Daily Courier, October 14, 2009

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Keith Ezell, principal of Mount Vernon-Ruth Elementary, was one of many Rutherford County Schools employees and students who received a flu shot Tuesday during a clinic held at Chase Middle School.

Charlene Jones, RN, gave Ezell the shot. Another clinic is planned Friday at R-S Middle School from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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PARTF grant is county’s first award in more than 30 years

By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — County officials have learned they’d earned a $500,000 grant to help offset the cost of purchasing land for the Daniel Road Complex. The land was purchased for around $4.3 million in 2008.

The 40-acre site is receiving money from the North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Fund.

This is the first PARTF grant to Rutherford County in more than 30 years.

“I think we will look back 20 years from now

and see the Daniel Road Complex as one of the best things the county ever did,” said Board of Commissioners Chairman Brent Washburn.

“It is gratifying to see the support for the project the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund has shown with this generous grant.”

County Manager John Condrey echoed Washburn’s comments.

“The athletic complex represents a future dream of the county,” said Condrey. “Hundreds of children currently participate in local soccer Please see Grant, Page 2A

RUTHERFORDTON — Expansion to the west is in the cards for the Rutherford County Airport, with bids having been received for building more hangar space at Marchman Field.

Engineering firm W.K. Dickson was on hand to briefly discuss the plan to grade and smooth the land to the west.

“On the 29th of Sept. we took bids on the western hangar expansion project,” said company spokesperson James Luther. “The high bid was about $1.4 million, $400,000 was the approximate low bid. The good news is, if the grant comes through that Congressman Heath Shuler has promised, we’ll be able to do the drainage and smoothing, but also move on to the paving phase. That project will require a bond from the low bidder.”

In other business, the Airport Authority Board discussed the prospect of setting up self-serve fuel at the field.

“We don’t have all of the bids I’d like for you tonight, but we have three bids on the FuelMaster pedestal system,” said board member Mike Price. “Competitor QT is also available in the field and I’m seeking a competitive bid from that manufacturer.”

Price estimates the total cost for equipment to be Please see Airport, Page 6A

Rutherfordton candidates meet public From staff reports

RUTHERFORDTON — Voters in Rutherfordton will choose from a mix of incumbents and newcomers, all of whom support the town’s master plan, hope to work closely with other governmental bodies and want to prepare for the impact of the US 221 bypass.

An audience of nearly 30 filled the

county commission room at the county annex to learn more about the candidates and ask questions during the annual Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce candidates’ forum here.

On Nov. 3, voters will elect a new mayor and two council members. Council member Jimmy Dancy and newcomer Darlene Harmon are running for the mayoral job, which came open when long-time Mayor

Sally Lesher decided she would not run for re-election.

Council candidates are incumbent Terry Cobb, Stanley Clements, Gloria Higgins and Dennis Hill.

After introducing themselves to the audience, each candidate spoke to their reasons for seeking office. Dancy, who Please see Candidates, Page 3A

Lake Lure OKs rental regulation

REaCH team begins competing

By SCOTT BAUGHMAN

By JESSICA OSBORNE

Daily Courier Staff Writer

Daily Courier Correspondent

LAKE LURE — Vacation rentals will still happen in this traditional resort area, after a unanimous vote to adopt regulations for the renting of homes in all residential zones.

The new law stipulates many details about the process of rentals, and represents the culmination of almost four years worth of work from various boards, committees and several public workshops.

“This ordinance represents a collaborative effort and...represents a compromise between those who call Lake Lure their home and those who see it as a business opportunity,” said Commissioner Russ Pitts. “It makes vacation rentals a permitted use in all residential zones. It protects the property owner...and the general health and safety of residents and

SPINDALE – Students in the REaCH Academic Team traveled to UNC-Chapel Hill last week for their first competition of the year. Though REaCH is only five-years-old, this is the first ever Academic Team the program has had. To prepare for the competition, the team met every Friday for an hour since the school year began.

“It was a really good opportunity to get the kids out to visit another school,” said Lori Lambert, REaCH Academic Team Advisor.

“We expect all of our students to be college-bound, since they’ll be leaving with two years of college experience,” said Lambert.

The competition in Chapel Hill was invitation only. Students at REaCH were invited by one of Lambert’s pre

Please see Rentals, Page 6A

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2A — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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Mental health advocates say state entering crisis n Gov.

Perdue restores $15 million to funding before Tuesday press conference

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Design firm Cole, Jenest and Stone recently submitted completed final site plans for the Daniel Road project. County officials are still stressing that no plans have been made to begin the actual development of the site.

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programs and this would allow for a permanent home.

“In addition, it will provide an opportunity for regional tournaments to be held in the county which should be an economic boost,” he said. “At the point in time in the future when the economy improves, hopefully this can become a reality. We hope this $500,000 grant is the first of many that we might receive as this property develops.”

now than a new library.”

For their part, ICC is hopeful for future development in the area that is the western border of the college campus.

“We are looking forward to having the county as a neighbor,” said Mike Gavin, director of Marketing and Community Relations at Isothermal.

“We are particularly pleased that the planning committee reserved some of the adjacent property for potential future use by the college.”

RALEIGH (AP) — Advocates for the mentally ill, developmentally disabled and substance abusers have complained for years that North Carolina state government hasn’t spent enough on treating and stabilizing patients.

But they argue 2009 is so bad the General Assembly should return for a special session to ease what they call an emergency, just like they would in the aftermath of a storm.

With $400 million in spending reductions for treatment required in the budget approved in August, the state’s 24 local mental health offices that coordinate care have less money to pay for services and have to limit them.

Private and nonprofit treatment providers have quit offering some services because the state’s payment rates have been reduced, putting their employees out of work, the advocates said.

“It’s a crisis. It’s a manmade crisis,” Jennifer Mahan, chairwoman of The Coalition, a collection of individuals and groups advocating for people with mental illness, disabilities and addictions. “If this was a hurricane that destroyed people’s homes and wiped away businesses ... we would be taking action.”

Even before The Coalition could hold a news conference Wednesday to call on Gov. Beverly Perdue to restore an extra $15 million she withheld from the local mental health offices in addition to the $40 million in the budget, the governor reacted.

The county last received a parks grant from the state in 1977 when it was awarded $57,000 for what is now Frank West Park in Caroleen.

Design firm Cole, Jenest and Stone “The county, in the past, invested recently submitted the final site very little in public parks,” says plan for the Daniel Road Complex Recreational, Cultural & Heritage includes the Community Pet Center, Planner Jerry Stensland. “We have a Farmers’ Market, agricultural taken steps in recent years to begin arena, areas for commercial develinvesting again in public parks and opment and expansion areas for Perdue said Tuesday that the trails that will benefit everyone. The neighboring Isothermal Community Department of Health and Human recent PARTF grant for the Daniel College. There is also an additional Road Complex is affirmation that our Services had identified $15 million building site on the property that that “will be directed toward the efforts are needed.” could serve as a future library or struggling community service arena.” other county function.

The group also wants Perdue to call PARTF is administered by the “I am pleased to see that building the Legislature back to Raleigh to North Carolina Division of Parks marked as a potential library,” said shift funding around and find other County Library board member Robin and Recreation. The trust fund was established in 1994 and is the prima- pots of money to restore services.

Lattimore. “That is a positive step in The budget cuts are reducing hope ry source for local governments seekthe right direction because if there is further money invested in the Daniel ing funding for parks and recreation for people such as Kelly Woodall of Raleigh, who has cerebral palsy. projects.

Road project that it should be in With little use of her hands, 10197 • ACTS • “Rising Costs” services to the citizens of the county.

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“The budget cuts are acting out in real life,” said Woodall, 26. “Without these services, I would be put in a nursing home, which is more costly

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for the government.”

It’s a longshot for the groups to persuade Perdue to call lawmakers back to Raleigh before the next regular session in May, especially for changes in a $19 billion budget the Legislature just approved and the governor signed two weeks ago.

About a dozen special sessions have been held over the past 15 years, many to approve new legislative district boundaries or large economic incentives packages to recruit businesses.

Perdue’s office didn’t immediately respond to The Coalition’s request. Health and Human Services Secretary Lanier Cansler, who was appointed by Perdue to operate the department, acknowledges the spending reductions in his department are “unprecedented, almost historic.”

Cansler said the department, which comprises 20 percent of the state budget, received $1.5 billion less than was expected this year as Democratic lawmakers said they tried to close a $4.6 billion budget gap.

“You can’t take $400 million out of the mental health system or $1.5 billion out of the health care system and not have changes in the way things are done,” Cansler told reporters.

Cansler said to restore part or all of the $400 million, lawmakers would be forced to take funds from elsewhere in state government or find more revenues. But he said Perdue is considering whether to restore the $15 million extra she withheld from local health agencies.

That would be good news for local mental health offices such as Mental Health Partners, which serves patients in Catawba and Burke counties.

The state told the so-called “local management entity” it would receive $1.7 million less this year, equating to a nearly 13 percent decrease in expenditures, said John Hardy, the office’s area director.

Mental Health Partners has shifted its menu of services to ensure that people with severe problems will continue to receive the necessary level of services, Hardy said. But others with milder forms of mental illness or disabilities will have fewer services. For example, day treatment services will be reduced from five days a week to three.

Cansler said the state is working with local management entities to minimize the effect the cuts have on necessary treatment.

“There are going to be people who may not receive all the services that they’ve had in the past,” he said.

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Local and answer period, Dr. Don Lesher, husband of the current mayor, asked each candidate a three-part question concerning the master plan. He wanted to know if the candidate participated in helping form the plan, what part of the plan they supported the most, and which part did they not support.

The two incumbents, Dancy and Cobb, have participated in the plan through their roles on council. The others had not, but said they were working hard to learn the details.

In every case, the candidates spoke highly of the StreetScape park on Main Street, and three, Cobb, Clements and Hill, did not support the plan to tear down one of the buildings to provide for a grass area.

Harmon, the mayoral candidate, said she liked improving the beauty of the area but that “it is a doubleedged sword, in that we don’t want to overspend on some of these things.”

Downtown property owner Ellen Cantrell continued to push for additional parking and she said the master plan does not do enough to enhance parking. Hill said it has always been a problem, particularly when merchants park in spaces that should be left available for customers.

The state project to build a bypass as part of the widening of U.S. 221 elicited concern from each candidate and a call for teamwork to plan on how to deal with the impact.

Mayor Lesher asked Harmon what she meant when she said the town “should be run like a business.”

Tempers flare as board debates budget changes

By LARRY DALE Daily Courier Staff Writer

ELLENBORO — After a heated discussion among Mayor Teresa Whisnant Wood, board members and the town’s auditor, Don Heath, the Town Board of Aldermen approved budget amendments Tuesday night for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2009.

Heath told board members that “some tweaking needs to be done” because the figures showed the town “overextended” on five different accounts.

Mayor Wood asked Heath who had signed the audit, and he responded that it was Town Clerk Vivian Skipper and town board member Allan “Bunt” Black.

“I was appointed to do that as chairman of the audit committee,” Black said.

When Wood questioned the handling of the audit, Black responded, “This board is well satisfied with it.”

Wood asked if Heath could get the audit report back from Raleigh. Heath said he could, but “it would not be a good reflection on Ellenboro.”

Wood said, “The board should know what line items and budget amendments (are being changed).”

Heath responded, “These are the specific line items right here.”

The mayor said, “You are a hired employee.” To which Heath responded, “I am an independent contractor.

I am not an employee of this board.”

Wood said, “The finance officer and clerk can’t make decisions for this board.”

Heath told the mayor, “The audit has not been approved. If the board does not approve these budget amendments I can get it back from Raleigh and rewrite it.”

At that point, town attorney Gene Mitchell told the mayor that the budget amendments, “for lack of a better word, are housekeeping. These are ordinary budget amendments.”

“It’s not smoke and illusions here,” Heath said. “They (the state) allow towns to amend the budget.”

“If it’s not spending money that was Harmon said the town not appropriated, it is no problem,” council should go lineattorney Mitchell added. by-line through the budget and challenge The Best Local Sports Coverage every expenditure. “I would be very conservative with the budget,” she said.

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Board member Jim Rhyne commented, “It is moving line items from point A to point B.” The mayor replied that there are more than 20 amendments. To which Rhyne responded, “You are moving from one line to another line to make it come out.”

Heath told Wood, “You are not statutorily deficit at this point.”

But he warned that the town will show up as overextended if he gets the audit report back and rewrites it.

At that point, Black commented to the mayor, “Are you insinuating that someone is stealing money?”

The mayor said that was not what she was saying.

Then Black said, “What is your problem with it? You’re just being stupid.”

“I am mayor of this town,” Wood replied, “and I am not stupid. You owe me an apology.”

“Do I apologize?” Black said. “No.” At that point, the mayor called for adjourning the meeting.

“You all need to calm down,” attorney Mitchell said.

Black said, “I apologize to you for calling you stupid.”

Rhyne noted, “Don is an independent auditor. It (the amendments) changes nothing. It moves line items from point A to point B. We didn’t budget enough for this; we budgeted too much for that. I don’t have a problem with it. If I were in your chair, I would ask the board if they have any questions about this. The board is held responsible.”

Wood then asked for a recess for five minutes, but Mitchell, indicating the board’s reaction, said, “The board doesn’t want to recess.”

He suggested the mayor ask, “What is the board’s pleasure on this?”

Wood did that, and board member Sandra Butler Weeks made a motion that “we pass the budget amendments as they are.”

Black seconded the motion, and it was unanimously approved.

Later in the meeting Black said to the mayor, “I apologize to you and the board. I did lose my temper.”

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tion, “the town will change. We will elect a Continued from Page 1A new mayor and maybe two new council members. Our future will be manages a financial determined by the new company and who has leadership.” been on council since He believes the town’s 2001, spoke to his expechallenges are financial, rience. “I have been involved with this town because it, like most since I arrived, and long other communities, had before I considered run- been deeply impacted by the national recesning for office. sion. He knows the “I know the departtown must operate with ment heads, who are a balanced budget, and an asset to our town.

In addition, I have rela- said, “Raising taxes are not an option.” tionships with elected The second challenge, officials from Spindale and Forest City and the he said, was “how to keep Rutherfordton county because I have progressing, keeping worked with them on the quality of life high.” many community and He, too, believes teamcivic committees,” he work is essential on said. council.

“I work on these Clements offered committees because two suggestions. He I believe in what they believed the council are doing and I have a should push for a series passion for this comof workshops with munity. I am committed to the town’s master Spindale to see “what plan. I will be visible on we can do to consolidate town services to Main Street.” save money.” His second Harmon, former was to have the town human relations suggest a list of projects manager for Watts for R-S seniors that Regulator, pointed out would help them learn her experience in busiabout the town’s history ness and noted she and its government. has received an array Ms. Higgins told the of leadership training. audience she was self“The town should be run like a business,” she employed and was a life-long farmer who said. “With my back“has one foot in the last ground, I can make a century and one foot difference. We need to be progressive and look in the next century.”

Although brought up at ideas for revenue generation. It should be in Yancy County, she has traced her lina group effort” to solve eage in Rutherford the town’s problems, County back to the she said.

Cobb, who seeks a sec- Revolutionary War. She said she believes she ond term, noted he has could understand both worked as a firefighter generations. for more than 30 years She also attended ICC. before retiring. “I am a Dennis Hill, who candidate for everyone,” owns and operates a he said. “When I make local insurance agency, decisions, I consider is a native who learned everyone living in the to work hard at an early community.” Cobb now age. “I know how to works as a building inspector in Henderson work for something and County, and said he had I believe it is important to have a businessman been out of work for 11 on council.” months before taking Hill commented that his new job about three teamwork was imporweeks ago. tant, that the town’s “I also have a strong merchants association working relationship needed to be more with the department involved, and like heads and the (town) employees. I promise to Clements, felt the town should take advantage make sound decisions of its relationship with and approach everyLt. Gov. Walter Dalton thing with an open to establish a connecmind.” tion with state governClements, a textile ment. manager for 35 years, During the question noted after the elec-

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.S. Senator Olympia Snow of Maine took a step Tuesday that set her apart from her Republican peers. She was the lone Republican to vote for the national health care bill that came out of the Senate Finance Committee.

Her vote was significant because Democrats had a majority in the committee and didn’t need her vote to move it out to the full Senate.

But she put aside party ties and voted for the millions of American people who do not have health insurance now.

The bill, sponsored by Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, would help most Americans get coverage without creating a new government insurance plan.

There is no question the bill will change as it passes through the legislative process. But Snow’s vote is a notice to her colleagues that they need to judge the legislation on its merits and not on who authored the bill or how it will have an impact on their chances of getting re-elected.

It’s a big first step, but a first step only. Americans will surely keep a close eye on this landmark legislation as it advances toward possible passage.

Our readers’ views Tea party organizer explains his position To the editor: Proverbs 9:8 warns, “Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you, reprove a wise man and he will love you.”

I provide the following information, with the hope that you are a wise man, who is simply unfamiliar with who my wife and I are.

My wife Jennifer, myself, and my children Aleks and Nattie, moved to Rutherford County on July 4, 2006, a little over three years ago.

We moved from Miami/Florida where there is no income tax, to Rutherford County/North Carolina, where there is an income tax. Both states levy sales and property taxes.

My wife Jennifer and I, organize a meeting once per month, each Friday before the monthly commissioners’ meeting, at which we invite anyone to attend.

We also organized the two Rutherford County tea parties this year.

Attendance to these meetings is voluntary, as was attendance at the tea parties, so we have no way of compelling you to do anything, especially “how to behave or spend” your (our) money.

The county, on the other hand, is granted authority over the sheriff’s office, which it uses to collect property taxes from us.

They can compel us, even force us, to spend our money in ways we disagree, by first confiscating it via taxation, and then spending it at their whim.

Currently, the county collects about $30 million per year in property taxes. Every new tax funded project they approve increases the need for taxes collected.

The Daniel Road Complex is such a tax-funded project, set to cost $30 million.

