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Holiday airfares close to last year, climbing Business & Farm, Page 5A

Suspect in deaths of four at N.C. store in U.S. illegally Public Records, Page 6A

Fort Hood killings show need for mental health care

The floors, furnishings and finishes of this loft decorated by Brian Patrick Flynn are protected from intense h floor to ceiling windows.

Opinion, Page 10A

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The floors, furnishings and finishes of this loft decorated by Brian Patrick Flynn are protected from intense heat and sun fading all due to a UV resistant treatment on its 30-foot floor to ceiling windows.

Food for needy stolen from ACIM in Oxford

UNC’s Jheraine Boyd celebrates second half TD in win over Duke.

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By MELISSA RAyWORTH For The aSSociaTed PreSS

Tri-County, Page 11A

Sports, 1B

When decorating our homes, we tend to consider things like beauty and comfort, the durability of pieces we might buy or the image they project. But how many of us stop to consider our energy bills? Energy-smart design goes way beyond choosing Energy Star-rated appliances or switching to compact fluorescent bulbs, although both are good ideas. Today’s experts see opportunities to conserve energy in nearly every aspect of home design. There are “so many things that look gorgeous and totally save you money,” says interior designer Brian Patrick Flynn. We asked Flynn and fellow designers Mallory Mathison and Janine Carendi to share their energy-wise secrets:

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SUNDAY, November 8, 2009

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By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

Oktoberfest!

Please see GARBAGE, page 11A

Index Our Hometown . . . . . 2A Business & Farm. . . . 5A Opinion . . . . . . . . . . 10A Sports. . . . . . . . . . 1-6B Showcase. . . . . . . . . 1C Celebrate. . . . . . . . 2-4C Books & Leisure . . . . 5C Light Side . . . . . . . 6-7C A to Z Kids. . . . . . . . . 8C Real Estate . . . . . . 1-3D Classifieds. . . . . . . 4-8D

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Deaths Chapel Hill James C. Page Jr., 79 Henderson Patricia W. Abbott, 71 Christine H. Davis, 92 William R. Dickerson Sr., 79 Martha J. Evans, 82 Larry Reavis Magnolia C. Satterwhite, 82 Essie Harris Walker, 88 Oxford Allie “AL” Smith, 77 Timonium, Md. James R. Ellington

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Neighbors cite fires, stench from sewage

From STAFF REPORTS

The proposal for privatizing garbage pickup is on the agenda for the 7 p.m. Monday City Council meeting, but it is unknown what will happen. There are no attached documents regarding this item, with the agenda only saying information would be distributed at the meeting, which will be in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave. A presentation to the council on Oct. 26 about having Waste Industries take change of the sanitation service in Henderson resulted in questions from some of the council members they first want answered before consider-

Beacon permit opposed

Appliances

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Oktoberfest brought festival-goers to downtown Henderson on Saturday. The first-ever event, sponsored by the Henderson-Vance Downtown Development Commission, featured music, dancing, food and games. Clockwise from top, Dave Arner conducts the Little German Band & Dancers, the Ballet Arts All Stars perform to the band’s tunes, Makayla Burwell navigates the obstacle course, Jennifer Sawyer serves up a treat and festivalgoers get in on the fun with March Around leader Marvin Soroos.

Old gas station on demolition list City says about 14 abandoned buildings to be torn down By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

Knocking down the dilapidated former Amoco station at the corner of a busy Andrews Avenue/N.C. 39 and Vance Street is on the list for City Code Compliance Director Corey Williams. “Demolition should start on that within the next week, I would hope,” Williams told the Clean Up Henderson Committee last week. The City Council on April 27 overObituaries, 3-4A whelmingly voted to tear down the building, whose restroom doors and service bays remain open. Joseph King, who along with his wife, Patricia, owns the property, told the council that he lacked the money to demolish the building

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City Code Compliance Director Corey Williams said plans are to demolish the former Amoco station at the corner of Andrews Avenue/N.C. 39 and Vance Street. and additionally faced having the underground fuel storage tanks still in place. King in April said his main problem is the property being “loaded” with the below-ground tanks from which fuel was once pumped into customers’ vehicles. King said that banks did not want to loan him money, that he did not sell enough fuel to attract inves-

tors to help him improve the station and that he has been unable to find someone to purchase the property. City Attorney John Zollicoffer in April said that McCracken Enterprises has the deed of trust, which transfers interest in property and can also be held as collateral. King, who has the deed to possess Please see DEMOLITION, page 7A

Opposing neighbors and a former city councilwoman told the Zoning Board of Adjustment why there should not be a special use permit and a variance for the former Beacon Light apartment complex at 318 Boddie St. The adjacent residents in particular complained about the lingering stench of sewage in their yards, told about fires from the former apartment buildings and recalled the days when the complex was notorious for crime and unsanitary conditions. The most detailed testimony at a board hearing Tuesday came from Jacqueline Wright. “I almost lost my house when that building caught on fire,” Wright recalled of a structure behind her home. “I had fire on my roof and we had to get out of our house in the middle of the night, in the cold.” Then a building behind her neighbor’s house caught on fire. “We had to get out again,” Wright said. And later the building behind the house of another neighbor, Allen Williams, caught on fire. “And we had to get out again,” Wright said. “And I have a concern that it’s getting cold again and I hear shooting and stuff,” Wright said, adding that she believes vagrants may be living at the former Beacon Light and that fires may start again. And Wright said when Beacon Light was operating, sewage stood in her backyard. “And the pests are unbelievable,” Wright added, noting she has to constantly call exterminators and noting snakes come onto her property. Overall, Wright said, “I don’t see anybody wanting to purchase one of those for homeownership because it doesn’t agree with none of the property that we have around there. It just wouldn’t fit in.” Wright was referring to documents specifying a renovated Beacon Light have homeownership. “And right now it’s just an eyesore,” Wright said, noting her property value has dropped from $114,000 Please see BEACON, page 3A

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Mark It Down Monday

Masonic meeting — Beacon Light Masonic Lodge #249 will hold its stated communication at 7 p.m. at the lodge, located at 1204 West Andrews Ave. For more information, contact Michael Edwards at 767-3672. Genealogical society — The Vance County Genealogical Society will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the History Room of the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library. Regional water system – The Kerr Lake Regional Water System Advisory Board will meet at 9:30 a.m. in the large conference room of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave. City Council – The Henderson City Council will meet at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave. Board of Education — The Vance County Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. in the Administrative Services Center Board Room, 1724 Graham Ave.

Our Hometown

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Optimum Lighting employees honor one of their own with donation to Relay for Life

Tuesday Special Olympics — The Vance County chapter of the N.C. Special Olympics will hold an end-of-the-season bocce tournament at 6 p.m. at the Aycock Recreation Center. Rain date is Nov. 17. For more information, call (252) 431-6091. Appearance Commission — The monthly meeting of the Henderson Community Appearance Commission will be held at 3 p.m. at the City Hall main conference room, 134 Rose Ave. Oxford Commission — The Oxford City Commission will meet at 7 p.m. in the commission meeting room of City Hall, 300 Williamsboro St. Mental health meeting — The Five County Mental Health Authority’s Consumer and Family Advisory Committee (CFAC) will meet at 6 p.m. at the Vance-Granville Community College, Warren campus, Building 4, Room W432, 210 W. Ridgeway St., Warrenton. For more information, call 430-1330, ext. 3035 and ext. 3050. Board of Elections — The Vance County Board of Elections will meet at 11 a.m. for canvass. Following canvass, the Board of Elections will meet for its regular meeting. Both of the meetings will be in the Vance County Board of Elections Office in the Henry A. Dennis Building, 300 S. Garnett Street, Henderson. Advisory Committee — The Granville County Citizens Advisory Committee for Environmental Affairs will meet from 4-5 p.m. in the conference room on the first floor of the old brick building of the Tobacco Research Station, 300 Providence Road. Lee Bodenhamer, general manager of the Vance-Granville branch of Waste Industries, will give a perspective about recycling in Granville County. ECA — The Williamsboro County ECA Council meeting will be held at 4 p.m. at the Vance County Cooperative Extension Center, 305 Young St., Henderson. Cooperative extension agent Mary Helen Jones will present a program on “When Parents Fight,” which will focus on current research findings on the effects of parental conflict on child outcome. The public is invited. For more information, contact Lucille Alston, president, at (252) 492-8401.

Wednesday 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 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. selling local produce. 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.

Thursday Parks and rec committee — The Henderson-Vance Parks & Recreation Committee will meet at noon at the Aycock Recreation Center, 307 Carey Chapel Road. Retired school personnel — The Vance County Unit of the N.C. Retired School Personnel will meet at 11 am. at the Western Sizzlin, 619 Ruin Creek Road, Henderson. Guest speaker will be Kelli Foti and she will talk about different types of insurance. Marvin Green from ACTS will also be a guest. Members are asked to bring canned food and non-perishable food items to donate to ACTS. Members needing transportation can call Louise Kelly at (252) 438-8071 or W.T. Ramey III at (252) 492-3096. BPW meeting — The Henderson Business and Professional Women’s Club (BPW) will hold its regular monthly dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the boardroom at Maria Parham Medical Center. New members and guests are welcome. For reservations, call (252) 438-6732. Chess Club — The Henderson/Vance Chess Club, affiliated with the U. S. Chess Federation, meets at the First United Methodist Church from 6 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).

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Optimum Lighting’s production manager Bill Montern (left), presents a donation to Vance County Relay for Life co-chairperson Jeanette Brummitt (right) in honor of Deborah Champion (center), an employee of the company who is battling cancer. Champion’s friends and co-workers at Optimum Lighting were so touched by her struggle with cancer that on Oct. 30 everyone at Optimum Lighting wore pink in her honor. A collection was taken up for Relay for Life and those funds along with matching company funds were presented to Brummitt. The heroic effort of by Champion to come to the plant and be part of the presentation made the event all the more memorable.

Upcoming VGCC Classes Arts/crafts course Area residents can get ready for the holidays by learning new skills in a Vance-Granville Community College “Floral Design/Arts & Crafts” course. Classes will be held in room W214 at VGCC’s Warren County Campus on Tuesday evenings, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Nov. 10 through Dec. 15. The Warren Campus is located at 210 West Ridgeway Street in Warrenton. Over six weeks, instructor Alisha Bigham will teach participants a variety of techniques, including how to make seasonal wreaths, as well as how to fashion simple, but beautiful, jewelry, which could be given as handmade gifts to friends and family. The cost of the course is $53. For more information and to register, call the Warren County Campus at (252) 257-1900.

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Students will learn basic word processing and Internet skills, which will help them effectively search for jobs. The course is free for students who meet income eligibility guidelines. For more information and to pre-register, call VGCC at (252) 738-3417 or visit the library.

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Deaths

NATIONAL WEATHER

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.

James C. Page Jr. Billings 51/26

Minneapolis 57/43 Detroit 64/48 Chicago 66/51 Washington Kansas City 66/46 72/53

Denver 60/30

San Francisco 65/48

Los Angeles 70/54

Atlanta 75/52

El Paso 77/51 Houston 74/62

Fairbanks 10/-2

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Miami 84/76

Honolulu 83/72

Anchorage 28/15

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New York 64/51

Juneau 41/34

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Hilo 82/68

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Ice

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FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR HENDERSON TODAY

TONIGHT

MONDAY

72°

41°

73°

50°

Mostly sunny and warmer

Clear

High clouds and nice

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

72° 47° Rain possible in the afternoon

62°

63°

38°

42°

Breezy with clouds and sun

Sun and clouds

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SUN AND MOON

Temperature

Sunrise today ........................... 6:44 a.m. Sunset today ............................ 5:11 p.m. Moonrise today ...................... 11:00 p.m. Moonset today ....................... 12:22 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow ..................... 6:45 a.m. Sunset tomorrow ...................... 5:10 p.m. Moonrise tomorrow ......................... none Moonset tomorrow ................. 12:57 p.m.

Raleigh-Durham through 6 p.m. yest. High .................................................... 66° Low ..................................................... 33° Normal high ........................................ 65° Normal low ......................................... 42° Record high ............................ 80° in 2008 Record low .............................. 22° in 1967

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submitted an incomplete plan and because Halim failed to comply with council requests for more specifics and failed to provide financial assurances to the council that he can renovate the property. Halim’s real estate agent, Vance County Commissioner Terry Garrison, in rebuttal to the opponents at Tuesday’s Board of Adjustment hearing, said that adjacent houses were built after the opening of Beacon Light. And Garrison said that, with respect to the church, what he heard moments earlier was a different story than he had previously heard. Of the raw sewage, Garrison said, “That’s a 50-50 proposition” and added he was wondering why there continue to be such problems. As for declines in neighbors’ property values, Garrison said that, while the former Beacon Light has had an adverse effect for lack of maintenance, current market conditions have more to do with depreciation than anything else. The U.S. Department Housing and Urban Development-sponsored low-income site, which dates back to 1973, was closed in 2006 at the request of the previous council. Halim said there was fire damage to a pair of buildings at the time he acquired the property at a foreclosure sale in 2007. And there were fires on Halloween night in 2008 and on Nov. 17, 2008. City officials at Tuesday’s hearing said there was a third fire, but did not immediately have the date at hand. Fire Chief Danny Wilkerson was sworn in as a witness to testify at the hearing, but he said he did not want to speak without first pulling past reports of the fires. And the board majority postponed taking action in part because City Attorney John Zollicoffer had to leave the hearing early for another matter. Contact the writer at bwest@ hendersondispatch.com.

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to $92,000. Wright called for the former Beacon Light to be demolished. Williams said he continues to smell sewage. And Williams cited the fires from the former Beacon Light, although he said all he ended up having was smut on his automobile. Still, Williams made clear he does not want the former Beacon Light renovated. Annie Harris, who also lives close to the former Beacon Light, said she supports building more residences because of the need for housing, “but, I don’t want to go through what I did before,” a reference to the “clientele” when the complex was open. Harris went on to state her opposition to the special use permit and the variance. Mary Williams, representing the Progressive Faith Baptist Church near the former Beacon Light, said she and her fellow church members know homeownership is needed, but, of the former complex, “we don’t see that as being homeownership” and would favor affordable residences to live in or rent.Williams called for tearing down the buildings. Former City Councilwoman Elissa Yount told the Board of Adjustment, “We all are realists here and we know in the African-American community oftentimes there were very few neighborhoods that had African-American ownership.” Yount noted Beacon Light is next to a set of AfricanAmerican neighborhoods. “And they deserve to be protected by you, our zoning board, not to allow anymore encroachment,” Yount said. Ahmad Halim, who acquired the property at a 2007 foreclosure sale, is saying he is ready to proceed with rehabilitating the dilapidated location. A majority of the City Council on Oct. 26 ordered City Code Compliance Director Corey Williams to do what is necessary to bring the property into compliance, with an option being demolition. That is because Halim

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Marsha of Dallas, Texas, Mary Bryan Fleenor and husband Dale of Orleans, Ind., and David Page of Chesapeake, Va.; grandchildren Robert, Hudson and Bethany Page, C.J, Brittany and Nicholas Fleenor and James, Robin and Daniel Page; and his dearest Anita Summers of Chapel Hill. Also surviving are his brother Bill and wife, Bernadette of Bethlehem, Pa., and Vic Davis of Carrboro, Don Davis of Tallahassee, Fla., and Robin Gainey of Raleigh. Jim was a charter member of the Carrboro Business Association, a member of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, and served as a board member of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association. He was a lifetime member of the Jaycees and the Roosters Club, and attended the Carrboro United Methodist Church, where he sang in the choir for many years. Jim will be remembered for his quick and cheerful smile, his generous spirit and his willing heart and hands, and greatly missed by all who knew and loved him. A memorial service and a “Celebration of Jim’s Life” will be held Nov. 28 at the Carrboro United Methodist Church, 200 Hillsborough Road at 11 a.m. Memorial contributions in the memory of Jim Page may be made to Carrboro United Methodist Church.

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HENDERSON — Patricia Rose Weaver Abbott, age 71, a resident of 220 N. Shank Street, died Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, at her home. Born in Vance County on Nov. 14, 1937, she was the daughter of Ruby Stanton Burroughs of Henderson and the late Ollie Weaver. She was a homemaker and a member of South Henderson Church Of God. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at South Henderson Church Of God by the Rev. Gary Harper and the Rev. Frank Sossamon. Burial will follow in the Union Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery. She is survived by three sons, Dennis Abbott of Henderson, Michael Abbott of Norlina, and Ricky Abbott of Wendell; two daughters, Vickie Duffer of South Boston, Va., and Priscilla Murphy of Henderson; and five grandchildren. The family will receive friends Sunday night from 7 until 8:30 at J. M. White Funeral Home. At other times they will be at her home at 220 N. Shank Street. Arrangements are by J. M. White Funeral Home.

Christine H. Davis HENDERSON — Christine Hammie Davis, 92, of 299, Gholson Ave. died Nov. 4, 2009, in Britthaven of Henderson. She was born in Vance County and was the daughter of the late Daniel Henry and Effie Miles Hammie. A funeral service will be conducted Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church, with the Rev. Joseph Ratliff officiating. Burial will follow in Carolina Biblical Gardens of Raleigh in Garner. Survivors include a sister, Marie Ratliff of Raleigh and a brother, Daniel

HENDERSON — Miss Martha Jenkins Evans, 82, of 518 Waddill Street, Henderson, NC, died Saturday, November 7, 2009. She was born September 24, 1927 in Vance County, city of Henderson, NC to Melville Gregory and Annie Pirie Evans. She graduated from Henderson High School, attended Peace College in Raleigh, NC and enjoyed a fortytwo year secretarial career. Martha retired from R.J. Reynolds in 1987. She was a life-time member of First Presbyterian Church. Martha, one of our local artists, was active through the years in The Kerr Lake Art Society and the Vance County Arts Council. Her work was shown in private collections and galleries in Henderson, NC, Warrenton, NC, and Louisburg, NC. Martha was preceded in death in 1983 by her brother, David Pirie Evans. Surviving are her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George T. Dickie, 304 Burwell Avenue, Henderson, NC 27536, sister-in-law, Hammie of Chesaspeake, Va. The family will receive friends at the residence of the Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Ratliff, 299 Gholson Ave. The body will be on view Monday at the funeral home and at the church one hour before the service. The family will also receive friends at the church one half hour before the service. Funeral arrangements are by Davis-Royster Funeral Service.

