daily courier august 27 2010

UNC expands football probe — Page 1B Sports Rally at the net The Lady Trojans’ volleyball team played host to South Point Thursday

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Friday, August 27, 2010, Forest City, N.C.

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By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer

Davidson president to run UNC system Page 2A

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Stella Louise Baber, 58, of Ellenboro, died about 6 a.m. Thursday when her Buick was struck on U.S. 74A near the N.C. 120 exit. The car was stalled in the westbound lane when struck from behind.

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ELLENBORO — A woman sitting in her disabled car on a county road Thursday morning died when a 2007 Honda Odyssey struck the vehicle from behind.

Stella Louise Baber, 58, of J.M. Lovelace Road in Ellenboro, was in the westbound lane of U.S. 74 at 5:50 a.m. when the van struck her 1994 Buick. She died instantly.

The accident happened on U.S. 74 between N.C. 120 and the Race Path Road overpass.

Baber was traveling to her job as a health-care field nurse when her car stalled in the roadway.

Baber got out of the car and used a cell phone belonging to passer-by Evelyn Williams of Green Hill.

Highway Patrolman J.S. Spence said Williams was headed home after taking husband Webby Williams to the airport for a flight to the couple’s Haiti orphanage.

Williams, shocked by the accident she witnessed, was unable to work Thursday. After the woman used her cell phone, Williams drove her car to Please see Wreck, Page 6A

TDA waiting on legal, legislative counsel

By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — Three days after Tom Judson was terminated as a member of the Tourism Development Authority board of directors, on Thursday he took his seat at the helm. Fewer than 15 minutes later, Judson adjourned the meeting until legal counsel is received regarding the legality of board appointees.

Gene Booth, a Rutherfordton real estate agent, was attending the meeting as Judson’s temporary replacement, appointed by the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce.

But Booth’s interim appointment to the board is not acceptable, according to the bylaws. In an e-mail, County Manager John Condrey, who attended the meeting, said no provision in the enabling legislation exists for such an interim appointment. “The bylaws clearly state that terms are for three years and the appointing body shall appoint a member to fill that term. That is not to say members cannot accept an appointment and resign at any time.”

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Tourism Development Authority Chair Tom Judson (left) and TDA members Dana Conner and Gene Booth at Thursday’s brief TDA meeting. The meeting was adjourned almost immediately after it began as members disputed Booth’s validity as a board Please see TDA, Page 6A member.

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Olympiad continues in county

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Lighting of the Hickory Nut Gorge Olympiad torch lighting is set for 6 p.m. today at Rumbling Bald Resort. The public is invited. After the torch lighting, spectators can view a water-ski show complete with wake-board flips, ski pyramids, water ballet and barefoot skiing by the Lake Lure Water Ski Club.

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FOREST CITY — Athletes and spectators will compete in the Hickory Nut Gorge Olympiad, which began Thursday and concludes Sunday afternoon.

The lighting of the Olympiad Torch is 6 p.m. today at Rumbling Bald Resort in Lake Lure. A host of family events, many of them free, follows. Closing ceremonies are Sunday morning.

After the torch lighting, spectators can view a water-ski show complete with wake-board flips, ski pyramids, water ballet and barefoot skiing by the Lake Lure Water Ski Club.

At least 15 athletes are registered for the triathlon races, including a 14-year-old from Chapel Hill.

The major three races include a 10K Dam Run today; the Lake Lure Sprint Triathlon on Saturday; and the Race to the Rock on Sunday. n 10K Dam Run: The 10K Dam Run begins at Ingles Market on N.C. 9, heads east across the Lake Lure Dam and along the lake’s scenic perimeter to finish on the Beach at Rumbling Bald Resort.

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Davidson College president named to run UNC

RALEIGH (AP) — The University of North Carolina’s hiring Thursday of Davidson College President Tom Ross as the system’s next leader brings in a public servant with a perfect set of credentials to lead during tough fiscal times, enrollment growth and technological advances, school officials said.

Even better, they said, Ross is a lifetime resident of North Carolina.

“He doesn’t need a lot of advice. Tom knows the state. He knows our people. He knows our needs,” outgoing UNC system President Erskine Bowles said after the Board of Governors unanimously chose Ross to succeed him starting Jan. 1. “He will make an enormously positively influence.”

Ross, the Davidson president since 2007, was the lone recommendation from the board’s search committee, which initially presented its findings to the full board in a closed meeting before the public vote. The nationwide search attracted around 60 applicants, and nine were interviewed, board chairwoman Hannah Gage said. But Ross rose to the top, she said.

“There was no one single quality of characteristic that outshone the others,” Gage said. “It was the entire authentic package that resonated deeply and drew us to our conclusion.”

Ross’ resume marks him with a long career in state government and nonprofits that ultimately took him Davidson, his alma mater, three years ago. The former Superior Court judge and director of the state courts system told the board it will be difficult to leave the prestigious liberal arts school north of Charlotte that he and his two children also attended.

“It is the place that nurtured me and helped me grow as a student and again as its president. It has been an emotional struggle for me to come to my decision,” Ross said in accepting the job as the fifth system president since a unified governing board for all public universities was created in 1971. “But I do so feeling called to this position and to this university.”

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Tom Ross speaks to the media following a University of North Carolina Board of Governors meeting in Chapel Hill on, Thursday. The board elected Ross as the new president of the 17-campus public university system during the meeting.

Ross, a Greensboro native, has experience in the UNC system. He went to the law school in Chapel Hill and has been on several UNC boards.

Davidson, a school of 1,800 students, is dramatically different compared to the UNC system’s 17 schools and more than 225,000 students — with an additional 50,000 projected in the next seven years. Ross said many challenges with his new job are similar to those at Davidson.

“You’re dealing with personnel problems, you’re dealing with budget problems, you’re dealing with technology issues,” Ross said. “I suspect that in some ways, there won’t be a huge difference. It is

just a larger, more complex organization.”

Ross said he’s still putting together his goals for the UNC system during his tenure and will listen to faculty and staff while forming those initiatives. But he said he’s committed to keeping tuition affordable while making sure those fees are used wisely to benefit students and the state.

New ways of partnering with community colleges and using technology more effectively can help.

Davidson implemented a program during his tenure that would allow students to graduate from school debt-free.

Ross, 60, already has had experience with one of his new key prime relationships — the Legislature — through his term as courts director in 19992000. He also led a sentencing policy commission in the early 1990s that helped persuade the General Assembly to pass reforms so that parole would be abolished and criminals would serve nearly all of their actual sentences. At a news conference, he rattled off the vote totals by which the structured sentencing bills passed — a hint of his knowledge of the legislative process.

That’s important because he’ll have to go to the Legislature next January to try to protect the UNC system from additional budget cuts from a potential $3 billion shortfall in state government.

“Judge Ross is as well equipped as anybody living to address them immediately,” said former Chief Justice Burley Mitchell, a board member who hired Ross as courts director. “He knows the Legislature and more important, they trust him.”

Ross said he has every intention of staying at the job for a long time.

“We also tried not to look for a president for just this particular crisis,” Gage said. “This will end, and we want someone here beyond this crisis.”

Ross will make $525,000 annually, Gage said, compared to the roughly $478,000 that Bowles has made. A board committee set a salary range for the new president earlier this year of between $495,000 to $550,000.

State sees few takers to online sales tax amnesty

RALEIGH (AP) — Just over two dozen of the 450 online retailers offered amnesty if they begin collecting North Carolina taxes on Internet sales have taken the offer.

In one of the country’s most aggressive efforts to collect sale taxes many retailers don’t

believe they owe, the state’s revenue agents already have started auditing the hundreds of companies that didn’t go along.

“There are already some Internet retailers who didn’t elect to participate in the program who are under examination,” Revenue

Department spokeswoman Beth Stevenson said. “We’re going to prioritize our resources to conduct audits. If a company will not participate in the audit, we will issue summonses for the records needed to do the audit.”

That’s the normal process for determining a

company’s tax liability, and unresolved disputes are sometimes settled only in court, she said.

Courts or Congress may be where a growing dispute over whether states can collect taxes from Internet sales is settled.

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States also charge their residents a “use tax” for out-of-state purchases, but few consumers pay it.

North Carolina, New York and Rhode Island passed laws that make an online retailer responsible for sales tax collections if residents of their states run Web sites that include advertising links driving business to the retailer.

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sales tax or send customers an annual notice of how much tax they owe the state. Retailers would also have to report that to the state.

Another 13 states including Illinois and Tennessee have considered but not approved similar laws in the past two years, the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation said.

Hawaii and California lawmakers passed Internet tax collection laws that were vetoed by their governors.

Federal legislation introduced in July would allow the 23 states working to streamline sales and use taxes to require that online retailers collect state sales taxes.

Supporters say besides increasing state revenues, forcing online retailers to collect sales taxes would even the competition between Internet-only stores and brick-and-mortar shopkeepers.

“By not enforcing sales tax laws, state governments have provided these online retailers with a significant competitive advantage and are subsidizing these retailers’ business,” said Oren Teicher, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, the trade organization for independent stores.

But most retailers are likely to believe they’re not responsible for collecting taxes due because of what amounts to online advertising on someone else’s Web site, said Joseph Henchman, the Tax Foundation’s director of state projects.

“The danger of this is a state being able to impose its tax law on any company that advertises in the state,” Henchman said.

How much money is at stake isn’t clear.

University of Tennessee researchers said last year that uncollected state and local taxes from online sales could total $8.6 billion this year. But the bulk of e-commerce sales are transactions between businesses rather than consumer purchases. And online consumer shopping represents about 4 percent of all retail sales in the United States, the Census Bureau reported.

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At Your Leisure Hobbies and Crafts

Arts

Ann’s Cozy Quilts & Fabrics, Rutherfordton, quiltfabricstore.com Upcoming classes — Beginning quilting, paper piecing, fabric doll Making, jacket, purse, sampler and more.

Rutherford County Visual Artists Guild, Rutherfordton, rcvag.com: Back street barbecue — Sept. 9, 4 to 7 p.m.

Celebration of the Arts Show and sale — Sept.

15-19, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday Tryon Fine Arts Center, Tryon, Explore the Arts — first Thursday of every month

Seams to Be Fabrics, Forest City, seamstobefabrics.com Obsessions Beads, Forest City, obsessionsbeads. com Aug. 28 — Crystallized paisley, 1 p.m., $10 plus supplies Aug. 28 — Fanciful flowers, 3 p.m., $10 plus supplies Aug. 31 — Double the fun, 3 p.m., $10 plus supplies

Performances Union Mills Learning Center, Union Mills, unionmillslearningcenter.org: Bluegrass — Aug. 27, 7 p.m., featuring Fibergrass, South Mountain Connection with lead singer Jamey Harrison, Lawson’s Fork Creek and Dixie Moon; barbecue meal for sale before the concert

Off the Beaded Path, Forest City, offthebeadedpathbeadstore.com: Ongoing — Try-it-Tuesdays, brief jewelry-making demos Aug. 28 — Bead club, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Aug. 31 — Diamond earrings, 6 to 8 p.m.

Sept. 9 —Daisy ring, 6 to 8 p.m.

Sept. 11 — Kumihimo beaded bracelet, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sept. 14 — Lucite flower bracelet part one, 6 to 8 p.m.

Sept. 16 — Lucite flower bracelet part two, 6 to 8 p.m.

Sept. 18 — Bead club, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sept. 21 — Peyote stitch bangle bracelet, 6 to 8 p.m.

Sept. 24 — Wire ring workshop, 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Sept. 25 — Vertigo earrings, 10 a.m. to noon Sept. 28 — Zippity do-da bracelet, 6 to 8 p.m.

Sept. 30 — Wirelace cascade necklace, 6 to 8 p.m.

The Foundation, Spindale, foundationshows. com: 100 years of Broadway — Sept. 16, 7:30 p.m.

Nearly Lear —Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m.

Sister Chicks for Christ Ladies Night Out — Sept.

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Jon Reep — Oct. 21, 8 p.m.

Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great — Oct. 27, 10 a.m. and noon Harold and the Purple Crayon — Nov. 2, 10 a.m. and noon Pianafiddle — Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m.

The Littlest Angel — Dec. 2, 10 a.m. and noon Kathy Mattea — Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.

James Gregory — Jan. 21, 8 p.m.

Chamber Orchestra Kremlin — Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m.

A Second Helping: The Church Basement Ladies Sequel — March 10, 2 and 7:30 p.m.

John Davidson — March 21, 7:30 p.m.

Stuart Little — March 31, 10 a.m. and noon Dr. Etta, Family Specialist — April 1, 8 p.m.

We the People — April 6, 10 a.m.

Good Earth Pottery Studio, Forest City, goodearthpotterystudio.com: Pottery classes — Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 9:30 p.m.; Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Independent study — Tuesdays from 6 to 9:30 p.m.; Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 5 p.m.

Tryon Little Theater, Tryon, tltinfo.org: “Welcome to Mitford” — Sept. 23-26 and Sept.

30-Oct. 3 “MonkY Business” — Nov. 11 “Oliver!” — Feb. 11-20 “Done to Death” — April 28-May 8

Positively Paper Inc., Forest City, positivelypaperinc.com.

Red Planet Games & Hobbies, Forest City, redplanethobbies.com: Monday — Family Board Game Night, 6 p.m.

Tuesdays — Magic the Gathering Tournament, 6 p.m.

Wednesdays — New comic books arrive, Dungeons & Dragons Encounters, 6 to 9 p.m.

Thursdays — The Spoils Tournament, 6 p.m.

Fridays — Friday Night Magic starts at 6 p.m.

Saturdays — Hero Clix Tournament, 1 p.m.; Monsterpocalypse, 6 p.m.

Restaurants and bars

Legal Grounds, Rutherfordton, legalgrounds. net: Aug. 27 — Papa T Trio & Friends, 7 p.m.; Karaoke/DJ, 10 p.m.

Aug. 28 — Moonshine Jenny Barley’s Taproom & Pizzeria, Spindale, www. barleystaproom.com: Aug. 27 — The Lone Derangers Aug. 28 — Copper Kettle Sept. 2 — Paul Cataldo Sept. 3 — Angelo Sept. 4 — The Bad Popes Sept. 10 — Julia Ann Band Dove’s Cove, Forest City: Tuesday — Karaoke at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday — Line dancing, 5 p.m. unitl Thursday — Open mic Friday — Live DJ playing top 100 hits Saturday — Live band: Mother Loade M Squared Restaurant, Spindale, msquaredrestaurant.com: Tuesdays — Patio Party with Alex Thompson on keyboard Wednesdays — Trivia at 8 p.m. (half price wine bottles) Thursdays — Seafood Night (reservations 2884641) Friday — Chef’s specials, Martini Night, Alex Thompson on keyboard Saturday — No entertainment, prime rib specials Sundays — Brunch and Bloody Mary Bar

Family Dance N Play in Spanish, Rutherfordton: Latin dancing classes for adults — Thursdays from 6 to 7:15 p.m., $35/month Latin dancing classes for children — Tuesdays from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., $35/month Zumba — Monday through Friday evenings, Saturdays 10 to 11 a.m.

Drum lessons — Tuesdays at 4 p.m. (limited to two students per class), $38/month (includes student booklet) Chimney Rock Park, Chimney Rock, chimneyrockpark.com: What’s Blooming in Fall — Sept. 1-30; Oct. 1-31; Nov. 1-16 Hammered Dulcimer with John Mason — Sept. 2 and 3, 5 and 6, 15, 17, 19, 23-25 and 30; Oct. 1, 3, 28 and 31; Nov. 1, 4, 26, 27 and 28 Fall Homeschool Day — Sept. 8 Naturalist series, Birding — Sept. 25 and 26 Flock to the Rock — Sept. 25 and 26 Simon Says Guided Bird Walk, Southbound Migration — Oct. 10 Naturalist Series, Color Me Curious — Oct. 16 Shutterbugs Nature Photography Workshop — Oct. 23 and 24 Fall Girl Scout Day — Nov. 6 Naturalist Series, Backyard Habitats — Nov. 20 Santa on the Chimney — Dec. 4, 11 Winter Homeschool Day — Dec. 8 Naturalist Series, Handmade Holidays — Dec. 18 KidSenses Children’s Museum, Rutherfordton, kidsenses.com: Aug. 27 — Music and movement Aug. 28 — Animal Extravaganza Sept. 3 — Science Friday Sept. 4 — Sparkle Saturday Sept. 10 — Meet Mary Poppins Sept. 11 — Community Helpers Day Sept. 17 — Football Friday night Sept. 18 — Mollie Magic Sept. 24 — Pajama Party Sept. 25 — Farm Day

Upcoming events The Art of Clay: A show and sale of functional and decorate pottery going on now through Aug. 28 at the Rutherford County Visual Arts Center, 160 N. Main St., Rutherfordton.

Points To Ponder

North Carolina Mountain State Fair: Held annually at the Western North Carolina Ag Center, the fair features rides, games, exhibits and more; this year’s far is Sept. 10-19; advance tickets are on sale at the Ag Center, WNC Farmer’s Market and at Ingles. For more information, visit mountainfair. org.

Dirty Dancing Festival: Sept. 17 and 18 in Lake Lure. A lake-side viewing of the movie will be held Friday night (donations accepted) and the all-day festival will be held Saturday with dance lessons, story telling sessions, music and contests.

Sponsored by Hickory Nut Gorge Chamber, The Daily Courier and others. For more information, visit dirtydancingfestival.com.

Ellenboro Fair: Sept. 21-25 at the old Ellenboro School Fairground. This year’s theme is American Mixture. For more information, call 453-8785, 453-7457 or 453-7414.

Third Annual Bluegrass and Acoustic Music Festival: Labor Day weekend, Sept. 4, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Redbone Willy’s Trading Company in Lawndale. Featured bands include Josh Hudson, the Blue Roosters, the Dollar Brothers, Upspoken Tradition, Darin and Brooke Aldridge, Steep Canyon Rangers and Mountain Heart. There will be artisans and peddlers, food vendors and more. For tickets, schedules and information, visit www.redbonewilly.com. Advance tickets are $40; at the gate, $25.

Southern Ideal Home Show: Experts will be on hand to tell you “how-to” or do it for you. Home improvement and home building products and services will be available to study. The show is set for Aug. 27-29 at The Park (formerly Charlotte Merchandise Mart). Show hours are Friday, noon to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $9 for adults at the door; children 15 and younger (excluding groups) are free with a paying adult. For more information, visit www.southernidealhomeshow.com.