With 18,000 households in Rutherford County, this project will burden each household with over $1,600 in new property

taxes.

We can agree or disagree whether $1,600 per household is a worthwhile investment in a $30 million venture, if it were left to each household’s family to decide.

However, when the county undertakes this project, we are not permitted to decide if the $1,600 we earn, is better spent on our own families, or on this speculation.

The commissioners can simply increase our taxes, and with the power of the sheriff’s office take that money from us, no questions asked.

I do not share your stand that it is a simple matter of civil discourse, when one group of people incites the commissioners to confiscate money from the entire county, with the purpose of funding “pet” projects.

Secondly, Mr. McCammon did provide an alternate view of the animal shelter issue, however what he debunked was the argument that the current pet shelter could be shut down completely.

He argued that contracting handling of the animals outside the county would cost more than building a new pet shelter.

Not a single person speaking ahead of Mr. McCammon suggested that we shut down the shelter. Every single one recommended that we repair or rebuild it, for much less money than the $1-$2 million currently being considered for a new pet center.

The straw-man, built and then debunked by Mr. McCammon, was the reason he was booed down, as he first misrepresented the people speaking before him, and then argued that their alleged position was unreasonable and ill informed.

In civil public discourse, men and women of reason suffer neither misrepresentation of their words nor mistreatment of their character. We defend both, in a way which you heard at that meeting.

Zoran Naskov Rutherfordton

More information on handling feral cats To the editor: I was glad to see the Pet Project article in Sunday’s paper about National Feral Cat Day (October 16).

However, the article failed to mention that the Rutherford County Humane Society has had a feral cat program here in this county since 1999 and has been using TNR (trap/neuter/return) to sterilize and rabies vaccinate feral colonies, averaging 325 stray or feral cats spay/neutered per year.

TNR is the most humane and also the most proven effective means of reducing the stray and feral cat population.

Since 82 percent of kittens born in America are born to the free roaming cat population, we at the Rutherford County Humane Society feel it is essential that use of TNR — rather than euthanasia — ­be employed in Rutherford County to address our overpopulation of cats.

The Pet Project article also noted several websites on feral cats.

May I suggest you visit http:// rutherfordcountyhumanesociety. org and look for our feral cat work under “programs.”

Check out the pictures of eartipped cats so you will be able to recognize one of the sterilized, vaccinated feral cats that live in our county.

There are over two thousand of them.

You will have to look hard though — they are elusive by definition!

Call Rutherford County Humane Society at 286-0222 if you need help with feral cats.

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Stories that are emerging from below the radar RALEIGH — After the legislature leaves town in the summer, especially in years when no state offices are up for election, the political news in the state capital can slow to a crawl.

The lull never lasts long, and it hasn’t this year. Some stories become hard to miss, scandals that confirm people’s worst thoughts about politicians or policy decisions whose scope is wide enough to affect the lives of average citizens.

Other stories are like the new specialty flavor at the ice cream shop, interesting enough but not likely to grab your curiosity more than once.

Here are some thoughts on a few of the latter, just in case you happened to miss them.

Today in North Carolina Scott Mooneyham n State lawmakers’ decision to create a “fat tax” for state workers has become a topic de jour. The notion of charging people more for health insurance if they’re fat hasn’t been very well received in some quarters.

The change will go into effect beginning in 2011, with employees who record a 40 on a body mass index formula being placed into a more costly insurance plan.

In 2012, a 35 will put people into the more expensive plan. (Being 20 pounds over-

weight, I still come in below 30.)

It’s not real clear why all the hubbub now. Private employer-based insurance plans have been charging smokers more for health insurance for several years (as will the State Health Plan under the new rules). Did anyone really believe that obesity wouldn’t be next?

The only question is, when will Ronald McDonald be called for a round of tough questioning by a congressional committee? n Gov. Beverly Perdue, along with state commerce officials and business leaders, is headed to Asia this week.

The trip to China and Japan, intended to improve business ties and trade, will cost about $82,000.

Republicans criticized the timing, coming just after budget cuts and state employee layoffs. Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, called the decision “tone deaf.”

Actually, paying $52,000 to have a chauffeured Mercedes van haul you and your spouse around would be tone deaf. (Please see expense listing of previous state government junket by previous governor.) Given recent history, cheeseburgers may well be on the menu for this trip. n Home-grown LED lightmaker Cree announced it would be adding 575 jobs, and wants no state incentives to do so.

The announcement came just as Dell Computer said it was closing its Forsyth

County plant, a few years after being promised $280 million in state and local incentives to open.

Cree, at least, has decided to embrace capitalism and stand on its own, no longer seeking charity from taxpayers. n Ken Lewis announced his resignation as Bank of America CEO, and some groups want the Obama compensation czar to seize his $53 million pension. In 2008, Lewis compensation totaled nearly $10 million.

Doing a little math, that compensation came to 143 times mine. It’s good to understand our respective values to society.

Scott Mooneyham is executive director of the Capital News Services.

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Obituaries Clarence Conner Clarence Austin Conner, 86, of Tanner Street, Rutherfordton, died Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, at Hospice House in Forest City.

A native of Ohio, he was a son of the late Furman Washington Conner and Cora Belle McCurry. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Billie Opal Conner, and his eldest son.

He was a World War II veteran and a former purchasing agent for Collins and Aikman in Canton, Ohio.

Survivors include one daughter, Madelyn Conner Van Voorhis; three sons, Mark Wayne Conner, William Lester Conner, and Curtis Lloyd Conner; three grandchildren and other relatives.

Arrangements are incomLarry Dale/Daily Courier plete at this time.

FCPD Assistant Chief Bob Ward, second from left, is shown here with Forest City ABC store workers, In lieu of flowers, memorifrom left, George Helton, Bettie Hendren and Karen Gray as they display Intoximeter units purchased als may be made to Hospice with ABC funds. of Rutherford County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.

ABC funds fund equipment for Forest City police officers From staff reports

FOREST CITY — Thanks to a grant and the distribution of ABC money, the Police Department is able to buy additional equipment.

A $6,000 grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance will be matched by the FCPD to allow the purchase of ballistic vests for road officers, all of whom wear one. The vests cost about $500 each.

Assistant Chief Bob Ward said Tuesday that vests will be replaced as needed, with officers receiving a new one every five years. If a vest is hit, it must be replaced, but Ward said, “fortunately, that has never happened here.”

Lt. Chris Lovelace com-

mented that vests are like fire extinguishers in that you buy them hoping they will never be used.

Ward said FCPD vests traditionally have come from First Choice Armor.

The FCPD also has been able to buy six Intoximeters through funds received from the distribution of Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission money. The funds come from the sale of alcohol at the ABC store in Forest City.

The portable alcohol measuring devices can be used on the roadside. Ward said typically the FCPD has had only one unit per shift, but now the department will be

Sheila Whisnant

Sheila Ann Wright Whisnant, 53, of 1042 Tarlton Dr., Shelby, died Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, at her able to have at least two per home following a courageous shift.

13-month battle with cancer.

The six units cost $2,450.

Born in Cleveland County, The FCPD has access to she was a daughter of Eloise two accounts, based on Spangler Wright of Shelby, ABC distribution. One is for and the late Hoyle Hoyte equipment and the other is Wright. for educational purposes.

She was employed for The assistant chief said that 28 years with the State in the past, for example, the Employees Credit Union, department has purchased and a vice president and “fatal vision” goggles that allow high school students to city executive for the Boiling Springs Branch. She was a safely experience the sensation of driving a vehicle while lifelong member of Fallston Baptist Church, where impaired. she served as chairman of Ward said the department the nominating, building/ is grateful for the Justice grounds and pastor search Assistance and ABC money committees. She also served because the funds allow the FCPD to buy things it would on the incorporation and library committees and the not otherwise be able to worship team. have.

In addition to her mother, she is survived by her husband of 17 years, Tracy Ray Whisnant; a brother, Jeffrey Wright of Kings Mountain; man, Craig Taylor, has conthree nephews, two godsons fessed to the crime. and a number of other relatives.

The commission found The funeral will be held that the confession provided at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at enough evidence for a review Fallston Baptist Church of the case. Willoughby says with the Rev. David Blanton while he won’t try to stop a officiating. The family will judicial review, Craig Taylor’s receive friends immediconfession has serious prob- ately following the service lems. in the church fellowship The Taylors are not related. hall. Entombment will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in the Rose Hill Memorial Park Mausoleum in Fallston.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Fallston Baptist Church, Carillon Fund, P.O. Box 116, Fallston, charged with two counts of failure to appear, possession NC 28042.

Stamey Funeral Home of methamphetamine, posof Fallston has charge of session of drug paraphernalia and resisting a public offi- arrangements. cer; placed under a $25,000 secured bond. (RCSD) Online condolences www.stameyfuneralhome.com. n Carlton Gray Canipe, 19, of 715 Stroud Road; charged with two counts of cyberstalking; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond.

Richard Whitcomb (RCSD) NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — NASA Langley EMS/Rescue Research Center says n The Rutherford County aviation pioneer Richard EMS responded to 10 E-911 Whitcomb has died. He was calls Monday.

89.

Whitcomb worked at Langley from 1943 until 1980, and during that time came up with three important aeronautical innovations.

He discovered how to achieve practical, efficient transonic and supersonic flight by changing the shape of the fuselage, developed the supercritical wing that revolutionized the design of jet liners, and invented winglets that improve efficiency and fuel performance on private jets and major airlines.

Stuart Kaminsky ST. LOUIS (AP) — Prolific mystery writer Stuart Kaminsky, whose 70 books included one that the Mystery Writers of America deemed the best mystery novel of 1989, has died at a hospital here. He was 75.

The native Chicagoan also had taught film and film history at Northwestern University and Florida State University.

He published his first novel, Bullet for a Star, in 1977. The Mystery Writers of America honored one of his works, A Cold Red Sunrise, as the best mystery novel of 1989.

Richard W. Sonnenfeldt NEW YORK (AP) — Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, the chief interpreter for American prosecutors at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, has died. He was 86.

Sonnenfeldt interrogated some of World War II’s most notorious Nazi leaders, including Hitler’s secondin-command, Hermann Goering; Albert Speer, who headed Germany’s war manufacturing; and Reich minister Rudolf Hess.

He his story in his memoir, Witness to Nuremberg.

DA not sold on man’s slaying confession

RALEIGH (AP) — The Wake County district attorney says he’s skeptical of a man’s confession to killing a prostitute 18 years ago, partially because the man has confessed to almost 70 other crimes.

Multiple media outlets reported that Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby’s state-

ments about the confessions came in a written response he filed Tuesday to the North Carolina Innocence Commission.

Greg Taylor of Cary is serving a sentence for the stabbing and beating death of 26-year-old Jacquetta Thomas, whose body was found on a Raleigh street in September 1991. Another

Police Notes Sheriff’s Reports

n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 154 E-911 calls Monday.

Rutherfordton

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

Spindale

n The Spindale Police Department responded to 25 E-911 calls Monday.

Lake Lure

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

Forest City

n The Forest City Police Department responded to 50 E-911 calls Monday.

Arrests

n Raymond Miller, 52, of Ohio Street, Spindale; charged with felony larceny; placed under a $15,000 secured bond. (FCPD) n Dayshana Lathan, 20, of Sherrill Street, Forest City; served with a show cause order. (FCPD) n Michelle Denice Phillips, 31, of 318 Vista Apartment Drive; charged with commu-

nicating threats and simple assault; released on a $1,500 unsecured bond. (LLPD) n Demurice Tyrone Abrams, 22, of 703 Academy St.; charged with probation violation; placed under a $10,000 secured bond.

(Probation) n Julian Lee Arrowood, 27, of 505 Florida Ave.; charged with breaking and/or entering and larceny after break/ enter; released on a $25,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD) n Rogelio Rodriguez Alvarez, 40, of 151 Hidden Acres; charged with hit/ run fail to top for property damage, possession of open container of alcohol in the passenger area of a motor vehicle, reckless driving to endanger and failure to stop for a stop sign/flashing red light; placed under a $5,000 secured bond. (RCSD) n Melissa Greene Johnson, 40, of 110 J.W. Morrow St.; charged with domestic criminal trespassing; placed under a 48-hour hold. (RCSD) n Jerry Scott Toms, 42, of 141 Perennial Garden; charged with simple possession of schedule VI controlled substance; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (RCSD) n Heather Michelle Shehan, 21, of 147 Groce St.;

Deaths

n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to one E-911 call Monday.

Fire Calls n Cherry Mountain firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident. n Ellenboro firefighters responded to a house fire, assisted by Cherry Mountain and Polkville firefighters, and to a motor vehicle accident. n Forest City firefighters responded to an industrial fire alarm and to a chimney fire.

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Edna Yelton Twitty Edna Yelton Twitty, age 94, of Rutherfordton, NC, passed away Sunday, October 11, 2009, at Grace Ridge Retirement Center after a period of declining health.

Born in Rutherfordton, on January 24, 1915, Mrs. Twitty was the daughter of the late Archie R. Yelton and Ida Elizabeth Yelton.

She was the widow of the late John C. Twitty. A long time member of First United Methodist Church of Rutherfordton, she joined the church at an early age and was very active teaching Sunday School and as a board member of the Children's Home.

Mrs. Twitty was a board member of the Norris Public Library and an active member of the Hospital Auxiliary. She taught school after graduating from Asheville Normal and later she worked at a bank and for the clerk of court.

She is survived by a number of nieces and nephews, Lib Page of Rutherfordton, Martha Jones and husband, C. J. of Rutherfordton, Don Yelton and wife, Harriett of Hendersonville, Carol Brundage and husband, Bill of Oak Ridge, TN, Jim Long and wife, Jane of Columbia; Kay Mathis of Lexington, N.C., Lynn Horton and husband, Mike of Charlotte, Edmond Yelton and wife, Julie of Belleville, IL., Gwen Twitty of Clearwater, FL and Steve Twitty of Cleawater, FL.; one sister-inlaw, Edith Twitty of Clearwater, FL. and one cousin, Lillian Hedin of Rutherfordton.

A memorial service will be held at First United Methodist Church, Rutherfordton at 3:00 PM Wednesday, October 14, 2009, with Rev. Tonya Hill and Rev. Dean Baughn officiating. The family will receive friends following the service in the Church Sanctuary. Interment will be at a later date in the Rutherfordton City Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church Friendship Club, 264 North Main St., Rutherfordton, NC 28139.

McMahans Funeral Home and Cremation Services is in charge of the arrangements.

Online condolences: www. mcmahansfuneralhome.com Paid obit

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Calendar/Local/state

One lawsuit settled in Army drill shooting Health/education Free breast exams: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Community Clinic of Rutherford County will offer free breast exams Oct. 23 and 30, from 9 a.m. untli noon-12. You do not have to be a current patient of the clinic. Call 245-0400 for an appointment.

Free presentation: “In Our Own Voice” is a free community presentation which addresses living with mental illness. The program, hosted

by NAMI Rutherford, will be held Thursday, Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m., at Rutherford Hospital, Norris Biggs Conference Room. For more information call 288-3820, leave message, or via email amyz59@hotmail. com.

Meetings/other Habitat dedication: Habitat for Humanity will dedicate its 53rd home in Rutherford County on Friday, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m. The home of Wanda Twitty and her family is located at 161 Allen St., Rutherfordton. Built by the ICC Building Construction Technology Class under the direction of Chester Melton.

Quarterly (general) meeting: Rutherford County Humane Society will meet Tuesday, Oct. 20, at the county annex. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. Prospective members welcome.

PWA meeting: The Professional Women’s Association meets the third Tuesday of each month from noon to 1 p.m. Dutch treat lunch.

The next meeting is Oct. 20, at Tuscany Italian Grille, Spindale.

Those attending will receive a free educational CD-ROM on women’s health. Prospective members welcome.

Annual board meeting: Rutherford Life Services board of directors will meet Monday, Oct. 26, at Fairground Road, Spindale.

New club: Inventors Club of America is starting a new chapter in the Tri-City area. Interested persons contact Sam McIlwain at 828 288-0090. Limited membership available.

Miscellaneous Jack Roush will be at Keeter Ford in Shelby today at 4.30 p.m., greeting people and signing autographs.

Roush is the founder, CEO, and co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing, a NASCAR team headquartered in Concord.

Powder Puff football game: Tuesday, Oct. 20, begins at 6 p.m., at Chase High football stadium; Chase and East high schools are participating; admission $4; also, a cheerleading competition will be held in between the second and third game.

Foothills Harvest Outreach Ministries will hold a canned food drive through Oct. 17. During this week, a clothing item can be purchased at half price with a nonperishable food item (one for one).

The store is located at 120 E. Trade St., Forest City.

Reunions Roper-Bowen family reunion: Sunday, Oct. 18, covered dish meal 1 p.m., at Mountain Creek Baptist Church fellowship hall.

30-year reunion: East Rutherford Class of 1979; Nov. 7, at the Forest City Clubhouse; for more information contact A. Elliott at 245-0361; or via email mcelliott@bellsouth. net.

Fundraisers Fish fry: Friday, Oct. 16, 4 to 8 p.m., Long Branch Road Baptist Church, Shiloh community; not set price; donations accepted; take outs available; proceeds for a new fellowship hall.

Poor man’s supper: Friday, Oct. 16, begins at 3 p.m., New Forest Chapel CME Church, 137 Chapel St., Forest City; $8 per person, drink and dessert included.

Benefit supper/singing: Benefit for the Potter family; Saturday, Oct. 17, Faith Baptist Church; poor man’s supper from noon to 3 p.m.; adults $4; ages 10 and under, $3; ages 4 and under free; singing starts at 3 p.m. with All For Him featuring Eddie Mathis and Callie Crain.

Poor man’s supper: Saturday, Oct. 24, 5 to 7 p.m.; Sunshine United Methodist Church, DePriest Rd., off Bostic-Sunshine Hwy.; adults $7, ch $2.50.

