The Daily Dispatch - Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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Faye and Kermit Thompson sit on the tailgate of their pickup truck as their wares of peppers, cherry tomatoes, pears and pickled peppers are on display at the YMCA farmers’ market Wednesday morning. If you’re cooking up a great meal at home, local produce is a fresh, healthy choice.

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Southerland’s Mill Pond offer $55,000

Property owner wants to discuss compliance

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Fog begins to form in a field near the intersection of Vance Academy Road and U.S. 158 Business Monday night. Heavy rain moved through the area during the late afternoon after temperatures soared into the low 90s.

Library open at temporary location Thornton facility to be renovated and expanded

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

OXFORD — The relocated Richard H. Thornton Library opened Tuesday morning at the former 84 Lumber at 208 E. Industry Drive, with Granville County Chief Librarian Tresia Dodson saying this will be the library’s location for a year to a year and a half.

“It took us 10 days,” Please see BID, page 3A Dodson said of the change to clear the way for the expansion and renovation of Thornton, which is at 210 Main St. Our Hometown . . . . . 2A “We moved approxiBusiness & Farm. . . . 5A mately 55,000 volumes,” Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . 8A Dodson said. “I was very Light Side . . . . . . . . . 9A pleased with how the floor Sports. . . . . . . . . . 1-3B plan came together.”

“You have to be exGood Taste . . . . . . 1, 3C tremely well organized,” Comics . . . . . . . . . . . 2C Dodson said of what she Classifieds. . . . . . . 4-7C learned from the move. “I really don’t think we could have done it in two weeks had we not been.”

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Another bidder for city tract

A $55,000 bid has been submitted on the Southerland’s Mill Pond tract in the southeastern part of Vance County.

The counteroffer by Bier Haus LLC is $5,000 higher than the bid submitted

by Elissa Yount, a former Henderson city councilwoman.

Assistant City Manager Frank Frazier said the deadline to submit counteroffers was 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Frazier did not have any information about the identity of Bier Haus.

Robert Southerland, a former councilman whose family once owned the land, has bid $43,000.

The city acquired the property in 1952 for $51,000, which prompted a dissent by Councilman Garry Daeke at the July 27 council meeting about the city selling land at $8,000 less than what the city paid for more than a halfcentury ago.

The council on July 27 voted 7-1 for a resolution stating the city’s intent to sell the land.

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Richard H. Thornton Library patron Betty Finch enjoys looking at a book by Karen Kingsbury in the library’s temporary location, which is at 208 E. Industry Drive between N.C. 96 and U.S. 15. The library’s permanent home, which is located at 210 Main St. in the city center, is going to be expanded and renovated. than 45-year-old ThornThornton facility, said, ton.

“Oh, I think it’s just overTerms of the referenwhelming.” dum additionally speci“And I think they did an fied replacing the town excellent job,” Taylor said. of Stovall’s branch with a “Oh, I think it looks larger one, replacing the great, absolutely great,” branch inside Vance-Gran- patron Betty Finch said. ville Community College’s “I just couldn’t believe it South Campus building when I walked in.” with a larger, standalone The 208 E. Industry structure and modernizing Drive location is 10,600 the hand-me-down-looking square feet in size and is interior of the branch at owned by Rosemyr Corp. the Berea community. of Henderson. The 210 Library Trustee Richard Main St.. location was just Taylor, when asked about over 12,000 square feet, factoring in a single car the work in relocating the

garage used as storage.

The County Commission on June 15 gave the go-ahead to having Storr Office Environments of Raleigh move the contents of Thornton to 208 E. Industry Drive at a cost of $56,073. Dodson said approximately 10,000 volumes are in storage in Raleigh.

An increase of 2.5 cents per $100 of assessed valuation is needed to provide for the repayment of the bond issue.

And on June 15, the commission, with one member absent, approved an additional 4.5-cent tax increase for education, meaning county residents are now paying 82.5 cents on the hundred.

The commission received good news when Resolute Building Co. of Chapel Hill submitted a bid of $2,089,300 for the Thornton project. The estimated cost was $2.75 million. The commission accepted the bid on Aug. 3.

Dodson said she is anticipating a groundbreaking ceremony next month for the to-be-transformed Thornton.

als,” several prepaid cell phones, “militant documents,” and five newspapers regarding the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to documents.

The warrant allowed investigators to search Boyd’s home south of Raleigh and four vehicles.

Some of the items detailed in the warrant were taken during Boyd’s arrest last month.

Federal investigators said Boyd, a drywall contractor, was the ringleader of a small North Carolinabased terrorist group, involved in three years of nefarious international travel, gun buys and military-style training trips.

Authorities claim the group, including an eighth suspect believed

The owner of the former Beacon Light apartment complex wants to meet with the Henderson City Council’s Land Planning and Development Committee about the council’s recent actions and about how to bring the property back into compliance with municipal codes.

The session is set for 4 p.m. Friday in the conference room of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave. The council, with one member absent at its Aug. 10 meeting, approved a set of documents that included giving City Manager Ray Griffin full authorization to work with the property owner, Sharif Abdelhalim, to establish a “reasonable timetable” to bring the shabby 318 Boddie St. location into compliance, along with a conversion to homeownership.

Griffin has said Abdelhalim will have to present a letter of credit to the city in an amount of 1 1/2 times the amount of the city’s estimate to demolish and clear the property.

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Feds seize guns, cash from terror suspect RALEIGH (AP) — Federal agents seized several rifles and other guns, $14,000 cash and newspaper clippings of the Sept. 11 attacks from a man accused of plotting international terrorism, according to a warrant unsealed Tuesday.

The search warrant shows investigators seized dozens of items from Daniel Patrick Boyd, 39.

The FBI had previously said agents seized some two dozen guns and more than 27,000 rounds of ammunition.

Those are described in greater detail in the warrant, which lists crates of ammunition, several rifles and at least one AK-47-style gun.

Agents also took “military manu-

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

to be in Pakistan, were gearing up for a “violent jihad,” though prosecutors haven’t detailed any specific targets or timeframe.

Boyd and seven others, including two of his sons, have been charged with plotting to murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons in a foreign country. One of the eight men, Jude Kenan Mohammad, remains at large.

The seven men in custody must remain in jail until their trials because a judge deemed them flight risks.

A second warrant unsealed Tuesday shows agents also searched the apartment of suspect Hysen Sherifi.

Investigators seized a computer and several books and videotapes, including at least two regarding jihad.

Wanted This break-in suspect caught on camera at the Vanco Mill Shell Car Wash about 11 p.m. on Aug. 4 is being sought by investigators with the Vance County Sheriff’s Office. They’re hoping someone will be able to put a name to the face. The man, whose arm was injured when he broke into the control box, was on the scene for 33 minutes. Anyone with tips can contact the Sheriff’s Office at (252) 738-2200 or Crime Stoppers at (252) 492-1925. Crime Stoppers will pay up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible.

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‘Bark For Life 2009’ event rescheduled

Mark It Down Today Wednesday Farmer’s market — The Wednesday Farmer’s Market, located near the track behind the Henderson Family YMCA, 380 Ruin Creek Road, is open from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. selling local produce. The market is sponsored by the YMCA, the Vance County Cooperative Extension Service and Maria Parham Medical Center. Venders interested in selling at the market should contact Wayne Rowland at 438-8188.

Oxford Farmers’ Market — The Oxford Farmers’ Market, located on the corner of McClanahan and Lanier streets across from the police station in Oxford, is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Census meeting — The U.S. Census Bureau has asked Granville County to arrange a 2010 Census Complete Count Committee meeting at 3 p.m. in the county commission meeting room, 145 Williamsboro St. The meeting is expected to last an hour and open to the public.

Uniform/shoe sale — Maria Parham Medical Center’s Volunteer Services is hosting a uniform and shoe sale in the John. T. Church Building (classroom) from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and tomorrow from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Uniform brand names for sale include Barco, Landau, White Cross, Cherokee, Peaches, LaRose and Grey’s Anatomy. Shoe brand names include NurseMates, Dansko, Spring Step, Kswiss and Sanita. The event is open to the public.

Thursday Community watch — The Westhills/WestCreek/158Bypass Community Watch will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Maria Parham Medical Center’s auditorium. The guest speaker will be County Manager Jerry Ayscue. Community residents are encouraged to come and share any ideas or concerns for making the community better.

Heritage society — The Heritage Society of Franklin County will hold its regular monthly meeting at noon at The Murphy House in Louisburg. Everyone who has an interest in the heritage and genealogy of Franklin County is urged to attend, and is invited to join. The group’s current project is obtaining articles and information for Volume 2 of the Franklin County Heritage Book. For more information, contact Joe Pearce, (919) 496-3321; Maylon Cooke, (919) 556-4213; or Annette Goyette, 492-3820.

Chess Club — The Henderson/Vance Chess Club, affiliated with the U. S. Chess Federation, meets at the First United Methodist Church from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. All are welcome, adults and youths, novice or experienced. For more information, call Rudy Abate at 438-4459 (days) or 738-0375 (evenings).

Forestry meeting — There will be an educational forestry meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Vance County Extension Center, 305 Young St., Henderson. Paul McKenzie will speak about identification and management of invasive plants in forestland. There is no charge and all are welcome. For more information, call 438-8188 or e-mail paul_mckenzie@ncsu.edu.

Black caucus — The Henderson-Vance Black Caucus will hold a called meeting at 6 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, 326 W. Rockspring Street. Members are urged to attend.

AARP meeting — AARP Chapter #4082 will meet at the Vance County Senior Center, 126 S. Garnett St., Henderson, at 2 p.m.

Please bring school supplies for our back-to-school project.

Friday Back-to-school event — A Back-to-School Bash, sponsored

by Family Intervention and Prevention Services, will be held at River Bend Park in Louisburg from noon to 4 p.m. Free food, games and activities, music, a clothing drive and free gift packages will be available. Brian Dawson of K97.5 will be the special guest, along with local step teams. A health seminar is also planned.

Residents of Franklin, Vance, Warren, Granville and Halifax counties are invited to attend.

Saturday Warren County Farmers’ Market — The Warren County Farmer’s Market is open from 8 a.m. to noon at the corner of Market and Main streets in historic downtown Warrenton. All produce is locally grown by the vendors. For more information or to receive a vendor application, contact the Warren County Extension Center at 257-3640.

Vance County Farmers’ Market — The Vance County Farmers’ Market is open from 7-11 a.m. The market is located at the intersection of Williams and Arch streets in downtown Henderson.

Vendors interested in selling at the market should contact Wayne Rowland at 438-8188.

Oxford Farmers’ Market — The Oxford Farmers’ Market, located on the corner of McClanahan and Lanier streets across from the police station in Oxford, is open from 7 a.m. to noon.

Dee’s Music Barn — Dee’s Music Barn, 3101 Walters Road, Creedmoor, will be featuring Ronnie Harris & The Country Flame Band at 7 p.m. For more information, call (919) 528-5878.

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NASA SEMAA soars again with the Young Eagles On Aug. 8, Warren County National Aeronautics and Space Administration Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Aerospace Academy (NASA SEMAA) held their annual fly-in and family picnic at the Henderson-Oxford Airport. Over 80 children enjoyed free flights provided by EAA Chapter 1114 pilots based out of Apex-Cary through their Young Eagles program, which was established to provide free airplane rides nationally and internationally to children ages 8 to 17. All this is done through the generosity of the pilots and registration crew volunteering both their time as well as the cost of airplane fuel. It is not too late to register for the fall session of Warren County NASA SEMMA. Contact the office at 257-7015 for information about the application process.

Six graduate from MPMC Safe Sitter program Six students have recently graduated from the Safe Sitter program at Maria Parham Medical Center. Safe Sitter is a nationally recognized babysitting course that teaches

young people ages 11 to 13 everything they need to know to be a safe and successful babysitter.

The coursework includes first aid, CPR and choking management in both chil-

dren and infants. The class also covers the business side of babysitting, including how much to charge, how to look professional to clients, and ways to manage behavior problems in

children you sit with.

The 2009 classes have concluded, but they will be taught again in the summer of 2010. Call Lee Anne Peoples at 436-1116 to preregister for next summer.

Henderson native, KVA graduate joins Teach for America A native of Henderson has joined Teach For America, the national corps of top recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong advocates for educational equity.

The recruit is Miriam Keil, a 2005 graduate of Kerr Vance Academy and a 2009 graduate of George Washington University). Keil will teach in the Mississippi Delta region.

Keil joins Teach For America’s incoming corps of 4,100 teachers, the largest in its 20-year history. With a record 35,000 applications for the 2009 corps, only 15 percent were accepted. These outstanding recent college graduates were selected for their leadership abilities and strong record of achievement.

The 2009 incoming corps members earned an average undergraduate GPA of 3.6, and 89 percent held leader-

ship positions as undergraduates.

Each year, Teach For America attracts a significant percentage of graduates from the nation’s top schools.

This year, at more than 130 colleges and universities, over five percent of the senior class applied, including 11 percent of all seniors at Ivy League institutions. Teach For America was the No. 1 employer of graduating seniors at more than 20 schools, including Georgetown University, Spelman College and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Teach For America corps members go above and beyond traditional expectations to improve the educational outcomes of children growing up in low-income communities. “The most rigorous research to date finds that Teach For America corps members produce student learning gains as large or larger than other novice or

experienced teachers in the same schools,” said Michael J. Podgursky, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia who serves on the National Research Council study committee examining teacher preparation in the United States. In fact, a study by the Urban Institute updated in March 2009 confirmed that Teach For America teachers have a positive effect on student achievement relative to other teachers, including experienced teachers, traditionally prepared teachers, and those fully certified in their fields.

In the 2009-10 school year, over 7,300 first- and secondyear Teach For America corps members will head to classrooms in 35 regions

across the United States, including a record seven new sites: Boston; Dallas; Milwaukee; MinneapolisSt. Paul; Nashville, Tenn.; Tulsa, Okla.; and Wilmington, Del. Beyond their corps commitments, two-thirds of the nearly 17,000 Teach For America alumni across the country are working full-time in education. Nearly 400 Teach For America alumni serve as school principals or superintendents, more than 500 work in government or policy, and 26 serve in elected office.

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The owner of the former Beacon Light apartment complex has requested a meeting with the Henderson City Council’s Land Planning and Development Committee to discuss how to bring the property into compliance. Shown here is the property in October 2008. The owner cut down the tall growth and installed a gate at the front entrance, but the site remains dilapidated.

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a demolition would be stopped to give Abdelhalim a chance to comply.

If Abdelhalim does not comply, then City Code Compliance Director Corey Williams will be authorized to take the letter of credit and demolish the property.

The terms provide a 45day window to work out a time schedule agreement.

And City Attorney John Zollicoffer has said there would be an additional 30 days for Abdelhalim to produce the letter of credit.

Additionally, the terms will seek to establish a partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Teen saved on N.C. beach after being buried in sand WILMINGTON (AP) — North Carolina officials are warning beachgoers about burying people in the sand after a 16-year-old nearly drowned when the tide came in over his head.

The Star-News of Wilmington reported that the teenager from New Jersey was buried neck-deep while sitting cross-legged in wet sand at Bald Head Island Sunday afternoon when the tide came in.

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And Zollicoffer said a counteroffer would have to come within 10 days, along with a $2,200 deposit filed with the city clerk.

Frazier said the bid by Bier Haus would be subject to the 10-day deadline once an official notice is published in the Dispatch.

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Pond site was a former water supply reservoir for the city, with city-owned land across the road from the pond having once been proposed as a site for a wastewater treatment plant.

