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County’s jobless rate down slightly By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Rutherford County’s unemployment rate for May was 14.8 percent, a decrease of 0.4 from April. The county joined 85 others across the state that saw a decrease in jobless numbers for May. The news comes on the heels of a new

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report from the Employment Security Commission saying 4,000 jobs could be available across the state in the next month to 45 days. “We did a survey at the end of May contacting as many employers as we could and checking to see if they were looking to hire anyone locally soon,” said Sandra Miller, ESC Manager in Forest City. “During the two weeks we were surveying

we did 164 contacts in both Rutherford and Polk County. We came up with five job orders but we hope that will lead to more in the future. Several of them did indicate they probably would be hiring this summer.” Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rick Please see Jobless, Page 2A

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Zula Hopper

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Larry (left) and Kyle Clark were two of about 20 volunteers that helped clean-up a section of the Rails to Trails project near The Water Oak restaurant Saturday. The group was prepping the location for the Fall visit of the Overmountain Men on the Overmountain Victory Trail. See story, Page 2A.

SPINDALE — Commissioners will hold a public hearing for their 2010-11 budget as part of their regularly scheduled June meeting Monday at 5 p.m. at the Spindale House. The town is facing a $250,000 shortfall in the budget, but has come up with a plan. Members came to a consensus to use a combination of sewer consumption rate increases, property tax rate increases and a new garbage collection fee to help make up the difference. For the average family, the sewer consumption fee will increase from $3.80 per 1,000 gallons to $4.75 per 1,000 gallons. For the average family this would mean an increase of about $1.90 per month. A new garbage pick-up fee will be put in place that charges $8 per month for residential customers and $12 per month for non-residential customers. There would also be a $0.04 increase in the property tax rate making the average homeowner in Spindale pay about $20 more per year for a home with an approximate value of $50,000. Also at the meeting, commissioners will review the animal control ordinance that has been discussed for the last few months, and hear a report on downtown parking and the situation with overcrowded lots. Parking on the street near Munchie Town Bakery has caused several business owners to request assigned spaces. Police Chief Andy Greenway has been investigating and will inform board members of his findings. Town council members will discuss a possible joint meeting with the planning board and get a follow-up report from Beverly Please see Spindale, Page 6A

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Mary Kimbrell worked 41 years in the Alexander Mill.

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FOREST CITY — Mary Kimbrell remembers the day a wooden shuttle came out of a loom and struck her as she worked in the Alexander Mill plant. Kimbrell, now 89, also recalls how the incident painfully punctuated her 41 years as a textile mill worker. “They would fly out sometimes,” she said of the shuttle. “Sometimes when you put them on, you didn’t have the shuttle hardly far enough back.” “Broke two ribs; liked to knocked me out,” Kimbrell recalled. She also recalled that having broken bones didn’t necessarily mean she could go home. “They took me to the doctor and brought me back,” she said. “No lost work. But I didn’t work; I just sat up there and watched them. But I had to be in the plant. “If you had an accident, you couldn’t

have an accident. And I worked with two broken ribs, and I still haven’t figured that out. They gave me help, but I stayed in there.” She gradually resumed a normal workload as the injury healed. Kimbrell, who began work in the mid-’40s, spent her work life at what was the Alexander Manufacturing Co., which was founded in 1918 by Jacob F. Alexander and J.R. Moore. In her time there, Alexander Mill was an Erlanger Mills Corp. plant for 20 years and a Fieldcrest Mills plant until it closed in the mid-’80s, she said. Erlanger’s sale to Fieldcrest Mills became effective June 27, 1964. Newspaper reports indicate the acquisition of four Erlanger plants nearly doubled Fieldcrest’s production of sheeting. “My first job was filling batteries in the weave shop,” she said. “There’s a maga Please see Mill, Page 11A

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Volunteers work to keep Overmountain Trail clear By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer

Kathleen Decker pitched in to clean-up limbs, litter and debris from a section of the Rails to Trails project near The Water Oak restaurant Saturday. About 20 volunteers worked for around two hours. Scott Baughman/ Daily Courier

RUTHERFORDTON — About 20 volunteers labored for two hours Saturday morning to clean up a section of the Rails to Trails project near The Water Oak restaurant. The effort included members of the Overmountain Victory Trail Association, Sons of the American Revolution and the Rutherford Outdoor Coalition. “We’re seeing a very diverse group of individuals come and pitch in,” said volunteer - and former county commissioner Chivous Bradley. “It’s good to see everyone getting involved like this.” The group cleaned an area of about 1.2 miles, between The Water Oak and U.S. 64. Lunch was provided and the effort was sanctioned by the Overmountain Victory Trail Association. Funding for the event came from a grant from the National Park Service issued to the national organization of the Overmountain Victory Trail Association. “I’m a hiker myself and so I came to clean up today because I thought I might meet some like-minded people,” said

Kathleen Decker, as she hoisted a few loose limbs out of the main trail thoroughfare. “It is pretty hot today, but I wanted to make sure that since I may use the trail I should help with the upkeep. Besides, it is not too bad in the shade.” Decker was able to meet plenty of kindred spirts in nature, including father and son Larry and Kyle Clark. “We like to use the Rails to Trails,” said Larry. “We’ve lived here since 1992 and basically we’ve used these trails ever since they opened. They’re a nice thing so we should do our best to keep them that way, I think.” Organizer Jerry Stensland, cultural, recreation and heritage planner for the county, said the event showed cooperation was key in efforts to clean up areas of the county. “There were representatives here from the Homeschool Association as well as the OVTA, Sons of the American Revolution and ROC,” Stensland added. “It was a good turnout for such a warm day.” Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@ thedigitalcourier.com.

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Austin said he saw the decrease as a small sign of recovery, but small businesses in the region were having to lay people off. “We as the chamber are putting a lot of initiatives together to help people start their own businesses,” Austin said. “Economic recovery comes from small business and not from large ones and we have to take care of ourselves now. We’re having the SCORE office here at the chamber to help people learn how to do their own businesses and hosting workshops on how to weather the storm and save money. People don’t understand but when you’re in business if you can save one dollar on the bottom line that is ten dollars less you have to generate.” Regionally, Miller said Shaw Construction was still hiring for the Cliffside Steam Station project and River Textile Services is taking applications for their hourly positions. “Many temp agencies are listing with us again so hopefully that is a sign that things are picking up a bit,” Miller added. Austin said the key to recovery was growing small businesses, and the chamber was looking at forming a credit union to help more small businesses get the capital they need to start. “Unfortunately many of the rural folks here aren’t credit-worthy not because they are a credit risk but because they mainly haven’t had credit before,” Austin said. “We are also a net deposit county where our deposits outnumber our loans in this county with our banks. That means our money is going to places like Charlotte and Asheville. This is about getting people just a little bit of capital to buy that one piece of equipment. What will help our rate go down more is to get these small businesses off the ground and as we get more we’ll be in an upward spiral. Every new business that starts adds money back to the economy. It is the opposite of what has been happening.”

Bar Association taps Brinkley as president- elect WILMINGTON (AP) — A Raleigh attorney has been tapped to lead the North Carolina Bar by Claire Daigle Association. The StarNews of WilmBuyer Sentiment ington reports that Although the real-estate Martin H. Brinkley was market has faced some named president-elect challenging times, a recent during the group’s annusurvey of American buyers Forest Cityindicates Daily Courier_Ruth Co People_1.833inx3in that most believe al meeting Saturday in the worst is behind us. AcWilmington. cording to a poll conducted The 44-year-old in early spring by Fannie Brinkley is a partner Mae (the largest U.S. mortgage finance company), at Smith, Anderson, nearly two-thirds of AmeriBlount, Dorsett, Mitchcans think the time to purell & Jernigan practicing chase a home is upon us. This majority sentiment, corporate and commerwhich was shared by 64% cial law. He is the firms of those polled, is slightly fourth partner to serve less than the 66% who as president of the state said much the same thing in 2003, when the housing bar association. market was pushing toward Brinkley has a bachhigher prices. Of course, elor’s degree in clasthis positive sentiment may sics from Harvard have to be tempered with the future possibility of University and a law more home foreclosures, degree from UNC. but there is no arguing with the psychology that drives markets. If you are thinking about buying property, think about ODEAN KEEVER & ASSOCIATES. You will benefit from our real estate knowledge and experience. We have successfully assisted many buyers to achieve their real estate goals, and can do so as well for you. Contact us today at (828) 286-1311. We will arrange an initial meeting. The office is conveniently located at 140 U.S. Highway 64, Rutherfordton, We’re here for you! HINT: There is a realization on the part of many that mortgage rates have nowhere to go but up, which is another incentive to buy.

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Carolina Notes Calif. man drowns while beach kayaking HOLDEN BEACH (AP) — A California man has drowned while kayaking at a North Carolina beach. Multiple media outlets report that 55-year-old Raymond Joseph Dracker of San Rafael, Calif., was kayaking with his family at Holden Beach on Friday morning.

Libertarian candidate Dr. Michael Beitler, from left, Republican incumbent Richard Burr and Democratic candidate Elaine Marshall participate in a forum sponsored by the North Carolina Bar Association at the association’s annual meeting at the Hilton Wilmington Riverside in Wilmington Saturday,

Man charged with killing neighbor SMITHFIELD (AP) — A North Carolina man has been charged with murder in the death of his 74-year-old neighbor. Multiple media outlets reported Saturday that 34-year-old Matthew Hagert Salentine of Smithfield has been charged with burglary, armed robbery and murder. Police say Salentine killed Patricia Stevens inside her home,.

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Economic stands draw distinctions WILMINGTON (AP) — North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and Democratic challenger Elaine Marshall quickly diverged from each other Saturday on how the government should handle the nation’s economy and debt. In a joint appearance coming just days after Marshall won her party’s nomination, Burr repeatedly highlighted the nation’s $13 trillion debt that’s expected to continue growing. He warned that the United States could soon be compared to countries like Greece that are buckling under the weight of their obligations. “The answer is: Let’s stop spending,” Burr said. He acknowledged after the event that Republicans have been part of the problem. He voted several times for Bush administration budgets that drastically increased the debt. Marshall, however, said cuts alone wouldn’t save the country’s economy. “We’ve got to make appropriate investments — the same thing you would do to make your business more profitable,” Marshall said. “You can’t cut your way into huge profitability.” Libertarian Party nominee Michael Beitler said the Democrats and Republicans have both contributed to

the nation’s debt problems. The forum hosted by the North Carolina Bar Association showed voters distinct messages among the candidates at a time when Americans are grappling with questions about the role of government and regulation following an economic collapse and an ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Marshall pointed to stronger regulation, saying the mentality on Capitol Hill has been that Wall Street will heal itself and that market forces will take care of things. She said that regulators need more funding, and that businesses have had too cozy of a relationship with the government officials that oversee them. “We’ve seen what happens when capitalism takes over,” said Marshall, a regulator herself as North Carolina’s secretary of state. Burr said government shouldn’t be playing a bigger role with a stronger hand but should focus on regulating the products that were overlooked — such as the complex derivatives blamed in the nation’s economic collapse — and to make sure the existing regulators are doing their jobs. “I fear that we’re headed down a path that will be too overburdensome, too duplicative, it will raise the cost of

credit, will choke the credit for small business and for individual loans,” Burr said. They had similar differences on offshore oil drilling. Marshall said lawmakers like Burr had allowed deepwater drilling despite the “disastrous” risks that are now apparent. The well gushing into the Gulf is a deepwater well. Marshall said she opposes drilling off North Carolina’s coast. Burr said oil companies had been forced to go into the riskier territory because they were “chased” away from land drilling and shallow water drilling. He said officials need to ensure that deepwater drilling is safe before quickly allowing it to continue.

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President Barack Obama’s administration had imposed a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, but a federal judge struck it down. The government is appealing that decision. But ending such drilling entirely, Burr said, would lead to economic disaster. “You’ll have no economic growth,” he said. “You’ll have no job expansion. You’ll have a contraction like you’ve never dreamed of.”

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue says she’s tired of the problems that have plagued the Highway Patrol. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Saturday that Perdue says she’s angry and frustrated by the recent spate of trooper resignations. Perdue’s comments came in the wake of several resignations. On Friday, Master Trooper Timothy Scott Stiwinter of Hendersonville resigned after he was arrested on charges of drunken driving and felony hit and run. Longtime Patrol spokesman Maj. Everett Clendenin resigned Wednesday during an investigation into charges of sending inappropriate text messages to a female co-worker. Two other troopers left the force earlier this year amidst allegations of drunken driving and criminal misconduct during a traffic stop.

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Our Views Prosperity may require exploring

he business world has proven itself adept at finding unique ways of using language to express ideas and concepts and creating catch phrases or “buzz words” that filter into general use. Most of these quickly become cliche with overuse. One such catch phrase, while overused, does convey clearly a message and an image that should resonate with people now. “We need to think outside the box.” That sentence contains a visual image applicable to our current conditions. The image of a box, a container that holds things, clearly brings to mind a vision. Inside the box we will always see the same things, always carry out the same actions and always get the same results. Outside the box is a whole new environment; one not explored and one that might bring new opportunity. What we have seen repeatedly is that choosing the security of the box, choosing to do as we have always done and accepting self-imposed limitations, will not bring prosperity. The great movements that have fueled progress and prosperity in America have come when people left the security of the box and stepped into the unknown. We have reached one of those pivotal moments again, a point in time where people must choose whether to hunker down in a worn out box or go exploring. Given that we know intimately the problems inside our box, this should be an easy choice to make.

Early college schools are working RALEIGH – From their own accounts, kids drop out of school for many different reasons. Besides the obvious – poverty and lack of educational attainment by parents – surveys show that most dropouts cite a lack of motivation and a lack of expectations. Roughly 30 percent of North Carolina teens leave school without ever graduating. In 2009, North Carolina reported a graduation rate of 71.7 percent. That number was better than in previous years, but the graduation rate really hasn’t changed a whole lot during the last couple of decades. The needle hasn’t moved despite hundreds of millions of dollars poured into early childhood education and efforts to hold schools more accountable for academic achievement. Short of mandating that 17and 18-year olds attend school – which really wouldn’t accomplish much except putting uninterested kids in classroom seats – no one solution will ever solve the dropout problem. Still, pouring over those student surveys or talking to kids and teachers, it becomes obvious that many at-risk students simply fail to see the relevance of classroom instruction to their economic futures. They fail to connect the dots between education and job.

Today in North Carolina Scott Mooneyham

Earlier this decade, though, North Carolina began an effort that’s providing some needed relevance. Legislation passed in 2003, along with a boost from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, helped local school systems establish what are called early college high schools. The schools, most of them operated on community college campuses, allow students to earn a four-year high school degree and a two-year associates or technical degree in five years, all of them tuition free. The schools focus on careerrelated areas of specialty and are aimed at first-generation college hopefuls. Besides earning associate degrees at community colleges, some students take those college credits and head to fouryear colleges. Today, 70 of the schools operate in the state. The 15 schools that have existed long enough to have a four-year cohort of graduates report a graduation rate of 91.7 percent. “Early college prepares you for the real world,” Drew Benbow,

a Buncombe County student enrolled in one of the schools, recently told a legislative committee. Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, who while in the state Senate sponsored the 2003 bill that began the schools, said the students who enroll are looking for the motivation that a real-world, job-focused education provides. “They eat it up,” he said. “They see a relevance to an early college.” The relevance comes, in part, by partnering with industry. An early college in Wake County partners with Wake Medical Center, with students gaining exposure to health care-related jobs. Dalton also heads something called the Joining Our Businesses and Schools, or JOBS, Commission, which is promoting more of the partnerships with business. State Sen. A.B. Swindell, a Nash County Democrat, is pushing legislation to encourage the development of more of the schools. The 70 schools may just be a start, but they’re accomplishing something that traditional middle and high schools have struggled with. They’re connecting the dots. Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Association.

Some will have the spiritual eyes to truly see There is the story of an elderly grandmother who often had visits from her loving family. Every time they went to see her she was always dusting her furniture. Not wanting to offend, the family enjoyed the visit but hoped that grandma would put away the dust rag and enjoy more of the time they had together. Finally they asked her why she dusted so much. She replied that she could never seem to get the furniture clean. Lovingly, the daughter asked to see grandma’s glasses. A close look at the glasses revealed something of a surprise: the glasses were dusty and not the furniture. This story may or may not be true but a truth is found here. It is imperative that we see life as it truly is. We cannot afford to be deceived because as someone once said,” deception is very deceiving.” Jesus said it this way, “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.” In other words, spiritual cleanliness is crucial to how we see God and if we see God. It is possible to see Him through the Spirit. I purchased a book by the Rev. James Jordan, a former pastor, titled, Through New Eyes several years ago. It basically deals with the idea that after we are born again, we see life in a different way. The Word of God

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takes on a new life for us. We see life, creation, God, our fellow man in different ways. We also see sin and evil for what it is because, as our grandma, the lens of our soul has been cleansed. The Scriptures call it regeneration. Our spirit comes alive in Christ and the washing of regeneration cleanses us from our unrighteousness. God’s glory is seen in creation as the Apostle Paul tells us in Romans 1. We are to have a balanced view in what and how we see. To constantly view the world as negative will inevitably lead to depression. To have an overly optimistic view will lead to apathy and slothfulness. We need to have the same spirit as Joshua and Caleb. We read about them in Numbers 13. Moses and the Hebrews are preparing to enter into Canaan. Moses assembled 12 spies to go into the land to see what they would have to face. They were instructed to “see what the land is like; whether the people who dwell in it are strong or

weak, few or many; whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds; whether the land is rich or poor, whether there are forests there or not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land,” Numbers 13: 18-20. The 12 spies went into the land and did as they were told. We are told they were there for 40 days, 40 being a number meaning trial or testing. It was imperative they see the land, the inhabitants of the land, the lay of the land, the people of the land and exactly what was there. The initial lesson for us is that leaders, whether in a spiritual sense or political sense, are to be looking ahead. We are moving into places we have never been before. It is called the future. Leadership and success require looking ahead, but first looking to God. And this is where many are concerned. Man is looking ahead but he often fails to look to God first. Moses had seen God in a fashion, been to the top of Sinai to receive the commandments and he had remarked to God that he would lead the people if God would go before him. Oh, if this would be the cry of all our hearts today. The 12 would go into the land, spy it out, and bring back grapes, pomegranates

and figs. These are prominent fruits that have significance in the later life of Israel. The 12 brought back a detailed report. What is interesting is that 10 saw the issues one way and Joshua and Caleb saw it another. The 12 agreed that the land was resplendent with vineyards, fruit and it was a land “flowing with milk and honey “a place of abundance and provision. What is revealing is that 12 all saw the same things but Joshua and Caleb saw them through new eyes. 10 of the 12 saw defeat and were pessimistic. Ten of the 12 said, “We are not able to go up against the people for they are stronger than we.” Verse 32 says they gave the people a “bad report.” They remarked that the land was filled with giants, and it is land that devours its inhabitants. This “bad report” caused great alarm in the camp and led to a revolt. But while 10 saw doom and gloom, Joshua and Caleb said, “let us take possession; We are able to overcome it.” Twelve entered the land and saw the same things, yet they saw them in different ways. These 12 spies all saw the land and its people the same way. They all saw the fortresses, strongholds and the weapons and abilities of war. But what was different was how they saw all these

things. Christians can be as Joshua and Caleb and see life and the future as a place to be entered into. We move ahead, expanding the Kingdom of God. We are called to go into the world, to baptize and make disciples of all nations. This is the greatest of commissions, this is our destiny. Where the 10 saw defeat because of doubt, Joshua and Caleb saw victory by faith in God. Note how and what you see. The blindness of a man’s heart will cause him to fall into the ditch. This is applicable to people or nations. The blind cannot lead the blind as Jesus said. Jesus Christ, our heavenly Moses had stood face to face with His Pharaoh in Lucifer and said.” Let my people go!” Redemption has been won and we press ahead into the Land of Promise. The lens of our soul has been cleansed and stays clear and focused through the Word of God. The spirit of Joshua and Caleb are still alive in God’s people. There are giants in the land, just like Goliath, that will be brought down in the name of the Lord of Hosts. The promises of God lie before us. Let us heed the Word, see with new eyes and possess the Land of Promise. The Rev. Lankford is pastor of St. Luke’s Church. He can be contacted at 286-8078 or revjlankford@ gmail.com.

