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Road and street crews had Forest City passable for motorists and walkers on Saturday after Friday’s snowstorm dumped heavy snow on the area.
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FOREST CITY — Stranded motorists and vehicle wrecks from the snowstorm kept emergency services workers scrambling Friday and Saturday. The Broad River Water Plant in Rutherfordton reported six inches of snow from the storm Friday, but other locations around the county reportedly had from four to eight inches. As the sun rose Saturday morning, roads began to take a turn for the better as the snow and ice began to melt and run in streams across roads. Some roads were dry by
Saturday afternoon. The question then became, what will happen Saturday night. Refreezing turned slushy and still-wet roads into ice rinks, with overnight lows in the twenties, Today’s high, according to the National Weather Service, is expected to be about 38 degrees in Rutherford County. For the first three days of the workweek, highs are predicted in the low to mid-40s with partly cloudy skies. The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department radio report on Saturday said that all fire departments in the county
FOREST CITY – Isothermal Community College is not one of 25 community colleges involved in a security breach that occurred on a computer server containing personal information – including Social Security and driver’s license numbers – in the North Carolina Community College System Office. The community college system office began notifying nearly 51,000 library users this week, but all reviews and investigations indicate that no personal information was accessed by the intruder. However, library users with such information on the server will begin receiving letters explaining the attack, steps being taken to prevent future breaches and actions they may take to protect their credit and to ensure protection from identity theft. “Isothermal Community College is not a part of this particular consortium and it is unlikely that any of the patrons with possible compromised information is a student here,” said Isothermal’s Director of Marketing Mike Gavin. Nearby colleges that are affected, Gavin said, include Blue Ridge, Haywood and Gaston. A computer hacker accessed the library patron information on the computer server, housed in the community college system office in Raleigh, via the
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Dr. Don Olive, associate professor of physics and astronomy for Gardner-Webb University and director of the university’s Williams Observatory, spoke during Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy’s fall symposium Thursday. Olive presented information on astronomy and how discoveries from 400 years ago impact today, beginning by speaking about Galileo Galilee.
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FOREST CITY – Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy high schoolers saw more than stars Thursday – they also saw how astronomy fits into not only their lives, but the lives of every student and person around the globe. “Mankind has always been inquisitive and exploratory,” said Margaret Westbrook, the school’s science department chair. “Astronomy is really a science that unites us as a people.” Special guest speaker for the symposium was Dr. Don Olive, associate professor of physics and astronomy for Gardner-Webb University and director of the university’s Williams Observatory. Olive spoke of Galileo Galilee and his use of the telescope and how much more advanced telescopes have become over the years, pointing to the most well-known telescope, the Hubble Telescope. “More scientific papers have been written from Hubble than any other scientific tool in history,” Olive told the students. Olive said with his discoveries, Galileo pointed out many common sense questions and ultimately, the question for which all humans seek an answer. “Galileo was trying to answer one of the most
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FOREST CITY — Santa has some very special helpers in Rutherford County this Christmas season — helpers who since Thanksgiving have organized an effort to deliver gifts to those in need next week. Everyday Elves, which became incorporated just after Thanksgiving, was founded by a group of concerned citizens to
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address the needs of Rutherford County. The organization got its inspiration from Santa’s Helpers, a program on the campus of Wake Forest University. “Me and my mom were talking about how we’d like to do something for other people and at first we talked about adopting families,” said Laura Morse, a Rutherford County native and student at Wake Forest University. “Then I got the e-mail about Santa’s Helpers and told my
mom ‘We could do this here with high school athletes.’” Wake student athletes wrap and individually label gifts and then dress in Santa suits to surprise deliver presents to families in Winston-Salem. Everyday Elves will work the same way. Word of mouth has proved to be the best means for finding people to help this Please see Elves, Page 6A
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Couple enjoys working tree lot By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer
FOREST CITY — More than 400 Christmas trees have been sold from the Christmas tree lot at the Tri-City Mall and just as soon as the remaining 20 are sold, Caitlyn Weddington and Billy Lemmond, are out of here. The Mooresville couple has operated the stand for R.B. London of West Jefferson since the week before Thanksgiving. “Now we’re ready to go home,” Caitlyn said. “The official sale day is Dec. 22, but if we get them sold this weekend, we can go home,” Billy said. Catilyn has been without work since July and Billy lost his job in August. The couple was looking for work when Caitlyn’s family in Jean Gordon/Daily Courier West Jefferson suggested the Caitlyn Weddington holds this red tick mix that tree lot management job. showed up at the Christmas tree sales lot at the Tri“I’d do it again,” Billy said. City Mall Friday morning. Caitlyn said she and partner “It was really fun the first two Billy Lemmond discovered something had gotten into or three days,” Billy quipped. the trash can and when they sent into the tent, the puppy was inside. They are hoping the owner will come “Now we’re ready to go home, plus people don’t realize this is by soon. hard work.”
Once the large tent was erected, Billy and Caitlyn arrived on set and set up their stand. “We have to set the lot up to hold as many trees as it can. Then we get the trees down here, put a five-inch hole in the bottom of them, put them on the stand, then we take them and make them look good. “After we sell them, I trim them up, run them through the netter and then strap them on the tops of cars,” he added. He has strapped trees on the tops of cars, loaded them in pickup trucks, but the most memorable vehicle was a little sports car. “The guy bought a 8-1/2 foot tree and I had to put it in the back seat and it was sticking out the window,” Billy said. “I put one in the back of a Camaro and we’ve put a bunch in trucks,” he added. The lot has been open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day since the week before Thanksgiving. They have lived in a camper beside the lot for the month they’ve been here. “This is the first time we’ve lived in a camper,” he said. “I hope I don’t have to do this
again.” The couple has done a lot of cooking in the camper and has eaten fast foods, too. And outside the camper is a port-ajohn. Inside the sales tent is about 10 degrees lower than outdoors because of all the moisture inside. Friday morning, Caitlyn and Billy were donned in hats and coats, hoods, scarves and gloves trying to stay warm while selling a few trees. “It’s very cold in here,” she said. With them Friday was a redtick puppy mix that had wandered into the tent Thursday night. They’ll looking for the pet’s owners and hope to find the owner before they go home. “We’re working all the time and haven’t had time to do much except walk around Rose’s or Wal-mart,” they said. “The pay has been pretty good,” Billy said. He has been on salary and Cailtyn’s job has been parttime although she’s been on the scene since the first day. Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.
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SPINDALE — “Walk to the Manger” will give folks in Rutherford County an opportunity to step back in time more than 2,000 years ago when Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem. Main Street Baptist Church, Spindale, is hosting the community event Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. and everyone is invited. “Every year it seems that Christmas starts earlier and has less to do with the Lord Jesus and the celebration of His birth,” pastor Rick Brewer said. “There seems to be a thousand Santas for every Manger scene, and often in the great rush to be everywhere and buy everything, we don’t give the real reason for the celebration a second thought. “Christmas is about the birth of Jesus; the best gift anyone can ever receive. We are always looking for ways to bring this truth to the people of our community and to that end I would like you to consider an opportunity with me. We will call it ‘Walk to the Manger,’” he said. The Bethlehem characters and others will assemble in the parking lot of Riah Salon, near the Spindale restaurant, each night at 6:30 to begin the 15-minute walk to the church. A young couple dressed as Mary and Joseph will walk ahead of the group as one of the followers sings carols of expectation. The walk will be quiet, with the exception of the one singer. “We will walk the sidewalks of the town inviting everyone we see to come and walk to the manger with us,” Brewer said. As the group arrives at Main Street Baptist Church, Mary and Joseph will take their place in a large stable in front of the church. Those who have walked will join others in the lot who were unable to walk and we will all gather around the stable. At the stable, the group will sing carols and hymns of praise celebrating Jesus, and the Christmas story will be read from the Bible. “I believe as we gather to praise His name and lift up the true meaning of Christmas we will honor Him and that is why we live, to praise Jesus,” Brewer said. Several churches will also present live manger scenes next week. The First Baptist Church, Forest City, will have a live manger scene from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday and the First Baptist Church, Spindale, will have a live manger scene Sunday at 7 p.m.
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Committees will study county building projects and all the other project details are still conceptual and the details discussed Monday will be for planning purposes only. Design firm Cole, Jenest and Stone recently submitted the final site plan for the Daniel Road Complex includes the Community Pet Center, a Farmers’ Market, agricultural arena, areas for commercial development and expansion areas for neighboring Isothermal Community College. There is also an additional building site on the property that could serve as a future library or other county function. In all of the preliminary drawings, the land was divided for various uses including multiple athletic and soccer fields, walking trails and other recreational uses. The project has already received a $500,000 Parks and Recreation Trust Fund grant. PARTF is administered by the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation. The trust fund was established in 1994 and is the primary source for local governments seeking funding for parks and recreation projects.
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Carolina Today Residents in N.C., S.C. weathering winter storm ASHEVILLE (AP) — Some residents in the Carolinas are digging out from a weekend storm that blanketed many areas with snow, ice and freezing rain, and thousands woke up to a chilly morning with no electricity. Officials said Saturday that two dozen National Guard Soldiers were working with the State Highway Patrol to rescue stranded motorists near Asheville, which got about a foot of snow Friday. Tens of thousands of power outages were reported in North and South Carolina. Duke Energy and Progress Energy reported more than 90,000 total outages late Saturday morning. In South Carolina, torrential rainstorms caused flooding in some areas. Multiple media outlets report that authorities shut off access to Charleston’s downtown peninsula Friday after almost 4 inches of rain fell.
Jury: N.C. man killed wife, set body on fire
RALEIGH (AP) — A 61-year-old North Carolina man has been found guilty of killing his wife and burning her body along the side of a highway in Virginia. Multiple media outlets reported that a Wake Count jury Friday found Harish Patel guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 57-year-old Vanlata Patel in January 2008. The pair divorced in 2007. Authorities say Harish Patel suffocated his wife after arguing over splitting their assets, including $400,000 in Swiss bank accounts. Her body was found in a brush fire along Interstate 85 in Mecklenburg County, Va.
Defense attorneys say there is no substantial evidence linking their client to his wife’s death. Patel says he will appeal the conviction.
N.C. woman charged for leaving boy in car at mall MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman has been ticketed for leaving her 3-yearold grandson in the car while she shopped in a South Carolina mall. The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported Saturday that 51-year-old Dyna Gore Johnston of Tabor City, N.C., was given a ticket for cruelty to children. She is set to appear in court Dec. 30. Officials paged Johnston after a mall security officer noticed a vehicle with a child inside had been parked in the parking lot at Coastal Grand Mall in Myrtle Beach for about 15 minutes. Police say Johnston returned about 20 minutes later and told officers she left her grandson in the car because he was sleeping and she didn’t want to wake him.
Utility plans gas-powered plant to replace coal RALEIGH, (AP) — Progress Energy wants to build a new power plant fueled by cleaner-burning natural gas as it phases out coal-fired units in North Carolina. The Raleigh power company said Friday it filed an application with the North Carolina Utilities Commission to build the new generation unit on the grounds of an existing coal-fired power plant near Wilmington.
RUTHERFORDTON — Newly formed committees will look into planning for the Daniel Road project with a special meeting Monday at 9 a.m. at the County Annex. The committees will hear estimates on potential design and building projects for the complex. Cost estimates are all in 2007 dollars for now, with many factors to consider before any actual costs of the project will be set. Among them are the architect’s design, choice of materials and construction methods. For example, the estimated costs for the buildings to be included in the proposed agricultural center are: n Office Building at 39,000 square feet – $5,951,790 n Farmer’s Market at 23,000 square feet – $956,800 n Livestock Arena at 98,040 square feet – $6,862,800 But the building costs are only raw construction expenditures. The total project for the agricultural center also includes site development and other related costs, for a final estimate of $16,980,695. But the agricultural center design
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FOREST CITY — Commissioners on Monday will consider pursuing foreclosures of properties with accumulated delinquent taxes. Jimmy Clay will make the presentation to the board. The properties are at 133 Clay St., with taxes due and code enforcement fees of $1,729.44; at 292 Brackett Rd., with a total of $1,222.69; and 300 Hardin Rd., with a total of $369.30 The board also will get a raw water intake update from Keith Webb of
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North Carolina draws business RALEIGH — Every year, business-related magazines rank North Carolina as one of the best places in America to locate and operate a business. And every year, conservative critics accuse the state’s political leadership of embracing tax rates and tax policies that discourage business development. It’s an interesting dichotomy, one that suggests someone is being either duplicitous or overlooking some key evidence. A couple of recent announcements by companies planning to move to North Carolina may provide some insight into the competing claims. IEM is a emergency management and security consultant located in Baton Rouge, La. It has announced that it will be moving to Durham, bringing 430 jobs, with an average pay of better than $62,000 a year. Applicance maker Electrolux announced that it would be consolidating operations in other states, many of the jobs coming from Georgia, by moving its headquarters to Charlotte. It each case, the state offered lucrative incentive deals to the companies. IEM could take in more than $9 million in state grants over the next 12 years. For Electrolux, the haul could add up to nearly $25 million. The effect of these incentives
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— distasteful as they are — on the bottom line of the companies can’t be overlooked. But let’s not forget that other states certainly offered up their own collection of goodies to try to woe these firms. Perhaps the competing offers were a little lighter, though only a handful of people would really know to what degree. Regardless of the incentives, something prompted both of these firms to decide that their current locations weren’t adequate, and that North Carolina offered solutions to those inadequacies. Company officials typically aren’t going to provide a lot of detail on all of their motives. For starters, they don’t want to insult the communities that they’re leaving. In these two cases, public pronouncements from the CEOs are telling enough. IEM CEO Madhu Beriwal immediately mentioned the Triangle area’s highly educated workforce. Electrolux North America CEO Kevin Scott cited Charlotte as a transportation
hub. But both companies are moving from states that the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation says have superior business tax climates to North Carolina. Louisiana is positioned four spots ahead of North Carolina in the ranking; Georgia is 10 places better. The Tax Foundation also shows Louisiana with a lower state and local tax burden on individuals, while Georgia is slightly ahead of North Carolina. Georgia’s corporate income tax is lower than North Carolina’s, while Louisiana’s is higher. I suppose you can take from these rankings and statistics what you wish, and the Tax Foundation has its own critics who question the rankings. The picture, though, seems pretty clear. North Carolina’s taxes aren’t significantly out-of-line with its competitors across the Southeast. At least two companies decided that better universities, better transportation infrastructure, better quality of life were more important than marginally lower taxes. Building roads and creating top-notch universities cost money. Scott Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol News Service.
Christ, Christmas brings joy, comfort to our hearts It is a story that seems to never grow old. As the years pass slowly but surely, we gather in our churches to pray and celebrate the birth of the Savior of the world. Our children enthusiastically re-enact this event that literally changed the course of history. Every Christmas season, I see changes. My family has changed, as my children have grown older, loved ones pass away, and life offers its uncertainties and questions. So, it is good to reflect upon what it means for the Savior to be born and what His gift of life means to us in this present age. As many of our churches will dramatize the birth of Christ this Sunday, we are called once again to reflect. One passage of Scripture I want to emphasize is in Luke 2. It says that a decree is sent forth by Caesar that all of the world should be taxed. Also, that Joseph and Mary are making their way to the city of Bethlehem to register for their taxing. Upon their arrival, it becomes evident that she is going to give birth to the Christ-Child and looks for a place to rest and bring forth this prophesied Gift of God. I want to discuss three
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aspects of this event that is of significance to us today: taxes, Bethlehem and no room in the inn. oseph and Mary were on their way to Bethlehem to pay their taxes. They were literally laboring under the rule of Caesar and the evil Herod. The whole world is being taxed with responsibility. Life levies a toll against all in the earth and the human spirit struggles to survive. Yes, our government can be overbearing at times and our elected leaders must understand the burden that people are under economically. The power of government can be used or abused, as in Joseph’s and Mary’s day, so government is called upon not to over-burden its citizens. In Luke’s discourse, he describes this taxing in verse 3;”And all went to be taxed, everyone to his own city.” We are all taxed, if you will, by life itself. Sometimes life can be hard because it seems to
take and never give. Joseph and Mary are making a long hard journey and she is pregnant or if you will, expecting. Most of us have great expectations in life. We have dreams and plans, hopes and desires, and just as Joseph and Mary, sometimes there comes an interruption to our life’s journey and we are called upon to maybe go or do something we would rather not do. As we patiently wait for the second return of Christ we are journeying and we are taxed. But the good news of Christmas is we are on our way to Bethlehem. Bethlehem is one of the most historic cities on Earth with fertile hills and valleys. Bethlehem was the place where Rachel, Jacob’s wife, was buried, the setting of much of the book of Ruth, the place Samuel anointed David as King, and the ancestral home of King David. It was also the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Bethlehem means “house of bread.” Oh how prophetic this would be. Jesus, the Savior of the world, would be born in the house of bread, Bethlehem. How fitting this is to be. Joseph and Mary are tired and weary, hungry and thirsty and as many of
us, taxed by the demands of life. What consolation to us to know that this Christmas, we cannot only celebrate the birth of our Savior, but we also come to him in a house of bread. Bread is a staple of life and Jesus’ birth there is a prophetic symbol of His ministry to feed us in our tiredness in life. Life makes its demands and we walk in expectation of hope and joy and love. Jesus would be born and laid in a manger, a feeding trough, to symbol that He would feed the hearts of men. Jesus is the Bread of Life and the church is the house of bread where we are fed and kept until he returns. But some, ever so sadly, do not realize what they are missing. As Joseph brings his virginal wife to Bethlehem, he finds the town busied and the inns filled. There was no room for them in the inn, verse 7 tells us. As Joseph knocked on the door of the innkeeper’s door, he was greeted with sad words, “ I am sorry sir we are all filled.” How prophetic this also is to us today. The Holy Spirit comes knocking ont he door of our hearts and we fail to recognize the gift the Lord wants to birth in our lives. We are too busy, too
preoccupied, and our lives are filled with the temporal cares of the world that choke out joy and hope. I wonder if sometimes we are like the innkeeper and don’t recognize what Christmas offers. Christmas is not a time to be too busy or too taxed or too tired to let Christ come in. The innkeeper failed to notice just what was about to take place in that little town. He had to pay bills and take care of his family as well, but the Bread of Life was about to be born and could have been born in the innkeeper’s personal room if he had only recognized the gift of God to the earth. I f the innkeeper had only understood what was about to happen, maybe he would have said,” Joseph, take your wife and you can have my room. Let the child be born in my house.” Isn’t this really the quest of God coming to the world … to be born in our hearts, the dwelling place made for God? Make time for Christ this Christmas. If you are tired and weary, go to Bethlehem and see the babe lying in the manger and feed from His presence. Let us all make room for Christ in this season of our lives. May God bless you all and merry Christmas!