Religion Youth Revival: Oct. 19 and 20, 7 nightly, Zion Grove AME Zion Church, Piney Ridge Rd., Green Creek; guest speaker, Rev. Ricky Rick of Shelby, youth pastor of Family Christian Center in Gastonia.

Revival: Oct. 18-25, at the Temple of Jesus Church in Lake Lure; Sunday services 10 a.m.; weekly services 7:30 nightly; guest speaker, Rev. Jackie Turner of Kentucky.

GREENSBORO (AP) — Representatives for a Fort Bragg soldier killed during a training exercise have settled a lawsuit against the North Carolina sheriff’s deputy who shot him.

Robert Elliot, an attorney representing the estate of Tallas Tomeny in the excessive force lawsuit, declined to provide details on the agreement.

Attorneys for the deputy, Randall Butler, also declined comment.

Another soldier injured in the

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vious students. Lambert previously taught the academic team at R-S Central.

“It was stiff competition since all of the academic teams were from the Triangle area,” said Lambert. “It was still a good experience for our students.”

Some of the categories the team encountered during the competition were psychology, art and literature, economics, physics, chemistry and many others.

The team qualified to make it into the afternoon rounds winning two rounds and losing four.

“It was nostalgic for me,” said Team Captain Brooke Tomerlin. “Both of my parents were Chapel Hill graduates and I had visited the campus before and got to go to academic competitions before this, so I knew what to expect.”

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$14,000.

“But I do have a quote $40,000 so I’m looking for a competitive quote on installation,” Price added. “I hope to find one in the $20,000 or $25,000 range.”

Current interim airport manager Greg Turner reported that the Fixed Base Operator transition process is going smoothly, and that he was in the process of replacing the ropes on 35 tie-down slots at the airport. The new ropes will more safely secure planes that park on the tarmac instead of being stored in a hangar.

Board members also heard about a revamped plan to handle water drain-

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vacation renters. This ordinance does not allow one complaint to disallow rentals.”

Commissioners debated an amendment to the original language of the ordinance that would remove a clause directing future boards to prohibit rentals due to their perceived negative impacts on the community.

The first vote on the ordinance, in September, resulted in a split board with Commissioners Linda Turner and Wayne Hyatt voting not and Commissioner Bill Beason and Pitts voting yes. Mayor Jim Proctor cast his tie-breaker vote to pass the ordinance. But the law didn’t go into effect because it was required to pass by a two-thirds majority of council members. On Tuesday, the second vote began with Turner and Hyatt once again showing reluctance.

“On behalf of Commissioner Hyatt and myself, I’d like to say that this ordinance has come a long way from where it started,” Turner said. “We salute the hard work on both sides on this compromise. However we still believe for this council to advise a

February 2002 shooting, Stephen Phelps, is continuing his claim. A federal judge in Greensboro seated a jury Tuesday to hear the case, and opening statements are scheduled Wednesday.

Butler shot the two soldiers during a traffic stop while the men were participating in a Special Forces roleplaying exercise called Robin Sage.

The former Moore County deputy has sued separately, saying the Army failed to inform others about the

training.

The two sides have disputed details of the incident. Phelps contends that Butler used excessive force, firing his weapon at both soldiers when neither posed a threat. Butler has argued in court documents that the men were acting suspicious and refused to follow orders even after the deputy thought he saw two machine guns stored in a bag that he asked Tomeny to open.

Tomerlin has participated in academic teams since she was in the seventh grade through R-S Middle and R-S Central. This is her first year on the REaCH Academic Team.

Seven students from the REaCH program participated in the competition at UNC. Other team members not able to go to the event were Matt Bradley, Jonathan Tomerlin and Kelsey Holden.

“I told them that we were making history whether they realized it or not,” said Lambert.

“It was a good experience,” said team member Jamie Cuthbertson.

“It’s probably one of the toughest competitions we will go to, and it was definitely an eye opener,” said Lambert. “This will help us prepare for future events and it identified areas that needed to be studied.”

Lambert did a debriefing of the competition when they got back to go over the event, such as questions students got right and the ones that they did not.

“This is a team sport, not an indi-

vidual thing,” said Tomerlin. “You have to get used to people’s strengths and weaknesses.”

“It’s intense because they also keep individual statistics of each player,” said Lambert.

age issues on the north end of the field.

“The new plan shows the north ramp hangars that have had some water issues,” Price said. “It also shows W.K. Dickson’s drawing of where they would put in some pipes, with larger pipes in one area and some smaller pipes between hangars.

We’ve had an offer to pay to connect for the roof pipes to be put in and connect the hangars to the main drainage pipe. That could happen as early as November depending on the weather. But the big pipe would drain that whole area up there and then the roof leaders would be connected. I believe there is sufficient diameter in those pipes to keep it from ever flooding hangars again. I think the airport will be a lot better off to have that

water dealt with properly. We’ve never had adequate drainage up there and now we will.”

Luther explained, “Half of your ramp drains to that area. Once it gets to the open area, we’ll be collecting it to go underground. The collection of that had to be dealt with anyway and we put a detail in our plan showing how the roof leaders need to be connected. At the end of each taxiway right now, past the road, the water just dumps out. But we’re going to collect that and you won’t have any more open channel runoff out there.”

Board members also finalized their Fixed Base Operator notice to solicit new operators.

future board of commissioners to take a specific action on the as yet undefined ‘negative impacts’ is ill advised and illogical.”

Hyatt pointed to some ambiguity on the term “negative impacts” and wanted a clear definition of a study to be conducted on the impact of rentals.

“You’ve pointed to ambiguity here and there throughout the language,” Beason said.

“Yes, Bill and I think I’m right on both counts,” Hyatt said.

“Wayne, the two of you had a much more detailed ordinance before you earlier in the process and you said it was too detailed and ornery. Now you’re saying it isn’t detailed enough?”

Pitts asked.

Hyatt stuck to his guns and said he wanted less direction for future councils. Both sides eventually compromised on language that leaves open the possibility of eliminating vacation rentals all together or lessening regulations on them — but both at the discretion of a future council.

The amended motion passed unanimously. Rentals in the town of Lake Lure will now be required to have licenses, clearly delineate parking areas on a drawn site plan on file,

post a 24 hour contact number for neighbors to call with complaints or concerns and be limited to a maximum of 12 people in one house.

In other business, the council also heard a report that the dam’s hydroelectric plant had generated about 400,000 kilowatt hours of electricity this month.

“We have almost completed paying back Duke Energy for previous overpayments of revenue,” Town Manager Christ Braund said. “And that means that in the near future we hope to see our electricity revenues increase by about $6,000 a month.

Braund added, “We’re working on installing improved signage at the marina including a large kiosk similar to the one at the Donald Ross Nature Trail. We’re looking at adding recycling containers along each public trash receptacle in the face of new laws on plastic recycling. We’ve now completed half of the street repair work that is funded annually by Powell Bill Funds, that’s about 2,400 square yards of paving spread around roads all over town. The remainder of the paving will be done in the spring.”

One thing the team is always looking for is sponsorships. REaCH Principal Dr. Laura Thomas, has been very supportive of the Academic Team. She approached Lambert with the idea since Lambert had previously taught the academic teams at R-S Central.

The Academic Team will be competing in five or six competitions during the school year. The team will be participating at a competition in Dorman, S.C., in January where teams from five different states will be competing against each other. The team also hopes to go to Clemson for a competition in November. ICC also hosts both middle and high school academic competitions and the REaCH Academic Team will be participating in this event in March.

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U.S. player Davies injured in accident ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — U.S. national team forward Charlie Davies was in serious condition Tuesday evening following a one-vehicle accident in which another person was killed.

Davies underwent several hours of surgery at Washington Hospital Center Medstar.

Hospital spokeswoman So Young Pak said Davies’ condition was serious but offered no further details.

“Obviously, as a team we were saddened to learn this news,” coach Bob Bradley said after learning of the accident. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Charlie and his family, as well as the other person in the car and the families of the others involved. ... We are relying on each other in a moment that has for sure hit us all hard.”

U.S. Soccer Federation spokesman Neil Buethe earlier said that Davies’ injuries were not life-threatening.

U.S. Park Police Sgt. David Schlosser said the accident took place at about 3:15 a.m. in the southbound lanes of the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Virginia. Schlosser identified the fatality as Ashley J. Roberta, 22, of Phoenix, Md. Schlosser said there were three people in the car, and that Roberta was not the driver. Davies and the other person in the car were taken to the same hospital, one by land and one by helicopter.

Buethe initially said that Davies’ injuries were “possibly” career-threatening but later clarified the remark.

“At this point, we just don’t know the extent of the injuries, so we can’t comment on how this affects Charlie’s future,” Buethe said while Davies was in surgery.

The U.S. team is in Washington area for Wednesday night’s World Cup qualifying game against Costa Rica.

Nationwide crew member suspended DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NASCAR has suspended a Nationwide Series crew member for violating its toughened substance abuse policy.

Robert Good, a crew member for the No. 26 Dodge team owned by Dusty Whitney, was suspended indefinitely on Tuesday. He committed the violation on Oct. 9. Driver Michael McDowell piloted the No. 26 to a 32nd place finish in last weekend’s race at Auto Club Speedway.

NASCAR has suspended 11 crew members this season.

Jeremy Mayfield is the only driver to be suspended since NASCAR began random testing this year.

Local Sports SOCCER Chase at Burns, 6 p.m.

R-S Central at Freedom, 6 p.m.

TJCA at Madison, 6 p.m.

CROSS COUNTRY East Rutherford, Chase and R-S Central at Newton Conover

On TV 7 p.m. (FSS) NHL Hockey Pittsburgh Penguins at Carolina Hurricanes.

7:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Soccer 2010 World Cup Qualifier — United States vs. Costa Rica.

8 p.m. (ESPN) College Football Boise State at Tulsa.

10 p.m. (ESPN2) MLS Soccer Red Bull New York at Real Salt Lake.

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Central’s Taylor Crowder (17) battles for the ball at the net against East Rutherford’s Chelsea Medford (7) during the volleyball game Tuesday at R-S Central High School.

Central takes down Lady Cavs

By KEVIN CARVER Sports Reporter

RUTHERFORDTON — An emotional senior night against an in-county rival and great efforts by Daryl Brown, Taylor Crowder and Haley Drabek, who combined for 39 kills, gave R-S Central a 25-22, 25-19, 19-25, 25-22 victory over East Rutherford Tuesday.

From the outset, Central seemed to want the match more with solid front-line play, plus some key digs that provided Central’s volleyball coach Jamie Hutchins reason to be proud of her charges.

“We did a great job of fighting back when we had too and when our spirits got down,” Hutchins said.

“It was team effort and that is four wins a row now.”

The Lady Cavs Maykayla Harrellson and Sally Harrill led East to an 8-6 lead in game one with push over shots. From there, Central’s Brown took over. A key moment turned when Central’s Drabek blocked a Chelsea Medford Please see Central, Page 6

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East Rutherford’s Stephanie Jarrell (12) returns the ball during the volleyball action against Central Tuesday at R-S Central High School.

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Larry Brown preaches to any and everyone to play the game the right way.

So the sometimes-cranky Charlotte Bobcats coach is having a hard time adjusting to the inexperienced replacement officials calling a foul on seemingly every other possession.

Brown says it makes it hard to play. Period.

“It’s like the summer league games,” Brown said Tuesday, referring to where most of the new officials have worked. “I’ve always had issue with that.

You never get to see the kids play. There’s always fouls being called.”

Statistics prove his point.

According to STATS LLC, there have been average of 57.5 personal fouls per game through Monday’s exhibition schedule. That compares to 49 fouls per game in the preseason with the regular referees last year. There were 42 fouls a game in the regular season in 2008-09.

The average is even higher in the Bobcats’ four exhibition games. There were 77 fouls and 95 free throws in the New Orleans-Charlotte game last week. The crew Monday night called 61 fouls and five technicals in Charlotte’s game at Atlanta.

Brown was ejected, one of the early uncomfortable moments for the league since it locked out the regular referees in a labor dispute.

Kevin Scott whistled Brown for two technical fouls, then called for security when Brown lingered on the court.

Brown, who picked up a technical foul in another game Scott worked last week, eventually left for the locker room without an escort.

“I don’t want to get into that,” Brown said when asked a day later of the ejection, before adding that “I’m sure I did” deserve to get tossed.

NBA spokesman Tim Frank said they had no problem with Scott calling security as the league prepares to perhaps play regular-season games with replacement officials for the first time since 1995. There have been no talks since the referees union rejected the NBA’s latest offer two weeks ago.

“Without getting myself in trouble, I think the older refs knew how to not take the rules literally all the time. It created a flow,” Bobcats guard Raja Bell said. “Some of that stuff they’re going to let go for the benefit of a good flow to the game.”

Ugly or not, Panthers win is the key There are some really terrible ways to lose football games.

Over the last three weeks several high school teams have found that out.

In one recent game, Canton Plymouth, of Michigan, blocked a potential game-winning field goal and their players jumped for joy.

One problem, though, the ball was still live.

A player at Westland, John Glenn, alertly picked up the football and raced into the end zone for the win.

At another high school game, this one in New Hampshire, another potential game-winning field goal fell short.

One problem, though, the coach, who’s team was defending the kick, had put a player back deep to catch the field goal if it fell short.

He caught the ball and promptly threw the ball to the ground.

The kicking team scooped it up and scored a game-winning touchdown.

Football is a 60-minute game, well, in the pros; so, it’s 48 minutes for the

Off The Wall Scott Bowers

preps.

Right now, the Carolina Panthers are playing roughly 30-minute games — and that can be a bit of a problem.

Needless to report that at 1 p.m. on Sunday I was watching the Pittsburgh Steelers (another team having trouble with the whole 60-minute idea) and only paying token visits to the channel carrying the Panthers game.

The score kept popping up in the scroll — Redskins 17, Panthers 2.

Uuugggh, I thought, another bad, bad day for the Panthers; so, why watch?

The Steelers have spent the first five weeks of the season training me to never, ever turn away from a Steelers’ game, because they may just find

some creative way to lose one, or win one. You just never know.

Therefore, I missed the Panthers 18 point turnaround, and the club’s first win of 2009.

I read the box score; I read the story; and I watched highlights on NFL Network.

If teams can have bad losses, well, they can also have ugly wins and Sunday wasn’t pretty. Compared to the Cleveland-Buffalo game, Washington-Carolina would be Megan Fox to the Browns-Bills Rosie O’Donnell, but we’ll leave that alone.

Standing on its own, the win isn’t a work of art. It isn’t a solid 60 minutes of football.

But, it is the most important win the Panthers have had in a long time. And that is at least something.

To re-visit my thoughts from Sunday, if the Panthers can get to 3-3 with wins over the Bucs and Bills, this season could still amount to something.

But, one game at a time. 60 minutes at a time.

8A — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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Scoreboard AP prep football poll for NC

BASEBALL

RALEIGH (AP) — The Associated Press state high school football poll for the week of Oct. 13, with first-place votes in parentheses, records and total points as voted upon by a statewide panel of prep sports writers.

Postseason Baseball (x-if necessary) DIVISION SERIES

Class 4-A

Record Pts. Pvs 1. Matthews Butler (7) 6-0 114 2 2. Charlotte Independence (5) 8-0 113 1 3. Fayetteville Britt 7-0 95 3 4. Jamestown Ragsdale 8-0 79 4 5. Richmond County 6-1 63 6 6. West Forsyth 7-0 56 5 7. Wake Forest-Rolesville 7-0 43 7 8. Mallard Creek 6-1 39 8 9. Winston-Salem Reynolds 7-0 31 9 10. Greensboro Dudley 6-1 19 10

American League NEW YORK 3, MINNESOTA 0 New York 7, Minnesota 2 New York 4, Minnesota 3, 11 innings New York 4, Minnesota 1 LOS ANGELES 3, BOSTON 0 Los Angeles 5, Boston 0 Los Angeles 4, Boston 1 Los Angeles 7, Boston 6 National League

Others receiving votes: Southeast Raleigh 4, Alexander Central 2, Asheville Reynolds 1, Raleigh Leesville Road 1.

LOS ANGELES 3, ST. LOUIS 0 Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 3 Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 2 Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 1 PHILADELPHIA 3, COLORADO 1 Philadelphia 5, Colorado 1 Colorado 5, Philadelphia 4 Philadelphia 6, Colorado 5 Philadelphia 5, Colorado 4 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES American League Friday, Oct. 16: Los Angeles (Lackey 11-8) at New York (Sabathia 19-8) Saturday, Oct. 17: Los Angeles at New York Monday, Oct. 19: New York at Los Angeles Tuesday, Oct. 20: New York at Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 22: x-New York at Los Angeles Saturday, Oct. 24: x-Los Angeles at New York Sunday, Oct. 25: x-Los Angeles at New York National League Thursday, Oct. 15: Philadelphia at Los Angeles, TBA Friday, Oct. 16: Philadelphia at Los Angeles, TBA Sunday, Oct. 18: Los Angeles at Philadelphia, TBA Monday, Oct. 19: Los Angeles at Philadelphia, TBA Wednesday, Oct. 21: x-Los Angeles at Philadelphia, TBA Friday, Oct. 23: x-Philadelphia at Los Angeles, TBA Saturday, Oct. 24: x-Philadelphia at Los Angeles, TBA WORLD SERIES Wednesday, Oct. 28: National League at American League, (n) Thursday, Oct. 29: NL at AL, (n) Saturday, Oct. 31: AL at NL, (n) Sunday, Nov. 1: AL at NL, (n) Monday, Nov. 2: x-AL at NL, (n) Wednesday, Nov. 4: x-NL at AL, (n) Thursday, Nov. 5: x-NL at AL, (n)

Others receiving votes: Fayetteville Westover 10, Pikeville Aycock 8, R-S Central 5, West Craven 5, Franklin 2, Northeast Guilford 2, Shelby Crest 1, Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons 1.

