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State panel approves Duke rate hike — Page 3A Sports Back at home The Trojans welcomed in the Bessemer City Yellow Jackets for a non-conference basketball game Tuesday

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Airport expansion project moves ahead

By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer

Jenny Sanford speaks out on her role Page 12A

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RUTHERFORDTON — With the approval of an $860,000 grant from the federal government, the Rutherford County Airport Authority agreed Tuesday night to move ahead with a western hangar expansion as part of the latest Transportation Improvement Plan.

The project required an $86,000 match from the

county commission, which was approved Monday by the county commission.

The project will see land on the western side of Marchman Field cleared and leveled to make room for new hangars and a new taxi-way. The new paving and new construction will be part of the Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) for the facility.

“This year’s TIP requires that a representative of the board come to Raleigh for a meeting.

Your date is Jan. 15,” explained consultant James Luther from the W.K. Dickson company. “This is your wish list, it doesn’t obligate any funds but shows where you want to go to move forward. The state has coded things on here as mandatory or optional, and indicated which things they’d consider funding.

“Since the grant has come in from Congressman (Heath) Shuler we will move forward

Touching an ecosystem

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“We need to get off this concept that this is rich man’s toy. And it is nebulous to go out and count how many are empty because whether there’s a plane in them or not, they are paying taxes.

And if there’s a plane in them that’s more taxes.”

— Bob McCutcheon

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Testimony tells details of fight that led to death

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RUTHERFORDTON — Events surrounding the Nov. 3, 2007, choking and stabbing of Heather Lowery were the focus of testimony much of the day Tuesday in the first-degree murder trial of Kelvin Jerome Rippy.

Rippy is being tried in Superior Court in the Dec. 24, 2007, death of Lowery.

Some of Rippy’s family members testified that it sounded as if he and Lowery were having sex in a bedroom of the Rippy house on the afternoon when the injuries were inflicted.

In his opening statement, District Attorney Brad Greenway said evidence will show that as a result of Lowery’s injuries, brain tissue died from a lack of oxygen. Testimony also indicated she was stabbed.

Greenway also said when it was determined that Lowery was in a persistent vegetative state, the family made a decision to stop nutrition and hydration, and Lowery died at 5:02 p.m. on Dec. 24. The victim never regained consciousness, Greenway noted.

He also told jurors that Lowery was 10 to 12 weeks pregnant.

Defense attorney Marvin Sparrow noted that Allison Flynn/Daily Courier Staff Writer Students in Mary Freeman and Heather Thompson’s fifth grade classes went to the Lowery and Rippy had a son together, who was 3 years old at the time of her death. lake at Isothermal Community College Monday as part of a project on ecosystems.

The two had lived together as a couple for awhile, Sparrow said, but they were separated when her death occurred.

The defense attorney said Rippy didn’t know where Lowery lived, and the only way he could communicate with her was by calling her grandparents and asking that Lowery call him to arrange visits with his son.

Sparrow told jurors that when Lowery brought their son to Rippy’s residence, Lowery and Rippy

By ALLISON FLYNN and done research and are working went into a bedroom. He said some 30 minutes to in collaborative groups.

Daily Courier Staff Writer an hour later, Rippy came back out and told his “Today they are videoing this habiSPINDALE – Even the smallest mother to call 911. tat to determine if their animal can patch of dirt can make up an ecosysRippy reportedly told officers that he wanted survive in it.” tem. So can a lake or a looming tree. custody of their son, they argued, and he became Before heading out, students were Fifth grade students from Mary given instructions on using the cam- angry and began choking her.

Freeman and Heather Thompson’s But Sparrow said there are two overriding issues era and told to think of their animals classes at Spindale Elementary spent in this case. They are: “Did he mean to kill her?” when making the video.

Once on site, an hour or so shooting video on Flip and, “Was there premeditation?” He also told students ran from location to locacameras Monday morning. Students jurors that the approximate cause of death would then took their footage back to school tion taking video, stopping to discuss be an issue in the trial. He said if the decision their animals along the way. to incorporate into PowerPoint preto remove nutrition and hydration had not been “Where would your animal be sentations. made, Lowery might be alive today. found?” Thompson asked one stu“We’ve been studying ecosystems Forest City Patrolman C.J. Byers testified dent. for a few weeks now,” Freeman said.

Tuesday that he was dispatched to the Wells Drive “They have been assigned an animal Please see Ecosystem, Page 6A Please see Details, Page 6A

Students go outdoors in a search for life

Board opens way for comment on new hire

By ALLISON FLYNN Daily Courier Staff Writer

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INSIDE Classifieds . . . 6-7B Sports . . . . . . . 7-9A County scene . . . 6A Opinion . . . . . . . 4A Vol. 41, No. 293

FOREST CITY — The public will have the opportunity to speak to which characteristics they would like to see in the next superintendent at the January meeting of the Rutherford County Schools Board of Education.

RCS Board Chair Dr. John Mark Bennett said the January meeting will begin one hour earlier than usual “for the specific purpose for public comment for specific traits they would like to see in the next superintendent.”

Other ways the public can provide an opinion includes an online survey that will be posted on the Rutherford County Schools Web site, www.rcsnc.org, and by talking with their school’s local advisory council members.

“We feel it can be a very positive process and we want to make sure we are in tune with what the community feels its needs are,” Bennett said. “The application has

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been posted and we are looking forward to getting responses. The application deadline is Jan. 15.”

Students from Sunshine Elementary opened the meeting, providing the Pledge of Allegiance and inspiration. Students Brooke Greene, Abby Smith and Amy Collins communicated via Skype, an online video conferencing program, with fellow students Cole Yelton, Nick Workman, Mason Walker, Lydia Keener, Cassidy Upton, Jaden Bostic, Bryce Johnson and Amtillah Ghaleb. Special guest for the presentation was Army SPC Lance Yelton. Students gave special recognition to all servicemen and women by reading the poem “A Soldier” by Angela Goodwin.

“Was that cool, or what?” Bennett said, after the presentation.

Recognition was given to North Carolina Positive Behavior Support Initiative Schools. Those schools receiving green ribbons were Cliffside, Ellenboro,

Spindale and Forrest Hunt Elementary Schools. Forest City-Dunbar Elementary was named a banner school.

“We thank you and congratulate all these schools on the initiative,” Bennett said.

The system’s exceptional teacher of the year, Cheryl Watson, was also recognized.

“Each year the Department of Public Instruction recognizes one exceptional teacher from each county across the state,” said Tom Griffin, exceptional child program director. “This teacher has been an educator for 22 years and the last 18 with Rutherford County Schools. She’s primarily been in the elementary setting, but the last five years she has been at Chase High School.”

Griffin said that in those five years, Watson has worked with around 150 exceptional students.

“All those graduated with a high school diploma,” Griffin said. Griffin also said Please see Schools, Page 3A

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LOCAL Making it official

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Dee Dee Bright, mayor pro tem, presents Town of Forest City Mayor Jimmy Gibson with a plaque, gavel and a framed picture of McNair Field Monday night during the Town of Forest City meeting. Gibson is the outgoing mayor.

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Town of Forest City Clerk Sandra Mayse issues the oath of office for mayor to Dennis Tarlton Monday night.

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Ruth Town Clerk Amy Hanaway conducts the swearing-in ceremony for Ruth Mayor Don Baynard (second from left) and Commissioners Mike Ellenburg (second from right) and Jim Good. During the regular business meeting, the board announced the annual Christmas light judging contest will be conducted during the week of Dec. 13, but there will not be monetary rewards this year due to the economy.

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Spindale Town Council had its swearing-in ceremony as well Monday evening with Commissioners Tommy Hardin, left, and Ed Searcy taking the oak from Rutherford County Clerk of Courts Robyn Spence. Mayor Mickey Bland was sworn in for another term by Ms. Spence.

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STATE

Regulators OK Duke rate hike

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina regulators have signed off on a plan in which Duke Energy Corp.’s 1.8 million electric customers in the state will see their bills go up next month and rise 7 percent on average over the next two years — nearly half the increase originally sought by the utility.

The North Carolina Utilities Commission approved a twostep agreement to let Duke Energy raise rates Jan. 1 by an average 3.8 percent, followed by a 3.2 percent increase in January 2011, according to the utility.

Residential customers on average would pay a little more — 7.5 to 8 percent over two years. Other customers will see increases from 4.8 to 7.4 percent, Duke said.

The deal, reached with the commission staff’s consumer representatives in October and approved Monday by the full commission, allows Duke

Airport Continued from Page 1A

with construction on the west side and we don’t anticipate that starting until after the first of the year and it may be Spring before it starts.�

But the authority board members — who received harsh remarks from some county commissioners Monday night — wanted to make sure the project was clearly explained. “We need to make the public aware that no county money has been spent to build hangars out here other than the main hangar,� board member Bob McCutcheon said. “We need to get off this concept that this is rich man’s toy. And it is nebulous to go out and count how many are empty because whether there’s a plane in them or not, they are paying taxes. And if there’s a plane in them that’s more taxes.�

Board member Rob Bole added, “People with means are the ones that own planes. I don’t own a plane, but the airport is not here just for their use, it is

Energy to generate an additional $315 million annually through its first general rate increase since 1991. Duke said it needed the increase to keep up with inflation while investing in its electric infrastructure. “We are pleased that the (commission) recognized how this settlement balances the challenging economic climate with the need for Duke Energy to raise its base rates,� Jim Turner, Duke Energy’s president and chief operating officer for its U.S. franchised electric and gas business, said in a Tuesday release.

Duke Energy Carolinas — the company’s electric subsidiary in North Carolina — had initially sought an overall average rate increase of 12.6 percent.

The commission’s Public Staff balked and suggested a 4.7 percent increase was appropriate — leading to the compromise.

The average residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month will pay $7.30 more per month by 2011, or a bill here for economic development.

Many of the industries that we have had, came because of the airport.�

County Commissioner Paul McIntosh estimated that if the ten potential hangars from the expansion were constructed, sold and occupied, they could potentially generate up to $618,000 in annual tax revenue.

The board also voted to resubmit its charter to the county commission for approval and review their rules and regulations and by-laws to update them. The commission approved the charter last year, but the state legislature didn’t vote on it. “It was approved four to one by the board of commissioners, but because there was a dissenting vote and it was a short session in Raleigh they wouldn’t take it up,�

McIntosh said. “We’ve talked about this several times over the years but I think now is the time to step up and do that,� authority chairman Alan Guffey said. “One thing in particular is when Rob Bole came on the board with his expertise in the financial matters we asked him to be

of $97.50, according to Robert Gruber, executive director of the commission’s Public Staff.

One of the commission’s seven members — Robert Owens Jr. of Manteo — opposed the compromise because he said it would place an “unjustified burden� on customers during a period of economic uncertainty and 11 percent state unemployment. “Simply put, this is the worst possible time to raise electricity rates on Duke’s customers and put a further drag on the North Carolina economy,� Owens wrote, adding $183 million was the maximum rate increase that should have been approved.

The company made concessions to soften what would otherwise be an 8 percent general rate increase on customers, such as deferring by one year its plans to collect financing costs to build a new coal-fired generator in western North Carolina. “We’re doing everything we can to keep our rates low for our customers,� Duke spokeswoman Paige Sheehan said.

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Watson was the first National Board Certified Exceptional Teacher in Rutherford County.

Superintendent Dr.John Kinlaw and Assistant Superintendent Janet Mason presented information on global community awareness and that Rutherford County Schools has partnered with World View, an organization that serves as a resource to pull together opportunities for K-12 and college educators. “I was thinking as our students at Sunshine talked with their classmates via Skype — our students, to connect with any students anywhere in the world, is just a click away,� Mason said. “The mission of World View is very much in line with the mission of Rutherford County Schools. One of the opportunities we have is an upcoming travel opportunity.�

Four educators, Mason said, will take part in a trip to India over spring break. Applications are being taken and an announcement of who will be taking part will be made at a later time.

The board voted on three policies during the meeting - a student promotion and accountability policy, a prohibition against discrimination, harassment and bullying policy and a discrimination, harassment and bullying complaint procedure policy. The policies were all passed unanimously.

Board members also voted on renaming the gymnasium at R-S Central High School for former coach Stacy Lail Jr. Lail, a graduate of R-S Central ­— where he played football, basketball and baseball, also taught at the school from 1978 to 2003, coaching the boys basketball team from 1978 to our treasurer. And it turns out 1988. In 11 years of coaching 307 basketball games, that your treasurer needs to be his teams won 253 — including a 56-game winning bonded. Those rules were writstreak — and lost 54 for an 82.4 winning percentten when this airport was selfage. Lail also started the cross country program in sufficient, had a bank account 1978 and coached that until 1988. and it was not part of the county.

Board member Carolyn Keever made a motion to Since then, it has become part of rename the gym, and members voted seven to zero the county and they handle the to allow the renaming. accounts.�

Also passed with no dissenting votes was a motion Bole agreed, “This is in the by- to create a Rutherford County Schools Foundation, a 501(c)3 foundation for the purpose of supporting laws written back in the 1970s and there are several things not schools in the county and to extend the financial accurate any more. (County legal audit to January 2010. adviser) Beth (Miller) has sugDuring the superintendent’s report, Dr. Kinlaw gested we look into the proper presented the board with good news - the dropout way to amend those by-laws. At rate for the 2008-2009 school year dropped for the the present time, the authorsecond year in a row. ity has no cash balances or any “In terms of percentages, the rate has moved from funds available to it that we have 6.27 percent to 5.02 percent,� Kinlaw said. “But that direct control over dispersing. number does not tell the story.�

The need for a bond in today’s The real story, he said, is that in the 2007-2008 environment is not there at all.

The commissioners approved the school year 204 students chose to leave Rutherford charter four to one and the rules County schools. Last year, Kinlaw said, that number was reduced to 156. In the past two years, dropand regulations were published right before I came on the board. outs have been reduced by 36 percent. “One big initiative that’s played into that has been The third part would be the bythe dropout prevention grant we received from the laws. But the FAA rules have gone from 70 pages to 300 pages state,� Kinlaw said. “We see very positive impact or so since our rules and regula- from those funds.�

Kinlaw said that today there are a number of tions were created.� students who quit school last year who have been coached to come back and will be graduating in the Contact Baughman via e-mail at spring from the Rutherford Opportunity Center. sbaughman@thedigitalcourier.com.

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Our Views New leaders, new responsibility

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number of newly elected officials took office in Rutherford County towns this month, and each of them now has the chance to make a real difference in their communities.

They can do that by addressing the issues that come before them thoughtfully and making decisions that will be for the public good.

Rutherford County needs strong leadership at all levels. We need leaders who can think creatively. We need leaders who look to the future, not to the past.

We need leaders who are willing to take on challenges.

Rudy Giuliani struck the right chord when he said, “Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.”

The men and women in leadership positions in Rutherford County today need to take that to heart.

Our current economic situation is scary, and it has severely restricted our resources, but we cannot afford to surrender now. We cannot afford to wrap ourselves in a blanket of woe and wait for better times. We need to create better times.

That is the challenge our leaders face today.

Our future will be determined by the decisions and actions they take now.

Our readers’ views Says thanks to humane society for its help To the editor: Just before dark one evening, my daddy and my husband saw someone stop on the side of the road, at some land my brother has leased, and put out something.

They suspected it was animals but by the time they got to the place, there was nothing there.

It took one week for my brother and his sons to find the “something. “ It turned out to be a young orange cat and three baby kitties.

The young cat was watching out for the babies and taking care of them, so we surmised it was a mama cat and her kittens.

My nephews caught the kitties and the “mama” and got in touch with me. We decided to get them all and bring them to my house and find them homes.

I called Rutherford Veterinary and they told me to contact Helen Jones with the Rutherford County Humane Society and explain the situation.

Upon calling Ms. Jones and explaining the situation, she did not hesitate to offer the assistance of the Humane Society.

The Humane Society loaned me a comfortable and large enough cage for them to stay in temporarily. Then she told me that they would take care of the shots for all the cats and the spaying and/ or neutering for them all.

The babies (who were only 7 weeks old) and the “mama” had respiratory infections when I took them to the vet, and so for one week my daughter and I gave them antibiotics and eye cream.

We gave them special food provided by the Humane Society to help with their upset tummies from not getting enough to eat for who knows how long and the antibiotics.

Today, my daughter and I took them back to the vet and got the surprise of our lives! “Mama” was really a boy.