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HEAT WAVE CONTINUES

Zula Hopper

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Kyle Grauer, 12, cools off during Elon Soccer Camp at Elon University in North Carolina Thursday. With temperatures rising into the mid to upper 90s across most of North Carolina, heat indexes were over the century mark in some locations this week. The same weather pattern is expected to linger in the state until the early part of next week when a slight cool down is forecast.

Carolinas Today Democrats wrap up budget negotiations RALEIGH (AP) — House and Senate negotiators have tentatively agreed on a final budget deal that would eliminate a long-debated tuition subsidy for out-of-state athletes at University of North Carolina system schools. Democratic leaders for the two sides reached the agreement Saturday afternoon. The spending plan for the new fiscal year starting July 1 is slated to be voted upon Tuesday and Wednesday. Gov. Beverly Perdue will be asked to sign the measure. The plan would repeal a waiver that treats out-ofstate students on athletic scholarships like in-state students. It reduced the costs athletic booster clubs paid for the scholarships but cost taxpayers more than $9 million. Senate leader Marc Basnight said he agreed the tuition break should end given the state’s tough financial times.

Heat is blamed for death in S.C. SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A 32-year-old man from Connecticut has died after he became overheated while working for a moving company in South Carolina. Multiple media outlets report that Jonathan

LaPointe of Meriden, Conn., died after having a heart attack and passing out Thursday in Summerville. LaPointe was pronounced dead at around 2:30 p.m. at a hospital. Authorities were still waiting for autopsy results. In nearby Charleston, Melanie Thornhill was charged with unlawful conduct toward a child after police say she left her 2-month-old son in the back seat of her car while she shopped. Authorities say the boy was unharmed, and it was not immediately clear if Thornhill had an attorney.

Searchers find body of missing toddler COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities have found the body of a 2-year-old girl who went missing at a South Carolina river. Multiple media outlets report that searchers found Natalie Hasty around 11:30 a.m. Saturday several miles downstream from where she had gone missing. It wasn’t immediately clear how Natalie died or whether her body was found in the river or on land. Natalie was last seen around 3:30 p.m. Friday afternoon in the Wateree River. Authorities say the girl from Lugoff was swimming on the river bank near the

Police Notes Sheriff’s Reports n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 147 E-911 calls Friday.

Rutherfordton n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 33 E-911 calls Friday.

Spindale n The Spindale Police Department responded to 17 E-911 Friday.

Lake Lure n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to 17 E-911 calls Friday.

Forest City n The Forest City Police Department responded to 55 E-911 calls Friday.

Arrests n Eric Jermaine Hunter, 50, of 260 Pennsylvania St.; charged with probation violation; placed under a $5,000 bond. (RCSD) n Lloyd Jorie Jefferies, 47, of 251 Old Castle Ln.; charged with obtaining property under false pretenses; placed under a $10,000 bond. (RCSD)

n Samantha Kelly Stamper, 32, of 186 Elms Dr.; charged with two counts of attempting to obtain a controlled substance by forgery or fraud, obtaining a controlled substance by forgery or fraud and trafficking opium or heroine; released on a $20,000 bond. (FCPD) n Brent William Cook, 23, of 2165 U.S. 64-74A; charged with false reporting to a police station; placed under a $5,000 bond. (RCSD) n Brian Leonard Talarico, 50, of 351 Old U.S. 74; charged with domestic violence protection order violation; released after 48 hours. (RCSD) n Angela Marie Owens, 48, of 351 Old U.S. 74; charged with domestic violence protection order violation; released after 48 hours. (RCSD) n Andrea Cheryl Miller, 42, of 419 Seitz Dr.; charged with communicating threats, resisting a public officer and assault on a government official; placed under a $5,000 bond. (RCSD) n Nick Patrick Ruff, 56, of Fernwood Drive; charged with driving while impaired, reckless driving to endangerment and two counts of simple possession of a sched-

boat dock with relatives. Natalie’s grandmother says a dogfight distracted the family for just a minute, but Natalie was gone when she turned around. Sumter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis says it’s too early to tell if any family members will be charged.

Man sentenced to 20 years for fraud CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a $7 million Ponzi scheme. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports that a judge on Friday sentenced Derrick Peninger to 20 years in prison. In October, a jury found Peninger guilty of mail fraud and lying to an FBI agent. Authorities say he impersonated a woman and told investors he owned land in Kansas that contained natural gas.

Zula Rollins Hopper, 88, of Rutherfordton, died Saturday, June 26, 2010, at Oakland Living Center in Rutherfordton. She was the daughter of the late Hardy Rollins and the late Alice Bridges Rollins and the widow of the late James Britt Hopper. She was a member of the Holly Springs Baptist Church and native of Rutherford County. She is survived by three sons, Ted Stanley Hopper and Ronald Britt Hopper of Harris, and Douglas Alfred Hopper of Shiloh; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday at Holly Springs Baptist Church. A funeral service will be held at Holly Springs Baptist Church at 2 p.m., Tuesday with the Rev. Wade Huntley and the Rev. Handley Milby officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Memorials may be made to WWOL Radio, 1381 West Main St. Forest City, N.C. 28043. McMahan’s Funeral Home and Cremation Services is assisting the Hopper Family.

Mia Angel Greene Mia Angel Ledford Greene, 29, of Caroleen, died Saturday, June 26, 2010 at the Carolinas Medical

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital Friday after experiencing discomfort, the latest health scare for the 69-yearold Republican leader who has a long history of heart disease.

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n The Rutherford County EMS responded to 27 E-911 calls Friday. n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to 20 E-911 calls Friday.

Fire calls n Bostic firefighters responded to a vehicle accident. n Ellenboro firefighters responded to an industrial fire alarm. n Rutherfordton firefighters responded to a vehicle accident. n Shingle Hollow firefighters responded to a brush fire. n Sandy Mush firefighters responded to a brush fire.

J.D. Weeks J.D. Weeks, 75, of Bostic, NC, died, Saturday, June 26, 2010 at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Arrangements are pending and will be announced by Harrelson Funeral Home.

Deaths Bill Hudson Bill Hudson, an Associated Press photographer whose searing images of the civil rights era documented police brutality and galvanized the public died, Thursday, June 24, in Florida. Hudson was 77. Fred Anderson Chicago jazz club owner and saxophonist Fred Anderson has died. Anderson, whose Chicago club is known as one of the cradles of contemporary jazz, was 81. His sons, Eugene and Michael Anderson, said their father died Thursday, June 24. Prescott Bush Prescott Bush, the brother of former President George H.W. Bush, died Wednesday, June 23, in Hingham, Mass. He was 87.

Former VP Cheney hospitalized in D.C.

Cheney was expected to remain at George Washington University Hospital over the weekend, said spokesman Peter Long. It was not immediately clear whether Cheney’s health concern was related to Peninger failed to appear at his previous heart troubles. his original sentencing hear- He sustained his last heart ing in April, an absence that attack, deemed a mild one, in February. touched off a 10-day hunt Cheney was not feeling for him before police tracked well on Friday and went to him to a business park near see his doctors at George Charleston. Washington University. On Peninger is set to serve his sentence at the same Raleigh, their advice, he was admitted to the hospital for further N.C., federal prison that testing. houses disgraced financier Cheney’s heart attack earBernard Madoff and former lier this year was his fifth Charleston Southern econosince age 37. mist Al Parish. A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart muscle is blocked. In that episode in February, Cheney underwent a stress test and a heart catheterization. ule two controlled substance; placed under a $2,000 bond. Long said he had no other (FCPD) details about Cheney’s condin Sharon Michelle Street, tion. 39, of 198 Prince St.; charged A face of his party for with communicating threats; decades, Cheney has placed under a $1,000 bond. remained a prominent voice (RCSD) of opposition to the Obama n Ricky Gene Henson, 53, administration. His pubof 619 Scrugg Rd.; charged with assault by pointing a gun. (RCSD)

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Vivian C. Freeman Vivian C. Freeman, 87, of Warrenton, VA died on June 21, 2010 at the Fauquier Hospital. She was born on January 4, 1923 in Hickory, NC a daughter of the late Lawrence Stewart Cloer and Minnie Adeline Watson Cloer. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert J. Freeman and a grandson, Alan Freeman. Mrs. Freeman was a retired nurse for C & P Telephone Company and was a member of Warrenton United Methodist Church. She is survived by two sons, John Michael “Mike” Freeman of Warrenton and Robert David “Dave” Freeman of The Villages, FL; one brother, Dave Cloer, Richmond, VA; two grandchildren, Kevin Freeman of Philomont, VA and Karen Rawls, Chesapeake, VA; and two great grandchildren, Tyler Munley and Kyleigh Rawls. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, June 30 at 2:00 PM at Crowe’s Mortuary, Rutherfordton, NC. Interment in the Mountain View Baptist Church Cemetery, Rutherfordton. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Shenandoah National Park Trust, 414 E. Market Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902. Online condolences may be made at: www.moserfuneralhome.com. Paid obit.

6A — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, June 27, 2010

Calendar/Local

FC will consider mill work contract From staff reports

Ongoing Camp Harmony: Monday through Friday, through July 2, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Callison Recreation Center; volunteers need to sign up on June 21 at 8:45 a.m.

Sunday, June 27 Artists reception: 2 to 4 p.m., Rutherford County Library; featuring Dru Bouffard, Pam Peter and Lin Venhuizen of the Rutherford County Visual Artists Guild.

Monday, June 28 Classical Conversations Information Meeting: 7 a.m., Cornerstone Fellowship Church, Hudlow Rd. Free for any families in homeschooling or learning more about CC. For more information, please contact Jennifer Naskov 2888058. Health and wellness class: “Nutrition and immune boosting,” 6:30 p.m., HEAL Marketplace; $10 fee to cover materials; to register, call 287-8787. Rutherford County Commission special meeting: 6:30 p.m., County annex building. Democrat Club meeting: 7 p.m., at the headquarters on West Main Street, Forest City.

Tuesday, June 29 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 information.

Wednesday, June 30 Children’s summer reading program: Every Wednesday, 9 a.m., through Aug. 4, Union Mills Learning Center; for preschool and early readers as well as older children; poetry reading and storytelling will be featured as well; each week will feature a different subject and guest; everyone in attendance will receive at least one free book. Buy one, get one free sale: Through Saturday, Yokefellow Service Center; buy any clothing item, get one of equal or lesser value free, floor restocked daily; store hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; cash, credit and debit only.

Thursday, July 1 Washburn Community Outreach Center: Open Thursday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., last week of porch sale for $2 per bag; new center hours begin July 1 – Thursday and Friday, noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Friday, July 2 Hot dog sale to benefit Relay for Life: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., on the sidewalk at The Hair Castle in Forest City; hot dogs, chips, lemonade and desserts for sale. Relay for Life team registration deadline: 5 p.m.; register online at www.relayforlife.org/rutherfordnc. Anyone wishing to have an official 2010 Relay for Life participant shirt must be registered; there will be no additional shirts this year for purchase. 912/Tea Party Group Meeting: 7 p.m., NC Cooperative Extension. For more information visit rutherford912.org.

Saturday, July 3 Kids’ Computer Corner: Every Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon, Union Mills Learning Center; free to the publich and geared twoard children preschool through third grade who may not have access to a computer or the Internet at home; educational software and adult-supervised access to the Internet. Big Day in Ellenboro: Saturday, July 3, beginning at 9 a.m.; free entertainment for children – bouncy house, face painting, basketball shooting gallery, balloon art, sliding boards, swings; parade begins at the old school grounds at 9:15 a.m.; food, crafts, music, “pitch burst,” cake walk, Depot Museum, car show and more.

Monday, July 5 Chase Athletic Booster meeting: 6:30 p.m., Chase office conference room. Storewide half-price sale: Through Saturday, Yokefellow Service Center; store hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; cash, credit and debit only. The Rutherford County Landfill and all convenience centers will be closed today for the July Fourth holiday and will reopen for regular hours on Tuesday.

FOREST CITY — Commissioners will consider awarding a bid for a project at the Florence Mill site during their meeting Monday. The project will consist of grading operations to remove the concrete pad near one of the buildings, removal of the existing asphalt and a portion of the existing concrete retaining wall to place fill and slop the site for future maintenance operations and the installation of concrete sidewalk and landscaping. The work is being funded in part by a grant from the North Carolina Department of Transportation roadway enhancement project. Low bidder on the project is Patton Construction Group Inc., of Fletcher, at $126,690. The other bids were by Land of the Sun Inc, doing business as Fletcher Grading Contractors, at $151,485, and Allison Landscaping, at $227,400. No Rutherford County contractors bid on the project. McGill Associates, the town’s engineering firm, is recommending the bid be awarded to Patton Construction, the low bidder. M. Keith Webb, vice president of McGill, also is recommending that the town “approve an amended budget for the project of $150,000 to include the cost of the contract plus a

contingency fund for possible changes to the project due to unforeseen subsurface items and technical services during the construction phase.” Among major components of the Patton bid are $35,000 for grading and $26,480 for demolition. Florence Mill is a former textile mill site being redeveloped by the town. In other business, the board will consider a petition for annexation into the town’s corporate limits. Petroleum World Inc., along U.S. 221A South, is requesting annexation into the town. The property is contiguous to Forest City. If town leaders are interested in pursuing the annexation, they will adopt a resolution directing the town clerk to investigate the sufficiency of a petition for voluntary annexation. If the town council is not interested in the annexation, it need not proceed with the matter. Commissioners also will look at two grant opportunities. One is for an N.C. Main Street energy grant of up to $250,000 for Main Street businesses. Danielle Withrow, town planner, has written a letter to commissioners stating that the major building that fits the guidelines for the program is the Fireside Books renovation of the former Romina Theater. She adds that the architect for the project thinks heating, ventilation and air conditioning and retrofitting

the lights will cost a minimum of $125,000. The other grant opportunity is from the One North Carolina Fund. That grant would be for upgrading the internal electric service at Wilbert Plastic Services to bring the operation up to code and to have the power necessary to bring additional production to the plant. In other business, commissioners will: n look at the Greenwood Street drainage issue. n receive a letter from Tommy Hicks in regard to property he owns at 164 E. Main St. Hicks is asking the council to consider purchasing the site as a more accessible meeting location for the board. Commissioners currently meet upstairs at Town Hall. n have a presentation to Brian Blanton, turf superintendent, Parks and Recreation. The board also plans to go into closed session to consult with the town’s attorney, David Lloyd, regarding settlement of a claim and economic development incentives. The board meets at 6 p.m. in the council chambers upstairs at Town Hall. Forest City commissioners normally meet the first and third Mondays of the month. This meeting on the fourth Monday will take the place of the June 21 and July 5 meetings.

County will resume budget debate By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — County commissioners will resume budget discussions in a special meeting Monday at 6 p.m. at the County Annex. This meeting will be the final vote on the fiscal year 2010-11 budget. With June 30 marking the end of the current fiscal year, commissioners face a looming deadline. The proposed budget of $54,962,612 is down about $1.9 million from the 2009-10 original budget, or about 3.4 percent. Monday’s meeting will force a decision from commissioners on whether or not to increase property taxes. Two large properties in the county are expected to significantly drop in value during next year’s revaluation. But even before that, both properties — Grey Rock and Queen’s Gap — owe the county large amounts of back taxes. Grey Rock owes the county $781,556 in property taxes from fiscal years 2008-09 and 2009-10. For fiscal year 2010-11 they will owe $386,308. Queen’s Gap will owe $140,556. County staff has informed commissioners they may have to consider raising the property tax rate in order to achieve the same level of income as many other properties in the county are also expected to drop in value.

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Kalinowski on the 2010 Goat Festival. In new business, the board members will look at a resolution on an application for an N.C. Rural Center grant for a long-range wastewater system capital improvement plan. The project would consist of the development of a long term capital improvement plan for the wastewater system including: n gravity collection system n force mains n seven pumping stations

With the difficult recommendations that I have made to this point, I was expecting more comments at the public hearing from those who will be affected by these reductions. I take that to be a realization that most folks are aware that we are attempting to work with less funds while still trying to maintain as many services as possible. — John Condrey County Manager

“The budget was originally presented on May 3,” County Manager John Condrey said. “Since then we have held budget workshops on May 17 and 24, followed by the Public Hearing on June 7. Obviously the FY 2010-11 budget presents challenges with recommended reductions to the schools, college, health department, county employees benefits, the building fund and additional days of unpaid furlough for county employees.” In his presentations, Condrey recommended to the commissioners several reductions, including three

n wastewater treatment plant Tim Bennett has requested board members consider waiving the sewer availability fee for the home he owns at 119 Alabama St. The house has been condemned and has had all plumbing and electrical wiring removed. In his request, Bennett informed board members he plans to burn down the structure, clean up the debris on the lot and then put the lot up for sale. Commissioner Tommy Hardin’s seat on the Broad River Water Authority is up for reappointment and commis-

days of furlough for county employees and a reduction in 401k benefits. He also recommended a reduction for the county schools, Isothermal Community College and the health department, as well as an appropriation of $733,174 from the fund balance. It is expected that only a portion of the fund balance appropriation — about $133,174 — will actually be spent due to conservative revenue estimates and anticipated unspent appropriations. The fund balance would equal about 20 percent of operating expenses after that amount is spent. At the public hearing June 7, county officials took only a few comments regarding the budget in general, with other statements directed toward specific building plans, such as the proposed Community Pet Center at the future Daniel Road Complex. “With the difficult recommendations that I have made to this point, I was expecting more comments at the public hearing from those who will be affected by these reductions,” Condrey said. “I take that to be a realization that most folks are aware that we are attempting to work with less funds while still trying to maintain as many services as possible.” Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@thedigitalcourier.com.

sioners will have to make an appointment to the zoning board after Scott Walker resigned. “When it comes to cleaning up Spindale, we are seeing some improvements,” Walker wrote in his resignation letter. “However, when it comes to important issues like the Habitat for Humanity project or the bus garage, town officials are more worried about keeping their seats at the next election than they are in moving forward.” Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@thedigitalcourier.com.

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Business Notes

Financial overhaul affects consumer

Apple Scores Again

Forest City SONIC drive-in crew one of top 300 in the nation

FOREST CITY — The Forest’s City SONIC Drive-In crew has moved one step closer to qualifying for the National Finals of the 17th annual Dr Pepper SONIC Games in Las Vegas. The annual competition recognizes the best SONIC DriveIns in the country, a news release said, and the Forest City store is one of 300 remaining drive-ins striving to become one of the Final 12 teams to participate in the national competition in October. “These crew members should be proud of their hard work and dedication through the last six months to advance to the top 10 percent of all SONIC’s in the nation,” Barbara Williams, vice president of performance analysis for the restaurant, said in a statement. The nine-month competition of Olympic-style games tests SONIC crew members’ knowledge in the categories of carhop, fountain, food preparation and service and delivery. The Top 300 teams will take part in audits as the pool narrows to 48 locations in July. Those 48 drive-ins will compete in traveling knowledge bowls until the list is slimmed to the final 12 drive-ins, the release said.

Labor chief blasts GOP on benefits

DENVER (AP) — Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says Senate Republicans could be extending the recession by opposing a spending bill that would have extended unemployment benefits. Solis said Friday that the Republican opposition “could take us back to a deeper recession.” Solis was addressing a national gathering of Latino officials in Denver. Solis said the end of unemployment benefits for more than 200,000 people a week would be “devastating.” Republican opposition to the Democratic jobs bill stymied efforts to again extend unemployment benefits. The GOP objects to its cost.

Pay-what-you-wish eateries to expand

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — As the first crowd of customers filed into Panera Co.’s nonprofit restaurant here, only the honor system kept them from taking all the food they wanted for free. Ronald Shaich, Panera’s chairman, admitted as he watched them line up that he had no idea if his experiment would work. The idea for Panera’s first nonprofit restaurant was to open an eatery where people paid what they could. The richer could pay full price — or extra. The poorer could get a cheap or even free meal. A month later, the verdict is in: It turns out people are basically good. Panera, which operates 1,400 franchised and corporateowned bakery-cafes across the country, plans to expand the nonprofit model around the nation, opening two more locations within months. “I guess I would say it’s performing better than we even might have hoped in our cynical moments, and it’s living up to our best sense of humanity,” Shaich said in an interview. Its cashiers tell customers their orders’ “suggested” price based on the menu. About 60 to 70 percent pay in full, Shaich said. About 15 percent leave a little more and another 15 percent pay less, or nothing at all. A handful have left big donations, like $20 for a cup of coffee.

