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Officials push for rail stop in county

BY KARISSA MINN Staff Writer

North Carolina has submitted the first of its high speed rail applications for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, including one project that would pass through Davidson County, Gov. Bev Perdue announced Tuesday.

The state is partnering with Virginia to request funds to complete a corridor development plan connecting Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Richmond and Washington D.C. with frequent, reliable passenger trains that can travel at top speeds of 90 – 110 mph.

“The idea of high speed rail means lot, because it’s going to improve

conventional rail, and it can happen very soon,” said William Deal, board director for Tourism Recreation Investment Partnership of Davidson County. “What it means to us in this county hinges on whether or not we get access to it.”

The Davidson County Passenger Rail Advisory Committee is working to get a station built in

Lexington, and there is a similar effort taking place in Hillsborough.

Congressman Mel Watt has applied for funding to help build them.

“Between Charlotte and Raleigh, Davidson and Orange are the only counties not served by Amtrak,” Deal said. “If you can imagine an interstate highway running through Davidson Coun-

ty and through Orange County with no ramps, that’s what it’s like.”

NCDOT filed six “project ready” applications totaling $92,612,936, requesting $75,950,546 in Federal Railroad Administration grants and pledging a total of $16,662,390 in matching funds. The merit-based funding will be awarded before the end of this

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year. The State Transportation Department worked with the North Carolina Railroad Co., Norfolk Southern Railway, CSX Transportation and Amtrak to complete the applications.

If funded, the projects will help retain or create an estimated 1,457 jobs for North Carolinians.

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Stimulus funds to help refurbish rest stop

BY KARISSA MINN Staff Writer

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In Thomasville, the start of September means that North Carolina’s oldest festival is just around the corner.

Everybody’s Day, sponsored this year by Thomasville Medical Center, will take place on Sep. 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The family-oriented festival will have live entertainment, children’s carnival rides and games, and a safari display by the N.C. Wildlife Commission.

A special Artisan’s Block will showcase 20 arts and crafts vendors, who will compete for “Best in Show” prize awards.

About 125 additional arts, crafts and other vendors from the Southeastern U.S. also will set up shop.

“There’s lot of fun things to do,” said Doug

The North Carolina governor and House majority leader were upbeat about the news that a federal stimulus grant of $1.7 million to refurbish the rest area on Interstate 85, just south of Thomasville, was formally announced on Aug. 31.

“These projects are putting people to work, making critical improvements to our roads and bridges and helping local economies in communities across the state,” Gov. Beverly Perdue said in a press release announcing the Davidson County rest stop improvements, as well as 20 other highway-improvement projects throughout the North Carolina.

New buildings will be

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LAYING THE FOUNDATION Workers with Gantt Concrete and Paving of Thomasville prepare the foundation for the new amphitheater being built downtown at the corner of Memorial Drive and East Guilford streets. Members of the PACE group, who are responsible for the building of the entertainment site, hope to have it completed by this year’s Everybody’s Day festival scheduled for Sept. 26

Impact grant to improve technology in local classrooms

New Christian school to open

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A local pastor is opening up a new Christian school to help struggling families affected by the country’s economic downturn.

Huey Turner, pastor at The Church of Tomorrow, will be opening the doors to Calvary Temple Christian School on Sept.

14 where students of all ages can come and receive a Bible-based education. The school will run from K-12 and also will offer both preschool and after-school care.

“The basic foundation was because of the economic problems we’re facing in the community,” Turner said. “People can’t afford preschool and they can’t afford private schooling because the costs are so astronomical. It seems to be something only rich TIMES PHOTO/ELIOT DUKE people can do and we want to be able to give The Church of the To- everybody an outlet to be able to enjoy the

Billy Parham, associate pastor of morrow, stands inside the new Christian School the church will soon open.

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Thomasville City Schools will be taking another step towards getting classrooms 21st-Century ready thanks to the government’s stimulus plan.

Mike Ingram, TCS Director of Technology, said Friday that the school system is receiving $1.5 million in Impact IV grants, with 70 percent of the funds coming from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This marks the second year TCS has been awarded such a grant.

“We’re excited about this,” Ingram said. “This is the next piece in our efforts to

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make sure that students in Thomasville City Schools are technologically literate and are true 21st Century learners.”

Ingram said the money will be issued on a new oneto-one laptop program at Thomasville High School.

Once completed, all students at THS will have access to a network accessible laptop that they will be able to use in the classroom. Teachers at THS will receive training in the best practices on how to teach in a one-to-one environment, Ingram said.

“We will do all we can do continue our innovative projects,” said Ingram. “If things play out just right, we

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What’s happening?