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Man commits suicide Obituaries at county jail facility Margaret Holler
RUTHERFORDTON — Rutherford County Sheriff Jack Conner confirmed Friday afternoon that there was an apparent suicide at the jail facility at 198 N. Washington St. The sheriff did not reveal the identity of the person or say if the person was an inmate, but said it was a male.
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responded to trees down from the storm, and adds that numerous departments went to motor vehicle crashes. At 9:55 a.m. Saturday, Duke Energy was reporting 2,243 customers without service in Rutherford County, and a total of 32,839 outages in North and South Carolina. The most outages were in the Lake Lure area of the county, with the next largest number in an area just south of Rutherfordton. Scattered outages were reported in the southern and eastern parts of the county. By about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Duke was reporting 16,058 outages in the Carolinas, including 250 in Rutherford County. Dirk Burleson, vice president of member and corporate services at Rutherford Electric Membership Corp., said Saturday afternoon that the utility began having outages in Rutherford County at about 4 p.m. Friday. He said at the peak of outages there were some 1,500 customers without service. But he added that power had been restored to all by about midnight Friday. Burleson noted that many of the outages were related to automobiles breaking poles during wrecks, instead of downed trees, making it easier for the power to be restored. He praised the
Margaret Estelle Proctor The incident was discovered Holler, 93, of Hickory, died at 4:12 a.m. Thursday. Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, at The man reportedly had a Sharon Towers in Charlotte. bed sheet around his neck Born Dec. 13, 1916, in and had apparently squatted Triangle, N.C., she was the down in a suicide attempt. daughter of the late Cora Kaylor and Shelton Oliver Sheriff Conner said the Proctor. man was transported to In addition to her parents, Rutherford Hospital, where she was preceded in death he died after midnight Friday by three brothers and seven morning. sisters. She is survived by three daughters, Peggy Fontana of Plano, Texas, Glenda G. utility’s program of keeping Holler and Dixie Pinson, rights of way cut for having both of Charlotte; and by two fewer trees across lines. granddaughters; two grandThe Marion office of sons; and seven great-grandthe North Carolina State children. Highway Patrol apparently A graveside service will be was closed Saturday and the held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Asheville regional office did John’s Lutheran Church cemnot immediately return a etery, and a memorial sercall asking for information vice will be held Monday in on how many wreck calls were answered in Rutherford Charlotte at Christ Lutheran County during the storm and Church at 2:30 p.m. Bass-Smith Funeral Home its aftermath. is serving the family. While Rutherford County was hit hard by the storm, adjoining Buncombe County Online condolences may be left at www.bass-smithfuneralhome. was slammed by the snow. com. Heavy snow and accidents overnight left many Charles Marsh motorists stranded on I-40 and I-26 near Asheville, Due to inclement weaththe N.C. Department of er, the services for Charles Transportation said in a Brandon Marsh Sr. have been press release, and a number changed. of vehicles were abandoned The funeral service will be on the interstates, unable at 2 p.m. today at the A.C. to move because of stopped McKinney Memorial Chapel traffic or having run out of at McKinney-Landreth gas. Funeral Home. Visitation will be held immediately As much as two feet of after the service. snow fell in the Asheville area and surrounding counOliver Clements ties, making many priOliver Clements, 85, of mary and secondary roads Union Mills, died Saturday, impassable, and bringing Dec. 19, 2009, at Oak Grove down trees and power lines. Health Care Center NCDOT is mobilizing crews A native of Rutherford and equipment from other areas of the state that weren’t County, he was a son of the late Zaluski and Lizzie as impacted by the winter storm and they headed to the Hollar Clements. He was a member of Camp Asheville area Saturday to Creek Baptist Church. assist in snow and ice removal and clearing fallen trees to He retired from General Fireproofing. help clear roadways. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Freeman Contact Dale via e-mail at
Clements. Arrangements are being handled by McMahan’s Funeral Home & Cremation Services, where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday. The funeral service will be at Camp Creek Baptist Church at 3 p.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Tony McCraw officiating. Interment will be at Camp Creek Baptist Church cemetery, Union Mills. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Camp Creek Church cemetery fund; P.O. Box 416, Union Mills, NC 28167. A guest register is available at www.mcmahansfuneralhome. com
Joyce Hutchins Joyce Kuykendall Hutchins, 63, of 317 Georgia St., Spindale, died Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, at White Oak Manor in Shelby. She was born on Dec. 25, 1945, in Rutherford County to the late James Kuykendall and Minnie Wilson Kuykendall. She worked as a dietary cook and in food service for Willow Ridge and the Rutherford Hospital System, and was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother and a sister. Survivors include two sons, Greg Hutchins of Spindale and Arthur Dale Hutchins of Rutherford County; one daughter, Tanya Swafford, also of Rutherford County; two brothers, Earl Kuykendall of Barnardville, Daniel James Kuykendall of Rutherford County; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Memorial services will be conducted at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. William Swink officiating. The family will receive friends following the service at the church.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be sent to Harrelson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 335, Caroleen, NC 28019 to help defray funeral costs. Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the Hutchins family. An online guest registry is available at www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com
Willetta McDaniel Willetta M. McDaniel, 81, of Forest City died Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, at Hospice House. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Harrelson Funeral Home.
Deaths Archbishop Job CHICAGO (AP) — Church officials say Archbishop Job, who led the Orthodox Church in America in Chicago and the Midwest, has died. He was 63. He was born Richard John Osacky in 1946 in Chicago. John Zilly SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — John “Jack” Zilly, who played on two national championship football teams for Notre Dame in the 1940s, has died. He was 88. Zilly was a right end on Notre Dame’s 1943 championship team. Jerry Green OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The founder of the annual Christmas Village in Ogden, Jerry Green, has died. He was 81. The first Ogden village in 1962 featured a “Missile Tree,” an Air Force missile strung with thousands of lights and garlands. The village now draws more than 150,00 people each year between November and January at Ogden’s Municipal Gardens.
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Police Notes FC man charged with sex offenses
RUTHERFORDTON — A Forest City man is charged with a number of sex and violence offenses and is under a $185,000 secured bond in the Rutherford County Jail. Antoine Terrell Crawford, 29, of 215 Withrow Rd., is charged with attempted second-degree rape, seconddegree sexual offense, assault on a female and sexual battery. He was arrested by the Forest City Police Department on Friday.
Sheriff’s Reports
n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 74 E-911 calls Friday.
Rutherfordton
n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 30 E-911 calls Friday.
Spindale
n The Spindale Police Department responded to 33 E-911 calls Friday.
Lake Lure
n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to 20 E-911 calls Friday.
Forest City
n The Forest City Police Department responded to 53 E-911 calls Friday.
Arrests
n Joshua Aaron McKinney, 36, of 107 Flourville Rd.; charged with no operator’s license; placed under a $500 secured bond. (NCHP) n Timothy James Suchanek, 17, of 1404 Spindale St.; charged with injury to real property; freed on a custody release. (SPD)
EMS/Rescue n The Rutherford County EMS responded to 37 E-911 calls Friday. n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to 18 E-911 calls Friday.
Fire Calls n Bostic firefighters responded to a vehicle fire. n Cliffside firefighters responded to a miscellaneous fire. n Lake Lure firefighters responded to a power line fire, assisted by Chimney Rock firefighters. n All departments responded to trees down. n Numerous departments responded to motor vehicle crashes. THE DAILY COURIER Published Tuesday through Sunday mornings by Paxton Media Group LLC dba The Daily Courier USPS 204-920 Periodical Postage paid in Forest City, NC. Company Address: 601 Oak St., P.O. Box 1149, Forest City, NC 28043. Phone: (828) 245-6431 Fax: (828) 248-2790 Subscription rates: Single copy, daily 50¢ / Sunday $1.50. Home delivery $11.75 per month, $35.25 for three months, $70.50 for six months, $129 per year. In county rates by mail payable in advance are: $13.38 for one month, $40.14 for three months, $80.27 for six months, $160.54 per year. Outside county: $14.55 for one month, $43.64 for three months, $87.28 for six months, $174.56 per year. College students for school year subscription, $75. The Digital Courier, $6.50 a month for non-subscribers to The Daily Courier. Payment may be made at the website: www.thedigitalcourier. com The Daily Courier is not responsible for advance subscription payments made to carriers, all of who are independent contractors.
Jack G. Ayers Mr. Jack G. Ayers, 75, of 289 Burns Road, Ellenboro, died Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009 at Spartanburg Restorative Care. He was the son of the late George and Daisy Vickers Ayers. Jack was retired from Henredon Furniture, he was a US Army veteran stationed in Germany, and was a charter member of the Washburn Coffee Club. He was a loyal and devoted member of Walls Baptist Church for over 53 years, and was a former Deacon and assistant Sunday school teacher. He is survived by his wife, Emma Sue Jones Ayers; his daughter, Carolyn Ayers Wall and her husband Mike, of Forest City; a sister, Linda Ayers Eacho of Bostic; five brothers, Sherrill Ayers, Lox Ayers, and Max "Pete" Ayers, all of Bostic, Wray Ayers of Satellite Beach, FL; and James Ayers of Rutherfordton. Two grandchildren, Cassie Byers and her husband Christopher, of Forest City; and Tony Wall of Forest City; a great grandson, Jackson Byers; an adopted granddaughter, Michelle McGinnis and her husband Chuck, and her son Garrett. The funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM Sunday, December 20, 2009 at Walls Baptist Church. Rev. Eugene Passmore, Rev. Cecil Ballard, and Dr. Robert Toney will officiate. The body will lie in state thirty minutes prior to the service. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The visitation will be from 5 PM until 8 PM Saturday at Washburn & Dorsey Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Walls Baptist Church Soup Kitchen, 749 Walls Church Road, Bostic, NC 28018 or to the Gideons International, PO Box 140800, Nashville, TN 372140800. Friends may sign the online guest book: www.washburndorsey.com Paid obit.
Margaret Estelle Proctor Holler Margaret Estelle Proctor Holler, 93, of Hickory, passed away on Friday, December 18, 2009, at Sharon Towers in Charlotte, NC. Born December 13, 1916, in Triangle, NC, she was the daughter of the late Cora Kaylor and Shelton Oliver Proctor. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three brothers: Richard L. Proctor, Ralph L. Proctor, Oliver Glenn Proctor; and seven sisters: Marie D. Proctor Johnson, Eula Ester Proctor Ballard, Lula Bell Proctor Harrison, Lois Proctor Colvard, Nina Proctor Bass, Mary Evelyn Proctor Stone and Margaret Estelle Proctor Holler. Mrs. Holler is survived by three daughters: Peggy Fontana and husband Don of Plano, TX, Glenda G. Holler of Charlotte, NC, Dixie Pinson and husband William of Charlotte, NC; two granddaughters, Donna Fontana Russell of Garland, TX, Jeri Lynn Steffey Bates of Clemmons, NC; two grandsons, Anthony S. Fontana of Dallas, TX, Gordon Steffey of Lynchburg, VA; seven great-grandchildren: Margaret, Justin, and Charles Russell, all of Garland, TX, Alex and Roderick Fontana, both of Dallas, TX, and Elizabeth and Michael Bates of Clemmons, NC. A graveside service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, December 21, 2009, at St. John’s Lutheran Church cemetery and a memorial service will be held later on Monday in Charlotte at Christ Lutheran Church at 2:30 p.m. Online condolences may be left for the Holler family at www.basssmithfuneralhome.com. Bass-Smith Funeral Home is serving the family of Margaret Estelle Proctor Holler. Paid Obit
Joyce Kuykendall Hutchins Joyce Kuykendall Hutchins, age 63, of 317 Georgia Street, Spindale, NC, died Friday, December 18, 2009, at White Oak Manor in Shelby. Joyce was born on December 25, 1945, in Rutherford County to the late James Kuykendall and Minnie Wilson Kuykendall. She worked as a dietary cook and in food service for Willow Ridge and the Rutherford Hospital System. She loved any kind of craft work and was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one brother, Kurt Kuykendall, and her sister, Naomi Hannon. Survivors include two sons, Greg Hutchins and his wife, Shelly, of Spindale, and Arthur Dale Hutchins and his wife, Tina, of Rutherford County; one daughter, Tanya Swafford, also of Rutherford County; two brothers, Earl Kuykendall of Barnardville, NC, Daniel James Kuykendall and his wife, Ruth, of Rutherford County; four grandchildren, Mary “Jody” Bartlett and her husband, Patrick, Nicole Swafford Webb, William Swafford and Emily Hutchins, and one great-grandchild, April Bartlett. Memorial services will be conducted at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 22, 2009, at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. William Swink officiating. The family will receive friends following the service at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be sent to Harrelson Funeral Home, PO Box 335, Caroleen, NC 28019 to help defray funeral costs. Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the Hutchins family. An online guest registry is available at www..harrelsonfuneralhome.com Paid Obit
6A — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, December 20, 2009
Calendar/Local/state
Court halts release of two inmates Health/education Community Health Clinic of Rutherford County provides access to primary medical care, wellness education, medications and preventative programs. The clinic, open Monday through Thursday, is located at 127 E. Trade St., B 100, Forest City. Patients seen by appointment only. The clinic does not accept patients with private insurance, Medicaid or Medicare. Call 245-0400. The Medication Assistance Program provides access to medications at reduced rates or free of charge to those who qualify, call 288-8872.
Red Cross Blood drives scheduled: Dec. 21 — Oak Grove Methodist Church, Ellenboro, 4 to 8:30 p.m., contact Dawn Kanipe at 289-1279; Dec. 28 — Red Cross Chapter House, 2 to 6:30 p.m., call 287-5916 for an appointment.
Meetings/other Community Christmas party: Saturday, Dec. 19, 6:30 p.m., Union Mills Clubhouse on Hudlow Road; asking for $5 donations to go to the Carver Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. Athletic Boosters: Chase High Athletic Boosters will meet Monday, Jan. 4, at 6:30 p.m. in the office conference room. Appreciation Day service: In honor of Wayne McCurry; Saturday, Jan. 16, Sunshine Elementary School; chili supper 5 to 6:30 p.m.; special music by The (retired) Carlson Trio; sponsored by Fairview Baptist Church and Cherry Mountain VFD. Lost Playwrights: Lost Playwrights of Western North Carolina will not meet in December. The next meeting is Saturday, Jan. 23, 4 p.m., at Doc’s Deli in Hendersonville; a presentation of short plays will follow at 7 p.m. The meetings are open to anyone interested in any aspect of theatre. Alcoholics Anonymous: The TriCity Alano Club meets every day at 1201 Oakland Road, Forest City, (first door on the left). For more information and meeting times call 288-2700. Low-cost rabies clinic: Saturday, Jan. 9, noon to 1 p.m.; Thunder Road Animal Hospital; $9 cash, one-year rabies; $10 cash, threeyear rabies; other discounted vaccines available; call 286-0033. Art Exhibit: Rutherford County Visual Arts Guild presents the Young Budding Artist exhibit through Jan. 30, at Norris Public Library, Rutherfordton. The young artists are students of Judy Ockert. Foothills Harvest Outreach Ministries will hold a storewide half-price sale Dec. 21-23 (excludes a few select items). The store will be closed Dec. 24-28. Located at 120 E. Trade St., Forest City. Hospice Resale Shop will hold a 25 cents sale Dec. 21-23, on all clothing, purses and shoes. The shop is located at 631 Oak St., Forest City. Holiday hours: All Rutherford County convenience centers and the central landfill will be closed Dec. 24 and 25 in observance of the Christmas holiday. Regular hours will resume Saturday, Dec. 26.