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Mary Ann Evans, of Henderson, NC, a niece, Martha Macon Dickie of Henderson, NC, three nephews, Gregory T. Dickie and his wife Betty, of Richmond, Virginia, David Melville Evans of Sanford, NC, William Bullock Evans and wife Laurie of Charlotte, NC, two greatnephews, William George Evans, of Raleigh, NC and James Grant Dickie, of Richmond, VA and a great-niece, Laura Reid Dickie, of Richmond, VA. Also surviving are Martha’s closest friends, Mary Ann McIntyre, of Henderson, NC, Edna F. Murray and Richard and Rena Linville, of Greensboro, NC, John and Pamela Billling and Chon Shoaf of Chapel Hill, NC and nine very special friends, Jo Peay, Barbara Berry, Alita Semones, LuAnn Thomas, Janet Angel, Betty Zimmerman and Doris Cumbo all from the Winston-Salem, NC area; Lynette Strader, of Lilburn, GA and Louise “Weegie” Poston and Fran Bradshaw of Albuquerque, New Mexico. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to an organization of choice. Private burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, Henderson, NC. Arrangements are by Flowers Funeral Home. Paid Obituary

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W. Roger Dickerson Sr. HENDERSON — William Roger Dickerson Sr., 79, of 115 W. Young Street, Henderson died Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, at Maria Parham Medical Center. Born in Vance County, he was the son of the late John Robert Dickerson and Annie Newton Dickerson. He was the widower of Anne Neal Collins Dickerson.

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OXFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT Arrests • Lakeem Lyons, 16, of 414 Lanier St., was booked Oct. 28. Misdemeanor possession of illegal drugs. Misdemeanor resisting, obstructing and delaying an officer. No bond was set. • Terrence Evans, 24, of 917 Gay St., Henderson, was booked Oct. 28. Felony breaking and entering. Felony larceny. Misdemeanor damage to personal property. Bond was set at $11,000. • Dexter Burt, 37, of 143 Lynn Haven Ave., Henderson, was booked Oct. 29. Felony breaking and entering a motor vehicle. Misdemeanor larceny. Bond was set at $11,000. • Aretha Thomas, 40, of 131 Juniper Court, was booked Oct. 29. Misdemeanor failure to return rental property. No bond was set. • Africia Edwards, 31, of 105 Westbury Drive, was booked Oct. 30. Misdemeanor assault inflicting serious injury. Misdemeanor communicating threats. No bond was set. • William Anderson, 61, of 200 Elm St., was booked Oct. 31. Misdemeanor possession of an illegal drug. Bond was set at $500. • Marrell Johnson, 23, of 110 Ridge Road, Henderson, was booked Nov. 1. Misdemeanor trespassing. Misdemeanor resisting, obstructing and delaying an officer. Bond was set at $500. • Joseph Wiggins, 27, of 1015 Flemingtown Road, Henderson, was booked Nov. 1. Misdemeanor trespassing. Misdemeanor drunk and disruptive conduct. Bond was set at $500. • Anthony Crudup, 22, of 648 N. Hamilton St., Indianapolis, was booked Nov. 1. Felony financial transaction card theft. Felony identity theft. Bond was set at $10,000. • Kwmane Cozart, 18, of 328 Henderson St., was booked Nov. 5. Misdemeanor possession of an open container of alcohol in the passenger area of a vehicle. Bond was set at $500. • Maurice Harris, 29, of 5092 Antioch Road, was booked Nov. 5. Misdemeanor larceny. Misdemeanor possession of stolen goods. Bond was set at $500.

VANCE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Arrests • Alonza Richardson, 42, of 1808 Avondale Drive, Durham, was arrested Nov. 6. FElony speeding to elude arrest. Careless and reckless driving. Misdemeanor driving while license revoked. Bond was set at $10,000. Court date Dec. 1. • Bryan T. Miles, 24, of 144 Spring Hill Lane was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 5. Misdemeanor failure to appear. Bond was set at $226. Court date Nov. 9. • Princess M. Perry, 21, of 213 Truman Ave. was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 5. Misdemeanor failure to appear. Bond was set at $1,000. Court date Nov. 17. • Kevin Johnson, 21, of 119 Daisy Lane was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 5. Misdemeanor failure to appear on a charge of driving while license revoked. Bond was set at $1,200. Court date Nov. 9. • Timothy Nicholson, 21, of 116 Nightengale Lane was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 5. Misdemeanor failure to appear on charges of assault on a female and communicating threats. Bond was set at $4,000. Court date Dec. 28. • Trevor Williams, 35, of 828 Adams St. was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 5. Misdemeanor failure to appear on a charge of assault on a female. Felony failure to appear on a

charge of assault by strangulation. Bond was set at $5,000. Court date Jan. 28. • Hartwell R. Harp, 67, of 1818 Garland St. was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 5. Failure to appear. Bond was set at $1,000. Court date Dec. 28. • Walter Rainey, 50, of 826 W. Young Ave. was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 5. Misdemeanor child support. Court date Nov. 13. Felony asttempted uttering. Possession of drug paraphernalia. Resist, delay, obstruct. Court date Nov. 23. Bond was set at $1,000. • Dramil Kenard Simmons, 22, of 95 Saint Andrews Church Road was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 4. Misdemeanor failure to appear on a charge of possession of marijuana. Show cause order served. Order for arrest for Warren County on failure to appear charge. Bond was set at $600. Court date Dec. 14. • Johnell Oneil Ragland, 26, of 747 Julia St. was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 5. Misdemeanor failure to appear on charge of failure to comply with nonsupport. Bond was set at $1,250. Court date Nov. 13. • Tommie Lewis, 51, of 462 Burnside Road was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 5. Failure to appear on a charge of failure to comply with nonsupport. Bond was set at $500. Court date Nov. 13.

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GRANVILLE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Arrests • Laura Lynn Aird, 42, of 9527 Catfish Trail, Oxford, was booked Oct. 23. Felony possession of cocaine. Bond was set at $10,000. • Shelby Nicole Medley, 29, of 6592 Pebble Lane, Oxford, was booked Oct. 27. Two counts of failure to appear. Bond was set at $1,750. • Woodrow Wayne Myers, 33, of 2083 Hester Road, Stem, was booked Oct. 28. Failure to appear. Bond was set at $3,000. • Antwan Anderson, 19, of 104 Leak Ave., Oxford, was booked Oct. 28. Misdemeanor larceny. Bond was set at $2,500. • Dwayne Terry Cozart, 30, of 7537 Sam Young Road, Oxford, was booked Oct. 29. Felony obtaining money by false pretense. Bond was set at $10,000. • Carla Coye Williamson, 28, of 4172 Shock Overton Road, Oxford, was booked Oct. 31.

Creedmoor, was booked Nov. 2. Failure to appear. Bond was set at $2,000. • Ricky Fontaine Harris, 32, of 2182 Lauren Mill Road, Oxford, was booked Nov. 3. Three counts of failure to pay child support. Bond was set at $2,453. • Christopher Harris, 19, of 601 Hicks Mill Road, Oxford, was booked Nov. 4. Failure to appear. Bond was set at $1,500. • Roddy Peace, 41, of 7558 Sam Young Road, Oxford, was booked Nov. 4. Obstructing and delaying an officer. Giving false information. Driving while license revoked. Bond was set at $2,000. • Veronica Nicole Looney, 19, of 2172 Joe Pruitt Road, Oxford, was booked Nov. 4. Two counts of failure to appear. Bond was set at $4,000. • Phillip Antwan Ward, 25, of 7221 Mountain Road, Oxford, was booked Nov. 4. Failure to appear. Bond was set at $800.

Failure to appear. No bond was set. • Rodriguez Teshawn Thomas, 21, of 4188 AA U.S. 15 N., Oxford, was booked Oct. 31. Two counts of misdemeanor injury to personal property. Bond was set at $2,000. • Vanisha Henderson, 17, of 511 Taylor St., Stovall, was booked Nov. 1. Misdemeanor property damage. Bond was set at $1,000. • Jamaal Ray Curtis, 27, of 422 Kingsbury St., Oxford, was booked Nov. 2. Six counts of felony burglary. Six counts of felony larceny from a private residence. Six counts of felony possessing/concealing stolen property. Seven counts of misdemeanor damage to criminal property. One count of misdemeanor burglary. One count of failing to register as a sex offender. Bond was set at $95,000. • Kevin York Estes, 23, of 2666 Rock Spring Church Road,

Suspect in deaths of four at N.C. store in U.S. illegally MOUNT AIRY (AP) — Authorities say the suspect in the killing of four men outside a North Carolina store was in the U.S. illegally and had been deported before. Federal immigration officials told The Mount Airy News that 26-year-

old Marcos Gonzalez was sent out of the county in 2007 after serving a prison sentence for kidnapping. Gonzalez is charged with four counts of murder in the Nov. 1 shootings in the parking lot of a television store in Mount Airy. Police Chief Dale Wat-

son says he was disturbed to find out Gonzalez was deported after committing a violet crime. Investigators haven’t determined exactly what caused the shooting, but they don’t think the victims were chosen at random.

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HENDERSON POLICE DEPARTMENT Arrests • Alicia Bell McLavin, 22, of 720 Highland Ave. Apt. 6H was arrested Nov. 5. Misdemeanor communicating threats. Bond was set at $500. Court date Nov. 17. • James Bullock, 21, of 1285 David Ave. was arrested Nov. 5. Misdemeanor failing to return rental property. No bond listed. Court date Dec. 7. • Laquesha Cooper, 18,414 Booth Ave. was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 5. Misdemeanor failure to appear. Bond was set at $2,500. Court date Dec. 2. • Amanda Lolita Johnson, 22, of 720 Highland Ave. Apt. 6B was served with an order for arrest on Nov. 5. Misdemeanor failure to appear. Bond was set at $500. Court date Dec. 4. • Samantha Dawn Lowe, 19, of 236 E. Andrews Ave. was served with an order for arrest on

Nov. 5. Misdemeanor failure to appear, 4 counts. Bond was set at $6,400. Court date Nov. 30. • Alonzo Durham, 19, of 448 Boddie St. was arrested Nov. 5. Misdemeanor protective order violation. No bond. Court date Nov. 23. • Brian Christopher Hargrove, 32, of 768 N. Chestnut St. was arrested Nov. 5. Misdemeanor failure to appear. Bond was set at $2,000. Court date Nov. 9. • Jessica Ellington, 20, of 954 Abbott St. was arrested Nov. 5 Misdemeanor failure to appear. Bond was set at $154. Court date Nov. 24.

Larceny • Courtney Burrows, 20, of 207 Center St., Norlina, reported Nov. 5 that a lady’s pocketbook, valued at $150, was taken from a vehicle in the parking lot of 1002 Ruin Creek Road. Damage to left rear door glass estimated at $100.

One Va. man dead, two wounded in shooting at N.C. nightclub EDEN (AP) — Authorities say a 37-year-old Virginia man is dead and two other people injured in a shooting outside a North Carolina nightclub. Multiple media outlets report that Eden police were checking out a suspicious car around 2:30 a.m. Saturday when they heard gunshots coming from Eden’s Icehouse Club and

Lounge. The officers say they saw several people running from the club, then found three people who had been shot. Authorities say 37-yearold Timothy Seay, of Martinsville, Va., died on the scene and two other men were taken to the hospital. Police have made no arrests in the shootings.

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DEMOLITION, from page one the property, told the council that his attempts to get in touch with McCracken Enterprises were unsuccessful. Councilman Michael Inscoe in April asked Zollicoffer whether the city could tear down the building without doing anything to the tanks. Zollicoffer said that the city can demolish the structure and that the city would have a lien on what is in the ground. King said that the fuel has been pumped out of the tanks. And King said that, if the council wanted to impose a lien on the property, then

so be it. A lien is a form of a security interest to assure the payment of a debt or the performance of some other obligation. During last week’s Clean Up Henderson meeting, Williams said the city has demolished a dilapidated structure at 614 Andrews, just down from the old Amoco. Three more structures are on the list to be demolished, depending on how much money is available in the budget, Williams said. One is a burned out house along Bullock Street, while the other two are burned out houses along Lamb Street.

“We have more than that to do, actually,” Williams said, giving a number of approximately 14. “It looked like we were on a downward trend” in terms of abandoned structures, but the city is encountering houses with people living in them despite the lack of electricity and water, Williams said. One problem is with situations of homeowners who can no longer afford their properties or of heirs who cannot afford inherited properties, Williams said. “And if they can’t get back in ‘em and can’t deal with ‘em, then they’re going to become abandoned. And

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once they become abandoned, then so the cycle continues of having more dilapidated homes in the area,” Williams said. “Overall, we’re hanging in there. We’re hanging in there,” Williams said. The Clean Up Henderson committee met on Wednesday morning. In addition to getting the city shipshape, the purpose of the Clean Up Henderson panel is to keep attention focused on the indifference to — and intolerance of — substandard properties in the city. Contact the writer at bwest@ hendersondispatch.com.

Army: Fort Hood shooting suspect taken off ventilator FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Army spokesman says the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care at

a military hospital. Spokesman Col. John Rossi told reporters on Saturday at Fort Hood that he is not sure if Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is able to communicate.

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2009 H1N1 and Seasonal Flu: What To Do If You Get Sick How do I know if I have the flu? You may have the flu if you have some or all of these symptoms: • runny or stuffy nose • chills • fever (not everyone) • body aches • cough • fatigue • headache • sore throat • sometimes diarrhea and vomiting

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Florida shooting suspect mentally ill ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is “very mentally ill” and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday. Jason Rodriguez, 40, was ordered held without bail at the Orange County Jail, where he is under suicide watch after Friday’s shooting. His Rodriguez mother, Ana Rodriguez, also apologized Saturday, telling reporters she is “so sorry for everything that has happened.” Public defender Bob Wesley asked the judge at a brief court appearance Saturday

that police and prosecutors have no contact with Rodriguez without his permission. “This guy is a compilation of the front page of the entire year — unemployment, foreclosure, bankruptcy, divorce — all of the stresses,” Wesley said. “He has been declining in mental health. There is no logic whatsoever, which points to a mental health case. It looks like a classic case of stress overload.” Employees at Reynolds, Smith and Hills recognized their former co-worker when he drew a handgun from a holster under his shirt, police said, and killed Otis Beckford, 26, next to a receptionist’s desk in an office at a downtown Orlando tower. He then walked into the office and unloaded several more rounds, wounding five other employees at the company he had been fired from two years ago.

Rodriguez was taken into custody several hours after the shooting. He has been charged with first-degree murder. Police said Rodriguez told detectives he blamed the firm for recent trouble he had receiving unemployment benefits. As officers led him handcuffed into a police station Friday, a reporter asked him why he had attacked his former colleagues. Rodriguez recently told a bankruptcy judge he was making less than $30,000 a year at a Subway sandwich shop and had debts of nearly $90,000. He is the divorced father of a young son. All the victims worked at Reynolds, Smith and Hills, where Rodriguez was an entry-level engineer for 11 months before he was fired in June 2007, the company said, because his performance waas not up to the firm;s standards.

The company did not hear from him again. Hours after the shootings, police tracked Rodriguez to his mother’s home and ordered him to come out. He surrendered peacefully, apologizing as officers handcuffed him, police said. Rodriguez told detectives that the company had fired him without cause and had made him look incompetent. He told them he was unemployed for a year and a half before getting a job at a Subway, where worked until recently. He told them the shop couldn’t give him enough hours, and he later filed for unemployment. He expected to get a check recently but when it didn’t arrive he blamed Reynolds, Smith and Hills, thinking it was harming his efforts to qualify, police said. He told police he could no longer support his family.

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Unique homecoming to Vietnam for U.S. commander By BEN STOCKING Associated Press Writer

DANANG, Vietnam — On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of five in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer. Le piloted the USS Lassen on Saturday into Danang, home of China Beach, where U.S. troops frequently headed for R&R during the war, which ended on April 30, 1975, when the southern city of Saigon was taken by communist troops from North Vietnam. That was the day Le and his family embarked on an uncertain journey in a fishing boat piloted by Le’s father, who was a commander in the South Vietnamese navy. They were rescued at sea by the USS Barbour County, taken to a U.S. base in the Philippines, a refugee camp in California and finally to northern Virginia, where they rebuilt their lives. Le returned on the Lassen, an $800 million, 509-foot destroyer equipped with Tomahawk missiles and a crew of 300. The ship and the USS Blue Ridge, the command vessel for the U.S.

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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le and his ship, USS Lassen, are seen Saturday off the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam. Le fled the country at age five and returned 34 years later as the commander of the Navy destroyer. archipelago, from which the Navy’s 7th Fleet, are makproud of my Vietnamese heritage,” said Le, who Chinese drove out South ing the latest in a series of goodwill visits to Vietnam, spoke a few halting words in Vietnamese troops in 1974. They are also wrangling Vietnamese. which began in 2003 when over the Spratlys, another the USS Vandergriff paid The ship visits represent the efforts of both the island chain believed to a port call to Ho Chi Minh United States and Vietnam contain valuable oil and gas City, the former Saigon. reserves. to develop their relation“I thought that one day Le grew up in Hue, a city ship as a balance to Chinese I would return but I really didn’t expect to be returnpower in the region, without on the central coast about 65 miles north of Danang ing as the commander of a antagonizing Vietnam’s Navy warship,” Le said after massive northern neighbor. where he still has relatives. Directly east of Danang He returned to a country stepping ashore Saturday. are the Paracel Islands, that is vastly changed from “It’s an incredible personal the days of the Vietnam where China and Vietnam honor.” War. are engaged in a sensitive “I’m proud to be an Along the Danang coastAmerican, but I’m also very territorial dispute over the

Spain works to free 33 crew held by Somali pirates BERMEO, Spain (AP) — Spain says it is working to free 33 crew members of a fishing vessel held by Somali pirates as thousands of friends and relatives rallied for their release. Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Saturday he plans to meet Somali leader Ali Sharmarke Abdirashid Omar in Kenya. On Thursday the skipper of the vessel, Ricardo Blach, said heavily armed pirates had taken three of his crew members off the

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Orange, which includes the highly toxic chemical dioxin, to deprive Vietnamese troops of ground cover. The two countries are working together to rid the site of dioxin, which remains in the soil for decades. Le has few memories of his three-day journey on the fishing trawler, which ended just as they were running out of food, water and fuel. But he has vivid memories of the example set by his father, Thong Ba Le, who is now 69 and has never returned to Vietnam. After the family settled in northern Virginia, he took a job in a supermarket, where he worked his way up from bag boy to manager. “I always wanted to be like my dad,” Le said. “He persevered and overcame many challenges.”