Southern Women’s Show: Offering savvy shopping, creative cooking ideas, healthy lifestyle tips, trendy fashion shows and celebrity guests, the Southern Women’s Show is Sept. 16-19 at The Park (formerly Charlotte Merchandise Mart). Food Network television star Sandra Lee will appear Friday, Sept. 17, at the show. Show hours are Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $9 for adults at the door and $8 in advance online; $5 at the door and online for ages 6 to 12; ages six and younger are free with a paying adult.

For information or to order tickets, visit www. southernwomensshow.com.

Dixie Classic Fair: Located in the city of Winston-Salem, this year’s fair will be held Oct. 1-10. The theme is “Unleashed.”

The 10-day fair features carnival rides and games, entertainment, food and beverages and exhibits for livestock, poultry, fine arts and crafts.

Grandstand entertainment includes: Oct. 1 and 7 — Demolition Derby Oct. 2 and 8 — Figure 8 Racing Oct. 3 and 10 — Rodeo Oct. 4 — Jason Michael Carroll Oct. 5 — The Tams Oct. 6 — Tenth Avenue North Oct. 9 — OTTPA Tractor Pull For information, visit www.DCFair.com.

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he people of Rutherford County have a difficult decision to make and that decision needs to be made soon.

The question is: Are we going to continue to fight and feud with each other or are we going to try to find ways to work together to make our county better.

If we choose to continue to battle with each other, we are certain to fail.

No one expects everyone to agree on any issue. We all come to the table with different experiences, different backgrounds and different political persuasions. It is not these differences that weaken us. It is slavish devotion to our own ideas that blinds us to greater opportunities.

That is why we need to work together, to listen to other opinions, to consider all our options. When we do that, we can begin to talk to each other. When we start to talk to each other, we may find that we can learn something from each other. One person’s idea may be made stronger by adding something someone else suggests. We may also learn that our differences are not so great and that we share a common goal.

These are things we will never know if we continue fighting among ourselves.

Our readers’ views Says GOP has no love for the middle class To the editor: To all those Fox News contributors, you know, the ones that donated one million dollars to the Republican Party for the October Elections. You know — the ones that make over $250,000 per year, that sit behind a desk one-hour a day and don’t know what a hard day’s work means.

Let me tell you what it means, and I know all you middle-class people know where I come from, because you’re there or have been there. We make $16 or $17 thousand to $24 or $25 thousand per year, and that’s after 35 to 40 years of hard labor, eight to 12 hours a day, six days a week.

These punks don’t know what a hard day’s work is. They make a living on top of the world, running their lips, couple hours a day. And cry because our Commander in Chief wants to tax their $250,000 and more, five cents more on the dollar.

Would the middle class call that greed or what? I don’t hear the Democrats crying about letting the Bush tax cut for the rich die.

Thank God we’re bringing our soldiers home as our Commander in Chief promised.

If you all remember, we all voted for change, did we not?

We all know the Republicans didn’t vote for anything but stay the course. They say “No” to all suggestions, if it’s made by a Democrat.

I am thankful for a change in health care, there’s been no change in 50 years. For the Republicans to say now our health care is going up, that’s a laugh because my health care insurance has been going up every since they were born.

Where have they been the last 20 to 25 years? In diapers?

America wake up and smell the coffee. For the Democrats to vote a Republican into the House or Senate to try and make the point to our Commander in Chief that you disagree with him on a subject, only puts another hand in your pocket.

Write our Commander in Chief, for he’s open to suggestions from his voters. We all know the Republicans have no suggestions. The middle class needs to vote and/or register and vote because we to the Republicans are a dying breed.

But I’ve got news for them. We’re born every day.

Zale Coffey Ellenboro

Objects to coverage of county man’s arrest To the editor: The Courier’s reporting of the arrest of Scott Hoyle in the Aug. 17 edition has me wondering. How is it that The Courier just happened to know of the eminent arrest of Scott Hoyle so they could have a photo op of this man being handcuffed and carted off to jail? One has to wonder.

One also has to wonder why two photos, one a mug shot on the front page of The Courier and another on page 6 of his arrest in handcuffs was necessary?

Readers of The Daily Courier seldom ever see two photos such as this even when it pertains to the most wanted and hardened criminals in our area!

So, I believe that once again, The Courier has taken the opportunity to exploit an issue for its’ own gain. It is better known as sensationalist journalism.

I absolutely do not condone the allegations against Mr. Hoyle. However, two photos of this man, one in handcuffs, was not necessary to report this

story. The only reason for this is perfectly clear to me as with so many other readers who are talking about this story. You also have to wonder, who in law enforcement enabled The Courier to be able to have the photo op of Mr. Hoyle in handcuffs?

Shame on The Daily Courier for exploiting a person at what is probably the worst time in his life and also shame on whoever aided them in doing so.

Christina Terry Forest City

Praises man for his record, humility To the editor: In 1954, little did we realize that one of our citizens would be making history, worthy of the record books. Buddy Weathers was a high school senior when he scored 55 points in a basketball game at Lattimore High School, when they beat Bethware 91-52, on Feb.12, 1954.

The game was thought about, but never discussed, until son, Ron, began to investigate. He found a newspaper clipping and sent it to the NCHSAA. Within days, he found that his Dad, was one point ahead of Phil Ford’s highest scoring game at Rocky Mount High School and 12 points behind Bob Poole’s record of 67.

What a thrill to make the record books, after all these years, even if it is 14th in the state.

Buddy Weathers, who now lives in Mooresboro, was overjoyed to see his name on the list that Ron had secured.

All these years that I have known Buddy Weathers, he had never mentioned this record.

Only after reading about it did I realize how coy Buddy is. How proud we are to call him friend.

Bob Bush Caroleen

Timeless truths still hold, even in 21st Century Of all the things I enjoy about the modern technological benefits of this brave new world in which we live, having the Bible in my pocket is probably the best.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to be able to check my e-mail and get phone calls and browse the web all from my iPhone.

But I’m even more impressed with the fact that I can have the word of God on there in searchable form.

It gets better, with my various Bible apps, I can check on the literal meaning of words, see previous translations and really just dig deep without worrying about whether I’m going to bust up the leather cover. Because, you know, there is no cover.

The search function is

Some Good News Scott Baughman

probably my favorite part of this deal. Now, when I hear someone asking a question or wondering if a particular saying is from the Bible, I can look it up and have the answer at my fingertips in a snap.

This year during our Youth Bible Study Fellowship at Adaville Church, we’re using the new Live Bible from Group.

It’s the 2007 version of the New Living Translation and we even found some money

in the budget to get some hard cover copies and a few soft cover copies to give to the youth.

It comes with a poster and a set of stickers for the kids to go crazy with, but a real plus is how the translation is now a bit more “word for word” and less “idea for idea” as it was for previous NLV Bibles.

Seeing the teens get excited about getting a new Bible is great. There are so many flashy and impressive things out there — like Avatar in 3-D or the Internet as a whole — that sometimes I expect these kids to be completely numb to any kind of response.

What I have to keep reminding myself is that some of the things I find

ho-hum now, are completely new to them.

As fresh-faced kids and new Christians, they are always discovering new things about themselves, the world and their relationship with Christ.

But tooling around with my app on the iPhone or just reading the commentary sections in their hard copies I can find new interesting insights into the mind of Christ myself.

The whole thing is set up from a teen point of view and offers not just thoughts about your relationship with Christ, but also thoughts from other teens across the country showing you what they think.

When a new version of the Live Bible is printed in the coming years, there might

be some thoughts, poems, doodles or ideas from one of our youth included.

Every few pages the Live Bible includes a link to a website where youth can submit the thoughts or ideas they had while reading a particular scripture passage.

When the new version is printed, editors will go through these submissions and find the ones they like best to include in the next Bible printing.

So now, with it on my iPhone, I can get important messages at a moment’s notice. I can get texts, too.

And that’s some good news.

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

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obituaries/local

Obituaries

MISSING Police are looking for 15-year-old Avery Jonathan Parker, who has been missing since Aug. 20. According to Spindale police, Parker is 5 feet, 11 inches and 110 pounds.

Friday, Tipton’s Childcare reported Parker missing about 4:15 p.m. He was last seen wearing a blue hat, gray shirt and plaid shorts. He left toward Forest City near Hudlow and Old Wagy Road area.

Call 286-3464.

Mindy Cassady Mindy Cassady, 58, of Forest City, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, at Hospice House.

A native of Mecklenburg County, she was the daughter of the late Henry Gibbs Cassady and Mattie Evelyn Mathis Cassady.

She worked as a secretary for many years and was a Presbyterian.

She enjoyed writing poetry and swimming.

Survivors include two sisters, Gail Pallotta of Marietta, Ga., and Cathey Stoney of Saluda; three nieces, Laurie Pallotta with two counts of a simple worthless check; released on of Nashville, Tenn., Nora Stoney of Asheville and a $500 bond. (RCSD) Lydia Stoney of Saluda. n James Nathaniel A graveside memoWilkerson, 30, of 366 rial service will be held Nebraska St.; charged with driving while license revoked, Saturday at 10 a.m. at Rutherford County failure to comply with comMemorial Cemetery with munity service; having no Chaplain Cecelia Beck offioperator’s license and havciating. ing a fictitious registration; Memorials may be made released on a $3,000 bond. to Hospice of Rutherford (RPD) County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043. n Corbit Alan Smith, 44, Harrelson Funeral Home of 269 Walls Church Road; is in charge of arrangecharged with assault on a ments. female and communicating threats; released after 48 hours. (RCSD) Online condolences: www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com n Burgess Charles Jones, 41, of 486 Givens Road; charged with operating a Worth Johnson vehicle with no insurance and driving a motor vehicle with Worth William Johnson, no registration; released on a 84, of Spindale, died $800 bond. (RCSD) Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, n Marvin Dion Logan, at Hospice House in Forest 29, of 230 Old Castle Lane; City. charged with habitual A native of Rutherford impaired driving; released on County, he was the son of a $10,000 bond. (RCSD) the late Cicero and Onnie n Angela Jefferson, 21, of 144 Maryland Drive; charged Laughter Johnson.

He was a retired educator with cyberstalking; released with Rutherford County on a $500 bond. (RCSD) Schools, a Navy veteran of n Tiffany Lasha Bristol, 23, of 194 Helens Lane; charged World War II and a memwith communicating threats; ber of Spindale United Methodist Church. released on a $500 bond.

He is survived by his (RCSD) wife, Grace Thomas n Steven Ray Logan, 28, of Johnson of the home; 332 Guffey Road; charged one son, Bill Johnson with breaking and or enterof Spindale; one daughing, larceny after breaking ter, Leslie McBrayer of and entering and failure to Newtown, Pa.; one siscomply with child support; ter, Diane Sanford of released on a $5,000 bond.

Rutherfordton; one broth(FCPD) er, Raymond Johnson of Decatur, Ga.; four grandEMS children; and one greatn Rutherford County grandchild.

Emergency Medical Services Funeral services will be responded to 27 E-911 calls held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Wednesday.

Spindale United Methodist n The Volunteer Life Saving Church with the Rev. Jim and Rescue, Hickory Nut Pyatt officiating.

Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to three calls.

Police Notes Sheriff’s Reports

n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department responded to 149 E-911 calls Wednesday. n Randy Eugene Oliver reported damage to personal property; $50 to a mailbox. n Carolyn McEntyre reported damage to personal property; $50 to a mailbox.

n Fred Lonnie Callahan, Jr. reported the theft of more than $2,000 worth of construction equipment. n Carl Thomas Whitlock reported the theft of over $500 worth of record albums and X-men collectables. n Neil Patel reported the theft of 15 gallons of fuel. n Mattie McBrayer reported damage to personal property; $25 to a mailbox. n An employee of Dollar General reported the theft of cigarette lighters.

Rutherfordton

n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 35 E-911 calls Wednesday.

Spindale

n The Spindale Police Department responded to 15 E-911 calls Wednesday.

Lake Lure

n Lake Lure Police Department responded to 11 E-911 calls Wednesday.

Forest City

n The Forest City Police Department responded to 52 E-911 calls Wednesday. n Teresa Lederer reported an incident of breaking and entering to a motor vehicle and theft.

Arrests

n Kavon Cordae Price, 16, of 160 Gypsy St.; charged with disorderly conduct on a school bus and resisting a public officer; released on a $1,500 bond. (RCSD) n Scottie O’Darrell Jones, 26, of 343 Forest St.; charged with being on the premises with a child as a registered sex offender; released on a $30,000 bond. (RCSD) n Timothy Leon Garner, 41, of 183 Hamilton Road; charged with second-degree rape and a second-degree sexual offense; released on a $100,000 bond. (RCSD) n Summer Nicole Davis, 18, of 2 Gary St.; charged with resisting a public officer; released on a $3,000 bond.

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Fire Calls n Forest City firefighters responded to two vehicle accidents and a smoke report.

James and Madeline Pyle On Tuesday, August 24, 2010, Jim and Madeline Pyle went to meet Jesus, hand in hand.

Jim, 79, was the son of the late James Beatty and Naomi Shaffer Pyle. He was a native of Ft. Ashby, WV, and a retired air conditioning supervisor for the city of Orlando, FL. Madeline, 77, was the daughter of the late Fred and Nellie Day Shook. She was a native of Alleghany County, MD, and a homemaker.

The Pyles were members of Shingle Hollow Congregational Holiness Church.

They are survived by their children, Chyrrl McCulley of Orlando, FL, Janet Edwards of Winter Springs, FL, Linda Pyle-Austin of Rutherfordton, and James Beatty Pyle III of Salisbury; nine grandchildren; Jim’s sister, Jeanette May of Orlando; and Madeline’s sisters and brothers, Lorraine Warner, Oma Barb, Wynona Trexler, Errol Shook, Fred Shook Jr. and Shannon Shook.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, August 28, 2010, at 2 p.m. at Shingle Hollow Congregational Holiness Church with the Rev. Jack Crain officiating.

Memorials may be made to Shingle Hollow Congregational Holiness Church Youth Ministry.

Though our hearts ache, we are filled with joy that we will reunite with them in heaven.

Crowe’s Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences: www. crowemortuary.com PAID OBIT

Private entombment services will be held later.

The body will be at Crowe’s Mortuary from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Memorials may be made to the R-S Central Athletic Department, Spindale Library or Spindale United Methodist Church.

Online condolences: www. crowemortuary.com

Judy Summey Judy Greene Summey, 62, of 2831 Wood Road, Mooresboro, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, at her home.

A native of Cleveland County, she was a daughter of the late Hustler Greene and Flora Mae Martin Greene Scruggs.

She was a member of Prospect Baptist Church and was retired from Cone Mills Cliffside Plant.

Survivors include a son, Reggie Summey of Gaffney, S.C.; two daughters, Lora Waters of Bostic and Melissa Winn of Spindale; a sister, Bobbie Bridges; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Prospect Baptist Church with the Revs. Ernie Cole and Keith Dixon officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. at McKinneyLandreth Funeral Home and at other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to Prospect Baptist Church Building Fund, 2711 Prospect Church Road, Mooresboro, NC 28114.

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Online condolences: www. crowemortuary.com

Online condolences: www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com

James and Madeline Pyle Jim Pyle, 79, and Madeline Pyle, 77, of Rutherfordton, died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010.

Jim was the son of the late James Beatty and Naomi Shaffer Pyle and was a native of Fort

Judy Greene Summey

Judy Greene Summey, 62,of 2831 Wood Rd., Mooresboro, died Wednesday, August 25, 2010, at her residence.

A native of Cleveland County she was born March 14, 1948, a daughter of the late Hustler Greene and Flora Mae Martin Greene Scruggs.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her step-father Lionel Scruggs, her husband Buford Summer and a daughter Amy Nicole Summey.

Judy was a member of Prospect Baptist Church and was retired from Cone Mills Cliffside Plant.

She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law; Reggie and Jenny Summey of Gaffney, two daughters and sons-in-laws Lora and Donald Waters of Bostic, Melissa and Steven Winn of Spindale, one sister; Bobbie Bridges and husband Wayne (Straw) five grandchildren; Leslie Mitchell and husband Tim, Joey Brandley and wife Vicaria, Thomas Winn, Makayla Summey, Jessicie Winn, five great grandchildren; Ayden Hawkins,Logan Hawkins, Georgia “Doodle Bug” Mitchell, Faith Mitchell, Natalie JimenezBrandle.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010, at Prospect Baptist Church with the Revs. Ernie Cole and Keith Dixon officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 7 until 9 p.m., Friday, Aug., 27, 2010, at McKinney-Landreth Home and other times at the home Memorials may be made to Prospect Baptist Church Building Fund, 2711 Prospect Church Rd., Mooresboro, NC 28114 McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home is serving the Summey Family An online guest register is available at www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com

Asheby, W. Va. He was a retired air-conditioning supervisor for the city of Orlando, Fla. Madeline was the daughter of the late Fred and Nellie Day Shook and was a native of Alleghany County, Md. She was a homemaker.

The Pyles were members of Single Hollow Congregational Holiness Church.

The couple is survived by their children, Chyrrl McCulley of Orlando, Janet Edwards of Winter Springs, Fla., Linda PyleAustin of Rutherfordton and James Beatty Pyle III of Salisbury; nine grandchildren; Jim’s sister, Jeanette May of Orlando; and Madeline’s sisters and brothers, Lorraine Warner, Oma Barb, Wynona Trexler, Errol Shook, Fred Shook Jr. and Shannon Shook.

A memorial service will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Shingle Hollow Congregational Holiness Church with the Rev. Jack Crain officiating.

Memorials may be made to Shingle Hollow Congregational Holiness Church Youth Ministry.

Crowe’s Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mindy Cassidy Mindy Cassady, age 58, of Forest City, NC, died Wednesday, August 25, 2010, at Hospice House.

Mindy was born on November 7, 1951, in Mecklenburg County, NC, to the late Henry Gibbs Cassady and Mattie Evelyn Mathis Cassady. She worked as a secretary for many years and was a Presbyterian. She enjoyed writing poetry and swimming.

