Preston joined The Lettermen the very same day as Donovan Pea 20 years ago. He stayed five years and then went out on his own and about five years later came back.

“This group has the best solo voices of all combinations,” he added.

They will sing some of their greatest hits, “Put Your Head On My Shoulder” and “When I Fall In Love,” “Going Out of My Head/ Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” or “Hurt So Bad”, that earned them the title of the most romantic singing group of the ‘60s.

Tickets are: Adult: $20 and $25; Youth $5 and $7.

Call the box office at Isothermal Community College 286-9990.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@ thedigitalcourier.com.

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RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina women’s college has received an estate gift of more than $1.7 million from an alumna, one of the largest individual gifts in the school’s history.

Meredith College announced on Tuesday that the gift was from Joyce Causey, a native of Tarboro and member of the class of 1955.

A portion of the bequest will be used to fully endow an Alumnae

Legacy Scholarship at the school, located in Raleigh. The scholarship is the highest honor available to an incoming freshman, and has an estimated value of $135,000 over the student’s college career.

The bequest will also help support Meredith’s new athletic field and track complex.

Causey earned a degree in sociology at Meredith and was 1955 class president.

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State

Donna Lawrence, center, of High Point holds Susie, a pit bullshepherd mix who was found burned in a park last summer, at the city council meeting April 6 in downtown Greensboro.

Councilwomen Trudy Wade, left, and Nancy Vaughan, right, were among the council members who voted to support a bill calling for increased penalties for animal cruelty. Lawrence adopted Susie after she recovered from her injuries. On Tuesday, the bill passed the North Carolina House Judiciary III committee and will move to another committee for approval.

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House gives initial OK for school reform plan RALEIGH (AP) — Facing a deadline next week for the state to apply for up to $400 million in federal grants, the state House gave initial approval Tuesday to legislation sought by Gov. Beverly Perdue laying out more options for local education leaders to improve low-performing schools.

The House voted 68-45 in favor of legislation adopting federal guidelines by allowing the State Board of Education to give school districts four ways to retool more than 130 public schools where less than half of the students met expectations in standardized tests two of the past three years.

The biggest change would allow districts to “restart” a typical school by giving it the same flexibility as a charter school without making it independent from the district.

Charter schools are exempt from many rules of most public schools and can test innovative learning techniques or focus more on children at risk of failure.

The bill, which could receive final approval Wednesday, wouldn’t lift the state’s cap of 100 charter schools that’s been in place since 1996.

Lawmakers have been nervous about Greensboro. They say interest rates raising or eliminating the cap on the are low and construction companies traditional charter schools, which are desperate for work as the state also are run by private boards. attempts to get out of the recession.

The measure instead would offer “It’s an ideal time to borrow money the ability to create “charter-like” and it’s an ideal time to build things,” schools, in addition to other methods said Sen. Richard Stevens, R-Wake, to help continually low-performing one of the bill’s primary sponsors. schools. The other three are increasThe Senate Finance Committee will ing class time and improving teacher consider the package Wednesday. performance; removing the principal Senate Democratic leaders also and teachers; and simply closing the back the measure as a way to help school. the state graduate more engineers “What this does is give multiple so it can compete with other counoptions for reform,” said Rep. Rick tries to attract jobs in high-tech and Glazier, D-Cumberland, the bill’s math-oriented fields. chief proponent. “There are more A debt affordability study released reforms out there than the charter annually by a panel headed by the model.” treasurer has used the 4 percent debt Perdue sought the change by June 1 limit as a key marker whereby North — that’s when her administration has Carolina can be almost assured of to file an application to seek the seckeeping its treasured top-level credit ond round of “Race to the Top” fedrating. The study said in February — eral education reform grants. North without the new package — that the Carolina finished well out of the state’s debt service would hit 3.99 money for the first round of applicapercent by 2012 before debt capacity tions in March. The state didn’t score improves. well when it came to charter schools

Senate OKs debt package

RALEIGH (AP) — The state Senate proposed a $451 million debt package Tuesday that would pay for state building repairs, equipment for community college and university campuses and engineering buildings at two UNC system schools.

The borrowing package wouldn’t require statewide voter approval and at the same time move the state beyond a self-imposed debt limit calculated by a state panel led by State Treasurer Janet Cowell. Legislators have stayed below the panel’s targeted threshold of an annual debt service equal to no more than 4 percent of state revenues used for operating expenses.

If approved, the debt service would equal 4.25 percent of state revenues, Cowell’s office confirmed.

Senators who back the bill said it’s an important time to repair aging buildings and to expand engineering programs at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and North Carolina A&T State University in

The biggest change would allow districts to “restart” a typical school by giving it the same flexibility as a charter school without making it independent from the district. Charter schools are exempt from many rules of most public schools and can test innovative learning techniques or focus more on children at risk of failure. and other innovative schools.

Several Republican House members criticized the proposal as simply window-dressing to impress the judges in the U.S. Department of Education competition. They said school districts already had the ability to rework schools using the other three options beside the charter-like method.

“It’s a fig leaf,” said Rep. Nelson Dollar, R-Wake. “It’s not really reform.”

Boosters of charter schools held a news conference to argue the proposal won’t do enough to help the state’s next Race to the Top application because it doesn’t lift the 100-charter cap. The House approved a separate bill last year to raise the cap 106 but it’s languished in the Senate ever since.

Darrell Allison, president for Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, a pro-charter school group, said while the bill approved Tuesday isn’t awful, it fails to get at the root problem that about 18,000 children are on waiting lists for traditional charter schools.

“North Carolina is once again positioning itself to forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars due to its inaction in moving strong on public charter school policy this legislative short session,” Allison said.

Perdue said the bill isn’t necessary for the application, but it will “strengthen North Carolina’s case for making all schools successful and making sure all students receive a quality education,” Perdue spokesman Tim Crowley said.

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Our Views School shake up might be better

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orth Carolina legislators are working on a bill to expand the state’s reform efforts for low performing schools, in part to strengthen the state’s case in its bid for federal “Race to the Top” funding.

Contained in the bill that passed the House Tuesday is a nugget that ought to get some attention, especially since one of the knocks against the state was the limits it has imposed on charter schools.

That nugget is the suggestion to, in effect, give all public schools the same freedoms that charter schools have.

In effect, it would allow school districts and individual schools the freedom to be creative in addressing problems.

This idea in its present form is limited, but it is an idea that deserves some serious consideration.

If the charter school formula is really working, why would we not want to expand it to the rest of our schools?

The idea is to provide a quality education for all students. That is not happening now in all cases.

Our current heavy, top-down system has proven to be a failure. Maybe it is time to truly shake up our schools.

Our readers’ views Compares public and charter school stats To the editor: In recent letters, Marjorie Arrrowood, Jackie Treehorn and Joan McGraw endorse Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy’s lawsuit seeking approximately $900,000 from Rutherford County Schools.

Having previously addressed their assumption of wrongdoing on the part of RCS administration in its accounting for funding, I will turn to their claim that TJCA’s example sets lessons from which traditional public schools could benefit. Only McGraw offers a specific lesson: that uniforms are a magic panacea.

All three imply, however, that TJCA educates students more efficiently than traditional public schools. Such a conclusion is superficial and easily demolished by careful analysis of readily available information on student populations.

To put it simply, RCS’s traditional public schools face greater challenges — and greater expense as a result — in fulfilling their mission. As mandated by the state constitution, RCS must provide an education for all students, a mission not shared by TJCA. TJCA supporters claim that they accept all students, but the proportion of students in traditionally low performing categories is considerably less at TJCA compared to RCS. This is abundantly clear from evidence taken from the 2008-09 (the most recent year available) NC School Report Card website (www.ncreportcards.org). This evidence is telling for many reasons, not the least of which is that it is based not on enrollment numbers (typically taken at the beginning of the school year) but EOC/EOG tests taken (year end student populations). In every student category where performance is low, RCS has not only

a larger absolute number (given that RCS educates about ten times as many students as TJCA) of these students but a larger proportion of them.

For example, Students with Disabilities have a 43.9 percent pass rate on End of Course (i.e. high school) standardized tests.

These students comprised 11.6 percent of RCS’s EOC tests taken compared to 1.5 percent at TJCA. On End of Grade (i.e. elementary and middle school) tests for these students the state pass rate was 32.3 percent ; RCS’s proportion of tests taken by these students was 13.5 percent with TJCA at 5.2 percent.

For Limited English Proficiency students, with a state EOC pass rate of 52.1 percent and EOG pass rate of 34.6 percent, RCS had 111 high school (2.2 percent) and 116 elementary/middle school (2.7 percent) tests taken.

TJCA had none.

African-American students had a state EOC pass rate of 53.2 percent; RCS’s proportion of tests taken by black students was 16.3 percent while TJCA’s was 2.7 percent. The state EOG pass rate for African-American students was 43.6 percent; the RCS test population had 13.1 percent in that category; TJCA was at 8.7 percent. Hispanic students had a state EOC pass rate of 63.6 percent with local EOC proportions 3.95 percent for RCS and 1.9 percent for TJCA. Hispanic students had a state EOG pass rate of 48.9 percent with local proportions at 4.5 percent for RCS and 1.9 percent TJCA. Economically Disadvantaged students had a state EOC pass rate of 58 percent and a EOG rate of 48.3 percent. RCS proportions of these students was 47.9 percent and 61.1 percent respectively. No TJCA students are listed in this category. This is because students are assigned to the Economically Disadvantaged category by receiving free or

reduced lunches; TJCA does not participate in the school lunch program.

Finally, as one would expect given the aforementioned proportions, TJCA’s student population is skewed in favor of the group — whites — with the highest pass rates (81.0 percent EOC; 76.7 percent EOC). TJCA’s high school is 93.6 percent white, compared to 76.7 percent for RCS and TJCA’s elementary/middle school is 86.9 percent white compared to 79.2 percent for RCS. Clearly RCS faces significantly greater challenges in its broader mission than does TJCA. Amplifying the discrepancies in proportions of disadvantaged students is the fact that RCS’s actual student numbers are nearly ten times greater than TJCA’s. As a result, RCS’s costs are — and always will be — greater not only in absolute terms but proportionally as well because it seeks to educate all students, including those from traditionally disadvantaged groups that require special programs.. Ironically, TJCA’s lawsuit targets the funding for several programs (Smart Start, More at Four, Head Start) that are specifically designed to assist these very same at-risk groups that the charter school generally lacks in any significant proportions.

Ultimately, TJCA’s financial efficiency comes primarily from its freedom not to have to concern itself with providing education for all. TJCA can choose to focus on students who respond to its curriculum and can let the others go elsewhere (i.e. primarily to the traditional public schools). That is the charter school’s legal right, but such an approach is completely unsuited for general application to the public school system. Therefore, TJCA is hardly a useful model for traditional public schools.

David K. Yelton Rutherfordton

On runoffs and anti-establishment candidates RALEIGH – It was that oddest of political acts, a political party publicly beating up on one of its own.

In this case, Republican Party officials weren’t simply content to endorse Tim D’Annunzio’s opponent in an 8th District congressional primary runoff.

No, they wanted to bloodied him so bad that there was no chance that he could win.

State Republican Party chair Tom Fetzer called D’Annunzio “unfit for any office at any level.”

A spokesman for the Republican National Congressional Committee in Washington has said publicly that he believes D’Annunzio’s opponent, former Charlotte TV sportscaster Harold Johnson, will win the runoff.

What has D’Annunzio

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done to bring about all this party ire and angst?

He’s gotten into vehement, public arguments at Republican Party functions.

According to a judge, he’s called the government the “Antichrist.”

He’s acknowledged a troubled past that included arrests. He’s held a “machine-gun social” as a fund-raiser.

But no matter how strange the Hoke County military contractor’s behavior, party officials might not be helping their cause. They may be

doing D’Annunzio a favor.

That’s because 2010 could be shaping up as the year of the anti-establishment.

D’Annunzio certainly fits the bill.

Democrats will have their own establishment-versesanti-establishment runoff in the U.S. Senate race.

Secretary of State Elaine Marshall is no Tim D’Annunzio. She holds a statewide elected office and has been a mainstay of the state Democratic Party for a couple of decades.

But she’s not the choice of the party establishment in Washington, which doesn’t believe that she can beat incumbent Republican Sen. Richard Burr. The national Democratic Party establishment recruited and has been backing former state Sen. Cal Cunningham.

So far, that support hasn’t meant a whole lot for Cunningham.

In the primary, Marshall received 36 percent of the vote, 4-percentage points short of the total needed to avoid a runoff. Cunningham took 27 percent of the vote.

The third place finisher, Ken Lewis, endorsed Marshall. He played up Marshall’s anti-establishment credentials during the announcement: “She did not back down from Washington insiders trying to exercise undue influence in our nominating process.”

Despite the endorsement, recent polls have indicated that the Marshall and Cunningham runoff is a toss-up. One poll showed each with 36 percent of the support of likely runoff voters.

But a low-turnout runoff is a tricky thing, often determined by organizations that are good a recognizing where to concentrate their efforts and how to get supporters to the polls.

Under those circumstances, it might be a bit of a stretch to read too much into next month’s results.

Still, losses by party establishment picks like Cunningham and Johnson would raise the questions, at least in this year: Shouldn’t the party organizations leave well enough alone? Did they cause more damage than harm to their picks?

If, on the other hand, they should prevail, perhaps it’s a sign that voters are pragmatic after all.

Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Association.

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Local/Obituaries

Woman injured in auto accident

RUTHERFORDTON — Deborah Moore Ramsey, 41, fell asleep as she was driving her 2000 Chevrolet and wrecked Tuesday at about 12:30 p.m. on County Line Road.

She had just turned off Rock Springs Road and traveled three-tenths of a mile down County Line Road when she fell asleep.

She ran off the road to the right, ran over a driveway culvert and overturned. She had to be cut from the vehicle.

She was taken to Rutherford Hospital where she was treated for her injuries.

Highway Patrolman Jason Spence investigated and charged her with reckless driving. He also said she was within seeing distance of her home when she went to sleep.

Victim comes home

Keith Stephenson, 46, pastor of Second Baptist Church, was released from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Monday afternoon, traveling home

to Rutherfordton via ambulance.

A spokesperson in the church office said Tuesday afternoon, he will continue his recuperation at home with therapy and assistance from home health care personnel.

“He still has a long way to go,” said Debbie Carver.

Stephenson, was critically injured in a head-on collision last Monday on I-40 as he was returning from UNC Hospitals where he was visiting a church member.

He underwent surgery at Wake Forest for numerous broken bones and the removal of his spleen.

Man in good condition Scott Robert Walker, 31, of Mill Spring, is listed in good condition as a patient at Carolina Medical Center, Charlotte, a hospital spokesperson said Tuesday.

He was a passenger in a F150 pick-up truck that crashed Sunday night off Goode’s Grove Road off High Shoals Church Road.

Fake Marine facing charges

WILMINGTON (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty last year to altering an identification card after he was spotted in the uniform of a threestar Marine general has been charged again with posing as a highly decorated Marine officer.

Sixty-seven-year-old Michael Hamilton of Richlands was charged last week with wearing a Marine colonel’s uniform and three counts of wearing medals, including two Navy Crosses,

the second highest award for valor.

Hamilton was photographed wearing the uniform and medals at Jacksonville’s Vietnam Memorial during a military recognition day ceremony last month.

It is a federal offense to claim or wear military decorations and carries punishment of up to one year in prison and a fine.

Hamilton is to appear in federal court next month. It’s not immediately clear if he has a lawyer.

Police Notes Sheriff’s Reports

n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 135 E-911 calls Monday. n Vandalism damage was reported at Chase Middle School, 840 Chase High Road. n Adrianna Alexis Young reported the theft of a Sony PSP game console. n Lisa Jenkins Perez reported the theft of a pocketbook. n Terry Ray Sr. reported the theft of an all-terrain vehicle. n Jerry W. Brackett reported the theft of radio/ TV/ VCR/ stereo equipment. n Patricia Ann Davis reported the theft of a pocketbook and medication.

Rutherfordton

n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 22 E-911 calls Monday. n Beverly Dawn Earley reported a breaking and entering and property damage. n Lori Renae Proctor reported the theft of a motor vehicle. n Ronald William Parker reported a breaking and entering and the theft of money. n The town of Rutherfordton reported the theft of restroom signs at Crestview Park.

Spindale

n The Spindale Police Department responded to 21 E-911 Monday.

Lake Lure

n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to seven E-911 calls Monday.

Forest City

n The Forest City Police Department responded to 53 E-911 calls Monday. n An officer of the Forest City Police Department reported incidents of discharging a firearm in the city limit and damage to property. (See arrest of Frady.) n An employee of Surratt

Rentals reported an incident of damage to property.

Arrests n Robert Alvin Frady, 62, of Westwood Drive, Forest City; charged with discharging a firearm in the city limits; freed on a custody release. (FCPD) n Jordan Nicole Carroll, 20, of Race Path Church Road, Ellenboro; charged with driving while license revoked; released on a written promise to appear.

(FCPD) n Gwinn Ervin Wright, 45, of Duke Street, Forest City; charged with larceny; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (FCPD) n James Lee Walker, 54, of 276 Green St., Apartment 2, Rutherfordton; charged with driving while impaired and left of center; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (RPD) n Travis Sintele Beaty, 27, of 68 Tanya Drive, Nebo; charged with driving while license revoked and fictitious/ fail to apply for title; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (RPD)

EMS/Rescue n The Rutherford County EMS responded to 25 E-911 calls Monday. n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to nine E-911 calls Monday.

Fire Calls n Forest City firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident. n Union Mills firefighters responded to an electrical fire, assisted by Shingle Hollow, Hudlow and Greenhill firefighters, and to a motor vehicle accident. n Spindale firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident.

Editor’s note: The Rutherford County Jail daily log was unavailable Tuesday. The arrests will be listed in The Daily Courier on Thursday.