Holiday garbage schedule

The City of Thomasville will be closed on Monday in observance of Labor Day. The schedule will be as follows for the week of Sept. 7–11: Garbage: • Monday route will collect on Tuesday • Tuesday route will collect on Wednesday • Wednesday and Thursday will collect on Thursday • Friday will be regular schedule Recycling: • Monday route will collect on Tuesday • Tuesday and Wednesday will collect on Wednesday • Thursday and Friday will be regular schedule * If items are not collected on advertised day, leave at curb for pickup the following day.

Planter raffle

The City Beautification Committee is holding a raffle for a Pamela Crawford planter. The planters are the same as those recently installed at the Big Chair.

Tickets are $1 each or six for $5, and the drawing will be held at Everybody’s Day. Proceeds will benefit the City Beautification Committee. See City Administration or a Beautification Committee member for tickets or purchase at Everybody’s Day.

Community Garden

Each Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon, volunteers will gather to work on a com-

munity garden to help feed needy families. The garden is located at 9 Memorial Park Drive on land owned by Thomasville Habitat for Humanity. Organizers are asking for volunteers in the community to assist in this endeavor.

Anyone wishing to volunteer can park in the Thomasville Farmer’s Market parking lot and bring basic garden hand tools. Donations of tools, plants, seeds and money will be accepted. Organizers are planning on expanding the program to other sites throughout the city next year.

For more information, contact Doug Gore at 476-8433.

Big Chair tulips Thomasville City Beautification Committee is taking orders for “Big Chair” tulip bulbs. The cost is 25 bulbs for $20; 50 bulbs for $35; 75 bulbs for $45; or 100 bulbs for $50.

Make checks payable to City Beautification and mail to P.O. Box 368, Thomasville, N.C. 27361. Please include your name, address, phone number and email address. Deadline for ordering is Oct. 15. Delivery will be in November.

Fire Prevention Week coloring contest Mighty Dollar and Thomasville Fire Department will be hosting the annual coloring contest for Fire Prevention Week. Copies of the Fire Safety Coloring Contest Form can be picked up at the Mighty Dollar at 856 Julian Ave. Entries must be returned in person to the Mighty Dollar by Sept. 23. Entries will be judged and winners will be put on display at the Mighty Dollar from Oct. 3-11. Only one entry per person is allowed. Entries will be judged on originality, color and creativity. Winners will be notified by phone. Contestants will be broken down into the following age categories: 4 and under, 5-7, 8-10 and 11-13. First, second and third place winners in each category will receive a ribbon and gift bag.

For more information, call Dolly Hulin of the Thomasville Fire Department at 475-5545 or Beverly Pierce of Mighty Dollar at 475-5082.

THS class reunion Thomasville High School Class of 1974 will have its 35th Reunion on Sept.

12 at Big Game Safari Steakhouse, 15 Laura Lane. Social hour will be from 7-8 p.m. For more information, contact Jerri Moore Murphy 476-4538.

Horse show The Humane Society of Davidson County will sponsor its sixth annual horse show sanctioned by the Piedmont Horseman’s Association on Saturday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at Fox Den Farms, 2585 Jerusalem Road, Lexington. Rain date is Sept. 20.

Fox Den Farms is located on Old Hwy. 64 East, 4 miles east of I 85. Turn right on Young Road, go 2 miles and turn left on Jerusalem Road, go .2 miles to top of hill to gray barn on left, turn left into driveway.

Admission for the public is adults $2 and children under 12 free. Concessions will be available with all the proceeds going to the Humane Society. More than 1500 animals were helped last year.

The public will enjoy a fun, inexpensive event while supporting the Humane Society. Bring yard chairs or blankets.

The admission for showing horses is $7 for PHA members, $8 for nonmembers, and $10 for jackpot classes.

High school reunion The Denton High School classes of 1949 and 1950 will hold a joint reunion at the Classic Restaurant in Denton on Saturday, Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. Details have been mailed to each class member. For more information, call Jim Harrison at (704) 983-2186 or Mary Ruth Sheets (336) 357-2602.

Performers will include local artist Scott Huffman and friends and Second Chance Bluegrass from Welcome. This will be an exciting combination for country and bluegrass music fans of all ages.

The event is sponsored by Academy Eye Center, Dr Danford E Raymor and The Eye Care Clinic, Dr James S Pope.

The Third Thursday Music Stroll was created to bring extra foot traffic to the downtown merchants, provide free entertainment to the community, and give local area artist an outlet to get noticed.

PACE (People Achieving Community Enhancement) is a non-profit organization comprised of volunteer citizens and business people in Thomasville.

This group of volunteers works towards the improvement of our community by identifying projects that will serve to enhance our city, with an emphasis on the downtown area.

For more information contact David Yemm at 259-4522

Genealogy Jamboree

The Genealogical Society of Davidson County, Inc., will host its 1st Annual Genealogy Jamboree at the Robbins Recreation Center, 512 S. Hargrave Street in Lexington, NC on Saturday, Sep. 19 from 10 a..m - 3 p.m. The event is free to the public and will feature local societies, libraries, and individuals sharing genealogical and historical information they have compiled or collected with the public. Participation is thought from those who have researched their ancestral lines or historical items of interest. For more information, contact Belinda Rodgers at (336) 798-3537.

