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HIGH POINT – The City Council gave the go-ahead last week to begin preliminary work associated with the seventh and final phase of storm-water improvement projects identified in a 2005 study to address flooding and other problems.

The council approved a $210,000 contract with Arcadis G&M of North Carolina Inc. for engineering design services related to planned storm-water improvements in the N. Hamilton Street/ Montlieu Avenue drainage basin.

The city is implementing a long list of projects that were prioritized into seven areas with the

most significant flooding and other issues. There are numerous projects within each area, or basin, some of which have been finished.

“This is last of the seven areas to start. That’s not to say we’ve fixed everything in front of it. We have finished some areas,” said Richard McMillan, High Point’s assistant public services director.

“We’ll do as much as we can with the money that is set aside for it.”

McMillan said the goals of the upcoming project likely will include addressing flooding problems just below Oakwood Municipal Cemetery on Montlieu Avenue, replacing culverts under streets such as E. Farriss Avenue and Forrest Street that have flood-

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The city is using $15.4 million in bond money approved in a 2004 referendum to pay for as many of the storm-water improvement projects as possible that were identified in a 2005 study.

Bond money likely won’t cover the whole list of upcoming projects. A preliminary study after the bonds were approved estimated the cost for all of the projects would top $28 million.

So far, the phases completed include the Sherbrook Drive project, the Kensington Drive basin and the N. Rotary Drive/ W. Farriss Avenue basin. Projects within other basins are in various stages of development.

ed at times, as well as addressing drainage problems behind some of the houses in the area and trying to stabilize some of the banks of Armstrong Creek.

The pace of the work and when it begins will depend in part on the time it takes to acquire necessary permits and easements.

“We always ask for people to donate easements, because that stretches money and helps it go farther,” McMillan said.

An approximately $2 million storm-water improvement proj“The area around the hospital is ect recently got under way near Southside Recreation Center. going to take a lot of work and a lot Another basin where projects are more detail,” said McMillan. “We’ll in the design phase is the area be working in it for awhile.” around High Point Regional Hospital and W. Ray Avenue. pkimbrough@hpe.com | 888-3531

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Tara Shollenberger was named manager of the Budd Family Campus at High Point University.

Shollenberger, who has been with HPU for three years, previously served as coordinator of registration.

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BY VICKI KNOPFLER ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – Paul Lessard all his life has watched women do amazing things.

He expects that soon females in the High Point area will solidify his belief that women can accomplish nearly anything they wish.

Lessard, president of High Point Community Foundation, plans to organize a women’s initiative operated by and for women to benefit the community. His life so far has taught him that such a plan can work.

Lessard’s mother, Dorothy Alice, is a physically tiny woman whose power is mighty, especially when Lessard was a child and his Marine father was stationed overseas while the family was stateside.

Now Lessard also paces his life to the beat set by his wife, Jayne, a psychologist, his 20year-old daughter Taylor, a student at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the two women with whom he works at the Community Foundation: Sherri Scott, director of donor services and administration, and Karol Murks, director of accounting and grants.

“I have found over the years that women tend to go about things differently, in a very relational way,” Lessard said.

A women’s initiative is not a new idea, and groups already operate at other places in the country. Both High Point and the Community Foundation are ripe for their own version, Lessard said.

The Community Foundation is in its 12th year of collecting and distributing money to benefit the area. It oversees approximately $50 million in assets.

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INDEX “I’ve always been a believer that organizations go through a season of life,” Lessard said. “So far we’ve earned the right to ask for money by educating people about what we do.

Now, I want to spread out so people of all incomes, races, faiths will come together and be involved in what we do.”

High Point long has had strong female leaders, most noticeably current Mayor Becky Smothers and former Mayor Judy Menden-

hall. Females also serve prominently in local nonprofit groups.

“In this city, there’s almost always a woman involved in leadership or helping drive it,” Lessard said. “I’ve worked with a lot of these women and see how productive these women are. There’s so much opportunity and so much potential here.” vknopfler@hpe.com | 888-3601

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BY VICKI KNOPFLER ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – The idea for a women’s initiative has been discussed at High Point Community Foundation for approximately a year.

During that time, Paul Lessard has gathered plenty of ideas but has not put anything specific – not even a kick-off date – into place because he wants to take his time and start the project correctly and because he wants women to determine those specifics.

Leadership would operate under auspices of, but separate from, the Community Foundation.

So far, Lessard, Community Foundation president, has begun to organize leadership, and he anticipates approaching people in the community for seed money.

Beyond that, he can only antici-

pate how the group might operate based on similar organizations in other cities.

While contributions would be accepted from anyone, only women would solicit funds, and a committee composed of women would determine how money would be distributed. Leadership would be under the auspices of, but separate from, the Community Foundation, whose 32-member board includes 10 women.

Presumably, distribution of money would supplement and fall along lines of current Commu-

nity Foundation giving, which is led by community projects, education and health.

Lessard hopes the female leaders will identify with different insight areas of need and means of effectiveness. He is most excited about the possibility to involve women without a lot of money or young women who are budding philanthropists and community leaders.

Women, for instance, might be able to buy into projects and how

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Fight leads to shooting near Ramseur

BY PAT KIMBROUGH ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

RANDOLPH COUNTY – A Randolph County man was airlifted to a hospital after being shot during a fight Saturday.

Randolph County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to 716 Edwards Farm Road early Saturday morning in reference to an assault that was reported at the residence, authorities said.

The site is off N.C. 22 in the Ramseur area.

At the scene, deputies found Michael Thomas Gray, a 32year-old Liberty man, with lacerations to his head and neck,

according to the sheriff’s office.

A second victim, identified as Valentine Sesmas, was found with gunshot wounds to his legs from a shotgun and an injury to his head from a blunt object, deputies said.

Sesmas was identified by the sheriff’s office as a male in his mid-20s from the Ramseur area.

A preliminary investigation showed that Gray and Sesmas were at the Edwards Farm Road home Friday night and Saturday morning drinking alcohol with Chris Cockman, who resides there, according to sheriff’s Lt. Derrick Hill.

After hours of drinking alcohol, a fight occurred in which both men

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were injured, Hill said. Investigators did not disclose the circumstances surrounding how the injuries were inflicted or who was believed to have shot Sesmas, but did say an investigation was ongoing and that charges were pending.

Gray was treated at Randolph Hospital for minor, non-life-threatening injuries, deputies said.

Sesmas was airlifted to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, where he underwent surgery for his leg injuries, deputies said. His condition was unavailable Saturday, but investigators said they expect him to recover. pkimbrough@hpe.com | 888-3531

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they are operated by making small contributions.

That interest in the community might keep young women in High Point after college.

“Anyone can be a philanthropist,” he said. “You don’t have to be wealthy to have a great impact. It’s not the amount of money you give, but how you give it.”

Lessard already can think of areas women might be passionate about supporting: preparing girls in school for success so they don’t succumb to traditional pitfalls in low-income communities, such as becoming pregnant and dropping out of school; single moth-

ers in the African-American community and the ripple effect that includes boys who drop out and join gangs; and mentoring through which female community leaders guide young women, one by one.

“What I love about this beyond everything else is that it builds community,” Lessard said. “How do you create that glue that connects the community?

“I would submit that women are that glue.

Women often build and sustain relationships better than us guys do sometimes.” vknopfler@hpe.com | 888-3601

13 Salvation Army kettles stolen at gunpoint CHARLOTTE (AP) – Authorities say robbers stole 13 Salvation Army kettles at gunpoint, apparently following a kettle collector to the undisclosed place where the charity counts the money it collects.

Salvation Army officials say two men with bandanas around their faces and guns in their hands ordered three of the charity’s workers to the ground Friday night, making off with $4,000 AP

Marines join 6,000 who placed wreaths at Arlington

Ho, ho, ho Santa Claus waves to kids of all ages during the Cherry-O’Berry Christmas Parade in Goldsboro Friday.

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Mountains expect freezing rain, sleet ASHEVILLE (AP) – Forecasters say freezing rain could create an icy mess in parts of the North Carolina mountains.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the areas surrounding Asheville, Hendersonville and

Lake Lure from Saturday evening through this morning.

Forecasters say that freezing rain and sleet should fall in the area for several hours before temperatures slowly rise back above freezing today. Up to a quarter-inch of ice is possible.

Meteorologists expect lesser amounts of sleet and freezing rain in the rest of the North Carolina mountains before temperatures warm.

Forecasters say that the cold rain could have a few sleet pellets mixed in as far south as Charlotte, but no problems are expected.

FAYETTEVILLE (AP) – A North Carolina man will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury convicted him of killing two people after smoking crack cocaine with them.

The Fayetteville Observer reports that 29-year-old Anthony McMillan was given the life sentence Friday.

in donations in 13 of the iconic red kettles.

The charity keeps the location where it counts its money secret for security, leading officials to believe one of the employees was followed after collecting some kettles.

The Salvation Army says people can help make up for the stolen money by dropping an extra donation in the next red kettle they see or by sending a check to the charity.

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) – Thousands of volunteers have placed wreaths on veterans’ grave sites across several sections of Arlington National Cemetery.

Some people traveled hundreds of miles Saturday to decorate the graves. For 19-year-old Pfc. De’Angello Robinson, it was a sevenhour trip to place a wreath on the grave of a soldier whom he’d never met.

Robinson was among a group of Marines who made the trip from Camp Johnson in North Carolina. Robinson says once his group ships out to war, “this could be us.”

For 18 years, the Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington, Maine, has been decorating grave sites at Arlington. This year, volunteers placed 6,000 wreaths at Arlington.

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HALIFAX (AP) – A grand jury has indicted a North Carolina man on a first-degree murder charge in the killing of a Roanoke Rapids man in his loan office.

The Daily Herald reports the indictment

to lay on the ground, then shooting him in the back of the head.

Police say the killing went unsolved for nearly 21⁄2 years until a tip led them to Hawkins, who was already behind bars on unrelated charges.

was issued Thursday against 26-year-old Gene Hawkins.

Authorities say Hawkins went into 69-year-old Shelby Salmon’s business in Roanoke Rapids in February 2006, forcing him

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A dog missing for three weeks was found skinny but alive after getting stuck in a storm drain in a Salt Lake City suburb.

Susan Garr’s 4-yearold Australian shepherd mix, Millie, had dropped

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Cops play Santa to kids of jailed parents MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

TAYLORSVILLE – Christmas can be bleak for children whose parents are in jail. That’s why the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office created Santa Cops – a program where uniformed officers spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day delivering toys to the children of detention inmates across Alexander County. “It’s not the children’s fault that their daddy, mother or both have been incarcerated,� said Sheriff Chris Bowman.

Most of the children on the Santa Cops list are living with family members.

That’s not the case for five siblings whose mother

mas,� she said. “I think a lot of children get left out because of what their parents have done even though it isn’t the children’s fault.�

The Santa Cops idea is catching on, and the program has stirred the compassion of people throughout the community.

One place where toys can be donated is the Bethlehem Fred’s location.

Fred’s General Manager Sue Kegley said she is happy to participate in Santa Cops because donaChris Bowman tions to the charity stay in Sheriff, Alexander County Alexander County, and it serves children who are often overlooked. thankful for Santa Cops. “It is an excellent idea,� “For us and the situation with the economy, she said. “The kids can’t this is a great opportu- help it that their parents nity to have a nice Christ- are in jail.� and father are in jail.

They’re in foster care, and their foster mother, Kim Grogan, of Taylorsville, is

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Volvo to close N.C. plant in March ASHEVILLE (AP) – Volvo is closing its heavy construction equipment plant in North Carolina next March, leaving 228 workers without jobs.

The company told

The Asheville CitizenTimes on Friday that demand for the equipment dropped off sharply.

The plant assembles frontend loaders, excavators and cabs. The work will now be

sent to plants in Shippensburg, Pa., as well as Sweden and South Korea. Volvo says it plans to keep its North American sales headquarters in Asheville. That facility has about 250 workers.

‘It’s not the children’s fault that their daddy, mother or both have been incarcerated.’

Man found N.C. Highway Patrol dying in car looks to fill empty ranks blocking freeway DURHAM (AP) – Authorities say an officer checking on a car blocking a lane on a North Carolina freeway found a man dying from a gunshot inside.

Durham police told multiple media outlets the shooting likely took place just before the car was reported on the Durham Freeway around 12:45 a.m. Saturday.

The man was taken to the hospital and died a short time later. His name has not been released.

Police say they don’t have a suspect or motive for the shooting.

HICKORY – If you’ve ever pictured yourself in a fast car and a crisp uniform, aiming a radar gun down a Carolina highway, this could be your chance – the North Carolina Highway Patrol is hiring.

There are 96 openings for new troopers across the state. While it’s true that police officers and deputies frequently join the Highway Patrol, Trooper Bobby Lineberger said this opportunity also is for people who have never worked in law enforcement.

Five of his current applicants have never been a sworn officer. They came

Judge allows Pace CEO to go home for Christmas MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Laid-off Pace Airlines employees offered their former boss catcalls for Christmas Friday after William C. Rodgers won permission from a District Court judge to go back to his Missouri home for the holidays.

The Pace workers, standing in front of the Hall of Justice after the hearing, shouted across Liberty Street at

Rodgers, who spoke briefly with reporters before leaving with his attorney. Rodgers didn’t respond to the workers’ shouts.

Rodgers did say he wants to cooperate with investigators probing Pace’s troubles.

Rodgers was arrested in September on a felony count of willful failure to pay group health premiums for his Pace employees. If convicted, he faces as much as 10 years in prison and a fine.

from the furniture industry where they lost their jobs and they’re looking for a career change.

The job is traffic enforcement – arresting impaired drivers, and making sure people follow the rules of the road. “Our job is to make sure people are traveling safe,� Lineberger said.

The Highway Patrol prides itself on being an elite organization and appeals to high achievers who excel in a militarystyle environment, said Lineberger.

The deadline for applications is Feb. 15.

The accepted candidates will begin Patrol School in Raleigh on Aug. 18.

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MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) – After weeks of conflicting responses, Iran abruptly said Saturday that it is ready to exchange uranium for nuclear fuel – the key demand of a U.N.-sponsored initiative to defuse global fears over its nuclear program.

The conditions laid out in comments from Iran’s foreign minister, however, are unlikely to satisfy the U.S. and its allies as they prepare to discuss new sanctions against Tehran at a meeting that could take place in the coming week.

Iran’s stockpile of uranium is at the heart of international concerns because it offers Iran a possible pathway to nuclear weapons production if it is enriched to higher levels. Tehran insists it only wants to use the material to produce fuel for power plants and for other peaceful purposes.

Under a U.N. plan proposed in October and being pushed by Washington and five other world powers, Iran would ship most of its uranium – up to 2,600 pounds (1,200 kilograms) of it – abroad. It

would then be enriched to higher levels in Russia, turned into fuel rods in France and returned to power a research reactor in Tehran that produces medical isotopes.

The material in the fuel rods cannot be enriched to higher levels, denying Iran the ability to use it to make weapons. “We accepted the proposal in principle,� Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki told reporters at a regional security conference in Bahrain.

Pakistan may launch new offensive ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistan may launch a new military offensive in a district near the Afghan border where insurgent leaders are believed to have fled to escape a government onslaught against the Taliban in nearby South Waziristan, the prime minister said Saturday.

The suggestion of another anti-Taliban operation illustrates the intractable challenge facing this nu-

clear-armed U.S. ally: Even as it squeezes one extremist stronghold in its northGilani west, insurgents simply regroup in other parts of the rugged, loosely governed region.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said the next front may be Orakzai, a

district north of South Waziristan in Pakistan’s lawless tribal belt. The government has launched a spate of airstrikes there, and the U.N. said Friday that about 40,000 people have already fled. “The operation in South Waziristan is over. Now there are talks about Orakzai,� Gilani told reporters. Gilani later backed down from some of those comments.

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Police detain 600 at mass climate rally COPENHAGEN (AP) – Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the chilly Danish capital and 600 were detained Saturday in a mass rally to demand an ambitious global climate pact, just as talks hit a snag over rich nations’ demands on China and other emerging economies.

The mostly peaceful demonstrations in Copenhagen provided the centerpiece of a day of global climate activism stretching from Europe to Asia. Police assigned extra officers to watch protesters marching toward the suburban conference center to demand that leaders act now to fight climate change.

Police estimated their numbers at 40,000, while organizers said as many as 100,000 had joined the march from downtown Copenhagen. It ended with protesters holding aloft candles and torches as they swarmed by night outside the Bella Center where the 192-nation U.N. climate conference is being held.

There have been a couple of minor protests over the past week, but Saturday’s

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Detained demonstrators are seen lined up on a street in Copenhagen Saturday. The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference is underway in Copenhagen. was by far the largest.

Police said they rounded up between 600 and 700 people in a preventive action against a group of youth activists at the tail end of the demonstration. Officers in riot gear moved in when some of the activists, masking their faces, threw cobblestones through the windows of the former stock exchange and Foreign Ministry buildings.

A police officer received minor injuries when he was hit by a rock thrown from the group and one protester was injured by fireworks, police spokesman Flemming Steen Munch said.

Earlier, police said they had detained 19 people, mainly for breaking Denmark’s strict laws against

carrying pocket knives or wearing masks during demonstrations.

Inside the Bella Center, the European Union, Japan and Australia joined the U.S. in criticizing a draft global warming pact that says major developing nations must rein in greenhouse gases, but only if they have outside financ-

ing. Rich nations want to require developing nations to limit emissions, with or without financial help.

Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren told The Associated Press that “there has been a growing understanding that there must be commitments to actions by emerging economies as well.�

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BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraqi security forces were tipped off to this week’s suicide bombings in Baghdad just hours before the blasts killed 127 people, a Shiite lawmaker said Saturday after a closed-door parliamentary briefing by the nation’s defense minister.

But the tip was too vague and came too late to stop the bombings, Defense Minister Abdul-Qader al-Obeidi told lawmakers, according to the legislator, who attended the discussion.

The special session of parliament was called to question Iraq’s senior security chiefs.

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Showdown looms over West Bank progress ELON MOREH, West Bank – From this Jewish settlement in the West Bank, calls are mounting for Israeli soldiers to cross a sacred line and defy orders to enforce a slowdown of Israeli construction on lands claimed by the Palestinians.

Anxious to preserve the army’s role as the country’s great unifier, Israeli authorities have jailed defiant soldiers, issued stern warnings to rebellious rabbis and recommended expelling one seminary from a program combining religious study and military service.

Angry Kurds battle with Turkish police ANKARA, Turkey – Angry Kurds battled Turkish police with rocks and firebombs Saturday to protest a decision by the country’s top court to shut down a pro-Kurdish political party on charges of ties to militants.

The party’s lawmakers said they would boycott parliament.

The party was banned Friday, a day after the main Kurdish rebel group claimed responsibility for killing seven Turkish soldiers in an ambush in central Turkey.

Bulgaria could take Guantanamo prisoner SOFIA, Bulgaria – Bulgaria’s prime minister says the country could accept one prisoner from Guantanamo following calls from Washington to take in detainees from the U.S. prison in Cuba.

Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has told reporters that taking in an inmate would be a strong gesture of cooperation between Europe and the U.S. Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said Saturday that talks between the U.S. and Bulgaria about a possible transfer were under way.

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Palin makes surprise appearance on ‘Tonight Show’ ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Sarah Palin made a surprise appearance on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” on Friday – and turned the tables on actor William Shatner.

In recent appearances on the latenight television show, Shatner has adopted a serious pose and recited some of PalPalin in’s less serious observations.

He was brought out again Friday to read passages from Palin’s blockbuster “Going Rogue.”

The carefully selected passages included ones about rapper Kid Rock and stalking sheep.

Afterward, it was Palin’s turn to read from Shatner’s autobiography, “Up Till Now.” The former Alaska governor’s selections included one in which Shatner talks about visiting an African elephant “in my underwear.”

Reality show mom Duggar gives birth to 19th child LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas couple featured on the reality TV show “18 Kids and Counting” now has 19.

Cable network TLC says 43-year-old Michelle Duggar gave birth to a 1-pound, 6ounce daughter Thursday night during an emergency cesarDuggar ean section.

She’d been due March 18.

TLC says the child is in stable condition at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.

The network airs the show starring Duggar, her 44-year-old husband and their brood. It says the Duggars named their 19th child and ninth daughter Josie Brooklyn. The Duggars’ first grandchild was born Oct. 8.

The family lives in a 7,000-square-foot house in Arkansas, where they manage commercial real estate property. The couple has said they’ll continue welcoming children as long as Michelle is able to have them.

Miss World: Gibraltar’s Kaiane Aldorino

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In this November file photo, Liza Minnelli poses for a portrait in New York.

Liza Minnelli not over the rainbow for ‘Oz’ NEW YORK (AP) – “The Wizard of Oz” is a family favorite, but the film – celebrating its 70th anniversary this year – isn’t on Liza Minnelli’s must-watch list.

Minnelli says it’s tough to watch because of the fictional horrors her mother, Judy Garland, endures.

She said: “I just loved her so and for some reason ‘The Wizard of Oz’ bothers me when I see it.

They do terrible things to her. ... That’s ’cause it’s my mom.”

Minnelli reflected on “The Wizard of Oz” while reflecting on her special, “Liza’s At The Palace.” It

captures her 2008 Tonywinning play and airs on public television stations this month.

The show ran more than two hours. When asked how she managed such a pace, the 63-yearold said: “You leave your pain shoes at the side of the stage.”

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Kaiane Aldorino from Gibraltar was named the new Miss World at a glittering two-hour pageant that put South Africa in the spotlight and featured traditional dancers and drummers.

The leggy brunette, dressed in a white-lace evening gown, was crowned as silver confetti rained down onstage around her.

She clapped her hands to her mouth when her name was announced.

“I have no words,” she said when asked to describe how she felt. “I am really happy.”

The 23-year-old administrative clerk from the British territory on the tip of the Iberian peninsula was a crowd favorite after winning the swimsuit competition.

She joined seven other contestants in the final round of the show. The loudest cheers were reserved for Miss South Africa, Tatum Keshwar

who was the second runner-up.

First runner-up was Miss Mexico, Perla Beltran Aldorino Acosta.

Aldorino did not give an indication of what her immediate plans were now that she had won the prestigious title.

“I will try to do the best that I can now that I have opportunity and advantage,” she said in a brief interview with The Associated Press after the event.

Wearing her crown of tiny jeweled blue flowers, Aldorino said she had been impressed with South Africa, which was hosting its seventh Miss World final.

“It has a lot to offer,” she said.

South Africa is taking advantage of the world’s attention as the country gears up to host the World Cup in June.

‘Avatar,’ ‘2012’ among films seeking effects Oscar

Actor Bonsall charged with assault

NEW YORK (AP) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 films vying for best visual effects consideration at the Oscars.

Blockbusters such as “Avatar,” “2012” and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” will compete with smaller films such as “Where the Wild Things Are,” “District 9” and “Coraline.”

The other semifinalists are: “Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” “G-Force,” “G.I.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) – Former “Family Ties” actor Brian Bonsall has been charged in Colorado with second-degree assault after police say he repeatedly hit a friend in the head with a broken wooden stool.

Twenty-eight-year-old Bonsall could face between two to six years

Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” “Sherlock Holmes,” “Star Trek,” “Terminator Salvation” and “Watchmen.”

The list was selected by the academy’s visual effects branch executive committee, which will narrow the list to seven in January. The committee will eventually pick three films for Oscar nominations.

The awards will be presented on March 7.

Man robs rapper Nelly’s house, steals electronics ST. LOUIS (AP) – Police say a man broke into rapper Nelly’s house in suburban St. Louis and stole electronics and video games.

Authorities say the Grammy-winning artist was not home during the robbery early Friday morning.

St. Louis County police spokesman Rick

Eckhard says a man used a window to get in and out of Nelly’s Nelly home. He said three people were inside the house at the time and one confronted the intruder.

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Official: Cuba has detained US citizen WASHINGTON – The Cuban government has arrested an American citizen, and U.S. diplomats in Havana are trying to learn more about the case, the State Department said Saturday.

The American was detained on Dec. 5, State Department spokeswoman Megan Mattson said. She would not release any more details, including the American’s identity, because of federal privacy law. The American was working as a subcontractor for the Maryland-based economic development organization, Development Alternatives, Inc.

Gillette to limit Woods’ role in its marketing One of Tiger Woods’ major sponsors won’t feature the world’s most valuable athlete in its marketing while he takes time off to repair his personal life.

Gillette’s announcement Saturday marks the first major sponsor of the superstar athlete and corporate pitchman to distance itself from Woods. “As Tiger takes a break from the public eye, we will support his desire for privacy by limiting his role in our marketing programs,� said Gillette, a division of Procter & Gamble.

Poor turned away from cancer screenings ALBANY, N.Y. – As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according to the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network.

In the unofficial survey of programs for July 2008 through April 2009, the organization found that state budget strains are forcing some programs to reject people who would otherwise qualify for free mammograms and Pap smears. Just how many are turned away isn’t known.

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Missing mom’s family prays for her return WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) – Friends and family of a mother who disappeared nearly a week ago are fasting and praying for her safe return as volunteers post thousands of fliers with her image on it.

Susan Powell, 28, was reported missing Monday under Powell what police are calling suspicious circumstances. A prayer service attended by about 100 people was held for her Saturday in West Valley City.

Since she was reported missing, authorities have questioned her husband and searched a desert area where he said he took the couple’s two young children, ages 2 and 4, camping early Monday morning in freezing conditions.

Josh Powell returned Monday night, after police had already received a call from relatives who had not heard from the Powell family. He declined to answer questions from The Associated Press on Saturday.

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Josh Powell, the husband of Susan Powell, answers questions outside his home in Magna, Utah, on Thursday. Police in Utah say about 30 detectives are looking for leads in the search for Powell, a 28-year-old mother who hasn’t been heard from since last weekend.

Senate GOP denied on spending filibuster WASHINGTON (AP) – The Democratic-controlled Senate on Saturday cleared away a Republican filibuster of a huge end-of-year spending bill that rewards most federal agencies with generous budget boosts.

The $1.1 trillion measure combines much of the year’s unfinished budget work – only a $626 billion Pentagon

spending measure would remain – into a 1,000-plus-page spending bill that would give the Education Department, the State Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and others increases far exceeding inflation.

The 60-34 vote met the minimum threshold to end the GOP filibuster. A final vote was set for this afternoon.

President Obama blasts banks WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama singled out financial institutions for causing much of the economic tailspin and criticized their opposition to tighter federal oversight.

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Essam Tellawi, spokesperson for the Islamic Circle of North America Mosque, speaks during a news conference in Alexandria, Va., Friday. Listening (from left) are attorney Ashraf Nubani, Mustafa Abu Maryam, the mosque youth pastor, and Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society.

friends who had attended a neighborhood mosque with their families suddenly turned up in Sargodha, a remote eastern Pakistani city. Neighbors

It’s hard for those who know the young men to understand it all. in Alexandria, Va., used terms like “good guy” and “friendly” to describe the men.

“He’s quiet, he doesn’t talk much,” said Brenda Cole, an upstairs neighbor of one of the five, Ramy Zamzam. “His daddy always helps me with my car. His mother always sends gifts for my kids. They’re a nice family.”

Zamzam, 22, has lived with his family in a basement apartment. He’d been studying at Howard University to be a dentist – where his younger brother, who would only say his name was “Zam,” says he’s got a 4.0 grade-point average.

Umar Farooq, an accounting student at George Mason University, was born in Sargodha. His par-

ents had recently returned there. His mother, Sabria Farooq, told reporters she and her husband had come to the United States 20 years ago, but that they returned to Pakistan in September to start a computer business.

Her husband, Khalid Farooq, was arrested in Pakistan along with Umar and the four others. It’s unclear what the older man’s role was in the episode.

Less is known about the other three friends, including the exact spelling of their names. Information from Pakistani officials has contradicted data on the students’ visa applications and their passports.

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Young Americans on the cusp of adulthood, they never revealed a hint of extremism, their families insist.

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THOMASVILLE – It may be winter, but residents at an assisted living facility in Thomasville have found a way to help the Chair City’s first community garden effort.

With the help of Ledford High School’s electrical trades class, residents at The Oaks of Thomasville will grow tomatoes in its winter garden. Ledford students on Friday helped erect a winter garden, which is comprised of shelves and grow lights, inside the facility’s activity room.

“I just think it’s a good way to give back to the community,” Ledford junior Josh Kearns said. “It’s a good way to give them something to do during the winter when you can’t grow plants outside. It’s just something to help the community out.”

Tammy Burris, activity director for The Oaks of Thomasville, said residents will begin planting seeds in January.

Once spring comes, tomato plants will be taken to Thomasville’s community garden, located on a piece of land on Memorial Park Drive, which is owned by Habitat for Humanity.

“This is an excellent opportunity because a lot of them here miss working in their gardens,” Burris said. “They will want to be very involved in this. For this to go back to the community is great because our residents keep involved.”

Greg Rice, executive director of Habitat for Humanity, said the winter garden gives the residents “an opportunity to do something meaning-

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Ledford High School students Josh Murphy and Jacob Smith work on a grow light platform installed at the Oaks of Thomasville assisted living facility. The residents will grow tomato plants over the winter to be planted in the Habitat for Humanity’s community garden.

ful in their activity room.”

“These folks, although they are sort of living in a confined environment, they’re still able to contribute to the community,” Rice said.

“This work is tedious. Once you start separating all these seedlings, it’s tedious work, but they are willing to contribute.”

This past summer, a group in Thomasville began the

city’s first community garden, with the assistance of Habitat for Humanity, to give low-income families the chance to have healthy and fresh food. The city also installed a hydrant for volunteers to water the garden.

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TRINITY – Two Trinity officials are set to bid farewell to fellow members as their terms will expire next week.

At the Trinity City Council meeting Tuesday night, the governing body will recognize outgoing Mayor Fran Andrews and Councilwoman Edith Reddick. Andrews failed in her attempt to seek reelection, while Reddick decided not to run again.

“I felt it was time for me to step aside and let another citizen serve and contribute new ideas,” said Reddick, who has served two four-year terms on City Council.

Reflecting on her years serving on City Council, Reddick said she would miss “the people more than anything.” She said she was proud about Trinity holding its annual City Haul, which has allowed residents to get rid of their junk at no cost. Reddick also noted that she was proud about the city’s new City Hall Annex because the City Council had been meeting at a church in Trinity.

As she departs from City Council, Reddick is asking residents to become involved in the city.

“I would like to encourage the citizens to take an interest in their city,” she said.

“I know you say the council is going to do what they want to, but unless you speak out they will do what they want to.”

Andrews, who has served one four-year term as mayor, said she was inspired to run for mayor several years ago because she wanted to make an impact on the city.

“I wanted to see something happening here and things were not moving, not like they have in the last four years,” Andrews said.

Andrews said she was proud about the City Council recently approving the Center City plan, which will create an “identity” for the center of Trinity, as well as a plan to build a park on the city of Trinity’s property. “The plans are very key,” she said.

Andrews and Reddick both said they don’t have any plans to run for office again.

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The city of Trinity will hold an open house and reception for newly elected and outgoing Trinity officials Tuesday. The open house will begin at 5:50 p.m. and end at 6:45 p.m.

There will be refreshments.

Donations push Cheer Fund closer to goal The 2009 Christmas Cheer Fund has received $2,380 today. That brings the total in donations to $11,979. This year’s goal is $35,000.

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The campaign was started in 1924 by The High Point Enterprise as a campaign to raise money for needy families. “Local organizations, such as the Rotary, Kiwanis and Civitan clubs, are to aid in taking care of these families,” the Enterprise said in a front page article published Dec. 12, 1924. The initial campaign collected

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$848. The campaign has changed responsibility over the years. It was operated as an Empty Stocking Fund by the High Point Jaycees for about 30 years, after it was passed around between different private local residents and groups.

When the last local nonprofit charitable organization owner, the late Benny Braica, retired in the late 1990s, the High Point Kiwanis Club took over what’s now called the Christmas Cheer Fund.

This year’s distribution of gifts will be from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Dec. 19 at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, 716 Leonard Ave. Parents of eligible children will be mailed vouchers that they can redeem for gifts.

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Today’s donors are: Balance Forward. ......................$9,599 Benny & Becky Morton...................$25 Fred & Agnes Hollingsworth .........$25 Myers & Associates, CPA’s..............$25 David L. Maynard...........................$100 Ilderton Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep......$100 In honor of Master Sgt. Steven L. Hall by Britt, Karen, Ethan & Brennen Moore................................................$25 In honor of Wiley Stockton by Bob & Vivian Ruden....................................$25 In loving memory of Nora Montgomery by Charlene Calhoun................$25 In loving memory of Evelyn Calhoun

by Michael Calhoun.........................$25 In honor of Sarah Woodell and in memory of Bruce Woodell by Wayne & Dorothy Woodell.........................$35 In honor of Krystal, Sarah, Mary Kate, Matthew, Mattie, and Parker by Ken & Martha Clegg................................$50

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In memory of Mr. & Mrs. Rob Kennedy and in honor of our employees by Kennedy Oil Co., Inc........................$50 In honor of our great grandchildren Rebekah, Maggie, Lilli, Breanna, Carmen, Madison, & Trent by Phil & Shirley Butler..................................................$70 In memory of Dr. & Mrs. William A. Pate by Pat & Sandra Pate........$100 In honor of Winter, Bell employees....................................................$100 In honor of the faculty & staff of High Point Friends School by Phillip Fulton....................................................$100 In memory of David A. Dawkins by his family.........................................$100 Donation by Herbert & Carolyn Huggins in memory of their parents..................................................$150 In honor of Albert & Dainese Hazzard, Jettie Carter and our employees and in memory of Buddy Deal & Cora H. Jones

by Albert Roofing Co., Inc..............$250 In memory of Patty by Bill Horney...................................................$500 In memory of Gary McClellan by Coy & Susan Willliard............................$500 Total for today.............................$2,380 New Grand Total.......................$11,979

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William Hinson ARCHDALE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mr. William â&#x20AC;&#x153;Billâ&#x20AC;? Edgar Hinson,71 resident of Archdale, died December 11, 2009, at High Point Regional Hospital Cancer Center.

Mr. Hinson was born March 2, 1938 in Chadbourne NC, a son to the late Edgar L. Hinson and Eva Mae Long Hinson Strickland. Other than his father he was preceded in death by a daughter Amy Hinson Kemp in May 2009, and one brother Horace Hinson. Mr. Hinson married Myrtle Hopkins Hinson December 31, 1960. He was a Charter Member of Christ Gospel Baptist Church in High Point and attended New Life Baptist Church in Thomasville. Mr. Hinson owned his own plumbing company and was last employed by Mid State Plumbing Supply. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, son, and brother. He will be dearly missed.

Surviving are his wife of 49 years, Myrtle Hinson of the home; one daughter Donna Hinson Eads and husband Mickey of Archdale; one son William Edgar â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eddieâ&#x20AC;? Hinson II and wife Candice of Archdale; five siblings Patsy Baxley of MD, Henry Hinson and wife Linda of SC, Lee Strickland and wife Juanita of SC, Sue Sawyer and husband Randy of SC, and Doris Buffkin of SC; four grandchildren Joey Eads, Ashley Eads Fleming, Jonathan Kemp, and Natalie Hinson; and one great grandson Adam Fleming.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, December 14th at Cumby Family Funeral Chapel in Archdale with Rev. Michael Mabe officiating.

Burial will follow at Floral Garden Memorial Park.

Visitation will be from 6:008:00 pm Sunday, December 13nd at Cumby Family Funeral Service in Archdale.

Memorials may be directed to American Cancer Society, High Point Unit, 4-A Oak Branch Dr. Greensboro, NC 27407.

On-line condolences may be made through www. cumbyfuneral.com. Arrangements by Cumby Family Funeral Service in Archdale.

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HIGH POINT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mrs. Annie Juanita Overby Barley, 80, of High Point passed away on December 11, 2009 at High Point Regional Hospital. Mrs. Barley was born December 6, 1929 in Guilford County to Marshall and Lola Lewis Overby. She was retired from High Point Regional Health System.

In addition to her parents, Mrs. Barley was preceded in death by a greatgranddaughter, Allyssa Barley and five sisters and three brothers.

Surviving are a son, Danny Barley and wife, Kathy of Archdale, two brothers, Jerry Overby of Jacksonville, Florida and Charles Overby of Lexington, two grandchildren, Darren Barley and wife, Marsha of High Point and Kristen Barley of Archdale, two greatgrandchildren, Tanner and Haven Barley and two stepgreat-grandchildren, Austin and Tyler Swink.

The Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Conrad Memorial Baptist Church, 1920 North Centennial Street , High Point by Reverend Marcus Campbell. The interment will be in Floral Garden Memorial Park. A visitation will be from 6 until 8 p.m. Sunday at Cumby Family Funeral Service in Archdale. Online condolences may be made through www.cumbyfuneral.com.

Bernice Carter HIGH POINT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mrs. Bernice Dennis Carter, age 89, of 306 North Rotary Dr. died Friday Dec 11, 2009 in High Point Regional Hospital.

She was born March 21, 1920 in Albemarle NC daughter of Oliver Dennis and Gertrude Hunsucker Dennis.

She was employed with North State Telephone with thirty one years of service and was a member of Westchester Baptist Church. She was married May 17, 1945 to William A.Carter, Jr. who preceded her in death Dec. 15, 1976. Surviving are, One daughter, Robin Newton and husband Mike of the home; One son, William A. Carter III and wife Patti of Phoenix, AR; One sister, Vanessa Mitchell and husband Marshall of Lexington; One brother, Ronald Wayne Dennis and wife Barbara of Conway, SC; Seven Grandchildren, Mitch, Jill, Jay, Julie, Michelle, Brian and Scott; Ten Great Grandchildren. Private Family Graveside services will be conducted Monday in Rich Fork Baptist Church Cemetery.

Memorial services will be conducted Monday Dec 14, 2009 at 7 p.m. in Westchester Baptist Church in High Point, NC. Memorials may be directed to Westchester Baptist Church, 135 Westchester Dr. High Point, NC 27262 or to High Point Regional Hospital 601 N. Elm St. High Point, NC 27262.

On line condolences may be sent to the Carter Family at www. jcgreenandsons.com.

Jesse Chapman HIGH POINT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jesse Chapman of 908 James Road died Dec. 12, 2009, at his residence.

Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.

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Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funeral Service is 90, formerly of Fairview Drive, died Dec. 11, 2009, in charge of arrangements. at Lexington Health Care.

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Mary Parks HIGH POINT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mrs. Mary Ruth Brower Parks, 86, a former resident of Shadow Valley Road in High Point, died Friday morning December 11, 2009 at River Landing at Sandy Ridge.

Mrs. Parks was born in Randolph County on February 26, 1923, a daughter of James Wesley and Laura Ann Younts Brower. She was a member of the First Baptist Church and the Koinonia Sunday School Class. On June 20, 1942, she was married to Dr. W. Craig Parks, who preceded her in death on May 17, 1998. She was also preceded in death by her parents; a son, Dr. Robert Martin Parks; her sister, Louise Brower Mace and her brother, James Wray Brower.

Ruth was best known for her kindness and service to others. From the time she was a young wife and mother until the past year, she devoted herself to family, church, and community. For over 65 years, Ruthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose was to love others, and she did so in quiet ways that reflected her humility.

On April 30, 2007, Ruth married Jack B. Smith.

Together they resided at River Landing where they experienced the comfort and support of a close community. Surviving in addition to her husband are one daughter, Susan Diane Parks of Charleston, SC; three step-daughters, Gayle Smedberg and her husband Douglas of Greensboro; Terry Ferguson and her husband Gregory of Raleigh; Janis Tucker of Greensboro;

two sons, William â&#x20AC;&#x153;Billâ&#x20AC;?