Obituaries Faye Wages Alice “Faye” Beheler Wages, 67, of 256 Windy Hill Drive, Forest City, died Monday, May 24, 2010, at Hospice House.

A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the William Lloyd Beheler and Katie Ann Wilson.

She was a homemaker and was of the Baptist faith.

She was the widow of Guy Thomas Wages to whom she was married for 20 years.

Survivors include three daughters, Linda Lovelace, Brenda Bumgardner and Teresa Wages, all of Forest City; one sister, Carolyn Jackson of Fort Mills, S.C.; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m.

Thursday at Harrelson Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Bob Philbeck officiating. Interment will follow in Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday at the funeral home. At other times, they will be gathered at the family residence.

Memorial donations are suggested to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.

An online guest registry are available at www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com

Alice Craig Alice Rae (Aunt Allie) Craig, 83, of Gilkey, died Monday, May 24, 2010, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.

She was daughter of the late Crawford and Emeline Harris.

She was a member of Welcome Home Baptist Church and was retired from Rutherford Hospital.

She was the widow of the Grover Craig; She is survived by two brothers, C.B. Harris of Forest City and Tommy Harris of Alma, Ga.; and several nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday at McMahan’a Funeral Home.

Graveside service will be at Welcome Home Baptist Church at 4 p.m. Thursday with the Revs. Leon Brown and Dennis Talley officiating.

The family is at the home of Joey Godfrey, 2042 Highway 221, north of Rutherfordton.

Alice Cummins Alice Inez Swofford Cummins, 83, died May 24, 2010, at Hospice At Wendover.

A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late John K. and Sadie Harris Swofford of Hollis.

She was formerly employed with FBI in Washington, D.C. She was the owner/operator of Acum Interiors and was a self-employed interior decorator for 55 years in Maryland, Mississippi and North Carolina.

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Church, the Bayliss Sunday School Class and the Young at Heart. She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Ernest Aston Cummins; one daughter, Barbara Rials; one grandson; three grandchildren; two great-granddaughters; two sisters, Vera Gettys and Ruby Price; two brothers, John Swofford, Jr., and Dwight C. Swofford; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

A memorial service will be held on Thursday at 6 p.m. at Aldersgate Methodist Church with the Revs. Wayne Allen and Katie Roberts officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Aldersgate Methodist Church, West Dixon Blvd., Shelby. Burial will be private in the columbarium at Aldersgate Church Prayer Garden.

Cleveland Funeral Services is in charge of arrangements.

Deaths Michael Kuchwara NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Kuchwara, The Associated Press’ longtime drama critic whose thoughtful, fair-minded reviews made him beloved and respected in the theater world and influential beyond, died Saturday night. He was 63.

Kuchwara, who had held his position since 1984 and recently celebrated his 40th anniversary with the AP, died at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan of complications from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease that causes scarring. He entered the hospital May 10.

Kuchwara reviewed plays

by Edward Albee and August Wilson, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Miller, his work appearing in thousands of papers and on websites around the world.

Stan Jones DENVER (AP) — Pro football Hall of Famer Stan Jones, a standout for the

Alice “Faye” Beheler Wages Alice “Faye” Beheler Wages, age 67, of 256 Windy Hill Drive, Forest City, NC, died Monday, May 24, 2010 at Hospice House.

Faye was born on September 15, 1942 in Rutherford County to the late William Lloyd Beheler and Katie Ann Wilson. She was a homemaker and enjoyed watching pro-wrestling. She was a Baptist.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 20 years, Guy Thomas Wages and by three brothers and one sister.

Survivors include three daughters, Linda Lovelace and husband, Teddy, Brenda Bumgardner and husband, Sean, and Teresa Wages all of Forest City; one sister, Carolyn Jackson and husband, Bud, of Fort Mills, SC. She is also survived by six grandchildren, Thomas Bradley, Destiny Bradley, Shannon Bradley, Cynthia Lovelace, Michael Hardin, Alexis Bumgardner and six great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 3:00 p.m. Thursday, May 27, 2010 at Harrelson Funeral Chapel with Reverend Bob Philbeck officiating.

Interment will follow in Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home. At other times they will be gathered at the family residence.

Memorial donations are suggested to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.

Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the family of Alice “Faye” Beheler Wages.

A live webcast of the service and an online guest registry are available at: www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com Paid obit.

Chicago Bears in the 1950s and ‘60s and an innovator of weight training in the NFL, has died. He was 78.

Jones, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1991, also spent more than two decades coaching in the NFL, including 18 seasons with the Denver Broncos.

Born in Altoona, Penn., on Nov. 24, 1931, Jones grew up in the Harrisburg area, where he was introduced to the York Barbell Co.’s weights, which he began using to transform himself from a skinny 140-pound boy into an elite offensive lineman who packed 265 pounds on his 6-foot-1 frame — big for his day, small by today’s standards.

After starring at the University of Maryland, where he was a two-way tackle and won a national title in 1953, Jones joined the Chicago Bears in 1954 as a tackle and then switched the guard the next season. Jones played in seven straight Pro Bowls from 1955-61. In 1960, he played both offense and defense, one of the last 60-minute men in the NFL. Jones switched to defensive tackle permanently in 1963, teaming with Doug Atkins and Bob Kilcullen to form one of the league’s best defenses.

He was traded to the Washington Redskins in 1966 so he could play a final season near his home.

Alice Inez Swofford Cummins Alice Inez Swofford Cummins, age 83, passed away on May 24, 2010 at Hospice At Wendover.

She was born April 27, 1927 in Rutherford County and was the fourth daughter of the late John K. and Sadie Harris Swofford of Hollis, NC. She was a wife, mother and grandmother. She graduated from Hollis, NC and was employed for five years with the FBI in Washington, DC and studied interior design from the University of Georgia at Athens. She was owner/operator of Acum Interiors, a self-employed interior decorator for 55 years in Maryland, Mississippi and North Carolina.

She returned to NC in 1998.

She was an artist and president of the Working Artists of Shelby and was a member of the Southern Art Society, the MS Watercolor Society and the Gourmet Art Ladies Society (GALS) of MS. She was also a member of the Carolina Scribes and contributed to the future book of the history of Cleveland County. She was also a lifetime golfer and gardener.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by a son, James Patrick Cummins and one sister, Edna Frances Blanton.

Mrs. Cummins is survived by her husband of 63 years, Ernest Aston Cummins; one daughter, Barbara Rials; one grandson, James Patrick Rials of Boiling Springs; two granddaughters, Alisa Rials, of Belmont and Kristen Hurff of Annapolis, MD; and two great-granddaughters, Megan Smith and Caroline Elizabeth Hurff of Annapolis, MD. She is also survived by two sisters, Vera Gettys and Ruby Price; and two brothers, John Swofford, Jr., and Dwight C. Swofford. She had numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Mrs. Cummins was a member of Aldersgate Methodist Church, The Bayliss Sunday School Class and the Young at Heart.

A Memorial service will be held on Thursday at 6 pm at Aldersgate Methodist Church with the Reverend Wayne Allen and Reverend Katie Roberts officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Aldersgate Methodist Church, West Dixon Blvd., Shelby, NC. Burial will be private in the columbarium at Aldersgate Church Prayer Garden.

Cleveland Funeral Services is in charge of arrangements.

Paid obit

6A — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Calendar/Local

Red Cross The following blood drives are scheduled: May 27 — Rutherford County Government, 289 N. Main St., Rutherfordton, noon to 4:30 p.m., call 287-6145; May 31 — Lowe’s, 184 Lowes Blvd., Forest City, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., call 351-1023; All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a cruise for two.

National Geogrpahic author David Aguilar, Astronaut Roger Crouch and KidSenses Museum Executive Director Steve Saucier check out some of Aguilar’s books during the Super Star Evening event at The Foundation Tuesday night.

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Meetings/other Alanon meetings: Lake Lure Alanon Family Group meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., at Lake Lure Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bills Creek Road, Lake Lure; call 625-0456 for additional information.

Miscellaneous Fish Fry/Chicken Plate: Angel Divine Faith Church selling dinners at the Temple Of Jesus Church in Lake Lure, NC on Saturday, June 5, 2010 starting at 10 a.m. All plates will be $8 and they come with fish or chicken, sides of your choice, dessert and drink. Public is welcome.

Sim’s -Guffey Reunion: Sunday, June 6, 1 p.m. at Piedmont Pleasant Hill Clubhouse on Maple Creek Rd. Lunch served to family and friends; come with filled lunch basket and drinks. Plates, forks, cups, ice and napkins provided.

Mobile Food Pantry: Calvary Baptist Church, 1509 Ferry Rd, Mooreboro, Tuesday, June 15 at 10 a.m. Please bring a basket/box for item collection. For more info, please call the church at 657-5931.

5k run: “Race to the Fountain” 5k run/walk & 1/2 mile fun run.

Saturday, June 5. Starting at the fountain in downtown Forest City at 8 a.m. 1/2 mile run immediately following 5k. Race day registration: 6:30am-7:30 am. 5k run/ walk $25; 1/2 mile fun run free. Any questions call 828-447-7225.

The Rutherford County Historical Society book club and history discussion group will host a study of the life and political career of Andrew Jackson on Tuesday, June 1, at 7:00 p.m. at St. John’s Historic Church on Main Street in Rutherfordton.

Music/Concerts Rutherford Chamber Consort: Spring concert will be on Sunday, May 30 at 3 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Forest City. The concert is free, but donations are welcome.

Contact Sharon Lawrence at 2453282 or visit them on the web at www.rutherfordchamberconsort. com. for additional information.

Fundraisers 4th Annual yard sale: Saturday, June 12, 6 to 11 a.m., at Big Dave’s Family Sea Food; Wayne Rollins of Rollins Cafeteria will be selling pancake breakfast for $6 per person (plus tax); ages 3-10, $3; all you can eat; yard sale, sponsored by Eaton Corporation, includes all Relay teams; contact Wavolyn Norville at 286-7770 to reserve space; all proceeds go toward ACS Relay For Life.

Religion Memorial Celebration 2010 hosted by Mt. Pleasant CME Church in Union Mills: May 30 - Praise and Worship featuring voice of Praise, Roberts Tabernacle of Shelby, NC, Jerry Freeman, Ms. Tanisha Miller, and Dancer Erisha Lipford of Lenoir, NC at 4 p.m.

June 2-4 - Three Day Revival at 7 p.m. with Rev. Eleanor Miller, New Zion CME Church and Green Creek.

June 5 - Prayer Breakfast, 9 a.m. at club house.

June 6 - Special Memorial Service and Honoring of Senior Citizens with Rev. V. Meredith, pastor of Jones Tabernacle CME, NC along with choir and dancers at 3 p.m.

Stars Continued from Page 1A

Aguilar uses computers to create images of stars — as they’re born, grown and sometimes die in space — to illustrate some of the more complicated discoveries made by modern astronomers.

“We’re discovering things now that not even the Hubble Space Telescope can photograph,” Augilar said. “I’m a scientist myself so all of these images are very lifelike, I strive to make things appear just as it would if we were looking at it in space ourselves.”

Crouch took the time to meet and greet many of those in attendance.

“Doing these kinds of events is great fun for me,” the veteran of two space shuttle flights said. “Now that I’m retired I don’t so much go around and represent NASA, but I do go and speak to kids and groups about the importance of science in their lives.”

During Crouch’s first mission on shuttle Columbia in 1997, the craft suffered a power-cell failure and had to cut the trip short after just three days.

Budget Continued from Page 1A

Significant planned expenditures include a carryover of $330,133 for the payment of the balance on a new fire truck, and $175,000 for the purchase of six police vehicles plus equipment and marking. Also, $50,000 is set aside for the replacement of a dump truck in the street department.

Total expenditures for large equipment costing more than $5,000, comes to $631,633.

Expenditures on infrastructure, including water, sewer, electrical lines and permanently placed buildings/ equipment are $1,834,334.

That includes $474,100 for water operations, $105,000 for the water plant, $783,234 for sewer operations,

Lutz Continued from Page 1A

East Rutherford; and Sarah Koonce and Ashley Ownbey of R-S Central.

Each recipient gave a brief statement about their future plans.

Steadman and Scruggs both plan to attend N.C. State. Steadman plans to study biology and Scruggs plans to major in horticulture science.

Swink plans to attend GardnerWebb University and Rush of East Rutherford plans to attend UNCChapel Hill and study sports management and political science and eventually attend law school.

Koonce plans to attend N.C. State

Chase Baptist Church, 50th Homecoming Jubliee, Sunday, June 6, 10:30 a.m. Celebrating 50 years of ministry. Special music with the Chase Baptist Choir and the Chase Brothers. Guest Preachers Rev. Marvin Green and Rev. Randy McCraw. Dinner and fellowship after service.

Faith Baptist Church, 149 West Main Street, Forest City invites everyone to their fifth Sunday, May 30. at 2 p.m. For more information call 289-4282.

Even before his trips on Columbia, Crouch had been involved with the space program, having worked on the heat shields for the Apollo missions as a physicist.

“I was a big nerd and a scientist at heart,” Crouch laughed. “I figured going into space wouldn’t impress me that much. I was much more excited to do my experiments (with microgravity). But when I got there, it blew my socks off. It was like when you go to the Grand Canyon for the first time and you’ve looked at pictures and seen postcards, but nothing can prepare you. Space is like that, but a million times more.”

With regard to today’s space program, Crouch said he was cautiously optimistic.

“I know we’ll go into space again and I hope that man will go back to the moon,” he said. “To me, sending a man right to Mars without first using another moon landing as a testing ground for new technologies is like sending a man into battle without boot camp first. It would take three years to reach Mars with our current rockets, and you’d have to take everything you’ll need with you. I tell today’s third, fourth and fifth graders that they will see man go to the moon or Mars in their lifetime, and they might even do it themselves.”

Aguilar shared Crouch’s optimism, especially about the gathering at The Foundation.

“It is amazing to me to see a community come together and do something like this, where you’d least expect it,” Aguilar said. “This, to me, is what America is all about. The people who are so negative about this country’s future should see what these people in Rutherford County are doing.”

Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@thedigitalcourier.com.

$245,000 for wastewater treatment, $60,000 for pump maintenance and $157,000 for electric.

Replacement, upgrade and expansion of water and sewer lines is budgeted at $250,000 for the respective lines, or $500,000 total. Also included is $300,000 carryover on the Brackett Creek Sewer Line and $100,000 for the replacement of the 28-year-old electric distribution line at Rutherford Manor. Also, $154,100 is set aside for relocating water lines on U.S. 221.

The proposed budget also includes $209,200 for small equipment costing less than $5,000 and lasting more than one year.

The budget proposal includes a 2 percent salary increase for employees.

The budget also includes the following contributions: Farm Museum,

$4,500; Rutherford County Rescue, $4,000; Youth Council, $8,000; senior citizens, $11,000; Midget football, $13,000; Little League, $16,000; AAU boys basketball, $17,000; and swim team, $10,000.

Also at the continuation of the May 17 meeting on Monday, St. Luke’s Church received permission to post a cemetery sign on town property.

And resident Beverly Treves of 409 S. Church St. asked for council’s help in requiring the Forest City Housing Authority to clean up debris from trees cut behind her house.

Commissioners did not act on the request, but Commissioner Shawn Moore said he would check into the situation.

and major in political science. She eventually plans to attend law school.

Ownbey plans to attend UNC-Chapel Hill.

Other awards presented at the luncheon were the Ray Webb Lutz Tennis Scholarship given by Dr. Michael Jon Frost to Matthew McCarter.

Scoot Dixon, senior Vice-President of University Relations and Marketing at Gardner-Webb, gave the following awards to four Gardner-Webb students: the John Ray Lutz Scholarship awarded to Ashton Order, the Robert and Betty Lutz Christian Service Scholarship presented to Timothia Guest, the Dr. Michael Jon Frost Teacher Education Scholarship presented to Ashley Stewart, and the Hamp and Betty Hager Business

Scholarship which was awarded to Jordan Waters.

Other recipients are Samantha VanDwyne and Chelsea McGuinn of Polk County High School, presented by Polk County School Superintendent William Miller.

Superintendent Bruce Boyles of Cleveland County Schools awarded the scholarship to Andrew Toney and Adam Benfield of Burns High school; Megan Hamrick and Emily Quattlebaum of Crest High; Natacia Snow and Stephen Sharp of Kings Mountain High School, and Hunter Young and Samuel Blanton of Shelby High School.

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Bring It All Back Home RC Post 423 cancels two dates with Sylva FOREST CITY — Rutherford County American Legion Post 423 announced Tuesday it has cancelled two games will Sylva.

The cancellations come as state high school playoffs continue and both programs were dealing with roster issues due to the playoffs.

Field of Dreams’ teams still needed FOREST CITY — The schedule is filling fast for Field of Dreams teams at Forest City Owls games this summer.

The Field of Dreams program allows little league baseball and softball players to take the field with the Owls during the National Anthem at all home games.

Post game trophy ceremonies are also included.

Tickets are $3 for the players, coaches, and their family and a hot dog meal can be added for $4 or a hamburger meal for $5.

Space is limited to three teams per game.

To reserve a date for your team contact the Owls at 828245-0000.

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East’s Drew Reynolds, center, dives for the plate during the 4th round NCHSAA 2A Baseball Playoff game against Piedmont.

Reynolds was safe on the play.

Cavaliers blast Piedmont

McNamee gives testimony to grand jury WASHINGTON (AP) — Brian McNamee has left the courthouse in Washington after testifying for more than two hours before a grand jury that will decide whether to indict Roger Clemens for allegedly lying under oath to Congress.

McNamee made no comment as he left Tuesday.

McNamee is Clemens’ former personal trainer and the key witness in the case against the seven-time Cy Young Award winner. McNamee says he injected Clemens with steroids and HGH over a period of several years.

The grand jury has been meeting for at least 16 months, hearing testimony from witnesses. It is reviewing Clemens’ testimony before a congressional committee in 2008, when he denied using steroids or human growth hormone.