Seniors Day at the Fair

Glass Bead Jewlery class Learn to make unique wearable jewelry Sept. 17 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Thomasville Senior Center. Pre-register by calling 474-2754 by Sept. 15. The cost is $13.

Final Summer Music Stroll PACE of Thomasville announces the final installment of the Third Thursday Music Stroll for Thursday Sept. 17 at 6:30 p.m.

Seniors Day at the Davidson County Agricultural Fair will be Sep. 24 at the Davidson County Fair Ground. Admission is free for those 55 years and older.

The fun begins at 9 a.m. There will be free drinks, snacks, door prizes, blood pressure checks, and health info. This event is sponsored by your Davidson County Department of Senior Services, “Senior Dynamics” and the Lexington Kiwanis Club.

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Sunday Mostly Sunny 85/62

Monday Mostly Sunny 83/64

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Wednesday Partly Cloudy 82/66

Almanac Last Week High Day 91 Thursday 85 Friday 87 Saturday 87 Sunday 80 Monday 77 Tuesday Wednesday 76

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Festival celebrates the founding of Archdale TIMES STAFF REPORT

The Archdale-Trinity Chamber of Commerce will host the 24th annual Bush Hill Heritage Festival which will take place in downtown Archdale.

25,000 visitors and over 200 vendors are expected to converge on this community in the Piedmont Triad to enjoy great food, entertainment, and fun.

Three entertainment stages, children’s area, Quilt Show, Classic Car Show and pony rides are just some of the scheduled activities. Headliners for the main stage are the Part Time Party Time Band and Union County. Dalton Harmon, Four-Heart Harmony, Resurrection Quartet and Blood Kin will all return to the Gospel Stage, and Ronald McDonald, Sam the Magic Man, and

Mountain Marionettes will entertain kids on the Children’s Stage.

Bush Hill Eve is the newest addition to the festival and will take place on Friday night, Sept. 11.

This event, which serves as a kick-off to Saturday’s festival, will celebrate the heritage of the community with historical-themed events and activities are A Civil War Encampment will include Alexander’s Battalion Field Hospital where children can get an “enlistment physical.” A Heritage Meal whose menu showcases the kinds of food people ate before French fries and pizza will be on site.

The High Point Museum will offer period children’s games to include stilts, hoops, and more.

Music on the Grounds by John Clark and Chuck Harris will feature traditional music.

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Rides, Big Wheel Race, strolling characters in period dress, local genealogy and authors table, and much more will set the tone for the Bush Hill Heritage Festival which celebrates the founding of Archdale in 1786. Tickets for Heritage Meal are $7 for adults and $4 for children. Tickets for the meal will be available at Archdale Friends Meeting, the Archdale-Trinity Chamber, and at the door. All other events are free and take place on the grounds of Archdale Friends and Archdale United Methodist Church.

Bush Hill Eve activities begin at 5:30 p.m. Saturday’s Bush Hill Heritage Festival begins at 9 a.m. and concludes at 4 p.m.

For more information, call the chamber at 4342073 or visit www.bushhillfestival.com

Just take my check and no one gets hurt Syndicated Columnist

Call me old-fashioned, but I like my humble checkbook. You know, it’s that pad of paper curiously the same size and shape as currency.

On this pad are paper checks, which allow me to pay for things by filling in the blanks and signing my name.

Recently I stopped in to a store in my neighborhood to pick up treats for my grand-pets. I admit I’m a sucker for a certain mixed terrier named Gromit and a burly bulldog named Newkie.

I wrote a check for the purchase and handed it to the clerk, who proceeded to do all kinds of things with machines and keypads. Finally, she handed me a pen and a long piece of receipt paper filled with tiny print that I recognized as terms and conditions. She instructed me to “sign here.”

What? I wasn’t making a credit or debit purchase. This was a check. I responded to her request by saying no, I wasn’t going to sign the paper because I had signed my check. I offered my photo ID, reiterating that one signature would be all she would need.

She responded by calling her manager from some far-flung corner of the store, which made me feel like a problem customer. The boss disgustedly informed me that this was the new store policy. All checks are handled as “electronic checks” on the spot.

They are processed by TeleCheck, which guarantees the transactions (and charges the store a hefty fee for the service, no doubt). By signing this second document, I would, in fact, give TeleCheck permission to reach into my account and take the purchase amount as I stood there.

The boss went on to say that my check would be paid on the spot and that they would actually give it back

to me as my receipt.

I am not totally foreign to this new procedure.

It happened to me once before and was so shocking that I went along with it. Later, I regretted not saying anything. I wasn’t so keen on the whole idea this time, either. I felt manipulated.