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Fort Hood killings show need for mental health care

The news from Fort Hood was startling as soon as it broke. One gunman, maybe more, killing soldiers on their own base. Yet the story became more troubling the more we learned. It wasn’t an enlisted man — perhaps back from yet another tour in Iraq or Afghanistan, returning to a broken family and dreams, breaking down and inflicting pain on others to salve his own. No, the killer was an officer. And then we learned that the gunman wasn’t just an officer — he was a doctor, a man sworn to save lives, not to take them. And, later, we’re told by the media that the shooter — a killer of at least 13 while some of his other victims at this writing barely cling to life — wasn’t just any “doctor,” but an Army-trained psychiatrist; a man whose job it was to help piece our troops’ war-torn hearts and minds back together. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had never been to a war zone, but reportedly was headed there soon. Opinions of Hasan differ in the media. Some who knew him depicting him as an American-born Muslim who was adopting a radical stance against his nation’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Othes, particularly relatives, claim that while Hasan did not wish to serve in the war zone and was trying to get a discharge, he showed no signs of turning violent. We believe two lessons must be derived from this catastrophe. First, men and women of all faiths — and of no faith — serve bravely and loyally in our military. While there is evidence that Hasan’s beliefs played a role in the crime, it is not merely because Hasan is a Muslim that he broke and attacked men and women in his own uniform. And it should not be assumed that other Muslims in the service would be more likely than soldiers of any other faith to do the same. Second, the military has a shortage of therapists, and even the psychiatric professionals likely need psychiatric help of their own. “The psychiatrists are working with more people than they have time to work with,” said Dr. Layton McCurdy, a psychiatrist and dean emeritus at the Medical University of South Carolina, who served on a military mental health task force in 2007. “They are pressured in terms of the numbers.” And the suffering of their patients often becomes suffering of their own. “They may not see combat themselves … but they see the outcome of it and they hear the stories of it day in and day out,” said Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., who is a psychiatrist in the Navy Reserves. “It can be very real when you are dealing with people’s difficulties every day.” The Fort Hood killings are a tragedy that nobody wants to see repeated. It is up to the Pentagon to make a more concerted effort to provide better mental health services to our troops, not only for the good of the soldiers, but for the benefit of the health care professionals, as well.

Quotable “They are Americans of every race, faith and station. They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers.” — President Barack Obama, on his weekly radio and Internet address, reminding the public in the wake of the Fort Hood shooting of the diversity of those who serve in uniform.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Dakota: Just a snow job? This column was originally published Aug. 12, 2001. North Dakota is talking about changing its name. I frankly didn’t know you could do that. I thought states’ names were decreed by the Bible or something. In fact, as a child, I believed that when Columbus arrived in North America, the states’ names were actually, physically, written on the continent, in gigantic letters, the way they are on maps. I still think this would be a good idea, because if an airplane’s navigational system failed, the pilot could just look out the window and see exactly where the plane was. (“OK, there’s a huge ‘W’ down there, so we’re over Wyoming. Or Wisconsin.”) But apparently states can change their names, and some North Dakotans want to change “North Dakota.” Specifically, they don’t like the word “North,” which connotes a certain northness. In the words of North Dakota’s former governor, Ed Schafer: “People have such an instant thing about how North Dakota is cold and snowy and flat.” We should heed the words of the former governor, and not just because the letters in “Ed Schafer” can be rearranged to spell “Shed Farce.” The truth is that when we think about North Dakota, which is not

often, we picture it as having the same year-round climate as Uranus. In contrast, SOUTH Dakota is universally believed to be a tropical paradise with palm trees swaying on surf-kissed beaches. Millions of tourists, lured by the word Dave “South,” Barry flock to Tribune Media South DaServices kota every winter, often wearing nothing but skimpy bathing suits. Within hours, most of them die and become covered with snow, not to be found until spring, when they cause a major headache for South Dakota’s farmers by clogging up the cultivating machines. South Dakota put a giant fence around the state to keep these tourists out, and STILL they keep coming. That’s how powerful a name can be. I’ll give you another example. I live in Florida, where we have BIG cockroaches. Q. How big are they? A. They are so big that, when they back up, they are required by federal law to emit warning beeps.

These cockroaches could harm Florida’s image. But we Floridians solved that problem by giving them a new name, “palmetto bugs,” which makes them sound cute and harmless. So when a guest walks into a Florida kitchen and screams at the sight of an insect the size of Charles Barkley, we say: “Don’t worry! It’s just a palmetto bug!” And then we and our guest have a hearty laugh, because we know there’s nothing to worry about, as long as we do not make any sudden moves toward the palmetto bug’s sandwich. So changing names is a sound idea, an idea based on the scientific principle that underlies the field of marketing, which is: People are stupid. Marketing experts know that if you call something by a different name, PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE IT’S A DIFFERENT THING. That’s how “undertakers” became “funeral directors.” That’s how “trailers” became “manufactured housing.” That’s how “We’re putting you on hold for the next decade” became “Your call is important to us.” And that’s why some North Dakotans want to drop the “North” and call the state, simply, “Dakota.” I think this change is brilliant, and could also work for other states with image problems. New Jersey,

Letters Injustice against blacks, dispesed by black judges? To the editor: There are some who are able to somehow see the socalled progress they believe is occurring here in Henderson and in Vance County in a positive manner. I have come to discover that those who see its bright future are those who are in some way prospering in the midst of this economic decay. But for the masses of citizens in this county, it is not so. I use to think that the election of qualified African Americans to local, state and national offices would bring diverse thought and dialogue to a landscape that is no longer black and white as it relates to race in this global economy. However, I am deeply saddened here in Vance County as I sat in court on Tuesday and listened to the account of a mother and daughter who were shopping at the Family Dollar on Andrews Avenue and were asked to leave by a Henderson Police officer. All testimony says that the mother and daughter left, though there was use of profane language, they indeed left the store. In fact they

were not charged with trespassing at all. However both mother and daughter endured the Taser and the mother was also pepper sprayed. The officer in question is a weapon’s expert but testified that he missed a woman’s torso (who he says was bigger than he was, which is why she was Tased) and shot her in the head with the Taser. The projectile lodged in her head and stayed there for nearly 7 hours and had to be surgically removed, once she eventually had to get to the hospital on her own, since she was told she would have to pay for the ambulance to take her to the hospital with the city’s projectile still lodged in her head! I have believed that with the presence of African American judges would come the compassion needed to dispense justice fairly and appropriately. No one can dispute the torrid history of race in this land, and certainly in this county. I am not advocating that justice be partial and unfair, but equitable in its distribution, no matter who it hits. The mother and daughter have criminal backgrounds. True. But I come from and uphold a faith tradition that at its core invokes grace from the past. NO ONE deserves to be Tased in the head. There is a problem in this

county with law enforcement and the black community and no one wants to deal with it effectively. The city council can’t because they must first get approval from the powers that be behind them. Other leaders will not, because it may keep their projects from being funded or their businesses from being utilized. The local NAACP, of which I am an officer, won’t, because banquets are more important than fighting social injustice! And now seeming judges will not and now our women can be mistreated at the hands of those sworn to protect and to serve. Judge S. Quon Bridges sent this message when he blamed their attack by an officer on the fact that they did not leave the store (which testimony shows they did leave the premises). I have two daughters and a son. Should they elect to use their First Amendment right to freedom of speech (even if it is speech I do not approve of), even in speaking in opposition to a policemen’s treatment of them, should not get them thrown to the ground, Tased repeatedly, pepper-sprayed, no medical treatment (oh yeah, the officers offered to remove the projectile themselves, though it had to be removed surgically at the hospital?), and then suffer the injustice of being blamed for

for example, should call itself, simply, “New.” Be advised that “Dakota” is not the first shrewd marketing concept thought up by North Dakotans. Are you familiar with Grand Forks, N.D.? No? It’s located just west of East Grand Forks, Minn. According to a letter I received from a Grand Forks resident who asked to remain nameless (“I have to live here,” he wrote), these cities decided they needed to improve their image, and the result was--get ready-”The Grand Cities.” The Grand Cities, needless to say, have a Web site (grandcities.net), where you can read sentences about The Grand Cities written in MarketingSpeak, which is sort of like English, except it doesn’t actually mean anything. Here’s an actual quote: “It’s the intersection of earth and sky. It’s a glimpse of what lies ahead. It’s hope, anticipation and curiosity reaching out to you in mysterious ways. Timeless. Endless. Always enriching your soul.” Doesn’t that just make you want to cancel that trip to Paris or Rome and head for The Grand Cities? As a resident of Florida (“where the earth meets the water, and forms mud”) I am definitely planning to go to Dakota. I want to know what they’re smoking up there.

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Food for needy stolen from ACIM By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

OXFORD — The Area Congregations in Ministry was burglarized sometime between approximately 2 p.m. Friday and approximately 11 a.m. Saturday, with a minimum of three shopping carts full of food, health products and cleaning supplies having been stolen. “I would say they got about a quarter of it,” ACIM Executive Director Sue Hinman said of the amount of food taken by the perpetrator or perpetrators, including from frozen containers. Four to five freezers of a dozen freezers were found open, but ACIM was able to save meat in those four to five freezers in time to give the meat to a local soup kitchen, Hinman said. Additionally missing is a laptop computer that was donated from IBM through a grant and approximately $50 that was to be spent on pizza as a thank you to ACIM volunteers, Hinman said. ACIM is a non-profit organization assisting the needy and is adjacent to City Hall and next door to the Granville County Economic Development Commission.

The perpetrator or perpetrators entered through a rear window that opens toward adjacent municipal basketball courts. The window is partially hidden by a garbage dumpster. The perpetrator or perpetrators exited via ACIM’s rear door and the shopping carts were found by police near the municipal tennis courts, Hinman said. Hinman said ACIM has insurance, but with a high deductible. And Hinman said she does not know the exact value of the stolen food because ACIM does not conduct a daily inventory. Now, Hinman said, she will have to get on the telephone and ask people to make donations. Hinman posted word of the incident on the social networking site Facebook on Saturday evening. The situation is helped in that ACIM recently received donations for food and supplies, Hinman said. And Hinman said, “Luckily this is the time of year that people remember that people are hungry.” Still, Hinman said she is upset “because I’m not going to be able to help as many people.” “And this is not a time, with the economy the way it is, to

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ing voting yes. Assistant City Manager not be able to help people,” HinFrank Frazier and City Public man said, noting ACIM sees 30-40 families each day of busi- Works Director Linda Leyen ness hours from 9 a.m.-noon on recommended switching Mondays, Wednesdays and from the back-door household garbage service provided by Fridays. the municipality to a curbside “We’re seeing more new service provided by Waste people, yes, people we had Industries, with the agreenever seen before,” Hinman ment, if approved, to be for a said when asked about the three-year period. impact of the downturn of the And the contractor would economy nationwide. provide new 95-gallon conHinman said she was at tainers for household garbage ACIM at approximately 2 p.m. Friday because of an emergen- and new 65-gallon containers cy through another agency. An for recyclables. Councilman Garry Daeke older lady — whose husband is on Oct. 26 said, “It would be a in the hospital — needed food, lot easier to sell this, gentleHinman said. Those wanting to help may men, to the public if we could stop by ACIM, phone Hinman show some savings.” The proposal by Waste at (919) 690-0961 or reach her on her cell at (919) 691-1183 or Industries includes charging make donations by mail to P.O. elderly or disabled persons an extra $5 a month to provide 398, Oxford, N.C. 27565. them with backdoor service and charging an extra $5 Contact the writer at bwest@ hendersondispatch.com month to provide customers

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Tourists pass a painting Friday on a segment of the reopened East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany. The 105 wall paintings of the former Berlin Wall were restored for the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall. The same artists from 21 countries who created the paintings in 1990 repainted their pictures in the world’s longest open-air art gallery after the concrete surface of the Wall was replaced.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether. Prominent conservative lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Iran won’t ship its low enriched uranium abroad in a single batch or in several shipments, a compromise suggested by some government officials, under any circumstances. The UN-brokered plan required Iran to send 1.2 tons of low-enriched uranium — around 70 percent of its

stockpile — to Russia in one batch by the end of the year, easing concerns the material would be used for a bomb. After further enrichment in Russia, France would convert the uranium into fuel rods that would be returned to Iran for use in a reactor in Tehran that produces medical isotopes. Fuel rods cannot be further enriched into weapons-grade material. Earlier, Iran had indicated that it may agree to send only “part” of its stockpile in several shipments. Should the talks fail to help Iran obtain the fuel from abroad, Iran has threatened to enrich uranium to the higher level needed to power the research

Giant dominoes tribute to Berlin Wall’s fall By DAVID RISING Associated Press Writer

BERLIN — Massive colorful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades. Many of the upright 7.5-foot-high plastic foam dominoes carried messages, including “We are one people.” The approximately 1,000 dominoes stretching for one mile will be toppled Monday as part of wider celebrations of the wall’s fall. One labeled “bleeding heart” showed a sword cutting through the city of Berlin, starting a crimson flow of blood speckled with crosses. Former Polish leader Lech Walesa, whose pro-democracy movement Solidarity played a key role in ending communism in Eastern Europe, is to tip the first domino Monday as the artistic dis-

play comes toppling down. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Dimitry Medvedev also are expected to be on hand Monday for the formal commemorations of the wall’s opening on Nov. 9, 1989. “The fall of the wall was a very big event, and I think most Berlin residents are thankful to those who made it happen,” said Berlin resident Guenter Nowak standing beside one stretch of dominoes.

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DURHAM — All season, Fayetteville State head coach Kenny Phillips has asked his football team to do one thing. Be in a position to win games in the fourth quarter. In its 21-10 over Bowie State (6-5) in the CIAA Championship game, FSU (8-3) did just that. Junior running back Richard Medlin capped a 12-play, 88-yard drive with a 3-yard touchdown run to give the Broncos their first lead at 14-10 with 2:29 remaining in the game. The touchdown was set up following an interception by senior Joseph Brown. “Our thing is to make sure in the fourth quarter

we have an opportunity to win the football game,” said Phillips. “These kids did a great job today to make sure we stayed within fighting distance of this football team especially in the second half.” Defensive lineman Jamal Dixon returned an interception 22 yards for a touchdown to seal the Broncos victory. All 21 of FSU’s points came after halftime. The first six were on a 13-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Benjamin Williams to Jamere Pugh with 11:38 to play in the third, which helped reduce the deficit to 10-7. Fayetteville State scored two touchdowns in the final period. The Broncos have outscored their opponents

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Southern Vance is heading east to Vanceboro for the NCHSAA playoffs Friday. Jamere Pugh The Raiders (5-6) 96-36 in the fourth quarter earned the No. 13 seed in the 3A bracket and will this season. FSU quarterback Benja- face No. 4 seed West Craven (9-2) out of the Coastal min Williams was named the game’s Offensive MVP Conference. West Craven’s only after leading the Broncos two losses came to New to its two fourth quarter Bern and conference foe touchdown drives. “I’m ecstatic,” Williams Havelock. The Eagles are coming off a 42-40 defeat said. “To win the game, to Havelock, which was the offense knew that we would have to make plays. ranked No. 8 in the latest I’m just ecstatic right Associated Press 3A Poll. now.” Southern coach Mark Please see FSU, page 2B Perry doesn’t know a lot about his opponent yet,

but plans on exchanging video with the West Craven coach today. “They run a very similar offense to Perry us. They’re a little older than us,” said Perry. The Raiders gained an at-large bid to the playoffs after finishing fourth in Carolina 3A play behind Cardinal Gibbons, Orange and Chapel Hill. Perry said his younger players have matured since the beginning of the season and he expects the team to be ready for a return to postseason play after missing out last season. “At the beginning of the year when we were talking about our team goals, the number one goal was to get back in the playoffs,” he said.

On Monday, Perry will be notified of any repercussions following the brawl between his team and Northern Vance players in Southern’s 39-16 victory over the Vikings Friday. The winner of the matchup with West Craven will advance to play either No. 5 Eastern Alamance (10-1) or No. 12 McMichael (5-6). “Right now, we’re fighting single elimination,” said Perry. “Every week you win is another week you get to play.” J.F. Webb, which finished the season 4-7, did not sneak into the playoff bracket. Among other local schools, Northern Vance and Warren County were out of playoff contention before the final week. Contact the writer at kholtzman@hendersondispatch.com.

You never know until the weigh-in My son Jimmie and I spent last weekend fishing on Belews Creek Lake near Winston Salem. There was a small tournament there on Sunday called the Old Salt Bassmaster team trail and we spent Saturday practicing. Jimmie and I hadn’t fished a tournament together in over a year. Saturday wasn’t too awful weather-wise, but Sunday was what most people would call miserable. We spent Saturday checking spots Walt where Bowen we had Dispatch caught Fishing Columnist fish this time of the year in past seasons, and we were catching them pretty well. One spot was loaded with 2- to 3-pound bass and we set that as our starting spot for the tournament on Sunday morning. Saturday night was my grandson John’s first Halloween, and we had a ball dressing him up in a monkey suit with a banana on top of his head. He wasn’t really sure what was going on but he had fun greeting all the neighborhood trick or treaters. Luckily we had all the candy Susan and I had gotten at the free giveaway at the race in Charlotte a few weeks back. Sunday morning with the time change we had to get up an hour earlier by the clock, even though we got an extra hour of sleep, to make the ramp in time for the tournament. When we got there we saw that there was some stiff competition. Regional angler and former FLW Tour pro Joel Richardson was there with his partner along with a number of other seasoned local anglers. We knew we had our work cut

out for us as we headed for our honey hole from Saturday. Belews Creek Lake is a Duke Power coal plant lake, which means that the hot water often causes a heavy fog on cold fall and winter mornings. As we rounded the corner into the main lake we drove straight into a fog bank, which was kind of scary when you consider that there were a few other boats coming up behind us heading the same way. It was hard to decide whether to slow down for the fog or keep going to prevent being run over from behind. I decided to keep the gas to it and drive on, as I could see well enough to avoid any other nut that might have decided to drive across the lake in the cold rain. Our first stop had fish, but they were smaller. We landed one keeper there and another a little later on from the rocks around a bridge, and then the fish quit biting just like someone had turned off a switch. As we headed into the weigh in at 3 p.m. with just two fish I was pretty sure we wouldn’t cash a check, and I even thought about throwing them back without weighing them, but you never know. After weighing our fish for a little less than 4 pounds, we then considered leaving for the house and some warm dry clothes. Luckily we hung around, and as it turned out it was a tough day for everybody else as well. We squeezed into third place and won $80. You never know how it will turn out until everyone weighs in. Next week’s article – Fishing in an ABA tournament on Kerr Lake on Saturday and possibly one more on Sunday. Tip of the week – Always weigh your fish. Contact the writer at waltbowen@yahoo.com.