NEW YORK (AP) — The financial overhaul is about more than exotic derivatives and complex risk assessments. It will change how you interact with the financial system every day, from swiping your debit card at the store to applying for a mortgage. That includes new rules governing how we bank, borrow and invest, plus the creation of a new regulator to make sure financial transactions like signing up for a credit card are safer and easier to understand. The legislation does not go as far as some would have liked. Auto dealers, who make most car loans, won’t face oversight by the new consumer bureau. Nor will banks with less than $10 billion in assets, even though they serve most communities in this country. Associated Press

David Hill, from Burleson, Texas, purchased three Apple iPhone 4’s, at the Apple Store in University Village in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday. Apple Inc.’s newest iPhone was selling briskly Thursday as thousands lined up outside stores around the world to become among the first to own the device amid concerns of supply shortages.

Some jobless in N.C. create their own jobs An AP Member Exchange By JUDY ROYAL StarNews of Wilmington

WILMINGTON — What do you do when you’re unemployed in a recession, when most companies are laying off, not hiring? The answer, for some, is to create their own work by becoming entrepreneurs. “Historically there is an increase in entrepreneurial activity as a result of recessions because as job prospects become limited and unemployment rises, individuals — whether by choice to follow a dream or necessity to earn a living — delve into starting a business,” said Jonathan Rowe, director of the Entrepreneurship Center at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Southeastern North Carolina has its fair share of those aspiring to become self-employed.

Jody Carmichael never hesitated about what she’d do next when she lost her job at Ethan Allen in February 2009. “The first thing I did was I said, ‘I’m going to open my cupcake shop,’?” she said. “I went to my friend’s house and celebrated.” Carmichael had worked at Wilmington’s Ethan Allen store for four years before going to Myrtle Beach in 2007 to help open a new 18,000-squarefoot store there. Within five months she was the manager, and soon she barely recognized the job she had loved. “I was already looking for something because I was so unhappy where I was,” Carmichael said. “Cupcakes have been on the back burner for 10 years. That’s always been what I really wanted to do but not something where I was brave Please see Jobless, Page 8A

Here’s a piece-by-piece guide to the new rules.

Consumer protection A new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to be housed in the Federal Reserve but run independently, will have the power to write consumer protection rules for banks and other financial institutions, like mortgage lenders. It will also examine and enforce regulations already in place at mortgage lenders and banks that hold more than $10 billion in assets. The bureau will have the power to ban financial products that it considers unsafe. It could also outlaw anything that might be confusing to consumers, like the fine print on credit cards or mortgages. In theory, it could also block credit-card companies from charging especially high interest rates. The idea is to bring consumer regulation under one roof, rather than spreading it out among seven different agencies. “It’s hard to be an expert on economics and consumer protection at the same time,” says Jeffrey Sovern, a law professor at St. John’s University and an expert on consumer law. Please see Law, Page 8A

NEW BUSINESS

Dollar Mart, located at 225 W. Main St. in Spindale, opened for business May 22. Owned by Randall and Marybeth Aebersold, the store carries some groceries, bath, kitchen, office and school supplies, a selection of party supplies that includes more than 100 mylar balloons, Coke products and Nestle ice cream and clothing items. Prices for items range between just under $1 to a few dollars. The store is open Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., and can be contacted by phone at 375-MART (6278). The business also has a website, www.dollarmart.net Allison Flynn/Daily Courier

8A — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, June 27, 2010

Business/finance

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enough to leave what I thought was a secure job.” She spent the better part of 2009 researching the idea and looking for the perfect space. On Jan. 1, almost a year later, she opened Hot Pink Cake Stand at 114 N. Front St. in downtown Wilmington. Now Carmichael’s making 15-20 dozen cupcakes in at least 14 flavors per day, as well as about five custom cakes per week for all occasions and themes some as unusual as a flounder or a helicopter. Hot Pink Cake Stand also sells the products of Old Wilmington Tea Co. and Carolina Coffee Co., both locally owned. The bake shop is already getting some attention from outside the area. It had been open less than three months, when the Food Network called to ask Carmichael to apply for its new “Cupcake Wars” reality show. While she has no formal training, baking has been a passion for most of Carmichael’s life. “I’ve always enjoyed being in the kitchen,” she said. “I like entertaining, cooking or baking for people. Even when I was in high school and I had people over, I would be baking cookies from scratch.” The first few months involved many 90-hour workweeks, financing hurdles and lots of other challenges, but Carmichael — whom you almost never see without a beaming smile on her face — took them all in stride. “I try to look at the positive side of everything, and from the time that I lost my job I thought it was the best thing that ever happened,” she said. “I was ready for the next thing. It’s definitely worth it. Not easy, but worth it.” Billy Hobbs had been thinking about getting out of his hectic job at the U.S. Marine boat plant in Navassa when news of the facility’s closing surfaced in late 2008. In six years he’d worked his

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sewing studio that redesigns and recycles clothing, in March 2009. Some of her creations come to life simply by the addition of a button here, a piece of fabric there. Others involve a more extensive overhaul. The business’ story began five months earlier when, as a result of mounting cutbacks, Odell left her job of 12 years at Brunswick Community College. She taught general educational development and adult high school classes in Southport. “I applied for jobs, but the economy was starting to wane,” she said. “I knew that trying to get a job would be fruitless, so I asked myself, ‘What do you like?’ The answer was clothes. I realized that with a little imagination I could turn old into new.” Odell spends most of her days in her sewing studio, which is actually a garage brimming with piles of clothing, some used and some snatched up at clearance prices. With the soothing sounds of country music and Floyd, her Quaker parrot, to keep her company, she turns jeans into a skirt, an oversized shirt into a swim cover-up anything she can come up with to breathe new life into a perfectly wearable piece of clothing that may have lost its luster. “I have very little trash at Dag’s Rags,” Odell said. “I just feel that we need to be more aware of our environment.” She sells her clothes, which are mostly $20 or less, on her own website and in Oak Island’s Escape Artist Gallery. She’ll also be at the Capeside Artisan Market on June 26 at Hanover Center on Oleander Drive in Wilmington. Odell has aspirations of offering customers the opportunity to custom order, or “build your own clothes,” but for now, she’s still getting her name out. “Sales are slow, but I am confident that it will pick up,” she said. “My husband said, ‘What’s going to happen when this gets so big you can’t handle it,’ and I said, ‘Can you sew?’”

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Unlike some people who lose their jobs without warning, Hobbs had two months to prepare as the boatbuilder was wrapping up operations. But even that didn’t completely erase his looming uncertainty about the future. “Once I realized what was getting ready to happen, it was a complete faith thing,” he said. “I prayed through it a lot with my family and my church group. I had a real good peace about going forward with it.” Ironically, the very economy that caused Hobbs to lose his job has played a part in his own business’ success. Home repair demand is booming because people are unable to sell their homes in the slow market and are choosing instead to upgrade and renovate, he said. “They know in the next few years they may as well live in it and make it nice for now,” Hobbs said. Dagmar Odell quips that she has little time for a lot of the diversions that occupy many people’s free time. “At night while people are playing Farmville, I sew buttons,” she said. Odell started Dag’s Rags, a

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Still, the new bureau will cover only half the bank branches in the nation because of the $10 billion asset requirement, according to data from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a Washington-based consumer group. It also may not be as independent as it seems. If federal banking regulators object to new consumer protection rules, they can appeal to a newly created council made up in part of their fellow banking regulators.

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Say you walk into a gas station and pick up some soda, candy and gum. The total is $11, but there’s a sign at the register saying you can only pay by credit card if the purchase is $20 or more. Under the new legislation, the minimum can be no more than $10, and only the Federal Reserve can raise it. The Federal Reserve will also have the power to limit the fees that card issuers can collect on debitcard transactions. But the rule applies only to big banks, not to credit-card issuers such as Visa and MasterCard. Right now, banks usually charge stores 1 to 2 percent for each swipe — fees that added up to nearly $20 billion last year. Stores and restaurants say lower fees would allow them to cut prices, and to hire more people. But even if prices do fall at the store, banks might raise fees and rates for their customers. They could also scale back “reward” cards or free checking to make up for the money they’re not collecting from stores and restaurants.

Credit scores Right now, it can be maddeningly difficult to figure out your credit score. While you’re entitled to one free credit report a year from each of the three credit reporting agencies under federal law, you almost always have to pay to see your actual score. Under the overhaul rules, any lender that turns down a borrower — whether it’s for a mortgage, a department store credit card or an auto loan — because of his or her credit score has to tell the borrower what that score is, and for free.

Mortgages Remember all those risky mortgages that borrowers got without ever showing proof of income? The ones that blew up and set off the housing crisis? Under the new rules, lenders will have to verify a borrower’s income, credit history and employment status. On top of that, banks will have to hold on to at least 5 percent of the loans they make instead of selling them to investors. The idea is that they’ll take fewer risks when they have skin in the game and aren’t slicing, dicing and selling all their loans. “They don’t care about whether they make bad loans if the risk isn’t theirs,” says Dean Baker, codirector of the Center for Economic Policy and Research. “Now they might have to.” Of course, if the banks are scaling back their risks, that means it could be harder for you to get a mortgage.

Investor protection Regulators will have the authority to require all financial advisers to act in their clients’ best interest. Practically speaking, this means disclosing fees, any disciplinary actions and potential conflicts of interest, such as commissions. Until now, not all brokers who sell stocks, bonds, annuities and other investments have to make such disclosures. They could steer you into mutual funds or college savings plans that pad their firms’ profits or their own commissions, and you might never know. The Securities and Exchange Commission will study the issue for six months to determine whether average investors are sufficiently protected by the rules already in place or whether something stronger is called for.

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Arizona law makes immigration a hot issue BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Arizona’s sweeping new immigration law doesn’t even take effect until next month, but lawmakers in nearly 20 other states are already clamoring to follow in its footsteps. Gubernatorial candidates in Florida and Minnesota are singing the law’s praises, as are some lawmakers in other states far from the Mexico border such as Idaho and Nebraska. But states also are watching legal challenges to the new law, and whether boycotts over it will harm Arizona’s economy. The law, set to take effect July 29, requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they think is in the country illegally. Violators face up to six months in jail and $2,500 in fines, in addition to federal deportation. Lawmakers or candidates in as many as 18 states say they want to push similar measures when their legislative sessions start up again in 2011. Arizona-style legislation may have the best chance of passing in Oklahoma, which in 2007 gave police more power to check the immigration status of people they arrest. Bills similar to the law Arizona’s legislature approved in April have already been introduced in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Minnesota, South Carolina and Michigan, but none will advance this year. Business, agriculture and civil rights groups oppose such legislation, saying legal residents who are Hispanic would be unjustly harassed and that immigration is a federal rather than a state responsibility. Supporters say police will not stop people solely on the basis of skin color and argue that illegal immigrants are draining state coffers by taking jobs, using public services, fueling gang violence and filling prisons. “If the feds won’t do it, states are saying, ’We’re going to have to do it,”’ said Idaho state Sen. Monty Pearce. Pearce’s second cousin is the author of the Arizona law, Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, who like Monty Pearce is a Republican. The debate is putting pressure on Congress and the Obama administration to

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In this file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. With the scrawl of a pen, Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer awakened a dormant — but politically explosive — issue of illegal immigration, sending shock waves across the political spectrum in an election year when both parties had hoped to sidestep the topic.

act. In 2007, when states like Idaho and Kansas were making English their official languages as part of an immigration-related push, then-President George W. Bush failed to persuade even many Republican allies in the U.S. Senate to agree to combine increased border enforcement with a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. President Barack Obama has called Arizona’s law irresponsible, but Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says it helped prompt him to send 1,200 National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexican border, mostly to her state. She and U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., say that’s not enough. McCain, Obama’s onetime presidential rival, says the border needs a force approaching the 6,000 soldiers sent by President Bush until 2008. Obama is asking Congress for $600 million in emergency funds for 1,000 more Border Patrol agents, 160 new federal immigration officers and two unmanned aircraft, but immigration is not at the top of his priorities this year. An Associated Press-GfK poll this month found that 85 percent of people now rank immigration as an important issue, and about half disapprove of how Obama has handled it.

Ariz. Gov.: Illegals are used to smuggle drugs PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday that most illegal immigrants entering Arizona are being used to transport drugs across the border, an assertion that critics slammed as exaggerated and racist. Brewer said the motivation of “a lot” of the illegal immigrants is to enter the United States to look for work, but that drug rings press them into duty as drug “mules.” “I believe today, under the circumstances that we’re facing, that the majority of the illegal trespassers that are coming into the state of Arizona are under the direction and control of organized drug cartels and they are bringing drugs in,” Brewer said. “There’s strong information to us that they come as illegal people wanting to come to work. Then they are accosted and they become subjects of the drug cartel,” she said. Brewer’s office later issued a statement in response to media reports of her comments. It said most human smuggling into Arizona is under the direction of drug cartels, which “are by definition smuggling drugs.”

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In Florida, Arizona’s law is a campaign issue in the GOP gubernatorial primary, with millionaire Rick Scott trumpeting its merits and Attorney General Bill McCollum saying he backs the law but that it’s not needed in his state. Meanwhile, Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, the presumptive Republican nominee, called Arizona’s bill “a wonderful first step.” Even lawmakers in states far from the U.S.-Mexico border say illegal immigration is hurting their constituents. In Idaho, Monty Pearce cites one county that paid more than $100,000 for medical services for an indigent illegal immigrant. Supporters of a citizen initiative in Nevada say they’re motivated by the state budget crisis and record unemployment. In South Carolina, state law enforcement officials say Mexican drug gangs are moving north from Atlanta — a problem expected to intensify given that budget cuts have left fewer resources to go toe-to-toe with armed criminal groups. And in Nebraska, where many Hispanics have found work at meatpacking plants, some blame illegal immigrants for draining community resources. Last week, the town of Fremont

approved a ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants. State Sen. Charlie Janssen of Fremont plans to introduce a bill in 2011 based at least in part on Arizona’s law. He said foes of illegal immigration must gird themselves for a fight from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, which has vowed to sue over Fremont’s measure. “They shout ’racism’ and try to bring down people who are trying to enforce our laws,” said Janssen, a Republican in Nebraska’s officially nonpartisan legislature. “It’s their scare tactic.” William Gheen, president of the North Carolinabased Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, said the more states that sign on, the more likely Congress will be to act. Gheen has led a grassroots campaign to get legislatures to take up Arizona’s bill and believes the topic could become the litmus test in an election year when people are already slamming Washington. “Any candidate that wants to survive the bloodbath that’s approaching this November needs to come out in support” of Arizona’s law, Gheen said. He sends regular e-mail messages urging about 30,000 recipients to contact their legislators to support similar bills.

Notice of Public HeariNg The Town Council of Rutherfordton will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 beginning at 5:30 pm. The meeting will be held at the Town Council Chambers at Town Hall located at 129 North Main Street in Rutherfordton, NC. The purpose of the hearing will be to discuss funds available through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. CDBG funds are usually used for activities such as: housing, infrastructure, and economic development. CDBG funds are provided to the state by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). They are administered at the state level by the NC Department of Commerce through the Division of Community Assistance and the Commerce Finance Center. The Public is invited to attend this meeting. Persons with disabilities who need assistance in order to attend or participate in the meeting should contact Karen Andrews, Town Manager (828-287-3520) at least 24 hours before the meeting, so that appropriate accommodations can be made.

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Gheen claims that at least 18 states may pass Arizona-style reforms, but the National Conference of State Legislature calls this more a “wish list” than a reflection of likely success. In Pennsylvania, for instance, the issue is being pushed mostly by a single lawmaker. There has been little sign that the other three states that border Mexico will follow Arizona’s lead. California, New Mexico and Texas have long-established, politically powerful Hispanic communities, and have seen less illegal immigration than Arizona since the 1990s, when the U.S. government added fences, stadium lights and more agents to the border in California and Texas. Arizona, a state of 6.6 million with an estimated 486,000 illegal immigrants, has been affected by the issue more than other states, said Ann Morse, who heads the National Conference of State Legislature’s Immigrant Policy Project. In three years, U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona arrested nearly 1 million illegal immigrants, about half of all arrests on U.S. borders. More slipped past, fueling a smuggling industry that has been blamed for a steady rise in kidnappings and immigrant safehouses. Vivek Malhotra, advocacy and policy counsel for the ACLU, said she thinks the threat of Arizona-style legislation will continue to be a rallying cry into 2011, but believes many states ultimately won’t follow through for fear of repercussions. City councils in Los Angeles, Sacramento, Calif., and Bloomington, Ind., are among the governments that have boycotted Arizona, refusing to do business with companies based there. Lawmakers in California are considering a plan for their state to follow suit. Also lining up against state-by-state legislation are business and agriculture groups. Brent Olmstead, lobbyist for Idaho’s $2 billion dairy industry, pledged to work to kill Arizona-style reforms in Idaho in 2011 just as he did to block past bills seeking to punish companies that hire illegal workers. “The issue just gets more convoluted,” Olmstead said.

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President Barack Obama celebrated the agreement on the financial overhaul bill this but his victory could be soured if the nation’s employment problems are not soon resolved.

Lack of jobs could sour Obama’s reform victory An AP News Analysis By LIZ SIDOTI AP National Political Writer

WASHINGTON — The sweeping overhaul of the nation’s financial Forest City industry is President Barack Obama’s Kinston Charlotte 95/71 answer to the nation’s outrage over Fayetteville 97/77 96/73 Wall Street bailouts. 99/77 Shown is today’s weather. But come November if more Temperatures are today’s highs Wilmington Americans don’t have jobs, and tonight’s lows. 92/77 Democrats in Congress could very well lose theirs, too. Across Our Nation Today’s National Map That’s clearly not lost on party leaders. Today Monday “This law will send a clear warning: City Hi/Lo Wx Hi/Lo Wx 70s 70s no longer will we allow recklessness L H 70s Atlanta . . . . . . . . .93/73 t 93/72 t on Wall Street to cause joblessness on 70s Baltimore . . . . . . .97/77 s 96/75 t 80s Main Street,” House Speaker Nancy Chicago . . . . . . . .87/69 t 85/65 s 80s 90s Pelosi declared after the House and Detroit . . . . . . . . .88/70 t 83/62 mc 80s Indianapolis . . . .90/71 t 86/62 t Senate reached agreement around 80s H Los Angeles . . . .79/61 s 79/61 s dawn Friday on a measure overhaul90s Miami . . . . . . . . . .89/80 t 89/80 t 100s ing rules overseeing the financial New York . . . . . . .88/75 mc 89/69 t industry. “The legislation will end the Philadelphia . . . .93/72 t 93/70 t Sacramento . . . .100/65 s 95/63 s era of taxpayer-funded bailouts and 90s 90s San Francisco . . .79/56 s 71/55 s too-big-to-fail financial firms, and it Seattle . . . . . . . . .72/58 mc 68/53 mc will be fully paid for, with Wall Street Tampa . . . . . . . . .90/79 t 88/78 t L H footing the bill.” Washington, DC .97/76 s 96/74 t Her carefully worded pitch was by design a nod to populist anger coursing through the electorate. The still-fragile economy and persistently high unemployment are by far the foremost issues on voters’ minds in a tough election year for the party in power. Democrats are on defense while Republicans have enthusiasm on their side four months before the first midterm elections of WASHINGTON (AP) — In the based Center for Strategic and Obama’s presidency. Democrats are murky world of the Internet, how do International Studies. This latest you ever really know who you’re talk- effort, he said, has a better chance of counting on bills like the health care overhaul and the financial regulaing to, who you’re buying from or if succeeding than previous tries, “but tion to help level the playing field. A your bank can actually tell it’s you we need to see how much opposiremake of U.S. energy policy could be when you log in to pay a bill? tion it runs into and whether people next. Amid growing instances of idenwill actually use it even if it gets Nothing short of the Democrats’ tity theft, bank account breaches deployed.” grip on power in Washington is at and sophisticated Internet scams, Ari Schwartz, vice president at stake in November. And the outcome the government is looking for ways the Center for Democracy and to make those transactions in cyberTechnology, said the unfettered open- will shape the remainder of Obama’s first term and, perhaps, his likely space more secure. ness of the Internet is what allowed 2012 re-election race. But officials must tread carefully, as it to grow and prosper but also creA year in the making, the financial efforts to create identity cards, perated security gaps that need to be sonal certificates or other systems of addressed. But any move to improve regulatory legislation couldn’t have come at a better time for the presiidentifiers raise privacy worries and identity systems raises many condent, a gift as he headed to Canada fears of Big Brother tracking its citicerns. for global economic talks with world zens online. “The whole thing is very difficult leaders at the end of a challengIn a draft plan released Friday, the to do and privacy is one of the more ing week. In Canada, Obama called White House laid out an argument difficult pieces of it,” said Schwartz, for more stimulus to keep the world for a yet-undeveloped, voluntary adding that the system has to baleconomy growing but ran into strong identification system and set up a ance efforts to maintain privacy opposition from countries wanting to website to gather input from experts while still finding out enough about put deficit reduction first. and everyday Internet users on how someone to ensure his identity. He fired the Afghanistan comit should be structured. The government, he said, is correct mander who raised doubts about the The website was already getting to try to plan ways to move toward White House national security team. votes, snipes and suggestions Friday better security, rather than letting it A deep-sea robot jostled a cap colafternoon — underscoring the incen- just happen with no coordination. lecting crude oil from BP’s spewing diary nature of any discussion of But cyber security experts also Gulf Coast well. A judge blocked the Internet regulation or formal strucargued that the technologies for administration’s offshore drilling ture. creating such identifiers already “The technology that has brought exist and are already used in differmany benefits to our society and has ent ways by businesses, particularly empowered us to do so much has also banks. empowered those who are driven to “The vision they put forth is already cause harm,” said White House cyber realized and commercially availcoordinator Howard Schmidt in a able,” said Roger Thornton, a cyber MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm blog posting Friday. security expert and chief technology Alex was strengthening fast in the The plan, he said, envisions a future officer for California-based Fortify western Caribbean on Saturday, and in which people would be able to get Software. forecasters said it too soon to say if it a secure identifier — such as a smart He noted that banks already use would hit the massive oil spill in the identity card or a digital certificate sophisticated fingerprinting process- Gulf of Mexico. — from a variety of service providers. es to identify a customer who signs Forecasters at the National Customers could then use the card in. The system knows if a customer is Hurricane Center in Miami said earor identifier to prove who they are as using a different computer and will ly Saturday that the storm has maxithey make their online transactions. often require additional identificamum sustained winds of about 65 “Digital authentication has been tion if that computer has not been mph (100 kph). Hurricane speed is at the holy grail of Internet security used for the banking website before. least 75 mph (120 kph). policy since the early ’90s,” said But many companies don’t bother The weather was deteriorating James Lewis, cyber security expert with the more expensive or complex in Belize, Mexico, and along the and senior fellow at the Washington- identification systems. Yucatan Peninsula, the hurricane This map shows high temperatures, type of precipitation expected and location of frontal systems at noon.