Local Sports BASEBALL 7 p.m. Gastonia Grizzlies at Forest City Owls, McNair Field

On TV 10:30 a.m. (TS) College Baseball SEC Tournament, Game 1: Teams TBA. 12 p.m. (ESPN2) Tennis French Open, Day 4.

12 p.m. (FSS) College Baseball ACC Tournament, Game 1: Teams TBA. 12 p.m. (WGN-A) MLB Baseball Chicago White Sox at Cleveland Indians.

2 p.m. (TS) College Baseball SEC Tournament, Game 2: Teams TBA. 4 p.m. (FSS) College Baseball ACC Tournament, Game 2: Teams TBA. 7 p.m. (ESPN2) MLB Baseball Teams TBA. 7 p.m. (TS) MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Florida Marlins.

8 p.m. (FSS) College Baseball ACC Tournament, Game 3: Teams TBA. 8 p.m. (WGN-A) MLB Baseball Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs.

8:30 p.m. (ESPN) NBA Basketball Boston Celtics at Orlando Magic. Eastern Conference Final, game 5.

By KEVIN CARVER Daily Courier Sports Reporter

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East’s Blake Myers, above, drives in a run with a single during the playoff game against Piedmont Tuesday at East Rutherford High.

FOREST CITY — The Cavs have reached the Final Four.

East Rutherford has proven its strength over and over this season as Piedmont discovered in six short innings after a 10-0 Cavaliers’ win, Tuesday.

Dakotah Thomas pitched a stellar twohitter and East Rutherford bashed four home runs to propel the Cavs into the 2A Western Regional, which they will host this weekend.

“Dakotah (Thomas) had one of his best outings in the last few games with good command,” East Rutherford Coach Bobby

Please see Cavaliers, Page 8A

Lady Cavaliers knocked out by Central Davidson, 5-1

By JAKE MILLER Special to the Courier

LEXINGTON — Central Davidson felt the pressure.

In the fifth inning, East Rutherford had the bases-loaded with one out, but the Spartans held them to one run. In the top of the seventh, the bases again loaded with one out, Central pitcher Carley Tysinger struck out the last two batters looking to push the three-time defending state champions one step closer to Raleigh.

“It’s like when the going gets tough, she gets going,” Central coach Gene Poindexter said.

Despite the Cavaliers’ charge, the Spartans held on to win 5-1 in the third round of the 2-A state playoffs.

The teams combined for 10 errors, but Central got some timely hitting and responded to East Rutherford’s one run with two more in the bottom of the fifth.

Central took the lead in the second inning when McKenzie Burkhart reached on an error and made it to

third on a passed ball. When Kara Lohr walked, the routine throw from catcher Megan Walker to third baseman Chelsea Medford went into left field, and Burkhart raced home to score.

The Spartans added another in the third when Whitney Lohr lined out to left and Nicole Perry tagged up from third and barely beat the throw home.

But then it was East Rutherford’s turn to put on the pressure. Sally

Please see Lady Cavs, Page 8A

Sunrise in the land of great expectations Twilight had arrived in “The Town Formerly Known As Burnt Chimney.”

The sun gently played on the big puffy clouds overhead as a collection of 20 or so young men, forever to be known as Owls, took to the grass at McNair Field.

Forest City’s head coach, Matt Hayes ran the guys through a series of infield drills — come to the plate on this, go to second on that and who’s covering first when this thingy or that thingy occurs. An organized and serious version of, ‘Who’s on First.’

All the while, the Owls booster club watched the action and took time to practice the “Star-Spangled Banner,” which they will sing on opening night.

The voices of 30 to 40 people, rising and falling, especially on that song, can be such a beautiful experience.

It certainly was a fitting song for the moment.

Across town, another group of young men had taken to the field with a much more important task at hand.

The Cavaliers were playing a meaningful game, while the Owls were simply getting to know one another.

Both are expected to do big things.

Both are expected to win.

Off The Wall Scott Bowers

We often forget what a funny little game baseball can be.

In baseball, 3-of-10 gets you into the Hall of Fame.

In life, you show up to work ‘on time’ three out of 10 days and you get fired.

In baseball, if you allow two runs per game you get a bust in Cooperstown.

In life, you mess up twice a day, on the job, and you get fired.

Success in baseball is marginal and often thin. In the professional ranks, it is a well-accepted fact that teams will win 60 times and lose 60 times.

But, again, baseball is funny.

Without expectation and anticipation, without a burden to win, why would we watch the game?

The Owls Booster Club exists to cheer on the team. Win or lose, they are going to be there.

The same can be said for the Cavaliers.

The fans will show up. They will yell, they will complain and they will badmouth an umpire. Nothing about the game has changed in 160 years — be it high school, college, or the paid professionals.

Iowa may indeed have the real Field of Dreams, but we have the game. We have the champions.

While a group of young men —Drew Reynolds, Derek Deaton, Dakotah Thomas, Trent Dorsey, Blake Myers and others — look to add a fifth banner to the sign leading into Forest City, another group of young men — Ryan Arrowood, Cullen Park, Konstantine Diamaduros, Will Skinner and others — look to add a Coastal Plain League banner to the outfield wall at McNair Field.

And the only thing any of us really, truly expect out of any team — be they the Cavs, the Owls, or the Legion — is that they will play hard, run hard and lose hard.

The sun will come up, today, and the Owls will once more be exactly where they need to be come night fall.

It’s a great day for a game.

8A — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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NJ picked for BASEBALL 2014 Super Bowl

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IRVING, Texas (AP) — February. Gray skies.

Snowflakes. Brrrrrrrr.

Well, grab your boots and plow the snow. The Super Bowl is coming to the Meadowlands.

In New Jersey? In the dead of winter?

“We’ll all pray that it doesn’t snow that day,” Arizona Cardinals president Michael Bidwill said.

NFL owners voted Tuesday to put the 2014 Super Bowl in the new $1.6 billion Meadowlands Stadium that this season will become home to the New York Jets and Giants. It’s the first time the league has gone to a cold weather site that doesn’t have a dome; until now, those places couldn’t even bid on the big game.

So, why the risk?

“Let’s face it,” Giants co-owner John Mara said, “there’s only one New York City.”

“We promise the greatest game in the greatest venue in the greatest city,” added another co-owner, Steve Tisch. “Now we’ve got to deliver.”

Mother Nature may have a lot to say about that.

The coldest kickoff temperature in Super Bowl history was 39 degrees, and that would be considered a warm February day in East Rutherford, N.J. Average February temperatures there are 24 to 40 degrees, with several inches of rain, according to the bid documents.

Remember, the game kicks off after the sun goes down in the Eastern time zone, so temperatures would be dropping throughout the night.

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Harrill reached on an error to start the fourth, and Dee Lowery followed with a walk. But after the pair was bunted to second and third, Tysinger struck out Chelsea Rush to end in the inning.

In the top of the fifth, Medford and Ali Ruppe sandwiched singles around Sara Hoyle reaching on an error to load the bases. Harrill grounded to Kara Lohr at shortstop, but her throw home pulled catcher Whitney Lohr off the plate to score Medford. The next batter, Lowery, hit another grounder to short, but this time the sisters Lohr completed the force. Tysinger then got Makayla Harrelson swinging to extinguish the threat.

“It just wasn’t our night as far as putting the hits together, but my hat’s off. They have a great pitcher, so we had a little struggle catching that with her,” East Rutherford coach Julie Powell said.

“It’s a good team. We knew that coming in, but our girls fought hard and I’m really proud of them.”

Clinging to a 2-1 lead, the Spartans got a little breathing room in the bottom of the fifth. After Perry walked and Tysinger singled, Whitney Lohr slapped a single up the middle that scored Perry from second. Jack Byrd’s grounder then scored Tysinger.

In the sixth, Tysinger hit a two-out bloop single to score Laura Fritts, who had led off with a double.

“We talked about it all year — if they put up one, we want to put up two,” Poindexter said. “If they put up zero, we want to put up one. We always want to be keeping the pressure on them. And tonight we were fortunate enough to do that.”

Down 5-1, East Rutherford had one final charge in the seventh inning. Two errors, one walk and a fielder’s choice put three Cavaliers on the bases with only one out. On a full-count pitch, Lowery started walking toward first with what she thought was a walk, only to be rung up by the umpire. The game ended when Tysinger struck out Harrelson looking.

“If they score they can get momentum,” Tysinger said. “And I can’t let that happen because I want to go to state.

“They had the bases loaded and one home run could’ve tied it up.”

East Rutherford had won two games on the road to make it this far, but came up short this time.

“It’s tough, but we’re OK coming on the road because it seemed to be working for us,” Powell said. “The girls were mentally ready for the road trip and ready to play on the road.”

“Coach Powell, everything I’ve heard about them is true. They’re gutsy,” Poindexter said. “They believe they can win.”

Miller is a sports writer for the Lexington Dispatch.

East Division W L Pct 26 18 .591 24 22 .520 23 22 .511 23 22 .511 23 23 .500 Central Division

W L Pct Cincinnati 26 19 .578 St. Louis 26 19 .578 Chicago 21 24 .467 Pittsburgh 20 26 .433 Milwaukee 17 27 .386 Houston 15 29 .341 West Division

W L Pct San Diego 26 18 .591 Los Angeles 25 19 .568 San Francisco 22 21 .512 Colorado 22 22 .500 Arizona 20 25 .444

Philadelphia Florida Atlanta Washington New York

GB — 3 3 1/2 3 1/2 4 GB — — 5 6 1/2 8 1/2 10 1/2 GB — 1 3 1/2 4 6 1/2

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

Philadelphia (Blanton 1-2) at N.Y. Mets (Takahashi 3-1), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf 0-2) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 4-2), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 5-2) at Chicago Cubs (Gorzelanny 2-4), 8:05 p.m.

Houston (Oswalt 2-6) at Milwaukee (Narveson 4-1), 8:10 p.m.

Arizona (R.Lopez 2-2) at Colorado (Jimenez 8-1), 8:40 p.m.

St. Louis (J.Garcia 4-2) at San Diego (Correia 4-4), 10:05 p.m.

Washington (Atilano 3-1) at San Francisco (Lincecum 5-0), 10:15 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Houston at Milwaukee, 1:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

Arizona at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

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

St. Louis at San Diego, 6:35 p.m.

Atlanta at Florida, 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

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Tampa Bay New York Toronto Boston Baltimore

Minnesota Detroit Chicago Kansas City Cleveland

Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle

East Division W L Pct 32 13 .711 26 18 .591 27 20 .574 25 21 .543 14 31 .311 Central Division W L Pct 26 18 .591 25 19 .568 19 25 .432 18 27 .400 16 27 .372 West Division W L Pct 25 20 .556 23 22 .511 21 26 .447 16 28 .364

GB — 5 1/2 6 7 1/2 18 GB — 1 7 8 1/2 9 1/2 GB — 2 5 8 1/2

Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland 2 Boston 6, Tampa Bay 1 Toronto 6, L.A. Angels 0 Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 7, Chicago White Sox 3 Baltimore 5, Oakland 1 Boston 2, Tampa Bay 0 N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota, late Texas at Kansas City, late Toronto at L.A. Angels, late Detroit at Seattle, late Wednesday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Buehrle 3-5) at Cleveland

(Westbrook 2-2), 12:05 p.m.

Texas (Feldman 2-4) at Kansas City (Hochevar 4-2), 2:10 p.m.

Detroit (Bonderman 2-2) at Seattle (J.Vargas 3-2), 3:40 p.m.

Oakland (Cahill 2-2) at Baltimore (Matusz 2-4), 7:05 p.m.

Toronto (Morrow 3-4) at L.A. Angels (Pineiro 3-5), 7:05 p.m.

Boston (Lackey 4-3) at Tampa Bay (Garza 5-2), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 5-1) at Minnesota (Liriano 4-3), 7:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Oakland at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

BASKETBALL NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS x = if needed EASTERN CONFERENCE Boston 3, Orlando 1 Boston 92, Orlando 88 Boston 95, Orlando 92 Boston 94, Orlando 71 Orlando 96, Boston 92, OT Wednesday, May 26: Boston at Orlando, 8:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 28: Orlando at Boston, 8:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 30: Boston at Orlando, 8:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE L.A. Lakers 2, Phoenix 1 L.A. Lakers 128, Phoenix 107 L.A. Lakers 124, Phoenix 112 Phoenix 118, L.A. Lakers 109 Tuesday, May 25: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, late Thursday, May 27: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m. x-Saturday, May 29: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m. x-Monday, May 31: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.

HOCKEY NHL Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Philadelphia 4, Montreal 1 Sunday, May 16: Philadelphia 6, Montreal 0 Tuesday, May 18: Philadelphia 3, Montreal 0 Thursday, May 20: Montreal 5, Philadelphia 1 Saturday, May 22: Philadelphia 3, Montreal 0 Monday, May 24: Philadelphia 4, Montreal 2 WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago 4, San Jose 0 Sunday, May 16: Chicago 2, San Jose 1 Tuesday, May 18: Chicago 4, San Jose 2 Friday, May 21: Chicago 3, San Jose 2, OT Sunday, May 23: Chicago 4, San Jose 2 STANLEY CUP FINALS Philadelphia vs. Chicago Saturday, May 29: Philadelphia at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Monday, May 31: Philadelphia at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, June 2: Chicago at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.

Friday, June 4: Chicago at Philadelphia, 8 p.m. x-Sunday, June 6: Philadelphia at Chicago, 8 p.m. x-Wednesday, June 9: Chicago at Philadelphia, 8 p.m. x-Friday, June 11: Philadelphia at Chicago, 8 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Placed RHP Koji Uehara and RHP Alfredo Simon on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Alberto Castillo from Norfolk (IL). Purchased the contract of RHP Frank Mata from Norfolk. Transferred LHP Mike Gonzalez to the 60-day DL.

BOSTON RED SOX—Activated OF Mike Cameron from the 15-day DL. KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Selected the contract of INF Wilson Betemit from Omaha (PCL).

Optioned RHP Bryan Bullington to Omaha.

MINNESOTA TWINS—Activated SS J.J. Hardy from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Trevor Plouffe to Rochester (IL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Recalled INF Ryan Roberts from Reno (PCL). Placed INF Tony Abreu on the 15-day DL. COLORADO ROCKIES—Recalled C Chris Iannetta from Colorado Springs (PCL).

Designated C Paul Phillips for assignment.

NEW YORK METS—Claimed INF Justin Turner off waivers from Baltimore and optioned him to Buffalo (IL). Transferred OF Carlos Beltran to the 60-day DL. PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Placed 1B Steve Pearce on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF-OF Neil Walker from Indianapolis (IL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Recalled OF Luis Durango from Portland (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Released RHP Brian Bruney. Selected the contract of C Carlos Maldonado from Syracuse (IL).

American Association GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS—Traded LHP Logan Williamson to Brockton (Can-Am) for future considerations.

PENSACOLA PELICANS—Signed RHP Kevin Johnson.

SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CAPTAINS—Signed RHP Chris R. Kelly.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS—Signed INF Bridger Hunt.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS—Signed OF Shawn Riggins.

PITTSFIELD COLONIALS—Signed C Derek Marshall, OF Jerod Edmondson, LHP Matt White, INF Anthony Manual, RHP Mickey Cassidy and INF Welinson Baez. Acquired RHP Kyle Zaleski from Southern Maryland (Atlantic) for future considerations.

QUEBEC CAPITALES—Signed RHP Adam Arnold, C Patrick D’Aoust, OF Anthony Cros, RHP Karl Gelinas, OF Alex Nunez, LHP Andrew Albers and C Marc Memeault.

SUSSEX SKYHAWKS—Signed INF Mike Megale. Acquired INF Jansy Infante from Pittsfield for future considerations.

WORCESTER TORNADOES—Signed C Alex Trezza, INF Mark Minicozzi, RHP John Kelly, RHP Baron Short and C Jeff Rustico.

United League AMARILLO DILLAS—Signed INF Adam DeLaGarza, LHP Chris Nyman and C Matt Redding. Released C Brian Bueno.

FOOTBALL National Football League MIAMI DOLPHINS—Signed OL Cory Procter.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed WR Taylor Price.

HOCKEY National Hockey League MONTREAL CANADIENS—Assigned C Ben Maxwell and D P.K. Subban to Hamilton (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS—Acquired D Jyri Niemi from the New York Islanders for a 2010 sixthround draft pick and agreed to terms with Niemi on a contract.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Named Steve Yzerman vice president and general manager.

COLLEGE CENTRAL ARKANSAS—Announced the resignation of baseball coach Doug Clark.

DUQUESNE—Named Greg Gary men’s assistant basketball coach.

IOWA STATE—Announced basketball F LaRon Dendy will transfer and basketball G Antwon Oliver won’t return next season.

LEBANON VALLEY—Named Janelle Garber women’s assistant basketball coach.

NEW ORLEANS—Announced the resignation of men’s swimming coach Randy Horner to coach at Florida International.

NORTH CAROLINA—Named Cary Kolat director of wrestling operations, and director and head coach of North Carolina Olympic Training Center.

PENN STATE—Signed women’s basketball coach Coquese Washington to a two-year contract extension through the 2013-14 season.

RAMAPO—Named Eugene Marshall Jr. acting director of athletics, intramurals and recreation.

UCLA—Announced sophomore F David Wear and sophomore F Travis Wear have transferred to the school.

WOFFORD—Named Shane Nichols men’s assistant basketball coach.

Cavaliers Continued from Page 7A

Reynolds said. “We also played the three facets of the game right — throwing, catching and hitting.

When you do all of that the right way, good things are going to happen.”

East Rutherford (26-2) touched the scoreboard first when Chip Helton blasted a 1-0 pitch against the odd spin of Kendall Hooks for a solo homer that gave East the 1-0 advantage in the bottom of the second inning.

Lucas Owens walked in the third inning and back-to-back singles by Derek Deaton and Drew Reynolds loaded the bases.

Then the flood gates opened on two straight errors off the bats of Thomas and Helton as East went up, 4-0.