Reunions Cole family reunion: Saturday, Jan. 9, covered dish meal 2:30 p.m., Goode’s Creek Baptist Church fellowship hall; bring well-filled basket. McNair 20th anniversary: The Robert and Janice McNair Educational Foundation will celebrate its 20th year anniversary on May 14, 2010. If you are a McNair ROPE recipient, contact the foundation at rope2010@att.net or www. mcnairedfoundation.org. Band reunion: East Rutherford Cavalier Band (1966-1976) members under W.W. Jacobus (1966-1976); planned for August 7, 2010 at the high school cafeteria; to be added to the mailing list email cavalierbanderhs@yahoo.com or by mail, P.O. Box 934, Forest City.
RALEIGH(AP) — North Carolina’s Supreme Court temporarily halted the release of two convicted murderers serving life sentences Friday just an hour before the inmates were set to go free, and two lower court judges have now issued conflicting opinions on whether the prisoners should get early releases. The high court ruling gives the attorney general’s office another chance to make arguments after inmates Alford Jones and Faye Brown won two lower-court victories during a week of drama. Convicts who were sentenced to life between 1974 and 1978 received terms defined as no more than 80 years long. Some of them contend sentence-reduction credits mean they’ve completed their time behind bars. If the courts continue to side with the inmates, dozens could be set free in the months to come. But after a string of losses in the courts, state attorneys secured a victory Friday that seemed to complicate the legal tangle. Superior Court Judge Gentry Caudill determined in an
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Internet by decoding a user password, on Aug. 23, stated a release from the N.C. Community College System. That breach was discovered the next day during a routine security review and was reported to the state’s Information Technology Service. An investigation to trace the activity and the extent of the breach began immediately. Forty-six community colleges that participate in the Community College Libraries in North Carolina consortium (CCLINC) maintain information on more than 270,000 library users on this server. The investigation revealed that 12,400 driver’s license numbers, originally collected by 18 colleges to help identify library users, were stored on the server. The System Office’s Information Services team began coordinating and consulting with partners such as ITS, CCLINC Steering Committee and the affected colleges to determine the next steps.
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fundamental questions of life ‘Where are we?,’” he said. “Galileo really did some remarkable work using the telescope as a scientific instrument.” The school typically holds between two and three symposiums during the school year, said Headmaster Joe Maimone. “We had one in the spring on the history of Rutherford County and historian Robin Lattimore spoke,”
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holiday season, Morse said. “Initially I called the Salvation Army and Social Services, but they are not allowed to give out names,” she said. “My mom teaches at R-S Middle, so a lot of the kids we’re helping are students there.” Morse contacted the families and got sizes and wish lists for each child. “We are trying to make them as personalized as possible,” Morse said. “We have 23 children we are buying
Cantata: “Glorirus Impossible” will be presented Sunday, Dec. 20, during the 11 a.m. worship service at Caroleen Baptist Church. Walk to the Manger: Dec. 21, 22 and 23, begins at 6:30 each night; those who wish to walk with the group meet in the parking lot of Riah Salon, near Spindale Restaurant; otherwise, meet in the parking lot of Main Street Baptist Church, Spindale, at 6:40 p.m., where characters dressed in Biblical attire will lead guests to the manger for a true celebration of Christmas; narration, Christmas carols and songs of praise.
The court of appeals briefly intervened to keep the inmates behind bars before rejecting the state’s appeal of Rand’s decision. Gov. Beverly Perdue said earlier in the week she was “disgusted” with the
judicial system, but her office seemed more upbeat Friday evening. “Gov. Perdue believes Judge Caudill’s decision is the correct one as this important issue now moves to the Supreme Court,” said spokeswoman Chrissy Pearson in a statement. “The bottom line remains: Inmates sentenced to life should not be allowed to walk out the prison door without a parole review and appropriate postrelease supervision.” Brown, who is held at Raleigh Correctional Center for Women, was sentenced for her role in the shooting death of a state trooper during a bank robbery in 1975. Jones, who is currently at New Hanover Correctional Center in Wilmington, was convicted in the January 1975 shooting of William B. Turner Sr. Wanda Short, who employs Brown as part of a work release program, said the 56-year-old is ready for life outside of prison. Brown spent Friday working at the Raleigh beauty school. “Nothing’s changed,” Short said. “The routine is still the same. She’s just as normal as anyone else.”
The ongoing review revealed on Oct. 19 that Social Security numbers of 38,500 library patrons were also stored on the breached server. “Finding the Social Security numbers added another layer onto an already complex investigation,” said Dr. Saundra Williams, senior vice president of Technology and Workforce Development in the System Office. “We went from 12,400 library users to nearly 51,000 so the scope of our review was greatly increased. We felt it was necessary to be extremely cautious each step of the way to prevent future breaches and to ensure that the information was dealt with appropriately.” Each of the affected colleges has started removing the personal data, and the System Office is taking additional steps at the server level to ensure this personally identifiable information is no longer stored or recorded for library patrons. “We regret this situation has occurred, and we apologize to those with information on the server,” Williams said. “Our colleges and our System Office are making every effort to ensure that personal information
is permanently removed from our records.” Letters to affected library patrons state whether the personal information stored on the server included their Social Security number, their driver’s license number, or both. The letters also contain information for recipients to use in checking and securing their credit status. Library patrons at the affected colleges who have questions about the letters or about the status of their personal information can call 919-807-7241 or e-mail LibraryInfo@ nccommunitycolleges.edu. Calls and e-mails will be returned Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., except on state holidays. Those seeking more information are encouraged to use the above contact information as most community colleges are closed for the holidays until Monday, Jan. 4, 2010.
Maimone said. Astronomy was chosen as the theme for the symposium for two reasons, Maimone said. “This year has been dedicated to the year of astronomy because it has been 400 years of the telescope,” he said. “Thomas Jefferson’s curriculum is based on the trivium,” said Jeff Zeigler, the school’s academic dean. “Astronomy makes up what we refer to as the quadrivium – along with arithmetic, music and geometry.” In his opening comments, Zeigler said, “We are natural counters – the
first thing we notice in a room is to make a quick mental note of how many people are in a room. “The centrality of astronomy in education also helped lead to the Gregorian calendar, which we still use today.” Other speakers for the symposium included Thomas Jefferson staff Bob Campbell and Maimone and astronomy students Eden Seagrave and Michael Dedmon, both juniors.
for but we have the funds to cover more than that.” Many of the gift items, she said, weren’t necessarily “gifts.” “One mom said all her son had asked for was longjohns,” Morse said. “I’ve never had to worry about having warm clothes.” The community has offered support for Everyday Elves, with individuals giving personal donations; businesses have donated percentages of their profits as well as food, money and gift cards to the organization. “Barley’s and Mud Bones and Hickory Log and Mi Pueblito are
giving food for the volunteers for the wrapping and delivery days,” Morse said. Spindale Drug, M2 and Legal Grounds will hold percentage days on Saturday. Other businesses who’ve shown support include 191 Prime, Hairkutters and Spindale Tire. If you would like to volunteer to help Everyday Elves, contact Morse by e-mail at everydayelves@gmail.com or visit the organization’s Web site at www.everydayelves.org.
Those wanting more information related to checking their credit status or protecting personal information may visit the NC Attorney General’s Web site at http:// www.ncdoj.com/Help-for-Victims/ID-TheftVictims/Received-a-Security-Breach-Letter. aspx.
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Business Briefs Salmonella products are recalled
A Raleigh-based company, Global Golf, sends a lot of business toward FedEx as the company ships two truckloads of purchases a day during the holiday season.
The Associated Press
The following recalls have been announced because the products may be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems: n Evonuk Oregon Hazelnuts of Eugene, Ore., is recalling 6,712.5 pounds of raw and dry roasted hazelnut kernels sold in stores from Nov. 2 through Dec. 4. No illnesses have been reported. The hazelnut kernels were distributed in retail and wholesale stores, restaurants and bakeries in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Oklahoma and New Jersey. Those subject to recall include: n Raw hazelnut kernels packed in 25 pound corrugated boxes with lot code numbers 299091A and 296091A. n Dry roasted hazelnut kernels packed in 25 pound corrugated boxes with lot code numbers 299091A and 296091A. n Eight ounce, 2.5 pound, and 5 pound packages of raw hazelnut kernels in clear plastic packages, bearing no lot code. Shipped in corrugated boxes with lot code numbers 299091A and 296091A. n Four ounce, 8 ounce, 2.5 pound, and 5 pound packages of dry roasted, salt free, hazelnut kernels in clear plastic packages, bearing no lot code. Shipped in corrugated boxes with lot code numbers 299091A and 296091A. n Harry & David Stores is recalling raw, shelled hazelnut kernels sold in its store in Medford, Ore. No illnesses have been reported. The recalled hazelnuts were sold as Filbert (hazelnut) kernels in bulk bin number 10077 prior to Dec. 18. Consumers who have purchased any of the bulk hazelnuts are encouraged to return them to the Harry & David store for a refund.
California banks shuttered by Feds WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators on Friday shut down two big California banks, as well as banks in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan and Illinois, bringing to 140 the number of U.S. banks brought down this year by the weak economy and mounting loan defaults. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over all seven. Regulators shuttered First Federal Bank of California, based in Santa Monica, with $6.1 billion in assets and $4.5 billion in deposits, as was as Imperial Capital Bank of La Jolla, Calif., with about $4 billion in assets and $2.8 billion in deposits. California was one of the states hardest hit by the real estate market meltdown and many banks there have suffered under the weight of soured mortgage loans. First Federal and Imperial Capital bring to 17 the number of California banks to fail this year. Also closing their doors Friday were Atlanta-based RockBridge Commercial Bank, with $294 million in assets and $291.7 million in deposits; and New South Federal Savings Bank, based in Irondale, Alabama, with $1.5 billion in assets and $1.2 billion in deposits.
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NC company drives online commerce By JOHN MURAWSKI The News and Observer of Raleigh
RALEIGH, N.C. — All day long, a FedEx trailer sits backed up to the merchandise warehouse of Global Golf, which ships golf clubs, shoes, gifts and other accessories worldwide. At the end of each day, a truck comes to haul away the trailer crammed with packages. Soon it will take two trailers a day as Global Golf shifts to holiday overdrive mode. For Global Golf and most online retailers, the year-end shopping frenzy began on Cyber Monday, following the post-Thanksgiving weekend sales. The recession knocked the wind out of the retailing sector, but the
$156 billion e-commerce industry is expected to keep expanding this year. Cyber Monday and the hectic month that follows until Christmas present particular challenges, mainly in the technological realm. Some of the preparation, real-time monitoring and troubleshooting take place in the Triangle, home to ChannelAdvisor, a Morrisville company that sells software and other services to about 3,000 online vendors, including Global Golf. Downed computers can cost millions of dollars in sales, and despite months of precautions, each year brings a new round of cyber-glitches and techno-hiccups that are the bane of risk managers and software engineers in the e-commerce sector.
ChannelAdvisor estimates that retailers that use its software would lose 61 sales for every minute the company’s computers crashed. That would represent about $13,500 in lost revenue on average, significantly more during peak times. “Customers are pretty amped up at this time of year, and you have to be hyper-responsible to them,” Channel Advisor CEO Scot Wingo said. “For consumers, it means you can enjoy the benefits from all those online deals without having to get up at 3 a.m.” Headaches for online retailers struck on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, when Home Depot, Toys R Us, Staples and Kohl’s reported Web site glitches.
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Here’s how to improve tech skills By CHIP CUTTER AP Business Writer
NEW YORK — Even the most hardened technophobes are looking for ways to beef up their computer skills amid the downturn. But many don’t know where to start. Laid off workers are hoping to get better with technology to find new jobs. And people still in the work force want to keep their positions by staying up-to-date with the latest trends. Associated Press Where to begin? Here’s a primer on how to become more computer-savvy, Carolyn Malone, 62, looks for jobs online at the Milwaukee Hire Center recently. whether you’re a novice or an experienced user: Your Life.” buttons and play around. Most libraries offer free courses on Paul Draper, a Las Vegas anthropologist and magician, says he spent DISCOVER WHAT SKILLS YOU a range of topics. If you’ve already mastered word processing and the the past month learning about social NEED Internet, for example, try taking networking sites like LinkedIn and Before you open a book or sign up classes on social networking and data- Google Wave simply by experimenting for computer training classes, deterbases. with them. mine what skills you’ll need in your Community colleges and local gov“I realized that computers don’t career or prospective job. Will bossernments also offer courses for free or come with a button called ‘push es expect you to be a wizard with at a nominal cost, in most cases. this button and everything gets spreadsheets, for example, or do you Joe McCarron, a 45-year-old destroyed,’” he says. “In order to actuonly need to know the basics of every- Huntington Beach, Calif. resident, ally hurt the computer, you have to day tools such as Microsoft Word recently enrolled in a variety of commake a series of bad mistakes.” or PowerPoint? Find out by asking puter classes at a local continuing employers directly, if possible. education school in his area. The cost: MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE Robert Kelley, an adjunct profes$10 each. 12-YEAR-OLDS sor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Last month, McCarron lost his job Tepper School of Business, suggests But if you still feel squeamish as a senior vice president and director that applicants set up informational around PCs and would prefer some of sales at a lumber supply company interviews with the companies they’re that went out of business. He worked one-on-one coaching, reach out to interested in. younger family members, high school there 23 years, and joined long before That way, they can learn the specific computers were used. students and — yes — even the geeky computer skills and experiences need12-year-old tech whiz down the road. So, he’s now taking classes on ed for the position, while also making Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, “There’s plenty of kids who are in a connection with the employer. high school or college who would be and other common workplace proIf you can’t set up such an interwilling to give you a tutorial,” says grams. In his program, students have view, take a look at online job postCarnegie Mellon’s Kelley. their own workstations and follow ings in your desired field. Many list Many may even be willing to assist along with an instructor. McCarron specific computer requirements, says says the courses have been useful, and for free. David S. Murphy, membership direcBut it can also be helpful to set up should help him land another job. tor of the International Association of some kind of barter relationship with The difficult part: admitting that he Information Technology Trainers. friends and co-workers, Kelley says. needed some additional training. Then assess your skills, and decide So, if you’re good at running mara“It’s hard to go back to school at 45 what additional training you might thons, and a friend knows all about and say, ‘Yeah I need help,’” he says. need. accounting programs, set up an GET OVER YOUR FEARS exchange where you’ll be a run buddy, Indeed, computer trainers say fear if he or she will be your “Excel buddy,” ASSESS THE STRENGTH OF can be one of the biggest roadblocks he says. YOUR SKILLS to learning more about technology. If you’re a computer novice, start Many computer users, especially FIND WHAT’S MOST by spending time on a computer at beginners, are hesitant to explore VALUABLE TO EMPLOYERS a public library, says Jean Riescher their machines for fear of damaging Westcott, the co-author of “Digitally To gain an edge, try to learn skills them. Daunted: The Consumer’s Guide to that are also in strong demand these But one of the best ways to learn Taking Control of the Technology in about technology is to simply push Please see Skills Page8A
8A — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, December 20, 2009
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Some outages lasted a few minutes, others several hours. To create extra computer capacity, Global Golf has temporarily farmed out its memory-hogging Web site images to a third-party cloud computing operator. Global Golf’s goal is to have each of its five Web sites load within 4 seconds of a customer’s click. That’s the maximum delay impatient online shoppers will tolerate before giving up and moving to a competitor’s site. By midmorning Monday, as customers placed their online orders, Global Golf computer servers revved up to 80 percent of capacity. “We engineer those systems for days like today,” said Mitesh Patel, Global Golf’s chief operating officer. Despite the recession, online sales are expected to grow 11 percent this year and 13 percent next year, according to Forrester Research, a Massachusetts technology market research firm. Online sales now represent 6 percent of all retail sales and are expected to claim a bigger share of the market. Many online retailers didn’t wait for Cyber Monday for big sales designed to lure consumers from traditional stores. Still, nearly 100million Americans were expected to shop online Monday, up from 85 million last year, the National Retail Federation reported. Online sales in the U.S. rose 16 percent Monday from a year ago as consumers hunted, Bloomberg News reported, citing marketing firm Core metrics. The company collects data
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from 500 retailers, including Petco Animal Supplies, Bath & Body Works and Office Depot. Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, said electronics, toys and kitchen items are among the top-selling items Monday. Digital cameras, portable navigation devices and LEGO products are also selling well, spokesman Craig Berman told Bloomberg. Last year, Cyber Monday was the highest sales day for ChannelAdvisor customers, and judging by late afternoon data, Wingo expected Monday sales this year to exceed last year’s record. As it adds new customers and online traffic grows, ChannelAdvisor is hiring more employees and bulking up its computer power. The company spends six months preparing for the final month of the year, and it added 50 servers to handle an anticipated increase in volume. At ChannelAdvisor’s offices, banks of computer screens report up-tothe-minute data from the computer servers that process online orders and shipments. Resembling heart monitors, the graphs showed an increase in online traffic much of the day. “The data center is almost like a nuclear power plant,” Wingo said. “It has a backup generator, multiple airconditioning systems, multiple power supplies and multiple Internet communications.” By the end of the day, six of ChannelAdvisor’s servers had maxed out their capacity, requiring the company to deploy three more from its arsenal. Its networks had withstood the first day of customer onslaught — making for a low-stress day by the standards of Cyber Monday. “Everything went pretty well,” Wingo said.