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moratorium. And Republicans again blocked his election-year stimulus jobs bill, a top agenda item for House and Senate Democrats looking to maintain majorities in Congress. The unemployment rate still is hovering around 10 percent. Even though the economy is improving in some places, many people aren’t feeling it because they don’t have jobs. Most people — 72 percent in the latest Associated Press-GfK poll — describe the nation’s economy as poor. Fewer than half approve of how Obama is handling the economy and unemployment. It’s not clear that voters want what the Democrats are selling — particularly the critical middle of the electorate that decides close races and that’s skeptical of Obama’s prescriptions. In praising the financial overhaul bill, Obama sought to strike a delicate balance between the need for free markets and the need for government intervention as he applauded the lawmakers’ latest action. “Our economic growth and prosperity depend on a strong, robust financial sector, and I will continue to do what I can to foster and support a dynamic private sector,” he said. “But we’ve all seen what happens when there’s inadequate oversight and insufficient transparency on Wall Street.” The latest AP-GfK poll shows that people are skeptical about Obama’s financial regulatory overhaul even though they don’t consider him responsible for the recession. An overwhelming majority blamed financial institutions and the federal government in the poll. More than half blamed Bush; a quarter blamed Obama. But only 34 percent said they are confident that the financial regulatory legislation will prevent another meltdown like the one in fall 2008. That poll also shows the public divided over the health care measure passed in March; 45 percent said they support it while 42 percent oppose it. And the stimulus measure Obama won just weeks after taking office remains deeply unpopular. People tend to conflate that $862 billion measure with the extraordinarily unpopular Wall Street bailout that was passed under George W. Bush but that Obama continued — even though the economy stabilized after both were passed. Liz Sidoti has covered national politics for The Associated Press since 2003.

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This photo of workers from Alexander Mill was taken about 1930, according to estimates. The workers are: front row, Moser Wright, Coburn Vess, Will Honeycutt, Dave Newton, Mrs. Neal, Willie Bea Allen, Ruth Whitstine, Vonnie Wright, Ed Cantrell, George Allen, unknown, George Willie Matheny, Wayne Hicks, John Ogle, Claude McMahan, Sam Wood, Ernest Vassey, Rush Bridges, Clyne Davis, George Wright, Clyde Daves; second row, Jim Callahan, Auther Roper, Gilmer Edney, Chuck Roper, unknown, Clyde Randall, “Blackie” Wood?, Charlie Summey, M.G. Allen, Frank Allen, John Edney, Shafter Rollins, Wade Smith(?), Zeb Sisk, D.V. Rollins, Paul Williams, Charlie Mahaffee; third row, unknown, unknown, Paul Hawkins, Zeb Abernathy, Byrdwell Bradley, Forest Dixon, Baxter Padgett, R.M. Queen, Wood Hafford, Everett Dillashaw, Lee Newton, Clyde Holcombe, Croford Lancaster, Luther Honeycutt, Frank Williams, Ed Callahan; back row, Mr. White, unknown, Ed Green, unknown, Doug Matheny, unknown, unknown, “Chink” Marlow, Adam Calton, unknown, John A. Barnes, E.V. Dobbins, Chris Honeycutt, Johnny Johnson.

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zine on the end of a machine, and you put the bobbins in. It held about 24. You had to keep them filled.” The “Cotton Textile Industry Glossary of Terms” says the battery was “a magazine on the loom that holds the full quills, cops, or bobbins of filling yarn, and from which they are inserted into the shuttle by an automatic changing device.” “But I didn’t do that but a year,” Kimbrell said. “I went to weaving, and weaved for 40 years. It was pretty good for a while, but the last five years were really rough. The yarn wasn’t as good, and there would be so many stops. But I made it that last five years. “If something went wrong, you signaled the fixer with a flag,” Kimbrell said. “I didn’t think it was hard to learn to weave. It wasn’t as hard as battery filling was.” The plant made pillowcases and sheets. “They called it factory cloth,” Kimbrell said. Her first pay was “$11-something a week. A dollar was a dollar back then. You could buy a little something with a dollar.” Workers always got a week off at the Fourth of July, she said, and sometimes got a small Christmas bonus. “If you took a week any other time,” she said, “you just lost that week.” Kimbrell remembers supervisors as generally being fair. “If you do your job and do like you’re supposed to,

I went to weaving, and weaved for 40 years. It was pretty good for a while, but the last five years were really rough. The yarn wasn’t as good, and there would be so many stops. But I made it that last five years. — Mary Kimbrel Retired textile worker

they were nice to you,” she said. “But some of those that wanted to lay out, they weren’t too good to them. “My overseer was Lowdermilk. I can’t think what his first name was, but he was a nice person, a good Christian person. Good to work with.” She said the supervisors were considerate of workers. “If you wanted a piece of cloth to make a quilt lining, it made good quilt lining; ask your bossman, and he would give you some,” she said. “I always thought a lot of Stan Summey,” Kimbrell said. “He was over the whole mill for years. Then his son took over after that.” Kimbrell remembers a visit from a state tax agent. “Way back, years ago, people didn’t pay taxes,” she said. “And they came out there one year and called us into the office about that. They charged me $124, I believe. It was over $100. And so I paid them. When I come out Mr. Summey, he was standing on the outside, and he said, ‘Mary, did you have the money to pay that?’ “And I said, ‘Yeah,’ and he said, ‘Well, I was going to help you pay it.’

In addition to the risk of a flying shuttle, Kimbrell said the plant was noisy. “That’s the reason I have these hearing aids now,” she said. Workers were later required to wear hearing protection, but Kimbrell noted the irony. “You had to wear them then. But it didn’t help after you’d lost your hearing. I think the government came in and made them do it.” Eating a meal in the plant was a catch-as-catch can situation. “They gave the battery fillers about 20 minutes,” Kimbrell said. “They could stay off the job that long. Weavers didn’t. If you sat down you had a lot of looms stop. Part of the time I’d sit and part of the time I’d just get up and go on. Most of the days I’d sit down a little bit, if they were running pretty good. If a machine stopped, you had to really work to get it started back up. We ate sandwiches and peanut butter and crackers. As far as taking a meal, we didn’t. “Now the battery fillers could take a meal and sit down and eat it. They could catch up their batteries; they

didn’t run out as fast. There were some who could really fill it.” The mill ran three shifts at one point. “I worked second shift to start with,” she said, “then I went on first. My husband worked on third and first.” Kimbrell was married to Carl Kimbrell, a fixer in the card room. He was also an alderman for the town of Alexander Mills from 1969 to 1978. Kimbrell Lane, near the former mill, is named in honor of Carl Kimbrell. Alexander Mills was once an incorporated municipality; it is now part of Forest City. Textile work was in the family for Mary Kimbrell’ “Two of my sisters worked at Stonecutter,” she said. “My brother worked at Stonecutter, too.” Kimbrell still lives near the old plant site. “This old mill house is home to me,” she said. She has lived there for more than 60 years. “They sold off the mill houses,” Kimbrell said. “We were renting it and just bought it. Rent wasn’t much. So much a room. You didn’t pay much. Most everybody bought the houses they were in.” Kimbrell was not at the plant when it closed. “I was going to work ’til it closed,” she said. “I was going on a tour, and it wasn’t going to close until July, and I knew I would have time to get back. I was on that tour when it closed. I didn’t get to be out there to march out with the rest of them.” Before she became a mill

worker, Kimbrell and her husband tried their hands at farming. “First we farmed for five years,” she said. “He was working in the mill and farming some, too. It was hard, but if you made a living you had to work back then. Corn and cotton. Hard on your back. The last year that we farmed, Carl got a job, and he didn’t get to help much. I had to do most of it. I got the cotton picked and hoed, too.”

Kimbrell, who had attended Sunshine High School, got married and quit school after the 10th grade. “It was just 11 back then,” she said. “My husband wanted me to go on and finish, but I didn’t think I needed more education. I wished I had after a while.” Kimbrell recalled something that was a reflection of her pre-mill life. “When I was growing up, until I went to work out there, everybody called me Mary Lizzie. My name was Mary Elizabeth, and I hated that Lizzie,” Kimbrell said. “So my bossman started calling me Mary, and everybody I know from work calls me Mary. If anybody calls me Mary Lizzie, I know it has been a long, long time.” Mill work was hard, Kimbrell said, but it provided a livelihood for Rutherford County residents. “When they went down, we went down, too,” she said. “There’s just no jobs in Rutherford County now.” Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigitalcourier.com

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“Rutherford County 1979: A People’s Bicentennial History” reports that Alexander Mill’s original plant was 325 feet by 80 feet and two stories tall. An addition was built in 1923, which was 300 feet by 160 feet. In 1926, about 600 workers were employed, the book says, and the payroll of $260,000 was one of the largest for a single unit in the county.

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Nation/world World Today 4 killed in jewelry shop robbery BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen raided a jewelry shop Saturday morning in western Iraq, killing four people before fleeing with a large amount of gold, officials said. The brazen robbery is the latest in a string of violent attacks on lucrative targets such as banks, jewelry stores and money exchange houses that have plagued Iraq. Police speculate that insurgents seeking to replenish their funds may be behind the attacks. Police and hospital officials said six attackers used handguns fitted with silencers during the heist in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad. The victims were believed to have been the owners of the shop, police said.

Iran cancels ship to Gaza TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will not be sending a blockade-busting ship to Gaza in defiance of Israeli warnings, an Iranian lawmaker said Saturday, citing Israeli “restrictions.” Mahmoud Ahmadi Bighash told the semiofficial ISNA news agency that instead of sending a ship, an Iranian delegation of lawmakers would travel to Lebanon and sail on one of the aid ships expected to head to Gaza from there. The Iranian ship called “Infants of Gaza” had been expected to sail Sunday for Gaza carrying 1,100 tons of relief supplies and 10 pro-Palestinian activists but plans were canceled “due to restrictions imposed by the occupying Zionist regime,” Bighash said. Iran made the announcement Tuesday prompting Israel to warn its archenemy to drop the plan. Israel considers Iran a threat because of its suspect nuclear program, its long-range missiles and its support for Lebanese and Gaza militants. Israeli security officials said the prospect of an Iranian boat headed for Gaza had Israel deeply worried, and that naval commandos were training for the possibility of taking on a vessel with a suicide bomber on board.

N. Korea could set stage for heir SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Secretive North Korea said Saturday it will choose new ruling party leaders later this year — a surprise announcement that is intensifying speculation the regime is setting the stage for supreme ruler Kim Jong Il’s youngest son to eventually succeed him. The question of who will take over from the 68-year-old Kim, believed to suffer from a host of ailments, is important because the leader — as presumably his successor would — holds absolute power in the impoverished country, which has active nuclear and missile programs and regularly threatens to destroy rival South Korea. Many fear political instability or even a power struggle if Kim, who rules North Korea through his position as chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission, were to die or become incapacitated without clearly naming a successor. Kim is also supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army as well as general secretary of the Workers’ Party. Kim himself was publicly groomed for years to succeed his father — North Korea’s founder Kim Il Sung, who ruled the country for nearly 50 years and led it through the 1950-53 Korean War. He died in 1994.

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Riot police walk by a burning police car in downtown Toronto during anti-G20 protests on Saturday.

N. Korea, Iran denounced TORONTO, Ontario (AP) — Briefly putting aside deep economic differences, top world leaders on Saturday condemned North Korea for the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship, set a five-year exit timeline for Afghanistan and said the standoff in Gaza was “not sustainable and must be changed.” In a joint statement, the leading eight industrial democracies also criticized both Iran and North Korea for continuing their nuclear march and called on both to heed existing United Nations resolutions. The statement was not as strongly worded as some nations had hoped, including the United States, particularly in condemning North Korea in the March sinking of the warship. Russia was cited as a holdout against stronger language. Street protests involving thousands of demonstrators that had been mild earlier turned violent as black-clad demonstrators set fires, including torching a police cruiser in the financial district of Canada’s most populous city and smashed windows in a shopping district after veering off from the planned protest route. At the summit meeting, the G-8 leaders — representing the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia — focused Saturday on foreign policy, where it appeared easier to find common ground. This came after they differed on how best to deal with a struggling world economy.

The leaders are divided on how best to keep the world economy growing after the worst recession since the 1930s. They are generally split between calls, mainly from the U.S., for more government stimulus to keep countries from slipping back into recession, and appeals from European countries and Japan for spending cuts and even tax hikes to avoid Greece-like near defaults. For now, the leaders have generally cooled their rhetoric and agreed that deficits must be tamed in the long term, but different countries may use different tactics in the short term, depending on their levels of indebtedness. French President Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters that President Barack Obama “clearly talked about the risks of debt and deficit” in the U.S. Still, said Sarkozy, “No leader contested the need to cut deficits and debt and to do it in a pragmatic way, taking into account the situation of each country.” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said world leaders must work together to make sure the global recovery stays on track. Although the world economy has recovered somewhat, many challenges remain, Geithner told reporters. “The scars of this crisis are still with us,” he said. “If the world economy is to expand at its potential, if growth is going to be sustainable in the future, then we need to act together to

strengthen the recovery and finish the job of repairing the damage of the crisis.” Meanwhile, a senior U.S. official said Obama has decided to resume talks aimed at resolving issues blocking the completion of a free trade agreement with South Korea stalled since 2007 during the administration of President George W. Bush. The official said Obama plans to announce the new effort after meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. The official says the goal would be to clear up remaining differences with Seoul by the time Obama visits South Korea in November. The joint statement from the Group of eight nations, mainly representing older, rich democracies, concluded the group’s two-day meeting at a lakeside resort about 140 miles north of Toronto. Leaders then immediately returned to Toronto to continue their talks in a broader meeting of the Group of 20, which includes countries with fastgrowing economies such as China, India and Brazil. Obama gave British Prime Minister David Cameron a lift in his helicopter, called Marine One. In Toronto, Canada’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, police hoped a steady rain Saturday would put a damper on anti-globalization protests, but were bracing for possible violence by splinter groups.

India asks Pakistan to arrest more Mumbai suspects ISLAMABAD (AP) — India pressed Pakistan on Saturday to put more suspects on trial for alleged links to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a sign of persistent tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals who are trying to resume peace talks. But in an indication relations may be beginning to thaw, the two countries ended the day by vowing to work together to bring the masterminds of the assault to justice. Indian Home Minister

Palaniappan Chidambaram said he had raised the issue with Pakistan’s interior minister during meetings of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, or SAARC, in Islamabad. “All the masterminds and handlers behind the (attacks) must be brought to justice,” he said. “We must ensure that terrorists have no free run either in Pakistan or India and both countries must work together.” Chidambaram did not say whom New Delhi wants to

be prosecuted in Pakistan. But Indian authorities earlier pointed to hard-line cleric Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. Saeed is a founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a banned Pakistani militant group blamed in the attacks that killed 166 people in India’s financial capital. He now heads a charity, Jamaat-udDawa, that is alleged to be a front for Lashkar. Pakistan courts have ruled there is not enough evidence to detain Saeed, and Islamabad has pushed New

Delhi to provide more information that could help the case against the cleric. In a sign of the cooperation the rivals committed to Saturday, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said his country had received additional information from India about the attacks. “No act of terrorism will be allowed from Pakistan to be replicated like Bombay or anywhere,” Malik said, using the former name for Mumbai. “We have resolved to work together.”

In May, an Indian court sentenced the only surviving gunman from the attacks to death. Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani, was one of 10 men who attacked two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and a busy train station in Mumbai. Millions around the world watched the violence unfold live on television. Pakistan has arrested at least seven other people in connection with the attacks, and they are facing trial.

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Heartbreak For USA

Off The Wall Scott Bowers

Is there a season for soccer? Well, now what? With one well-timed Landon Donovan goal, America became a somewhat, just kind of, soccer-crazed nation. Just a kind of, sort of situation. Nothing real extreme, we’re not Brazil for goodness sakes. Oh, don’t worry football — your place is secure. The bars and pubs and restaurants of America will once more be lined with fellows in Ray Lewis’ jersey, or Peyton Manning’s. Or, maybe even a Steve Smith or a Ben Roethlisberger. Don’t get scared baseball, you too are very safe. We’ll ignore strikes (the union-owner kind) and steroids and love you forever. No, soccer, your time hasn’t quite arrived — yet. MLS will try and tempt folks — “Hey, we have Donovan!” But, we won’t even yawn. It’ll be another four years, billions of advertising dollars and maybe, just maybe, the 2014 USA team will inspire us to watch. Maybe, they can draw us in a little bit closer. The problem may simply be a seasonal one. You see soccer, in the fall Americans love football. Yes, that’s a wee bit confusing, but alas, it’s true. Your not even called ‘football,’ here in the States. Our football involves pros, colleges, high schools, middle schools and little leagues. They all play dang near every night of the week. We have Monday Night Football, Thursday Night Football, Sunday Night Football — plus a 1 p.m., and 4 p.m., game. Oh, and there’s Friday Night Lights and College Football Saturdays. So, you see soccer there is simply no room for you in the fall. And along comes winter. No, the problem here is basketball, hockey and temperatures that freeze folks right to the bone. No one — not even Brazilians — is going to sit outside at Soldier Field in February to watch a soccer game. Then there is spring. Now, with it we have March Madness, which ends in April every year (it’s a bit confusing); we got Spring Training and the NBA Playoffs which run from January until June. Then there is this Yankee sport called the Stanley Cup. It’s a MasonDixon kind of thing. So, no room in spring. How about summer? Hmm, the problem here of course is baseball. We will watch Latin Americans named Zambrano, Rodriguez and Ortiz play on diamonds. But, we have a hard time watching guys with the same names play on the pitch. Summer is out. And, perhaps sadly, I haven’t even mentioned NASCAR, golf, wrestling, MMA, boxing, tennis, swimming, or any other sport that you have had to compete against for TV viewers. Maybe, the answer is simple. Just keep doing what your doing. A little growth here, a win there and WHAM-O — one day America is a soccercrazed nation complete with riots and overturned vehicles (thank you LA). Also, it would help if we had one of those cool European/ South American soccer songs. You know, “Whhhhaaaa-oooo, unti per la la la.” I made that one up. You can use it if you like.