Mark McFarland produced an RBI later on in the frame to push East out to a 5-0 lead.

In the fifth, Thomas went yard as the first pitch he viewed glanced off the light pole in left for a solo-shot.

A double by Helton was accompanied seconds later by a first pitch swing of Blake Myers, which found the trees in left for a two-run homer. That swing yanked Hooks from the game and left East up, 8-0, after the fifth.

Piedmont (21-9) seemed as though they would score in top of the sixth with runners on first and third and nobody out. However, a pop out to Deaton at third base and throw to nail the runner at first base, allowed just one runner to stay aboard. It wouldn’t matter as Piedmont’s Pat King grounded out to first to end the inning.

East went back to work in the bottom of the sixth. Lucas Owens slapped a single to left and Deaton (3-for-4) put the final statement on the board with a monster shot over the left field fence for a two-run job that ended the game on the 10-run mercy rule.

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East’s Derek Deaton, above, races to first following a single during the playoff game against Piedmont.

East calculated 11 hits in the game and Thomas struck out eight of the 23 batters he faced in Tuesday’s victory. Thomas helped himself out by throwing strikes and walking just four Panthers all night.

“We didn’t make any errors tonight and, from the way I see it, we now have a 25-percent chance to win the whole thing,” Reynolds said with a grin.

East Rutherford will host upset-minded Surry Central (21-8) on Thursday for game one in the three game series. Surry Central defeated previously unbeaten Bunker Hill and a 28-1 Wilkes Central squad to punch its ticket into the Western Regional.

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Panthers CB Marshall practices, will sign

Work Begins On Harmon Field

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Construction at Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy’s new multi-use stadium is underway. The new Harmon Field is expected to be open in fall of this year and will be used for both football and soccer. Harmon Field will initially seat 1,000 as TJCA, a member of the 2A/1A Western Highlands Conference, continues to expand its facilities and sports programs.

Roddick wins in 5 at French n Henin,

Nadel advance

PARIS (AP) — Andy Roddick’s preparation for this French Open was hardly traditional. Or ideal, from a purely tennis perspective, anyway.

He skipped a clay-court event in Rome so he could celebrate his one-year wedding anniversary with his wife, Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model Brooklyn Decker. He missed another tuneup tournament in Madrid because of a stomach virus.

Scrambling to get set, Roddick played a couple of hastily arranged exhibitions and practiced a bunch at Roland Garros with fellow pro Mardy Fish, a pal since high school. If Roddick felt he needed more match time on his least favorite surface, he accumulated it in a hurry Monday, digging himself out of a hole and coming back to beat Jarkko Nieminen of Finland 6-2, 4-6, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 in the French Open’s first round.

“It’s kind of like when you miss an assignment in school, and they give you a chance to get extra credit. I’ve been trying real hard to get extra credit ... and I definitely wasn’t match-tough,” the sixth-seeded Roddick said.

“There was a lot of ugliness out there today. But at the end of it, I get to play again.”

So does a group of other Americans: Roddick and Fish are among five U.S. men into the second round, equaling the largest contingent at this Grand Slam tournament since six made it in 1998. A year after Robby Ginepri knocked off 18th-seeded Sam Querrey 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 6-2 in an all-American match Tuesday, while John Isner and Taylor Dent won Monday.

Querrey is a 22-year-old from Santa Monica, Calif., who had the best clay-court season of any U.S. man, winning a title at Belgrade, Serbia, this month.

But after falling to 0-4 for his career at the French Open, Querrey described feeling what sounded like burnout. He said he’ll fly home immediately and pull out of doubles; he was supposed to play with Isner.

“Not into it. Mentally not there. I mean, you know what?

I don’t know. Just did not enjoy myself out there. It’s been like that on and off for, like, a while,” Querrey said. “I don’t want to be fighting myself out there and also fighting the opponent.”

Roddick, the 2003 U.S. Open champion, hadn’t competed on clay since last year’s French Open, when he reached the fourth round for the first time — and he hadn’t played on tour anywhere since April 4, when he

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Andy Roddick, right, returns the ball to Jarkko Nieminen during their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Tuesday.

won the hard-court title at Key Biscayne, Fla. “Spending three days in bed in Madrid wasn’t the way we wrote it up,” he said. “That was bad.”

Roddick’s was not the only successful return Monday, when winners included four-time French Open champions Justine Henin and Rafael Nadal, as well as Maria Sharapova, who’s won the other three major tournaments.

Playing at Roland Garros for the first time since 2007, Henin beat Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria 6-4, 6-3 to run her winning streaks at her favorite event to 22 matches and 37 sets.

Henin won titles at Roland Garros in 2003 and 2005-07, before taking a 20-month hiatus from tennis, and while she said before the event that she does not consider herself the defending champion, her skills make her a serious contender for another trophy.

Upon returning, Henin said, she was “very nervous, which was normal. It’s my tournament, and I didn’t know really how I was going to deal with my emotions.”

When it comes to time away, she’s got nothing on Kimiko Date Krumm, who entered the French Open for the first time since 1996. Yes, you read that correctly: 1996.

Date Krumm retired at the end of that season, then resumed playing in 2008 at her husband’s

urging, and made quite a stir Tuesday, stunning former No. 1 Dinara Safina 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 to become, at 39 years, 7 months, the oldest woman to win a match at Roland Garros since Virginia Wade was 2 1/2 months older in 1985.

“If I lost, still, I’m very happy to be here,” Date Krumm said.

She won despite a heavily bandaged right calf and a foot injury that made her wonder if she’d be able to play in the second round.

Safina was the runner-up at the French Open each of the past two years, but she was undone by 17 double-faults and the same inability to close out a match she’s displayed in the past.

“I will have to swallow this loss and keep on moving,” said Safina, younger sister of twotime major champion Marat Safin. “After rain, always sun comes.”

Nadal also sought to look on the bright side after assessing his play as “really bad” while overwhelming the youngest player in the men’s draw, 18-year-old French wild card Gianni Mina, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2.

A year ago, Nadal’s 31-match French Open winning streak ended with a fourth-round upset against Robin Soderling, but he figures he is on his way to a new run, saying that he remembers having what he considered spotty starts in the first round each of the four years he went on to win the title.

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Richard Marshall couldn’t stay away.

The competitive fire, pride and sense of responsibility to his teammates eventually overwhelmed the business aspect of his life that saw the Carolina Panthers cornerback become one of the casualties of the NFL’s labor strife.

So after skipping the team’s offseason conditioning program and not showing up to last month’s minicamp, Marshall is on the field this week for voluntary workouts despite no sign of a long-term deal.

“I was never angry,” Marshall insisted Tuesday.

“I know it’s a business and you know what to expect. I wasn’t angry at all. I’m here now, happy, ready to practice with my teammates.”

After moving into the starting lineup last season and tying for the team lead with four interceptions, the 5-foot-11 Marshall probably would have received a significant payday this offseason — under normal circumstances.

With four years of service, the 2006 secondround draft pick would’ve been an unrestricted free agent if owners hadn’t ended the collective bargaining agreement early.

When they did and implemented no salary cap this season, a bevy new rules went into effect, including one that required six years of service to be an unrestricted free agent.

So Marshall became a restricted free agent.

And then while the Panthers could have offered him a one-year tender worth more than $3 million, they offered only the second-round tender of $1.759 million.

No team made Marshall an offer, which the Panthers could’ve matched or let him go in exchange for a second-round pick. Carolina, not interested in any long-term deals with the labor uncertainty, also made no attempt to sign Marshall past 2010.

“They haven’t talked to me,” Marshall said.

After consulting with his new agent, Drew Rosenhaus, Marshall decided to stay away from Carolina’s offseason conditioning program. Since he hadn’t signed his tender, he also couldn’t fined for missing last month’s mandatory minicamp.

Marshall didn’t show, but it wasn’t easy as he worked out alone.

“It was real difficult because I’ve been here for every offseason. I consider myself a team player, a team guy,” Marshall said. “It was unacceptable as far as me not being here for my teammates.

But it was a decision that I made.”

Marshall told his teammates he’d show up this week, and coach John Fox was impressed with his physical condition.

“We’ve talked. I just wanted to make sure, and he knows this, that he doesn’t do anything to hurt his performance,” Fox said. “I don’t think he has at this point. He’s obviously worked very hard. He’s not the first guy to ever miss our offseason conditioning that came back in great shape. He’s here now and looks very good.”

Linebacker Thomas Davis is in the same situation as Marshall. He also would have been an unrestricted free agent under the old rules, but was offered a $3.268 million tender from Carolina. Davis, who is working his way back from knee surgery, attended minicamp last month.

“It’s very important to have a guy like Richard Marshall back,” Davis said. “A lot of the younger guys we have on this team look up to veterans like Richard, guys who have come in and played well and done great things for this team. It’s just nice to have him back. He’s in good spirits.”

Marshall and Davis have until June 15 to sign their tenders, or the Panthers could withdraw them and instead offer deals for 110 percent of their 2009 season.

Faced with that plight, they have few options.

But Marshall insists he’s not bitter and only concerned about continuing the improvements Carolina made on defense late last season.

“I’m here right now and my main focus is being here and practicing with the team,” Marshall said.

NOTES: LT Jordan Gross participated in individual drills with the linemen for the first time since he broke his right leg on Nov. 15 against Atlanta. “I feel better than I felt in years because I had a six-month hiatus,” Gross said. “It’s nice to be back out with the guys.” ... After ranking 27th in passing in 2009 and with inexperienced QBs Matt Moore and Jimmy Clausen competing to replace Jake Delhomme, Fox is focusing on the passing game in the first week of drills.

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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Sex and scandal are again in South Carolina’s political air.

A year ago, it was Gov. Mark Sanford’s tearful confession of secretly skipping out of the country to rendezvous with an Argentine woman he called his soul mate. On Monday, it was a political blogger’s claim of an affair with a rising star in the governor’s race: state Rep. Nikki Haley.

Three years ago, it was the state treasurer whose affinity for cocaine had him facing federal charges and prison time.

At a debate Monday night, Haley offered what she expected would be the final volleys in a he-said, she-said match that started 13 hours earlier when Will Folks wrote on his blog: “Several years ago, prior to my marriage, I had an inappropriate physical relationship with Nikki.”

“It is absolutely not true,” Haley emphatically told the crowd. She’d said the same much of the day in a statement after Folks’ allegation spread around the political sphere: “I have been 100 percent faithful to my husband throughout our 13 years of marriage. This claim against me is categorically and totally false.”

And as reporters pressed her on the evidence that Folks claimed existed or why he would make a false claim, Haley appeared to shut further questions down.

“I’m telling you there is nothing there,” she said. “I’m not going to let this distraction to get to me. It’s not worth my time.”

She was on at least three talk shows with big audiences in Columbia,

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Nation Today Gambler loses jackpot

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who won a $2,001 slot machine jackpot must forfeit the winnings and will be charged with trespassing, because he had previously banned himself from casinos under a state program for problem gamblers.

State police have not identified the 55-year-old Waterford Township man who won the jackpot Friday at Erie’s Presque Isle Downs & Casino.

Under the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s self-exclusion program, problem gamblers can choose to ban themselves from casinos for one year, five years or for life.

Banned players are charged with criminal trespass if they enter a casino and must forfeit any winnings.

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ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Guinness World Records has recognized a Minnesota man as the tallest man in the United States.

The Guinness World Record Association measured Rochester’s Igor Vovkovinskiy (voh-kov-IN’ski) at 7 feet, 8.33 inches tall during NBC’s “The Dr. Oz Show” on Monday. He edged out Norfolk, Va., sheriff’s deputy George Bell by a third of an inch.

The 27-year-old Vovkovinskiy is originally from Ukraine but moved to Minnesota with his mother when

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South Carolina Rep. Nikki Haley, R-Lexington, center, speaks, as Rep. Gresham Barrett, R-S.C., left, and State Sen. Robert Ford, D-Charleston, look on during a forum at the Carolina First Center in Greenville, S.C., Monday.

he was 7-years old for treatment at the Mayo Clinic for a pituitary disease that spurred his rapid growth.

Ex-mayor going to jail DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to up to five years in prison Tuesday for violating the terms of his probation stemming from his conviction for lying under oath about an affair with his chief of staff.

Kilpatrick, 39, asked Judge David Groner to show him compassion during the hearing, but Groner said “that ship has sailed.”

Kilpatrick was led from the courtroom in handcuffs.

Troops going to border PHOENIX (AP) — The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it will send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to improve border security, an Arizona congresswoman said.

Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords also said in a statement released Tuesday that President Barack Obama will request $500 million in funding for border security.

Part of Giffords’ district borders Mexico.

Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona plans to introduce a proposal Tuesday afternoon to pay for putting 6,000 National troops at the border.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s spokesman said the governor hadn’t been told of the move prior to her office

Man bites man in fight NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) — It wasn’t quite man-bites-dog, but there were men and there were dogs and there was biting.

A sheriff’s office said Monday that one man bit another during a fight over a couple of dogs at a park in suburban New York City.

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William Barbera (bahr-BEHR’uh) says two dog owners got into it Sunday night. One didn’t like the way their pets were playing at a dog park in New City, about 30 miles north of New York.

Barbera says that a third man tried to break up the fight and that one of the combatants bit him on the wrist.

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The goal of the Bush plan was to have the troops at the border until thousands of new Border Patrol agents were trained. Those border troops cost $1.2 billion to work at the border.

At the time, some officials along the border said they experienced a dropoff in traffic after National Guard soldiers began to arrive there.

That program has since ended,

Murder trial delayed BOSTON (AP) — The trial of a former Boston University medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist will likely be postponed until at least January.

No firm date was selected during a hearing in Suffolk Superior Court Tuesday, but prosecutors and lawyers for Philip Markoff agreed that the case probably won’t go to trial until after New Year’s.

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Greenville and Charleston denying Folks’ claim. Sympathetic callers filled lines in the hours that followed with praise for how she handled the matter.

Folks is a fixture in the state’s rough-and-tumble politics and has worked for Sanford and Haley, an accountant and three-term legislator in a tight race for the GOP nomination with Congressman Gresham Barrett, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer and state Attorney General Henry McMaster.

Folks was Sanford’s spokesman in his 2002 campaign and when he took office. Folks left in 2005 and not long after pleaded guilty to a criminal domestic charge involving his fiance.

He is a political consultant and runs FITSNews.com, a conservative site that features occasionally insightful commentary, thinly sourced stories of state political intrigue and photos of women in bikinis. Haley hired him in 2007 to write speeches and news releases.

Folks said that’s when the vaguely described “physical relationship” with Haley took place. He offered no proof and refused to give details.

“I’m not going to paint pictures,” he said.

It was only a year ago that Sanford famously vanished from the state for five days, claiming to be on the Appalachian Trail and reappearing from a trip to Argentina to admit to an extramarital affair. It destroyed his marriage, which ended in divorce, and likely his political future, which had at one time seemed to include presidential aspirations.

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Last 5.26 6.70 6.90 6.87 6.90 6.70 6.71 15.06 7.81 5.29

Chg +1.02 +.89 +.90 +.82 +.77 +.71 +.71 +1.54 +.77 +.50

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Name Last SeabGld g 35.42 AmO&G 6.02 PlatGpMet 2.10 ExeterR gs 7.42 GerovaFn 13.30 AmBiltrt 3.58 US Gold 3.87 OrionEngy 3.44 CheniereEn 2.72 NwGold g 5.91

Chg +3.65 +.60 +.21 +.63 +.97 +.23 +.25 +.22 +.17 +.35

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Name Last Chg %Chg MLSel10 5-125.48-2.02 -26.9 AAR 18.26 -3.78 -17.2 NaviosAcq 7.04 -1.18 -14.4 ChinaEA 40.76 -4.97 -10.9 BkA SP2-139.22 -1.05 -10.2 UIL Hold 24.02 -2.68 -10.0 CapTr12 pf 2.30 -.25 -9.8 BkA BM RE 3.07 -.33 -9.7 Dex One n 18.57 -1.89 -9.2 ProUPacex20.26 -1.85 -8.4

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S&P500ETF3538872107.82 +.11 BkofAm 2541617 15.49 +.09 SprintNex 1682840 5.29 +.50 SPDR Fncl 1581931 14.46 +.13 iShEMkts 1407968 36.55 -.40 FordM 1328389 11.02 +.01 GenElec 1079811 15.95 -.06 Pfizer 1016207 15.06 -.16 DirFBear rs1015166 16.00 -.34

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg JavelinPh 54279 1.45 +.19 NwGold g 52713 5.91 +.35 Taseko 43599 4.95 -.01 GoldStr g 36394 4.29 +.07 NA Pall g 34884 3.16 -.11 NovaGld g 31317 7.26 +.28 NthgtM g 30587 2.92 +.01 KodiakO g 27602 2.99 -.10 GrtBasG g 26799 1.65 +.01 CFCda g 25927 14.76 -.01

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1,137 1,988 89 3,214 19 131 7,425,152,043

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MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg PwShs QQQ1449944 44.70 +.04 Microsoft 951407 26.07 -.20 Intel 937051 20.85 +.18 ETrade 673541 1.42 -.04 Cisco 641397 23.31 -.06 Comcast 481136 17.67 +.90 Dell Inc 398449 13.33 -.11 Oracle 389548 22.20 -.08 Apple Inc 357880 245.22 -1.54 Popular 337444 2.93 +.10 Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

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Late day rally saves market from big losses

NEW YORK (AP) — A rally pushed the Dow Jones industrials back over 10,000 after the stock market sank to its lowest levels of the year Tuesday.

The late-day rebound did nothing to erase lingering worries about Europe’s debt crisis.

The Dow plunged more than 250 points after the opening bell and stayed under 10,000 most of the day, then charged back to finish down only 22 when signals from Washington suggested banks would not be forced to sell their lucrative derivatives units as part of financial reform.