Even though I did not produce a debit card to pay for my purchase, this store’s policy was about to force me into a debit transaction anyway.

I asked for my check back and added that I simply would go to the really big pet store just a few blocks away.

Apparently, I said the magic words. All of a sudden, my check was just fine; no additional signature was required. They bagged my items and thanked me for shopping there.

As I walked to the car,

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the only thing I regretted was that I didn’t pay cash. Good old U.S. currency, as maligned as it is these days, would have saved all of us a lot of hassle, to say nothing of all the processing fees, something I definitely will keep in mind the next time I reach for my checkbook.

Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com and author of 18 books, including her latest, “Can I Pay My Credit Card Bill With a Credit Card?” You can e-mail her at mary@ everydaycheapskate. com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2135, Paramount, CA 90723. To find out more about Mary Hunt and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

High Point Regional Health System and presenting sponsor, High Point Bank is excited to announce the date for the 23rd annual Warren Rives 5K Run/Walk and Fun Run. The event will take place on Saturday, Sept. 19. The Fun Run starts at 8 a.m. and the 5K follows at 8:30 a.m. Entry fee for the 5K is $25 through the day of the event. The fee for the Fun Run is $5. Race day festivities include: heart healthy food, music and prizes. T-shirts are guaranteed to the first 350 5K entries.

The run/walk is named

for Warren Rives, Jr., a hospital board member who died of a heart attack at the age of 41. The annual 3.1-mile road race and 1-mile fun run is a family-friendly event.

Prizes are given to the top three places in three divisions, as well as medals for age group winners.

The race is timed using

Championship Chip Timing. All proceeds benefit the Heart Strides Scholarship Fund.

Call Alana Greene at (336) 878-6293 to register or to obtain additional information about the event. Participants may also register online at www.givetohighpointregional.com.

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FOCUS Hepler receives Eagle Scout award TIMES STAFF REPORT

Joshua Charles Hepler, 18, of Thomasville received his Eagle Scout award on Aug. 16, 2009, during the worship service at Memorial United Methodist Church in Thomasville. He is a member of Boy Scout troop 121 sponsored by the church. Dr. Tom Smith is scoutmaster.

Joshua is a recent honor graduate of East Davidson High School where he played the trumpet in the Marching Band, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz I for four years, is an upcoming freshman at Appalachian State University. He is a member of Memorial United Methodist Church and was very active in the youth programs.

Joshua earned his Arrow Light as a Webelo Scout, the highest award a Cub Scout can achieve.

He has served as patrol leader, and senior patrol leader in his Boy Scout Troop. He also is a member of the Order of the Arrow, an honor society for the scouts.

His Eagle project was constructing and refurbishing a natural area outside his former kindergarten’s teacher’s room, Ms. Susan Barry,

Mr. and Mrs. Guy Jarrett recently celebrated their 65th anniversary.

Pictured below is the couple on their wedding day, Aug. 30, 1944.

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Joshua Hepler of Thomasville was recently awarded his Eagle Scout Award. at Fair Grove Elementary School. A park bench was rebuilt, a new bench was constructed, picnic table refurbished, shrubs pruned, and new plants planted. Three bird feeders were built and installed on posts for the students to view the birds feeding. A weather station was installed also.

New mulch now covers the entire area. The area will be used by the students as an outdoor

classroom to enhance their Kindergarten curriculum.

Joshua is the son of Charles and Sharon Hepler, and older brother to Maggie Hepler. He is the grandson of Barbara Hamilton Hepler, the late L.C. Hepler Jr, first scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 104 in Thomasville, Earl Sullivan and the late Clara Weaver Sullivan all of Thomasville.

FROM PAGE A1 FESTIVAL From page A1 Croft, president of the Thomasville Area Chamber of Commerce. “This is a free event. Arts and crafts, food and rides cost money, but there’s no admission. You can come and enjoy the cultural arts, if you want, and you pay for what you want.”

A food court will contain 25 vendors offering a huge assortment of delectable delights to meet everybody’s culinary desires. More than 70 menu items will be available, and many of the food vendors are local civic organizations that use proceeds from Everybody’s Day to support local charitable causes.

The Chamber of Commerce is still looking for volunteers for the festival. The requirements are a friendly smile and a pleasant voice, and each volunteer will receive a detailed orientation and a T-shirt. To register, call 475-6134.

Special needs this year

include the vendor hospitality area, welcome officials (good for adults who want to get an early start and enjoy the rest of the festival), the information and downtown merchants booth, parking lot monitors (good for teenagers looking for an easy job), the golf tournament and entertainment support. Poster distribution and signage volunteers can help promote Everybody’s Day if they won’t be able to attend that weekend. Strong helpers are needed for the set-up and take-down teams as well.

Throughout the festival, three stages of live entertainment will feature beach music, rhythm and blues, rock, country, gospel and dance.