Supporters of the United States react during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the United States and Ghana at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa, on Saturday. Associated Press

Ghana sends US home, 2-1 RUSTENBURG, South Africa (AP) — Life on the edge came to an exhausting and disappointing end for the United States against a familiar foe. Ghana sent the U.S. packing from the World Cup — again — eliminating the Americans in the second round Saturday night. Asamoah Gyan scored 3 minutes into overtime, leading the Black Stars to a 2-1 victory that ended a thrilling but ultimately unfulling World Cup for the United States that was watched by record audiences back home “A stinging, tough defeat,” U.S. coach Bob Bradley said. “We knew Ghana was a good team and we didn’t get the job done.” Asamoah Gyan scored 3 minutes into overtime to win it. Kevin Prince Boateng put Ghana ahead when he stripped the ball from Ricardo Associated Press Clark in the 5th minute and beat goalUnited States goalkeeper Tim Howard reacts during the World Cup round of 16 keeper Tim Howard from 16 yards. soccer match between the United States and Ghana at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in

Please see US, Page 3B Rustenburg, South Africa, Saturday.

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United States’ Landon Donovan scores past Ghana goalkeeper Richard Kingson, right, on a penalty during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the United States and Ghana at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa, Saturday.

Once a hit, baseball now striking out with blacks By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer

Sherman Johnson was relishing his trip to the College World Series when someone asked if he had noticed an increasingly common trend. In the sport that gave us Jackie Robinson, where are all the AfricanAmerican players? “You don’t really notice until people start talking about it,” said Johnson, a third baseman for the Florida State Seminoles and a rarity in Omaha, Neb., because of his skin color. “Then you’re like, ’Wow, that team doesn’t have any people of color, and that team doesn’t.’ “It is quite astounding.” Eight teams made it to the College World Series. Three of them — TCU, Oklahoma and Florida — don’t have any black players. Three others — UCLA, Arizona State and South Carolina — have only one. Florida State (three) and Clemson (two) were the only squads that had more than one African-American on the roster. Please see Baseball, Page 4B

Former Hillsborough High School baseball coach Billy Reed standing in the bleachers during the National Anthem before the start of a high school baseball game in Tampa, Fla, in this April 5, 2007 file photo. The 78-year-old man who’s spent much of his life coaching baseball and grooming big league prospects listened intently, slowly shaking his head as the smile on his face gave way to a sad expression. The number of black players in the majors declined last season, and Billy Reed fears things could get a lot worse before they get better. Associated Press

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FOREST CITY — For the second night in a row, Post 423 gave up an early lead, falling to Caldwell County, 10-5, at McNair Field Saturday. Rutherford County lost to Hickory on Friday night after leading 3-0 early and gave up a 1-0 advantage after two frames on Saturday. Caldwell’s four-run fifth inning proved the biggest difference in the end as their starting pitcher Jon Sharpe held tough in 8.1 innings for the victory. Caldwell County pounded out 17 hits and Rutherford County had 14 despite the run advantage for the visitors. Rutherford County (7-5) took the initial lead during the second inning. Jonathan Hamlet singled and then stole second. Hamlet scored two batters later following Dylan Hipp’s single to center. After Caldwell (9-4) tied the game at 1-1 in the third, Post 423 captured the lead one more time. Hamlet doubled into right field and Nick Houser brought him home with a base hit down the line in right for a 2-1 lead. However, Cal Hardee’s two RBI single, capped a four-run fifth as Post 29 took command with a 5-2 lead. Caldwell added one more in the sixth and four more in the ninth. Post 423 put up three more runs in the ninth, but couldn’t overcome the deficit. Even when hits did drop in, Rutherford County did show some leather to keep Caldwell from putting up more runs. Hamlet made a couple of great catches in centerfield. Nick Houser caught a pop up as he ran into the fence to record an out, but Hipp made the most pivotal defensive play. With the game tied at 1-1 in the fourth, Caldwell’s Cody Reed singled into left where Rutherford’s Dylan Hipp fielded the ball. Blake Johnson, who started the play running from second, turned past third and headed home, but Hipp’s throw nailed Johnson at the plate. Unfortunately, not much went the way of Post 423 after that play. Post 423 will look to regroup on the road against Shelby, tonight. On Monday, Post 423 will play at R-S Central High as it hosts Hendersonville.

Baseball All-Stars

BELMONT — The Forest City 11- and 12-year old All-Stars and the Rutherfordton 11- and 12-year old All-Stars opened with wins in Belmont Saturday. Forest City defeated Belmont, 6-2, while Rutherfordton topped Cherryville, 6-5. Both teams play at 2 p.m., today in Belmont.

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ASHEBORO — The Owls were tied 1-1 with the Copperheads in the 11th inning Saturday as the Courier went to press. The Owls held a two game lead over the Gastonia Grizzlies in the race for the first half title of the West Division of the Coastal Plain League. Forest City plays Gastonia Monday, June 28 at McNair Field and the game can be heard on WCAB 590 AM.

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East Division W L Pct Atlanta 43 31 .581 New York 42 32 .568 Philadelphia 39 32 .549 Florida 35 38 .479 Washington 33 41 .446 Central Division W L Pct Cincinnati 41 33 .554 St. Louis 40 33 .548 Milwaukee 33 40 .452 Chicago 32 41 .438 Houston 29 45 .392 Pittsburgh 25 48 .342 West Division W L Pct San Diego 43 30 .589 San Francisco 40 32 .556 Colorado 39 34 .534 Los Angeles 39 34 .534 Arizona 29 45 .392

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Friday’s Games Chicago White Sox 6, Chicago Cubs 0 Philadelphia 9, Toronto 0 Baltimore 7, Washington 6 Arizona 1, Tampa Bay 0 Cincinnati 10, Cleveland 3 N.Y. Mets 5, Minnesota 2 San Diego 3, Florida 0 Atlanta 3, Detroit 1 Houston 7, Texas 4 Milwaukee 8, Seattle 3 Kansas City 4, St. Louis 2 Colorado 4, L.A. Angels 3, 11 innings Oakland 14, Pittsburgh 4 N.Y. Yankees 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 San Francisco 5, Boston 4 Saturday’s Games Minnesota 6, N.Y. Mets 0 St. Louis 5, Kansas City 3 Texas 7, Houston 2 Tampa Bay 5, Arizona 3 Toronto 5, Philadelphia 1 Baltimore 6, Washington 5 Atlanta 4, Detroit 3 Seattle 5, Milwaukee 4 Boston 4, San Francisco 2 Chicago White Sox 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Cleveland at Cincinnati, late N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Dodgers, late San Diego at Florida, late Colorado at L.A. Angels, late Pittsburgh at Oakland, late Sunday’s Games Cleveland (Talbot 7-6) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 7-3), 1:10 p.m. Minnesota (S.Baker 6-6) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 4-2), 1:10 p.m. San Diego (Latos 8-4) at Florida (Ani.Sanchez 7-4), 1:10 p.m. Detroit (Verlander 8-5) at Atlanta (Hanson 7-4), 1:35 p.m. Philadelphia (Moyer 8-6) at Toronto (Cecil 7-4), 1:35 p.m. Washington (Atilano 6-4) at Baltimore (Guthrie 3-9), 1:35 p.m. Arizona (R.Lopez 3-6) at Tampa Bay (W.Davis 5-8), 1:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Dempster 5-6) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 7-5), 2:05 p.m. Seattle (J.Vargas 6-2) at Milwaukee (Narveson 6-4), 2:10 p.m. St. Louis (J.Garcia 7-3) at Kansas City (Chen 3-2), 2:10 p.m. Colorado (J.Chacin 4-6) at L.A. Angels (E.Santana 7-5), 3:35 p.m. Boston (Lester 8-3) at San Francisco (Lincecum 8-2), 4:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf 0-6) at Oakland (G.Gonzalez 6-5), 4:05 p.m. Houston (Oswalt 5-9) at Texas (Tom.Hunter 3-0), 8:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 9-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 7-4), 8:05 p.m. Monday’s Games Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m. Houston at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m. Arizona at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. Colorado at San Diego, 10:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m. American League New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore Minnesota Detroit Chicago Kansas City Cleveland

East Division W L Pct 46 27 .630 43 30 .589 44 31 .587 39 35 .527 21 52 .288 Central Division W L Pct 41 33 .554 39 33 .542 38 34 .528 31 43 .419 26 46 .361 West Division W L Pct 44 29 .603 41 35 .539 35 40 .467 30 43 .411

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BASEBALL Sunday American Legion 7 p.m. Rutherford Post 423 at Shelby Monday, June 28 American Legion 7 p.m. Hendersonville at Rutherford Post 423, R-S Central baseball field Coastal Plain League 7 p.m. Gastonia Grizzlies at Forest City Owls, McNair Field, Radio: WCAB AM 590. Arizona 1, Tampa Bay 0 Cincinnati 10, Cleveland 3 N.Y. Mets 5, Minnesota 2 Atlanta 3, Detroit 1 Houston 7, Texas 4 Milwaukee 8, Seattle 3 Kansas City 4, St. Louis 2 Colorado 4, L.A. Angels 3, 11 innings Oakland 14, Pittsburgh 4 N.Y. Yankees 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 San Francisco 5, Boston 4 Saturday’s Games Minnesota 6, N.Y. Mets 0 St. Louis 5, Kansas City 3 Texas 7, Houston 2 Tampa Bay 5, Arizona 3 Toronto 5, Philadelphia 1 Baltimore 6, Washington 5 Atlanta 4, Detroit 3 Seattle 5, Milwaukee 4 Boston 4, San Francisco 2 Chicago White Sox 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Cleveland at Cincinnati, late N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Dodgers, late Colorado at L.A. Angels, late Pittsburgh at Oakland, late Sunday’s Games Cleveland (Talbot 7-6) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 7-3), 1:10 p.m. Minnesota (S.Baker 6-6) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 4-2), 1:10 p.m. Detroit (Verlander 8-5) at Atlanta (Hanson 7-4), 1:35 p.m. Philadelphia (Moyer 8-6) at Toronto (Cecil 7-4), 1:35 p.m. Washington (Atilano 6-4) at Baltimore (Guthrie 3-9), 1:35 p.m. Arizona (R.Lopez 3-6) at Tampa Bay (W.Davis 5-8), 1:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Dempster 5-6) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 7-5), 2:05 p.m. Seattle (J.Vargas 6-2) at Milwaukee (Narveson 6-4), 2:10 p.m. St. Louis (J.Garcia 7-3) at Kansas City (Chen 3-2), 2:10 p.m. Colorado (J.Chacin 4-6) at L.A. Angels (E.Santana 7-5), 3:35 p.m. Boston (Lester 8-3) at San Francisco (Lincecum 8-2), 4:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf 0-6) at Oakland (G.Gonzalez 6-5), 4:05 p.m. Houston (Oswalt 5-9) at Texas (Tom.Hunter 3-0), 8:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 9-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 7-4), 8:05 p.m. NCAA College World Series Glance At Rosenblatt Stadium Omaha, Neb. Double Elimination x-if necessary Saturday, June 19 TCU 8, Florida State 1 UCLA 11, Florida 3 Sunday, June 20 Oklahoma 4, South Carolina 3 Arizona State vs. Clemson, ppd., weather Monday, June 21 Clemson 6, Arizona State 3 Florida State 8, Florida 5, Florida eliminated UCLA 6, TCU 3 Tuesday, June 22 South Carolina 11, Arizona State 4, Arizona St. eliminated Clemson 6, Oklahoma 1, 5 innings, susp., weather Wednesday, June 23 Clemson 6, Oklahoma 4, comp. of susp. game TCU 11, Florida State 7, Florida St. eliminated Thursday, June 24 South Carolina 3, Oklahoma 2, 12 innings, Oklahoma eliminated Friday, June 25 TCU 6, UCLA 2 South Carolina 5, Clemson 1 Saturday, June 26 UCLA 10, TCU 3, TCU eliminated South Carolina 4, Clemson 3, Clemson eliminated

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Like everyone else at Rosenblatt Stadium, UCLA’s Trevor Bauer was feeling the heat. GB — He said pregame warmups were almost intolera- Texas Los Angeles 4 1/2 Championship Series 10 ble. He gave up a homer in the first inning and had Oakland Best-of-3 Seattle 14 Monday, June 28: South Carolina (52-16) vs. to work out of a mini-jam in the second. And it UCLA (51-15), 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 29: South Carolina (52-16) vs. wasn’t long after that his sleeves — yes, the quirky Friday’s Games Chicago White Sox 6, Chicago Cubs 0 UCLA (51-15), 7:30 p.m. sophomore was wearing a long-sleeved liner — Philadelphia 9, Toronto 0 x-Wednesday, June 30: South Carolina (52-16) Baltimore 7, Washington 6 vs. UCLA (51-15), 7:30 p.m. were soaked through. So don’t think the Bruins’ 10-3 win Saturday against TCU was no sweat. Sweet? Yes. The Bruins, who hadn’t won a game in two previous College World Series, are heading to the chamLOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Kyle round out the top five. pionship round after Bauer limited the Horned Busch won the Nationwide Keselowski stretched his points Frogs to four hits and struck out 13 in eight Series race at New Hampshire lead to 247 over Edwards. innings. Motor Speedway on Saturday Danica Patrick finished 30th, and become the career laps led five laps down. Patrick went leader in NASCAR’s second-tier into the wall only seven laps into series. the race. The IndyCar regular ATLANTA (AP) — Chipper Jones’ three-run Busch bowed to the crowd, posted her best finish in four homer in the seventh gave Kenshin Kawakami his which saluted his sixth win of Nationwide races. long-awaited first win of the season, but only after the season in the No. 18 Toyota “It was a bummer to get lapped the Atlanta Braves escaped a ninth-inning jam to for Joe Gibbs Racing. Busch has so many times,” Patrick said. beat the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Saturday. led 8,117 laps in his career and Patrick started 25th in her first Peter Moylan struck out pinch-hitter Johnny earned his 36th career victory. NASCAR race since February Damon with the bases loaded to end it, and He held off teammate Brad and ran into trouble in her No. 7 Kawakami needed Jones’ help to avoid the first Keselowski, who finished second Chevrolet almost instantly. Coastal Plain League All-Star 0-10 start in Braves history. The right-hander and had his solid run derailed Morgan got Derby loose Game Monday July 19 CPLShepherd Home Run trailed 1-0 when he left for a pinch-hitter in the by a poor pit stop. Carl Edwards, and sent Patrick into the wall. and Bayne Fan Fest presented bytoBojangles seventh. Joey Logano and Trevor She radioed her crew “he

NASCAR Nationwide New England 200 Results (Start position in parentheses) 1. (4) Kyle Busch, Toyota 2. (1) Brad Keselowski, Dodge 3. (2) Carl Edwards, Ford 4. (7) Joey Logano, Toyota 5. (18) Trevor Bayne, Toyota 6. (5) Justin Allgaier, Dodge 7. (3) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet 8. (12) Reed Sorenson, Toyota 9. (19) Paul Menard, Ford 10. (16) Brendan Gaughan, Toyota 11. (6) Steve Wallace, Toyota 12. (15) Colin Braun, Ford 13. (17) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet 14. (14) Jason Leffler, Toyota 15. (13) Jason Keller, Chevrolet 16. (10) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford 17. (9) Justin Lofton, Ford 18. (32) Tony Raines, Chevrolet 19. (38) Michael Annett, Toyota 20. (11) Michael McDowell, Dodge 21. (28) Sean Caisse, Ford 22. (33) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet 23. (24) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet 24. (34) Willie Allen, Chevrolet 25. (8) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet 26. (27) Brian Scott, Toyota 27. (41) Robert Richardson Jr., Chevrolet 28. (37) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet 29. (40) Eric McClure, Ford 30. (25) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet 31. (43) Charles Lewandoski, Ford, 32. (31) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet 33. (26) Mark Green, Chevrolet 34. (21) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet 35. (22) Tayler Malsam, Toyota 36. (42) Brad Baker, Ford 37. (29) Danny O’Quinn Jr., Chevrolet 38. (23) David Gilliland, Chevrolet 39. (36) Brian Keselowski, Dodge 40. (39) Johnny Chapman, Chevrolet 41. (30) Josh Wise, Ford 42. (20) Kevin Swindell, Ford 43. (35) Dennis Setzer, Dodge

SOCCER 2010 WORLD CUP SECOND ROUND Saturday, June 26 Game 49 At Port Elizabeth, South Africa Uruguay 2, South Korea 1 Game 50 At Rustenburg, South Africa Ghana 2, United States 1 Sunday, June 27 Game 51 At Bloemfontein, South Africa Germany vs. England, 10 a.m. Game 52 At Johannesburg Argentina vs. Mexico, 2:30 p.m. Monday, June 28 Game 53 At Durban, South Africa Netherlands vs. Slovakia, 10 a.m. Game 54 At Johannesburg Brazil vs. Chile, 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 29 Game 55 At Pretoria, South Africa Paraguay vs. Japan, 10 a.m. Game 56 At Cape Town, South Africa Spain vs. Portugal, 2:30 p.m. QUARTERFINALS Friday, July 2 Game 57 At Port Elizabeth, South Africa Netherlands-Slovakia winner vs. Brazil-Chile winner, 10 a.m. Game 58 At Johannesburg Uruguay vs. Ghana, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, July 3 Game 59 At Cape Town, South Africa Germany-England winner vs. Argentina-Mexico winner, 10 a.m. Game 60 At Johannesburg Paraguay-Japan winner vs. Spain-Portugal winner, 2:30 p.m. SEMIFINALS Tuesday, July 6 At Cape Town, South Africa Uruguay-Ghana winner vs. Game 57 winner, 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 7 At Durban, South Africa Game 59 winner vs. Game 60 winner, 2:30 p.m. THIRD PLACE Saturday, July 10 At Port Elizabeth, South Africa Semifinal losers, 2:30 p.m. CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, July 11 At Johannesburg Semifinal winners, 2:30 p.m.

Kyle Busch wins Nationwide at New Hampshire

Braves win one for Kawakami

totally took me out.” Patrick returned to the track a lap down and never got any momentum. She later tapped Shepherd to let him know she didn’t appreciate getting caught up in the early accident. Patrick fared no better than 31st in three starts on the Nationwide Series in February. She said a top-15 or top-20 finish would be a success. “There’s a lot for me to learn,” she said. Busch has it mastered. “I wish there was money for laps led,” Busch said. “That would be pretty cool.”

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Serena Williams of the United States makes a forehand return during her match against Slovakia’s Dominikova Cibulkova at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, Saturday. Associated Press

Nadal battles to reach 4th round

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Top-ranked Rafael Nadal rallied for another five-set victory Saturday, overcoming knee problems, an umpire’s warning and a tough challenge from a hard-hitting German to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon. Nadal battled back from twosets-to-one down for the second straight match to defeat Philipp Petzschner 6-4, 4-6, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3 in a Centre Court slugfest. Defending women’s champion Serena Williams had a much easier time, serving 20 aces in a straight-sets win over Dominika Cibulkova that set up a fourthround matchup with former champion Maria Sharapova. The top-seeded Williams had at least two aces in each of her eight service games and overpowered the 46th-ranked Slovak 6-0, 7-5. The second-seeded Nadal, who won the title in 2008 but missed last year’s tournament due to tendinitis in his knees, called for the trainer four separate times for treatment on his left arm and right knee but never looked badly hurt. “I hope I’ll be fine,” Nadal said afterward. “I don’t know. I’m going to check. It’s not a big problem. It’s a long season for me. I have played a lot of matches the last few months. “Having a five-set match two days ago and one today — that’s tough. I’m happy to be in the fourth round. I’m going to try to be better for Monday.” Nadal said he will definitely play Monday’s match against France’s Paul-Henri Matthieu, who beat Thiemo de Bakker in four sets. “I am here to try my best and to try to keep in the tournament,” he said. Nadal said his right knee has been bothering him for several months, and that he will skip Spain’s Davis Cup quarterfinal against France next month in order to get treatment. Fourth-seeded Andy Murray followed Nadal on Centre Court

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Rafael Nadal of Spain serves to Philipp Petzschner of Germany during their men’s singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, Saturday.

and beat Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-1, 6-4, 6-4, keeping alive Britain’s hopes for a first homegrown male champion since 1936. Murray, who hasn’t dropped a set so far, served 15 aces, conceded only 15 points on serve and did not face a single break point. The 33rd-seeded Petzschner, playing his third straight fivesetter, also needed medical treatment for a recurring hip problem on several changeovers

and looked exhausted in the final set against Nadal. The German questioned Nadal’s injury breaks. “You have to ask him what it was. But I didn’t feel any difference afterwards or before. I thought he was moving great. I only could say if I would be injured like this once I would be happy. I don’t know. Maybe he had something. Maybe it was just a clever part to take a timeout there.”