Survivors include two sisters, Gail Pallotta and husband, Rick, of Marietta, GA and Cathey Stoney and husband, Paul, of Saluda, NC; three nieces, Laurie Pallotta of Nashville, TN, Nora Stoney of Asheville, NC and Lydia Stoney of Saluda, NC. She is also survived by several cousins, including, Karen Bushong of Wilkesboro, NC. A graveside memorial service will be conducted at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 28, 2010, at Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery with Chaplain Cecelia Beck officiating.

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

Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the family of Mindy Cassady.

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

Sadie Putman Dedmon Sadie Putman Dedmon, age 79, of Forest City, NC, died Wednesday, August 25, 2010, at Hospice House.

Sadie was born on March 7, 1931, in Lawrence County, TN, to the late Reverend Grady Avery Putman and Becky Melvina “Vina” White Putman. She was a charter member of Harris First Baptist Church. She and her late husband, Clyde, owned and operated Dedmon & Sons Grocery in the Floyd’s Creek Community.

They also operated the Henrietta Beauty Shop, Harris Speedway and the C & S Mobile Home Park.

She loved and enjoyed southern gospel music, her church and most of all, her family.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 43 years, Clyde R. Dedmon and one brother, Willard Putman.

Survivors include three daughters, Linda Ravan and husband, Link “Spud,” of Forest City, Sandra Yarbrough and husband, Mike, of Lexington, NC and Donna Donigan and husband, Ron, of South Pasadena, CA; one son, Jerry Dedmon and wife, Paulette, of Forest City; two sisters, Mary Hodge and husband, Ken, and Ima Lewis and husband, Frank, all of Forest City. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Saturday, August 28, 2010, at the Harris First Baptist Church with the Reverend George Whitmire and the Reverend Frank Lewis officiating. Interment will follow in Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery.

The family will receive friends one hour prior to service time at the church. Mrs. Dedmon’s body will also lie in state from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Friday at Harrelson Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to Harris First Baptist Church Building Fund, 127 Hogan Road, Forest City, NC 28043 or to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.

Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the Dedmon Family.

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

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Calendar/Local Wreck Continued from Page 1A

Ongoing Foothills Harvest Ministry: $5 plastic grocery bag sale, $7 tall kitchen bag sale, $9 30-gallon trash bag sale; bags can be filled with clothes and shoes.

Silent auctions for Relay for Life: Held weekly through Sept. 10.

Photos and details will be posed on the Rutherford County government website at www.rutherfordcountync.gov. Items will be posted each Monday and bids end each Friday at noon. For information or to place a bid, e-mail Debra Conner, debra.conner@rutherfordcountync.gov.

Luminaria sale and can food drive: Relay for Life Rutherford County is selling luminarias, which will be lighted Sept. 10 at Relay for Life, for $10; luminarias may be purchased online at www. relayforlife.org/rutherfordnc or by calling Gail Strickland, 245-2156 or 233-1735. In addition, canned foods will be used to weigh downt he luminarias. After Relay, the canned foods will be donated to Communities in Schools and Grace of God Rescue Mission; cans should be 11 to 15 ounces to best fit in the luminarias.

Washburn Community Outreach Center: Entire store apparel halfprice; hours Thursday and Friday, noon to 6 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m.t o 2 p.m.; contact the center regarding the GED program offered by ICC at 245-5603.

Recreational socccer sign ups: Mail in registration has been extended; all forms, which can be found at www.rcsoccer.org, must be postmarked by Aug. 25. Walk-in registration and a mini camp will be held Saturday, Aug. 28, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the field at Isothermal Community College; all players must provide a copy of their birth certificate. For more information, call 286-0073 or e-mail rutherfordcountyscoccer@ yahoo.com.

Celebration of the Arts applications: Will be accepted through Sept. 8 at the Rutherford County Visual Arts Center, 160 N. Main St., Rutherfordton; guidelines and information available at www. rcvag.com.

Saturday, Aug. 28 Community yard sale: 8 a.m. to noon, Florence Baptist Church Life Enrichment Center; proceeds will go to Relay for Life.

Ride for a Cure: Various level rides beginning at 8 and 8:30 a.m.; $20 entry fee; benefits Relay for Life; for information, call Scott Moore at 657-6044.

Car wash: 9 a.m. to noon, Retro Cinemas; hosted by East High’s JV cheerleaders; minimum donations are $5 cars, $7 trucks, $10 SUVs; proceeds go toward purchase of new uniforms.

Parking lot swap meet: 10 a.m., Union Mills Learning Center; bring items for barter or sale – plants, produce, baked goods, tools, services, materials, farm/ domestic animals, household items; bring a picture and information for items too large to bring; set up begins at 9:30 a.m., no charge for table space.

Kids’ Computer Corner: Every Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon, Union Mills Learning Center; free to the public and geared toward 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.

Animal Control: Open from 10 a.m. to noon.

Back to school cookout and bake sale: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Rutherford County Chapter of the American Red Cross; children’s games, bean bag toss, fishing game, water balloon toss and face painting.

Sunday, Aug. 29

the side of the road to wait for help.

“I called the family again and told them to hurry because she was sitting in the highway,” she said.

After Baber got off the phone, Spence said, she got back into her car.

As Williams waited, she saw the Honda, driven by Stonewall Jackson, 60, of Kings Mountain, hit the Buick.

Jackson, Spence said, “was coming down the highway and was unable to see it (Baber’s car). There were no lights, and he ran into the car, which resulted in her death. It was a terrible accident.”

Jackson also suffered injuries and was taken to Cleveland Regional Medical Center, where he was treated and released.

Spence arrived at the scene about the same time as Baber’s husband, Dean, who was followed by the couple’s son, Chris.

“We did a re-construction on the car to try to figure out what happened to the car,” Spence said. “We’ve nar-

TDA

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As the meeting began, board member Keven McCammon talked about the importance of board members being in the hospitality industry.

If Booth is appointed, he would be the second member appointed by the Rutherford Chamber who is not involved in the hospitality industry, and that could affect the decisions of the TDA board, McCammon said.

Member Lynn Smith also questioned appointments of members who have no direct affiliation with the tourism industry.

When Dana Conner, a computer business owner, became a member, the board was given advice, according to the bylaws, and Conner’s placement was OK, Smith said. “Basically, it was done and we have worked as best we

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n Lake Lure Sprint Triathlon: Celebrating its sixth year, the Lake Lure Sprint Triathlon starts on the Beach at Rumbling Bald Resort with a 500-meter swim. Next, a 16.9-mile bike course curves through the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The races finishes on the beach after a winding 5K through a valley that runs along Bald Mountain Golf Course. n Race to the Rock: With a 7 percent grade, the 5K run or 7K bike course is a challenge.

Athletes from the 10K Dam Run and a 1-Mile Family Fun Run will begin the races this afternoon. A shag dance competition and games for children also are scheduled.

Friday’s events will close with a fireworks display and free ice cream sundaes on the beach, courtesy of Rumbling Bald.

The event, for children 4 to 14, includes a Junior Olympiad, golf tournament and more Saturday at the Lake Lure Town Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For $10, young athletes can enter six events — 40-yard dash, broad jump, obstacle course, baseball throw, basketball shoot and mountain bike sprints.

An inf latable playground, face painting, magician and

GRACE: For anyone caring for a loved one, held the first Tuesday of each month from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Rutherford Life Services; today’s topic is “Legal issues for caregivers” with attorney John B. Crotts; hosted by Hospice of Rutherford County.

HOPE Support Group: Tuesdays, at 6 p.m. at the Center of Living for any adult in the community who has lost a loved one.

Offered at no cost by Hospice of Rutherford County.

could.”

“At this point, we don’t need to add anymore that are not in the tourism industry,” Smith said.

McCammon said the legislation is the overriding factor in the decision, but Booth disagreed.

Booth said real estate and computer work are important in the industry.

Conner said the TDA board “does not have the authority” to decide not to allow members to serve.

“We are not going to accept you,” Smith said to Booth.

McCammon then called to adjourn until county attorney Beth Miller and a representative from the legislature could be consulted to address questions about the law governing the TDA board.

When legislation was passed to create the TDA and occupancy taxes, Rep. Jack Hunt of Shelby was in the legislature.

Condrey said after talking with the KidSenses Explorer Dome Planetarium will be available at the town park.

Kayak sprints, miniature golf, swim springs, stay and play and medals are featured Sunday at Rumbling Bald Resort.

Other tournaments will be held at Lake Lure Town Beach area on Sunday beginning at 9 a.m., including volleyball, horseshoes, corn-hole toss and Dragon Boat Races and a Junior Olympiad.

New events this year include Pickleball, a combination of tennis, badminton and ping pong, which is played with wood paddles and a plastic perforated ball with a tennis net on a badminton-sized court.

During the Open Water Swim, athletes can choose between one or two miles.

The Hickory Nut Gorge Olympiad is a nonprofit organization that coordinates charitable regional sports festivals.

The Olympiad has given back more than $140,000 to charities since 2005, and the Lake Lure Classical Academy is the primary recipient of proceeds from this year’s event, organizers say.

For more information, including pricing and details for all events, visit the Hickory Nut Gorge Olympiad website at hickorynutolympiad.com, or call 828-429-9011.

‘Race to the Rock’ Sunday FOREST CITY — Runners and cyclists can “Race to the Rock” at

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Jackson was traveling about 65 mph, which is the speed limit in the area.

He will not face charges, although Spence said he will discuss the wreck with the district attorney.

“If you can’t get the vehicle off the road ... surely you don’t want to stay in it,” Spence said.

“It was a terrible thing, an absolute tragedy,” Spence said.

Williams said Thursday afternoon that she could not get the image and the sounds of the crash out of her mind.

“She used my phone and told them to come after her,” Williams said.

After Williams had driven to the side of the road to wait, she called the family a second time to tell them to hurry. Williams called a third time to tell the family “she had been hit.”

“It was dark and the car was in the road and it was a woman, so I stopped to see if I could help. Now I wonder if there wasn’t something I could do for her,” Williams said.

“I can’t explain it. I’m sitting looking at the whole thing. Oh my God,” Williams said. “I saw the car and I

had a feeling she wouldn’t make it.”

Webby Williams called Evelyn when he arrived in Miami. He told his wife he had a strange feeling about her after she dropped him off at the airport. He had prayed for her.

Baber’s death is the third highway fatality in three days in Rutherford County. Tuesday, James Beatty Pyle and Madeline Pyle died in a two-car collision near Green Hill.

Other wrecks Thursday: n Jaime Milks, 24, of Fletcher was headed west on U.S. 74B after 6 a.m., when she swerved off the road to avoid hitting a deer, said D.R. Walker of the Highway Patrol. “When she swerved, she ran off the right side of the road and struck a culvert,” Walker said. She was driving a 2001 Taurus.

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

The Ellenboro Fire Department was dispatched to the wreck about the same time they were working the fatal crash.

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Miller and Human Resource Judy Toney, and since the county commissioners appointed Judson chair of the TDA last month, he remains in the position if appointed by the Hickory Nut Gorge chamber.

If Judson chose not to seek or is not appointed, the TDA would need to make another recommendation to the county commissioners.

A special meeting will be held as soon as possible to discuss the issues.

The board requested the county attorney attend.

“This is probably not going to be a black-and-white issue,” Condrey said.

Rutherford County Chamber President Rick Austin, who is not in his office this week due to the deaths of his in-laws, said he will discuss the TDA appointees when he returns next week.

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

Chimney Rock. The 5K run and 7K cycling time trail are 8 a.m.

Sunday. Both events are part of the 6th Annual Hickory Nut Gorge Olympiad.

Beginning in Chimney Rock Village and continuing up the park’s winding entrance road, the race finishes just below Chimney Rock.

Participants will get 75-mile views of Lake Lure, Hickory Nut Gorge and the Carolina Piedmont.

Spectators may watch the race’s finish but must be in the park before 7:30 a.m. so the road is clear for runners and cyclists.

Advanced registration is $35 and includes a commemorative Olympiad T-shirt, while supplies last.

Register online at hickorynutolympiad.com.

Walk up registration will also be available beginning at 6:30 a.m. at the Old Rock Cafe in Chimney Rock Village. The cost is $40.

Proceeds benefit charitable organizations in the Hickory Nut Gorge.

The Lake Lure Classical Academy is the primary beneficiary of this year’s event.

In its five years, the Olympiad has given nearly $50,000 to local charities.

The Hickory Nut Gorge Olympiad is a four-day sport and community celebration.

Visit hickorynutolympiad.com for more information.

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Homemade ice cream sale: 11 a.m. until, State Employees Credit Union; proceeds benefit Relay for Life.

Free hunter safety course: 6 to 9 p.m., tonight through Sept. 1 (must attend all three nights), N.C. Cooperative Extension Office; to register, visit www.ncwildlife.org or call Officer Dan Vogel at 447-0882 between 9 am. and 9 p.m.

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Nation Today Toyota recalls 1.1 million Corollas, Matrixes

NEW YORK (AP) — Toyota recalled 1.13 million Corolla sedans and Matrix hatchbacks Thursday because their engines may stall, the latest in a string of quality problems at the Japanese automaker.

The recall covers vehicles from the 2005-2008 model years sold in North America.

Serial stabbings suspect leaves Atlanta jail

ATLANTA (AP) — A man suspected in 18 attacks in three states, including five fatal stabbings, was being extradited to Michigan on Thursday to face charges in at least one of the assaults.

Elias Abuelazam left an Atlanta

jail that morning, Fulton County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Tracy Flanagan said in an e-mail.

The 33-year-old is charged with assault with intent to commit murder in the July 27 stabbing of a 26-year-old Flint man.

Mass. police: Shark sighting a practical joke SOMERSET, Mass. (AP) — A practical joker in Massachusetts has taken advantage of recent shark sightings and caused a scare with a fake fin.

Police say about 50 people were drawn to a Somerset, Mass., cove on Wednesday night after someone reported seeing a shark fin in the water. Police tell the Herald News of Fall River that several 911 calls came in to Somerset and Swansea police.

Associated Press

Seven-year-old Dominic Chiodo, of Des Moines, Iowa, eats eggs benedict at the Drake Diner, Tuesday in Des Moines, Iowa. The egg recall hasn’t affected this popular breakfast spot in downtown Des Moines. Manager Shannon Vilmain credits quality suppliers for keeping the diner stocked with safe eggs.

Restaurants scramble after massive egg recall CHICAGO (AP) — Eggs sunnyside-up are still on the menu. But restaurants nationwide are keeping a closer eye on egg suppliers and reminding diners of the dangers of undercooked food after a massive recall tied to a salmonella outbreak.

“If someone asks for eggs overeasy, what do you do, put a skull and crossbones on their table?” said Louis Tricoli, who owns three Wisconsin restaurants with his family, including one where nearly two dozen people were sickened in late June after likely eating the nowrecalled eggs. “Undercooked beef, undercooked pork, chicken, eggs, anything you ask to be undercooked, it’s at your own risk.”

And so, instead of taking eggs off the menu, many restaurateurs are relying on long-standing menu warnings about the dangers of eating undercooked food. And waitstaffs are fielding questions from concerned guests worried that what they’re being served may not be safe.

At Atlanta’s West Egg Cafe, business was brisk last weekend when customers chowed through nearly 2,900 eggs over the course of three days. Still, some diners made sure to ask whether the eggs were safe, said Chef Patric Bell. The restaurant’s eggs weren’t affected by the recall and he said so far no one was changing their breakfast orders.

“If I couldn’t get eggs that were safe, I wouldn’t serve them at all,” he said.

Two Iowa farms, Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, recalled about 550 million eggs last week after learning that salmonella may have sickened as many as 1,300 people.

But outside of such outbreaks, salmonella is always occasionally present in the roughly 80 billion eggs sold in their shell in the U.S. each year. The harmful bacteria typically contaminate one out of every 10,000 to 20,000 eggs.

That risk is always there for people who like eggs that aren’t cooked until the yolks are solid, said Benjamin Chapman, an assistant professor at North Carolina State University. “It’s difficult to say if the

Suspect not known for anti-Muslim feelings

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Enright once volunteered with a group that promotes interfaith tolerance and has supported a proposal for a mosque near ground zero — an experience distinctly at odds with what authorities say happened inside a city taxi.

The baby-faced college student was charged Wednesday with using a folding knife to slash the neck and face of the taxi’s Bangladeshi driver after the driver said he was Muslim.

Enright was so drunk and incoherent when he was arrested that he was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation,

police said.

He was later taken to court and remained jailed without bail Thursday on hate crime charges.

He was found with two composition-style notebooks on him that contained details of his experiences embedded with U.S. forces in Afghanistan but did not appear to contain any anti-Muslim rants, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Enright was carrying the journals in a bag along with an empty bottle of scotch, the official told the AP on condition of anonymity because the investigation is

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A taxi drivers’ labor group quickly used the attack to denounce “bigotry” over plans to build an Islamic center and mosque two blocks north of ground zero, while a leading Islamic group claimed a recent increase in anti-Muslim attacks since the controversy began.

Enright uttered “Assalamu aleikum,” Arabic for “Peace be upon you,” and told the driver, “Consider this a checkpoint,” before attacking him Tuesday night inside the yellow cab in Manhattan, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

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risk is any different than it was two weeks ago or two years ago.”

Restaurants can sometimes be breeding grounds for outbreaks if they crack many eggs into a single container when preparing them, which could allow one bad egg to contaminate a whole batch.

The recall isn’t enough to scare off Charles Mettler, who ordered an eggs Benedict on Tuesday when he stopped by Drake Diner’s in Des Moines, Iowa.

“I’m probably more worried about the Hollandaise sauce as far as cholesterol,” Mettler said.

A spokesman for the National Restaurant Association said he hadn’t heard of any restaurants dropping eggs from the menu entirely, or switching to pasteurized eggs, which are unshelled eggs heated to kill bacteria. They can also generally only be scrambled or used as an ingredient.

But about a dozen major restaurant chains and many individual restaurants contacted by The Associated Press said they’re monitoring the outbreak that’s sickened about 1,300 people so far.

The number of illnesses, which can be life-threatening, especially to those with weakened immune systems, is expected to increase.

Late last week, as news the recall linked to two Iowa farms erupted, executives at Waffle House sent reminders to each of their 1,600 locations reminding staff about the importance of thoroughly cooking eggs, though it’s still serving them to order. The company said 28 of its restaurants had to destroy egg shipments because of the recall.