We all assumed he was the “mama” because he was taking care of the babies and allowed them to eat first, even when I first got them, and he was so hungry.

He stayed with them, got anxious when we got the babies out, and cuddled them in the bed.

He is “the nanny” and the babies adore him.

We did not even bother to look to verify the gender, because we were all positive that had to be the mama of the babies.

We had named him “Ginger,” but now we call him “McPhee” (as in Nanny McPhee, the movie).

I know that without McPhee those babies would have died.

It has been one week and they are now in good health and we have found homes for all of them.

Without my daddy, my brother, and my nephews taking the time to care and find the “something,’ they would have all died, I am sure.

Most important, without the help of the Rutherford County Humane Society, there is no way I could have afforded to take care of the poor little castaways. I do not know what I would have done.

It saddens me to think that someone could be so heartless as to just throw out helpless kittens and leave them to die.

I do not understand how we, as beings with a conscience, can be heartless and hurt any helpless creature human or animal.

I hope that if you have a few dollars to spare or some time to spare that you would consider giving to the Rutherford County Humane Society. They do a lot of wonderful things.

Thank you to RCHS. God bless you!

Joanna Street Forest City

Says thanks from RCT to Union Mills group To the editor: I would like to send out a big

thanks to everyone who came out and supported Rutherford Community Theatre and Union Mills Learning Center this past week end. The Hank Williams Show was a huge success due to all your support.

We would like to encourage anyone who is interested in any aspect of theater or musical production to contact us at rct.arts@ yahoo.com or call 828-287-4809.

We are a non-profit organization that depends on volunteers and donations.

Please contact us if you can help in any way.

During this tough economic time we especially would like to remember the hungry and support our soup kitchens and food banks.

We collected several bags of food for New Beginnings Soup Kitchen in Rutherfordton due to the generosity of our patrons.

Rutherford Community Theatre plans to continue our efforts to help all the food banks in the county and encourages all others to do the same.

You can help alleviate hunger one can of food at a time. Please donate when possible.

Again we can’t thank you all enough! Look for our next production in March 2010.

Deborah Keller Secretary/RCT

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Will state really get back all Dell incentive funds?

RALEIGH — Apparently not all those cents paid to Dell Inc. to build a computer manufacturing plant in Forsyth County were red after all.

Just a couple of months ago, Gov. Beverly Perdue said that the state would recover “every red cent” already paid as part of a $280 million incentives deal to get Dell to build in the state. The governor’s statement followed a company announcement that it would be closing the plant just four years after opening.

For a while, it looked as if Perdue would prove correct.

Dell returned $26.5 million in local grants and tax breaks that Winston-Salem and Forsyth County had provided. Then it gave back $1.5

Today in North Carolina Scott Mooneyham

million in grants to the state.

The Winston-Salem Journal, though, reports that Dell isn’t so willing to part with state tax credits that it has already claimed as part of the deal.

A Dell spokesman told the newspaper that the tax credits were taken as part of job creation and other benchmarks already met.

It shouldn’t have to return them.

When copper stays in your

pocket a little while, it does turn a shade of brown.

No so fast, says state Revenue Secretary Ken Lay. He says the company no longer meets the criteria set up for the tax credits and needs to repay the money claimed on previous tax bills. He apparently plans to adjust Dell’s future tax bills to recoup the money.

No one is saying exactly how much money is at stake. Dell has qualified for as much as $6 million in tax credits, but companies typically aren’t able to immediately claim all of the tax credits for which they qualify.

Dell isn’t providing the number. Tax secrecy laws prevent state officials from

discussing it.

But if neither side backs down, the number may yet become public. That’s what happens when tax disputes end up in court.

This particular dispute could be a doozy.

Losing any money at all on the Dell deal could help undermine public support for big incentives deals.

Already, Dell will forever be mentioned as what can go wrong when state and local governments hold out millions of dollars to individual companies in hopes of luring jobs.

State officials and incentives supporters don’t want an additional caveat: You might not get all your money back if the company leaves a

few years later.

Look for the Perdue administration to do all that it can, even going to court, to prevent that outcome.

Still, Dell appears to have met the job and investment targets to qualify for the tax credits in the years that those credits were claimed.

The jobs and investment just didn’t last. Now the company won’t be able to claim tax credits for the future.

On the surface, the law appears to be on Dell’s side.

Then again, why wouldn’t it be? Anyone who could negotiate the kind of deal that Dell got surely took care of that little item.

Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Association.

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OBITUARIES/POLICE NOTES

Student hurt in crash; deputy’s cruiser totaled

FOREST CITY — An East Rutherford High School senior, Tyler Hamilton, 18, was injured in a two-vehicle collision Tuesday that totaled a cruiser driven by a sheriff’s deputy.

The collision occurred at 7:35 a.m. on Hwy. 74B at the entrance to East Quick Mart.

Hamilton was a passenger in a 1998 Kia SUV driven by classmate, Jason Johnson, 18, also of Forest City. Jason and his twin brother, Jordan Johnson, were not injured. Hamilton was treated and released from the hospital after treatment.

The North Carolina Highway Patrol said Deputy Tara Toney was traveling west on Hwy. 74B and Jason Johnson, was traveling east on Hwy. 74B and he had stopped to make a left hand turn into the convenience store near East High School Road. Johnson told Sgt. Brian Gilreath he saw the deputy coming, but thought he had enough time to turn, but was struck by the deputy’s vehicle.

Gilreath said both vehicles were totaled.

Charges are pending, Gilreath said, but it appears Johnson could be cited for an unsafe movement violation.

Early investigation indicates Toney was not speeding and didn’t have a chance to hit her brakes before hitting the Kia. “She said she was going about 50 miles an hour and she only traveled about 69 feet after impact on wet grass. “That’s indicative that she was not speeding,” Gilreath added.

Bank’s Christmas program underway

Asheville – Carolina First has begun the Carolina First 12 Days of Christmas charity program.

The program is a community-level effort to raise support for local charities in each of the markets the bank serves.

I began Tuesday and will continue through Saturday, Dec. 12, Carolina First branch offices will collect donations of money and goods to be given to local charities chosen by each market.

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The charity chosen for the Mountain Region is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation.

Carolina First has a long history of giving back to the community, and in the spirit of the holiday season, their employees will partner with customers to support their neighbors in need.

Last year, the program raised more than $27,000 for local charities.

For more information about the Carolina First 12 Days of Christmas, please visit the local Carolina First branch.

Obituaries Billy Austin Billy Gene Austin, 72, of Rutherfordton, died Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, at Cleveland Medical Center in Shelby.

Born in Belmont, he was a son of the late James Calvin and Ollie Russ Deaton Austin.

He was a sergeant first class retired from the Army and a highly decorated veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars.

He was a member of the J.F. Swartsel Lodge No. 251 F.M.&A.M. Survivors include his wife of 15 years, Carol Skaggs Austin of Rutherfordton; one son, Billy Gene Austin Jr. of Arlington, Va.; one stepson, Robert Ison of Louisa, Ky.; one stepdaughter, Kandy Skaggs Austin of Chesnee, S.C.; two sisters, Pauline Chapman of Taylor, Mich.; Joanne Austin of Belmont; one step grandson and several nieces and nephews.

Graveside services were conducted Saturday at Skaggs Cemetery in Martha, Ky. with Elder Paul E. Keaton officiating.

The Padgett and King Mortuary was in charge of local arrangements.

Online condolences www.padgettking.com.

Charles Camby Charles Camby, 84, of Rutherfordton, died Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, at Hospice House in Forest City.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced

by Crowe’s Mortuary and Crematory.

Fairfax, Va., died Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009, at Inova Fairfax Hospital.

Formerly of Rutherfordton, he was a son of the late J. Paul Bailey and Edna Owens Bailey. Jimmy received a BA in biology in 1958 from Berea College, Berea, Ky., and an MS in 1970 from George Washington University.

He retired as senior vice president of laboratory operations at Quest Diagnostics, American Medical Laboratories.

He is survived by two sisters, Margie Bailey Andrews and Genell Bailey Clements, both of Rutherfordton.

A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at McMahan’s Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Don Scofield and the Rev. Dean Baughn officiating. The family will receive friends following the service. Private interment.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the National Parkinson Foundation at www.parkinson.org.

McMahan’s Funeral Home and Cremation Services is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences www.mcmahansfuneralhome.com.

Nancy McBrayer Nancy Blanton McBrayer, 78, of Hartford Avenue, Charlotte, died Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte.

A native of Forest City, she was a daughter of the late Roy Russell and Margaret Irene Flack Blanton.

She was a graduate of Cool Springs High School and retired from Pennsylvania House Furniture in Monroe.

She was also a member of

Central Church of God in Charlotte, and the widow of Joseph H. McBrayer.

Survivors include three sons, Joseph Harold McBrayer of Charlotte, Mayse Keith McBrayer of Boone, and Ronald Braxton McBrayer of Charlotte; a brother, Charles Blanton of Forest City.

A graveside service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Cool Springs Cemetery with visitation to follow the service at the cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 6000 Fairview Road, Suite 200, Charlotte, NC 28210.

The Padgett and King Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences www.padgettking.com.

Eva Bowman Eva Smith Bowman, 71, of Spruce Pine, died Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital.

She worked as a CNA and was a member of the Minneapolis Baptist Church.

Survivors include her husband, Greg Bowman of the home; three sons, Dewey Vance of Oklahoma, Norman Vance of Forest City, and James Anderson of Altmore, Ala.; a foster sister, Carolyn Atchley of Gilkey; four grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Minneapolis Baptist Church with the Rev. Brian Griffith officiating. The family will receive friends Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Webb Funeral Home in Spruce Pine.

Police Notes

Jimmy Bailey

Sheriff’s Reports

Board hears sewer project report

n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department responded to 132 E-911 calls Monday.

Rutherfordton

n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 34 E-911 calls Monday.

Spindale

n The Spindale Police Department responded 29 E-911 calls Monday.

Lake Lure

n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to no E-911 calls Monday.

Forest City

n Maria Bermudez reported an incident of breaking and entering, damage to property and larceny. n Elizabeth Smith reported an incident of larceny. n Becky Temple reported an incident of larceny of phone service.

Arrests

n Tracey Carroll Byers, 41, of 566 Race Path Church Road; charged with possession of drug paraphernalia; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (RCSD) n Jason Lee McCurry, 31, of 1439 W.V. Thompson Road; charged with misdemeanor larceny; placed under a $3,000 secured bond. (RCSD) n Larry Dean White, 54, of 566 Race Path Church Road; charged with manufacturing marijuana; placed under a $3,000 secured bond.

(RCSD) n Tasha Poniece Trotter, 31, of 137 Woodland Drive; charged with defacing grave/ grave site; placed under a $3,000 secured bond.

(RCSD) n Robert Dean Fowler, 21, of 1060 Old Ballpark

Correction

Patty Whitaker, who was featured in a photo in Sunday’s paper, will provide psychotherapy in her private practice that will open in February 2010. Whitaker is taking part in Project GATE, which is offered through Isothermal Community College.

Jimmy Lee Bailey, 73, of

Road; charged with simple affray; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (RCSD) n Blake Stuart Sullivan, 28, of 105 Fairground St.; charged with assault on a female; placed under a $2,000 secured bond.

(RCSD) n James Howard Greene, 45, of 120 Mockingbird Lane; charged with simple affray; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (RCSD)

By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer

LAKE LURE — Newly elected mayor Bob Keith and freshmen commissioners Mary Ann Dotson and John Moore were sworn in here Tuesday night. The new board made appointments and discussed an agreement with PANGAEA Internet service for the town’s usage.

Citations But first, Town Manager n Latwyella Maxwell, 19, of Chris Braund reported on Sherrill Street in Forest City the town’s ongoing project was cited for second degree to wrap sewer lines that are trespass. She received a writ- submerged in the lake. ten promise to appear.

“Our sewer joint-sealing n Montoya Maxwell, 20, project at the bottom of the of South Church Street in lake is a highly unique projForest City was cited for aid ect,” Braund said. “We’re and abet second degree tres- tracking the budget and pass. She received a written we’ve spent 12 percent of the promise to appear. total budgeted amount and n Kiara Jackson, 20, of 12 percent of our two-year Forest City was cited for time frame. The team has second degree trespass. She only wrapped 45 joints out of received a written promise to an estimated 1,600. This is appear. significantly less than we had n Toni Damato, 18, of hoped. They have a target Ledbetter Road in Spindale now of wrapping 3.3 joints was cited for second degree per day and if they can keep trespass. She received a writ- that it will put us back on ten promise to appear. track. We’re going to follow it for one more month and then EMS/Rescue come back with a revised n Rutherford County EMS strategy. The wrapping so far has resulted in 200,000 galresponded to 26 E-911 calls lons less per day in our sewer Monday. intake.” n The Volunteer Life Braund also reported that Saving and Rescue, Hickory the town’s scheduled lowerNut Gorge EMS and ing of the lake level for mainRutherford County Rescue tenance was proceeding, responded to one E-911 call despite recent rainfall.

Monday.

“The lake has dropped about 30 inches in the last Fire Calls week as part of our laken Bostic responded to a lowering project,” Braund motor vehicle accident. said. “We’re trying to go n Ellenboro responded to a slower this year to maximize motor vehicle accident. our hydroelectric generation. n S-D-O responded to a We have more rain coming motor vehicle accident. soon and that works against n Spindale responded to a us, but within the next few brush fire. weeks we will be down the n Sandy Mush responded four to five feet that we’re to a motor vehicle accident. wanting. In the hydroelectric fund, 42 percent of the year pet n 1. a. a pampered and usually spoiled child b. a person who is treated with unusual kindness or consideration; darling c. a domesticated animal kept for pleasure rather than utility...

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is gone and we’ve spent over 80 percent of our budget.

That has been mainly due to retirements and having to repair the generators. I’m not concerned yet though because that should be offset by our green energy credits program later this year and because we’re focusing on generating power as often as we can do so.”

Wastewater treatment plant supervisor William Grimes will retire on Jan. 1 after 28 years of service.

Commissioner Wayne Hyatt reported to the board that the town’s ABC store had contributed more than $52,000 to the town this year, the highest total ever.

“This is in the face of declining profits,” Hyatt said. “It is due to excellent management over there.”

For appointments, Linda Turner was appointed as the mayor pro tem for the town.

Dotson was appointed to be the council’s representative for the ABC board, and the lake advisory committee.

Turner was appointed to be the council’s rep on the golf course advisory committee and the parks and recreation committee. Hyatt will serve commissioners on the board of adjustments and Moore will serve the board with the zoning and planning commission.

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The board also voted to approve about $16,000 in computer equipment upgrades and also air conditioning and climate control upgrades to the room where the town’s server is located.

Robert Gilmer "Stringbean" Lane Mr. Robert Gilmer “Stringbean” Lane, Sr., 85 of 532 Sandy Level Church Road, Bostic, died Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009 at his residence.

He was the widower of Carrie Lee Newton Lane and the son of the late Roy and Beulah Brooks Lane; he was also preceded in death by three brothers, W.C. Lane, Crawford Lane, and Lewis Lane. Gilmer was a farmer, the President of the Westminister Pea Ridge Clubhouse, on the Board of Directors for NC Farm Bureau, a member of the Cattleman's Association and a member of the Sandy Level Baptist Church. He had worked at Laurel Mill in Rutherfordton, Stonecutter Mill, Ester Mill in Shelby, and retired from Florence Mill in Forest City.

He is survived by his daughter, Evelyn Lane of Bostic; a son, Rev. Robert Lane of Mooresboro; and two grandchildren, Katie Lane and Trey Lane.

The funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM Friday, Dec. 11, 2009 at Sandy Level Baptist Church.

Rev. Robert Hensley and Rev. Steven Cooper 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 Thursday at Washburn & Dorsey Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to Sandy Level Baptist Church, 1047 Sandy Level Church Rd., Bostic, NC 28018 or Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.

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Health/education Life Line Screenings: Wednesday, Dec. 9, at Forest City Clubhouse, 141 Westview St., Forest City; appointments will begin at 10 a.m.; packages start at $139; all five screenings take 60-90 minutes to complete; pre-registration required; call 1-877-237-1287 or visit www. lifelinescreening.com.

Red Cross Blood drives scheduled: Dec. 11 — Forest City Fire Department, 1 to 6 p.m., contact Keith McCurry at 245-2111; Dec. 16 — Harris Elementary, 1:30 to 6 p.m., contact Don Ingle at 2482354 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.