Henderson’s water supply presently comes from the John H. Kerr Reservoir and Henderson’s water reclamation facility is off N.C. 39 north of Interstate 85.

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The previous council wanted Beacon Light redeveloped with single-family homes.

The council majority in June postponed going ahead with a demolition so the city could hear from a potential buyer, Twin City, which is a Greensboro real estate management firm.

Twin City representatives wanted to have rental units on the property.

During an Aug. 5 meeting of the council’s Land Planning and Development Committee in which six of the eight council members were present, Twin City’s proposal was denied.

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fire insurance proceeds Abdelhalim may have received to pay for demolition and cleanup.

The council’s Aug. 10 actions were unanimous, except for the part about affirming the home-ownership provision, which received a lone dissenting vote from Mayor Pro Tem Lonnie Davis. Councilman Michael Inscoe was not present.

The HUD-sponsored low-income complex, which dates to 1973 and is located on the southeast side of the city, was closed in 2006 at the request of the previous council after the property had become notorious for crime and unsanitary conditions.

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Deaths Victoria M. Ratliff GREENSBORO — Victoria M. Ratliff, 82, of Greensboro, formerly of Warren County, died Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009, at Guilford Healthcare in Greensboro.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday at St. Stephen Baptist Church in Warrenton. The Rev. Junious Debnam will officiate and burial will follow in the church cemetery.

She is survived by three daughters, Joyce Wiggleton of Bel Air, Md., Veronica Henderson of York, Pa., and Francine O’Neal of Fort Washington, Md.; three sons, Charles Ratliff Jr. of Baltimore, Md., James Ratliff of Laurel, Md., and Otis Ratliff of Baltimore, Md.; 15 grandchildren; 15 greatgrandchildren; four sisters, Edna Harrelson of Greensboro, Christine Jones of New York, N.Y., Hermena Chunn of Charlotte, and Demetris Perry of Chapel Hill; and a brother, Willie Perry of Mocksville.

The body will be on view today from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Boyd’s Funeral Service Chapel in Warrenton.

Arrangements are by Boyd’s Funeral Services of Warrenton.

Jailed ex-football star gets some of the memorabilia

By LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent

SANTA MONICA, California — A California judge ordered some memorabilia returned to O.J. Simpson Tuesday, even as the football Hall of Famer sits in a Nevada prison for stealing it during a hotel room heist.

In a ruling that capped more than a year of legal wrangling, Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg on Tuesday gave nine souvenir footballs and a few other items to a lawyer for Simpson nemesis Fred Goldman for auction. Goldman is trying to collect on a $33.5 million civil judgment against Simpson.

But in another odd twist, the judge said Simpson must get the first $6,075 from the auction.

Rosenberg said it was possible that figure would not be reached, and then Goldman would get nothing.

The most satisfied litigant was memorabilia dealer Bruce Fromong, who was able to reclaim about 600 photographs and several books that he said were taken from him during the Las Vegas hotel room confrontation on Sept.

13, 2007.

During his trial, Simpson called it a sting operation designed to recover his memorabilia, which he said had been stolen from him.

Another of the participants in the dispute was Simpson’s former manager Mike Gilbert, who asked for nothing at the hearing and received nothing.

Outside of court, Gilbert grumbled, “I think America is tired of O.J. Simpson, tired of Fred Goldman and tired of me. I just want it over.”

Because of the hotel room standoff, Simpson was sentenced to nine to 33 years for convictions on armed robbery, kidnapping and other charges. He has applied for release on bond while he appeals.

One of the men who was in the hotel room, Alfred Beardsley, was given back only the baseball hat he wore the night of the heist.

He proudly put it on.

Attorney David Cook, representing Goldman, received nine game balls and two pillow cases from the hotel room, for the auction.

Beardsley, who took up Simpson’s cause after he blew the whistle on him, said outside court: “I’m happy and excited for O.J., that he’ll be getting some of his stuff back.”

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Battlefield maneuver

Sgt. Joshua Engbrecht, 28, of Riverside Calif., left, and Pfc. Jack Shortridge, 21, of Long Beach Calif., of the U.S. Army’s 1st Platoon Apache Company, 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y., give each other haircuts under the stars Tuesday at Combat Outpost Tangi in Afghanistan’s Wardak Province.

Seattle deciding on grocery bag fee N.C.’s Outer Banks banned plastic bags; D.C. has 5-cent fee

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SEATTLE — Voters in eco-conscious Seattle were deciding Tuesday whether to pay a 20-cent fee for every paper or plastic bag they get from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience stores.

City leaders had passed an ordinance to charge the bag fee, which was to start in January. But the plastics industry bankrolled a referendum to put the question to voters in Tuesday’s election.

Plastic bag makers have lobbied hard to defeat the fee, outspending opponents about 15 to 1.

Supporters argue the fee would encourage more reusable bags, cut down on pollution and waste, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Also in Seattle, unpopular Mayor Greg Nickels faced seven challengers in his bid for a third term.

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The city has said it expected to collect $10 million in annual revenue.

Under the ordinance, small stores would keep the entire 20-cent fee.

Stores with gross sales of more than $1 million a year keep 5 cents, and the rest goes to city recycling and environmental education programs.

A SurveyUSA poll conducted for Seattle TV station KING and released Monday found 45 percent of 644 likely voters would vote for the bag fee. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

“We are the underdog,” said Heather Trim, toxics program manager for the nonprofit People for Puget Sound, who supports the fee. “We’re hoping there will be a surge of young voters. All the polling

tives to make the city greener, has been dogged locally by criticism of a sometimes heavy-handed style and of the city’s response to a December snowstorm that paralyzed Seattle for nearly two weeks. The top two votegetters advance to the November general election.

The election was held entirely by mail, with ballots postmarked on Tuesday considered valid, so close races could remain unresolved until next week.

If the bag fee fails in an eco-conscious city like Seattle, observers say it will be a tough sell elsewhere.

“I don’t agree with it, period,” said Myrna Peterson, 68, of Seattle, as she dropped off her ballot Tuesday afternoon. “It’s expensive. It’s uncalled for.”

Jim Reitz, 38, a Seattle cable technician, said he was torn on the issue. He supports the concept and initially planned to vote for the measure, which would add the 20-cent fee

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The plastics industry’s aggressive campaign against the fee is part of a national campaign to stave off bag restrictions.

In California, bag manufacturers successfully sued cities that banned plastic bags.

Several states from Colorado to Texas to Virginia debated bag bans or fees this year, but no statewide ban or fee has been enacted. Washington, D.C., passed a 5-cent fee on paper or plastic bags, and the Outer Banks region in North Carolina banned plastic bags this year. But New York City dropped a proposed 5-cent bag fee in June, and Philadelphia rejected a plastic bag ban.

In Seattle, the Progressive Bag Affiliates, an arm of Virginia-based American Chemistry Council, has given the bulk of money to defeat the bag fee.

Bettie E. Wright HENDERSON — Bettie E. Wright, 96, of 510 Powell St., Henderson, died Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, at Maria Parham Medical Center in Henderson.

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New ABC Store consolidates stores, warehouse, offices From STAFF REPORTS

A new ABC Store will open at 9 a.m. Aug. 24 at 874 S. Beckford Drive, the Vance County ABC Board announced.

The 5,940-square-foot store will allow the consolidation of two existing retail stores, warehouse and administrative offices.

The Norlina Road retail outlet closed Aug. 15. The final day at the Williams Street store will be Aug. 22.

The new store will provide a number of improvements, the Board said in its announcement.

With a significantly larger retail space, a wider selection of products will be

care services to Granville County and the surrounding areas for more than 30 years.

Over the past two years, Granville Health System has been implementing a strategic and medical staff development plan.

Based on a community needs assessment, the health system identified primary care as a specific focus to support the area’s growing health care needs.

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Customers of Henderson’s Walmart are no doubt noticing some changes.

The store on North CooGranville Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, which is per Road recently began located at 1032 College St. in an “extensive renovation,” Oxford, offers a full range of according to officials with internal and geriatric medi- the Bentonville, Ark.cal services. Hours of opera- based retailer.

“The store will receive tion are Monday through a full remodel from the inFriday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 side out and will represent p.m. by appointment. the latest in Walmart’s For an appointment, or store design and cusinformation about intertomer experience,” said a nal or geriatric medicine company statement to the services through Granville press.

Health System, call (919) The new design, Wal693-6541. mart states, is based on feedback from customers.

It is intended to feature a “clean, open and bright” may be increased at other new look to the store, with factories, including those wider aisles, low-profile that make the Chevrolet shelving, brighter inteHHR small wagon. rior paint schemes and

GM to add 60,000 vehicles to its production DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co. says it will add 60,000 vehicles to its production in the third and fourth quarters, spurred partly by demand from the government’s Cash for Clunkers program.

The automakers says it will bring back about 1,350 laid-off workers in the U.S. and Canada to bolster production at factories.

GM says it will add a shift to its CAMI factory in Ingersoll, Ontario, where the new Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain midsize crossover vehicles are made.

The company’s Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant, where the Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 are made, also will see additional shifts.

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Included in the remodeling is a research-driven reorganization of the store’s layout with the intent of more closely grouping related items that customers tend to buy on the same trip to the store.

“We are excited to bring an improved shopping experience to our customers,” said Richard Banks, the Henderson store manager, in a statement through Walmart’s corporate offices. “We listened to our customers and are redesigning the store to make shopping at Walmart even easier.”

The store remains open

derson, the announcement said. This team has worked together on the new ABC Stores that are being built throughout Wake County.

According to David Parham, Vance County’s ABC Administrator, the Henderson store benefitted greatly from the design team’s experience gained from working on similar projects in other parts of the Triangle.

Modern South Construction of Raleigh served as general contractors and completed the building on time and within budget, the announcement said.

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during the renovation.

Maps to the store’s renovation layout are available at the entrance and extra signs have been posted to direct customers around the store. The majority of construction and moving will be undertaken overnight to keep out of the way of shoppers.

Walmart headquarters reports that “65 additional associates” have been hired to help with the remodeling job.

Work began on Aug. 3 and is expected to be completed sometime in October.

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available. The location on Beckford Drive is convenient to Interstate 85, U.S. 158, and N.C. 39 as well as other local thoroughfares in Henderson.Plentiful storefront parking and a new drive will allow shoppers easy access and quick entry and exit from the site, the Board said.

The hours of operation for the Beckford Drive store will be 9 a.m. to 9 p..m. Monday through Saturday.

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Granville Health acquires Oxford practice OXFORD — Granville Health System (GHS) announced the organization has acquired Granville Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. The medical team of Dr. Francine Chavis, Dr. Stephen Ertischek and Beverly Anderson, NP, joined the health system on Aug. 1.

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News Briefs N.C. appeals court preserves adoption by lesbian legislator RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court has upheld an adoption that the estranged partner of the first openly gay member of the General Assembly sought to void.

A three-judge Court of Appeals panel ruled Tuesday that state Sen. Julia Boseman’s parental rights could not be voided by her former partner Melissa Jarrell.

Jarrell gave birth to the couple’s son, whom Boseman later adopted.

The court ruled that the same-sex nature of their former relationship was not relevant to the case and the result would have been the same if brought by an unmarried heterosexual couple.

The custody battle for the couple’s 6-year-old son led last year to electionyear revelations that the Wilmington Democrat had smoked marijuana before being elected to the Legislature in 2004.

Public invited to Smokies ‘rededication’ ceremony GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is offering free first-come, first-served tickets to the Dolly Parton-headlined “rededication” ceremony to mark the park’s 75th anniversary.

The ceremony that recalls President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s original dedication of the park will be held on Sept. 2 at Newfound Gap on the Tennessee-North Carolina border.

Capacity is limited to 2,000 and lots of dignitaries and guests have been invited.

But park Superintendent Dale Ditmanson said Tuesday the park didn’t want to exclude the public.

So the park is taking ticket requests at http://www.GRSMComments(at)nps.gov or by calling (865) 436-7318, extension 258, until they are gone or no later than Monday, Aug. 24.

UNCC receives largest academic gift in its history CHARLOTTE (AP) — The University of North Carolina Charlotte has received its largest academic gift in the school’s history — $9.3 million to create a merit scholarship program.

The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday that UNCC officials hope the program will have the same prestige as the Morehead-Cain at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Park at N.C. State; and Benjamin N. Duke at Duke.

Charlotte businessman and philanthropist Leon Levine is donating the money for the scholarships, which will begin in fall 2010. Plans call for 15 Levine Scholars to be named.

Levine founded Family Dollars Stores in 1959 and built it into one of the country’s largest discount retail chains of more than 5,000 stores.

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North Carolina, and wiil seek regulatory permission to build a natural gas-fueled plant on the site.

The three Lee Plant coal units were built in 1951, 1952 and 1962. They are on the Neuse River west of Goldsboro.

A statement issued Tuesday by the Raleigh-based utility said the new plant will increase the generating capacity at the site by about 550 megawatts, while reducing overall emissions, including carbon dioxide.

The project also will involve construction of a natural gas pipeline which would help provide large-volume gas supply further into eastern counties.

Progress Energy Carolinas said it would help the 70 workers at the plant find jobs at the new facility or other positions in the company.

N.C. court: Consider conditional release for man in '88 shootings

By EMERY P. DALESIO Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH — A man found innocent by reason of insanity of killing four people and wounding five others in a 1988 shooting spree must have a new hearing that could lead to his conditional release from a psychiatric hospital, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals ruled that Michael Hayes was Military judge hears motions entitled to a new hearing on whether he should in '85 triple slaying case remain committed to DoroFORT BRAGG (AP) — A military judge thea Dix Hospital. The court ruled a judge failed in North Carolina will have to decide whether to allow testimony from two wit- to consider in 2007 that Hayes could be released nesses who identified an Army sergeant with conditions aimed recalled to duty after retirement so he at preventing him from could be tried for a 1985 triple slaying. backsliding on 19 years of Defense attorneys for Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis sought Tuesday’s motion sobriety that’s kept him free of psychosis. hearing to ban testimony from the two “The need for resolution eyewitnesses as unreliable. of this significant issue Hennis is accused of killing 31-year-old is well demonstrated by Kathryn Eastburn and her two daughters Hayes’ case: this issue will at their Fayetteville home. recur every year at his The Fayetteville Observer reported one recommitment hearing. It witness selected Hennis in a photograph is in the public’s interest as the man outside Eastburn’s home after that this issue be resolved the killings and the other claims Hennis now,” Judge Martha used an ATM card that belonged to the Geer wrote in the ruling victim. joined by Judges Robert Hennis is scheduled to be tried in Feb- C. Hunter and Sanford ruary for a third time. He could face the Steelman.

Hayes is entitled to an death penalty if convicted. annual judicial review of the need for his inWorkers burned while voluntary commitment. cleaning ex-SC nuke plant He waived a hearing in August 2008.

AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — Three workers His longtime attorney, Karl Knudsen, said a new helping clean up a former nuclear weapons site in South Carolina have been sent hearing had been scheduled for next month. A to a hospital for treatment of chemical spokesman for the state burns.

Department of Health and Savannah River Nuclear Solutions Human Services, which spokesman Will Callicott says the employees were cleaning a chemical process- runs the psychiatric hospital, said officials there are ing complex Tuesday at the Savannah legally barred from discussRiver Site when they came into contact ing a patient’s case. with nitric acid.