Time for critics to say sorry, says Maradona

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Diego Maradona says it’s time for the critics to stand up and hang their heads in shame. He’d been branded a liability back home before the World Cup — a legend on the playing field, of course, but a naive tactician and attention-grabber who would squander the nation’s best chance of winning the title in years. Three wins later in South Africa and the tone’s changed. Argentina, many now believe, could win the tournament. But Maradona was having none of it Saturday. “Many journalists should apol-

Once again, the U.S. came back, and Landon Donovan tied the score with a penalty kick in the 62nd minute after Jonathan Mensah pulled down Clint Dempsey streaking in. But no matter how much the Americans pressured after Gyan scored, they couldn’t tie it again. “We had already expended a lot of energy at that time,” Bradley said. “I think we put ourselves in trouble with giving up the early goal again.” In the first-ever extra time World Cup game for the U.S., Gyan got the winning goal when he took a long ball from Andre Ayew over the defense and beat U.S. captain Carlos Bocanegra, his teammate on the French club Rennes. Gyan let the ball bounce, took a touch with his chest, and with Jay DeMerit vainly trying to catch up, scored over goalkeeper Tim Howard with a left-footed shot from 16 yards. “We’ve made everybody proud,” Gyan said. “Not Ghana alone, but all of Africa.” There was no late magic this time to equal Donovan’s injury-time goal against Algeria that moved the Americans into the second round. The closest the U.S. came to tying it again was in the 98th minute, when Maurice Edu’s header off Donovan’s corner kick went wide. With Howard pushed up, DeMerit’s desperation long shot in the final minutes went over the crossbar. Then Dempsey sent a header wide. At the final whistle, Howard consoled Bocanegra and Maurice Edu collapsed to the ground. Donovan exchanged jerseys with a Ghana player and walked off the field, put on a coat, sat on the bunch and hung his head. “This is a terrific group and we’re proud,” Bradley said. “We’re also disappointed that we couldn’t take it further.” Ghana, the only African team left in the tournament, celebrated moving into the quarterfinals against Uruguay on Friday in Johannesburg. In their second World Cup appearance, the Black Stars bettered their 2006 team, which lost to Brazil 3-0 in the second round. That teams beat the Americans 2-1 in the final game of the opening round to send the U.S. home. “We did it before,” Gyan said. “We did it in 2006.” While the U.S. came from behind to draw England 1-1 and Slovenia 2-2 in the first round, the Americans looked ragged the time. They go home pondering a World Cup that could have been so much more. They thrilled the large number of American who were the largest group of overseas ticket buyers, but failed to do as well as the 2002 team, which reached the quarterfinals in the best U.S. finish since 1930. The defense allowed the first goal in three of four games, and the Americans kept up their record of never coming from behind to win in 29 World Cup matches. With Donovan, Dempsey and Howard in the primes of their careers, the U.S. had high expectations coming off a first-round exit four years ago. Because a growing fan base watched on television in record numbers, the loss was even more stinging for a team still struggling for recognition both in the soccer world and among sports fans in America.

ogize to the players,” he said, oozing confidence and never losing his cool. “I’m not suggesting you drop your trousers, but it would be honest and great so we all get along better.” With the outstanding Lionel Messi flanked by Carlos Tevez and leading scorer Gonzalo Higuain, the Argentines are now seen as one of the favorites to win the competition. It’s quite a turnaround for a squad that squeezed into the competition during qualifiers in which Maradona used more than 100 players. With Messi in inspired form, Argentina at times threatened

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to rout Nigeria in the opening match, but missed a string of chances in the 1-0 win. Higuain then scored a hat trick as South Korea was dispatched 4-1 — a result that allowed Maradona the luxury of bringing in seven new faces for the 2-0 win over Greece. “I am turning 50 and I am not bitter,” he said. “But I get annoyed when people don’t respect my players. “It isn’t easy going from being nobodies back home to winning three matches at a World Cup. At the training camp, we had to swallow what you all said about us being a disaster.”

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PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AP) — The game on the line, Luis Suarez sidestepped two defenders in the driving rain and struck a rightfooted shot from the edge of the penalty area. “The truth is, I didn’t realize the ball was going to go in,” he said. It did. And now Uruguay is headed to the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time in 40 years after beating South Korea 2-1 on Saturday. Suarez, who had Uruguay’s only goal in its 1-0 group stage win over Mexico, scored twice against the Koreans — early in the first half and again in the 80th with the score tied 1-1. “In these moments, the only thing I want to do is enjoy,” said Suarez, who jumped over a row of photographers to celebrate his second goal with his teammates. Lee Chung-yong had tied the second-round game in the 68th on a header after goalkeeper Fernando Muslera left his line attempting to punch away a looping ball. It was the first goal given up by Uruguay in the tournament. “The key to Uruguay’s improvement (at the end of the game) was South Korea’s goal. We stopped thinking about not conceding a goal,” Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez said. “Luckily, Suarez scored a spectacular goal that gave us victory.”

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Race for Chase heats up LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — The Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship traditionally kicks off at New Hampshire. So does the 10-race sprint to make the 12-driver field. When drivers return here in September, they hope they are gearing up for a championship run. With only 10 races left until the field is set, the pressure is revved up for those around the cutoff Associated Press mark. Atlanta Braves OF Jason Heyward is among a small group of AfricanCarl Edwards is clinging to 12th place enterAmericans playing baseball professionally. ing Sunday’s race, only 57 points ahead of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Clint Bowyer and Ryan Newman are lurking at 11 o’clock — sometimes midour mothers trusted — trusted behind Junior. Don’t count out pole sitter Juan night. And that was on a school — he was going to do right by Pablo Montoya or even David Reutimann among night. They were doing that at us,” Cador said. “That guy just the small group of drivers who have a lugnut-size least five days a week.” doesn’t exist anymore. When Stewart estimates that it costs margin of error this summer. things don’t exist, things have to “I feel like we’ve got a chance,” Reutimann said at least $15,000 a year for a change. A lot of black kids never Saturday. “We just need top-fives everywhere we promising youngster to get the even play baseball.” go.” sort of top-level instruction But there are blacks on the Oh, no pressure. needed to have a shot at the front line, people such as C.J. Points leader Kevin Harvick, four-time defending majors. Stewart, an African-American champion Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch and Denny “That’s the reason why innerwho grew up in an Atlanta housHamlin have their spots all but secured. It would ing project but went on to play in city kids are falling behind,” take a string of disastrous DNF performances to he said. “They don’t have the the Chicago Cubs organization. resources to make that happen.” knock out NASCAR’s elite drivers. He’s now a respected hitting From about ninth in the standings on down, anyAnd the African-American instructor whose clients have thing can happen. families that do have the included Braves rookie sensaTony Stewart, a two-time Cup champion, is 10th resources, apparently are spendtion Jason Heyward, the sort of and understands how fragile his spot can be down ing it elsewhere — including player who might just persuade the stretch. AAU basketball programs. more African-Americans to get “If you are ninth through 12th right now, you are Stewart hopes to address some interested in baseball. worrying about just making sure you have enough of the issues with L.E.A.D., Stewart runs a private hitting points to be in it and go from there,” he said. which is mainly focused on getbusiness in the Atlanta subEarnhardt wants to make that field as long as ting African-American youngurbs, working with kids of all he feels he can realistically compete for his first sters to look at baseball. That’s colors who dream of playing in career Cup title. He’s coming off his best two backalso the mission of the Junior the majors. He’s also launched to-back races of the season and believes his No. 88 Braves Baseball Academy, a a nonprofit group known as Chevrolet can still find more speed to stamp themfour-field complex in a largely L.E.A.D (Launch, Expose, black neighborhood not far from selves as a legitimate Chase threat. Advise & Direct), which aims “We’ve still got a long ways to go, man,” Turner Field. to get more African-Americans Tory Joyner, who runs the pro- Earnhardt said. “We’ve got a lot of work to do to teenagers playing the game. get better and get more competitive. I feel like gram, said there are nearly 200 “You’ve got two categories we’re starting to be able to contend, but we’ve got a kids ages 4 to 6 playing tee-ball. when it comes to playing baselot of speed to find.” The challenge is to keep them ball,” Stewart said. “You have Earnhardt, long NASCAR’s most popular driver, around for the long haul. participation, and you have commissed the Chase last year and finished a disap“It’s kind of overpowering with petition. To participate, you just football and basketball,” he said. pointing 25th. He’s made the Chase three times have to show up and play. To and twice finished as high as fifth in 2004 and “In this area, that’s what they compete requires professional 2006. He hasn’t been much of a threat to win, tend to fall into. They love to instruction. Jason is who he much less a championship contender, the last four take a ball and go shoot around. is because of the resources his years. Earnhardt has gone 73 straight races withIt’s not that easy to play baseball. family was able to tap into. They out a victory. There’s not really enough fields looked at it as an investment.” Earnhardt won’t be satisfied with making the around to do that stuff. There’s Heyward grew up south of Chase if he’s not a legitimate championship conmore access to basketball goals Atlanta but his parents knew tender. and being able to go out in an one of the best youth programs “We can run like we have the last couple of weeks open field and play football.” in the country was East Cobb, and make the Chase, but that doesn’t win a chamStewart believes that trend is located in the suburbs north pionship either,” Earnhardt said. “If I’m going to changing, however. of the city. So they willingly make this Chase, I want to make it and feel like I After once paying little attenendured 45-minute drives each have a chance to contend and battle in the top five tion to the issue, which was way — often longer, given the and be around in the last couple of races with a perhaps obscured by the rise of city’s brutal traffic — to shuttle shot still at winning the championship.” Latin American players, Major their talented son to practices League Baseball is now devoting and games. They also hired more resources to the inner city. Stewart to provide private hitJust this month, it announced ting lessons, doling out tens of the creation of a new departthousands of dollars to ensure ment to oversee player developCHICAGO (AP) — Carlos Zambrano threw Heyward had the best of everyment, including an academy in another tantrum, and this time, the Chicago Cubs thing. Compton, Calif. might be out of patience. 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RALEIGH (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes picked up two former first-round draft picks in separate trades Saturday during the second day of the NHL draft. Carolina acquired defenseman Bobby Sanguinetti from the New York Rangers for two picks after obtaining center Riley Nash from Edmonton for another selection. Sanguinetti, the Rangers’ first-round pick in 2006, had four penalty minutes in five games with New York. The 22-year-old defenseman had nine goals and 29 assists in 61 games with Hartford of the AHL. Edmonton took Nash in the first round in 2007 and he played the last three seasons at Cornell. The Hurricanes sent the 46th selection to the Oilers, who drafted Slovakian defenseman Martin Marincin. The Rangers received the 157th overall pick this year and the 2011 second-round selection the Hurricanes acquired from Washington in the trade for Joe Corvo.

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That’s a grand total of eight black players — out of 269. Those numbers are disturbing to those who believe AfricanAmericans have largely turned away from the sport, whether it’s because of financial limitations, cultural issues or simply because they find football and baseball to be more exciting. “I kind of see the reason behind it,” said Jackie Bradley Jr., a South Carolina outfielder who joined Johnson as the most prominent African-Americans at the College World Series. “In the other sports, like football and basketball, you can get to the top a lot quicker than you do with baseball.” When baseball was the undisputed national pastime, it also stood as one of the most chilling examples of a nation divided. The major leagues were whites only. Blacks were confined to the Negro leagues. Then Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. Soon, there were African-American stars all over the field, led by Hall of Famers-to-be such as Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Frank Robinson. In a sense, baseball greased the path of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, showing there was no reason for blacks to accept second-class status in any walk of life. But somewhere along the way, the community began to lose interest. Their heroes began turning up in the NBA and NFL, which only led to more and more African-American kids seeing those sports as more viable career paths than baseball. While there are all sorts of theories for this change of priorities, baseball’s dwindling popularity in African-American neighborhoods could very well be a microcosm of larger social issues. When whites fled to the suburbs, they took along their bats and gloves and many of the best youth baseball programs went with them. In the largely black inner cities, a kid could usually find a local hoops game or throw around a football, but baseball programs were often located beyond their reach — financially and socially.

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20 years later, ‘Days of Thunder’ still resonates By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer

CHARLOTTE — “Rubbin’, son, is racin’,” or so said Harry Hogge to a worldwide audience in the summer of 1990, when NASCAR was a niche, regional sport that had yet to pique much mainstream interest. Tom Cruise was into it, though, and that was good enough. Riding high from his “Top Gun” fame, the actor had an idea for a movie based on fast cars and the characters who raced them. And so began the making of “Days of Thunder,” a critically panned summer blockbuster that was largely lampooned throughout the NASCAR industry for its exaggeration and overindulgence. But underneath all that Hollywood glitz and glamour ran currents of truth, and as the film celebrates its 20th anniversary on Sunday, it’s still wildly popular with a cult-like following. “We worked hard to bring audiences right into the thrilling, highpowered world of NASCAR racing,” said producer Jerry Bruckheimer. “I’m really pleased that the film has taken on a life of its own and, like NASCAR, stood the test of time, with a new generation rediscovering the film.” The fan base goes from the viewer who can recite every line in the movie and can’t turn the channel when it pops up on cable, to a current crop of NASCAR drivers who watched the film or played the video game as little boys and knew that’s what they wanted to do when they grew up. “What’s there not to love about ’Days of Thunder?’ “ Kyle Busch deadpanned when asked what he liked about the movie. So smitten with the movie as a child, NASCAR’s resident bad boy “borrowed” a character from the film when he re-branded a Truck Series

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This image provided by Paramount Pictures Corp., shows actor Tom Cruise in a scene from the movie “Days of Thunder.” Although it was critically panned, the movie still has a cult following in NASCAR as it celebrates its 20th anniversary this Sunday, June 27, 2010.

ride from the No. 15 to the No. 51 and had the name “Rowdy” painted above the door. It was an homage to Cruise’s nemesis in the film, Rowdy Burns, a tough-as-nails superstar who ruled the race track. The character was largely based on Dale Earnhardt, while Cruise’s Cole Trickle was a sketch of the late Tim Richmond. Randy Quaid was a slicker version of team owner Rick

Hendrick, and Robert Duvall’s crew chief Hogge was, as Hendrick said, “a better Harry Hyde than Harry Hyde ever was. That just blew me away.” Fred Thompson played “Big John” which was obviously a takeoff on NASCAR chairman Bill France Jr., and the scene where Cruise’s Trickle and Michael Rooker’s Burns are summoned down to Daytona Beach for a tongue-lashing by the boss was a re-creation of an actual meeting France called for Earnhardt and Geoff Bodine. “So many of the things really did happen,” said Hendrick. “They took bits and pieces, they took the characters, they took how I got started — when Randy Quaid went out to talk to Harry about getting back into racing (the opening scene), the car he was driving was my white Caprice. But it didn’t really happen that way: Harry was always after me. So some of the stuff had been changed for Hollywood.” Even some of the dialogue was lifted from real-life situations. “You build me a car, I’ll win you Daytona,” Trickle tells Hogge in trying to convince the crew chief to come out of retirement to work with the hotshot driver. In reality, it was Hyde who told Hendrick: “Let me build a car, and I’ll win you Charlotte,” Hendrick recalled with a smile. “And I was stupid enough to believe him.” Cruise recruited Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne (“Chinatown”) for the script, and the two descended on Charlotte to learn everything they could about NASCAR. Cruise stayed in Hendrick’s lake house, while a neighbor’s house was secured for Nicole Kidman, who played Cruise’s love interest. The “shop” where the team built its cars was an old barn Hendrick owned not far from his lake house,

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and the racing footage was captured from actual events with the late Bobby Hamilton competing in a car equipped with a camera. Towne leaned heavily on Hendrick and his staff, race promoter Humpy Wheeler, ESPN reporter Jerry Punch and every NASCAR driver who would speak to them. “The drivers were more fun than any group of people I had met before,” Towne said. “The thing about it is they are the greatest storytellers in the world. I think I had arguably as good a time as I’ve ever had on a movie. It was just endless fun.” Towne spent time a great deal of time with Hyde, and picked the brains of Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, Rusty Wallace, Bodine and “one very memorable afternoon with the late Dale Earnhardt, who was wonderfully colorful and had just a great sense of humor.” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said on Friday that he remembers the day 20 years ago when Cruise and Towne came to visit his father at Earnhardt’s shop. “Makes you feel old, doesn’t it?” he said. “That was a thrill for me and my sister, Kelley. We anticipated that movie coming out. It was interesting to see our sport be put into the mainstream and be a part of that.” The film was primarily a vehicle for Cruise, who played Trickle as a tamer version of Richmond, NASCAR’s talented party boy who had died in 1989 from complications of AIDS. Hendrick said Richmond had dated a doctor, which opened the door for Kidman to be cast as Dr. Claire Lewicki, the brain surgeon/love interest for Cruise. Cruise did all his own driving, said Towne, and surprised everyone on the set with his skill. “He was gifted, that’s all there is to it,” Towne said. “I think even Rick would tell you that.”

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Williams promises some tweaks for UNC in ’11 By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer

Henry Scripps, above, throws out the first pitch at a recent Forest City Owls’ game. Scripps joined River Textiles CEO George Ferencz, middle, and Jill Miracle, right, president of the Rutherford Hospital Foundation. Ferencz and River Textiles were being honored for their support of Camp Wheeznot, a camp for children that suffer from asthma. Scripps, who attended the camp, was asked to help throw out the first pitch. Garrett Byers/Daily Courier

Prince Harry throws at first pitch in NYC

NEW YORK (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry has a pretty good arm. Harry threw the ceremonial first pitch with a bit of zip before the Mets played the Minnesota Twins on Saturday, the second day of his visit to New York. Without much fanfare, Harry walked to the mound when the Mets ran onto the field before the first inning and received polite applause from the Citi Field crowd. He was wearing a blue Mets cap and a white T-shirt with “walking with the wounded” written on the front in red lettering. The Mets had made him a pinstriped jersey with “Wales” and the number 22 on the back. The 25-year-old prince is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Harry, third in line to the British throne, will walk with wounded veterans participating in a road race through Central Park on Sunday. Standing on the pitching rubber, Harry sheepishly waved to the crowd before shaking his right arm several times and doing a full body jiggle to loosen up. He then made a hard, accurate throw that was a little high, forcing catcher Rod Barajas to stand from his crouch to make the catch of the pitch that crossed the plate. Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey gave Harry throwing advice about a half-hour before the game. A lieutenant in the British Army,

CHAPEL HILL — Roy Williams went from the savoring his second national championship at North Carolina to suffering through the worst season in his Hall of Fame career. He’s hoping a few changes — from a roster restocked with perimeter talent to some technical tweaks — will provide a quick return to form for one of college basketball’s winningest programs. “What we’ve done for 21 years had worked pretty well, so I don’t think we just got dumb all of a sudden,” Williams said Thursday. “It just didn’t work last year. We’re not going to throw everything out the window and say, ’Well, we can’t play that way.’ “But we’re going to make a few little changes and see if things help us and we’ll be a little more determined this year, too, from a player standpoint.” Williams is understandably eager to distance himself and his returning players from a frustrating past 12 months. Fresh off a Tyler Hansbrough-led run to the NCAA title in 2009, the Tar Heels (2017) entered last year with a top-10 national ranking only to finish with a trip to the finals of the NIT — and many felt the Tar Heels didn’t even deserve to be in that tournament in the first place. Then, as the program settled into an offseason that would provide a fresh start, twins David and Travis Wear surprised Williams by announcing they would transfer instead of returning for their sophomore seasons. Their late departure forced the Tar Heels to scramble for last-minute help to an already thin front line — only 7-footer Tyler Zeller and John Henson (6-10) remained — before adding Justin Knox, a 6-9 forward who plans to transfer from Alabama as a graduate student with a year of eligibility. At his annual summer news conference, Williams said he still has yet to speak with either Wear about their decision. In a statement last month, Williams said the brothers’ father called him to say the Wears weren’t coming back after they had returned home to California following exams. They have since decided to transfer to UCLA. “I have not spoken to them and I haven’t dealt with it very well,” Williams said. “It was a hard thing. It was a surprise, but you have to move on. They have to move on and we do too.” The roster will at least give the Tar

UNC coach Roy Williams.