“It’s different types of cultural experiences,” Croft said. “We have a dance stage, with local dance crews. This year, we’re going to have two gospel stages instead of one, and then we have a main stage.”

If all goes according to plan, the second gospel stage will be located at

the new downtown amphitheater near the farmer’s market. Construction at the site already has begun, and the city is planning on it being completed by Everybody’s Day. The main stage will be located at Kerr Drug Parking Lot and feature the festival’s headlining performers.

“Probably the one people will be most excited about is a band called the Part Time Party Time Band,” Croft said. “Fans of Carolina beach music will be familiar with them. This is first time in 20 years that we’ve had them play here, so we’re looking forward to having them back.”

Other entertainment will include Ladies Auxiliary, a blues band from Greensboro, and Different Drum, a band from Chapel Hill that incorporates world music.

For more information about Everybody’s Day, call 475-6134 or visit www. everybodysday.com.

Staff Writer Karissa Minn can be reached at 888-3576.

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Jarretts celebrate 65th anniversary Guy and Dorothy Jarrett, of 4096 Sherwood Forest Drive in Trinity, celebrated 65 years of marriage on Aug. 30, 2009.

The reception was held at the home of the couple.

The couple were married on Aug. 30, 1944, in Thomasville.

Mr. Jarrett is retired from Carolina Container Corporation. Mrs. Jarrett is the former Dorothy Lee Walker of Thomasville, and she is retired from K-Mart.

The Jarretts have one child, Patsy Grooms and husband Joe, of Lexington, one grandchild and three great-grandchildren.

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Who will run the free hot dog stand?

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SUSAN ESTRICH Syndicated Columnist Watching conservatives cheer the demise of the “public option” has left me shaking my head.

Now, if this were a reality show — “Who Wins Health Care?” — it would all make sense. The conservatives turned the “public option” into the symbol of big, expensive government taking away your health care to give it to immigrants. I kid you not: This is exactly how I’ve heard it described in more than one television debate, which leaves you denying that you want to kill your mother (mine is already dead, but still).

It is not easy to beat back such an idea, particularly in a country that is full of people who are on edge to begin with about their economic security, and with reason.

So score this round for the conservatives. The country doesn’t want (even) big(ger) government. The private sector does everything better. Deja vu all over again.

But is the private sector ready to run a free hot dog stand?

One of the best lines in recent political campaigns is the one where Democrats say that if the health insurance plan members of Congress get is good enough for them, it’s good enough for everyone in America.

Hooray. Sounds great.

Everyone in the country is not going to get the health care plan Congress gets.

Most members of Congress elect one of the “best” plans available to federal employees, which is to say, they choose to get their hot dogs by appointment from whatever stand they want. Like me, they go to the $5 stand or the $10 stand, the one with the doctor you know, same-day service, and new and expensive machines.

For that, you make additional contributions and pay co-pays and deductibles. Even with really good insurance, you pay.

The 40-something million Americans who don’t have health insurance are not go-

ing to be coming to my stand, whatever bill Congress passes.

They can’t afford it, and we certainly can’t afford to pay for it for them. And, by the way, my insurance company isn’t exactly looking for their business, especially if they’re old (50 is old to them) or sick (gastritis counts as sick) or take prescription medicine regularly (above a certain age, who doesn’t?).

It’s not that insurance companies are a bunch of meanies who want to see people suffer.

That’s a good caricature for the game of “Who Wins Health Care?” But it doesn’t happen to be true. They’re business people trying to make a living. In a field where costs are constantly spiraling and everyone wants the best, can you blame people for not wanting more lousy risks in their pool? Nothing personal.

I never bought the idea that the “public option” was going to be so good that it would keep HMOs honest. It’s a great theory. In practice, you just have to compare the waiting rooms at Kaiser to those at a public hospital like County-USC or HarborUCLA to know that there is no one sitting at County with a Kaiser card in their pocket.

We have a public option now. A friend’s husband was just diagnosed with prostate cancer. They are American citizens. They both work.

But neither of their jobs provides health insurance.

They make too much money for Medicaid and way too little to afford the $12,000 it would have cost them to insure the family with a private insurer. Now, of course, no one would take them.

He went to Harbor, the public hospital, the public option. He sat there for about 14 hours, which wasn’t so bad, and finally saw a doctor, who is ordering more tests, hopefully soon, and then they will see. At my hot dog stand, he would have had the tests already, and would have been examined by a surgeon skilled in the latest robotic techniques. He’s not asking for that. He just doesn’t want to die of something they routinely cure a few miles away.

So the conservatives win a round. Until they can answer the question of who is going to take care of my friend’s husband, who cares?

How can I help, Mr. President?

VIEWPOINT

DAVID HARSANYI Syndicated Columnist Why would anyone want to deprive impressionable school-age children of hearing the inspiring wisdom of the president? Barack Obama is determined to impart his knowledge upon our pliable offspring via webcast across the country next week, and we should not stand in his way.