Craig Parks, Jr. and his wife, Patricia of Oak Ridge; Dr. John Stephen Parks and his wife Beth of Winston-Salem; one stepson, Wayne Smith and his wife Susan of Molene, IL. Ruth has four grandchildren: William Craig Parks, III of Bryson City; Jennifer Parks Rudolph and her husband Vernon Carver Rudolph, III of Raleigh; Gregory Stephen Parks and his wife Lynda of Winston-Salem; and, Kathleen Adair Parks of Charlotte.

A service conducted by the Reverend Dr. Tim Cannon and the Reverend Bruce Hartgrove to Celebrate Ruthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church, High Point. The family will receive friends following the service. A private family committal service will be held at Spring Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery. Ruth will remain at Sechrest Funeral Service, 1301 East Lexington Ave. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be donated to the charity of the donorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice. We are grateful to the nurses at River Landingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skilled care facility for their compassion and skill as they cared for Ruth, especially during her last moments. We were blessed to have had the palliative services of Hospice of the Piedmont, as Ruth peacefully ushered herself to Our Lord.

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Helen Johnson HIGH POINT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Helen Elizabeth â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hangieâ&#x20AC;? Johnson, age 83, of 535 Gatewood Avenue died Saturday, December 12th , under Hospice care, following several years of declining health.

A native and lifelong resident of High Point, She was born May 5th, 1926 a daughter of the late James Belvin and Hazel Murphy Johnson. Until her retirement in 1993, Helen had worked for thirty years at Schoonbeck Furniture Company, later to become Henredon Industries. She was a member of Rankin Memorial United Methodist Church. In Addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by a brother, James Belvin Johnson, Jr. and a nephew, Steve Walton.

Surviving are two sisters, Billie Sue Johnson of the home and Hazel Marlene Walton of High Point; nieces and nephews, Donna Walls and her husband Van of High Point, Debra Frazier and her husband Larry of Trinity, Denise Wolfe and her husband

Jerry of Archdale, Pamela Johnson of High Point, Mike Johnson of Greensboro, Cindy Bradley and her husband Kevin of Thomasville, Angela Hartman and her husband Marty of Clemmons and several great nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in the chapel of Cumby Family Funeral Service in High Point with the Reverend Jeanette Robertson officiating. Music for the service will be provided by Mr. Thom Gill. Burial will be in Floral Garden Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends, at the funeral home, from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. Sunday and other times at the residence.

Memorials may be directed to Hospice of the Piedmont, 1801 Westchester Drive, High Point, NC 27262.

Online condolences can be made at www.cumbyfuneral.com.

Arrangements by Cumby Family Funeral Service.

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he magnificent house is nestled among 450 acres of sprawling farmland with a vista of the neighboring Uwharries Mountain Range. The long, winding country lane leading to the house through the woods is lined with charming lamp posts. When one emerges from that country lane, there is the splendorous sight of the incredible house sitting on the hill as if keeping watch over the countryside.

Jerry Neal built this â&#x20AC;&#x153;dreamâ&#x20AC;? house and named it after his wife Linda.

Linbrook Hall is one of the largest private homes in the southeastern United States with over 32,000 ABOUT square TOWN feet and Mary 60 rooms!

Bogest Linbrook Hall is a spectacular sight. As the sight of the homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rotunda and the huge Romanesque columns comes into view, I immediately realized that we have a precious jewel in our community.

Neal is the founder of RF Micro Devices, which is the global leader in the design and manufacture of highperformance semiconductor components. To put that in perspective, more than half of all of the cell phones in the world have components made by RF Micro Devices.

Recently, I â&#x20AC;&#x201C; along with Steve and Donna Lawing and Jordan and Lou Washburn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; had the extreme privilege to get a private tour. As we rang the doorbell, I felt like Dorothy in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wizard of Ozâ&#x20AC;? when she went to see the wizard. Neal opened the towering mahogany doors, and our magical tour began.

The sunlit foyer loomed under the six-story high classical rotunda as symmetrical stairways cascaded from the upper floor. I was mesmerized as I walked amid the rare antiques, including a limited edition Steinway grand piano (only 25 in the world) signed by Henry Steinway, artwork and furnishings that make this immense home seem so warm and welcoming.

There is even the beginnings of a future museum on the third floor. I was awed to see Nealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first invention â&#x20AC;Ś a microphone made out of a Band-Aid box when he was just 8 years old. He later built his own radio and television even before he reached his teens. He told me that he studied and studied Thomas Edison. Among his collectibles is an original letter written by Edison and an original Edison light bulb, which is lit 24 hours a day. One of Edisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original bulbs has burned for 100 years, he told me.

As we go from room to room, I notice that many of the clocks are set at five minutes to midnight. This wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t coincidental. Neal shared his story of â&#x20AC;&#x153;five minutes to midnight.â&#x20AC;? Five minutes to midnight was the â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013;

moment that changed his life forever.

When RF Micro Devices was a young and fledgling company, cell phone giant Nokia wanted new technology. RF Micro Devices resisted. Then the Nokia representative told this story, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Imagine you are in a little Swiss town in the Alps. A train will be coming through at midnight to take you to a wondrous place. It will only come through the town once in a lifetime. It is five minutes to midnight.

Will you get on that train?â&#x20AC;?

Neal and RF Micro Devices got on that train. That was the moment that changed Nealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life forever. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Life happens that way,â&#x20AC;? he told me.

The road to take that â&#x20AC;&#x153;trainâ&#x20AC;? was not always easy.

When Linda and Jerry were married 30 years ago, all he had was an â&#x20AC;&#x153;old junk car with a hole in the floor. I told Linda that I would work hard, and I did,â&#x20AC;? he added.

As we walked from room to room, I marveled at the sheer beauty and the beautiful countryside coming into view behind the manor. I saw a big rock, a very big rock in the spacious backyard several hundred feet from the house. That rock also has a special meaning to Jerry.

His mother and father met at that rock when they were just 14 years old. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After they met, they never went with anyone else,â&#x20AC;? he told me. At one point, the rock actually was lost and had been moved to cover an old well.

The rock has an inscription written by his father before he died.

Family is very important to both Jerry and Linda. Family portraits and photographs are in almost every room. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone has family photos in their home. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so unusual about that?â&#x20AC;? you ask. I guess I should tell you that Jerry and Linda donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live in their â&#x20AC;&#x153;dreamâ&#x20AC;? house!

They live comfortably in a 2,200-square-foot farmhouse on the property, which was settled by Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ancestors in 1750.

Linbrook Hall was built as a charitable and philanthropic endeavor to raise money for nonprofit orga-

nizations such as St. Jude Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Research Hospital and Victory Junction Gang Camp. Both of these organizations dedicated to children are special in the hearts of the Neals. Jerry is on the board of directors at St. Jude and both of the Neals serve on the board of Victory Junction. The first fundraiser for Victory Junction at Linbrook Hall was held five years ago and featured a concert by rhythm and blues singer Percy Sledge (â&#x20AC;&#x153;When a Man Loves A Womanâ&#x20AC;?). That event raised more than $50,000 for the NASCARthemed camp founded by Kyle and Pattie Petty for children with chronic illnesses. Another fundraiser featured country singer Charlie Daniels.

Linbrook Hall and the Neal John Deere Vintage Tractor Museum, also located on the estate grounds, are hosting the â&#x20AC;&#x153;John Deere Christmasâ&#x20AC;? 5-9 p.m. on Dec. 18-20. You can see Linbrook Hall â&#x20AC;&#x153;decorated with holiday splendor as your hayride tours the estate grounds.â&#x20AC;? The first floor of Linbrook Hall will be open, decorated with Christmas trees, and you will be greeted by Jerry and Linda. There will be hot dogs and snacks. Hayrides for everyone. There will be carolers!

Linbrook Hall is destined to be a philanthropic tool to make dreams come true. Who knew what the future of that 8-year-old boy would be when he took that Band-Aid box, lead from a pencil, a razor and a dry-cell battery and made his first component ... a microphone.

Dreams do come true, and Jerry and Linda want Linbrook Hall to make dreams come true for other children.

The Neal John Deere Vintage Tractor Museum, 5507 Snyder Country, Road, Trinity NC |(3360 861-6959 or www.nealsjohndeeretractors.com for more information.

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Herbert Speas Jr. WINSTON-SALEM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Herbert Lee Speas, Jr., 86, died on Friday, December 11, 2009. He was born on January 24, 1923 in High Point to Herbert Lee Speas, Sr. and Ruby Lucille Davis.

He graduated from High Point School and attended High Point College for two years before entering the Army-Air Corps. during WWII. Herb was a Fighter-Bomber Pilot in a P-47 Thunderbolt airplane and flew 66 missions with the 79th Fighter Group, 89th Squadron. He retired from the Air Force Reserves as a Lieutenant Colonial after the war. During combat he received Distinguished Flying Cross medals, three Oak Leaf clusters and M.T.O. medals with six battle stars.

He was married to Elizabeth Anne Gallimore of Thomasville in 1943, who preceded him in death in 2006. They had a daughter, Gerry Lee Speas, born in 1945 who also preceded him in death; a son, Randall Terry Speas born in 1948 and lives in Winston-Salem; one daughter, Cindy Anne Speas Dunn, born in 1957 and lives with husband, Gary S. Dunn, in Advance; one grandson, Christian Anthony Speas and wife, Michelle Calloway, of Advance with great-grandsons, Davis Merritt and John Mitchell. Herb has one brother, Gorrell Irving Speas and wife, Rita, of Oak Ridge, TN. After WWII, Herb graduated from Duke University in 1947. Later that same year he became employed

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the Blind. Herb had served as President and Chairman of these organizations. He was past board member of Housing Residential Care Center, Inc. Herb was selected in 1980 by Tobacco International Magazine as one of seven tobacco â&#x20AC;&#x153;Men of the Yearâ&#x20AC;?, a world wide honor. He served on many boards and committees during his long term membership with Messiah Moravian Church.

The family will receive friends from 6-8:00 p.m.

Monday, December 14, at Salem Funeral Home.

The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, December 15, at Messiah Moravian Church with Rev. Truman Dunn officiating. Burial will follow in the Salem Moravian Graveyard.

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Interstate 40, which has an overall impact of about $1.1 million for every day it is closed, will likely not reopen at least until the end of March, Haywood County commissioners were told Monday during a board meeting.

Joel Setzer, division engineer for the N.C. Department of Transportation, gave an update on the rock slide and explained how the clean up strategies have changed as more information became available during the process.

Interstate 40 between Haywood County and the Tennessee line has been closed since an Oct. 25 rock slide completely covered westbound lanes of the roadway and made travel too dangerous on the lanes headed east.

Traffic counts show the roadway has 25,000 vehicles a day, 45 percent of which is truck traffic, Setzer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a vital corridor for the southeast United States,â&#x20AC;? he said, flipping through slides showing the extent to the damage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can see where the bottom wedge of a massive rock ledge fell out.

We either have to remove or secure it.â&#x20AC;?

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Council must hear concerns of showroom owners I have been involved in six meetings with the city concerning the City Core Plan: • Aug. 5 at Roy B. Culler Senior Center • A public hearing Sept. 21 at City Hall • Sept. 22, in the fish bowl with committee members and zoning and planning committee members • Oct. 27 in City Council Chambers • Nov. 17 in City Council Chambers • Dec. 7 in City Council Chambers.

Last Monday night, we were told the issue was postponed until Dec. 14 at 3 p.m. in the fish bowl for further discussion – they may or may not vote at that time.

October’s meeting was scheduled while furniture owners would be in High Point during market, but was canceled and then rescheduled for the next week causing

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market owners to return to High Point at their expense.

When they returned, they suffered the arrogance of Jay Wagner, which a number of business owners made reference about to me.

The Dec. 7 meeting was scheduled during Fabric Showtime, making it difficult for a number of business owners again to attend – postponement this time worked to our advantage. I do wonder if the City Council feels that if they continue to postpone this issue we will get discouraged and go away.

Not likely.

I have also noticed the committee chairman, Bill Bencini, always excuses himself, probably for conflict of interests. I raise the point that if there is a conflict of interests, why has he not stepped down so someone else could be

the chairman and could listen to our concerns and help us instead of leaving the room every time we come to get help.

Mayor Smothers and members of City Council must do the right thing! “And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise” (Luke 6:31).

CATHY BREWER HINSON High Point

the joys of the past and the hopes for the future, and to remember all the wonderful things in our live to be thankful for.

If we can do this for a day, why not forever? Let us keep the true spirit of Christmas today, tomorrow and always.

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YOUR VIEW POLL Let’s keep the Christmas spirit all year Let us keep Christmas so that its meaning never ends. It’s the time of the year to wish happiness and goodwill, not only to our friends and loved ones but to everyone near and far.

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Has state learned from Dell deal?

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ell announced Friday it plans to keep its local plant open through March 2010, and may call back some workers laid off in November. That appears to be hopeful news but, at this point, it is unlikely that action will do anything but delay eventual closing of the plant announced in October.

As a recent article in the Winston-Salem Journal put it, “State officials are at odds with Dell over whether the company must repay millions of dollars in tax credits that it received as part of a massive incentives deal.”

To its credit, no pun intended, Dell in early November “repaid about $15.5 million in incentives to ... Winston-Salem, about $7.9 million to Forsyth County, about $2.8 million to the Millennium Fund and about $308,000 to Forsyth County Development Corp.” In addition, company officials said in late November that it “took a $59 million noncash charge in the third quarter of its fiscal year 2010, which ended Oct. 30.”

Since then, according to news reports, Dell has decided enough is enough. It apparently doesn’t intend to reimburse the state of North Carolina for tax credits it received while meeting performance thresholds required for incentives in past years.

But the crux of the issue before us really isn’t whether Dell will repay the state anything. The topic for discussion is whether state officials have learned anything from this endeavor and will be wise enough to use considerably more common sense and provide more competent legal expertise when the next request for incentives comes roaring down the pike.

First, the state never again should be so free with taxpayer dollars – approximately $243 million in state credits – and any incentives deals should be transparent so those of us who are footing the bill easily can evaluate whether the action was worthwhile. That’s something we can’t do in the Dell case because, as the Journal reported, “The amount of credits that the company actually claimed during those years (2005-07) is not public information, and neither the department nor the company would release it.”

For shame!

We only can hope that the state will be wiser – and much more free with information – when companies again come calling for handouts. We only can hope the state will do a much better job of writing the contracts in clear, precise language, dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s in incentive packages in the future and also let you in on what they are doing to you and for the company before the company gets the money. It takes statesmen/ stateswomen to accomplish that.

Don’t hold your breath.

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Sad news continues in the world of journalism

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lost three friends last week: a reporter with whom I worked for a dozen years in Decatur, Ill.; a leader in newspaper publishing and community service for whom I may have been a role model in Beaver Falls, Pa.; and Editor & Publisher, America’s oldest journal covering the newspaper industry.

As I went through e-mails Monday morning, I came upon a note from Anthony Man, political reporter for the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. Shortly thereafter, another came from Roger Hughes, recently retired after a more than 35-year career in Illinois journalism with The Pantagraph, Bloomington; the Decatur Herald &Review; Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, Decatur; and the Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale. Hughes was H&R city editor for a half-dozen years while I was editor in Decatur and Man first was an H&R political reporter before joining, for almost a decade, the Lee Enterprises’ state capital bureau in Springfield, for which I was the supervisor.

Those e-mail messages informed me of the death in an accident on Sunday of Ron Ingram, an award-winning Herald & Review reporter for 40 years, who “covered everything from business to education and most recently the police and courts beat, along with politics,” according to an article in the Herald & Review. Part of Hughes’ note read, “Ron was always my favorite, can-be-most-relied-upon, go-to reporter.” But Ingram was more than a reporter. His obituary noted that he was a Scoutmaster for 16 years, graduating nearly 40 Eagle Scouts and was a Scout commissioner at the time of his death. He was an avid bridge player, enjoyed reading and was a member of the History Club of Decatur and, when I was residing there, a bit of a mentor on do-it-yourself remodeling.

In Tuesday’s e-mail box was a message from my sister. It read, “I am sorry to start your day with this, but felt you would want to know if you already didn’t know that, according to today’s paper (Beaver County Times), Eliza Northrop Beale died of complications from H1N1 flu. She died Saturday ... the fourth from Washington County to die” from swine flu. Liza, as we called her, became a friend when I was editor of The News-Tribune in Beaver Falls, Pa., in the 1960s and ’70s and Betty Lou was a reporter, women’s editor and city editor. Liza’s father is William

B. Northrop, former publisher of The News-Tribune and retired newspaper company executive. Liza also was an award-winning journalist who served as general manager of one weekly newspaper (49,000 circulation) and editor of two OPINION magazines, was a leader in several newspaper organizations Tom and heavily involved in civic Blount and community organizations ■■■ in Washington County.

I, as do all of The High Point Enterprise’s news/sports/photo staff members, know what the staffs in Decatur and Washington County are going through. You’ll recall the losses the Enterprise suffered earlier this year when two exceptionally talented journalists, news reporter Nick Maheras and sports columnist Tom Berry – both with more than 20 years’ service here – died.

On Thursday came the word that “the Nielsen Co. is selling some of its most prominent trade journals – including The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard – and shutting down Editor & Publisher, which has chronicled the newspaper business for 108 years.”

The magazine had switched to a monthly from weekly in 2003 and heightened its focus on the Web. Ironically, just the other day, Steve Nason of Nason & Associates, Asheville, who regularly covers High Point Market, visited my office and spotted the December issue of E&P. He blurted out something akin to “there’s a publication on its last legs.” I tentatively agreed, not realizing how on-target his words were.

I can remember when – at least through the early 1990s – E&P was the go-to source for the majority of journalists looking for jobs, finding out when and where friends (and foes) in the business were moving and trying to keep up with trends, challenges and opportunities in the newspaper business. In fact, all but one of the nine full-time jobs I landed over more than a half-century in the newspaper business I found out about by reading ads in Editor & Publisher.

We certainly miss Maheras and Berry and recognize that you do, too.

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Perdue’s one-year training period is now over

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s Gov. Beverly Perdue’s first year comes to a close, it is appropriate to evaluate the job she has done.

If asked to assign a letter grade it would be difficult to give better than a “C.” There are no major failings but neither have there been big successes.

Perdue’s lack of accomplishment can be attributed to staff problems, bad decisions and lack of a focused, clear agenda for what she wants to accomplish. Gov. Perdue took office in one of the worst moments of our state’s history, and she has been distracted by dealing with the severe recession, along with the dark cloud of accusations of unethical and illegal actions by government officials. She has been more open than her predecessor and

certainly more visible. We know she is working hard and has been a great cheerleader for North Carolina, but we need more MY SPIN from a governor.

Perdue’s staff Tom has not distinCampbell guished itself.

■■■ One of the first things a young Jim Hunt did upon taking office was to surround himself with the likes of Joe Pell and John C. Williams, seasoned pros who could advise, mentor and assist him. Perdue has yet to assemble such a cadre and it has hurt her, perhaps leading to some of the bad decisions we have witnessed.

Her first budget was largely dismissed. The attempt to name a CEO for public education was unconstitutional. It was obvious the administration stumbled over the court decision to release prisoners, and the entire episode surrounding the accelerated construction for the Charlotte loop was amateurish. The latest gaff regarding the state recovering all the incentives given Dell computer clearly demonstrates that either her staff is giving bad advice or the governor isn’t listening.

Perdue is all over the state making speeches, cutting ribbons and encouraging us.

But busyness does not equal productivity. There appears to be a lack of focus to this administration, almost like they are

overwhelmed. There are plenty of major problems on our plate; many of them would be good priorities to tackle. But Perdue can’t undertake them all, so a prudent course would be to prioritize two or three, develop solid plans and be single-minded in achieving those goals.

The governor sounded a strong note recently in saying North Carolina needs to be more innovative, but that innovation needs to start at the top, with her. Previous governors have proposed the Research Triangle Park, MCNC, the N.C. Biotechnology Center, the Global TransPark and a host of other innovative ideas, some more successful than others but innovative nonetheless. We want to hear Bev Perdue’s big dream and we predict the state

will follow a well-reasoned and ordered plan.

To be successful, Perdue must avoid paying attention to public opinion polls and stop playing to constituent groups.

Her approval numbers will increase only when she gives people something to approve.

She won the election and now it’s time to govern. Let’s chalk up this first year as on-thejob training in the middle of a recession. Perdue has three years left to make her mark on this state. We all have a stake in her success.

TOM CAMPBELL is former assistant North Carolina state treasurer and is creator/host of NC SPIN, a weekly statewide television discussion of N.C. issues airing Sundays at 6:30 a.m. on WFMYTV. Contact him at www.ncspin.com.

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Obama’s first 11 months bring comparison to President Buchanan

BY MARVIN FOLKERTSMA

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residential comparisons that greeted Barack Obama’s election ranged from the sublime to the transcendent. He was variously described as the second coming of John F. Kennedy, a re-embodiment of Franklin Roosevelt, and even a budding Abraham Lincoln – a sort of Savior-in-Chief to rescue an aggrieved nation from the Dantesque tribulations of his predecessor. Obama’s public pronouncements signaled his determination to abrogate George W. Bush’s policies and send us all back upon paths of righteousness.

And that was before the new president had even done anything.

Well, now President Obama has done quite a number of things, which bring to mind other analogies, some of which lurk beneath the worship continuum.

Before Roosevelt there was Herbert Hoover, and before Lincoln there was James Buchanan, both of whom share the dishonor of being ranked among the country’s worst presidents, as Nathan Miller pointed out a decade ago in a perky book entitled “Star-Spangled Men.” About Hoover, much has been written; but it is President Buchanan who presents a really interesting case.

Miller’s review suggests that presidents fail because they are clueless or spineless or both. James Buchanan was both. Among the most reviled in the heap, he exhorted Supreme Court justices to deliver what was arguably the most disastrous court decision in American history – Dred Scott v. Sanford – and in the process egregiously violated constitutional integrity and the separation of powers. Buchanan lambasted Congress for not passing the notoriously pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution that would have admitted Kansas as a slave state into the Union.

To get his way he resorted to political thuggery: promises of cash to his supporters and dismissal of officials who opposed him. All to no avail; Congress defeated the measure anyway. A later vote in “bleeding Kansas” resulted in the defeat of the Lecompton plan by a margin of about nine to one, a result that surprised him. Cluelessness.

And when Southern States seceded one by one, Buchanan dithered and

temporized, declaring such acts unconstitutional, but unlike Andrew Jackson before him and Abraham Lincoln after him, he did nothing. Spinelessness throughout. All this from a man who believed that defusing the time bomb over slavery would rank him at the level of George Washington, a hope that goes beyond cluelessness.

This is the danger of the Obama presidency, as Barack Obama juggles a half dozen major bills along with several foreign-policy challenges, any

one of which risk failure that could damage his presidency severely, if not destroy it altogether. Since the summer especially, Obama’s executive style has been carefully documented with increasing alarm by president-watchers, even those who are sympathetic to his goals.

Thus, on health care, Obama has insisted on reconstructing the entire industry in spite of the fact that all but a minority of Americans have insurance, and by large margins are satisfied with

their coverage. Ghosts of Lecompton haunt this figure.

In foreign policy, Obama has courted dictators, spurned America’s traditional allies, and curried favor with adversaries such as the Medvedev-Putin duo by caving to their objections over a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic – apparently in hopes that appeasing the Russian bear will bear fruit in negotiations with Iran. Such spinelessness did not go unnoticed by the Iranians, who responded with missile-firing contempt. Finally, the president’s vacillation over Afghanistan while carbon-foot-printing his way to that other Euro-Superpower, Denmark, apparently to seek advice from Hamlet on executive decision making, hardly speaks well for his quest to find the buck that stops somewhere in the vicinity of the Oval Office. It’s hard to see how old “Public Functionary Buchanan” could have done worse.

The implications of these actions seem to escape President Obama, and therein lies the chief danger to his presidency. He could take a lesson from another predecessor to a favored president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Neither flashy nor eloquent, Ike actually had a life before writing about it and knew the world is not a global version of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. Further, he possessed the good judgment not to inflict ambitious programs onto a population weary of war and the previous incumbent, much like Americans in 2008 who were tired of conflict and of George W. Bush. Initial reviews of Ike’s terms in office were unenthusiastic; more recently, his stature has risen among mature scholars who do not equate presidential greatness with increased federal power.

The question for President Obama is less about whom he resembles among the great ones; rather, it is about which among the others will be staring him in the face when he completes his term in office: Hoover, Eisenhower or Buchanan?

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Only student math scores rise significantly

BY JIM COREY

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he National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) is known as “The Nation’s Report Card” because it is administered in every state. So it is possible to compare North Carolina students with the national sample to see whether the education outcome in North Carolina is equal or better than the national average. There are nine subject areas covered in the NAEP assessments which are too many to cover at one time; so let’s concentrate on the traditional areas of reading, writing and arithmetic.

In assessments at the fourthgrade level in reading, one can see considerable improvement over time. In 1982, 44 percent of N.C. students were in the below basic proficiency level, while in 2007, there were only 36 percent of students at this

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level. Overall, the N.C. level of assessment was lower than the national average. There was a clear gap between males and females with the latter well ahead. White and Asian/Pacific island students were tied in achievement scores, with black, Hispanic and Native American students scoring well behind.

The reading performance of North Carolina eighth-graders is statistically the same as the national sample on average, but when looking at specific demographic groups in the state, there are some differences. Female students solidly outperform male students.

White students lead all others with Asian/Pacific island (AP/ I) students in second place.

One measure of poverty is

students that are eligible for free or reduced price lunches, and in this area, there is a strong difference. Forty-three percent of students with free lunches are below the basic level of reading while only 18 percent of students with no free lunch fall into that category.

In writing assessments in the fourth grade, N.C. students shine, and our average is above the national norm. There is no gender gap; and AP/I students are in first-place, slightly outscoring white students. Hispanic students are well ahead of black students.

Next, we look at arithmetic or mathematics at the fourthgrade level. Looking back over time, N.C. students have made tremendous gains. In 1992, half of N.C. students were below the basic level of math proficiency; while in 2007, only 15 percent of N.C. students fell into this category. This was a fantastic

achievement! The N.C. sample compared to the national sample is better. Male students are slightly better than female students in the assessment, and AP/I students led all others with white students in second place.

Finally, a quick look at mathematics assessment is in the eighth grade. Again, the N.C. profile is better than the national average. Again, we see a quantum leap in achievement – in 1990, 62 percent of N.C. students were below basic levels of proficiency, while in 2007, only 22 percent of N.C. students fell into this category.

Male students perform better than female students, but the difference is slight. AP/I students again led the pack, with white students again in second place with Hispanic students in third place. A consistent finding is that students from a poverty background (free lunches)

underperform compared to students with no free lunches.

In summary, only in the subject area of mathematics can we see a quantum jump over a few decades of evaluation for N.C. students. In both reading and writing, there is slight improvement over time for these students.

Generally, the gender gap tilts in favor of female students in these subject areas, while both white and AP/I students consistently outperform black, Hispanic and Native American students.

The main gap in NAEP assessments then is racial/ethnic and poverty levels. Both of these gaps are difficult to correct in a short time. More likely, generational change is required.

JIM COREY is a former assistant political science professor at High Point University. He lives in High Point.

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Rocky road ahead AP analysis: US economy entering sluggish recovery WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that the Great Recession appears over, the economy looks to be entering a Rocky Recovery, in which much of the nation will continue to struggle well into 2010.

The Associated Press’ monthly analysis of economic stress in more than 3,100 U.S. counties found the economy little changed in October compared with September. Some states saw slight improvement or stabilization, thanks to steadying foreclosure and

bankruptcy rates. But the gains may be brief. Unemployment remains high, and the housing market is still weak.

“We’re not out of the woods,” said Susan Wachter, a professor of real estate and finance at the University of Pennsylvania.

The AP’s Economic Stress Index calculates a score from 1 to 100 based on a county’s unemployment, foreclosure and bankruptcy rates. Under a rough rule of thumb, a county is considered stressed when

its score exceeds 11.

Nationwide, the average county’s Stress score remained unchanged at 10.1 in October, matching September’s figure. It was 10.3 in August. A year earlier, in October 2008, the average score was a much lower 6.9.

About 37 percent of the nation’s 3,141 counties were deemed stressed, roughly the same proportion as the previous month.

Nevada, where the real estate collapse struck especially hard, again had the highest statewide Stress score in October, at 21.09, though it declined from 21.95 in September.

Michigan, battered by auto industry troubles,

was second-highest, with a score of 17.36, followed by California (16.48), Florida (15.4) and Arizona (14.37).

All four states have suffered severe housing downturns.

North Dakota was again the least-stressed state with a score of 3.89. It was followed by South Dakota (5.14), Nebraska (5.51), Vermont (6.43) and Montana (6.64).

Statewide foreclosure rates dipped even in some hard-hit states such as California, Georgia and Nevada.

The housing market’s deterioration appears to have bottomed, aided by government supports such as a homebuyer tax credit and the Obama

administration’s foreclosure prevention plan, Wachter said.

But two risks could hamper the housing industry’s recovery next year: Rising unemployment and defaults on payment-option adjustable-rate mortgages.

Job losses have become a leading cause of foreclosures.

And because super-low interest rates are propping up real estate, an eventual rise in rates could cause another housing downturn, Wachter said.

Three Nevada counties — Lyon, Clark and Nye — again led the nation in foreclosures in October, with rates ranging from 7.1 percent to 8.5 percent.

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‘I had a new baby here at that time, and I wouldn’t go, They fired me. At that point, I was completely left in the dark.’

Zac Pierce new position, including what kind of equipment he needed and if any other employees would need to be hired for the department.

It seemed like the perfect opportunity.

But seven days into his new job, Pierce’s new employer had a surprising request for him: Go to the Philippines for an undetermined amount of time for a catalog design project.

“I had a new baby

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A really, really big bump.

Pierce, who has experience in multiple sectors of advertising and graphic design, was recruited from his job in April 2008 to another employer who offered him a larger salary and better benefits.

The employer, based in High Point, wanted Pierce to be the head of their art department – an opportunity he said he couldn’t turn down.

Once he started his new position, however, things changed.

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here at that time, and I wouldn’t go,” Pierce said.

“They fired me. At that point, I was completely left in the dark.”

Because Pierce’s former employer did not hire him back, he immediately sought small design projects from companies he had worked with and some he never heard of before but found in the phone book.

While he didn’t know it at the time, he was starting the infrastructure to his own successful business

– Pierce Advertising and Design.

He worked with numerous clients, some in the home furnishings industry, some in the construction industry, and so on. He built their Web sites, conducted their commercial photo shoots and designed their logos.

“I had learned through my past work about a lot of different areas of the industry,” he said.

“From all of the companies I had worked for, I basically honed in on my craft.”

He spoke with a colleague, Bill Thomas, owner of 40 West, a photography studio in High Point, about collaborating on some projects. After operating the business out of his home for more than a year, Thomas gave him space inside of the studio, located at 317 S. Hamilton St. “We’ve kind of combined evil forces,” Pierce said, though the two businesses remain separate.

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Favorite activity outside of work: Playing music (jazz bass) and soccer Favorite place to travel: Germany

his own time. He has a steady client base, and he doesn’t have to worry about unwanted business trips to the Philippines.

He anticipates hiring two or three employees at the end of next year as his client base grows. He also hopes to be involved with more video commercials with Thomas and continue their partnership.

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NEW YORK (AP) – Apple Inc. is suing cell phone maker Nokia Corp. for patent infringement, a countermove to Nokia’s earlier suit against technologies used in Apple’s iPhone.

Apple’s lawsuit claims Nokia is infringing on 13 of Apple’s patents, and says the Finland-based company chose to “copy the iPhone,” especially its user interface, to make up for its declining share of the highend phone market.

Nokia’s lawsuit, filed in October, claims that Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple infringes on 10 of its patents covering both phone calls and Wi-Fi access.

The patents Apple alleges Nokia is infringing deal with, among other things: connecting a phone to a computer, teleconferencing, menus on a touch screen, power conservation in chips, and “pattern and color abstraction in a graphical user interface.”

The company also denies Nokia’s claims of patent infringement.

In a statement, Nokia said it will review the claims and respond “in due course.”

Apple said Nokia fell behind in the smartphone market because it chose to focus on old-fashioned phones at a time when smartphones were growing increasingly popular.

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In this product image provided by Money Savvy Generation, the Money Savvy Cow helps kids learn the four things they can do with their money: Save, Spend, Donate and Invest, is shown.

Share some financial lessons with these gift ideas NEW YORK (AP) — While others are blowing their holiday budgets, you can set an example and send a message by giving a gift with a focus on personal finance.

The economic downturn highlights the importance of understanding money matters, and there are items available for every age group that can help teach important concepts.

The important thing is to make sure gifts are presented in an appropriate manner. Kim E. Jones, a financial planner in Broomfield, Colo., said you should make sure the message you’re giving is caring and not judgmental.

But there are plenty of choices that can hit the right note.

help kids keep track of their goals, as well as tips for each of the money choices.

Parents might also consider a book to read to their young kids. Shelley Solheim, director of Financial Education for Capital One Financial Corp., recommends “Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday,”

by Judith Viorst. It tells the story of a boy who receives a dollar from his grandparents, the things he dreams of buying, and how the money starts to slip away.

For elementary school children, classic board games like Pay Day, Life and Monopoly can make learning about finances more fun. Some come in junior editions or themed versions related to television programs or movies.

STARTING KIDS OFF RIGHT Even before children can count, they’re learning about money. Gifts that help them learn how to handle it can help get them started on a financially healthy path.

One of Jones’ favorite items is the Money Savvy Pig, a piggy bank with a twist. The translucent pigs come bright colors and have four slots, each leading to a different section of the pig labeled “Save,” ‘’Spend,” ‘’Donate” or “Invest.” The four sections allow kids to set priorities and think about the different ways they can use their money.

Money Savvy Generation, www.msgen.com, also offers Moolah the money savvy cow and a football bank for sports fans. For $16.99, each comes with stickers to

TARGETING TWEENS & TEENS It’s never too early to start investing. While one share of stock won’t fund a college education, it can be helpful to teach a child about the stock market.

You can buy single shares of stock as framed gifts at www.oneshare. com.

The colorful certificates, which will bear the recipient’s name, are available for 163 publicly traded companies. Stock in The Walt Disney Co., the site’s top seller, bears drawings of iconic characters including Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Winnie the Pooh.

Holiday orders will come in two shipments: You’ll receive a startup kit, that includes a booklet explaining stocks

and a gift card describing the share purchased; the stock certificate will arrive six to eight weeks later.

OneShare CEO Lance Lee said single shares provide a “great teachable moment” by creating an opportunity to discuss what stock is. Young children will enjoy claiming ownership in companies they know, such as McDonald’s, Build-ABear Workshop or Mattel.

There’s also plenty of choices for older kids and adults, from Apple to Yahoo, and Boston Beer Co. to Tiffany & Co. Buyers will pay a $39 fee, plus the stock price (based on the prior day’s closing price). You can also add from a choice of mattes and frames, as well as an engraved panel with a special message for an extra $10 fee.

To help young people get started on saving, another option is a gift card for SmartyPig. The cards can be used to open a SmartyPig.com account or contribute to existing accounts. The idea is to use an account to save for a specific goal. What’s different is that the social networking element of the Web site allows users to accept contributions from others. Another plus, account holders can obtain discounts with certain retailers when they’ve reached a savings goal If all your teen wants is money, Solheim suggested making up a challenge using any type of gift card. For instance, accompany the card with a pledge to match savings if he or she budgets and

spends the money wisely.

“Any gift can be turned into a financial lesson with a little creativity,” she observed.

LEARNING AT ANY AGE Socially conscious young adults may appreciate a donation made in their name to a favorite cause, or a charitable gift card that lets them pick a charity. Created a few years ago, there are now several charity gift card vendors, including The Network for Good, ‘TisBest Philanthropy, Just Give and CharityChoice.

Like other gift cards, charity gift cards come with fees and expiration dates, so make sure you read the fine print.

Other charitable options include organizations like Kiva, which arranges small loans for entrepreneurs in developing countries; and Heifer International, which enables donors to buy animals like goats and chickens for families in poor nations.

The Nuru deck of personal finance flash cards can be a great stocking stuffer for someone who isn’t likely to read a book on the subject. The 30 cards touch upon investing, budgeting, loans, insurance, retirement and other issues — all in easy-to-understand language. The decks sell for $9.95 on www.nuruplanet. com and other Web sites.

A bolder gift for a young adult would be a session with a financial planner. Jones noted even one visit can help someone get started planning their financial future.

• Alexa MacFarlane Kulman and Olivia Wagner Gillespie collaborated to form An Extraordinary Event by Lex and Libby, a Piedmont wedding and event planning service.

With more than 50 years of combined experience, the two women work with area individuals and businesses to plan special occasions, including networking business lunches, store openings, family reunions, bridal and baby showers and private parties.

Kulman, a native of Pittsburgh, served as chairwoman of the Greensboro Symphony Guild Homes Tour and has worked with projects ranging from Zoofari (Tampa) to the Charlotte Wine and Food Weekend. Gillespie, a native of High Point, has planned destination weddings and chaired a number of charitable events. She has also served as president of the Junior League of South Brevard, Fla. • Scottrade, a branchsupported online investing firm, hired Tim Cody to manage its Kernersville Branch Office at 960 S. Main St. in the New Market Plaza.

As branch manager,

Cody is responsible for managing personnel, providing personalized customer service and educating customers about Scottrade’s online trading services.

• Allstate exclusive agency owners Don Beck of High Point, Dewey Beckner of High Point, Duane Dahlheimer of the Greensboro and Reidsville agencies, John Davis of Greensboro, Michael Patterson of Greensboro, Judy Slade of Greensboro and Brad Williams of Archdale earned the Premier Service Agency distinction.

Bestowed upon less than 22 percent of Allstate’s nearly 13,000 agency owners across the country, the designation is being presented to this group for their commitment to exceeding customer expectations in their agency.

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• BB&T Chief Executive Officer Kelly King, who also chairs the Piedmont Triad Leadership Group, announced Thursday at the Piedmont Triad Partnership’s 2009 annual meeting that the regional Clusters of Opportunity fundraising campaign had substantially exceeded its $1 million annual goal for five years.

King announced that pledges from more than thirty investors totaled $1,301,000, with additional commitments expected. Assuming pledges are maintained for the five-year campaign period, the campaign will generate over $6.5 million in new resources to promote four industry clusters in the Piedmont Triad: furnishings, logistics and distribution, nanotechnology and regenerative medicine.

• DataChambers Records Management, a Winston-Salem-based firm specializing in the management and storage of business records, today launched a new service that allows clients to scan, store and retrieve documents quickly and securely over the Web. The company’s new iChamber express service is designed for health care organizations, educational institutions, banks, credit unions, accounting firms, law firms and other organizations that need ready access to important records.

• Bob Harrington Associates, a Greensborobased executive consulting search firm, last week announced a strategic

affiliation with Private Capital Corp. based in Novato, Calif.

Effective immediately, Bob Harrington Associates will market Private Capital Corp.’s proprietary comprehensive perpetuation planning services to mid-market, privately held companies.

• Redding Advertising Inc. of High Point was recognized by the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society for excellence in advertising and design.

At the recently held 2009 Wallie Awards, Redding Advertising received two silver Wallie awards: one for an invitation to the Nursing Excellence Awards ceremony and another for an ad that highlighted 18 nurses from the Moses Cone Health System who achieved status in the North Carolina Great 100.

• Steve Silver Co. and Embassy International, both based in Texas, have signed leases with Showplace and will be on the fourth and third floors, respectively, of the building.

Steve Silver is known in the furniture industry for dining sets and occasional furniture. Embassy International’s showroom will enable them to show their extensive line of bedroom furniture.

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Lawmakers hope holiday sales boost budget RALEIGH (AP) — Don’t be surprised if Mickey Michaux and Barry Boardman are keeping an eye on the traffic outside their local mall or Walmart leading up to the holidays.