But investors are still concerned about European debt, and that’s likely to mean more turbulent days like Tuesday. The market worries that even austerity measures by governments there will not be enough to fix the problem and fight off a prolonged economic slump in Europe, or even another global recession.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth opened Parliament with a warning of hard times, saying in a speech on behalf of Britain’s new government that there would be budget cuts because “the first priority is to reduce the deficit and restore economic growth.”

Other European countries are imposing budget cuts as well, trying to control their debt. Investors are concerned that these steps will stifle economic growth, and that the growth of other countries, including the U.S., will inevitably be stunted.

Besides the financial crisis in Europe, investors were reminded that political issues, such as tension between North and South Korea, can threaten economic growth. Analysts said the unresolved Gulf of Mexico oil spill also contributed to the foul mood.

It was enough to send stocks into a deep dive after the opening bell. In just the first half-hour of trading, the Dow sank to 9,774.48, its lowest reading of the year so far.

For much of the day, the Dow threatened to set a new closing low for the year. The average is down more than 10 percent in just the past month.

But bank stocks surged, and the rest of the market followed, after Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, suggested financial companies should not have to spin off their derivatives businesses, as a Senate provision would have them do.

The Dow has only closed below 10,000 once this year, in early February.

On Tuesday, the Dow finished down 22.82 at 10,043.75. The Nasdaq composite index closed down 2.60 at 2,210.95, and the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index managed a slight gain — up 0.38 at 1,074.03.

Investors also fled from the euro and commodities including oil, and again sought safety in government bonds. That drove interest rates lower.

The benchmark 10-year note’s yield fell to its lowest level since April 2009.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.17 percent from 3.20 percent late Monday. It fell as low as 3.07 percent, its lowest level since April 2009. The yield on the 30-year bond briefly fell below 4 percent for the first time since October, before rising slightly. It is down to 4.07 percent from 4.08 percent late Monday.

Crude oil fell $1.06 to $69.16 a barrel.

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In this file photo made March 3, shoppers crowd through a Century 21 department store, in New York. Americans’ confidence in the economy rose in May for the third straight month in a row, fueled by growing optimism about future job prospects.

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Consumers showing confidence NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are feeling better about their job prospects, pushing consumer confidence higher in May. But signs that shoppers are slowing their spending as stocks fall could pose a roadblock on the path to recovery.

Already, reports show retailers’ business weakening in May after a solid spring season.

Confidence’s slow climb back to health could take a hit if the European debt crisis continues to shrink Main Street America’s retirement accounts.

“It’s disconcerting,” said Wells Fargo economist Mark Vitner.

“Weakness in the stock market is likely to impact spending on big-ticket items. During the first quarter, consumers splurged a bit. But I think they’ll be pulling in their horns.”

The Conference Board, based in New York, said Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index rose to 63.3, up from April’s revised 57.7. Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected 59.

The increase was boosted by consumers’ outlook over the next six months, one component of the index, which soared to the highest level seen since August 2007, before the economy entered in a recession. Another component, which measures how shoppers feel about the current economy, rose only slightly.

The overall index — which measures how consumers feel about business conditions, the job market and the next six months — has been recovering fitfully since hitting an all-time low of 25.3 in February 2009.

A reading above 90 indicates the economy is on solid footing;

above 100 signals strong growth.

Economists watch the number closely because consumer spending including health care and other major items, accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity.

Economists already believed confidence will remain weak for at least another year because of stubbornly high unemployment.

But concern is growing that U.S. economic improvements, including in housing and consumer spending, could be reversed. The Dow Jones industrials plunged below 10,000 Tuesday as investors worried about a global economic slowdown and tensions between North and South Korea.

The Dow fell more than 250 points in the minutes after the opening bell and spent most of the day under 10,000 before roaring back late in the day, closing down 22 points to 10,043.75.

Still, no one believed the market’s turbulence was over.

Lynn Franco, director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center, said it’s too soon to know whether Wall Street’s swings will rattle confidence. It depends on how long the volatility lasts and whether stock declines are offset by job gains, she said.

“It doesn’t directly hit home, but it could hit home,” Franco said.

For some, it already has.

Lawrence Leritz was shopping for men’s dress shirts in Macy’s, sticking to the clearance racks, on Tuesday. The 50-year-old actor and choreographer has limited his spending on clothing as he becomes more concerned about the market.

“It’s hard not to feed into

(the fear) because you see your account getting back to normal, and then dropping down again,” he said. “It’s a big tease.”

Adding to the dark mood on Wall Street Tuesday was a downbeat report from a key housing index. The Standard & Poor’s/ Case-Shiller 20-city home price index fell 0.5 percent in March from February, a sign that the housing market remains weak even as mortgage rates are near historic lows. There are worries that last month’s expiration of the government’s home buyer tax credit will hurt sales in the coming months.

In fact, the Conference Board survey of consumers showed that intentions to buy a car rose, while plans to buy major appliances and a home slipped, apparentely reflecting the expiration of the homebuyers’ tax credit at the end of April.

Reports of weakening business in May comes as two positives — easing gas prices and declining mortgage rates — could put more money into shoppers’ pockets.

But declining gas prices haven’t caused Steve Schaub of Indianapolis to spend more.

“It doesn’t change what I do during the week and on weekends,” said Schaub, noting a stillshaky economy has made him hold off getting his house painted and buying a new roof.

The Conference Board survey — based on a random survey of consumers sent to 5,000 households from May 1-18 — includes volatile days in the stock market, but excludes the 376-point plunge last Thursday, its worst one-day drop in more than a year.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cribs with a side rail that moves up and down so parents can lift children from them more easily would be banned under legislation aimed at reducing infant deaths.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., introduced a bill late Monday to outlaw the sale and manufacture of the cribs following the deaths of at least 32 infants and toddlers who suffocated or were strangled in drop-side cribs since 2000. The cribs are suspected in another 14 infant fatalities during that time.

Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., plans to introduce similar legislation this week in the House.

The industry has already started phasing out drop-sides and big retailers such as Babies R Us and Wal-Mart have taken them off sale floors. Yet there are still plenty for sale on the Internet and being used in homes and day cares.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates cribs, has warned about the problem. And its chairman, Inez Tenenbaum, has pledged to ban the manufacture and sale of cribs by the end of the year with a new standard that would make fixed-side cribs mandatory. It could be several months into 2011 before becoming effective.

Gillibrand hopes to accelerate efforts for a ban, whether it be from Congress or the CPSC. The industry says drop-side cribs that haven’t been recalled are safe as long as they are used and assembled according to manufacturer’s instructions.

“A properly assembled, fully functional crib is the safest place for baby,” said Mike Dwyer, executive director of the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association, which represents over 90 percent of the crib industry.

Dwyer warned against buying second-hand cribs from garage sales or thrift stores unless all hardware and assembly instructions are included. Even then, he said, industry is concerned that those cribs may not meet current federal or voluntary standards.

More than 7 million drop-side cribs have been recalled in the past five years.

Consumer advocate Don Mays says drop-sides these days are not as sturdy as those of the past.

“The manufacturing of cribs has been outsourced to foreign factories and as a result, in trying to drive costs down and production levels up, they have substituted hardware that is just as not as durable,” said Mays, senior director of product safety at Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports.

“They are inferior with regard to durability and inferior with regard to performance,” said Mays, whose CU lab tests about 20 cribs a year, and has been testing cribs for more than 20 years.

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President Barack Obama stands with, from left, small business owners Tom Sturtevant and Trapper Clark of ALCOM Inc., Winslow, Maine, and Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills, in the Rose garden of the White House in Washington Tuesday as he addressed small business owners about the economy.

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Falling home prices troubling NEW YORK (AP) — The housing slump isn’t over.

Tax credits and historically low mortgage rates have failed to lift home prices so far this year.

Prices fell 0.5 percent in March from February, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city index released Tuesday.

That marks six straight months of declines — a sign that the housing market is going in reverse.

“It looks a little like a doubledip already,” economist Robert Shiller said in an interview.

The co-creator of the CaseShiller index, who predicted in 2005 that the housing bubble would burst, says he worries that home prices rose last year only because of the federal tax credits. That fear is shared by other economists. They note that weak job growth, tight credit and millions more foreclosures ahead will weigh on the home market.

All that is discouraging for homeowners who have seen the value of their largest asset deteriorate sharply over the past three years. Falling home prices tend to curtail consumer spending. And they make it harder

for struggling borrowers to refinance into an affordable home loan.

Prices in 13 of the 20 cities tracked by the index fell. Only six metro areas recorded price gains. One, Boston, came in flat.

In the first quarter of 2010, U.S. home prices fell 3.2 percent compared with the fourth quarter.

The numbers are especially disturbing because they show that improved sales due to the tax credits didn’t translate into higher prices, said David M. Blitzer, Chairman of the S&P index committee.

Still, falling home prices haven’t kept many consumers from maintaining their optimism about the economy.

A separate report Tuesday showed consumer confidence rose in May for the third straight month as hopes for job growth improved. The increase in the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index was boosted by consumers’ brighter outlook for the next six months.

In a healthier economy, extraordinarily low mortgage rates would pump up demand

for homes. But employers aren’t creating new jobs fast enough and loans are harder to come by for small businesses and individuals.

On Monday, the National Association of Realtors said sales of previously occupied homes rose 7.6 percent in April. But the sales were aided by the government incentives that have now expired. Economists don’t expect the improvements to last.

New buyers were offered a credit worth up to $8,000.

Current owners who bought and moved into another home could get a credit for up to $6,500. To receive them, buyers had to have a signed offer by April 30 and must close by the end of June.

Shiller and other economists worry that prices could fall below the levels of April 2009.

That was the lowest point since the peak in July 2006.

IHS Global Insight economist Patrick Newport forecasts prices will fall an additional 6 percent to 8 percent and bottom out in the third quarter of next year.

Newport said the glut of homes on the market is the main reason.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Marking five disastrous weeks, BP readied yet another attempt to slow the oil gushing into the Gulf on Tuesday as a federal report alleged drilling regulators have been so close to oil and gas companies they’ve been accepting gifts and even negotiating to go work for them.

President Barack Obama prepared to head to the Gulf on Friday to review efforts to halt the millions of gallons of contaminating crude, while scientists said underwater video of the leak showed the plume growing significantly darker, suggesting heavier, more-polluting oil is spewing out.

BP’s next effort to stop the damaged oil well, perhaps Wednesday, will be to forcefeed heavy drilling mud and cement into the well to plug it up. The tactic, called a “top kill,” has never been tried a mile beneath the sea, and company executives estimate its chances of success at 60 to 70 percent.

Also on Tuesday, in Jackson, Miss., 11 men who died in the April 20 rig explosion were honored at a somber memorial service with tributes from country music stars and drilling company executives.

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BP PLC CEO Tony Hayward asks members of the media to step back as he walks along Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La., Monday.

This is the one of the most difficult days for many of us here. But for the families of our 11 lost colleagues, this is just another of many difficult days,” said Steven Newman, CEO of Transocean Ltd., the Swiss-based owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig.

In Washington, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he has been labor-

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Department report alleging a culture of cronyism between regulators and the industry.

In at least one case, an inspector for the Minerals Management Service admitted using crystal methamphetamine and said he might have been under the influence of the drug the next day at work, according to the report by the acting inspector general of the Interior Department.

The report cites a variety of violations of federal regulations and ethics rules at the agency’s Louisiana office.

Previous inspector general investigations have focused on inappropriate behavior by the royalty-collection staff in the agency’s Denver office.

The report adds to the climate of frustration and criticism facing the Obama administration in the monthlong oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, although it covers actions before the spill. Millions of gallons of oil are gushing into the Gulf, endangering wildlife and the livelihoods of fishermen, as scrutiny intensifies on a lax regulatory climate.

The report began as a routine investigation, the acting inspector general, Mary Kendall, said in a cover letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, whose department includes the agency.

“Unfortunately, given the events of April 20 of this year, this report had become anything but routine, and I feel compelled to release it now,” she wrote.

Her biggest concern is the ease with which minerals agency employees move between industry and government, Kendall said. While no specifics were included in the report, “we discovered that the individuals involved in the fraternizing and gift exchange — both government and industry — have often known one another since childhood,” Kendall said.

Their relationships took precedence over their jobs, Kendall said.

The report follows a 2008 report by then-Inspector General Earl Devaney that decried a “culture of ethical failure” and conflicts of interest at the minerals agency.

Salazar called the latest report “deeply disturbing” and said it highlights the need for changes he has proposed, including a plan to abolish the minerals agency and replace it with three new entities.

The report “is further evidence of the cozy relationship between some elements of MMS and the oil and

gas industry,” Salazar said Tuesday.

“I appreciate and fully support the inspector general’s strong work to root out the bad apples in MMS.” Salazar said several employees cited in the report have resigned, were fired or were referred for prosecution. Actions may be taken against others as warranted, he said.

The report covers activities between 2000 and 2008. Salazar said he has asked Kendall to expand her investigation to look into agency actions since he took office in January 2009.

Salazar last week proposed eliminating the Minerals Management Service and replacing it with two bureaus and a revenue collection office.

Members of Congress and President Barack Obama have criticized what they call the cozy relationship between regulators and oil companies and have vowed to reform MMS, which both regulates the industry and collects billions in royalties from it.

The report said that employees from the Lake Charles, La., MMS office had repeatedly accepted gifts, including hunting and fishing trips from the Island Operating Company, an oil and gas company working on oil platforms regulated by the Interior Department.

Taking such gifts “appears to have been a generally accepted practice,” the report said.

Two employees at the Lake Charles office admitted using illegal drugs, and many inspectors had e-mails that contained inappropriate humor and pornography on their government computers, the report said.

Kendall recommended a series of steps to improve ethical standards, including a two-year waiting period for agency employees to join the oil or gas industry.

One MMS inspector conducted four inspections of Island Operating platforms while negotiating and later accepting employment with the company, the report said.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called the report “yet another black eye for the Minerals Management Service. Once again, MMS employees have been found culpable of performing shoddy oversight of offshore drilling. The report reveals an overly cozy culture between MMS regulators and the oil industry.”

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Obama will revisit oil spill area late this week WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to show command of a crisis that has exasperated the nation, will head back to Louisiana on Friday to review efforts to stop the disastrous Gulf oil spill.

The White House announced Obama’s trip but did not yet release details of exactly where he will go.

The president will be in Louisiana for the day on Friday, flying there from Chicago, where he will be spending the long holiday weekend, and returning there at night.

The trip comes as Obama’s administration is under mounting fire over how well it is overseeing a complex fix-it effort.

Millions of gallons of oil are still gushing into the Gulf following an oil rig explosion on April 20.

The administration’s stand is that oil giant BP LLC is the legally responsible party but that the government is aggressively overseeing the company’s efforts to plug the

leaking oil well and working to mitigate the impact of the spill.

As impatience grows with BP and federal authorities, Obama is expected to speak about the crisis and take questions about it on Thursday at the White House, when he will receive a report from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

In announcing Obama’s Friday trip to the Gulf Coast, the White House contended it has “mobilized one of the largest responses to a catastrophic event in history.”

The consequences of the accident — for the environment, the economy, BP and Obama — keep growing.

Tuesday marked 35 days since the rig blew up.

This will be Obama’s second trip to the region since the troubles began.

He went on May 2 and soberly warned of a “massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster.”

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N. Korea cuts all ties with South as tensions rise

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Relations on the divided Korean peninsula plunged to their lowest point in a decade Tuesday when the North declared it was cutting all ties to Seoul as punishment for blaming the communists for the sinking of a South Korean warship.

The announcement came a day after South Korea took steps that were seen as among the strongest it could take short of military action.

Seoul said it would slash trade with the North and deny permission to its cargo ships to pass through South Korean waters. It also resumed a propaganda offensive — including blaring Western music into the North and dropping leaflets by balloon.

North Korea said it was cutting all ties with the South until President Lee Myungbak leaves office in early 2013, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a dispatch monitored in Seoul late Tuesday.

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A South Korean activist tears North Korean flags during a ally against the communist neighbor near the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday.

Peaceful Reunification said it would expel all South Korean government officials working at a joint industrial park in the northern border town of Kaesong, and South Korean ships and airliners would be banned from passing through its territory.

The North’s committee said it would start “all-out counterattacks” against the South’s psychological warfare, and called its moves “the first phase” of punitive measures against Seoul, suggesting more action could follow.

Earlier Tuesday, one Seoul-based monitoring agency reported that North Korea’s leader ordered its 1.2 millionmember military to get ready for combat.

South Korean officials could not immediately confirm the report, and its military said it had no indication of unusual activity by North Korea’s military. North Korea often issues fiery rhetoric and regularly vows to wage war against South Korea and the U.S. South Korea wants to bring North Korea before the U.N. Security

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Council over the sinking, and has U.S. support. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was to visit South Korea on Wednesday.

Clinton was in Beijing on Tuesday, wrapping up two days of intense strategic and economic talks with China, which responded coolly to U.S. appeals that it support international action against North Korea over the warship sinking.

The North and South have technically remained at war since the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.

Tensions have risen since last week, when a team of international investigators concluded that a torpedo from a North Korean submarine tore apart the Cheonan warship on March 26, killing 46 South Korean sailors.

The North flatly denies involvement in the sinking of the Cheonan, one of the South’s worst military disasters since the Korean War, and has warned that retaliation

would mean war.

South Korea’s Unification Ministry said it had no immediate comment on the North Korean statement on cutting ties.

However, spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo that although the North was expelling eight South Korean officials from the Kaesong complex, some 800 South Korean company managers and workers will remain. Yonhap news agency said that suggested the North had no intention of completely shutting down the Kaesong park, as South Korea also decided to keep the complex intact.

The U.S. and South Korea are planning two major military exercises off the Korean peninsula in a display of force intended to deter

future aggression by North Korea, the White House said. The U.S. has 28,500 troops in South Korea.

In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said it was “odd” that North Korea would sever ties to the South, given the precarious state of the North Korean economy.

“I can’t imagine a step that is less in the longterm interest of the North Korean people than cutting off further ties with South Korea,” he said.