At Denny’s Corp., where 33 restaurants received recalled eggs, officials are careful to remind customers of their menu warning: “Eggs served over-easy, poached, sunny side-up and soft-boiled may be undercooked and will only be served at the customers’ request.”

Restaurants need to store eggs below 45 degrees in order to slow growth of salmonella, Chapman said. They also should cook them past the 145-degree mark, when yolks are no longer runny.

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Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous day’s net asset value. s = fund split shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week.Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tables at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press.

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Total Assets Obj ($Mlns) NAV

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CI 137,039 LB 63,566 LG 61,323 IH 55,373 LG 53,952 WS 51,442 MA 48,436 LB 46,968 LB 46,671 LB 45,460 LV 39,482 FB 36,776 FV 36,687 LV 36,140 CI 33,800 CA 31,232 WS 30,154 LB 29,724 LB 29,636 MA 29,359 MA 28,516 LB 28,336 CI 28,027 CI 27,718 FB 26,227 FB 26,161 LG 25,891 LB 25,529 LV 15,923 LB 8,668 LB 4,057 GS 1,455 LV 1,126 SR 486 LG 174

+2.0 +12.3/B -6.3 +4.5/B -5.8 +2.2/D -1.4 +5.7/C -4.7 +8.6/A -3.9 +1.5/D -1.7 +9.8/A -5.9 +3.8/B -5.9 +3.9/B -5.8 +2.0/D -7.4 +0.8/D -3.8 +1.5/B -4.3 +1.9/A -4.2 +6.1/A +2.0 +12.0/B -1.4 +13.6/A -4.6 +3.9/C -5.1 +4.7/B -6.3 +4.7/B -2.1 +7.2/B -2.5 +6.2/B -5.9 +3.9/B +2.0 +11.8/C +2.0 +11.7/C -4.4 -1.6/C -3.7 +1.3/B -5.8 +9.2/A -5.9 +3.9/B -6.1 +3.4/B -5.2 +2.1/D -6.0 +3.2/C +0.1 +2.7/D -5.8 +1.2/C -3.2 +31.8/B -7.8 +0.6/D

11.53 26.01 25.46 46.35 56.13 31.09 15.25 96.71 96.09 23.97 88.26 35.72 30.03 23.52 11.53 2.04 24.00 30.82 26.02 16.07 28.28 96.73 11.53 12.44 25.47 13.46 66.63 96.10 20.00 28.46 33.29 10.44 2.78 15.55 13.77

+8.1/A -0.3/B +0.2/B +3.1/C +2.7/A +3.5/A +2.7/B -0.8/C -0.7/C -0.1/B -3.0/D +4.7/A +3.0/A -0.6/B +7.9/A +3.7/B +3.8/A +1.8/A -0.2/B +1.9/B +4.0/A -0.7/C +7.6/A +3.7/E +0.6/C +2.8/B +3.3/A -0.6/C -0.4/B +1.3/A -0.5/C +4.9/B -2.9/D +1.3/B -1.4/D

NL 1,000,000 NL 3,000 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL 2,500 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL 3,000 NL 5,000,000 5.75 250 NL 2,500 5.75 250 NL 2,500 5.75 250 NL 1,000,000 4.25 1,000 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL 100,000 5.75 250 NL 10,000 NL 100,000 3.75 1,000 3.75 250 NL 2,500 NL 3,000 NL 2,500 NL200,000,000 NL 2,500 5.50 2,000 5.75 1,000 1.50 1,000 4.25 2,500 5.75 1,000 4.75 0

CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -Foreign LargeGrowth, FV -Foreign Large Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar.

Stocks slip as investors fret about recovery

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell Thursday after early gains from a better report on jobless claims ebbed. The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time since early July.

The Dow lost 74 points, having been up as much as 45 earlier. The market has struggled to hold on to gains in recent trading as many investors remain unconvinced that the economic recovery will hold.

Stocks have been on a generally declining trend in August after charging ahead in July. A bevy of poor indicators on the economy, especially weak home sales, has pierced a sense of optimism brought about by a series of strong corporate earnings reports the month before. The Dow has lost ground in five of the past six trading sessions, and has shed 430 points over that time.

The market enjoyed a brief reprieve from that malaise early Thursday thanks to an encouraging sign on the job market. The Labor Department reported that first-time claims for jobless benefits fell last week after three straight weekly increases.

Now, it’s up to Ben Bernanke to provide the next clues on the economy. The Federal Reserve chairman is delivering a speech early Friday that investors hope will shed light on how weak the U.S. economy really is and whether the Fed may take more steps to revive it.

Peter Cardillo, at Avalon Partners Inc., said the market wants to see whether “the pulse of the Fed is beating at a fast rate with anxiety over the economy.”

The Dow fell 74.25, or 0.7 percent, to 9,985.81.

The Dow had traded below 10,000 several times this week, but hadn’t closed below that level since July 6.

Broader market barometers also fell. The Standard & Poor’s 500 fell 8.11, or 0.8 percent, to 1,047.22, while the Nasdaq fell 22.85, or 1.1 percent, to 2,118.69.

Falling stocks outpaced rising ones two-to-one on the New York Stock Exchange, where consolidated volume came to a very light 3.8 billion shares.

Treasury prices rose, sending interest rates lower, after the glow from the positive report on jobless claims waned. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note dipped to 2.48 percent from 2.54 percent late Wednesday.

Long-term bond yields are hovering around levels not recorded since early 2009, when the country was in the depths of the recession and stocks hit 12-year lows.

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Jasmine Longmire (center) of Detroit, waits in line while attending a job fair, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, in Southfield, Mich. More layoffs would weaken the economy further, as fewer jobs means less income for Americans to spend. Consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity.

Job scarcity ups foreclosure threat WASHINGTON (AP) — The jobs crisis is putting more Americans at risk of losing their homes.

One in 10 households has missed at least one mortgage payment, and more than 2 million homes have been repossessed since the recession began.

Few expect the outlook to improve until companies start to hire steadily again and layoffs ease.

And while there was some good news Thursday — a modest decrease in the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time in a month — the figure is still too high to bring down the unemployment rate.

So the housing crisis goes on, even though the average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell again this week to an all-time low of 4.36 percent.

“Ultimately, the housing story, whether it is delinquencies, homes sales or housing starts, is an employment story,” said Jay Brinkmann, the top economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association.

It’s just one of the problems confronting Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke as he speaks Friday at a closely watched conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo. The Fed has mostly exhausted its ammo to give the economy a jolt.

Just under 10 percent of homeowners are delinquent on at least one mortgage payment as of June 30, according to a quarterly report on delinquencies released by Brinkmann’s trade group. That’s more than double the level before the recession.

The percentage of mortgage borrowers receiving foreclosure notices did fall slightly from the previous quarter, the first drop in four years. And the percentage of loans receiving their first notice of foreclosure also dipped.

But many experts say the situation is getting worse. July was the worst month on record for new home sales and the worst in 15 years for sales of previously occupied homes.

The supply of unsold homes on the market keeps getting bigger.

At the same time, the growing number of foreclosures keeps pushing down home prices and scaring potential buyers and sellers from the market.

More than 2.3 million homes have been repossessed by lenders since the recession began in December 2007, according to foreclosure listing service RealtyTrac Inc. And 6 million more will be lost to foreclosure over the next three years, by some estimates.

If that happens, home prices will probably sink further, and the economy will suffer. Builders

will keep construction to a minimum, and Americans will be less willing to spend because of their lost home values.

“Housing is certainly not going to help the recovery,” said Michelle Meyer, a Bank of America economist. “It threatens to hinder it.”

A major problem is that many people have homes that are now worth less than they owe on their mortgages. Approximately 11 million homeowners, or 23 percent of those with a mortgage, were “underwater” as of the end of June, real estate data provider CoreLogic reported Thursday. Nevada had the highest number of any state, with 68 percent.

The number of “underwater” mortgages was down from the previous quarter — but only because homes are being repossessed by lenders.

The number of Americans missing payments and falling into foreclosure has gone up along with unemployment. The jobless rate has remained near double digits all year.

First-time requests for unemployment benefits fell last week to a seasonally adjusted 473,000. It was the first decline in a month and came one week after the number hit the halfmillion mark — the highest level in nine months.

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Friday, August 27, 2010 — 9A SHOE by Chris Cassat and Gary Brookins

THE GRIZZWELLS by Bill Schoor

BROOM-HILDA by Russell Myers

DILBERT by Scott Adams

GIL THORP by Jerry Jenkins, Ray Burns and Frank McLaughlin

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Leaving college ends son’s subsidies Dear Abby: Our son, “Jason,” has decided to leave college with only two semesters left in order to pursue his love of river guiding and outdoor programs. While he was in school, his father and I paid for his cell phone, health and car insurance, and his rent because we wanted his focus to be on his studies. We also paid his tuition. Jason has a parttime job. Now that he has decided to leave school, our view is that he should find another job and assume these expenses. I think we would be enabling him if he thought we were always standing by to foot the bill. — Unhappy Dear Unhappy: I agree that Jason should shoulder the responsibility for his living expenses. However, do not make any hard and fast decisions about his tuition while you are still angry at him. This situation will play out. If and when Jason decides to complete his education, discuss the matter of tuition then.

Dear Abby: Do you know what a speech-generating device is? A lot of people don’t. It’s a specialized computer that speaks for people who are unable to communicate verbally.

We’re a group of campers from Camp Courage who use speech-generating devices to talk. Sometimes people are uncomfortable with our unique way of communicating. We’d

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like to share some ideas to help them understand: 1. Please be patient. It takes us a little bit longer to get our messages out than it does you.

2. Feel free to ask questions. Don’t pretend to understand us if you don’t.

3. Do not think we are stupid.

Have you ever tried to communicate using one of these things?

4. If it looks like we’re having trouble, ask if we need help.

5. Treat us like adults — just as you would want to be treated.

6. If you’re curious, you can look at our devices. It’s OK to ask. We’re not all the same.

7. Be our friend. If you do, you’ll find we have a lot of interesting things to say.

Abby, thanks for helping us communicate our message. We hope to speak to you again! — Camille, Heather, Joel, John, Nat and Nicole.

Dear Campers: I’m pleased to help spread the word.

Are stress and baldness linked?

Dear Dr. Gott: My son has a bald spot on the back of his head. His doctor said it was stress-related alopecia. Am I correct that now he should see a dermatologist? I don’t think he’s stressed.

Dear Reader: I’m not all that sure your son suffers from alopecia, an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks hair follicles. In most cases, with the various types of alopecia, hair falls out in small patches about the size of a quarter. It can regrow in the same areas but may fall out again, repeating the pattern. Severe cases result in complete loss of hair over the entire body. Treatment to promote hair growth may include minoxidil (Rogaine), topical creams and corticosteroids.

An individual suffering from alopecia will not ordinarily have other autoimmune difficulties but could have an increased incidence of nasal allergies, atopic eczema, asthma and thyroid disorder.

Most people shed up to 100 hairs every day and don’t bald. And thinning hair is often a part of the aging process that

Puzzle

Ask Dr. Gott Dr. Peter M. Gott occurs because of hormonal changes.

Balding occurs when the rate hair sheds surpasses the rate it grows. Causes can include having diabetes or lupus; scalp infection such as ringworm; a hair-pulling disorder, such as exhibited with mental illness; medical treatment, such as chemotherapy and radiation for cancer; use of specific medications for arthritis, high blood pressure, some cardiac conditions or gout; several forms of alopecia; and still more.

A specific diagnosis can be made through scalp scrapings and other methods. Your son may have a hormonal or medical disorder.

I would defer to his primary-care physician regarding involving a dermatologist.

IN THE STARS Your Birthday, Aug. 27;

There is a strong possibility that you will establish three enviable associations.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) - Someone in dire need may seek you out.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Collective effort has its rewards.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - It isn’t likely that you will feel fulfilled unless you work on something you believe to be of importance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Close your deal while playing golf or tennis.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Proceed on the path you’re on by handling one step at a time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - This is a better than usual time to take care of neglected e-mails.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Financial matters are likely to turn out to be more in your favor.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Avoid involvements with anybody who makes demands on your time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - You won’t wait to be asked, but will jump right in when needed.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - If you need a recreational outing, plan to do something with friends.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Some kind of objective of considerable significance can now be achieved.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - You aren’t likely to be satisfied with the status quo, because you’ll sense within you the ability to apply yourself in ways that can make good things.

10A — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Friday, August 27, 2010

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Bernanke’s challenge: Restore economic confidence

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy appears to be stalling. Yet the Federal Reserve has run out of simple steps it can take to revive it.

That’s the test facing Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke as he addresses a conference Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Without any easy options left, Bernanke must try to prevent another recession by persuading people and businesses to feel confident enough about the future to spend more today.

Weak consumer spending and a scarcity of jobs have put the economy at risk of lapsing into another downturn. Short-term interest rates near zero have yet to rejuvenate the economy. The benefits of federal stimulus programs are fading, and Congress has declined to pass any major new economic aid.

That puts increasing weight on Bernanke’s words.

The Fed chairman will speak at 10 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. local time), less than two hours after the government spells out just how fragile the economy is. The Commerce Department is expected to report the economy grew at an anemic annual rate of 1.4 percent from April to June.

Growth in the current quarter is shaping up to be just as weak.

Bernanke’s task isn’t confined to restoring public confidence. Equally vital, he must forge consensus within the fractious Fed itself.

Some Fed officials have been reluctant to have the central bank invest more money than it already has to try to stimulate borrowing and spending.

At a Fed meeting this month, Bernanke did manage to persuade his colleagues to pursue a new step to try to invigorate the economy: The Fed will use a relatively small amount of money generated by its port-

with their noisy public debate,� Harris says.

Bernanke needs “to give a sense of confidence there is someone with a steady hand on the tiller,� Harris says. “One decisive speech can quiet the noise.�

Beyond public words, Bernanke does have some remaining options for reviving the economy. He could, for example, launch another trillion-dollar-plus program to buy government debt or mortgages securities. The idea would be to stimulate borrowing and spending and avoid deflation.

But even if Bernanke could persuade most other Fed members to go along, the efforts could backfire. Credit that becomes too cheap, for example, might feed speculative bubbles in the prices of assets like stocks, bonds and commodities that could burst and hurt the economy.

Another large-scale program to buy government debt also could raise concerns with global investors that the Fed is printing money to pay for recordhigh U.S. budget deficits.

Such worries could cause investors to demand higher returns to lend their money.

Inflation pressures could build.

Bernanke also could cut to zero the rate the Fed pays banks to keep money parked at the central bank. The idea would be to give banks an incentive to lend more.

But it’s far from clear that it would work. Banks are being more cautious about lending money they already have. And demand for loans remains weak.

But ultimately, Bernanke’s powers of persuasion may be his most potent tool. Some have suggested he embark on a fresh public relations blitz, like the one he did last year when he appeared on CBS’ “60 Minutes� and did a town hall-style meeting on public television.

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folio of mortgage securities to buy government debt. The goal is to further ease rates on mortgages and other loans.

Any additional efforts by Bernanke to lower longterm rates will likely run into resistance. One Fed governor, Kevin Warsh, has expressed concern that further such efforts could alarm investors about the economy.

Others worry that further steps might feed inflationary pressures. Some Fed officials, like Charles Plosser, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, have raised concerns about taking further stimulative steps while the economy is still growing, however slowly.

And in a speech after the Fed’s meeting this month, Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, noted that the Fed’s decision this month to buy more government debt led investors to think the U.S. economy was worse than it is.

Bernanke’s challenge now may be even more difficult

than his role in rescuing the financial system. As dangerous as the financial crisis was, Bernanke had powerful tools at his disposal, and he used them. Besides slashing the Fed’s key interest rate to a record low, he presided over a series of unorthodox steps to unfreeze credit, spur lending and stabilize the banking system.

Since the financial crisis struck in 2008, the Fed’s balance sheet has swollen from roughly $860 billion to $2.3 trillion. From March 2009 to March this year, the Fed bought $1.25 trillion in mortgage securities and $175 billion in debt from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It also bought $300 billion in government debt during 2009.

Those unconventional steps were widely credited with helping avoid another Great Depression. But as Fed watchers like Alan Blinder, a former Fed vice chairman, have noted, the Fed has used up its most potent tools.

And low rates, normally an elixir for a sluggish economy, have yet to stimulate much growth this time.

The benchmark interest rate controlled by the Fed has been almost zero for more than a year now.

Yet the recovery is deflating. Some economists fear the economy could slip into reverse.

Those factors lie at the heart of Bernanke’s challenge: How to persuade individuals and companies to feel good enough about their financial futures to buy homes and cars, expand payrolls and resuscitate the recovery? Beyond the ratecutting and other actions Bernanke’s Fed already has taken, few strong ideas have emerged for what else the Fed should be doing.

Ethan Harris, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, notes that several Fed bank presidents have sparked public uncertainty by pushing in conflicting directions. Some have expressed concerns about inflation, others about deflation — a prolonged drop in the prices of wages, goods and assets like homes and stocks. “They’re hurting rather than helping confidence

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Feds: Don’t tip miners about inspections

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some mine companies are tipping off their underground workers before federal officials make surprise inspections, an illegal practice that has become more prevalent since a West Virginia explosion killed 29 miners, the nation’s top mine official said Thursday.

“We’re looking at this as a chronic problem without question,” Mine Safety and Health Administration director Joe Main told The Associated Press. “We have found enough evidence to know that we need to act to beef-up enforcement of the law to prevent this advance notice.”

Main’s comments came as his agency issued a special guidance bulletin to mines around the country clarifying the ban on giving advance notice of inspections.

The government has stepped up surprise inspections nationwide in the wake of the April explosion at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia. Some workers at the mine testified that managers found ways to tip off miners ahead of time so they could pass inspections. Massey officials have denied issuing any illegal warnings.

Advance notice could give miners anywhere from 10 minutes to more than an hour to hide safety problems such as improper ventilation or disabled methane monitors while inspectors make their way from the main office to locations thousands of feet underground.

MSHA has already issued 28 citations for advance notice violations this year. It issued 31 for all of last year — the highest number in a decade.

To combat the problem, MSHA has turned to more aggressive tactics like commandeering the phones as soon as inspectors arrive or driving up in cars the mine company won’t immediately recognize. But it’s become a dangerous cat-andmouse game as some mines post lookouts or install infrared beams that alert them when anyone enters the property.