This is, as they say, a teachable moment. There is nothing to fear. Naturally, teachers and parents, incapable of handling the sheer concentrated intellectual force of such a historic event, have been forwarded a detailed lesson plan by the Department of Education (sic) so that no child will be blinded inadvertently by the dazzling light of hope.

Initially, part of the strategy was to guide our kiddies tenderly through this event by asking them to “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president,” which then would be collected so that teachers could hold students “accountable” at an appropriate later date.

Example: Dear Madison, How can I help President Obama save the world from global warming when my daddy is a meanie who hates poor babies and thinks a Prius is emasculating?

My initial reaction to

the news, naturally, was to visualize the violent Java-induced (organic and fair-trade only!) pitchforked insurrection that would have exploded in my wellheeled, crunchy, peaceloving neighborhood had George W. Bush lectured local kids on anything.

And predictably, Obama’s speech has generated a similar reaction from some demonstrably unpatriotic parents across the country — and it seems gratuitous.

To begin with, even if the president delivered an openly politicized speech, which he won’t, your kids would survive the unpleasant experience. Most of our children have not been transformed into complete idiots yet by public education.

Moreover, if your child is incapable of handling a 20-minute haranguing from a self-important public servant, he will be tragically unprepared for the new world. (Whom do you think he will be dealing with when he needs that hip replacement in 60 years?)

Even if you oppose the president on a political level, it is empirically evident that the more one hears his homilies the less inclined one is to trust him. And Obama’s penchants to lecture us endlessly, to be the center of attention endlessly and to saturate the airwaves and national conversation are clear indications that he believes government is the answer to every societal, religious, economic and cultural question we face. Why should your kids be immune?

Was it not the president’s calm hand that guided a rattled nation through the shocking racial unrest in Cambridge, Mass., recently?

Was it not this man whose decency enabled us to lift our

collective head after the dark days of capitalist tyranny?

And was it not this president who apologized to a slighted and misunderstood Muslim world (twice) for our sins?

Why should we deny that he can elevate our schoolchildren from the abyss so they finally, after decades of neglect, can learn again?

And who better to dictate the lesson plan than the president’s secretary of education, Arne Duncan, a man who left Chicago’s school district with a meager 40 percent dropout rate?

Honestly, if I’m going to be badgered and browbeaten by the president every day, kids should suffer a bit, as well. The president has been treating the American people like schoolchildren for more than seven months — with another “major address” on health care coming right after he talks to the kids.

When my own brood comes home next week, I’ll explain that in this remarkable nation, anyone can become president — though I hope they’ll choose something more constructive — and that daddies often hope the president fails. I even may help them with their homework: Q: “What do you think the president wants us to do?”

Nationalize health care?

Q: “Does the speech make you want to do anything?” Write a column.

Q: “Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?” God, I hope not.

David Harsanyi is a columnist at The Denver Post and the author of “Nanny State.” Visit his Web site at www.DavidHarsanyi.com.

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FROM PAGE A1 SCHOOL From page A1 same benefits. We want to give students a good bible-based learning progress.”

Plans have been in the works for the past year with The Church of Tomorrow securing a loan to pay for all the renovations at the new building located at 906 Oak Long Drive. The school will be able to have as many as 40 students at a time who will all receive an accredited education.

“We want to try educate our kids in a Christian manner,” said Associ-

ate Pastor Billy Parham.

“There’s so many different things being taught to our kids that we don’t agree with. We teach abstinence instead of safe sex, but it’s not just that issue where we believe kids need a Christian education. It’s very structured.”

Students who attend Calvary Temple Christian will have a normal 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. day, and will study from literature through Accelerated Christian Education.

Course work is done on a pace basis with students completing 12 paces per grade level. With a student-to-teacher ratio of around six to one, Turner

GRANT From page A1 may be able to allow the kids to take the laptop home with them.”

Liberty Drive Elementary will be using the funding to implement a electronic student portfolio that will allow students to demonstrate their knowledge of core curriculum and their understanding of technology as a resource for creating digital content.

At Thomasville Middle School, the money will help teachers have more access to other classrooms

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The FRA requires the projects to be completed within two years of the grant award.

Deal said that while many people may envision European bullet trains when they think of high speed rail, projects like this one would simply work to increase the speed and reliability of the existing system. The trains would have a maximum speed of about 110 miles per hour, he said, because faster speeds would require grade-separated tracks that would

FUNDS From page A1 built at the Davidson County rest area on Interstate 85 and the existing buildings will be renovated.

Work is scheduled to begin on Sept. 28 and the project, awarded to Mountain Creek Contractors Inc. of Catawba, N.C., is expected to be completed next August.

“The project is expected to create about 50 jobs and will be a real benefit to the people throughout our county,” said Rep. Hugh Holliman, who represents Davidson County.