Class 2-A 1. Reidsville (11) 7-0 119 2. Tarboro 7-0 102 3. SouthWest Edgecombe (1) 8-0 99 4. East Duplin 7-0 80 5. Pittsboro Northwood 8-0 67 6. Kinston 7-1 53 7. Newton-Conover 6-1 42 8. Shelby 6-1 41 9. East Bladen 7-0 29 10. Catawba Bandys 6-1 16

1 2 3 4 5 6 8 7 9 10

Others receiving votes: East Lincoln 7, Louisburg 2, Burnsville Mountain Heritage 2, Polk County 1.

Class 1-A 1. Mt. Airy (11) 2. Albemarle (1) 3. Southwest Onslow 4. Hendersonville 5. East Surry 6. Monroe 7. Manteo 8. Pender County 9. Kernersville McGuinness 10. Murphy

7-0 119 7-0 108 7-0 91 7-0 84 7-0 66 7-0 62 7-0 52 6-0 37 6-1 15 5-3 12

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 —

HOCKEY

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East L T Pct PF 2 0 .600 101 2 0 .600 104 3 0 .400 112 4 0 .200 77 South

W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 5 0 0 1.000 137 Jacksonville 2 3 0 .400 97 Houston 2 3 0 .400 115 Tennessee 0 5 0 .000 84 North

W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 4 1 0 .800 101 Baltimore 3 2 0 .600 138 Pittsburgh 3 2 0 .600 113 Cleveland 1 4 0 .200 55 West

W L T Pct PF Denver 5 0 0 1.000 99 San Diego 2 2 0 .500 101 Oakland 1 4 0 .200 49 Kansas City 0 5 0 .000 84 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF N.Y. Giants 5 0 0 1.000 151 Philadelphia 3 1 0 .750 127 Dallas 3 2 0 .600 122 Washington 2 3 0 .400 73 South

W L T Pct PF New Orleans 4 0 0 1.000 144 Atlanta 3 1 0 .750 102 Carolina 1 3 0 .250 57 Tampa Bay 0 5 0 .000 68 North

W L T Pct PF Minnesota 5 0 0 1.000 156 Chicago 3 1 0 .750 105 Green Bay 2 2 0 .500 104 Detroit 1 4 0 .200 103 West

W L T Pct PF San Francisco 3 2 0 .600 112 Arizona 2 2 0 .500 85 Seattle 2 3 0 .400 115 St. Louis 0 5 0 .000 34

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Others receiving votes: Robbinsville 5, WallaceRose Hill 4, Creswell 3, Elkin 2.

FOOTBALL

W N.Y. Jets 3 New England 3 Miami 2 Buffalo 1

Class 3-A 1. West Rowan (12) 8-0 120 2. Lenoir Hibriten 7-0 92 3. Hertford County 8-0 83 4. Belmont South Point 7-1 77 5. Asheville 5-0-1 61 6. Eastern Alamance 6-1 57 7. Waynesville Tuscola 5-1-1 46 8. Northern Guilford 6-1 45 9. Havelock 6-1 32 10. Gastonia Forestview 6-1 13

National Hockey League PA 88 91 106 116 PA 71 127 120 139 PA 90 97 98 121 PA 43 102 130 138 PA 71 86 98 82 PA 66 63 104 140 PA 90 78 93 162 PA 98 89 82 146

Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh 28, Detroit 20 N.Y. Giants 44, Oakland 7 Cleveland 6, Buffalo 3 Dallas 26, Kansas City 20, OT Minnesota 38, St. Louis 10 Cincinnati 17, Baltimore 14 Carolina 20, Washington 17 Philadelphia 33, Tampa Bay 14 Atlanta 45, San Francisco 10 Seattle 41, Jacksonville 0 Arizona 28, Houston 21 Denver 20, New England 17, OT Indianapolis 31, Tennessee 9 Open: San Diego, Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans Monday’s Game Miami 31, N.Y. Jets 27 Sunday, Oct. 18 Detroit at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Houston at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at Washington, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Baltimore at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 4:15 p.m.

Tennessee at New England, 4:15 p.m.

Chicago at Atlanta, 8:20 p.m.

Open: Indianapolis, Miami, Dallas, San Francisco Monday, Oct. 19 Denver at San Diego, 8:30 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Rangers 6 5 1 0 10 Pittsburgh 6 5 1 0 10 Philadelphia 5 3 1 1 7 New Jersey 5 3 2 0 6 N.Y. Islanders 4 0 1 3 3 Northeast Division

GP W L OT Pts Ottawa 5 3 2 0 6 Buffalo 4 3 0 1 7 Boston 5 2 3 0 4 Montreal 5 2 3 0 4 Toronto 5 0 4 1 1 Southeast Division

GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 5 2 1 2 6 Washington 6 2 2 2 6 Atlanta 3 2 1 0 4 Carolina 5 2 3 0 4 Florida 5 1 4 0 2 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts 5 3 1 1 7 5 4 1 0 8 4 2 2 0 4 5 2 3 0 4 4 2 2 0 4 Northwest Division

GP W L OT Pts Calgary 7 4 2 1 9 Colorado 5 3 1 1 7 Edmonton 5 3 1 1 7 Vancouver 5 2 3 0 4 Minnesota 4 1 3 0 2 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts Los Angeles 5 4 1 0 8 San Jose 6 3 2 1 7 Phoenix 5 3 2 0 6 Anaheim 5 2 2 1 5 Dallas 4 1 0 3 5

Chicago Columbus Nashville Detroit St. Louis

GF 24 21 19 14 9

GA 12 15 15 15 13

GF 12 10 16 12 12

GA 14 5 19 18 24

GF 15 22 12 13 10

GA 16 21 9 17 20

GF 19 14 7 14 12

GA 15 11 11 19 12

GF 25 17 20 17 10

GA 25 12 15 17 15

GF 19 20 11 13 14

GA 15 18 7 13 14

Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 3, Anaheim 0 Vancouver 4, Dallas 3, SO Monday’s Games Colorado 4, Boston 3 Los Angeles 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 N.Y. Rangers 7, Toronto 2 New Jersey 3, Washington 2, SO Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 1 Tampa Bay 3, Florida 2 Edmonton 6, Nashville 1 Chicago 6, Calgary 5, OT Phoenix 1, San Jose 0, SO Tuesday’s Games Buffalo 6, Detroit 2 Columbus 2, Calgary 1 Colorado at Toronto, Wednesday’s Games Los Angeles at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Nashville at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Cleveland Detroit Chicago Milwaukee Indiana

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct 2 1 .667 2 2 .500 1 1 .500 1 2 .333 1 3 .250 Northwest Division

W L Pct Portland 2 1 .667 Denver 2 2 .500 Minnesota 1 1 .500 Utah 1 1 .500 Oklahoma City 1 2 .333 Pacific Division

W L Pct L.A. Clippers 2 1 .667 Golden State 3 2 .600 L.A. Lakers 1 1 .500 Phoenix 0 2 .000 Sacramento 0 2 .000

Dallas Houston San Antonio New Orleans Memphis

GB — 1/2 1/2 1 1 1/2 GB — 1/2 1/2 1/2 1 GB — — 1/2 1 1/2 1 1/2

Sunday’s Games Denver 128, Indiana 112 Boston 100, New Jersey 93 Toronto 100, Washington 93 San Antonio 95, Miami 93 Detroit 100, Atlanta 91 Dallas 114, Memphis 107 Monday’s Games Atlanta 107, Charlotte 90 Cleveland 111, Olympiacos 94 Orlando 102, Memphis 83 Oklahoma City 110, Phoenix 105, OT Milwaukee 96, Houston 92 L.A. Clippers 124, Golden State 117 Tuesday’s Games Boston 91, New Jersey 89 Washington 101, Detroit 98 Philadelphia 93, New York 85 Milwaukee at Chicago, late Orlando vs. New Orleans, late Wednesday’s Games Washington at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Toronto vs. Boston at Hartford, Conn., 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Miami vs. Oklahoma City at Tulsa, Okla., 8 p.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Portland, 10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Houston at Toronto, 7 p.m.

New Orleans vs. Miami at Kansas City, Mo., 8:30 p.m.

Detroit at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Portland at Utah, 9 p.m.

Sacramento vs. L.A. Lakers at Las Vegas, 10 p.m.

SOCCER Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF y-Columbus 13 5 10 49 41 Chicago 10 7 11 41 38 New England 10 10 8 38 32 Toronto FC 9 10 9 36 36 D.C. 8 8 12 36 40 Kansas City 8 12 8 32 29 New York 4 18 6 18 22

GA 29 34 37 41 42 37 45

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF x-Houston 12 8 8 44 36 x-Los Angeles 11 6 11 44 34 Chivas USA 13 9 5 44 30 Seattle 10 7 11 41 33 Colorado 10 8 10 40 41 FC Dallas 10 12 6 36 47 Real Salt Lake 9 11 7 34 38 San Jose 7 13 8 29 34

GA 27 31 25 26 33 44 34 46

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. x-clinched playoff berth y-clinched conference Saturday’s Games San Jose 1, Toronto FC 1, tie Columbus 1, New England 0 Chivas USA 2, Kansas City 0 Wednesday’s Game New York at Real Salt Lake, 10 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 17 Real Salt Lake at Toronto FC, 4 p.m.

Chicago at New England, 6 p.m.

Columbus at D.C. United, 8 p.m.

Seattle FC at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.

Colorado at FC Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

San Jose at Chivas USA, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 18 Los Angeles at Houston, 3 p.m.

RACING NASCAR Sprint Cup Leaders Points 1, Jimmie Johnson, 5,728. 2, Mark Martin, 5,716.

3, Juan Pablo Montoya, 5,670. 4, Tony Stewart, 5,644. 5, Jeff Gordon, 5,623. 6, Kurt Busch, 5,607.

7, Greg Biffle, 5,540. 8, Carl Edwards, 5,536. 9, Denny Hamlin, 5,509. 10, Ryan Newman, 5,505.

11, Kasey Kahne, 5,422. 12, Brian Vickers, 5,377.

13, Kyle Busch, 3,613. 14, Matt Kenseth, 3,599.

15, Clint Bowyer, 3,549. 16, David Reutimann, 3,526. 17, Marcos Ambrose, 3,274. 18, Jeff Burton, 3,135. 19, Casey Mears, 3,123. 20, Joey Logano, 3,042.

Money

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct Philadelphia 4 0 1.000 Boston 3 1 .750 Toronto 2 2 .500 New York 1 2 .250 New Jersey 0 4 .000

Southeast Division W L Pct 4 0 1.000 2 1 .667 2 2 .500 1 3 .250 0 3 .000 Central Division W L Pct 2 0 1.000 3 1 .750 2 1 .667 2 2 .500 1 2 .333

Orlando Atlanta Washington Charlotte Miami

GB — 1 1 1/2 2 4

1, Tony Stewart, $6,184,683. 2, Matt Kenseth, $6,097,342. 3, Jimmie Johnson, $6,074,778.

4, Jeff Gordon, $5,628,029. 5, Kyle Busch, $5,355,114. 6, Kevin Harvick, $5,189,727. 7, Kasey Kahne, $4,864,473. 8, Carl Edwards, $4,814,818. 9, Mark Martin, $4,598,678. 10, Juan Pablo Montoya, $4,560,082.

11, Joey Logano, $4,522,003. 12, Jeff Burton, $4,413,373. 13, Ryan Newman, $4,320,033. 14, Denny Hamlin, $4,239,889. 15, David Reutimann, $4,239,032. 16, Greg Biffle, $4,151,309. 17, Brian Vickers, $4,084,732. 18, Kurt Busch, $3,993,034.

19, Martin Truex Jr., $3,979,667. 20, Reed Sorenson, $3,955,847.

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Limbaugh’s NFL bid is already down one vote BOSTON (AP) — Rush Limbaugh’s bid to buy the St. Louis Rams ran into opposition within the NFL on Tuesday, when Colts owner Jim Irsay vowed to vote against him and commissioner Roger Goodell said the conservative commentator’s “divisive” comments would not be tolerated from any NFL insider.

“I, myself, couldn’t even consider voting for him,” Irsay said at an owners meetings. “When there are comments that have been made that are inappropriate, incendiary and insensitive ... our words do damage, and it’s something that we don’t need.”

Limbaugh has long been a hero of conservatives and villain to the left, thriving on his place in the political spectrum while establishing himself as one of the most successful broadcasters in history. But the NFL tries to avoid controversy, as Limbaugh learned in 2003 when he was forced to resign from ESPN’s Sunday night football broadcast after saying of Philadelphia’s Donovan McNabb: “I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.”

Goodell repeatedly distanced the league from Limbaugh’s statements on Tuesday, calling them “polarizing comments that we don’t think reflect accurately on the NFL or our players.”

“I have said many times before that we are all held to a higher standard here,” the commissioner said.

According to transcripts posted on his Web site, in 2007 Limbaugh also said: “The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.” That comment, and others, resurfaced this month when he revealed he is teaming with St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts to bid on the Rams.

The Rams updated the league on their potential sale on Tuesday but specific bidders were not discussed, Goodell said.

“They’re not certain they are even sellers,” New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch said,.

Texans owner Bob McNair said anyone who meets the “normal criteria” is a candidate to own a team. “But our vetting process is very thorough,” he said.

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attempt for East, which was then returned by East.

Central’s Lauren Murray got to the return and set up Brown for a powerful back line spike, getting Central a 19-18 lead.

Brown (15 kills) on her fifth kill at that time, lined a cross court shot into the corner that East could only watch in a three-point first set win.

The second set held little doubt as to who would claim it. Drabek earned a block for a point and then an ace before Kenya Logan slapped two more kills that gave Central a 4-0 lead. Murray and Brittany Patterson collected a couple of key digs as well that Crowder, Drabek and Brown capitalized on and combined for 12 kills in a six-point second set win for the Lady Hilltoppers.

Harrellson gave East a third-game advantage with a kill down the sideline and then roped an ace, while Chelsea Medford spiked a short kill and Harrill slapped another kill for a 9-6 lead for the Lady Cavs.

Senior, Chelsey Smith reeled off two late kills for Central to keep them alive in game three, but East Rutherford’s Rebecca Hill got two tap kills in a row to close Central’s match lead to 2-1.

Jaclyn Boever smashed two straight aces for East to open the fourth game, but Crowder (13 kills) countered by smacking two short kills to tie it back up. Central went out to a 13-10 lead, but East rallied back with Chelsea Rush and Harrill. Harrill’s sideline shot tied the contest back at 20-20.

However, Courtney Ledbetter had two monumental kills for Central and Drabek (11 kills) got the final two points, the last of which just caught the net and dropped over, leaving Central to celebrate.

“I think they played harder than we did,” East Rutherford coach Julie Powell said. “Our sets were off in the passing game and the intensity just wasn’t what it needed to be.”

Smith, the lone senior of the Lady Hilltoppers volleyball team, was also mentioned by her coach after the game.

“She has helped us for the first two years on JV and for the last two years on varsity,” Hutchins said. “I am not used to a left-handed hitter, but she is a good leader and I don’t know how long it will be before we see another left-hander come through R-S Central.”

East Rutherford’s four-match win streak came to an end with the loss on Tuesday.

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And then there were ... four Phillies brace for L.A. rematch

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Philadelphia Phillies’ relief pitcher Brad Lidge, front, hugs right fielder Jayson Werth after the Phillies’ 5-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies in Game 4 of the National League baseball division series Monday in Denver.

DENVER (AP) — Brad Lidge was at the center of the celebrations, mobbed on the mound and then later bathed in bone-chilling ice water inside the clubhouse.

Those recent ninth-inning meltdowns? A fading memory for the Philadelphia Phillies closer.

Lidge was struggling badly going into the NL division series against the Colorado Rockies, blowing a league-high 11 save chances during the regular season.

Four big outs, two saves and zero runs later, the Phillies just might have their dominant closer back. And the timing couldn’t be better.

Lidge struck out Troy Tulowitzki to end Game 4 on Monday, sending the defending World Series champions on to the NL championship series.

They’ll play Thursday night against Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium in an NLCS rematch from last year.

Just like Lidge, the Phillies are rounding into shape.

Cliff Lee pitched two masterful games against Colorado and the offense rediscovered the long ball after a brief power outage.

These are looking more and more like the Phillies that beat the Tampa Bay Rays in five games during last season’s World Series.

The Phillies spared no bubbly Monday, dousing everyone within spraying distance. Ryan Howard caught the brunt of it, even getting some of the

suds in his eye.

“I’m tasting the pain of success,” Howard said, grinning.

First, though, they had to experience the sting of disappointment.

A talented Phillies team was swept out of the playoffs by the streaking Rockies in 2007, leaving a bitter feeling. That fueled their postseason run last season, and they’re picking up steam again in 2009.

“That kind of told us that we weren’t quite ready,” manager Charlie Manuel said of the series loss in ‘07. “That we had to improve mentally and physically.”

The Phillies have done just that.

But the celebration Monday was short-lived.

The Phillies shifted their attention back to the Dodgers, a team they went 3-4 against in the regular season.

“We know we have a long ways to go. So this is the last party,” Jimmy Rollins said. “We know that it’s going to be a great series and one of those hectic battles — just like this one.”

All season long, the Phillies have proven adept at the art of the comeback. That was the case again in the series clincher Monday as they rallied for three runs in the ninth off Huston Street.

The usually reliable Rockies reliever gave up a two-out, two-run double to Howard and the goahead single to Jayson Werth.

Yankees could go with a three-man rotation

NEW YORK (AP) — The Yankees might go with a three-man rotation against the Los Angeles Angels in the AL championship series.

CC Sabathia is scheduled to start Friday night’s opener, with A.J. Burnett and Andy Pettitte as New York’s other two primary starters. The shortened rotation would allow manager Joe Girardi to keep Joba Chamberlain and Chad Gaudin in the bullpen.

“It looks like we have some rain in the forecast, so that can change things,” Girardi said Tuesday during a conference call. “We are definitely considering possibly going to a three-man rotation in this round, but we’ll have to take a look at it and see how it goes.”