“At some of these mines, there’s just one long dirt road where they can see you coming,” said Eddie Sparks, MSHA’s acting assistant district manager for enforcement in Barbourville, Ky. “Some of the coal truck drivers can get on the radio and call ahead before you ever get to the mine.”

Sparks said that’s what happened on April 19 when inspectors drove up to Manalapan Mining Co.’s RB No. 12 mine in Harlan County, Ky. Inspectors monitoring CB radio heard truck drivers alerting the company.

Ryan Palmer, right, with Elite Productions, uses a level as the stage is being set for the Glenn Beck “Restoring Honor” rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

Beck’s rally on the anniversary and at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech is drawing criticism, protests and questions about his intentions.

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Beck’s rally raises questions

WASHINGTON (AP) — Glenn Beck says it’s just a coincidence his Restoring Honor rally on Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial will take place on the anniversary and at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. But he’s hardly apologizing for the connection.

“This is going to be a moment that you’ll never be able to paint people as haters, racists, none of it,” he says of the event featuring Sarah Palin and other conservative political and cultural figures. “This is a moment, quite honestly, that I think we reclaim the civil rights movement.”

Some civil rights veterans are skeptical.

“When we heard about Glenn Beck, it was puzzling,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said. “Because if you read Dr. King’s speech, it just doesn’t gel with what Mr. Beck or Mrs. Palin are representing.”

Beck, a popular figure among tea party activists and a polarizing Fox News Channel personality, is headlining the event, and Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and a potential 2012 president candidate, will be a prominent speaker. But Beck told his television At another inspection the same day, MSHA offi- audience again on Thursday cials seized control of phone lines as soon as they that it’s not about politics. arrived at Left Fork Mining Co.’s Straight Creek The event’s website says No. 1 mine in Bell County, Ky. But Sparks said the rally is to pay tribute to inspectors still overheard a mine employee on America’s military personnel another phone calling down to workers to shut the and others “who embody our belts off because inspectors were outside. nation’s founding principles of “It’s a problem because there’s a lot of phones at a integrity, truth and honor.” It mine, like the guard shack and various mine offic- also is to promote the Special es,” Sparks said. “You can get to different phones Operations Warrior Foundation, that you try to monitor, but before you get to the which provides scholarships and other ones, they can call in ahead of you.” services to family members of Both of the Kentucky cases were part of a military members.

57-mine inspection blitz launched in the days folThe website urges citizens to lowing the April 5 Upper Big Branch disaster. attend and “help us restore the

values that founded this great nation.”

The rally, on the 47th anniversary of King’s plea for racial equality is drawing a strong reaction — and several counterrallies — as the nation looks toward November’s elections.

Beck is known for his strong opinions, including his statement that President Barack Obama is a racist; he later told CBS’ Katie Couric that he was “sorry the way it was phrased.”

But organizers of Saturday’s rally are telling attendees not to bring signs, “as they may deter from the peaceful message we are bringing to Washington.”

Signs at some tea party events have included pictures of Obama embellished with a Hitler-style mustache, racial epithets and threats to Democratic officials. Such posters have given tea party critics grounds to claim the loose organization of activists is motivated by racism against the nation’s first black president.

“Dr. King never had to ask anyone to leave their signs and guns at home,” said Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the NAACP. “The 8-28 rally is supposedly is about ’reclaiming the civil rights movement,’ but it is being led by someone whose idea of a racist is the president of the United States,” said Jess Levin, a spokesman for the liberal Media Matters for America. “This rally is about one thing and one thing only. And that’s promoting Beck’s political agenda.”

Elsewhere in Washington, civil rights activists planned to mark Saturday’s anniversary of the landmark 1963 speech with rallies and demonstrations, some ending on the National Mall.

One group planned a four-story sculpture in honor of King near the Washington Monument.

Others planned to meet at a Washington school.

Sharpton’s National Action Network planned a “Reclaim the Dream” rally featuring Education Secretary Arne Duncan, National Urban League president Marc Morial and Martin Luther King III. In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, King said of Beck’s event that it’s “commendable that this rally will honor the brave men and women of our armed forces who serve our country with phenomenal dedication.” But he also said it was clear the organizers were invoking his father’s work.

“My father championed free speech. He would be the first to say that those participating in Beck’s rally have the right to express their views,” King wrote Wednesday. “But his dream rejected hateful rhetoric and all forms of bigotry or discrimination, whether directed at race, faith, nationality, sexual orientation or political beliefs.”

In the 47 years since King’s speech, it has become a staple of civil rights history.

Beck has sought to play down any comparisons to the slain civil rights leader.

“I know that people are going to hammer because they’re going to say, ’It’s no Martin Luther King speech,”’ Beck told his radio listeners on Wednesday. “Of course it’s not Martin Luther King. You think I’m Martin Luther King?”

And on Thursday, Beck repeated his claim that he didn’t realize he was scheduling the event on the anniversary.

Absentee ballots will decide Alaska senate race ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin has emerged as a key figure in an Alaskan Senate primary race so close that it will now be decided by absentee ballots.

Heavily favored Sen. Lisa Murkowski watched the surprising returns showing a tight race Tuesday night, becoming painfully aware of both Palin’s impact and growing anti-government sentiment.

With all precincts reporting, the Republican senator trailed conservative lawyer Joe Miller by 1,668 votes, leaving both hoping that

uncounted absentee ballots will give them the victory.

The state sent out about 16,000 absentee ballots, and about 7,600 had been received by Monday, but they are not part of the tally. Absentee ballots postmarked by election day can be received for up to 10 days after the election, meaning the count of outstanding mail-in votes won’t begin for several days.

Regardless of the final outcome, the primary is an indication of the influence Palin wields in midterm elections as she looks ahead to a possible White

House bid in 2012. She had been on a losing streak as of late in her role as “Mama Grizzly” kingmaker, but that seems to have changed with wins in other primaries Tuesday and the possibility of Murkowski losing.

The race is the latest chapter in a long-running political saga between Palin and the Murkowski family dating back to 2002, when then-Gov. Frank Murkowski appointed his daughter to the Senate and bypassed the up-and-coming Palin for the position. Palin routed Frank Murkowski four years later in the primary on the

way to her becoming governor, and now she may have helped derail the career of his daughter.

The women have occasionally clashed since then on the issue of health care reform and Palin’s decision to resign as governor last summer. They have denied any bad blood, but that didn’t stop the potshots in this latest race, including attacks on Murkowski on health care that the senator said were horribly misleading and false.

Murkowski on Wednesday declined to discuss what kind of role Palin might have

had on the race.

Pollster Marc Hellenthal, who often works with Republicans, lays the blame for Murkowski’s predicament on her failure to respond to the barrage of negative ads by the Tea Party Express.

Murkowski focused on her record and experience for much of the campaign, but finally began fighting back near the end. But by then, it was “way too late in the ballgame,” Hellenthal said.

“You have to respond to a negative (ad) and those that don’t are retired. She’s about to be retired. ... The high road’s a grave yard, isn’t it?”

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nation/world World Today Palestinians riot in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian residents in east Jerusalem threw rocks at police and settlers and set cars on fire in an ongoing dispute over a contested neighborhood Thursday.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the early morning clashes in Silwan neighborhood erupted due to a disagreement over a pathway claimed by both Jewish and Arab families. He said an Israeli court ruled in 2000 that the pathway belongs to a Jewish family.

Palestinian residents, however, say the clash erupted after settlers were seen trying to break into a local mosque.

About 50,000 Palestinians and 70 Jewish families live in Silwan and tensions are high in the neighborhood over a municipal plan that includes the slated demolition of Palestinian homes. There have been recent clashes.

The pathway leads to an ancient underground spring that some Jews use as a ritual bath to cleanse themselves before morning prayers.

There is a mosque near the spring’s entrance.

N. Korea’s Kim on China visit

JILIN, China (AP) — North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has turned up in China in a strangely timed visit for the reclusive leader while former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is in North Korea trying to win the release of an imprisoned American.

It marked Kim’s second trip to China in three months — unusual for a man who never flies and travels only by armored train.

South Korean media and regional analysts said he may be seeking Chinese aid following flooding in his impoverished country’s northwest — and could be laying the diplomatic ground work for the succession of his son, who is thought to be traveling with him.

German singer guilty; no jail

DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — A German girl band singer broke down in tears Thursday as a court found her guilty of causing bodily harm to her ex-boyfriend by having unprotected sex with him despite knowing she was infected with HIV. She was not sentenced to jail time.

Nadja Benaissa, a member of No Angels, was given a two-year suspended prison sentence and 300 hours community service after she was convicted in a Darmstadt administrative court. She faced a possible ten years behind bars.

The court ruled that the 28-year-old had infected a former boyfriend with the virus that causes AIDS by having unprotected sex with him.

Benaissa helped her case during the trial, which began Aug. 16, by acknowledging she had unprotected sex despite knowing she was HIVpositive and saying it was a big mistake.

A Pakistani woman holds her baby as she stands with family members at her makeshift shelter overlooking a temporary camp for families displaced by flooding, in Sukkar, Sindh province, southern Pakistan, Thursday.

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Taliban: Aid workers not welcome MIR ALI, Pakistan (AP) — The Taliban hinted Thursday they may launch attacks against foreigners helping Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the country’s history, saying their presence was “unacceptable.” The U.N. said it would not be deterred by violent threats.

The militant group has attacked aid workers in the country before, and an outbreak of violence could complicate a relief effort that has already struggled to reach the 8 million people who are in need of emergency assistance.

Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq claimed the U.S. and other countries that have pledged support are not really focused on providing aid to flood victims but had other motives he did not specify.

“Behind the scenes they have certain intentions, but on the face they are talking of relief and help,” Tariq told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location.

“No relief is reaching the affected people, and when the victims are not receiving help, then this horde of foreigners is not acceptable to us at all.”

He strongly hinted that the militants could resort to violence, saying “when we say something is unacceptable to us, one can draw one’s own conclu-

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U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said the U.N. remained committed to helping flood victims in Pakistan.

“We will obviously take these threats seriously as we did before, and take appropriate precautions, but we will not be deterred from doing what we believe we need to do which is help the people of Pakistan ... who have been affected by the flood,” he told a news conference at U.N. headquarters in New York.

Holmes noted that the Pakistani Taliban carried out a suicide attack against the office of the U.N.’s World Food Program in Islamabad last October, killing five staffers, and in March, militants attacked the offices of World Vision, a U.S.-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan, killing six Pakistani employees.

He said U.N. security experts will be working with U.N. agencies and international organizations “to assess what the risks are and to minimize them.”

U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Washington is also taking the threat of attacks by militants seriously.

“We have information of the

potential targeting of foreign relief workers in Pakistan, as well as government ministries,” Crowley told reporters in Washington, adding, “It just underscores the bankrupt vision that these extremists have and we are conscious of that threat.”

According to the United Nations, almost 17.2 million people have been significantly affected by the floods and about 1.2 million homes have been destroyed or badly damaged.

Holmes said U.N. agencies have reached almost 2 million Pakistanis with emergency food supplies and an estimated 2.5 million with clean drinking water. He said medical treatment has been provided to about 3 million people and more than 115,000 tents and 77,000 tarpaulins have been distributed.

About 70 percent of the $460 million initially sought by the U.N. and its humanitarian partners for flood relief — some $325 million — has either been contributed or pledged so far by foreign donors, while an additional $600 million has been provided or promised outside the appeal, he said.

“We’re approaching $1 billion with funds offered or already contributed inside and outside the appeal for this crisis,” Holmes said.

Body identification begins SAN FERNANDO, Mexico (AP) — Working under heavy security in a region controlled by a brutal drug gang, authorities and diplomats began the gruesome task Thursday of identifying the bodies of 72 Central and South American migrants killed just 100 miles from their destination.

Refrigerated boxes were being readied to store the bodies from what could be Mexico’s biggest drug-gang massacre. The bodies were found blindfolded and slumped against a wall at a remote ranch Tuesday near San Fernando, a town of about 30,000 on Mexico’s east coast.

They had been trying to reach the

Texas border, traversing some of Mexico’s most dangerous territory.

Marines guarded the building holding the bodies, using vehicles to block the access several streets away.

At least one refrigerated truck was parked nearby.

The Mexican government flew diplomats from Brazil, Ecuador and El Salvador — where the migrants were believed to be from — directly to San Fernando to identify the bodies.

The gruesome killing was discovered after the lone survivor, 18-yearold Luis Freddy Lala Pomavilla, staggered wounded to a marine checkpoint on a highway and told authorities about the slaughter.

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Four prep teams face gridiron opponents

Charlotte schedules Morehead State CHARLOTTE (AP) — The Charlotte 49ers football program has scheduled its first opponent.

The school announced on Thursday it’s entered into a home-and-home series with Morehead State. The 49ers will visit the Eagles in their first season on Nov. 23, 2013.

Morehead State will play at Charlotte a year later on Nov. 22.

It’s the first big move by athletic director Judy Rose since North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue signed off on a funding bill earlier this month for Charlotte’s football stadium.

By SCOTT BOWERS Daily Courier Sports Editor

OL Barton won’t report to Panthers CHARLOTTE (AP) — Offensive lineman Kirk Barton has decided not to report to the Carolina Panthers, a day after he was claimed off waivers.

Coach John Fox said Thursday he believes Barton has decided to retire.

The Panthers waived reserve tackle Jason Capizzi on Wednesday to make room for Barton, who was waived by Denver earlier this week. The 25-year-old Barton is a former seventh-round pick by Chicago out of Ohio State. He’s bounced around the league with several teams and played in one NFL game the past two seasons.

Barton’s decision left the Panthers a player short of the 80-man limit.

Clemens arraignment set for Monday WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., say that seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens will be arraigned on Monday afternoon on criminal charges.

The former pitcher will appear before U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton for allegedly lying to Congress about his use of steroids.

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Chase’s Caroline Jolley (4) returns a volley over her back during the girl’s volleyball game against South Point Thursday.

South Point spills Chase

By JACOB CONLEY Sports Reporter

CHASE — The Lady Trojans’ volleyball team matched South Point pointfor-point for most of their three games, but the Trojans’ offense sputtered toward the end of each set as Chase fell in straight sets, 3-0 (17-25, 18-25, 18-25), Thursday.

Game 1 was tight early as the two squads exchanged long volleys to open

the contest. Chase took a 10-8 lead on a Sam Carpenter tip shot and a Caroline Jolley dig that found the floor.

South Point responded with a 6-2 run that was broken by a Sarah Wurzbach ace. After the Lady Red Raiders seized a six-point lead, 22-16, the Trojans were only able to manage a single point the rest of the way falling in the first set, Please see Prep Report, Page 2B

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FOREST CITY — The second week of the 2010 NCHSAA prep football season will find all four area high schools in action on the gridiron.

Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy will make its regular season debut on the road against Andrews, while Chase, East Rutherford and R-S Central will each play for the second time.

The Gryphons (0-0) enter the 2010 season still looking for their first win in the NCHSAA. Andrews, which has struggled over the last five years, could provide the Griffs with a shot at that Green elusive first football victory.

The Trojans (0-1) will be looking to rebound as they host the ‘Battle of the Border,’ with the Chesnee Eagles. The Eagles remain a speedy squad, and Chase will be their first opponent of the year.

The Cavaliers (0-1) will play in their home-opener as they welcome in Forestview. East Rutherford and Forestview are both looking for wins after each lost season-openers last Friday.

The Hilltoppers (1-0) rolled for 396-yards in their first win and they remain on the road against East Henderson.

The Eagles dispatched Chase, 27-13, with RB Shaq Davis scoring four touchdowns.

R-S Central’s FB Cameron Green was named The Daily Courier/Edward Jones Gridiron Great after rushing for 166-yards on 28 carries and scoring two TDs in the Hilltoppers’ 32-13 win over Bessemer City.

All four games have scheduled kickoff for 7:30 p.m.

North Carolina Athletic Director Dick Baddour makes a statement regarding the NCAA’s investigation into North Carolina’s football program during media day in Chapel Hill, Thursday.

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North Carolina investigating possible academic violations

By JOEDY McCREARY AP Sports Writer

CHAPEL HILL — The investigation of North Carolina’s football program has expanded into possible academic misconduct involving players and a woman who also has worked as a tutor for coach Butch Davis’ son, school officials said

Thursday night.

Athletic director Dick Baddour declined to identify the players or say how many may be involved, and he refused to specify what the possible violations may have been, saying only that they involved “a student tutor and stuPlease see UNC, Page 2B

AVONDALE — While Thomas Jefferson struggled through the 2009 season, the Andrews Wildcats were continuing their football futility.

Since 2004, the Wildcats have failed to win more than two games in a season and four times they have won just once. Last season, Andrews finished 1-10.

“We haven’t traded films, because we (TJCA) haven’t scrimmaged,” Beam said Tony Helton, head coach at TJCA. “They run a spread offense and a 5-3 defense. We got to go up and take a peek at them when they scrimmaged.

“We feel upbeat about it. We can’t be over-confident, but we feel we match up well. Our skill players are good and the battle will be in the trenches.”

The Gryphons will be lead into that battle by senior QB Will Beam.

“Will has worked very hard and his knowledge of our playbook is just fantastic,” said Helton.

What to watch: Defenses.

The Gryphons surrendered 603 points a season ago, while the Wildcats were gashed for 378. The team that has corrected the problem the most may walk away a winner.

Keep your eye on: QB Will

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Scoreboard BASEBALL National League East Division W L Pct 73 54 .575 70 57 .551 63 62 .504 63 63 .500 53 74 .417 Central Division

W L Pct Cincinnati 73 54 .575 St. Louis 68 56 .548 Milwaukee 59 68 .465 Houston 58 69 .457 Chicago 54 74 .422 Pittsburgh 43 84 .339 West Division

W L Pct San Diego 76 49 .608 San Francisco 71 57 .555 Colorado 66 60 .524 Los Angeles 66 62 .516 Arizona 49 78 .386

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Chase’s Sam Carpenter (2) prepares to serve during the volleyball game against South Point Thursday.

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25-17.

Chase responded by racing to a 3-0 lead in the second set, but the visitors reeled off five straight points before Blair White and Wurzbach combined on a block to stop the rally. That play seemed to spark the Lady Trojans as they broke in front, 8-6.

After South Point tied the contest at 10-10, the combatants began a long streak of trading scores until the Lady Red Raiders broke on top, 19-15.