Classes: Adult CPR: Monday, Dec. 14,

begins at 6 p.m.

Child, Infant CPR: Tuesday, Dec. 15, begins at 6 p.m.

First Aid: Thursday, Dec. 17, begins at 6 p.m., Preventing Disease Transmission.

Holidays Christmas concert: Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy will present its 4th annual Christmas concert Thursday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. The concert will take place in the Leitner Auditorium at TJCACFA’s middle/high school campus in Avondale. Pre-show orchestral music will begin at 6:30 p.m. The parent FORUM group will also sponsor a spaghetti dinner to ben‑ efit the drama program from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the school cafete‑ ria.

Christmas Concert: Mercy’s Well and Southern Sounds will pres‑ ent an evening of Christmas music on Saturday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary of Corinth Baptist Church, located on Pinehurst Road between Old US 74 and Tiney Road in Ellenboro.

Miscellaneous 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.

Walk-in soccer registration: Spring recreational season; Saturdays, Dec. 12, Jan. 23, and Feb. 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day; bring birth certificate; $40 first player, $35 each additional sibling; call 286-0073 for more information.

Fundraisers Red Cross benefit: Courtside Steaks will donate a percent‑ age of its profits to the local Red Cross from sales on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Courtside is located at 161 Park Lane Dr., Rutherfordton.

Toy and book sale: Saturday, Dec. 12, 8 a.m. to noon, Sandy Springs Baptist Church, 382 Sandy Springs Road, Rutherfordton; large variety of children’s books and toys; pro‑ ceeds go toward international mis‑ sions.

Fish fry: Saturday, Dec. 12, 4:30 to 8 p.m.; Concord Community Clubhouse; adults $10; ages 6-12, $5; under 6 free; includes dessert and drink; all take outs $9.

Music/concerts Shape-Note singing: Christian Harmony Shape-Note Singing; Saturday, Dec. 12, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., St. John’s Historical Church, Rutherfordton; covered dish lunch.

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 cel‑ ebrate its 20th year anniversary on May 14, 2010. If you are a McNair ROPE recipient, contact the founda‑ tion 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 cavalierban‑ derhs@yahoo.com or by mail, P.O. Box 934, Forest City.

Support groups Mom’s Hope is a ministry that offers hope and support for mothers who face daily struggles and fears when their children are addicted to drugs or alcohol. The group meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at Missionary Wesleyan Church, 811 Doggett Rd., Forest City. For more information contact Chris Park at 289-6467, or Karen Elliott at 286-2308.

apartment complex at 12:51 p.m. on Nov. 3, 2007.

He said when he arrived on the scene, Rippy was outside holding a child in his arms. Byers said when he asked Rippy what his involvement was, Rippy replied, “Man, I’m guilty.”

At that point, Byers said, Rippy was taken into custody, handcuffed and placed in the back of the patrol car. But he added that Rippy was not under arrest at that time.

The officer then went into the house and found a woman, later identified as Lowery, lying on the floor of a bedroom struggling to breath. Blood was around her neck, Byers said, and a woman was holding a portion of a comforter to her neck to try to stop the bleeding.

Other officers had arrived by that time, and Byers’ supervisor told Byers to place Rippy under arrest and read him his Miranda rights.

The defendant’s mother, Deborah Rippy, testified that Lowery had brought the child to visit his father and the two adults had gone into her bedroom.

At one point she testified that it sounded like they were having sex because she heard groaning.

Deborah Rippy testified that she had heard Lowery was pregnant, and according to a statement to a detec‑ tive, she thought Lowery’s boyfriend, Jonathan Mitchell, was the father.

When Rippy came out of the bed‑ room, his mother testified, there was some confusion before it was realized that Rippy wanted his mother to call 911.

Rippy reportedly went outside the residence while his mother called for help.

Anita Parker, Rippy’s aunt, and also a resident of the home with Rippy and his mother, also testified that it sounded like Lowery and Rippy were having sex. At one point she knocked on the bedroom door, she testified, and asked if everything was OK. According to Parker, “Kelvin said she was OK.” When she later found out that Lowery was hurt, she testified that she became upset and raised her voice to Rippy, asking “What did you do?”

Parker said Rippy’s response was something to the effect that “Heather had messed up his life.”

Parker had gone over to the nearby home of another sister, Barbara Freeman. Freeman’s daughter, Lotoya Archer, had gone to the Rippy residence to visit with Lowery and

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“It’s Northern – does that tell you where it might could live?” Freeman discussed with another.

Emily Bailey and Brianna Moore, students in Freeman’s class, were assigned the Carolina Chickadee.

Living near the lake would be ideal for the small bird, they said.

“It has to have trees – they like to have shade and be near water,” Bailey said.

Allison Benton and Gabriel Neira, students in Thompson’s class, also thought their animal – a barking tree frog – would be OK living near the lake.

“But the lake would get cold, so it could burrow in the mud,” Benton said.

“And some animals can live in cer‑ tain places certain times of the year,” Neira said.

Not all students had animals that could survive in North Carolina, Freeman said.

“I know one group has desert ani‑

Rippy’s son.

Archer said she saw Rippy come out of the bedroom with a blank expres‑ sion on his face and say to call 911 and tell them that someone had been hurt.

Archer said she saw Lowery, but did not see blood on her. Scared, she returned to her mother’s home and told Parker and Freeman, “Kelvin has hurt Heather.”

Aquela Watkins testified that she lived in the same apartment com‑ plex as the Rippy family and when she heard loud voices she went to see what had happened. She was the person who applied pressure to the wound in Lowery’s neck until EMS arrived. The bleeding was com‑ ing from the back of Lowery’s neck, Watkins said.

Several witnesses testified that Rippy did not help Lowery and they testified that Lowery was either entirely or partially clothed.

After the lunch break, Junior Humphries, Lowery’s grandfather, testified that Rippy called his resi‑ dence the night before the incident and asked that Lowery get in touch with him so he could see his son.

Lowery’s mother, Lisa Tolleson, tes‑ tified that she and her mother drove to Asheville to find out about Heather after she had been airlifted to Mission Memorial Hospital.

She said her daughter, who was in intensive care, seemed to express pain with facial expressions, kicks and squirming, along with tears in her eyes.

That first night in Asheville, Tolleson testified, her daughter said “fight, fight, fight,” but added that she never said anything else. She also tes‑ tified that a tracheotomy was done at Mission and Heather was seen by an obstetrician.

She said when Lowery was returned to Hospice care in Forest City, the family was eventually informed that Lowery was in a persistent vegetative state.

Timothy Baise, with the SBI DNA clinic, testified that cheek swabs from Lowery and Rippy were examined, and that the blood on the knife was Heather’s blood and not Rippy’s.

Defense attorney Sparrow objected to introducing physical evidence from that testing into the trial, as he said it was not included in discovery. The judge allowed the lab report to be admitted into testimony, but he did not allow the swabs to be admitted.

Charles W. May, a Rutherford County EMS paramedic, had been dispatched to the call at Wells Drive.

He testified that he observed three puncture wounds on the victim’s mals that couldn’t survive,” she said.

Freeman said the idea for the proj‑ ect came from a Quality Teaching and Learning workshop she took part in over the summer.

“We did this project called the Empty Lot Project, which is similar to what they are doing today,” she said.

Once back at school, students were going to upload their video using the school’s laptop lab.

“I’m excited we got to come and I’m excited we are going to the laptop lab so we can do more outside of class,” Neira said.

“Any time you can do something hands on makes learning more fun for them,” Freeman said.

Students are about halfway through the unit on ecosystems and will continue to learn about them after Christmas.

Freeman said projects will include pictures and video and even nature sounds of the animals and voiceovers from students.

Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.

neck. He said he opened her airway and put her on oxygen. He said her color got better and she “regained the ability to fight back,” becoming com‑ bative in the EMS truck. But he add‑ ed she never regained consciousness.

The last witness of the day was Larry Hedgepath, a doctor at Hospice. His observations of Lowery while she was at Hospice were that he never saw any voluntary move‑ ment of her arms, he saw healing stab wounds, her eyes were open but she stared straight ahead and she had no grip reflex.

When she initially came to Hospice, on Nov. 21, she was a “symptom man‑ agement patient.”

But by Dec. 3, the doctor said he had a meeting with the family to say she was in a vegetative state and was not expected to recover.

The decision was made to stop hydration and nutrition, the doctor said, and he began to see very slow changes in Lowery. He added that he did not believe the fetus was alive at that point.

The doctor was asked how long a patient might live if artificial hydra‑ tion and nutrition were continued. He said he had seen cases where some had lived four or five years, but he added there was no way to know.

He said he didn’t know how long Lowery might have lived, but he commented, “She likely would never regain consciousness. She had her ups and downs on comfort level, but neu‑ rologically she did not change.”

The doctor said Lowery began a long, slow decline beginning on Dec. 3. He said on Dec. 12 it appeared she would not live another 48 hours, but she was stronger than expected and lived until Dec. 24, a total of 21 days.

Hedgepath was questioned by Sparrow about his knowledge of North Carolina’s Right to a Natural Death Act. That procedure says, “The General Assembly recognizes as a matter of public policy that an individual’s rights include the right to a peaceful and natural death and that a patient or the patient’s representative has the fundamental right to control the deci‑ sions relating to the rendering of the patient’s own medical care, including the decision to have life‑prolonging measures withheld or withdrawn in instances of a terminal condition.”

In his opening statement, Sparrow had said findings in the Lowery case may not be in compliance with the law.

The trial resumes today at 9:30 a.m.

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigitalcourier.com

Man admits selling bear gall bladders ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians pleaded guilty Tuesday to trafficking dozens of bear gall bladders against tribal law.

Clement Calhoun pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Asheville to two misdemeanor charges.

Prosecutors said Calhoun transported and sold 51 bear gall bladders that had a retail value of $6,600, although Calhoun’s plea only mentions 28 of the cases.

The gall bladders are used in Asian medicine. Cherokee code prohibits members from selling parts of big game animals beyond the boundaries of tribal trust lands.

Calhoun faces up to two years in prison and a $200,000 fine. He is scheduled to be sentenced next month.

His attorney did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

Federal officials said in court docu‑ ments that Calhoun’s case came to light during a covert U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service investigation several years ago.

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SMAC honors athletes

Minnesota-Carolina to remain night game NEW YORK (AP) — The Minnesota-Carolina matchup Dec. 20 will remain the NFL’s Sunday night game even though NBC had the option to choose another one.

The league said Tuesday that the Green Bay-Pittsburgh game that day will start at 4:15 p.m.

EST instead of 1 p.m.

The league’s flexible scheduling policy allows it to change the Sunday night game to select a better matchup starting in Week 11.

The Vikings are 10-2 entering this weekend’s meeting with Cincinnati. The Panthers are 5-7 before playing at New England.

By SCOTT BOWERS Daily Courier Sports Editor

FOREST CITY — Fortyfour Rutherford County student-athletes were selected as All-Conference by the South Mountain Athletic Conference for their performance in five Fall sports — football, men’s soccer, volleyball, men’s and women’s cross country, and women’s tennis.

In addition to the 44 area athletes, from the three schools (Chase, East Rutherford, and R-S Central) in the SMAC, Central’s head football coach Mike Cheek was selected as the Football Coach of the Year.

Cheek lead the Hilltoppers to a decade-best mark of 9-4 and a second round playoff appearance against West Rowan. Cheek, in his sixth season as head coach, is a first-time winner of the honor, and is the first-ever football coach to win the honor in the new conference.

The student-athletes that were selected were:

Minor league Sioux Falls Canaries sold SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Sioux Falls Canaries have a new, local ownership group.

The American Association baseball team has been bought

by Sioux Falls Sports LLC, the group that controls the Stampede of the United States Hockey League. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

The Canaries had been controlled by a variety of investors since original owner Harry Stavrenos sold the team to the Goldklang Group in 1998, with Ben Zuraw, a lawyerturned-schoolteacher based in Greensboro, the majority owner. Zuraw said hands-on involvement by the out-of-town group had tapered off.

The new ownership brings baseball experience — CEO and managing partner Gary Weckwerth was the first general manager of the Canaries when they debuted in Sioux Falls in 1993.

Tebow adds another mark to personal list NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Tebow added another Heisman first to his long list of accomplishments just by being selected a finalist for this year’s trophy.

Tebow became the first player to be invited to the Heisman Trophy presentation ceremony three times when the Florida quarterback — along with Colt McCoy, Mark Ingram, Toby Gerhart and Ndamukong Suh — was named a finalist for college football’s most prestigious player of the year award.

The last time as many as five players were invited to New York was 2004, when USC quarterback Matt Leinart won the award.

Tebow and McCoy were in New York, last season, when Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford won the award.

Local Sports BASKETBALL 6 p.m. Polk County at East Rutherford

On TV 7 p.m. (ESPN) NBA Basketball Chicago Bulls at Atlanta Hawks.

7 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball Georgia at St. John’s.

7 p.m. (FSS) NHL Hockey Carolina Hurricanes at New Jersey Devils.

9 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball Villanova at St. Joseph’s.

9:30 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball SEC/Big East Invitational — Connecticut vs.

Kentucky.

9:30 p.m. (TS) NHL Hockey Atlanta Thrashers at Calgary Flames.

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Chase’s Andrew Scruggs (10) goes up for a basket during the game against Bessemer City at Chase High Tuesday.

Trojans host Yellow Jackets

By JACOB CONLEY Sports Correspondent

CHASE — Normally, Coach Ken Hines would feel comfortable with his team putting up 73 points, but when his defense surrenders 98 the coach admits his team has plenty to work on.

“Defense, defense, defense, defense — we have got to play defense,” said Hines. “And on offense, Carlos (Watkins) has got to touch the ball every time down.”

Bessemer City put up the 98 points to Chase’s 73, as the Yellow Jackets came away with the nonconference win, Tuesday.

Chase got off to a fast start as Keyshon Crawford drained a 3-pointer off of the opening tip. That basket seemed to set the tone for the entire game as the two teams combined for 40 points in the first quarter.

The Yellow Jackets, however, finished the frame on an 11-0 run to take a 24-16 lead.

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Football Chase High: Blake Greene, Tajae McMullens and Jalen Smith.

East Rutherford High: Tyler Hamilton, Zach Price, Tajdre Wilkerson, Adrian Wilkins and Lewis Wilkins.

R-S Central High: Patrick Bearden, Nick Beaver, Leon Brown, William Brown, Cody Sellers, Aris Smith and Anthony Walke.

Men’s Soccer Chase High: Tyler Harth and Francisco Fabian.

East Rutherford High: Ryan Bailey and Lupe Escalera.

R-S Central High: Davis Choun, Kevin Dinga, J.T. McClain, Dylan Owens, Matt Simmons and Brett Thompson.

Volleyball Chase High: Euletha Davis, Suzanne Earley and Kristin Hutchins.

East Rutherford High: Jaclyn Boever and Sally Harrill.

R-S Central High: Daryl Brown and Lauren Murray.

Men’s Cross Country Chase High: Rene Escalera and Francisco Fabian.

East Rutherford High: Josh Messer.

R-S Central: Kevin Dinga and Tracy Ross.

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The Lady Trojans’ Euletha Davis (21) moves towards the basket during the game against Bessemer City Tuesday.

Women’s Cross Country Chase High: Izzy Cotarelo and Erika Lamb.

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How do you solve a problem like Tiger?

I am now too old for the heroes of my childhood.

That doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten them, or no longer see the value in them. No, that isn’t the case at all.

It’s just that I have reached an age where I no longer put certain men or women on a pedestal, and look up at them as an example for my life.

My son, Gideon, has heroes and I am very thankful to be at the top of his list — just above Superman, Batman, and Spiderman.

Gideon saw me lifting furniture one day and became convinced that I could pick up all varieties of large objects — “Dad, do you think you could pick up a giant,” he once asked.

“Sure, giants are easy to pick up,” I told him. “But, they are much harder to put down.”

He giggled at that one-liner.

The three costumed crusaders were once heroes of mine, along with sports figures such as Terry Bradshaw, Mean Joe Greene, Willie Stargell, Rocky Bleier, and my father, Ed Bowers.

Sure, Brad Pitt is better looking than I’ll ever be; Bill Gates has more money than I’ll ever have; and Michael

Off The Wall Scott Bowers

Jordan shoots a better jumper than I’ll ever shoot, but I don’t view myself as beneath any of them.