Michaux, the chief budgetwriter in the House, and Boardman, the Legislature’s chief economist, will be especially interested in the more important congestion around the cash registers.

With tax collections continuing a historic slide in North

Carolina, the sales tax rate going up another penny to close a budget gap and state unemployment at 11 percent, attention on taxes generated from Christmas retail sales is the strongest in recent memory.

“Everybody’s anxious about the holiday sales,” said Michaux, D-Durham. “This time it bears closer watching than it has in the past.”

If sales tax collections remain worse than projected, it could signal an economic recovery

may take longer to reach the state, leading to additional spending cuts next year on top of those this year and a deeper budget hole to fill when federal stimulus money runs out in mid-2011.

“December to January will give us some idea where this thing is going,” said Boardman, who works in the Legislature’s Fiscal Research Division. “It’s important as a marker of whether we are continuing to slide down or

whether we’re flattening out and we can see a bump up in the near future.”

North Carolina overall tax collections already were 1.5 percent less compared to what legislators projected through October, or the first four months of the fiscal year, when they wrote the current $19 billion state budget.

The $95 million shortfall is manageable for now. Gov. Beverly Perdue already is holding back funds to pay bills later in

the year and analysts have projected a rebound in many state business sectors in 2010.

“Things look a little more stable,” Perdue said recently.

But the decline is on top of a 1 to 2 percent revenue drop legislators expected for the entire year. And it follows a 10.9 percent reduction in actual revenues for the fiscal year ending last June 30, marking the worst year-toyear decline since at least 1970.

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BY MILDRED L. CULP WORKWISE FEATURES

Some companies pay employees a bonus or referral fee for referring friends who come on board. In most cases, however, companies don’t pay for this critical cost-saver, or pay poorly. Spherion Corp. recently released results from a survey of 2,519 employed adults who were at least 18 years old.

An enormous 66 percent of employees would likely refer a friend.

What’s the value in these referrals? Some companies, such as ReTargeter L.L.C., in Silicon Valley, simply can’t afford to pay fees – it’s not even nine months old – but probably will when established.

Arjun Dev Arora, CEO and founder, is benefiting from the helpful start-up community now, but, as he expands, he comments, “I’d have no qualms about paying a referral fee to someone who helped land us quality talent.”

How much is trust worth? Timothy Latham, managing director of Director Resourcing Ltd., in London, England, maintains that the value is significant. “Our whole business is about referrals to jobs,” he says. “We run a massive refer-a-friend

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program in commercial real estate and construction.” Payment for referrals ultimately placed is around $4,000 (or more).

He further states that employers are missing out on the excellent sourcing employees can do among people they know.

According to Spherion, about 26 percent of employers offer such bonuses. However, they might seem tepid in comparison with the ones Latham gives. Jason Keith, a se-

nior Public Relations manager at Vistaprint N.V., in Lexington, Mass., reports that in the domestic United States, his company pays $1,500 if the person hired brings experience, $500 if not. Another source, who requested not to be named, won a $200 bonus for finding a technical publications manager, but she had to apply for the money. “Filing for the bonus was more complicated than filing my taxes,” she recalls.

John Hedtke of JV Communications in Eugene, Ore., received a $2,000 bonus at a company in Orange County, Calif., for referring a manager.

He thought $3,000 would be better. “Past companies I’d worked for had paid similar amounts 15 years ago,” he says, “so this didn’t feel like it had moved with the times.”

Nonetheless, he felt that he received $2,000 plus a good boss – “so I just can’t kick about this at all.” In

fact, they’re still friends.

People who manage company budgets know that $200 and $500 buy very, very little in terms of labor of any kind, including temporary or contract. Trust still seems to come cheap.

Is the economy the problem? Kelly Kay, a San Francisco-based global managing partner at Heidrick & Struggles International Inc., points out that companies are striving to retain their best, which

means that it can be difficult to lure them away. It also means “the notion of a talent market that overwhelmingly favors the buyer is an illusion.”

Latham mentions that referral programs “can be very useful, but they’re limited by the extent to which employees participate. Our view is that the future lies in the creation of industry and/or functional ‘mass refer-afriend’ initiatives reaching far beyond a single employer. Outside of our field, I can see room for financial and marketing functions as well as pharmaceutical industry programs, to start.”

Of course, if trust is invaluable, maybe you can’t put a price tag on it. If companies can’t, or simply won’t, pony up to recognize the contribution – or reward it only with incentives – they may very well be making a statement about the hiring process, that it really doesn’t have value. Referring a friend deserves to be rewarded, if only because it contributes mightily to a culture of trust.

DR. MILDRED L. CULP, Workwise Features, is an award-winning journalist. E-mail questions or comments to culp@workwise. net.

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FOUND: 12/6, medium Sized Tan Female Dog. Has Shock Collar. Very Friendly. Please call to identify 336-4349667/ 336-4713801 FOUND: Small Red Dog on Baker Rd in High Point on 12/8.

Please call to identify 336-859-9670

0560

Personals

ABORTION PRIVATE DOCTOR’S OFFICE 889-8503

1060

Drivers

Drivers Wanted TEAM DRIVERS WANTED! ● $5,000 Sign On Bonus ● Great Pay and Equipment ● Teams Assigned 2009 Trucks ● Health and 401K ● Requires CDLA and 6 months OTR experience ● Also Hiring solos and owneroperators

866-531-1381

www.xpressdrivers.com

Buy * Save * Sell Place your ad in the classifieds!

Buy * Save * Sell

0510

Card of Thanks

The Family of Michael “Wayne“ Hughes would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to all the friends and family members that attended the “Celebration of Life“ for him. The words expressed by Rev. Ron Fowler were beautiful and comforting to us. We would also like to acknowledge Sue Fowler, the members of Bridge of Hope New Covenant Church, Ward Street Missions (formerly Ward St. Methodist Church) and the Michael Family for the outpouring of kindness and love given to us in our time of sorrow.

Ethel, Pat, Susan & Christy

Want...

Need....

Can not Live Without?

The Classifieds

1024

Automotive

Auto Technician Diagnose, repair or replace brakeshoe, balljoint, suspension, muffler, radiator, etc. using hand/power tools. Req 2 yr exp.

40hr/wk.

Prevailing wage.

Multiple positions available.

Resume to King Motors, Inc. 2922 S. Main St. High Point NC 27263

1040

Clerical

PEARSON, 1420 Progess Ave., HP, is taking applications for the following: ● Boring Mch Opr/ Dbl. End Trim-Exp. only. ● Cut Off Saw OprExp. only ● Sew Zipper/Dbl Needle-Exp. only.

A p p l y o n l i n e www.furniturebrand s.com/careers EOE/M/F/D/V

PT CUSTOMER SERVICE CLERK

The Family of Mrs Effie Lee Broadie Cash would like to thank everyone for all acts of kindness shown during the illness and passing of our beloved mother, Grand mother, sister and Best Friend. may god bless each and everyone of you. Special thanks to the staff of Evergreens Nursing Center for the care that was given to “Effie“ while she was in their care.

Forever Grateful, The Broadie Family

0530

Memorials

The High Point Enterprise is seeking an individual that enjoys interacting with the public. Candidate must have good verbal skills and be very organized. This position will be answering incoming calls as well as calling past and current subscribers to The High Point Enterprise. Hours of o p e r a t i o n a r e 6:00am to 5:00pm Monday - Friday also Saturday and Sunday 6:00am12:00pm and Holidays. Must be flexible in scheduling.

Please apply in person at The High Point Enterprise Monday thru Friday 9am-3pm. No phone calls please. EOE.

1060

DRIVER TRAINEES Get a CDL Get a Job Get a great Paycheck!

Learn to drive at Future Truckers of America No experience needed! CDL & Job Ready In 4 weeks!

Trucking Companies on Site hiring this week!

1-800-610-3777 K NIGHT TR ANSPORTATION- Debt Free National Company.

Seeks 10 Exceptional Drivers. Clean MVR & Criminal History. Dry: 866-519-4835, x1.

Reefer; 866-6839855. Class-A CDL/1 y e a r O T R . www.knighttrans.com Please call during office hours only!

8:00AM-5:00PM Monday-Friday No nights or weekend calls.

Class A CDL Drivers Needed! * 2 Yrs Tractor/Trailer Experience Required * Clean MVR, No Felonies * Extra Money for the Holidays * Dec 1-Dec 23 $19.00-$21.00 hr

Other Positions Throughout the Year * Switcher * Local - Home Every Night * Regional - 1-2 nights out & back * OTR - 3-4 nights out & back * Non-Forced Dispatch

Please call 336-315-9161 PTL OTR Drivers. NEW PAY PACKAGE! Great Miles! Up to 46cpm.

12 months experience required. No felony or DUI past 5 years. 877-740-6262. www.ptl-inc.com

Classified Ads Work for you!

RV Delivery Drivers needed. Deliver RVs, boats and trucks for PAY! Deliver to all 48 st ates and Canada.

For details log on to www.RVdeliveryjobs. com

1060

Drivers

1120

Miscellaneous

THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009 www.hpe.com 5C

S e a r c h i n g f o r Healthcare Case, non-certified, Call 861-1731 / 847-0271

WE ARE HIRING Class A CDL Drivers!

We know what you’re looking for in you driving career. Let LCT help you find it today! If you want a career, not just a job, the LCT is the place for you. We have Teams & Solo freight hauling refrigerated cargo & other goods with good benefits.

Contact our Recruiters to find out more Class “A“ CDL Required 1-800-362-0159 www.lctjobs.com

1080

Furniture

WANTED Experienced P/T Upholstery Sewer Call 491-1925

1088

Legal

LEGAL SECRETARY For Local law Firm.

Good Benefits. Some exp needed. Send resume to 401 S. main St, High Point, NC, 27260

1090

Management

1120

Miscellaneous

AIRLINES ARE HIRING- Train for high paying Aviation Maintenance Career. FAA approved program.

Financial aid if qualified. Housing available.

Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance (888) 349-5387.

ATTEND COLLEGE ONLINE from home.

Medical, Business, P a r a l e g a l , Accou nting, C riminal J u s t i c e .

J o b p l a c e m e n t assistance. Computer available. Financial aid if qualified. Call 8888 9 9 - 6 9 1 8 , www.C enturaO nline.c om NOW accepting applications for F/T P/T. Salary plus commission positions available for Sales Associates.

Requires: HS diploma or GED, customer service skills, bondable, reliable transportation.

Spanish speaking a plus. Hiring for for both locations. Apply to First National Pawn, 110 East Fairfield or Pawnway, 1185 E. Lexington Ave. Call (336) 4347296 or (336) 883-7296.

Need space in your garage?

Buy * Save * Sell

1180

Teachers

Needed for Daycare Facility: ● Lead Teacher, ● Floater, ● Center Director, ● Asst. Director.

Please email your resumes to : leapfrogacademy @northstate.net fax to (336) 841-2130 Make your classified ads work harder for you with features like Bolding, Ad Borders & eye-catching graphics

Call

4020

Alterations Sewing

Looking for sewing jobs at home. 25 years experience sewi ng in fur niture.

Call 336-963-7416 Make your classified ads work harder for you with features like Bolding, Ad Borders & eye-catching graphics

5010

Business Opportunities

ALL CASH VENDING! Do You Earn Up to $800/day (potential)?

Your own local route.

25 Machines and Candy. All for $9,995.

1-888-753-3458, MultiVend, LLC.

December 10, 1916 June 8, 1996 You will not be forgotten.

We Love and Miss You dearly.

We Miss You! Lawson, Leon, Rosa, Georgia, Raymond, Lane.

Classified Ads Work for you!

The Wilkes and McFadden Families

Carriers Needed

● N. Hamilton St to Five Points Area, Approx 1 1 ⁄ 2 hours, $600 mo.

If you are interested in any of the above routes, please come by the office at 210 Church Avenue between 8:30am-4:30pm.

ATTENTION MINORITY/HUB CONTRACTORS: Barnhill / Vannoy Joint Venture, Construction Manager at Risk for the Southeastern Guilford Middle and High School project, will be conducting the following Informational Sessions: MWBE Informational Session Day 1: Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Time: 6:00 Location: Southeast Middle School, Cafeteria 4825 Woody Mill Road Greensboro, NC 27406 MWBE Informational Session Day 2: Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Time: 6:00 Location: Southeast Middle School, Cafeteria 4825 Woody Mill Road Greensboro, NC 27406 MWBE Informational Session Day 3: Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009 Time: 6:00 Location: Southeast Middle School, Cafeteria 4825 Woody Mill Road Greensboro, NC 27406 The purpose of the Informational Session will be to help: ● Learn about the project and the scope of work for upcoming bid packages; ● Inform and train Minority/HUB contractors in preparation for bidding this project; ● Assist in registration on the State of North Carolina Vendor link; ● Stimulate opportunities for Networking with other firms; This project is targeted to bid in January 2010.

Once arriving at Southeastern High School follow directional signage to meeting area.

Prequalification forms will be available at the seminar. Barnhill/Vannoy is dedicated to ensuring Historically Underutilized Business & Minority Business participation in this project and would like to show our support of your business through our MWBE Informational Sessions.

Please RSVP to Kelsie Williamson by Tuesday, November 24 at kwilliamson@barnhillcontacting.com or 919-7859173.

December 13, 2009

1 Free Black Male Kitten to a Good Home only. Only 1 left from Litter of 5. Call 336861-7229

Buy * Save * Sell

4100

Care Sick Elderly

IN HOME CARE Dependable 12 yrs exp. Exc. References 434-5396 Need space in your garage?

Call The Classifieds

2135

Real Estate For Rent

1st Month Rent Free ONLY $300 To Move In, Must See! 3BR/2BA, Dishwasher, Den, Fireplace, LR, Huge Back Yard. $850/mo. Sec 8 ok 1707 N. Norwood Ct. HP, 1 mile from mall, Call 336-307-5862 310 Phillips 2br immaculate, gas heat, $500. mo + Sec. dep.

906-1954 Nice 3br, 2ba house, 1513 Hampstead St., central air and heat, $675. mo., 764-1539 Premier Apartments Emery Lane 2BR/2BA, 1 Floor (No Neighbors above or below) 336-887-6600

I will treat your parent(s) like you would, at their home. I have references to care for elderly. I am mature, drive, have patience, organized, good cook, light housekeeping, and will put your mind at rest. I am used to dealing with Dr.’s, Rx’s, and visiting nurses, prices vary as to hours ne eded and patient needs. Call Deborah 883-7648 available immed iately, serious offers only.

4180

Computer Repair

SCOOTERS Computers.

We fix any problem. Low prices. 476-2042

4480

Painting Papering

SAM KINCAID PAINTING FREE ESTIMATES CALL 472-2203

4570

Schools & Instructions

LEARN TO OPERATE a Crane or Bull Dozer.

Heavy Equipment Training. National Certification. Financial & Placement Assistance. Georgia School of Construction. www.Heavy5.com.

Use code “NCCNH“ 1888-218-4460

6030

Pets

AKC Christmas Weimaraner Pups. 5M, 3F. Parents on Site. $400. 336-345-1462 AKC Cream short hair Retriever Pups $300$400 taking dep. for X-mas 434-2697 AKC Lab Pups, Champ bloodline, 1m, black, 12 weeks, $200. 336-687-2193 AKC Toy Poodles. 6 weeks old. First shots & Dewormed. 1 Girl & 2 Boys. Indoor, Kennel Training. $450.

Call Nicole 336-8705094 American Bulldog Pups, parents on site, 5F/4M, ready 12/16 $100. 689-6873 Beautiful Shih Tzu puppy, Male, registered, 10 wks, $385.

Call 259-5027 Bichon, Cocker, Shih Tzu, Maltese, Malti Poo, Peek a Poo, 336-498-7721 CKC Chihuahua housebroke, male, 6months, $200. Call 442-7727 or 4751379 It;s all in here today!!

The Classifieds Dachshund P uppies, 8 wks. $225 obo . 1F, 3M. Parents on site.

Rick 336-989-1792 Female Yorkshire Terri er pups, born 10/20, parents on site. $600. 336-307-0072 Rottweiler AKC pups, 8 weeks. Dewormed, dewclaws removed & tai ls docked. $300.

336-882-6341 Shih-Tzu Puppies, Registered. 5 weeks old. Ready by Christmas. $325. Call 336431-3173 Shih Tzu pups DOB 9/15/09 wormed, 1st shots, multi color, $325. CKC registered, 336-905-7954

DRIVERS CDL/A FLATBED Up to 40 CPM. Home Time. Benefits.

OTR Experience Required. No felonies.

Top earner potential $69,000.

Carrier since 1928! 800-4414271, x NC-100

Need to earn extra money?

Are you interested in running your own business?

This is the opportunity for you.

The High Point Enterprise is looking for carriers to deliver the newspaper as independent contractors. You must be able to work early morning hours.

Routes must be delivered by 6am. This is seven days a week, 365 days per year.

We have routes available in the following areas:

Pets - Free

Place your ad in the classifieds!

Drivers

DRIVERS/TRAINEES NEEDED. National Carriers Hiring Now! No experience needed! No CDL? No problem! Training available with Roadmaster. Call Now. 866-494-8459.

6040

Free to Good Loving homes 2 Labs. 1 male 8 mo old. 1 male 2 years old, neutered.

Call 336-431-2653

DRIVER- CDL-A. Attention Flatbed Drivers! Steady Freight & Miles. Limited Tarping. Paycheck deposited to ComData Card, $25 Bonus for every clean DOT inspection.

Must have TWIC Card or apply within 30 days of hire. Western Express. Class A CDL, 22 years old, 1 year experience. 866-8634117.

In Memory of Carrie Alfreda Wilkes

The Classifieds Yorkie Terrier Male Pup, Baby Doll Face Beautiful $475 Cash Call 336-431-9848

Buy * Save * Sell

Medical/ Dental

Full Time Hygienist Needed. Must have at least 3 years exp.

Reply in confidence to Box 974, C/O High Point Enterprise, PO Box 1009, High Point, NC 27261

Pets

York-A-Nese & ShihNese. Take or Dep to hold for Christmas $350 476-9591

Place your ad in the classifieds!

F/T Property Manager needed. Multi-Family HUD experience a must, tax credit preferred, not required.

Basic computer skills, and a good attitude a must. Fax resume with desired salary to 1-866-924-1611. EOE

1111

6030

Buy * Save * Sell

Call 888-3555

7015

Appliances

Kenmore Washer & Dryer, white, large capacity, very good cond., $275 .00 Call 336-431-2942 USED APPLIANCES Sales & Services $50 Service Call 336-870-4380 Window Air Conditioner, excellent condition, $60.00 Call 336-254-3277

7020

Auctions

***EQUIPMENT*** & TRUCK AUCTION!!

SAT., DEC. 19TH. High Point, NC (@Mendenhall Auto Auction Facility)

8:30am 35+ Salvage Vehicles

9:30am 350-500 Vehicles

12:00 noon Truck & Trailer Auction Dump Tks., Trailers Mowers, OBDII Inspection Machine, Pick Up Tks., and more...

Inspection: Fri., Dec 18th.

12:00noon til 5:00pm & Sat., Dec. 19th. 9;00am til Sale Time ***CONSIGNMENTS WELCOME!!!

If you have any Equipment or Vehicles to sell, Call us Today.

MENDENHALL AUTO AUCTION, INC. PO BOX 7505 HIGH POINT, NC NCAL#211 336-889-7500 www.Mendenhall Auction.com

6C www.hpe.com SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009

THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE

can help...

1000 or less

$

1 Item

20

$

7 days â&#x20AC;˘ 4 lines $ each additional line 3

Call today for more information

888-3555 *Some restrictions apply

7020

Auctions

***EXCITING*** PET STORE LIQUIDATION!!!

Sun., Dec. 13th 1:00pm High Point, NC (819 N. Main St) (Near High Point Public Library) Partial Listing: All types of Dog/Cat/Fish/ Hampster/Snake/ Lizard/Bird Food, Aquariums, Fish Food, Tanks, Pumps, Dog & Cat Collars & Leashes, Dog/Cat Accessories, Bird Food, Bird Cages, and much more....

*LIVE ANIMALS TO BE SOLD: Ferrets, Chinchillas, Lizards, BOA’s, Pythons, Geckos, Rats, Mice, Crickets, Fish, African Gray Parrot, Other types of Parrots, Bearded Dragon, Hampsters, etc. *All Store Fixtures, Shelving, Computers, Counters, Food Dispensers, etc. *Liquidating: PETS R US (formerly Pet Warehouse)

**Everything Sells Wall to Wall!!

Call for Information

MENDENHALL AUCTION CO., INC. PO BOX 7344 HIGH POINT, NC NCAL#211 336-887-1165 www.Mendenhall Auction.com

7100

Collectibles

Indian Chief & village Painting 28in x 20in. $45.

Call 336-472-2960 Trail of Tears Indian Painting.

221⁄ 2 in x 181⁄ 2 in. $35.

Call 336-472-2960

7130

Electronic Equipment/ Computers

Dell P4 2.8 MHZ, desktop, Win XP 512 MB memory 17’ flat scr een moni tor like new, $250. 887-6197 DISH NETWORK $19.99/Mo. Free Activation, Free HBO & Free Showtime. Ask abo ut our no -credit promo. 48hr Free Install - Call Now 888929-2580. BuyDishToday.com

7190

Furniture

7290

Miscellaneous

3 Cushion Sofa Pennsylvanian House, 8 Way Tie, $250.

689-8829 day or 4318195

Breezy Ultra 4 wheelchair, Walker with wheels both used once, $135.00 Call 289-1352

Glass top table, approx. 3ft x 6ft, 2 glass panels 33x33, wood frame, $25.

336474-7755

COOKWAREWe stopped doing dinner parties! We have some beautiful 22piece sets for sale!

Waterless, Surgical Stainless Steel! Lifetime Warranty. Retail $1899, now $299! 1800-434-4628.

Lazy Boy Blue leather recliner, good condition, $65.00 Call 336-289-1352 Queen Bed incl. headboard, frame, mattress, box spring, bedding, ex. cond. $200. 474-7755

7210

Household Goods

8 place setting est a Dishes , and green, been out of $160. 841-3174

of Fiyellow never boxes,

A new mattress set T$99 F$109 Q$122 K$191. Can Del. 336-992-0025 Handmade Quilts for Sale.

Call 336-476-3690

7230

Jewelry/Furs/ Cameras

Diamonds, Diamonds Diamonds! 1.01 Carat Diamond Solitaire Ring, SI1-SI2 in clarity, Diamond color H, yellow gold, and 1 Carat Marquis ring guard 14k gold, have appraisal forms for both, $6200 on appraisal, asking $3500. Call 669-8634

7270

Merchandise Free

Model 300 STANNAH Stair Lift. Used. Features: Joy Stick Dir. Control, Swivel Levers, Fold up seat & Foot Rest, Infrared Remote Control, 300lb weight comp.

Locally purchased & maintained $1000.

Call 336-476-6139 or 336-475-6684

7290

Miscellaneous

40 Gallo n gas Hot Wa ter Heat er. Less than 1 year old. $200.

Call 336-847-4743 for information.

9060

98 Cadillac Sedan Deville. 1 owner. $2,200. Call 336882-0222 98 Isuzu Rodeo, V6, 4x4, 138k mi., runs and looks great, must see, $2950 561-9637

Ads that work!!

Just in time for Christmas Brand new Olympic weight set 300lb. $400. firm 886-8242 lv msg.

JVC Hard drive Camco rder and docking stat ion. $35 0. firm.

Call 886-8242 lv. message

8015

Yard/Garage Sale

Huge Sale, 30 Vendors, Space Available.

1107 Tate St, off South Main. Thurs-Sun. Call 336-886-5995

Self Playing or you c an play i t Organ$500., Sewing Machine & Cabinet-$35.

Computer Desk & Chair, Auto access., Call 687-4002

7310

KIA Amanti, ’04, 1 owner, EC. 69K, Garaged & smokeless. $9000, 442-6837

Hu ge Corne r Office Desk, 17 sq. ft. surface, wood grain with vinyl top. $50 Call 336-474-7755

01 Buick LeSabre Limi ted. 91, 800 mi., tan leather, very good co nd., $59 00. 8879568 / 906-1703

Costume or Good Any Condition

848-1242 BUYING ANTIQUES. Old Furn, Glass, Old Toys & Old Stuff.

1pc or all. Buy estates big/small. W/S 817-1247/ 788-2428 BUYING ANTIQUES Collectibles, Coins, 239-7487 / 472-6910 Used Slate Pool Table. Must be in Good Condition. Call 336885-4935/431-3655

Miscellaneous Transportation

D O N A T E Y O U R VEHICLEReceive $1000 Grocery Coupon.

United Breast Cancer Foundation.

Free M a m m o g r a m s , Breast Canc er info: www.ubcf.info. Free T o w i n g , T a x Deductible, NonRunners Accepted, 1888-468-5964.

It;s all in here today!!

The Classifieds

9210

Recreation Vehicles

’01 Damon motorhome. 2 slides, 2 ACs, 10k, loaded. 36ft. Very good cond., $55,000.

Back-up camera.

431-9891

Ads that work!!

It;s all in here today!!

The Classifieds 04 Dodge Neon, very nice, auto, 50k, $4200. Call 431-6020 or 847-4635 07 Chevy Malibu, Red, 4 cylinder, auto, 35 k mi. Like new, $9,950 336-510-8794 1995 Ford Escort LX, 4dr., auto, white/blue, 62K, very nice. $2500. 906-1703 2000 Escort ZX2, Auto & Air. 59K, Very Nice. $2900 Call 336847-4635, 431-6020 2005 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. 14k miles.

Auto, Flip Roof. A/C, Premium Sound, AM FM CD Player, Cruise.

Call 336-906-0469

AT Quality Motors you can buy regardless. Good or bad credit. 475-2338 VOLKSWAGEN New Beetle 2001.

91339 miles. Must Sell! $11,500. 861-1731 or 847-0271.

9120

Classic Antique Cars

78 Camaro LT, V8, All orig. Runs Great. 1 owner. #’s Match. $2000/neg 434-9864 FORD ’69. SELL OR TRADE. 429 eng., Needs restoring $1000/Firm. 431-8611 PLYMOUTH Concorde 1951. Sale or TradeNeeds restoring. $2100 firm. 431-8611

Sport Utility

9250

Sports

9260

99’ Chevy Tahoe LT, lthr interior, Custom bumper, 159k mi., $5800. 476-3468

Large Comm. Van, ’95 Dodge Van 2500, new motor & trans., 883-1849 $3000 neg Need space in your garage?

Trucks/ Trailers

Call The Classifieds

5x10 Utility Trailer, ext Tailgate, metal rails & floor, 14 in. wheels, $800. 476-3729

9310

CASH FOR JUNK CARS. CALL TODAY 454-2203 Cash 4 riding mower needing repair or free removal if unwanted & scrap metal 882-4354

Vans

QUICK CASH PAID FOR JUNK CARS & TRUCKS. 434-1589.

02’ Chrysler Town & Country LX, 31k miles, Conversion, 1 owner, great cond., $10,500.

580-0912 98’ Chevy Astro Van LS, loaded, clean, original owner, 160k mi., $2500. 841-5195 FORD Explorer XLT ’05. FSBO $13,499 4x4, navy blue.

Call (336)689-2918.

Wanted to Buy

BUY junk cars & trucks, some Hondas.

Will remove cars free.

Call D&S 475-2613

Red Crew Cab, ’03 Chevrolet Silverado, EC, 55K miles, $11,700. 454-2342

9300

Vans

98’ Ford Windstar Handicap Van, factory lower ed/buil t $5850.

OBO 672-0630

1999 Ford Explorer XLT, Dark Green, Gray Leather interior. 172K miles. VGC. $3,600.

Call 336-824-4444

Pace 5ft enclosed trailer, ex. condition, $1000. OBO, Call 336-254-3277

Sport Utility

9300

03’, Toyota 4runner, SR 5 (V8), 114k miles, Cloth, auto, VGC $9500. 869-2947

It;s all in here today!!

The Classifieds

9240

THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009 www.hpe.com 7C

98’ Jeep Wrangler 4WD auto, a/c, cruise, ps/ brakes, ex. cond. ,$9500. 215-1892

Ads that work!!

The Classifieds Lincoln Cont. ’94.

Beautiful, dependable all new, $2000. For details 247-2835

9240

94’ Camper, new tires, water heater, & hookup.

Good cond., sleeps 7, $6,400. Call 301-2789

Call

Autos for Sale

Fast $$$ For Complete Junk Cars & Trucks Call 475-5795 Top cash paid for any junk vehicle.

T&S Auto 882-7989

Ford E250, 04’, all pwr, 138 k miles, excellent condition, $5700. 986-2497 NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Sealed proposals will be received by the Purchasing Division of the City of High Point, North Carolina, in the third floor conference room (Room Number 302) located in the Municipal Office Building until 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 06, 2010 at which time they will be opened and read for the furnishing of the following: Bid Number: 20-010610Contract Number: ENG2009-12 Bids are work:

invited

for

work

as

follows

as

well

Work Item 1.

2.

3.

4.

as

all

related

miscellaneous

Approx. Quantity

Sixteen-Inch (16“) Ductile Iron Water Main Twelve-Inch (12“) Ductile Iron Water Main Eight-Inch (8“) Sewer Main Twelve-Inch (12“) Sewer Main

3,960.00 Linear Feet 1,946.00 Linear Feet 413.00 Linear Feet 417 Linear Feet

All miscellaneous work related to the above. items are more thoroughly described herein.

Quantities

and

major

work

General contractors are notified that “An Act to regulate the Practice of General Contractors, Section 87-1 through 15“, ratified by the General Assembly of North Carolina, on March 10, 1925, and as subsequently amended will be observed in receiving and awarding general contracts.

An optional pre-bid conference will be held on Friday, December 18th 2009, at 10:00 a.m. in the second floor conference room (Room Number 210) located in the Municipal Office Building, 211 South Hamilton Street, High Point, North Carolina. City staff will be available to discuss the project and answer pertinent questions including MWBE requirements. All prospective bidders are urged to attend.

New Flat Screen TV Console in Walnut, $200. Call 886-4719, 8:30-4:30pm. Monday-Friday

Contract documents, including Drawings and Technical Specifications, are on file and may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department, Room Number 210, located in the Municipal Office Building, 211 South Hamilton Street, High Point, North Carolina 27261, Triad Plan Room (A.G.C.), Inc. at 4275 Regency Drive, Suite 102, Greensboro, North Carolina, McGraw Hill/Dodge Plan Room at 4917 Waters Edge Drive # 170, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606-2459 and Hispanic Contractors Association at 6503 Hilburn Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina 27560.

Copies of the proposal form and plans may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department.

Samsung 54in.

Projection TV, good condition, $150. OBO Call 336-254-3277

7180

9150

Need space in your garage?

9060

USED OR OLD

97 Dodge Avenger $800 dn 00 Ford Windstar $900 dn 96 Chevy Cheyenne $1000 dn 01 Pontiac Grand Am $700 dn Plus Many More!

472-3111 DLR#27817

7320 Office Machines/ Furniture

I BUY JEWELRY

GUARANTEED FINANCING

autocentresales.com Corner of Lexington & Pineywood in Thomasville

Musical Instruments

Wanted to Buy

98 Lincoln Continental Mark VIII, 171k miles, VGC. Blk EXT & INT, loaded, $4995, obo.

336-906-3770

Auto Centre, Inc.

Union 5 piece drum set with hardware, black, $150.00 Call 336-841-8933

7380

Autos for Sale

93 Honda Accord, LX. Fully loaded, 149K miles. $3400/obo, Call 336-883-6793

Fuel Wood/ Stoves

No proposal shall be considered or accepted by the City Council unless at the time of its filing the same shall be accompanied by a deposit with the City of High Point of a certified check on a bank or trust company insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid. In lieu of making the deposit as above provided, such bidder may file a bid bond executed by a corporate surety licensed under the laws of North Carolina to execute such bonds; conditioned that the surety will upon demand forthwith make payment to the City of High Point upon said bond if the bidder fails to execute the contract in accordance with the bid bond. This deposit shall be retained if the successful bidder fails to execute the contract within ten (10) days after award or fails to give satisfactory surety as required herein.

Fir ewood, S easoned Hardwood long bed truck, $60. load.

Call 289-6089/474-6998 Firewood. Split, Seasoned & Delivered, $85 3/4 Cord.

Call 817-2787/848-8147 Firewood-Uhaul $40, Dumptruck $110, Pickup Truck $55.

Delivered. 475-3112

A separate performance and payment bond each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price will be required.

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PREP STARS: Roundup of All-conference selections. 2D

HPU clips Seahawks at buzzer ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORT

HIGH POINT – Frances Fields dribbled threequarters of the floor and hit a six-foot floater with less than one second left to give the High Point University women’s basketball team a 67-66 win over UNC Wilmington Saturday night at the Millis Center.

Trailing by one, 66-65, with just six seconds remaining in the game, Fields took the ball at her own free throw line and dribbled down the court toward the right baseline before lofting the winning running jump shot with three hands in her face. Fields tied her career-best with 17 points in the game to lead all scorers.

“What a basketball game Frances played,”

said head coach Tooey Loy. “A year ago I am not sure that she would have taken that shot, she would have looked for someone to pass it to. She just made the right play. Our plan was for her to penetrate and read the defense and she read it perfectly. She took the seam and made a great six-footer from the baseline to win the game. This is a huge step for Frances and her confidence late in games.”

A last second heave by the Seahawks was snagged by sophomore Shamia Brown to secure the win for High Point. The Panthers improved to 4-5 while UNCW fell to 2-4.

Mackenzie Maier finished the game with 13 points while Amy Dodd added nine points, seven rebounds, a team-best six assists and

two steals. Brown grabbed a season-best 11 rebounds to lead HPU. The lead swung back and forth between the two teams 10 different times over the final 13 minutes before Fields scored to give High Point the win. Neither team was able to open a lead larger than four points during the entire stretch.

“It was a great basketball game,” said Loy. “Both teams made big shots, both teams executed when they needed to and came down to the last 0.9 seconds. We are happy with the win. We have a week off and we need to concentrate on academics and taking care of exams now. We look forward to playing at home again against Longwood on Friday.”

App. St. falls short MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Jabin Sambrano caught a 25-yard touchdown pass from Andrew Selle with 1:31 left, and Montana survived a last-second rally to beat Appalachian State 24-17 on Saturday and reach the Football Championship Subdivision title game.

Montana (14-0) dealt with frigid temperatures and slippery conditions on a snow-covered field to make the championship game for the second straight year. The Grizzlies will play Villanova on Friday night in Chattanooga, Tenn.

The Mountaineers (11-3), making their fifth straight semifinal appearance, had a chance to tie the game after marching downfield in the final minute.

Armanti Edwards hit Brian Quick to convert a fourth-and-10 at the 24yard line, and two plays later connected with Devon Moore to reach the 3 with 6 seconds left.

After calling timeout and misfiring once, Edwards dropped back to pass as time expired.

His throw intended for Quick fell incomplete and Montana players rushed the field.

Smith powers Pack RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina State’s Tracy Smith had his way inside against Georgia Southern, but Wolfpack coach Sidney Lowe thought his team didn’t always do a good job getting Smith the ball.

Smith was so dominant on Saturday that his 10for-12 shooting performance left him and the Wolfpacks coach wanting more.

Smith scored 21 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead the Wolfpack to a 75-57 victory over Georgia Southern, which tried to combat its size disadvantage with a variety of zone defenses.

After halftime, N.C. State made 16 of its 17 two-point attempts.

Dennis Horner added 16 points, nine rebounds and six assists for N.C. State (7-1), which had five players in double figures.

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Montana wide receiver Jabin Sambrano (16) catches the winning touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter against Appalachian State defensive back Ed Gainey (28) on Saturday. Appalachian drove to inside the Montana 5-yard line in the final seconds but failed to score. The loss denied the Mountaineers the opportunity to play for their fourth national championship in five years.

Ingram gives Tide first Heisman NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Ingram completed the trophy case at Alabama, delivering the first Heisman to a school that boasts one of the richest histories in college football.

The tough-running sophomore tailback won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night in the award’s closest vote. Next, he’ll try to lead the most storied program in the South to a national championship.

Ingram finished 28 points ahead of Stanford running back Toby Gerhart, the tightest finish in the 75-year history of the award.

Ingram wiped away tears before starting his speech and his voice wavered throughout.

“I’m a little overwhelmed right now,” he said. “I’m just so excited to bring Alabama their first Heisman winner.”

Ingram received 227 first-place votes and 1,304 points. Gerhart

got 222 first-place votes and 1,276 points, while Texas quarterback Colt McCoy, last season’s runnerup, received 203 and 1,145.

Nebraska defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh was fourth and Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, who won the Heisman two years ago, was fifth.

Ingram and top-ranked Alabama will play McCoy and No. 2 Texas for the national title on Jan. 7.

UNC crushes Presbyterian CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Ed Davis had 20 points and 10 rebounds to help No. 11 North Carolina beat Presbyterian 103-64 on Saturday night.

Deon Thompson added 19 points for the Tar Heels (8-2), who had no trouble beating up on a team picked to finish last in the Big South Conference.

North Carolina shot 54 percent, dominated the boards against the undersized Blue Hose (2-8) and ran out to a 32-5 lead in the first 10 minutes.

It was North Carolina’s first game since last weekend’s loss at Kentucky.

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here is a classic scene in the movie “Patton” where George C. Scott portrays the legendary general checking off an impressive list of reasons why the Germans would not launch the winter offensive that came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge.

“There is no reason to believe the Germans will do this,” Patton sums up. “Therefore, that is precisely what I believe they’re going to do.”

I share this film memory not because I’m expecting any invasions from Europe.

It merely serves as a backdrop for why my gut tells me that the NFL’s undefeated powers – the 12-0 Colts and Saints – could lose this afternoon.

Homestanding Indianapolis should not have any trouble dispatching an up-anddown Denver team that carries an 8-4 record, but has struggled for five of the past six weeks.

New Orleans, meanwhile, escaped Washington with a 33-30 overtime victory last Sunday. There’s no reason to think the Saints will be caught napping on the road against Atlanta (6-6).

But that is precisely what I think is going to happen.

The Colts are three games clear of their closest challengers in the race for homefield advantage in the AFC playoffs. They’ve clinched the AFC South and really, staying

healthy has to be their top concern, at least subconsciously.

The Saints have wrapped up the NFC South title and own a two-game advantage over the Vikings in the race for NFC homefield.

I imagine the Saints are also more worried about dodging injuries than grounding Falcons.

Plus, the Broncos and the Falcons desperately need victories to boost their chances of making the playoffs.

All that could make for a double dose of NFL shockers.

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Vitali Klitschko retained his WBC heavyweight title on Saturday night with a unanimous decision over American contender Kevin Johnson.

The 38-year-old Ukrainian kept Johnson against the ropes for much of the fight but landed few heavy shots to hurt the 30-yearold challenger.

Johnson proved a durable opponent and did his best work with counterattacking straight left jabs.

Klitschko (39-2) was making his third defense of the belt he reclaimed in October last year, following a four-year break to recover from injuries. He opted to take the fight just 11 weeks after beating Cris Arreola, another unbeaten American who did not come out for the 11th round.

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Fall all-conference winners list for area schools ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORT

on the all-league team: Andrew Daniel, Gray isted below are allDePasquale, Joey Fioconference honors rello, Kevin Lyons, David for area schools: Merritt and Max Wang.

Ragsdale’s Stenson PIEDMONT TRIAD 4A Croom, Briggs KenningHigh Point Central’s ton and Ryan Wall were Jimmy Moorman repeated all-league, along with the as the Piedmont Triad 4A High Point Central trio defensive player of the of Jackson Boone, Max year. Other Bison on the Law and Austin Miller.

All-PTC football team were Glenn’s Cory Eubanks Drew Adams, Evan Aguiand Cameron Kapec also lar, Derek Grant, Akeem got All-PTC recognition.