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Duke quarterback Thaddeus Lewis is sacked by North Carolina’s Robert Quinn (42) and Zach Brown (47) during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Chapel Hill Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. North Carolina won 19-6.

’Heels stomp Duke, 19-6 Carolina defense holds Thaddeus Lewis, Devils in check By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer

CHAPEL HILL — Facing a prolific passing attack and playing without its top rusher, North Carolina found a way to inch closer to bowl eligibility. Ryan Houston ran for a career-high 164 yards while Jheranie Boyd scored the clinching touchdown midway through the fourth quarter to help the Tar Heels beat Duke 19-6 on Saturday, extending their recent dominance of their next-door rivals. Charles Brown also had a key interception late in the third quarter as part of a dominating defensive performance for the Tar Heels (6-3, 2-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), who pressured Thad Lewis the entire game to derail the passing offense that led the Blue Devils (5-4, 3-2) to three straight victories. North Carolina lost starting tailback Shaun Draughn to a shoulder injury on the game’s first offensive play and got relatively little from its offense outside of Hous-

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North Carolina’s Jheranie Boyd scores a touchdown as Duke’s Leon Wright (7) and Matt Daniels (40) try to defend during the second half in Chapel Hill Saturday. ton. Still, the Tar Heels are one win from bowl eligibility for the second straight season. “The one thing this team did do tonight was they fought,” coach Butch Davis said. “They competed and they played as hard as they possibly could.” It was the first meeting in 15 years in which both teams had winning records, while it was one of the rare times in the rivalry that

they weren’t meeting to close the regular season. But it ended much like the rest, with North Carolina winning for the 19th time in 20 meetings. Houston finished with a career-high 37 carries, including 10 on the clockdraining drive that ended with Boyd’s touchdown for a 16-6 lead with 6:57 left. He also had the lead block on Matt Daniels that allowed Boyd to get to the right

pylon on that 3-yard endaround. “He’s just a workhorse and he just went out there and ran his heart out,” senior left tackle Kyle Jolly said. “If I was Ryan, I probably would’ve fell asleep on the field after the game. I wouldn’t have been able to walk into the locker room.” It was the most rushing yards by a Tar Heel player in five years, an impressive performance for a guy who typically served as the shortyardage and goal-line back and had never had more than 18 carries or 74 yards rushing in a game. Then again, the Tar Heels didn’t have much choice after Draughn injured his left shoulder on a 9-yard gain and didn’t return. By the end of the game, however, the 245-pound back was dragging tacklers an extra yard or two on every carry. “I was running through arm tackles and I feel like they weren’t trying to press to me like they were in the first quarter,” Houston said. Please see ’HEELS, page 2B

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Two-minute drill Tennis Federer vs. Djokovic for Swiss Indoors title BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Roger Federer will play Novak Djokovic in the Swiss Indoors final in a bid for a fourth straight title in his hometown tournament. Federer defeated childhood friend Marco Chiudinelli 7-6 (7), 6-3 in one semifinal. Earlier, Djokovic saved three match points in rallying to beat Radek Stepanek 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-2. On Sunday, Djokovic will face Federer in the arena where the Swiss great was once a ballboy. “Obviously, the home crowd will be behind him,” Djokovic said. They’ve split four matches this year, with Federer winning their last meeting in straight sets in the U.S. Open semifinals. “I’m ready for a tough match. Novak’s played solid tennis during the week,” said Federer, who has a 9-4 career record against Djokovic.

College Hoops UVA center suspended for three games CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Sophomore center Assane Sene has been suspended for Virginia’s first three games for conduct detrimental to the team. The school did not say Saturday what Sene did to merit the suspension. Sene will miss the Cavaliers’ season-opener again Longwood on Nov. 13, and games at South Florida and with Rider. He also will not play in a closed scrimmage with St. John’s on Sunday. The 7-foot Senegal native started 16 of the 22 games he played in last season. He averaged 2.5 points and 4.6 rebounds, and led the team with 35 blocked shots. Coach Tony Bennett says he hopes Sene learns from the suspension.

NBA Iverson leaves Grizzlies with permission LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disgruntled Memphis guard Allen Iverson returned to his home in Atlanta after receiving permission to leave the team to attend to personal business. Team owner Michael Heisley gave the four-time NBA scoring leader permission to skip the Grizzlies’ game Saturday night against the Los Angeles Clippers following a 114-98 loss to the Lakers the night before. According to a team spokesman, Iverson participated in a walkthrough at the team’s hotel in the morning and then hopped a flight in the afternoon after he and personal manager Gary Moore met with Heisley. Iverson has played in three games since returning from a hamstring injury, averaging 12.3 points, 3.7 assists and 22.3 minutes. Coach Lionel Hollins spoke to him briefly before he left, but would not elaborate on the conversation.

College Football U.S. Open champ leads Tigers onto field CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson’s football team had major champion Lucas Glover join its traditional run down the hill in Death Valley. U.S. Open champion and Clemson graduate Glover was honored before the Tigers’ game with Florida State on Saturday night. He dotted the “i” when the Clemson band spelled “Tigers,” then stood next to coach Dabo Swinney to start the football’s longtime entrance. Glover made it down without problems, slapping Swinney’s hand as he ran past the coach. Glover is from nearby Greenville.

Sports on TV Sunday, Nov. 8 AUTO RACING 3:15 p.m. n ABC — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Dickies 500, at Fort Worth, Texas COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8:30 p.m. n ESPN — Nevada at San Jose St. MOTORSPORTS 5 p.m. n SPEED — MotoGP 250, Valencia Grand Prix, at Valencia, Spain (same-day tape) 6 p.m. n SPEED — MotoGP World Championship, Valencia Grand Prix, at Valencia, Spain (same-day tape) NFL FOOTBALL 1 p.m. n CBS — Regional coverage, doubleheader n FOX — Regional coverage 4 p.m. n FOX — Regional coverage 4:15 p.m. n CBS — Regional coverage,

doubleheader game 8:15 p.m. n NBC — Dallas at Philadelphia RODEO 9 p.m. n VERSUS — PBR, World Finals, final round, at Las Vegas (sameday tape) SOCCER 2 p.m. n FSN — Women’s, NCAA Division I, Big 12 Conference, championship match, teams TBA Monday, Nov. 9 NFL FOOTBALL 8:30 p.m. n ESPN — Pittsburgh at Denver NHL HOCKEY 8 p.m. n VERSUS — Los Angeles at Chicago SOCCER 2:55 p.m. n ESPN2 — Premier League, Liverpool vs. Birmingham City, at Liverpool, England

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Columbus keeps ’Canes reeling By RUSTY MILLER AP Sports Writer

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Rick Nash scored the Columbus Blue Jackets’ third goal in a 2:41 span of the third period to beat Carolina 3-2 Saturday night, the Hurricanes’ franchiserecord 12th consecutive game without a win. Nikita Filatov and Jared Boll also scored goals for the Blue Jackets, who have picked up points in their last five games. Goalie Steve Mason, who had 24 saves, assisted on Boll’s go-ahead goal. Erik Cole and Tim Gleason had goals for Carolina, which lost goalie Cam Ward who was cut by a skate during the first period and taken by ambulance to a hospital for further evaluation. The Hurricanes, who lost their sixth in a row overall, have not won since a 7-2 victory over Florida on Oct. 9. Since then, they have gone 0-9-3, eclipsing an 11-game winless streak in 2003. They are also winless in their last nine road games (0-7-2) and remain the only NHL team without a victory away from home. Carolina led 1-0 going into the third period — only the second time all season they’ve led with one period left. Columbus was 0-4 when trailing through two periods.

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Columbus Blue Jackets’ Fedor Tyutin, right, checks Carolina Hurricanes’ Joe Corvo during the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday in Columbus, Ohio. The Blue Jackets made short work of the deficit. Fifty seconds in, Carolina’s Brandon Sutter fanned on a clearing attempt and Derek Dorsett’s blind, no-look centering feed found Filatov who was crashing the net. Just over 2 minutes later, Boll was skating along the short boards

in front of the Carolina bench when Joe Corvo lost his stick while trying to poke the puck away. Boll sped past Corvo and was all alone with Ward’s replacement, Michael Leighton, beating him inside the near post for his first of the year. Hurricanes coach Paul Maurice called a timeout

to settle his team, which was coming off a 3-2 loss at home to Toronto on Friday night. Another 36 seconds later, Nash intercepted Tim Gleason’s pass for Zach Boychuk deep in the defensive zone. Nash coasted in and slipped the puck into the net for his 11th. The Hurricanes pulled to 3-2 on Gleason’s onetimer from just inside the blue line with 8 minutes remaining. Mason did the rest, not allowing a goal on Carolina’s five power plays — including almost 2 full minutes of 5 on 3. Ward left at the 7:35 mark of the first period after he was apparently nicked by a skate. Nash swooped in from the right across the crease while being shadowed by a defenseman, although there appeared to be very little contact with Ward. Still, Ward went down on all fours for a minute before he was slowly helped off the ice by two trainers, blood drops trailing him to the dressing room. A team spokesman said Ward had been cut on the leg by a skate. Soon after Ward’s injury, the Hurricanes got on the board. Matt Cullen slid a long cross-ice pass to Cole for a one-timer from a hard angle at the bottom of the right circle.

FAMU defeats North Carolina A&T, 31-27 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — LeRoy Vann’s punt return for a score tied two NCAA records to lead Florida A&M to a 31-27 win over North Carolina A&T on Saturday. Vann’s 51-yard touchdown on a punt return in the third quarter was the senior’s fifth of the season and his eighth career punt return for a score. He tied both the NCAA single-season and

career records, along with setting the Football Championship Subdivision record for career returns. Vann now shares the Football Bowl Subdivision and FCS records for single-season punt return touchdowns with Hawaii’s Chad Owens (2004) and North Carolina A&T’s Curtis DeLoatch (2001). He holds the FBS career record along with Texas

Tech’s Wes Welker (200003) and Oklahoma’s Antonio Perkins (2001-04). Vann also broke the all time FCS career record, formerly held by Northern Iowa’s Kenny Shedd (1989-92) with seven. The record-setting return gave Florida A&M (7-2, 5-1 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) a 31-21 lead that they wouldn’t relinquish in the final frame. Vann finished with 81

punt return yards and 51 yards on kickoff returns. Rattlers quarterback Curtis Pulley threw a 16-yard touchdown pass and scored on a 22-yard run before leaving the game in the third quarter with a groin injury. Pulley finished 9-for-17 with 145 yards and added 79 yards rushing on seven carries. The Rattlers’ Isaac West caught six passes for 111 yards.

point it was just a matter of still keeping my head in the game and still being a good teammate.” The Broncos, who entered the game ranked No. 10 in the NCAA regional rankings, will find out if they will be in the NCAA Division II Playoffs on Sunday. For now though, Phillips said he was happy for his team. “This is a joyful moment for these student-athletes,” he said. “We don’t know what’s going to happen to day tomorrow. But, if this is their last football game, they go out as 2009 CIAA Champions.” Said Gurley: “It’s a great feeling. Words can’t

describe how I feel right now.” Phillips said his team’s play this season merits a chance to play for a NCAA Division II Championship. “I’d urge the committee to go back and look at the type of football we played this year,” he said. Somebody has to come to their senses about who they pick to play in the playoffs. The CIAA plays just as good football as anyone else in the country. We just need an opportunity to show that we are capable of winning football games against anyone.” Both Darius Powell and Marcos Esquivel had 10 tackles to lead the FSU defense.

North Carolina defensive end Robert Quinn led the effort on Lewis, finishing with seven tackles, three sacks, a forced fumble and six quarterback pressures.

“Those guys up front did a great job for them,” Lewis said. “They came in with a tenacious attitude and played their best game since I’ve been watching film on them.”

FSU, from page one Williams, who replaced Tyler Hosler in the third quarter, had 97 yards of offense and one touchdown through the air. More important to Phillips, however, was Williams’ calming effect on the team. “He did an outstanding job in getting our football team in winning position,” Phillips said. “He hasn’t had an opportunity to play since the fourth game of the season. When your opportunity comes you have to be in position to make plays and he did.” FSU’s first half was one it would like to forget. The Broncos missed two field goals, allowed a BSU touchdown on the game’s opening series and commit-

ted two turnovers. “I was kind of sad in a way, kind of disappointed,” tight end Tyshon Gurley said of his mood at halftime. “At the end of the day, I saw in the guys eyes that we were going to come out at fight. There was no doubt. I trusted in my teammates, I knew we were going to pull it through.” Since starting the season 0-2, FSU has won eight of nine and six straight. Williams said the win especially gratifying considering his personal circumstances. “This whole season was a test of character,” he said. “I had some rough times at the beginning of the season after I got benched. At that

’HEELS, from page one “I felt like they were worn down, and I knew if I picked up and ran harder, it would be more difficult for them to tackle me.” Boyd’s touchdown provided more than enough cushion for North Carolina’s defense. Duke finished with 125 total yards and had to fight for every one of them, while Lewis was under constant pressure and didn’t have time to wait for his receivers to get open. North Carolina went ahead 9-6 on the third of Casey Barth’s career-high four field goals on the final play of the third quarter, and Duke didn’t manage a yard of offense in the final period. “We really were fortunate to have a chance there in the fourth quarter to win the game,” Duke

coach David Cutcliffe said, “because the bottom line is we got whipped.” Lewis had thrown for at least 300 yards in four straight games, but finished 16-for-33 for 113 yards. His biggest mistake came when he tried to force the ball to Conner Vernon late in the third quarter, and Brown jumped in front of the pass and returned it 54 yards to set up Barth’s go-ahead kick. That turnovers proved critical considering Duke’s Leon Wright intercepted a pass from T.J. Yates and returned it 30 yards only minutes earlier. “I was hoping that Leon was going to score with it,” Cutcliffe said. “I was trying to block for him all I could mentally because we were struggling so much offensively.”

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Ga. Tech survives Wake in OT By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer

ATLANTA — Josh Nesbitt had already fumbled on one fourth-down play, gotten tripped up on another. He’d also been stuffed trying to run for a first down, and had yet another all-or-nothing play ruined by a dropped pass. Yet there he was in overtime, standing on the sideline with coach Paul Johnson, insisting he could get the 18 inches or so Georgia Tech needed to keep alive its Atlantic Coast Conference title hopes. “Are you sure?” Johnson asked his quarterback. “Yeah,” Nesbitt replied. “No doubt.” He was true to his word. No. 10 Georgia Tech pulled off a gutsy play on fourth down after failing four times during regulation, and Nesbitt ended it with a 3-yard touchdown run that pushed the Yellow Jackets to the cusp of the ACC championship game with a 30-27 victory over Wake Forest on Saturday. Georgia Tech (9-1, 6-1) can wrap up the Coastal Division title by winning at Duke next weekend. “The biggest game ever,” Nesbitt said. Jonathan Dwyer rushed for a career-best 189 yards and went over 1,000 yards for the season, but it was Nesbitt and the guys on the defensive side who bailed out the Yellow Jackets at the end. After stifling Wake Forest (4-6, 2-4) on the first possession of OT, forcing a field goal, Georgia Tech drove to the 5 where it faced fourthand-less-than-a-yard. The Yellow Jackets initially tried to draw Wake offsides, but was forced to burn a timeout when that didn’t work.

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Georgia Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt reacts after scoring the game-winning touchdown in overtime of an NCAA college football, game against Wake Forest in Atlanta Saturday. Georgia Tech won 30-27 in overtime. Instead of sending on Scott Blair for a chip-shot field goal to extend the game, Johnson decided to go for the win right there. Even though his team was 0-for-4 on fourth down, the Yellow Jackets offense trotted back on the field. If Johnson has any thoughts of kicking a field goal, Nesbitt persuaded him for one more chance. “I could see the defense they were in,” the quarterback said. “I just knew in my heart I could get it.” Nesbitt lowered his head and powered up the middle for a 2-yard gain. He scored on the very next play, bounc-

ing off right tackle to go in standing before he flipped the ball high in the air and raised both arms in triumph. The entire team poured onto the field to celebrate underneath the goal posts. “I felt like there was a monkey off my back,” Nesbitt said. “Nothing was going right for me the whole game. To get that run and score to end the game just felt great.” Georgia Tech hasn’t won an outright conference championship since 1990, the year they shared the national championship with Colorado. “I play to win,” Johnson said. “The kids work hard and put in a lot of time and

effort. If we can’t make an inch there, we don’t deserve to win the game.” It was another excruciating loss for the Demon Deacons, who must win their final two games to become eligible for its fourth straight bowl trip. Five of their defeats have come by a total of 13 points, two of them going to overtime. “It’s frustrating,” said Riley Skinner, who passed for two touchdowns after sustaining a concussion in last week’s one-point loss to Miami. “We are right there in every game. We’re just not finishing it.” Georgia Tech jumped to a 10-0 lead less than 10 minutes into the game, but Wake Forest dominated the second quarter and led 17-10 at halftime. The Yellow Jackets kept making dumb penalties, contributing to all three Wake Forest touchdowns. The offense also had its share of mistakes, getting called three times for chop blocks as the officials seemed to pay close attention to the interior line after opponents complained of dirty blocking tactics. Dwyer broke off a 59-yard TD run on Georgia Tech’s first offensive snap of the second half, tying the game at 17, and the defense took over from there. Wake Forest managed only one first down on its four possessions after the break, and Georgia Tech went ahead 24-17 when Nesbitt scored on a 12-yard run with 8:19 left in regulation. But Skinner, who had only been cleared to play on Friday after he showed no lingering effects from the concussion, finally cranked up the Demon Deacons’ offense. Wake Forest drove 74 yards in seven plays, capped off by Skinner’s 11-yard touchdown pass to Devon Brown with 4:27 remaining.