“This is an important investment in our community when we need every dollar that we can get.”

Mark Scott, director of Thomasville Tourism was, however, mush less impressed as he had hopes of more ambitious plans for the area in question.

“Money for those renovations have been on the books for several years,” Scott said. “We were trying to talk the state into using that money to build a welcome center that would be assessable to traffic coming from both directions.”

Scott pointed out that North Carolina has no welcome centers along

feels the extra attention the children will receive is worth the cost.

“That’s incredible to be able to get so much private attention,” Turner said. “Even though you make it affordable, it’s still a service that you provide and the economy still hurts. It still pinches you enough that is makes it harder on folks. We have met a lot of people who are willing to make the sacrifice.”

A learning center sits in the middle of the school and will be comprised of grades 3-12. Each student will have an individual office with a computer and can call for teacher assistance by hanging a

using an upgraded live-streaming network server that will cut down on wasted time. Teachers also will be able to broadcast lessons or experiments from their classroom to any computer in the school.

“It is going to be a tremendous boost to technology in our system,” TCS Superintendent Keith Tobin said. “We feel like we’re moving in the right direction in that area. The addition of the first $1 million we got from the Impact grant has done tremendous things for our system already. We’ve brought technology into our system that we would not have been able to without that

not accommodate freight trains.

Improvements made to the existing railways would include the re-engineering of the curvature of tracks, the addition of extra tracks and the elimination of some grade crossings by adding overpasses and underpasses.

“There’s more involved than just speed; there’s also frequency of service,” Deal said. “If you have to wait four hours to get on a train that goes 150 miles per hour, you’d be much better served to wait 30 minutes to get on a train that goes 90 or 100 miles per hour.”

Only two trains cur-

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money.”

Ingram said TCS may be in line for more stimulus money. On Friday, Gov. Bev Perdue applied for $28.1 million from the stimulus package that will go towards improving broadband Internet access for underserved communities.

“We are one of the communities that may qualify for it,” said Ingram. “We’re going to try for it.”

IMPACT IV grants are funded through the competitive portion of North Carolina’s Title II, D, Enhancing Education Through Technology allocation from the federal No Child Left Behind program.

rently run between Raleigh and Charlotte each day. The corridor development plan calls for more frequent rail service, to make this mode of transportation more practical for commuters.

“The best job markets might not be in Davidson County,” Deal said. “The best job markets might be in the Charlotte area or the Greensboro area, or even the Triangle area. If we had passenger rail operating through here at a frequency of something like four trains a day, it would make it viable for person to access those job markets without having to drive a car to these places.”

Interstate 85 and one in Thomasville would be also be passed by many motorist and their passengers who are using Piedmont Triad, Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham airports.

“Travelers are starving for information along that I-85 corridor,” Scott said. “When we spend $16 million to run a state tourism budget, it generates $17 billion in revenue.”

Scott said he had been working on getting a welcome center built on that site ever since he learned that money was being set aside to renovate that area several years ago. He still has a letter from Lynn Minges, an assistant secretary of commerce, who leads tourism and other divisions of the department.

The letter, dated June 14, 2006, said the state Commerce Department would gladly budget the funds to operate a welcome center at that site, if one could be built. Scott said his stumbling block during his quest for the welcome center was that the N.C. DOT refused to build it.

“I quit pursuing the welcome center idea late last year when the Commerce Department announced that it was closing all welcome centers on Tuesdays because of the

flag on their station. The preschool area will be separate. The church also has two buses that can go pick up students for the after-school program that runs until 5:30 p.m. each school day. Students also will be required to wear uniforms as part of the school’s dress code.

It will cost $68.75 a week for the regular school and $85 a week for the preschool. The after-school program will cost $50 a week. For more information, call 240-3996.

Tourists also could use the trains to take a day trip to the county to attend events or check out local attractions. Deal said that high speed Amtrak service would give a much-needed boost to Davidson County’s public transportation system.

“Right now, other than PART running a bus from here to Winston-Salem, we’re not served by any form of inter-city transportation,” he said. “It would provide some alternative to automobile travel for our citizens.”

Staff Writer Karissa Minn can be reached at 888-3576 or newsdesk@ tvilletimes.com.

economic shortfall,” Scott recalled.

“They have since opened the welcome centers on Tuesdays again.”

The announcement that the state is going ahead with the rest-stop renovation on that site is the official death of the welcome center idea, Scott now believes.

“It’s just a shame this isn’t being done,” the tourism director said.

“We’re missing out on a big opportunity.”

Scott also believes taxpayers are getting the short end of the stick by the allocation of $1.7 in renovations rather than the construction of a welcome center.

“To me, as a taxpayer, I don’t see it as a proper use of that money to spend $1.7 million to have two nicer rest areas rather than building one state-run welcome center that could generate millions of dollars in tax revenue,” Scott said. “I don’t see it as the best bang for the buck.”