Langham, Martize Smith Parkland’s Ivy Gramm and Jonathan White. was player of the year in Ragsdale picked up oftennis, while coach of the fensive player of the year year was shared by Northhonors for DeSean Ander- west Guilford’s Randy son and coach of the Alexander and Ragsdale’s year honors for Tommy Linda Cosgrove. Tigers Norwood. Other Tigers Kayli Bushnell, Brittany landing on the all-confer- Creft and Minshu Deng ence squad were Chris were All-PTC. Armwood, Elliott Cobb, Taking honors for the Cedric Ellison, Luke Bison were Claire Cain Heavner, Daniel McNeil, and Andrea Parrish, Darius McQueen, Kasey while Southwest was repRedfern, Tyler Ritter, resented by Morgan JackD-onovan Smith, Walt son and Heather Min. Sparks and Billy Stone.

In cross country, East Southwest Guilford’s Forsyth’s Patrick CrawAll-PTC footballers were ford and Northwest’s Bracy Bonham, Jalen Alyssa Torres were Kitching and Airyn Willis. runners of the year, with All-PTC honors went Paul Egleston picking up to Glenn’s Taylor Boyan, coach of the year for the Chris Giddens, Daven boys and girls. Ragsdale’s Gray, Josh Hawkins, TyJoey McHugh, Paul ler Lee and Eric Sinclair. Sidam and Grace Popek In volleyball, Northwere all-conference, while west Guilford boasted Southwest had Tori Shelplayer of the year Britton, Caitlin Spinks and tany Northcutt, while Joel Shuford. High Point Ragsdale had coach of the Central was represented year Audrey Gore. Tigers by Stephanie Blair. on the all-league team Ragsdale had golfer of were Gretchen Hemm, the year Laura Chang Morgan Hooks and Britand coach of the year Dan tany Morris.

Turner. All-PTC for the Central’s Jennifer Tigers were Sandy Chung, Lindh landed on the Lily Crane and Savanna squad, as did Southwest’s Mackie. Southwest placed Sarah Warnock and Sarah Adams and Gabi Glenn’s Meredith Tilley.

Phillips on the team, For soccer, Southwest while Bison Breana Boyd swept top honors with of- also got the All-PTC nod. fensive player of the year Justin Jones, defensive MID-PIEDMONT 3A POY Stephen McDaniel Northeast Guilford and coach of the year swept top honors in the Rob Szitas. The Cowboys Mid-Piedmont 3A Conferalso put six other players ence after winning the

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football crown behind coach of the year Tommy Pursley, offensive player of the year Rayshawn Trader and defensive POY Trey Ingram.

Ledford’s All-MPC performers on defense were Patrick Graven, Ty Anderson, Chris Ross and Jonathan Reid; offensive winners were Steven Fuquay, Jonathan Kanoy, Joey Maines, Dylan Smith and Jonathan Shelton. Grady Gilmore was the All-MPC punter.

For Southern Guilford, defensive honors went to Nick Bell, Sterling Crosby, Ryan Donnell, Darren Mitchell and Josh McDuffie. Offensively, allconference for the Storm were Warren Scott and Wesley Stephens, while Michael Mattocks was the league’s top kicker.

Southern volleyball took top honors with player of the year Rachel Earnhardt and coach of the year Beth Brown. The Storm also had three others earn All-PTC status: Laura Daly, Lindsay Inman and Karley Hyatt.

Ledford’s all-league volleyball players were Carman Pericozzi, Cady Ray and Taylor Ballard.

Asheboro took top soccer honors with coach of the year Beth Luck and offensive player of the year Edgar Ramirez, while Northeast Guilford’s Matthew Johnson was defensive POY. Ledford’s all-conference soccer players were Ryan Farlow and Josh Lee, and Southern’s were Michael Mattocks, Kevin Comvalius and Julio Yanez.

Ledford tennis ruled the All-MPC landscape, with Tiffany Vanhpraseuth being named player of the year and Randy Grimes named coach of the year. Panthers Kathryn Stroup, Elona Jones, Katherine Sullivan, Drew

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Tuesday

Wednesday Basketball vs.

Thomasville, 6

Basketball at E. Forsyth, 6

Thursday

Carver took the top PAC 6 2A football awards with coach of the year Brent David, offensive player of the year Richard Daniels and defensive POY Samquan Evans.

T. Wingate Andrews had defensive players Daniel Pinnix, Antonio Jackson, Brandon Mack, Caleb Collins, Quantrez Stevenson and Sidney Hayes earn all-league honors along with offensive players Xavier Quick, Devonte Hege, Steven Malloy, Mark Johnson and Marquez Swinton.

Trinity’s defensive allleague winners were Brad Auman and T.J. Bulla, while offensive standouts Angelo Dunn, Theron Williamson, Ryan Spencer, Mario McInnis and David Welch were honored.

Kicker Ron Griffin also was named All-PAC 6.

For Wheatmore, Josh Rickert was all-conference on defense and Dalton Albertson on offense.

In volleyball, Andrews’ Ruthanne Clark was coach of the year and Randleman’s Meka Hoover the player of the year. Andrews placed

Friday

Wrestling vs. SEG, 7 Swimming at Glenn, 5:30 Track at SEG, 4:30

Basketball at AnWrestling at E. drews, 6 Alamance tourWrestling at E. Ala- ney, 9 a.m. mance tourn., 5 p.m.

Basketball vs. NW Wrestling at W. Guilford, 6 Lincoln tourney, 10 a.m.

Basketball at Greensboro Day, 5:30

High Point Christian

Basketball (boys) vs.

Asheville Christ, 7 Wrestling at C. Davidson tourney, 9 a.m.

Wesleyan Basketball at SouthLake tourney, 6

Westchester Bishop McGuinness East Davidson

Swimming at Salisbury, 4

Glenn

Ledford

Ragsdale

Basketball vs. Mt. Airy, 6:30 Swimming at E. Surry, 6 Basketball at Wheatmore, 6 Swimming at Lexington, 3:30 Basketball vs. NW Guilford, 6

Wheatmore

Basketball vs. N. Davidson, 6

Basketball (girls) at Basketball vs.

Surry Central, 6:30 Carver, TBA Wrestling at NorthWrestling at Mt. wood, 9 a.m.

Airy, 7 Track at Mt. Tabor, 12 Wrestling at Cha- Basketball vs.

Wrestling at C. tham Central, 7:45 Ledford, 6 Davidson tourney, 9 a.m.

Swimming vs. HP Wrestling vs. Park- Basketball vs.

Central, 5:30 land, 7:30 Parkland, 6

Wrestling at WS/ FC tournament, 9 a.m.

Basketball vs. Trinity, 6 Wrestling vs. S. Guilford, 7 Swimming at N. Forsyth, 6

Basketball at E. Davidson, 6

Wrestling at SE Guilford tourney, 9 a.m.

Basketball vs.

Parkland, 6

Wrestling vs. E. Forsyth, 7:30

Basketball vs. E. Forsyth, 6

Basketball vs. E. Forsyth, 6

Basketball vs.

Randleman, 6

Basketball at W. Davidson, 6

Basketball vs. C. Davidson, 6 Track at SE Guilford, 4:30 Basketball at Andrews, 6

Thomasville

Trinity

Track at Mt. Tabor, 4:30

Basketball at SouthLake tourney, TBA

Basketball vs. W. Davidson, 6

Basketball vs. N. Moore, 6

South Davidson Southern Guilford

Saturday

Wrestling at Trin- Basketball vs. HP Wrestling at SE ity, 7:30 Central, 6 Guilford tourney, 9 a.m.

Wrestling vs. NW Basketball vs. SE Swimming vs. E. Guilford, 7:30 Guilford, 6 Forsyth, 4 Track host seventeam meet, 4:45

Southwest Guilford

PIEDMONT ATHLETIC 6 2A

(schedules subject to change by the schools)

T. Wingate Andrews High Point Central

Sapp and Brielle Anthony were all-league.

Tom Kotris was coach of the year for the Ledford boys and girls cross country teams. The Panthers had Chris Murphy, Jonothan Perdomo, Josh Phillips, Anthony Hughes, Abdul Butt and Jacob Crickenberger earn All-MPC honors for the boys and Abby Carlson, Alex Crouch, Katie Reynolds, Mary Catherine Perry, Lauren Skinner and Sam Miller make the cut for the girls. The boys runner of the year was Asheboro’s Taylor Overman, while the girls’ top performer was Northeast’s Grace Teuffell.

Basketball at Asheboro, 6

Wrestling vs.

Basketball vs. E. Providence Grove, Davidson, 6 7

Swimming at Andrews, 5

Basketball at E. Montgomery, 6

Wrestling at Led- Basketball at Trinford, 7:30 ity, 6

Wrestling vs.

Albemarle, 7

Basketball at Ledford, 6 Wrestling vs.

Andrews, 8

Wrestling at C. Davidson tourney, 9 a.m.

Basketball vs. S. Guilford, 6

Wrestling at SE Guilford tourney, 9 a.m.

Basketball at W. Davidson, 6

Wrestling at C. Davidson tourney, 9 a.m.

Jacqueline Vera, Nora McKiver, Cherish McArthur and Raven Dawkins on the all-conference team, while Trinity was represented by Morgan Loeffler, Scout Albertson and Logan Terry. Making the cut for Wheatmore were Courtney Rains and Abby Allison, while Randleman’s Brittany Rich and Jessica Crotts were part of the unbeaten league champ.

Unbeaten league winner Trinity had three top honors for soccer: player of the year Kirby Graves, defensive player of the year Trevor Dean and coach of the year Mike Sink. Wheatmore’s Ricky Lockhart was goalie of the year and Randleman’s Brooks Julian the defensive player of the year.

On the all-conference team from Andrews were Lucas Carrington and Carlos Carabajal. Trinity added Josh Berry, Josh Gross, Jose Sedano and Lin Wall to the all-conference squad, while Wheatmore was represented by Eric Laguereula and Ross Blake.

In tennis, new school Wheatmore had Laura Monroe honored as coach of the year after her team went 8-0 in the league.

The Warriors placed Ashton Allen, Heather Griffin, Jessica VanLeuvan and Lane Vecellio on the all-conference team.

Andrews’ Patricia Geigel, Ashley Bailey and Bria Byrd made the all-league squad, as did Trinity’s Katlyn Staub and Kate Akerman.

Trinity’s Tim Kelly was coach of the year of the boys and girls cross country teams, with the Bulldogs also having the league’s runners of the year in Brittany Reeves and Kenny Collishaw.

All-PAC 6 Trinity girls were Allison Floyd, Torey Loewen, Elizabeth Adkins, Natalie Hunter and Mary Kay Adkins, while the boys were Dustin Mann, Ryan Kozlowski, Ethan Cox and Evan Altizer.

All-league runners for Wheatmore were Lexa Wall, Shay Pencola, Chad Mann and Jordan Fulp, while Andrews was represented by William Taylor.

of the year and Central Davidson’s Paula Bean the coach of the year.

The Golden Eagle soccer team included four all-conference performers: Jess Dillard, Zach Palmer, Nick Lopez and Travis Luck. Thomasville’s Hector Gonzalez and Izzy Escamilla also earned spots. Salisbury’s Tom Sexton was coach of the year, with player of the year honors being split by West’s Josh Burkhart and Central’s Andrew Dilley.

Salisbury swept tennis honors with coach of the year Chris Myers and player of the year Hannah Lebowitz. East placed Morgan Sikes on the All-CCC team and Thomasville’s Natalie Bravi also made it.

In cross country, East’s Will Luther and Haley Grimsley earned all-conference awards.

Salisbury coach Meagan Robinson (girls) and Central coach Greg Peters took home top honors, as did Salisbury runners Katherine Shields and Nick Summers.

NORTHWEST 1A/2A

Bishop McGuinness’ third-place football team in the tough Northwest 1A/2A Conference included several all-league performers. Marty DeFrancesco, Max Lum and Raleigh Sadler were defensive picks, and Jared Pluciniczak and Matt Urban made it for offense.

Villains Thomas Lawler and Josh Rathburn also were honorable mention.

Mount Airy had the coach of the year (Kelly Holder), specialist of the year (Tyler Hull) and defensive player of the year (Luke Wheeler), while East Surry’s Hunter Diamont was the league’s top offensive player.

In volleyball, Villains Lauren Cushing and Keely Daugherty took AllNWC honors. North Surry had coach of the year Shane Slate and player of the year Kara Hodges.

For soccer, Bishop had four all-league selections: Noah DeAngelo, Michael Enos, Atticus Lum and Evan Seach. Honorable mention picks were Patrick Mullin and Robert Tikkanen. Coach of the year was Surry Central’s Blake Roth. His team was CENTRAL CAROLINA 2A led by player of the year New league member Jose Antonio Talavera.

Thomasville ended the football season with coach Keeper honors were shared by Jose Diaz of of the year Allen Brown Surry Central and West and defensive player of Stokes’ Jacob Gordon. the year Isaiah Williams Three Villains earned in Central Carolina 2A All-NWC tennis honors: All-Conference voting.

Elizabeth Davis, Emily All-CCC selections for the Bulldogs’ defense were Ciriano and Katy Jones.

James Boyd, Robert Davis, Honorable mention picks were Natalie Curnes and De Dow, Lawson Hodges Hilary Kenney. Player and Malcom Ivery, while offensive picks were Tariq of the year was East Surry’s Megan Shelton, Camp, Kysean Green, while Mount Airy’s Scott Mark Green, Brandon Kniskern was coach of Lucas, Kenneth Mitchell the year. and Sam Nelson.

East Davidson placed Bishop’s Robert Youtz Nick Gibson and Dylan was girls coach of the Hutchins on the defenyear in cross country, sive side of the All-CCC with Meredith Bennett, team and Blake Dodd Katie Pellitteri and and Dylan Gallimore Michaela Dimoff named on offense. Salisbury’s all-conference for the John Knox was offensive girls and Villains Preston player of the year.

Khan, Austin Tritt and In volleyball, East’s Alex Wordsworth for the Candace Fox, Stacy Hicks boys. Runners of the year and Taylor Alexander were Matus Kriska (boys) earned All-CCC honors, of Mount Airy and Jodie as did Thomasville’s Lemons of North Stokes, Careena Mock and Emily with Surry Central’s Rex Styers. West Davidson’s Mitchell the boys coach Mo Yarboro was player of the year.

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Navy sinks Army PHILADELPHIA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Navy has made sportsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most patriotic rivalry a lopsided one.

The Mids beat Army 17-3 on Saturday for their eighth straight win in the series. The loss eliminated the Black Knightsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shot at playing in their first bowl game since 1996.

The Mids (9-4) already have a postseason date against Missouri in the Texas Bowl on Dec. 31.

Ricky Dobbs ran for a score to set an NCAA single-season record for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback with 24, and

OT conversion stuns Mt. Airy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AP

Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ram Vela (center) and Chase Burge celebrate after Vela intercepted an Army pass in the end zone during Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clash in Philadelphia. Navy won 17-3. threw for a TD to help Navy improve to 54-49-7 overall against Army for its biggest lead in a series that began in 1890.

Navy won the Commander-In-Chiefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Trophy, awarded to the team with the best record in

games between the three service academies, for a school-record seventh straight year.

Army (5-7) would have played in the EagleBank Bowl with a win. That matchup is now Temple vs. UCLA at RFK Stadium

in Washington on Dec. 29.

Army blew its chance of marching into a lateDecember bowl with a series of turnovers and missed field goals. That was enough for Dobbs and the Mids in their final tuneup for Missouri.

Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gill likely headed to Kansas THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: KANSAS CITY, Mo. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Buffalo coach Turner Gill has been offered the same job at Kansas, a person familiar with the search told The Associated Press on Saturday night.

Gill is 20-30 in four years with the Bulls. There was no indication when a deal with Gill, a former Nebraska quarterback, might be finalized.

Yahoo! Sports reported Gill had agreed to take over for Mark Mangino, who resigned Dec. 3 after a two-week investigation into his treatment of players. The Lawrence Journal-World and ESPN. com also reported Gill, 47, had accepted the job.

Gillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best season at Buffalo was 2008 when the Bulls won the MAC championship and went to their first bowl in half a century.

State has its new defensive coordinator â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Arizonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mark Stoops.

A university official familiar with the agreement told The AP on Saturday that Stoops has agreed to join new Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher in early January after both schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bowl games. Stoops, 42, is Arizonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defensive coordinator. He is the younger brother of Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops and Arizona coach Mike Stoops.

Mark Stoops inherits a Seminole defense that ranked 110th nationally in 2009, surrendering 444.3 yards and 30.8 points a game. He succeeds Mickey Andrews, who is retiring after 26 seasons as Florida Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defensive coordinator.

NW MISSOURI WINS D-II TITLE

FLORENCE, Ala. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; LaRon Council rushed for 172 yards and two touchdowns and Northwest Missouri State captured the NCAA Division II national championship MARK STOOPS GOES TO FLA. STATE with a 30-23 victory over Grand TALLAHASSEE, Fla. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Florida Valley State on Saturday.

The Bearcats (14-1) won their third national championship after a string of four consecutive losses in the championship. The other two titles came in 1998 and 1999.

Council scored on runs of 14 and 17 yards to help Northwest Missouri take a 21-0 lead early in the second quarter.

Grand Valley (13-2) closed to within 23-20 early in the fourth quarter.

DIVISION III SEMIFINALS ALLIANCE, Ohio â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cecil Shorts caught a touchdown pass and ran for two TDs, leading Mount Union to a 24-7 win over Wesley in the Division III semifinals Saturday.

The Purple Raiders (14-0) extended the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longest winning streak to 29 games and advanced to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl next Saturday for the 13th time.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll face Wisconsin-Whitewater, which defeated Linfield 27-17, in the final next Saturday in Salem, Va.

Host Bulldogs take Trinity Invitational crown ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORTS

won weight class championships Saturday at South Stokesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Joe Via TRINITY INVITATIONAL Invitational.

TRINITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The home mats were The Panthers finished sixth in good to five Bulldogs, who picked the 12-team field. Pounds won at up individual championships in 125 and Decker took the title at 160 Trinityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-place finish at its pounds. Ledford also got a secondown tournament on Saturday. place showing from Shabaz Butt at The Bulldogs took first, followed 130 and a third from Sam Henderby Glenn, Western Guilford and son at heavyweight. Tyler Hinch Wheatmore in the 10-team field.

(103) and Seth Leonard (119) both Winners for Trinity were An- placed fourth for the Panthers. thony Chancalaska at 103 pounds, Shane Stafford at 125, Joseph An- PIEDMONT HIGH MEMORIAL ders at 130, Nick Vetell at 152 and MONROE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; East Davidson finished Cameron King at 171. Second-place 11th at Piedmont Highâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bobby Abshowings came from Tyler Myers ernethy Memorial tournament.

(112), Jeremy Shives (145) and AnThe Golden Eagles got a secondgelo Dunn (215), while three Bull- place showing from Devin Nelson dog grapplers placed third: Ryan at 160 pounds and a third-place efSimmons at 119, Teal Everhart at fort by Zach Brubaker at 130.

160 and Gant Shedden at 189.

fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boys took a 39-36 win over Southwest Guilford late Friday.

The defensive struggle saw Southwest lead 17-16 at the half.

The Cowboys surged to a fivepoint lead early in the fourth quarter before a 10-0 run by Northeast made it 31-26. Southwest battled back within 37-36 and had three shots to take the lead before the Rams held on.

Greg Bridges led the Cowboys with 13 points, while Lakeith Scott had seven.

WINSTON-SALEM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Omar Carrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2-point conversion run in overtime Saturday lifted Wallace-Rose Hill to a 38-37 win over Mount Airy in the Class 1A N.C. High School Athletic Association championship.

Carr finished with 117 yards rushing for the Bulldogs (14-2), who won their first title in Class 1A. Wallace-Rose Hill won the 2A title in 1994.

Luke Wheeler and Andy Temoney each ran for two touchdowns and Tyler Hull hit a 33-yard field goal for the Granite Bears (15-1), who rallied from an 11-point deficit early in the third quarter to lead 30-27 with 11 minutes left in the fourth. But the Bulldogs forced overtime on Jose Floresâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 38-yard field goal with 2:08 left.

1AA CHAMPIONSHIP

Rowan to a 28-21 victory over Eastern Alamance in the 3A championship.

Parks, the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alltime rushing leader, ran for 155 yards on 32 carries for West Rowan (160), which won its second straight 3A championship and 30th straight game.

Eastern Alamance (142) trailed 20-0 early, but Lamar Ivey had a 1-yard scoring run to put the Eagles ahead 21-20 early in the third quarter. Parks scored the winning points on a 7-yard run after an interception.

3AA CHAMPIONSHIP CHAPEL HILL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Aaron Crumbley rushed for 122 yards and five touchdowns on 38 carries Saturday to lead Belmont South Point to a 42-28 win over South Johnston in the 3AA title game.

South Point (14-2) won its third state title in as many championship game appearances. South Johnston (14-2), which had a 12-game winning streak snapped, was playing in a state final for the first time.

Crumbley put South Point ahead for good with 3:26 left in the game on an 11-yard touchdown. It was the 89th TD of his career.

John Justice added another touchdown on a 42-yard run with 38 seconds to go.

WINSTON-SALEM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A.J. Little ran for 212 yards and two touchdowns and Albemarleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense shut down Southwest Onslow in a 45-21 victory Saturday for its fourth Class 1AA championship.

Rusty Parks added 101 yards and two touchdowns for the Bulldogs (16-0). The Bulldogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; defense held the Stallions (15-1) to just nine first downs and 161 yards total offense. They also 4A CHAMPIONSHIP forced five turnovers, four RALEIGH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ben Counof which led to Albemarle cell blocked a field-goal attouchdowns. tempt on the last play of the game to propel Asheville 2AA CHAMPIONSHIP Reynolds to a 14-12 victory CHAPEL HILL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tyrell over Harnett Central in Houghton completed 16 of the 4A championship.

24 passes for 291 yards and Harnett Central (15-1) three TDs to lead Reids- scored with 52 seconds left ville to a 28-6 win Saturday on a 49-yard pass from Briover Newton-Conover in an Taylor to Brian Baker. the 2AA championship.

But running back Jarrod Reidsville (16-0) has won Spears was stopped by three straight 2AA titles Reynoldsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cassidy Topa on and 48 games in a row. the two-point conversion.

This is the Ramsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 15th The Trojans then recovstate title overall. ered an onside kick, but Newton-Conover, which Taylorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 42-yard attempt won the 2A title last sea- was blocked. son, finished 14-2 after Reynolds (14-2) took a 7-0 having its nine-game win- lead when QB Caleb Pressning streak snapped. ley directed the Rockets to an early score. Pressley 3A CHAMPIONSHIP found Andrew Scott from RALEIGH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kevin Parks 13 yards out with 25 secJr. ran for four touchdowns onds left for a 14-0 halfSaturday to lead West time lead.

GREENSBORO, DAVIDSON HOME

GREENSBORO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Greensboro Home Educators topped Davidson Home 81-70 late Friday, led by Devin Murphyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s explosive 45-point night.

Drake Murphy added 10 points BASKETBALL and Josh Lanier had eight for the SOUTH STOKES INVITATIONAL Panthers, now 10-2. Spencer Moore WALNUT COVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ledfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mi- SW GUILFORD, NE GUILFORD had 22 points and R.J. Knowles 15 MCLEANSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Northeast Guil- to lead Davidson. chael Pounds and Jacob Decker

Diaz in, Johnson out for Braves ATLANTA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Outfielder Matt Diaz agreed Saturday to a $2.55 million, one-year contract with the Atlanta Braves, who let second baseman Kelly Johnson go free by failing to offer a 2010 contract.

Diaz hit .313 with 13 homers and 58 RBIs last season, when he made $1,237,500. Johnson batted .224 with eight homers and 29 RBIs, losing his starting job to Martin Prado. He can sign with any team starting today.

Atlanta also failed to offer a contract to outfielder Ryan Church, designated for assignment earlier in the week. Relievers Boone Logan and Peter Moylan remain as unsigned arbitration-eligible players.

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Blaney eager to rebound with a reliable ride T

rying to come up with a ride for the 2010 Cup season, Dave Blaney believes his prospects look better than what he settled for in 2009.

What he settled for couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been much worse. Left without a team when Bill Davis folded up shop about this time last year, and being a 47-yearold veteran driver without enough past success to attract attention from existing teams, Blaney took what he could get just to stay in the game.

Well, he sort of stayed in the game. He signed on with a new team formed by Phil Parsons, knowing that Parsons didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have sponsorship but would try to make it as what is derisively known as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;start and parkâ&#x20AC;? team: one that would qualify and then run just a few laps to take advantage of spots available because of the lack of enough fully funded teams to fill all 43 spots in every race.

Parsons, who first used the strategy in the Nationwide Series in 2008, had plenty of company. New teams owned

by Joe Nemechek and Tommy Baldwin and old ones owned by Bob Jenkins and James Finch also did it at times. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody that is in the middle of that wanted to start building something,â&#x20AC;? Blaney

said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my case, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do that. It was hard.â&#x20AC;?

But for Blaney, that was better than the alternative.

SPORTS â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my case, the other option was Greer stay at home,â&#x20AC;?

Smith he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; think that was a better option for me. Even if it was a start and park, at least I was in the car and kind of staying current with them, and I was there at the track and available if something happened to somebody and a team needed a driver.â&#x20AC;?

But that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it any easier to just drive a few laps each week when he really wanted to compete. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first month of the season was really tough to deal with,â&#x20AC;? Blaney said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But for me and everyone else on the team it was the same way... Once we got going with it, qualifying did provide a challenge just trying to make the races. But after that, the rest of the weekend was a letdown.â&#x20AC;?

What made it worse was that at the beginning of the season, Blaney thought he would get to go the distance in six to eight

races as part of a technical relationship that Parsons had with Michael Waltrip Racing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had an agreement with Waltripâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team to be a test team at some races if there were some things they wanted to try,â&#x20AC;? Blaney said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did that at Charlotte for the 600 and then they pulled the plug on that. When that went away, it was frustrating.

Blaney finished 28th in the 600. After that, the times he really got to race came in a couple of starts in the Nationwide Series â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one for Parsons and one for Braun Racing.

Most weeks, he was one of the first three cars to drop out. Outside of the 600, he never finished better than 37th. He ended with 30 starts and failed to qualify four times in his 34 attempts.

Three of the times he came up short on qualifying came in the last six races. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were stuck with some equipment that we knew wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be up to it and it caught up to us,â&#x20AC;? Blaney said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We ran the same stuff all year.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to say it was worn out, but we were overmatched at the end to make the races.â&#x20AC;?

Blaney said he would have taken a competitive Nationwide or Truck ride, and that he is close to a 6-8 race deal with a

good Nationwide team for 2010, but those opportunities are more scarce than in Cup. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Nationwide and Truck Series, the rides are usually going to guys who can bring sponsorship,â&#x20AC;? Blaney said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I still want to be involved. My ego is not huge enough to say if I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a great ride Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not coming, I still want to race here.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m old enough to know Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to get great opportunities.

But if I get the right opportunity I can still race well if it gets put together right.â&#x20AC;?

He is considering a possible return to his roots in the World of Outlaw sprint car series, but doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see doing that regularly because of the time needed for the Outlawsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 50-plus race schedule while his 15-year-old son Ryan still has an interest in racing. Blaney fielded a car for Ryan in the PASS South late model series last season.

Blaney, who started racing sprints in 1981 and has a sprint car, said he will do more of that kind of racing this summer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not on the World of Outlaws series â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but at the dirt track he owns at Hartford, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania state line and other tracks in that area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Ryan wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t racing a lot, I would be more apt to try the Outlaws,â&#x20AC;? Blaney said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But, the

sprint cars take way more time away from home than Cup does, and I want to help Ryan. I am planning to run more dirt sprint car races this summer if I can fit it in, just to get a feel of where I may go with that down the road. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My choice would be to go back to sprint cars. ... But, a big part of it now is trying to help Ryan get going and see what he wants to do. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only 15. Right now he loves it, but in two years he may not. Right now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going really well. And I want to get Ryan in the sprint cars to have that experience of driving a light car with a lot of power.â&#x20AC;?

Now, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to come up with something to make it better for himself next season.

Blaney said he is talking to small teams that competed last year and are indicating that they will have the funding to go the distance in most if not all the races next season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of smaller teams are still figuring out what they are going to do, trying to round up money,â&#x20AC;? Blaney said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But there are also some pretty good drivers around. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll try to get in the best situation where we can race a lot and get with a team that is the most competitive.

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Pats, Panthers try to reverse trends FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The New England Patriots won the Super Bowl after the 2003 season. The Carolina Panthers havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t played in one since losing that game.

From those peaks, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve descended to a season when both may miss the playoffs.

The Patriots are 7-5 with just a onegame lead in the AFC East after losing three of their last four. The Panthers go into todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game at New England at 5-7 after winning the NFC South with a 12-4 record last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care what the records are,â&#x20AC;?

Carolina coach John Fox said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As coaches, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at tape. Records mean squat.â&#x20AC;?

For players, they mean something â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a sign that there are plenty of problems if the record is worse than expected. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re 7-5, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re obviously not doing everything right,â&#x20AC;? New England quarterback Tom Brady said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So what you are doing, if you continue to do it, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to get a lot of the same, which is pretty average.â&#x20AC;?

The Patriots have been much better than average this decade. They won

championship in the 2001, 2003 and 2004 seasons, but lost the Super Bowl following the 2007 season. The Panthers lost the NFC championship game the year after their Super Bowl loss and havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gone that far since.

But they might have added motivation today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There has been some history there, definitely,â&#x20AC;? said wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad, one of seven current Panthers who played in the Super Bowl. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Does it affect they way you prepare? Sure, it does.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the team that knocked you out of the Super Bowl. I think you kind of hold that close to your heart. Every time you play them you know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a physical game and a real competitive game.â&#x20AC;?

The Patriots are 6-0 at home and nearly two-touchdown favorites today.

Panthers QB Matt Moore will start his second straight game while Jake Delhomme, who faced Brady in the Super Bowl, nurses a broken finger. Carolina should have DeAngelo Williams, who missed one game with an ankle injury but is still sixth in the NFL in rushing. The Patriots AP have allowed more than 325 yards pass- Dejected New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady sits on the bench late in the ing in three of their last four games. fourth quarter of last Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 22-21 loss to the Miami Dolphins.

Road ahead very different for unbeaten Colts and Saints THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Indianapolis Colts can clinch home-field advantage for the AFC playoffs and set the league mark for consecutive regular-season victories if they beat Denver today. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a chance, if they reach 13-0, the Colts could shut it down a bit as they prepare for the playoffs, perhaps tossing aside a shot at a perfect season.

The other unbeaten team, New Orleans, wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have such a luxury even if it reaches 13 wins today at Atlanta. The Saints are being pressed by Minnesota in the NFC, although they gained some breathing room last week when the Vikings fell to 10-2.

The Broncos (8-4) have righted things after a fourgame slide and have won two in a row to take control of the wild-card race.

New Orleans travels to undermanned Atlanta (66), which could be missing its most critical players: RB Michael Turner (ankle) and QB Matt Ryan (toe).

CINCINNATI (9-3) AT MINNESOTA (10-2) Most weeks, this would be the marquee matchup and there might even be whispers about a Super Bowl preview. Minnesota gets a playoff berth if it wins, and clinches the NFC North if it wins and Green Bay loses. Cincinnati, the turnaround story of the

year, gets the AFC North crown with a victory.

playoff hopes for one of these teams. Although the Jaguars canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win the SAN DIEGO (9-3) AFC South, they are a wild-card team right now, AT DALLAS (8-4) Although they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t se- and this confrontation is cure the AFC West this vital for them with Indy weekend, the Chargers and New England ahead. can surge into the postseason with their eighth GREEN BAY (8-4) successive victory and a AT CHICAGO (5-7) combination of losses by The oldest rivalry in other teams. The Cowboys the NFL usually has extra are tied with the Eagles meaning to go along with atop the NFC East, and the animosity, but not for the Cowboys canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look to the Bears. The struggles the recent past for inspi- of would-be savior QB ration: quarterback Tony Jay Cutler have been Romo is 5-9 in December. matched by the woes of the rush defense, so look for Green Bay to run as PHILADELPHIA (8-4) much as possible.

AT N.Y. GIANTS (7-5) The winner will be in strong position for a play- N.Y. JETS (6-6) off run, and the Eagles AT TAMPA BAY (1-11) have taken the last three New York is shutting meetings, including two down the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sanchiseâ&#x20AC;? this at the Meadowlands â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one week, letting rookie quara playoff game. Philly ex- terback Mark Sanchez rest pects game-breaking wide- his aching right knee in out/punt returner DeSean hopes he will be healthy Jackson to return from a the rest of the way. Not that concussion, but star RB there is much to fear from Brian Westbrookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status Tampaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense, which is much more sketchy. ranks 26th overall and 31st versus the run. That means lots of carries and ARIZONA (8-4) yards for Thomas Jones.

AT SAN FRANCISCO (5-7) Last year, the Cardinals clinched the NFC West DETROIT (2-10) with three games remain- AT BALTIMORE (6-6) ing, then went into the tank If the Ravens are plagued for the next two. Arizona by a handful of pass intercan grab the division title ference calls against the with a win in this one.

Lions, it might be time to stop lauding their defense.

With a loss, it will be time MIAMI (6-6) to stop considering BaltiAT JACKSONVILLE (7-5) A loss will damage the more a contender.

ST. LOUIS (1-11) AT TENNESSEE (5-7)

in position for a surge into the postseason for the first time, they fell apart. Four losses later, coach Gary Kubiakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status is shaky and top running back Steve Slaton is done for the year with a neck injury.

No shame in having their five-game winning string snapped in Indy.

Plenty of shame, though, if the Titans canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t handle the Rams, which would end chances for a winning WASHINGTON (3-9) season after an 0-6 start.

Eagles, they can stake a claim to the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital. The Redskins come off perhaps the most disheartening loss of the season.

BUFFALO (4-8) AT KANSAS CITY (3-9)

Two teams headed nowhere this year, but at least the Chiefs have some direcAT OAKLAND (4-8) Now that the Raiders tion under the first-year reSEATTLE (5-7) own Pennsylvania, hav- gime of GM Scott Pioli and AT HOUSTON (5-7) Just when the Texans got ing swept the Steelers and coach Todd Haley.

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Kansas, Henry conquer La Salle

Tested Deacs set for Elon

BY GREER SMITH ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

WINSTON-SALEM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; After a week without a game during exams, Wake Forest will try to build on its upset win at Gonzaga when it faces Elon today at the Joel Coliseum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a tough week for us,â&#x20AC;? Wake coach Dino Gaudio said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had guys miss practice during exams and study times. Friday was the first time this week that we had a full contingent of players, and we had them again Saturday.

This week is a challenge for us, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll meet it like any other challenge.â&#x20AC;?

Wake (5-2) upset the then-No. 17-ranked Zags on Dec. 5 behind freshmen C.J. Harris and Arie Stewart, who combined for 36 points.

Harris, who has led the Deacons in scoring in four straight games, hit 13-of-15 free throws and scored 19 against the Zags. Stewart got 12 of his 17 points by going 4for-4 from 3-point range.

Southern Conference

member Elon is 3-6 after beating Chattanooga 82-63 last Saturday. Josh Bonney, a 5-foot-10 senior guard, leads the Phoenix in scoring (14.5 points per game) and assists (4.9).

Elon has suffered losses at the hands of Charlotte, Coastal Carolina, Hofstra, Yale and UNC Wilmington.

Gaudio isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t taking a victory for granted, especially in the aftermath of Wakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loss to William & Mary two weeks ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are going to run motion offense,â&#x20AC;? Gaudio said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are a good half-court team. Our guys know that if we are not playing up to our capabilities that anyone can beat us, and surely Elon can. If we play hard and well, we can beat anyone in the country, as we showed when we won at Gonzaga. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where leadership comes in. They have to handle each game the same. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what it is going to take to beat Elon.â&#x20AC;? gsmith@hpe.com | 888-3519

Terps outlast E. Kentucky COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Greivis Vasquez scored 20 points in an unwanted reserve role, Landon Milbourne had 19, and Maryland outlasted stubborn Eastern Kentucky 83-72 on Saturday.

Eric Hayes added 16 points for Maryland (63). The Terrapins never trailed, but couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pull away from the pesky Colonels (7-3) until Hayes hit a 3-pointer to spark a game-ending 11-4 run.

Vasquez began the game on the bench after

showing up late for the morning shootaround.

The senior guard had started 80 straight games, a streak launched during his freshman season.

VIRGINIA TECH 66, PENN STATE 64 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Malcolm Delaney scored 11 of his 27 points during a key second-half stretch and Virginia Tech benefited from Penn Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poor foul shooting in a 66-64 win Saturday night.

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Western Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mike Williams (12) shoots between Louisville players Preston Knowles (2) and Rakeem Buckles on Saturday. Williams led all scorers with 24 points as the Catamounts surprised the Cardinals, 91-83.

W. Carolina upsets Cards WIRE, STAFF REPORTS

LOUISVILLE, Ky. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mike Williams scored a career-high 24 points and Jake Robinson added 23 as Western Carolina stunned reeling Louisville 91-83.

Robinson knocked down three straight 3pointers during a decisive second-half run to lift the Catamounts (10-1) to their ninth straight victory.

Edgar Sosa led Louisville (5-3) with 16 points and Preston Knowles returned from a thumb injury to score 15 points, but Louisville couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop Robinson and struggled holding onto the ball.

The Cardinals committed a season-high 21 turnovers which the Catamounts turned into 28 points the other way.

Pitino blamed the decisiveness of the loss on Louisvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long injury list.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to look for a different excuse after the Catamounts dominated the final six minutes just when Louisville appeared to be building momentum.

CHARLOTTE 95, GARDNER-WEBB 66 CHARLOTTE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shamari Spears and DiJuan Harris scored 13 points each to lead six double-digit scorers for Charlotte in a 9566 victory over GardnerWebb on Saturday.

Harris and Spears were joined in double figures by Chris Braswell (11 points), Shamarr Bowden (11 points), K.J. Sherrill (10) and junior Anâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Juan Wilderness, who contributed 10 points in six minutes.

a career-high 18 points, and Georgetown pulled away in the in the Wooden Classic.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Freshman Xavier Henry scored a season-high 31 point as No. 1 Kansas KANSAS STATE 95, (18) beat La Salle 90-65 on UNLV 80 Saturday at the Sprint LAS VEGAS (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Center.

Jacob Pullen hit seven 3-pointers and scored a (2) TEXAS 87, game-high 28 points, and TEXAS ST. 54 Kansas State pounded AUSTIN, Texas â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Da- No. 18 UNLV 95-80. mion James got his 40th career double-double (20) WISCONSIN 72, with 21 points and 16 re- MARQUETTE 63 bounds to lead Texas.

MADISON, Wis. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jon Leuer scored 24 points to (4) KENTUCKY 90, lead Wisconsin over its INDIANA 73 in-state rival.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Eric Bledsoe scored (21) GONZAGA 103, 23 points to lead Ken- DAVIDSON 91 tucky.

SEATTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Freshman Elias Harris scored (6) W. VIRGINIA 69, a season-high 27 points COPPIN ST. 43. and No. 21 Gonzaga overM O R G A N T O W N , came the absence of leadW.Va. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kevin Jones ing scorer Matt Bouldin had 22 points and 11 re- to beat Davidson 103-91. bounds and No. 6 West Robert Sacre dominatVirginia overcame the ed the smaller Wildcats absence of two starters inside with a career-best to beat Coppin State 69- 23 points.

43 on Saturday night.

Freshman Jake Cohen scored 16 points and (22) BUTLER 74, Brendan McKillop had (13) OHIO ST. 66 15 on five 3-pointers for INDIANAPOLIS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Davidson (2-7), Gordon Hayward scored 24 points, and Butler (25) MISSISSIPPI 83, beat a ranked team for MCNEESE ST. 67 the first time in four OXFORD, Miss. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tries this season.