Clemson outlasts FSU By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer

CLEMSON, S.C. — C.J. Spiller had a careerhigh 165 yards rushing and his 20th touchdown of at least 50 yards and Clemson took its biggest step yet toward an Atlantic Coast Conference title with a 40-24 victory over Florida State on Saturday night. Spiller, the Tigers’ star senior, caught a 58-yard TD pass from Kyle Parker and, with 312 all-purpose

yards, surpassed the school record of 310 he set in Clemson’s 40-37 overtime win at Miami two weeks ago. He also closed Clemson’s fifth victory over the Seminoles in the past seven meetings with a high-stepping, 5-yard scoring run as the orange-clad fans shook Death Valley. Spiller and the Tigers (6-3, 4-2) are now in control of the ACC’s Atlantic AP photo/MARY ANN CHASTAIN Division with games Clemson’s C.J.Spiller runs for a first down as Florida State’s against North Carolina Nigel Bradham defends at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, S.C. State and Virginia left.

Wilson leads State past Terps, 38-31 By JOEDY McCREARY AP Sports Writer

RALEIGH — North Carolina State’s players got back to the locker room just in time to watch the tape-delayed broadcast of the game-clinching defensive series on television. After the month the Wolfpack had, it was a moment worth watching again. Russell Wilson threw three touchdowns and ran for another, and N.C. State snapped its four-game losing streak by holding off Maryland 38-31 on Saturday in a matchup of the ACC Atlantic Division’s worst teams. In a wild game that featured a combined 752 total yards and five turnovers, Wilson was 25 for 38 for 343 yards and the Wolfpack (4-5, 1-4) — who went 0-for-October — came up with just enough plays to secure their second win against a Bowl Subdivision opponent. “They go in the locker room, it’s like they don’t know how to win anymore, it’s been so long,” coach Tom O’Brien said. Wilson overcame a careerworst three interceptions with touchdown tosses of 17 yards to George Bryan, 35 yards to Donald Bowens and 18 yard to Darrell Davis. Wilson and Jamelle Eugene each had 2-yard scoring runs. Torrey Smith returned a kickoff 82 yards for a touchdown, the school-record third of his career. Alex Wujciak returned an interception 70 yards for a score, while Davin Meggett and Chris Turner had 1-yard TD runs for Maryland (2-7, 1-4). Nick Ferrara’s 31-yard field goal pulled the Terps within seven with 4:56 remaining, then got the ball back with 59 seconds left. Backup Jamarr Robinson, filling in for the injured Turner, led them to the 34 with 22 seconds left but Michael Lemon sacked him with about 15 seconds left and then drilled him as he threw incomplete on the final snap. “Things kind of opened up for me,” Lemon said. Turner was 12 of 19 passing for 135 yards, but left late in the first half with what coach Ralph Friedgen said was an injured medial collateral ligament in his left knee. Friedgen said the severity of the injury hasn’t yet been determined.

Turner didn’t return, and for a while, the offense seemed to go with him. Robinson finished 5 of 11 for 27 yards. The Terps, who without injured running back Da’Rel Scott have dropped near the bottom of the ACC in rushing offense, had nine total yards in the third quarter. This one shaped up as a shootout because in recent weeks, neither team seemed to show much interest in taking care of the ball or playing defense. The Terrapins entered ranked 11th in the ACC in both total defense and against the pass. The injury-riddled Wolfpack allowed their previous three opponents to gain at least 480 total yards and score at least 45 points. N.C. State — which has lost 12 injured players for the season — was 11th in the league in turnover margin, ahead of only Maryland, which now has lost four straight and seven of eight. “The difference in the game was, we get some turnovers and don’t come out with points,” Friedgen said. “We had tremendous field position and didn’t score points. If you do that enough, it’ll come back and bite you.” And that’s exactly how it unfolded, with defensive end Willie Young intercepting Turner on the game’s first play and Wilson hitting Bryan over the middle for a score 52 seconds into the game. Maryland countered with a 10-play drive that ended 3 1/2 minutes later with Meggett’s 1-yard plunge. It was a day of extremes for Wilson, who has thrown 10 touchdowns in three games. The all-ACC quarterback threaded one early ball past defensive back Anthony Wiseman to Bowens down the right sideline for his second score. One possession later, Wujciak jumped in front of his fourth-and-6 attempt and raced down the right sideline for a TD. Then, after leading the Wolfpack deep into Terp territory late in the half, he was picked off in the end zone with 38 seconds left. State had 301 total yards at halftime and led 24-21 at the break. “Throwing those interceptions, that was a little tough,” Wilson said. “You’ve just got to keep throwing the ball, keep moving on.”

Miami rolls over sinking UVA By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer

MIAMI — A defense that couldn’t stop anything a week ago was suddenly airtight. An oft-injured running back had the best game of his career. And a punt returner somehow evaded seven would-be tacklers on his way to a touchdown. For No. 16 Miami, everything worked. Graig Cooper rushed for a career-best 152 yards and a touchdown, Thearon Collier cut across the field for a remarkable 60-yard punt return touchdown and Miami eased past struggling Virginia 52-17 Saturday — finally avenging a loss that hovered over the Hurricanes for two years. “I’m not going to lie to you: It feels good to hang 52 on them,” said center A.J. Trump, who was a backup on Virginia’s last trip to South Florida, a 48-0 Cavaliers victory two years ago in Miami’s final game at the Orange Bowl. Jacory Harris finished 18 of 31 for 232 yards with two TDs for the Hurricanes (7-2, 4-2). The 35-point margin of victory was Miami’s biggest in an ACC game since beating Duke 52-7 in 2005. “We remember what they

did to us at the Orange Bowl last time,” Cooper said. “It was important to get this. It was personal.” Miami needed the win to remain alive in the ACC Coastal race. The Hurricanes are 1 1/2 games behind Georgia Tech, an overtime winner later Saturday over Wake Forest. If Georgia Tech beats Duke next week, Miami will be eliminated from the ACC chase. Rashawn Jackson had a 34-yard rushing touchdown for Virginia (3-6, 2-3), which has lost 10 of 13 starting with an overtime defeat to Miami last season, a slide that’s placed coach Al Groh’s future at his alma mater in doubt. The Cavaliers were outgained 515-149 and played without starting quarterback Jameel Sewell, who warmed up but was eventually ruled out with a shoulder injury. “Miami’s got a lot of playmakers in all phases of the game,” Groh said. “And we had a lot of difficulty controlling and matching those playmakers.” It was a frustrating day all around for Virginia, best summed up by a scuffle late in the third quarter. Virginia’s Cam Johnson ripped Harris’ helmet off while going for a sack, and

both players were flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. After video review, Johnson was also hit with a facemask penalty, which helped set up Miami’s fifth touchdown and put the game out of reach. “If they called it, I guess it was there,” Johnson said. Groh got an explanation from the officials and chose postgame words carefully, mindful of the $30,000 fine Florida’s Urban Meyer got in recent days for criticizing Southeastern Conference officials. “Urban makes a lot more money than I do,” Groh said. Cooper, who also had a career-long 70-yard carry, now has 2,001 yards in his Miami tenure. Virginia blocked two punts early — the Cavaliers hadn’t done that since 1996 — to keep things close for a bit. Marc Verica was harassed all day, finishing 11 of 29 passing for 75 yards with an interception, and Miami scored the game’s final 28 points. Miami’s defense, which allowed 555 yards last week against Wake Forest, barely even resembled that unit. The 149 yards allowed were the third-fewest yielded by the Hurricanes in 46 ACC games.

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Northwestern ends Iowa’s win streak IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — No. 8 Iowa finally ran out of magic. Northwestern’s Dan Persa threw a touchdown pass and Marshall Thomas recovered a fumble for another score to help the Wildcats snap the Hawkeyes’ 13game winning streak with a 17-10 victory Saturday. It was the first win over a top-10 opponent for the Wildcats (6-4, 3-3 Big Ten) since knocking off then-No. 6 Ohio State 33-27 in overtime in 2004. It also ended the nation’s second-longest winning streak. Iowa played without starting quarterback Ricky Stanzi after he sustained an apparent ankle injury early in the second quarter. Freshman James Vandenberg was just 9 of 27 for 82 yards and couldn’t lead the Hawkeyes (9-1, 5-1 Big Ten) to any points after Stanzi left the game. Northwestern scored twice off turnovers in the second quarter.

No. 1 Florida 27, Vanderbilt 3 GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — No. 1 Florida didn’t do much to erase all the negative vibes from rough week for the defending champions. Tim Tebow accounted for two touchdowns, Caleb Sturgis kicked two field goals and the Gators beat Vanderbilt 27-3 in a lackluster effort Saturday night at The Swamp. The Gators (9-0, 7-0 Southeastern Conference) extended their winning streak to 19 games overall — and their streak against Vandy (2-8, 0-6) to 19 games, too — but struggled on offense for the fifth time in seven league games.

No. 2 Texas 35, Central Florida 3 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Jordan Shipley set a Texas record with 273 yards receiving, including an 88-yard touchdown, and the No. 2 Longhorns shook off a slow start for a 35-3 win over Central Florida on Saturday. The sixth-year senior broke the previous best of 242 yards set in 1987 by Tony Jones. The touchdown came early in the fourth quarter on a drive that started at the 1. Colt McCoy passed for 470 yards with two touchdowns.

No. 3 Alabama 24, No. 9 LSU 15 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — No. 3 Alabama picked up another dramatic win and a second straight trip to the SEC championship game. Julio Jones caught a 73yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter and Leigh Tiffin booted a 40-yard field goal with 3:04 left to seal it. The Tide (9-0, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) earned a rematch with No. 1 Florida for the league championship in a physical game that left the Tigers (7-2, 4-2) without quarterback Jordan Jefferson and running back Charles Scott for most of the second half.

No. 6 TCU 55, San Diego State 12 SAN DIEGO (AP) — Andy Dalton threw two touchdown passes and ran for two more as No. 6 TCU won its 11th straight with a 55-12 win over San Diego State on Saturday. TCU (9-0, 5-0 Mountain West) remained in the chase for a BCS bowl berth by staying undefeated. The Horned Frogs jumped in front with touchdowns on five of their first six possessions. Dalton

opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown to set the tone for No. 21 Arizona. The Wildcats scored the first seven times they had the ball. Arizona led 34-0 at the half, then William “Bug” Wright returned a punt 86 yards for a score the first time the Wildcats touched it in the third quarter. Arizona (6-2, 4-1 Pac10), the only Pac-10 team never to go to the Rose Bowl, pulled within a half-game of first-place Oregon after the Ducks lost at Stanford. Arizona and Oregon both have one conference loss. Everyone else has at least two. Washington State (1-8, 0-6) lost its starting quarterback, freshman Jeff Tuel, when he sprained his right knee in the second quarter.

Oregon State 31, No. 23 California 14 AP photo/CHARLIE NEIBERGALL

Iowa fan Arlene Freudenberg, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, reacts after Iowa’s 17-10 loss to Northwestern Saturday in Iowa City. scored on runs of 13 and 7 yards as TCU held a 31-6 halftime lead. He also hit Ryan Christian on TD passes of 44 and 29 yards.

Stanford 51, No. 7 Oregon 42 STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Toby Gerhart bowled over the Oregon defense to make the Cardinal bowl eligible for the first time in eight years. Gerhart ran for a school-record 223 yards and three scores, Andrew Luck threw for two touchdowns and Stanford held on for sixth win of the season. The loss by Oregon (7-2, 5-1 Pac-10) just a week after beating Southern California 47-20 opened up the conference race and cost the Ducks a shot at a berth in the Bowl Championship Series title game.

No. 14 Pittsburgh 37, Syracuse 10 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Greg Williams’ 51-yard interception return for a touchdown late in the first half got slow-starting Pittsburgh going, and the No. 14 Panthers extended their best start to a season since 1982. Dion Lewis ran for 110 yards and a touchdown for the freshman’s sixth 100yard game, tight end Dorin Dickerson caught his 10th touchdown pass this season and the Panthers (8-1, 5-0 in Big East) won their fifth in a row heading into next Saturday’s game against No. 19 Notre Dame. Bill Stull was 16 of 23 for 225 yards and no interceptions as the Panthers, who last were 8-1 during Dan Marino’s senior season 27 years ago, set themselves up for a possible Big East title-deciding game against No. 4 Cincinnati on Dec. 5.

No. 15 Ohio State 24, No. 11 Penn State 7 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — The Ohio State Buckeyes are back in control of the Big Ten title race. Terrelle Pryor threw for two touchdowns and ran for another in his return to his home state, Ray Small burned No. 11 Penn State (8-2, 4-2) with two long punt returns and No. 15 Ohio State won a duel of the league’s top two defenses in a 24-7 victory Saturday. The Buckeyes (8-2, 5-1 Big Ten) got an added bonus, too: a tie for the conference lead with Iowa after Northwestern handed the Hawkeyes its first loss of the season earlier Saturday.

No. 17 Utah 45, New Mexico 14 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jordan Wynn passed for 297 yards and two touchdowns in his first college start and Eddie Wide set a school record with his sixth straight 100-yard rushing game. The Utes (8-1, 5-0) won their sixth straight and scored their most points since a 48-24 win over BYU last year to end the regular season. Utah also remained unbeaten in the Mountain West Conference, setting up a first-place showdown next week at No. 6 TCU. New Mexico (0-9, 0-5) lost its 13th straight, the second-longest streak in school history.

No. 18 Okla. State 34, Iowa State 8 AMES, Iowa (AP) — Keith Toston ran for a career-high 206 yards and three touchdowns, Zac Robinson threw a touchdown pass and the Cowboys bounced back from their drubbing by Texas. Oklahoma State (7-2, 4-1 Big 12) controlled the game with a solid performance on both sides of the ball and reached seven victories for the fourth straight season, the first time in school history that has happened. After throwing four interceptions in the 41-14 loss to Texas, Robinson was on the mark in this one and replaced his coach, Mike Gundy, as Oklahoma State’s career passing leader. Iowa State (5-5, 2-4) was outgained 334-145 through three quarters and didn’t score until 11:50 remained in the game.

Navy 23, No. 19 Notre Dame 21 SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Navy did it to Notre Dame again — and this loss to the Midshipmen is even more costly. Craig Schaefer sacked Jimmy Clausen in the end zone with 60 seconds left Saturday and Navy held on for a 23-21 victory, its second straight at Notre Dame Stadium. No. 19 Notre Dame (6-3) scored with 24 seconds left on a 31-yard pass from Jimmy Clausen to Golden Tate to cut the lead to two, but the ensuing onside kick went out of bounds. The win sends Navy into the Texas Bowl and effectively ends any hope Notre Dame (6-3) had for a Bowl Championship Series berth.

No. 21 Arizona 48, Washington State 7 TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Travis Cobb returned the

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Sean Canfield threw for 342 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a score, while No. 23 California lost star tailback Jahvid Best to a concussion after he took a scary fall. Cal (6-3, 3-3 Pac-10) couldn’t recover from seeing Best land on his head in the end zone after a leaping touchdown over a defender in the second quarter. The Golden Bears, who had won three straight to get back in the Top 25 for the first time following a four-week absence, lost their fifth straight at home to the Beavers — and this one made Oregon State (6-3, 4-2) bowl eligible. Canfield completed 29 of 39 passes with nine to Jacquizz Rodgers and six each to James Rodgers and Joe Halahuni. It was the third straight game Cal gave up more than 300 yards in the air. Damola Adeniji had five catches for Oregon State, which leads the Pac-10 in passing.

No. 24 Wisconsin 31, Indiana 28 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — No. 24 Wisconsin followed the same old script to grind down Indiana. John Clay ran for 134 yards and a touchdown, Montee Ball scored two TDs and the Badgers held off the Hoosiers’ fourth-quarter rally. The Badgers (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten) have now won two straight and still have not lost to an unranked team this season. Indiana’s fading bowl hopes took another hit. The Hoosiers (4-6, 1-5) must now win their final two games — at No. 11 Penn State and home against rival Purdue — to become eligible. They have lost three straight and six of seven.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Salmons, Noah lead Bulls past Bobcats Charlotte falls by three; Chicago wins third straight By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer

CHICAGO — John Salmons scored 27 points, Joakim Noah added a career-high 21 points and had 16 rebounds, and the Chicago Bulls beat the Charlotte Bobcats 93-90 on Saturday night for their third straight win. The Bulls had a 16-0 run in the third and fourth quarters that turned a nine-point deficit into a seven-point lead at 77-70. They hung on despite some shaky foul shooting, with Charlotte’s Flip Murray missing two 3-pointers in the closing seconds. Boris Diaw led Charlotte with 20 points. With Chicago up 92-87 with a minute left, the Bulls’ Luol Deng missed two free throws, and the Bobcats’ Tyson Chandler converted two to make it 92-90 with 21 seconds left. Salmons had a chance to make it a four-point game, but made just one of two free throws with 19.8 seconds left. However, the Bobcats couldn’t take advantage. After a timeout, Murray missed a 3 from the top of the key but had a chance to redeem himself after Diaw grabbed the rebound. Instead, the second one hit the rim and a sprawled out Gerald Wallace knocked the ball out of bounds along the sideline with 3.3 seconds left, giving the Bulls the victory. Salmons hit 9 of 16 shots, including two 3-pointers. Noah, meanwhile, reached double figures in rebounds for the

fifth time while registering his third double-double this season for the shorthanded Bulls. Chicago has just 10 healthy players now that Tyrus Thomas is expected to miss four to six weeks with a broken left forearm. He had surgery Saturday after injuring it a day earlier in a weight-training session. Even so, the Bulls had enough to get by on Saturday. They got 14 points from Deng after a slow start and 13 from Derrick Rose. Kirk Hinrich scored six of his nine during the goahead run, and the Bulls won despite going 13 for 22 at the foul line. After rallying from 18 down to beat Milwaukee and coming away with an 86-85 win over Cleveland on Thursday thanks to a stop by Deng and Noah on LeBron James on a last-second drive, Chicago trailed for much of this game. The Bulls were down 7061 late in the third when Salmons converted a layup on a 2-on-1 to start the goahead run. Hinrich buried a 3-pointer, a layup and a free throw to pull Chicago within one with 1:32 left, and Noah ended the quarter with a hook shot and tip-in to make it 73-70. Brad Miller then started the fourth with a tip-in and Luol Deng connected from the top of the key to give the Bulls a seven point lead. The Bobcats’ Chandler dunked to stop the run but not the momentum. Noah answered with a dunk of his own, and Deng buried a jumper from the wing to make it 81-72 just under three minutes into the quarter. Charlotte got within one on a jumper by Diaw with 5:33 left, but Salmons responded with a 3-pointer that made it 86-82.