The ruling notes several They were being evaluated at a local times that a verdict of not hospital. Four others were treated at the guilty due to insanity is a scene for less serious injuries. full acquittal, which means Callicott says the workers were remov- Hayes would be entitled to ing pipes from a facility formerly used be released once his mental to make plutonium for nuclear weapons. illness is deemed to be Officials don’t think radioactive material cured. was involved.

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“If it would reassure the state and the community of Mr. Hayes’ continued lack of danger to the community, if they wanted to have some continued contact with him or check in with him on an outpatient basis, we wouldn’t object to that if that would make everybody comfortable.”

Hayes was found not guilty by reason of insanity and involuntarily committed to the state hospital in Raleigh after he allegedly fired a .22-caliber rifle into cars stopped at a rural Forsyth County intersection in July 1988. He said he thought he was shooting at demons.

he could rule only between Hayes’ unconditional release or recommitting him.

Hayes’ attorneys did not argue for a conditional release during that hearing, nor did prosecutors present it as an option.

“Because the trial court was unaware that it had the option of conditionally releasing Hayes, it made its findings of fact and conclusions of law under a misapprehension of the law,” Geer wrote.

Six doctors or therapists at the hospital and an outside expert brought in to examine Hayes said in 2007 he hasn’t been mentally ill for years and is no longer a threat to society.

Because Hayes holds a fulltime job, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and visits family, he already spends more time off the hospital’s campus than on it, his doctor said.

A forensic psychiatrist testifying for the state said in his medical opinion Hayes remains mentally ill and that even the “small or slight” risk of future violence Hayes represented was unacceptable. But Dr. Robert S. Brown Jr. said Hayes’ two decades at Dorothea Dix “can be concluded with a rational and safe and appropriate discharge plan.”

“Mr. Hayes has sort of been on conditional release for years,” Knudsen said.

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Coroner: Wild dogs killed Ga. woman, then her husband

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LEXINGTON, Ga. (AP) — An elderly woman killed by a pack of wild dogs had been out for a walk when she was attacked, and her husband died trying to fight off the mauling animals when he discovered the bloody scene near their rural Georgia home, authorities said Tuesday.

Preliminary autopsy results showed Lothar Karl Schweder, 77, and his 65-year-old wife, Sherry, died from multiple animal bites.

Authorities have rounded up about 11 dogs suspected in the rare attack and returned to the area Tuesday to find four more spotted by a deputy.

The dogs were being held by animal control officials while authorities decide what to do with them, said Jim Fullington, special agent for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

“It just appears that a large number of dogs had started living, running together, multiplying and had grown into what I would describe as a pack of wild or feral-type dogs,” Fullington said.

Sherry Schweder had told one of her sons that there were several dogs wandering the neighborhood that no one seemed

to be caring for, Fullington said.

Authorities said it appeared Sherry Schweder was attacked by the pack of dogs during a Friday evening walk near her home.

Authorities believe her husband later went looking for her in the family car.

Investigators found Sherry Schweder’s bloody shirt underneath the car, which was about six to eight feet from her body, said Madison County Coroner James Mathews.

Lothar Schweder was then attacked and apparently struggled with the dogs, Mathews said. His body was found on the other side of the dirt road, about 16 to 18 feet from his wife’s body.

Evidence indicates Lothar Schweder put up a fight and may have tried to pull out a cell phone before he was overtaken, Mathews said.

Experts say such attacks are extremely rare — and instances where more than one person is attacked are even more rare.

“You are more likely to killed by a bolt of lightening than by a dog,” said Adam Goldfarb, a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States.

“It’s one in millions.”

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20 deadly dog attacks in the U.S. this year, 22 in 2008 and 33 in 2007, Goldfarb said, compared with about 75 million owned dogs. Many dogs that turn vicious aren’t necessarily pets but kept for hunting or breeding, or as guard dogs.

Dogs that attack also typically are not spayed or neutered, which can contribute to aggression, Goldfarb said. He said it’s likely the dogs in the Georgia attack weren’t sterilized.

Authorities said they interviewed a man at a house down the street where several dogs were staying. Fullington said the man was not staying at the house full time.

Fullington could not say whether anyone would face charges, citing the ongoing investigation.

The Schweders’ son, Mark, said his father had taught German and philosophy at the University of Georgia a few decades ago. Lothar Schweder had also worked as a librarian and a spokesman at a state penetentiary in Kansas, the son said.

Sherry Schweder was a bibliographer at the university’s library, where she had worked since 1974, selecting books and journals for the school’s humanities collection, said librarian William Potter.

News Briefs N.J. city considers adult curfew after crime spate PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — Curfews might not be just for kids anymore in one city in northern New Jersey.

Officials in Paterson are considering one for people of all ages in a bid to curb violence after a spate of deadly shootings.

Several experts say they believe it would be the nation’s first curfew of its type to include adults.

The state ACLU says it would open Paterson to legal action.

The curfew would last for two months and would bar people from loitering outside from midnight to 7 a.m. Violators would face up to a $2,000 fine and 90 days in jail.

Officials are still working to make sure the plan can withstand legal challenges.

If the City Council passes it Sept. 1, a second vote and a public hearing are needed for it to take effect.

Kevin J. Kadamus shot his son as the two hunted in Wheelock, Vt., on the first day of turkey hunting season May 1. Police say Jacob Kadamus had strayed into the area where his father was hunting. The teenager died at the scene.

The 45-year-old Kadamus appeared Tuesday

Vt. man pleads no contest in son’s hunting death

before a judge and entered the plea to the felony under an agreement with the prosecution. Kadamus will not serve jail time unless he violates the terms of probation over the next three years.

Prosecutor Lisa Warren called the plea agreement a fair disposition of the case, given the circumstances.

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VANCE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Arrests • David Eugene Satterwhite, 47, of 5098 Vicksboro Road was arrested Aug. 15. Misdemeanor failure to appear. Misdemeanor driving while license revoked.

Bond was set at $500. Court date Sept. 3.

• DAiem Jerrell Yancy, 21, of 156 Bobcat Lane was arrested Aug. 15. Misdemeanor second degree trespassing. Bond was set at $1,600. Court date Aug. 18.

• Brandon Penny, 22, of 1545 Old Epsom Road was arrested Aug. 14. Misdemeanor injury to personal property. Bond was set at $500. Court date Aug. 31.

• Ashley Shantee Harrison, 20, of 2735 Thomas Road was arrested Aug. 14. Order for arrest. Misdemeanor larceny.

Bond was set at $2,000. Court date Sept. 11.

• John Forrest Ellington, 18, of 2940 Warrenton Road was arrested Aug. 14. Two counts of felony trafficking heroin. Misdemeanor possession of schedule VI substance. Bond was set at $100,000. Court date Sept. 17.

• Claude Richard Pearce, 31, of 3495 Old Watkins Road was arrested Aug. 16. Misdemeanor simple assault. Bond was set at $500. Court date Sept. 29.

• Stephon Jeffreys, 46, of 438 Birch St. was arrested Aug. 16.

Misdemeanor communicating threats. Bond was set at $500.

Court date Sept. 8.

• Robert Eugene Brodie, 45, of 722 Young Ave. was arrested Aug. 15. Child support. Bond was set at $750. Court date Aug. 26.

• Dewayne Bernard Dorsey, 34, of 1003 Williamsboro St., Oxford, was arrested Aug. 15.

Order for arrest. Failure to appear. Bond was set at $1,200.

Court date Aug. 31.

• Latoya Renee Cooper, 28, of 519 Grant St. was arrested Aug. 15. Two counts failure to appear. Bond was set at $3,200.

Court date Sept. 1.

Larceny •Thomas M. Ryan, 33, of 2364 Spring Valley Road reported Aug. 14 the theft from the residence of a Play Station 360 valued at $300 and a 12-gauge shotgun valued at $250. Entry to the residence was gained by removing an air conditioner from a window. Damage to both estimated at $500.

• Frances Gibson, 74, of 1441 Old Epson Road reported Aug. 15 the theft from the residence of a heat pump. Value unknown.

• Scott Perkinson, 21, of 1017 Faulknertown Road reported Aug. 14 the theft of a Honda 4-wheeler. Value unknown.

• Steve Randall Humphries, 48, of 206 Garrett Road reported Aug. 16 the theft from the residence the following items and their values: Crossroads custom guitar, $1,000; video camera,

$300; pennies, $50; and guitar case, 20-gauge shotgun and assorted jewelry, all no values listed.

• Esmeralda Cuevas, 28, of 1327 Height St. reported Aug. 15 the theft from the residence backyard of 2 put bull puppies valued at $200.

• Shannon Currin, 31, of 13 Internet Lane reported Aug. 15 the theft from the residence of a Nintendo Wii, 6 Nintendo games, game accessories, laptop computer and a camera. No values listed.

• S.T. Wooten of Wilson reported on Aug. 17 the theft from a truck of the following items and their values: impact, $500; black box of assorted tools, $300; ratchet wrench set, $70; jumper cables, $150; and a set of lock wrenches, $200. Damage to the passenger side window estimated at $200.

• Bryan Keith George, 49, of 363 Country Acres Road reported on Aug. 17 the theft from the residence of Oxycontin, a .45 calibre pistol and a .22 caliber pistol. No values listed.

• Paul Moss, 38, of 2949 Flemingtown Road reported Aug. 17 the theft from a shed at the residence a 2001 blue Yamaha 4-wheeler. No value listed.

Joseph Finch, 51, of 5973 Satterwhite PointRoad reported Aug. 17 the theft from the residence of the folling items and their values: Sony Play Station II, $200; Magnavox 32” TV, $800; and a Panasonic VCR, $60.

HENDERSON POLICE DEPARTMENT Arrest • Andre Lemans Melchor, 25, of 2441 Raleigh Road was arrested Aug. 17. Felony breaking and entering. Misdemeanor property damage. Bond was set at $30,000. Court date Aug. 24.

• Christopher Eaton, 45, of 732 Daniel St. was arrested Aug. 17. Misdemeanor order for arrest. Failure to appear. Bond was set at $1,000. Court date Aug. 24.

• Jameel Bryant, 22, was arrested Aug. 17. Misdemeanor failure to appear. Driving while

license revoked. Bond was set at $1,200. Court date Sept. 8.

• Anthony Taylor, 43, of 1647 Willow Lane was arrested Aug. 17. Misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. Misdemeanor driving while license revoked.

Misdemeanor simple possession of marijuana. Bond was set at $500. Court date Sept. 24.

Larceny • Dewayne Small, 32, of 409 Sunrise Ave. reported Aug. 17 the theft from the residence of the following items and their

values: JL audio speakers, $287; speaker box, $85; Power Acustic amp, $525; Power Acustic DVD player, $272; Pyramid TV monitor, $143; Apple 16GB Ipod, $299; and CD case, $25.

• Berl Wright of 209 Shank St. reported Aug. 17 the theft from the residence of $2,539.

• Jonathan Bullock, 24, of 996 Hughes St. reported Aug. 17 the theft from the residence of the following items and their values: Panasonic DVD player, $40; Microsoft XBox 360, $400; Jordan sneakers, $600; XBox controller, $20; and XBox video games, $150.

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Daily Meditation For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 2:21-22

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With Golden LEAF money, think big Officials with North Carolina Golden LEAF were in Henderson again Monday night as the most recent meeting in a process to determine how the city and Vance County might spend $2 million if the agency were to grant those funds for local projects.

On this night, the Henderson-Vance potential project list was unveiled, and for Golden LEAF it had to be a bit like when parents review an offspring’s Christmas wish list. The slate of ideas covered 22 projects and more than $10 million in grant spending; five times what Golden LEAF might be willing to grant.

The only thing the list lacked was a pony.

We shouldn’t joke about the work that the community — both public officials and citizens alike — have put into this process. It isn’t that the projects are unworthy or that any of the ideas or desires are “bad.”

It’s just that some of them are too focused, or too short-sighted, or would do good work while the free money lasted but otherwise cannot be sustained. They aren’t big-picture.

From Day 1 Golden LEAF advised Henderson and Vance that the best ideas are the biggest ones that will touch and improve the most lives. That’s wise advice. It will be best for the community not to nickel-and-dime this opportunity. Spending $10,000, $25,000 or even $100,000 or more on a dozen projects might get a lot of little things done — and that could improve the community and make us feel better for awhile — but those aren’t the kinds of projects that last.

We aren’t ready to get on board with any of the projects yet. But, whether or not it’s chosen, one that at least took Golden LEAF’s advice and ran with it is the Vance County Tourism Department’s idea to spend the whole $2 million on a showplace museum for the East Coast Drag Times Hall of Fame.

To many observers, such an expense might seem frivolous. But tourism means jobs and money, and this town and county are in dire need of both. Such a museum — done right — adds another feature to a region through which a main U.S. traffic artery courses (Interstate 85) and an area already known for its tourism by way of camping and fishing at Kerr Lake, among other activities.

It’s worth debating whether spending $2 million (toward an overall project valued at millions more) to build an attraction that might spawn more jobs in hotel management and maintenance, food service and retail sales is really the direction the community wants to go. Perhaps a more industrial job-creation project would be better.

But the museum idea the sort of project Golden LEAF was wanting to see — one that spends most or all of the money to take a bold step toward economic growth.

If such a project succeeds, then the new local prosperity that is created is where funding comes from to address the many other interesting and worthy, but less-expensive, ideas that also populate the local Golden LEAF wish list.

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— NTSB Chairman Debbie Hersman, after officials for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said the NTSB’s report, which described the handling of the plane by controllers, unfairly implied the Teterboro controller could have prevented the collision.

I recently read that the Warren County school board was investigating building a $2.5 million apartment house for teachers. This disturbed me greatly for these reasons: 1. Our church is spending over $60,000 this year on our apartment building and until recently had vacant rooms.

2. It is impossible to charge enough rent in Warren County to get a reasonable return on investment on $2.5 million.

3. A nonprofit managing the building will guarantee bad management. (Study Healthco’s problems).

4. The State Employer’s Credit Union should not with the work you were elected make an interest-free loan to do? for this building, since Well, because they can’t — or I and most other Credit won’t.

Union investors want a One of the reasons the term higher ROI. “ObamaCare” has become a It is my understanding journalistic convention is that that the purpose of the there is no bill. You can’t talk apartments is to attract about Obama’s actual health and keep teachers in Warcare plan because there isn’t ren County. one. There are a bunch of The reason most young competing bills, proposals, teachers do not want to ideas swirling around the halls come to Warren County is of Congress like flotsam in a because of the social life sewer. As even Robert Reich, and the lack of peers in the Clinton’s Labor secretary, area. Most young single recently conceded, the failure to teachers have to go to Henput forward a concrete proposal derson or the Triangle area to find something to do on allows opponents to pick from a menu of scary ideas and pos- the weekends. t is also difficult to keep sibilities, all of which can be them here with the challabeled ObamaCare. lenges they face in most Suspicion of bad motives is Warren County classonly reinforced by Obama’s rooms. determination to steamroll to There are plenty of reavictory. Indeed, Democratic sonable rentals in the area dudgeon that the town hall including Lake Gaston protesters don’t want civil debate is hysterical, given that and building an apartment Obama wanted this over before house will be a huge waste of tax money. the August recess. No wonder the president who thought the Sears Bugg, time for talk was over long ago Warrenton now doesn’t like the talk he’s getting.

Some might say the real story is to be found in the eroding support from independent voters and Blue Dog Democratic congressmen. Or in the panic among seniors that Obama The Daily Dispatch welwill raid Medicare. Or in his comes letters to the editor. inability to get progressive Letters must be signed, Democrats to agree to a biparinclude the author’s city tisan approach. Or maybe the of residence, and should real story is Obama’s manifest be limited to 300 words. inability to sell a program he’s Please include a telephone invested his presidency in. number for verification.