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Plans moves ahead on coal-to-gasoline plant CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal is supporting a Texas company’s proposal to build a major plant for turning coal into gasoline. The U.S. Department of Energy is weighing an application from DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC of Houston for a loan to help build the proposed $2.7 billion coal-to-gasoline plant. “This would be the first major industrial gasification facility that produces transport fuels — gasoline or diesel — from coal in the United States,” DKRW chairman Bob Kelly of Houston said Friday. The public has until Monday to comment on what issues the DOE should address in an environmental study. The Sierra Club has voiced concerns about the project, saying it’s concerned about greenhouse gas emissions tied to global warming. The plant would be built next to a coal mine about 13 miles from the town of Medicine Bow, about 100 west of Cheyenne in southeastern
Wyoming. The plant would process nearly 10,000 tons of low-sulfur coal a day from a mine into 21,000 barrels a day of gasoline. The fuel then would be piped roughly 200 miles southeast to the Denver market. “It’s really the great strength of what we’re doing, producing gasoline from U.S. coal reserves,” Kelly said. He said the nation currently imports almost two-thirds of its petroleum products. “It’s got real strong benefits for the country, that’s why we think it’s in the interests of the country to do this,” Kelly said. Technology to transform coal to liquid fuels has been around for decades. Germany used a similar process during World War II to make up for the country’s lack of oil reserves. Kelly said similar plants are now in operation in China and South Africa, but said they use different techniques.
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who can learn computer skills that increase sales or help to cut costs and create more efficient operations, Kelley says. So, for example, if you learn to use a program that scans receipts into the computer, so the company doesn’t need to physically store them, that could be valuable, he says. The bottom line: If you want to master a new skill, don’t be afraid to speak up, says Riescher Westcott, the “Digitally Daunted” co-author. Computer nerds are friendly, she says, and generally willing to dole out advice. “Geeks are enthusiastic,” she says. “As long as you approach it like, ‘Oh my god, how do you know all this stuff?’ they love to share.”
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days. Businesses are becoming more numbers-driven, and they need employees who can quickly analyze data to come up with conclusions, says Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. “When I talk to managers and executives, one of the main things I hear is that, ‘We need people who can do analysis, who can think quantitatively,” he says. “This is a skill that just isn’t going away.” Companies also value employees
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Nation Today Fla. search continues for two missing boaters.
MIAMI (AP) — The Coast Guard is continuing its search for two missing boaters after a plane flying over an island in the Bahamas photographed what appeared to be a distress signal. Richard Alicea and Edwin Pritchard left from Halouver Inlet in Miami on Saturday en route to the Bahamas on a 17-foot boat. A family member contacted authorities when they didn’t arrive the next day. On Tuesday, the Coast Guard received photographs from a commuter aircraft showing what appear to be people on Berry Islands in the Bahamas. One photograph also shows an “SOS” distress signal written in the sand.
Rare infection passed on by organ donor
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An extremely rare infection has been passed from an organ donor to at least one recipient in what is thought to be the first human-tohuman transfer of the amoeba, medical officials said Friday. Four people in three states received organs from a patient who died at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in November after suffering from neurological problems, said Dave Daigle, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention. Organs are routinely tested for HIV, hepatitis and other more common infections, but occasionally rare ones slip through. Two of the recipients are critically ill, but the others haven’t shown symptoms, Daigle said. The CDC confirmed the presence of the organism, known as Balamuthia mandrillaris, in one of the recipients.
Friend defends husband of missing Utah woman
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A friend is speaking out in support of Josh Powell, the man police consider the sole person of interest in the disappearance of his wife. Wayne Hamberg of Salt Lake City says Josh and Susan Powell had problems like any other couple, but he never saw any signs of domestic violence or serious issues. He says Josh Powell hired a defense attorney because he “felt so overwhelmed.” Hamberg says he does not believe that’s an admission of guilt. Susan Powell has been missing since Dec. 7. Josh Powell says he last saw her early that day when he took their two young sons on a camping trip and left the home.
Prison population to see first drop since 1972
DALLAS (AP) — The United States may soon see its prison population drop for the first time in almost four decades, a milestone in a nation that locks up more people than any other. The inmate population has risen steadily since the early 1970s as states adopted get-tough policies that sent more people to prison and kept them there longer. But tight budgets now have states rethinking these policies and the costs that come with them. “It’s a reversal of a trend that’s been going on for more than a generation,” said David Greenberg, a sociology professor at New York University. Overall, there were 1.6 million prisoners in state and federal prisons at the end of 2008.
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Chayenne McLucas, 3, and her sister Maleah Marchegiano, 10, of Hockessin, Del., work together to clear the snow off their sidewalk and driveway Saturday in Hockessin, Del. during a winter storm.
Snow storm moves up Eastern seaboard WASHINGTON (AP) — A winter storm socked the East Coast on Saturday and dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas, creating treacherous conditions and misery for motorists on the weekend before Christmas. Officials urged residents to stay indoors, and many heeded the warning. Stores and malls usually bustling with shoppers were nearly deserted in some areas. Airports canceled flights or were operating with excessive delays. Drivers abandoned their cars as roads and highways became slick, and at times, impassable. Forecasts called for up to 20 inches of snow across the region and a blizzard warning was in effect for the nation’s capital, which was virtually a sea of white. Tens of thousands of power outages were reported across the region. Snowplows cleared the runway at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Washington as President Barack Obama returned from climate talks in Copenhagen. The White House said Obama rode in a motorcade back to the White House, instead of taking his helicopter, because of the conditions. In western Virginia, officials said several hundred motorists became stranded and had to be rescued by four-wheeled vehicles and Humvees driven by the National Guard. About 100 people were taken to shelters in two counties, said Virginia Department of Emergency Management spokesman Bob Spieldenner.
“Some folks have decided to stay in vehicles, others have been taken to shelters,” Spieldenner said. “We’re definitely trying to keep people off the roads.” Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said traffic was moving, though slowly. There were reports of jackknifed tractor-trailers and some semis on their sides. One fatality was reported and troopers had responded to more than 1,500 accidents statewide. “It’s looks probably a lot worse than it is,” she said. At Crump’s old country store at the intersection of two country roads outside Richmond, Va., owner Suzanne Rudd stood with a man dressed in a Santa costume and waved to the few motorists who dared to venture out. Rudd said only six children had come by so far. “Normally we’d have a long line here but people are having a hard time getting out,” Rudd said. Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty had declared a snow emergency for the city and forecasters said the conditions could worsen. All of the Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo were closed. “It’s going to be an all day thing. It’s going to be on and off,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Kevin Witt in Sterling, Va. Philadelphia also declared a snow emergency and the school district canceled all weekend activities. Governors in West Virginia and Virginia also declared states of emergency.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — David Walsh said when he was assembling his first report card on video game violence 13 years ago, children were attacking on-screen monsters or aliens with imaginary chain saws and guns. “When I saw kids as young as 8, 9 years old literally doing facial contortions as they killed and dismembered people, it was pretty shocking. And I think what happened is a lot of other people got shocked as well,” Walsh recalls. “I don’t think we want our kids’ culture defined by killing, mayhem and dismemberment as entertainment.” That first report card, which singled out bloody first-person shooter games “Doom” and “Duke Nukem,” made an instant splash on Capitol Hill in 1996 and made the annual reports issued each holiday season by Walsh’s National Institute on Media and the Family a news fixture. But there was no video game report card this year, and there won’t be any more. The institute is closing its doors, a victim of the poor economy. Walsh, the group’s founder and president, is packing his books as his staff of eight fulltime employees prepares to shut down Dec. 23. “Fundraising has been more and more difficult,” Walsh said. “It really wasn’t that we put ourselves out of business, because the technology is changing so quickly, the issues just won’t quit.” It’s a bittersweet end for the organization Walsh started in 1996. He takes pride in how “a little nonprofit in Minneapolis” was able to influence an industry that, according to the Entertainment Software Association, topped $22 billion in U.S. computer and video game hardware, software and peripheral sales in 2008. “Ten years ago, a kid 10 years old could walk into any store in America and buy an ultra-violent, adult-rated game. That’s no longer true,” Walsh told The Associated Press in his office, where empty boxes await his books. While some people have posted on gaming Web sites celebrating the institute’s demise, others have praised its role in helping get retailers to post game ratings and ask for an identification when selling mature-rated games. “Were it not for those collaborative efforts by all sides, it’s questionable whether there would have been a non-legislative resolution,” Hal Halpin, president of the gamers group the Entertainment Consumers Association, told the AP. When he issued his first report card, Walsh said, there were two rating systems for video games battling it out and “when a game would be rated was a hit-or-miss deal.” Since then, an industry group established in 1994, the Entertainment Software Rating Board, or ESRB, has become the standard in rating computer and video games. Walsh said he got many tips about video games from industry insiders. His organization hired students to play video games and sent boys and girls to see if retailers would sell them M-rated games without asking for an ID.
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Dems get votes for health bill
WASHINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A conservative Democratic senator agreed Saturday to provide the 60th and deciding vote for sweeping health care legislation in the Senate, capping a year of struggle and a final burst of deadline bargaining on President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top domestic priority. Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson said he made his decision after winning fresh concessions to limit the availability of abortions in insurance sold in newly created exchanges, as well as tens of million in federal money to cover Nebraskaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cost of treating patients under Medicaid, the state-federal health care program for the poor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know this is hard for some of my colleagues to accept and I appreciate their right to disagree. But I would not have voted for this bill without these provisions,â&#x20AC;? he said at a news conference in the Capitol. Nelson also noted he had successfully fended off attempts to provide for a government-run insurance option to compete with private insurers. One Democratic official said an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office to be released later Saturday would estimate a deficit savings of more than $130 billion over 10 years, and the possibility of much more in the subsequent decade. Forecasters said the bill would expand coverage to roughly 94 percent of eligible Americans under age 65, a total that excludes illegal immigrants. The official who described the conclusions spoke on condition of anonymity, saying he lacked authorization to pre-empt the release of the report. With Nelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision, Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senate allies appear on track to pass the legislation by Christmas, overcoming
Republican opposition and a swirling early winter snowstorm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This bill is a legislative train wreck of historic proportions,â&#x20AC;? Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said. He said it includes cuts to the federal Medicare health care program for the elderly, home health care and hospices as well as â&#x20AC;&#x153;massive tax increasesâ&#x20AC;? at a time of double-digit unemployment. At its core, the measure is designed to spread coverage to tens of millions who lack it, while banning insurance company practices such as denial of coverage on the basis of preexisting medical conditions. The White House also wants the legislation that eventually clears Congress to slow the rate of growth in national medical spending overall. The House passed its version of the legislation last month, and final compromise talks are expected quickly. Nelson disclosed his decision as Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled a final series of changes designed to solidify support. The legislation includes new limits on insurance company profits and overhead, requiring them to spend 80 percent of their premium income on medical care for individual insurance policies, and 85 percent for group policies. The estimated 30 million Americans purchasing coverage through new insurance exchanges would have the option of signing up for national plans overseen by the same office that manages health coverage for federal employees and members of Congress. Those plans would be privately owned, but operated on a nonprofit basis. The option amounts to a consolation prize for liberals, who failed to include a government-
run alternative. Additionally, insurance companies would be barred immediately from denying coverage to children because of a preexisting health condition. The prohibition on denial of coverage for adults would not take effect in the Senate bill until 2014, a disappointment for consumer advocates. On abortion, the measure would let a state disallow coverage in new insurance exchanges by passing a law to that effect. Additionally, it sets up a mechanism to segregate funds that would be used to pay for abortions from federal subsidy dollars flowing to health plans. Federal law now prohibits public money for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. From the beginning, the issue has been how those restrictions would be applied to a new stream of federal money under the overhaul bill. The issue is contentious because the legislation provides federal subsidies to help lower and middle-income families afford insurance and the other federal health care programs ban the use of government money to pay for abortions. The developments occurred as Republicans dug in to delay the inevitable for as long as possible. They forced Senate clerks to spend hours reading aloud the text of the 383-page package of changes. Republican opposition, coupled with Senate rules requiring 60 votes to end debate and allow a final vote on legislation, gave Nelson, the most conservative Democrat, enormous leverage as he pressed for concessions that included stronger restrictions on abortions to be covered by insurance policies offered in a newly overhauled health care system.
WASHINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Senators worked through a December blizzard Saturday to pass legislation ensuring that U.S. troops are armed and the jobless donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lose their benefits â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and take one more step toward a Christmas week showdown over health care. The 88-10 early morning vote on the $626 billion defense spending bill and other must-pass items cleared Congressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plate of a major item of unfinished business and meant lawmakers immediately could resume their acrimonious debate on health care. The impressive vote demonstrated sweeping support for paying for troops fighting overseas. The path to that point, however, was poisoned with partisanship as Republicans sought to derail the measure in an effort to stretch out action on health care past Christmas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Senate Republicans have made us jump through every procedural hurdle just to have this vote and threatened to block funding for our troops â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all in order to delay us from debating health care reform,â&#x20AC;? said Majority Leader Harry Reid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is incomprehensible that Republicans would even threaten to stop funding our troops and helping those who are struggling.â&#x20AC;? Just four Republicans joined with Democrats on an important test requiring 60 votes. Confident that Republicans such as Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi would provide votes, Democratic leaders gave the OK for Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent and Orthodox Jew who caucuses with Democrats, to go home for the eighth night of Hanukkah. The defense bill itself, which contains $128 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and a 3.4 percent pay raise for the military, enjoyed wide support. But there was Republican discontent over the Democratic decision to use the bill as the engine to carry several short-term extensions of programs set to expire because of the failure of Congress to deal with them separately. Those include two-month extensions of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, health care subsidies for those out of work, highway and transit funding, three provisions of the terrorism-fighting Patriot Act and legislation shielding doctors from a steep cut in payments through Medicare, the federal program to provide health care to the elderly.. Before leaving for the holidays, the Senate must also deal with one other politically sensitive issue, raising the debt ceiling, currently at $12.1 trillion, so the Treasury can continue to borrow. The defense bill is the last of 12 annual spending bills that Congress must pass for the budget year that began Oct. 1. The bill passed the House on Wednesday by 395-34. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had urged immediate passage because the latest stopgap measure to fund the Pentagon expired at midnight Friday. The bill contains $104 billion for weapons procurement. It has $6.8 billion for 30 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters while providing $465 million to develop an alternative engine for that plane, a program that the Pentagon and President Barack Obama tried to kill. It does shut down programs for the F-22, a fighter the Pentagon considers ill-suited for todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insurgency warfare, and an expensive presidential helicopter.
Climate talks end with a deal
COPENHAGEN (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The historic U.N. climate talks ended Saturday after a 31-hour negotiating marathon, with delegates accepting a U.S.-brokered compromise that gives billions in climate aid to poor nations but does not require the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major polluters to make deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions. Two weeks of wrangling at Copenhagen exposed sharp divisions between rich and poor nations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and even among major greenhouse-gas emitters like China and the United States â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on how to fight global warming. Yet in the end, nearly all 193 nations at the U.N. climate conference agreed to President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solution, which points toward deeper emissions cuts for rich nations but without mandatory targets that would draw sanctions. Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s successful 11th-
hour bargaining Friday with China, India, Brazil and South Africa â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key developing nations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sets the stage for future cooperation between developed and developing nations. But the resulting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Copenhagen Accordâ&#x20AC;? was protested by several nations that demanded deeper emissions cuts by the industrialized world and felt excluded from the majornation bargaining process. The climate conference also failed to act on one issue many thought was near success here: A plan to protect the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rain forests, vital to a healthy climate, by paying some 40 poor tropical countries to protect their woodlands. Deforestation for logging, cattle grazing and crops has made Indonesia and Brazil the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third- and fourth-biggest carbon emitters, after China and the United States. Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day of hectic diplo-
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macy in the snowy Danish capital, where more than 110 presidents and premiers had gathered Friday for a rare climate summit, produced a document promising that rich nations would provide $30 billion in emergency climate aid to poor nations in the next three years, and set a goal of eventually channeling $100 billion a year to them by 2020. That aid aims to help nations build seawalls, cope with unusual droughts and storms, and deal with other impacts from climate change, as well as to develop clean energy sources and reduce their own emissions. The accord includes a method for verifying each nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reductions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a key demand by Washington, because China has resisted international efforts to monitor its voluntary actions.