Heels that chance, particularly on the perimeter where last year’s group struggled mightily. The Tar Heels won an intense recruiting fight to land small forward Harrison Barnes to headline a class that includes touted prospects in shooting guard Reggie Bullock and point guard Kendall Marshall. While the focus will be on Barnes from the opening tip, Williams is hoping all three can provide outside shooting and help North Carolina cut down on turnovers that plagued it all year. “We’re going to need something from this freshman group — and I’m going to say not just Harrison, the freshman group,” Williams said. “Harrison’s got the biggest reputation by far, but I think Reggie and Kendall are going to be able to do some things, and we’re going to need them to do some things.” Williams wouldn’t elaborate on exactly what would change for next year, saying only the tweaks would be technical and likely wouldn’t be so pronounced as to be easily spotted. He did, however, offer up one specific detail: “I’m probably going to be a little meaner.” “Whatever buttons we were able to find in the past, we didn’t this time,” Williams said. “That’s one of the great things about college basketball and one of the difficult things: that you do have new teams all the time.”

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Harry spent several innings in a luxury suite with Mets owner Fred Wilpon, the founder of Welcome Back Veterans, a charity which provides support and treatment for soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder.

PARIS (AP) — Michael Phelps easily won the 200-meter butterfly at the Paris Open before ending the first day of the meet by finishing last in the 100-meter freestyle. Phelps led from the start of the 200 butterfly, finishing in 1 minute, 55.70 seconds. Christophe Lebon edged fellow Frenchman Jordan Coelho to finish second in 1:59.01. Phelps swam in the 100 freestyle final about half an hour later and finished eighth. Frenchman Fabien Gilot won in 48.65. Swimming in lane one next to world champion Cesar Cielo of Brazil, Phelps had a slow start and clocked 49.70. “I think as a whole, for the day, it’s not terrible,” the 14-time Olympic champion said. “I’m more happy with my fly.” Phelps will also compete in the 200 freestyle and the 200 individual medley on Sunday. “I will try to recover as much as I can,” he said. “It’s going to be a tough

day.” Phelps, who turns 25 at the end of the month, holds the record for the most gold medals in a single Olympics, with eight at the 2008 Beijing Games. He is competing in Paris as part of his preparations for the U.S. championships in August, which will determine the roster for Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, Calif., later that month. “I’m a bit disappointed with the race”, Phelps said of the 100 freestyle. “It just shows where we stand right now.” Cielo finished fifth in 49.23 while American Nathan Adrian tied for second with Yannick Agnel of France in 48.83. Phelps planned to relax by watching Saturday’s World Cup soccer match between the United States and Ghana. “I’ve got to cheer for my home country,” he said. “They’ve got a big match against Ghana.”

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Freedom to have fun Ellenboro will hold ‘Big Day,’ others fireworks displays By JESSICA OSBORNE Daily Courier Correspondent Writer

ELLENBORO – Start the 4th of July weekend off by heading to Ellenboro, Saturday, July 3, for the “Big Day” festival. A parade will start at 9:15 a.m., and will consist of antique cars, tractors and fire engines. There will be a car show and most of the entries in the parade will be in the car show as well. Approximately 44 vendors are anticipated to set up shop on Depot Street where Big Day will take place. The Depot museum of Ellenboro will also be open. The opening ceremonies for Big Day will begin at 10 a.m. with the honor guard and entertainment for the day will follow. Entertainment for the event will be provided by Rick Strickland, Samantha Hannon and other local singers. They will be performing in front of the Depot. Activities during Big Day will include face painting, cake walks, a scavenger hunt, a three-in-one bouncy house, a 50/50 drawing and a balloon give away. Big Day will last until 1 or 2 p.m. “This used to happen a long time ago but it stopped,” said Sandra Weeks, coevent chair person. “Mike Rhyne and a few others ‘revived’ the event and this is the fourth year that it is being held.” “Big day wasn’t always just held on the fourth of July,” said Rhyne. “It was also held on big events in the county such as when Rutherford County celebrated it’s 200th birthday as well as the 100th birthday of the town of Ellenboro being founded. We even have pictures of Big Day dating back to the early 1900s.” “Essentially every thing down here is free,” said Rhyne. “The only thing that will cost anything are the vendors.” Those interested in participating in the car show or the parade can contact Wilbur Wright, 453-0175, for details. Any other vendors who would like to have a booth can call Sandra Weeks, 453-8932, or Mike Rhyne, 453-7414, before next week.

Other July Fourth events:

July 2 – Celebrate America Night, KidSenses InterACTIVE Children’s Museum: 5:30 p.m.; crafts, patriotic movie and a meeting with Lady Liberty at 6 p.m. Kids Parade and Balloon Drop July 3 – Fourth of July Celebration, KidSenses InterACTIVE Children’s Museum: Noisemaker creations, a kids’ parade, patriotic music and a balloon drop. July 4 – Fourth of July Car Show & Fireworks, Old Gilkey School: 5 to 10:30 p.m.; car show and live music followed by fireworks. July 4 – Fourth of July Fireworks Show, Beach at Lake Lure: 9 to 10 p.m.; pull up a chair on the beach and enjoy the show. July 3-5 – Fourth of July events at Chimney Rock Park: Cookout on the Sky Lounge patio (hot dog, chips and a drink for $5), plus hammered dulcimerist John Mason. On Saturday, join Emily Walker to meet Grady the Groundhog’s animal friends between noon and 2 p.m.

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This tagged pigeon, perched on the door frame of a Forest City grocery store, caught the attention of shoppers recently who dared to walk underneath.

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Caroleen First United Methodist Church celebrated a dedication of two church/community bulletin boards June 6. The boards were the Eagle Scout Project of Life Scout Bricen Hoyle (third from left) of Troop 137. Pictured with Hoyle are Garrett Arrowood, Adam Harris, Pastor Phillip Park, Garet Parry, Dylan West and Scoutmaster Roger Byers.

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The Rev. Rosaleen Francis was a popular woman at the Multi-Cultural Festival at Hardin Park in Forest City recently. From her snack wagon, Francis helped serve free ice cream to everyone who stopped by. She pastors a church near Easley, S.C. and is a sister to Rev. Travis McEntyre of Harvest House Ministries, Forest City.

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Mooring completes Woodberry Forest School Bryson S. Mooring graduated during the 121st commencement exercises at Woodberry Forest School on May 29. Mooring will attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Franklin J. Mooring of Rutherfordton, and Mr. and Mrs. Gary K. Wheeler of Charlotte. Woodberry Forest School is a highly Bryson Mooring selective, independent boarding school in Madison County, Va. for 400 boys in grades 9-12 from 33 states, the District of Columbia and 13 other countries. Founded in 1889, it emphasizes an education based on intellectual thoroughness, moral integrity and good sportsmanship.

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Among eighth graders in Rutherford County receiving the Daughter of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award last week were (front row, l-r) — Harley Burgess, Chase Middle; Alex Elgin, East Middle and Meagan Yelton, Trinity. Second row — Donald Penson, R-S Middle School and Brennan Teddy, Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy. The annual DAR Good Citizen Award is presented by the Griffith Rutherford Chapter DAR.

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Lion John Horne (right) of the Rutherfordton Lions Club congratulates Brett Thompson on receiving the club’s first annual Glenn Griffith Scholarship. Thompson graduated this month from R-S Central High School and plans to attend N.C. State University and study mechanical engineering. Glenn Griffith was a former member of the club who left a bequest to be used for Lions services.

Strickland awarded scholarship Allen Strickland was recently awarded a $2,500 scholarship from the Baldor Electric company Foundation. This competitive scholarship was introduced this year to provide educational opportunities for the children of Baldor’s employees. Strickland is a recent graduate of East Rutherford High School, and in the fall he will begin studying music at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs. He is the son of Joey and Denise Strickland, and his father is employed by Baldor in Kings Mountain.

MJROTC members receive special awards

RUTHERFORDTON – Members of the R-S Central High School MJROTC recently received awards:

Special Awards

American Legion Scholastic Excellence Medal – Shakeia Burgin American Legion Military Excellence Medal – Ashley Davis Sons of the American Revolution JROTC Bronze Medal – Corey Smith Daughters of the American Revolution JROTC Award – Katie Atkins Military Order of the World Wars JROTC Award – Holli Hayes Military Officers Association of America JROTC Medal – Chris Noffke VFW JROTC Leadership Award – Alex Murray Daedalian JROTC Award – Hunter Bumgardner Women Marine Association Award – Jessica Morrison Non Commissioned Officers

ALBANY, NY – Connie B. Smith, a resident of Bostic has earned an associate in science in Nursing from Excelsior College. Excelsior College (www.excelsior.edu) is an accredited, private, nonprofit institution that focuses on the needs of working adults. Its primary mission is to increase access to a college degree for adult learners by removing obstacles to their educational goals. Excelsior’s unique strength is its acknowledged leadership in the assessment of student knowledge. It does so by providing working adults multiple avenues to degree completion that include its own online courses and college-level proficiency examinations, and the acceptance of credit in transfer from other colleges and universities. Founded in 1971 and located in Albany, N.Y., it is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Excelsior’s degree programs in nursing are accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC). The School of Nursing has been designated a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education by the National League for Nursing.

Miller, Corey Smith, Hunter Bumgardner, Holli Hayes, Charles Hill, Dakota Kesterson, Savannah Parton, Cody Sims, Tommy Stover and Dustin Whitaker. Platoon of the Year – First Platoon, led by Bransom Benfield; members were Alex Murray, Martina Carson, Taylyr Johns, Katie Atkins, Tyler Brown, Lindsey Cathcart, Cole Flack, Jasmine Glenn, Lori Townsend, Richard Francois, Shaq Miller, Amanda Parker, Malik Sanford, Cliff Alexander, Jason Cuthbertson and Rusty Woody. Physical Fitness Awards – Top male: Dominique Petty; Top female:Ashley Davis Marksmanship Awards – Wall of Honor Awards Cadet category, top male: Tyler Platoon of the Semester – Fifth Osborne; top female: Taylyr Platoon, led by Ashley Davis; Johns; Rifle team category, members were Shakeia Burgin, top male: Logan Hartzog; top Gabe Abele, Matt Higgins, Ian female: Jessica Eberhart Clay, Tiffany Edgerton, Cody Hill, Paige McCombs, Jeremiah Please see JROTC, Page 6C Spencer, Austin Lee, Akaska Association JROTC Award – Logan Hartzog Military Order of the Purple Heart JROTC Award – Ray King Navy League of the U.S. Youth Award – Jacob Yant Reserve Officers Association Award – Dominique Petty AMVETS JROTC Award – Amber Adkins National Sojourner Award – Tommy Stover Scottish Rite JROTC Award – Daniel Pruett The Retired Enlisted Association Award – Gabe Abele DAV JROTC Medal – Nick Stoehrer Daughters of American Colonists JROTC Award – Courtney Blair.

Gardella chosen for NYSP Dominic Gardella has been chosen to attend the National Young Scholars Program at Wake Forest University this summer. Students who maintain a high GPA and display strong leadership skills are eligible for nomination into the program. NYSP gives students the chance to study in specific areas such as Dominic Gardella architecture, forensic science and medicine. Throughout the program, young scholars engage in challenging coursework, gain a greater sense of independence and experience a renaissance of learning. The program culminates with student-created projects tying in leadership skills learned with the discoveries made in their specific area of study. Dominic has chosen CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as his main course of study. Dominic, a rising sixth grader, has been on the honor roll at Pinnacle Elementary since 2007 and was also a first place winner in Rutherford County, first place in regional and second place in state in the Daughter of the American Revolution poster contest.

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Weddings

Boone and Ford exchange vows

Tracie Danielle Ford and James Reagan Boone were married Saturday, June 5, 2010, in an outdoor gazebo wedding at the bridegroom’s parents’ home. The Rev. Rob Roy Staley officiated at the 2 p.m. ceremony. Soloists Phebe Martin and Ronnie Ford provided the music. The bride was given in marriage by her father and the couple’s son, Keagan Boone. She wore an ivory gown made of chiffon and a fingertip veil with a crown at the top. She carried a bouquet of gerber daisies. The bride chose her sister, Ashley Ford of Rutherfordton, as maid of honor. She wore a mocha colored floorlength strapless dress Mr. and Mrs. James Boone and carried gerber daisies. ringbearer was the Bridesmaids were bride’s nephew, Jaden Jennifer King of Ellenburg. Ellenboro and Rachel An outdoor reception Bland of Spindale. They was held at the bridewore mocha floorgrooms’ parents house. length dresses and carDecorations included ried gerber daisies. tables with pink gerber The bridegroom daisies. A three-tiered chose his father as cake frosted with butbest man. Groomsmen tercream icing with a were the bridegroom’s fountain underneath brother, Wesley was served. Reception Boone of Charlotte, attendants were Wendy and Lee Parker of Craig and Guyanne Rutherfordton. Craig. Flower girl was the The bride is the bridegroom’s daughdaughter of Patricia ter, Macee Boone, and Ford and Ronnie Ford,

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Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Spangler, now

Spanglers celebrate 50 years

both of Rutherfordton. She is a 2000 graduate of R-S Central High School. She is a certified pharmacy technician at Wal-mart Pharmacy in Forest Ciy. The bridegroom is the son of Dewitt and Gail Boone of Rutherfordton. He is a 1985 graduate of R-S Central High School and is employed by R-S Central High School. After a wedding trip to Hilton Head, S.C., the couple live in Rutherfordton.

Engagements Hollifield, Harris

Mike and Susan Hollifield of Bostic announce the engagement of their daughter, Stephanie Kristen Hollifeld, to Stephen Daniel Harris, son of James and Donna Harris and the late Penny Harris. An Aug. 7, 2010, wedding is planned at Missionary Wesleyan Church in Forest City. The bride-elect is a 2003 graduate of East Rutherford High School and a 2008 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. She is employed by Rutherford County Schools and Medical Arts Pharmacy. The future bridegroom is a 2004 graduate of East Rutherford High School and a 2008 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a bachelor’s degree in finance. He is employed by Western and Southern Financial Group.

Anniversaries

A. Eugene Spangler and Versie Ward Spangler celebrated their golden wedding anniversary June 12 at Hoyle Memorial United Methodist Church in Shelby. The couple were married June 14, 1960, in Marion. Gene retired from barbering after 43 years. He opened the first Roffler Hair Styling Shop in Gastonia and was also co-owner of Hairstyling Institute in Charlotte. He is a past master of Masonic Lodge

No. 369 in Gastonia. Versie retired after 50 years in retail sales. They are members of Hoyle Memorial United Methodist Church. The couple have four children, Rita McCurry and husband, Jim,Donna Greena nd husband, Ray, Jimmy Spangler and wife, Teresa, and Patricia Smart and husband, Larry. The couple also have nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

New Arrivals RUTHERFORDTON – The following babies were born recently at Rutherford Hospital: Whitney Ross and Morris Abraham of Forest City, a son, Jaelyn Omari Abraham, June 8. Christine Hull and David Guffey of Forest City, a son, Elijah Ian McCallister Guffey, June 8. Steven Whiteside and Jessie Burnette of Rutherfordton, a son, Colby Max Whiteside, June 10. Nelson Makupson and Twila Washburn of

Ellenboro, a son, Nelson Vernell Makupson III, June 12. Samuel and Dana Leach of Rutherfordton, a daughter, Kandra Michele Leach, June 14. Harold Shepherd and Sarah Smeal of Forest City, a daughter, Kimberly Mae Shepherd, June 15. Sherri Simmons and William Calloway of Forest City, a son, Christopher Andrew Calloway, June 15. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Morrow of Ruhterfordton, a daughter, Creston Mandalen

Morrow, June 15. Mr. and Mrs. James Gay of Ellenboro, a son, Jackson Bentley Gay, June 16. LuciAnne and Brian Tessner of Columbus, a son, Brian Leviticus Tessner, June 16.

Lakisha Hamilton of Rutherfordton, a daughter, Jayda Ari Hamilton, June 16. Paris Ramsey and Michael Logan of Forest City, a son, Rylan Drake Logan, June 18. Jasmyne Joiner of Forest City, a son, Isaiah Jordan Joiner, June 18.

Reunions Chase High Class of 1965 Chase High School Class of 1965 is planning its 45th reunion for Saturday, Oct. 16, at the Rutherfordton Clubhouse.

Kristen Hollifield and Stephen Harris

If you have not received an invitation, please contact one of the following people and give them your address: Ronnie Holland, 2451516; Donna Hughes, 286-2710; Donnis Baynard, 704-4825753; or Janice Swing, 657-6180.

East Rutherford Class of 2000 The East Rutherford Class of 2000 will hold a reunion Sept. 18. For details, please contact Amber Guffey Fowler at 289-1766 or visit the class’ Facebook page. Harris-Logan The Harris and Logan family reunion will be held Saturday, July 3, at Crowe Park in Forest City. The family will gather at 10:30 a.m. and the cookout will begin at 1:30 p.m.

On July 4, family members will gather at New Zion Baptist Church in Henrietta. Call 828-980-2075 for more information. Chase High Band Alumni The Chase High School Trojan Band will hold an alumni dinner for anyone who has ever been a member in September. For information, contact Band Director Michael Henderson at mhenderson@rcsnc.org.

Blood drives set for Monday FOREST CITY — The supply of type O negative blood at the American Red Cross has dropped to critically low levels. Type O negative donors are needed to help prevent the fragile type O negative blood supply from reaching a crisis level. Blood drives will be held Monday at the fol-

lowing locations: Rutherford Chapter Blood Drive, 2 to 6:30 p.m.; please call 2875916 to schedule your appointment. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a cruise for two. Bethel Baptist Church, 4 to 8:30 p.m.; please call 453-8895.

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Military News

Martin a finalist in Pre-Teen NC

White appointed to warrant officer one

John T. White graduated from the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker, Daleville, Ala., and was appointed to the rank of warrant officer one.

The student completed an intense six-week course conducted in a very demanding, rigorous, high-stressed and deadline-required environment.

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The candidate received training in leadership skills, Army customs, doctrine, tradition and tactics, drill and ceremonies, professional ethics, physical fitness, time-stress-people management skills, decision making, delegation and personnel skills, and numerous other military academic subjects. Students gain experience

Warrant officers continue to further their training through technical and tactical certification. As the officers gain progressive levels of expertise and leadership, they operate, maintain, administer and manage equipment, support activities or technical systems throughout their Army career. They are highly spe-

cialized technical and training experts in their career specialties whom provide valuable skills, guidance and expertise to commanders and organizations. Warrant officers serve in the Regular Army, National Guard or Reserve to fulfill their military service obligation. White is a network management technician with nine years of military service. He is the son of Sue and stepson of Robert Allred of Dobbinsville Road, Ellenboro, N.C. His wife, Mary, is the daughter of Irene Lake of Old Somerset Road, Mount Vernon, Ky. The warrant officer is a 1986 graduate of Chase High School.

Aurora Alexis Martin, daughter of Tonia Wilson and Nathan Martin of Green Hill, has been selected as a finalist in the Pre-Teen North Carolina Scholarship and Recognition Program to be held July 29-Aug. 1 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Research Triangle Park in Raleigh. Pre-Teen North Carolina is a by-invitation only scholarship and recognition event involving young ladies ages 7 to 12 based on their school academic records, awards and honors won and/or their participation in outside activities. Additionally, young ladies are invited who have been recognized publicly for their outstanding personal achieveemnts, volunteer services, school involvement, leadership abilities or creative talents.

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County 4-H offers day camps Cultures Around the World: Wednesday, July 7, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come learn about different countries and their traditions, customs and ways of life. Take a close look at Japan, Russia and other countries. Make crafts relating to them, play games, and explore food from them. Ages 8-12, cost $7. What to bring: bagged lunch and drink. Bug Out: Friday, July 9, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Take a closer look at creepy crawlies! Explore different kinds of insects, make buggy crafts and play buzzing games. Ages 5-8, cost $7. What to bring: bagged lunch and drink.