But no. Obama wants the We reserve the right to edit debate to be about angry white comments for length, clarity, men. And, as lame as that is, libelous material, personal that’s what’s happening. It won’t make ObamaCare a realattacks and poor taste. We ity, but it will shift the blame do not publish anonymous from where it rightly belongs. letters, form letters, or letters where we cannot verify the You can write to Jonah Goldberg by writer’s identity. e-mail at JonahsColumn@aol.com.

Why ‘ObamaCare’ is failing To listen to the White House and its supporters in and out of the media, you would think that opposition to “ObamaCare” is the hobgoblin of a few small minds on the right. Racists, fascists, Neanderthals, the whole “Star Wars” cantina of boogeymen and cranks stand opposed to much-needed reform.

Left out of this fairly naked effort to demonize many with the actions of a few is the simple fact that ObamaCare — however defined — has been tanking in the polls for weeks.

President Obama’s handling of health care is unpopular with a majority of Americans and a majority of self-proclaimed independents.

Focusing on the town halls has its merits, but if you actually wanted ObamaCare to pass, casting a majority of Americans as the stooges of racist goons may not be the best way to go.

Imagine if George W. Bush, in his effort to partially privatize Social Security, had insisted that the “time for talking is over.” Picture, if you will, the Bush White House asking Americans to turn in their e-mails in the pursuit of “fishy” dissent. Conjure a scenario under which then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott derided critics as “evil-mongers” the way Harry Reid recently described town hall protesters. Or if thenHouse Speaker Dennis Hastert and then-Majority Whip Tom DeLay had called critics “un-American” the way Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer did last week, or if White House strategist Karl Rove had been Sir Spam-a-lot instead of David Axelrod.

Now, I’m not asking you, dear reader, to do this so that you might be able to see through the glare of Obama’s halo or the outlines of the media’s staggering double standard when it comes to covering this White House. Rather, it is

to grasp that the Obama administration has been astoundingly incompetent.

Lashing out at the town hall protesters, playing the race card, whining about angry white men and whispering ominously about right-wing militias is almost always a sign of liberalism’s weakness — a failure of Jonah imaginaGoldberg the tion.

The left, broadly speaking, has been attacking conservative talk radio and all it allegedly represents for the better part of 20 years now. When Bill Clinton needed a convenient villain, he attacked Rush Limbaugh. When Bush emerged victorious from the Florida recount, liberals concluded that what they really needed was their own version of Limbaugh.

In March, at the first sign of resistance from congressional Republicans, Obama complained that the GOP was Limbaugh’s lap dog, and both the White House and much of the press corps went into anti-Limbaugh campaign mode.

It’s funny how these supposed champions of the Enlightenment can’t grasp that people can disagree with them for honest reasons. Instead, we simply must be Limbaugh’s automatons, which is to say racist, fascist thugs.

In addition to the slander, such complaints are monumentally, incandescently lame coming from a party that controls Washington. According to liberals themselves, these evilmongers are a tiny minority, a bunch of “AstroTurf” frauds. So why not ignore them and get on Tribune Media Services

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Will uniforms of the world wars fade away?

I wonder if, after all these years, he still had his uniform.

This question crossed my mind the other day as Great Britain said good-bye to its last surviving veteran of World War I. Then, I wondered how many American World War I veterans had kept their uniforms and how many of those were still preserved.

There are, thank goodness, still many veterans of World War II still among us. From time to time you may see one of them in his old uniform, dressed up for some special occasion. But not often. So we can wonder about them, too.

How many have kept their wartime clothing for the 64 years since that war ended — and what will happen when these soldiers are, like their World War I brothers, all gone?

My father’s World War II naval officers uniform comes to mind. It hung proudly in the closet at home for years until I commandeered the trousers as my high school formal pants. The remainder was probably used for some other good purpose, like costumes in a college dramatic production.

My army uniform, undis-

tinguished as it was and still is, hangs in a closet at home, surviving intact longer the my father’s did, still waiting, just in case. (My son honored it and me a few years ago when he removed a patch from it and D.G. sewed it Martin on his own Special to uniform, The Daily Dispatch thereby connecting us to the same unit and to each other in a special way.)

The close-by presence of that uniform has been important to me, but like my father’s, it too will someday certainly just drift away.

The old World War I and II uniforms are far simpler than those we see our solders wearing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Instead, they are closer in appearance to the uniforms worn

by Civil War soldiers. In fact, the growing up times of the veterans of the World Wars were closer to 1865 than they were to today’s world. When the World War II veterans

were growing up in 1929, the surviving Civil War veterans were also 64 years away from their last battle.

Time moves along, closing connective links as it goes. Most military clothing from all wars gets used up eventually — for work or hunting garb, children’s play, or feasts for closet moths — just fading away before the old soldiers die.

But not always.

For instance, Robert Patton’s World War II uniform no longer hangs in the attic of his home in Chapel Hill where it was probably destined someday soon to just “fade away.”

Instead it is on permanent display in the history museum of Scharding, a small Austrian town that sits on the Inn River near the German border.

In May, 1945, in the very last days of the war, Robert Patton was serving in the 65th Infantry Division, which was part of General George Patton’s (no kin) Third Army.

Robert Patton’s unit captured Scharding. In recent years, Patton and others from the 65th Division revisited the town and developed warm relations with people there. In 2006, veterans from Schard-

ing awarded decorations to three 65th veterans, including Patton.

When Patton learned that the museum in Scharding was seeking an American Army uniform, he quickly made a decision.

When he returned to Austria a few months ago, he brought his old uniform, the same one he was wearing in May 1945 on his first “visit” to Scharding. This time the mayor, the museum director, and a uniformed honor guard assembled to receive his gift.

Now, whenever Patton’s family or friends want to see his World War II uniform, they will not have to go to the attic.

It will not fade away. It will always be…

In Scharding.

Note: Robert Patton’s discussion of his experiences in World War II will be available on line at www.1360wchl.com/listen. html?showname=dgpodcast D.G. Martin is the host of UNCTV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, which airs Sundays at 5 p.m.

Check his blog and view prior programs at www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch/

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Dear Abby DEAR ABBY: I have an embarrassing dilemma. I have a baby with a man I am no longer with. Our romance ended before I knew I was pregnant. He is not in our lives anymore — his decision.

I have moved on and am now in a solid, loving relationship.

My problem is my OB/ GYN has always been under the impression that my child’s biological father and I are together and that we’re married. The father attended some of the obstetrical appointments with me and was even there for the birth.

When my doctor initially referred to him as “my husband,” I didn’t Dear correct him Abby because I didn’t feel Universal Press I needed Syndicate to spill the beans about such a personal issue. But now when I go for my annual examinations, he always asks me how “my husband” is. I feel it’s too late to say, “Oh, by the way, he was never my husband” since I didn’t correct him to begin with.

I need a graceful way to finally tell my doctor that we were never married, especially since I am now involved with a different man whom I plan on marrying and will eventually have another child with. Please help me find the words. — STUCK — DOWN SOUTH DEAR STUCK: Here are the words. The next time your doctor asks how your “husband” is, say: “We’re no longer together.” Period. No further explanation is necessary, and don’t offer one.

DEAR ABBY: We are hoping you can settle a small dispute. My husband and I have a soon-to-be 2-year-old.

Her birthday is next month, and we will be celebrating at a local park with lots of kids

from work and day care.

Is it OK to offer beer and wine to the parents? The park officials have no issue with it. There is an alcohol permit to sign, which includes no hard liquor and no drinks to be taken off premises. We will abide by park rules. We just want to know — is it OK to have alcohol at a child’s birthday party?

We will wait to see what you have to say. — PARTY PLANNER IN COLORADO DEAR PARTY PLANNER: I see nothing positive to be gained by a group of parents drinking alcohol at a children’s party. Alcohol dulls the senses, and besides, the purpose of the party is to see that the children have a good time. Rather than drinking and socializing, the parents should be concentrating on the kids, making sure they are entertained and closely supervised -- particularly in an outdoor setting that may not be familiar to everyone.

DEAR ABBY: Is it now acceptable to clip one’s fingernails in the workplace?

I work in an office with cubicles, and I hear some of my co-workers (mainly men) clipping their nails! Isn’t this a task that should be performed in one’s bathroom at home? Am I the only person who thinks this is gross? — GROSSED OUT IN RICHMOND, TEXAS DEAR GROSSED OUT: You are not the only person who finds it gross; I think it’s “icky,” too. And you are correct that personal grooming should be performed at home, before or after work.

Because it bothers you, mention it to the office manager, explain how it makes you feel, and suggest that a company memo be sent out discouraging the practice.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Today In History

By The Associated Press

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 19, the 231st day of 2009.

There are 134 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight: On Aug. 19, 1909, the first automobile races were run at the just-opened Indianapolis Motor Speedway; the winner of the first event was auto engineer Louis Schwitzer, who drove a Stoddard-Dayton touring car twice around the 2.5-mile track at an average speed of 57.4 mph.

On this date: In 1929, the radio comedy program “Amos ’n’ Andy,” starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, made its network debut on NBC-Blue.

In 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler.

In 1955, severe flooding in the northeastern U.S. claimed some 200 lives.

In 1960, a tribunal in Moscow convicted American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage.

In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Kansas City.

Ten years ago: Confronting questions about possible past drug use, Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush told reporters he had not used illegal drugs in 25 years, and added that if voters insisted on knowing more, “they can go find somebody else to vote for.”

Five years ago: Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry fought back against campaign allegations that he had exaggerated his combat record in Vietnam, accusing President George W. Bush of using a Republican front group “to do his dirty work.”

One year ago: Heavily armed insurgents in Afghanistan killed 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sent a squad of suicide bombers in a failed assault on a U.S. base near the Pakistan border.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor L.Q. Jones is 82.

Actress Debra Paget is 76.

Tennis coach Renee Richards is 75. Baseball All-Star Bobby Richardson is 74.

Actress Diana Muldaur is 71. Rock musician Ginger Baker (Cream, Blind Faith) is 70. Singer Johnny Nash is 69. Actress Jill St. John is 69.

Actor and former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson is 67. Singer Billy J. Kramer is 66. Country singer-songwriter Eddy Raven is 65. Rock singer Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) is 64. Former President Bill Clinton is 63. Tipper Gore, wife of former Vice President Al Gore, is 61. Actor Gerald McRaney is 61. Rock musician John Deacon (Queen) is 58. Actor-director Jonathan Frakes is 57. Political consultant Mary Matalin is 56. Actor Peter Gallagher is 54. Actor Adam Arkin is 53. Singer-songwriter Gary Chapman is 52. Actor Martin Donovan is 52. NFL Hall-ofFamer Anthony Munoz is 51. R&B singer Ivan Neville is 50. Actor Eric Lutes is 47. Actor John Stamos is 46. Actress Kyra Sedgwick is 44. Actor Kevin Dillon is 44. Country singer Lee Ann Womack is 43. TV reporter Tabitha Soren is 42. Country singer-songwriter Mark McGuinn is 41. Rapper Nate Dogg is 40. Actor Matthew Perry is 40. Country singer Clay Walker is 40. Rapper Fat Joe is 39. Olympic gold medal tennis player Mary Joe Fernandez is 38. Actress Tracie Thoms is 34. New York Jets running back Thomas Jones is 31. Country singer Rissi Palmer is 28.

Actress Erika Christensen is 27. Milwaukee Brewers shortstop J.J. Hardy is 27.

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Gunmen briefly abduct two children from Phoenix home

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press Writer

Doing all they can

AP Photo/Palm Beach Post, Taylor Jones

James Woods, right, tries to help a 4,000-pound sperm whale that became beached Tuesday morning at Jupiter Park in Jupiter, Fla. The whale was euthanized after marine officials determined the baby girl was too weak to survive being pushed back into the ocean and would not live through a trip to Fort Pierce for medical treatment at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.

Study finds mood improves with end-of-life counseling CHICAGO (AP) — As a political uproar rages over end-of-life counseling, a new study finds offering such care to dying cancer patients improves their mood and quality of life.

The study of 322 patients in rural New Hampshire and Vermont also suggests the counseling didn’t discourage people from going to the hospital. The research didn’t look at costs.

The study’s publication in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association coincides with the fight over health care overhaul proposals in Congress.

Some conservatives have called end-of-life counseling included in one version of the bill “death panels� and a step toward euthanasia.

A House proposal allows Medicare to pay doctors to chat with patients, if they desire it, about living wills, hospice and appointing a trusted person to make decisions when the patient is incapacitated.

President Barack Obama called the euthanasia

charge “simply dishonest.� Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has said the end-of-life proposal is likely to be dropped from the final bill.

In the new study, trained nurses did the end-of-life counseling, mostly by phone, with patients and family caregivers using a model based on national guidelines.

All the patients in the study had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Half were assigned to receive usual care. The other half received usual care plus counseling about managing symptoms, communicating with health care providers and finding hospice care.

Patients and their caregivers also could attend monthly 90-minute group meetings with a doctor and a nurse to ask questions and discuss problems in what’s called a “shared medical appointment.�

Patients who got the counseling scored higher on quality of life and mood

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measures than patients who did not.

On the quality of life scale, patients could score up to 184 points. The groups were about 10 points apart in the last assessment before they died. On the mood scale, patients could score up to 60 points and the groups were about 5 points apart.

The patients who got the counseling also lived longer, by more than five months on average, but that finding didn’t reach a statistical level of significance.

Patients getting such counseling often thank the nurses helping them, said lead author Marie Bakitas, a researcher and nurse practitioner at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. “They seem to feel a whole lot better knowing there’s someone who’s looking at the rest of them and not just the tumor,� Bakitas said.

In both groups, hospital stays were rare: six to seven days on average during the patients’ last year of life.

PHOENIX (AP) — Four gunmen burst into a home early Tuesday, kidnapping a 2-year-old boy and 11-monthold girl when their mother could not meet demands for money, police said. The children were released safely five hours later and the mother was arrested on drug charges.

Based on evidence at the kidnapping scene, a search warrant was served and investigators found several pounds of methamphetamine along with drug paraphernalia, police spokesman Andy Hill said.

Hill said Marisa Sandoval, 20, was being booked into jail for possession of dangerous

drugs for sale.

The children were with the woman’s family and investigators have made a referral to Child Protective Services, according to Hill.

Phoenix has a reputation as America’s kidnapping capital. Many of the kidnappings are tied to the drug and immigrant smuggling business.

In recent years in Phoenix, immigrant and drugs smugglers have snatched their rivals, associates or their family members as a way to collect unpaid debt for lost trafficking loads, make quick money from crews flush with cash or as retaliation for earlier abductions.

Investigators say kidnappers haven’t intentionally targeted a person without a

connection to the smuggling business. A 13-year-old girl was mistakenly abducted in March 2008 by traffickers who were believed to have mistaken her for the niece of a suspected drug dealer.

The gunmen who abducted the two children Tuesday left in a sedan without the kids’ mother. Police were told that the children’s father lives in another country.

The children were released five hours later without any physical injuries.

They were discovered in a south Phoenix neighborhood 10 miles from their home. A neighbor heard the children crying in a front yard. “We believe they saw all the news coverage got scared and dropped the kids off,� Hill said.