NBA CAPSULES Celtics 86, Sixers 76

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Rajon Rondo and Paul Pierce each scored 16 points, and the Boston Celtics bounced back from their first loss of the season to beat the winless New Jersey Nets 86-76 on Saturday night Ray Allen came alive after three dismal quarters to score eight of his 12 points in the fourth quarter for the Celtics (7-1), who lost 110-103 to Phoenix on Friday night, allowing 20 more points than in any previous game. Their defense was back Saturday — and it needed to be, because the Celtics couldn’t shoot for No. 25 BYU 52, most of the night. Boston Wyoming 0 finished with 20 steals, five by Rondo, scoring 19 LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) points off New Jersey’s 24 — Max Hall threw for 312 turnovers. yards and four touchdowns Kevin Garnett shot 3 of in just over two quarters, 13 but added nine points and No. 25 BYU won its and 13 rebounds to help sixth straight over Wyothe Celtics beat the Nets ming, 52-0 on Saturday. for the 10th straight time. BYU (7-2, 4-1 Mountain Brook Lopez scored 23 West) recorded its first points for the Nets (0-7). shutout of the season and second consecutive against the Cowboys. The Cougars Hawks 125, beat Wyoming 44-0 last Nuggets 100 year. Hall now has 28 career ATLANTA (AP) — Jawins, one behind the mal Crawford scored 25 school record held by points, and Josh Smith Heisman Trophy winner had 22 points, nine Ty Detmer, who played at rebounds, six blocked BYU from 1988-91. shots and seven assists for Against Wyoming (4-5, Atlanta. 2-3), he was 20 of 22 and Joe Johnson added 21 had TD passes of 44, 2, 79 points, and Marvin Wiland 15 yards. He complet- liams had 14. ed passes to seven differCarmelo Anthony had ent receivers before taking 30 points for Denver, and a seat midway through the Chauncey Billups added 25. third quarter. The Nuggets have lost two

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Mavericks 129, Raptors 101 DALLAS (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki had 29 points and nine rebounds, and Josh Howard scored 16 in his season debut for Dallas following ankle and wrist injures. Jason Terry added 19 points, and Shawn Marion had 18 points and eight rebounds for Dallas. Dallas native Chris Bosh had 26 points and 12 rebounds for Toronto.

Kings 104, Jazz 99 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Tyreke Evans scored a career-high 32 points and Sacramento held off Utah in the Kings’ first game without high-scoring guard Kevin Martin. Evans, the fourth overall pick in the June draft, became the focal point of the Kings’ offense in place of Martin, who averaged 30.6 points in the first five games. Martin will have surgery Monday to repair a fracture in his left wrist. Deron Williams had 29 points and 15 assists for Utah. Bucks 102, Knicks 87 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Andrew Bogut scored a season-high 22 points and had eight rebounds, and rookie Jodie Meeks added 19 points for Milwaukee. Rookie Brandon Jennings added 17 points to help the Bucks improve to 3-2. David Lee had 18 points and seven rebounds for New York (1-6).

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I think he does the best is that for a little guy, when the ball goes up in the air, he plays like a 6-10 (basketball) center. He goes and gets it. What you have to do is to turn his little body over so that when he does get it, he lands on his head and he doesn’t come back in for a while.” In some ways, Williams’ strategy for dealing with Smith resembles what these 2009 Saints are doing to the historical perception of the franchise. For decades, New Orleans has been known mostly for finding ways to lose, never going to a Super Bowl or having fans who sometimes wore bags over their heads in shame. The way the Saints have played this season, players and coaches across the NFL are starting to pay them the types of compliments normally reserved for Tom Brady’s Patriots, Peyton Manning’s Colts or Ben Roethlisberger’s Steelers. They refer to the Saints as an elite team — even the best team — without raising eyebrows. It’s as if the club’s long-held reputation has been knocked on its head as well. When asked what it would mean to beat the Saints in the dome, Carolina defensive tackle Damione Lewis said, “It’d be awesome. ... It’s going to be a challenge for us, it’s a really good team. In my opinion, it’s probably one of the best, if not the best, in the NFL.” AP Sports Writer Mike Cranston in Charlotte, N.C., contributed to this report.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 7 1 .875 Philadelphia 3 2 .600 Toronto 3 3 .500 New York 1 6 .143 New Jersey 0 7 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 5 1 .833 Orlando 5 1 .833 Atlanta 5 2 .714 Charlotte 3 3 .500 Washington 2 4 .333 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 4 2 .667 Milwaukee 3 2 .600 Cleveland 4 3 .571 Indiana 2 3 .400 Detroit 2 4 .333 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Dallas 4 2 .667 Houston 4 2 .667 San Antonio 2 3 .400 New Orleans 2 4 .333 Memphis 1 5 .167 Northwest Division W L Pct Denver 5 2 .714 Portland 3 3 .500 Oklahoma City 2 3 .400 Utah 2 4 .333 Minnesota 1 5 .167 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Lakers 5 1 .833 Phoenix 5 1 .833 L.A. Clippers 2 4 .333 Sacramento 2 4 .333 Golden State 1 3 .250 Sunday’s Games Phoenix at Washington, 1 p.m. Philadelphia at Detroit, 1 p.m. Orlando at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Golden State at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Minnesota at Portland, 9 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

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TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL American League MINNESOTA TWINS—Exercised the 2011 contract option on OF Michael Cuddyer. FOOTBALL National Football League GREEN BAY PACKERS—Placed OL Jason Spitz on injured reserve. Signed WR Biren Ealy from the practice squad. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS—Placed DT Kendrick Clancy on injured reserve. Signed DT DeMario Pressley from the practice squad. HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS—Assigned D Mark Mitera to Bakersfield (ECHL). CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Assigned LW Bryan Bickell to Rockford (AHL). COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Assigned F Alexandre Picard to Syracuse (AHL). American Hockey League MANITOBA MOOSE—Released C Darryl Smith. SPRINGFIELD FALCONS—Announced F Ryan Potulny and F Liam Reddox have been recalled by Edmonton (NHL). ECHL ECHL—Suspended Charlotte LW Devin DiDiomete for three games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Nov. 5 game against Florida. Suspended Charlotte coach Derek Wilkinson for one game for his actions in the same game. COLLEGE MIAMI—Announced retirement of women’s golf coach Lela Cannon, effective June 1, 2010. VIRGINIA—Suspended sophomore C Assane Sene for three games for conduct detrimental to the men’s basketball team.

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NASCAR at Texas Carl Edwards trying to overcome a winless 2009 By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer

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Jockey Mike Smith, on Zenyatta, center, crosses the finish line ahead of Gio Ponti, ridden by Ramon Dominguez, right, and Twice Over, ridden by Thomas Queally, back left, to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic horse race at Santa Anita Park Saturday. Zenyatta, a mare running against males, won her 14th race in as many lifetime starts.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Carl Edwards has found a way to try to mask the frustration of his winless NASCAR Sprint Cup season. “I’ve kind of tried to think of it differently,” Edwards said. “It’s not that we haven’t had no wins this season, it’s just that we’ve had nine wins over the last two. That sounds a lot better.” That still Edwards doesn’t erase that very noticeable zero in 2009. After winning a serieshigh nine races last season — “That was an amazing year,” Edwards said, almost smiling at the memory — he was considered by many as the preseason favorite this year to unseat three-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson. Instead, Johnson heads into Sunday’s race at Texas Motor Speedway, the eighth in the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, closing in on unprecedented fourth consecutive championship. Edwards would just like to win a race and try to build some momentum for next season. “Everybody was so pumped and voted us to win the championship and everybody was on board, but I knew in the back of my mind that things can go great or they can go bad and no amount of speculation can affect that,” Edwards said. “Yeah, it’s frustrating.

But I know how cruel this sport can be.” And how good. When Edwards got to the 1 1/2-mile, high-banked track last November, he already had seven wins. He made it eight when he drove his No. 99 Ford to Victory Lane by a comfortable margin after gambling on fuel to complete the first two-race season sweep in Texas — and become the first three-time winner there. He won again in the finale two weeks later at Homestead to finish 69 points behind Johnson. Without a wreck at Talladega and an ignition problem at Charlotte in consecutive Chase races, for finishes of 29th and 33rd, Edwards probably would have been able to end Johnson’s title streak last year. The luck has been no better this year, even though the Roush Fenway team got started with Matt Kenseth being the first driver in 12 years to win the first two races of a season and Edwards made the Chase again. “We were at the top of our game last year and didn’t manage to make the improvements and didn’t manage to find the next new thing that we needed this year and that left us with a disappointing year,” owner Jack Roush said. “It’s just a cycle of things. ... Hopefully next year we’ll be back on top.” After Kenseth’s two victories, Roush didn’t win again until Jamie McMurray won at Talladega last weekend. Only Johnson (13) and Kyle Busch (12) have more than Edwards’ nine victories over the past two seasons.

Zenyatta, perfect as always, wins B.C. Classic over boys A Texas trifecta in reach for By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer

ARCADIA, Calif. — What a gal! Zenyatta overcame early trouble to beat the boys in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday, running her record to 14-0 in the most impressive effort of her career. The 5-year-old mare rallied from last after a poor start and fought off Gio Ponti in the stretch to win by a length at Santa Anita, beating a loaded field of 11 males and becoming the first female to win the Classic in its 26-year history. “There are tears coming to my eyes. I can’t believe it,” said trainer John Shirreffs, who eschewed a box seat to watch his star from the rail near the finish line. Quality Road was scratched at the starting gate after he acted up and scraped his hind leg, delaying the start by several minutes. Zenyatta initially turned sideways when it was time to enter the gate, and all the commotion may have explained her poor start. She broke on the wrong foot and dropped well behind the field, and Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith let Zenyatta lope along near the back — her usual running style in the early going. “At the half-mile pole, I thought, ’Oh God, they’re stacked up. There’s no way I’m going to get around all these horses,”’ Smith said. Rounding the final turn, Zenyatta still had a lot of ground to make up. Her chances appeared bleak. “If she wins this, she’ll be a super horse,” announcer Trevor Denman shouted in his call. Zenyatta then made a bold inside move midway through the far turn, and Smith angled her to the far outside as the crowd of 58,845 fans erupted. Showing the grit of an undefeated champion, Zenyatta closed relentlessly and denied Gio Ponti the upset. Smith pumped his left arm as Zenyatta galloped past the grandstand for possibly the last time in her sterling career. Owners Jerry and Ann Moss said Zenyatta, named after the 1980 album “Zenyatta Mondata” by The Police, likely will go to the breeding shed. “I think she deserves to go out now with her record intact,” Jerry Moss said. Zenyatta ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:00.62 and paid $7.60, $5.60 and $3.80 as the 5-2 favorite. “She’s sent from heaven,” said Smith, who lovingly patted Zenyatta’s mane on the way to the gate. “She’s incredible. I still didn’t hit all gears.” Gio Ponti returned $9.20 and $6.60, while Britain-bred Twice Over paid $7. “The horse ran a great race, but he couldn’t beat the winner,” said Chris-

Busch after Nationwide win By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer

FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Busch keeps extending streaks at Texas in search of a NASCAR first. Busch won his fourth consecutive Nationwide Series race at the 1 1/2-mile, high-banked track Saturday. The dominating victory came a day after he won his fifth truck race in his last five starts in the series. He will try to complete an unprecedented trifecta Sunday and become the first driver to win all three of NASCAR’s national series on the same weekend. “I hope it happens, that AP photo/MARK J. TERRILL would be the greatest thing,” Busch said. “The hardest Jockey Mike Smith, aboard Zenyatta, reacts after winning the Breeders’ Cup Clas- one is the last one.” sic horse race at Santa Anita Park Saturday. Busch qualified fifth for Sunday’s race at Texas, ing up to the Classic about whether tophe Clement, who trains Gio Ponti. Zenyatta could handle an international where he is 0-for-9 in Sprint “She’s a freak. What can I say?” field of males and possibly snatch away Cup races and finished 18th More than $1 million was bet to win in April. Horse of the Year honors from Rachel on both Zenyatta and 3-1 second choice When Busch climbed Alexandra. The argument only intensiRip Van Winkle, an Irish import who out of the car in Victory fies after her explosive performance. finished 10th. “If they don’t reward her with Horse Lane on Saturday, he said Belmont Stakes winner Summer of the Year, it would be a travesty, or at he was “sorry” he won and Bird was fourth and Kentucky Derby would make it three in a least co-Horses of the Year,” said Bob winner Mine That Bird ninth, extendBaffert, who trained sixth-place finisher row. When asked later about ing his losing streak to five straight what reaction he expected since his 50-1 upset at Churchill in May. Richard’s Kid. Smith endorsed Zenyatta for the top if he did pull it off, he said Zenyatta was the star of the show, he was “messing with the prancing as she paraded past the grand- honor, last won by a female in 2002 fans” with his comment and with Azeri, also ridden by Smith. stand on her way to the gate. Fans held “She’s horse of the decade by far,” he wasn’t sure. up pink signs reading “Girl power! Go “People would get tired said. “She should go down as one of the Zenyatta” and roared when the homeof buying tickets to the Kyle town hero came through the tunnel and greatest horses of all time.” Busch show, I guess,” he Colonel John was fifth, followed by stepped onto the synthetic track. said. “That’s two, one more Richard’s Kid, Awesome Gem, Regal “The way the crowd took to her was to go. ... If luck is on our Ransom, Mine That Bird, Rip Van just amazing,” Shirreffs said. “They side and we play it smart, Winkle, Einstein and Girolamo. cheered for her, they clapped for her, we could come out of here 3 American horses earned eight victothey love her.” for 3. That would be pretty ries over the two-day championships, The Mosses decided to enter Zespecial.” nyatta in the Classic instead of trying to with Europe-based horses winning six, After taking the lead on defend her title in the $2 million Ladies’ one better than last year’s total. the 11th of 200 laps, when Irish import Goldikova successfully Classic on Friday. he swung his No. 18 Toyota defended her title in the $2 million “We thought that she deserved this around polesitter Matt Mile against 10 male rivals. Another chance,” Jerry Moss said. Her presence gave a big boost to the sig- Irish horse, Conduit, repeated in the $3 Kenseth in the first turn, Busch went on to lead 179 nature event of the two-day world chammillion Turf, and Pounced won the $1 laps and win by 3.154 secpionships, which was missing the year’s million Juvenile Turf. other star female, Rachel Alexandra. Three geldings won races — Califor- onds over Casey Mears, who was filling in for Jeff Burton The 3-year-old filly went 8-for-8 this nia Flag in the $1 million Turf Sprint; in the No. 29 Chevrolet. year, including three wins against the Dancing in Silks in the $2 million This is the 28th time in boys, one coming in the Preakness. But Sprint; and Furthest Land in the $1 his career Busch has run all her owner, Jess Jackson, shut her down million Dirt Mile. three series the same weekfor the season rather than run her on Vale of York, part of Godolphin the synthetic surface, which he dislikes. Racing’s European division, won the $2 end. This is the seventh time this year and twice he won Debate had raged in the week leadmillion Juvenile.

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Driver Kyle Busch holds a trophy belt from the WWE and stands with the O’Reilly Challenge trophy after winning the NASCAR Nationwide O’Reilly Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway Saturday. two races — at California in February and Bristol in August — without being able to get the third. In California, he won the Camping World Truck Series and the Nationwide races before finishing third in Sprint Cup. “Maybe we can come up two spots better here,” he said. It was Busch’s eighth Nationwide victory this year, and extended his points lead to 272 over Carl Edwards with two races left. Busch, who has won 29 times in 171 career Nationwide starts, only has to finish 15th next week at Phoenix to clinch his first NASCAR championship in any series. “Every week, we’re right there, we’re contending,” said Busch, who has 11 runner-up finishes to go with his victories. “The 48 (Jimmie Johnson) makes it look easy on Cup side, we make it look easy on the Nationwide side. ... It’s an accomplishment.” NASCAR said after the race that the Busch team faces a potential points penalty for an improperly secured weight that was found on the No. 18 during an initial inspection at the beginning of the race week.

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Ryan Worden, 16, has an after school snack as his dad Peter Worden fixes dinner for the family at their home in Chatham, N.J. Worden was cooking a recipe from a magazine that he discovered offers recipes for a month’s worth of varied meals. After being laid off, Worden began carrying more of the load at home.