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A harder look at the Trojans Alright, here’s the thing, it’s very hard to write a column that at its core involves two men — both of whom I know — and not have it get taken out of context or twisted into something it is not. Brad Causby was let go as football coach at Chase, and Greg Lovelace, as principal, had to make that call. The decision is not one that I will second-guess or question in this forum. It isn’t my place. But, putting aside the two men for a moment, a harder look at the football program can and should be taken. I do this knowing full well that whatever side folks stand on the ‘Keep Causby-Release Causby’ line, my words here today may be twisted to support their position. I have been covering football at Chase High since 2004 when WCAB’s Jim Bishop hired me to work on Friday Night Football. As it turned out, that was the only season I got to work with then Chase head coach Randy Page. I’ve talked to Page a time or two since then, about this or that, but I wasn’t close enough to the situation and didn’t have enough information to make a reasoned argument for or against his dismissal. Six full football seasons later, I know Chase better than they know themselves. That last may come off as arrogant, or self-important, or any of several other ways, but there is truth in the statement. When you watch, from a distance, and without emotional attachment, you learn things and see things in a unique way. In six years, Chase has had five principals and two head football coaches and they’ve won 17 games. The Trojans have also had seven different starting QBs over that same stretch. The QB issue isn’t the only reason Chase has struggled. They have lost players to Crest, East Rutherford, and R-S Central — and not the type of players who fill out a jersey and stand on the sideline cheering on their teammates. They have lost talent. In losing that talent, the finger of accusation has been pointed at Causby. That’s a shame. Causby was, and is, one of the finest defensive coaches in the area. The fine 2005 Cavaliers team was made up of players that had all been under Causby’s thumb at one time or another. What Chase has been through is not a simple matter of Xs and Os, or what play to call on a third and one situation. It runs deeper than that. The issue of losing talent has three components. The first is talent that left for greener grass of other programs. In years past, in public education, folks generally went to the school they were assigned to attend. No questions; you simply attended the school closest to you, geographically. Over the last two decades, as society has evolved, parents and students have more choices. A great example is the number of football players that try and attend schools like Independence. Or, charter schools like Thomas Jefferson. This shift, locally, leads to parents looking through a different lense. If they don’t like the school, the coach, or any Please see Wall, Page 4B
Left to right: East’s Adrian Wilkins (21), Chase’s Blake Moffitt (4), Central’s Jacob Kinlaw (9), Central’s Oddie Murray (44), Central’s Cameron Green (35), and East’s Tyler Hamilton make up the offensive playmakers.
Left to right: East’s Lewis Wilkins (24), Central’s Cody Sellers (61), Central’s Patrick Bearden (61), Central’s Nick Beaver (76), Chase’s Brian Woods (62), and East’s Ethan Poss make up the offensive line.
Left to right: Central’s William Brown (40), Central’s Aris Smith (4), Central’s Jacob Yant (74), Chase’s Blake Greene (57), Chase’s Jalen Smith (74), and East’s Tajdre Wilkerson (22) make up the defensive front.
Left to right: Central’s Anthony Walke (51), Central’s Corey Jimerson (7), Thomas Jefferson’s Aaron Conner (30), East’s Zach Price, Central’s Leon Brown (25), and East’s O’Darren Wilkins make up the defensive backfield. All Photos by Garrett Byers
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Scoreboard FOOTBALL National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East L T Pct PF 5 0 .615 348 6 0 .538 292 6 0 .538 275 8 0 .385 215 South W L T Pct PF x-Indianapolis 14 0 0 1.000 394 Jacksonville 7 7 0 .500 266 Tennessee 6 7 0 .462 293 Houston 6 7 0 .462 311 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 9 4 0 .692 264 Baltimore 7 6 0 .538 319 Pittsburgh 6 7 0 .462 278 Cleveland 2 11 0 .154 158 West W L T Pct PF San Diego 10 3 0 .769 362 Denver 8 5 0 .615 256 Oakland 4 9 0 .308 155 Kansas City 3 10 0 .231 206 W New England 8 Miami 7 N.Y. Jets 7 Buffalo 5
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North Carolina and Texas tip off in the first NCAA college basketball game to be played at Cowboys Stadium, Saturday, in Arlington, Texas.
No. 2 Longhorns hook No. 10 Tar Heels, 103-90
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Damion James led a four-man scoring frenzy that carried No. 2 Texas to a 103-90 victory over No. 10 North Carolina on Saturday in the first basketball game at Cowboys Stadium. James and hefty center Dexter Pittman were forces around the basket on both ends of the court, with James posting 25 points and 15 rebounds, and Pittman compiling 23 points and a season-high 15 rebounds. J’Covan Brown added 21 points and Avery Bradley had 20 as the Longhorns (10-0) cruised to a victory in the same building where Colt McCoy and the Texas football team won the Big 12 title two weeks before. It was the most points the Tar Heels (8-3) have allowed in regulation since Roy Williams became their coach in 2003-04. Wake Forest scored 119 in a triple-overtime victory in December 2003. North Carolina led for most of the first 16 minutes, then fell behind for good during a stretch of 10 straight misses. The Tar Heels gave up a 23-7 run going into halftime that included an inbounds pass that was stolen and turned into a layup by Bradley with 1 second left. North Carolina clawed to within 82-78 with 6:59 to play, but simply couldn’t keep up with Texas’ scorers. Ed Davis made nine of 13 shots and had 21 points and nine rebounds. Tyler Zeller was 7 of 8 for 16 points. The rest of the Tar Heels combined for 20 baskets. Marcus Ginyard returned from a onegame absence to score 13, but he missed seven of his first 10 tries. Texas outrebounded North Carolina 60-41, which went a long way toward helping the Longhorns load up on easy baskets. They outscored the Tar Heels 27-11 on second-chance points and 16-8 on fast breaks. Texas continues to steamroll past teams. In fact, this 13-point margin of victory was its smallest of the season. But this also was the start of an NCAA tournament-like stretch for the Longhorns, with a home game against No. 12 Michigan State on Tuesday night. If coach Rick Barnes would quibble about anything, it might be the distribution of points. Other than the four big scorers, Texas’ other eight players combined for 14 points. Jai Lucas had an assist, a turnover and two fouls in 6 minutes for the Longhorns. This was his first game since transferring from Florida, where he made the SEC’s all-freshman team in 2007-08. North Carolina will be happy to have a stretch of games coming up against some soft foes after what the squad has been through. This was the fifth time in eight games that the Tar Heels faced a team currently among the top 18. They went 2-3, also losing to No. 3 Kentucky and No. 5 Syracuse.
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PA 234 306 211 271 PA 248 322 323 273 PA 217 218 244 315 PA 259 230 316 342 PA 273 233 330 251 PA 274 305 282 356 PA 243 243 291 406 PA 258 242 301 361
x-clinched division y-clinched playoff spot Thursday’s Games Indianapolis 35, Jacksonville 31 Saturday’s Games Dallas at New Orleans, late Sunday’s Games Miami at Tennessee, 1 p.m. Arizona at Detroit, 1 p.m. Atlanta at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Houston at St. Louis, 1 p.m. New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Kansas City, 1 p.m. San Francisco at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Oakland at Denver, 4:05 p.m. Cincinnati at San Diego, 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Seattle, 4:15 p.m. Chicago at Baltimore, 4:15 p.m. Green Bay at Pittsburgh, 4:15 p.m. Minnesota at Carolina, 8:20 p.m. Monday’s Game N.Y. Giants at Washington, 8:30 p.m. Friday’s Games San Diego at Tennessee, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 27 Buffalo at Atlanta, 1 p.m. Houston at Miami, 1 p.m. Seattle at Green Bay, 1 p.m. Carolina at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 1 p.m. Oakland at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Kansas City at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Jacksonville at New England, 1 p.m. Detroit at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. St. Louis at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, 4:15 p.m. Denver at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m. Dallas at Washington, 8:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 28 Minnesota at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Bowl Glance Saturday, Dec. 19 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Wyoming (6-6) vs. Fresno State (8-4), late (ESPN) St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl Rutgers (8-4) vs. UCF (8-4), late (ESPN) Sunday, Dec. 20 New Orleans Bowl Southern Miss. (7-5) vs. Middle Tennessee (9-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 22 Las Vegas Bowl BYU (10-2) vs. Oregon State (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 23 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego Utah (9-3) vs. California (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu SMU (7-5) vs. Nevada (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Ohio (9-4) vs. Marshall (6-6), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Meineke Bowl At Charlotte North Carolina (8-4) vs. Pittsburgh (9-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Emerald Bowl At San Francisco Southern Cal (8-4) vs. Boston College (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Sunday, Dec. 27 Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn. Clemson (8-5) vs. Kentucky (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 28 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Georgia (7-5), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 29 EagleBank Bowl At Washington Temple (9-3) vs. UCLA (6-6), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Champs Sports Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Miami (9-3) vs. Wisconsin (9-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 30
Humanitarian Bowl At Boise, Idaho Bowling Green (7-5) vs. Idaho (7-5), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Nebraska (9-4) vs. Arizona (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 31 Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Stanford (8-4) vs. Oklahoma (7-5), Noon (CBS) Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas Air Force (7-5) vs. Houston (10-3), Noon (ESPN) Texas Bowl At Houston Missouri (8-4) vs. Navy (9-4), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz. Minnesota (6-6) vs. Iowa State (6-6), 6 p.m. (NFL) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Virginia Tech (9-3) vs. Tennessee (7-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Northwestern (8-4) vs. Auburn (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Penn State (10-2) vs. LSU (9-3), 1 p.m. (ABC) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Florida State (6-6) vs. West Virginia (9-3), 1 p.m. (CBS) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif. Ohio State (10-2) vs. Oregon (10-2), 5 p.m. (ABC) Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Florida (12-1) vs. Cincinnati (12-0), 8:30 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 2 International Bowl At Toronto South Florida (7-5) vs. Northern Illinois (7-5), Noon (ESPN2) Cotton Bowl At Dallas Oklahoma State (9-3) vs. Mississippi (8-4), 2 p.m. (FOX) PapaJohns.com Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Connecticut (7-5) vs. South Carolina (7-5), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn. East Carolina (9-4) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Michigan State (6-6) vs. Texas Tech (8-4), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 4 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz. Boise State (13-0) vs. TCU (12-0), 8 p.m. (FOX) Tuesday, Jan. 5 Orange Bowl At Miami Iowa (10-2) vs. Georgia Tech (11-2), 8 p.m. (FOX) Wednesday, Jan. 6 GMAC Bowl Mobile, Ala. Central Michigan (11-2) vs. Troy (9-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 7 BCS National Championship At Pasadena, Calif. Alabama (13-0) vs. Texas (13-0), 8 p.m. (ABC) Saturday, Jan. 23 East-West Shrine Classic At Orlando, Fla. East vs. West, 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 4 p.m. (NFL) Saturday, Feb. 6 Texas vs. The Nation All-Star Challenge At El Paso, Texas Texas vs. Nation, 3 p.m. (CBSC)
BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 20 4 .833 Toronto 11 17 .393 New York 8 17 .320 Philadelphia 6 19 .240 New Jersey 2 24 .077 Southeast Division W L Pct Atlanta 18 6 .750 Orlando 19 7 .731 Miami 13 11 .542 Charlotte 10 14 .417 Washington 7 16 .304 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 19 7 .731 Milwaukee 11 12 .478 Detroit 11 14 .440 Indiana 9 14 .391 Chicago 9 15 .375 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Dallas 19 7 .731 San Antonio 13 10 .565 Houston 14 11 .560 New Orleans 11 13 .458 Memphis 10 15 .400 Northwest Division W L Pct Denver 19 7 .731 Utah 15 10 .600 Portland 16 11 .593 Oklahoma City 12 12 .500 Minnesota 4 22 .154 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Lakers 20 4 .833 Phoenix 17 9 .654 L.A. Clippers 11 13 .458 Sacramento 11 13 .458 Golden State 7 18 .280 Thursday’s Games Miami 104, Orlando 86 Chicago 98, New York 89
GB — 11 12 1/2 14 1/2 19 GB — — 5 8 10 1/2 GB — 6 1/2 7 1/2 8 1/2 9 GB — 4 1/2 4 1/2 7 8 1/2 GB — 3 1/2 3 1/2 6 15 GB — 4 9 9 13 1/2
Portland 105, Phoenix 102 Friday’s Games New Jersey at Toronto, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Utah at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at New York, 8 p.m. Indiana at Memphis, 8 p.m. Milwaukee at Cleveland, 8 p.m. Denver at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Sacramento at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Detroit at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Houston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Washington at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Utah at Charlotte, late Portland at Orlando, late L.A. Clippers at Philadelphia, late L.A. Lakers at New Jersey, late Atlanta at Chicago, late Indiana at San Antonio, late Sacramento at Milwaukee, late Oklahoma City at Houston, late Washington at Phoenix, late Sunday’s Games New Orleans at Toronto, 12:30 p.m. Denver at Memphis, 4 p.m. Minnesota at Boston, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Detroit, 6 p.m. Portland at Miami, 6 p.m. Cleveland at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Charlotte at New York, 7:30 p.m.
HOCKEY National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 35 24 10 1 49 114 New Jersey 32 23 8 1 47 93 N.Y. Rangers 34 15 16 3 33 94 N.Y. Islanders 35 13 15 7 33 88 Philadelphia 33 15 16 2 32 93 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Buffalo 32 20 10 2 42 85 Ottawa 33 17 12 4 38 94 Boston 32 16 10 6 38 84 Montreal 36 15 18 3 33 90 Toronto 34 12 15 7 31 100 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 34 21 7 6 48 124 Atlanta 33 18 12 3 39 108 Florida 35 14 14 7 35 99 Tampa Bay 34 11 14 9 31 81 Carolina 33 8 19 6 22 82 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF 32 21 8 3 45 95 35 21 11 3 45 101 34 18 11 5 41 95 35 14 14 7 35 101 32 14 13 5 33 78 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF Calgary 34 20 10 4 44 98 Colorado 36 19 11 6 44 104 Vancouver 34 19 15 0 38 106 Minnesota 34 17 14 3 37 89 Edmonton 34 15 15 4 34 103 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF Los Angeles 37 22 12 3 47 111 San Jose 35 20 8 7 47 115 Phoenix 35 21 12 2 44 89 Dallas 34 14 9 11 39 101 Anaheim 34 13 14 7 33 95 Chicago Nashville Detroit Columbus St. Louis
GA 90 69 100 113 97 GA 70 96 80 104 122 GA 95 99 115 104 120 GA 67 98 89 121 88 GA 82 105 88 95 109 GA 108 93 79 105 109
Saturday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 2, Philadelphia 1 Dallas 4, Detroit 3 Phoenix at Anaheim, late Nashville at Calgary, late Minnesota at Ottawa, late Pittsburgh at Buffalo, late Boston at Toronto, late Montreal at N.Y. Islanders, late Florida at Carolina, late New Jersey at Atlanta, late Columbus at Colorado, late Washington at Edmonton, late Sunday’s Games Detroit at Chicago, 7 p.m. St. Louis at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
LOCAL SPORTS Basketball Monday’s Games R-S Central at Chase, 4 p.m. Patton at East Rutherford, 4 p.m.
North Carolina wins Shrine Bowl SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — North Carolina parlayed a dominating first half into a 24-14 victory against South Carolina in the 73rd annual Shrine Bowl football game at Woffords Gibbs Stadium Saturday. Fumbles by South Carolina led the Tarheels to two touchdowns and a field goal. The first break came when North Carolinas Christopher Smith raced 67 yards with a fumble. Kasey Redfern kicked the point with three seconds left in the first period. Redfern tacked on a 40-yard field goal and the Tar Heels concluded the first half surge with a five-yard scoring burst to go 17-0 with a minute to play in the half. South Carolina began a second half rally on a pair of Marcus Lattimore 1-yard touchdown bursts in the third and fourth periods. But Keenan Allen sprinted the distance for a touchdown to clinch the Tarheel victory.