New York swept Minnesota in the opening round and used Chamberlain as a setup man in all three games.

He pitched 1 2-3 scoreless innings, allowing two hits, and combined with Phil Hughes and the rest of the bullpen to bolster the link between starters and closer Mariano Rivera.

“That was pretty good with us in the first round,” Girardi said. “If you go to a threeman rotation, obviously he stays in the bullpen. But if

trate on Game 1. ” While Sabathia was 19-8 overall, he went 0-2 with a 6.08 ERA in two starts against the Angels. He threw a bullpen session Tuesday, and several Yankees relievers also pitched in an attempt to stay sharp: Alfredo Aceves, Phil Coke, Gaudin, Damaso Marte and David Robertson.

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From left, New York Yankees pitchers Dave Roberston, Sergo Mitre, Andy Pettitte and CC Sabathia gather on the field before their workout in preparation for an American League division series baseball game at Yankee Stadium, on Tuesday in New York.

you go to a four-man rotation, then we have to weigh the benefits of either putting Joba in the bullpen or putting Chad in the bullpen.”

Sabathia made his final three regular-season starts for Milwaukee on three days’ rest in 2008, then started

again on short rest in the playoffs against Philadelphia.

He lasted just 3 2-3 innings and lost to the Phillies.

New York limited him to 230 innings during the regular season — down from 253 the previous year. He will start the opener against the

Angels on eight days’ rest, another factor the Yankees think will enable him to be effective in Game 4.

“Not getting him to 250 innings during the regular season allows us to consider that,” Girardi said. “We’ve told him, though, to concen-

Because the Angels have far more switch-hitters (Erick Aybar, Chone Figgins, Maicer Izturis, Gary Matthews Jr., Kendry Morales and Reggie Willits) than left-handed hitters (Bobby Abreu), the Yankees might drop the lefthanded Marte in favor of right-hander Brian Bruney, who has been working out at the team’s complex in Tampa, Fla. Girardi hasn’t decided whether to again have Jose Molina catch Burnett instead of Jorge Posada. To do that, Girardi said he probably would have to again carry Francisco Cervelli as a third catcher, allowing the team to take out Posada for a pinch runner late in a game.

Catchers could be a key in the series. The Angels were perfect in nine stolen base attempts against the Yankees as the teams split 10 games during the regular season.

Angels, Dodgers a step closer to Freeway Series Series title team, the last time the Dodgers have been in the championship. The Dodgers’ Joe Torre was an All-Star catcher back in his day, who last managed a World Series champion in 2000, with the Yankees.

Mickey Hatcher, the Angels’ hitting coach, and Alfredo Griffin, their first base coach, both starred alongside Scioscia in ‘88.

Scioscia’s dislike of looking ahead is well-known, so he wouldn’t bite on the chance of facing his old team for baseball’s biggest prize.

“Believe me, our plate is full,” he said. “As long as you keep winning, it’s a lot of fun. We’re going to have to keep our play at a certain level to even make it a conversation.”

If the teams do meet, they each boast potential Hall of Fame sluggers in Vladimir Guerrero and Manny Ramirez.

A Freeway World Series might be hardest of all on the parents of Jered and Jeff Weaver. Jered will start Game 2 of the ALCS for the Angels, while brother Jeff is a former Dodgers starter who now works out of the bullpen.

Longtime fans of both teams will recall they once shared a home field.

The Angels began as an expansion team in 1961, playing at the old Wrigley Field, while the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn after the 1957 season and played in the Los Angeles Coliseum.

In 1962, both teams relo-

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cated to the current site of Dodger Stadium, only the Angels called it Chavez Ravine on the days they were playing. Interleague play was still decades away, so there was no confusion about the stadium’s identity.

In 1966, the Angels moved down Interstate 5 to Anaheim Stadium (now known as Angel Stadium).

That’s where a Freeway World Series would begin and end because the American League won the All-Star game in July.

“I’m pretty sure it’s never been done before,” said Hunter. “But we can’t get too far ahead of ourselves.”

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Friday in New York. The Dodgers would need to beat Philadelphia, something they failed to do a year ago. They open Thursday at Dodger Stadium.

“You kind of catch yourself rooting for the Dodgers, and I’m sure the Dodgers are rooting for us,” Hunter said Tuesday during a workout in Anaheim. “It’d be kind of awesome to have a Freeway Series.”

The teams have a few things in common, starting with Los Angeles being the official name of the clubs, even if the Angels play in another county and survived a court battle to keep it.

They both have former catchers as managers. The Angels’ Mike Scioscia played on the Dodgers’ 1988 World

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ssshhhh, don’t let it get out, but the prospect of a Freeway World Series is a tantalizing prospect to Torii Hunter, of all people.

With the Angels and Dodgers in their respective league championship series for the first time in the same season, Angelenos and their counterparts in Orange County are chatting up the idea.

The teams separated by 31 miles of freeway both swept their division series, with the Angels dispatching longtime nemesis Boston and the Dodgers finishing off St. Louis.

Taking the onramp to a Freeway World Series would require the Angels to get by the Yankees, beginning

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DICKINSON, Texas (AP) — Authorities on Tuesday made an arrest in a nearly 20-year-old southeast Texas case where an 8-year-old girl was attacked and left for dead in a field, unable to cry out for help because her throat had been slashed.

DNA evidence tested last year led authorities to arrest 40-year-old Dennis Earl Bradford in connection with the 1990 assault in Dickinson, said Dickinson Police Chief Ron Morales.

Bradford was arrested in North Little Rock, Ark., where he has lived the past seven years.

Fla. teen set on fire

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say five Florida teenagers have been charged after they doused a 15-year-old with rubbing alcohol and set him on fire because he stopped someone from stealing his father’s bicycle a day earlier.

Michael Brewer was hospitalized with burns on more than threequarters of his body after the attack at a Deerfield Beach apartment complex Monday.

The Broward County sheriff’s office said in a news release Tuesday that 15-year-olds Matthew Bent, Denver Jarvis, Steven Shelton and Jesus Mendez and 13-year-old Jeremy Jarvis were charged with aggravated battery. Mendez is also charged with attempted seconddegree murder because authorities say he flicked the lighter.

Boy arrested in shooting

DEPOSIT, N.Y. (AP) — A 12-yearold upstate New York boy has been charged with shooting his 8-yearold brother to death, but authorities on Tuesday declined to reveal what was behind the gunfire.

Authorities charged the older boy as a juvenile delinquent Monday

and will prosecute him in Delaware County Family Court for conduct they say would constitute seconddegree murder if he were an adult.

Children must be at least 13 years or older in New York to be prosecuted for murder as adults, said Janine Kava, a spokeswoman for the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.

Zero-tolerance debated BALTIMORE (AP) — A Delaware first-grader suspended for bringing his favorite camping utensil to school will likely get a reprieve, a school board member said Tuesday.

Zachary Christie, 6, was ordered to spend 45 days in his district’s alternative school for troublemakers after he brought a combination folding fork, knife and spoon to eat his lunch at Downes Elementary School in Newark, Del., last month.

The knife is banned as a dangerous instrument under the Christina School District’s zero-tolerance policy.

Hundreds of people were expected to attend a school board meeting Tuesday night at which member John Mackenzie said the policy would likely be amended. Any change would be retroactive to the beginning of the school year.

Man held in hijacking NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. citizen accused of hijacking a plane four decades ago and forcing it to land in Cuba pleaded not guilty Tuesday and will remain jailed.

Luis Armando Pena Soltren entered the plea through a Spanish translator in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas F. Eaton.

A pretrial hearing was set for Wednesday in Manhattan.

Pena Soltren was arrested Sunday afternoon when he arrived on a flight to Kennedy International Airport from Cuba.

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Steve Morton and Roberto Monzano with Monterey City Public Works clear a tree that fell on a car in Monterey, Calif., during a storm on Tuesday,

Major storm threatens fire damaged California LOS ANGELES (AP) — Residents across California worried Tuesday about possible flash floods and mudslides as a storm began showering areas devastated by wildfires.

Sandbagging and other preparations were being made in neighborhoods under threat, including Santa Barbara County and the Los Angelesarea foothills. The rains began before dawn across much of the state but were expected to intensify in the evening and into Wednesday.

“It’s something we prepare for every year,” Los Angeles County fire Inspector Frederic Stowers said. “We know the fires go through and do a lot of damage. Within L.A. County, much of the slopes burned are going to be critical.”

People living around burn areas near the 250-square-mile Station Fire in Angeles National Forest were warned to brace for possible flows of mud, ash and debris with rainfall of up to 4 inches. Los Angeles County’s average rainfall for October is less than half an inch.

The Pacific storm was expected to drop 3 to 6 inches of rain in Santa Barbara County, where an 8,700-acre fire burned in May, before it moves on to the San Gabriel Mountains, where the U.S. Geological Survey recently warned of massive debris flows near the areas burned in September.

Debris flows occur because the ground in recently burned areas has little ability to absorb rain, which instantly runs off, carrying ash, mud, boulders and vegetation.

“It is obvious to me there are going to be some slides,” said Richard Payatt, 46, whose Santa Barbara home was evacuated during the fire in May. “It’s part of living in Santa Barbara with these beautiful hills.

Occasionally you get fires, and then you get slides.”

Payatt said a local hardware store was sold out of tarps and sandbags because of the storm.

The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning through Wednesday for the Santa Barbara burn areas. A flash flood watch for the Los Angeles-area foothills was to take effect at 6 p.m. Tuesday and last through Wednesday afternoon.

Stowers said thousands of sandbags were distributed to fire stations throughout Los Angeles County, including more than 10,000 at a station near La Canada Flintridge.

“We try to allocate as many sandbags as necessary to all of our residents,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of fires, not including the Station Fire, close to homes.”

Stowers also cited gusty winds forecast throughout the week as a concern, but said mud flows will depend on how much rain the storm brings.

Fugitive’s Facebook friendship proves costly SEATTLE (AP) — Maxi Sopo was living the dream of a fugitive abroad, kicking back on the beaches of Cancun by day, partying in the clubs by night.

Then he did two things that are never a good idea when you’re on the run from authorities: He started posting Facebook updates about how much fun he was having — and added a former Justice Department official to his list of friends.

That kind of recklessness landed the 26-year-old native of Cameroon in a Mexico City jail, where he is awaiting extradition to the United States on bank fraud charges.

Federal prosecutors say he and an associate falsely obtained more than $200,000 from Seattle-area banks and credit unions.

“He was making posts about how beautiful life is and how he was having a good time with his buddies,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Scoville, who helped find Sopo. “He was definitely not living the way we wanted him to be living, given the charges he was facing.”

Even in the hold-nothing-back world of social networking, where police search Facebook photos for evidence of underage drinking and watch YouTube videos to identify riot suspects, it’s rare that a fugitive helps authorities this much.

In status updates, Sopo said he was “loving it” and “living in paradise.”

“LIFE IS VERY SIMPLE REALLY!!!!” he wrote on June 21.

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REMEMBER AM JUST HERE TO HAVE FUN PARTEEEEEEE.” Sopo, who came to the U.S. in about 2003, made a living selling roses in Seattle nightclubs until, according to prosecutors, he moved on to bank fraud. He apparently drove a rented car to Mexico in late February after learning that federal agents were investigating the fraud scheme.

Investigators initially could find no trace of him on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and they were unable to pin down his exact location in Mexico.

But several months later, Secret Service agent Seth Reeg checked Facebook again — and up popped Maxi Sopo. His photo showed him wearing a black jacket decorated with a white lion as he stood in front of a party backdrop featuring logos of BMW and Courvoisier cognac.

Although Sopo’s profile was set to private, his list of friends was not, and Scoville started combing through it. He was surprised to see that one friend listed an affiliation with the Justice Department and sent him a message requesting a phone call.

The former official told Scoville he had met Sopo in Cancun’s nightclubs a few times, but did not really know him and had no idea he was a fugitive. The official learned where Sopo was living and passed that information back to Scoville, who provided it to Mexican authorities. They arrested Sopo last month.

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NEW YORK — Investors grew cautious Tuesday after quarterly sales from Johnson & Johnson fell short of expectations and an influential analyst warned that bank shares are overheated.

Most stocks posted modest losses Tuesday, a day after major indexes finished at their best levels in a year. The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 15 points, though the Nasdaq composite index edged higher.

J&J was the first in a parade of big companies to report quarterly results this week, and a 5 percent drop in sales at the maker of health care products stirred concerns that companies have had to rely on cost-cutting to boost profits, as they did in the first half of the year. Investors are worried that earnings will suffer if sales don’t improve.

The market’s unease intensified after analyst Meredith Whitney lowered her rating on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to “neutral” from “buy.” The bank’s stock had risen 34 percent since Whitney upgraded the stock to “buy” in mid-July. Goldman reports results from the latest quarter on Thursday.

Health care stocks stumbled after J&J’s report and as the Senate Finance committee approved a version of the health care overhaul bill. The bill moves to the Senate floor for debate.

There were pockets of green on trading screens.

An agreement by Cisco Systems Inc., which makes computer networking gear, to buy Starent Networks Corp. for $2.9 billion lifted shares of technology companies.

“The market only makes sense at these levels if earnings can grow at a decent pace,” said Jerry Webman, chief economist at OppenheimerFunds Inc. “What we’re hearing now is OK, but you don’t get long-term earnings growth out of cost cutting.”

According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 14.74, or 0.2 percent, to 9,871.06. The Dow on Monday came within 69 points of the psychological barrier of 10,000, a level not seen in a year.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 3.00, or 0.3 percent, to 1,073.19, its first loss after six days of gains. The Nasdaq rose 0.75, or less than 0.1 percent, to 2,139.89.

Three stocks fell for every two that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to a light 1.1 billion shares compared with 946.8 million Monday.

In other trading, the dollar fell against other currencies, sending commodities higher. Bond prices rose, recovering some of the steep losses from last week.

The ICE Futures U.S. dollar index, which measures the dollar against other major currencies, dropped to a 14-month low. Gold subsequently hit a record high $1,069.70 an ounce, while oil rose 88 cents to settle at $74.15 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Bond prices rose, pushing yields down. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 3.33 percent from 3.38 percent late Friday. Bond markets were closed Monday in observance of Columbus Day. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 2.11, or 0.3 percent, to 611.70.

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Servers fail, Sidekick data gone

By PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer

NEW YORK — Owners of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal information they put on the device, including contact numbers, because of a failure of servers that remotely stored the data.

The incident is a huge blow to the reputation of the Sidekick and is a reminder of the dangers of trusting a single provider to safeguard information.

The phones are made by a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary and sold by T-Mobile USA, which say many Sidekick owners’ information is “almost certainly” gone.

T-Mobile gave customers a $20 refund to cover the cost of one month of data usage on the phone. It also will give certain customers who experienced a “significant and permanent” loss of personal data a $100 customer appreciation card to be used toward T-Mobile products and services, or their phone bill.

T-Mobile said it will contact

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those customers in the next 14 days. Microsoft spokeswoman Debbie Anderson said Monday that there was a still a chance some of the lost user data could be restored from a backup system. .

The phones were troubled by a data outage a week ago. Service was intermittent last week, and then users started reporting that their Sidekicks were wiped of all personal information.

“This has been a terrible experience,” said Mary Boyle, of Silver Spring, Md. She lost more than 500 contacts, 100 pictures, a to-do list and dozens of Web site passwords. She also spent about eight hours on the phone with T-Mobile’s technical support last week, trying to deal with the outage, she said.

On Saturday, T-Mobile and Microsoft warned customers not to restart their phones, remove the batteries or let the phones run down their batteries. Boyle said she did none of those things, yet her data disap-

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peared anyway. She switched to a BlackBerry from Verizon Wireless on Monday, and said she had no intention of paying T-Mobile for quitting her contract early.

“As far as I’m concerned, they very much broke their contract with me before I broke theirs,” she said.

Although the underlying data services were working again Monday, T-Mobile was still advising customers not to reset their phones. T-Mobile also was listing all Sidekicks as “out of stock” on its Web site Monday.

It’s not clear how many customers have been affected, or how many Sidekicks are in operation, though the figure could approach 1 million, judging by T-Mobile’s financial statements.

The phone, which exists in several versions, has never been a huge seller since it launched in 2002, but it’s very popular among young, urban customers, and it has had a certain cachet as a celebrity phone.

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Health Care reform: Where things stand now

By The Associated Press

A top-to-bottom remake of the U.S. health care system along the lines sought

by President Barack Obama moved a step closer to reality Tuesday as the Senate Finance Committee approved a 10-year, $829 billion plan that would extend coverage to millions more Americans and seek to hold down spiraling health costs over the long term.

The Finance Committee was the last of five House and Senate panels with jurisdiction on the issue to act on health overhaul legislation.

Here’s what happens next:

In the Senate: Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., must merge the Finance Committee bill with a more liberal version passed by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the panel formerly led by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.

Reid will do the work in closed-door sessions with Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., who presided over the health committee in Kennedy’s absence. Key White House aides including Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will be in close consultation.

Reid will face numerous crosscurrents as he aims to produce a bill that can attract 60 votes in the 100-member Senate, the number needed to overcome a Republican filibuster. A key question is whether he includes any version of a provision to allow the government to sell insurance in competition with the private market, something that’s supported by liberals but viewed skeptically by some moderate Democrats, and uniformly opposed by Republicans.

Democrats control 60 Senate votes, but they can’t

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In this Sept. 8 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, of Nev., center, followed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of Calif., walks out of the West Wing of the White House.

be certain of support from moderates such as Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Ben Nelson of Nebraska.

So Reid will be courting moderate Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, who was the lone Republican to vote for the Senate Finance Committee bill, if not others in the GOP. Reid is aiming to finish the merger process in time to begin debate the week of Oct. 26. The debate could take weeks with numerous amendments by lawmakers from both parties and several procedural votes before a vote on final passage.

Disputes have centered on the shape of a new government insurance plan that would compete with the private market, Pelosi’s plan to pay for the bill by taxing high-income Americans and regional disparities in Medicare reimbursements.