Consecutive kills by Wurzbach closed the gap to 19-17. Once again, however, Chase hit a scoring drought in the latter stages of the set falling behind two sets to none by virtue of a 25-18 loss.

South Point scored the first four points of the final set and kept that four-point bulge at 9-5 despite a perfectly placed tip shot by Jesse Greene.

Consecutive aces pushed that lead to seven and a lift violation on Chase made the tally 15-7.

Chase fought back with a 6-2 run highlighted by a Carpenter ace and a kill by Wurzbach, but in keeping with the night’s theme South Point took control of the game late to secure 25-18 win.

With the loss, Chase falls to 0-2 on the year.

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dent-athletes on the football team.

“We are looking into improprieties that existed outside the classroom,” Baddour said. “That’s about as close to that as I can get.”

The announcement came nine days before the No. 18 Tar Heels’ opener against No. 21 LSU in Atlanta, and roughly two months after the NCAA began an investigation into whether two key players — defensive tackle Marvin Austin and receiver Greg Little — received improper benefits from agents. Defensive line coach John Blake’s longtime friendship with California-based agent Gary Wichard also has drawn the NCAA’s interest.

Joint interviews conducted by NCAA and school investigators during that probe led them to a player who “raised an issue that we felt like deserved further consideration on our part.

“It led us down a road that brought us to what we’re talking about,” Baddour said.

While the investigation is centered on the football program, Baddour said that “we will certainly use the opportunity to take a complete look at everything that we’re doing in the academic support program.”

Davis declined to identify the tutor in question except to say she was one of the five his family had hired since their 2007 arrival in Chapel Hill to serve as an academic coach and advisor for his teenage son.

“This is someone that obviously worked with our son,” Davis said. “To be honest with you, I think we’re really surprised and possibly disappointed, but there’s been no revelation as to exactly the extent or what has actually transpired.”

Baddour declined to provide additional details about the tutor, except to say that “the person was in (the university’s) employ. When we found out about the issues, the tutor was not in our employ.”

Baddour said the university has assembled a team to investigate the academic questions. While there is no timetable to resolve that aspect of the probe, “it is likely that the review would extend beyond the start of the season,” he said.

If that happens, he said the school will decide if those players will play against LSU, and Baddour said that decision could come as late as gameday.

“The investigation now has two prongs, so I want to caution you against making assumptions if student-athletes don’t play,” Baddour said.

Davis did acknowledge that starting on Monday, he moved some players around the depth chart as part of a contingency plan in case they aren’t permitted to play. He did not specify which players have risen or fallen.

Chancellor Holden Thorp — who began the news conference by saying “to everyone who loves this university, I’m sorry about what I have to tell you” — vowed that administrators are taking the probe seriously but expressed hope that its scope ultimately would be limited.

“We will find out what happened.”

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American League East Division W L Pct 78 49 .614 78 49 .614 73 55 .570 66 60 .524 45 82 .354 Central Division

W L Pct Minnesota 72 55 .567 Chicago 68 58 .540 Detroit 63 64 .496 Kansas City 54 73 .425 Cleveland 50 76 .397 West Division

W L Pct Texas 72 54 .571 Oakland 63 62 .504 Los Angeles 63 65 .492 Seattle 50 77 .394

New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore

GB — — 5 1/2 11 1/2 33 GB — 3 1/2 9 18 21 1/2 GB — 8 1/2 10 22 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Kansas City 4, Detroit 3, 12 innings Boston 5, Seattle 3, 1st game L.A. Angels 12, Tampa Bay 3 Oakland 6, Cleveland 1 Toronto 6, N.Y. Yankees 3 Seattle 4, Boston 2, 2nd game Texas 4, Minnesota 3 Baltimore 4, Chicago White Sox 2 Thursday’s Games

FOOTBALL National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF Miami 2 0 0 1.000 37 New England 2 0 0 1.000 55 Buffalo 1 1 0 .500 51 N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 .500 25 South

W L T Pct PF Tennessee 1 1 0 .500 42 Houston 0 2 0 .000 36 Indianapolis 0 2 0 .000 38 Jacksonville 0 2 0 .000 53 North

W L T Pct PF Baltimore 2 0 0 1.000 40 Pittsburgh 2 0 0 1.000 47 Cincinnati 2 1 0 .667 62 Cleveland 1 1 0 .500 44 West

W L T Pct PF Oakland 2 0 0 1.000 49 San Diego 1 1 0 .500 39 Denver 0 2 0 .000 44 Kansas City 0 2 0 .000 25 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF Dallas 2 1 0 .667 41 N.Y. Giants 1 1 0 .500 48 Philadelphia 1 1 0 .500 37 Washington 1 1 0 .500 45 South

W L T Pct PF Atlanta 1 1 0 .500 30 New Orleans 1 1 0 .500 62 Tampa Bay 1 1 0 .500 27 Carolina 0 2 0 .000 15 North

W L T Pct PF Green Bay 1 1 0 .500 51 Minnesota 1 1 0 .500 38 Detroit 1 1 0 .500 32 Chicago 0 2 0 .000 27 West

W L T Pct PF San Francisco 2 0 0 1.000 52 Arizona 1 1 0 .500 29 Seattle 1 1 0 .500 44 St. Louis 1 1 0 .500 26

PA 33 34 63 34 PA 30 57 71 55 PA 15 24 49 43 PA 26 26 58 40 PA 38 40 49 40 PA 38 47 25 26 PA 51 22 43 57 PA 27 40 45 45

Thursday’s Games St. Louis at New England, late Indianapolis at Green Bay, late Friday’s Games Atlanta at Miami, 7 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Jets, 7 p.m.

San Diego at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Kansas City, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Cleveland at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Cincinnati at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.

Jacksonville at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Houston, 8 p.m.

Tennessee at Carolina, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Arizona at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

San Francisco at Oakland, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Pittsburgh at Denver, 8 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 2 Buffalo at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 7 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Miami at Dallas, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Tennessee, 8 p.m.

Baltimore at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

Green Bay at Kansas City, 8 p.m.

Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 10 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 10 p.m.

Washington at Arizona, 10 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS

Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL National League WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled RHP Jordan Zimmermann from Syracuse (IL).

Can-Am League BROCKTON ROX — Signed RHP Nick Tyson.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed F Landry Fields.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Named Danny Ferry vice president of basketball operations.

FOOTBALL National Football League CAROLINA PANTHERS — Announced OL Kirk Barton has decided not to report.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived PK Hunter Lawrence and WR Chris Brooks.

United Football League FLORIDA TUSKERS — Terminated DS Tyrell Herbert from the active roster. Added CB Fakhir Brown and WR Huey Whitaker to the active roster.

HARTFORD COLONIALS — Terminated WR Dicky Lyons and DT Simi Toeaina from the active roster. Added OT Peter Clifford and DS Robert Vaughn to the active roster.

SACRAMENTO MOUNTAIN LIONS — Terminated WR Daniel Robinson and WR Tredale Tolver from the active roster.

OMAHA NIGHTHAWKS — Added RB Andre Hall to the active roster.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Signed F Colin Stuart to a one-year contract.

DALLAS STARS — Agreed to terms with D Nicklas Grossman on a two-year contract.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Signed D Tyler Eckford, D Mark Fayne, D Olivier MagnanGrenier, D Harry Young, LW Jean-Sebastien Berube, RW Patrick Davis, C Stephen Gionta, C Tim Sestito and LW Chad Wiseman.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Named Steve Stirling assistant coach for Binghamton (AHL).

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Named Brad Shaw medical therapist and Brad Sniatecki assistant equipment manager.

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Signed LW Peter MacArthur.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Signed F Kevin DeVergilio and F Dustin Cameron to one-year contracts.

IDAHO STEELHEADS — Signed F Malcolm Gwilliam and D Jason Fredricks.

READING ROYALS — Signed D Maxime Renaud.

Western Hockey League VANCOUVER GIANTS — Agreed to terms with general manager Scott Bonner and coach Ron Hay on five-year contracts.

SOCCER Women’s Professional Soccer SKY BLUE FC — Added assistant coach/D Jennifer Grubb to the active roster.

COLLEGE CALDWELL — Named David Janezic men’s assistant soccer coach.

COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY — Named Kylee Rossi women’s assistant soccer coach.

DUKE — Named Michelle Bruin director of volleyball operations and Jim Freeman volunteer assistant volleyball coach.

GUILFORD — Named Nate Bates men’s assistant lacrosse coach, Daniel Hadra assistant baseball coach and Kayla Felty women’s assistant basketball coach.

RHODE ISLAND — Named Adam Schemm coordinator of marketing and promotions.

TEXAS TECH — Announced the retirement of athletic director Gerald Myers, effective in May, 2011.

UNC GREENSBORO — Named Jay Benfield and Marc Nicholls men’s assistant soccer coaches.

WINGATE — Named Sarah Rahko women’s assistant soccer coach.

‘Anxious’ Nationals await Strasburg’s MRI results WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Nationals manager Jim Riggleman spoke for a franchise when asked about the latest exam to be performed on Stephen Strasburg’s valuable right arm.

“I’m very anxious about that,” Riggleman said.

Thursday was a day of suspense at Nationals Park as the

22-year-old right-hander underwent his second MRI in less than a week. The results will be analyzed and announced on Friday, and the team is hoping they show nothing that will force the rookie phenom to sit out the rest of the season — or worse.

Strasburg was pulled from Saturday’s game at Philadelphia

when he grimaced and shook his wrist after throwing a changeup.

An MRI on Sunday confirmed the initial diagnosis of a strained flexor tendon in his forearm, but the test raised enough questions for the Nationals to order a more extensive MRI that uses an injection of dye into the arm.

Extreme Tournament Winners East Coast Extreme 14- and under softball team won the Summer Close-Out Tournament with a record of 5-0 in Marion, on Aug. 21-22.

The Extreme are: Shelby Smith (bottom, l to r), Dakota Reid, Ashley Brown, Brandy Whitner, Emily Dotson, Brooke Owens; Coach Chad Johnson (top, l to r), Carli Frady, Avery Wilson, Coach OJ Gary, Klinnin Carson, Harley Pintuff, Webber Roberts and Head Coach Sandy Arrowood.

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Wednesday’s Games Colorado 12, Atlanta 10 Cincinnati 12, San Francisco 11, 12 innings Chicago Cubs 4, Washington 0 Houston 3, Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 2 Florida 5, N.Y. Mets 4 L.A. Dodgers 5, Milwaukee 4 San Diego 9, Arizona 3 Thursday’s Games Houston 5, Philadelphia 1 L.A. Dodgers 7, Milwaukee 1 Arizona 11, San Diego 5 St. Louis at Washington, late Florida 11, N.Y. Mets 4 Friday’s Games St. Louis (J.Garcia 11-6) at Washington (Olsen 3-6), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Gorzelanny 7-7) at Cincinnati (Cueto 11-4), 7:10 p.m.

Houston (Figueroa 3-1) at N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 12-7), 7:10 p.m.

Florida (Volstad 7-9) at Atlanta (Hanson 8-9), 7:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 2-3) at Milwaukee (Narveson 9-7), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 11-8) at Colorado (Jimenez 17-4), 9:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Oswalt 9-13) at San Diego (Latos 13-5), 10:05 p.m.

Arizona (Enright 4-2) at San Francisco (Lincecum 11-8), 10:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Philadelphia at San Diego, 4:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Florida at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

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

Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 9:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.

Houston at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Florida at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m.

St. Louis at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

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Cleveland 3, Oakland 2 Detroit 7, Toronto 1 Minnesota at Texas, late Baltimore at Chicago White Sox, late Friday’s Games Kansas City (Bullington 1-2) at Cleveland (Tomlin 1-3), 7:05 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 14-8) at Toronto (Marcum 11-7), 7:07 p.m.

Boston (Lester 13-8) at Tampa Bay (Price 15-5), 7:10 p.m.

Oakland (Bre.Anderson 3-4) at Texas (Tom. Hunter 10-2), 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (A.J.Burnett 9-11) at Chicago White Sox (F.Garcia 10-5), 8:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Bergesen 5-9) at L.A. Angels (T.Bell 1-3), 10:05 p.m.

Minnesota (S.Baker 11-9) at Seattle (J.Vargas 9-6), 10:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Detroit at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Minnesota at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Oakland at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Baltimore at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Kansas City at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

Detroit at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

Oakland at Texas, 3:05 p.m.

Baltimore at L.A. Angels, 3:35 p.m.

Minnesota at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

Boston at Tampa Bay, 8:05 p.m.

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Friday, August 27, 2010 — 3B

sports Football Continued from Page 1B

Gridiron Great

Beam. A season ago, Beam was the only Rutherford County signal-caller to pass for over 1,000-yards. Beam understands this offense better, a year later, and his development will be critical.

Key to the game: Getting the W. The only thing that matters for the Gryphons is breaking the school’s current 11-game winless streak in the NCHSAA. The good news: the state record is 59 straight losses, so that is a long way off.

Chesnee at Chase

Tiger Woods.

Woods shoots 65 at Barclays

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — Tiger Woods finally looked like the No. 1 player in the world.

In his first tournament since his divorce, Woods played his best round of the year Thursday at The Barclays by missing only one fairway, putting for birdie on all but two holes and shooting a 6-under 65 for his lowest score all season.

“It feels good to be able to control my ball all day like this,” Woods said.

He wound up atop the leaderboard with Vaughn Taylor among the early starters. Woods has not led after any round since he won the Australian Masters last year, and he hasn’t been atop the leaderboard on the PGA Tour since the second round of the Tour Championship.

So much has changed since then — the car crash after Thanksgiving night, details of adultery, five months away from the game and a broken marriage, which officially ended Monday.

His golf hasn’t been very good either, which is why Woods began the FedEx Cup playoffs 112th out of 125 players who qualified. He was so low down the list that he was first to tee off under a sunny sky at Ridgewood, the first time he’s done that in his PGA Tour career.

It worked to his advantage.

“With fresh greens, everybody in our group was making putts on the front nine,” Woods said. “You had to get it today.”

And he did.

Woods hit driver only twice, including a tee shot on the 291yard fifth hole that stopped 15 feet away. He only missed three greens in regulation, although one of those misses left him a 12-foot birdie putt from the range.

For a guy who’s had little go right this year, hardly anything went wrong. If there was a connection to Woods playing his best golf just three days after his divorce, he wasn’t saying.

“I can’t really say that’s the case,” Woods said.

CHASE — The Trojans can certainly pull several positives from last week’s loss to East Henderson.

But, Coach Daniel Bailey is focused on the only thing that didn’t come from last week’s game — a win.

“We are not going to turn into a bunch of feel-good’s and pat ourselves on the back,” said Bailey. “The bottom line is that we didn’t get a win. We aren’t playing to be close in the fourth quarter, or to just be in the game. We want to win these games.”

The Trojans are swapping one type of Eagle for another this week as the Chesnee Eagles take the short ride up US 221 to visit Chase.

The Eagles lost 14 seniors from the 2009 squad that blistered Chase, 35-7, last season, but Chesnee has several returning starters that bring speed and experience to the field.

What to watch: C/NT Keith Miller sprained an ankle midway through Chase’s game, last week. Miller’s presence and ability is needed by both units and any time lost would hurt both.

Keep your eye on: WBs Tyler Gaffney and Kishon Crawford. The Trojans ran just four total plays with their wingbacks. For the Flex-option to work, the Trojans are going to have to get outside the hash marks.

Key to the game: Limiting mistakes. Chase was solid in this area last week, losing just one fumble. The turnover battle is critical against the speedy Eagles.

Forestview at East Rutherford FOREST CITY — The Forestview Jaguars are coming off a school record-setting season in 2009 and a tough opening game loss to South Carolina’s Nation Ford, 28-16.

Next Friday, the Jaguars play, arguably, one of the finest high school football teams in the southeast, Byrnes High from South Carolina.

Sandwiched in between: East Rutherford.

“We’ve told the kids they are going to get off the bus looking to whip somebody,” said East coach Clint Bland.

“Their kids, like ours, know all about Byrnes, so, they are coming in here looking for not only a win, but to

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Central’s Cameron Green, second from left, shakes hands with Edward Jones’ Frank Faucette after receiving his Daily Courier/Edward Jones Gridiron Great award for week one of the prep football season. Green rumbled for 166 yards on 28 carries and scored twice in the Hilltoppers’ 32-13 win over Bessemer City. The Hilltoppers’ Logan Cope, far right, was named Lineman of the Week for his performance in the game.

Cope shakes hands with Edward Jones’ George Allen, while Central coach Mike Cheek, center, shakes hands with Edward Jones’ David Smith.

make a statement. It’s up to us to not let them make that statement.”

The Jaguars’ spread offense is keyed by the super-fast Tyerecas Jeter (5-9, 175).

“We’ve got to stop Jeter. The kid can run and they will spread us out and let him run,” said Bland. “It’s the same thing we do with Wilkins, the difference is their kids will block.”

The troubles on the offensive line for the Cavaliers have given Coach Bland many sleepless nights and have lead to additional changes.

“I’ve gone with them every week and we have three coaches working with them as a group,” said Bland. “We have flipped our tackles and moved our guards out to tackle — at this point, there is nobody left on that bench that can help us. The kids that are there have to pick it up.”

What to watch: The O-line. East will run AJ Lynch at LT, Richard Johnson at RT, Marcus Carson at LG, York Clinton at RG and Jeremy Clark remains at C. The Cavs need this group to bond quickly.

Keep your eye on: TB Adrian Wilkins. Wilkins touched the ball just 15 times last week — three of those touches resulted in touchdowns as he rolled for over 170 total yards. Wilkins is a gamer.

Key to the game: Step it up. The broken record goes around and around — Football is won and lost in the trenches.

R-S Central at East Henderson HENDERSONVILLE — With the Yellow Jackets now firmly in the Central rearview mirror, the Hilltoppers set their sights on Eagles

— the East Henderson Eagles.

Coach Mike Cheek watched tape of the Eagles’ 27-13 win over Chase and came away with the same conclusion held by many.

“We have to stop No. 1,” said Cheek.

“There’s no doubt about that. The offense runs through him and we have to get him on the ground.”

The No. 1 that Coach Cheek was referring to is East TB Shaq Davis, who rushed for 166-yards on 23 carries and four TDs in the Eagles’ season-opening win.