Maybe that is part of the reason I am not overly upset or even disappointed in Tiger Woods. For me, he was just a really good golfer. Nothing more, nothing less.

Woods continues to dominate the news as millions of Americans just can’t turn away from the juicy story of lust, infidelity and betrayal.

Like many of you, I have a favorite Bible verse.

Mine is John 8:7 — But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”

The tale moves to John 8:10 — Straightening up, Jesus said to her,

“Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?”

I don’t recall Woods stepping up to a microphone and pronouncing himself a 21st century role model.

Maybe, now in the shambles of a marriage, that could very well be on its way to an end, we, as a society, need to step back from Woods and allow the man to sort out his own personal failings.

Somewhere, out there in the world, thousands of American men and women will sleep on sand, with a rifle in their hand, to protect an ideal. I’ll never be as courageous as them.

Somewhere, this morning, thousands of men and women will climb into police cars, fire trucks and ambulances and save a neighbor or a stranger with the same passion and courage for each. I’ll never be as brave as them.

Somewhere, thousands of men and women will stand in front of a chalkboard and teach the basics to brains full of mush. I’ll never be as passionate or idealistic as them.

For I still have heroes, but they have changed uniforms since I was a kid.

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Scoreboard FOOTBALL National Football League

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF New England 7 5 0 .583 328 Miami 6 6 0 .500 278 N.Y. Jets 6 6 0 .500 249 Buffalo 4 8 0 .333 199 South

W L T Pct PF x-Indianapolis 12 0 0 1.000 331 Jacksonville 7 5 0 .583 225 Tennessee 5 7 0 .417 246 Houston 5 7 0 .417 277 North

W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 9 3 0 .750 254 Baltimore 6 6 0 .500 271 Pittsburgh 6 6 0 .500 272 Cleveland 1 11 0 .083 145 West

W L T Pct PF San Diego 9 3 0 .750 342 Denver 8 4 0 .667 240 Oakland 4 8 0 .333 142 Kansas City 3 9 0 .250 196 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF Dallas 8 4 0 .667 279 Philadelphia 8 4 0 .667 327 N.Y. Giants 7 5 0 .583 303 Washington 3 9 0 .250 200 South

W L T Pct PF x-New Orleans 12 0 0 1.000 440 Atlanta 6 6 0 .500 279 Carolina 5 7 0 .417 215 Tampa Bay 1 11 0 .083 187 North

W L T Pct PF Minnesota 10 2 0 .833 359 Green Bay 8 4 0 .667 323 Chicago 5 7 0 .417 233 Detroit 2 10 0 .167 206 West

W L T Pct PF Arizona 8 4 0 .667 297 San Francisco 5 7 0 .417 245 Seattle 5 7 0 .417 243 St. Louis 1 11 0 .083 139

PA 224 296 208 261 PA 201 273 316 266 PA 187 215 231 309 PA 242 202 282 326 PA 213 235 285 238 PA 251 279 262 330 PA 233 229 270 358 PA 234 233 267 314

x-clinched division Sunday’s Games Chicago 17, St. Louis 9 Oakland 27, Pittsburgh 24 Denver 44, Kansas City 13 Philadelphia 34, Atlanta 7 Cincinnati 23, Detroit 13 Miami 22, New England 21 New Orleans 33, Washington 30, OT Indianapolis 27, Tennessee 17 Carolina 16, Tampa Bay 6 Jacksonville 23, Houston 18 San Diego 30, Cleveland 23 N.Y. Giants 31, Dallas 24 Seattle 20, San Francisco 17 Arizona 30, Minnesota 17 Monday’s Game Green Bay 27, Baltimore 14 Thursday, Dec. 10 Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 13 Seattle at Houston, 1 p.m.

Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Denver at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Carolina at New England, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Miami at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m.

Washington at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

San Diego at Dallas, 4:15 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 14 Arizona at San Francisco, 8:30 p.m.

Bowl Glance Saturday, Dec. 19 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Wyoming (6-6) vs. Fresno State (8-4), 2:30 p.m.

(ESPN) St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl Rutgers (8-4) vs. UCF (8-4), 8 p.m. (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 p.m.

(ESPN) Emerald Bowl At San Francisco Southern Cal (8-4) vs. Boston College (8-4), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Sunday, Dec. 27 Music City Bowl

Prep 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) or Army (5-6), 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 (8-4), 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 GB Boston 16 4 .800 — Toronto 9 13 .409 8 New York 7 15 .318 10 Philadelphia 5 16 .238 11 1/2 New Jersey 1 19 .050 15 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Orlando 16 4 .800 — Atlanta 14 6 .700 2 Miami 11 9 .550 5 Charlotte 8 11 .421 7 1/2

Washington

7 12 .368 Central Division

W L Pct Cleveland 15 5 .750 Milwaukee 9 10 .474 Detroit 8 12 .400 Chicago 7 11 .389 Indiana 6 12 .333 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct Dallas 14 7 .667 Houston 11 9 .550 San Antonio 9 9 .500 New Orleans 8 11 .421 Memphis 8 12 .400 Northwest Division

W L Pct Denver 16 5 .762 Utah 12 8 .600 Portland 13 9 .591 Oklahoma City 11 9 .550 Minnesota 3 17 .150 Pacific Division

W L Pct L.A. Lakers 16 3 .842 Phoenix 15 6 .714 Sacramento 9 10 .474 L.A. Clippers 9 11 .450 Golden State 6 14 .300

GB — 5 1/2 7 7 8 GB — 2 1/2 3 1/2 5 5 1/2 GB — 3 1/2 3 1/2 4 1/2 12 1/2 GB — 2 7 7 1/2 10 1/2

Monday’s Games Denver 93, Philadelphia 83 New York 93, Portland 84 Oklahoma City 104, Golden State 88 Utah 104, San Antonio 101 Tuesday’s Games Charlotte 107, Denver 95 Toronto 94, Minnesota 88 Milwaukee at Boston, late Cleveland at Memphis, late New Jersey at Chicago, late Sacramento at New Orleans, late Phoenix at Dallas, late Orlando at L.A. Clippers, late Wednesday’s Games Portland at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Golden State at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Cleveland at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

Sacramento at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Utah at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Down by eight, the Trojans turned to the press and Watkins to forge a comeback. The quickness of Crawford and Josh Mills resulted in numerous trips and then the speedy guards connected on hitahead passes to Watkins for the easy finish around the rim.

As a result, the Trojans’ run-and-gun offense left the squad trailing by only a single point heading into the locker room at half, 39-38.

Bessemer City took control of the contest with a 9-2 run to open the 3rd and things did not get any better for the home team. Chase found themselves down by 20, 70-50, at the end of the 3rd.

The Trojans made a valiant comeback effort as they hustled after every loose ball and managed to cut lead the deficit 11 with just over four minutes left in the contest, but it was too little, too late.

Watkins led the Trojan attack with 25 points.

Chase 48, Bessemer City 40

HOCKEY National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF New Jersey 28 20 7 1 41 81 Pittsburgh 31 20 10 1 41 99 N.Y. Rangers 29 14 14 1 29 83 N.Y. Islanders 29 11 11 7 29 76 Philadelphia 27 13 13 1 27 80 Northeast Division

GP W L OT Pts GF Boston 29 15 9 5 35 76 Buffalo 27 16 9 2 34 73 Ottawa 28 14 10 4 32 83 Montreal 30 14 14 2 30 76 Toronto 29 9 13 7 25 83 Southeast Division

GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 30 19 5 6 44 111 Atlanta 27 15 9 3 33 89 Tampa Bay 29 11 10 8 30 74 Florida 30 11 13 6 28 82 Carolina 29 7 17 5 19 70 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF Chicago 28 18 7 3 39 85 Nashville 29 16 11 2 34 73 Detroit 29 14 10 5 33 83 Columbus 29 13 11 5 31 89 St. Louis 28 12 11 5 29 70 Northwest Division

GP W L OT Pts GF Colorado 32 17 9 6 40 98 Calgary 29 18 8 3 39 87 Vancouver 29 16 13 0 32 91 Edmonton 30 13 13 4 30 90 Minnesota 29 13 13 3 29 78 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF San Jose 31 19 7 5 43 104 Los Angeles 31 18 10 3 39 95 Phoenix 30 18 11 1 37 75 Dallas 29 13 8 8 34 85 Anaheim 29 10 13 6 26 82

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GA 61 83 88 89 79 GA 72 62 87 87 104 GA 82 78 85 103 105 GA 64 80 82 105 77 GA 95 71 75 95 88 GA 82 93 68 85 96

Monday’s Games Toronto 5, Atlanta 2 New Jersey 3, Buffalo 0 Edmonton 3, Florida 2, SO Montreal 3, Philadelphia 1 Washington 3, Tampa Bay 0 Carolina 3, Pittsburgh 2 Colorado 4, St. Louis 0 Phoenix 2, Minnesota 0 Los Angeles 2, Calgary 1 Tuesday’s Games Philadelphia 6, N.Y. Islanders 2 Montreal at Ottawa, late Vancouver at Nashville, late Dallas at Anaheim, late Wednesday’s Games Carolina at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Florida at Columbus, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Washington at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

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

N.Y. Rangers at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Atlanta at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

CHASE — Kendra Holcombe, Euletha Davis, and Kaitlyn Smith each scored in double figures to lead the Lady Trojans to victory over Bessemer City for the second time in less than a week, 48-40, Tuesday.

The early going was a struggle on the offensive end for both teams as numerous traveling violations kept the game in the half court. As a result, Bessemer City held an 8-5 lead at the end of the first.

Two transition buckets by the Yellow Jackets opened the second quarter and made the score 12-5. After a Trojans’ time-out, Chase responded with a 6-0 run to cut the deficit to five. The Chase defense, however, could not stop Januara Sellers who netted 15 first half points to the Jackets a 24-17 half-time lead.

Chase came out of the locker room on a 5-0 run spurred by a deep 3 from Holcomb. The Trojans defense then stepped up and held the Jackets to a mere two field goals in the 3rd that left Chase trailing by two, 28-26, heading into the final frame.

The trio of Holcomb, Davis and Smart turned up the intensity in the fourth as the Lady Trojans hammered down 22 points and the win.

R-S Central 74, East Henderson 49 FLAT ROCK — Three Hilltoppers came close to double-doubles as Central blasted East Henderson, 74-49, Tuesday, to improve to 5-0 on the season.

Jacob Kinlaw (16 points, 9 boards), Darrien Watkins (13, 8), and Jonathan Fuller (11, 7) lead the Central attack that pleased Coach Greg Wright.

“I think that tonight was a step in the right direction,” said Wright. “I was very disappointed in how we played last week and we worked hard in practice to correct some issues. Tonight, I feel we played better on both sides of the ball.”

Central will next host East Rutherford on Tuesday, Dec. 15, in their conference-opener.

R-S Central 75, East Henderson 34 FLAT ROCK — The Lady Hilltoppers cruised and bruised East Henderson, 75-34, Tuesday, in non-conference action.

Central (3-2) received double-digit scoring efforts from Shannon Hines (16), Mercedes Davis (15), and Melissa McLaughlin (14) in the win.

“Good win, we were able to get everyone involved and I believe we took another step forward, tonight,” said Central Coach Darius Fuller.

R-S Central will open conference play, at home, against East Rutherford, next Tuesday.

Prior to the game, Central will retire the No. 15 jersey worn by Frances Hernandez. Hernandez is the county’s all-time leading scorer with over 2,000 career points.

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East Rutherford High: None.

R-S Central High: Morgan Lowery, Melissa McLaughlin and Alyssia Watkins.

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Danica Patrick unveils No. 7 JR Motorsports stock car

PHOENIX (AP) — Danica Patrick signed with JR Motorsports on Tuesday to give NASCAR a try, but her schedule in the second-tier Nationwide Series has yet to be determined.

Patrick will make her stock car racing debut in the Feb. 6 ARCA race at Daytona International Speedway, a day before she’ll be featured in a pair of Super Bowl ads for sponsor GoDaddy.com.

The IndyCar sensation unveiled her green and orange No. 7 Chevrolet in a news conference at Chase Field with GoDaddy.com, which is sponsorTiger Woods ing her in both series.

“We’ve all been working very hard for some time now to bring this all together,” Patrick said at a news conference. “There’s much relief there, but I’m starting to get a little bit nervous that now it’s time to do my part of the

By DOUG FERGUSON deal and get out there in these AP Golf Writer cars and perform. It’s no doubt going to be challenging.”

The passenger was waiting in a long line at Patrick will juggle her new Heathrow on Tuesday when he came face-to-face NASCAR job with her full-time with an Accenture advertisement on the wall job in IndyCar, where she’s the showing Tiger Woods walking through the tall series’ most marketable driver. grass with a club in his hand.

The man stared for the longest time, then turned She finalized a three-year contract extension last week with away and said solemnly, “I can’t believe it.”

If this episode ever ends, if the key statistic asso- Andretti Autosport to run the ciated with Woods ever goes back to greens in reg- full IndyCar schedule, but there’s enough lag time in the schedule ulation, one thing is becoming clear. to do both.

No one will ever look at him the same.

She will drive for the team Ask yourself this question: If you’ve seen Woods owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. lately in the PGA Tour’s commercial on charity, and Rick Hendrick in the secwas it jarring?

Almost as shocking as the allegations of infidelity ond-tier Nationwide Series.

“I think (NASCAR) is someis the swiftness of his fall. For 13 years on the PGA thing we’re going to try to do Tour — longer if you go back to his six straight before and after the IndyCar USGA titles as an amateur — Woods rarely was season, but we will look at some regarded as anything but an indomitable figure. options,” she said.

Just like that, he has become the butt of jokes.

It’s not yet determined how His colleagues, who once spoke about with him reverence, now take pity. Even John Daly feels sor- many NASCAR races she will run in 2010. With flashbulbs ry for him.

Despite being among the most famous athletes in popping, the black-clad Patrick the world, we knew so little about Woods. Now we posed between her NASCAR and IndyCar rides. know too much. Woods managed to keep himself Patrick said she’s more comout of the tabloids for years only to be the cover fortable with the demands of a boy now.

The big development Tuesday featured yet another 911 call, another ambulance inside the exclusive gated community of Isleworth at an address everyone now knows. This time, it was to take his mother-in-law, Barbro Holmberg, to the hospital

By TIM DAHLBERG for stomach pains. She was released later Tuesday AP Boxing Writer afternoon.

LAS VEGAS — Promoters There’s no word when Woods might return. His plan to go to Dallas to meet caddie, Steve Williams, told the New Zealand Wednesday with Cowboys’ ownHerald over the weekend that he expected to be er Jerry Jones as the momentum back on the bag at the San Diego Open. That was continues to grow for a March merely a comment to show he is standing by the boss. Not even his caddie knows when Woods will 13 megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather be back in public.

Jr. The last tournament Woods played spoke to Promoters Bob Arum and his iconic status around the world. He won the Australian Masters before enormous crowds, with Richard Schaefer were to tour the new Dallas Cowboy stadium so much foot traffic that it kicked up dust from the sandbelt course and caused Woods to wipe the along with HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg and listen grime from his face. to a proposal from Jones to host The woman keeping score on the last day at the fight, a person close to the Kingston Heath whispered to the teenager carrypromotion said. ing the scoreboard, “This is the holy grail in golf.”

Other leading contenders for Given the publicity and the amount of allegations, the fight are the MGM Grand does she still feel that way? hotel arena in Las Vegas and Until this salacious saga began Nov. 27 with a the Superdome in New Orleans, car accident outside his home, few embarrassing said the person, who requested moments for Woods made headlines. anonymity because both sides GQ magazine caught him telling racial jokes agreed not to speak publicly durwhile riding in a limousine. A boom mike on the ing negotiations.

18th hole at Pebble Beach picked up an obscenityNeither fighter has formally laced tirade when he hit a tee shot into the ocean. signed for the fight, though The 33-year-old Woods most likely is just now coming into the prime of his career, already having both have agreed in principle to terms. Promoters are so confiwon 14 majors in pursuit of the record 18 won by Jack Nicklaus. Next year would seem to be the ide- dent it will happen that they are also scouting sites in New York al time to make up ground, with the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach and the British Open at St. Andrews. City for a Jan. 6 press conference to formally announce the bout.