U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon said Monday he expects the Security Council to take action against North Korea, but China — North Korea’s main ally and a veto-wielding council member — has so far done little but urge calm.

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Nation/world World Today In this May 20 photo, a demonstrator displays a sign in support of Christopher “Dudus” Coke during a march in Kingston. Jamaican Police have an arrest warrant for “Dudus”, who allegedly leads one of Jamaica’s drug gangs and is sought

by U.S. authorities on drug and arms trafficking charges but residents have set up barricades to prevent the police from executing the order.

Gold heist ends with 15 dead BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen wearing Arab headscarves and wielding assault rifles, rocketpropelled grenade launchers and pistols robbed a gold jewelry market in broad daylight Tuesday, killing 15 people in the most brazen example of Baghdad street crime that has soared as sectarian fighting ebbed.

Authorities blamed al-Qaida in Iraq, as they often are quick to do after major attacks and as the investigations are just getting under way.

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers barged past barricades into the capital’s most violent slums on Tuesday, clashing with die-hard defenders of a gang leader sought by the United States. At least 30 people have died, officials said.

Jamaica’s security forces, reeling from bold attacks by masked gangsters loyal to underworld boss Christopher “Dudus” Coke, were in the midst of a nearly daylong assault in the heart of West Kingston’s ramshackle slums, long afflicted by gang strife.

But Coke was still at large despite the raid in his stronghold, National Security Minister Dwight Nelson told reporters at news conference.

The suspect’s lead attorney, Don Foote, has refused to say whether Coke was hunkered down in the barricaded Tivoli Gardens slum or was somewhere else in the country.

On Tuesday, the third consecutive day of unrest, masked gunmen in West Kingston vanished down side streets barricaded with barbed wire and junked cars intended to block outsiders. The sound of gunfire echoed across the neighborhoods in

Jamaica’s south coast, far from the all-inclusive tourist meccas of the north shore.

Police spokesman Corporal Richard Minott told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the fighting in West Kingston alone has killed 26 civilians and one security official. Police had reported that earlier fighting killed two officers and a soldier.

It was not immediately clear what was happening inside the patchwork of slums where Coke’s supporters began massing last week after Prime Minister Bruce Golding dropped his nine-month refusal to extradite Coke, who has ties to his political party.

Golding’s office announced that Jamaica’s ombudsman and the chief public defender were hoping to head to Tivoli Gardens to independently “ascertain the precise number of persons who have been killed or injured” there.

Near barricaded Hannah Town, which has seen intense firefights since gunmen burned down the police station Sunday, medical staff at the Kingston Public Hospital have been treating patients as best they can amid the violence, but the blood bank was running low, Health Minister Rudyard Spencer said.

Kingston streets outside the battle zones were mostly empty, schools and numerous businesses were closed, and area hospitals offered only emergency services. The government on Sunday implemented a monthlong state of emergency.

The violence has not spilled into the capital’s wealthier neighborhoods, but gangs from slums just outside the capital have joined the fight, erecting barricades on roadways and shooting at troops.

In the gang-heavy town of Portmore, police said gunmen sprayed bullets at a minivan ferrying local people. It was not clear if anyone died.

But West Kingston, which includes the Trenchtown slum where reggae superstar Bob Marley was raised, remains the epicenter of the violence.

Gangsters loyal to Coke began barricading the area’s streets and preparing for battle immediately after Golding caved in last Monday to a growing public outcry over his opposition to extradition. Jamaica’s leader, whose represents West Kingston in Parliament, had claimed the U.S. indictment relied on illegal wiretap evidence.

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The queen wore a crown studded with 2,000 diamonds for an event featuring cavalry, Yeoman warders and glittering carriages — including horsedrawn one especially set aside to ferry the Imperial State Crown to Parliament. Crowds lined the streets to gawk at the show of pomp and power.

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erry season means colors, tastes and aromas that are sure to please. With a variety of gorgeous fresh fruits at your fingertips, why not whip up a fabulous fruit pie or tart to surprise family or share with friends? From family dinners to spur-of-themoment picnics, pies are easy to make and easy for family and friends to appreciate.

To save time in the kitchen, start with Pillsbury Refrigerated Pie Crusts for a flaky, tender base.

Just unroll it into your favorite pie plate or tart pan, spoon in a delicious fruit filling, bake and enjoy. Pillsbury has updated the packaging with a fresh, contemporary look and features a new recipe for Three-Berry Pie. For more delicious recipes, visit www.pillsbury.com/pie, or become a fan and share your pie-making stories, photos or tips at www.facebook.com/lovethepie.

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Lemon Raspberry Pie

8 servings Prep time: 45 minutes Start to finish: 3 hours 45 minutes Crust 1 Pillsbury refrigerated pie crust (from 14.1-ounce box), softened as directed on box 1 teaspoon flour 2 tablespoons finely chopped pecans Filling 1/2 cup sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1/2 cup water 2 tablespoons margarine or butter 1 egg yolk, beaten 1/4 to 1/3 cup lemon juice Topping 2 3-ounce packages cream cheese, softened 1/4 cup powdered sugar 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract 1 8-ounce carton frozen whipped topping, thawed 1 tablespoon milk 3 cups fresh raspberries or frozen raspberries without syrup, thawed, dried on paper towels Mint sprigs, if desired

Heat oven to 450°F. Prepare crust according to package directions for unfilled one-crust pie using 9-inch pie pan. Press pecans into bottom of pie crust-lined pan. Generously prick crust with fork. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool completely.

In small saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch; blend well.

Stir in water, margarine and egg yolk. Cook over medium heat until mixture boils and thickens, stirring constantly. Boil 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in lemon juice. Pour into cooled crust. Refrigerate 1 hour.

In small bowl, beat cream cheese, powdered sugar and lemon extract until smooth. Beat in whipped topping at low speed until well blended. Add milk; mix until smooth and of spreading consistency. Spread thin layer of topping mixture around edge of crust.

Reserve 4 raspberries for garnish.

Arrange remaining raspberries over top of filling. Spread remaining topping over raspberries.

Garnish with mint sprigs and reserved raspberries. Refrigerate 2 hours before serving. Store in refrigerator.

Fresh Berry Cream Tart

8 servings Prep time: 15 minutes Start to finish: 2 hours 55 minutes Crust 1 Pillsbury refrigerated pie crust (from 14.1-ounce box), softened as directed on box Filling 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened 1/3 cup sugar 1 tablespoon orange-flavored liqueur or orange juice 4 cups assorted fresh whole berries (small strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and/or blackberries) 1/3 cup red currant jelly, melted Heat oven to 450°F. Prepare pie crust as directed on package for one-crust baked shell using 9-inch tart pan with removable bottom.

Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool completely.

In small bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar and liqueur; beat until smooth and well blended. Spread cream cheese mixture evenly in cooled baked shell. Top with berries; brush berries with melted jelly to glaze. Refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving. Store in refrigerator.

Fresh Berry Cream Tart

When making a top crust for pies, these tips can help you make them look extra special.

Glossy Upper Crust: Brush the dough with slightly beaten egg white (if desired, sprinkle with sugar, too) before baking.

Sweet Glazed Top: Brush the top pastry with a small amount of water, and sprinkle with granulated or coarse sugar before baking.

Pretty Cutouts: Cut shapes from the top crust with a canapé cutter or a knife before placing the top crust over the filling. With water or beaten egg, moisten the back of each cutout and set the design, moistened side down, on the crust.

Three-Berry Pie

8 servings Prep time: 20 minutes Start to finish: 2 hours 30 minutes 1 package (14.1 ounces) Pillsbury refrigerated pie crusts, softened as directed on package 1 1/2 cups sugar 5 tablespoons cornstarch 2 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 cups fresh or frozen (thawed and drained) blackberries 2 cups fresh or frozen (thawed and drained) raspberries 2 cups fresh or frozen (thawed and drained) blueberries 1 tablespoon milk 2 teaspoons sugar Heat oven to 450°F. Make pie crusts as directed on package for two-crust pie using glass 9-inch pie pan.

In large bowl, stir together 1 1/2 cups sugar, cornstarch, tapioca and salt; gently toss with berries. Let stand 15 minutes. Spoon into crustlined pan. To make lattice top, cut second crust into 1/2-inch-wide strips. Arrange strips in lattice design over filling. Trim and seal edges. Brush crust with milk; sprinkle with 2 teaspoons sugar.

Place pie on middle oven rack; place large cookie sheet on rack below pie pan in case of spillover.

Bake pie 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 375°F. Cover edge of crust with strips of foil to prevent excessive browning. Bake about 40 to 45 minutes longer or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly.

Let stand 2 hours before serving.

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Are you getting enough fruits and vegetables in your diet? If your answer is no, you are not alone. Most Americans do not get the recommended 5-9 serving of fruits and vegetables daily.

There are a variety of reasons people say they don’t eat fruits and vegetables. Some say these foods take too long to prepare, cost too much, or lack flavor and appeal. Many fruits and vegetables are unfamiliar to people and how to prepare them is a mystery.

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such as cancer and heart disease. Researchers have identified thousands of natural compounds in plant foods that contribute to good health. Melons, citrus fruits, grapes and stone fruits such as peaches, cherries, and plums are high on the “super fruits� list. Vegetables like peppers, squash, sweet potatoes, onions, beans and peas, and dark leafy greens are high in valuable nutrients as well.

Honor Rolls Forest City/ Dunbar Elementary School

The fifth six weeks honor roll at Forest City/Dunbar Elementary School has been announced by Sally Blanton, principal.

Those students named to the list are: A Honor Roll 4th grade Pierre Flores, Nahum McMullens.

Finding different ways to 5th grade enjoy these foods may be a chalGlenn Earley, Joseph lenge for you. If so, Cooperative Wilkie, Madalyn Extension offers opportunities Wright. throughout the year for conB Honor Roll sumers to learn more about 3rd grade purchasing, growing, storing, Tianna Brown, preparing, and cooking healthy Jacob Bumgarner, foods. Consumers can request Jahad Burris, food-related publications, purCeleste Castle, Avery chase locally grown produce at Champion, Hunter the county Farmer’s Market, or Daves, Melina Degree, attend educational programs at Cassie Enloe, Diretha Cooperative Extension.

Foster, Chadeya Hill, One of these educational Dezyrae Jones, Olyvia programs is coming up very Ledford, Destiney soon. Each June, Cooperative Logan, Ja’Qualyn Extension holds it’s annual Grillin’ & Chillin’ event featuring Logan, Deontay Lynch, Demetrius Mauney, local chefs and local foods. We invite you to join us on Saturday, Brooklyn Mills, Kayla Nolan, Savione Powell, June 19, as chefs demonstrate a Rodvie Reynolds, Noah variety of ways to prepare fresh Richardson, Cameron food – everything from entrees and side dishes to beverages and Simmons, Keshun Staley, Randy Stuart, desserts. This year’s event will Khalah White, Diante highlight growing and cooking Wilkerson. with herbs. Food and beverage samples, door prizes, and 4th grade exhibits are all part of the event.

Thomas Bartlett, Tickets are available in advance Korean Bristol, Molly at Cooperative Extension.

Doggett, Cheyenne Later in the summer, the Downey, Autumn Cook Smart, Eat Smart cooking Drost, Hannah Elliott, school will be offered again as Brittany Fish, Chandler will the Eat Smart, Move More, Hamrick, Dalyn Harris, Weigh Less class. Both of these Emily Haynes, Veronica programs focus on nutrition, Herrera, Jamari Hill, healthy cooking techniques and Dayana Ireta-Torres, weight management.

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If fruits or vegetables do not appeal to you, try some new ways of eating them. Different cooking and preparation methods that enhance the flavors of food can convert even the pickiest eaters.

Expanding your knowledge of different fruits and vegetables – how to select them, ripen them, store and prepare them – can introduce an exciting new repertoire of dishes to enjoy. Bored with beans and potatoes? Add color and zest to your meals with a mixture of red, green, yellow, blue, orange, and purple fruits and vegetables. Paired with a few basic seasonings, these colorful foods are delicious and healthy.

Summertime is upon us and what better time to enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables? Berries are among the favorites with strawberries in May, blueberries in June, and blackberries and

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raspberries later in the summer.

Berries are full of antioxidants and other valuable nutrients.

Eating just 3 or 4 half-cup servings of berries each week offers significant health benefit.

Tomatoes are another food high in vitamins and antioxidants. Tomatoes are one of the few dietary sources of lycopene, a cancer-fighting antioxidant.

Lycopene is in its highest concentration when tomatoes are vine-ripened and deeply colored.

Fragrant herbs like basil, oregano, dill, parsley and thyme are ideal seasonings for tomatoes making them extremely versatile in both main dishes and side dishes.

Rhubarb is a vegetable plant that was first used for medicinal purposes, but today many people enjoy the stalks (the only edible part of the plant) as food.

Because of its tartness, rhubarb is typically coupled with sweet flavors. Most people enjoy it as a dessert in the familiar rhubarbstrawberry combination, but rhubarb can add pizzaz to main courses in the form of marinades and sauces or add color and flavor to rice or pasta. Rhubarb pairs well with other fruits such as apples, raisins, blueberries and raspberries. Sweet spices including cloves, cinnamon and allspice are commonly cooked with rhubarb. In addition to its unique flavor, rhubarb offers vitamins A and C, fiber, and several antioxidants.

The fruits and vegetables mentioned above are only a few of the many foods that offer health benefits. In fact, all plant foods – fruits, vegetables, and whole grains – are associated with providing good health and reducing the risk of chronic diseases

R-S Middle School

The fifth six weeks Principal’s List and Honor Roll at R-S Middle School has been announced by John McSwain, principal.

Those students named to the list are: A Honor Roll 6th Grade Elizabeth Alexander, Anastasia Brownfield, Kaitlin Clark, Caleb Cox, Lauren Gray, Savannah Hollifield, Haley Newton, Matthew Pendleton, Samantha Shuford, Keira Singleton, Christopher Wellmon.

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Secret daughter should be revealed Dear Abby: I am in shock. My brother, “Paul,” invited me to lunch yesterday and introduced me to an 18-year-old girl, “Amy,” whom he says is his daughter from a woman other than his wife. Naturally, she was full of questions about me and the rest of the family.

I don’t know why Paul chose to reveal Amy’s existence to me — and only me — but I told my brother he needs to share his “secret” with all concerned. I don’t think it’s fair for Amy to be deprived of meeting her father’s side of the family.

I also don’t want anyone to get hurt, but Amy has been hurt enough by this secret. I am uncomfortable that my brother has included me in this conspiracy, and I’m not sure how to handle this. Any ideas? — In the Middle Dear In the Middle: On some level your brother may want the truth to come out, because when a secret is shared it’s no longer a secret. So tell your brother that you refuse to be his co-conspirator, and that you feel his keeping Amy isolated from the family is unfair to her. Then give him a deadline to come clean, with the understanding that if he doesn’t, you will.

Dear Abby: Now that I have found a job after a few months of unemployment, my boyfriend and I are tying the knot. I work in a very small

Dear Abby Abigail van Buren

office and would like to invite everyone to bring a date to the reception.

My dilemma?

I suspect that two of the men in the office are involved with each other, and I’m not close enough to anyone else to inquire.

I have no problem with their sexual orientation, but I don’t want to put my foot in my mouth by inviting them as a couple.

What would you think of posting an invitation (postcards and e-vites) to all employees and their dates?

I ordinarily wouldn’t, but being a little “gauche” seems better than being downright rude.

I suspect the men downplay their relationship, and I don’t want to invade their privacy. Abby, what would you do? — Bride Dear Bride: I would handle it by inviting each of my co-workers, stating “and guest” on the invitation, and asking for an RSVP. Then, whomever they choose to bring is up to them, and all I’d need to know is how many guests to expect at the reception.

Is surgery appropriate for injury?

Dear Dr. Gott: I am an active 50-year-old man with chronic shoulder pain. My doctor, a sports-medicine surgeon, wants to remove the bursa sac and maintains that the sac is not necessary. Because I would like to remain active — especially in the gym — I am skeptical.

Dear Reader: A bursa is defined as a small, fluid-filled sac whose purpose is to reduce friction between bodily tissues. There are 160 bursae throughout the body, all of which are located in areas of large joints, such as the knees, elbows, hips and shoulders. The main symptom of bursitis of the shoulder is severe pain, primarily on movement. Causes include arthritis, infection, injury to the site or, most likely in your case, overuse.

Symptoms are commonly treated by resting the affected joint, and with cold packs, anti-inflammatory over-the-counter medications, heat once any swelling disappears and antibiotic therapy for infection. Some

PUZZLE

Ask Dr. Gott Dr. Peter M. Gott

cases don’t respond to simple treatment and require aspiration of the bursa fluid. This procedure is commonly performed in a physician’s office and may be followed by a cortisone injection into the affected area.

When inflammation in the subacromial bursa adds to pain experienced, the lubricating sack is often removed by a surgeon in a procedure known as bursectomy or debridement.

Now comes the difficult part. You need to sit down with your specialist and explain that you want to remain physically active. Determine how long you might anticipate the recovery period to last and whether there will be any unwanted side effects.

IN THE STARS Your Birthday, May 26; Unique benefits could come your way in the year ahead through friends.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Making a major domestic decision without consulting with other family members is a big mistake.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Generally you’re pretty good about making sure you get value received for the dollars you put out.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - If you want perfection in others, you must first prove that you are perfect.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) - You need to be just as tolerant of family members as you are of your friends and casual acquaintances.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Negative thinking and self-doubts will cause you to call it a day before you even test the waters.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - It isn’t likely to be to anyone else’s advantage but yours as to how well you manage money.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Don’t take on any unneeded challenges just to prove a point.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - If something is on your mind that is disturbing you, get it out in the open.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - It might not be too wise to get involved in the complications of a friend.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Don’t allow your ego to play tricks on you in ways that make you think you are better at something than you really are.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Anger and thoughts of getting even will occupy the mind of anyone upon whom you impose an unpleasant job assigned to you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Don’t hesitate to back away from a deal that requires a greater investment than first presented.