Disagreements also center on language preventing federal funds for abortions and keeping illegal immigrants from getting governmentfunded coverage.

The health overhaul bill in the House is not expected to win a single Republican vote.

Pelosi is aiming to begin floor debate later this month.

support, and using his bully pulpit to try to rally public sentiment.

Obama has been holding regular meetings and phone calls with Democratic senators, both liberal and moderate. He had a meeting Tuesday afternoon with Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., one of the moderates whose votes could be critical.

Obama’s top lieutenants — Emanuel and Nancy-Ann DeParle, head of the White House Office for Health Reform — are helping to referee disputes on final bill language in the House and Senate.

In the House: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Democratic leaders have been working for weeks to combine bills approved by three committees over the summer. Pelosi has been struggling to satisfy the concerns of moderate and fiscally conservative Democrats in her caucus — who include some of the most politically vulnerable lawmakers in the 2010 midterm elections — without alienating liberals.

In the White House: After a series of missed deadlines, Obama is now aiming to sign a health overhaul bill by year’s end.

Obama left much of the bill-writing work to lawmakers, though top aides were closely involved along the way. The president will have a critical role to play in the days ahead. Most importantly he’ll act as cajoler in chief, reaching out to wavering lawmakers to shore up their

In the lobby shops: Industry players, some of whom had been working behind the scenes with key White House and congressional players to blunt the effect of the health overhaul on their businesses, are stepping up their lobbying efforts against key aspects of the health legislation as it becomes clear how costly it will be for them.

This is especially true of large insurers, who have

balked at new fees, taxes and requirements the measure would slap on them, particularly since they fear that their primary incentive for backing the overhaul — that it would bring them millions of new customers — has been weakened considerably.

Drug makers are still fighting to keep intact a deal they cut with the administration and top Democrats earlier this year to limit their costs, and have worked with their champions in the Senate to beat back several efforts that would have opened them to billions more in expenses.

A wide array of specialized health interests, such as medical device makers and clinical laboratories, are also struggling to fend off new fees they would have to pay to finance the measure.

They’re targeting senators who represent states that house companies that would be hardest hit.

The business lobby, which has mostly remained quiet on the measure until now, is gearing up to oppose it, worried about opening a wide variety of companies to increased health costs and regulations.

The Finance Committee bill is also coming under attack from the left. About 30 unions planned to run a full-page ad in newspapers Wednesday announcing their opposition to the legislation because it lacks a publicly run insurance plan and would tax highvalue insurance plans, which they fear could affect union workers. Sponsors included the AFL-CIO and the Communications Workers of America.

The liberal group MoveOn. org also announced plans for a weeklong cable TV ad featuring a former insurance company executive denouncing the Finance Committee bill as a giveaway to the insurance industry.

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Health care bill clears panel with one GOP vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — Historic legislation to expand U.S. health care and control costs won its first Republican supporter Tuesday and cleared a key Senate hurdle, a double-barreled triumph that propelled President Barack Obama’s signature issue toward votes this fall in both houses of Congress.

“When history calls, history calls,” said Maine Republican Olympia Snowe, whose declaration of support ended weeks of suspense and provided the only drama of a 14-9 vote in the Senate Finance Committee. With her decision, the 62-year-old lawmaker bucked her own leadership on the most highprofile issue of the year in Congress, and gave the drive to remake health care at least a hint of the bipartisanship that Obama seeks.

Obama, speaking to reporters at the White House, said, “I never count chickens before they hatch, but this is obviously another step forward in bringing about a better deal for the American people.”

The president’s trademark reserve was well-justified.

Within minutes of the vote, labor unions and large business organizations both demanded changes in the bill, which was an attempt at a middle-of-the-road measure fashioned by the committee and its chairman, Democrat Max Baucus of Montana.

Still, nearly nine months after the president pledged in his Inaugural Address to tackle health care, legislation to expand coverage to millions who lack it has now advanced further than President Bill Clinton’s ill-fated effort more than a decade ago — or any other attempt in more than a generation.

The next move in the Senate is up to Majority Leader Harry Reid, whose

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President Barack Obama answers a reporter’s question about the health care bill vote after meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Tuesday in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

office said the full Senate would begin debate on the issue the week of Oct. 26.

Nominally, Reid must first blend the bill that cleared during the day with a version that passed earlier in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

But in reality, the majority leader — with the participation of the White House — has a virtual free hand in fashioning a measure to wind up gaining the 60 votes needed to overcome a threatened Republican filibuster.

“The bottom line here is we need a final bill, a merged bill, that gets 60 votes,” Baucus said. “Our goal is to pass health care reform not just talk about it.”

Reid’s most politically sensitive decision revolves around proposals for the federal government to sell insurance in competition with private industry. The Senate bill approved in committee during the day omits

the provision, while the one passed earlier includes it and many House Democrats support it as well.

In general, bills moving toward floor votes in both houses would require most Americans to purchase insurance, provide federal subsidies to help those of lower incomes afford coverage and give small businesses help in defraying the cost of coverage for their workers.

The measures would bar insurance companies from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions, and for the first time limit their ability to charge higher premiums on the basis of age or family size. Expanded coverage would be paid for by cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from future Medicare payments to health care providers. Each house also envisions higher taxes — an income tax surcharge on million-dollar wage-earners in

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the case of the House, and a new excise levy on insurance companies selling high-cost policies in the case of the Senate Finance Committee bill.

Apart from Snowe, Republicans on the committee cited higher taxes, a greater federal role in the insurance industry and other concerns as they lined up to oppose the bill.

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said the legislation would place the nation on a “slippery slope to more and more government control of health care.”

Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, elicited testimony earlier from the head of the Congressional Budget Committee that a substantial portion of the bill’s tax increases would fall on groups Obama has vowed would be protected: individuals making $200,000 or less and couples below $250,000.

Snowe, too, said there were problems with the bill, but on balance, the risks of doing nothing were too great.

“We should also contemplate the decades of inaction that have brought us to this crossroads,” she said. “The status quo approach has produced one glaring common denominator, that is that we have a problem that is growing worse, not better.”

The vote made the Finance Committee the last of five in Congress to complete its work on health care. It also marked a personal triumph for Baucus, who weathered criticism from fellow Democrats after his attempt at bipartisanship cratered earlier this fall after months of exhaustive effort. In the end, disgruntled liberals on the panel, including Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Ron Wyden of Oregon, went along in hopes the bill eventually would be reshaped more to their liking.

Across the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her lieutenants have been at work for weeks trying to blend legislation approved by three House committees. The eventual result is certain to include a government option, but the details of the plan have split the rank-and-file and leaders have spent days struggling with the issue.

One group favors allowing the government to negotiate with doctors, hospitals and other health care providers for fees to be paid to treat patients who have federal insurance policies, an approach that involves higher costs for the government.

The other, lower-cost approach envisions a fixed payment schedule linked to Medicare. Officials say that alternative was quietly sweetened in recent days for the benefit of hospitals, medical device makers and others to put them on an even plane with doctors.

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A shootout Tuesday between Saudi security forces and alQaida militants — some of whom were disguised as women and wearing explosives belts — left two of the militants and a soldier dead, the Interior Ministry said.

Another soldier was lightly injured in the clash at a checkpoint in the south of the country, near the border with Yemen, said ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki.

The shootout was the first known confrontation between authorities and al-Qaida since a suicide bomber injured Assistant Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in the western seaport of Jiddah on Aug. 27.

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, left, meets with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.

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Exploding shell caused blast BEIRUT (AP) — A blast at a Hezbollah member’s home in southern Lebanon was caused by an exploding shell and injured one person, Lebanon’s army said Tuesday.

Monday night’s explosion occurred in a garage, and Lebanese security officials said the building might have been used to store weapons — a violation of the U.N. resolution that ended the monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.

The blast prompted President Shimon Peres of Israel to warn that Hezbollah and its growing arsenal are turning Lebanon into a “powder keg” and standing in the way of peace.

Report: More than 1,000 killed

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More than 1,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 900,000 displaced in eastern Congo by Rwandan Hutu militiamen and Congolese forces since January, humanitarian groups said Tuesday.

The report released by a coalition of 84 organizations said that many of the killings were carried out by Rwandan Hutu militiamen.

Congolese government soldiers also have targeted civilians, the report said.

A Congolese military operation has been aimed at forcing out the Rwandan Hutu militiamen, many of whom sought refuge in neighboring Congo after participating in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide that killed more than 500,000 people.

UN extends Haiti mission

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti for a year, saying the situation in the impoverished Caribbean nation still constitutes a threat to international peace and security despite recent progress.

The resolution adopted by the council will maintain the current mission’s force level of about 9,000 troops and police.

But the council agreed to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s recommendation to reconfigure the force so it can deploy rapidly and monitor remote locations.

Milan police detain two in attack MILAN (AP) — The Libyan accused of carrying out a small bombing of a Milan army barracks apparently opposed Italy’s military missions overseas, the interior minister said Tuesday after police detained two more North Africans in the case.

Monday’s attack at the main gate of the Santa Barbara army barracks seriously injured the attacker, identified as Mohamed Game.

Pakistani jets softening targets DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani jets softened up militant targets along the Afghan border Tuesday ahead of what the government promises will be a ground offensive into the Taliban’s main stronghold, authorities said.

The government’s resolve to send large numbers of troops on a risky operation into mountainous South Waziristan has deepened after a week of attacks around the country along with ominous signs that different militant groups are now working in tandem.

The military says 80 percent of the attacks in Pakistan are planned from the remote region but that militants from the Punjab province in the heart of the country helped the Taliban carry out last weekend’s bold assault on army headquarters just outside the capital.

The United States has been encouraging Pakistan to take strong action against insurgents who are using its soil as a base for attacks in Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are bogged down in an increasingly difficult war. But a push into rugged South Waziristan could be difficult for the army, which was beaten back on three previous offensives into the Taliban heartland there and forced to sign peace deals.

Tuesday’s bombing raids came as Pakistan’s foreign minister visited Washington to persuade U.S. officials to change the terms of a U.S. aid bill. The legislation promises $1.5 billion a year over the next five years — but on the condition that Pakistan’s weak, U.S.-backed civilian government maintain effective control over the military, including its budgets, the chain of command and top promotions.

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Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s mission appeared to be an about-face from last week, when he traveled to Washington to meet with senior U.S. officials. He told reporters then that the aid package was crucial to Islamabad’s efforts to fight terrorists and played down Pakistani military statements rejecting U.S. attempts to link the aid package to increased monitoring of antiterror efforts.

The objections to the bill have driven a wedge between the military and the government in Islamabad over an aid drive that was supposed to show American support for the country as it battles the insurgents.

An army spokesman declined to say when the South Waziristan offensive would begin and gave no indication it was imminent.

An Associated Press reporter in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, which lies just next to South Waziristan, reported no unusual movement of military vehicles Tuesday, and did not see large numbers of people fleeing their homes.

For the past three months, jets have been bombing targets in the region, and the military has been trying to cut off militant supply and communication lines.

Authorities are also trying to secure the support of militant factions that in the past have agreed not to attack Pakistani troops.

Bombing runs Tuesday destroyed about 15 houses in the Makeen, Ladha and Barwand regions of South Waziristan, a

local intelligence official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief to the media.

No army spokesman was available to comment. However, the military said in a statement that “terrorists fired 31 rockets” at a convoy of security forces in South Waziristan on Tuesday, wounding two soldiers. It was unclear whether the army bombed the militant targets before or after the rocket attack.

In a reminder of the militants’ reach, authorities said helicopter gunship attacks killed 26 insurgents in Bajur, a tribally administered region 185 miles (298 kilometers) north of Waziristan.

The army declared the area free of militants after major offensive six months ago, but some remain.

Abdul Malik, a local government official, said the gunship attacks took place in Damadola and Sawai, known as militantheld areas. He said his information about militant casualties came from intelligence and military sources.

Pakistan has seen four major terrorist attacks over the last nine days, including a suicide bombing of a U.N. office in the capital, Islamabad, and the 22-hour siege on the army’s headquarters.

The Taliban claimed responsibility Tuesday for a suicide bombing that killed 41 people.

The attack took place Monday in Shangla district next to Swat Valley, where the military recently staged a massive offensive aimed at wiping out a strong contingent of Taliban.

Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq told the AP in a phone call that a wing of the Swat Taliban called the “Farzandan-e-Islam” — or Sons of Islam — carried out the attack and was targeting military vehicles.

Suicide bomber kills eight (AP) — A suicide bomber killed the leader of a U.S.-backed Sunni paramilitary group and seven others north of Baghdad Tuesday, the third attack in as many days in a heavily populated Sunni area, a police official said.

The bombing hit a market in the town of Buhriz, a former Saddam Hussein stronghold that was also the scene of an attack on Monday that killed the mayor. It raised concerns that escalating violence toward the Sunni minority could destabilize Iraq

as it prepares for national elections early next year.

Violence dropped off dramatically in Iraq after local Sunni tribes — known as Awakening Councils — aligned themselves with U.S. forces.

That alliance against al-Qaida was seen as a key turning point in the war.

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Keeping up with today’s swagger Hit the swag switch.

I left work early last Friday and headed toward Newton to spend the weekend with my brother and his family.

My nephew, Dallas, is a senior at Maiden High School and my niece, Christian, a freshman. It was a sweet reminder of what being in the house with two teenagers is like.

Not much has changed from when my boys were that age. Some of the words and references are different for various degrees of coolness. You know, being with it or hip or groovy or whatever makes up a person’s persona or social identity in each generation.

Christian plays fast-pitch softball with a couple of travel teams, which keeps them on the road a lot, and Dallas plays basketball and tends to his busy “senior year” schedule. Evidently he has quite the rep to keep up, what with being the president of this club and that club, nominated for best dressed in senior superlatives and balancing his “swag” all at the same time.

Don’t feel bad, the swag confused me too.

When Dallas got home Friday evening, he came in, gave me a sweet greeting and headed to the refrigerator. I have to stand on tiptoes to hug him. He stands 6 feet, 4 inches and weighs 175 pounds soaking wet.

He’s a tall glass of water as the old saying goes. He has blond curly hair, blue eyes and so handsome.

Anyway, on his way back through the den, Christian made a comment like we’re waiting on you to go out for dinner or some other sisterly thing to say when you want to dig at your brother, and that’s when he told her “get off my swag.”

At first I thought I misunderstood him. I looked to see if she was sitting on his shirt or something, but she wasn’t. Minutes later he breezed back through where more comments were exchanged between the siblings, and he repeated “I already told you, stay off my swag.”

I heard it right that time.

Trying to maintain my rep as a “hip” aunt, my wheels were turning... swag. What is his swag? I wondered silently.

I thought it might be his derriere and he was just being cautious with his words. But, no, that’s not it.

Finally, I had to ask. Just what is his swag?

Come to find out, it’s his coolness. Except, swag is apparently a higher standard of being cool. It means he’s fly. He has style, approved and accepted by his peers. When I got back to work on Monday, I decided to Google it. Low and behold, there’s a whole page on swag at www.urbandictionary.com.

It reads, Swag is the way in which you carry yourself.

Swag is made up of your overall confidence, style and demeanor. Swag can also be expanded to be the reputation of your overall swagger.

Wait. There’s more.

You gain swag, or “Swag up,” by performing swag worthy actions that improve this perception.

On Saturday, Dallas and I went shopping. He even has enough swag that shopping with his aunt didn’t bother him. How sweet is that?

His Dad had given him a sizable shopping allowance and wasn’t very pleased that he spent the entire amount on just two items. But, hey, when you’re that swagalicious, you’ve got to swag up to your rep.

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During a recent boot camp held by New Wilderness Adventures the group baptised a participant. The next boot camp is coming up Nov. 5 through 8.

Embarking on Ministry keeps men. at heart while . adding to repertoire

new adventures

By ALLISON FLYNN Daily Courier Staff Writer

Mark Folk has seen a tremendous assault on Christian marriages. He recounts how several couples in his Sunday School class separated and divorced and how shocking it was.

That is part of why in the past 18 months Folk has shifted the focus of the ministry he heads up, New Wilderness Adventures, from a men’s ministry to a marriage ministry.

“We’re reaping the whirlwind of a lack of masculine leadership in the home,” Folk said.

Folk said that popular TV series that use the man of the house as the We treat men butt of many like men – not jokes has children or sturesulted in many men dents – and teach today misunderstanding like ‘This is what the role Folk we found out.’ We said is laid just share truths out for them in the Bible. and stories. There is no preaching.

“We are failing men ~Mark Folk, and missing the truth director of of the mesNew Wilderness sage,” he Adventures said.

The mis-

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Members of New Wilderness Adventures took their ministry to Nicaragua to train pastors. Pictured are Barry Strickland, Greg Sailors, Jamie Pruitt and Mark Folk.

sion of New Wilderness Adventures is to reach men for Christ by orienting, teaching and releasing them into lives of adventure as his followers. The mission statement, Folk said, is inspired from Moses’ encounter with God at the burning bush. In the ministry’s newsletter, Folk said “We will continue to disciple men as Christ taught us by walking beside men and teaching them what it means to live fully as men, husbands, fathers and spiritual leaders.”

In order to help men who feel they

have lost the knowledge on how to lead their families, Folk said the ministry meets outside of the four walls of a church – in fact, the ministry is nondenominational – instead meeting in homes. It’s a model the ministry has followed since its beginning in 2001.

“We couldn’t find another ministry like this one when we began,” Folk said. Now there are many ministries like NWA across the state and nation, Please see Adventures, Page 8B

2B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, October 14, 2009

local Building Permits The following building permits were recently issued by the Rutherford County Building Inspections Department: Gary and Sharlene Stacy; High Shoals Township; 1772 square feet modular, one porch, one deck; $149,000.

Russell Sherrill; Chimney Rock Township; adding children’s bathroom; $3,000.

Jeffrey Kelley; Chimney Rock Township; office addition, 300 square feet, and 66 square feet deck; $19,880.