Accenture, meanwhile, continues to feature Most major fights in recent Woods on the home page of its Web site. He is decades have been in Las Vegas, standing in the desert rough, surrounded by cacand Pacquiao and Mayweather tus plants, trying to figure out his next move. have fought their biggest fights “Opportunity isn’t always obvious,” the headline at the MGM Grand, which seats says. about 16,000 for boxing. Many Now more than ever.

Woods might never be looked at the same

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IndyCar driver Danica Patrick checks out her new GoDaddy.com No. 7 JR Motorsports stock car during an event announcing her intention to make her stock car racing debut in an ARCA race Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, in Phoenix.

heavier schedule — something that she said she wasn’t ready to do a few years ago, when speculation began to grow that she was considering racing stock cars.

“I’m finally ready,” Patrick said.

“I think that the schedule doesn’t intimidate me as much as it used to. It’s going to be a lot to learn.”

Kelley Earnhardt, sister of JR Motorsports co-owner Dale Earnhardt Jr., worked to bring Patrick into the fold. Asked about the team’s expectations of Patrick, Earnhardt said, “I think it’s reasonable for her to be in the top 15 of the series when she’s running.

“Obviously, maybe the first few races, we’ll see what that brings,” Earnhardt said. “She’s got to

get in there and get used to the cars. Hopefully, everybody will remember that and won’t be so quick to judge, which is easy to do.”

Patrick said she could “barely remember” the last time she was in a stock car and thought it was seven or eight years ago. But she said she’s willing to learn a “new craft” and hopes to challenge the top names in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series some day.

“Obviously, if ever one day it continued on and I ended up running in the Cup one day, then I need to learn how to race against those guys and earn their respect,” Patrick said. “So I’m excited about that, actually.

It’s an opportunity to try and show what I’ve got.”

Momentum for Pacquiao-Mayweather megafight grows

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Manny Pacquiao holds the championship belt at the finish of his WBO welterweight boxing title fight against Miguel Cotto, of Puerto Rico, in this Nov. 14, 2009 file photo, in Las Vegas.

in boxing still consider the MGM to have the inside track on landing the fight, but the trip by promoters to Dallas indicates that they believe Jones will make a competitive bid.

The anticipated demand for

the fight brings both the Cowboy stadium and Superdome into the equation because they can seat far more people. The Dallas stadium could hold 100,000 or more for a fight, including seats on the football field.

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Nation Today Doctor slain at Ky. clinic

HAZARD, Ky. (AP) — Police say a doctor in eastern Kentucky has been shot to death at a medical clinic and a man has been taken into custody.

Kentucky State Police Trooper Tony Watts said Dr. Dennis Sandlin was killed about 11:40 a.m. Tuesday at the Leatherwood-Blackey Medical Clinic in Perry County, in southeastern Kentucky.

Watts said John Combs was arrested later in the day. Watts did not say what prompted the shooting or if there was any relationship between the two men. The trooper could not say what Combs was charged with or provide his age or hometown.

Tenn. mayor apologizes

ARLINGTON, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee mayor is apologizing for writing on his Facebook page that President Barack Obama deliberately timed a speech last week to block the “Peanuts” Christmas special.

Russell Wiseman, mayor of the Memphis suburb of Arlington, also said the president is Muslim. Obama is Christian.

The Commercial Appeal reports Wiseman e-mailed the media Monday to say he regrets offending anyone with what he described as a “poor attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor amongst friends.” He also says he allowed things to go too far.

The town issued a statement on its Web site saying the mayor’s views

do not reflect its official ideals and beliefs. Wiseman has since deleted his Facebook account.

Tongue stuck on pole ’09 BOISE, Idaho (AP) — It’s become an annual winter tale: A young boy gets his tongue stuck to a metal pole, perhaps as the result of a dare.

This year, the scene straight out of the movie “A Christmas Story” unfolded Tuesday morning in Boise with a boy of about 10.

Boise firefighters used a glass of warm water to free the unidentified boy from the metal fence pole.

Fire Capt. Bill Tinsley says the boy’s tongue was bleeding a little, but he was OK and allowed to continue walking to school.

Number in jail slowing WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. prison population edged up slightly last year, though the number of total inmates dropped in 20 states, including New York, Georgia and Michigan.

Justice Department figures released Tuesday show the overall state and federal prison population stands at a record 1.6 million and is still rising, but the rate of growth is slowing as state authorities look for cheaper ways to mete out justice.

The government figures show one out of every 133 U.S. residents was in prison or jail at the end of last year.

Associated Press

City employee Logan Kappel blows snow in Flagstaff, Ariz. Tuesday clearing out the effects of the big storm that hit Northern Arizona on Monday and Tuesday.

Power outages, freeway closures, and closed schools accompanied the blizzard.

Storm rips Midwest

By MELANIE S. WELTE Associated Press Writer

DES MOINES, Iowa — Fierce winds ripped away the roof of a police station, thousands of people lost power and drivers stuck by closed highways settled in to wait as storms swept out of the West to the nation’s midsection Tuesday.

Much of the Upper Midwest was covered in deep snow, and strong winds Tuesday night were expected to create blizzard conditions. The storm had already blanketed much of the mountain west and drenched Southern California with rain.

Ice was the problem Tuesday morning in Oklahoma, where Interstate 40 was closed for about 25 miles between Clinton and Elk City. Mitch Dodson, a trucker hauling soda pop out of Durango, Colo., to Virginia, was waylaid at the Travel America plaza near the town of Sayre in western Oklahoma.

“It’s just a sheet of ice from Amarillo to here,” Dodson said. “It’s a disaster.”

With travel likely to get worse, officials were warning residents in parts of the west and Midwest to stay close to home. Blizzard warnings were issued for most of Iowa as well as eastern Nebraska, southern Minnesota and southern Wisconsin.

Some schools closed before the worst of the storm was expected to hit so that school buses wouldn’t slip on slick roads.

College scene of shooting

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A man accused of aiming a rifle at a teacher in a Virginia community college and firing several shots was arrested Tuesday. No injuries were reported.

“The teacher hit the floor when she saw a gun come up,” said Sgt. Kim Chinn, spokeswoman for Prince William County Police.

The shooting happened around 2:40 p.m. at Northern Virginia Community College’s campus in Woodbridge, about 25 miles south of Washington, D.C. Officer Erika Hernandez said the student fired several shots with a high-powered rifle. The gunman, believed to be a current student, was apprehended by campus and county police, though it wasn’t immediately clear what stopped him from continuing to fire the gun.

A police SWAT team was moving through the building room by room evacuating students, Hernandez said.

Police spokeswoman Sharon Richardson says officers responded about 2:40 p.m. to an “active shooter” situation following reports of a gunman in the main administration building.

The college enacted its emergency

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“Anybody traveling tomorrow morning is really taking a huge risk I would say — a risk of being stranded and not having anybody be able to help you for 6 or 12 hours, probably,” Karl Jungbluth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Johnston, Iowa, said Tuesday.

Jungbluth said a “classic, big, deepening winter storm” was affecting more than a dozen states. A foot or more of snow was expected in parts of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.

Wind gusts of up to 50 mph could create snow drifts of 8 to 15 feet.

“Snow and lots of it!” said Rose Jansen, assistant manager at Sparky’s One Stop gas station in Schaller, Iowa. “We’ll be here, no matter what.”

Subzero temperatures caused a scene out of the movie “A Christmas Story,” when a boy got his tongue stuck to a metal fence pole.

Firefighters in Boise, Idaho, used a glass of warm water to free the boy, who they estimated was about 10 years old. Fire Capt. Bill Tinsley says the boy’s tongue was bleeding a little, but he was allowed to continue walking to school.

The weather also brought a filmlike feeling for Sharmishtha Jindal, an 18-year-old University of Iowa freshman from Bhopal, India.

“I saw this in the movies and on television, but this is the first experience,” Jindal said. “It’s very different in the real world.”

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lockdown procedures and later issued a statement saying all Woodbridge classes were canceled Tuesday because of the shooting incident.

Some students, faculty and staff were sent to a nearby high school.

More than two hours after the incident, though, student Christian Dorn told WRC-TV by telephone that she was still barricaded inside a classroom. She said a SWAT team came through the building and told students to stay where they were.

She recalls hearing two loud shots in the building and screams to call 911.

“I just thought about Virginia Tech and Columbine and just was praying this was not another one of those situations,” she told the television station. “We’re just confused right now.

We’re ready to leave.”

Student Josh Davies told WTOP Radio he was sitting in a basement classroom when his class heard about the shooting.

“A gentleman ran inside, slammed the door and informed us that another gentleman was telling everyone that there were gunshots fired,” he said. “That’s when we barricaded ourselves inside the door.”

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STOCKS/BUSINESS

THE MARKET IN REVIEW

STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS

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NYSE

7,056.26 -99.47

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last FstBcpPR 2.08 McClatchy 3.00 Talbots 8.23 Prime pfB 6.30 ClearwP n 54.69 W Hld rs lf 18.26 StdRegis 5.22 KV PhmB lf 4.17 Gannett 11.80 USEC 4.07

Chg +.29 +.39 +1.02 +.60 +4.25 +1.34 +.36 +.26 +.71 +.24

%Chg +16.2 +14.9 +14.1 +10.5 +8.4 +7.9 +7.4 +6.5 +6.4 +6.3

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last DoverDG 3.54 GabUt pfA 22.28 Kroger 20.13 ResrceCap 4.33 ChinaYuch 14.85 Intl Coal 3.59 StratH pfB 10.75 StratH pfC 10.68 BlueLinx 2.94 NBkGreece 5.45

Chg -.71 -3.86 -2.72 -.55 -1.84 -.41 -1.19 -1.12 -.30 -.56

%Chg -16.7 -14.8 -11.9 -11.3 -11.0 -10.3 -10.0 -9.5 -9.3 -9.3

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg Citigrp 4931557 3.91 -.12 BkofAm 3046489 15.41 -.48 SPDR 1457624 109.61 -1.23 SPDR Fncl 1062242 14.26 -.13 SprintNex 812590 3.91 -.27 Pfizer 789128 17.76 -.30 GenElec 779367 15.72 -.36 Kroger 739504 20.13 -2.72 iShEMkts 738165 40.71 -.77 DirFBear rs 637059 20.73 +.49 Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

DIARY

945 2,086 128 3,159 128 7 4,763,018,071

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AMEX

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1,759.32 -28.99

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Chg RELM 3.90 +1.47 BioTime wt 2.85 +.75 BioTime n 4.98 +.85 CaracoP 6.03 +.79 BPW Acq un11.25 +1.29 WinnerM n 6.26 +.46 SagaCm rs 14.50 +1.03 ChinaEd n 6.45 +.45 MidsthBcp 14.58 +.98 ChMda wt 5.18 +.33

%Chg +60.5 +35.7 +20.6 +15.1 +13.0 +7.9 +7.6 +7.5 +7.2 +6.8

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last SoCTBcp 2.32 MtnPDia g 2.17 KeeganR g 5.96 MAG Slv g 6.20 Barnwell 4.15 PacAsiaP n 4.02 NIVS IntT n 2.19 HallwdGp 37.50 SinoHub n 3.75 TianyinPh 4.35

Chg %Chg -.43 -15.6 -.16 -6.9 -.44 -6.8 -.45 -6.8 -.30 -6.7 -.28 -6.5 -.15 -6.4 -2.50 -6.3 -.24 -6.0 -.28 -6.0

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg BPW Acq 128364 10.32 +.47 GoldStr g 69323 3.39 -.19 RELM 64490 3.90 +1.47 PhrmAth 50804 1.55 -1.71 UtdRefEn 40821 9.92 +.22 Taseko 39673 3.71 -.14 NovaGld g 34359 5.45 -.33 NthgtM g 26823 3.12 -.05 GrtBasG g 26191 1.68 -.06 CelSci 21249 1.11 -.06 DIARY

Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

203 318 46 567 11 4 139,567,510

DAILY DOW JONES

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NEEdS Dow Jones industrials ANAlySIS. LIFE INSURANCE LATELY? Close: 10,285.97 10,520

2,172.99 -16.62

Chg +1.49 +1.90 +.50 +.92 +.75 +.47 +.35 +.38 +.50 +.63

Chg -3.52 -4.83 -1.55 -5.20 -1.46 -3.24 -.84 -2.85 -.48 -.63

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DIARY

6,469.95 2,134.21 288.66 4,181.75 1,130.47 1,265.52 666.79 397.97 6,772.29 342.59

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Dow Industrials 10,285.97 -104.14 Dow Transportation 4,055.11 -4.80 Dow Utilities 391.28 -1.21 NYSE Composite 7,056.26 -99.47 Amex Market Value 1,759.32 -28.99 Nasdaq Composite 2,172.99 -16.62 S&P 500 1,091.94 -11.31 S&P MidCap 695.73 -5.67 Wilshire 5000 11,224.82 -109.97 Russell 2000 597.70 -5.86

8,800

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg PwShs QQQ753901 43.64 -.27 Intel 630355 19.99 -.38 Comcast 549661 17.36 +.09 Dell Inc 462933 12.81 -.48 Cisco 433837 23.81 -.40 Microsoft 366824 29.57 -.22 Yahoo 306771 15.45 ...

Oracle 272231 21.91 -.57 Nvidia 265777 15.31 -.78 Apple Inc 241658 189.87 +.92 Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

10 DAYS

10,400

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last ReadgIntB 5.51 MaysJ 16.45 FstChestr n 5.55 AutoChi n 19.80 e-Future 6.71 ImperlSgr 15.00 FrontFn rs 4.12 AutoCh wt 14.90 MolecInPh 2.54 TmbrlndBc 4.11

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%Chg +46.4 +29.6 +21.3 +20.7 +16.5 +15.7 +15.2 +14.6 +14.5 +12.6

10,516.70 4,122.43 397.29 7,285.67 1,887.23 2,214.39 1,119.13 717.75 11,480.36 625.30

10,360

Change: -104.14 (-1.0%)

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last ParkBcp h 4.70 QuadraMed 8.31 HokuSci 2.85 Sigmatr 5.36 Netlist 5.29 BkVA 3.47 eOnComm 2.65 Rdiff.cm 2.98 FedFstFn 3.95 SelCmfrt 5.64

52-Week High Low

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Total Assets Obj ($Mlns) NAV

Total Return/Rank Pct Min Init 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load Invt

CI 114,653 LG 65,022 IH 58,268 LB 56,221 WS 56,060 LG 55,503 MA 49,018 LB 48,458 LB 47,844 LB 43,018 FB 40,409 LV 39,492 LV 38,894 FV 35,777 WS 32,502 FG 31,850 LB 30,369 CI 30,253 MA 29,744 CA 28,628 MA 28,113 LB 27,983 CI 27,836 LG 27,285 LB 26,873 FB 25,417 LB 24,423 MB 23,633 LV 15,231 LB 9,646 LB 4,251 GS 1,416 LV 1,228 SR 415 LG 185

+1.1 +19.2/C +1.8 +32.3/C +1.7 +23.6/D +2.4 +25.7/C +1.6 +36.6/C +1.1 +25.8/D +2.8 +26.5/C +2.8 +26.2/C +2.3 +23.1/C +2.3 +23.2/C +1.4 +47.0/A +2.2 +29.9/A +3.6 +16.4/D +0.9 +54.0/A +2.2 +41.4/B +1.2 +41.0/D +2.4 +32.3/A +1.0 +18.9/C +2.3 +21.1/D +3.2 +43.6/A +2.3 +25.2/C +2.3 +23.2/C +1.2 +19.5/B +2.2 +37.5/B +2.4 +25.8/C +1.4 +45.6/A +2.4 +23.2/C +0.9 +42.3/B +2.3 +21.2/C +2.1 +40.5/A +1.7 +21.4/D +0.4 +6.2/B +2.1 +27.3/B +9.4 +26.8/B +1.1 +33.0/C

11.01 26.78 48.13 26.88 33.83 56.39 15.47 25.62 101.05 100.42 38.54 94.54 24.50 31.89 25.44 27.60 32.01 11.01 16.19 2.03 28.90 101.08 11.92 66.12 26.89 14.60 100.43 30.79 20.64 29.68 34.89 10.55 2.93 13.55 14.56

+7.0/A +2.9/A +4.2/C +1.0/B +6.6/A +4.7/A +3.2/B +1.8/B +0.4/C +0.5/C +8.3/A -0.4/D +0.5/C +6.2/A +6.0/A +4.3/D +4.2/A +6.7/A +2.2/C +3.9/B +5.1/A +0.5/C +2.6/E +4.1/A +1.0/B +6.0/A +0.5/C +3.4/A +1.0/B +3.8/A +1.1/B +4.8/A -1.4/D +0.3/B -0.4/D

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

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

Strong dollar sends stocks into a slump

By SARA LEPRO and TIM PARADIS AP Business Writers

President Barack Obama pauses during his speech on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Tuesday.