Chris Warren scored 20 points and Eniel Polynice (15) GEORGETOWN 74, had all 12 points and four (17) WASHINGTON 66 steals over the final 10 ANAHEIM, Calif. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; minutes of the game to Julian Vaughn scored rally Mississippi.

DCCC men romp ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORT

LEXINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Davidson County Community College rolled to a 100-77 win over Southwest Virginia Community College in Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NJCAA Region X game.

Kimani Hunt scored 17 points to lead the Storm,

while Eric Potts tallied 16 points and 12 rebounds.

DCCC also got 14 points from Robbie Rives and 10 by Roderick Geter.

The Storm, how 9-4 overall and 2-0 in the conference, is idle until a Jan. 4 meeting against Vance-Granville Community College.

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AMERICAN CONFERENCE East New England Miami N.Y. Jets Buffalo

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x-Indianapolis Jacksonville Tennessee Houston

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Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland

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San Diego Denver Oakland Kansas City

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PA 224 296 208 261

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Away 1-5-0 2-4-0 3-3-0 2-4-0

AFC 5-4-0 4-4-0 5-5-0 2-7-0

NFC 2-1-0 2-2-0 1-1-0 2-1-0

Div 3-2-0 4-2-0 2-4-0 2-3-0

Home 6-0-0 5-1-0 3-2-0 2-4-0

Away 6-0-0 2-4-0 2-5-0 3-3-0

AFC 8-0-0 6-2-0 3-7-0 4-6-0

NFC 4-0-0 1-3-0 2-0-0 1-1-0

Div 5-0-0 3-2-0 2-4-0 1-5-0

Home 5-2-0 4-2-0 4-2-0 1-5-0

Away 4-1-0 2-4-0 2-5-0 1-6-0

AFC 6-3-0 6-4-0 4-6-0 2-7-0

NFC 3-0-0 0-2-0 2-1-0 0-4-0

Div 6-0-0 3-2-0 1-4-0 1-5-0

Home 4-2-0 4-2-0 2-4-0 1-5-0

Away 5-1-0 4-2-0 2-4-0 2-4-0

AFC 7-3-0 6-3-0 3-6-0 2-6-0

NFC 2-0-0 2-1-0 1-2-0 1-3-0

Div 5-1-0 3-1-0 1-4-0 1-4-0

Home 5-1-0 4-2-0 4-2-0 3-3-0

Away 3-3-0 4-2-0 3-3-0 0-6-0

NFC 6-3-0 7-2-0 5-3-0 2-8-0

AFC 2-1-0 1-2-0 2-2-0 1-1-0

Div 2-2-0 3-1-0 3-1-0 0-4-0

Home 6-0-0 5-1-0 3-3-0 1-5-0

Away 6-0-0 1-5-0 2-4-0 0-6-0

NFC 8-0-0 5-5-0 5-4-0 1-8-0

AFC 4-0-0 1-1-0 0-3-0 0-3-0

Div 3-0-0 2-2-0 3-2-0 0-4-0

Home 6-0-0 5-2-0 4-2-0 2-4-0

Away 4-2-0 3-2-0 1-5-0 0-6-0

NFC 8-1-0 6-3-0 3-6-0 1-8-0

AFC 2-1-0 2-1-0 2-1-0 1-2-0

Div 5-0-0 3-2-0 1-2-0 0-5-0

Home 3-3-0 4-2-0 4-2-0 0-6-0

Away 5-1-0 1-5-0 1-5-0 1-5-0

NFC 6-2-0 4-4-0 4-6-0 1-9-0

AFC 2-2-0 1-3-0 1-1-0 0-2-0

Div 3-1-0 3-1-0 3-3-0 0-4-0

Florida 4, New Jersey 2 Washington 4, Carolina 3, OT Detroit 3, Anaheim 2, OT Buffalo 2, Chicago 1 Edmonton 5, St. Louis 3 Colorado 2, Tampa Bay 1, SO Minnesota 2, Calgary 1, OT Dallas 3, San Jose 2, SO

Saturday’s Games Buffalo 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 N.Y. Islanders 3, Boston 2, OT New Jersey 4, Philadelphia 1 Anaheim 3, Columbus 1 Atlanta 4, Montreal 3, OT Toronto 6, Washington 3 Ottawa 4, Carolina 2 Pittsburgh 3, Florida 2, OT Detroit at Nashville, late San Jose at Phoenix, late Minnesota at Vancouver, late Dallas at Los Angeles, late

North PA 187 215 244 315

West PA 242 202 282 326

Today’s Games Tampa Bay at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 8 p.m.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Dallas Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Washington

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x-New Orleans Atlanta Carolina Tampa Bay

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PA 213 235 285 238

Monday’s Games Ottawa at Toronto, 7 p.m.

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

Atlanta at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

South PA 251 279 262 330

Senators 4, Hurricanes 2

North W 10 8 5 2

L 2 4 7 10

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .833 .667 .417 .167

PF 359 323 233 206

L 4 7 7 11

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .417 .417 .083

PF 297 245 243 139

PA 233 229 270 358

West W Arizona 8 San Francisco 5 Seattle 5 St. Louis 1 x-clinched division

PA 234 233 267 314

Thursday’s result

Thursday, Dec. 17

Cleveland 13, Pittsburgh 6

Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 8:20 p.m.

Today’s games

Saturday, Dec. 19

Seattle at Houston, 1 p.m.

Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Denver at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Carolina at New England, 1 p.m.

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

Miami at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

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

Washington at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

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

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

Dallas at New Orleans, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 20 Miami at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Houston at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Denver, 4:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 4:15 p.m.

Green Bay at Pittsburgh, 4:15 p.m.

Minnesota at Carolina, 8:20 p.m.

Monday’s game

TODAY CAROLINA PANTHERS at NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — PANTHERS: OUT: DE Tyler Brayton (concussion), QB Jake Delhomme (right finger). QUESTIONABLE: LB Na’il Diggs (ribs), WR Dwayne Jarrett (ankle), DE Charles Johnson (pectoral). PROBABLE: WR Muhsin Muhammad (knee), CB Captain Munnerlyn (concussion), RB Jonathan Stewart (Achilles), RB DeAngelo Williams (ankle). PATRIOTS: DOUBTFUL: DT Myron Pryor (chest).

QUESTIONABLE: WR Sam Aiken (shoulder), LB Tully Banta-Cain (shoulder), QB Tom Brady (right shoulder, right finger, rib), WR Julian Edelman (forearm), DE Jarvis Green (knee), T Nick Kaczur (ankle), G Stephen Neal (ankle), RB Fred Taylor (ankle), DT Ty Warren (ankle).

PROBABLE: LB Rob Ninkovich (knee), CB Shawn Springs (knee), T Sebastian Vollmer (head), TE Benjamin Watson (knee).

Ohio (9-4) vs. Marshall (6-6), 1 p.m.

(ESPN)

Meineke Bowl, At Charlotte North Carolina (8-4) vs. Pittsburgh (9-3), 4 p.m. (ESPN)

Emerald Bowl, At San Francisco Southern Cal (8-4) vs. Boston College (84), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Sunday, Dec. 27 Music City Bowl, At Nashville, Tenn.

Clemson (8-5) vs. Kentucky (7-5), 8 p.m.

(ESPN)

Monday, Dec. 28 Independence Bowl, At Shreveport, La. Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Georgia (7-5), 5 p.m.

(ESPN)

Tuesday, Dec. 29 EagleBank Bowl, At Washington Temple (9-3) vs. UCLA (6-6), 4:30 p.m.

(ESPN)

Champs Sports Bowl, At Orlando, Fla. Miami (9-3) vs. Wisconsin (9-3), 8 p.m.

(ESPN)

Holiday Bowl, At San Diego

SOUTH NW Missouri St. 30, Grand Valley St. 23 Prairie View 30, Alabama A&M 24

Nebraska (9-4) vs. Arizona (8-4), 8 p.m.

(ESPN)

Thursday, Dec. 31 Sun Bowl, At El Paso, Texas

MIDWEST Mount Union 24, Wesley 7 Wisconsin-Whitewater 27, Linfield 17

Stanford (8-4) vs. Oklahoma (7-5), Noon (CBS)

FAR WEST

Armed Forces Bowl, At Fort Worth

Montana 24, Appalachian St. 17

Air Force (7-5) vs. Houston (10-3), Noon (ESPN)

NCAA FCS playoffs

Texas Bowl, At Houston Missouri (8-4) vs. Navy (8-4), 3:30 p.m.

(ESPN)

All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 28

Insight Bowl, At Tempe, Ariz.

Appalachian State 20, S. Carolina State 13 Villaonova 38, Holy Cross 28 Richmond 16, Elon 13 William & Mary 38, Weber State 0 Southern Illinois 48, Eastern Illinois 7 Montana 61, South Dakota State 48 New Hampshire 49, McNeese State 13 S.F. Austin 44, Eastern Washington 33

Quarterfinals Saturday, Dec. 5

Capital One Bowl, At Orlando, Fla.

Rose Bowl, At Pasadena, Calif.

Sugar Bowl, At New Orleans

Montana 24, Appalachian State 17

Championship Friday, Dec. 18 At Finley Stadium/Davenport Field Chattanooga, Tenn.

Villanova (13-1) vs. Montana (14-0), 8 p.m.

Montana 24, Appalachian State 17 0 10

Northwestern (8-4) vs. Auburn (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN)

Ohio State (10-2) vs. Oregon (10-2), 5 p.m.

(ABC)

Saturday, Dec. 12

7 7

Friday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl, At Tampa, Fla.

Gator Bowl, At Jacksonville, Fla.

Semifinals Friday, Dec. 11

10 0

Chick-fil-A Bowl, At Atlanta Virginia Tech (9-3) vs. Tennessee (7-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Florida State (6-6) vs. West Virginia (9-3), 1 p.m. (CBS)

Villanova 14, William & Mary 13

Appalachian St. 0 Montana 7

Minnesota (6-6) vs. Iowa State (6-6), 6 p.m.

(NFL)

Penn State (10-2) vs. LSU (9-3), 1 p.m.

(ABC)

William & Mary 24, Southern Illinois 3 Montana 51, Stephen F. Austin 0 Villanova 46, New Hampshire 7 Appalachian State 35, Richmond 31

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17 24

First Quarter Mont—C.Reynolds 39 run (McKnight kick), 7:50.

Second Quarter App—D.Moore 3 run (Vitaris kick), 14:40.

App—FG Vitaris 46, 5:16.

Third Quarter Mont—C.Reynolds 7 run (McKnight kick), 13:22.

App—D.Moore 1 run (Vitaris kick), 3:52.

Fourth Quarter Mont—FG McKnight 32, 14:50.

Mont—Sambrano 25 pass from Selle (McKnight kick), 1:31.

A—24,207.

App Mont First downs 29 20 Rushes-yards 38-144 33-212 Passing 353 161 Comp-Att-Int 28-54-1 11-27-1 Return Yards 34 24 Punts-Avg. 4-38.3 5-36.2 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-0 Penalties-Yards 11-131 2-15 Time of Possession 34:52 25:08

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Appalachian St., D.Moore 2184, Edwards 15-54, B.Frazier 1-4, Cline 1-2.

Montana, C.Reynolds 23-193, Brooks-Fletcher 5-26, Wren 1-5, Mariani 1-0, Team 1-(minus 1), Selle 2-(minus 11).

PASSING—Appalachian St., Edwards 2854-1-353. Montana, Selle 11-27-1-161.

RECEIVING—Appalachian St., Quick 10-135, Cline 7-101, D.Moore 5-35, Elder 437, B.Frazier 1-30, Jorden 1-15. Montana, Mariani 3-39, C.Reynolds 2-29, Beaudin 2-27, T.Palmer 2-18, Sambrano 1-25, Pfahler 1-23.

NCAA D-II playoffs Quarterfinals Saturday, Nov. 28 California, Pa. 57, West Liberty 35 Grand Valley St. 24, Minnesota-Duluth 10 Carson-Newman 24, North Alabama 21 NW Missouri State 21, C. Washington 20

Semifinals Saturday, Dec. 5 Grand Valley St. 41, Carson-Newman 27 NW Missouri State 56, California, Pa. 31

Championship Saturday, Dec. 12 Braly Municipal Stadium, Florence, Ala.

Florida (12-1) vs. Cincinnati (12-0), 8:30 p.m. (FOX)

Saturday, Jan. 2 International Bowl at Toronto South Florida (7-5) vs. Northern Illinois (75), Noon (ESPN2)

Cotton Bowl, At Dallas Oklahoma State (9-3) vs. Mississippi (8-4), 2 p.m. (FOX)

PapaJohns.com Bowl, At Birmingham Connecticut (7-5) vs. South Carolina (7-5), 2 p.m. (ESPN)

Liberty Bowl, At Memphis, Tenn.

East Carolina (9-4) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Alamo Bowl, At San Antonio Michigan State (6-6) vs. Texas Tech (8-4), 9 p.m. (ESPN)

Monday, Jan. 4 Fiesta Bowl, At Glendale, Ariz.

Boise State (13-0) vs. TCU (12-0), 8 p.m.

(FOX)

Tuesday, Jan. 5 Orange Bowl, At Miami Iowa (10-2) vs. Georgia Tech (11-2), 8 p.m.

(FOX)

Wednesday, Jan. 6 GMAC Bowl, At Mobile, Ala. Central Michigan (11-2) vs. Troy (9-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN)

Thursday, Jan. 7 BCS Championship, At Pasadena, Calif.

Alabama (13-0) vs. Texas (13-0), 8 p.m.

(ABC)

Navy 17, Army 3 Army Navy

Semifinals Saturday, Dec. 12 Mount Union 24, Wesley 7 Wisconsin-Whitewater 27, Linfield 17

Championship Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl Saturday, Dec. 19 At Salem (Va.) Stadium Mount Union (14-0) vs. Wisconsin-Whitewater (14-0), 11 a.m.

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

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

Sunday, Dec. 20 New Orleans Bowl

0 10

0 7

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3 17

Army—FG Carlton 23, :00.

Third Quarter Navy—Curry 25 pass from Dobbs (Buckley kick), 8:55.

Navy—FG Buckley 36, :11.

Fourth Quarter Navy—Dobbs 1 run (Buckley kick), 6:15.

A—69,541.

Army Navy First downs 10 13 Rushes-yards 40-110 52-186 Passing 77 61 Comp-Att-Int 7-21-1 3-7-1 Return Yards 36 4 Punts-Avg. 6-36.2 7-40.4 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 3-1 Penalties-Yards 5-30 4-45 Time of Possession 27:14 32:46

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Army, Mealy 13-48, Ehie 9-28, Carter 6-21, Steelman 11-16, Team 1-(minus 3). Navy, Dobbs 33-113, Murray 13-41, Curry 4-34, Doyle 1-0, Team 1-(minus 2).

PASSING—Army, Steelman 7-20-1-77, Hunter 0-1-0-0. Navy, Dobbs 3-7-1-61.

RECEIVING—Army, Villanueva 5-62, Mealy 1-12, Hunter 1-3. Navy, Curry 1-25, Murray 1-21, Doyle 1-15.

Heisman Voting, Narrowest Margins

NCAA D-III playoffs Mount Union 55, Albright 3 Wesley 12, Johns Hopkins 0 Wisconsin-Whitewater 31, Wittenberg 13 Linfield 31, St. Thomas, Minn. 20

0 0

First Quarter

NW Missouri St. 30, Grand Valley St. 23

Quarterfinals Saturday, Dec. 5

3 0

2009 — 28, Mark Ingram, Alabama, over Toby Gerhart, Stanford, 1304-1276.

1985 — 45, Bo Jackson, Auburn, over Chuck Long, Iowa, 1509-1464.

1961 — 53, Ernie Davis, Syracuse, over Bob Ferguson, Ohio State, 824-771.

1953 — 56, John Lattner, Notre Dame, over Paul Giel, Minnesota, 1850-1794.

2001 — 62, Eric Crouch, Nebraska, over Rex Grossman, Florida, 770-708.

1989 — 70, Andre Ware, Houston, over Anthony Thompson, Indiana, 1073-1003.

1956 — 72, Paul Hornung, Notre Dame, over John Majors, Tennessee, 1066-994-x.

1964 — 74, John Huarte, Notre Dame, over Jerry Rhome, Tulsa, 1026-952.

2000 — 76, Chris Weinke, Florida St., over Josh Heupel, Oklahoma, 1,628-1,552.

1978 — 77, Billy Sims, Oklahoma, over Chuck Fusina, Penn State, 827-750.

Note: Jay Berwanger, Chicago, defeated Monk Meyer, Army, by 55 in 1935 but vote totals of 84-29 were considerably smaller. x-Hornung’s margin over third place finisher over Tom McDonald, Oklahoma, was 93 (1066-973), the slimmest margin between first-third place.

Southern Miss. (7-5) vs. Middle Tennessee (9-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

Tuesday, Dec. 22 Las Vegas Bowl BYU (10-2) vs. Oregon State (8-4), 8 p.m.

(ESPN)

Wednesday, Dec. 23 Poinsettia Bowl, At San Diego Utah (9-3) vs. Cal (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

Thursday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl, At Honolulu SMU (7-5) vs. Nevada (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

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6 8 7 7 6 8 7 7 5 6 4 9

3 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 4 1

.667 .889 .875 .875 .857 .800 .778 .778 .714 .667 .500 .900

Monday’s game

Bowling Green (7-5) vs. Idaho (7-5), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)

EAST Navy 17, Army 3

Q. Which team captured the 1981 NCAA men’s national basketball title?

Elon at Wake Forest, 2 p.m.

Furman at Clemson, 4 p.m.

Rhode Isl. at Boston Coll., 6:45 p.m. (FSN)

Wednesday, Dec. 30 Humanitarian Bowl, At Boise, Idaho

College scores

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Today’s games

Saturday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, At Detroit

NEW YORK (AP) — The updated NFL injury report, provided by the league:

TRIVIA QUESTION

Saturday’s results

N.Y. Giants at Washington, 8:30 p.m.

NFL injury report

Carolina Ottawa

N.C. State 75, Georgia Southern 57 Maryland 83, Eastern Kentucky 72 Virginia Tech 66, Penn State 64 North Carolina 103, Presbyterian 64 Miami 91, S.C. State 54

Monday, Dec. 21

Arizona at San Francisco, 8:30 p.m.

W L OT Pts GF GA 19 7 7 45 110 90 20 10 3 43 103 99 18 11 2 38 77 71 14 8 9 37 91 91 12 13 7 31 91 103

Friday’s Games

Home 6-0-0 4-2-0 3-3-0 2-4-0

South PA 201 273 316 266

GP 33 33 31 31 32

San Jose Los Angeles Phoenix Dallas Anaheim

National Football League

Minnesota Green Bay Chicago Detroit

32 15 13 31 15 13

Pacific Division

Overall W L Pct.

Georgia Tech at Chattanooga, 7 p.m.

(FSSO)

Tuesday’s games Gardner-Webb at Duke, 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Georgia State at Florida State, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Clemson at East Carolina, 7 p.m.

Miami at Stetson, 7 p.m.

Wake Forest at UNC Wilmington, 7 p.m.

(ESPNU) Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Georgia Tech, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s games Auburn at Florida State, 7 p.m.

Elon at N.C. State, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s games North Carolina vs. Texas, in Arlington, 2 p.m. (ESPN) Gonzaga vs. Duke, in New York, 4 p.m.

(WFMY, Ch. 2) Miami at Florida Atlantic, 4 p.m.

Charleston Southern at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m.

UNC Wilmington at Virginia, 7 p.m.

College of Charleston at Clemson, TBA

Sunday’s games Bryant at Boston College, 4 p.m.

Florida State at Georgia Tech, 5:30 p.m.

(FSN) N.C. State at Wake Forest, 7:45 p.m. (FSN)

No. 11 N. Carolina 103, Presbyterian 64 PRESBYTERIAN (2-8) Holmes 11-18 5-7 29, Troyli 2-12 0-0 4, Reynolds 0-0 0-0 0, Smith 2-7 0-0 5, Faircloth 2-8 0-0 5, Mutakabbir 2-7 0-0 6, Hargrave 1-3 0-0 3, Allen 4-5 0-0 10, Davis 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 25-61 5-7 64.

NORTH CAROLINA (8-2) Graves 0-6 0-0 0, Thompson 7-10 5-6 19, Davis 6-8 8-9 20, Watts 4-8 0-3 9, Drew II 57 0-0 12, McDonald 3-6 1-1 7, Zeller 2-5 11 5, Henson 4-6 1-2 11, Campbell 1-3 0-0 3, D.Wear 4-7 0-0 8, T.Wear 3-7 0-0 6, Petree 0-0 0-0 0, Thornton 1-1 0-0 3, Gallagher 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 40-74 16-22 103.

Halftime—North Carolina 56-21. 3-Point Goals—Presbyterian 9-23 (Allen 2-3, Holmes 2-3, Mutakabbir 2-4, Hargrave 1-3, Smith 1-4, Faircloth 1-6), North Carolina 7-23 (Drew II 23, Henson 2-4, Thornton 1-1, Campbell 1-3, Watts 1-4, Zeller 0-1, McDonald 0-1, D.Wear 0-1, Graves 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Presbyterian 26 (Holmes 6), North Carolina 48 (Davis 10). Assists—Presbyterian 9 (Davis 3), North Carolina 25 (Drew II 9). Total Fouls—Presbyterian 14, North Carolina 8.

A—18,596.

N.C. State 75, Georgia Southern 57 GEORGIA SOUTHERN (3-7) Rucker 5-9 2-2 12, Spencer 5-10 2-4 12, Hanson 3-9 1-2 9, Troupe 0-4 0-0 0, Powers 610 2-2 14, Janiszewski 1-2 0-0 2, Brannen 0-1 0-0 0, Drayton III 1-4 2-2 4, Baskerville 1-5 2-4 4, Wohlleb 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 22-55 11-16 57.

N.C. STATE (7-1) Wood 1-6 0-0 2, Williams 4-6 0-0 10, T.Smith 10-12 1-4 21, Mays 4-5 0-0 11, Horner 7-8 2-2 16, Howell 0-2 0-0 0, Painter 1-2 0-0 2, Degand 1-4 1-2 3, Davis 5-6 0-1 10. Totals 33-51 4-9 75.

Halftime—N.C. State 31-20. 3-Point Goals—Georgia Southern 2-12 (Hanson 24, Rucker 0-1, Baskerville 0-1, Wohlleb 0-1, Drayton III 0-2, Powers 0-3), N.C. State 5-17 (Mays 3-4, Williams 2-3, Horner 0-1, Howell 01, Painter 0-1, Degand 0-3, Wood 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Georgia Southern 26 (Rucker, Spencer, Troupe 5), N.C. State 31 (Horner 9). Assists—Georgia Southern 8 (Baskerville, Rucker, Spencer 2), N.C. State 23 (Horner 6). Total Fouls—Georgia Southern 10, N.C. State 12. A—4,297.

Virginia Tech 66, Penn State 64 VIRGINIA TECH (8-1) Allen 4-9 3-4 12, Bell 1-3 0-1 2, Davila 4-6 0-0 8, Hudson 1-5 3-4 5, Delaney 9-20 6-7 27, Raines 0-0 0-0 0, Green 2-5 1-2 6, Witcher 0-0 0-0 0, Boggs 0-2 0-0 0, Thompson 3-5 0-1 6.

Totals 24-55 13-19 66.

PENN ST. (6-4) Jackson 4-8 2-2 12, Brooks 1-6 0-0 2, Jones 1-3 5-6 7, Battle 12-26 3-10 32, Frazier 1-5 0-0 2, Babb 1-7 2-2 4, Edwards 1-5 0-0 2, Woodyard 0-2 0-0 0, Ott 1-3 1-2 3. Totals 22-65 13-22 64.

Halftime—Tied 36-36. 3-Point Goals—Virginia Tech 5-15 (Delaney 3-7, Green 1-2, Allen 1-2, Bell 0-1, Boggs 0-1, Hudson 0-2), Penn St. 7-24 (Battle 5-11, Jackson 2-3, Brooks 0-1, Woodyard 0-2, Edwards 0-2, Babb 0-5).

Fouled Out—Jones. Rebounds—Virginia Tech 38 (Allen 10), Penn St. 41 (Battle 9). Assists— Virginia Tech 8 (Delaney, Hudson 2), Penn St. 11 (Battle, Frazier 3). Total Fouls—Virginia Tech 20, Penn St. 21. A—11,237.

AP men’s Top 25 fared Saturday 1. Kansas (9-0) beat La Salle 90-65. Next: vs. Michigan, Saturday.

2. Texas (8-0) beat Texas State 87-54.

Next: vs. Texas-Pan American, Tuesday.

3. Villanova (9-0) did not play. Next: at Temple, Sunday.

4. Kentucky (10-0) beat Indiana 90-73.

Next: vs. Austin Peay, Saturday.

5. Purdue (8-0) at Alabama. Next: vs. Ball State, Saturday.

6. West Virginia (7-0) beat Coppin State 6943. Next: at Cleveland State, Saturday.

7. Syracuse (9-0) did not play. Next: vs. St. Francis, N.Y., Sunday.

8. Duke (7-1) did not play. Next: vs. Gardner-Webb, Tuesday.

9. Tennessee (7-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Wyoming, Tuesday.

10. Florida (8-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Richmond, Saturday.

11. North Carolina (8-2) beat Presbyterian 103-64. Next: at No. 2 Texas, Saturday.

12. Michigan State (8-2) did not play. Next: vs. IPFW, Saturday.

13. Ohio State (7-2) lost to No. 22 Butler 74-66. Next: vs. Presbyterian, Wednesday.

14. Connecticut (6-2) did not play. Next: vs.

UCF, Sunday, Dec. 20.

15. Georgetown (8-0) beat No. 17 Washington 74-66. Next: vs. Old Dominion, Saturday.

16. Texas A&M (8-2) lost to New Mexico 84-81. Next: vs. The Citadel, Saturday.

17. Washington (6-2) lost to No. 15 Georgetown 74-66. Next: vs. Portland, Saturday.

18. UNLV (7-1) lost to Kansas State 95-80.

Next: at Southern Utah, Tuesday.

19. Cincinnati (6-1) did not play. Next: at Xavier, Sunday.

20. Wisconsin (7-2) beat Marquette 72-63.

Next: vs. Cal Poly, Wednesday.

21. Gonzaga (8-2) beat Davidson 103-91.

Next: vs. No. 8 Duke, Saturday.

22. Butler (7-3) beat No. 13 Ohio State 7466. Next: vs. Xavier, Saturday.

23. Texas Tech (9-0) did not play. Next: at Wichita State, Saturday.

24. Georgia Tech (6-1) did not play. Next: at Chattanooga, Monday.

25. Mississippi (8-1) beat McNeese State 83-67. Next: at UTEP, Wednesday.

Women’s Top 25 fared Saturday 1. Connecticut (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Iona, Sunday, Dec. 20.

2. Stanford (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. De-

Paul, Sunday.

3. Notre Dame (9-0) beat Valparaiso 88-47.

Next: vs. Charlotte, Sunday, Dec. 20.

4. Tennessee (7-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Rutgers, Sunday.

5. LSU (6-0) did not play. Next: vs New Orleans, Sunday.

6. Baylor (7-1) did not play. Next: vs. Boston College, Sunday.

7. Duke (7-1) did not play. Next: at No. 2 Stanford, Tuesday.

8. Xavier (7-1) did not play. Next: vs. Michigan, Monday.

9. Ohio State (9-1) did not play. Next: at Mississippi, Sunday.

10. Texas A&M (7-1) lost to TCU 56-54.

Next: vs. No. 14 Arizona State, Saturday.

11. North Carolina (7-1) did not play. Next: vs. Gardner-Webb, Sunday.

12. Florida State (8-0) did not play. Next: at UCF, Wednesday.

13. Georgia (9-0) did not play. Next: vs. No. 19 Virginia, Sunday, Dec. 20.

14. Arizona State (6-1) did not play. Next: vs. North Dakota, Wednesday.

15. Pittsburgh (8-1) lost to Penn State 7773. Next: vs. Austin Peay, Sunday, Dec. 20.

16. Oklahoma (8-2) did not play. Next: at Creighton, Sunday, Dec. 20.

17. Texas (5-3) did not play. Next: vs. Mississippi, Wednesday.

18. Vanderbilt (9-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Tennessee State, Sunday, Dec. 20.

19. Virginia (7-2) did not play. Next: at No. 13 Georgia, Sunday, Dec. 20.

20. Dayton (9-2) beat Miami (Ohio) 84-75.

Next: vs. Butler, Monday, Dec. 21.

21. Michigan State (6-3) did not play. Next: vs. Florida Gulf Coast, Sunday.

22. California (4-4) did not play. Next: at Long Beach State, Monday, Dec. 21.

23. Kansas (6-2) did not play. Next: vs.

Creighton, Sunday.

24. Nebraska (9-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Northern Illinois, Sunday.

25. Maryland (8-2) did not play. Next: at American, Sunday, Dec. 20.

Big South men All Times EDT Coastal Caro.

Radford UNC-Ashe.

High Point VMI Liberty Winthrop Gard.-Webb Charleston S. Presbyterian

W 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0

Conf.

L 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2

Pct. 1.000 1.000 1.000 .500 .500 .500 .500 .000 .000 .000

Overall W L 7 2 4 3 1 6 4 4 4 4 4 6 3 4 3 3 4 4 2 7

Lipscomb 105, Oakland City 68 Louisiana-Lafayette 81, Florida Atlantic 74 Marshall 99, Troy 70 Maryville, Tenn. 86, Rust 79 Mississippi 83, McNeese St. 67 Morgan St. 83, Manhattan 74 Murray St. 61, ETSU 57 Rollins 72, Webber 69 Samford 58, Spring Hill 48 Southern U. 78, New Orleans 73 Stephen F. Austin 73, Longwood 69 Tennessee Tech 86, Ball St. 81, OT UCF 63, Bethune-Cookman 50 Va. Commonwealth 65, Richmond 57 W. Carolina 91, Louisville 83 Wofford 73, Navy 62

WOMEN SOUTH Berry 94, Maryville, Tenn. 87, OT Brenau 84, Milligan 75 Campbellsville 100, King, Tenn. 73 Carson-Newman 65, Clayton St. 62 Charlotte 72, Southern Miss. 53 Chattanooga 69, Clemson 56 Coppin St. 55, UMBC 54 East Carolina 65, Hampton 61 George Mason 62, Howard 55 Georgetown 78, Richmond 63 Georgia St. 79, Nicholls St. 50 Mississippi St. 72, Louisiana Tech 68 Mount Olive 65, Limestone 63 Reinhardt 68, North Greenville 54 SE Louisiana 72, Louisiana-Lafayette 61 Shawnee St. 67, S. Virginia 31 South Alabama 64, Southern U. 55 Tennessee Tech 59, S. Illinois 56 W. Kentucky 61, W. Carolina 41

Saturday’s results Seton Hall 134, VMI 107 Coastal Carolina 91, Bridgewater 42 Charlotte 95, Gardner-Webb 66 North Carolina 103, Presbyterian 64 Liberty 99, Kentucky Christian 39 Barton at Winthrop, late

Wednesday’s games Presbyterian at Ohio State, 7 p.m. (BigTen Net) Winthrop at USC Upstate, 7 p.m.

Charleston Southern at College of Charleston, 7 p.m.

Thursday’s game James Madison at Gardner-Webb, 7 p.m.

Friday’s game Bluefield at UNC Asheville, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s games Savannah State at Coastal Carolina, 2 p.m.

Radford at James Madison, 7 p.m.

Houghton at Liberty, 7 p.m., Charleston Southern at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m.

Presbyterian at Dayton, 8 p.m.

Gardner-Webb at Penn State, 9 p.m. (ESPNU)

Sunday’s games

Big South women All Times EDT Overall W L 8 1 6 1 6 2 4 4 4 4 4 5 3 5 1 7 0 10

Friday’s result Saturday’s results High Point 67, UNC Wilmington 66 VCU 70, Radford 53 Winthrop 73, Augusta State 50

Today’s games Converse at Coastal Carolina, 2 p.m.

Gardner-Webb at North Carolina, 3 p.m.

Monday’s game S.C. State at Presbyterian, 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday’s games Coastal Carolina at UNC Wilmington, 12 p.m.

Liberty at Auburn, 7 p.m.

VCU vs. Winthrop, at Fort Mill, S.C., 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s game Georgia Southern at UNC Asheville, 7 p.m.

Friday’s games Converse at Gardner-Webb, 7 p.m.

Longwood at High Point, 7 p.m.

Davidson at Radford, 7 p.m.

Bethune-Cookman at Charleston Southern, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s game Sunday’s games High Point vs. William & Mary, at Florida Gator Inv., 4:30 p.m.

Coastal Carolina vs. Savannah St., at Myrtle Beach, 5 p.m.

High Point women 67, UNC Wilmington 66 UNC WILMINGTON (2-4, 0-0 CAA) Blackwell, Brittany 5-14 4-5 15; Hanzer, Kristen 5-8 2-3 12; White, Martha 5-8 0-1 10; Johnson, Treasure 4-8 2-3 10; Luksyte, Greta 4-12 0-0 9; Simmons, Whitney 4-6 0-1 8; Sawhook, Casey 1-3 0-0 2; Reitz, Kelsy 0-1 0-0 0; Levels, Mya 0-1 0-0 0; Finlay, Julia 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 28-63 8-13 66.

HIGH POINT (4-5, 0-0 BSC) FIELDS, Frances 7-8 3-3 17; MAIER, Mackenzie 6-14 0-0 13; DODD, Amy 4-11 0-1 9; HARGRAVES, Jurica 2-14 2-2 8; BROWN, Shamia 4-9 0-0 8; REYNOLDS, Erin 3-5 0-0 7; SAMUELS, Ashlee’ 2-3 1-4 5; DEAN, LaTeisha 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 28-65 6-10 67.

30 29

W 16 10 10 8 8

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W 16 13 11 10 9 W 16 13 14 12 3

Denver Utah Portland Oklahoma City Minnesota

Pct .739 .727 .524 .429 .333

GB — 1 ⁄2 5 7 9

L 7 11 12 13 13

Pct .696 .476 .455 .381 .381

GB — 5 51⁄2 7 7

L 7 9 9 12 13

Pct .696 .591 .550 .455 .409

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66 67

3-point goals--UNC Wilmington 2-9 (Blackwell, Brittany 1-1; Luksyte, Greta 1-3; Johnson, Treasure 0-2; Simmons, Whitney 0-1; Sawhook, Casey 0-1; Finlay, Julia 0-1), High Point 5-18 (HARGRAVES, Jurica 2-10; MAIER, Mackenzie 1-4; DODD, Amy 1-2; REYNOLDS, Erin 1-2). Fouled out--UNC Wilmington-None, High Point-None. Rebounds--UNC Wilmington 43 (Blackwell, Brittany 13), High Point 35 (BROWN, Shamia 11). Assists--UNC Wilmington 8 (Luksyte, Greta 3), High Point 13 (DODD, Amy 6). Total fouls--UNC Wilmington 15, High Point 15. Technical fouls--UNC Wilmington-None, High Point-None. A-581

Saturday’s scores MEN SOUTH Augusta St. 79, Tusculum 68 Austin Peay 85, Marian, Ind. 55 Brescia 99, Berea 87 Cent. Arkansas 81, Tenn.-Martin 71 Charlotte 95, Gardner-Webb 66 Chattanooga 82, MVSU 60 Florida Gulf Coast 81, Fla. International 64 George Mason 75, Creighton 72 Jacksonville St. 79, Reinhardt 53 King, Tenn. 100, Carson-Newman 87

Junior varsity Wrestling South Stokes Joe Via Invitational

Top finishers: Ledford – Austin DeBerry, first place at 112 pounds; Colt Hensley, third at 125; Davey Weaver, third at 130; Jacob Ritchie, third at 140; Josh Vivod, third at 215; Ricky Hall, fourth at 152; Cory Flannery, fourth at 189

All Times EST Semifinals Friday, Dec. 11 At Cary Virginia 2, Wake Forest 1, OT Akron 0, North Carolina 0, Akron wins on penalty kicks 5-4

Championship Today At Cary Virginia vs. Akron, 1 p.m

GOLF

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GB —1 21⁄2 31⁄2 51⁄2 6 ⁄2

L 7 9 10 9 20

Pct .696 .591 .583 .571 .130

GB —1 21⁄2 2 ⁄2 3 13

Pct .857 .696 .429 .429 .318

GB — 3 9 9 1 11 ⁄2

Pacific Division W 18 16 9 9 7

L.A. Lakers Phoenix L.A. Clippers Sacramento Golden State

L 3 7 12 12 15

Friday’s Games Atlanta 111, Toronto 89 Indiana 107, New Jersey 91 Houston 96, Philadelphia 91 Dallas 106, Miami 93 Chicago 96, Golden State 91, OT Oklahoma City 102, Memphis 94 New York 113, New Orleans 96 Cleveland 104, Portland 99 San Antonio 104, Charlotte 85 Phoenix 106, Orlando 103 L.A. Lakers 104, Minnesota 92

Saturday’s Games

Monday’s Games Indiana at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Boston at Memphis, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Utah, 9 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Denver, 9 p.m.

Washington at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s late box Spurs 104, Bobcats 85 CHARLOTTE (85) Wallace 6-9 6-10 18, Diaw 5-12 0-0 10, Chandler 1-3 2-4 4, Felton 4-7 0-0 8, Jackson 9-22 3-3 23, Mohammed 1-5 3-6 5, Augustin 1-2 0-0 3, Murray 1-2 0-0 2, Graham 0-4 1-2 1, Brown 3-7 1-2 7, Henderson 1-2 2-2 4, Diop 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-75 18-29 85.

SAN ANTONIO (104) Jefferson 6-10 3-5 17, Duncan 8-14 1-2 17, McDyess 3-5 0-2 6, Parker 3-7 2-3 9, Bogans 3-4 1-2 8, Ginobili 7-12 4-4 22, Blair 0-0 2-2 2, Hill 4-6 3-4 12, Bonner 2-4 0-0 4, Mason 1-1 00 3, Ratliff 2-3 0-0 4, Hairston 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-66 16-24 104.

19 29

23 30

29 13

14 32

— 85 — 104

3-Point Goals—Charlotte 3-12 (Jackson 2-5, Augustin 1-1, Henderson 0-1, Brown 01, Diaw 0-4), San Antonio 10-17 (Ginobili 4-5, Jefferson 2-3, Parker 1-1, Mason 1-1, Bogans 1-2, Hill 1-2, Duncan 0-1, Bonner 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Charlotte 39 (Wallace 6), San Antonio 50 (Duncan 9). Assists—Charlotte 14 (Felton 5), San Antonio 28 (Parker 10).

Total Fouls—Charlotte 25, San Antonio 24.

Technicals—Duncan. Flagrant Fouls—Ratliff.

A—17,508 (18,797).