4B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, May 26, 2010 4B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2010

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Matthew Atchley, Austin Beaucage, Jadaeja Brown, Riley Continued from Page 2B Buchanan, Christian Clark, Neal Craig III, Alexis Davis, Sarah Dominguez, Sierra Dula, Alesi Floyd, Fowler, Emily Hargett, James Francis, Teryn Shawn Hines, Michael Greenway, Alexandra Johnston, Jacob Grishaw, Faith Harris, Lambert, Lauren Maleek Holmes, Montieth, Donald Sarah Huffman, Penson, Mary Poteat, John Hutchins, Loyd Sierra Wilkins.

Jolley, Haily Jones, Sarah Jones, Kayla B Honor Roll Kirkland, Anna Landis, 6th Grade Danielle Lane, Harley William Amos. Cody Lattimore, Alexis Arrowood, Jonathan Maher, Karen Martin, Barnes, Taylor Beam, Matthew McBrayer, Ashley Briscoe, Trevon Sierra Morse, Emma Carson, Alexis Cheek, Nance, Caleb Owens, Mikaela Clontz, Brooke Emily Pocock, Brandy Crane, Sarah Daniel, Raye, Christopher Justin Edwards, Rector, Kaylee William Ferguson, Schappert, Andrew Somoza FullingtonSimmons, Samuel Frazer, Donte Hines, Snyder, Paul Stpierre, Kayla Hunt, Skyler Chelsea Von Briel, Hutchins, Alexis Paige Walker, Caylin Jeffries, Morgan Whitesidek, Desmond Jones, Karsyn Kearns, Whitesides, Zachary Madison Keller, Wilson.

Madyson King, Jocelyn Knight, Malik Logan, 8th Grade Tatiana Magee, Bethany Acree, Aurora Martin, Imani Taylor Amos, Courtney McCain, Benjamin Arms, Hunter Atchley, McCombs, Jonathan Allison Baynard, McEntire, Katie Holly Baynard, Sarah McEntire, Makayla Bearden, Leann Bittle, McFarland, McKenzie Jessie Bland, John Metcalf, Clint Mooney, Bostic, David Briscoe Yadira Morales, Mary III, Tia Bristol, William Owens, Kendall Bunch III, Sarah Patterson, Amber Carpenter, Taylor Cole, Ponder, Benjamin Colin Cope, Makayla Putnam, Chye Raye, Crain, Alexis Dixon, Lauren Revis, Crystal Jada Edwards, Taylor Rodriguez, Taylor Fier, Jared FosterRuppe, Savannah Scala, Smith, Brigitte Fowler, Kristin Sellers, Kaleb Macy Frazier, Rebecca Sells, Ashlynn Simpson, Graner, London Haley Sims, Lucas Hamby, James Hollis, Smith, Alexandra Still, Jay’Len Hollis, Ashley Leeanna Torvinen, Jackson, Andrea Gentry Turner, Pansy Keever, Shannon Waters, Emily Wilson, Kennedy, Zoe Koon, Lucas Wilson, Alyssa Stacey Lasay, Thomas Yelton.

Lasay, Devonte Logan, 7th Grade Lewis Logan, Zachary Devin Adell Martin, Michaela

Reed, Ashley Stephens, Nicole Struble, Shelly Von Briel, Leah Whitton.

McEntire, Haley McKinney, Rachel McLaughlin, Jesse McMahan, Taylor Mitchell, Dylan Morrison, Alexis Morse, Catherine O’Neil, Theresa O’Neil, Jessica Padgett, Samuel Pyatt, Sarah Ray, Lucas Sane, Hanna Wilson, Rebecca Wilson.

12th Grade Brianna Baynard, Candice Beal, Nick Beaver, Nicole Bradley, Davis Choun, Cortney Cooper, Blake Dula, Jessica Eberhart, Hannah Enloe, Bennett Evans, Kelsey Field, Corbie Ford, Candena Fowler, Yuliana Gonzalez, Ivonne Gonzalez, Holly Guffey, Brian Hampton, Michael Heffner, Joseph Henderson, Camie Jackson, Kelly Jugar, Kaitlyn Laughter, Paige Leslie, Will McBrayer, Hannah McDowell, David McLaughlin, Melissa McLaughlin, Brittney Monteith, Denisse Morales, Christian Nelon, Christopher Noffke, Ashley Ownbey, Jessica Ownbey, Sydney Pugh, Kayla Rikard, Aris Smith, Darya Smith, Stacie Stott, Taylor Sullivan, Candice Tessneer, Alex Thompson, Forrest Thurman, Shida Twitty, Anthony Walke, Danielle Watson, Melissa Wheat, Caleb Wilkie.

R-S Central High School The fifth six weeks Principal’s List and Honor Roll at R-S Central High School has been announced by Phil Rogers, principal.

Those students named to the list are: A Honor Roll 9th Grade Dustin Atchley, Kendall Corbett, Arely Dominguez, Colby Fagan, Sara Hawkins, Morgan Helton, Michael Hensley, Taylor Lawing, Megan Long, Heather McCrary, Christa Oglesby, Kendra Person, Christy Powell, Brittany Putnam.

10th Grade India Blanton, Austin Conner, Bronwyn Fadem, Rosajean Flack, Jessica Hernandez, Kenya Logan, Mackie McMahan, Emily Ostrander, Lindsey Pizzo.

A/B Honor Roll 9th Grade Emily Alexander, Hunter Bailey, Harley Braun, Scharnice Carson, Finn Clay, Aaliyah Davis, Chelsea Desgages, Katie Dixon, Adam Dobbins, William Doggett, Kyle Ellis, Travis Ensley, Madison Evans, Jimi Ferguson, Zachary Fowler, Morgan Gilreath, Carly Griffin, Sonora Hartzog, Tyler Herfel,

11th Grade Bransom Benfield, Beth Blanton, Shakeia Burgin, Jonathan Cash, Ashley Davis, Sean Dickinson, Vaughn Freeman, Timothy Guffey, Jennifer Hutchins, Caleb Johnson, Maggie Lave, Kevin Miller, Alex Murray, Brittany Patterson, Lindsey

Christian Hewitt, Charles Hill, Kaylee Hollifield, George Holt, Haley Johnson, Kayla King, Leah King, Ashley Lambert, Brandon Lammonds, Ginger Logan, Kaitlyn Mesich, Kayla Mesich, Tyler Morgan, Jeffery Morrow, Kayla Owens, Chris Pendleton, Hannah Powers, Cassidy Ruppe, Adam Schopeck, Patrick Simmons, Paul Sims, Tyler Sims, Alex Splawn, Nicholaus Stoehrer, Dylan Swink, Tiffany Thrower, Kayla Waters, Alyssia Watkins.

10th Grade Amanda Baynard, Alison Brandle, Colleen Burns, Jamila Burns, Cameron Bynum, Kent Craig, Cassie Crowe, Shonda Davis, Brittany Desgages, Amber Eads, Brittney Edwards, Lindsay Frazier, Hannah Frye, Sydney Griffin, Christina Gutierrez, Shayla Hensley, Matthew Higgins, Shannon Hines, Curtis Koone, Jared Logan, Kendall Maybin, Jonathan Michael, Andres Rodriguez, Kaitlin Summers, Shelby Tate, Tyler Wallace, Corey Washburn, Bobby Wilkins, Jessica Wyatt, Jerry Yelton, Kaitlyn Yelton.

11th grade Clifford Alexander, Olivia Baumann, Daryl Brown, Ryan Coyne, Sarah Coyne, Mallory Crayton, Jesse Fowler, Kayla Frady, Amanda George, Jennifer Hall, Kelly Hamby, Taylor Hammett, Angelina Hardin, Leigh-Anna Hardy, David King,

Lindsay Koonce, Amanda Lewis, Carrie Lovelace, Victoria McCombs, Michael McEntire, Kaitlyn McNeilly, Sarah Miller, Jayna Moore, Ben Morris, Michaela Norville, David O’Neil, Cody Owens, Emily Rothrock, Cody Salyards, David Schafer, Jessie Scofield, Jamel Smith, Kathryn Snyder, Amanda Splawn, Victor Staley, Sara Stegemoller, Adam Sylvester, Lauren Taylor, Brandon White, Skyler Williamson.

12th Grade Dekotah Baisden, Jillian Ballard, Michael Barnes, Patrick Bearden, Harley Bowen, William Brown, Carsyn Butler, Regina Butler, Lawrence Caouette, Lee Carpenter, Leah Cooke, Heidi Crowe, Phonecia Davis, Whitley Dobbins, Joshua Fleming, Kayla Fox, Stephany Greene, Hilari Griffin, Breanna Hager, James Hampton, Jessica Hancock, Lisa Hardin, Morgan Herfel, Marissa Hill, Aimee Hines, Kyle Holmstrom, Andrea Hooper, Ashley Hutchins, Chacorey Jimerson, Abigail Jones, Sarah Koonce, Josh Levinson, Megan Logan, Cameron Long, Cory Lowery, Jessica McGinnis, Heather Morrison, Seth Orr, John Parker, Caroline Pocock, Nicholas Pope, Zach Powers, Kayla Robertson, Holly Roper, Bridget Samuel, Matthew Simmons, Chelsea Smith, Sharis

See Honor, page 8B

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Additional words are only 75¢ each. Deadline: Wed. at 2 p.m.

auction liquidation sale Sat. May 29th, 2010 @ 10:00 am

stock & Fixtures of the Former Western auto & Home store 180 east Main street, Forest city, nc 28043

auto Parts- reliance starters - standard alternators - airtex Fuel Pumps - Gates radiator Hoses & Belts - Modine radiators - Monroe shocks & struts - cardone Water Pumps - Bendix/Precision universal Joints - Bendix Brake shoes & Pads - Bendix rotors & drums - (Motorcraft - autolite - ac delco - splitfire - Bosch & champion) spark Plugs - champion spark Plug Wires - (Fram - K&n - Motorcraft) air Filters - (ac delco - Fram - Motorcraft) oil Filters - Penzoil - castrol - Havoline - quaker state Motor oil & Grease - cardone Master cylinders & Brake calipers - Bendix Wheel cylinders - stant thermostats & Gaskets - Gas caps - oil Filler caps - Feel Pro Head Gaskets & exhaust Gaskets - Valve cover Gaskets - Motormite Wheel stud Bolts - lug nuts - chrome lug nuts - (standard Brand electrical Parts) - distributor caps - rotors - Points - condensers - Modules - coils - relay switches - dimmer switches - oiltite oil drain Plugs - transmission Filter Kits - Fram Fuel Filters & crankcase Filters - PVc Valves - and Many More Misc. Parts & etc... trucK- 1989 Ford F-350 Box truck with liftgate tools - new craftsman Wrenches & sockets - new Honda Powered Portable air compressor & More stocK- car radios - Vent shades - Bug shields - car care Products - car covers - Pocket Knives - Windshield Wipers - chrome Wheels - small amount of Furniture - lamps & appliances - Much More....

everything SellS aS-iS-where-iS - with no warrantieS or guaranteeS

open For inspection Friday, May 28th - 2:00 pm til 5:00 PM Sale Conducted for Jim & Phillip Marchman • not resPonsiBle For accidents auctioneers note - you Will Be required to Pay n.c. sales tax on all iteMs sold or HaVe a n.c. tax id nuMBer WitH ProPer identiFication

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Apartments 3BR/2BA single level town home, with attached garage, great neighborhood, conveniently located inside Rfdtn city limits.

No pets! 828-429-4288

1 & 2BR APTS Spindale and East High areas. Some utilities included. $300-$360/mo.

Call 245-0016 Homes For Rent Lovely 3BR/1.5BA brick home. 611 Hwy 221S, Rfdtn. $675/ mo. + dep. Ref’s. Call for appt. 287-7746 or 828-429-4857 Ellenboro (3) 3BR Homes $695/$850.

Rfdtn 1 & 2BR Apts. $350/$400. Spindale 1, 2 & 3BR Apts. $375/$560. Rentals Unlimited 245-7400

Mobile Homes

Work Wanted

For Rent

Experienced Nanny w/excellent references will be available after June 15. Please call between 7-9PM or on the weekend.

447-7296

2BR/2BA on private lot in Sandy Mush area. Central h/a, appliances furnished. $525/mo. + $525 dep.

References required.

Call 248-1681 2 & 3 Bedrooms in Chase area. No pets!

References required!

Call 429-6691

Land For Sale 20+/-ac., livable farm house, mixture of wooded, pasture, tillable bottom land.

Country living, close to everything. Call 429-0081 or 289-8507 or 704-481-0548

Work Wanted We will do what you can’t do!

Windows, grass, gutters.

Any yard work!

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For Rutherford Co. residence only we will now accept drivers w/ 1 yr. exp. or 9 mo. exp.

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Call Truck Service at 828-245-1637 ext.

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2010 — 5B FOREST CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY Is accepting applications for 3 bedroom apartments RENT IS BASED ON INCOME Applications will be accepted every Tuesday 8-10:30 AM and 12:30-3:30 PM Forest City Housing Authority 147 E Spruce Street, Forest City, NC Bring social security cards and birth certificates for all members of the household. Proof of income if receiving Social Security or Social Security Supplement, and print out of Unemployment will be required.

Forest City Housing Authority is an equal housing opportunity provider and does not discriminate based on race, color, creed, sex, national origin, familial status or any other protected classification.

Help Wanted Physical Therapist Full time St. Luke’s Outpatient Rehab, Mon.-Fri. Day shift, 1 year experience or new grad. Sign-on bonus available, NC Licensure as a PT, CPR Certification, Out Patient Orthopedic case load. Physical Therapist: PRN position for weekends, 1 year experience, NC Licensure as a PT, CPR Certification.

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CALL TODAY STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 122 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Ricky Jason Houser to MTNBK, LTD, Trustee (Stephen C. Wilkie, Substitute Trustee,) dated June 17, 2005 and recorded in Book 845 at Page 367 in the Rutherford County, North Carolina Registry, the undersigned Substitute Trustee declares as follows: There is a default by the Owner or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Deed of Trust, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; and the undersigned as Substitute Trustee, 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 Owner and 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 or other usual and customary location as designated by the Clerk's Office on June 7, 2010, at 1:30 p.m., and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described real property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit: EXHIBIT A The land referred to in this policy is located in Rutherford County, State of North Carolina and is described as follows.

TRACT ONE: SITUATE, Lying and being in Camp Creek Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being a portion of that property conveyed by Deeds recorded In Deed Book 120 at Page 285.and Deed Book 209 at Page 118, Rutherford County Registry, and being described from survey entitled "James Bright Company, Inc. dated December 9, 1999, by Professional Surveying Services, Nathan Odom, PLS, as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the centerline of State Road #1502, said State Road also known as Pine Tree Road, said point being the Northeastern most corner of the property now or formerly owned by Ruth Carson as described and recorded in Deed Book 521 at Page 637, Rutherford County Registry; thence leaving the centerline of said State Road and running along and with the line of Carson North 34 degrees. 54 minutes 29 seconds West 16.12 feet to a new iron pin: thence continuing with the line of Carson North 34 degrees 54 minutes 29 seconds West 214.39 feet to a new iron pin; thence continuing with the line of Carson South 39 degrees 56 minutes 32 seconds West 214.50 feet to a new iron pin in the line of the property of Ruth Carson as described and recorded in Deed Book 497 at Page 93, Rutherford County Registry thence leaving the line of Carson Deed Book 521 and running along end with the line of Deed Book 497 North 34 degrees 55 minutes 33 seconds West 88,32 feet to a point; thence a new line North 37 degrees 16 minutes 54 seconds East 794.84 feet to a point; thence another new line South 47 degrees 17 minutes 55 seconds East 323.40 feet to a point in the centerline of State Road #1502: thence running along and with the centerline of said State Road the following six (6) calls: South 32 degrees 04 minutes 59 seconds West 79.79 feet to a point; thence South 35 degrees 40 minutes 25 seconds West 30.53 feet to a point; thence South 35 degrees 42 minutes 30 seconds West 105.50 feet to a point: thence South 38 degrees 54 minutes 58 seconds West 305.30 feet to point; thence South 39 degrees 38 minutes 24 seconds West 105.87 feet to a point; thence South 39 degrees 38 minutes 29 seconds West 62.6S feet to the point and place of BEGINNING, containing 5.00 acres more or less.

SAVING AND EXCEPTING FROM CONVEYANCES OF RECORD.

TRACT

ONE ABOVE

THE

FOLLOWING

2. That Deed dated December 14, 2004, from Ricky Jason Houser to Audrey Walters and of record in Deed Book 861 at Page 187, Rutherford County Registry and being known as Lot 1.

TRACT TWO: Situate lying and being High Shoals Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being all of Lot #3 of the Howard Lee Phillips Estate property as shown on plat duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Caroline, In Plat Book 11 at Page 8, to which reference is hereby made for a more full and complete description.

SAVING AND EXEMPTING FROM TRACT TWO ABOVE THE FOLLOWING OUT: CONVEYANCES OF RECORD: That Deed dated July 20, 2004, from Ricky Jason Houser to Allan C. Sidell, Sr. and wife, and containing approximately .069 acres of record in Deed Book 850 at Page 593, Rutherford County Registry.

ALSO SAVING AND EXCEPTING FROM TRACT TWO ABOVE THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTY: Situate, lying and being in High Shoals Township. Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being a portion of that property conveyed by Deed recorded in Deed Book 797 at Page 581, Rutherford County Registry, and being known as all of Lot Number 24 of the CREEKSIDE SUBDlVISION as shown on plat duly recorded In the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, in Plat Book 11 at Page 08, to which reference is hereby made for a more full and completed description, and said Lot Number 24 containing approximately .805 acres, more or less.

ALSO less and excepting any lots previously released by the Lender, Carolina First Bank.

To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owners of the property are Ricky Jason Houser (the Estate or heirs of Ricky Jason Houser).