Associated Press

Obama urges funding for jobs

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, aiming to jolt the wobbly economy into a stronger recovery and reduce painfully persistent double-digit unemployment.

Despite Republican criticism concerning record federal deficits, Obama said the U.S. must continue to “spend our way out of this recession” as long as so many people are out of work.

More than 7 million Americans have lost their jobs since the recession began two years ago, and the jobless rate stands at 10 percent, a statistic Obama called “staggering.”

Congressional approval would be required for the new spending, the amount unspecified but sure to be at least tens of billions of dollars. “We avoided the depression many feared,” Obama said in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. But, he added, “Our work is far from done.”

It was the third time in a week the president had presided over a high-profile event on jobs, responding to rising pleas in Congress that he spend more time discussing unemployment as midterm elections draws near.

Obama proposed new spending for highway and bridge construction, for small business tax cuts and for retrofitting millions of homes to make them more energy-efficient. He said he wanted to extend economic stimulus programs to keep unemployment insurance from expiring for millions of out-of-work Americans and to help laid-off workers

Key elements of Obama package Here are the key elements of the job creation package President Barack Obama outlined Tuesday:

Small Business Incentives

n Eliminating capital gains taxes on new investments in small businesses through 2010, if the investments are held for at least five years. n Extension through 2010 of a law that allows small businesses to take immediate tax write-offs on up to $250,000 of qualified investments. n An employment tax cut through 2010 to encourage small business hiring. n Making Small Business Administration loans more readily available, by eliminating fees and increasing federal loan guarantees in 2010.

Roads, Bridges and Other Infrastructure n Up to $50 billion in new spending on ready-to-go construction projects. n New merit-based procedures to select infrastructure projects for financing.

Energy Efficiency Investments n Rebates for homeowners to make energy efficient improvements. n Expansion of programs that use federal money to leverage private investments in industrial and manufacturing projects that use clean energy.

keep their health insurance. He proposed an additional $250 apiece in stimulus spending for seniors and veterans and aid to state and local governments to discourage them from laying off teachers, police officers and firefighters.

He did not give a price tag for the new package but said he would work with Congress on deciding how to pay for it.

Proposals in Congress being advanced by Democratic leaders that cover much the same ground would add up to $170 billion or more. Administration aides suggested the infrastructure proposals alone being weighed by the president could cost about $50 billion.

Republicans ridiculed the pres-

ident’s speech and his parallel call for doing more to hold down government deficits.

“At least the president’s proposal will result in one new job — he’ll need to hire a magician to make this new deficit spending appear fiscally responsible,” said Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio declared the president “out of ideas and out of touch.”

While Obama did not propose the kind of direct federal public works jobs that were created in the 1930s, he said government action could set the stage for more job creation by private business.

NEW YORK — Investors dumped stocks and sought safe-haven assets like the dollar and Treasurys on signs that the global economy is still struggling.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 104 points Tuesday but recovered some of its earlier losses.

A disappointing earnings forecast from Dow Jones industrials component 3M Co. and a weak sales report from McDonald’s Corp., another Dow company, pulled stocks lower. The reports overshadowed an increased profit forecast from FedEx Corp.

Reports in Britain and Germany signaled that manufacturing remains weak, while Japan’s government approved $81 billion in stimulus measures to keep its economy out of recession. Credit rating agencies warned about debt problems in Dubai and Greece.

Investors sent the dollar and Treasury prices higher in response to the day’s news. Commodities fell as the dollar rose.

A stronger dollar makes commodities more expensive for buyers overseas, and hurts profits at companies that have large international operations.

After the huge rally in stocks and commodities this year, investors are looking for clues about where the economy is headed and how best to position their portfolios for next year.

Investors are uncertain of how long the environment of low interest rates and a weak dollar that helped fuel the market’s rally will last.

Philip S. Dow, managing director of equity strategy at RBC Wealth Management in Minneapolis, said 3M’s forecast drew attention from FedEx and that the day’s retreat is in order after the steep gains in stocks over all.

“People were so enthused with FedEx then got a little disappointed with 3M,” he said. “I just think it’s a rest.”

At the same time, there are still plenty of doubts about the economic recovery to drive cautious investors to pad their portfolios with safe havens.

According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 104.14, or 1 percent, to 10,285.97. The Dow fell as much as 140 points.

The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 11.31, or 1 percent, to 1,091.94, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 16.62, or 0.8 percent, to 2,172.99.

Stocks finished little changed on Monday after rBond prices rose, sending yields lower. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 3.39 percent from 3.43 percent late Monday.

Gold prices fell for a third straight day to $1,143.40.

Crude oil fell $1.31 to settle at $72.62 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

More than two stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.1 billion shares compared with 1.1 billion shares Monday.

The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 5.86, or 1 percent, to 597.70.

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Key senator may face ethics probe n Montana’ Baucus nominated live-in girlfriend for U.S. attorney post; she later withdrew her nomination

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Writer

BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana Sen. Max Baucus’ live-in girlfriend had eyed the state’s U.S. attorney post for years before he nominated her for the job, her former colleagues said.

Melodee Hanes, 53, the Democratic senator’s former state director, was described by colleagues as a skilled trial attorney qualified for the federal prosecutor’s job. She withdrew her nomination in March.

Baucus, 67, is chairman of the Senate’s influential finance committee and a leading voice in Democratic calls for health care reform. The mingling of his personal and professional lives has prompted Republican calls for an ethics investigation.

In Montana, Yellowstone County Attorney Dennis Paxinos described Hanes as an accomplished criminal prosecutor. Being named U.S. attorney “was the career path she was working on” since at least 2002, said Paxinos, a Republican and Hanes’ former boss.

That year Hanes left her deputy county attor-

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ney job to work on Baucus’ re-election campaign.

The move into politics was based on the assumption that it could lead to the federal prosecutor’s job, according to Paxinos.

“I don’t think it was ever her intent to fall in love with a senator,” he said.

When Hanes put in her name for U.S. attorney — soon after President Obama was elected last November — John Sarcone, county attorney in Polk County, Iowa, said he submitted a letter of recommendation for her. Hanes, who gravitated to child abuse cases over her two decades in private practice and as a prosecutor, had worked in Sarcone’s office from 1986 to 1998. “She was out to do justice and she did a good job,” Sarcone said.

Hanes divorced Thomas Bennett, a Billings pathologist, after a 12-year marriage in December 2008, according to court records. She left Baucus’ office in June to take a top position within the Justice Department in Washington.

Bennett said in an interview that he had “misgivings, mostly as a private citizen” about his ex-wife’s nomination for federal prosecutor given her close personal ties to Baucus.

The senator’s office revealed the relationship with Hanes Friday, in the face of questions from a Washington, D.C.-based Web site.

Mrs. Sanford: I wouldn’t stand by my husband

disappeared from the state.

The governor told his staff he was hiking the Appalachian Trail CHARLESTON, S.C. — Even if although he was in Argentina seeher straying husband had asked her ing his lover. State lawmakers are to, South Carolina first lady Jenny considering whether to impeach Sanford says she wouldn’t have stood Sanford for abandoning the state with Gov. Mark Sanford when he when he took the trip. faced cameras to tell the world about When he returned, Sanford, at his affair with an Argentine woman. a tearful news conference, conJenny Sanford told ABC’s Barbara fessed the affair. But Jenny Sanford Walters for a special airing Wednesday was not beside him and she told her husband’s actions have caused Walters that the governor never consequences but not robbed her of asked her to appear. “I wouldn’t her self esteem. Excerpts of the interhave. If he had asked me, I would view were released Tuesday. have said no,” she said.

As she has said in earlier interviews, Many of Jenny Sanford’s counterJenny Sanford: Will Sanford told Walters she found out parts have stood with their spousappear on Barbara about her husband’s affair last January es for similar moments of scandal, Walters special and forbid him to see the other womincluding the wives of former New an. She said she told him not to see his Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, who four boys or her for a month last summer as well. outed himself as gay; former New York Gov. Eliot “My hope was that he would wake up from Spitzer, who acknowledged he was the client of whatever he was in the throes of and maybe see a call-girl ring; and Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, who what he might lose,” she said. was arrested in an airport bathroom sex sting.

“Certainly his actions hurt me, and they caused consequences for me, but they don’t in any way The Sanfords no longer live together. take away my own self-esteem,” she said. “They The governor remains in Columbia at the reflect poorly on him.”

Governor’s Mansion while Jenny Sanford and Jenny Sanford said she did not know where her their four sons live at the family’s beachfront husband was for five days last summer when his home on Sullivans Island, 120 miles away.

By BRUCE SMITH

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Ohio executes kill with one drug

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio executed a killer Tuesday by performing the nation’s first lethal injection using a single drug, a supposedly less painful method than previous executions that required three drugs.

Kenneth Biros was pronounced dead at 11:47 a.m.

Tuesday, about 10 minutes after one dose of thiopental sodium began flowing into his veins at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

The U.S. Supreme Court had rejected his final appeal about two hours before.

Experts predicted the thiopental sodium would take longer to kill the 51-year-old Biros than the convention three-drug cocktail, but the 10 minutes it apparently took him to die was about the usual length of time even under the method previously used by Ohio and still used by most other death penalty states.

Biros killed 22-year-old Tami Engstrom near Warren in 1991 after offering to drive her home from a bar, then scattered her body parts in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Obama criticism of GOP is sharp WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has sharp criticism for Republicans, taking them to task for opposing economic stimulus efforts and health care reform while supporting tax cuts and spending that have ballooned the deficit.

Obama said Tuesday in a Washington speech proposing new job-creation measures: “It’s a sight to see.”

He said Republicans are “waxing political about fiscal responsibility while opposing our efforts to reduce deficits by getting health care costs under control.” And he said that the stimulus package earlier this year was passed “largely without the help of an opposition party which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.”

U.S. settles lawsuit with Indians WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it is settling a long-running and contentious lawsuit over royalties owed to American Indians.

Under an agreement announced Tuesday, the Interior Department will distribute $1.4 billion to more than 300,000 tribe members to compensate them for historical accounting claims, and to resolve future claims.

The settlement resolves a 13-year-old dispute in which Indian tribes claim they were swindled out of billions of dollars in oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called the settlement a a major step to reconcile decades of acrimony between Indian tribes and the federal government.

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This daughter is in charge...

Okay, Ma? The little woman and me.

My Mom and I are very close, and as a general rule, we do most things together, such as shopping, sharing, preparing meals, talking.... You know, all those typical mother-daughter things.

But recently I’ve come to realize something. The older I get, the more I want to take on the “in charge” role when we’re together. Not that anyone “has” to be in charge, but I find myself wanting to say, “Mama put that here” or “go over there” or basically, “Mama, do as I say.”

I’m not sure what it is. She doesn’t need direction. As a matter of fact, she’s very independent, strong-willed and sharp. I’d say she weighs maybe 130 pounds soaking wet and can be right feisty at times.

So it’s not her, it’s me. I’m doing a role reversal and I can’t figure out why.

When we have a difference of opinion (which is very rare) or if I want to stress a point with her, I’ll say “now, look here little woman” (lovingly of course). I wouldn’t dare say it hateful or mean, she’d knock me into next week. She’s petite, but she don’t take no junk as the saying goes.

Last week we took our annual trip to the beach – something we’ve done this time of year for the past decade.

Picture this.... A tour bus filled to the brim with riders anywhere from ages 49 to 80ish, a cooler full of water and soft drinks and a bucket load of snacks and goodies — destination Myrtle Beach, S.C. Chatter up and down the aisles indicates everyone is in a good mood and ready for some seasonal entertainment.

A number of retired school teachers — and a couple still teaching — were on the trip so I tried to mind my grammar. But, then again, I’ve always had my own private English grammar tutor, who doesn’t mind calling me out at any time, or in any given situation.

Yep. You guessed it. The little woman.

For instance, if I said “It don’t look like it’s gonna rain.” She would repeat my sentence to me (in correction form), “It doesn’t look like it’s going to rain.”

And I reply, “That’s what I said, little woman.” See, I can get by with it now. Although, I was smart enough to wait 49 years to try it. We grin at each other and she’ll pinch me or something and we go on.

We had a great time on the trip. Our tour guide, JoAnn, is the “hostess with the mostest.”

She accommodates everyone with the assistance of several helping hands, and the now retired co-hostess, Wynelle, holds the title of matriarch to the Happy Travelers. Jim remains the bus mayor and Martha Jean continues to work the aisles making sure there are no cat naps taking place.

Me. I’m just happy that we had another safe trip. Quality time with good friends. Good fellowship, refreshing entertainment, a view of the ocean and most of all the little woman by my side.

At one point during the trip we were shuffling somewhere or doing something and my mom asked “What do you want me to do?” I said, “I just want you to mind me.” She laughed and said “Been there, done that.”

Uh oh! The little woman’s got my number.

Byers is the Courier lifestyles editor.

Contact her via email at abyers@ thedigitalcourier.com.

This float, bearing the words “Merry Christmas,” was one of many to glide down Main Street Forest City during the town’s Christmas Parade Nov. 29.

‘Tis the season....

for parades

First National Bank’s float in the Forest City parade featured seasonal colors of red and green, while a float in the Spindale parade (right) used the colors to express “Jesus, the Greatest Gift of All.”

Photos by Scott Baughman, Garrett Byers and Allison Flynn More parade pictures, Page 8C

Above, Santa had a little help from a canine companion dressed as an elf at the Rutherfordton Parade. At left, a vintage Ford hot rod tooled along the street in Ellenboro’s parade.

At right, Santa rode in style on a classic fire engine from the Forest City Fire Department, driven by Forest City Fire Chief Mark McCurry.

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The second six weeks honor roll at Harris Elementary School has been announced by Don Ingle, principal.

Those students named to the list are: A Honor Roll 3rd grade Jaden Beheler, Nathan Cox, Dalton Dunkle, Kevin Johnson, Carsyn Kilgo, Alex Ledford, Bryson McGinnis, Autumn Moore, Nicholas Newton,

Kassidy Owens, Betsy Perez, Bethany Scott, Haley Searcy, Chloe Vickers, Heath Waldrop.

4th grade Adilene Almeyda, Megan Bright, Stephen Cotarelo, Estephani Juarez, Will Campbell, Joseph Conner, Kody Dunn, Cole Francis, Anna Kate Jackson, Brianna Jenkins, Summer Keever, Michaela Owens, Nathan Roach, Savannah Roach.

5th grade Mary Grace Braley, Reagan Davis,

Cheyenne Dills, Lindsay Ficklin, Clay Fowler, Brenn Harrill, Kellan Jones, Dillon Phillips, Brad Sanders, Mackenzie Snyder, Erika Walters, Job Wease.

B Honor Roll 3rd grade Makayla Barbee, Garrett Buckner, Bo Butler, Clint Condrey, Seth Cooper, Katelyn Crowe, Jamie Davis, Katie Dotson, Garrett Evans, Fariah Freeman, Madison Galloway, Annsley Harrill, Jordan Hebert, Dylan

Henson, Jamie King, Noah Kuykendall, Caitlin Lovelace, Sidney McCranie, Makaylee Morrow, Tyler Norton, Luke Parton, Madison Poteat, Geordy Randlett, Hanna Reep, Makenzie Russ, Brian Sanders, Ceara Scott, Jacob Wease, Jordan Williams.

Dakota Hall, Maddie Hammett, Kyril Hinson, Jaryt Hipp, Katelyn Jones, Aaron Lanning, Max Libera, Victoria Lowery, Harley Morrow, Jordan Murray, Karen Parks, Cody Parris, Gracie Powell, Lindsay Powell, Jake Quilty, Jeffery Quilty, Nick Scherer, Autumn Spalding, Brandon Walker, Madison Weast.

4th grade Blake Aldridge, Noah Allen, Tommy Bailey, Bridget Bledsoe, Madison Branch, Penny Cheek, Deanna Cole, Noah Crawford, Skylar Edwards, Tamron Ellis,

5th grade Jada Barksdale, Trevor Beam, Jasmine Burgess, Destiny Butler, Kaitlin Callahan,

Austin Cole, Cameron Cooper, Dominick Feaster, Alexis Forrest, Lauren Frashier, Meredith Glover, Elizabeth Hardin, Samantha Henson, Chelsea Hill, Braxton Keller, Katie Lewis, Miranda Maney, Rachael Palmeri, Cassidy Pinkerton, Joshua Pittman, Dalen Roberson, Nate Rodriguez, Jonathan Rohm, Jeffrey Rollins, Tyler Skipper, Caleb Smith, Kacie Willis.