HOCKEY

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NHL All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

New Jersey Pittsburgh N.Y. Islanders N.Y. Rangers Philadelphia

GP 31 33 32 31 30

W 22 22 12 14 14

L OT Pts GF GA 8 1 45 91 68 10 1 45 105 87 13 7 31 83 100 15 2 30 86 93 15 1 29 87 87

Northeast Division Buffalo Boston Ottawa Montreal Toronto

GP 30 31 31 33 32

W L OT Pts GF GA 19 9 2 40 81 65 16 9 6 38 83 77 16 11 4 36 90 93 15 15 3 33 85 95 11 14 7 29 94 114

Southeast Division Washington Atlanta Florida Tampa Bay Carolina

GP 33 30 33 31 32

W 20 16 12 11 7

L OT Pts GF GA 7 6 46 118 94 11 3 35 96 88 14 7 31 88 111 11 9 31 77 90 19 6 20 77 117

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Chicago Nashville Detroit Columbus St. Louis

GP 30 31 31 32 30

W 19 18 15 14 13

L OT Pts GF GA 8 3 41 88 67 11 2 38 81 85 11 5 35 86 85 12 6 34 96 112 12 5 31 74 82

Northwest Division Calgary Colorado Vancouver

GP 31 34 31

Australian PGA Saturday At Hyatt Regency Coolum Coolum, Australia Purse: $1.36 million Yardage: 6,650; Par: 71 Third Round

Robert Allenby, Australia 70-68-66 — Greg Chalmers, Australia 68-70-67 — Scott Strange, Australia 67-70-68 — Michael Sim, Australia 71-70-65 — Adam Scott, Australia 68-70-68 — Geoff Ogilvy, Australia 70-66-70 — Marc Leishman, Australia 70-71-66 — John Senden, Australia 73-67-67 — Cameron Percy, Australia 72-69-67 — Matthew Griffin, Australia 67-68-73 — Josh Geary, New Zealand 70-73-66 — Steve Marino, United States 70-73-66 — Nick O’Hern, Australia 70-70-69 — Michael Curtain, Australia 73-65-71 — Shih-ching Chan, Taiwan 68-70-71 — Stuart Appleby, Australia 67-69-73 — Aron Price, Australia 74-69-67 — Scott Laycock, Australia 76-66-68 — Mathew Goggin, Australia 70-72-68 — Anthony Brown, Australia 71-71-68 — Stephen Leaney, Australia 71-70-69 — Stephen Dartnall, Australia 68-73-69 — Paul Sheehan, Australia 73-68-69 — Michael Wright, Australia 71-69-70 — Brett Rumford, Australia 70-70-70 — Chris Campbell, Australia 72-67-71 — Han Min-kyu, South Korea 62-75-73 —

204 205 205 206 206 206 207 207 208 208 209 209 209 209 209 209 210 210 210 210 210 210 210 210 210 210 210

Dunhill Championship

Houston at Toronto, 12:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Memphis at Miami, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Charlotte San Antonio

Winthrop at N.C. State, 5 p.m.

36 38

L 6 6 10 12 14

Today’s Games Pct. .889 .857 .750 .500 .500 .444 .375 .125 .000

UNC Asheville 94, Southern Wesleyan 63

UNC Wilmington High Point

PREPS

NCAA Men’s College Cup GB — 91⁄21 10 ⁄2 1311⁄2 16 ⁄2

Indiana 114, Washington 113 Golden State at Detroit, late Boston at Chicago, late Portland at Milwaukee, late Charlotte at Dallas, late Phoenix at Denver, late L.A. Lakers at Utah, late Minnesota at Sacramento, late

High Point at Marshall, 2 p.m.

Charlotte at Winthrop, 4 p.m.

Pct. .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000

Pct .818 .400 .348 .217 .087

Northwest Division

Tuesday’s games Shawnee State at Liberty, 7 p.m., Catawba at UNC Asheville, 7 p.m.

Gardner-Webb at Duke, 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Coastal Carolina at Georgia Southern, 7 p.m.

2 4

Central Division Cleveland Milwaukee Detroit Chicago Indiana

Dallas Houston San Antonio New Orleans Memphis

Today’s games

Conf.

L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

W 17 16 11 9 7

Orlando Atlanta Miami Charlotte Washington

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First Period—1, Ottawa, Kovalev 5 (Foligno, Fisher), 7:48. Penalties—Fisher, Ott, double minor (high-sticking), 17:46.

Second Period—2, Carolina, Whitney 9 (Pitkanen, T.Ruutu), :21 (pp). 3, Ottawa, Spezza 4 (Phillips, Alfredsson), 10:06 (pp). 4, Carolina, Whitney 10 (Staal, Harrison), 17:05.

Penalties—Kostopoulos, Car (high-sticking), 8:25; A.Ward, Car (interference), 14:46.

Third Period—5, Ottawa, Kovalev 6 (Karlsson, Kuba), 16:56 (pp). 6, Ottawa, Kovalev 7 (Foligno), 19:31 (en). Penalties—Alfredsson, Ott (tripping), 6:58; Pitkanen, Car (holding), 16:17.

Shots on Goal—Carolina 5-8-12—25. Ottawa 10-16-13—39.

Power-play opportunities—Carolina 1 of 3; Ottawa 2 of 3.

Goalies—Carolina, Legace 4-5-2 (38 shots35 saves). Ottawa, Elliott 8-6-3 (25-23).

A—16,229 (19,153). T—2:17.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

Montreat at UNC Asheville, 4:30 p.m.

Roanoke at Radford, 4 p.m.

W Gard.-Webb 0 Liberty 0 Coastal Caro. 0 Charleston S. 0 Winthrop 0 High Point 0 UNC-Ashe.

0 Radford 0 Presbyterian 0

L 4 15 15 18 21

Southeast Division Pct. .778 .571 .143 .500 .500 .400 .429 .500 .500 .222

0 2

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All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Boston Toronto New York Philadelphia New Jersey

2 1

SOCCER

NBA W 18 10 8 5 2

0 1

W L OT Pts GF GA 19 8 4 42 91 74 18 10 6 42 100 97 17 14 0 34 97 81

Saturday At Leopard Creek Country Club course Malelane, South Africa Purse: $1 million Yardage: 7,249; par 72 Third Round Pablo Martin, Spain Ernie Els, South Africa Charl Schwartzel, S. Africa Jacques Blaauw, S. Africa Gareth Maybin, N. Ireland Sion Bebb, Wales Ariel Canete, Argentina Darren Fichardt, S. Africa Anders Hansen, Denmark M. Lorenzo-Vera, France Shiv Kapur, India Edoardo Molinari, Italy Robert Rock, England Ulrich vandenBerg, S.Africa Dawie vanderWalt, S. Africa

68-63-71 — 202 68-67-69 — 204 67-69-68 — 204 71-68-66 — 205 68-70-67 — 205 67-70-69 — 206 68-68-70 — 206 67-72-67 — 206 68-70-68 — 206 68-70-68 — 206 68-71-68 — 207 66-69-72 — 207 69-68-70 — 207 64-72-71 — 207 68-70-69 — 207

Dubai Ladies Masters Saturday At Emirates Golf Club (Majlis course) Dubai, United Arab Emirates Purse: $500,000 Par: 72 Third Round In Kyung Kim, S. Korea Michelle Wie, U.S. Maria Hjorth, Sweden V. Lagtte-Clmnt, France Laura Davies, England Tania Elosegui, Spain Anna Nordqvist, Sweden Gwladys Nocera, France Jade Schaeffer, France Melissa Reid, England Amy Yang, South Korea Catriona Matthew, Scot.

Caroline Afonso, France Sophie Gustafson, Swdn Felicity Johnson, Englnd Christina Kim, U.S.

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BASEBALL American League

BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Agreed to terms with RHP Matt Albers and RHP Cla Meredith on one-year contracts. Declined to offer a 2010 contract to RHP Brian Bass.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Declined to offer a 2010 contract to DH-OF Jack Cust.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES—Agreed to terms with OF Matt Diaz on a one-year contract. Declined to offer 2010 contracts to OF Ryan Church and 2B Kelly Johnson.

HOUSTON ASTROS—Agreed to terms with RHP Brandon Lyon on a three-year contract.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Announced they will not be tendering 2010 contracts to RHP Mike MacDougal and LHP Scott Olsen.

FOOTBALL National Football League NEW YORK JETS—Signed OT Ryan McKee from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES—Assigned G Michael Leighton to Albany (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Activated LW Fredrik Modin from injured reserve. Assigned C Derek MacKenzie to Syracuse.

NEW YORK RANGERS—Recalled G Chad Johnson from Hartford (AHL). Assigned G Matt Zaba to Hartford.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Assigned C Blair Jones to Norfolk (AHL).

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Good dog training can prevent tragedy J

ohnny Miller and I were sitting in the rockers in front of the stove talking about bird dogs.

Molly, Johnny’s prized nine-year old setter sat right beside his chair and nuzzled his hand. My lab, Larry, was where I’d put him, on top of his kennel, watching my every move. Johnny’s cell phone rang and the conversation was instantly serious.

He expressed sympathy and I realized from one end of the conversation that someone had lost a dog.

One of a friend’s best bird dogs had slipped out of the kennel and was found in the road after being hit by a car. The dog, probably worth about $2,500 in money and an irreplaceable hunting companion seasoned by years of care and training, was gone in a flash.

In my life, I’ve known of dozens of really great dogs that were hit and crippled by cars. Sometimes, their lives were snuffed out instantly. My very first dog, a little fice named Blackie, met the previous fate. As a boy of about eight, I remember crying my eyes out when my Daddy told me he’d found her on the highway after she went missing.

Seeing a dog needlessly lost to a vehicle breaks my heart. I see it much more often than I should.

It’s really not that hard to train a dog for vehicle avoidance but like all other issues in dog training, it requires the dog owner to take the initiative. This isn’t pleasant for me to talk about, but losing your dog to a car is much more unpleasant.

Once again, the best method of training a dog to avoid a car is simple obedience. You wouldn’t allow your five-year-old child to play on the shoulder of the road and neither should your dog. As I’ve said before, since we communicate differently, you really can’t teach a dog anything, you can only give him an opportunity to learn things for himself. Unfortunately, by the time a dog learns that a car can hurt him, there’s a good chance he’s dying on the side of the road.

Many of the dogs I’ve seen lost to cars simply ran out into the road in the presence of their owners. At least half of them were called back and continued into

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BASKETBALL/CHEERLEADING RICH FORK BAPTIST UPWARD PROGRAM – Upward Basketball and Cheerleading registration is being held through December at Rich Fork Baptist Church for boys and girls 4 years old and up through sixth grade. Each player receives uniform, car magnet, devotional book and end-of-season award, while cheerleaders receive uniform, pons, megaphone, devotional materials and end-of-season award. Goals of the program are to promote character, salvation and self-esteem. Cost is $65 before Dec. 22 and $75 after.

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WANT TO HELP? – Longtime High Point Enterprise sports writer and columnist Tom Berry, who died Aug. 30, left behind his wife, Sandy, and three daughters, Ashlyn, Rachel and Leah.

The High Point Enterprise has established a fund – the Tom Berry Special Fund – at High Point Bank to assist the Berry family with medical bills and college funds. Contributions may be made to the Tom Berry Special Fund and mailed to High Point Bank, P.O. Box 2270, High Point, N.C. 27261.

Contributions can also be brought to any High Point Bank branch.

TRACK AND FIELD WESLEYAN COACHING VACANCY – Varsity track and field head coach needed at Wesleyan Christian Academy for spring season. Contact Trojans athletic director Ricardo Viera at 688-7090 for info.

REPORTING ITEMS

Report says Schumacher to end retirement BERLIN (AP) — German daily Bild claims seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher will come out of retirement to drive for Mercedes next year.

A report in Saturday’s edition of the newspaper says the two parties have agreed to a one-year contract and will announce the deal next week.

Mercedes said that “there is always speculation as long as one seat in our team is not taken.”

Schumacher’s spokeswoman, Sabine Kehm, declined to comment on the report.

Dick Jones is a freelance writer living in High Point. He writes about hunting, fishing, dogs, and shooting for several NC newspapers as well as magazines. He can be reached at offtheporch52@yahoo.com

CARY (AP) — The men’s soccer programs at Akron and Virginia have little in common from a tradition standpoint.

But as the top two teams in the country, they share some striking similarities this season. The top-seeded Zips (23-0-1) and secondseeded Cavaliers (18-3-3) will play for the NCAA Men’s College Cup championship today at 1 p.m.

“They’re a very worthy opponent and would do well in our league,” Virginia coach George Gel-

novatch said. “I think the three games we played against Wake Forest, the three games we played against Maryland, the game we played against North Carolina, those games in our conference prepare us for a game like this. I feel like we’re playing an ACC-caliber team, and we’re prepared for that.”

The Zips, the champions of the Mid-American Conference, have been ranked No. 1 in the nation since early September.

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INDOOR SOCCER GRUBB YMCA/MSL – The Grubb Family YMCA and MSL Sports will be having a U10 to U18 coed indoor soccer league at ArchdaleTrinity Middle School. All games will be on Sundays, beginning Jan. 3. Cost is $40. For info, contact Mike Sink at 687-3304 or 431-5314. Deadline for registration is Dec. 19.

by hearing the beep of the collar when they get too close to the edge. When my beloved Blackie was hit by a car, she was almost a half mile from home. The paved road was almost that far. Keeping the dog in the yard will reduce his liability from vehicles tremendously.

The most heartbreaking situation of canine death by motor vehicle is when the owner or a guest to the property runs over the dog in the driveway. This is the easiest type of training. Low speed vehicle avoidance is simple and quick. When a car comes in the driveway and the dog approaches, nail him with the training collar. Blowing the horn at the instant of the jolt helps reinforce the impression. Most training methods shouldn’t involve fear on the part of the dog, but this one is an exception. A smart dog fears a moving car. Dogs can understand the difference between moving cars and still ones and, provided you allow the dog to ride with you occasionally, they will soon understand that a car with the motor running means danger.

I trained Ernie, my lab before Larry, to get on the porch anytime a car approached or cranked up. His response was immediate; when he heard a starter or a car coming up the driveway, he made the dash for the porch. I’ve trained Larry to sit on the walk beside the garage while a car approaches. The dog should continue to keep his distance until the motor is turned off or the vehicle is out of the driveway.

OK, so you think you don’t have the time or equipment to train your dog for vehicle avoidance. Consider that the vet bill will exceed the cost of a containment and training system if your dog is hit and is lucky enough to survive. Consider also how the time spent in training would seem trivial compared to seeing your best friend struggle through the rest of his life crippled from the experience. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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the path of a car and to their deaths.

This is totally unnecessary since all dogs should know to sit, stay, or whoa on the command of their owner. If the dog would come instantly, that would have worked in some cases, but sometimes the dog is heading toward the owner when the car gets him. Training SPORTS your dog to follow your bidding is not just a neat parlor trick; it can mean life Dick or death to your dog.

Jones Teaching a dog to sit on command ■■■ when he’s not nearby is not that much harder than teaching a dog to sit when he’s standing beside you. It’s simply an extension of that training method, continued until the dog will sit when commanded no matter where he is. Using a whistle along with voice commands, at the least, doubles your effective range. In my training method, a short strong blast of the whistle demands attention and compliance and is the command to sit. Start with the dog close and widen the distance. Once again, the use of a training collar simplifies your ability to communicate when the dog has missed a cue and needs correction. Remember though, that the use of the collar will only allow you to reinforce what you’ve already taught the dog. Using it before the dog knows what you expect will only traumatize your dog and do nothing to achieve your goals.

Not to downplay the importance of having the dog come when you call, but the ability to make the dog instantly sit on that blast of the whistle is really more important than the ability to make the dog come. You can often save his life by making him sit and stay where he is. You can always go get him once he’s anchored by the command.

Of course, the dog has to avoid the highway when you’re not around. That makes it obvious that your dog can’t be wandering about the neighborhood without supervision. Our dogs are trained to stay in the yard by the wireless fence system and stay in that habit provided they occasionally get a fresh reminder

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High Point Enterprise Weather Today

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Local Area Forecast Kernersville Winston-Salem 43/31 44/31 Jamestown 44/32 High Point 44/32 Archdale Thomasville 45/33 44/32 Trinity Lexington 44/33 Randleman 45/32 46/33

North Carolina State Forecast

Elizabeth City 61/44

Shown is today’s weather.

Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Asheville 47/34

High Point 44/32 Charlotte 46/34

Denton 46/33

Greenville 56/39 Cape Raleigh Hatteras 49/38 60/51

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ALBUQUERQUE . . . .49/26 ATLANTA . . . . . . . . .54/42 BOISE . . . . . . . . . . . .39/24 BOSTON . . . . . . . . . .43/36 CHARLESTON, SC . .62/49 CHARLESTON, WV . .40/35 CINCINNATI . . . . . . .42/36 CHICAGO . . . . . . . . .35/30 CLEVELAND . . . . . . .45/33 DALLAS . . . . . . . . . .72/53 DETROIT . . . . . . . . . .38/31 DENVER . . . . . . . . . .51/25 GREENSBORO . . . . .44/32 GRAND RAPIDS . . . .36/28 HOUSTON . . . . . . . . .73/61 HONOLULU . . . . . . . .80/67 KANSAS CITY . . . . . .42/35 NEW ORLEANS . . . .72/59

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LAS VEGAS . . . . . . .59/45 LOS ANGELES . . . . .62/45 MEMPHIS . . . . . . . . .59/50 MIAMI . . . . . . . . . . . .83/72 MINNEAPOLIS . . . . . .22/11 MYRTLE BEACH . . . .64/48 NEW YORK . . . . . . . .42/35 ORLANDO . . . . . . . . .78/62 PHOENIX . . . . . . . . . .63/50 PITTSBURGH . . . . . .42/34 PHILADELPHIA . . . . .46/38 PROVIDENCE . . . . . .44/34 SAN FRANCISCO . . .57/44 ST. LOUIS . . . . . . . . .44/36 SEATTLE . . . . . . . . . .40/33 TULSA . . . . . . . . . . . .60/41 WASHINGTON, DC . .40/35 WICHITA . . . . . . . . . .49/26

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COPENHAGEN . . . . .36/33 GENEVA . . . . . . . . . .36/30 GUANGZHOU . . . . . .79/60 GUATEMALA . . . . . .80/58 HANOI . . . . . . . . . . . .81/67 HONG KONG . . . . . . . .75/65 KABUL . . . . . . . . . . .45/24 LONDON . . . . . . . . . .45/40 MOSCOW . . . . . . . . .22/13 NASSAU . . . . . . . . . .84/72

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Lake Levels & River Stages Lake and river levels are in feet. Change is over the past 24 hrs.

Flood Pool Current Level Change High Rock Lake 655.2 654.6 0.0 Flood Stage Current Level Change Yadkin College 18.0 3.96 +0.02 Elkin 16.0 5.29 -0.03 Wilkesboro 14.0 4.78 -0.01 High Point 10.0 0.95 0.00 Ramseur 20.0 2.70 -0.05 Moncure 20.0 14.51 0.00

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24 hours through 6 p.m. . . . . . . .0.00" Month to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2.38" Normal Month to Date . . . . . . . . .1.14" Year to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43.39" Normal Year to Date . . . . . . . . .41.22" Record Precipitation . . . . . . . . . .1.08"

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Pollen Rating Scale

ALBEMARLE . . . . . .48/34 BREVARD . . . . . . . . .48/37 CAPE FEAR . . . . . . .64/48 EMERALD ISLE . . . .59/47 FORT BRAGG . . . . . .54/42 GRANDFATHER MTN . .47/38 GREENVILLE . . . . . .56/39 HENDERSONVILLE .48/35 JACKSONVILLE . . . .59/42 KINSTON . . . . . . . . . .57/39 KITTY HAWK . . . . . . .54/50 MOUNT MITCHELL . .47/33 ROANOKE RAPIDS .50/37 SOUTHERN PINES . .52/39 WILLIAMSTON . . . . .54/39 YANCEYVILLE . . . . .43/35 ZEBULON . . . . . . . . .51/38

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Air quality data is provided by the Forsyth County Environmental Affairs Department.

Pridgens win CGA Father-Son event in four-team playoff ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORTS

SOUTHERN PINES – Jamestown’s Jim Pridgen and son Brent Pridgen of Winston-Salem teamed to win the 43rd Carolinas Father-Son Championship of the Carolinas Golf

Association at Mid Pines Inn and Golf Club.

The duo finished tied at 2-under-par 70 with three other teams after one round on the 6,430-yard, par 72 layout. That’s when the Pridgens birdied the first playoff hole to beat

the competition, which included High Point’s Ernie and Scott Newton.

On the 380-yard, par-4 first hole, Brent Pridgen smashed a drive that left his father with a short iron into the green. Jim’s approach shot nestled to

Stricker, Kelly take Shootout lead THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

and Dustin Johnson, and Justin Leonard and Scott NAPLES, Fla. – Steve Verplank were all at 12 Stricker and Jerry Kelly under after the better-ball fell out of the lead for most format. of the day before rebounding nicely at the end of the DUBAI LADIES MASTERS Shark Shootout’s second DUBAI, United Arab round.

Emirates – Michelle Stricker birdied No. 18, Wie’s late charge fell preventing a four-way short at the Dubai Latie. Kenny Perry and J.B. dies Masters on SaturHolmes, Steve Flesch day and In-Kyung Kim

of South Korea claimed a three-shot victory at the season-ending tournament for her first European Tour title.

5 feet from the hole, and Brent made the birdie putt.

The tournament usually is played on the last Friday in July, but severe weather at the championship site forced a rescheduling to Saturday.

The Newtons, while tied for second overall, finished first in the “B” division.

Womble stood tied for second place overall after one round of play Saturday at the Carolinas PGA Charles Tilghman Junior Championship, being TILGHMAN JUNIOR NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, played for the 20th time S.C. – Wesleyan Christian at the Surf Golf & Beach Academy standout Davis Club.

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Ed Asner sits with larger than life character to whom he loaned his voice in the animated production, “Up.”

Local play becomes movie Ed Asner takes role in locally written, filmed production

BY JIMMY TOMLIN ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

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IGH POINT – Of all the places Ed Simpson’s play, “Elephant Sighs,” has been produced, the latest venue is the biggest – Hollywood.

Not only is Simpson’s play being made into a feature-length film, the movie will be filmed in and around High Point and will SPECIAL TO THE ENTERPRISE star well-loved character actor Ed Asner, Ed Asner played Santa in the Will Ferrell movie “Elf.” who gives the project instant credibility.

“Once Ed came on, it was easy to get other folks,” says Simpson, a theater professor at and good husbands. And the big secret about readily accepts – thinking it will be a good High Point University. “He’s a nice attenmen is that we have feelings. When we get social and professional networking opportion-grabber.” together, we talk about things other than tunity – without even knowing what kind of Asner, a seven-time Emmy Award-winner, sports and sex – we have larger issues that group he’s joining. is best-known for his television roles on “The we deal with.”

As he meets the other men in the group, Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Lou Grant,” The film is being produced by New Garden he learns why they’re in the group – or why as well as the TV miniseries “Rich Man, Media, a new, Triad-based production comthey think they’re in the group – but it never Poor Man” and “Roots.” pany, and Simpson will be the director. The adds up. One man thinks it’s some sort of “He’s one of our great actors,” Simpson plan is to show the movie at film festivals in VFW organization. Another believes it may says. “...He’s very warm, and he’s exactly hopes of picking up a distributor. be an exercise group, while still another what we wanted for this movie. The rest of “There’s nothing out there like this movthinks they’re planning a robbery. the cast is great, too – just some wonderful ie,” Simpson says. “We have a good shot of “All the men are sort of lonely and they’re actors. Their names may not be well-known, really creating a quality film. It’s a different, all sort of damaged – they all have issues but when you see their faces, they’re instantunexpected kind of movie.” they’re dealing with in their life,” Simpson ly recognizable.” says.

The other actors include Tony Award-nomFor example, Asner’s character suffers jtomlin@hpe.com | 888-3579 inated John Cariani (whose credits include from loneliness caused by the death of his “Fiddler on the Roof,” “NUMB3RS” and best friend. Another member is a former “Law and Order”), Jack Kehler (“The Big pastor whose congregation got rid of him Lebowski,” “Love Liza,” “Waterworld” and because his mind kept wandering during “Men in Black II”), and David Wells (“Curb prayers and he couldn’t remember what he Your Enthusiasm,” “Charlie Wilson’s War” was praying about. Another’s wife is having and “Basic Instinct,” among many others). him digitally removed from family photoAccording to Simpson, the three-week graphs. shooting schedule will begin Jan. 3, with As it turns out, though, the young lawyer most of the filming taking place in High has more issues than all of the other men in Point and Thomasville. the group.

Simpson, who is chairman of HPU’s Per“So they’re really all there to help him, as forming Arts Department, wrote “Elephant it turns out,” Simpson says.

Sighs” in 1997, and the play has since been Simpson describes his screenplay as a comperformed at numerous venues across the edy that deals with loss, loneliness and the country. healing power of friendship, even in men’s The plot revolves around a young lawyer lives. who has just moved to town. He’s ap“A lot of times, men are depicted as these proached by an older man – played by the big, overgrown children – they’re 45 but they 80-year-old Asner – and invited to join the act like they’re 14,” he says. “They’re these man’s group. big schlubs who just want to sit around and “We’ve had a member of our group that’s watch football and eat and drink. died recently, and we’d like to have some“...I look at that, and I don’t really know body come fill in and join the group,” Asner’s Ed Simpson anybody like that. I think most of us try to character tells the young lawyer. The lawyer HPU professor, playwright do the right thing – we try to be good fathers

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Couple opts to visit home for holidays D

ear Abby: For the first time in eight years, my husband and I will be staying in a hotel when we visit his parents for Christmas.

While I love his family, their home is small, and we are relegated to a trundle bed and must share the sole bathroom with the entire family. It’s impossible for us to be comfortable with so many people in such close quarters. We assumed that sleeping in a nearby hotel and visiting during the days and evenings would be a fair compromise.

We were shocked at their reaction when we discussed our plans with the family. They are very hurt about our decision and extremely offended. They are begging us to reconsider and stay in their home.

Are our actions selfish and coldhearted? We mean no harm, and are so surprised at the strong reaction that we’re starting to question our judgment. Should we travel and stay

in the hotel, or just scrap the trip altogether?

– Staying Home Next Year Dear Staying Home: No, you, your husband and his parents should ADVICE discuss this more fully.

You didn’t mention how Dear many family members Abby will be spending the holi■■■ days in that small house.

While I sympathize with family traditions, as children grow into adulthood certain realities come into play.

If you prefer to sleep in a hotel and have a private bathroom and the ability to have a private conversation if you wish, I don’t think it’s too much to ask.

But I’d hate to see you cancel a family visit because of the pressure that is being exerted. That’s in no one’s best interests.

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Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Tom DeLonge, 34; Christie Clark, 36; Jamie Foxx, 42; Christopher Plummer, 80 HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Dedicated, productive attempts to make things better or to bring about reforms will pay off. Recognition will raise interest for good and bad. Controversy will surround you with both compliments and complaints to deal with. Keep your mind focused on what’s important.

Consistency will enable you to win in the end. Your numbers are 2, 10, 14, 23, 36, 38, 47 ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have the talent and the skills to get ahead. All you need to do is market and present what you have to offer. There is money to be made, so follow your dreams and you will surpass your goals. ★★★ TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Get involved in something that will help you see things from a different angle. Cultural events or networking with unique people will motivate you to take what you have to offer and give it an original spin. A surprise is heading your way. ★★★ GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Put your talents to work for a good cause. Your ability to find solutions and act quickly and efficiently will enhance your reputation and lead to an interesting partnership.

Don’t limit the possibilities if opportunity knocks. ★★★ CANCER (June 21-July 22): Put the past behind you. Look at yourself and decide what you can do to make your life better. Set your agenda to suit the needs of yourself and your family. ★★★★★ LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Socializing or networking will lead to an interesting possibility with someone unusual. Don’t make an impulsive decision until you are sure it works into your plans. Update your look and your attitude. ★★ VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When it comes to home and family, tread carefully. Say little but do a lot and you will get the reception you are looking for from someone who counts. A day trip or planning a fun event will pave the way to a good time and help ward off complaints. ★★★★ LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Take part in community or neighborhood affairs and you will make new friends. Your ideas will be well received and the help you require offered. Confirmation will come from outsiders, not the people you are close to. ★★★ SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will be drawn to events that have to do with personal improvement.

Speaking openly will help you clear up a misconception about you or your beliefs. Plan a surprise for someone late in the day to ensure you are still on good terms. ★★★ SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Be careful who you trust with the information you’ve been given. A challenge, keeping busy or traveling about will stimulate you mentally and physically but may cause some backlash emotionally. A change may not be welcome but it will be necessary. ★★★ CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Look for a professional challenge that will stimulate you and help you build a stronger resume. A money deal can lead to a better living situation. Don’t be fooled by someone playing with your emotions. ★★★★ AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Keep a lid on what you think. If you share your thoughts, you are likely to hurt someone’s feelings and look bad in front of friends and family. A promise you make must be kept, regardless of time constraints. ★★ PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your heart is in the right place but someone is likely to take advantage of you and what you are offering. You will overspend on someone who doesn’t deserve your generosity. Set a new budget and stick to it. ★★★★★ One star: It’s best to avoid conflicts; work behind the scenes or read a good book. Two stars: You can accomplish but don’t rely on others for help. Three stars: If you focus, you will reach your goals. Four stars: You can pretty much do as you please, a good time to start new projects. Five stars: Nothing can stop you now.

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at fancy stores even if you can’t afford to shop there. Baubles hang like EW YORK – A toursparkling icicles in the ist’s Christmas in windows at Harry Winmidtown Manhatston, the famous jeweler tan has a logical starting near 56th Street. On the place: Rockefeller Center, same block, check out the with the famous tree and scene at Henri Bendel, ice skating rink, Radio which carries nothing City Music Hall, and the but accessories – bags, view from Top of the gloves, makeup and the Rock, the observation latest craze among New deck at 30 Rockefeller York’s smartly dressed Plaza. women, scarves. You’ll The bad news is, there see lots of peddlers selling are so many tourists this scarves on the street for time of year, you might $5, but at Bendel, a long have to wait in line just black scarf shimmering to cross the street. with sequins will set you The good news is, withback nearly $200, while a in a few blocks of Rock black-and-white striped Center, you’ll find everyinfinity scarf, twisted thing Manhattan has to into a wrap that sits on offer: world-famous art your shoulders perfectly and architecture, great and never comes undone, food, incomparable shopis just under $150. ping and even a gingerAt 59th Street and Fifth AP Avenue, enjoy the design bread house display.

Orli Rose, 4, looks at “Sweetride,” a model subway car of the Apple store, with For shoppers, start your tour just a few steps by the Buttercup Bakery, part of the gingerbread house its capsule elevator and display at New York’s Le Parker Meridien Hotel. from the tree. Anthrospiral staircase. FAO pologie, at 50 Rockefeller Schwarz is right behind deer in MOMA’s Abby Al- it, and if you can’t afford Art Design Store. Here Plaza, has turned its drich Sculpture Garden. you’ll find a carefully cuwindows into a vision the famous toy store’s It’s a replica of the deer rated selection of apparel, of winter white, filled $399 pink puppy the size gifts and everyday objects topiary from Burton’s with enormous whimsiof a chair, a tossable movie, “Edward Scislike salt and pepper cal snowballs and other sack called a Myachi is signs of the season. Inside shakers, all reinterpreted sorhands.” Also on view just $6.99. Or fill a bag for the first time since you’ll find cozy sweaters, with a sleek and urbane with candy from FAO’s MOMA reopened in 2004, selection of old-fashioned aesthetic. berets and other casual the museum is showing At the museum itself, but trendy clothes. goodies, $3.25 a quartercheck out the Tim Burton all four of its Monet “Wa- pound.

“It’s easy to get dister Lilies” paintings. exhibition, a tribute to tracted by things you Heading up Fifth Avthe fi lmmaker’s art and want for yourself when you’re shopping for gifts, creativity. And no, that’s enue, it’s fun to peoplewatch and window-shop not a green holiday reinwhich is why midtown Manhattan is a great place to tackle your list,” said Elise Loehnen, T he Old Eight Room eidtor-at-large for Lucky House is Full of Magazine. “It’s so rife Beautiful Gifts with holiday spirit that and Décor it’s impossible to get off yyouur BFFF and take t home a Spar p rkle Lipp Gloss!! s!! Only $50.00 0.00 for fo 2 ggirls track.”

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The truckers continued to maintain contact with my daughter until she reached her exit, and I am deeply grateful to them. Because I never got to thank them personally, I hope they’ll read this in your column.

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Dear Abby: I’d like to offer another example of an act of kindness that might be worthy of your column. My youngest daughter and her little girl were traveling across several states after visiting her two brothers, a sister and me.

My daughter had a CB in her car and while she was driving, was talking on and off with different truckers on the road. A car full of young men began to harass her by tailgating, passing her dangerously close, then pulling sharply in front of her and slowing down. Each time she’d manage to pass them, the harassment would begin again.

She related her problem over the CB to a trucker. As if by magic, three trucks appeared! One got behind her, and another maneuvered in front – while a third sort of “nudged” the offending car out of her way, then positioned his rig alongside my daughter’s car. Those truckers talked to her the

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uestion: Money is tight this year and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thinking about cancelling our trip home to see my mother and father for Christmas.

Our young boys are already talking about missing Grandma and Grandpa, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to assure them weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make it next year. Do you agree?

Dr. Dobson: Not necessarily. Each family is allotted a finite number of holiday seasons in a lifetime, and each of them is priceless beyond measure.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wise to live within your budget.

But assuming youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not talking about thousands of dollars, perhaps you could consider the trip home as a gift in and of itself. Be creative. Wrap up a â&#x20AC;&#x153;voucherâ&#x20AC;? and mark it good for a trip to the grandparents and let your children open it as they would a traditional present on Christmas morning.

Having been where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m reminded of one of my happiest memories as an adult that happened to have occurred during the Christmas season.

Let me tell you about it. Perhaps it will give you some perspective.

I can close my eyes today and relive the year my wife, two children and I

boarded an airplane for Kansas City, where we spent the holidays with my mother and father.

The plane landed and I stepped into the terminal, instantly catching sight of my 6-foot-4-inch FOCUS Dad towering above the crowd. There was a ON THE twinkle in his eyes and FAMILY a smile on his face. He could hardly wait to tell Dr. James me about a book he had Dobson been reading. And, of â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; course, Mom was aglow with excitement. Her â&#x20AC;&#x153;childrenâ&#x20AC;? were home for Christmas!

What joyful moments those were when Danae and Ryan were young and my parents were alive. Our kids would wholeheartedly agree.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thankful today that we invested the effort to create these treasured memories that will endure for a lifetime. My mom and dad are now gone, of course, and our children are grown.

All the money in the world wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn back the clock. Wise is the person, someone once said, who can see the

end at the beginning. In other words, taking the long view of life is usually the shortest route to regret-free living.

What I have written might only serve to frustrate you in these tight financial times, but perhaps the principle I have shared will be valuable at a future time.

Question: You have recommended for many years that parents take their preteens away from home for what you called a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Preparing for Adolescenceâ&#x20AC;? weekend, during which they talk about the physical and emotional changes about to occur. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m interested in your comment that kids want this information before they become teenagers, but they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to talk about it after puberty. Do their attitudes really change that much overnight?

Dr. Dobson: As a matter of fact, they do. A study of 1,023 children between 10 and 13 showed that the number who felt uncomfortable talking to their parents about sexuality nearly doubled after puberty occurred. Prior to that, they were very open to instruction and guidance at home. Ninety-three

percent of those age 10 to 12 felt loved by their parents â&#x20AC;&#x153;all the time,â&#x20AC;? says Dr. Alvin Poussaint, a psychiatrist at Harvard University. He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think parents may be surprised that children of this age are saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We want to be close to you. We need you and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still afraid. We need the sense of safety and security that you supply.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The study showed, however, that attitudes changed dramatically when the children reached the eighth grade.

Those who had been open to advice the year before were suddenly unwilling to talk to their parents. The window of accessibility had closed.

The moral to the story? Invest a little time in the months before puberty to get your children ready for the stresses of adolescence. The effort will pay big dividends.

DR. DOBSON is founder and Chairman Emeritus of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80995 (www.family. org). Questions and answers are excerpted from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guideâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bringing Up Boys,â&#x20AC;? both published by Tyndale House.

Dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volatile stomach Viruses cause most acute coughs upsets reader D D

Dear V.O.: Dogs are sometimes misdiagnosed as having an obsessive/ compulsive disorder when they periodically lick carpets, other materials and themselves with considerable intensity and duration.

But the anxiety may be related to pain, as with an inflamed tooth or nausea. In order to relieve such symptoms, dogs will also chew and swallow various materials, from carpet edging to grass and leaves.

I receive many such letters from dog (and cat) owners who feed their animals a similar diet.

As I have documented with two other veterinarians in our book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not Fit for a Dog: The Truth About Manufactured Dog and Cat Foods,â&#x20AC;? the ingredients and additives in many of the major brands of pet food are associated with many health problems. Often, a change to a whole-food diet makes these problems go away.

Transition your dog onto my home-prepared recipe available at my Web site and in my newsletter. Check your local health store for alternative dog foods â&#x20AC;&#x201C; dry and canned. Organically certified is the best.

Some of the brands listed at my Web site include Naturaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Evo and Karma, PetGuard, Wellness, Castor and Pollux, and Monzies.

Dear Dr. Fox: We have a small patch of lawn where our spayed ANIMAL 1-year-old female DOCTOR bichon/ poodle Dr. Michael mix does Fox her busiâ&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; ness. Our lawn is filled with mole tunnels. We do not use fertilizers, herbicides or any other chemicals on this area. Unfortunately, our dog has come down with coccidiosis three times since we got her a year ago. When we walk her twice a day, we stay on the paved road or sidewalks, so it appears she came down with the parasites in our backyard. We wanted to discourage the moles and came across Chase Granular Mole and Gopher Repellent, containing castor oil. Would castor oil on this lawn be safe for our dog?

Also, our dog has problems with her anal sacs. Twice a day, we feed her 1/2 cup of Merrick Grammyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pot Pie dry food with one teaspoon of Grammyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pot Pie canned food and a little water for gravy.

We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give her any commercial dog treats or table scraps. If we need treats while grooming or cleaning her, we will use Cheerios. It is expensive to continually take her to the vet to express her anal sacs. Can we give her anything natural for this problem? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; K.H., Ocean, N.J. Dear K.H.: It is only a remote chance that the

moles are the source of your dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coccidiosis.

She probably acquired this infection, which flares up when she is stressed, as a puppy.

Discuss putting her on a course of supplements such as probiotics, prebiotics and glutamine with the attending veterinarian. A teaspoon daily of organic yogurt and 1/4 teaspoon of brewerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yeast may also prove beneficial.

Her chronic anal-gland problem indicates that she is not a well dog and would most likely benefit from a course of probiotic and prebiotic supplements. I would also transition her to a nonprocessed, whole-food diet, as per my recipe at my Web site and in my newsletter. I also list several dog-food brands that include organically certified ingredients.

Food allergies can be associated with analgland problems and episodes of diarrhea with flare-ups of gutdwelling organisms such as coccidia, clostridia and giardia. Your dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underlying problem is probably dysbiosis â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an unhealthy bacterial population in her digestive system.

I would let the moles be safe and happy in their holes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they are one of natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gifts that help keep grasslands and meadows healthy.

SEND YOUR QUESTIONS to Dr. Michael Fox, c/o The High Point Enterprise, P.O. Box 1009, High Point, NC 27261. The volume of mail received prohibits personal replies, but questions and comments of general interest will be discussed in future column.

Classifying coughs into acute (less than three weeks), subacute (three to nine weeks) and chronic (nine or more weeks) helps doctors narrow their causes and choose appropriate treatments. You have an acute cough.

Most of these coughs are due to viral infections. They peak in a matter of days and linger for three weeks or slightly longer. Your chest X-rays show no serious lung involvement.

You didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mention having a temperature. Both are good signs. A combination of an antihistamine with a

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Another cause of severe acute cough is whooping cough (pertussis).

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not an illness limited to children.

It happens to adults, and is frequently missed. The childhood vaccine against whooping cough wears off in adult years. Antibiotics, given early, can eliminate the bacterium causing it and keep it from spreading to others.

With a viral cough, time is perhaps the greatest healer.

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The problem is that, every few months, he starts licking the rug and one of the walls. Sometimes it lasts for 10 minutes.

Lately, it seems when he gets that feeling, he wants to go outside and eat grass. There are no chemicals or sprays on the grass. Occasionally, he throws up white foam.

After itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over, he seems to be fine.

How can I help him overcome this? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried changing his food, but he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat anything else. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; V.O., Neptune City, N.J.

ear Dr. Donohue: I am an 81-year-old man in pretty good health. My problem is a cough. I take lisinopril and hydrochlorothiazide for blood pressure, Simvastatin for cholesterol and another blood pressure medicine, amlodipine, at night. One evening I started coughing. It continued and got worse the next day. On the third day, it was so bad that I went to a family center for help. They took a chest X-ray. It was normal, and I was prescribed an antibiotic and a cough medicine with codeine.

They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help. In five days, I went back, and they took another chest X-ray. It was normal. Then they put me on another antibiotic and gave me an inhaler. Neither helped. I then saw my own doctor, who told me to discontinue the lisinopril. It has been 13 days since I stopped, and I am still coughing, but not as hard as before. Any ideas? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; F.R.

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OOPERTOWN, Fla. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jesse Kennonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day begins at 6:30 a.m., as he opens up Coopertownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only bait and tackle shop. He heads to the only restaurant, where the lunch menu includes alligator tail and frog legs, to make sure the kitchen is ready.

He is then off to spend the day giving air boat rides through the Florida Everglades.

Kennon, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mayorâ&#x20AC;? as they call him here, runs Coopertown, which is less than an hour from Miami but consists of only four acres and eight residents â&#x20AC;&#x201C; his immediate family. Still, this town that started in 1945 when Kennonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family first offered air boat tours has turned into a major player in South Florida tourism, attracting about 50,000 visitors a year.

That does not include the dozens of music videos and model shoots done here, or the major television and movie productions filmed on site, such as episodes for â&#x20AC;&#x153;CSI: Miami.â&#x20AC;?

Yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a small town. In the 1940s, there was nothing out there but the Everglades and the Indian village. The resAntaurant and house where Kennon lives went

up two years later. Today, there is only one major road connecting Coopertown to Miami. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we do here is try to show you the beauty and the majestic part of the Everglades,â&#x20AC;? said Kennon, who wears goldplated alligator jewelry on his neck and another on his ring finger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most people anticipate coming to see a big jungle. When they get out there, they find itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really not a big jungle,â&#x20AC;? he added.

The goal for Kennon and his staff is to explain the importance of preserving the habitat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The more people I can introduce and show the environment, the ecosystem, the fauna, and explain what the actual Everglades is about, AP thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more people that Jesse Kennon pilots an air boat in the Everglades near Coopertown, Fla. respect that and will help support its survival,â&#x20AC;? he ing a short distance. river. You will also see said. different species of birds and vegetation: the great WHAT TO EAT: AIR BOAT TOURS: egret, a tall white bird; Those brave enough to The original air boat the great blue heron with try down-home cooking, tours show visitors al25-mile private tours can COOPERTOWN: http:// its blue and gray feathEverglades-style, can ligators in their natural be arranged with stops that www.coopertownairboats. ers; the white swamp walk into the one-room habitat. The rides are include a basil tree where com/ or 305-226-6048. Lolily or the spatterdock, a Coopertown Restaurant smooth, not bumpy or you can pick a leaf. cated on US 41, or Tamiami floating-leaved plant. and ask for alligator tail splashy as some would Trail, 11 miles west of the Kennon has learned to and frog legs. A recent expect, almost as if you Florida Turnpike, just a few TIPS: You do not get wet on group of visitors from were gliding on 12 inches imitate during the rides minutes drive from the Micthe boat rides, but be prethe sound of baby gators London described the of water. While on the cosukee Resort & Convenpared for the noise. The staff in distress. A majority of meal as tasty, yet â&#x20AC;&#x153;chewyâ&#x20AC;? ride you will catch hints tion Center. supplies cotton balls to use the time, alligators are and â&#x20AC;&#x153;tougher than chickof different aromas: as ear plugs. Walk-ins are curious and will slowly en.â&#x20AC;? Also on the menu are sweetness from the basil welcome, but reservations PRICES: Air boat rides start make their way toward hamburgers and grilled trees, a soft grass smell are recommended, especially at $22 per adult, $11 for the air boat while keepcheese sandwiches, for from the freshwater for larger groups and over children; children under those not as adventurthe Christmas holidays 6 are free. Each trip lasts when the number of visitors ous. The restaurant also about 40 minutes, covertriples. serves as the souvenir ing nearly 10 miles of the Everglades. One-hour, shop for gator-themed purchases â&#x20AC;&#x201C; everything from gator figurines, pens boat rides. Christmas Day air boats when he was 9 and mugs, to T-shirts and through New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is the years old, but the work gator heads. never gets old. busiest week, averaging â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had an office job be300-500 visitors a day.

ALLIGATOR EXHIBIT: fore and that was not my â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our baromWhile waiting for your bag,â&#x20AC;? he said. eter for the year. If I did turn on the air boat, take seven days like that every It is around 10 p.m. and a stroll through the Allimonth then I would only Kennon is finally shutting gator Exhibit for a closer be open 10 days,â&#x20AC;? he said down shop. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This envilook at the roughly 16 with a laugh. ronment out here is kind alligators on site, includKennon started driving of hard to beat,â&#x20AC;? he said. ing Big Man, a 14-foot alligator that weighs 1,000 pounds.

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ULF ISLANDS NATIONAL SEASHORE, Fla. – It’s a 70-degree fall weekday, and I’m sitting on a powdery white beach lapped by gentle turquoise waves as I eat a pear and “work” on my travel story about Gulf Islands National Seashore.

It seems life couldn’t get much better – but it does.

I’ve encountered only one other bicyclist so far on my 14-mile, round-trip trek along this breathtaking stretch of Florida Panhandle beach.

I’ve escaped into a private paradise in this normally busy national park where the high-rise condominiums of Pensacola Beach loom in the distance and the outline of Pensacola Naval Air Station appears across the bay.

From March to September, this barrier island teems with tourists reveling in the warm Gulf waters and famous white quartz beaches.

But the tourists clear out as fall sets in, days get shorter, kids head back to school and temperatures drop from the 80s and 90s into the 60s and 70s.

Tropical Storm Ida hit here earlier in November, dumping sand over the seven-mile road that stretches from the park entrance to Fort Pickens, a crumbling brick structure constructed in 1829 and used in the Civil War. The road has been closed to cars since the storm, making the fort accessible only to those willing to make the journey on foot or to bike the sand-covered road.

The rebuilt road, with its beach-front parking lots and campgrounds, just reopened in July after it was largely washed away in 2004 by Hurricane Ivan and by Hurricane Dennis a year later. A longer stretch of park road to the east, from Pensacola Beach to Navarre Beach, also reopened in July and was also closed after Ida. The low-lying park roads are vulnerable to closure after even a heavy rain – guaranteeing adventurers at least a few plumb days every year to enjoy the journey without passing auto traffic.

But the trip to Fort Pickens isn’t easy without a car – it requires pushing a bike through soft sand in areas where road crews are busily working to clear roads. A 14-mile beach hike makes for sore calfs and thighs.

The physical effort is well-rewarded, though,

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as I walk barefoot through waves and pick through shells deposited by recent rough waters. I spot a school of stingray gliding about five feet offshore and see dolphins swimming in the distance. Small planes and helicopters from Pensacola Naval Air Station sometimes pass overhead.

I head out from the park entrance at 7 a.m. on my bike, a 3-yearold, $100 Schwinn – expensive bikes are not suggested for slugging through sand and water. By 9 a.m., I ride through the entrance of Fort Pickens, where I park the bike and begin exploring the nearly 200year-old fort.

I’d driven the park road to the fort on a Saturday back in late July, when the fort was crawling with visitors exploring its curved brick passageways, barred windows, Civil War-era armaments and gift shop. On this trip, it’s just me and the few park service employees mowing the grass outside the fort. They pay no attention as I make way to the top of the fort and begin photographing the old cannons.

The gift shop is closed and I am the only tourist in the fort.

I try to imagine the Union forces encamped here during the Civil War, watching for Confederate ships from across Pensacola Bay. I wonder what the Apache warrior Geronimo thought when he and members of his tribe were imprisoned here in the 1880s. How did they spend their days?

Did they interact with guards, did they see the ocean from their cells?

I wonder about the men who built the fort back 180 years ago and how they managed these curved ceilings.

Finally, I return to the top of the fort over looking the Gulf where I set alone and enjoy the solitude.

It is a perfect morning.

I head home at 11 a.m., biking the same route.

I pass a road crew that I had passed hours earlier on my way to the fort.

I can see the progress of their sand removal – the road will reopen to car traffic soon enough. But for now at least, Mother Nature has claimed a brief victory over man and I enjoy my private beach paradise.

Gulf Islands National Seashore: 1801 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Gulf Breeze, Fla.; http://www. nps.gov/GUIS/index. htm or 850-934-2600.

Open daily 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

The entrance is at the western end of Pensacola Beach on Fort Pickens Road. Entrance fees are $3 if you’re on foot or on a bike, $8 per car.

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Only one piece of artillery is in place at Gulf Islands National Seashore where once the wall was line with many cannons.

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Signs give warning that sands on Gulf Islands National Seashore may be dangerous to your vehicle.

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Buxton – Cota

Wood – Nash

Kimberly Dawn Cota of Archdale, NC and George Ingram Préot Buxton of James Island, SC, were united in marriage November 7, 2009, at Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church in High Point, NC. The Rev. Robert Cook officiated at the 2 p.m. ceremony. Musicians were Dr. Harold Andrews and Kenun Clark.

The bride is the daughter of Kay Hill of Archdale, NC and the late Richard Hoyle. She is the granddaughter of Pauline Brown of Archdale, NC. The groom is the son of Anne Wallace Buxton of James Island, SC and the late Dr. Julian Thomas Buxton, Jr. Escorted by Todd Moser, the bride was attended by Mena Parrish, maid of honor.

Bridesmaids were Deana Byrd, Darla Justis, Alex Bullard, Sarah Cota and Mary Cota.

The groom chose Dr. George EdKimberly Cota ward Préot Buxton to serve as best Weds George Buxton man.

Groomsmen were Julian Thomas Buxton III, John Edward Buxton, William Andrew Wallace Buxton, James Taylor Hughvey Buxton, and Mikell Christopher Thaxton.

Ushers were Peter William DeVito, Daryl Parrish, Dean Blair Maury, Christopher Burge Newman.

Readers were Marjory Wentworth, Poet Laureate of South Carolina, and Carol Andrews.

The rehearsal dinner was held at The Hampton at the J.H. Adams Inn. Reception was held at Saint Mary’s Parrish Hall, following the wedding.

The bride is a graduate of Trinity High School and Leon’s Beauty School. She attended High Point University and owns and operates Kimberly’s hair Salon.

The groom is a graduate of Porter-Gaud High School, Charleston, SC, and a 1997 graduate of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in English. An author of five books and Language Arts teacher at Guilford Technical Community College, he is owner of Tarheel Academy.

Following a wedding trip to Maggie Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the couple reside in High Point, NC.

Ashley Ann Nash and Nicholas Bradley Wood, both of Mount Holly, NC, were united in marriage October 24, 2009, at Pine Island Country Club, Charlotte, NC. Ronald Watts officiated at the 4 p.m. ceremony.

The bride is the daughter of Steve and Edee Nash of Mount Holly, NC. She is the granddaughter of John and Adelia Weathers of Stanley, NC and Doris Nash of Mount Holly, NC and the late Harvey Nash.

The groom is the son of Bobby and Donna Wood of Trinity, NC. He is the grandson of Barbara Wood of High Point, NC and Rachel Wright of Westfield, NC. Escorted by her father, Steve Nash, the bride was attended by Amber Nash, sister of the bride, as maid of honor and Erica Cousar, sister of the bride, as matron of honor.

Bridesmaids were Carole Barber, Katie Lawing, Sarah Patterson, Crystal Hutchinson and Windy HarAshley Nash ris, all friends of the bride.

Weds Nicholas Wood The groom chose his father, Bobby Wood, and Chris Maness, friend of the groom, to serve as best men.

Groomsmen were Jordan Wood, brother of the groom, Seth McDowell, Josh Misenheimer, Tim Stevens and Doug Dehr, all friends of the groom.

Registry attendants were Heather Deese and Eric Malmber.

The reception was held at the Pine Island Country Club, Charlotte, NC. The bride is a 2007 graduate of Piedmont Community College with degree as a Certified Dental Assistant. She is employed by Charlotte Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics.

The groom is a 2003 graduate of Trinity High School and a 2007 graduate of Methodist University with a bachelor degree in Business Administration and Professional Golf Management. He is employed as Head Golf Professional at Pine Island Country Club in Charlotte NC. Following a wedding trip to Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic, the couple resides in Mount Holly, NC.

Hughes – Mitchell Everhart – McKenzie Laura Leigh McKenzie and Benjamin Alan Everhart, both of Raleigh, NC, were united in marriage December 12, 2009, at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, High Point, NC. The Reverend Barry Phillips Osborne and the Reverend Ashley Crowder Stanley officiated at the 5 p.m. ceremony. Musicians were Frank Geno Pifferetti, organist, Mrs. Marcia Garrett Dills, pianist and the Reverend Donald Edwin Huss, junior, soloist.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hayden McKenzie of High Point, NC. She is the granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. Dewey Harris Pate and the late Mrs. Patricia Rivenbark Pate of Raleigh, NC, and the late James Ray McKenzie and the late Mrs. Diane McKenzie Smith of High Point, NC. The groom is the son of Dr. and Mrs. George Raymond Everhart III of Salisbury, NC. He is the grandson Laura McKenzie of Mrs. Lewellyn Phillips David and the late Redwan David and the late Weds Benjamin Everhart Mr. and Mrs. George Raymond Everhart, Jr. Escorted by her father, Charles Hayden McKenzie, the bride was attended by Kristin Caroline Owens of New York, NY and Elizabeth Stewart Weldon Morris of Raleigh, NC, as maids of honor.

Bridesmaids were Amanda Carson Clark of Iron Station, NC, Windsor Sue Curry, Mary Katherine Johnson, Brooke Elizabeth Johnson, Elisabeth Terrence Murray, all of Raleigh, NC, Mimi Duval Sykes of Lynchburg, VA and Emily Wall Thomas of Greensboro, NC. The groom chose his father, Dr. George Raymond Everhart III, to serve as best man.

Groomsmen were Christopher Evan Carver of Raleigh, NC, David Bradley Everhart of South Port, NC, George Andrew Everhart of Wilmington, NC, both brothers of the groom, Travis Young Kraszeski of Raleigh, NC, Jesse Hayden McKenzie of Wilmington, NC, brother of the bride, Christopher Michael Schrenier of Raleigh, NC, Charles Randall Welfare, III of Roanoke, VA, brother-in-law of the groom and Braxton Pryce Wilson of Raleigh, NC. Honorary ushers were Charles Connor Amos of High Point and Robert Thomas Amos IV of Greensboro, cousins of the bride, Charles Walter Lancaster of High Point, NC, George Hunter Morris of Charlotte, NC, Scripture reader was the Reverend Ashley Crowder Stanley.

Greeters were Katherine Lacey Hooks and Barrett Binford Milliken, both of Raleigh, NC. A bridesmaids’ luncheon was held on Friday at the High Point Country Club, hosted by Mrs. Royster Milton Tucker IV and Mrs. Velva Tucker Quinn, greataunts of the bride.

The groom’s family hosted a rehearsal dinner and music at the High Point Country Club at Willow Creek on the eve of the wedding.

A reception, hosted by the bride’s parents, was held at The Graylyn Estate in Winston-Salem, following the ceremony.

The bride is a graduate from High Point Central High School and Meredith College, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Fashion Merchandising.

She was presented by the Debutante Club of High Point.

The groom is a graduate from Salisbury High School and North Carolina State University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry and was a member of Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. He also earned a Masters of Arts in Education at the Graduate School of Wake Forest University.

He is the owner of the Aquatic Management Group.

Following a wedding trip sailing the British Virgin Islands, the couple will reside in Raleigh NC.

Stacy Leigh Mitchell of Trinity, NC and Christopher Donald Hughes of Archdale, NC, were united in marriage December 12, 2009, at Hopewell United Methodist Church, Trinity, NC. The Reverend Toni Ruth Smith officiated at the ceremony. Musicians were Tony Albertson, pianist and Jorge Lagueruela, soloist.

The bride is the daughter of Terry Mitchell and Susan Vietti, both of Trinity, NC. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Newton of Trinity and Mrs. Peggy Mitchell Hill of Archdale and the late Harold Mitchell.

The groom is the son of Donald Hughes of Sophia, NC and Vicki Benton of Winston-Salem, NC. He is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lamont Smith and the late Mr. and Mrs. Clay Hughes.

Escorted by her father, Terry Mitchell, the bride was attended by Lyndsie Mitchell, sister of the bride.

Stacy Mitchell Bridesmaid was Hannah Hughes, daughter of the groom.

Weds Christopher Hughes The groom chose Billy Byerly, brother-in-law of the groom, to serve as best man.

Groomsman was Parker Hughes, son of the groom.

Ushers were Brooks Deal and David Newton.

Registrar was Kristen Chargualaf. Program attendants were Brooke Newton and Erin Newton.

The reception was held at Centennial Station, High Point, NC. The bride is a graduate of Trinity High School and a 2009 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Nurse Anesthesia Program, where she received a Master of Science in Nursing degree. She is employed at Carolina Anesthesiology as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist.

The groom is a graduate of East Davidson High School. He is employed by Thomas Built Buses as a Logistics Supervisor.

The couple will reside in Archdale, NC.

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Mae and Raymond Everhart In 1949

Mae and Raymond Everhart In 2009

Everharts celebrate 60th anniversary Raymond and Mae Everhart of Winston-Salem, NC, celebrated 60 years of marriage December 5, 2009, at Bethany United Church of Christ.

Mr. and Mrs. Everhart were married December 3, 1949. Mrs. Everhart is the former Mae Cameron. The couple have two children, Margaret Lambeth and husband David and Eugene Everhart and wife Patty, all of Midway. They also have five grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

The couple are retired farmers.

Amy VanLeuvan and Phillip Fesperman, both of Trinity, NC, were united in marriage November 16, 2009, in Lexington, NC. Susan Gardner officiated at the ceremony.

The bride is the daughter of Mary Hiatt of Trinity, NC and the late Bryce Swicegood.

The groom is the son of Danielle G. Massey of Rock Hill, SC, and the late Don Adrain Fesperman Sr. Escorted by her son. Joshua VanLeuvan, the bride was attended by her daughter, Jessica VanLeuvan, maid of honor.

The groom chose his son, Kenneth Fesperman, to serve as best man.

The bride is a graduate of Trinity High School and Randolph County Technical College. She is employed by High Point Seating.

The groom is a graduate of Trinity High School.

He is employed by Thomas Built Buses.

Following a trip to the North Carolina mountains, the couple resides in Trinity, NC.

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Butler couple celebrate 50th anniversary

Patricia and Richard Vaughan In 1959

Patricia and Richard Vaughan In 2009

Vaughans celebrate 50th anniversary Richard and Patricia Vaughan of Ararat, NC, celebrated 50 years of marriage on November 26, 2009. A celebration with family and friends was held on Thanksgiving day. A family celebration/vacation to Paradise Island, Bahamas, is planned for February, Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan were married November 26, 1959, at First United Methodist Church in High Point, NC. Mrs. Vaughan is the former Patricia Long of High Point. The couple have two children, Sherron Lowe and husband Reggie of High Point, and Jo Ann Tew and husband Alton of Ararat. They have three grandchildren.

Mr. Vaughan retired from Henley Paper Company.

Mrs. Vaughan retired from the Guilford County Health Department and the State of North Carolina.

The couple met while attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Sonny and Betty Butler of Thomasville, NC, celebrated 50 years of marriage December 3, 2009, at High Point Country Club with a renewal of their wedding vows and dinner with family and friends.

The hosts for the event were the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children: Kelley Canup and husband Mike of Clayton, NC, Leigh Kirk of Thomasville, NC, Sallie Ledford of High Point, NC, Marc Butler and wife Carrie of Archdale, NC; and their five grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Butler were married December 6, 1959, at Ardmore Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, NC. Mrs. Butler is the former Betty Flintom of Winston-Salem.

Mr. Butler worked 40 years in the veneer sales business and retired from Butler Veneer.

Mrs. Butler is also retired.

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Kennedy Center honorees Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck and Grace Bumbry (from left) are seen at the end of a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington Dec. 6 with President Obama. The entertainers were honored at the Kennedy Center later that evening.

Toast to the arts Obama White House shifts cultural emphasis

BY BRETT ZONGKER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON — In his first year, President Barack Obama has marshaled the largest infusion of cultural funding in decades — despite a few stumbles.

Though still far less than arts advocates contend is needed, they have high hopes this president could transform cultural policy, funding and arts

A variety of musical performances and workshops have been held at the White House this year, covering classical, jazz, Latin and country tunes. education for years to come.

“I think and feel he’s very much in the John F. Kennedy tradition — he embodies the humanities, essentially,” said Jim Leach, a former Republican congressman from Iowa whom Obama named chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. “That doesn’t

mean a conservative leader can’t also. Abraham Lincoln was a great conservative who embodied the humanities.”

Across Washington, cultural leaders have taken note of Obama’s approach.

They’re impressed with the variety of musical performances and workshops held at the White House this year, covering classical, jazz, Latin and country tunes.

There’s also the $100 million in new funding for the arts, including a one-time $50 million infusion from the economic stimulus package to preserve arts jobs.

There were sizable increases as well in the annual appropriations for the arts and humanities endowments. Both agencies will receive $167.5 million in 2010, their largest allocations in 16 years.

Arts supporters wanted more money, but they say the increases were significant and symbolic of Obama’s commitment.

“It’s still a relatively small amount of money — a $12.5 million increase (for 2010) spread over 100,000 arts organizations,” said Michael Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

“But symbolically, it was very important because so many state and local arts agencies are being cut by their state and local governments, so to have the federal government ... actually put more into arts, I think was very important.”

Obama’s efforts in the arts ran afoul of critics in August when a National Endowment for the Arts official asked artists who receive federal grants to coordinate with the Corporation for Public

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On Feb. 11, President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during a visit to Ford’s Theater to mark the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial in Washington. The box where Lincoln was assassinated is in the background. In his first year Obama has marshaled the largest infusion of cultural funding in decades, despite a few stumbles.

Service on ways to help bolster Obama’s public service agenda.

“I would encourage you to pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment — you know, there’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service,” the NEA’s Yosi Sergant told artists on the call. He was reassigned after the call became public and later left the agency.

Critics said it was an overreach at Obama’s NEA, while supporters argued that the episode was overblown.

Still, the White House issued an advisory for government agencies to avoid even the appearance of politics playing a role in federal grants.

At a dinner during last weekend’s Kennedy Center Honors, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said improving arts education will be a key element of his proposed changes in former President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law. He

said parents, teachers and students all have noticed a “narrowing of the curriculum.”

“I’m convinced when students are engaged in the arts, graduation rates go up, dropout rates go down,” Duncan said.

The Obamas presided over the Kennedy Center Honors, but they also have been frequent guests at Kennedy Center performances and at New York’s museums and theaters.

“Both the president and the first lady have demonstrated an interest in the arts that is more active than most of their predecessors,” said George Stevens Jr., who has produced the Kennedy Center Honors as a national celebration of the arts for the past 32 years. “They’re young and connected to what’s going on in the world, and a part of that is the performing arts.”

Stevens has been enlisted to co-chair the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

The Obamas also have quietly recruited some of

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the biggest names in music, architecture, dance and show business to help guide arts initiatives. “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker, acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and actors Forest Whitaker and Alfre Woodard are among 25 members appointed to the committee.

Other key arts appointments also have broken the mold.

At the NEA, which has been cautiously rebuilding since congressional conservatives slashed funding to less than $100 million in 1996, Obama appointed an outspoken Broadway producer, Rocco Landesman, as the nation’s top arts official.

Landesman has said he would like to resume making grants to individual artists, a longtime practice targeted in the 1990s when conservatives said the NEA was supporting obscene art.

He may hold off, though.

The NEA’s annual funding has yet to fully rebound to its high of nearly $176 million from 1992.

A new prize recognizing artists age 35 and under would provide the winner with $100,000 and help from mentors like Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, the prize’s creator announced Tuesday.

The Future Generation Art Prize is the creation of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, whose namesake is a Ukrainian billionaire and art collector.

Artists in the age group will apply online for the prize, which will be awarded every two years.

A group of 100 art professionals from around the globe also will nominate candidates for consideration.

One of the goals of the prize is to make a major contribution toward the production of new work by young artists.

The winner will be required to use $40,000 of the prize money to create new art.

To encourage the support of one generation of artists for another, four renowned artists have been enlisted to provide advice to the winner and finalists. In addition to Koons and Hirst, Andreas Gursky and Takashi Murakami have also signed on. Pinchuk collects their works.

The prize will be overseen by a distinguished board that includes Elton John.

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Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., is interviewed by the Associated Press at the AP bureau in Atlanta. A question about why the government decided to issue a $6,500 homebuyers’ tax credit only to those who have owned their current homes for more than five years inspired one of the questions in this edition of “Ask AP,” a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers’ questions about the news. Isakson was a sponsor of the legislation.

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Part of western N.C. highway closed

BY PAUL TEAGUE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE REGIONAL NEWS

LENOIR – U.S. 321 has been shut down indefinitely between Kirby Mountain Road and Waterfalls Road due to the lingering threat of large rock slides that began late last week.

The problems began a week ago Thursday when blasting near Kirby Mountain Road loosened boulders approximately 1/2 mile north of the blasting site. The section of road was closed but reopened after one day.

However, upon closer

inspection Monday by North Carolina Department of Inspection Engineers and representatives from contracting company W.C. English, it was determined the road section needed to be shut down for an extended period of time.

According to DOT Resident Engineer Frank Gioscio, huge boulders have been loosened some 75 feet along the face of one of the slopes adjacent to the highway. He noted that the 45-degree angle of the rock’s potential descent heightens the risk to motorists.

“As soon as we walked to the rock slope, I said that there is no way we can keep this road open,” Frank Gioscio said. “There are tractor trailer-sized boulders. While we were standing there (today), we had rocks as big as your fist coming down.” He advised motorists seeking to travel to Blowing Rock and Boone to take N.C. 18 to Wilkesboro and pick up U.S. 421. Gioscio added he is prepared to feel the heat from upset motorists who are looking to travel to the mountains during the Christmas shopping season.

Gravely ill man plans ‘living’ funeral

BY RAGAN ROBINSON MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE REGIONAL NEWS

HICKORY – Dan Lasky doesn’t think he has more than a few weeks left.

He sits outside in the cold, knowing he won’t be able to feel it much longer.

He talks as long as anyone will listen, fearing the day his voice will fail him.

He plans a living funeral, hoping he will survive long enough to be there in person.

“I just want to say hello -- and goodbye,” Lasky says.

ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, has stolen the movement and feeling in his legs.

His arms are weak.

He has just enough strength to lift his hand by the wrist and hold his

fingers less than an inch apart when he says, “I’m this far away from gone.”

Lasky, 47, expects his hands to go next, and maybe his voice after that. He signed an order instructing doctors not to resuscitate him if his heart or other organs fail.

The Hickory man and his wife, Sharon Lasky, are planning his living funeral for Dec. 18 at Augustana Lutheran Church

in Hickory. It’s a chance for Lasky to reunite with the people who’ve crossed his path.

The idea came from the movie “Tuesdays with Morrie,” about an ALS patient who wanted people to visit him while he was alive instead of waiting for his death.

Lasky worked in merchandising for Kraft and Nabisco, ordering products.

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COMMUNITY THEATRE of Greensboro holds auditions for its production of “The Sunshine Boys” 7-9 p.m. Jan. 4 and 5 at it’s fourth-floor studio at the Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N. Davie St. Parts are for two mature male actors to portray characters in their 60s and 70s, one male actor who can portray someone in his 30s or 40s, two male actors of any age and two female actresses.

Production dates are Feb. 25-March 7. For more information, call 333-7470, ext. 206, or visit the Web site www. ctgso.org.

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In this film publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, Mark Wahlberg (left) stars as Jack Salmon and Stanley Tucci stars as George Harvey in a scene from “The Lovely Bones.”

‘The Lovely Bones’ trades soul for spectacle

BY DAVID GERMAIN AP MOVIE WRITER

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dd as it sounds, Peter Jackson needed to come down to Earth a bit more in “The Lovely Bones,” his adaptation of Alice Sebold’s best-seller about a murdered girl looking back on her life from beyond.

The visionary filmmaker behind “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy still is in fantasyland, still in the grip of Middle-earth, and the film suffers for it as Jackson crafts lovely but ineffectual dreamscapes of the afterlife that eviscerate much of the human side of the story.

It’s certainly a smaller, more intimate tale than his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and his “King Kong” remake. Yet the hope among fans of Jackson’s early work was that “The Lovely

Bones” would hark back to his 1994 drama “Heavenly Creatures,” which put Kate Winslet on the road to stardom.

With modest production, “Heavenly Creatures” presented striking fantasy visuals that complemented Jackson’s dark story of two teenage women whose compulsive relationship results in murder.

Now working on a grander Hollywood scale, Jackson loses the spark of Sebold’s story – a young girl’s lament over a life never lived, a family’s bottomless grief over a child and sister lost – amid his expensive pretty pictures.

Like the book, the film merges first-person and omniscient narration as Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan, an Academy Award

nominee for 2007’s “Atonement”) chronicles her journey from sensitive 14-year-old schoolgirl to shattered soul stuck in a nether zone between earth and heaven.

Sweet and somewhat shy, Susie is just developing a passion for photography and on the verge of her first kiss when a creepy neighbor (Stanley Tucci) with a serial-killer past lures her into his secret lair and murders her.

For her family – including parents (Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz), grandmother (Susan Sarandon) and younger sister (Rose McIver) – Susie has simply vanished, her body hidden away by her killer.

Years pass, and Susie watches the family crumble, her mom running off to work on a farm, her dad obsessed with finding his daughter’s murderer, to the exasperation of the cop (Michael

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Through death, Susie gains a razor-sharp focus on what’s truly important, all those glorious little snapshot moments that, for the living, can become lost and forgotten in the cacophony of everyday life.

Jackson’s focus is fuzzier, the film flitting disjointedly from the Salmons’ lingering sorrow to Susie’s limbo, a realm that alternates between her anger and melancholy over what she’s left behind and her wonder over what’s yet to come in her larger existence.

“The Lovely Bones,” a DreamWorks Pictures release distributed by Paramount, is rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving disturbing violent content and images, and some language. Running time: 135 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

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FICTION 1. “U is for Underflow”

by Sue Grafton (Putnam Adult) 2. “The Lost Symbol”

by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 3. “I, Alex Cross”

by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 4. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) 5. “Under the Dome”

by Stephen King (Scribner) NONFICTION 1. “Going Rogue: An American Life” by Sarah Palin (HarperCollins) 2. “Have a Little Faith: A True Story” by Mitch Albom (Hyperion) 3. “Stones Into Schools” by Greg Mortenson (Viking) 4. “Guinness World Records 2010” by Guinness World Records (Guinness) 5. “Open: An Autobiography” by Andre Agassi (Knopf) THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’S list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ended last Saturday.

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Guilford County Schools

Monday – Breakfast: Breakfast pizza or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Chicken nuggets or grilled cheese sandwich; choice of two: tossed salad, baked potato wedges, tomato soup, peaches, roll, milk.

Tuesday – Breakfast: Sausage biscuit or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Hamburger/ cheeseburger or chicken quesadilla; choice of two: baked beans, tossed salad, fruited gelatin, peach cup, milk.

Wednesday – Breakfast: French toast or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Hot dog or turkey pie; choice of two: tossed salad, green beans, baked sweet potato, fruit cup, roll, milk.

Thursday – Breakfast: Honey bun or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Nachos with chili or peanut butter and jelly; choice of

two: tossed salad, mashed potatoes, sweet yellow corn, orange wedges, milk.

Friday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Pizza dippers with marinara or peanut butter and jelly; choice of two: carrot and celery sticks with dip, tossed salad, chilled applesauce, raisins, milk.

MIDDLE SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Sausage biscuit or yogurt with Grahams or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Hamburger or cheeseburger or cheese or pepperoni pizza or turkey, ham and cheese deli sub; choice of two: baked beans, tossed salad, strawberries, milk.

Tuesday – Breakfast: Egg and cheese biscuit or poptarts or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Taco or turkey pie or chef salad; choice of two: green beans, baked

sweet potato, french fries, pineapple tidbits, roll, milk.

Wednesday – Breakfast: Ham biscuit or yogurt with Grahams or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Beef tips with rice or cheese or pepperoni pizza or steak and cheese sub; choice of two: mashed potatoes, broccoli and cheese, orange wedges, roll, milk.

Thursday – Breakfast: Bacon, egg and cheese biscuit or honey bun or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Corndog or nachos with chili or chef salad; choice of two: sweet yellow corn, green peas, french fries, peach cobbler, milk.

Friday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or yogurt with Grahams or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Roasted barbecue chicken or cheese or pepperoni pizza or turkey, ham and cheese deli sub; choice of two: tossed salad, vegetable soup, fruited gelatin, roll, milk.

Davidson County Schools ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Pancake and sausage on a stick or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza or sloppy joe on a bun or chili wth corn muffin or chef salad meal with crackers or peanut butter and jelly sandwich; choice of two: boxed raisins, dried cherries, hash brown sticks, peas and carrots, garden salad, apricots, fresh fruit, milk.

Tuesday – Breakfast: Breakfast chicken fillet or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Hot dog with slaw and chili or spaghetti with Texas toast or hoagie sandwich or chef salad meal with crackers or peanut butter and jelly sandwich; choice of two: boxed raisins, dried cherries, vegetarian beans, steamed broccoli, lettuce and tomato, Artic ice smoothie, fresh fruit, milk.

Wednesday – Breakfast: Super donut or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk.

Lunch: Chicken nuggets with roll or pepperoni or cheese sub or turkey taco or chef salad meal with crackers or peanut butter and jelly sandwich; choice of two: boxed raisins, dried cherries, green beans, baby potatoes, garden salad, pears, fresh fruit, milk.

Thursday – Breakfast: Egg and cheese omelet on English muffin or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch:

Quesadilas or lasagna with roll or rib-b-que sandwich or chef salad meal with crackers or peanut butter and jelly sandwich; choice of two: boxed raisins, dried cherries, lima beans and cron, onion rings, lettuce and tomato, baked apples, fresh fruit, apricot crisp, milk.

Friday – Breakfast: Peanut butter and jelly breakfast sandwich or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken fillet or chicken tetrazzini or grilled cheese or chef salad meal with crackers or peanut butter and jelly sandwich; choice of two: boxed raisins, dried cherries, tomato soup, corn, lettuce and tomato, fruit mix, fresh fruit, milk.

MIDDLE SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Pancake and sausage on a stick or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza or sloppy joe on a bun or chili wth corn muffin or chef salad meal with crackers or peanut butter and jelly sandwich; choice of two: boxed raisins, dried cherries, hash brown sticks, peas and carrots, garden salad, apricots, fresh fruit, milk.

Tuesday – Breakfast: Breakfast chicken fillet or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Hot dog with slaw and chili or spaghetti with Texas toast or hoagie sandwich or chef salad meal with crackers or peanut but-

ter and jelly sandwich; choice of two: boxed raisins, dried cherries, vegetarian beans, steamed broccoli, lettuce and tomato, Artic ice smoothie, fresh fruit, milk.

Wednesday – Breakfast: Super donut or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk.

Lunch: Chicken nuggets with roll or pepperoni or cheese sub or turkey taco or chef salad meal with crackers or peanut butter and jelly sandwich; choice of two: boxed raisins, dried cherries, green beans, baby potatoes, garden salad, pears, fresh fruit, milk.

Thursday – Breakfast: Egg and cheese omelet on English muffin or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Quesadilas or lasagna with roll or rib-b-que sandwich or chef salad meal with crackers or peanut butter and jelly sandwich; choice of two: boxed raisins, dried cherries, lima beans and cron, onion rings, lettuce and tomato, baked apples, fresh fruit, apricot crisp, milk.

Friday – Breakfast: Peanut butter and jelly breakfast sandwich or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken fillet or chicken tetrazzini or grilled cheese or chef salad meal with crackers or peanut butter and jelly sandwich; choice of two: boxed raisins, dried cherries, tomato soup, corn, lettuce and tomato, fruit mix, fresh fruit, milk.

Randolph County Schools ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Sausage biscuit or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk.

Lunch: Nachos or cheese quesadilla; choice of two: shredded lettuce and tomato, pinto beans, baked apples, milk.

Tuesday – Breakfast: Maple-bit pancakes or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Country style steak with roll or chickentenders with roll; choice of two: mashed potatoes, green peas, sliced peaches, milk.

Wednesday – Breakfast: Breakfast pizza or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Spaghetti with whole wheat breadstick or turkey deli sandwich with lettuce, tomato and pickles, tossed salad, steamed broccoli, mixed fruit, milk.

Thursday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Toasted cheese sandwich or chicken fillet sandwich with

lettuce, tomato and pickles; choice of two: vegetable soup, veggie cup with ranch, sherbet, milk.

Friday – Breakfast: Eggs and sausage with toast or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk.

Lunch: Pizza, buttered corn, applesauce, milk.

MIDDLE SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or breakfast pizza or sausage biscuit or sausage griddlecake or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken tenders with roll or turkey deli sandwich with lettuce, tomato and pickles; choice of two: veggie cup with ranch, seasoned fries, pineapple tidbits, milk.

Tuesday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or breakfast pizza or sausage biscuit or sausage griddlecake or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Nachos or cheese quesadilla; choice of two: pinto beans, shredded

lettuce and tomato, baked apples, milk.

Wednesday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or breakfast pizza or sausage biscuit or sausage griddlecake or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken fillet sandwich with lettuce, tomato and pickles or fish sandwich; choice of two: crinkle cut french fries, broccoli salad, sliced pears, milk.

Thursday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or breakfast pizza or sausage biscuit or sausage griddlecake or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken/ turkey pie with roll and corn dog nuggets; choice of two: green beans, mashed potatoes, sliced peaches, milk.

Friday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or breakfast pizza or sausage biscuit or sausage griddlecake or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza, buttered corn, applesauce, milk.

Thomasville Schools ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Danish, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Fish nuggets or chef salad; choice of two: oven fried potatoes, cole slaw, strawberries/bananas, fresh fruit, milk.

Tuesday – Breakfast: Pop tarts, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken filet or chef salad; choice of two: creamed potatoes, carrot sticks, chilled applesauce, fresh fruit, milk.

Wednesday – Breakfast: Cereal with animal crackers, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza or chef salad; choice of two: steamed cabbage, seasoned corn, fresh blueberries, milk.

Thursday – Breakfast: Break-

fast pizza, fruit juice, milk.

Lunch: Chicken nuggets or chef salad; choice of two: seasoned green beans, raw veggie, apricots, fresh fruit, milk.

Friday – Breakfast: Cereal with munchies, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza, hash browns, fruit juice, milk.

MIDDLE SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Danish, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Fish nuggets or chef salad; choice of two: oven fried potatoes, cole slaw, strawberries/bananas, fresh fruit, milk.

Tuesday – Breakfast: Pop tarts, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken filet or chef salad;

choice of two: creamed potatoes, carrot sticks, chilled applesauce, fresh fruit, milk.

Wednesday – Breakfast: Cereal with animal crackers, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza or chef salad; choice of two: steamed cabbage, seasoned corn, fresh blueberries, milk.

Thursday – Breakfast: Breakfast pizza, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken nuggets or chef salad; choice of two: seasoned green beans, raw veggie, apricots, fresh fruit, milk.

Friday – Breakfast: Cereal with munchies, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza, hash browns, fruit juice, milk.