Douglas Case; Rutherfordton Township; replace siding, replace insulation, add heat pump; $18,000.

James Eldridge; Rutherfordton Township; 204 square feet bathroom/closet addition; $20,000.

Stephen Cotarelo; High Shoals Township; 9 x 29 deck; $2,200.

Stephen Irish; Chimney Rock Township; add roof to porch; $6,500.

D.L. Simmons; Rutherfordton Township; 468 square feet bedroom/bathroom addition and inground pool with electrical sub; $75,000.

Kenneth Wilkerson; Gilkey Township; finish interior of shell; $50,000.

Leigh Ann Valentine; Rutherfordton Township; correct water damage to kitchen, master bath, half bath, formal living room, foyer, laundry room; electrical,

plumbing, mechanical and insulation subs; $50,000.

Build Better LLC; Rutherfordton Township; repair roof, replace windows, doors and interior walls, floor, kitchen cabinets, replace floor joist in bathroom; $18,000.

Cary Appling; Cool Springs Township; replacing floor joists, replacing some rafters, some electrical; $25,000.

Travis Foster; Rutherfordton Township; replace roof with metal roof, shoring up foundation, change some windows, doors; electrical, plumbing, mechanical, insulation subs; $10,000.

Brian and Diane Bell; Chimney Rock Township; foundation and footing will be installed under house, bottom floor of house will be remodeled due to rotten wood; $115,000.

Matthew McEnnerney; Camp Creek Township; 600 square feet cabin, 160 square feet deck; $25,000.

Michael Payne; Golden Valley Township; 1821 square feet house, 580 square feet garage, 1821 square feet finished basement, 212 square feet porch, 824 square feet deck; $450,000.

Harvey Chaffin; Gilkey Township; 1232 square feet log shell; $56,000.

Douglas Tribou; Logan Store Township; 2075 square feet log house, 1316 square feet unfinished basement, 862 square feet porch;

$300,000.

Brandy Brooks; High Shoals Township; 2430 square feet house with garage; $170,100.

Roger Obrien; Chimney Rock Township; 1304 square feet house, 389 square feet unfinished basement, 906 square feet finished basement, 1 porch, 2 decks; $70,000.

Thomas Fenton; Gilkey Township; 1500 square feet house, 930 square feet basement, 272 square feet porch, 200 square feet deck; $178,000.

Jerry and Joy McDowell; Chimney Rock Township; 1588 square feet house, 963 square feet unfinished basement, 272 square feet porch, 200 square feet deck; $270,000.

John and Judith Nelson; Cool Springs Township; 1,252 square feet house, two porches; $165,000.

Charles Swain; Chimney Rock Township; 1,733 square feet modular, one deck; $144,800.

Manuel Seagle; High Shoals Township; 1562 square feet modular, one porch; $138,666.

James Pope; Cool Springs Township; 2112 square feet modular, 720 square feet garage; $164,675.

Mark and Anna Chapman; Rutherfordton Township; 1926 square feet modular house, 1926 square feet unfinished basement, garage, one porch, two decks; $179,723.

Devet and Justin and Angela Allen; Sulphur Springs Township;

2000 square feet modular with 1500 square feet garage and two porches, one fireplace; $200,000.

Javier Deleon; Rutherfordton Township; 792 square feet play room with bath facilities; $4,000.

Connie Counts; Chimney Rock Township; remodel 45 square feet bathroom, install new tub, sink, tile, upgrade electrical, install new heating/air, replace 5 windows and 3 doors, add metal roof; $26,000.

William Pryor, Green Hill Township; add 3728 square feet unfinished basement.

Harold and Susan Turner; Green Hill Township; 240 square feet addition to extend bedroom and add bathroom; $10,000.

Jim Still; Rutherfordton Township; 168 square feet den addition and cover deck with roof; $18,000.

Debra Torrence; Chimney Rock Township; 144 square feet screened porch; $9,300.

James and Margaret Deck; Camp Creek Township; 360 square feet deck addition; $1,800.

Patricia and Robert Krislich; Chimney Rock Township; finish 1670 square feet shell; $50,000.

Vista NC Limited; Chimney Rock Township; finish interior of shell with finished basement; $65,000.

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change existing 160 square feet carport into a garage; $3,500.

James Wetzel; Chimney Rock Township; 700 square feet carport with electrical and cove for 288 square feet existing deck; $22,000.

Jose Lopez; High Shoals Township; twocar carport; $3,000.

Joseph Potoczek; Gilkey Township; move 1612 shell to new area of same lot and turn into garage with electrical only; $18,000.

John Mellody; Green Hill Township; 672 square feet attached garage with electrical sub; $19,500.

Helen Anderson; High Shoals Township; replace windows; $15,500.

Manly Dakin; Rutherfordton Township; remove interior sheetrock to insulate and add some additional wiring for receptacles; $5,000.

James and Gloria Ballard; Green Hill Township; new sheetrock, new roof, replumb and rewire bathroom; $75,000.

Barbara Martin; High Shoals Township; replace shingles on front side and roof,/ shingles on back side; $5,000.

Cindy Farr; Colfax Township; remodel/fire restoration in bedroom; electrical, insulation, sheetrock, trim/replace doors and windows; $16,000.

Fog Crowe; Rutherfordton Township; remodel 408 square feet/fire restoration top floor including two rooms, 1 bath, small hall, roof and two dormers, replace windows and doors; $58,000.

Clyde and Janet Tomblin; Rutherfordton Township; remodel kitchen, replace countertops, pantry door, trim, drywall, paint, remodel dining room, drywall, insulation, trim, light fixture, paint; $25,600.

James and Marianne Kramer; Gilkey Township; 1982 square feet house, 1982 square feet unfinished basement, 650 square feet garage, 900 square

feet detached garage; $400,000.

Brenda Gleen; Rutherfordton Township; 1203 square feet house, one porch, one deck; $65,000.

Wayne Wiskoski; Sulphur Springs Township; 1728 square feet house with one deck; $35,000.

Hutchins Construction Company; Rutherfordton Township; 3036 square feet house with one porch and one deck; $330,000.

JBH Enterprises; Rutherfordton Township; 2227 house and bonus room, 576 square feet garage, one porch, one deck; $170,000.

Melvin Cline; Chimney Rock Township; 1590 square feet house, 1260 square feet finished basement, 492 square feet porches and retaining wall; $263,000.

Penny Watkins and Linda Glendura; Chimney Rock Township; 2333 square feet house and bonus room with 971 square feet unfinished basement, 520 square feet garage and two porches; $324,500.

Washburn Building Contractors; Union Township; 1463 square feet house, 192 square feet unfinished storage, 528 square feet garage and two porches; $150,000.

Carlos Borras; Golden Valley Township; 1684 square feet house with 1050 square feet unfinished basement, 384 square feet deck; $253,000.

Brannon Freeman; Rutherfordton Township; 1700 square feet house and 1700 square feet unfinished basement with one porch and one deck; $175,000.

Charles and Rhoda Sykes; Golden Valley Township; 1439 square feet house, 884 square feet unfinished basement, one porch and one deck; $171,000.

Randy Bourrell; Morgan Township; 3284 square feet house, 384 square feet bonus room above garage, 850 square feet garage with two porches; $300,000.

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North Carolina announces energy grants, loans

A series of meetings scheduled for October and November are designed to help North Carolina’s farmers go green by providing $1 million dollars to help them save energy, while increasing farm profits.

The North Carolina Farm Energy Efficiency Project (FEEP) originated from a grant awarded to North Carolina Farm Bureau by the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission. The project’s goal is to provide educational and technical support for farmers regarding agricultural

energy use and efficiency. Farmers may also apply for low cost energy audits that will evaluate ways to save farm energy costs.

“As farmers continue to face increasing costs, the data from energy audits and implementing energy saving plans can result in substantial, long-term savings,” said Paul Sherman, air & energy programs director with North Carolina Farm Bureau.

The USDA’s Renewable Energy for America Program (REAP) can provide grants and loans on

projects that meet the criteria to save energy or implement new energy programs. FEEP will also provide matching funds that will improve a farmer’s ability to obtain funds from REAP. The funds will provide technical support needed to analyze proposals, perform energy audits, and prepare competitive applications for REAP loans and grants.

FEEP personnel will offer six informational meetings about the project. USDA Rural Development person-

nel will also be at the meetings to further explain how farmers can benefit from the REAP grant and loan program.

By the end of 2010, the project will have facilitated 200 onfarm energy audits and implemented at least 60 energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Visit the FEEP Web site at http://www. ncfarmenergy.org/ for more information.

Tuesday, Oct. 13, 7 p.m., Iredell County Agriculture Center, 444 Bristol Drive, Statesville, N.C. 28677.

Farmers are welcome to attend an educational session at any of the following locations:

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m., Martin County Farmers Market, 4001 W. Main St. Ext.,

Duncan Creek Township; 1.56 acres; $10.

Gary D. Toney to Royce J. Bailey Sr., Rhonda E. Greene; Duncan Creek Township; 1.56 acres; $10.

O1 Victor LLC to Mark T. Hamann, Susan E. Hamann; Chimney Rock Township;1.00 acre; $232.

O1 Victor LLC to Tracey J. Berezansky, Thomas J. Register; Chimney Rock Township; 1.07 acres; $160.

Fall Creek land Company to Geoffrey D. Hawkins, Virginia T. Hawkins; Golden Valley Township; lot 147, phase 5, South Mountain Peaks; $180.

David W. Jackson, Cynthia M. Jackson, Patricia M. Jackson to Howard R. Greene, Barbara D. Greene; Sulphur Springs Township; lot 18, MABA Estate; $480.

USA to Gary Jack Caudle; Rutherfordton Township; lot 3, country Acres; $13.

Charles Laughter, Evi Lee Laughter by heir to James Benjamin Laughter, Dawn Laughter; Rutherfordton Township; two tracts s/s SR1205 and west New Hope Road; $140.

Branch Banking and Trust Company to Ronald J. Palladino, Nora C. Palladino; Chimney Rock Township; 3.78 acres; $598.

Tisdale Properties LLC to John Walter Cain III; High Shoals Township; lot 167 BI Cotton Mills Cotton Mills; $17.

Edward T. Hunt, Johnnie L. Hunt to James L. Spriggs, Lydia M. Spriggs; Chimney Rock Township; lot 63, Riverbend; $22.

CMH Homes Inc. to Stephen Patrick Deyton; Colfax

Township; 1.96 acres; $30.

Otter Creek at Rutherfordton LLC to Reynaldo Rouco Jr., Javier G. Wainer; Morgan Township; 30.15 acres; $297.

Edward Ralph Day, Margaret S. Day to Headrick Outdoor Media Inc.; Green Hill Township; .19 acre; $18.

William Yon to Headrick Outdoor Media Inc.; Green Hill Township; 0.19 acre; $18.

Kimberly Price to Kimberly Yvonne Gurley, Larry Richard Gurley; Golden Valley Township; 3.321 acres; $24.

Horace Ray Bailey to Charles Timothy Bovender; Gilkey Township; 0.69 acre; $12.

Mountain Creek Land Company, Inc. to Anita L. Bailey; Gilkey Township; 1.56 acres; $46.

Matthew Bryan Kilby, Shara Renee

Kilby to Fred Allen Price; Rutherfordton Township; lot 39, West Gate; $52.

Tuesday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m., Person County Office Building, 304 S. Morgan St., Roxboro, N.C. 27573 Thursday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m., Robeson County Farm Bureau, 302 Bailey Rd., Lumberton, N.C. 28358

Williamston, N.C. 27892 Thursday, Nov. 12, 7 p.m., Duplin County Agriculture Center, 165 Agriculture Drive, Kenansville, N.C. 28349 Thursday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m., Mountain Horticultural Crops Research & Extension Center, 455 Research Drive, Mills River, N.C. 28759 Charlie Jackson; Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project; phone 828-236-1282; www.

BuyAppalachian.org; or www.asapconnections.org

Land Transfers

The following land transactions were recently recorded at the Rutherford County Register of Deeds Office. The dollar amount is the deed stamps recorded, with $2 representing each $1,000 of property value.

Patrick J. Jaeger, Cindy V. Jaeger to Coffee Crumbs Inc.; Chimney Rock Township; tract#A PB24/7 convey and reserve right to use common access esmt; $470.

Coffee Crumbs Inc. to C. Lemuel Oates, Sandra T. Oates; Chimney Rock Township; tract#A PB24/7 convey and reserve right to use common access esmt; $486.

Alfredo Chavez, Sofia Bautista to Fernando Elias Guijosa; Rutherfordton Township; lot in Glenwood Park; $130.

Premier Log Homes Inc. to Glenn Edward Peters, Kim M. Peters; Chimney Rock Township; lot 26, Cliffside; $250.

Sherril B. Harris, Carol C. Harris to William Robertson, Cathy H. Robertson; 3.00 acres; $44.

Johnny J. White, Joanne White to Younger LLC; Green Hill Township; 6.44 acres; $65.

James L. Ballard, Gloria Ballard to Lawrence Dandridge, Diann Dandridge; 1.0 acre; $8.

Muriel Biggerstaff

by AIF, Martin Owens AIF to Manley Dakin; Rutherfordton Township; 3.43 acres and 2-1/2 acres; $180.

Gerald E. Walkowiak, Dana L. Walkowiak to Janice Cudd Watts; Colfax Township; 0.69 acre; $196.

Thomas D. Potts, Tatiana Potts to Ray William Morris; Rutherfordton

Township; lots 1, 2 and 3 Hillcrest; $210.

Suntrust Bank to Kevin M. Shanahan; Golden Valley Township; lot 16, phase 1, Queens Gap; $133.

John B. Monday, Rachel W. Monday to Stephen Howard Turner; Rutherfordton Township; .40 acre; $51.

John B. Monday, Rachel W. Monday to Jose Manuel Medina Lopez, Ma Guadalupe Rodriguez Gonzalez; High Shoals Township; 0.714 acre; $30.

Larry Arrowood, Jean Arrowood to Jason R. Matheny, Melanie H. Matheny; Colfax Township; 0.50 acre; $260.

Branch Banking and Trust Company to Kevin Roberts; Cool Springs Township; lot 26, Quail Run; $250.

Sharon Lyle, Newton Lyle to Ronald Huntsberger, Anne Mercer; Gilkey Township; lot 168, phase 8, Clearwater Creek; $30.

Shirley B. Powell by AIF, Virginia Mays Vestal AIF to Anne M. Schafer; Gilkey Township; 0.73 acre; $104.

Wells Fargo Financial NC 1 Inc to Vance Sisk; Cool Springs Township; lot 10, M J Harrill property; $42.

Roger F. Batchelder, Linda Batchelder to Leo Cyril Lucisano; Chimney Rock Township; lot 134, Riverbend; $14.

Frank N. Kendrick, Lisa L. Laney Kendrick to Eric M. Stockdale, Angela D. Stockdale; Chimney Rock Township; 0.523 acre; $380.

Leonard D. Wood, Lauren E. Wood to Travis Nelson Haynes, Jessica Penson Haynes; Logan Store Township; 5.827 acres; $350.

Gary D. Toney to Charles S. Turner, Debbie W. Turner;

US Bank National Assn to BB&G Properties of Rutherford County LLC; High Shoals Township; property on e/s SR2210; $60.

Thomas A. Acker, Duval B. Acker to Kenneth Powell, Ada E. Powell; Logan Store Township; 1.21 acres; $38.

Elizabeth F. Butterworth to Joyce Berger, Ralph Berger; Rutherfordton Township; .329 acre; $238.

Rhonda Denise Atkins Wright to Shawn Norman, Tammy Norman; Sulphur Springs Township; 37.5 acres; $94.

Joan M. Vetter to Ben G. Oneil, Linda V. Oneil; Chimney Rock Township; lot 31, Lake Lure Mountain Est Cedar Creek; $34.

Jerry T. Short to Michael Grady Wilson, Abigail Leigh Parton; Colfax Township; 2 acres; $180.

Douglas M. Dilbeck, Ellen L. Dilbeck to Hubert L. Davis III, Carol B. Davis; Logan Store Township; 4.45 acres; $50.

Gary T. Epperson to Sandra Godzik, Frank Godzik; Chimney Rock Township; 0.08 acre; $490.

Mountain Creek Land Company, Inc. to James R. Lykins, Teresa L. Ryder Lykins; Gilkey Township; 2.03 acres; $170.

Robert L. Nay, Mildred Nay to Thomas James Gerth, Bonnie R. Gerth; Gilkey Township; 0.681 acre; $35.

Chevis Wilson Duncan, Jennifer Ann Duncan to Michael Bechtel, Jennifer Bechtel; Rutherfordton Township; lot 6, Forest See Land, Page 5B

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But there is help, not only for you but also for your parents. The first thing you should do is contact The Trevor Helpline. It is a nationwide, 24-hour helpline for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people. A counselor there can help you sort out your feelings and figure out some options. You can find out more about it by going to www. thetrevorproject.org. The toll-free number is (866) 488-7386. Another terrific resource is PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). PFLAG was established in the 1980s and offers specific advice on how to deal with your parents. You will find its Web site at www.pflag. org.

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Dear Abby: My heart is broken. My 18-year-old son, “Joey,” has just put his name on someone else’s child’s birth certificate. He met the girl in high school. She was already pregnant. Joey has been out of school since May. He has no job, no money and no car. Joey promised her family he will “take care of her.” They were only too happy to hear it because the real father wants nothing to do with her or the baby. Her parents have made my son feel like a hero, and he enjoys it. I did everything in my power to talk him out of it. Nothing worked. I can’t believe that the girl’s family is encouraging him. Joey is not a man, even if he is 18. Where are their values? — Mom Dear Mom: Your son may feel like a hero, but apparently he was not thinking rationally when he put his name on that birth certificate, because what he did was fraud. The father of that baby should be listed as the father, and he is the one who should be financially responsible.