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Red Sox rally Boston beats Toronto in AL East action

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Out of retirement again, Brett Favre signs deal with Vikings

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer

AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jerry Holt

New Minnesota quarterback Brett Favre works out during the team’s training camp Tuesday in Eden Prarie, Minn.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Brett Favre unretired again and will be wearing purple this time.

Chew on that, cheeseheads.

Pulling an about-face on his playing status for the second straight summer, the threetime MVP quarterback will suit up for his old rival Minnesota starting with Friday’s preseason

game at the Metrodome. The goal: help the Vikings win that elusive first Super Bowl.

“You need to cross over that line. You need to take that chance,” Favre said at his introductory news conference Tuesday, recalling the advice Minnesota coach Brad Childress gave him. “At 39 years old, your arm may not feel like it did at 21, but the pieces are in place here where you don’t have to do

From STAFF REPORTS

The Southern Vance girls’ tennis team lost its season opener to Person County 7-2 Tuesday at Fox Pond.

“I think the girls played phenomenally well,” said new coach Mike Bertner, who’s in his first year coaching Raider tennis following the retirement of longtime Southern Vance coach Hilda Delbridge.

Southern will play Person County again in a rematch on the road Monday at 4 p.m.

“I’m confident the score will be significantly different,” Bertner said.

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writer

“That’s a scary place to be (with two points left). Everybody’s chalking up the win.”

The Vikings regrouped, and won the next two points to seal the victory. Lauren Abbott’s kill made it 24-20, and an Emily Ellington kill ended it.

Northern opened up the match scoring the first four points of their season on the way to a 14-4 run. Hannah Thompson and Ellington traded kills throughout in the 25-15 set win.

Outside hitters Thompson and Ellington complimented each

WASHINGTON — Longstanding Washington Nationals “face of the franchise” Ryan Zimmerman was in the home clubhouse before Tuesday’s game, fielding question after question about newly signed No. 1 draft pick Stephen Strasburg.

A few feet away, wisecracking teammate Josh Bard yelled over: “Did you hear?

Strasburg’s going to start tomorrow. And he’s throwing every game the rest of the homestand.”

Strasburg Moving the joke along, Zimmerman replied: “Yeah, he’s going to start AND close.”

OK, OK, we get it. Strasburg is a special prospect, one who commanded a recordbreaking contract from Washington worth a guaranteed $15.1 million over four years in negotiations that closed about a minute before Monday night’s deadline.

Strasburg gets a $7.5 million signing bonus payable over three years. His 2009 salary is the $400,000 minimum, which comes to a prorated $102,732. He gets $2 million in 2010, $2.5 million in 2011 and $3 million in 2012.

The total is roughly 50 percent higher than the previous record for a drafted player, the $10.5 million the Cubs guaranteed Mark Prior in 2001.

“He’s coming into a tough situation, where everyone’s going to expect him to strike out everyone, throw 110 mph,”

Please see VIKINGS, page 2B

Please see STRASBURG, page 3B

Person Co. 7, S. Vance 2 Tuesday, at Fox Pond Singles n No. 1 — SV’s Neichelle Lewis def. Kristen Regan 6-0, 6-1. n No. 2 — PC’s Kasey Gaines def. Kristin Hicks 6-4, 6-2. n No. 3 — PC’s Erin Nelson def. Cormikia Southerland 6-1, 6-2. n No. 4 — PC’s Karman Wilkerson def. Tamara Ayscue 7-5, 6-2. n No. 5 — PC’s Angela Budzinski def. Samantha Bailey 6-3, 6-0. n No. 6 — PC’s Mary Lyan Burton def. Dusty Smith 6-1, 6-3.

Colts sweep Trinity of Raleigh Crossroads Christian took care of Trinity of Raleigh in three sets Tuesday (25-7, 2514, 25-7).

Britney Anderson had seven aces, eight kills and six service reception. Morgan Davis served six aces and had 14 assists and 15 digs.

Brooke Eatmon served five aces. Peyton Sudheimer tallied six kills, seven assists and 20 digs.

Hannah Reid had six kills and Kaylee Anderson had six service receptions and nine digs. Mary Wilson blocked four shots.

Anderson is currently first in the nation in aces on MaxPreps.com, which also places Morgan Davis fifth in aces. The Colts as a team were No. 1 in aces as of Tuesday evening.

Crusaders fall in season opener to Cressett Norlina Christian volleyball was defeated by Cressett Christian in four sets Tuesday.

After falling in the first set 25-8, the Crusaders fought hard and won the second 2523.

But the tough Cressett team took set two 25-8, and set three 25-10.

“My girls played hard. They always play hard,” said Norlina coach J.D. Wright. “I was really pleased with the way we played tonight.”

Abrien Gandy had three aces and four digs on the night. Bridgett Matthews tallied four aces.

Anna White had nine digs, and Taylor Eatmon dug six.

Anna Britt Harty had four digs and Holly Eatmon had two kills and two digs.

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Strasburg ‘unlikely’ to pitch for Nats this season

Raiders fall in tennis opener

Doubles n No. 1 — SV’s Lewis and Hicks def. Regan and Wilkerson 8-6. n No. 2 — PC’s Gaines and Nelson def. Bailey and Smith 9-8 (10-7). n No. 3 — PC’s Budzinski and Burton def.

Southerland and Jordan Richardson 8-3.

as much.”

He added: “If they were willing to take that chance, I was, too.”

The wait for Favre’s decision dragged through May, June and July — at which point he said he would stay retired. But that was three weeks ago. On Tuesday, it all was resolved in a matter of hours.

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Northern's Katie Wilson spikes the ball off the hands of a Louisburg defender during the Vikings' 3-0 win over the Warriors Tuesday afternoon.

A good start for Vikings Northern beats Louisburg in three sets on opening night

By ERIC S. ROBINSON Dispatch Sports Editor

The 2009 volleyball season started out just fine for Northern Vance.

The Vikings got the lead early and never lost it, cruising to a three-set (25-15, 25-15, 25-20) win over visiting Louisburg Tuesday night.

“I think that’s great. It’s a great way to open the season,” said Viking coach William Hoyle, adding that many players were able to get some playing time.

Hoyle felt that playing in difficult preseason scrimmages

against 4A teams prepared his team well for opening night. He also said, with the talent level of his team, he feels that the daily practices with each other have also helped their progression.

“Our practice challenges us every day,” he said.

The only hiccup for the Vikings came in the third set. The Vikings dominated the game until that set, when Louisburg began to rally late.

Down 22-12, the Warriors went on an 8-1 run that prompted Hoyle to call a timeout.

“We just needed to get our breath and refocus,” he said.

Sheffield, Mets light up Lowe

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer

AP Photo/Frank Franklin II

New York’s Gary Sheffield swings on a two-run double during the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game against the Braves.

NEW YORK — Gary Sheffield doubled twice in an eight-run fourth inning and the New York Mets battered Derek Lowe, rebounding from an early deficit for a 9-4 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday night.

Luis Castillo also had two hits and two RBIs during the big outburst off Lowe (12-8), who squandered a 4-0 lead against New York’s injury-depleted lineup. The Mets pounded out 10 hits in the fourth, setting a franchise record for one inning.

All that offense came in support of Oliver Perez (3-3), who won for the first time in seven starts since July 8 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The erratic lefty gave up a three-run homer to Matt Diaz and a solo shot to Adam LaRoche, but walked only

one in five innings.

Still playing without injured stars Carlos Delgado, Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran and David Wright, the Mets got 17 hits without connecting for a home run. Sheffield, Castillo and Jeff Francoeur each had three.

Elmer Dessens, Pedro Feliciano and Brian Stokes combined for four innings of scoreless relief.

Braves first baseman Martin Prado was removed in the first inning with a severe headache and replaced by LaRoche. Prado, who had complained of headaches and dizziness since leaving Saturday’s game against Philadelphia, will return to Atlanta on Wednesday for tests.

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Two-minute drill Warrior soccer dominant in season opener From STAFF REPORTS

Local Sports Viking cross country to meet Thursday Prospective cross country team members at Northern Vance will meet Thursday at noon in the ROTC hangar.

For additional information, call Capt. Daniel Whittacre at (816) 719-3860.

Runners need to get physical and permission forms prior to Thursday.

Eaton Johnson football practice begins soon Football practice for Eaton Johnson Middle School will begin on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 4 p.m.

All players must turn in physicals to Sharon Turner.

Players should come to practice in T-shirts, shorts and sneakers.

For any questions, contact Turner or coach Joe Richardson at EJMS.

College Football Paulus to start at QB for Syracuse SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Former Duke point guard Greg Paulus is the starting quarterback at Syracuse.

He won the job after transferring and getting an NCAA waiver to play football as a graduate student at the Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Paulus was a Parade All-American as a recordsetting quarterback in high school in Syracuse.

Coach Doug Marrone announced the decision.

Senior Cam Dantley, last year’s starter, and two underclassmen were also in the running to start.

Syracuse says Tuesday it will play three home games at the new Meadowlands stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The first will be against Southern California in 2012 and then two against Notre Dame in 2014 and 2016.

The Orange open the season Sept. 5 against Minnesota in the Carrier Dome.

Minor Leagues Jacksonville defeats Mudcats 6-3 The Carolina Mudcats managed to score three runs in the sixth, but the Jacksonville Suns, who already held a three-run lead going into the inning, rallied for three more of their own on their way to a 6-3 win Tuesday.

Jimmy Speigner got the win, pitching in relief of Graham Taylor, who gave up three earned runs in 5.1 innings.

Zachary Ward was saddled with the loss.

Sean Henry (2-for-4), Carson Kainer (0-for-3) and Jason Bour (0-for-2) drove in the Mudcat runs.

NASCAR Vickers gets contract extension from Red Bull CHARLOTTE (AP) — Brian Vickers has been rewarded for his win at Michigan with a multiyear contact extension from Red Bull Racing.

Talks for a new contract had been ongoing for several months. Vickers said last weekend the process was draining and confusing because Red Bull was dragging its feet on paperwork that would have finalized terms he had verbally agreed upon.

But two days after giving the team its first victory in NASCAR, Vickers received his new contract.

The win Sunday at Michigan moved Vickers to 13th in the standings, and only 12 points out of a spot in the Chase for the championship.

Vickers joined Red Bull for its debut NASCAR season in 2007.

Local Preps Wednesday, Aug. 19 Soccer n Ridgecroft School at KerrVance 6:30 p.m. n Northern Vance at Louisburg 7 p.m. n Oxford Family Physicians Classic - Losers bracket game 5:30 p.m.

- Winners bracket game 7 p.m.

Tennis n Northern Vance at Warren

County 4 p.m.

Volleyball-HS n Louisburg at Southern Vance 4 p.m. n Granville Central at KerrVance 5:15 p.m.

JV Volleyball-HS Central at KerrVance 4 p.m. n Louisburg at Southern Vance 5 p.m. n Granville

Sports on TV Wednesday, Aug. 19 ATHLETICS 1:30 p.m. n VERSUS — IAAF World Championships, at Berlin 8 p.m. n VERSUS — IAAF World Championships, at Berlin (same-day tape) AUTO RACING 7 p.m. n SPEED — NASCAR, Modified Series, at Bristol, Tenn. (sameday tape) 8:30 p.m. n SPEED — NASCAR, Truck

Series, O’Reilly 200, at Bristol, Tenn.

LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL 7 p.m. n ESPN2 — Playoffs, championship game, teams TBA, at Portland, Ore. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m. n ESPN — Boston at Toronto SOCCER 9 p.m. n ESPN2 — MLS, Los Angeles at Chicago

J.F. Webb soccer got off to a fast start with a 9-0 victory over Person County Tuesday at the Oxford

Family Physicians Classic.

The win marks the first for the Warriors under new coach Allie Urbanski.

Alex Elliott, Toby Bellissimo and Stephen Hill each

scored two goals. Bellissimo added two assists.

Leland Yancey had a goal and an assist. Colin Campbell also scored a goal.

Jose Pelcastre scored the first goal of his high school career.

The Warriors (1-0) will host Cedar Ridge Thursday at 7 p.m.

Bulls jump on Jake Peavy in rehab start, 5-2 Special to the Dispatch

Behind seven and one third quality inning from Bulls starting pitcher Wade Davis, Durham toppled Jake Peavy and the Charlotte Knights 5-2 Tuesday night at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

The Bulls got to Peavy, who was making a rehab start for the Knights, in the first inning with a two-run single from Chris Richard driving in Akinori Iwamura and Justin Ruggiano.

They added another in the second when Fernando Perez grounded into a force out and was safe at first in what would have been an inning-ending double play, but Peavy dropped the throw which allowed Jon Weber to score from second.

Durham tacked on another run in the fourth with a Joe Dillon solo home run off the Snorting Bull in left to make the score 5-0.

The fourth would be Peavy's (0-1) last inning as

he fininished the evening allowing four runs, three earned, on four hits while striking out five to pick up the loss.

Meanwhile Davis held the Knights hitless until the beginning of the sixth inning. The only two runs he allowed came that inning when a RBI-double from Keith Ginter and a RBI-single from Mike Restovich made the score 5-2.

Davis (10-7) finished with seven and two-thirds

innings of work allowing three hits with three walks and four strikeouts to pick up the win. He was followed by Dale Thayer who threw one and one-third scoreless innings to earn the save, his 17th of the year.

Durham will continue its series with Charlotte Wednesday with Andy Sonnanstine (4-2) taking the mound for the Bulls against Daniel Hudson (10) with first pitch scheduled for 7:05 p.m.

Harrah’s worker wants Roethlisberger suit halted

The woman’s lawsuit claims Dingman and Koster were among those who conspired to cover up the alleged incident. The suit seeks a minimum of $440,000 in damages from Roethlisberger, at least $50,000 in damages from the Harrah’s officials and an unspecified amount of punitive damages.

Brad Johnson, a Reno

lawyer representing Dingman, said in the motion filed Monday that there is no evidence or witnesses to support any of the allegations in the lawsuit.

The Reno GazetteJournal first reported the latest filing on its Web site Tuesday.

“Despite her apparent dissatisfaction with her co-workers’ purported failure to act in response to her claims, (the plaintiff) tellingly failed to report the allegedly incident to police, failed to file any criminal charges against Roethlisberger, failed to file for worker’s compensation benefits and even failed to inform her own family of the purported incident,” the motion said.

“It’s external pressure, because we’ve never talked (about) him as the savior of the organization,” Rizzo said, although he did shortly thereafter use the phrase “crown jewel.”

“We expect him to develop at a usual pace,” Rizzo continued, “and hopefully when he gets to the big leagues, he’s ready to be here, and he’s everything that we think he’s going to be.”

The 6-foot-4, 220-pound Strasburg probably will travel from California to Washington on Thursday, and there are tentative plans to formally introduce him Friday.

The Nationals already are familiar with him from watching tape of his college performances.

“Great body for a pitcher. If you could draw it up, you’re looking for a guy his height, kind of a ranginess to his body, lean guy, Jim

Palmer-type body. So you just see all these things that you think, ’OK, this guy should be a successful pitcher,”’ manager Jim Riggleman said. “If you’d never seen him pitch, you’d say, ’That body there should work.’ But once you see the results: ’Try to sign him up.”’

The Nationals did just that.

Now his teammates are preparing to rib the rookie a bit.

Zimmerman, after all, played his college baseball at Virginia before being the No. 4 overall pick in the 2005 draft.

“They obviously got the better of him,” Zimmerman said with a chuckle, thinking back to Strasburg’s lone loss. “He’ll definitely hear about that.”

——— AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum in New York contributed to this report.

on opening night Tuesday.

The Vikings downed Louisburg in two sets (2514, 26-24).