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of forty-five cents (45¢) per one hundred dollars ($100.00), up to a maximum of $500.00. A cash deposit (cashier's check or certified funds, 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. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all of the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. Should the foreclosure action be dismissed or any portion have to be redone for any reason, the bid deposit will be returned to the third party bidder and no other remedies will be able to be asserted. The third party bidder acts upon their own risk if they expend any funds in favor of the foreclosed property prior to the receipt of a deed from the Substitute Trustee.

Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. There are no representations of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, and encumbrances of record.

Additional notice where the real property is residential with less than 15 rental units: 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 day written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of the rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termination period.

_________________________________ Stephen C. Wilkie, Substitute Trustee 285 East Allen Street Hendersonville, NC 28792

CDL CLASS A DRIVER Due to increased business Truck Service Inc. has immediate openings for Local/Shift drivers. Home daily.

Guaranteed weekly pay. Drivers must have 2 years recent verifiable experience.

Call 245-1637 ext. 125 Qualified Mental Health Professional for MST team in Rutherford Co. Provide 24/7 coverage. Human Service degree and 2 years experience with adolescents and families. Masters preferred. Salary $41,000 or above.

Contact HomeCare Management Corporation at 828-247-1700 or www.homecaremgmt. org for application

ADVERTISE

Help Wanted Clean up wooded area. Need truck and saw. Call 828-429-8982 Wanted: Experienced gutter man only.

Part time, good pay.

828-625-2820

For Sale Sweet Potato Plants Tennessee Red Taking orders now, $12.00 per hundred Call Billy Wells 245-0248 GO KART FOR SALE Murray 6.5 HP Good cond.! $550 Call 828-243-5513

Want To Buy

Pets

I PAY CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $10 per 100 ct. Call Bob 828-577-4197

Free to good home Adorable fuzzy kittens, litter box trained, healthy, all colors.

Call 245-1871

WILL BUY YOUR JUNK Cars & Trucks Pick up at your convenience!

Call 223-0277 Pets 6 ENGLISH MASTIFFS FOR SALE 7 weeks old $300 ea.

287-8088 or 289-0390 Free to a good home Adorable puppies approx. 8-10 wks. old Call 657-4300

Moving Sale Table & 6 chairs, brown dresser, loveseat, office furniture, entertainment center Call 248-2324

Free to a good home Mountain Feist/mix puppy 6+ months old, female. Please call (828) 453-8763

Find what you are looking for in the Classifieds!!

Free to good home Male Jack Russell Chihuahua mix. Great watch dog, friendly, great w/kids. 245-1871

Lost F Yorkie Black & tan w/silver on her head.

Lost 5/18 from Old Ballpark Rd., Spindale Call 828-748-9417

Found Sm. puppy shepherd mix, solid black.

Approx. 4 mo. old Found 5/22: Ellenboro, Tiney Rd. 289-2735 Dog found near new Rfdtn Elem. School.

Tag says “Sadie Edwards”. Lv. msg. at 287-3780 for return

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NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE 10-SP-172 UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by James M. Morrow, Jr. and Lynda T. Morrow, dated the 4th day of March, 2008, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, in Book 998 at Page 385 and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale in the County Courthouse of Rutherford County, in the city of Rutherfordton, North Carolina, at 11:00 A.M. on the 2nd day of June, 2010, all that certain parcel of land, more particularly described as follows: IMPROVEMENTS: House and lot/Condominium/or Lot LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Situate, lying and being in Union Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being Lot Number Seventeen (17) of the Lawson Allen Subdivision as shown on map by Clyde Sorrels and being part of that property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 349, Page 255, Rutherford County Registry, and lying on the North side of Sunset Drive and being described by metes and bounds as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pin, said iron pin being the Northwest corner of Lot Number Seventeen (17) and in the common line of R. B. McBrayer and being located South 88-3/4 degrees East 331 feet, South 89-1/2 degrees East 54 feet from an iron pin being the original Northwest corner of the Lawson Allen tract; and running thence with the common line of Lot Sixteen (16) South 4 degrees West 236 feet to an iron pin in the Northern edge of Sunset Drive; thence with the Northern margin of Sunset Drive South 87 degrees East 100 feet to an iron pin common corner of Lot Eighteen (18); thence running with the common line of Lot Eighteen (18) North 4 degrees East 237 feet to an iron pin same being in McBrayer's line and being the Northeast corner of Lot Seventeen (17); thence with McBrayer's line North 89-1/2 degrees West 100 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING. THIS conveyance is subject to the following restrictions: 1. No mobile home or trailer shall be allowed on said property.

Being the same and identical property conveyed to James M. Morrow, Jr., and wife, Lynda T. Morrow, by a deed recorded in Deed Book 382 at Page 405, Rutherford County Registry.

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1. That Deed dated August 30, 2004, from Ricky Jason Houser to Bobby Lee Kisner and of record in Deed Book 853 at Page 475, Rutherford County Registry, and being known as Lot 6.

Date: 04-16-2010

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ADDITIONAL POSSIBLE STREET ADDRESS FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY: 180 Sunset Drive, Rutherfordton, NC 28139 Notice & Disclaimer: The listed street address may be incorrect and is stated hereby for informational and reference purposes only. The Substitute Trustee makes no certifications or warranties that said street address is accurate or correct. It is each potential bidder's duty to determine with his/her own title examination that said street address is correct and matches the above legal description. The above legal description describes the property being sold and shall be controlling.

PRESENT RECORD OWNERS as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds not more than 10 days prior to posting the notice are James M. Morrow, Jr. and Lynda T. Morrow Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

In the event that this sale is one of residential real property with less than 15 rental units, an order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to NCGS §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. That 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.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of forty-five (45) cents per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308 (a)(1). This sale is also subject to any applicable county and/or state land transfer and/or revenue tax, and the successful third party bidder shall be required to make payment for such tax. 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 Instrument, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, encumbrances of record, including prior Deeds of Trust.

The Substitute Trustee reserves the right to require a cash deposit or certified check made payable to the Substitute Trustee (no personal checks) for five percent (5%) of the purchase price or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, at the time of the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all remaining amounts are due immediately. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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 the 12th day of May, 2010.

The Caudle Law Firm, P.A., Substitute Trustee By: David R. Caudle President & Attorney at Law State Bar Number 6075 2101 Rexford Road, Suite 165W Charlotte, North Carolina 28211 http://www.caudlelawfirm.com

6B â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2010 NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE 10-SP-166 UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Lula Southell Wood, dated the 21st day of December, 2006, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, in Book 934 at Page 872 and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale in the County Courthouse of Rutherford County, in the city of Rutherfordton, North Carolina, at 11:00 A.M. on the 2nd day of June, 2010, all that certain parcel of land, more particularly described as follows:

The Daily Courier office will be closed on Monday, May 31st in observance of Memorial Day Classified Advertising deadline for new ads, cancellations and changes to existing ads for the Tuesday, June 1st edition are as follows:

LINE ADS: Deadline is Friday, May 28th at 2:00 PM

DISPLAY ADS: Deadline is Thursday, May 27th at 2:00 PM

IMPROVEMENTS: House and lot/Condominium/or Lot LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Being a part of the land described in a Deed recorded in Deed Book 129, at page 519 Rutherford County Registry: Beginning at a stake in the Old Harris Road in the Robbins (now R. F. McNair) and Tate line, thence with said line North 87 degrees West 295 feet to a stake, thence South 14 degrees East 150 feet to a stake thence South 87 degrees East 295 feet to a stake in the Harris Road, thence with the road, North 14 degrees West 150 feet to the beginning, containing 1 acres, more or less.

ADDITIONAL POSSIBLE STREET ADDRESS FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY: 180 Jack McKinney Road, Forest City, NC 28043 Notice & Disclaimer: The listed street address may be incorrect and is stated hereby for informational and reference purposes only. The Substitute Trustee makes no certifications or warranties that said street address is accurate or correct. It is each potential bidder's duty to determine with his/her own title examination that said street address is correct and matches the above legal description. The above legal description describes the property being sold and shall be controlling.

PRESENT RECORD OWNERS as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds not more than 10 days prior to posting the notice are Lula Southell Wood and Spouse, if any Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

In the event that this sale is one of residential real property with less than 15 rental units, an order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to NCGS §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. That 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.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of forty-five (45) cents per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308 (a)(1). This sale is also subject to any applicable county and/or state land transfer and/or revenue tax, and the successful third party bidder shall be required to make payment for such tax. 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 Instrument, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, encumbrances of record, including prior Deeds of Trust.

The Substitute Trustee reserves the right to require a cash deposit or certified check made payable to the Substitute Trustee (no personal checks) for five percent (5%) of the purchase price or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, at the time of the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all remaining amounts are due immediately. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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 the 12th day of May, 2010.

DISPLAY AD DEADLINE for the Wednesday, June 2nd edition will be Friday, May 28th by 2:00 PM

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Rutherford County Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on Monday, June 7, 2010 at 6:00 pm at the Rutherford County Office Building, 289 North Main Street, Rutherfordton, NC. The purpose of this hearing will be to request public input regarding a grant application being submitted to the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) which has been made available through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and is administered by the Office of Justice Programs (OJP). The grant application is in the amount of $18,640 to purchase public safety equipment. The grant requires no local match.

All interested persons are invited and encouraged to attend this hearing and express their views.

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Notice to Creditors Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Phillip Weldon Payne, of Rutherford County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms, and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 26th day of August, 2010, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms, and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 26th day of May, 2010.

Pamela Bunch 189 Vickers St. Forest City, NC 28043 John B. Crotts, Attorney 215 North Main Street Rutherfordton, NC 28139

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CLASSIFIEDS! NORTH CAROLINA RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE REMOVAL OF APPROXIMATELY EIGHT GRAVES FROM AN UNNAMED FAMILY PLOT CEMETERY LOCATED ON PROPERTY NOW OWNED BY STONECUTTER MILLS CORPORATION, LOCATED IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, STATE PROJECT/WBS NO. 34400.2.2, PARCEL NO. 034, I.D. NO. R-2233AA.

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NOTICE Notice is hereby given to the known and unknown relatives of those persons buried in approximately eight graves in an unnamed family plot cemetery located on property now owned by Stonecutter Mills Corporation, and located in Rutherford County, North Carolina, found within the right of way of State Project/WBS No. 34400.2.2, Parcel No. 034, I.D. No. R-2233AA; that said unnamed family plot cemetery does not have a commonly known name and is located approximately 1,650 feet north of the Broad River, at or near Survey Station 112+50, Survey Line-L, on U.S. 221 in Forest City, in Rutherford County, North Carolina; that the names of the deceased persons to be moved are unknown; that the Department of Transportation has not been able to ascertain the closest next of kin or the only known relative for the said deceased persons; that the approximate eight graves to be moved will be relocated and re-interred to a site to be determined; that a complete record of where the eight subject graves of the unknown deceased persons will be re-interred will be on file with the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina.

You are further notified that there are approximately eight graves found within the unnamed family plot cemetery which are being moved and the Department of Transportation will be responsible for all reasonable expenses pertaining under the provisions of North Carolina General Statute §65-13 and that the removal will begin after this notice has been published once a week for four consecutive weeks over a period of thirty (30) days in The Daily Courier newspaper in Forest City, North Carolina.

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FOREST CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chase High Academic Awards were presented May 20 at Chase High to sophomores, juniors and seniors. Principal Greg Lovelace and Asst. Principal Richard Millwood, presented awards. Selection committee members were Amy Bright, Vicky Beard, Lynette Dover, Beth Becker, Kim Ingle and Don King.

Green, Holden Shane Hall, Anissa Joy Hames, Randi Brooke Hamrick, Lukas Wayne Hines, Jessica Leighann Jones, Stephanie Breanne Lane, Jessica Dawn Lewis, Chelsea Leigh Martinez, Brittaney Ciara McKinney, Mollee Myers McKinney, Tajae Shamon McMullens, Katlynn Paige Millette, Claire Daly Millwood, Taylor Stephanie Moore, Jarrett Graham Padgett, Angelo Josâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Emeritus Parks, Jessica Megan Pennington, Maci Nicole Poteat, Monica Brooke Poteat, Ryan Douglas Price, Ashley Grace Roach, Trenton Cole Robbins, Christian Blake Sheldon, Emily Elizabeth Sisk, Christopher Daryl Snyder, Matthew Dylan Tate, Sylvia Marie Tate, Rebekah Layne Tomblin, Alyssa Brooke Toney, Taylor Nicole Trotter, Matthew Tyler Watson, Kathryn Blair White.

11th Grade â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Marah Elizabeth Alexander, Jared Michael Allen, Rebecca Danielle Bailey, Bobbi Sheyanne Blanton, Caitlin Macmurry Bridges, Kacey Elizabeth Brown, Shawn Robert Campbell, Caroline Ellen Cordell, Haley Nicole Dimsdale, Taylan Jade Doherty, Breanna Raye Edney, Robert Bright Elliott, Keri Elizabeth Flowe, Tyler

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Chivous Bradley, Rutherford County Historian and former Chase teacher and county commissioners addressed the award recipients.

10th Grade â&#x20AC;&#x201D; James Robert Alexander, Lisa Michelle Atkins, Bridgette Nico Brainard, Adam Jeffrey Brigman, Anna Elizabeth Bross, Timothy Michael Brown, Casey Austin Buckner, Brent Edwards Butler, Leah Suzanne Byers, Shannah Lucia Campo, Samantha Lynn Carpenter, Amber Lynn Conner, Gabriel Aaron Deese, Michaela Nicole Dills, Alan Kent Dyer, Amber Danielle Dysart, Erica Lindsey Epley, Richard Tucker Ficklin, Douglas Blake Francis, Jamie Leanne Gosey, Heather Ashton

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Smith, Amaris Snyder, Aaron St. Clair, Jennifer Street, Justin Templeton, Brett Thompson, Jamilah Toms, Kelli Turner, Stevie Turner, Leslie Uy, Devyn Walke, Chasity Whitesides, Shaquille Wilkins,

Garrett Williams, Drema Wilson, Jacob Yant.

Sunshine Elementary School

The fifth six weeks honor roll at Sunshine Elementary School has been announced by Neil Higgins, principal.

Those students named

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Chase High School academic award winners are shown following the May 20 program at the high school

Jamel Gaffney, Valentin Aleman Galvan, Tyler Paige Gamble, Victoria Elizabeth Helton, Ashlie Nichole Hudson, Austin Don Ingle, Kyle Jared Jackson, Autumn Lanee Jessie, Kayla Michele Johnson, Caroline Beth Jolley, Raul Daniel Luna, Tiffany Nicole Malcolm, Caroline Blaire Matheny, Samantha Jean Melton, Matthew Dillon Melton, Gerald Luvon Miller, Michael Blake Moffitt, Taylor Anne Morrow, Evan Harris Morse, Blakeney Dale Oliver, Courtney Taylor Parris, Jenna Rae

Price, Kasey Brooke Price, Adrienne Danielle Reavis, Kaitlynn Nicole Reid, Christian Louis Robinson, Kristin Dawn Rohm, Sarah Beth Sams, Ashley Marie Silvers, Jalen Maurice Smith, Austin Caleb Tessnear, Heather Lynn Tessnear, Aubree Alanah Yelton, Emma Rose Zarriello.

12th Grade â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Adrianna Michelle Arrowood, Lauren Elizabeth Benfield, Macey Christina Bright, Dana Letriece Calhoun, Tiquah Dominque Carter, John Adam Cooper, Aden Corinne

Crump, Euletha Shanice Davis, Tyler Andrew Davis, Katelyn Anne Deviney, Jamie Lee Dysart, Suzanne Bostic Earley, Margaret Ann Elliott, Brittany Michelle Enriquez, Francisco Gerado Fabian Sixtos, Kathryn Elizabeth Farley, Shanice Francene Goode, Lindsay Alexa Gowan, Aaron Spencer Hunt, Haley Virginia Hunt, Kristin Elaine Hutchins, Kandice Dian Jones, Courtney Danielle Keeter, Zane Carlisle Kingery, Erika Nichole Lamb, Mackenzie Lynn McCraw, Meredith

Isabella Millwood, Maria Estella Moon, Katherine Lee Murray, Estefania Mancilla Navarro, Allison Raines Nicholson, Yanessa Lee Ortiz, Dewayne Allen Pratt, Wesley David Roach, Danielle Leighann Rose, Lauren Jane Sappenfield, James Andrew Scroggs, Andrew Charles Scruggs, Jessica Kayla Short, Jessey Raeanne Spake, Michael Trent Steadman, Laura Noel Tomblin, Amelia Brooke Upton, Branden Edward Walker, Brian Thomas Woods.

to the list are:

3rd grade Laine Bailey, Travis Beaty, Ashley Birchfield, Chris Carpenter, Heather Golden, Kally Green, Addie Harris, Cailin Herman, Storm Johnson, Trent Matheny, Kamryn McDonald, Caitlin Melton, Hunter Robinson, C..J Sturgeon, Christian Walker, Ashlyn

Westbrook, Cheyenne Yelton, Ariana YoungHolycross.

4th grade Melynda Bowen, Lauren Davis, Ethan Grayson, Hayden Hamrick, Preston Helton, Molly Higgins, Skyler Hoyle, Billy Hurdt, Trent Johnston, Clayton Padgett, Garrett Padgett, Jacob Penson, Heather Putman, Tanner

Thomas, Katy Walker, Colin Watts, Grayson Wright.

5th grade Richie Bink, Jaden Bostic, Amy Collins, Jeremiah Earls, Amtillah Ghaleb, Brooke Greene, Laney Kelley, Angela Sayre, Samantha Steed, Renee Sturgeon, Emma Toney, Cassidy Upton, Mason Walker, Nicholas Workman.

A Honor Roll 3rd Grade Hannah Epley, Rachel Hollifield, J.T Waters.

4th Grade Will Mann, Michael Mull, David Westbrook.

5th Grade Adam Barnette, Brandon Biggerstaff, Sydney Williams.

B Honor Roll

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