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Jacob Kinlaw
Oddie Murray
Cameron Green
Adrian Wilkins
Tyler Hamilton
Lewis Wilkins
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Wingback
Wide Receiver
Tight End
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Ethan Poss
Cody Sellers
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Nick Beaver
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Brian Woods
Jalen Smith
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Corey Jimerson O’Darren Wilkins Cornerback
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William Brown Tajdre Wilkerson Outside Linebacker
East Rutherford
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Zach Price
Aaron Conner
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2009 Daily Courier All-County team selected By SCOTT BOWERS Daily Courier Sports Editor
FOREST CITY — The 2009 Daily Courier All-County team was selected over the last two weeks with the help of area coaches Clint Bland, Mike Cheek, Brad Causby, and Tony Helton, who all worked with Sports Editor Scott Bowers in putting the team together. The team represents the four county programs playing in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. Three of those programs (Chase, East Rutherford and R-S Central) played in the 3A/2A South Mountain Athletic Conference, with Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy playing in the 2A/1A Western Highlands Conference. The team includes 24 players, that are broken down by offense and defense. The offense used in selecting the team was the Wing-T, while the defense is a 4-3-4 look, with a kicker and a punter included. R-S Central, which completed a 9-4
season with a second round playoff game appearance, placed 12 studentathletes on the team. The Hilltoppers won the county crown with backto-back shut out victories over East Rutherford and Chase. East Rutherford has seven athletes on the team after finishing 1-1 against the county teams, and making the 2A playoffs. Chase has four athletes on the team, while Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy has one. The Hilltoppers quarterback Jacob Kinlaw was selected after leading Mike Cheek’s offense through the 2009 season. Kinlaw rushed for just over 400 yards, while throwing for just over 800. Kinlaw was responsible for 14 total touchdowns. Four different players rounded out the skill positions in the backfield. Central’s Oddie Murray and Cameron Green join East’s Adrian Wilkins and Tyler Hamilton. Seniors Murray and Hamilton have collected nearly 8,000 yards of
total offense (rushing, receiving, and returning) between them in their four years of high school football. Murray and Hamilton each scored 10 or more total touchdowns in 2009, while Green grounded out 615 yards and 8 touchdowns from his fullback position. Wilkins, who may be the most dynamic athlete in prep football, in Rutherford County, electrified crowds with jaw-dropping runs and his open field running ability. East’s Lewis Wilkins was selected as tight end and joins an offensive line that includes Central’s Patrick Bearden, Nick Beaver, and Cody Sellers, East’s Ethan Poss, and Chase’s Blake Greene. This season, the All-County team switched to a 4-3 defense to accommodate four skilled players in the secondary. The secondary is made up with Central’s Corey Jimerson and Leon Brown, and East’s Zach Price and O’Darren Wilkins.
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The three linebackers are a strong group of Central’s Anthony Walke and William Brown, with East’s Tajdre Wilkerson. The front four includes Central’s Aris Smith, the county’s leading sack artist, along with teammate Jacob Yant. Chase’s Jalen Smith and Brian Woods also earned the nod on the defensive line. The Trojans’ Blake Moffitt earned his second All-County selection as kicker. Thomas Jefferson’s Aaron Conner becomes the first-ever Gryphons football player to make the AllCounty team. Conner joins the team after leading the county in both punt attempts and punting average (40.1). Murray, Hamilton and Jimerson made the team for the third straight year. The 2009 All-County team is also senior-laden, with 17 players who will not return in 2010. This will open up many roster spots for younger players to be honored in 2010.
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Kansas hangs on to drop Michigan
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Dominant the first 16 minutes, Kansas went into a funk, turned what looked like another rout into a grind. Shoulders slumped, the life drained out of Allen Fieldhouse and the Jayhawks never really recovered. A win? Sure, it still ended that way. It was just a lot tougher than it needed to be. Marcus Morris had a careerhigh 23 points and 10 rebounds, and Sherron Collins scored 19 to help No. 1 Kansas pull out a grinding 75-64 win over Michigan on Saturday. “I would be very disappointed if they left here ecstatic,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “You play to win and obviously that’s important, but to go along with that you play to get better. We wasted an opportunity in the second half to get better. I’m not overly thrilled. I’m glad we won. We did some things well, but we did some things really poorly as well.” It started off great. Overcoming some poor shooting early, Kansas (10-0) jumped out to a 21-point lead with a big run midway through the first half. Then the Jayhawks started throwing passes up for grabs and Michigan clawed its way back, turning rowdy Allen Fieldhouse quiet. Discouraged at the missed opportunity, Kansas managed to play well only in spurts after that and was never able to pull away. The Jayhawks overcame 14 sometimes-ugly turnovers and numerous breakdowns on the defensive glass with good perimeter defense — Michigan was 5-for-28 from 3-point range — and decent shooting to extend the nation’s longest home winning streak to 48 games. Xavier Henry had 15 points and Collins was 7 of 10 from the floor after a 1-for-12 game against La Salle. “We could have played a lot better,” said Marcus Morris, who hit all eight of his free throws. “Not taking anything from Michigan, I just think we could have played better and won by a lot more.” Michigan (5-5) shot poorly and was again hurt by sporadic defense, playing well for stretches, breaking down on others in losing to Kansas for the first time. Ranked 219th in field goal percentage against, the Wolverines caused a few problems with their 1-3-1 zone in the first half and neutralized Kansas center Cole Aldrich, holding him to five points and no field goals. Michigan had trouble against the rest of the Jayhawks, allowing them to shoot 52 percent, keeping it close behind 14 offensive rebounds and the shooting
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of several other factors, those involved may decide to move on to a different program. Chase has witnessed several key athletes make that decision. The second component is talent that chooses to specialize in one sport. Chase, much like the other schools, has quality athletes that simply opt not to play football, but to focus on basketball or baseball. At larger schools, like a Shelby or R-S Central with student bodies that range from 1,000 to 1,200, this isn’t as big a problem. At a smaller school, like an East or Chase, which both have under 850, it is crippling for one sport or another. Locally, football is taking the worst of it. It is the one major sport that needs, “all hands on deck,” as it were. The third factor is academic eligibility. In days gone by, this was very rarely a mandated issue. If a student received a D or an F, the parent would, or could, step in and say, “You aren’t playing until your grades come up.” Many times, with ‘star’ athletes grades were an afterthought, right or wrong. The schools must now show that athletes are making the grade, and in Rutherford County, the last time I checked, that meant passing marks in three of four core classes. I could be wrong about that figure, but I don’t believe I am off by much. I once argued for a GPA system like the one that is used in Georgia and Alabama, but that’s another issue. From where I stand, Chase has always been ‘that other county school.’ The county office may not see it that way, but residents, teachers, coaches, students, and parents of the Chase community have felt that way for a long time. That they aren’t given the same serious consideration and/or benefit in a Associated Press variety of issues. Michigan forward DeShawn Sims (34) passes to a teammate while Central has Rutherfordton-Spindale. East defended by Kansas forward Thomas Robinson (0) during the first half of Rutherford has Forest City. And, all the power of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, in Lawrence, Kan. Kansas politics and money that come from those connecdefeated Michigan 75-64. tions. What is Chase’s exact connection? Who stands up for them? of DeShawn Sims and Manny through the first half, giving Perception and reality are curious bedfellows. Harris. a grinding game a flash of life When folks believe something for long enough, it Sims had 19 points and Harris with 15-2 run, capped by Collins’ takes on a life of its’ own. 16 for the Wolverines, 1-21 allfastbreak layup that made it To be blunt, East Rutherford had a strong leader time against No. 1 teams. 33-16. at the top for 30 years — Connie Mack Hamrick. “I thought we showed some Kansas hit eight straight shots His voice and vision lead to the hiring of Jerry heart,” Harris said. “We did a to overcome a 2-for-11 start, get- Cash, David Smith, Bobby Reynolds and a host of good job of coming back, but we ting an elbow-above-the-rim other coaches, who clearly knew what Hamrick gave them too big of a lead.” tomahawk dunk by Thomas expected out of the Red-n-Black. Chase has never After a week off for final Robinson, a couple of 3-pointers had a Hamrick. exams, Kansas faced its first from Tyrel Reed, even a shakeBut, the Chase community, that large area that real home test of the season in and-bake scoop by Tyshawn covers Cliffside, Henrietta, Shiloh, Sandy Mush, Michigan. Taylor as he was falling away Despite some early-season from the basket that brought the Harris, Avondale and any other hamlet I may have missed, must recommit themselves to their chilstruggles, the Wolverines repcrowd to its feet — even for the dren and the school. resented a much stiffer chalreplay. Schools are only great because a community lenge than the likes of Oakland, Then came the breakdowns. makes them great. The county board, Lovelace, Alcorn State and Radford, Thanks to four no-chanceCausby, or anyone else cannot wave a wand and teams the Jayhawks beat by 30 of-being-completed passes by or more in opening 6-0 at Allen Kansas and four straight baskets make it so. Whoever gets hired to take the reins of the footFieldhouse. by Michigan, a 41-20 lead was ball team will have a great challenge ahead of Michigan has a good hisdown to 11 at halftime. Allen them. tory against Kansas, too. The Fieldhouse went quiet and the The community can make it easier, by getting Wolverines entered 5-0 all-time Jayhawks played sporadically — the most wins without a loss the rest of the way, allowing the behind the kids — finding mentors where needed; staying on them to make the grades; staying in Kansas’ 111-year history — Wolverines to stay within reach behind them to stay in school, and to remain at which Self made sure his players despite shooting 36 percent. Chase; fighting the good fight to help those at risk were well aware of. “That could have gotten real to understand that the easy road is no road at all; With a matchup like this, Allen ugly very quickly,” Michigan and last, but not least — remove the “Can’t,” from Fieldhouse was louder than it’s coach John Beilein said. “That been all season, even with a pre- could have been one of the typi- the vocabulary. The Trojans can be winners — but if they don’t noon start. cal Kansas 100-58 wins that believe it, or embrace it, all the principals and Shaking off a sluggish start, they have.” coaches in the world will never make it happen. the Jayhawks had the storied It turned into an ugly win Only Chase can make Chase winners. gym shaking about midway instead.
Reds give 3B Scott Rolen 2-year extension CINCINNATI (AP) — Scott Rolen agreed to a two-year contract extension with the Cincinnati Reds through the 2012 season, an indication of how much they value the 34-year-old third baseman as a clubhouse leader. Rolen had one season left on an eight-year, $90 million deal that he signed with St. Louis. He will get $11 million next year, one of four Reds players scheduled to make that much. Rolen batted .270 with three homers and 24 RBIs in 40 games for the Reds.
Brewers to stop 4-packs on Sunday night MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers will stop offering their holiday four-pack ticket packages on Sunday night. This year, the Brewers are offering a free Klement’s Famous Racing Polish Sausage Ornament gift to every fan who buys two of the same four-Pack plans.
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas
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Classified Style T'was the night before Christmas, when I heard my spouse She just kept on nagging, "Please decorate the house! The front yard should glimmer with holidays so near, I'm hoping to win 'Best Display of the Year!'"
In his teeth was a pipe and he let out some smoke, That encircled his head every time that he spoke. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old man, And he laughed as he gave my house a quick scan.
So I headed outside with the lights in my hand, I knew a few bulbs were burnt out on each strand; But I plugged them all in and I headed indoors, And hoped that my wife was done listing the chores.
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I told him I needed a prize winning scene, One so elaborate it's never been seen. My wife has been wishing to win "Best Display", But as you can see, I just fried Santa's Sleigh!
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And then there it was, right in front of my face, The ad of a service to clean up my place. I picked up the phone, and I called in a fret, I could tell they were swamped, but the man said, "No sweat!"
"That's it!" I exclaimed, "I've had quite enough! I just don't have time to go buy all new stuff!" So I opened the paper to the classified section, I looked, and I looked through the wondrous selection.
And then, in a twinkling, he pulled in the drive, His license plate read the date "12-25". The rusty old pickup was painted bright red, For a moment it looked like Santa's red sled.
There were plumbers, and roofers, and some babysitters, A painter, a groomer and even a knitter. Now some could work mornings, and some could work nights, But who of this group could put up my new lights?
Decorations in back that were stacked to the sky, And a pile of lights at least 20 feet high. He jumped from the cab, in the driveway he stood, And he yelled, "Ho, Ho, Ho" as he leaned on his hood.
He went straight to work as I headed inside, I returned moments later amazed and wide-eyed. The display it was huge, and he did it so quick, Now wait just a minute, could this be St. Nick? But before I could ask, he had sprung to his truck, And he gave me a wink and he wished me, "Good Luck." And I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight,
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FACILITIES MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR The Rutherford-Polk-McDowell District Health Department is accepting applications for a Facilities Maintenance Supervisor. The majority of the time will be spent performing cleaning duties at the McDowell Health Department. Will perform semi-skilled maintenance work where needed and supervises other maintenance and cleaning schedules throughout the district. Maintains warehouse supply inventory and forwards supply requisitions to finance office for purchasing. Travel to the other counties will be required. High school education or GED is required. Two years of progressive experience in the construction or maintenance field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. HVAC experience preferred. Must be able to supervise and direct the work of others. Must be able to function independently and communicate effectively. Applicants must submit a current resume and state application (PD 107) to the address listed below by 5:00 PM on Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Applications can be obtained from the Employment Security Commission, on-line at http://www.rpmhd.org/hr/employment.htm or the following address:
RPM District Health Department Attn: Personnel Department 221 Callahan-Koon Rd • Spindale, NC 28160 (828) 287-6488 EOE
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or 429-8822 3BR SW & 3BR DW in Harris. Water & sewer incld. $350 & $450/mo. + dep. 828-748-8801 Single wide Shiloh: 2BR/2BA No Pets! $425/mo. + $300 dep. 245-5703 or 286-8665 2BR in Chase area $325/mo. + deposit. No pets! 828-223-1030 or 657-1828 after 6pm
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The Daily Courier office will be closed on Friday, December 25th in observance of Christmas Classified Advertising deadline for new ads, cancellations, and changes to existing ads for the Saturday, December 26th and Sunday, December 27th editions are as follows: LINE ADS: Deadline is Thursday, December 24th at 12:00 PM DISPLAY ADS: Deadline is Wednesday, December 23rd at 2:00 PM DISPLAY AD DEADLINE for the Tuesday, December 29th edition will be Thursday, December 24th by 12:00 PM
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Help Wanted CLINICAL DIRECTOR Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency to supervise community-based services and design treatment protocols for medium sized NC company. Position based in Forest City office. Must be licensed in N.C. as LCSW, Psychological Associate, LPC, LMFT, Addiction Specialist, or Certified Clinical Supervisor. Call HomeCare Management Corporation at 828-247-1700 for position description and application
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6B — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, SUNDAY, December 20, 2009 NORTH CAROLINA, RUTHERFORD COUNTY
NORTH CAROLINA, RUTHERFORD COUNTY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 09 SP 494
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 09 SP 353
Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by JOHN ADORANTE, UNMARRIED to PRLAP, INC., Trustee(s), which was dated May 29, 2007 and recorded on May 30, 2007 in Book 959 at Page 344, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.
Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Michelle A. Schultz and Gerald H. Schultz to Brock & Scott, Esqs., Trustee(s), which was dated November 28, 2001 and recorded on December 6, 2001 in Book 0651 at Page 0753, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.
Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 30, 2009 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit: Situate, lying and being in Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, on the South side of the Oak Ridge Drive in the Town of Forest City, North Carolina, and being the Northern parts of Lots Numbers 73 and 74 and a tiny strip of Lot Number 75 of the M.J. Harrill property as shown on a plat recorded in Plat Book 2 at Page 55, Rutherford County Registry, and being described by calls and distances as follows: BEGINNING at a stake in the South edge of Oak Ridge Drive, said stake being located South 21 -3/4 deg. West 50 feet from fire hydrant in Northwest side of intersection of Hill Street and Oak Ridge Drive, and said stake being the common corner of Lots Number 72 and 73; and the line runs thence with the common lines between Lots Numbers 72 and 73, South 22 deg. East 100 feet to a stake in said line; thence North 65 -1/2 degr. East 52 feet to a stake; thence North 22 deg. West 100 feet to a stake in the North line of Lot Number 75 and in the South edge of Oak Ridge Drive; thence with the South edge of Oak Ridge Drive and the North lines of Lot Number 75, 74 and 73, South 65 1/2 deg. West 52 feet to the place of BEGINNING. And being the same property known as Tract One on that Deed dated February 14, 2007, from Sherry Wilson Tyndall and husband, Rommie W. Tyndall and Sherry Wilson Tyndall, Executrix of the Estate of Max Harris Wilson to Cynthia L. Barnwell and of record in Deed Book 926 at Page 233, Rutherford County Registry. JAdorante.dow Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as: 125 Oakridge Drive, Forest City, NC 28043 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are John A. Adorante. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 09-21396-FC01
Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 30, 2009 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 3, as shown on the map or plat of BLOCK "D" OF FOREST LAKE ACRES, INC. SUBDIVISION, which is duly recorded in Plat Book 6, page 123, Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, to which plan reference is here made for a more complete and accurate description thereof. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as: 398 Aqua Drive, Forest City, NC 28043 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Gerald H. Schultz and wife, Michelle Ann Schultz. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 09-13335-FC01
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8B — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, December 20, 2009
sports NFL Picks Oakland (plus 11½) at Denver BEST BET: Broncos pretty much can salt away a playoff berth. How sweet would that be against Oakland? BRONCOS, 30-10
Green Bay (plus 1) at Pittsburgh Impossible to figure what’s happened to Steelers.