It may be another classic battle of ‘the irresistible force vs. the immovable object,’ as the Hilltoppers’ defense held Bessemer City to zero rushing yards in week one.

What to watch: Central QB Taylor Ledbetter may get more snaps in week two as Jacob Kinlaw recovers from a bruised elbow. That could mean more carries for the tandem of Cameron Green and Dustin Atchley — not a bad problem to have if you’re the Hilltoppers.

Keep your eye on: OLBs Darrien Watkins and Randy Whitner. The Eagles love to get outside with the speedy Davis, so he can present matchup problems and create one-onone, in space, decisions for defensive players. The outside duo needs to be on point.

Key to the game: Pound the rock.

Central will look to establish a physical presence from its offense early and often. If they succeed, it could be a long night for Eagles.

Next Week: Bessemer City at Chase.

East Rutherford at McDowell.

Polk County at R-S Central.

TJCA at Asheville School.

Federer could meet Soderling in US Open quarters NEW YORK (AP) — If Roger Federer is going to reach a seventh consecutive U.S. Open title match, he might need to get past the man who ended his Grand Slam semifinal streak.

Five-time U.S. Open champion Federer was given a possible quarterfinal against two-time French Open runner-up Robin Soderling in Thursday’s draw. The No. 5-seeded Soderling upset Federer in the quarterfinals in Paris this year, stopping Federer’s record run of reaching at least the semifinals at 23 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments.

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“I’m motivated to do well because I love New York, I love playing in Arthur Ashe (Stadium),” Federer said.

“If I couldn’t get motivated by this stadium and this city, then I’d have some issues.”

The other men’s matchups in the quarterfinals could be No. 1-seeded Rafael Nadal against No. 8 Fernando Verdasco, two-time major finalist Andy Murray against Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych, and No. 3 Novak Djokovic against No. 6 Nikolay Davydenko or No. 9 Andy Roddick.

The top-seeded woman, 2009 runner-up Caroline Wozniacki, could face

2006 champion Maria Sharapova in the fourth round and 2004 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarterfinals.

Other possible women’s quarterfinals set up Thursday are defending champion Kim Clijsters against French Open runner-up Sam Stosur, 2000-01 U.S. Open winner Venus Williams against French Open champion Francesca Schiavone, and 2008 U.S. Open finalist Jelena Jankovic against Wimbledon runner-up Vera Zvonareva.

“I know if I play well that I can beat anybody out there,” said Clijsters.

4B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Friday, August 27, 2010

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Lost

F Jack Russell Terrier puppy Missing from Union Mills Fire Dept. area. White w/brown spot over right eye. 429-5340

Male gray tabby cat Lost 8/19 from Bethany Church area.

Neutered. Call 245-6249 Scruffy Dog Male, 6 yrs. old, 20 lbs., black, white & brown.

Last seen 8/20 Hudlow and Lee Road. 288-7430

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Found

Mini pincher or manchester terrier Male, black and brown.

Found 8/13 in Spindale Call 286-8468 to identify

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0151 Garage/Estate Sales

2 FAMILY FC: 440 Flack Rd. (old entrance to Crowe's Park, end of road) Fri. & Sat. 7A-until Rain/shine!

2 FAMILY Spindale: 334 Missouri St. Sat. 7A-until Women's clothing, lots of household items, furniture and much more!

4 FAMILY YARD SALE FC: 162 Toms Lake Road Fri. & Sat. 7A-until Furniture, glassware, tools, books, many other things Big 3 family yard sale: FC, 546 Toms Lake Rd., turn at SDO fire dept. 221S, Sat. 7A-until

Ellenboro: 163 Dobbins Rd. Sat. 7A-til Riding lawnmower, trailer, tools, name brand junior clothes, pictures, DVD's, bedspreads, rockers, household, Christmas HUGE 3 FAMILY/ESTATE 1303 Old Henrietta Rd. Sat. 7A Guns, furniture, glassware, TJCA uniforms, gas fireplace mantel, Christmas decorations, more!

Large: Ellenboro, 1961 Hwy 74 Bus., Sat. 7A-until. Home Interior, Vera Bradley, racing collectibles, household items, clothes, cologne

0151 Garage/Estate Sales BIG 2 FAMILY YARD SALE Gilkey 1949 Hwy 221N Fri. & Sat. 7A-? First time sellers!

MULTI FAMILY Rfdtn: 130 Owensby Rd. (64/74, off Darlington Rd.) Fri. & Sat. 8A-until A large variety!

Rain or shine!

Multi family yard sale: Ruth, 249 US 64 Hwy., Fri., 4-7P, Sat., 7A-until. Clothes, home furnishing, toys and lots more Multi-family: FC, 295 Holly Hills Dr., Sat. 7A-until.

Antique hutch, loveseat and chair, 10-speed bikes, household, clothes and much more

Multi-family: Rfdtn., 384 Weeks Rd. off Cleghorn Mill.

Sat. 7A-until. Old bottles, pictures, beanies, name brand clothes: girls 10-14, youth 0-3, boys 5-10, furn., Chevy Colorado 05 truck seats, pocketbooks, toys, movies, men/women clothes, exercise equip., charcoal grill, aquarium and more. Rain or Shine Rfdtn: 500 Cleghorn Mill Rd., behind Shiloh Baptist Church Sat. 8:30A-until. Will sell items for one price or per item.

Also have RCA 56" TV, cost $1,200 will sell for $500.

Dealers welcomed. 248-3227 Yard Sale Ellenboro: 1792 US Hwy 74, Saturday 7A-until Baby items, furn., misc YARD SALE FC: 558 Old Wagy Rd. Fri. & Sat. 7A-until Girls clothes 10-12, toys, household and miscellaneous items YARD SALE Hwy 221 next to Fiddlesticks Fri. 5P-until & Sat. 7A-11A Tools and lots of goodies!

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National framed art manufacturer needs an inside sales rep with sales exp., telephone and computer skills.

Email resume to sales@boothframing.com or fax 828-863-1267

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Accounting

Member Services Coordinator Responsible for processing payments and adjustments to member club accounts, providing customer service to members, research & resolution of discrepancies, preparation of past due reports, collections, reconciliations and special projects. Background and experience. 30 hours per week year round. AA Degree in accounting or equivalent work experience. Strong system skills, 2 yrs. customer service.

Complete application in person, 112 Mountains Blvd., Lake Lure, NC 28746 or online at rumblingbald. com. No phone calls, please.

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Skilled Trade

Wastewater Technician An area industrial manufacturer is seeking an experienced "Wastewater Technician" for hands on technical operation of a 1.3 MGD wastewater treatment facility. The technician will be part of a team performing daily wastewater operations including laboratory testing, minor maintenance and other environmental tasks. The operator must possess a thorough knowledge of biological, physical & chemical wastewater treatment methods and the ability to operate a personal computer. Special requirements: Three years working experience in a wastewater environment, current NC Wastewater Operator Certifications for Grade II Wastewater & Grade I Physical Chemical Treatment also a valid driver's license.

Company offers starting pay of $17.54 per hour including a benefit package with medical/dental and life insurance, 401K & defined contribution retirement plan.

Interested candidates should submit their resume to: Box C, PO Box 1149, Forest City, NC 28043

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NORTH CAROLINA RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 10 SP 346 In the Matter of the Foreclosure of: Deed of Trust executed by Two Mile Properties, LLC, Grantor, to MTNBK, LTD., Original Trustee, as recorded in Book 796, Page 224 of the Rutherford County Registry See Substitution of Trustee which Substitutes Carter and Kropelnicki, PA as Substitute Trustee recorded in Book 1006, Page 661 of the Rutherford County Public Registry.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Pursuant to the power and authority contained in the Deed of Trust executed by Two Mile Properties, LLC, Grantor, to MTNBK, LTD., Original Trustee, as recorded in Book 796, Page 224 of the Rutherford County Registry (the “Deed of Trust”), and the Order of Sale of the Court herein, the undersigned Trustee will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the property described as follows (the “Property”): Lying and being in Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being bound on the North by Pointer Road (SR 2160), on the East and South by the remaining lands of Selma Geer Estate (See Estate File 95 E 220 in the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Rutherford County, North Carolina) and on the West by Doggett Road (SR 2159), and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point lying in the center of the intersection of the centerlines of Pointer Road (SR 2160) and Doggett Road (SR 2159), said beginning point being the northwesternmost corner of the tract herein described, said beginning point also lying South 21 degrees 16 minutes 46 seconds East 39.68 feet from a PK nail lying in the intersection of the centerlines of Doggett Road and Tanner’s Grove Road (SR 2164), and running thence from the beginning point with the centerline of Pointer Road North 84 degrees 16 minutes 07 seconds East 173.21 feet to a point; then North 78 degrees 00 minutes 16 seconds East 202.41 feet to a point; thence leaving said road South 11 degrees 59 minutes 44 seconds East (crossing an iron pin at a fence line a 16.71 feet in the line (230.88 feet to an iron pin; thence South 74 degrees 00 minutes 39 seconds West (crossing an iron pin at 316.35 feet in the line) 334.21 feet to a point in the centerline of Doggett Road; thence with the centerline of Doggett Road North 20 degrees 01 minutes 05 seconds West 63.84 feet; thence North 20 degrees 01 minutes 05 seconds West 90.87 feet; thence North 21 degrees 16 minutes 46 seconds West 121.45 feet to the BEGINNING, containing two (2.00) acres, according to map and survey by Professional Surveying Services, Nathan Odom, Registered Land Surveyor, dated June 18, 2001. See Rutherford County Tax Map 254 Block 1 Lot 1. See also plat recorded in Plat Book 11 Page 81, Rutherford County Registry.

And being and including all the property described in the Deed of Trust.

The record owners of the property as reflected on the records of the register of deeds not more than 10 days prior to the posting this notice are Glenwood Klawitter, single, Harold Lytle and wife, Robin Lytle, and Jenny Rebecca Harbin.

The date, hour and place of sale are as follows: DATE OF SALE: HOUR OF SALE: PLACE OF SALE:

September 8, 2010 3:00 PM O’clock Rutherford County Courthouse

The Property will be sold subject to any and all superior liens, including, without limitation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, covenants, restrictions and matters of record and any rights of any tenants in possession. The Property will be sold “as is, where is” without warranties. The trustee knows of no subordinate rights or interests to which the subject tract will be sold except easements and restrictions of record. The high bidder will be required to deposit with the Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit in the amount of five percent (5%) of the amount bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00) whichever is greater, and will be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Trustee tenders to him a deed for the Property. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as provided by law.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of Rutherford County. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving this Notice of Sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

This August 11, 2010.

CARTER AND KROPELNICKI, PA , Trustee By: Scott Carter, Authorized Officer 181 Charlotte Street Asheville, North Carolina 28801 Telephone: (828) 252-9804

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Experienced CNC machinist needed. Able to do own set up. Knowledge of G-code programming, CAM system, and manual machining a plus.

Contact Nathan at 828-657-1611

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Great lap dogs. 828-429-2936 or Lisawasa@aol.com

This is what our drivers average pay per week!

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Restaurant

$50k, $40k (GM, Co Mgr, Asst Mgr) We currently have managers making this, and need more for expansion.

1 yr. salaried restaurant management experience required. Fax resume

to 336-431-0873

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Part-time Employment

Experienced PT Manager for small apartment complex in Rutherfordton. Must live on site. Pay is apartment plus bonus. Fax resume to 704-919-5653

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Fairly New Huskey Riding Lawn Mower $600 Call 828-286-2958 Lv. message

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2BR/1BA Cent. h/a, lg. kitchen $425/mo. + dep. & ref's. No pets! Call 828-919-0000 2BR/1BA House in Spindale.

Cent. h/a, range, refrig. No Pets! $450/mo. + ref's and dep. Call 429-4323 3BR/1BA 122 Akers Landing, Ellenboro $500/mo. + $300 sec. dep. Call 864-576-9340 3BR/2BA Gilkey community H/a, stove, refrig. No pets!

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North Carolina, Rutherford County NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 337 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Berry Chuck Bailey, A Married Man and Kathy M Bailey, His Wife to Home Title Connect, LLC, Trustee(s), which was dated March 19, 2008 and recorded on May 1, 2008 in Book 1006 at Page 58, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 7, 2010 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit: Land referred to in this commitment is described as all that certain property situated in in the County of Rutherford, and State of NC and being described in a deed dated 05/06/2003 and recorded 05/15/2003 in Book 820 Page 400 among the land records of the county and state set forth above, and referenced as follows: see exhibit “A” Parcel No. 16-34980 Exhibit “A” lying and being in Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, N.C. being bound on the East by the property of Michael Bailey and wife as described in Deed Book 804, Page 261, Rutherford County Registry, N.C., on the North by the property of Steve Waters as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 550, Page 285, Rutherford County Registry, N.C., on the West by the remainging lands of the grantors, and on the South by Whitmore Drive and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an iron pin, said iron pin being the Southwestern most corner of the tract herein described and common Southwest corner of the property of Michael Bailey and wife as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 804, Page 261, Rutherford County Registry, N.C. said beginning point lying in the centerline of Whittemore Drive, and running thence from said beginning point with the centerline of Whittemore Drive, North 58 degrees 15 minutes 29 seconds West 59.43 feet to an iron pin, thence North 66 degrees 50 minutes 59 seconds West 50.86 feet to a point, thence North 72 degrees 38 minutes 05 seconds West 49.82 feet to a point, thence North 80 degrees 47 minutes 34 seconds West 28.70 feet to a point; thence North 88 degrees 07 minutes 25 seconds West 23.82 feet to a point, thence South 75 degrees 12 minutes 50 seconds West 22.72 feet to a point; thence South 60 degrees 44 minutes West 25.50 feet to a rebar. thence leaving said road, North 28 degrees 05 minutes 23 West 22.50 feet to a rebar, thence North 34 degrees 56 minutes 52 seconds East (crossing through an iron rod at 56.26 feet in the line) 204.32 feet to an iron rebar, thence South 70 degrees 27 minutes 34 seconds East 219.61 feet to an iron spike at the base of a bent iron rod, thence South 23 degrees 21 minutes 50 seconds West (crossing an iron pipe at 150.11 feet in the line) 182.05 feet to the beginning, containing 0.96 acres, according to map and survey by D.S. Bostic, land surveying D. Scott Bostic, registered land surveyor, dated March 28, 2003. Subject to restrictions, reservations, easements, covenants, oil, gas and mineral rights of record, if any.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as: 149 Whittemore Drive, Bostic, NC 28018 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Berry Chuck Bailey and wife Kathy M Bailey.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346, 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No. 10-14867-FC01, 738435 8/27, 09/03/2010

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Friday, August 27, 2010 — 5B NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the estate of BURRELL FRANCIS WOOD of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said BURRELL FRANCIS WOOD to present them to the undersigned on or before the 27th day of November, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the estate of ROBERT H. BEHRNS of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said ROBERT H. BEHRNS to present them to the undersigned on or before the 20th day of November, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 20th day of August, 2010.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of WALTER IRVAN JONES of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said WALTER IRVAN JONES to present them to the undersigned on or before the 20th day of November, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 20th day of August, 2010.

Robert Lee Shires Sr., Administrator 211 Lynch Street Rutherfordton, NC 28139

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD NOTICE OF SALE UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed

by Carolyn M. Wynn, dated June 23, 2008, and recorded in Book 1014 at page 511 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County; and under and by virtue of the authority vested in the undersigned as Substitute Trustee by that certain instrument recorded in Book 1005 at Page 516 the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County; and under and by virtue of that certain Authorization, Findings and Order entered by the Clerk of Superior Court of Rutherford County on August 11, 2010, and of record in File 10 SP 334, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust and the said Deed of Trust being by its terms subject to foreclosure, and the holder of the indebtedness thereby secured having demanded the foreclosure thereof for the purpose of satisfying said indebtedness, and due notice having been given to those entitled to same, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, at the Courthouse door in Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, at 12:00 Noon, on September 3, 2010, the land conveyed in said Deed of Trust, the same being owned of record by Carolyn M. Wynn, and being more particularly described as follows: The following real property situate in County of Rutherford and State of North Carolina, described as follows: Situate lying and being in Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being the same and identical property as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 849, Page 365, Rutherford County Registry, and described according to said deed as follows: Beginning at a turning point in the center of State Road #2213 said point being the southeastern most corner of Lots 5 and the southeastern corner of Lot #4 as shown upon that survey recorded in Plat Book 14, Page 105, RCR, and runs thence from said beginning point with the common line of Lots 4 and 5 North 08 degrees 35 minutes 15 seconds East 145.00 feet to an existing iron pin (said line crossing an existing iron pin at 32.20 feet); thence South 81 degrees 35 minutes 13 seconds East 145 feet to an existing iron pin; thence South 08 degrees 24 minutes 47 seconds West 229.50 feet to a turning point in the center line of McDade Road (said line crossing an existing iron pin at 184.80 feet; thence the following two calls with the centerline of said road; North 70 degrees 03 minutes 55 seconds West 40.09 feet; North 71 degrees 42 minutes 11 seconds West 68.58 feet; thence a line North 17 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East 9.83 feet to a turning point near the north edge of McDade Road; thence North 81 degrees 35 minutes 13 seconds West 39.62 feet to the Point and Place of Beginning, said lot containing 0.71 acres more or less.

This conveyance is made subject to those restrictions and protective covenants which appear of recorded in the Rutherford County Registry, as shown in Deed Book 539, Page 136. However, it is acknowledged by the developer that the third restriction as to minimum square footage of 1350 square feet to heated floor space. All other restrictions as set forth in Deed Book 539, Page 136, shall remain applicable.

Title reference: Deed recorded Book 857, Page 473, Rutherford County Registry.

Map reference: 247-1-44 Parcel reference: 16-18221 Street Address: 239 McDade Road, Forest City, NC 28043 Together with all the buildings, fixtures and improvements thereon, and all rights, easements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, including all heating, plumbing, ventilating, lighting goods, equipment and other tangible and intangible property, attached to or reasonably necessary to the use of such premises.