The Warriors held a 1715 advantage late in game two before Harley Parrott stepped to the service stripe. Northern then took a 19-17 advantage.

The teams traded points before Louisburg scored three straight to make it 24-24. Kirstin Currin then served the next two points

for the win.

Melissa Elliott had a solid day, with four aces, two digs, 26 assists and four kills. Abby Wilkerson had six aces, eight passes, five digs and six kills.

Parrott tallied two aces, eight digs and four kills.

Currin had three aces, two digs, 11 assists and seven kills.

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press Writer

RENO, Nev. — A former Harrah’s employee has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of raping another worker and alleges that managers of the Lake Tahoe hotel-casino covered up the assault.

Stacy Dingman, the former director of hotels at Harrah’s, is one of nine defendants named in the lawsuit filed last month in Washoe County District Court.

She said she is the former best friend of the woman who claims the two-time Super Bowl winner raped her during a celebrity golf tourna-

Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger stands on the sidelines during a preseason game against the Cardinals on Thursday.

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ment in July 2008.

The 31-year-old woman said in her civil suit that when she reported the incident to Harrah’s security, she was told she was overreacting and that she should not pursue a complaint, partly because Roethlisberger is friends with John Koster, president of Harrah’s northern Nevada operations.

STRASBURG, from page 1B Zimmerman said. “And you’ve got to kind of tell him to go out there and be himself. Don’t try and do too much.”

Indeed, the Nationals set about tamping down everyone’s expectations for the hard-throwing Strasburg, who has been labeled a once-in-a-generation talent. Acting Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said Tuesday it’s “very unlikely” Strasburg will be called up to the majors this season.

And 2010? Even that is not a certainty.

“We’re going to see where his development takes him, and we’re going to be very cautious with him and develop him like one of the elite prospects in the game,” Rizzo said.

“There’s no expectations of him to be in the rotation in 2010. If he earns it, and he’s ready for it, then we’ll see where his talent takes

him.”

Strasburg has not pitched in a game since May 29, when he and San Diego State were beaten by Virginia 5-1 in an NCAA regional game — his only loss of a junior year in which he went 13-1 and led Division I in strikeouts (195 in 109 innings) and ERA (1.32).

Rizzo said it typically takes about a month to get a pitcher ready to compete again. So the Nationals plan to have Strasburg head to their Florida spring training complex to work with minor league pitch coordinator Spin Williams.

Then the pitcher probably will spend some time in the Florida Instructional League, followed by the Arizona Fall League, Rizzo said.

As for the difficulty of living up to outsized anticipation?

VIKINGS, from page 1B other all game, totaling 17 combined kills. Thompson had eight kills, 12 service points, three aces and three digs, while Ellington totaled nine kills, four digs and three aces.

Set two was more of the same for Northern, who opened with a 6-1 rally.

The Vikings were consistent in the first two sets, keeping the ball off the floor.

Louisburg brought the score to within four at 10-6, but didn’t get any closer.

Northern held the momentum, and began a 6-1 run en route to another 25-15 set win.

A 9-3 Northern run began set three. Louisburg began their rally late in the set, taking advantage of a few Northern miscues.

Ashleigh Blackmon tallied an ace and 13 digs in the Viking win. Robin Butler had two aces, 14 passes on serve-receive,

eight digs and two kills.

Rebecca Esquivel had two aces, two digs and 20 assists to go along with a kill.

Hoyle said that, early in the season like this, it’s often difficult to gauge the team and see how they stack up against their upcoming opponents.

“At tis point, you don’t really know what you have as a team,” he said.

Hoyle will have a better idea after Louisburg plays Northern’s new Carolina 6 Conference opponent Southern Vance on Wednesday. That game will be played at Southern at 4 p.m.

Northern will next play in the Best of Best Tourney in Davidson on Saturday.

Viking JV downs Louisburg The Northern Vance junior varsity volleyball squad also earned their first victory of the season

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BRAVES, from page 1B infield single to start the fourth. The right-hander was checked by manager Bobby Cox and a trainer before throwing one practice pitch and remaining in the game.

He gave up hits to eight of his next nine batters, including a twostrike single to Perez.

Sheffield laced a tworun double to right-center that cut it to 4-2. Francoeur hit an RBI double, Fernando Tatis followed with a tying single and Anderson Hernandez’s single put New York in front.

Angel Pagan added a

run-scoring groundout before Castillo chased Lowe with a two-run single that made it 8-4.

Kris Medlen relieved and allowed another ringing double by Sheffield before retiring the side.

The Mets batted for 29 minutes. It was their most runs in an inning since they also scored eight in the third on Aug. 13, 2008, at Washington.

Lowe yielded 11 hits in 3 2-3 innings without a walk or strikeout.

Francoeur doubled again in the seventh and scored on Omir Santos’ RBI grounder.

FAVRE, from page 1B Team owner Zygi Wilf and president Mark Wilf met Favre in Mississippi with their private plane, Childress himself picked him up at the St. Paul airport, and a news helicopter hovered over their route to the team’s suburban practice facility in Eden Prairie.

Once the vehicles arrived, hundreds of fans roared when Favre waved as he got out. No less than 90 minutes later, he was on the field in his familiar No. 4 jersey with purple shorts and a purple helmet, a vision that has had Packers fans cringing about for months.

He shook hands with a few of his new teammates and quickly began throwing, as people peeked through the security fence to catch a glimpse of the stubble-faced superstar.

“I think it’s great for football,” Favre said. “I can’t see how you think it wouldn’t be.”

On July 28, the man who holds every major NFL career passing record told Childress he wasn’t ready to play, citing a lack of confidence in his beatup body to hold up over an entire season. Favre revealed Tuesday that he was told by Dr. James Andrews, who performed the arthroscopic surgery on his throwing shoulder in May, that he’s been playing with a torn rotator cuff for a few years.

Neither Favre nor the Vikings expressed any concern about his health, though, on this whirlwind day. Favre was defiant, actually, when asked about widespread criticism of his flip-flopping.

“Don’t watch, you know?” he said, adding: “My legacy, it’s mine. It’s what I think of it.”

Wearing a ratty red baseball cap and a T-shirt, Favre’s eyes reddened when he talk about letting his daughter down last month with his decision to stay retired.

Favre also brushed off suggestions he’s driven by revenge on the Packers, who wouldn’t let him have his old job back last summer when he reconsidered. Green Bay visits Minnesota on Oct. 5, and the Packers host the Vikings on Nov. 1.

“The bottom line is it’s football,” Favre said.

“Once you step into the huddle, I don’t look at the helmets. I look at the faces.”

The Vikings did not release terms of the deal.

ESPN, citing anonymous sources, said Favre would receive $12 million this season and $13 million next season.

Last month, Favre explained his decision by saying he had to be “careful not to commit for the wrong reasons.”

“I’m 39 with a lot of sacks to my name,” he said.

He has a lot of interceptions to his name, too, more than any other quarterback in NFL history. The last time Favre appeared in the playoffs

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— a bitter loss at Lambeau Field by the Packers to the Giants in the NFC championship game following the 2007 season — he put up one of his worst performances in recent memory.

Now the question becomes how Favre will fit in with a team that’s already done with the grind of training camp, not to mention how his health will hold up so soon after he questioned it.

The Vikings got an encouraging performance in their preseason opener last week from quarterback Sage Rosenfels, who has been competing with Tarvaris Jackson for the starting job. But neither of them have been consistently sharp in practice this month.

And neither can compete with Favre’s ability or resume. His zinger of an arm and toughness in the pocket are a combination few possess. With an offense he claimed this summer he could operate in his sleep, Favre seems to fit well with Minnesota — especially given the Vikings’ problems finding a reliable quarterback since Childress took over in 2006.

“This is a fluid business, and we were moving ahead but you always go back and reassess,” Childress said, explaining his own reverse in direction.

The coach added: “The guys will learn him. He’ll learn them, and we’ve got a whole month to put this thing together.”

The Vikings have Pro Bowl players all over their roster, with reigning NFL rushing leader Adrian Peterson in the backfield and a dominant defensive line.

No matter who’s behind center, they ought to be in position to defend their NFC North title.

To win the conference, and perhaps — finally — a Super Bowl, they’ll need stability at the sport’s most critical position.

Favre has wrestled with retirement for most of this decade and the will-he-orwon’t-he saga became an annual offseason drama for the Packers, his longtime home. In Green Bay, the latest news elicited a few shrugs, little more.

A few months after Favre’s tearful goodbye news conference in March 2008, Green Bay traded him to the Jets after he tried to come back only to learn the Packers were committed to Aaron Rodgers. Favre started strong in New York, but faded down the stretch amid problems with his throwing arm and, with another “I’m done” announcement, headed for his second retirement.

The Jets released him from his contract right after the draft and soon after, the Vikings were openly expressing interest.

Favre spent the summer working out in Mississippi and led everyone to believe he was on his way back to the NFL until last month.

Now, he is back.

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AL Roundup

Ortiz, Red Sox beat Blue Jays; Rays down O’s Red Sox 10, Blue Jays 9 TORONTO (AP) — David Ortiz homered and scored three times, including the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, and Boston beat Toronto 10-9 on Tuesday night.

Jason Bay also homered for the Red Sox, while lefthander Hideki Okajima (4-0) pitched one perfect inning for the win.

Marco Scutaro hit a tworun single off Jonathan Papelbon in the eighth but the Boston closer got Adam Lind to fly out to the warning track in left, leaving the bases loaded.

Tigers 5, Mariners 3 DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera hit a go-ahead, two-run single in the eighth inning and Rick Porcello had a career-high eight strikeouts for Detroit.

Seattle starter Felix Hernandez left after he

struck out nine and gave up only a run through seven innings because of a hamstring cramp.

Alex Avila hit the second pitch from reliever Mark Lowe (1-6) over the fence to pull the Tigers within one and pinch-hitter Ramon Santiago followed with a single.

Angels 5, Indians 4 CLEVELAND (AP) — Trevor Bell got his first major league win, helping Los Angeles to its fourth straight win.

Bell (1-0) gave up three runs and nine hits over 5 1-3 innings in the second start of his career. Brian Fuentes, the Angels’ fourth pitcher, worked a perfect ninth for his 35th save, tying Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees for the AL lead.

Vladimir Guerrero had three hits for Los Angeles,

which leads the AL West and has won seven of eight.

The Angels have scored 65 runs during that span and all nine hitters in their starting lineup Tuesday are batting over .300 for the season.

Rays 5, Orioles 4 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Gabe Gross hit a two-run homer, and Pat Burrell and B.J. Upton added solo shots for Tampa Bay. Gross gave Tampa Bay a 3-2 lead with his fourthinning drive. Burrell and Upton homered in the sixth to make it 5-2.

Gross homered for the first time since July 22, and has two homers in his last 33 games. Upton’s last homer came on June 30, and the center fielder has eight RBIs over his past 38 games.

Baltimore got a two-run

homer from Matt Wieters. The Orioles are 8-23 since the All-Star break and dropped to a seasonhigh 23 games under .500 (48-71).

Royals 5, White Sox 4 CHICAGO (AP) — Billy Butler doubled three times, had two RBIs and scored the go-ahead run on Alberto Callaspo’s fifth-inning single as the Kansas City Royals rallied for a 5-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night.

In losing to last-place Kansas City for the seventh time this season, the White Sox fell three games behind Detroit in the AL Central. They are still looking for answers at the end of their rotation, with Freddy Garcia failing in his return to the team he helped win the 2005 World Series.

NL Roundup

Moyer solid in relief for Phillies in win Phillies 5, D-Backs 1 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jamie Moyer pitched six scoreless innings in relief of Pedro Martinez, who took his spot in the starting rotation, and Philadelphia beat Arizona 5-1 on Tuesday night.

A 66-minute rain delay ruined Martinez’s home debut with the Phillies.

The three-time Cy Young Award winner allowed one run in three innings in his second start since returning to the majors.

He struck out three and retired the last eight batters he faced, but left after the long delay.

Marlins 6, Astros 2 HOUSTON (AP) — Ricky Nolasco struck out 10 in his second complete game of the season and Florida had 10 hits for the 14th consecutive game.

Dan Uggla, Jorge Cantu and Jeremy Hermida hit solo homers for the Marlins, who have won nine of 11.

Florida’s streak of 10-hit games is the longest since

MLB National League Standings

Philadelphia Florida Atlanta New York Washington

East Division W L Pct GB 66 49 .574 — 64 55 .538 4 62 57 .521 6 56 63 .471 12 43 76 .361 25

St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Houston Cincinnati Pittsburgh

Central Division W L Pct GB 68 52 .567 — 60 56 .517 6 58 61 .487 9 1/2 57 62 .479 10 1/2 50 68 .424 17 48 70 .407 19

Los Angeles Colorado San Francisco Arizona San Diego

West Division W L Pct GB 70 49 .588 — 66 53 .555 4 65 54 .546 5 54 65 .454 16 50 70 .417 20 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Arizona (Haren 12-7) at Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 3-0), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Marquis 13-8) at Washington (Balester 1-2), 7:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 11-9) at Pittsburgh (Maholm 6-7), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Jurrjens 9-8) at N.Y. Mets (Parnell 3-4), 7:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Zito 8-11) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 11-11), 7:10 p.m.

Florida (West 4-4) at Houston (Bazardo 0-0), 8:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Harden 7-7) at San Diego (Latos 4-2), 10:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 14-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 8-7), 10:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games San Francisco at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.

Arizona at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Colorado at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

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

Florida at Houston, 8:05 p.m.

St. Louis at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

American League Standings

New York Boston Tampa Bay Toronto Baltimore

Detroit Chicago

East Division W L Pct GB 74 45 .622 — 67 51 .568 6 1/2 64 54 .542 9 1/2 55 62 .470 18 48 71 .403 26

Central Division W L Pct GB 63 55 .534 — 61 58 .513 2 1/2

and Lastings Milledge homered for Pittsburgh.

Garret Jones had two hits and scored twice and Andy LaRoche was on base four times with a run and an RBI for Pittsburgh, which won for the fifth time since July 24.

Ohlendorf (11-8) has three of those victories and is 4-1 with a 2.72 ERA since the All-Star break.

AP Photo/Matt Slocum

Philadelphia’s Jamie Moyer pitches in the fifth inning of Tuesday’s game against Arizona. the 1937 St. Louis Browns reached that figure in 15 straight, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Rockies 4, Nationals 3 WASHINGTON (AP) — Colorado’s Carlos Gonzalez homered for the third consecutive game, breaking a tie in the eighth inning.

Brad Hawpe and Clint Barmes also homered for Minnesota Cleveland Kansas City

56 62 .475 51 67 .432 46 72 .390

7 12 17

Los Angeles Texas Seattle Oakland

West Division W L Pct GB 72 45 .615 — 67 50 .573 5 61 58 .513 12 53 65 .449 19 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Kansas City (Greinke 11-7) at Chicago White Sox (Contreras 4-11), 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 12-4) at Cleveland (Sowers 4-8), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (Snell 0-1) at Detroit (Verlander 13-6), 7:05 p.m.

Boston (Buchholz 1-3) at Toronto (Halladay 13-5), 7:07 p.m.

Baltimore (Tillman 1-0) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 10-5), 7:08 p.m.

Minnesota (S.Baker 10-7) at Texas (Millwood 9-7), 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Gaudin 1-0) at Oakland (Bre. Anderson 7-8), 10:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Seattle at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 7:08 p.m.