The suddenly stay-at-home dad Unemployed husbands help around house, but will it last? By LISA ORKIN EMMANUEL Associated Press Writer

MIAMI — Lily Pabian and her husband Jeff learned to tag-team household tasks when he lost his job and she went from stay-at-home mom to part-time consultant. But the give-and-take turned into a juggling act when Jeff found work again three months later. Lily, a 37-year-old mother of three from Mapleton, Ga., kept working, but also kept most of the parenting responsibilities and housework. And experts say her experience will probably be typical as more women are finding themselves becoming primary breadwinners temporarily. “I feel like there are days where I am drowning,” Lily Pabian said. “We do fight about my overload, my work load, and he’s willing to say ‘What can I do to help?’ My thing is ‘Why do I have to think for you?’” An estimated 2 million wives are now the sole breadwinners in families across America as more men than women have been laid off in this recession, according to the Center for American Progress. Experts say that unemployed husbands are probably taking on more of the housework and childcare duties — for now. But they don’t expect that temporary change at home to create household habits that will stick around after men find work again. “When men make more money they can buy out of housework in

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Peter Worden washes lettuce as he fixes dinner for his family at their home in Chatham, N.J. a way women cannot,” said Constance Gager, a sociologist in the Department of Family and Child Studies at Montclair State University. Gager has studied the division of labor in families and said that while men have taken on more

housework and child-rearing over the years, women still do two-thirds of it, including day-to-day tasks like diaper-changing, bathing, preparing meals and shuttling the children to activities. Men, meanwhile, tend to play with children or participate in

athletic games. “It is very much the case that women tend to do urgent tasks that are repetitive,” she said. More than two-thirds of women said they are mostly responsible for taking care of their children, according to

a recent poll by The Rockefeller Foundation in partnership with Time magazine for the Center for American Progress and Maria Shriver. Only 13 percent of men said the same thing. “I think the complicated question is: Do women want men to take over these burdens? It’s also the case that women feel a kind of propriety relationship to those tasks,” said Katherine Newman, professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. That’s certainly not lost on Pabian, who describes the problem as twofold. “I think men don’t get it and women don’t let go,” she said. “I think it’s in our nature to multitask. I think it’s in our nature to please ... You keep doing it and it becomes routine and the routine becomes just norm. It doesn’t upset me. It burns me out.” Linda Stolberg, 46, describes a similar problem. Her husband remains employed, but she took on part-time work last year when his sales commissions dwindled. Although she’s working 20 hours a week, she said she gets minimal help cleaning up and caring for her two school-age children. “I have to ask him and so it’s, you constantly feel like you are nagging. So you pick and choose your battles. Some things don’t get done like they used to,” said Stolberg, from Chicago. She said it’s probably not fair that she bares most of the responsibilities, but she agrees with Gager that her husband’s income lets him “buy out”

of household tasks. “I cut him a lot of slack,” she said. Newman, the sociologist, notes that there had been a trend of men doing more housework and childcare even before the recession. And some families hope the change will stick. Take Ann Worden. When her husband Peter lost his job in April at a global financial services firm, she took a full-time teaching position. Now, as a fifth-grade teacher, she often comes home tired and hungry to a dinner prepared by Peter and a kitchen table set by her teenage son. “That to me was the biggest surprise of the whole experience,” Worden, of Chatham, N.J. said of her husband’s cooking. “It’s made me fall in love with him all over again. I didn’t expect that he would step up so much.” Peter said he would continue to help around the house even after he gets a new position. “I believe it will continue,” he said. “I think it will become more of a shared environment.” But for women like Angela Vellino, dreams of shared household labor were short-lived. Vellino, who lives in Atlanta and has a 10-month-old son, said her husband helped out a lot while unemployed, but doesn’t help much anymore now that he’s working. Vellino feels like she now has three jobs — as a graphic designer, a mother and a house manager. “It’s unfair,” she said. “I try to take it day by day.”

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Vance County volunteers (from left) Claude Kerley, Kathy Solomon and Gerald Fuller were honored on Nov. 2 with state awards for their dedicated service. The awards were presented by the Vance County United Way Volunteer Center through the N.C. Department of Volunteerism.

Three Vance County Schools volunteers receive recognition who needs help is not available at that time, he will come back later in the school day to work with the student. For many of our students, he is the only positive male role model they have on a regular basis. His influence on our students is all very positive.” Fuller also was named the Volunteer of the Year for the 2008-2009 school year at Pinkston Street Elementary School. Kerley was honored for his dedicated work as a volunteer assisting in the media center at Zeb Vance Elementary School. He was selected as the school’s Volunteer of the Year for 2008-2009, and assists Janette Johnson, media specialist at Zeb Vance, in a variety of ways. Johnson says that Kerley helps in the media center each Tuesday and Thursday with circulation needs and helps to shelve the books as the students return them. She stated that he even does book repairs for damaged books. “Thanks to Mr. Kerley our school has books on the shelf in a timely manner and they are in good condition. He also takes time to

Kristy Lane Atkins and John Daniel Atkins of Henderson announce the birth of their daughter, Sadie Claire Atkins, on Oct. 29, 2009, at Maria Parham Medical Center in Henderson. The infant weighed six pounds, ten ounces. The baby’s grandparents are T.J. and Cindy Keasler and Allen and Lisa Atkins, all of Demopolis, Ala.

Spencer and Melissa Bowen of Bullock announce the birth of their daughter, Ariella Bowen, on Nov. 1, 2009, at Maria Parham Medical Center in Henderson. The infant weighed seven pounds, seven ounces. The baby’s grandparents are Linda J. Manogue of Titusville, Fla., and Leann Rafter of Bullock.

Emily R. Dudley weds Daryl John Trammell in Texas

Emily R. Dudley and Daryl John Trammell were married at 2 p.m. on Aug. 8, 2009, at Gethsemane United Methodist Church Chapel in Houston, Texas. The double-ring ceremony was officiated by Pastor Justin Coleman. The bride is the widow of the late Dr. Thomas R. Dudley of Henderson. She is a graduate of VanceGranville Community College and is currently employed as a lead teacher in early child development for the Vance County Schools. The groom is the son of Judith Panquerne Trammell of New Orleans, La., and Houston, Texas, and the late W. W. (Dub) Trammell of Houston, Texas. He is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Panquerne Jr. of Baton Rouge, La., and Houston, Texas. Birth Announcements The groom received a bachelor of science degree from the University of William Eian Race Currin Kayden Marie Jurries Houston, Conrad Hilton College for Restaurant and Casie Finch and William Currin, Nicole Oliver and Steven Jurries Hotel Management. He is both of Henderson, announce the of Henderson announce the birth of birth of their son, William Eian Race their daughter, Kayden Marie Jurcurrently on the manageCurrin, on Oct. 26, 2009, at Maria ries, on Nov. 4, 2009, at Maria Parment staff of Golden Coral Parham Medical Center in Henderham Medical Center in Henderson. son. The infant weighed two pounds, The infant weighed five pounds, 13 nine ounces. The baby’s grandparounces. The baby’s grandparents are ents are Teresa Shearin, William James and Sandra Faucette of Henand Teresa Currin and the late derson, Tammy Jurries of Norlina, Ricky Finch, all of Henderson. and Michael Jurries of Ferndale, Washington.

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even tutors students after school hours in areas where they need improvement,” Morton said. “In addition to her own volunteer work, Mrs. Solomon has actively recruited family, friends and members of her church (Middleburg Baptist) to volunteer in the school.” Morton also pointed out that Solomon has led efforts at the beginning of the last two school years to host a luncheon at her church for all E.O. Young Elementary staff members as a way to begin the school year on a positive note. The events were called “Christmas in August” for the first luncheon and “A Country Picnic” for the luncheon at the beginning of the current school year. Members of the Volunteer Center Advisory Board, representatives of schools where the volunteers help, family members and special guests joined the honored volunteers at the dinner and awards ceremony. The steak dinner provided for everyone was prepared and served by members of the Masonic Lodge and their spouses.

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read to students and have students read to him to increase their fluency, especially for our second-grade students. He builds their confidence and increases their ability to read with complete comprehension.” Solomon is a tireless volunteer at E.O. Young Jr. Elementary School. The volunteerism award recognized her diligent work at the school. She has helped at the school for the last three years and, along with her mother and sister, is a valuable member of the school’s family. Solomon was the Volunteer of the Year at E.O. Young last school year and also was named the 2008-2009 Vance County Schools’ Volunteer of the Year for her efforts. Adrienne Morton, Ph.D., principal of E.O. Young Elementary, stressed that during the 2008-2009 school year, Solomon donated over 200 hours of her time to assist at the school in tutoring fourth and fifth-grade students during the school day to help them improve their skills, particularly in mathematics. “She

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Three volunteers in Vance County received certificates of appreciation and lapel pins from N.C. Gov. Beverly Perdue during the Vance County United Way Volunteer Center’s annual Volunteer Awards Dinner on Nov. 2. The dinner and awards presentations were held at the Henderson Masonic Lodge on Brodie Road. The event is part of the N.C. Department of Volunteerism program to recognize influential volunteers across the state. Those honored were Gerald Fuller, Claude Kerley and Kathy Solomon. Fuller was recognized for his volunteer work with students at Pinkston Street Elementary School. He has volunteered at the school for three school years, helping to tutor students who need assistance to improve their skills in math and reading. Beverly Joseph, Ph.D., principal of Pinkston Street Elementary, noted that, “Mr. Fuller volunteers to help students in a kind, compassionate and dedicated manner. If he arrives at the school and finds a particular student

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Herb and Tanya P. Guy of Henderson announce the birth of their daughter, Emma Caroline Guy, on Aug. 29, 2009 at Granville Medical Center in Oxford. The infant weighed eight pounds. The baby’s grandparents are Peter Cerbonne and Linda Gullege of Wendell and Linwood A. and Elaine D. Patterson of Henderson. The baby’s great-grandmother is Ruby D. Davis of Henderson.

Daniel Thomas Wilson Daniel and Elizabeth Wilson of Youngsville announce the birth of their son, Daniel Thomas Wilson, on Sept. 11, 2009, at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. The infant weighed five pounds, five ounces. The baby’s grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Frazier, Gayle Wilson, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilson, all of Henderson.

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Rebecca Rowland of Zebulon announces the engagement of her daughter, Lisa Marie Rowland, to Christopher Brandon Joyce of Raleigh. The groom-elect is the son of Robin Joyce of Eden. The bride-elect is also the granddaughter of the late Robert and Josephine Rowland of Kittrell. The wedding is planned for 4 p.m. on Dec. 6, 2009, Mr. Brown and Ms. Duke at Café Luna in Raleigh.

Mr. and Mrs. George Allen Duke of Henderson announce the engagement of their daughter, Ingrid Maria Duke, to Jacob Adam Brown of Seven Springs, N.C. The groomelect is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Randy Carroll Brown of Forney, Texas. The wedding is planned for June 19, 2010, at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Henderson.

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Restaurants in Raleigh. The bride was given in marriage and escorted by her son, U.S. Army Spec. Jeffery Satterwhite, who is back from tours in Afghanistan and presently stationed at Fort Hood in Texas. She wore an elegant high-waisted Grecian gown banded with hand-embroidered silver and seed pearls just beneath the bodice. The narrow skirt fell to her silver heels and she carried a bouquet of white roses seeded with antique pearls. Serving as matron of honor was Martha Satterwhite, daughter-in-law of the bride. Serving as best man was Douglas Bilbrey, long-time family friend. Bilbrey also hosted a steak dinner for friends and family on the eve of the wedding. Following the ceremony, a reception was hosted in the newly restored church parlor by the groom’s mother. After a honeymoon trip to the Kemah Boardwalk Resort on the Gulf Coast near Galveston, Texas, the couple now resides in Henderson.

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Currin cited by Perdue for outstanding volunteer effort Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that 20 individual volunteers received the North Carolina Medallion for Outstanding Volunteer Service awarded by the N.C. Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service. Included among the honorees was Betty Lynne Currin of Granville County. The honorees were commended for providing valuable services to their communities, including medical assistance, help for children and care for older adults. “These volunteers deserve our congratulations

for serving their communities,” said Perdue. “We should be especially grateful because when times are tough, volunteers are even more important to those in need.” Recipients were honored by Gov. Perdue at a ceremony in the State Capitol where they each received a medallion and a certificate in recognition of their service. Afterwards, Gov. Perdue and First Gentleman Bob Eaves hosted the award recipients at a reception in the Executive Mansion. The recognition is part of the N.C. Award for Out-

standing Volunteer Service program, which honors individuals, groups, teams and businesses that make significant contributions to their communities through volunteer service. Since the program began in 1978, about 16,000 individuals have been recognized for their service. County coordinators and local selection committees receive and evaluate the nominations. Medallion recipients are nominated at the county level then evaluated by a panel of community service leaders from across the state.

Josh Monahan rides to victory at 2009 Nationals Josh Monahan, a ninth grade student at Kerr-Vance Academy, recently competed at the 2009 National Tennessee Walking Horse Competition in Murfreesboro, Tenn., for six days. Showing his two competition horses, Jazz Show (Jazz) and He’s Bummed Out (Hobo), he was able to take home ribbons in every class but one. He also was awarded a reserve National Championship (second place) in one of the classes. Monahan competed in youth and amateur classes, but also in open classes against some of the best trainers in the country, against whom he consistently finished in the top five. He was asked to be the sole presenter of the American flag for the opening ceremonies. The National is touted as the largest flatshod Tennessee walking horse show in the world, with 1,741 entries and 327 horses this year. The competition ends a year-long quest for points. This year at the awards’ ceremony in Nashville, Tenn., Monahan will receive six high-point trophies (one championship and five reserves).

E.O. Young Elementary Honor Roll The following students have been named to the honor roll at E.O. Young Elementary School:

tany Kersey, Jamaya Alexander and Allrobinson Jr. Briana Sulyans.

Myke’l Brown, Cydney Scott, TyAyala Shearin, Alijah Susewell and RaeQuan Watkins.

Dr. Larry Webb, principal of Eaton-Johnson Middle School, right, presents a certificate of recognition to Jordan Pryce for his outstanding achievements during an awards assembly at the school.

Eaton-Johnson Middle School students recognized for scholastic achievements

Eaton-Johnson Middle School recognized 46 students during an 4th Grade awards assembly on Oct. 5th Grade 3rd Grade 29 for their outstanding A Honor Roll: Nicoria Wilacademic achievements, liams and Kwaji Bullock A Honor Roll: Cameron A Honor Roll: Robert exemplary behavior, good Bullock Susewell and Chase Par- A-B Honor Roll: Laneka attendance and top readLittlejohn, Maurisa A-B Honor Roll: Jalen rish ing skills. Mims, Tavius Neal, AmBaskerville, Timiya Davis, A-B Honor Roll: Destinee The students were ber Reid, Dustin StainMalcolm Elam Jr., Jamese Bullocki, Kyree Ford, recognized as Champion back, Abraham Wright, Kelly and Shane Jenkins. SeMarreius Keith, BritStudents, Top Readers and “AAA” Students. Each Kerr-Vance Academy Honors award recipient was presented with a certificate of recognition and either a lington, Addie Griffin, Almand, Jordan CogKerr-Vance Academy special school achievement Allison High, Cody hill, Claire Edwards, has announced its Headtag or medallion. Huber, Alyssa King, Joseph Everett, Hanmaster’s List and honor Larry Webb, Ph.D., Chris Mitchell, Payton nah Faulkner, Claire roll for the first semester: principal of Eaton-JohnFreeman, Sam Fuquay, Shearin, Connor Wade, Shelby Gossett, David Andrew Wegener, Anna son, addressed the honored Headmaster’s List students and their guests Huff, Lyndsey Jones, Macon Wemyss and in the school’s cafeteria Addison Mabry, Hayley Katie White. 7th Grade: Cristin Aband told them how proud 11th Grade: Kat BlackMarshburn, Clay Matbott, James Averette, burn, Megan Burrows, tingly, Kathryn O’Leary, Laura Campbell, ShanRic Davis, Catherine Shivani Patel, Colin non Cash, Ray Cheever, Gaby, Elizabeth Hill, Pegram, Bailee Tippett Meredith Ellington, Will Johnson, Zach and Caleb Weiss. Jordan Hogge, Jacey King, Kristen Lewis, 8th Grade: Addison Monahan, Betsy MurMorgan Lloyd, Haleigh Ayscue, Bryles Cutts, phy, Rachel Ross and Meffert, Morgan OetParkins Davis, Shelton Lauren Wilkinson. tinger, Catherine Perry, Davis, Jesse Edwards, 8th Grade: Alexandra Auditions for the Brooke Pulley, Haley Dana Evans, Wesley Dozier, Beverly Foster, Ross, Josh Southerland, February-March presentaHight, Hunter LayBeth Hilburger, Caitlyn tion of the classic musical Jake Thompson, Tripp ton, Harrison Preddy, Holmes, Hank Pelfrey, “Bye, Bye, Birdie” will be Watkins and Perry Ashton Rainey, Joseph Rebecca Ross and Magheld at Lakeland Theatre Wester. Sachs and Price Wester. gie Thompson. Company on Dec. 13 at 12th Grade: Kevin Bell, 9th Grade: Hannah Ab9th Grade: Cameron 2:30 p.m. and on Dec. 14 Austyn Byrd, Andrew bott, Kelsey Aycock, JaFord, Meredith Freeat 7 p.m. Director Doug Cobb, Emma Finch, cob Bowen, Daniel Burman, Isabelle Goodwin, Wright will cast all roles Sean Hartness, Logan nette, Jessica Darnell, Alexandra Gwynn, at this audition. McKibben, Patrick Hayes Griggs, George Catherine Kilian, Britt“Bye, Bye, Birdie” opens Miracle, Tyler Overby, Hoyle, Franklin Irvin, ney Lopez, Dallas Smith on Feb. 19, 2010, and Shameka Valentine, Morgan King, Sam and Kendall Thomason. will run through March Candice Vaughan and Long, Hunter Meffert, 10th Grade: Ann Tooley 7, 2010. Rehearsals will Amanda Wilson. Josh Monahan, Luke and Hillary Wilson Pegram, Max Sockwell, 12th Grade: James Cobb Adam Wegener and Alana Welch. A/B Honor Roll 10th Grade: Russ Boyd, Lori Bradsher, Sonny 7th Grade: Kendal Burnette, Dylan El-

he and all of the school staff members were of the students’ achievements. “You have shown us that you can do great things,” Webb said. “We want you to continue to set lofty goals for yourself and to continue to work hard to achieve those goals. I want you to always remember to be where you need to be, doing the things you need to be doing during the time they need to be done.” The students recognized for their achievements included Ashley Adams, Lillie Alston, Brenda Arias, Steven Burnett, Justin Burr, Denzell Cotton, Isaiah Davis, William Edwards, Alexis Ellis, Crisalia Escobedo, Alliya Gad-

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Vance Charter School Honor Roll Vance Charter School has announced its first quarter honor roll for the 2009-2010 school year:

3rd grade A Honor roll: Seth Abbott, Isaiah Allen, Lance Bacudio, Austin Barnes, Eleanor Betts, Kennedy Bumpass, Laura Lynn Care, Ethan Collins, B.J. Edwards, Erica Evitts, Nelson Fuentes, Kenyon Gregory, Matthew Gupton, Breanna Harris, Samantha Hines, Noah Jones, John Thomas VGCC Phi Beta Lambda members pose with the trophy they received in recognition of their first-place finish in the Chapter Linge, Celia Mann, Challenge: seated, from left, VGCC Business Administration Instructor and Chapter Advisor LaTonya Steele, professional Shawn Matthews, Matdivision member Gabby Norfleet, Shelonda White of Oxford, professional division member Saundra Branch Johnson of thew Munn, Rick O’Neal, Henderson and Karin Driver of Kittrell; standing, from left, professional division member Trudy Hargrove, Lonnie Brame of Mira Patel, Anna Pike, Henderson, John Pendergrass of Henderson, Malcolm Williams of Warrenton and Sheri Moss of Henderson. Madison Pinit, Thomas Pittard, Shannon Riggan, Holton Roberson, Kendall Royster, Kyle Satterwhite, Ryan Stainback, Joe Sauer, Tyler Tunstall, Alexis Watson, Anna Weaver and Foster Yacos. A-B Honor roll: Amber Members of the Vancepurchase to a non-profit encourage local chapter meeting initial reporting Abbott, Aymen AlashGranville Community Col- organization. representatives to learn and participation goals, mli, Jacob Bliss, Seth lege Chi Beta Chi chapter VGCC was also recmore about the state and and the chapter was recBullock, Brooke Dixon, of the Phi Beta Lambda ognized for having the national organizations. ognized for participating Joshua Edwards, Kierra business student organiza- largest professional diviOther members in attenin the Presidents’ Award Gray, Haley Hester, tion recently attended the sion membership of any dance included Eric Recruitment Display. The Leah Jackson, Kalei state PBL Fall Leadership chapter in the state. ProGarrett (vice president), conference included a Knight, Jacob Parrish, Development Conference fessional division members Antionette Walker (treavariety of leadership workCapers Pendergrass, at the Clarion Hotel in are established business surer), Sheri Moss (secreshops and speakers. SesAustin Ramsey, Hannah Greensboro on Oct. 23-24. professionals and educatary), Danielle Williams sions were held to review Romanello, Chandler The VGCC chapter came tors. Meanwhile, VGCC’s (event/fundraiser chair), the programs, projects, away with several recogni- chapter was also recogSandra Berry and Tanisha conferences, and activities Stainback, Laila Taylor, tions and awards. nized for having the third Turner, in addition to proof Phi Beta Lambda on the Destiny Woodard and The chapter received largest total membership fessional division members local, state and national Taylor Young. a first-place trophy and in the central region of the Thelma Taylor (VGCC levels. $150 for winning the N.C. state. industrial sewing instrucPhi Beta Lambda, 4th grade PBL Foundation’s “ChapVGCC’s team, consisttor) and Gabby Norfleet led at VGCC by chapter ter Challenge.” VGCC ing of Phi Beta Lambda (executive assistant to president Shelonda White A Honor roll: Megan members led the state by members Shelonda White VGCC’s vice president of of Oxford, is the national Ayscue, Jordan Burnette, enrolling the most people of Oxford and Lonnie community and economic organization for college Whitt Daniel, Kaleb Evin Food Lion’s Shop & Brame and John Penderdevelopment) and chapter students who are preparans, Luke Frazier, Seth Share program, in which grass, both of Henderson, advisor LaTonya Steele. ing for a variety of careers Moodly, Caroline Nutt, grocery shoppers with was the runner-up in the VGCC was also named in business. For more “MVP” cards donate a por- Non-Trivia Contest. The a Gold Star chapter of information, call LaTonya Emily Oswald, Chris tion of their total grocery contest is conducted to N.C. Phi Beta Lambda for Steele at (252) 738-3447. Stainback, Cody Stainback and Suzie Williams. A-B Honor roll: Layla Alashmli, Clara Bobbitt, Kimberly Campbell, Mckayla Campbell, Hunter Creech, Andrew Crumpler, Lehman Ford, Ella Gruchacz, Brandon Hughes, Erin McAllister, Austin Murphy, Michael Nasher, Hunter Norwood, Blake Owen, Hayley Parrish, Riley Proctor, Bryce Roberson, Jarrett Seaman, Bella Strause, Jackson Vaughan and Joseph Vaughan.

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Recipients of the VGCC music performance scholarship are (left to right) Nick Horvath of Creedmoor, Will Crews of Oxford, D.J. Betts of Oxford and Mike Allen of Henderson.

VGCC names first music scholarship recipients Four Vance-Granville Community College students recently became the first recipients of VGCC Music Performance Scholarships. They include Mike Allen of Henderson; Darius (D.J.) Betts and William Crews, both of Oxford; and Nicholas Horvath of Creedmoor. All are students in VGCC’s college transfer program. Allen plays bass; Betts, keyboard instruments; Crews, the guitar; and Horvath, drums.

The new scholarship gives VGCC students a chance to explore their passion for music, which many of them hope to pursue as a career. Recipients of the scholarship, who were selected through auditions and recommendations from their high school music educators, will perform as a group for community functions or college activities. They will also assist VGCC music instructor

Michael Stephenson in preparing for Vance-Granville Community Band concerts and other events. Three of the recipients have already begun performing their duties by playing during the social hour at the beginning of the college’s 40th Anniversary Ball on Oct. 3. “I am proud to work with these young, talented musicians as we prepare to provide a new musical experience for the VGCC community and the four-county

region,” Stephenson said. “These students and I will be presenting performances for college events, as well as representing the college in many community events.” For more information on VGCC musical programs, call Michael Stephenson at (252) 738-3346. For more information on VGCC scholarships, call Jo Anna Jones, vice president of institutional advancement and endowment director, at (252) 738-3430.

A Honor roll: Megan Andrews, Emily Ayscue, Leowell Bacudio, Andrew Brame, Owen Brame, Ashlyn Collier, Taylor Currin, Brooks Falkner, Anna Freuler, Blaise Gruchacz, Alan Hicks, Jabe Montgomery, Madison Owens, Connor Pendergrass, Dawson Peoples, Megan Radford, Hannah Roberson, Maddie Sauer, Avery Snoddy and John Wheeless. A-B Honor roll: Jasmine Allen, Jared Bennett, Dylan Bowes, Jennifer

Cable, Callie Danehy, Reed Danehy, Morgan Daniels, Alayna Gallagher, John Glover, Noah Greenway, Neil Gresham, Jackson Grissom, Kristen Hicks, Allison Hines, Bishop Jenkins, Tyler Jones, Meagan Maddox, Brittany Overby, Destiny Reid, Turner Roberson, Kayleigh Spencer, Katie Testerman, Kassidy Tillotson, Payne Watson and Matthew White.

6th grade A Honor roll: Katie Ayscue, Miller Bartholomew, Hunter Brummitt, Uriah Ford, Elizabeth Gresham, Dylan Jackson, Matthew Nevils, Carson Noel, Rebekah Ratliff, Autumn Richardson, Kayla Satterwhite, Mattison Satterwhite, Rebecca Short, Marissa Vaughan, Gabby Williams, Jonathan Williams and Dylan Yacos. A-B Honor roll: Jonathan Abbott, Annika Alicardi, Jakob Allison, CJ Ayscue, Taylor Betts, Jonathan Boggs, Ben Branch, Nakiyah Bullock, Trenton Clark, David Cobbs, Faith Coleman, Eric Lemmond, Mary Mills, Alyson Moseley, Leah Paul, Christopher Paulson, Elizabeth Pegram, Harrison Perkinson, Carla Pike, Brittany Renn, Taylor Richardson, Dar Sedigh, Kimberly Stone, Alicia Tucker, Madison Waddell and Jacob Weaver.

7th grade A Honor roll: Bryce Abbott, Amanda Moseley, Christopher Pendergrass and Kevin Treacy. A-B Honor roll: Alegra Bass, Emma Burgess, Hannah Burgess, Jonathan Byrom, Justin Care, Ashleigh Dixon, Armani Grillo, Will Harris, Nick King, Blake Manning, Sarah Mason, Laura Raynor, Joseph Sharpe, Reed Sharpe, Logan Tyndall, Luke Wheeless, Adam Whitener and Amber Winstead.

8th grade A Honor roll: Lawrence Bacudion, Tori Jackson, Sadie Lee, Tykayla Martin, Matthew McCutcheon, Stephanie Nguyen, Kayla Royster, Kendall Stone, Luke Trull and Spencer Yacos. A-B Honor roll: Cameron Blanch, Madison Bobbitt, Micaela Crowder, Tori Duncan, Mckenzie Gay, Ava Gruchacz, Holden Hedgepeth, Nikki Henderson, Taylor Inscoe, Katherine Jarrell, Joelle Pernell, Kaila Pinit, Carly Puckett and Harli Sams.

Vance County school system honors 37 retirees A total of 37 retirees from Vance County Schools were honored at the school system’s annual retirement banquet held on Oct. 20 in the cafeteria at Southern Vance High School. Honored were Nancy Capps, Jackie Fore, Patricia Parham and Marty Smith, all of Administrative Services; Matilda Bullock, Darlynn Oxendine and Carrie Rouse, all of Southern Vance High School; Patricia Carroll, Barbara Duncan, Gentrice Floyd, Joyce Maynard, JoAnn Ragland, Alice Roberts and Fearldine Simmons, all of Dabney Elementary School; Magnolia Clanton, Cindy Edwards and Mar-

garet Gregory, all of Northern Vance High School; Dorothy Clifton, Jeanette Floyd and Sandra Shorkey, all of Clark Street Elementary School; Bonnie Davis and Harriet Faulkner of Carver Elementary School; Pamela Davis, Clara Foster, Phyllis Grissom and Mary Williams, all of E.M. Rollins Elementary School; Mary Horton of Pinkston Street Elementary School; Peggy Kelly, Joyce Prewer and Marsha Suggs, all of L.B. Yancey Elementary School; Connie King and Nancy Rector of Zeb Vance Elementary School; Janet Lesser of Eaton-Johnson Middle School; Lois Martin, Robert Powell and

Roberta Thompson, all of New Hope Elementary School; and Annie Diaz of Henderson Middle School. Each of the retirees were presented with a special gift by their department supervisor, school principal or assistant principal. Dr. Norman Shearin, superintendent of Vance County Schools, thanked all of the honored retirees for their dedicated years of service to local students. He also praised them for their professionalism and talents, and wished them well in their future endeavors. George Fowler, a retired principal with Vance

County Schools and now the executive director of the Vance County Public School Foundation, and his wife, Marsha Fowler, also a retiree from the school system after working in its Administrative Services Center, offered special words to the retiring associates. They urged them to enjoy their new time of leisure and to take advantage of all of the opportunities now before them. Both Fowlers talked about how much they now love to travel. They urged their fellow retirees to travel as much as possible, enjoy their family and take time for themselves to relax and have fun.

Wheeler retires after 17 years at VGCC Franklin Campus Mae W. Wheeler (right) of Franklinton recently retired as the administrative assistant for Vance-Granville Community College’s Franklin County Campus. Wheeler’s colleagues held a retirement celebration for her on Oct. 23. Under various titles, Wheeler has been the administrative assistant for the dean of Franklin Campus, Bobbie Jo May (left), since August 1992. Prior to joining VGCC, Wheeler worked for Franklinton City Schools as a clerical assistant from 1985 through 1992. “Mae Wheeler is synonymous with Vance-Granville Franklin Campus,” May said. “You do not think of one without the other. She will be missed by our faculty, staff, and most of all, our students.”

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H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library Don’t forget, the library will be closed on Wednesday for the Veteran’s Day holiday.

Youth Services The Youth Services Department is welcoming donations to supplement our programming and collections for children and teens. The library can use the following items in new or gently used condition: Children’s and Young adult books, magazines, DVDs, music or audio CDs, games, puzzles, art supplies, toys, etc. Materials can be brought to the Youth Services Desk and questions can be answered by calling 438-3316, ext 225. Your donations make a difference! Coming this week: Bedtime Stories (kids of all ages, aimed at 3-8 years old), Mondays at 6:30 p.m.: Let stories, songs and bubbles tire you out for bedtime! Pajamas are encouraged but not required. Teens and Tweens Club (for middle and highschoolers), Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m.: Join Programming Specialist Ms.

Barbara and other teens and tweens to hang out and chat, discuss books and listen to interesting guest speakers. Mother Goose Time (for infants and toddlers, ages birth-3), Thursdays at 11 a.m.: Songs, rhymes, books, clapping, laughing, fun! Reading with a Ranger (all ages, aimed at grades 1 through 6): Thursday at 4 p.m. Join Kerr Lake State Park Ranger Kecia Perkinson for a program on autumn acorns. We’ll have discussion, stories and a craft.

Adult Services Free computer class at Perry Library: Thanks to a partnership between Vance-Granville Community College and the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library, VGCC is offering a free computer class at Perry Library to help job-seekers brush up on their computer skills. Area residents who are newly unemployed or who are looking to join the workforce can quickly get help with their computer skills. The course entitled “Introduction to Computer Skills for Job Seekers”

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Culinary nonfiction at Perry Library: “Finally Thin! How I Lost Over 200 Pounds and Kept Them Off and You Can Too,” by Kim Bensen; “The 4 Day Diet,” by Ian K. Smith; “The Lost Recipe for Happiness,” by Barbara O’Neal; “When Food is Love,” by Geneen Roth; “Weight Watchers in 20 Minutes: 250 Fresh; “Fast Recipes,” by Weight Watchers; “The Only Bake Sale Cookbook You’ll Ever Need: 201 Mouthwatering, Kid-Pleasing Treats,” by Laurie Goldrich Wolf; “Afternoon Tea,” by Susannah Blake; “The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook,” by Ina Garten; “500 Smoothies and Juicies,” by Christine Watson; “The Brownie Lover’s Bible,” by Lisa Slater; “Pizza: Grill It, Bake It, Love It!” by Bruce Weinstein; “Church Potluck Slow Cooker: Homestyle Recipes for Family and Community Celebrations,” by Linda Larsen; “The Woman’s Day Cookbook for Healthy Living,” by Elizabeth Alton; and “The Brain Power Cookbook: More Than 200 Recipes to Energize Your Thinking, Boost Your Mood, and Sharpen Your Memory,” by Frank Lawlis.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You probably forgot last night’s dreams, but there are other ways to access your subconscious. Pay attention to any slip of the tongue you might make, and note the unusual things you see in clouds, ceilings and the like. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You, of all people, know the value in setting your mind to something. You absolutely will do what you believe you will do. It’s that simple. So set your mind early in the day. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You feel as though you are being contacted by someone you can’t see. Perhaps a loved one is thinking about you, or you are being nudged to act by a spiritual guide, angel or deity. CANCER (June 22-July 22). While others around you complain about their duties, you will whistle while you work — or at least hum a happy tune. You are filled with purpose, and you revel in the pride of ownership. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). When two seemingly random events occur in a short time span, it’s a sign that they are somehow connected. This means something. If you can understand their connection, you can understand everything. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Do you know who your influences are? You may not even realize all that you have been taught by the people who are around you. That’s why it’s important to choose your role models carefully. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You have projected your wishes onto someone — a natural human response. You wanted someone to be a certain way, and so you saw him or her that way. Now you will wake up to this person’s true identity. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It’s always good to have a plan before you take action, but sometimes you have to put the pen and paper down, roll up your sleeves and dive in. This is one of those times. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). The steady hum of traffic outside your window is an apt complement to the steady buzzing of brain traffic inside your head. Both your mind and the outside world are going to a lot of places at once. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You have such sweet moves and great lines today that it’s a shame someone is not making a movie of your life. Perhaps you will be caught on film, though, and that will be a lucky piece of celluloid indeed. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Just when you thought life was getting predictable, you’ll be distracted in the most fortuitous way. This will cause you to perceive a few key details you would usually weed out. What’s going on is deeper than you once thought. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You are emotionally open, so it’s important that you stick with people you can trust. All of your senses are finely tuned to receive subtle messages now, including your sixth sense.

will be offered on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 1 until 4 p.m., Nov. 17 through Dec. 17, in the computer lab at the library, located at 205 Breckenridge St. in Henderson. Students will learn basic word processing and Internet skills, which will help them effectively search for jobs. The course is free for students who meet income eligibility guidelines. For more information and to pre-register, call VGCC at (252) 738-3417 or call H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library, (252) 438 -3316, ext. 236. Telling Our Stories photo exhibit at Perry Library: Beginning Wednesday, Perry Library will host the Telling Our Stories Photography Exhibition featuring the works of some of the best photographers in North Carolina. The exhibit features 50 black-and-white and color images that document the spirit of North Carolina’s people, places, wildlife, and landscapes. The exhibit is a collaboration between the Department of Cultural Resources and Our State magazine and will run through Nov. 25.

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

‘Dragon Age’ a gritty RPG By LOU KESTEN Associated Press Writer

The role-playing fantasy has been a staple of electronic gaming since the 1970s, but the genre has fallen out of favor in recent years, overtaken by grittier dramas like the “Grand Theft Auto” and “Call of Duty” franchises. “Dragon Age: Origins” (Electronic Arts, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99) tries to bring some of that grit to the fantasy RPG. The folks at BioWare, who also created the landmark RPG “Baldur’s Gate,” know their fantasy. So you have a motley team of humans, dwarves and elves teaming up against a world-threatening evil force. You have warriors, rogues and mages. You have demons, ogres and, of course, dragons. “Dragon Age” lets you pick your gender, race and career path. Depending on your choices, you live through one of six origin stories, but you’re eventually recruited in the Grey Wardens, an elite squad fighting the darkspawn threat. To rally the citizens of Ferelden, you need to dethrone a corrupt leader, hold off a civil war and unite diverse factions. And kill thousands of monsters. Also, you need a lot of time on your hands. Finishing the main story with no side missions takes about 60 hours. With so much to see, Ferelden is one of the most vivid, thoroughly realized worlds ever seen in a video game. And with so much to do, “Dragon Age” delivers more for your money than just about any other game on the market. Three-and-a-half stars out of four.

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