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Hunter Scruggs, Holly Sherburne, Dallas Continued from Page 2B Snyder, Holly Yelton.

5th grade Tyler Bridges, Ellenboro David Hunt, Kendall McGowan, Grace Elementary Morgan, Weston Randall, Katie Sessoms, School Ashlyn Wilson.

The second six weeks B Honor Roll honor roll at Ellenboro 3rd grade Elementary School has Sarah Boyd, London been announced by Bill Bradley, Jeremy Bass, principal.

Burgess, Jahad Burris, Those students named Kaylee Camp, Noah to the list are: Conner, Dylan Curtis, A Honor Roll Adrian Escalera, 3rd grade Miranda Ferguson, Sabie Bright, Joshua D’Ana Flores, Addison Clark, Gabriella Day, Greene, Aaliyah Harrison Dyess, Hardy, Kinsley Harrill, Drew Greene, Dakota Brooklyn Henderson, Hendrick, Jordon Randi Beth Henson, Maner, Jesse Mitchell, Trenton Morgan, Emily Haley Humphries, Katherine Linder, Taylor, Bethany Terry.

Justin Lovelace, 4th grade Jacob Baldwin, Gracie Makaili Marshall, Evan McCrory, Nikki Bennett, Camryn Bernhardt, Abby Bland, McDonald, Myann Nathan Brock, Hannah McEntyre, Ethan Miller, Vivica Moore, Conner, Skylar Cooper, Jade Morrow, Hunter Amber Culleton, Allie Flack, Tucker Hamrick, Moyers, Lilly Price, Beau Rodriguez, Adam Hensley, Adam Dylan Russell, Hollifield, Addie Cameron Sharpe, Hopper, Victoria Kelly, Macie Sherburne, Addie Lavender, Blake Paige Stanley, Kaitlyn Lovelace, Storm Mace, Whisnant, Madison Auralee Mayfield, Wishion, Dylan Wright.

Madison Miller, 4th grade Makayla Moore, Josie Casey Blanton, Morrow, Jonathan Miranda Byers, Julie Newton, Logan Catoe, Austin Cordell, Price, Nick Schmidt,

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Heather Crawford, David Davis, Caleb Dobbins, Bryson Ellis, Hunter Eplee, Mia Flores, Clay Gordon, Cody Greene, Courtney Hensley, Lawson Jolley, Dylan Litaker, Billie Owens, Cassie Padgett, Kassidy Patrick, Vanessa Ramey, Sam Ryan, Victor Santiago, Wade Sneed, Cynthia Spratt, Jordyn Stroup, Samir Thompson, Hunter Toney, Angel Torres, Kelly Wallace, Ashley Williams, Katie Wilson, Syerria Winters, Kalab Yirin.

5th grade Brittany Bailey, Zach Barnes, Dakota Blanton, Jasmine Blanton, Noah Blanton, Jessie Byers, Taylor Byers, Chris Causby, Michael Cournoyer, Ashton Davis, Jessica Duncan, Emily Elgin,

Gissell Escalera, Paige Floyd, Holden Greene, Steven Greene, Megan Gregory, Erik Guerin, A.J. Hardy, Stacia Holt, Kelsea Jackson, Carson Marshall, Christian McNeely, Tisha Mengel, Madison Morrow, Jamie Norton, Shynia Oaks, Bryson Parris, Samuel Peticos, Cameron Smith, Kaley Stanley, Caleb Stewart, Sarah Thurman, Sierra Toney, Rebecca Toney.

Mt. Vernon/ Ruth Elementary School The second six weeks honor roll at Mt. Vernon/Ruth Elementary School has been announced by Keith Ezell, principal.

Those students named to the list are: A Honor Roll 3rd grade Haley Chavez, Ethan Cooper, Jasmine Dinh, Abigail Hamrick, Elisabeth Norris, MaKayla Redmon, Tradd Richardson, Sadie Scripps, Trinity Wilkins.

B Honor Roll 3rd grade Virginia Allred, Jacob Fry, Christopher Hutchins, Rachel Lane, Sierra Lewis, Matthew Long, Damian Maher, Brooklyn Martin, Kinsley Mayse, Marcy McDowell, Jeremiah Morrow, Savannah Redmon, Tori Rose, Bennett Ruff, Kila Santi, Timmy Simpson, Peyton Teague, Patrick Ward, Dennis Yelton III.

A Honor Roll 4th grade Jace Crowe, Adam Hudson, Lydia McMahan, Jacalyn Poole, Olivia Turner.

B Honor Roll 4th grade Victoria Dinh, Danielle Ensley, Stephen Hargett, Austin Holland, Austin McClellan, Eli Morrison, Jamie Owens, Samantha Phipps, Tripper Reynolds, Blakely Robbins, Colton Shelton, Landon Smith, Haley White.

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Connor Rollins, Taylor Ruppe, Savannah Scala, Kristin Sellars, R-S Middle Kaleb Sells, Devonne School Simmons, Ashlynn Simpson, Haley Sims, The second six weeks Kiera Singleton, Jessica Principal’s List and Splawn, Kyle Toney, Honor Roll at R-S Middle School has been Leeanna Torvinen, Gentry Turner, Teja announced by John Twitty, Elun Walton, McSwain, principal.

Those students named Cody Ware, Pansy Waters, Sierra Weeks, to the list are: Emily Wilson, Alyssa A Honor Roll Yelton.

6th Grade 7th grade William Amos, Matthew Atchley, Kaitlin Clark, Caleb Jesse Bradley, Cox, Sarah Daniel, Lauren Gray, Savannah Jadaeja Brown, Riley Buchanan, Gwendlyn Hollifield, Tatiana Capps, Christian Clark, Magee, Haley Newton, Hannah Collin, Alexis Matthew Pendleton, Davis, Sarah Dula, Samantha Shuford, Lucas Smith, Alexandra Liliana Gonzalez, Dylan Greene, Still, Christopher Teryn Greenway, Wellmon.

Alexandra Grishaw, 7th Grade Philip Guadagno, Adam Burnette, Faith Harris, Briana Olivia Caldwell, James Hemphill, Derek Francis, Kaileigh Hemphill, Maleek Gray, Priscilla Jones, Holmes, Sarah Danielle Lane, Assem Huffman, Timothy Patel, Savannah Self, Hughes, Brian Hunt, Shivani Sheth, Samuel Jimmy Hutchins, John Snyder, Spencer White, Hutchins, Deshawn Kennedy Whiteside, Jones, Haily Jones, Allyson Yelton.

Sarah Jones, Kayla 8th grade Kirkland, Harley Courtney Arms, Lattimore, Allyshia Kyle Clark, Avery Logan, Lexie Lowery, Dominguez, Sierra Alexis Maher, Matthew Fowler, Emily Hargett, Shawn Hines, Shannon McBrayer, Sierra Morse, Emma Nance, Kennedy, Rachel Caleb Owens, Sarah McLaughlin, Lauren Peters, Brandy Raye, Montieth, Donald Christopher Rector, Penson.

Kaylee Schappert, B Honor Roll Alyssa Searson, 6th Grade Candace Simmons, Elizabeth Alexander, Nichole Stoehrer, Paul Cody Arrowood, Hali Stpierre, James Walker, Barnard, Jonathan Paige Walker, Malerie Barnes, Alexis Wall, Haley Wallace, Baynard, Taylor Beam, Samantha Washburn, Anastasia Brownsfield, Caylin Whiteside, Trevon Carson, Kayla Desnibd Whitesides, Champion, Makayla , Hannah Wilson, Clontz, Brooke Crane, Zachary Wilson.

William Ferguson, 8th grade Jade Gleaves, Dusty Bethany Acree, Herr, Donte Hines, Hunter Atchley, Skylar Hutchins,

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Holly Baynard, Sarah Bearden, Leann Bittle, Jesse Bland, John Bostic, David Briscoe III, Tia Bristol, Sarah Carpenter, Taylor Cole, Makayla Crain, Caely Cuthbertson, Andrew Daigle, Michael Dailey, Emily Drummond, Jada Edwards, Taylor Fier, Macy Frazier, Rebecca Graner, Alyssa Guyan, Dylan Haulk, Samantha Hawkins, Jay’Len Hollis, Matthew Hull, Michael Johnston, Andrea Keever, Zoe Koon, Jacob Lambert, Chandler Lane, Stacey Lasay, Thomas Lasay, Devante Logan, Kaitlyn Manelski, Zachary Martin, Matthew McEntire, Emily McLaughlin, Jesse McMahan, Hannah Morrow, Muni Ng, Catherine O’Neil, Theresa O’Neil, Jordan Ann Owens, Samuel Pyatt, Robert Rothrock, Caitlin Schiefelbein, Megan Schoenfeldt, Bethany Thorn, Haley Vance, Sierra Wilkins, Amy Williams, Chancellor Wilson, Hanna Wilson, Alex Wolfe.

Rutherfordton Elementary School The second six weeks honor roll at Rutherfordton Elementary School has been announced by Linda Edgerton, principal.

Those students named to the list are: A Honor Roll 3rd grade Jacob Knox, Timothy Marshall, Logan Mathis, Mayce Mattox, Maya Ng, Jacob Vess.

4th grade Corine Barnes, Martin Barrella, Mark Contreras, Joey Daigle, Mackenzie Epley, Savannah Gillie, Isaac Hughes, Emma Hutchins, Christian Keller, Landen Lane, Jacob Laughter, Miranda McGinnis, Kristen Moore, Will Scofield, Zach Scofield, Savannah Smith, Caroline Terry, Emily White.

5th grade Alyssa Bechtel, Garrett Blanton,

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Chase Middle The second six weeks honor roll at Chase Middle School has been announced by Joey Glenn, principal.

Those students named to the list are: A Honor Roll 6th Grade Ambria Badger, Alan Baynard, Kristin Bridges, Braxton Bright, Cole Buckner, Summer Byers,

Haley Cockerham, Megan Ensley, Jamila Hamilton, Kesley Hollifield, Shana Hoyle, Taylor James, Trevor James, Bethany Kinsey, Alysa McGinnis, Andrew Price, Austin Radford, Charles Roach, Hannah Ruppe, Zellie Scott, Cypress Snyder, Keely Thomas, Haley Wood 7th Grade Kaylyn Adams, Micheal Bailey, Jacob Blanton, Hunter Downey, Jacob Horton, Kelsey Hoyle, Ryan Johnson, Brianna Kingery, Breanna Lytle, Victoria Moore, Tyler Nguyen, Kaitlin Owens, Stephan Phillips, Tyra Phillips, Dakota Reid, Samuel Scarlett, Summer Shytles, Cody Thompson, 8th Grade Harley Burgess, Kaylee Campbell, Emily Dotson, Brittney Lipscomb, Kaleb Morrow, Linita Pruett, Ashley Smith, Mason Womack B Honor Roll 6th Grade Treston Abrams, Jordan Adcox, Virginia Bailey, John Baker, Corey Ballesteros, Jacob Brooks, Syndey Burgess, Gwendolyn Caban, Bailey Campfield, Donald Carr, James Childers, Cody Cogdell, Kayla Crowe, Alyson Culp, Zion Deshommes, Corey Dover, Justin Fowler, Terra Fowler, Harlee Freeman, Christopher Frontena, Kaylan Hampton, Timothy Hardin, Trey Hawkins, Ethan Hawks, Zach Hodge, Carrie Jones, Suzanne Jones, Austin Laforge, Stuart Luckadoo, Keaton Maness, Henry McKinney, Takirah McKinney, Tyger McSwain, Kierston Mullinax, Victoria Nanney, Hailey O’Dell, Kaylee Parris, Seth Peterson, Diamond Proctor, Noah Radford, Madison Reep, Sorsha Rippy, Melia Roberts, Lucas Ross, Thomas Smith, Anna Tate, Avery Tate, Brendan Thompson, Cody Thompson, Jose Vasquez Jr, Kristoal Villatoro, Haylee Waldrop, Courtney Wantuch, Jack White, Damian Whiteside, Drew Wood 7th Grade Jordan Baker, Tiffany Barnes, Taylor Biggerstaff,

Jennifer Brainard, Eric Brigman, Ashley Brown, Keynari Brown, Lauren Buckner, Clarke Burleson, Hydea Carson, Juan Castrellon Jr., Larissa Chapman, Ricky Chavez, Timothy Clark, Emilyn Conner, Makayla Crawford, Brandon Davis, Morgan Deck, Erika Dover, Audra Dowden, Kelly Evans, Madison Francis, Regina Glover, Audrey Gorman, Richard Gowan, Zachary Greene, Casey Haynes, Juanita Haynes, Trent Head, Sarah Heatherly, Austin Hicks, Sydnie Holden, John Horton, Megan Hoyle, Emily Hutchins, Jose Jimenez, Audrey Johnson, Kyle Johnson, Kaylee Jones, Kiah Kraus, Miayah Macopson, Caleb McGill, Dylan McNeill, Dennis Moore II, Nicole Moore, Jessica Morrow, Reese Palmeri, Tyrell Peeler, Elizabeth Phillips, Jamie Phillips, Marissa Ray, Makenzie Reynolds, Gaither Rollins, Courtney Scherer, Nancy Sebastian, Joshua Short, Jacob Silver, Austin Smith, Jordan Sprouse, Benjamin Tesseneer, Haley Thompson, Abigail Tipton, Destiny Toney, Ashley Turney, Brittany Velasquez, Bethany Walker, Brittany White, Karrigan Woodard, Shannon Yelton, Adrionna Young 8th Grade Kenley Adams, Andrew Bailey, Jennifer BAin, Nadia Berry, Jacob Bright, Brittany Brown, Eric Buchanan, Sierra Carpenter, Margaret Carroll, Chandler Casner, Seth Cole, Austin Dycus, Lucas Eller, Joshua Epley, Robert Evans, Phillip Gosey, Devyn Gown, Scottie Griffin, Amanda Harris, Jennifer Harris, Maria Head, Kensley Holcombe, Jessica Huffman, Christiana Jimenez-Beltran, Micheal Kuykendall, Michaela Langley, Tristan Maness, Hannah Mitchem, Joelle Murray, Marsden Murray, Joshua Parks, Jade Rodriguez, Jacob Ruff, Daniel Sams, Cody Scism, Devin Scoggins, Alexandra Vickers, Zhane Watkins, Alyssa Watson, Brittany Williams, Zanna Williams, Joy Wingo

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ATTENTION ADULTS AGE 55+ In these unusual economic times, planning for future health care needs is more crucial than ever. One option available is EASTWOOD VILLAGE, Rutherford County’s only complete retirement and health care concept.

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Preston Byrd, Bryson Hamrick, Krisjaria Haynie, Ricki Head, Charity Salyers, Emily Yelton.

B Honor Roll 3rd grade Logan Bridges, Michael Brown, Stephen Browning, Trevor Byrd, Nell Bentley Camp, Nathan Craig, Caitlin Dailey, Hannah Fox, Morgan Hill, Mackenzie Ingle, Chelsea McEntire, Allison Oates, William Salyers, Lucia Sargent, Owen Wilson.

4th grade Macee Boone, Grant Craig, Justin Duff, Sydney Flack, Owen Gait, Madison Greene, Rodrigo Guevara, Zion Hamby, Jerrett Mason, Sam McArthur, Charmee Miller, Nick Ownbey, Jacqueline Porter, Courtney Poteat, Shyon Randolph, Rose Robertson, Katie Rumfelt, Kristen Shehan, Mason Shields, Jalen Singleton, Wesley Smith, Parker Smoak, Miranda Stacey, Makiah Staley, Taylor Stofer, Jacob Terry, Jonathan Terry, Taylor Toney, Keyla Twitty, Harley Upton, Lauren Vermeulen, Wesley Wells, Lorenzo Woods.

5th grade Sarah Brown, Allye Butler, Mackie Campbell, Leyah Cogdell, Hayley Conner, Joseph Curtis, John Deaver, Jose Dunn, Jennifer GuadarramaElias, Chase Emory, Tiahna Guyan, Blake Hardin, Grant Hernandez, Taylor Koon, Noah Lawing, Brittany Lynch, Skylar Moran, Keri Morris, Dakotah Price, Allison Pyatt, Benjy Rodriguez, Abby Roper, Jason Rose, Kristen Turner.