The aforesaid sale will be made subject to all encumbrances existing prior to the recording of the above-referenced Deed of Trust, including all valid and enforceable liens and also will be subject to all taxes and special assessments outstanding against the property.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representatives of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

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North Carolina, Rutherford County NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 332 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Tyler Avant Newton, a single man to T Kent Baldwin, Trustee(s), which was dated August 30, 2006 and recorded on August 31, 2006 in Book 915 at Page 816, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 1, 2010 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit: First Tract: Being a tract parcel of land as described in three separate deed, one of which is record in Deed Book 197 on page 55, another in Deed Book 223, Page 338, and the last in Deed Book 224, on page 301, Rutherford County Registry, said parcels of land being described in one tract according to survey and plat by F.A. Wilkie, Surveyor, March, 1958, as follows: Beginning at a point in the center of the highway leading from Spindale to Daniel-town, the extreme southern corner of the lot described in Deed Book 223, on Page 338 and runs thence North 46 East, running through an iron stake on the northeast side of said highway, 297 feet to an iron stake, corner of the Sunset Memorial Park property and also corner of lot described in Deed Book 197 on Page 55; thence North 31 degrees West 228 feet to an iron stake in J.W. Webb’s line; thence with it South 24 degrees West 347 feet, running through an iron stake off-set on the northeast side of the highway; to the center of said highway; thence with the center of said highway South 25 degrees East 95 feet to the Beginning. Second Tract: Lying on the Eastern side of Paved Road #2169 (said Road being the Oakland to Daniel Town Road) and the property hereby conveyed being about one mile South of Oakland; and, according to an unrecorded Map and Survey dated May 6, 1965 by Fred A. Wilkie, Registered Land Surveyor, being described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at an iron pin at the Eastern edge if said road (said iron pin being 16 feet from the center of said road); and said beginning iron pin being the most Southern point in the Eastern line of J.W. Webb property on the Eastern side of said road; and said beginning iron pin adjoining other property already owned by Charles Lionel Watson; and said beginning iron pin being the most Southern point in the present dividing line (on the Eastern side of said Road) of the properties of J.W. Webb and of Charles Lionel Watson, respectively; from said beginning point, the line runs, with the old line, North 25 degrees 25 minutes East 94 feet (along and with the present dividing line-on the side of said road between J. W. Webb and Charles Lionel Watson) to an iron pin in said line; thence a new line South 48 degrees 05 minutes West 78 feet to an iron pin at the Eastern edge of said; thence with the eastern edge of said road South 28 degrees 35 minutes East 38 feet to the point and place of Beginning, being a triangular shaped lot, of which 38 feet faces on the Eastern side of said road. This conveyance is subject to any applicable Highway right of way and subject to Public Services Co. of N.C., Inc. right -of-way. Being the same and identical property conveyed by Charles Lionel Watson and wife, Sadie Blackwell Watson to Alice Newton Greene by deed dated September 24, 1980 and of record in Deed Book 416, at page 691, Rutherford County Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as: 1511 Oakland Road, Forest City, NC 28043 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Should the property be purchased by a party other than the holder of the Deed of Trust being foreclosed, that purchaser must pay, in addition to the amount bid, the following items: (i) the tax required by N.C. Gen. Stat. Section 7A-308(a)(1) of Forty-five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100) of the bid amount up to a maximum tax of Five Hundred Dollars ($500), and (ii) the excise tax on conveyance required by N.C. Gen. Stat. Section 105-228.28 et seq. of One Dollar ($1) per Five Hundred Dollars ($500) or fractional part thereof of the bid amount.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Tyler Avant Newton.

The successful bidder at sale may be required to make an immediate cash deposit of the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount bid or Seven Hundred Fifty and no/100 Dollars ($750.00).

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The upset bids procedure of North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.27 is applicable to this sale.

The following applies if the property being sold is residential real property with less than 15 rental units: (1) Pursuant to NCGS Section 45-21.29, the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold may issue an order of possession of the property in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession. (2) Any person who occupies residential real property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord.

The tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Date of Notice: August 11, 2010 ________________________________ Elizabeth M. Repetti Substitute Trustee P.O. Box 21029 Winston-Salem, NC 27101-1029 (336) 722-3700

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346, 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No. 10-15037-FC01, 736357 8/20, 08/27/2010

6B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Friday, August 27, 2010 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD

North Carolina, Rutherford County NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 357

AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE File No: 10 SP 50

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Mattie M Logan, widow to K Canipe, Trustee(s), which was dated June 6, 2005 and recorded on June 9, 2005 in Book 843 at Page 709, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 7, 2010 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit:

TAKE NOTICE THAT: Raintree Realty and Construction, Inc., Substitute Trustee, has begun proceedings to FORECLOSE under the Deed of Trust described below, and by under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in such Deed of Trust, and an Order entered by the Clerk of Superior Court of the above County, will sell the below described property at public auction as follows:

The following described lot or parcel of land: Situate lying and being in Colfax Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, about Five (5) miles Northwest of the Town of Ellenboro on the Walls Church Publicroad, being One (1) acre of that certain 100 acre tract which was conveyed by Jessie Martin Harrill, acting as guardian for Arrie Lou Martin to Will White, by deed dated December 28, 1942 and of record in Deed Book 180 at Page 546; Rutherford Countyregistry, Said One (1) acre being herein described according to plat and survey made by Fred A Wilkie, registered surveyor on December 8, 1985, as follows: Beginning at an iron pin in the old line of the above referred to 100 acre tract and on the east side of the Walls Church Road (being State Secondary Road No.1794). Said beginning located South 15 Deg. West 200 feet from a stone which marks the Old Northwest Corner of said 100 acre tract, said stone also being a common corner of the property now of formerly owned by E.N. Washburn and Plato Harrill, and runs thence from said beginning point, leaving the road, a new line South 82 Deg. 30 Min. East 220 feet to an iron pin, a new corner ; thence another new line South 15 Deg. West 200 feet to an iron pin, another new corner; thence another new line North 82 Deg. 30 Min. West 220 feet to an iron pin in the old line and in the East Edge of the Walls Church; thence with the old line North 15 Deg. East 200 feet to the point and place of the beginning. Being the same property conveyed by fee simple deed from Will White and wife, Daisy White to Harvey Logan and Mattie M Logan , Dated 06/24/1966 Recorded on 07/11/1966 in Book 292, Page 474 in Rutherford County Recordes State of NC. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as: 614 Harvey Logan Road, Bostic, NC 28018 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Mattie M. Logan and Ronnie Logan.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346, 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No. 10-10390-FC01, 738846 8/27, 09/03/2010

1. The instrument pursuant to which such sale will be held is that certain Deed of Trust executed

by Daphne Patricia Yuncker (unmarried) and Janice Palmero (unmarried), original mortgagors, and recorded in the Office of the Rutherford County Register of Deeds in Deed of Trust Book 863, at Page 435. The record owner of such property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to posting this Notice of Sale, if not the original mortgagors, is: N/A 2. The property will be sold by the Substitute Trustee at 1:45 p.m. on the 7th day of September, 2010 at the Courthouse door in the City of Rutherfordton, North Carolina.

3. The real property to be sold is generally described as Lot 180 Yellowtop Mountain Estates and described as follows: BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED as Lot 180 as shown on the Map of Yellowtop Mountain Estates, Phase Eleven (Sheet 2 of 3), as recorded in Plat Book 26, Page 214, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

Any property described in the Deed of Trust which is not being offered for sale is described as follows: Subject to any and all Release Deeds of Record in the Rutherford County, North Carolina Registry.

4. Any buildings located on the above-described property are also included in the sale.

5. The property will be sold by the Substitute Trustee to the highest bidder for CASH. The highest bidder will be required to deposit IN CASH with the Substitute Trustee at the date and time of the sale the greater of five percent (5.0%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty and no/100 Dollars ($750.00).

6. All bidders bid for the property AS IS on the date of sale. Absolutely no warranties are made as to the condition, value or title of the property. While the Substitute Trustee believes the title to be good, all bidders are advised that they should obtain independent counsel to examine record title as the property is sold subject to prior record interests. The Noteholder has reserved the right to withdraw the sale up to and until the Deed is delivered by the Substitute Trustee.

7. The property will be sold subject to all unpaid taxes and special assessments.

8. The property being sold is all of that property described in the Deed of Trust except as specifically set forth above. It is the intention to extinguish any and all rights or interests in the property subordinate to the Deed of Trust.

9. Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential with Less Than 15 Rental Units: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the County in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the Notice of Sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to the Federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act which became effective May 20, 2009.

THIS the 11th day of August, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE: RAINTREE REALTY AND CONSTRUCTION, INC. A. Robert York, President PO Box 8942 Asheville, NC 28814 Phone: 828-777-5250 Dates: August 27, 2010 and September 3, 2010

North Carolina, Rutherford County NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 259 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Frank C Byrd and Rachel B Byrd to CB Services Corp, Trustee(s), which was dated November 28, 2005 and recorded on November 29, 2005 in Book 873 at Page 470, and rerecorded/modified/ corrected on April 20, 2006 in Book 901, Page 398, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 1, 2010 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit: Situtate, lying in Sulphur Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being a portion of that property conveyed by deed duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, NC in Deed Book 725 at Page 239 and being more particularly described from survey dated November 11, 2005 by Davis Surveying, Stephen R. Choun, PLS as follows: Beginning at a new iron pin, said new iron pin, lying North 25 degrees 43 minutes 02 seconds East 528.51 feet from and existing iron pin, said existing iron pin being the Northeastern most corner of the property now or formerly owned by Michael Burke as described and recorded in Deed Book 652 at Page 574, Rutherford County Registry, said existing iron pin also being the Northwestern most corner of the property now or formerly owned by Steve Hudson as described and recorded in Deed Book 848 at page 626, Rutherford County Registry, from said Beginning point a new line South 74 degrees 19 minutes 35 seconds West 533.66 feet to a new iron pin; thence another new line North 11 degrees 48 minutes 03 seconds East 522.04 feet to a new iron pin; thence another new line North 84 degrees 25 minutes 31 seconds East 390.37 feet to a new iron pin; thence another new line North 84 degrees 25 minutes 31 seconds East 75.30 feet to a new iron pin; thence another new line South 07 degrees 47 minutes 42 seconds West 147.35 feet to a point in the centerline of an existing driveway; thence another new line South 07 degrees 47 minutes 42 seconds West 268.56 feet to the point and place of Beginning, containing 5.00 acres more or less. There Is Also Conveyed Herewith A Right Of WaY leading from State Road #1113, said State Road also known as Hicks Grove Road to the hereinabove described tract a right of way for the purpose of ingress, regress and egress, over an existing private driveway.

North Carolina, Rutherford County NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 338 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by John S Deck and wife, Minnie Deck to Alan Maxwell, Trustee(s), which was dated December 14, 2006 and recorded on December 18, 2006 in Book 932 at Page 743, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 7, 2010 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the Camp Creek Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a new iron pin in center of N.C. Highway No. 1502 at a point 30.20 feet northeast of iron pin corner of James Ellis Boykins (Deed Book 436/69) in center of said highway and also 545.0 feet Northeast of iron pin corner of the Citizens Southern National Bank, said beginning corner of being evidenced by a railroad spike in center of said highway and running thence North 61 deg. 55 min. E. 851.55 feet to a new iron pin; thence South 30 deg. 15 min. E. 473.44 feet to a new iron pin set in line of Fannie Jane Logan (369/659);thence with the Logan line North 57 deg, 45 min, E. 566.0 feet to a new iron (erroneously omitted from the deed of trust in Book 932 at Page 743 in the Rutherford County Register of Deeds) pin in line of T.J. Edwards (268/78); thence with the Edwards line North 30 deg 10 min West 910.64 feet to a new iron pin; thence South 61 deg. 55 min. West 1344.29 feet to a new iron pin; thence South 30 deg. 00 min. East 449.54 feet to a new iron pin set in center of N.C. Highway No. 1502; thence with the center of said Highway South 38 deg. 00 min. West 79.80 feet to a railroad spike set in center of said highway and the said beginning corner and containing 20.75 acres more or less. Calls take from survey and map of the SE portion of the H B Deck Estate

by W Leslie Morgan Sept. 1984 and the same is incorporated herein by reference as if fully set herein. Less and except all of that certain property conveyed in Deed Bk 608 Page 757, Deed Bk 717 Pg 433, Deed Bk 745 Pg 548 and Deed Bk 790 Pg 725. Being the same property conveyed by fee simple deed from Everett N. Deck and Corlious F. Deck husband and wife and Virginia Smarr, et al widowed to John S. Deck and Minnie Deck husband and wife, dated 10/09/1984 recorded on 12/17/1984 in Book 465, Page 75 in Rutherford County records, State of NC.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as: 640 Hicks Grove Road, Mooresboro, NC 28114 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Frank C. Byrd and wife, Rachel B. Byrd.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346, 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No. 10-09982-FC01, 736206 8/20, 08/27/2010

Said property is commonly known as: 258 Pine Tree Road, Union Mills, NC 28167 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Minnie Deck.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346, 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No. 10-08662-FC01, 738653 8/27, 09/03/2010

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Friday, August 27, 2010 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 7B NOTICE TO CREDITORS

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

The public will take notice that the Town Council of the Town of Lake Lure will, at its regular meeting to be held at 7:00 p.m. or thereafter on the 14th day of September, 2010 in the Council meeting room of the Lake Lure Municipal Center consider a resolution authorizing the lease of the real property of the Town of Lake Lure to the Rutherford County Tourism Development Authority as described below:

The public will take notice that the Town Council of the Town of Lake Lure will, at its regular meeting to be held at 7:00 p.m. or thereafter on the 10th day of September, 2010 in the Council meeting room of the Lake Lure Municipal Center consider a resolution authorizing the lease of the real property of the Town of Lake Lure to the Hickory Nut Gorge Chamber of Commerce as described below:

A portion of the building owned by the Town of Lake Lure commonly known as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Community Centerâ&#x20AC;? and 6 vehicle parking spaces which are situated upon real property which may be more particularly identified as Town of Lake Lure Tax Map No. 518, Block 1, Lot 1D.

A portion of the building owned by the Town of Lake Lure commonly known as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Community Centerâ&#x20AC;? and 6 vehicle parking spaces which are situated upon real property which may be more particularly identified as Town of Lake Lure Tax Map No. 518, Block 1, Lot 1D.

The annual lease payment for the real property to the Town of Lake Lure described above is $1.00, contingent on the Lessee meeting required conditions contained within the proposed lease. A draft of the proposed lease is available for public inspection at Town Hall weekdays during business hours from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., excluding holidays.

The annual lease payment for the real property to the Town of Lake Lure described above is $1.00, contingent on the Lessee meeting required conditions contained within the proposed lease. A draft of the proposed lease is available for public inspection at Town Hall weekdays during business hours from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., excluding holidays.

This public notice dated the 27th day of August, 2010.

This public notice dated the 27th day of August, 2010.

Having qualified on the 4th day of August, 2010, as Executor of the Estate of MURLITA R. GRINDLEY, deceased, late of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned Executor on or before the 18th day of November, 2010, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to the estate will please make immediate payment.

This the 20th day of August, 2010.

Estate of Murlita R. Grindley Thomas Cleave Grindley, Executor 975 Jefferson St. SE, Apt 4 Hutchinson, MN 55350 A. Bailey Nager Attorney at Law Resident Process Agent 301 N. Trade St., Ste. 204 P.O. Box 851 Tryon, NC 28752 Publish dates: 8/20, 8/27, 9/3, 9/10/10

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sports Ga. star turns circus skills into circus catches

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — When A.J. Green soars for one of those amazing catches — you know, the ones where the Georgia receiver seems to defy gravity — he’ll stroll back to the huddle like it’s no big deal.

Considering his other talents, it’s easy to understand why he’s so nonchalant.

What’s so tough about jumping over two guys to grab a football when you’ve juggled bowling pins, or metal rods, whatever — all while riding a unicycle?

“You have to be real coordinated to do that,” Green said with a shrug and a smile. “It took me a while, but I got it.”

Green started juggling when he was in second grade and, to this day, he can still keep four of just about anything spinning through the air with only his two hands. Around fourth grade, he added unicycle riding to his repertoire, just to make things interesting.

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centration,” fellow Georgia receiver Kris Durham marveled. “Think about the body control it takes to ride one of those, and then to turn around and have that sort of handeye coordination (for juggling), well, that’s just unbelievable.”

Green doesn’t ride a unicycle anymore, but he keeps heads spinning on the football field.

From a purely physical standpoint, he has just about everything that’s needed in a top receiver: Size (6-foot-4), leaping ability and deceptive speed.

But he stands apart because of his intuitive skills when the ball’s in the air, the instincts honed at an early age when circus acrobat appeared his most likely career option.

Green has this knack of maneuvering his body into just the right position to make the catch, no matter Associated Press how many defenders are trying to Carolina Panthers’ Mike Goodson (33) runs toward Aaron Francisco (21) during get in his way. practice at the NFL football team’s training camp in Spartanburg, S.C., in this Aug. “I don’t think words can really 1, 2010, file photo. describe it,” said Georgia cornerback Brandon Boykin, who’s often assigned to defend Green in practice.

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Still, while he was there by default because the Panthers made no bigname signings, Francisco has played in the last two Super Bowls and was supposed to be a key cog on special teams, an area where the Panthers desperately needed help.

Only now a lingering, ugly looking hamstring injury is putting Francisco’s once secure roster spot in jeopardy.

“I can definitely say it’s the most frustrated I’ve been in my career,” Francisco said Thursday. “to be out here on a new team trying to earn a job and then not be able to get on the field. Hopefully, I can get back soon enough, before the last preseason game.”

Francisco needed only to lift his shorts slightly to reveal the bloody bruising on the back of his left thigh Thursday to indicate why he was again sidelined after practicing some a day earlier.

He first suffered what he called a partial tear of his hamstring on Aug. 3, the sixth day of training camp.

Close to returning, he re-injured it on the last day of camp on Aug. 18 as he did conditioning drills.

That’s when the muscle started bleeding and the bruising occurred.

It had gone away by Wednesday, so Francisco tried to practice. But he experienced intense pain and the bruising was back Thursday.

The Hawaii native can now only hope he’ll be fit to play in Carolina’s final preseason game Sept. 2 at Pittsburgh.

If not, the coaching staff will face a tough decision when final cuts come two days later, even though the 27-year-old Francisco has an impressive resume with Arizona and Indianapolis.

“Yeah, I’m a little concerned. I haven’t been able to show the coaches what I can do,” Francisco said.

“Normally I can push through injuries and play through them, but it’s my first time ever having a hamstring injury. It’s the one thing you can’t push, or it will just set you back even further.”

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