Ben Franklin had it right Dear Dr. Gott: I enjoy reading your column. It seems that most of your topics are addressed to older people. I would be interested in reading more on prevention. For instance, if younger folks would try to eat more healthful foods like fruits, vegetables and whole grains, get plenty of exercise, have a job he or she likes, try to avoid stress and get enough sleep, wouldn’t it go a long way toward having a healthful life? I know it will come to an end, but wouldn’t it help our quality of life?

Dear Reader: I absolutely agree with you. There is a fairly common saying attributed to Benjamin Franklin that goes “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Basically, what it means is that taking small steps before something goes wrong, such as reducing stress, exercising on a regular basis, or eating more healthful foods, will prevent having to take drastic steps to fix the problem.

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Ask Dr. Gott Dr. Peter M. Gott

Eating a balanced diet that is high in whole grains, fruits and vegetables and has modest sources of lean meats or other protein sources is an excellent start. While tasting good, excess fat, salt and sugar do little in the way of helping the body carry out necessary tasks. By giving the body what it needs rather than what is fast and easy, we can prevent many disorders, including hypertension, elevated cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and more.

Not every case can be prevented, since some persons are genetically wired to develop a condition regardless of conservative measures, but many cases can be prevented, halted or even reversed.

IN THE STARS

Your Birthday, Oct. 14;

Little things will add up to be not only more advantageous in the long run but open new doors.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Instinctively, you’ll know not to ignore your intuitive perceptions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Something propitious is likely to result from your social encounters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don’t be afraid to test any bright idea that pops in your head.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Treating your experiences philosophically will help you to deal successfully with life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — You won’t be disappointed by the profit you are able to make.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Instead of sidestepping difficult jobs, you’ll welcome them with open arms.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Because you’re extremely industrious, you can expect much of yourself.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Being a fun person to be around makes others want to try to emulate your behavior.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Artistic and creative projects will be the activities that appeal the most to you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Put your natural skills of salesmanship to the test, because it shouldn’t be too hard to walk away with a bigger order.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — It’ll be your wonderful, optimistic self-assurance that is likely to be at the core of a successful performance.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — For many people, their greatest successes are likely to come from collective effort, but, in your case, you’re apt to be strongest when operating independently.

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, October 14, 2009 — 5B The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, WEDNESDAY, October 14, 2009 — 5B

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Central and western NC councils celebrate historic merger

GASTONIA — On October 1, the newly formed Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont Council began operations following a long-anticipated merger of four central and western North Carolina councils. This historic moment was celebrated on October 3 with a celebration event that included nearly 2,200 Girl Scouts and adult volunteers at the Hickory Metro Convention Center.

This celebration comes at a time when the Girl Scout Movement is renewing its focus on leadership development for girls through retooled program opportunities, expanded pathways for girls to experience Girl Scouting, and flexible options for volunteers to be involved. The council will now serve girls in more than 1,800

troops through the traditional Girl Scout experience, as well as reach girls through innovative pathways such as camp experiences, short-term programs and after-school programs. GSCP2P is committed to making Girl Scouting possible for girls who might not otherwise have access due to socioeconomic, cultural or language barriers.

The celebration began with an opening ceremony with remarks delivered by Lynn Boggs, GSCP2P CEO/ President, and Kathy Cloninger, National CEO for Girl Scouts of the USA. Boggs also launched the inaugural GSCP2P patch, which was designed as a keepsake to inspire girls to make the Girl Scout leadership experience a reality.

“While the geograph-

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Jenson; Rutherfordton Township; 0.50 acres; Continued from Page 3B $106.

Archie A. Higgins, Lena C. Higgins to Hills; $464.

Robynn L. Spence; Meil A. Townsend, patricia Ann Townsend Rutherfordton Township; lot 7, Villato Lawrence b.

May; $350.

Richardson, Debra L. Martha T. Hoppes, Richardson; Chimney Rock Township; lot 135, Grady Hoppes, Gail T. Wright, Earl Wright, Riverbend; $260.

Teresa T. Millwood, Tam Cordingley to Michael Millwood, Arkadi Nikiforow, Wayne Tesseniar, Catherine M. Nikiforow; Logan Store Sharon Tesseniar, Arnold Tesseniar, Nan Township; property Tesseniar to Reuben on n/s Old Morganton Eugene Bond; Logan Road; $90.

Store Township; 3.20 acres; $132.

Pannell Properties Martha T. Hoppes, LLC to Constance L.

ic area has changed, our mission to build girls of courage, confidence and character, is unwavering,” Boggs said. “The board of directors and the council staff remain fully committed to providing relevant and quality program opportunities for girls to create leaders for tomorrow.”

Through the day, girls sang songs, played games, tackled challenges and learned about various activities at hands-on activity centers, as well as gathered in sisterhood with other Girl Scouts and adult volunteers.

Highlights of the event included a climbing wall and monkey bridges, and a car care clinic, as well as various hands-on activities such as animal science, health and safety, arts and crafts, sports and athletics, travel and Grady Hoppes, Gail T. Wright, Earl Wright, Teresa T. Millwood, Michael Millwood, Wayne Tesseniar, Sharon Tesseniar, Arnold Tesseniar, Nan Tesseniar to Teresa Millwood; Logan Store Township; 0.80 acres; $1.

Bruce Lynn Harris to Anthony Rubin Greene; High Shoals Township; 8.245 acres; $35.

Bobbie Harrill Walker, Michael Keith Walker to Crystal T. Shytles; Cool Springs Township; 0.49 acre; $160.

Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont Inaugural council patch.

technology and selfdefense from various community partners including the North Carolina Arboretum, Google, Schiele Museum, Hickory Museum of Art and Old Salem. In addition, a grant from BB&T provided two learning centers from Discovery Place – the Van de Graff generator for a hair-raising experience and the inflatable Starlab Planetarium.

About Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont, a United Way agency, is one of 109 councils nationwide chartered

by Girl Scouts of the USA to deliver Girl Scout program within

specific geographic boundaries. The local council serves 25,000 girls and approximately 7,000 adult volunteers in 40 counties and maintains ten camp properties and four service centers offering unique experiences for girls and adults. For more information on how to join, volunteer,

reconnect or donate to GSCP2P, call 800672-2148 or visit www. girlscoutsp2p.org.

About Girl Scouts of the USA Girl Scouts of the USA is the preeminent leadership development organization for girls, with 3.7 million girl and adult members worldwide. Founded in 1912, Girl Scouting is the leading authority on girls’ healthy development, and builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. The organization serves girls throughout the United States including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, as well as destinations abroad.

Girl Scout Mission : Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION FILE NO.: 09-SP-320 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY STEVEN D. WILSON AND WIFE, EVA B. WILSON DATED JUNE 9, 2003, AND RECORDED JUNE 17, 2003, IN BOOK 735 PAGE 236 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY REGISTER OF DEEDS SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE: Dawson & Albritton, P.A. NOTICE OF SALE Pursuant to a Court Order and under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of a violation of the provisions of said deed of trust and a failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained, and pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said deed of trust, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00 A.M. on October 21, 2009 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, situated in Cleveland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Tract One Situate, lying and being in High Shoals Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being the same and identical property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 671, Page 709, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows: Lying and being in High Shoals Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being a part of the property described in that deed recorded in Deed Book 424 on Page 673, of the Rutherford County Registry, and being described by Metes and bounds according to a survey by Jack H. Davis dated May 1, 1996 as follows: BEGINNING at a railroad spike in the center of Hines Road, State Road No. 2102, which point is North 64 degrees 19 minutes 58 seconds East 1337.29 feet from a railroad spike at the intersection of the center line of Hines Road, State Road No. 2102 with a private drive known as Nolan Road, said point also being a common corner with the property of Boyce W. Wilson, Jr. and wife, Barbara W. Wilson as described in that deed recorded in Deed Book 424 on Page 675, of the Rutherford County Registry, and runs thence from the beginning and with the common line of the said Wilson property the following seven (7) calls: North 47 degrees 51 minutes 04 seconds East 67.44 feet to a point; thence North 58 degrees 23 minutes 11 seconds East 101.57 feet to a point; thence North 53 degrees 33 minutes 11 seconds East 55.44 feet to a point; thence North 46 degrees 54 minutes 18 seconds East 105.88 feet to a point; thence North 46 degrees 54 minutes 21 seconds East 36.31 feet to a point; thence North 16 degrees 05 minutes 39 seconds West 40.27 feet to a point, and thence North 07 degrees 46 minutes 16 seconds East 21.19 feet to a point; thence a new line South 79 degrees 37 minutes 05 seconds East 173.40 feet to an iron stake; thence another new line South 47 degrees 40 minutes 59 seconds East 30.79 feet to an iron stake; thence another new line South 22 degrees 12 minutes 06 seconds West 136.05 feet to an iron stake on the East side of a private drive; thence South 11 degrees 01 minutes 58 seconds East 136.80 feet to a railroad spike in the center of Hines Road, State Road No. 2102; thence with the center of said road the following seven (7) calls: North 60 degrees 43 minutes 16 seconds West 69.81 feet to a point; thence North 63 degrees 10 minutes 46 seconds West 24.52 feet to a point; thence North 68 degrees 50 minutes 17 seconds West 58.83 feet to a point; thence North 79 degrees 08 minutes 51 seconds West 61.98 feet to a point; thence North 87 degrees 55 minutes 09 seconds West 28.87 feet to a point; thence North 87 degrees 55 minutes 09 seconds west 28.87 feet to a point; thence South 86 degrees 47 minutes 32 seconds West 65.56 feet to a point, and thence South 71 degrees 15 minutes 00 seconds West 160.40 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 1.3756 acres, more or less.

Tract Two Situate, lying and being in High Shoals Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being the same and identical property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 671, Page 705, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows: Lying and being in High Shoals Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being a part of the property described in that deed recorded in Deed Book 424 on Page 675, of the Rutherford County Registry, and being described by metes and bounds according to a survey by Jack H. Davis dated May 1, 1996 as follows: BEGINNING on a railroad spike in the center of Hines Road, State Road No. 2102, which point is North 64 degrees 19 minutes 58 seconds East 1337.29 feet from a railroad spike at the intersection of the center line of Hines Road, State Road No. 2102, with the center line of Nolan Road a private road, said beginning point also a common corner with the property described in that deed recorded in Deed Book 424 on Page 673, Rutherford County Registry, and runs thence from the beginning, a new line, North 02 degrees 30 minutes 38 seconds East 273.07 feet to an iron stake; thence another new line North 57 degrees 56 minutes 00 seconds East 93.19 feet to an iron stake; thence another new line South 79 degrees 37 minutes 05 seconds East 188.78 feet to an iron pin; thence with the common line of the said properties described in those deeds recorded in Deed Book 424 on Page 675 and Deed Book 424 on Page 673 of the Rutherford County Registry the following seven (7) calls: South 07 degrees 46 minutes 16 seconds West 21.19 feet to a point; thence South 16 degrees 05 minutes 39 seconds East 40.27 feet to a point; thence South 46 degrees 54 minutes 21 seconds West 36.31 feet to a point; thence South 46 degrees 54 minutes 18 seconds West 105.88 feet to a point; thence South 53 degrees 33 minutes 11 seconds West 55.44 feet to a point; thence South 58 degrees 23 minutes 11 seconds West 101.57 feet to a point, and thence South 47 degrees 51 minutes 04 seconds West 67.44 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 1.2080 acres, more or less.

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

The record owner of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is Beau Jaques Handy.

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

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

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

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

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

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT AS STATED BELOW IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of JOAN JACKSON FOSTER of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said JOAN JACKSON FOSTER to present them to the undersigned on or before the 7th day of January, 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 7th day of October, 2009.

Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of VAUGHTIE EDWARDS PARK of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said VAUGHTIE EDWARDS PARK to present them to the undersigned on or before the 14th day of January 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 14th day of October, 2009.

Barney Clifton Foster, Executor 611 Shiloh Rd. Rutherfordton, NC 28139

Laura Kay Park Dechant, Administrator 2 Hawk View Drive Asheville, NC 28804-1971

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD NOTICE OF SALE File No: 09 SP 326 TAKE NOTICE THAT: William Richard Boyd, Jr., 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: 1. The instrument pursuant to which such sale will be held is that certain Deed of Trust executed

by Gregg A. Smith and Bonnie D. Smith, as husband and wife, original mortgagors, and recorded in the Office of the Rutherford County Register of Deeds in Deed of Trust Book 969, at Page 793.

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 10:00 a.m. on the 16th day of October, 2009 at the Rutherford County Courthouse door in the City of Rutherfordton, North Carolina.

3. The real property to be sold is generally described as Lot 241 Vista at Bill’s Mountain, Phase II, Rock Ledge North, Lake Lure, NC 28746 and described as follows: Being all of Lot 241 of the Subdivision of Vista at Bill’s Mountain, Phase 2 containing 1.54 acres more or less as shown on Plat recorded in Plat Book 28 Page 199 of the Rutherford County Registry. PIN # 1642694 Street address: Rock Ledge Drive Subject to easements, rights of way and restrictive covenants of record.

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 Title VII of 5.896- Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act which became effective May 20, 2009.

This 8th day of September, 2009.

THIS the 16th day of September, 2009.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE Dawson & Albritton, P.A. P.O. Box 6003 (27835) 3219 Landmark Street, Ste. 4 Greenville, NC 27834 252.752.2485

__________________________ William Richard Boyd, Jr. Substitute Trustee 474 Mountain Cove Road Waynesville, North Carolina 28786 Dates: October 7, 2009 and October 14, 2009

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8B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, October 14, 2009

LOCAL

Here comes Halloween’s hippest decorations yet

By KIM COOK For The Associated Press

Goth and glitter.

Bones and ornaments dusted with lime, ebony, orange or purple sparkle. Startling images on dishware and textiles.

the ways retailers and designers are playing up Halloween’s theatrical vibe this year. Even for a holiday that’s, by definition, a study in over-the-topness, there are standards to keep.

Vases, bowls and candelabra cloaked in black lacquer. Papier mache

decorations painted with old-fashioned Halloween imagery.

Martha Stewart has created elegant table — cape chandeliers, skulls and skeletons encrusted with colorful glitter, as well as a grinning pumpkin clock, and black jack-o’-lanterns

stacked in a threesome, ready to light the walkway, at GrandinRoad. com. The e-retailer also has a glass bowl cupped by spooky, bony hands, a darkly handsome prelit willow tree, and ebony LED candles dripping faux wax.

cated Halloween cocktail table with Pottery Barn’s photoprinted skull appetizer plates and trays, and life-size crow candles. Placed on a black table runner printed with spider webs and bedecked in hand-beaded spiders, ghoulish becomes

glamorous.

At Pier 1, whimsical papier mache ornaments feature vintagestyle monsters or eyeballs; hang them in a “haunted� tabletop tree or display them in a rustic basket. The retailer’s stained glass pumpkin votive holder and harvest-hued feather wreath would do double duty for Thanksgiving parties, too.

With Halloween falling on a Saturday this year, parties will be plentiful. Go beyond the traditional “monster mash� bash with Celebration.com’s fun alternative themes, such as True Blood, Wicked or Dead Rock Stars. The site’s party planners suggest using orange roses, twisty branches, and lots of black and white dinnerware to set the stage — fashionable dining table decor at any time of year.

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couple and includes lodging, meals and a loose kind of confedmaterials. eracy he said that conThe ministry also nects men to different has planned a not-soministries. typical men’s retreat, By meeting some“Freedom in Life Boot where other than Camp,� coming up Nov. church, Folk said it has 5-8. freed many men to talk “It’s not a ‘drop and openly about their fears give me’ 20 boot camp,� and flaws. said Greg Sailors, a staff “Guys will come into member. “It’s about orithat environment and enting men to their stojust spill their guts,� ry and God’s story.� he said. “We treat men The boot camp like men – not chilis based on John dren or students – and Eldredge’s book “Wild teach like ‘This is what at Heart� and is a spiriwe found out.’ We just tual boot camp. Cost share truths and stories. is $275 per person, There is no preaching.� $250 for students 18 The ministry, although and older and $250 for it has branched out to groups of five or more. offer retreats and events Registration deadline is for families, keeps men Oct. 21 and can be done at its center. by calling 704-482“Our mission is reach- 6101 ext. 6 or by visiting ing men in Christ,� Folk www.newwildernessadsaid. “We will never do ventures.com. anything that doesn’t Also on the horizon, involve the husband or Folk said, is a family the father.� mission adventure, a October 23 through weeklong mission trip 25 the ministry is offer- where families work ing a “Journey Back together to share God’s to Grace� Marriage love. Folk said when Retreat at Laurel Ridge he was a child, the son Retreat Center. NWA of a preacher, his famdescribes the event as a ily vacations were miscritical adventure into sion trips and what an God’s desire and design impact it had on him. for marriages. Cost for “When you think of a the event is $350 per mission trip, you think

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Above, NWA Boot Camp isn’t a drop and give me 20 event but a spiritual camp for men. At left, Derek Sailors and Greg Sailors practice archery during adventure time at a recent boot camp.

of groups or of men, but we want to integrate the family as a whole unit doing work together as a team,� Sailors said.

The ministry also travels, going where they are asked to lead. “We are a foxhole ministry working oneon-one with people and have relationships all

over the U.S.,� Sailors said.

God continues to lead the ministry to new adventures of its own, Folk said. “We have a strong urgency about us as far as what we do and how we do it,� he said.

New Wilderness

Adventures is a nonprofit, non-denominational ministry based in Shelby. For more information, visit the ministry’s Web site at www. newwildernessadventures.com.

Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier. com.

As for that iconic symbol of the season — the pumpkin — look no further than the pages of Martha Stewart’s October issue. The magazine’s crafty stylists don’t disappoint when it comes to weird and wonderful carving ideas; this year, there are templates for snakes, feathers, goblets and entire eerie vignettes. If you’re handy with a pencil and a linoleum cutter, inspiration awaits.

Sourcebook: www.celebration.com -forum for party and decor ideas from experts and registered contributors, Halloween and other occasions www.marthastewart.com -- Halloween ideas and craft templates

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