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, December 9, 2009 — 5B SHOE by Chris Cassat and Gary Brookins

THE GRIZZWELLS by Bill Schoor

BROOM-HILDA by Russell Myers

DILBERT by Scott Adams

GIL THORP by Jerry Jenkins, Ray Burns and Frank McLaughlin

THE BORN LOSER by Art and Chip Sansom

ARLO AND JANIS by Jimmy Johnson

FRANK AND ERNEST by Bob Thaves

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Husband hunts family history Dear Abby: My husband, “Bud,” and I have been married more than 50 years. It has been a great halfcentury. We have good jobs and a fantastic family.

A problem has arisen recently that I need advice about. When I met Bud, I wasn’t a virgin. I wasn’t promiscuous, but I did end several dates with a “grand finale.” Bud knew about it and was OK with it then, and he’s still OK with it now. But he keeps asking me to describe those dates down to the most intimate detail.

He says they are part of our “family history,” just like our school activities and other events with family and friends before we started going together. I’m not sure I can remember everything, but Bud wants to hear about those things I can recall.

What do you think about this? — Caught Dear Caught: I’d be fascinated to know why, after more than 50 years, your husband is suddenly pumping you for the information. Could he find the idea of you and another man titillating? To me, “family history” begins when a couple forms a family, not before. If discussing the subject of your premarital sexual experiences makes you uncomfortable, then don’t take the bait because if you do, I have a hunch your husband will never stop fishing.

Dear Abby: I work for a national

Dear Abby Abigail van Buren

package delivery company. It’s nearing what we refer to as “peak season” (Christmas). We try our best to deliver the much-anticipated packages on time, but sometimes we are unable to find the addresses. If there are no names or numbers on the mailboxes or on the houses, we waste a lot of time trying to locate the right residence through the process of elimination. What concerns us most is, if we — experienced delivery people — have problems finding a residence, we know an emergency vehicle will encounter the same problem. A few minutes’ delay can result in a tragic outcome if an EMT is unable to find a house. Please advise your readers to post their addresses clearly. If they do, it will help all of us to have a safer and happier holiday season. — Santa’s Helper Dear Santa’s Helper: Thanks for this important reminder. Readers, to ensure that Santa finds you — remember to have not only cookies and milk waiting by the fireplace, but also your address clearly visible so he can find you.

Patient questions vitamin D dose Dear Dr. Gott: I am confused about vitamin D and how much I need. I’m an 83-year-old female and take a One A Day Women’s vitamin, which has 800 IU of D, 450 mg of calcium and many more important vitamins. I also take an additional calcium tablet with 600 mg and a 1,000-mg fish-oil tablet. I eat fortified cereal and when the sun is shining, I spend one to two hours working out in it.

My doctor thinks I should take more vitamin D. I feel I am getting enough and have read articles that a person can get too much. Now I need to have my mind put at ease about the proper amount of D for a person my age to take.

Dear Reader: Unless you are deficient, I must agree with you and not your doctor. Vitamin D is required for the development of teeth and bones, as well as the absorption of calcium and phosphorous from the intestines. It is a fat-soluble vitamin

PUZZLE

Ask Dr. Gott Dr. Peter M. Gott

that requires bile acids for absorption. Once absorbed, fat-soluble vitamins remain in storage until needed.

Food sources include fortified dairy and cereal products, butter, saltwater fish and egg yolks. There is variation in recommended doses depending on age.

Healthy people between the ages of 19 and 50 require 200 IU daily; those between 51 and 70 require 400 IU daily; those 71 years of age and older should consume 600 IU daily.

Let’s consider some additional food sources for dietary consumption of vitamin D. One tablespoon of codliver oil contains 1,360 IU, and 3-1/2 ounces of salmon contain 90 IU.

IN THE STARS Your birthday, Dec. 9;

Nonromantic involvements you have with members of the opposite gender will advance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Involvements with the wrong people or firms could cause trouble.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - All it would take is a small misjudgment to put you in an awkward position today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - If you won’t do it yourself, it isn’t likely others will do so either.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - That long shot you’re hoping will come in first isn’t likely.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - It’s important you find the middle ground when dealing with others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - The spirit may be willing today, but you lack necessary physical effort.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - If you are inclined to give something away today that you consider to be of value, don’t attach any strings to it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - A frustrating development could really get your dander up.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Your competence will be extremely evident to others today, but not to you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) - If you allow emotions to rule your thinking today, you could reward the undeserving.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Clarify your objectives before you set out today, or you could get off on the wrong road, working very hard only to find out you’re going no place fast.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - It might be wise to avoid breeding grounds for discord, such as involving yourself today with people whose politics or religious beliefs totally conflict with your own way of thinking.

6B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, WEDNESDAY, December 9, 2009

CLASSIFIEDS Contact Erika Meyer to place your ad!

Call: 828-245-6431 Fax: 828-248-2790 Email: emeyer@thedigitalcourier.com In person: 601 Oak St., Forest City 1 WEEK SPECIAL

DEADLINES: New Ads, Cancellations & Changes Tuesday Edition.............Monday, 12pm Wednesday Edition......Tuesday, 2pm Thursday Edition......Wednesday, 2pm Friday Edition...............Thursday, 2pm Saturday Edition................Friday, 2pm Sunday Edition......................Friday, 2pm

Please check your ad on the first day that it runs. Call us before the deadline for the next edition with corrections.

We will rerun the ad or credit your account for no more than one day.

*4 line minimum on all ads Apartments

Apartments 2 & 3BR Close to downtown Rfdtn. D/w, stove, refrig., w/d hook up. No pets! 287-0733

Nice 2 Bedroom Townhouse Apt & 1 Bedroom Apt across from Super 8 Motel in Spindale $385/mo. & $515/mo.

Call 828-447-1989 Richmond Hill Senior Apts. in Rfdtn 1BR Units w/handicap accessible units avail.

Sec 8 assistance avail.

287-2578 Hours: Mon., Tues., & Thurs.

7-3. TDD Relay 1-800-735-2962 Equal Housing Opportunity.

Income Based Rent.

Special $100 dep.!

1, 2 & 3BR Nice, large Townhomes Priv. decks, w/d hook up.

Water incld.!

Starting at $375/mo.

1-888-684-5072 1 & 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS Some with free utilities! Ask about NO DEPOSIT! Call 245-0016 leave message

Classic & charming

Apt. with storage garage. Clean 2 Bedroom Brick at 433 E. Main St., Forest City $475/mo.

Call 828-447-3233

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2 WEEK SPECIAL Run ad 12 consecutive days and only pay for 9 days*

3 DAY WEEKEND SPECIAL YARD SALE SPECIAL Run a 20 word yard sale ad Thurs., Fri., & Sat. for ONLY $20.

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

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GREAT STARTER in Cleveland County!

3BR/1BA Brick ranch w/great features - brick fireplace in family room, large eat-in kitchen, hardwoods, in-ground pool, large fenced backyard, swing set and 2 storage sheds remain. $94,900 #45277 Coldwell Banker Mountain View Real Estate Contact Marsha Brown 704-284-0137

SUBSCRIPTIONS MAKE GREAT GIFTS!

1BR/1BA Owner financing with down payment! Central heat & air, 2 out buildings. $32,000 Call 657-4430

Homes For Rent Large 3BR/1BA w/lg. yard in Rfdtn. $550/mo. 2BR/1BA w/laundry in Rfdtn. $400/mo. 625-5554 3BR/1BA on Arlington St. in FC. $500/mo. + $300 sec. dep. No pets! 1-877-629-7042

1, 2 & 3 BEDROOM

HOUSES & APTS. FOR RENT! $285/mo.-$750/mo.

TELLER SPECIALIST Premier Federal Credit Union is seeking an individual with financial and or retail sales experience to join our team as Teller Services Specialist.

Candidate must have strong verbal and communication skills, one who is comfortable and confident in cross-selling products and services. Be proactive in communicating the benefits of the services we offer our members. Qualified candidates should be self-motivated, energetic, work with a sense of urgency and be passionate about helping our members.

All candidates will be required to complete an on-line application at www.premeirfcu.org under Career Opportunities.

Rentals Unlimited

245-7400 4BR/1.5BA 2,600 sqft., full basement w/out bldg. Sandy Mush area $700/mo. 429-7408

Mobile Homes For Rent (2) Small 2BR in Pinewood Village. 1st months rent. No dep., no outside animals. $250/mo. 980-5288

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK 09 SP 469 In the Matter of Foreclosure Of Claim of Lien filed against JOSEPH C. KIRKMAN AND WIFE, ROBERTA J. KIRKMAN Under Power of Sale

2BR in Chase area $325/mo. + deposit. No pets! 828-223-1030 or 657-1828 after 6pm 2 & 3BR in quiet park Convenient location in FC. Background check req. 287-0053

2BR & 3BR Stove, refrig., cable, lawn service & trash incld. $260-$350/mo. + dep.

No cats! Long term only! Call 453-0078

or 429-8822 MUST SEE! Like new

3BR/2BA in Rfdtn. $650/mo. + securities.

748-0658 or 286-1982 Single wide Shiloh: 2BR/2BA No Pets! $425/mo. + $300 dep.

245-5703 or 286-8665 2BR/2BA on large lot in Rfdtn area. Refrig. & stove. $375/mo. + $300 dep. 286-4333 2BR/2BA in nice area Stove, refrig. No Pets! $380/mo. + deposit Call 287-7043

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Help Wanted Immediate openings in Rutherford Co. for Substance Abuse Counselors & Mental Health Therapists. LCSW, LPC, CCS, LCAS or CSAC preferred.

Fax resumes to: 828-245-2548

ROSEDALE PHASE I APARTMENTS 121 Holly Lane Forest City, NC 28043 Family Households

Units for Persons with Disabilities Available Section 8 Accepted

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Master Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions recorded in Deed Book 386, Page 404, and all subsequent amendments thereto, including that Amendment recorded in Deed Book 824, Page 001, recorded in Rutherford County Registry, for Fairfield Mountains Property Owners’ Association, Inc., and all amendments thereto, and also pursuant to North Carolina General Statute §§ 47A-22 and 47F-316, and because of default in the payment of association assessments, the undersigned attorney and agent for the Trustee shall on DECEMBER 21, at 11:00 AM., at the door of the Rutherford County Courthouse, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Lot 8, Shumont Estates, as shown on plat of record in Plat Book 16, Page 102, revised, and as more specifically described in that deed recorded in Deed Book 668, at Page 667, Rutherford County Registry. Subject to restrictive covenants and restrictions, as filed of record.

The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinabove described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder and that the undersigned may require the successful bidder at the sale to immediately deposit cash in the amount of ten (10%) percent of the high bid up to $1,000.00, plus five (5%) of any excess of $1,000.00. The real property hereinabove described will be sold subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, restrictions and easements of record, tax liens and assessments.

The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required. The record titleholder to said property, ten (10) days prior to posting this Notice, is Joseph C. Kirkman and wife, Roberta J. Kirkman.

The sale will be held open for ten days for upset bids as by law required.

Jarald N. Willis, Trustee

Instruction

1 BEDROOM APARTMENTS

NOTICE OF SALE

This the 17th day of November, 2009.

*Private party customers only! This special must be mentioned at the time of ad placement.

Valid 12/7/09 - 12/11/09

Please Call (1) 828-245-3417 TDD/TYY # (1) 800-735-2962 “This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer”

Help Wanted Chiropractic Assistant High energy, self motivated, team player needed for growing Chiropractic office. Must be wellness minded, organized with great attention to detail.

Experience with med office/ front desk/ ins. a must. Fax resume to 828-245-0422 or mail to 152 West Main, Forest City, NC 28043 or email ccp2@ bellsouth.net. Please incl. prof. references!

DRIVERS NEEDED PTI is seeking local drivers for 7-passenger mini-vans in Bostic.

Drug screen, driving record and criminal background check req. 1-800-471-2440 Reference #27 WHITE OAK MANOR, TRYON currently has openings for: Medication Technician Must have C.N.A. I & Medication Tech. Certification working in assisted living. We are looking for compassionate, dependable applicants who are dedicated in working w/the elderly.

Apply at 70 Oak St., Tryon, NC 28782 or fax resume to: 828-859-2073 EOE Mountain Creek Baptist Church in Gilkey, NC is searching for a part time Youth Pastor.

Send resume to: 710 Mountain Creek Rd., Rutherfordton, NC 28139 by 01/15/2010.

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

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

Call 223-0277 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD

Autos Buying JUNK CARS at reasonable rates!

Will pay the best that can be paid based on current junk price.

Call 828-447-4944

Pets

Adorable Pit Bull/ Terrier pups 4 female, 1 male $50 ea. Good home only! 429-9176 Free to a good home Pit Bull/Boxer mix Black & white, 7 wks. old. 828-980-4496 or 828-248-3057

Free: Adorable Kittens Male & female May be able to provide spay, neutering and shots. 828-202-5760

Lost

Black & tan med. size dog Lost 12/3 in Rfdtn on 108 & Pleasant Hill Church Rd. If found please call 288-8155

M German Shepherd/ chow mix Brown/black, long hair, has collar.

Lost 11/12 FC/Caroleen area. Call 429-5103 HEARING AID in Forest City. Lost Saturday, Dec. 5th.

Reward! 245-6979

Found Female Black dog Long hair, short nose & legs. Found 11/27 on Tanners Grove Rd. Call 704-860-4582 2 female dogs, Bostic area, 1 gray poodle mix, 1 black/tan terrier mix, blue bandana collars. 245-9303

LOST OR FOUND A PET? Place an ad at no cost to you!

Runs for one week! Call 245-6431 to place your ad! Mon.-Fri. 8AM-5PM

NOTICE The undersigned, having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of William McArthur Smith, late of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before February 18, 2010, or this Notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 18th day of November, 2009.

Elizabeth T. Miller - Administrator DALTON & MILLER, L.L.P. PO Box 800 Rutherfordton, NC 28139 (828) 286-8222

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of REBA LYNCH WASHINGTON of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said REBA LYNCH WASHINGTON to present them to the undersigned on or before the 25th day of February 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 25th day of November, 2009.

Tara M. Washington, Administrator 168 Friar Tuck Road Forest City, NC 28043

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BUSINESS&SERVICE DIRECTORY

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, WEDNESDAY, December 9, 2009 — 7B

AIR CONDITIONING & HEATING

HOME IMPROVEMENT

GRADING & HAULING

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245-1141

Track Hoe Work, Tractor Work , Dozer Work, Bobcat Work, Trenching, Grading and Land Clearing, Hauling Gravel, Sand, Dirt, Etc.

828-248-1681

704-434-9900

www.shelbyheating.com

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WINDOWS & SIDING STORM DOORS

Family Owned & Operated Local Business

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Licensed Contractor with 35 Years Experience

245-6367 PAINTING

Interior & Exterior 22 years experience

Great references Free Estimates John 3:16

ROOFING

Todd McGinnis Roofing Rubberized/Roofing Metal, Fix Leaks FREE ESTIMATES

828-286-2306 828-223-0633

H & M Industries, Inc. LAWN CARE

PAINTING

* Leaf Removal

Bill Gardner Construction, Inc ENTRANCE DOORS

Clean up at the end of each day GUARANTEED

* roofing * concrete * decks & steps * painting * carpentry * skirting * plumbing * sheet rock * room additions * metal roofing

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828-657-6518 828-223-0310

ROOFING

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* Gutter Cleaning

Quality Lawn Care

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223-8191

Owner Jerry Lancaster 286-0822

TREE TREE CARE CARE

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Veterans Discounts

Chad Reid Sisk Mark (828) 289-7092 828-289-1871 Senior Citizen Discounts

Thunder Road Animal Bi-Lo Hospital Super 8 Motel 74 Bypass

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— The

Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Wednesday, December 9, 2009

local

Holiday spirit displayed through parades

Members of the East High School colorguard twirled flags in seasonal colors during the Rutherfordton Parade Dec. 5.

In Ellenboro, the American and North Carolina flags were carried, leading the way for World War II veterans who served as grand marshals for the parade Dec. 6.

Three of the four Christmas parades were held the first weekend in December; Forest City held its parade Nov. 29.

Children and their parents waited, with cameras ready, to watch the Spindale Parade Dec. 5.

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