Wednesday, August 4, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Ever wondered how pottery is made? Travel to Good Earth Pottery Studio in Forest City to see how pottery is made. Will Kids & Chefsbe making coil pot and Beginners: Monday, other sculpture pieces. July 12 through Friday, Items made will be July 16, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This hands-on day glazed and fired after camps is taught by local the class. Arrangements will be made for pickchefs and Cooperative up when the pieces Extension staff with a focus on agriculture and are ready. Ages 12 and up, cost $9, wear old nutrition. Each day of clothes. camp features a farm tour, cooking, games, Farm Animals: and crafts. Participants Thursday, July 28, will learn about farm 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sell production, market all different kinds of sales food selection, cooking techniques, eti- farm animals around Rutherford County. quette, and safe food Visit lots of farms and handling. All supplies see cows, horses, goats, will be provided. Bring a bag lunch on Monday and more. Ages 5-8, only. Lunch and snacks cost $5. What to bring: Bagged lunch and will be provided Tuesday through Friday. drink. Wear play clothes and closed-toes shoes. Ages 10-13, cost $50. Magic of Electricity: Tuesday, August 3, 1-4 p.m. Every wondered how a flashlight or other electronic items work? Come learn about circuits and make an “Attitude Selector” that can be used to impress your friends. Learn how to solder the components on a circuit board together. Ages 10 and up, cost $6. Good Earth Pottery:

Beading for Fun: Friday, Aug. 6, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Learn the techniques used in making jewelry. Will be making a bracelet and set of earrings using Swarovski crystals. Will be able to take the technique learned and make jewelry for yourself, family, friends, or even to sell. Ages 12 and up, cost $12. Science Discovery Camp: Monday-Friday,

Aug. 9-13, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Come explore science for a week at the Schiele Museum of Natural History. During the five days, campers will depart for the Schiele Museum in Gastonia, where NC State University faculty will guide youth through a journey of exploration. Discover the topics of Plant and Soil Science, Electricity, Solar Cars, Rocketry and Space, and Environmental Science. Also giving support for creating science fair projects. Ages 9-13, cost $110, includes daily transportation. What to bring: bagged lunch and drink each day.

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Communities in Schools of Rutherford County will offer mentor training beginning in August. In preparation for the new school year and in an effort to make the training a bit easier for everyone, CISRC has scheduled three sessions in three area schools. Training will be three hours, from 9 a.m. to noon, the first week of August. Trainings will be held as follows: n Tuesday, Aug. 3 – Forest City-Dunbar Elementary, Forest City n Wednesday, Aug. 4 – Ellenboro Elementary, Ellenboro n Thursday, Aug. 5 – Pinnacle Elementary, Gilkey

If you have ever considered being a mentor and wondered what was required to participate, this is your opportunity to find out. “Mentoring and Tutoring Excellence: A pocket Guide for Volunteers” will be given to each volunteer who participates in the training.

with CIS students in need of a one-on-one relationship with a caring adult. Participation is training is worth the gift of this guide.” Even if you have been a mentor in the past, it offers a chance to brush up on your skills in working with children. The sessions promise to be lively and fun as you Linda Harrill, presilearn the challenges and dent and founder of rewards of mentoring. Communities In Schools There is no charge for of North Carolina, the training and it does explained, “ The infornot commit you to being mation in this guide a mentor. has been selected from a plethora of materials Please email execdir@ used by volunteers and RutherfordCIS.org or youth serving organicall Charlotte Ware zations. It is intended Epley at 288-0228 or to serve as a resource 748-6029 to reserve for you as you work your seat at the location throughout the year of your choice.

N.C. Arboretum to host outdoor sculpture exhibit

ASHEVILLE – The North Carolina Arboretum is host to a new series of outdoor sculpture installations by artists Jason S. Brown and Elizabeth Scofield. Inflorescence is a new exhibit through February 2011 that features a variety of botanical forms created Apples, Apples, from synthetic nylon fabric. Elements Apples: Tuesday, Aug. include 14-feet-tall sprout-like striped 17, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. plants, giant blades of nylon grass, Learn about everybody’s large-scale synthetic flowers, and odd favorite fruit - apples. plant-like shapes inspired by nature. Learn their history, The exhibit surrounds the viewer nutritional value, and and creates an experience similar to how to cook, make walking through a field of tall plants. crafts, and play games The pieces combine the order and using apples. Learn how geometry of a flower garden with the apples are grown and organic and shifting nature of a field, the many uses for them. especially when the elements are Ages 5-8, cost $8. What moving with air currents. to bring: Bagged lunch The exhibit is designed to be and drink. kinetic and activated by wind. The title, Inflorescence, is derived All workshops will from the structure and patterns of begin and end at the plant organisms and growth cycles. Cooperative Extension Installation sites include: Center located at 193 The Baker Exhibit Center, on view Callahan-Koon Road in Spindale.

Humanities Council seeks literary entries

GREENSBORO – The North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, invites original entries of fiction, nonfiction or poetry for the 2010 Linda Flowers Literary Award. The postmark deadline for submissions is Aug. 15, 2010. The Linda Flowers Literary Award is given annually by the North Carolina Humanities Council for unpublished writing that portrays North Carolina, its people and cultures. While authors do not have to be North Carolinians, entries are expected to draw on North Carolina connections and/or memories. The North Carolina Humanities

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Council will award the author of the wining entry a cash prize of $500, publication in the Humanities Council’s biannual magazine North Carolina Conversations, and support towards a writer’s residency at Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. There is no entry fee. Entries should be no longer than 2,500 words and five copies of an entry should be submitted. For a complete description and full submission guidelines for the Linda Flowers Literary Award, visit the North Carolina Humanities Council website at www.nchumanities.org. Entries should be mailed to the North Carolina Humanities Council, Attention: Dr. Shelley Crisp, Executive Director, 122 N. Elm St., Suite 601, Greensboro, NC, 27401. Questions about the Linda Flowers Literary Award may be directed to Dr. Crisp at scrisp@nchumanities.org or 336-334-5383.

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JROTC Continued from Page 3C

Cadets of the Semester – First Platoon: Katie Atkins; Second Platoon: Courtney Blair; Third Platoon: Daniel Pruett; Fourth Platoon: Nick Stoehrer; Fifth Platoon: Cody Hill. Outstanding Cadets – First year: Holli Hayes; second year: Corey Smith; third year: Alex Murray.

Volunteer Awards

Outstanding Community Service Volunteers – Jessica Eberhart, Alex Murray, Bransom Benfield, Martina Carson, Taylyr Johns, Jon Russell, Jasmine Glenn, Paige

McCombs and Courtney Blair. Stockton Memorial Color Guard Award – Ashley Davis, Shakeia Burgin, Gabe Abele, Ian Clay, Tiffany Edgerton, Cody Hill, Paige McCombs and Jeremiah Spencer.

Graduate Awards

Honor Graduate – Jessica Eberhart R-S Central Distinguished Shooters – Jessica Eberhart, Logan Hartzog R-S Central Superior Shooter - Jessica Swink Graduating Cadets – Chris Noffke, Jessica Eberhart, Dominique Petty, Logan Hartzog, Jacob Yant, Jon Russell, Nick Beaver, Rebecca

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Cadet Captain Chris Noffke passed command of the company to Cadet Captain Ashley Davis. The incoming senior staff is Cadet First Lt. Alex Murray, Cadet First Bransom Benfield and Cadet Gunnery Sgt. Shakeia Burgin.

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Service dogs shouldn’t be distracted on the job Dear Abby: I am 18, disabled, and work with a service dog. I would like to offer people a few tips on interacting with service dog owners. Perhaps it will lessen some of the daily frustrations all handlers deal with: 1. Not all service dogs are big dogs. I know several Chihuahuas who save their owners’ lives every day with their medical alert tasks. 2. Not all disabilities are visible. Please don’t ask, “What’s wrong with you?” or, “What’s your problem?” 3. There are many kinds of service dogs, not just guide dogs. Medical alert dogs help people with everything from epilepsy to diabetes to

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panic attacks. There are also autism service dogs, mobility dogs and hearing dogs. 4. Please do not pet my dog without asking me first. My dog wears a patch that says, “Do Not Pet.” It’s there for a reason. Abby, I can’t count the number of people who read her patch out loud, then reach out to pet her anyway. Please do not take it personally if we say no. 5. If a dog’s handler seems ill, it’s OK — even preferable — to ask if we are all right. I

Is catherter the culprit? Dear Dr. Gott: I had gynecology surgery in December 2009 because I was having heavy menstrual cycles. An ultrasound showed a buildup of the uterine lining, so my gynecologist performed a D&C and a colposcopy, and biopsied a few spots. All the results were normal. After the surgery, I was able to urinate a few times a day but retained two pounds of fluid for two days. On the third day after the surgery, I was finally able to eliminate all of the retained fluid and I urinated every 20 minutes all day long. Since then, I have noticed that my urine stream is weak. It has been five months since the surgery, and lately, when my bladder is full in the morning, I am not able to empty it fast enough, and it causes pelvic pressure and pain and sometimes cramping until it slowly empties. I do not have a fever, blood in my urine or a burning sensation. I do not have a history of kidney stones and have only had one UTI. The only medication that I currently take is atenolol in the morning. The night prior to the surgery, I was given misoprostol to ripen my cervix. The procedure required a catheter, which was removed before I regained consciousness. Could this change in my

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once had an episode and no less than two dozen people walked right past me while I sat on the floor. Had I been diabetic, I could have died because no one stopped — including two store managers. — Hoping to Help Dear Hoping to Help: Thank you for an important letter. What many people fail to understand is that when an assistance dog is out in public, the animal is working and should not be distracted from its task — which is ensuring the well-being of its owner. Your last tip was the most important of all. Folks, I shouldn’t have to tell you that if you see someone who

appears to be in trouble, it takes only a moment to do the right thing and make sure the person gets the help he or she needs. And that includes calling 911 if it’s merited. Dear Abby: I am a widowed grandmother. Two of my son’s children, ages 18 and 21, have never had much contact with me or my husband. I have mailed them gifts for their birthdays and holidays, never receiving a thank-you or a card or a call on my birthday. To keep the peace, I have kept sending — but now I’m tired. They used to live in Arizona, but now the older granddaughter, “Bethany,”

lives here in Florida. When she came with her parents to stay with me while househunting, she asked, “What are you going to give me for my birthday?” After Bethany became established and settled, I called her on at least four separate occasions, leaving messages, all of which she has ignored. She claims she never received them. My birthday came and went.— Unappreciated Dear Unappreciated: Bethany is the product of her upbringing. You were not a part of her childhood in Arizona, and she was never taught that good manners mean acknowledging gifts and returning phone calls.

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ability to empty my bladder quickly be a result of general anesthesia or the catheter? What tests and treatment should I seek? Will this go away, or is it something I have to live with? I now urinate frequently to intentionally prevent my bladder from getting too ful. Dear Reader: A catheter is a thin, flexible tube that is inserted into the body to either introduce or withdraw fluids. The word catheter is most often used to describe a tube that is used to empty the bladder. This can be achieved by insertion directly into the urethra, which leads to the bladder, or in some instances, a special opening is created within the abdomen for the catheter to be placed. Dilation and curettage (D&C) is a surgical procedure in which a physician dilates the cervix and then scrapes the uterine lining. This is done for a number of reasons, including following abortion or miscarriage, heavy menstrual cycles or as a diagnostic tool for determining the presence of certain gynecologic disorders.

The Community Pet Center wants to thank Sydney Flack, Emily Yelton, Amber Thompson, Katie Rumfelt, Lindsey Shires, and Madison Snyder for making homemade dog and puppy treats and bringing blankets for the kittens and cats at the Animal Shelter. A special thanks to Susie Kernoodle, Troop Leader and Linda Snyder, Assistant Troop Leader. The puppies and dogs loved the treats and the kittens and cats enjoyed the soft blankets. You are each very special-thanks again. Love and thanks from the volunteers

IN THE STARS Your Birthday, June 27; There will be many very good opportunities in the year ahead to develop some ideas you’ve been carrying around in your mind for a long time. CANCER (June 21-July 22) - When a decision has to be made, don’t discount your views on it. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Although this may normally be a day of rest for you, the industrious mood you’re in could encourage you to take on that big project. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Spending some time with a friend might take the edge off of a serious situation. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - There will be nothing more important to you than your family and loved ones. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Take advantage of any opportunity you get to have that serious discussion you’ve been hankering to get at with a friend. Chances are it will work out far better than you ever thought. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - The ability to handle your resources could be surprisingly good at this juncture. For reasons you can’t explain, you’ll put spontaneous spending on the back burner and make only careful purchases. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - It isn’t unreasonable for you not to allow others to impose upon your time or waste your precious hours. Today is likely to be a perfect example of you controlling those you’re with and how long you’re with them. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - In order for you to be productive and feel good about yourself, you will need to finish each and every task you tackle. Take on one job at a time and finish it before moving on. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Plans you lay out in your mind are destined to work out wonderfully. ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Usually you’re your own person and have little interest in what others think about what you’re doing. Today, however, approval could be important to you, even in some small way. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - You are never one who treats your responsibilities lightly, yet today your behavior could show a different side of you. You might actually turn a blind eye to duty, and play most of the day. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - If you have something on your mind that you would like to do with another, this is a good day to plan it with the help of someone who is as imaginative as you are.

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Help without lending money Young newlyweds want to start their marriage on the right track, but maybe money is already tight. As a loved one, you shouldn’t bail them out financially right away. This situation may be the only way they get the gravity of their plight and learn from it. Or maybe you have a friend who is having a tough time. You don’t want to watch anyone struggle, but at the same time, you want to help. How have you helped friends or family without giving or lending money? Here are a few suggestions. CREATE A BUDGET: Encourage or help them to create a budget. Have them list all of their income and bills, and track all of their daily spending. They need a clear picture of what is going on with their money so they can cut expenses. If food is a high expense, find out the reason. Do they know how to cook? If not, show them how to cook a few simple meals. You can invite them over and feed them without giving or lending money. Or you can give them a few of your own triedand-true recipes or an easyto-use cookbook. One reader, Carol, suggests: “For people who are relatively new to cooking, I suggest looking for the 3-ingredient, 4-ingredient, or 5-ingredient-type cookbooks. Recipes like that are a whole lot less intimidating than some of the recipes you’ll find in typical cookbooks. Once you get confident and comfortable with that, you can move on to more complicated recipes, although you may find that some of the simpler recipes actually taste better!” Maybe their food expense is

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high because they don’t know how to stock their pantry by shopping sales or using coupons. Take them shopping and show them how. GIVE THEM INFORMATION: Sometimes the right book can be an eye opener. It could put them in the mindset to save money and live within their means. You can give them books or simply write down the titles and authors, and let them look for the books at the library. Share your knowledge and experience, too. Let them know about bakery outlets, Freecycle, Angel Food Ministries, thrift stores and local community help. Find out if they have anything they can sell to pay debt or to establish an emergency fund. GIFT OF GARDENING: If they have garden space, give them seeds, vegetable plants or fruit trees. GOAL SETTING: Offer your support through talking. Ask them their goals and about what is important to them. Sometimes people need to see past today and the impact their choices have on their future. Another reader, Jean from Canada, says: Communication is key. Set priorities. People need to determine what they value most in life.” TRANSPORTATION: Do you work similar hours? Can you carpool? Maybe you can offer to drive them to run errands when you are doing your errands.

8C — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, June 27, 2010

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Drop in and play KidSenses offers summer walk-in workshops

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The 63rd Annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands will be held July 15-18 at the Asheville Civic Center. For a list of exhibitors, visit www.craftguild.org.

Craft fair returns July 15-18

ASHEVILLE – Rutherford County’s Nancy Kubale will take part in the 63rd Annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands in July. More than 200 craftspeople will fill the two levels of the Asheville Civic Center July 15-18, selling works of clay, fiber, glass, leather, mixed metal, natural materials, paper, wood and jewelry. The Fairs, a local tra-

dition since 1948, showcase the work of members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. Having been accepted into the Guild through a rigorous jury process, these craftspeople are the best of the best in the Appalachian region. Membership is open to artists living in the mountain counties of nine states from Maryland to Alabama. The Fairs also feature craft demonstrations

and, beginning on Friday, local musicians share their love of traditional and bluegrass mountain music live on the arena stage. The Fair focuses on the process of craft. This theme is reflected in the scheduled demonstrations as well as the individual craft booths. Visitors interact with highly-trained craftspeople selling their work and sharing a bit about their process

and inspiration. Hours for the fair are Thursday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $7 for adults and free for children 12 and younger. Group discounts are available. For a complete listing of exhibitors, craft demonstrations and entertainment schedule for the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, visit www.craftguild. org.

RUTHERFORDTON – Get messy, learn to cook and just generally have fun this summer with a series of workshops offered at KidSenses InterACTIVE Children’s Museum. Geared for children ages 6 to 10 – parents optional – each session will feature a different array of activities. Each workshop, offered from 10 to 11:30 a.m., is $5 and an additional $5 per child. Parents can play for free. Space is limited; arrive early on program days for registration. The workshop schedule is as follows: Tuesday, July 6, and Thursday, July 8 – MessFest: Let’s get GROSS! Wear old clothes and prepare for lots of fun as we explore the wonders of all things slimy, muddy, and disgusting! Let’s take hands-on learning to a messy extreme! Tuesday, July 13, and Thursday, July 15 – Serve It Up!: Our most popular summer program is back for two delicious days! Learn to cook, set the table and

create yummy, healthy snacks. Tuesday, July 20, and Thursday, July 22 – American Girls: Spend a day in the life of the American Girls. Explore how they lived, played, and learned as we focus on crafts and culture of different periods in American history. Tuesday July 27, and Thursday July 29 – ArtRageous!: Learn about what inspires art and what inspires YOU! We’ll create our own masterpieces and participate in a group art installation that will be proudly displayed in the Museum. Monday, Aug. 2, and Wednesday, Aug. 4 – Young Writers’ Workshop: Do you love writing, reporting and the buzz of the newsroom? Join the fun as we go out into the world and find all the news that’s fit to print! Tuesday Aug. 10, and Thursday Aug. 12 – Science Shenanigans: Who knew science could be this much fun? Join us for incredible handson science activities you can re-create at home (with parental permission, of course!)

Bluegrass concerts to 4 is free fishing day raise money for UMLC July in all public waters From Staff Reports

UNION MILLS – After hearing bluegrass over and over and over again, Union Mills Learning Center volunteer Loyce Broughton released the musical style might be the key to fundraising for the non-profit organization. Beginning July 2, and for every Friday night in July, the Union Mills Learning Center will hold a bluegrass concert and jam session in the auditorium. Admission is $5. Proceeds from the event will go toward helping keep the center open and functioning to serve the community.

“I’ve been involved with the learning center for the last year,” Broughton said. “We’ve tried different fundraisers and it was not growing.” Spaghetti dinners offered before performances by Rutherford Community Theatre yielded some results, but Broughton said it was time to try

something new to raise money. “Bluegrass kep coming back up and being something people kept telling me we should do,” she said. “Finally I said ‘Let’s do it.’ The timing seemed right.” Broughton said the concerts will be set up like a festival, with food and craft vendors on site as well as the music. Vendors, she said, will not be charged for coming, but have been asked to donate 10 percent of what they make back to the center.

Dixie Moon Bluegrass of Forest City will host each week and will lead a jam session to open all events. Dixie Moon is made up of Jamey Harrison on lead vocals and guitar, Jim Walker on mandolin and vocals, Chris Eagle on guitar and vocals, recent addition Scott Lail on banjo and vocals and Elijah Herzog on upright bass and vocals. Another upcoming performance will feature “The

Whistling Woman” Phyllis Heil of Hickory, who will take the stage July 16. “She was on a TV show with Dixie Moon and they became friends,” Broughton said. “She heard what we were doing and really wanted to help out.” Heil recently performed on the the Speed Channel show “NASCAR’s Fast Track to Fame” in May. She was named the International Whistling Entertainer of the Year in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009 and finished third in the Grand Championship in 2004 and 2005.

If the concerts are a success, Broughton said, it’s possible they will continue into upcoming months. “If people want it, we will do it,” she said. For more information on the concerts or the Union Mills Learning Center, visit www. unionmillslearningcenter.org.

Celebrate the fourth of the July by fishing for free in all public waters. The fish for free event will begin on Sunday, July 4, from 12:01 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. Everyone, including residents and non-residents, can fish in public waters on this date without a license. All other fishing regulations, such as length and daily possession limits, as well as bait and tackle restrictions, will still apply. North Carolina’s annual free fishing day, which always falls on July 4, was created to promote the sport of fishing. The event was authorized by the N.C.

General Assembly and began in 1994. To make finding a spot to fish easier, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has a list of free fishing-access areas on its Website, www. ncwildelife.org. Public fishing areas offer free access from the banks of many streams, rivers, lakes and ponds across the state while Community Fishing Program sites provide fishing opportunities in urban areas. These sites typically feature solar-powered fish feeders, universally-accessible piers and periodic stockings of harvestable-sized channel catfish from April through September.

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