Minnesota at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

WNBA Standings

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB Indiana 19 5 .792 — Atlanta 13 11 .542 6 Connecticut 12 11 .522 6 1/2 Chicago 13 13 .500 7 Washington 12 12 .500 7 Detroit 9 14 .391 9 1/2 New York 9 15 .375 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB Phoenix 18 8 .692 — Seattle 14 11 .560 3 1/2 Minnesota 11 13 .458 6 San Antonio 11 13 .458 6 Los Angeles 9 13 .409 7 Sacramento 7 18 .280 10 1/2 Tuesday’s Games Seattle 79, Detroit 75 Phoenix 106, Chicago 99 Washington at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games New York at Connecticut, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games San Antonio at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Colorado, which leads the NL wild-card race. Ubaldo Jimenez (11-9) went eight innings to win his fifth consecutive decision, allowing two runs and seven hits.

Pirates 5, Brewers 2 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ross Ohlendorf allowed one run over seven-plus innings, and Delwyn Young

Giants 8, Reds 5 (10) CINCINNATI (AP) — Ryan Garko’s two-run double in the 10th completed San Francisco’s comeback from a four-run deficit.

With Pablo Sandoval on second and Randy Winn on first, Garko hit a line drive up the left-center field gap off Francisco Cordero (1-3). He finished with four RBIs, as many as he had in his first 17 games after being acquired by San Francisco from Cleveland on July 27.

Juan Uribe added a sacrifice fly as the Giants sent the Reds to their fourth straight loss and fifth in the last six games.

TRANSACTIONS Tuesday’s Sports Transactions

By The Associated Press BASEBALL n American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Purchased the contract of 1B Michael Aubrey from Norfolk (IL).

BOSTON RED SOX—Agreed to terms with SS David Renfroe, RHP Madison Younginer, RHP Kendal Volz, OF Brandon Jacobs, SS Jason Thompson, 3B Miles Head, RHP Reynolds Parthemore, RHP Alex Hassan, RHP Eric Curtis and LHP Shaughn Webb.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Purchased the contract of RHP Freddy Garcia from Charlotte (IL). Placed OF Dewayne Wise on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 15.

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Agreed to terms with RHP Alex White.

DETROIT TIGERS—Agreed to terms with RHP Jacob Turner on a four-year contract and LHP Andy Oliver and SS Daniel Fields. Optioned RHP Eddie Bonine to Toledo (IL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Assigned 3B Alex Gordon to Omaha (PCL). Activated RHP Kyle Farnsworth from the 15-day DL. MINNESOTA TWINS—Recalled RHP Philip Humber from Rochester (IL). Placed LHP Francisco Liriano on the 15-day DL. Designated INF Matt Macri for assignment.

TEXAS RANGERS—Recalled RHP Guillermo Moscoso from Oklahoma City (PCL). Placed INF Esteban German on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 14.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Recalled OF Travis Snider from Las Vegas (PCL). Optioned OF Joe Inglett to Las Vegas. n National League FLORIDA MARLINS—Recalled INF Gaby Sanchez from New Orleans (PCL). Optioned RHP Rick VandenHurk to New Orleans.

HOUSTON ASTROS—Traded C Ivan Rodriguez to Texas for RHP Matt Nevarez and two players to be named. Recalled INF Edwin Maysonet and RHP Felipe Paulino from Round Rock (PCL).

Placed LHP Mike Hampton on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 14.

NEW YORK METS—Placed INF Alex Cora on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 13.

Purchased the contract of INF Wilson Valdez from Buffalo (IL). Agreed to terms with LHP Steven Matz.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Agreed to terms with RHP Stephen Strasburg on a four-year contract. n American Association SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CAPTAINS—Signed LHP Drew Coffey. Traded OF Jonathan Reynoso to El Paso for OF Jorge Alvarez. n Golden League CALGARY VIPERS—Acquired LHP Isaac Hess and OF Sergio Pedroza from Victoria for future considerations. Signed 1B Kit Pellow. n United League RIO GRANDE VALLEY WHITEWINGS—Signed RHP Jose Cordero.

BASKETBALL n National Basketball Association GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS—Named Calbert Cheaney special assistant.

FOOTBALL n National Football League NFL—Suspended Tampa Bay S Tanard Jackson four regular-season games for violating the NFL’s substances of abuse policy.

ARIZONA CARDINALS—Signed WR Steve Sanders. Waived S Dennis Keyes.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Waived C Dan Santucci.

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Signed RB Chris Jennings. Waived LB Phillip Hunt.

HOUSTON TEXANS—Signed QB Alex Brink INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Signed DE Josh Thomas. Released RB Walter Mendenhall.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS—Agreed to terms with QB Brett Favre.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed S Roderick Rogers.

HOCKEY n National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS—Signed F Todd Bertuzzi to a one-year contract.

COLLEGE AUSTIN PEAY—Named Haley Janicek assistant volleyball coach.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY—Signed women’s hockey coach Brian Durocher to a three-year contract extension.

CALIFORNIA—Named Benjamin Herdt men’s and women’s diving coach.

CHARLOTTE—Named Chad Esposito assistant volleyball coach. DARTMOUTH— Named Sara Simard women’s assistant hockey coach.

ILLINOIS STATE—Named Brendan Reilly men’s basketball administrative assistant.

MARS HILL—Named Ian Clerihew men’s soccer coach and Ken Miller women’s soccer coach.

MEMPHIS—Named Doug Clark cross country coach.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE—Named Mike Scutero director of men’s basketball operations.

RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE—Named Greg Driscoll athletic media relations intern.

RUTGERS—Dismissed junior G Corey Chandler from the men’s basketball team for violating athletic department policies. Named Sal Mentesana men’s assistant basketball coach and Craig Carter men’s basketball recruiting coordinator.

TRINITY, TEXAS—Named Laura Koontz women’s assistant soccer coach and Erica Clausen assistant cross country/track and field coach.

UTAH—Announced junior QB Corbin Louks will transfer.

WAGNER—Named Dedrick Dye men’s assistant basketball coach.

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A side view of the Warren County Farmers Market, which runs through (appropriately enough) Market Street. To the left intersects Main Street, where many businesses help bring color to downtown Historic Warrenton.

What might you be in the ‘market’ for?

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APreserves along with baked goods were for sale at Ada Clifton’s tent at the YMCA farmers’ market.

A veritable smorgasbord awaits shoppers at any of four area farmers markets The freshest, finest ingredients can easily make the difference between a spectacular dish and a mediocre one. Yet, sometimes the stock at the local grocery store just won’t cut it.

For cooks in the Tri-County looking for that extra edge that only quality foods provide, they need look no further than one of four local farmer’s markets.

Whether one takes a quick drive over to one of the two markets in Henderson, a slightly longer jaunt down to Oxford, or a notso-brief excursion to Warrenton, one should be satisfied and even surprised with the quality and variety of the produce, other edibles and unexpected gems to be found.

A complimentary pair (Vance County markets) Just off I-85 exit 212 sits the Henderson YMCA. If one drives to the back of the parking lot, a large athletic track awaits the viewer.

This landscape acts as a backdrop for the Wednesday Farmer’s market in Henderson. Vendors set up their stations in a single line, facing towards the track.

The view provides a very relaxed atmosphere for vendors and customers alike. Ruby D. Ezell, a regular vendor at the market, doesn’t even mind when she’s not selling because she loves meeting new people and socializing.

And even when the selling spikes, the merchants have no delusions about accumulating wealth.

Gwyndolyn Alston of Chrysalis Farms, based in Macon, stated flatly, “You won’t get rich being a farmer.”

“Farming is not cheap,” she added. “The infrastructure for farming has to be taken into consideration” when figuring prices.

The cooler she recently had shipped to her from New Jersey cost her $12,000 alone, Alston said. Yet, despite the fact that she is merely a dissertation short of receiving her doctorate in education, she wouldn’t stop farming for the world.

“You can’t count high enough to get me back in an office,” Alston said, who hasn’t worked in one since 2005. Besides, “My reward is cutting my flowers,” she explains, describing them as her “eye candy.”

Nevertheless, she has “an

inherent love” for the profession of farming.

“There’s an ethic to selling a quality product,” the Warren County native said. “I’m not going to sell what I don’t eat.”

In addition, there is something about being a producer rather than simply a consumer that appeals to her.

And producing does not necessarily mean farming. Ada Clifton does no farming whatsoever. Yet, she keeps quite busy with baking “and canning and preserving and cooking and serving.” What’s more, in order to keep up with changing times, she provides regular and sugar-free versions of her baked goods.

When customers have finished Dylan Shawn buying her wares, Clifton Wilson will sometimes treat them to Special Features stories from Assistant her youth. One of them centers around the picking of field peas. Before going to pick them, she would place a quart jar filled with water in a paper bag.

Upon arriving at the field, she would dig a hole and put the bag in it to keep the water cool.

If one is too busy during the week to make the trip or lives on the other side of Henderson, all is not lost. At the intersection of William and Arch Streets, in plain site of a set of railroad tracks, stands a large green wooden structure with a grassy parking lot in front. Here, the Vance County Farmers’ Market opens every Saturday morning.

Regardless of which market one decides to visit, customers can glean little nuggets of information and advice from people who are more than willing to impart it. Kermit Thompson, after selling this writer a couple of pears, mentioned that should the fruit fall and hit the ground, then it is no longer good (unless you use it to make preserves). Or, if one wishes to spice up a serving of beans or chili, Phyllis Dickerson suggested dicing up one of the tabasco peppers she grows.

Working behind the scenes, Wayne Rowland of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension has a hand in making both markets

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Cindy Devito waits for her next potential customer to approach the table where her gift items are arranged at the Oxford Farmers Market.

possible. He uses the resources of the Cooperative Extension to provide information to customers and vendors alike.

And Cooperative Extension isn’t just providing area farmers advice and a venue in which to sell their goods. Thompson mentioned that Rowland would soon be helping him with some soil sampling to test for pH level.

According to Rowland, the two venues “complement each other” quite well. The markets run on a staggered schedule; so, several vendors sell their products at both sites.

Consequently, sellers and shoppers gain many benefits from this arrangement. First of all, vendors can bring their products to market twice, rather than once a week, which means that said products are generally fresher. After all, for any particular crop, “when it gets ready to be picked it needs to go to market,” he said. Secondly, different people like to cook on different days of the week. Shoppers don’t have to choose between convenience and freshness, they can have both. Two recent proposals for changes to the YMCA market reflect this emphasis. One, the market now opens at 7:30 a.m. to help hospital employees who wish to shop after third shift; and two, the hours were extended past noon to accommodate people who like to shop during their lunch breaks.

Nonetheless, Rowland emphasized the fact that both markets remain distinct, at least insofar as the partnerships that make each one possible. The YMCA market is exists through the combines efforts of the Henderson YMCA, Cooperative Extension, Maria Parham Medical Center, the vendors and the customers. On the other hand, The County of Vance, the City of Henderson, Cooperative Extension, the sellers and the shoppers support the Vance County market.

Readers unsure about visiting either of these markets should first consider what they may be missing before deciding to stay home. The rarity/peculiarity of some of the products available may be reason enough to make the trip. Some of these include: Ezell’s wreaths for Halloween; Alston’s Mississippi Purple Hull; Pete Jones’ Spiced (Scuppernong) Grapes, and various relishes (made from green tomatoes, and sweet and hot peppers); and, last but not least, Thomp-

son’s jarred Cinnamon Cucumber Pickles. But be warned: according to Thompson, “If you eat one you got to eat the whole jar!”

Those who wish to visit the YMCA Farmers’ Market at 380 Ruin Creek Road may do so on Wednesdays from 7:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Or, if one would rather shop at the Vance County Farmers’ Market, located at the intersection of Williams and Arch streets in downtown Henderson, it is open on Saturday’s between the hours of 7 and 11 a.m.

Vendors interested in selling at either or both locations should contact Wayne Rowland at 438-8188.

Humble, yet bountiful (Oxford Farmers Market)

as a “miniature Durham market.”

Despite the lack of ambience, the quality and variety of items available does not suffer. Indeed, the diversity of foods sold at this market is impressive: Bo and Secretary/ Treasurer Lois Hunt selection includes pickles, chow-chow, varieties of salsa, fried apple pies and zucchini bread; Tim and Diane Walsh offer seasonal meats and free-range eggs; and Antioch community native Clyde Harding’s crops include beans, peas and squash. And those are just partial lists from only three sellers. The selection of jams and jellies alone is impressive: damson, black cherry, orange marmalade, pineapple cherry, hot pepper, tomato, strawberry, blueberry, blackberry, peach, fig, and grape, among others. And with up to 20 vendors present on some market days, the quantities add up as well.

However, food is not the only thing a shopper may find of interest at the market. Cindy Devito, director of the after school program at Credle Elementary School, displays a wide assortment of homemade gifts and hand crafted jewelry at her table. Despite the fact that this is only her first year with the market, she sells a wide array of merchandise. Choices range from greeting cards, Christmas ornaments and dish towels to shadow boxes (kidoriented display cases) and little pocket books for children.

Moreover, the variety of her

If one takes I-85 exit 206 and takes a right turn at the CVS store, the Oxford Police Shelter will eventually come into view. Just across the street, on a plain gravel lot at the intersection of McClanahan and Lanier, stands a tall, white, airy shelter. This structure serves as the Oxford Farmers’ Market and shades the vendors from the worst of the elements while they display their wares.

Regardless of what a particular shopper may be in the mood for, the Oxford market is accommodating and the vendors are easy-going. Since the market is open on Wednesdays and SaturPlease see MARKET, page 3C days, it achieves a level of quality and convenience on a par with that of the two Henderson markets. Moreover, Michael Brinkley of Brinkley Farms in Carrboro stated that “I just love this job because I’m a people person anyway.”

President Janis Stalls is quite proud of the market, which has “actually been doing better this year than ever before,” she said. Recalling Contributed Photo a recent visit to the market by Durham This basket contains hand-wrapped cones stuffed area residents, one with generous portions of the herb Lavender. Eric of them described and Barbara Laurent sell the plant, which they grow the Oxford market on their on farm, at the farmers market in Oxford.

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Billy Overton looks over vegetables as Dean Page, Cody Dickerson and Phyllis Dickerson look on at the YMCA farmers market. Also pictured is Ruby Ezell who was selling wreaths along with vegetables.

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Visitor’s to the Warren County Farmers Market can cross the street to the Hardware Cafe (owned and run by Will and Denise Perry) to order to refreshments and gaze at the vintage items throughout the shop.

Customers have recently been treated to some meals prepared with food purchased at the market. and lawn (which the market sits alongside of) and the many eccentric shops and eateries lining Main Street, all within a short walk. County residents like Peggy Richardson, the interim director of Warren County economic development, are quite keen on these local businesses. “This is a high-end store” she declared when describing The Scarlet Rooster (owned by Todd Smith, known for its “unique accessories for home and entertaining”.