Minnesota Vikings’ UPSET SPECIAL: PACKERS, 21-20 Adrian Peterson (28) is congratulated by Anthony Herrera (64) after Dallas (plus 7) at New Orleans Perterson’s 1-yard Saints could clinch NFC home-field advantage touchdown run against the December flops. during the second SAINTS, 28-22 (Note: Saturday game). half of an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Cincinnati (plus 6½) at San Diego Bengals, Sunday, in Winner clinches division. Chargers have won Minneapolis. Associated Press
Vikings face Panthers, eye crown
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Minnesota and Carolina each won division titles last season and have elite running backs and defensive ends. The similarities end at quarterback. Gambles in the offseason by both clubs are largely responsible for the Vikings (11-2) being on the verge of clinching the NFC North when they visit the bumbling Panthers (5-8) on Sunday night. Brett Favre vs. the combination of Jake Delhomme and Matt Moore? No contest. “A great piece of the puzzle,” Vikings coach Brad Childress said of his relentless offseason pursuit of the 40-year-old Favre. It’s been just puzzling for the Panthers, who made no attempt to woo Favre despite Delhomme six-turnover meltdown in January’s playoff loss to Arizona. Instead, Delhomme was given a lucrative contract extension — only to commit five more turnovers in a season-opening loss to Philadelphia. Delhomme was up to 18 interceptions when he broke a finger on his throwing hand Nov. 29 against the New York Jets. The inexperienced Moore has guided Carolina to only two touchdowns in two games. So as Favre posts gaudy numbers and combines with running back Adrian Peterson and defensive end Jared Allen to put the Vikings on the verge of consecutive division crowns for the first time since the glory days of the 1970s, the Panthers are downtrodden and beaten up, leaving John Fox’s future uncertain. Running back DeAngelo Williams is posting big numbers and defensive end Julius Peppers has shown flashes of brilliance, but horrible QB play has doomed Carolina in a miserable season. “You consider everything at any position, whatever you can do, whether it fits in to your sal-
ary cap situation,” Fox said when asked why the team didn’t pursue Favre. “There are just a lot of different things by a lot of different teams. But you consider everything.” While Fox evades questions and tries to deal with a makeshift lineup minus 10 players on injured reserve, the Vikings roll into Charlotte with plenty on the line. Favre bounced back from an ugly performance in a blowout loss to Arizona with a solid effort in a rout of Cincinnati last week. With Favre sitting at 27 touchdown passes and just six interceptions, the Vikings are one victory away from the NFC North crown. They could have it wrapped up before they hit the field Sunday night if Green Bay loses to Pittsburgh. Minnesota can also clinch a first-round playoff bye with a victory and a Philadelphia loss to San Francisco. “We’re not that far away from the Sunday night football game that we played poorly,” Childress said, warning of a letdown similar to the Cardinals loss. “Every game in the National Football League stands on its own. I don’t have any illusions about the Carolina Panthers. We’ve played them the last couple of years and I know how John has put that thing together down there.” Only it’s fallen apart, with injuries another culprit. Right tackle Jeff Otah became the latest casualty when he tore cartilage in his left knee in last week’s loss at New England. With left tackle Jordan Gross also out for the season, the Panthers will have inexperienced Mackenzy Bernadeau at left guard and Geoff Schwartz at right tackle in his first NFL start. Throw in Moore, expected to start his third straight game ahead of Delhomme, and an ineffective receiving corps after
Steve Smith, and it could be a productive evening for the Allenled Vikings’ defense. “Obviously, if the starters are out you want to take advantage of that,” said Allen, second in the NFL with 12 1/2 sacks. “Our game plan is very simple, it doesn’t change week to week. We want to stop the run, get after the quarterback, be successful on first and second downs, and create turnovers.” Favre and Peterson found a happy medium in the 30-10 rout of the Bengals. Despite being without receiver Percy Harvin (migraines), Favre threw 30 times for 192 yards, one touchdown and one interception. Peterson carried 26 times for 97 yards and two scores. That’ll likely pose problems for the Panthers, who could have their 14th different defensive starting lineup in 14 games with cornerback Richard Marshall hobbled by a sore ankle. “You don’t have to be dominant in the pass game, but if you are doing just enough of each ...” Favre said. “Play-actions, you don’t have to rush for 200 yards for a play-action to work. You don’t have to be overpowering the run game for a bootleg to work. It’s all about timing, the threat of that run, and being good at both, being able to make one look like the other.” It’s a kind of balance the Panthers have come nowhere near achieving. While DeAngelo Williams has rushed for 1,104 yards despite missing a game with an injury, the Panthers QBs have combined for nine touchdowns and 20 interceptions. And Moore vs. Favre hardly invokes great QB duels. “I can’t be over there thinking about No. 4,” Moore said of Favre. “He’s going to go out there and sling it. I know our defense is going to be ready and hopefully we can go out there the same on offense and run it and throw it around.”
eight in a row and haven’t lost in December since 2005. CHARGERS, 24-21
Minnesota (minus 7½) at Carolina Vikings get the NFC North crown with a win. VIKINGS, 27-10
Miami (no line) at Tennessee Titans think they still have a shot at the playoffs. Dolphins know they have a shot. DOLPHINS, 17-16
New England (minus 7) at Buffalo With all their troubles, the Patriots still can handle Buffalo. PATRIOTS, 20-10
San Francisco (plus 8) at Philadelphia Niners showed their mettle against NFC West leader. Can they do so against NFC East leader? Not quite. EAGLES, 23-14
Atlanta (no line) at N.Y. Jets Defenses might have to score in this one. JETS, 13-10
N.Y. Giants (minus 2½) at Washington Here’s a team Giants can get stingy against. If not, they can kiss postseason goodbye. GIANTS, 20-9
Arizona (minus 10½) at Detroit After Monday night’s embarrassment, Cardinals need a patsy. CARDINALS, 31-13
Chicago (plus 10) at Baltimore Ravens still thinking wild card. RAVENS, 17-10
Tampa Bay (plus 8½) at Seattle Bucs seem destined to finish 1-15. SEAHAWKS, 20-3
Houston (no line) at St. Louis Rams seem destined to finish 1-15, too. TEXANS, 27-7
Cleveland (plus 2) at Kansas City Browns showing something on defense, Chiefs can’t protect Matt Cassel. BROWNS, 12-7
Class of ’09 makes an impact in NFL BARRY WILNER AP Football Writer
The Daily Courier office will be closed on Friday, December 25, 2009 for Christmas. The following early deadlines apply: Publishes: Saturday, Dec. 26 Sunday, Dec. 27 Tuesday, Dec. 29 Deadline: Wednesday, Dec. 23 • 4:00 pm
Happy Holidays! From The Staff of The Daily Courier
Hey, rook, come over here and learn this encyclopedic playbook. Then get through twoa-days in the cauldron of summer training camp. See if you can beat out a veteran for his job, but make sure you’re prepared for special teams duty, as well. Don’t run out of steam after Thanksgiving, when you’re accus-
tomed to winding down at school. Oh, yeah, help us make the playoffs, too. A lot to ask of newcomers to the NFL? Sure is. Yet it’s what rookies go through every year. With salary cap restrictions, the multitude of formations being used on offense AND defense, and the frequency of injuries, those kids are getting more opportunities than ever
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to become a factor in the pros. This season, it’s happened everywhere — both positively and distressingly. “We’ve had really good drafts the past two years, so if you look at our group out there, it’s really a young team in a lot of ways,” says Ravens coach John Harbaugh, who has three key rookie contributors in tackle Michael Oher, cornerback Lardarius Webb and linebacker Paul Kruger. “We have a great mix of veteran leadership, but there’s a lot of first-, secondand third-year players who are playing a lot of football for us. That’s really important in this league.” Sure is. There have been freshmen starting at virtually every position, from quarterbacks Mark Sanchez, Matthew Stafford and Josh Freeman to Oher, Jason Brown and Phil Loadholt on the offensive line. From dynamic wideouts Percy Harvin, Austin Collie and Jeremy Maclin to aggressive linebackers Brian Cushing, James Laurinaitis and Clay Matthews.
Sunday Brunch Jean Gordon
Visiting the manger with family
It’s been about 30 years ago when my older sister and I were teaching a children’s Sunday School class together and for our Christmas gathering we took our little group to the Jack Horner in Rutherfordton. After supper we took the children to Southern Baptist Church, Rutherfordton, to view the small manger scene there. As if it were yesterday, I remember very vividly how the children were in “awe” over the statutes of Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, animals, the Magi and most of all the Baby Jesus. With their tiny hands, they touched the face of Jesus. Though very young, they seemed to grasp the reverence of the moment. They were unusually quiet until we joined in singing softly, “Away in a Manger.” There is still a manger scene at the Rutherfordton church today. About 20 years ago my then 4-year-old niece was riding in the car with me in July when she exclaimed. “I just saw the strangest site for the month of July. A manger scene in a yard.” Since I was driving and didn’t see it, I turned the car around and sure enough, a manger scene in the family’s yard. If you’re traveling Doggett Road near Sandy Mush today, you’ll spot it. Manger scenes are our reminders of the humble birth of the Christ Child, the Savior of the world. Born in a stable and laid in an animal’s feeding trough, the angels sang and those in the little town of Bethlehem, praised God as they arrived at the manger over 2,000 years ago. Some churches will be having live manger scenes this weekend and the public is invited to share in the programs. The First Baptist Church, Forest City, will have a live manger scene from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday and the First Baptist Church, Spindale, will have a live manger scene Sunday at 7 p.m.
The home of Chris and Krystal Lancaster features all types of Christmas decorations – made up of 30,000 lights.
One brick home....
10 Christmas trees...
and a bulldog in the dining room
Rutherfordton couple decks their halls beginning in November Text by Allison Flynn Photos by Allison Flynn and Garrett Byers
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t began to look a lot like Christmas at the home of Chris and Krystal Lancaster the second weekend in November. That’s when the couple began to pull out their 10 Christmas trees, countless ornaments and decorative items to fill their 2,600-square foot Rutherfordton home. And don’t forget the outdoor decorations – which by Chris’ estimates contain no less than 30,000 lights. “There’s probably about 10,000 in the house, between the trees and the garland,” Chris said. Christmas and Halloween are Krystal’s favorite holidays and each year, she said, the couple adds more to their collection, little by little. “We started with one tree and then saw one for the dining room,” she said. “From there we just kept adding. Every year we say we are not doing any more, we’re not adding any more, and we always do.” The couple has help in their passion for all things Christmas. Take the replica of an English bulldog the couple purchased this season to sit by the tree in the dining room. “We found it at Cracker Barrel and bought
Main Street Baptist Church, Spindale, is doing something new this year with its “Walk to the Manger” Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening at 6:30 p.m. The community event will begin near the Spindale restaurant at 6:30 for a 15 minute walk to the Main Street church. A young couple dressed as Mary and Joseph will walk ahead of the group as one of the followers sings carols of expectation. The walk will be quiet, with the exception of the one singer. “We will walk the sidewalks of the town inviting everyone we see to come and Walk to the Manger with us,” said pastor Rick Brewer said.
Mary and Joseph will take their places in a large stable in front of the church, joined by walkers and others there for singing and praising Jesus. “Every year it seems that Christmas starts earlier and has less to do with the Lord Jesus and the celebration of His birth,” Brewer says. “There seems to be a thousand Santas for every Manger scene, and often in the great rush to be everywhere and buy everything, we don’t give the real reason for the celebration a second thought.” Enjoy the reason for the season, the purpose of it all and Merry Christmas.
The couple’s dining room features place settings in Christmas colors and a floral arrangement put together by Chris’ stepmother.
This bulldog is one of three the Lancasters received this season. They collect bulldog items because they have an English bulldog named Hank.
it,” Krystal said. “We told his mom and my mom but they had already bought them, so we wound up getting two more.” The couple returned those, but there will probably be other bulldog related items given to them this season. “We have an English bulldog named Hank,” Krystal said. With one tree in their home devoted to bulldogs, “If anybody sees a bulldog ornament, they buy it for us,” she said. Other trees in the home have themes as well. There’s a polka dot tree, a tradition that began when the couple were living in a rental home; the formal living room tree features Christopher Radko and Waterford ornaments; and then there are the “man tree” and Chris’ Christmas tree from when he was a bachelor. “This was the only Christmas tree he had,” Krystal said, gesturing to a small tree with a few ornaments. “See what happens,” Chris said, smiling. Now Chris has another tree all his own – in the basement he has the “man tree” that features sports and beer related ornaments and construction themed ornaments. “I just hand it over and say ‘It’s yours,’” Krystal said. Also located in the basement is Krystal’s favorite decoration – a small, igloo shaped house that lights from the inside. “It was my favorite thing that my mom had, and I finally asked her for it,” Krystal Please see House, Page 8C
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Associate degrees were awarded to approximately 21 students of the Foothills Nursing Consortium on Dec. 10, during a pinning ceremony at Isothermal Community College. The ceremony included students from Isothermal Community College (above, left), Cleveland Community College (right), and McDowell Technical College (below, right).
Nursing Consortium awards degrees, holds pinning ceremony
SPINDALE — Twenty-one students in the Foothills Nursing Consortium Associate Degree Program were awarded their pins at a special ceremony this week at Isothermal Community College. The ceremony was held at The Foundation on Thursday, Dec. 10. The consortium is a joint effort between Isothermal, McDowell Technical and Cleveland community colleges. The graduates of the Fall 2009 class are Michelle Duncan Allison, Angela Bailey, Barry L. Bingham, Angela Tara Bumgardner, Liz Covert, Janie Wells Curtis, Sarah Elizabeth Elliott, Dayle Ellen English, Hector Gonzalez, Patty
Brooks Hammett, Andrea Hargis, Ashley Lynn Hibbs, Sherry Yarbro Jenkins, Jessica McEntire Johnson, Johnnie Bishop Martin, Deborah Obrien, Asheli Dawn Pearson, Mark Roper, Kristie Blanton Shires, Betty M. Temple and Amanda Whiteside Whitaker. After marching in to the processional, which was performed by instructor Lynn Rowland, the new nurses were welcomed by Dr. Myra Johnson, Isothermal’s president. Tara Bumgardner and Dayle English made remarks to the audience as the vice president and president of the graduating class, respectively. The keynote speaker was Ernest Grant, MSN, RN, of the North
Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. He was introduced by Penny Cross, dean of Health Sciences at McDowell Tech. Dr. Becky Sain, vice president of Academic Programs at Cleveland Community College, presented the nursing awards. The pinning of the graduates was conducted by Dr. Jeanette Cheshire, director of the consortium, and Dr. Kathy Ackerman, dean of Arts and Sciences at Isothermal. Joe and Dayle English provided special music during the lighting of the nursing lamps. The invocation and benediction were given by Michelle Allison, another of the graduating students.
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For more information on the Foothills Nursing Consortium, contact Cheshire at 286-3636, ext. 364.