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In this Dec. 2 photo, 10-year-old Elizabeth Dampier, the voice of young Tiana, the female title character in the new Walt Disney animated movie, “The Princess and the Frog,” is shown at her home in Madison, Miss.

Mississippi girl voices Disney’s princess-to-be

BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

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ADISON, Miss.

– Elizabeth Dampier doesn’t get the royal treatment at home, even though the 5th-grader plays a princess-to-be on the big screen.

The 10-year-old Mississippi girl is the voice of young Tiana, the female title character in the new Disney animated movie, “The Princess and the Frog,” which opened nationwide this weekend.

Elizabeth does chores, sings in a Baptist church choir, makes snacks for her three younger siblings and is a straightA student in a family of high achievers. Her father, Dr. Arthur R. Dampier, is an optometrist. Her mother,

Jeanna, is a molecular biologist.

Elizabeth says she is a bit like her character.

“I’m fine with, like, the princess stuff,” Elizabeth says. “I am like her.

Elizabeth Dampier says she is a bit like her character.

I don’t like kissy and mooshy-gooshy stuff.”

Tiana likes to cook with her father and dreams of owning a restaurant. Elizabeth says she’d also like to own a restaurant when she grows up – unless she makes it big as an actress or decides to run a toy store.

Elizabeth has appeared in school productions and

local commercials, but young Tiana is her first movie role. Anika Noni Rose is the voice of the older Tiana. Elizabeth learned about the Disney part three years ago from an agent. She had three auditions in 2007 and learned in early 2008 that she’d been chosen. She did the voice recording in New Orleans and Los Angeles in 2008 and 2009.

“The Princess and the Frog” is set in 1920s Louisiana, and Elizabeth learned a New Orleans accent with the help of family friends who moved out of the city after Hurricane Katrina.

“I got used to shaping my mouth in an ‘O’ when you want to say something. That is very different from talking like we do in Mississippi,” Elizabeth says in lilting drawl.

Films taking Sundance road trip LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Sundance Film Festival will take to the road with films featuring Ben Affleck, Kristen Stewart, Kevin Kline and other stars screening around the country.

Robert Redford’s independent-cinema showcase will show eight films in eight different cities on Jan. 28, the movies chosen from the lineup playing during the Utah festival that runs Jan. 21-31.

The downsizing drama “The Company Men,” featuring Affleck, Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones will screen in Brookline, Mass. Stewart’s Joan Jett music tale “The Runaways” will play in Madison, Wis. And Kline’s gigolo story “The Extra Man” will run in Nashville, Tenn.

Other films will play in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Ann Arbor, Mich.

R. Kelly working on autobiography NEW YORK (AP) – R. Kelly is writing more chapters, only this time, it’s not for his “Trapped” CD, but for a new memoir.

The 42-year-old singer, writer and producer said in a statement issued last

week that he is working on an autobiography with David Ritz that will “tell it like it is.”

The book promises to go through all his drama, including child pornography charges that ended with an acquittal.

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Medal of Honor vet vows to fly US flag unhindered RICHMOND, Va. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A 90-year-old Medal of Honor winner says he plans to fly Old Glory â&#x20AC;&#x153;without interferenceâ&#x20AC;? for the rest of his life, now that his homeownersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; association has dropped threats to take legal action and a demand to take down a 21-foot flagpole in his front yard.

Retired Army Col. Van T. Barfoot read a statement this week thanking people nationwide who

backed his efforts to fly the American flag at his home.

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Dog owners and animal control workers show off Chihuahuas that have deluged the Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s animal shelters at the Animal Control and Care center in San Francisco, Wednesday. California has more Chihuahuas than it can handle.

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OS ANGELES (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; California has more Chihuahuas than it can handle, and it has Hollywood to blame.

There are so many Chihuahuas at shelters in Oakland, they have started shipping the dogs out of state, said Megan Webb, director of Oakland Animal Services.

They have sent about 100 to Washington, Oregon and Arizona, she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and as soon as they get them, they are ready for new ones.â&#x20AC;?

Chihuahuas make up 30 percent or more of the dog populations at many California shelters. And experts say pop culture is to blame, with fans immitating Chihuahuatoting celebrities like Paris Hilton and Miley

Among the reasons for the glut is the breedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popularity in movies like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Beverly Hills Chihuahua.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cyrus, then abandoning the dogs.

The problem appears to be specific to California â&#x20AC;&#x201C; shelters elsewhere would love to share the wealth, said Gail Buchwald, senior vice president overseeing the ASPCA adoption center in New York City. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We never have enough supply for the huge consumer demand for small dogs,â&#x20AC;? she said.

One of Webbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest problems is a lack of money to fly the dogs to other states. Buchwald said she would be happy to help. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing is outside the realm of possibility here.

We have a supply-demand isssue,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Chihuahuas are the most popular breed of dog in Los Angeles, so it makes sense it is the most abandoned breed, said Madeline Bernstein, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles.

In Oakland, some days, they get 10 of the 5-pound dogs a day, Webb said.

The problem is so bad that shelters all over California that were built for big dogs had to remodel

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There are less glamorous reasons, too, like the high vet bills Chihuahuas can bring. And the biggest spikes in California Chihuahua populations are probably due to puppy mills and backyard breeders, Buchwald and Frangipane said.

Chihuahas are cute, but vulnerable, Frangipane said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People think nothing of kicking a small, yappy dog. And they can be abused by people of all sizes. A toddler can snap a Chihuahuaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leg in a second,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Yost & Little agents earn NAR certifications SPECIAL TO THE ENTERPRISE

TRIAD – Kathy Nakayama and Leslie Wales-Hecht with Yost & Little Realty, Inc. have earned the nationally recognized Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource certification. The National Association of Realtors offers the SFR certification to Realtors who want to help both buyers and sellers navigate these complicated transactions, as demand for professional expertise with distressed sales

grows.

A c cording to a recent N A R survey, Nakayama Wales-Hect n e a r l y o n e third of all existing homes sold recently were either short sales or foreclosures. For many real estate professionals, short sales and foreclosures are the new “tra-

ditional” transaction. Realtors who have earned the SFR certification know how to help sellers maneuver the complexities of short sales as well as help buyers pursue short sale and foreclosure opportunities.

“As leading advocates for homeownership, Realtors believe that any family that loses its home to foreclosure is one family too many, but unfortunately, there are situations in which people just cannot afford to keep their homes, and

a foreclosure or a short sale results,” said 2009 NAR President Charles McMillan. “Foreclosures and short sales can offer opportunities for home buyers and benefit the larger community as well, but it’s extremely important to have the help of a real estate professional like a Realtor who has earned the SFR certification for these kinds of purchases.”

The certification program includes training on how to qualify sellers for short sales.

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Realtor Toy Drive expands to new heights A

guiding principle of the Realtor Association is promoting quality of life. We don’t just sell the area, we live here and raise our families and go to church here, too. Realtors are your next-door neighbors and care about the community as much as the next guy.

The association is made up of 650 real estate professionals and allied industry professionals. The Realtor Association has a big corporate heart and it has planned the 2nd annual Realtor Toy Drive to collect toys for children who might otherwise receive little or perhaps nothing at Christmas. Toys can be dropped at most dentist offices or at the Realtor Association offices at

1830 Eastchester Dr. Last year the association sponsored a toy drive with all toys collected given to Ward Street Mission of High REAL ESTATE Point. That was a very worthy cause, Jeannene but this year we’re Poarch going to spread the ■■■ wealth.

This year, the toys will be distributed through local organizations to needy children in Archdale/Trinity, High Point/ Jamestown and Thomasville.

We have special requests for: • board games and hand-held games.

• dolls & doll clothes.

• riding toys (preschool).

• educational books, games, toys, (infants-12).

• cars/trucks (including remote control).

• socks, gloves, mittens, toboggans, caps, hats, coats, etc. are in great demand.

Have you ever known any child to turn away any gift?

Deadline is December 16th at Realtors Annual Christmas Party. Drop-off locations are: • Tri-County Realty in Wallburg • Russell Realty in Thomasville • Realtors Association offices (1830 Eastchester Dr.) • Most Dental Society offices thank you for whatever you

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can do to help make this effort a success. No matter the name of the organization or the drive particulars, the real winners are the children. This is our collective opportunity to help make this Christmas one to remember for them ... and for you.

JEANNENE POARCH is president of the High Point Regional Association of Realtors, one of more than 1,800 local boards and associations nationwide that comprise the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The Association is an advocate for property rights and the “Voice of Real Estate” in the Triad area of North Carolina.

HPRAR represents more than 700 members in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industry.

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Tips on selling your home during the busy holiday season L

ate last year, an aeronautical engineer was told by his company to take an immediate out-of-state transfer or forfeit his job. Realizing the realities of a rocky economy, he reluctantly agreed to the move.

But the engineer’s wife was extremely unhappy about the need to uproot suddenly. She was especially bothered at having to sell during the busy holiday season.

“The winter holiday period is probably the least popular time to sell a home. People don’t want all the fuss and bother of home preparations,” says Sid Davis, a real estate broker and author of “A Survival Guide to Selling a Home.”

Even so, the couple was urged by their real estate agent to quickly prepare their house for sale and to allow for showings throughout the month of December. Their flexibility was rewarded when, on Christmas morning, they received an offer that nearly matched their asking price.

“This let the engineer’s family make an almost seamless transition in early January when he had to start his new position,” Davis says, adding that “there are fewer buyers out looking between the start of December and early January. But the people who come through at this time are extremely motivated, usually by a job change, or they wouldn’t be out kicking bricks then.”

Do you have a compelling need to get your house on the market before New Year’s Day? If so, these pointers could prove useful: • Make peace with your need to let go of your home.

Tom Early, a real estate broker and former president of the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents (www.naeba.org), says many homeowners let their emotions get in the way of their selling plans, especially during the holiday season.

If you face a mandatory move due to a financial problem, such as a job loss for you or your spouse, you should seriously consider the risks of delaying your home sale until after the holidays.

“People who have received a default notice from their mortgage lender need to wake up and smell the coffee. They can’t afford to procrastinate when the prospect of foreclosure looms. It’s much better to sell than to have the bank take away your house and your credit rating along with it,” Early says.

• Don’t try to second-guess the advice of a solid listing agent.

Those facing an involuntary home sale are especially likely to challenge the counsel of the listing agent they hire. Often they want to set a higher price for the property than their agent recommends – on the basis that they

can test the market and see how it responds.

They’re also inclined to question the need to spend for presale home improvements, such as painting or carpet replacement.

SMART MOVES But people who face a Ellen compelling need to sell Martin should try to avoid such ■■■ conflicts, Davis says, and the best way to do so is to carefully select a listing agent they trust to give them the best possible advice on your sale.

“Look for an agent who is thoroughly familiar with property values in your area. Try to find someone who’s sold homes there for at least two to three years. Also, ask for references and then question former clients about whether the agent’s advice proved sound,” Davis says.

• Set priorities for your time during the holiday season.

Many people are usually busy in December, when holiday-related activities crowd their already hectic schedules.

But because home-sale preparations can eat up many hours, “it’s probably a lot better for your pocketbook to put your heart and soul into selling rather than expending all that energy on fancy holiday arrangements,” Davis says.

• Don’t skip the holiday decor.

For many homeowners, one plus to showing their property during the holidays is that it should look especially attractive, assuming it’s tastefully decorated.

“Go ahead and put up lights and bring in holly and evergreen bows if that’s what you normally do. You can also use a Christmas tree if you’d like, but don’t get so big a one that it makes your place seem crowded,” Davis says.

• Vow to make your home fully accessible as long as it’s on the market.

Nowadays, many prospective homebuyers, especially those with an urgent need to move due to a long-distance job change, are able to wrap up their property search quickly because they pre-screened property on the Internet.

Davis says this makes it imperative that your home be available for showings every day and that you don’t let holiday activities block access to potential buyers who may be home shopping for just two or three days.

“You’ve got to keep your home especially accessible during December or risk missing some of the most eager buyers of the year – people who have to make a job move in January,” Davis says.

TO CONTACT Ellen James Martin, e-mail her at ellenjamesmartin gmail.com.

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tude,” said Knight, who was particularly pleased to receive a Panthers jersey signed by Beason. “I think Jon Beason is one of the best linebackers in the NFL.” The Ultimate Fan Package was the latest in a series of promotions to celebrate Allen Tate’s partnership as the Preferred Realtor of the Carolina Panthers.

“This was a great opportunity for Allen Tate to team up with the Carolina Panthers and cele-

brate our long-term partnership. We were very pleased with the level of interest by Panthers fans throughout the Carolinas,” said Riley.

Knight plans to take her husband, Kevin, and her sister and brother-in-law to the January 3 game, when the Panthers host New Orleans. And the rest of her prize?

“My two college sons are fighting over the TV, and that is still to be resolved,” said Knight.

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2012 English ............4050sf 619 N Hamilton........ 2400sf

724 English........... 1200sf 131 W Parris............ 406-795sf

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2334 English ..........13407sf

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689-6772 NICE 1 BR Condo. 1st floor, water & heat furnished. Convenient location, Emerywood Ct., 1213-A N. Main. $425/Mo. Henry Shavitz Realty 882-8111

508 N. HAMILTON. Landmark historic building “THE BUREAU“. Ideal office space for the firm that wants a high profile. 1st level available, 1100 sq. f t . O n e 1 ⁄2 b a t h s , newly renovated, carpet, ample parking For sale OR ............................... $850 602 N. MAIN. Off i c e / s h o w r o o m space, approx. 1700 sq. ft., gas heat, air, two 1 ⁄ 2 baths, some parking .................. $1200 614 N. HAMILTON. Ideal for beauty or nail salon. Heat, water, hot water, has central A/C............. $685 1451 NATIONAL HWY. T’VILLE. Large restaurant, 30+ tables, walk in cooler, walk in freezer, almost furnished kitchen, bar, ample parking .................$3750.

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1000 sq. ft. gas heat, cen air ........... $800 120-122 W. BROAD Approx. 560 SF Gas ht., air, brick, paved street across from railroad station ............................... $596 116 W. BROAD. 280 SF........................... $298

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From left are Brad Barbee, Carolina Panthers; Angela Dole, Allen Tate Realtors; Kevin Knight; Peggy Knight, contest winner; Pat Riley, President/COO, Allen Tate Company; Mike Mahoney, Carolina Panthers.

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CHARLOTTE – If there’s one thing for certain, Peggy Knight is a die-hard Carolina Panthers fan.

The Gastonia resident loves attending Panthers games with her sister, Patty Rudisill of Matthews, and cheering on her favorite players, linebacker Jon Beason and running back DeAngelo Williams.

So when Rudisill told Knight about Allen Tate’s Ultimate Fan Package Sweepstakes, she jumped at the chance to win four Carolina Panthers tickets and field passes, a signed and framed Carolina Panthers jersey, and a 42” LG Plasma HDTV. Last week, Knight jumped again – this time screaming to her colleagues at Toyota of Gastonia – when she received a call from Allen Tate Company President Pat Riley, telling her that she was the sweepstakes winner.

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1108 Hickory Chapel Rd ...........................$375 1444 N Hamilton $385 313 Hobson.................$335 1506 Graves ................$398 1009 True Lane ...........$450 1015 True Lane............$450 100 Lawndale ..............$450 3228 Wellingford ....... $450

1609 Pershing..............$500

2 BEDROOMS 1415 Johnson ......... $398 2218-A Ridgecrest ............................... $325 804 Winslow .......... $335 1712-I E Kivett......... $298

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4 BEDROOMS 3700 Innwood ........$1195 622 Dogwood ........ $895 3 BEDROOMS 501 Mendenhall ......$1150 800 S. Centennial ... $800 953 St. Ann .............$795 1728-B N. Hamilton ..$750 2705 Ingleside Dr ....$725

922 Forest ..............$675 217-B N. Rotary...... $650 1818 Albertson........ $650 813 Magnolia .......... $595 2415 Williams ......... $595 324 Louise ..............$575 726 Bridges.............$575 1135 Tabor...............$575 1604 W. Ward ........ $550 1020 South ............. $550 1010 Pegram .......... $550 2208-A Gable way .. $550

601 Willoubar.......... $550 1016 Grant .............. $525 919 Old Winston ..... $525 409 Centennial....... $500 2209-A Gable Way .. $500 2219 N. Centennial.. $495

912 Putnam .............$475 1606 Larkin............. $450 114 Greenview ........ $450 502 Everett ............ $450 1725 Lamb ............. $395 1305-A E. Green..... $395 2 BEDROOM 2640 2D Ingleside $780

811 Aberdeen ......... $695 406 Sunset............. $650 213 W. State........... $600 1540 Beaucrest ...... $525 204 Prospect ......... $500 1420 Madison......... $500 16 Leonard ............. $495 419 Peace ...............$475 1114 Mill .................. $450 1707 W. Rotary ....... $450 505 Scientific.......... $450 1100 Wayside ......... $450 111 Chestnut ........... $450 1101 Blain ................ $450 608 Woodrow Ave ...$425

205-A Tyson Ct...... $425 322 Walker............. $425 204 Hoskins ........... $425 1501-B Carolina ...... $425 321 Greer ............... $400 1206 Adams ........... $400 324 Walker............. $400 305 Allred............... $395 611-A Hendrix ......... $395 2905-B Esco .......... $395 1043-B Pegram ...... $395 908 E. Kearns ........ $395 1704 Whitehall ........ $385 601 Hickory Chapel..$375

620-A Scientific .......$375 601-B Everett ..........$375 2306-A Little ...........$375 501 Richardson .......$375 305 Barker ............. $350 1633-B Rotary ........ $350 406 Kennedy.......... $350 311-B Chestnut....... $350 3006 Oakcrest ....... $350 1705-A Rotary ........ $350 1711-A W. Rotary .... $350 511-B Everett.......... $350 1516-B Oneka......... $350 909-A Old Tville...... $325 4703 Alford ............ $325 308-A Allred ........... $325 1214-B Adams ........ $320 313-B Barker .......... $300 314-B W. Kearns .... $295 1116-B Grace .......... $295 1711-B Leonard ....... $285 1517 Olivia............... $280 1515 Olivia............... $280 402 Academy......... $300 1 BEDROOM 1123-C Adams ........ $495 1107-F Robin Hood .. $450 1107-C Robin Hood . $425

611 A W. Green........$375 611 B W. Green ...... $350 508 Jeanette...........$375 1106 Textile............. $325 309-B Chestnut ......$275 501-B Coltrane ........$270 1228 Tank............... $250 1317-A Tipton.......... $235 608-B Lake ............ $225 CONRAD REALTORS 512 N. Hamilton 885-4111 3 bedrooms, 2 bath home. Very good W endover Hills NW neighborhood at 502 Birchwood St. at $750/mo.

Henry Shavitz Realty 882-8111 Beautiful, 3bR/2 1⁄ 2 BA, Close to Golf Course. $1250mo, 454-1478

2600 Holleman.......... $498

1408 Carter ............ $265 702 E Commerce ....... $250

1316 B Vernon.............$250 1401 Madison ..............$350 905 Newell ..................$398 210 Willowood.............$380 1116B Richland........ $265 1430 Furlough ......... $215 106-D Thomas........ $395 2709 E. Kivett......... $398 224-C Stratford ...........$365 824-H Old Winston Rd ......................................$550 706-C Railroad ............$345 2618 Woodruff.............$460 231 Crestwood............$425 916 Westbrook............$590 1303 Vernon ................$275 1423 Cook ...................$420 1502 Larkin ..................$325 305-A Phillips...............$300 519-A Cross St............ $215 706 E Commerce ....... $250

304-B Phillips...............$300 1407-A E. Commerce ......................................$325 1101 Carter St...............$350 1709-J E. Lexington ................................$375 705-B Chestnut...........$390 515-A E. Fairfield ......... $410 1110 Bridges.................$440 215-G Dorothy........ $360

1 BEDROOM 1513-B Sadler ......... $235 1600-A Long........... $325 904-B Richland ....... $198 620-17A N. Hamilton ................................ $310 1202 Cloverdale ..... $225 1602-C Long .......... $300 618-12A N. Hamilton ............................... $298 1003 #8 N. Main ..... $298 320G Richardson ....... $335

620-20B N. Hamilton ......................................$375

SECTION 8 2600 Holleman....... $498 1206 Vernon ........... $298 1423 Cook St.......... $420 900 Meredith ......... $298 614 Everette ........... $498 1500-B Hobart ....... $298 1761 Lamb .............. $498 1106 Grace ............. $425 406 Greer .............. $325

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HOMES FOR RENT 212 Hedgecock 4BR/2BA Central H/A $850 280 Dorothy 3BR/2BA $700 Call 336-442-6789 House for rent in Hast y/Ledfo rd area.

3BR/2Bth, Central A/C, Heat pump. Includes Fridge, Dishwasher, Stove, and Alarm system. $725./$725.

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3BR/1BA. CENT H/A CALL 336-434-2004 N. HP 3br, 2ba, 1 car garage, fenced yard, $850. mo., Call 336442-4883 Nice 3br and 2br houses, 1br. apt.,1 Mhome, 472-0966 2BR Central Air, carpet, blinds, appls., No pets.

883-4611 LM 1, 2 & 3 BR Homes For Rent 880-3836 / 669-7019

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Showcase of Real Estate Fairgrove/East Davidson Schools. Approximately 4 acres $45,000.

More wooded lots available.

NEW HOMES DAVIDSON COUNTY Lots starting at $34,900 Homes starting at $225,000 Special Financing at 4.75% (Certain Restrictions Apply)

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711 Field St., Thomasville Brand new 3 bedroom, 2 bath 1160 sq. ft. Popular floor plan with breakfast nook, eat-in bar area that overlooks an open dining and family room with vaulted ceiling. Includes stove, microwave oven, dishwater, and washer/dryer combo, laminate floors. “Special” interest rate offered by Bank of North Carolina 4.75%. Priced to move at $98, 000.00 Byrd Construction 336-689-9925 Brian Byrd

DAVIDSON COUNTY HOME 1.329 acres, 3 BR, 2 BA. Complete interior renovations.

GREAT RATES! Qualified Financing Available Ledford Middle & HS/Friendship Elementary Tri County Real Estate 336-769-4663

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7741 Turnpike Road, Trinity, NC 1844/1846 Cedrow Dr. H.P. New construction, 3BR, 2Bath, city utility, heat pump, Appliances included $99,900.00

CALL CALL CALL 336-362-4313 or 336-685-4940

*PRICE REDUCTION-POSSIBLE SELLER FINANCING! Quality built custom home on 40+ acres of beautiful woodlands & pastures. Many out buildings including a double hangar & official/recorded landing strip for your private airplane. Home features 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, sunroom, brick landscaped patio, hardwired sound system, 4 car carport, covered breezeway.

You must see to fully appreciate this peaceful, private country estate -- Priced to sell at $579,000

PATTERSON DANIEL REAL ESTATE 472-2700 MORE INFO @ PattersonDaniel.com

3BR, 11⁄2 Bath, gas heat, central air. Utility building, French doors to cement patio. $85,900. Will pay $500 closing cost.

703 Belmont Dr., High Point

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Better than new! Low Davidson County taxes.

1 + acre lot, over 3,000 finished heated sq. ft., plus full unfinished basement, all the extras.

Wendy Hill Realty Call 475-6800

6 Bedrooms, Plus 3 Home Offices Or 8 Bedrooms 19 Forest Dr Fairgrove Forest, Thomasville $1000. Cash to buyer at closing. 1.5 ac Landscaped, 3BR, 2Baths, Kitchen, Dining Room, Living Room with Fireplace, Den with Fireplace, Office. Carpet over Hardwood. Crown Molding thru out. Attached over sized double garage. Unattached 3 bay garage with storage attic. 2400sqft. $260,000.

HOME FOR SALE 1014 Hickory Chapel Road, 2br, Florida room, dining room, fireplace, garage, new heatpump, completely remodeled. Great for starter home or rental investment. $64,900

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- 1.1 Acre – Near Wesley Memorial Methodist – - Emerywood area “Tell your friends” -

$259,500. Owner Financing

1367 Blair Street, Thomasville Large 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, Fairgrove Schools, gas logs, large living room, large kitchen, large 2-car garage, large deck in back, and etc. Why rent when you can own this home for payments as low as $799 a mo. or $143K, just call today 336-442-8407.

Rick Robertson 336-905-9150

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OPEN TUES-SAT 11AM-5PM OPEN SUNDAY 1PM-5PM Directions: Eastchester to West Lexington, south on Hwy. 109, Community is on the left just past Ledford Middle School.

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DOWNTOWN HIGH POINT In UNIQUE MARKET SQUARE building. * Penthouse* 4 BR, 51⁄2 BA, 3 balconies, 4,100 sq. ft. 2 BR, 2 BA furnished with washer & dryer. Onsite security 24/7, parking space, rec room w/lap pool, walk to restaurants.

Incredible views. A beautiful and fun place to live or work. Will trade for other properties. Call Gina (336) 918-1482.

712 W. Parris Ave. High Point Avalon Subdivision This house shows like new! Built in 2005, 1660 sqft., 3bed 2.5 bath, like-new appliances,Living Room w/ Gas fireplace, 1 car garage spacious Loft area upstairs, Great Location. We’ll work with your situation! $165,000 Price Reduced! Will will match your down payment.

Visit www.crs-sell.com or call 336-790-8764

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821 Nance Avenue

3 bedroom, living room, kitchen, 2 full baths, central heating & air. Updated. BE ABLE TO MAKE THE PAYMENTS AS LOW AS $529.00 a month $95K. Call for details!

336-905-9150

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273 Sunset Lane, Thomasville

GET OUT OF TOWN! Immaculate brick home 3br/2ba/bsmt/carport tucked away on a deadend st. w/ room to roam on 11.56 acres. Spring-fed creek along back of property, fruit trees, grapevines, several garden spots, greenhouse, workshop, Updates include HW heater, windows, hi-eff heat pump, whole house generator, vinyl flooring & freshly painted rooms. Full bsmt w/workshop, fireplace, one bay garage. MH site on property may be leased for additional income. Horses welcome! Priced to sell @ $219,500-call today.

PATTERSON DANIEL REAL ESTATE - 472-2700 MORE INFO @ PattersonDaniel.com

Debra Murrow, Realtor New Home Consultant 336-499-0789

1210 N. Centennial

4 BR/3 BA 3 level Newly remodeled; walking distance to HPU, app 3100 sq ft; FP; New vinyl siding, new gas heat w/central air, roof, windows, kitchen cabinets, appliances, hardwood floors, carpet & plumbing Fenced in yard. No selller help with closing cost. Owner will pay closing cost.

MUST SEE! $104,900 Contact 336-802-0922

NOW LE LAB AVAI 678 Merry Hills Dr.-Davidson son County 3 Bed 2 Bath 2 Car Garage. This beautiful 1900 sqft. home is well lacated in a well established neighborhood. It has a finishedd basement, Large Kitchen outlooking beautiful wooded area. Large deck with Jacuzzi. Gas or woodburning fireplace in the basement. We’ll work with your situation!

$195,000 Visit www.crs-sell.com or call 336-790-8764

25% BELOW TAX VALUE

505 Willow Drive, Thomasville

Recently updated brick home is nothing short of magnificent. Gourmet kitchen with granite counters and stainless appliances. Huge master suite with 2 walk-in closets & private deck. Elegant foyer & formal dining room. Marble, Tile and Hardwood floors. Crown moldings & two fireplaces.

Spacious closets & lots of storage.

Wendy Hill Realty Call 475-6800

Rick Robertson

Quality construction beginning at $169,900! Eight Flexible floorplans! - Three to seven bedrooms - 1939 square feet to 3571 square feet - Friendship/Ledford Schools - Low Davidson County Taxes - Basement lots Available MORE INFO @ PattersonDaniel.com Marketed Exclusively by Patterson Daniel Real Estate, Inc.

189 Game Trail, Thomasville

725-B West Main St., Jamestown Office Condo For Sale – Main St., Jamestown, 1400 Sq. Ft. 1st Floor, 3 Offices, Break Area, Storage, Plus 1/2 Bath, 2nd Floor 2 Offices, Another 1/2 Bath, Good Traffice Exposure, Divided so that you may rent Part of Offices.

Call: Donn Setliff (336) 669-0478 or Kim Setliff (336) 669-5108 (Owner is Realtor)

FOR SALE BY OWNER

Enjoy living in a quiet, distinctive neighborhood with no through traffic.

3 BR 2.5 BA, 2300 sq’, open floor plan, vaulted ceilings & lg. windows, Oak floors & carpeted BRs, marble tiled bathrooms, lg. large master bath with separate shower, double fire place in master BR & LR w. gas logs, kitchen w. granite counter tops, double oven, stereo system. 2 car garage, large patio overlooking a beautiful back yard. Low taxes. $329,000 $321,000 Visit www.forsalebyowner.com/22124271 or call 336.687.3959

LAND FOR SALE

3 bedroom/2 bath house for sale, Fairgrove Area, Thomasville.

Half basement, 2 stall garage, also detached garage.

Call 472-4611 for more information. $175,000.

5.9 Acres of privacy and seclusion with its own creek. Ready for your dream home, or you can renovate an existing home on the property. The property is located at 829 Hasty Hill Rd. between High Point and Thomasville. Davidson County Ledford Schools $59,000.

For Sale By Owner 515 Evergreen Trail Thomasville, NC 27360

336-869-0398 Call for appointment

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406 Sterling Ridge Dr

3930 Johnson St.

Beautiful home in the Trinity school district. 3br/2.5 bath, walk in closet, garden tub/w separate shower, hardwoods, gas logs and more. $177,500.

A Must See! Beautiful home set on 3 acres, New cabinets, corian countertops, hardwood, carpet, appliances, deck, roof. Home has 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, formal living room, dining room, great room. $248,900.

Lamb’s Realty 442-5589

Contact us at Lamb’s Realty- 442-5589.

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398 NORTHBRIDGE DR. 3BR, 2BA, Home, 2 car garage, Nice Paved Patio Like new $169,900 OWNER 883-9031 OPEN HOUSE MOST SAT. & SUN. 2-4

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2 BEDROOMS 140 C Kenilworth ....... $385 600-B Saunders ........ $250 1661W Lexington ........$675 318-A Coltrane .......... $425 1908 King St .............. $395 2404E Lexington ....... $550 117 Columbus ............ $495 3762 Pineview ........... $500 317-B Greenoak ........ $500 310 1-B Ardale ........... $545 3235 Wellingford ....... $525

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1700 Edmonson ........ $325 1210 Cloverdale ......... $395 206 Hedgecock ........ $350 607 Hedrick ...............$375 209 Motsinger........... $350

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Historic 3000 sq. ft. office/showroom downtown, near Mkt Sq. 110 Oak Avail.

1/1/10, 887-5130

525 Guilford ........... $400 2415A Francis......... $500 310-2-E Adale ........... $595 410-A Meredith ..........$250

5363 Darr................$275 1827-B Johnson ............. $650

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504-B Barker ......... $350 706 Kennedy.......... $350 206-A Moon Pl .......... $295

2604 Triangle Lake ........ $350 Scientific................. $395 Woodside Apts.............. $450 1310 C Eaton Pl .............. $450 1011 Grant ...................... $400 1724C N Hamilton .......... $550 218 Avondale ................. $475 2206 E. Kivett ................ $375

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3 BEDROOMS 2505 Eight Oaks............. $750 1310 Forrest.................... $550 604 Parkwood................ $485 2512 Friends................... $450 804 Brentwood .............. $400 808 Brentwood .............. $400 929 Marlboro ................. $400 1605 Pershing ................ $450 1805 Whitehall ................ $500 904 Gordon.................... $500 1013 Adams............. $415

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1803 McGuinn Dr. 4BR, 1 1⁄ 2 BA, 2000 sq ft. Private Secluded Wooded Lot. partially Fenced. Brick home.

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H O M E I M P R O V E M E N T AUCTION- Saturday, December 19 at 10 a.m., 201 S. Central Ave., Locust, NC. Granite Tops, Cabinet Sets, Doors, Carpet, Tile, Hardwood, Bath Vanities, Composite Decking, Lighting, N ame Brand Tools.

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2915 Central Av ......... $525 1706 Gavin St............. $400 650 Wesley ............... $450

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1704 Long St .................. $450 1740G N Hamilton .......... $495

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LAND OR DEVELOPMENTS WANTED. We buy or market development lots. Mountain or Waterfront Communities in NC, SC, GA and FL. Call 8 0 0 - 4 5 5 - 1 9 8 1 , Ext.1034.

1800 Sq. Ft. Davidson County, Conrad Realtors 336-885-4111 30,000 sq ft warehouse, loading docks, plenty of parking. Call dy or night 336-625-6076

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OPEN 1-5 THE ESTATES AT QUAIL RUN 2901 DERBY CIRCLE HIGH POINT 4BR 3.5BA (518614) Lisa Duke 442-7372 $429,965 Directions: From 68/Eastchester, turn on Gordon Rd, follow for 1 mile, R Quail Run, L Second Derby Circle.

OPEN 2-4 ANGUS RIDGE 3BR 3.5BA (525426) Linda Sherrill 403-5093 From $300’s Open Fri-Sun 1-5. cbtr.com/angusridge Directions: I-40W, exit 203 Hwy 66, South on Hwy 66, R Old Salem, L Angus Ridge.

OPEN 2-5 WEATHERSTONE TOWNHOMES 2BA . Mon Sat 1-5 PM, Sun 2-5PM CC paid w/ preferred lender. (550293) Lisa Pfefferkorn 9968538 From $120’s Directions: 311 toward Winston-Salem, R @ High Point Rd exit, R Union Cross Rd.

OPEN 2-4 370 BIRCHRIDGE WEXFORD KERNERSVILLE 4BR 2.5BA (561381) Sharon Duvall 996-8514 $264,900 Directions: B 40, S. Main, L Old Winston Rd., R Hopkins, L Lamshire(which turns into Selwyk) left onto Birchridge.

OPEN 2-4 306 STERLING RIDGE DRIVE STERLING RIDGE ARCHDALE 3BR 2.5BA (562599) Lisa Duke 442-7372 $188,500 Directions: 331 South to Left on Aldridge, Right on Sterling Ridge. House on Right.

OPEN 2-4 1108 MONTICELLO STREET CARRIAGE HILLS GREENSBORO 4BR 2BA (556506) Tommy Cole GRI, CNHS, MMI 259-9492 $185,000 Directions: West Friendly, turn onto Jefferson. Turn on Charlottsville Rd to Monticello. Turn onto Monticello Street.

Coldwell Banker Mortgage OPEN 2-4 267 BAILEY RD WHICKER ACRES WINSTON-SALEM 3BR 2BA (556020) Bill Stanley 340-5517 $164,900 Directions: I-40 East & Thomasville Rd, NC-109 S, R Shady Grove Church Rd, L Old Thomasville Rd, R Concrete Works Rd, straight to Bailey Rd

OPEN 2-4 828 HARTLEY HILL CT AVALON HIGH POINT 3BR 2.5BA (551927) William Lamb 688-1119 $159,900 Directions: Wendover Ave L on Hwy 68/Eastchester, R Main, L Ingleside, R Hartley Ct to cul-de-sac

OPEN 2-4 2608 DAVID CALDWELL DRIVE GUILFORD HILL GREENSBORO 3BR 2BA (556248) Larry Story 282-4414 $155,000 Directions: Battleground Ave North , L David Caldwell. The home is on the left.

OPEN 2-4 2025 CAMROSE LANE OAK MEADOWS KERNERSVILLE 3BR 2.5BA (558892) Donna Saunders 978-2976 $154,900 HOME FACTS 1-888-456-4725-5588922 Directions: I-40 to Union Cross Rd, West Sedge Garden, South Oak Garden Dr., South Embark, L Bluestone, R Camrose Lane.

OPEN 2-4 4911 TAMARON DRIVE CARMEL BY THE LAKE GREENSBORO 3BR 2BA (562847) Ronald Alt 558-5846 $130,000 Directions: North on Fleming, L Tamaron into Carmel By The Lake, R 2nd Culde-sac.

2036 CLIFFVALE COURT BURTON RUN HIGH POINT 3BR 2BA One story home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. 2 car garage, large backyard in cul-de-sac. (562141) Darrell Hagan 404-6315 $149,000

3218 PINE NEEDLES ROAD OAKVIEW/ GREENBRIAR HIGH POINT 3BR 2BA all brick w/vinyl trim. Refinished oak floors. Freshly painted and ready to move right in. (562698) Marshall Morgan 906-1314 $119,900

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1107 CONSTANTINE CT FIELDCREST KERNERSVILLE 4BR 3.5BA Beautiful, like new! Hdwds on 1st floor, MBR on main, kit w/granite counters, lots of cabinets, great DR w/inlaid border in hdwd flr. (562660) Linda Faircloth 410-7150 $434,900

4026 BAN OAK BANOAK SEC 06 HIGH POINT 4BR 2.5BA Excellent 4BR/2.5BA home built in 2001 offering many upgrade/features & great N. High Point/Triad location. 1YR Warranty. (562249) William Lamb 688-1119 $244,900

1308 WESTMINSTER EMERYWOOD FOREST HIGH POINT 3BR 2BA Gorgeous interior, remodeled to perfection. Carport, deck & wired workshop/strg bldg. Laundry w/sink & cabinetry.

One level living. (562695) Marshall Morgan 9061314 $189,900

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1514 YORK AVE TIMBERLAKE SEC 4 HIGH POINT 4BR 3BA Home completely upgraded.

Energy efficient replacement windows, furnace, appliances, flring, cabinets & counters. Great location, convenient to shopping, entertainment.

(562950) Raymond E Holobaugh 558-5536 $188,500

3139 ROCKINHAM RD FOXCROFT HIGH POINT 2BR 2BA Enjoy 1-level, maintenance free living in this spotless townhome. Kitchen features a smooth top range & lots of white cabinets. Spacious BRs, each w/private BA & private doorway to the patio.(562097) Susie Lentz 410-7149 $83,250

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373 BIG TREE RD WILLOW CREEK HIGH POINT 4BR 4.5BA Gorgeous home at the end of street. 3 car garage. 2 laundry areas. Wood flrs, cook’s kitchen w/bkfst area & open to den.

(562342) Nancy Laney 885-8357 $699,900

889-5300 Commercial Real Estate 410-6858 282-4414 Relocation 1-800-327-4398

Walk to New Elementary School Paved walking trails, sidewalks, pool, tennis, clubhouse

OPEN 2-4PM 1010,1012,1014 Georgia Avenue

Open Today 2-4 1301 Kensington Court NEW PRICE IN EMERYWOOD FOREST High Point. 4 Bedrooms, Brick Traditional w/3 Baths, renovated Kitchen! Sunroom, Formal Living Room & Dining Room plus Den! 2 Car attached Carport on cul-de-sac. $219,900 DIRECTIONS: Main St in High Point to Westchester Drive, R-Country Club Drive to Kensington, L-Court

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Directions: Right on City Line Rd. right on Sunrise right on Duke right on Georgia Ave.

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Tina Ring 392-1750

Lisa Sherman 878-7083

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From $170’s Sha McIntyre 558-8094

3BR 2.5BA 5 Plans Starting at $125,000 Bob Jenkins 209-7956

Directions: 29N, R @ Reedy Fork/Summit exit. Continue on Reedy Fork Pkwy, R Turner Smith Rd & L Oakgate Dr

Directions: Hwy 29 N to R @ Reedy Fork Pkwy exit.Pass the pool on R, R Sycamore Glen Rd. Model 5838 Sycamore Glen Rd.

VILLAS From $150’S

Talisa Jones 601-4566

The Reserve At Rock Creek Build your own Windsor or Rock Creek home starting in the $130’s

Open Wed-Sun 1-5 Directions: I-85/1-40 East to Rock Creek Dairy Rd., L Rock Creek Dairy, R Reserve Pkway. Office in clubhouse 504123©HPE