(Below) A tent covers a sawhorse with wreaths hanging from it. They are handmade and sold by Suzanne According to Paul McKenzie, an Chiotakis (not pictured) at the Warren County Farmers Market in downtown Warrenton. agent for North Carolina CooperaThe businesses in downtown “And they know that if they’re more product …” and neighborhood tive Extension, the Warren market Warrenton are seeing an increase not bringing a quality product,” eateries receive positive exposure. possesses the ambience of the in traffic recently. As a result, the the customers will stop coming, Chiotakis, the third boardmemtown: it has a street festival air to market and the town itself are McKenzie said. “This is not going ber of the Warren market, said that it. He explained that the customdeveloping a reciprocal relationto succeed if we don’t get repeat she wants a rural based economy ers themselves inject life into the ship. As an example, Richardson customers.” for the town yet still wants to atmarket — they don’t just go to one “One thing that has been great tract business. When asked about vendor (even if that vendor happens pointed out that Will and Denise Perry, owners of the Hardware Cafe about this market is that it is run the chances of the market growing to have everything they need); they (which is on the National Register by the vendors,” McKenzie said. He at the cost of losing its character, talk to every vendor even if it’s just of Historic Places), has used some offers advice and supplies informaMcKenzie maintained the belief in a casual fashion. food purchased at the market in her tion, as well as provides meeting that both goals are attainable.

“There’s this real sense of comdishes and their customers actually space for them, yet sellers ultimate“I think there are some good exmunity to the market,” he said. asked her if she did anything differ- ly make the decisions. “And I think amples of large, vibrant, downtown “There seems to be good support ent with the recipes. that’s a real strength of that market farmer’s markets around the state from the local community. … The In her opinion, the emphasis is that the vendors know that if it’s that have grown to significant size, folks that are just driving thru and going to succeed or fail it’s gonna be but yet are still really enhancing the stopping; you know, that’s just icing should be on the contributions of county residents. on them to make it happen.” community,” he stated, citing the on the cake.” Some of the locals are “It’s all local,” Richardson The market wasn’t even McKenmarkets in Tarrboro, Wake Forest making shopping at the market explained. “There’s no resale. … zie’s idea. The vendors took it upon and downtown Durham as three part of their routine and “that’s Economic (growth) should not be themselves to approach him about fine examples. exactly what’s needed for it to be all about people who were not here how they could get their wares to “It’s just like in real estate — successful.” yet.” market. So, McKenzie was and is location, location, location! And also McKenzie studied agriculture at Besides, the entrepreneurship not the one to initiate the workings the ambience,” McKenzie said. “You North Carolina State University. In developing within the county may of the market. “And it’s not going to gotta have a place that customers 1996, he started working for North someday reduce the need for outside succeed that way,” he said. come to and enjoy being at and Carolina Cooperative Extension; Well, the market that’s what we have in Warrenton.” for about 10 years he is certainly succeedHowever, the three markets covered Durham and ing. Like the other McKenzie referred to have been Harnett counties. Then markets, variety can around a number of years. With he taught high school be found throughout talk now brewing about the probagriculture at Souththese vendors inventoability of a permanent structure ern Vance High School ries. Examples include: to contain the Warren market, he for a couple of years corn and tomatoes emphasized how careful the planbefore returning to from Dawn Robinson ning will have to be: “What does it Cooperative Extension of King’s Produce, look like so it still has the charm in October 2008. Now MaeB Farm’s Cucumand where is it located so that it’s he covers Warren and ber Lemons (grown not so far off the beaten path; it’s Vance counties. Howby Duane and Alice still bringing people into rather ever, his work with Putnam, two of the than pulling people away from” the farmers’ market is Warren Market board downtown Warrenton. largely confined to the members); freshly Maintaining the “synergy” one in Warren. This cut flowers and herbs between the market and the city is market just opened grown by Willem crucial to any future plans for the this year and it started and Jill deVries at market. late on top of that, yet Shoppers in the mood for these Marmaduke Farm; Richardson shares McKenzie’s the response has been and other products may drop by matte and gloss prints positive outlook. great, in McKenzie’s the Oxford Farmers’ Market at the Contributed Photo of photographs taken “This is a wonderful, viable moveopinion. corner of McClanahan and Lanier.

Todd Smith presents a sample of the many gift items available at by Tom Peterson (a ment,” she said.

When asked to gauge It is open on Wednesdays between the store he owns along Main Street, The Scarlet Rooster, which retired government the success of the marthe hours of 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. and is only a short walk from the Warren County Farmers Market. contractor and Air Customers looking for a slightly ket to date, McKenzie on Saturday’s from 7 a.m. to noon.

Force master sergeant); different shopping experience can answered enthusiastiPotential vendors should contact assistance in other areas as well.

James Pope’s honey varieties; meat attend the Warren County Farmcally: “It’s gone beyond — which Janis Stalls at (919) 693-1000.

Richardson sees a time when “peoproducts from Matthew Hight ers’ Market on Saturdays from 8 isn’t to say that I don’t want it to ple don’t have to go out of the county Farms; and Suzanne Chiotakis’ a.m. until noon. It is located on the grow a lot more, because I do, but A catalyst for growth to get a windshield repaired.” ornaments, wreaths and homemade corner of Main and Market street I had anticipated a much slower McKenzie is more involved in, jewelry. in historic downtown Warrenton.

(Warren County Market) growth rate.” and knowledgeable about, the proMcKenzie works continuously to For more information or to request He’s pleased with the number duction of goods as opposed to the expand the market. He eventually a vendor application, contact the Some farmers’ market patrons of vendors who are participating processing of those goods to create wants vendors who will sell baked Warren County Extension Center at may just want to browse for a few (although “we need more”), the other products. However, he knew goods (“the stumbling block there 257-3640. minutes or pick up a few specific variety of produce offered, and the enough about the regulations to tell is that you (the prospective vendor) items for the evening meal. On the fact that the types of products that The writer can be reached at other hand, perhaps one desires are available have expanded beyond me that a potential vendor could not have to have a certified kitchen... sell canned goods with a low acid There is a big emphasis on food dwilson@hendersondispatch.com to also get away for a few hours just produce. content. safety”), and canned goods. He or lmnt8@yahoo.com or even an entire day. For those The market itself seems to be “There are no regulations about may acquire the first item on individuals, the Warren County sparking the expansion of Warrenhow you transport a product that his wish list in the next few Farmers’ Market might be just be ton’s overall economy. At the same I am aware of, especially one that weeks. And, as if the ambiwhat the doctor ordered. time, the market has become an would apply to a market of this ence of the market couldn’t People shopping at the Warren extension of the town. size,” he mentioned. “I think the get any more pleasant, musimarket will be treated to pleasing “We’re becoming an artisan combiggest issue is quality. I think our cians should be performing at sights such as the brick courthouse munity,” said Richardson. vendors are the market within the next doing a good job month. “It’s just a matter of of bring quality coordinating dates and availproducts … from ability,” McKenzie stated. the field to the On top of all this, next year market. That he hopes to have monthly means you don’t special events such as a wapick something termelon spitting contest or on Tuesday and recipe demonstrations using leave it in a products provided by the venbasket on your dors themselves. The latter back porch and would benefit the vendors and then load it the community directly by up on your car opening the eyes of customers and take it to to new ideas about foods they the market on have never even tried before Saturday.” and would expose them to the Dispatch Photo/Ashley Steven Ayscue The onus is skills of local chefs. “It’s a winSara Lloyd assembles a display for the on the vendor win because people get more Contributed Photo to be on the up variety in their diet, more nu- baked goods she has brought to sell at tritious food, the vendors sell the YMCA Farmers Market.

The variety of jams and jellies alone available at the Oxford Farmers Market will raise eyebrows. and up. wares extends even into the materials Devito uses to make her products. She frequents estate auctions in search of little trinkets to incorporate into finished pieces. She once took a kimono that her motherin-law (who is of Japanese descent) gave her and used the material to fashion a pocketbook. Devito even started making clip-on earrings after unsuccessful attempts to sell regular earrings at the senior center. (Many of the residents do not have pierced ears.)

Yet, the single most intriguing commodity at any of the four markets in the area was displayed on a table set up by seller Julian Laurent. His parents, Eric and Barbara, run a farm that grows the Mediterranean breed of Lavender.

This couple takes their harvest and packages it in many forms.

These vary from simple bouquets, cones and sachets to spindles and small bundles of the plant displayed in alabaster and wire containers, which are imported from overseas.

The Laurents even stuff the plant into small hats and pillows that can in turn be used as indoor furnishings.

The plant itself, according to the younger Laurent, has many uses, including: potpourri, aromatherapy, moth repellent and a cooking herb.

And it retains its fragrance for up to two years after it is harvested.

What’s more, the market has had and will continue to have special functions throughout the season.

Stalls quoted one attendees’ description of the pork tasting held back on Aug. 1: “‘If you went away hungry, it was your own fault.’”

Sept. 12 will mark the next Oxford market event, the Hot Sauce Festival.

Stalls puts the feel of the market in a nutshell: “With many unadvertised items not listed here, there are always surprises awaiting you each week. You never know what treasure you may find, so be sure to set the clock to get up early so you can meet your friends at the Oxford Farmers Market.”

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CREDITORS NOTICE Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of James McCallum, late of Vance County, N.C., this is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of the said James McCallum, deceased, to present them to the undersigned, or her Attorney, on or before the 1st day of November, 2009, or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said Estate are requested to make immediate payment.

This the 24th day of July, 2009.

situated in the County of Vance, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point derived as follows: From an existing PK situate in the centerline intersection of State Road 1148 with State Road 1142, if extended, proceed North 51 degrees 11’ 12” East 27.51 feet to an existing iron pipe situate in the northern margin of the right of way of State Road 1148 (the southeast corner of other property of the grantors); thence proceed along the eastern boundary of other property of the grantors the following courses and distances: North 13 degrees 27’ 24” East 103.33 feet to an existing iron pipe; North 20 degrees 09’ 07” East 73.96 feet to an existing iron pipe; and North 20 degrees 09’ 07” East 74.00 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence proceed along the eastern boundary of the property of Alton D. West et ux (Book 589, Page 355) North 20 degrees 09’ 07” East 105.92 feet to an existing iron pipe situate in the common southeastern corner of the property hereinafter described with the northeastern corner of the property of Alton D. West et ux (Book 589, Page 355), the point and place of beginning.

From said point and place of beginning, proceed along the common boundary of the property herein described with the property of Alton D. West et ux (Book 589, Page 355) North 71 degrees 06’ 42” West 97.15 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence proceed along the common boundary of the property herein described with the property of Oshie D. Jackson (Book 540, Page 771) North 21 degrees 18’ 46” East 358.21 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence proceed along the common boundary of the property herein described with the property of Harriett & Henderson Yarns, Inc. (Book 12, Page 571) the following courses and distances: North 75 degrees 28’ 10” East 99.99 feet to an existing iron pipe; and South 61 degrees 08’ 25” East 7.70 feet to an existing

iron pipe; thence proceed along the common boundary of the property herein described with the property of Jimmy Tyrone Holmes (Book 554, Page 723) South 20 degrees 09’ 07” West 415.66 feet to the point and place of beginning containing 0.84 acre according to survey and plat entitled “Survey for Frances D. Gibson and Ervin D. Gibson” as prepared by Cawthorne & Associates, RLS, PA, dated June 9, 1994, as June 24, 1994.

Also conveyed herewith to the grantees, their heirs, successors and assigns, is a perpetual, non-exclusvie easement appurtenant of ingress, egress and regress from the property hereinabove described to and from State Road 1148 over and across that certain 20-foot private right of way adjoining the easternmost property line of other property of Ervin D. Gibson et ux (Book 350, Page 405) and the property of Alton D. West (Book 589, Page 355).

Includes Mobile Home described as a 2001 Mansion, Serial #AB01049. Said home is now on a permanent foundation, and is listed for taxes in Vance County, North Carolina, as real estate and not as a mobile home.

Said property being located at: 1441 Old Epsom Road, Henderson, NC 27537.

Present record owner being: Joseph A. Davis, IV, Tiffeny W. Davis and Frances C. Gibson.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the statutory final assessment fee of fortyfive cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1), and any applicable county and/or state land transfer tax and/or revenue tax.

Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid, in cash or certified

check, at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase price so bid, at that time he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in N.C.G.S. 45-21.30(d) and (e).

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

A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

That an Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 4521.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental greement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

This the 13th day of August, 2009.

President of Anderson & Strickland, P.A., Substitute Trustee 210 East Russell Street, Suite 104 Fayetteville, NC 28301 (910) 483-3300

DATED SEPTEMBER AND RECOR SEPTEMBER BOOK 830 P IN THE VANC COUNTY RE OF DEEDS

Aug 19,26, 2009

Pursuan order and un virtue of the authority co the above deed of because of a the provisio deed of tru failure to ca perform the and agreeme contained, a to demand o and holder indebtedness by said deed undersigned trustee will sale at publi the highest cash at the of sale at courthouse county at 2: August 24, following des estate and improvement may be situa situated i County, Nor and bein particularly d follows: A par located in th Vance, Stat Carolina, and

Dorothy Forston Administrator 75 Evans Road Henderson, NC 27537 Harvey D. Jackson Attorney at Law P.O. Box 1414 125 N. Garnett St. Henderson, N.C. 27536 Aug 19,26, Sept 2,9, 2009 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 09-SP-91 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Joseph A. Davis, IV, Tiffeny W. Davis, Ervin D. Gibson (now deceased) and Frances D. Gibson to CB Services Corp., Trustee(s), dated the 24th day of June, 2002 and recorded in Book 959, Page 608, Vance County Registry, North Carolina, Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Anderson & Strickland, P.A., having been substituted as Trustee in said deed of Trust by an insturment duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Vance County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door, in the City of Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina at 10:30 a.m. on September 3, 2009, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate

Michael W. Strickland, as Attorney for and

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS

BY PUBLICATION IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE 09-CVD-902 COUNTY OF VANCE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Vance County, Plantiff, vs.

Naomi Jones, et al, Defendants TO: Naomi Jones and Spouse, if any TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the aboveentitled action.

The nature of the relief sought is a tax lien foreclosure on real property listed as being owned by Naomi Jones on the Vance County Tax Records, North Carolina, having Parcel I.D. Number 365-2-45 (Jenkins Land).

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than September 22, 2009, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking relief against you will apply to the court for tax lien foreclosure of said real property.

This the 7th day of August, 2009.

N. Kyle Hicks Hopper, Hicks & Wrenn, PLLC Attorney for Plaintiff 111 Gilliam Street PO Box 247 Oxford, NC 27565 (919) 693-8161 Aug 12,19,26, 2009 IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION FILE NO.: 08-SP-282 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF VANCE

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Harry H. Albritton, Jr. Dawson & Albritton, P.A. Substitute Trustee P.O. Box 6003 Greeenville, NC 27835 Aug 12,19, 2009 NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS

BY PUBLICATION IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE 09-CVD-807 COUNTY OF VANCE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Vance County, Plantiff, vs.

J.D. Hawkins, et al, Defendants TO: J.D. Hawkins (aka John Drewry Hawkins) and wife, Bertha L. Hawkins; any and all heirs at law and devisees of J.D. Hawkins (aka John Drewry Hawkins) and Bertha L. Hawkins, if deceased, together with all of their creditors and lienholders regardless of how many and through whom they claim, and any and all persons claiming any interest through them or their estates; and J.D. Hawkins, III and Spouse, if any TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the aboveentitled action.

The nature of the relief sought is a tax lien foreclosure on real property listed as being owned by Estate of Dr. J.D. Hawkins c/o J.D. Hawkins, III on the Vance County Tax Records, North Carolina, having Parcel I.D. Number 111-3-7 (Hawkins Drive).

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than September 22, 2009, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking relief against you will apply to the court for tax lien foreclosure of said real property.

This the 4th day of August, 2009.

N. Kyle Hicks Hopper, Hicks & Wrenn, PLLC Attorney for Plaintiffs 111 Gilliam Street PO Box 247 Oxford, NC 27565 (919) 693-8161 Aug 12,19,26, 2009

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