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FOREST CITY — The son and father team of power-lifting champions, Jim and Bill Putnam, have encouraged success in others through exercise, fitness and health education for many years. The father (Bill) opened his first fitness club, Bill’s Health Club, in 1966 near Cliffside. He followed this up by expanding to Nautilus of Shelby around 198081. Almost 30 years later, Nautilus still continues to operate at 217 East Marion Street today. Jim started lifting at two years of age, following in his father’s footsteps. Even before age 10, he was training adults in the art of weight lifting. Jim ran the nautilus Fitness Center for several years before returning to teaching. After 43 years, both Bill and Jim continue to train at their fitness club on a regular basis. They have helped thousands down the path towards better health by preaching better nutrition and teaching the art of “pumping iron.” Jim authored a book entitled, Seven Successful Steps: The Ultimate in Fitness, Diet and Health. He has given over 400 presentations to different
groups about health and fitness. The last one was a speech (plus a CD on the lecture content) given at the NCAAHPERD state educators convention. Bill continues to work at Nautilus even after retiring from the U.S. Navy and as a teacher in the N.C. education system. Bill also helps Jim motivate young people, especially the disadvantaged, to get involved in lifting for success in life. They do this by having them train and compete as the Nautilus — Phoenix Powerlifting Team. The team has won seven Cleveland County championships, 12 best lifter awards and 398 medals (337 gold — championship winners, 49 silver and 12 bronze). Jim created the team to help at-risk kids, the community and to honor his mom. Jim called SHOUT4EDUCATION to honor the memory of his mother, Joyce Harris Putnam. She was an outstanding teacher of 33 years at Chase High School until her untimely death at age 55 from a brain tumor. Jim Putnam and his family started the first scholarship at Chase 14 years ago, because both Joyce and Jim taught
and coached there. He is also a graduate of Chase High School. Joyce Putnam is still remembered through this and other scholarships, awards in education, acts of philanthropy plus additionally motivation of youth, teachers and adults by facilitating successful growth for life. All this ties in with better lifetime experiences and continually setting people up for success. The power lifting venue is just one important aspect. Now when it comes to powerlifting competitions, they are definitely a “dynamic duo.” The young Putnam won a first-place N.C. state bench press championship trophy in June of this year. Jim additionally has set multiple state records each year, won over 60 medals and won three Best Lifter Awards. He also currently holds five or more regional records. The region consists of 11 different states. Jim has set over 70 N.C. state powerlifting records (10 are current) and over 200 Cleveland County powerlifting records (34 are current). Many of these eclipsed records were held by Jim before he surpassed them, at
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Rutherford County natives Bill Putnam (left) and son Jim Putnam are shown with a number of trophies from powerlifting competitions.
times during the same contest. The senior Putnam was encouraged to return to powerlifting by his son after a 40-year absence. Bill has won a first-place N.C. state bench press championship trophy in June and over 40 medals in the past six years. He also currently holds five or more regional records, over 10 N.C. state powerlifting Records and 24
Cleveland County powerlifting records. Their last contest, the N.C. State Push/Pull Championships, was a few weeks ago. They both gave outstanding performances, possibly their best. In this contest Jim and Bill both won three first-place state championship trophies in the Individual Bench Press, the Individual Dead Lift and the Overall Push/ Pull Categories. Jim
won six medals and Bill won three. Bill and Jim are both natives of Rutherford County, even though Jim currently resides in Cleveland County. If you would like more detailed information about the Nautilus — Phoenix Powerlifting Team or SHOUT4EDUCATION, please contact Jim Putnam at 704-4825913.
In Uniform Specialist Camp graduates from Army basic training FORT BENNING, Ga. — Spc. Zachariah Camp graduated from Army basic training Nov. 19, at Fort Benning, Ga. He currently attends officer candidate school at Fort Benning. Upon graduation, he will hold the rank of second lieutenant and train with his specilty unit. Zach is a 2002 honors graduate of East Rutherford High School and a 2006 graduate of Erskine College, Due West, S.C. He is the son of Karen Burns of Ellenboro, and David Camp of Rutherfordton, and the grandson of Lee and Vernell Camp. Before joining the Army, Zach taught Spanish at East Rutherford High School.
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Amy Lavender helps Ann Deviney retrieve an ornament from a Christmas Tree at the Hospice House in Forest City. The ornament was hung in memory of her parents, Glenn and Nell James.
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Catherine Prescott, William Mauney Catherine Lynne Prescott and William Jeffery Mauney are engaged and plan to be married Saturday, January 9, 2010 at Spencer Baptist Church in Spindale. The bride-elect is the daughter of Jody Prescott and Raymond Hartman of Spindale. She attends Isothermal Community College, majoring in medical office administration. The groom-elect is the son of Jimmy
Bob Owens (l-r) Buddy Piercey and Jim Sappenfield, with Christmas toys and food to buggies, prepare to load cars at the Christmas Cheer Center, Forest City last Thursday. They were among dozens of volunteers helping with the distribution at the Salvation Army’s Christmas Cheer Center Thursday and Friday. Jean Gordon/Daily Courier
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Stuart Beam (second from left) of Troop 999 in Harris was awarded the Eagle during a Court of Honor on Dec. 11, at First United Methodist Church, Rutherfordton. Also pictured are Scoutmaster Michael Steadman (from left) and Stuart’s parents Caroline and Greg Beam. Stuart’s service project was to construct a brick fourcolumned entrance to Wesley Chapel Memorial Cemetery. Stuart worked with his Chase High School masonry teacher Roger Byers to construct the columns, with brick donated by Robbins Brick and Block. He planned and implemented the project over an eight month period. He has been in Scouting for 12 years and served in all leadership positions. Stuart is a freshman at Isothermal Community College pursuing an associate of science degree.
Lodge Honors Veterans
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On Dec. 7, a Stated Communication of Spindale Masonic Lodge No. 673 recognized masonic veterans for their service to our country by passing a resolution and presenting each with a lapel pin. Pictured are (l-r): in front — Johnny Kinard and Howard McKinney; middle — Hal Cooke, Bailey Gillespie, James H. Smith, Clyde Earley, Roy McKain and David Ray; in back — Tracy Yelton, Howard Yelton, Wayne Spears, Clayton Wright, Terry Brown and Roger Darby. Approximately 14 veterans representing six lodges were present, including Spindale, Cliffside No. 460, Hollis No. 535, Casar No. 579, Saluda No. 482, and Chesnee No. 294.
Central’s MCJROTC rifle teams posts two more wins RUTHERFORDTON — The R-S Central Marine Corps JROTC Rifle Team posted strong finishes at several recent matches. On Dec. 6, the team competed at the Gary Anderson Invitational in Anniston, Ala. The match featured a very tough field that included the best teams in the southeastern U.S. as well as the reigning national champions from Ozark High School in Missouri. The team finished sixth, only two points short of team medal position in the varsity match. In the junior varsity competition, R-S Central took top honors defeating their nearest competition by twentyfive points. In individual competition, Cadet First Sergeant Logan Hartzog, Cadet Sergeant Martina Carson and Cadet Second Lieutenant Jessica Eberhart all earned medals. In the JV Match, Cadet Lance Corporal Steven Murphy, Cadet Lance Corporal Amber Swink and Cadet Staff Sergeant Alex Murray also placed. Logan Hartzog also set an R-S Central scoring record in the standing position during the course of the match. On Dec. 12, R-S Central faced another strong field at the McDowell Air Rifle Match. Six of the competing
teams had earned spots at last year’s service national championships. This time, Central came out on top, beating perennial powerhouse West Ashley of Charleston by thirteen points. Hartzog and Eberhart took second and third place overall in the match, respectively. Hartzog earned three medals; Eberhart won two; and Murphy had one. The team score of 2093 was Central’s second best score ever. In individual performances, Hartzog broke the school standing position record only to have it broken by Murphy two hours later. The team also received word that they had won the Navy-Marine Corps Birthday Postal Match hosted by LaPlata High School in Maryland. Postal matches are fired at a team’s home range and the targets are sent to the host for scoring. Central defeated twenty-six teams to win the match and has won this event two years in a row. In this match, Eberhart finished second place overall and won two medals; Hartzog earned one. The team will fire two more postal matches before the Christmas break. The next time they go on the road will be the Newton-Conover Air Rifle Match in Newton, on Jan. 9.
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Friend gives tardy co-ed failing grade for punctuality Dear Abby: “Hayley” is one of the few good friends I have at college. We take a class together. It’s in a building across campus, so I drive. I always contact Hayley to see if she wants me to take her. (She typically does.) Because the class requires physical activity, we dress in appropriate clothing. When I pick Hayley up, I am already dressed and ready to go. The problem is, she isn’t. She is either eating or on her computer when I arrive. Once I come in, she begins to get ready. This has made us late for class several times. It has reached the point that I have to arrive earlier and earlier to get her
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Good doctors do still exist Dear Dr. Gott: I read your column regularly, and know you get a lot of letters complaining about how doctors treat their patients. I would like to tell you about my cardiologist and internist. I am a 51-year-old female with mitral valve prolapse, which requires a visit to my cardiologist once a year. At the end of each visit, he asks, “Do you have any questions?” If I do have a question, he answers it, then he asks again, “Do you have any more questions?” My internist is also considered one of the best. When I visit him, he looks me straight in the eye while I’m talking, taking in what I have to say. I trust both of these doctors to give me the best care available, not only because of their reputations as excellent physicians but because they pay attention to me. I hope people will realize that they shouldn’t have to choose between medical competence and good patient rapport. Dear Reader: I am printing your letter because it is a refreshing change and also proves that good doctors still exist. I have often said doctors are useless without patients to care for, so it is always in their best interests to be attentive and supportive to patients’ needs.
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I am glad that you have such a strong doctor/ patient relationship with your cardiologist and internist. Dear Dr. Gott: I have been a chiropractor for more than 40 years. Early on in my career, when I read your column, I noticed you had a definite dislike of chiropractors and most things that weren’t medicine/medical remedies. You had a medical answer for almost every problem, so I stopped reading your column for a while. Then, when I started reading it again, I was pleasantly surprised to see advice to try chiropractors and more home and natural remedies. I would like to know what caused this change in you. Dr. Gott, thank you for helping so many people to get well. Dear Doctor: I believe most young doctors suffer from the thought that only “proper” medicine and medical treatments will properly treat a disorder. It is only with experience that we find this isn’t always the case.
absolutely, because Hayley isn’t a mind reader and if you haven’t spoken up, she may be under the impression that you don’t mind. Tell your friend you are no longer willing to be late to class, you expect her to be ready to leave at the time you get there, and if she isn’t, you will leave without her. THEN FOLLOW THROUGH. I predict Hayley won’t be late after that. Dear Abby: I am a single man living in Florida. Without being invited, my sister called to inform me that she and her husband would be coming to visit me over the Christmas/New Year holiday.
She said they planned to stay “a month or so” to escape the harsh northern winter. Caught off guard, I said I’d love to have them come for a week or 10 days, but I didn’t want them to move in with me. At that point, she became miffed and said not to worry about it — she and my brother-in-law would visit her son in Las Vegas instead. Now I’m wondering if I was rude. I don’t want them planting themselves in my home for months on end, but I don’t want to destroy our relationship either. I love them both, but I have a life of my own.
Did I make a mistake, or is it normal for relatives to visit for months? — Confounded Dear Confounded: You did not make a mistake, and it is not “normal” for people to invite themselves to be houseguests as your sister did. Her attitude was presumptuous. Your reaction was honest. What she proposed was an imposition. If defending your privacy “destroys” your relationship, your sibling bond wasn’t strong to begin with. Frankly, I think your sister had a lot of nerve, and her son has my sympathy because it’s going to be a long winter in Las Vegas.
Thanks very much for your gift, Peter Peter Moore is a first grade student at Thomas Jefferson Classical Grammar School (TJCG). Peter loves cats and dogs, swimming, and music. This past summer, Peter attended the Paws-A-Tive dog obedience training classes with his mom and their new puppy, Molly. These classes are part of the CPC’s ongoing dog obedience training program facilitated by Cheri McAlister. Peter’s family attends the First Presbyterian Church in Forest City which recently did an offering for the pets and donated $30.00 to the CPC. Peter contributed some of his own money to this donation because he cares so much about abandoned pets. We appreciate the offering made by Peter and his church and the opportunity to reach out to its congregation with our message. We are thrilled that Peter has so much compassion for the animals. Results like these are particularly meaningful to us because they show us that through the guidance of special parents, our efforts and our message are being heard and taken to heart by young people like Peter. Thank you, Peter, and best wishes for a Merry Christmas. We know that you could have used your money to get presents for your family but instead chose to use it to help the animals. We think this is REALLY BIG and we thank you from the bottoms of our hearts.
IN THE STARS Your Birthday, Dec. 20; It might be necessary for you to adjust your thinking in the year ahead in order to better comprehend the feelings and expectations of those you love. If you do so willingly, it will make things a lot happier for you in the long run. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Being possessive of the one you love will push this person away instead of drawing him/her closer. Be wary of making any unreasonable demands of ownership on your special someone. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Regardless of the excuse you think you have for letting down someone you promised to help, it won’t make things right. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Should a disagreement arise between you and your special someone, do not air your differences in public, regardless of the heat of the moment. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - You should never demand attention, even if you think you’re not getting the appropriate attention you deserve from your oneand-only. ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Watch yourself, because chances are you could be easily irritated or angered right now over anything that isn’t going your way — no matter how trivial. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - You should understand what it feels like to have your independence usurped, so don’t put limitations on everyone. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Just because someone doesn’t react to a situation exactly as you think this person should, you could throw a fit. Make allowances for everybody’s right to freedom of expression. CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Being shortsighted will not only hurt the one you love, it could ignite a very heated argument. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - If you don’t get your head straightened out, this could turn into one of those days where you might be rather stingy with your loved ones and being generous to the undeserving. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - You’ve run out of all excuses and there is nothing left for you to do, except follow through on what you promised. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Relish the attention you’re likely to receive from the opposite sex today, but don’t let it go to your head. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Don’t think you can buy friendship or another’s attention.
The Pet Project Produced by Jo-Ann Close and Lynne Faltraco Community Pet Center
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped us in our volunteer efforts for the animals or who has remembered the animals through a donation during the past year. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas! The animals thank you too!
Have a backup plan for disaster dinners Dear Sara: What do you do when dinner doesn’t go as planned? We stick to a strict meal plan. However, we’ve run into by Sara Noel problems with it sometimes when something goes wrong and it can’t be fixed. For example, if the meat for the meatballs is bad and I don’t know it until an hour before dinner, then I don’t have a meal for that night. We’re stuck getting fast food. What are your ways of fixing this issue? What have you done in place of your strict meal plan that allows you to keep the price under control? — Tisha, Canada Dear Tisha: I’ve ruined dinner a few times through the years. At my house, if one of us wrecks a meal for whatever reason, the other spouse cooks. It’s nice. We always have something else that can be made quickly if something goes wrong. Even if it was a time when we were low on dinner ingredients because we needed to go food shopping, it’s still easy to put together pancakes, eggs, spaghetti without meatballs, soup, sandwiches, etc. Instead of fast food, consider picking up a rotisserie chicken at your grocery store. You can make your side dishes at home. Dear Sara: I work for a campground. When my boss was hired, he did away with all the things that had been working for years and started doing activities that interested him and his wife. People just weren’t interested in the things he wanted to do. So he stopped having any activities at all. People ask constantly about them, so in the three years I’ve been there, I’ve been trying to bring back some things on holiday weekends. My winter project is to come up with some fresh, fun ideas. Here are the my problems: — NO budget. My boss will donate prizes at times — things such as pool passes, etc. — but there is NO money for supplies, etc. All of that comes out of my pocket, and sometimes my coworker will pitch in some money. I need a lot of ideas. — My boss is a fuddy-duddy, and will turn down anything that sounds like fun. So I need a lot of options to throw at him. — I need things that we can do from my office. With only two of us on duty at a time, we CANNOT leave the office to go out and do things with people. So they need to be options that work without us or things we can do from the office. I need things for kids to do, as well as some family things. — Sherri, West Virginia
Frugal Living
Dear Sherri: A scavenger or treasure hunt would be fun. You can plan a cooking contest (soup or chili come to mind); potluck or progressive dinner; holiday decorating contest; karaoke or singalongs; bingo or game nights; pet parade; a fashion contest, such as pajama catwalk or crazy hat; murder-mystery games; movie night; craft night; handmade/homemade gift exchange; talent show; swap meet; or clean up the campground. Sara Noel is the owner of Frugal Village (www.frugalvillage. com), a Web site that offers practical, money-saving strategies for everyday living.
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Krystal said. “I put it out every year because I love it.” The couple finds ornaments throughout the year and virtually everywhere they shop. “We get them a lot of places,” Krystal said. “We’ve bought them at Pier One and Michael’s and there’s a place in Charlotte called Ashley Carol I like to go. “A lot of my prettier ornaments I got at Wal-mart.” While it takes the couple several weeks to put out all the decorations, getting them packed away again goes surprisingly fast. “We usually leave them up through New Year’s,” Krystal said. “It goes away quick,” Chris added. Ornaments go back into boxes, trees disassembled to go back into an unfinished portion of the home’s basement. If they ever build, Chris said, each room will include a closet large enough to store its own tree. “That way we can just shove it in there,” he said. And just how much have they spent
The year the Lancasters rented a house, they decorated their tree in polka dots, a tradition they continue on one of their trees now.
over the years in decorations and electricity to power them? “I don’t even want to think about it,” Krystal said. “It would hurt me to know.” Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.
The couple’s main tree (above) is located in their formal living room and features Waterford and Christopher Radko ornaments. Krystal’s favorite holiday decoration (right) is an igloo-shaped house that belonged to her mother. One of the couple’s many bulldog-inspired decorations (right) includes this tree decorated in the pudgy pups.
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