With his dream of the welcome center now over, Scott is looking for alternative plans to promote Thomasville to those who ride by the Chair City on the well-traveled I-85.

“Now we’re looking at other alternatives to bring in people off the interstate,” he said.

Buster Goodman

LEXINGTON — Lattie E. (Buster) Goodman, 76, of Tyro Road, died Friday, Sep. 4, 2009, in High Point Regional Hospital after declining health of one year.

Funeral service will be held at 12 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Piedmont Funeral Home.

Online condolences may be made at www. piedmontfuneralhome. com.

Index Lexington Nit Burkhart, 79 Hoyle Fulbright, 75 Buster Goodman, 76 Joe E. Robertson, 87

Nit Burkhart LEXINGTON — Carlton “Nit” Keith Burkhart, 79, of Woodlawn Drive in Lexington, died Friday, Sep. 4, 2009, at Brian Center of Lexington.

Burkhart was born Oct. 4, 1929, in Davidson County, to Alvah Harlan Burkhart and Lillie Mae Duffey Burkhart.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in the Korean War, and he was retired from The Lexington Dispatch advertising department and the Lexington Police Department.

Funeral service will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday with the Rev. Don Leonard officiating. The family will receive friends at Davidson Funeral Home following the service on Sunday.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are to be directed to Memorial United Church of Christ in Lexington. Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.

Hoyle Fulbright LEXINGTON — Hoyle James Fulbright, 75, of Lakewood Drive, died Friday, Sep. 4, 2009, in Lexington Memorial Hospital.

Services will be held at a later date. Piedmont Funeral Home is serving the Fulbright family.

Online condolences may be made at www. piedmontfuneralhome. com.

Joe E. Robertson

LEXINGTON — Joe Elmer Robertson, 87, of Carolina Avenue in Lexington, died Thursday, Sep. 3, 2009, at Hinkle Hospice House.

Robertson was born July 29, 1922, in Dyer County, Tenn., to Isaac Alonzo Robertson and Mamie Ann Wilkerson Robertson. He was a retired employee of Dixie Furniture, and he was a lay minister and evangelist and a member of East End Baptist Church.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at East End Baptist Church with the Revs. Tim Gainey and Jeffrey Purdue officiating. Burial will follow at Forest Hill Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Monday at Davidson Funeral Home and other times at the home on East Center Street Extension in Lexington.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of Davidson County or East End Baptist Church in Lexington.

Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.

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Terry Allen Walker, 50, of Denton, to Susan Annette Beasley, 39, of Denton.

Ricardi Hernandez, 23, of Thomasville, to Surelys Gladysmil Pena, 25, of Thomasville.

Joseph Trey Strickland, 20, of Roaring River, to Catherine Leigh Elkes, 20, of Thomasville.

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Jordan Vance Kiser, 24, of Winston Salem, to Jessica Leigh Berrier, 22, of Winston Salem.

Thomas Franklin Van Pelt, 43, of Randleman, to Lori Renee Leonard, 41, of Thomasville.

Mostafa Gaber Ibrahim Elbehary, 23, of Lexington, to Krystal Louise

Brown, 26, of Lexington.

Christopher John Drennan, 27, of Thomasville, to Lindsey Ann Lambeth, 20, of Thomasville.

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RELIGION CHURCH NOTES Clothes Giveaway

The missionary ministry of Emmanuel Baptist Church will host a clothes giveaway from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday. This is part of the October outreach “FRAN month” — Friends, Relatives, Associates and Neighbors — at the church. There will be items in all sizes for men, women, boys and girls. Shoes will be available also. All who are in need are welcome.

For more information, please contact the church office at 475-1018.

Unitarian Universalist service

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winston-Salem, located at 4055 Robinhood Road, will have a service at 10:30 a.m. Sunday titled “Worksong: Music of Labor and Anti-Oppression Movements,” honoring those who have won benefits for working people.

The pre-service forum at 9 a.m. will be a discussion of current affairs moderated by Bill Roberts.

For more information, call 659-0331.

Homecoming at Brown New Calvary

Brown New Calvary will observe its annual Homecoming service on Sunday. Lunch will be served immediately following the morning service, and the afternoon service will begin at 3 p.m. Pastor L.W. Bolton III, from Fort Wayne, Ind., will be the guest speaker.

Revival services will begin this Monday through Friday. The guest speaker will be Pastor Phillip McSwain, of Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Gulfport, Miss. Services will begin each night at 7 p.m. For more information, please call 476-6514 or 476-6522.

Thomasville Tent Meeting

There will be a Thomasville Tent Meeting with Evangelist Roger Williams on Saturday at 4 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Weeknight services will begin at 7 p.m. and last through Sep. 11, 2009 The tent is located at the intersection of Highway 62 and Unity Street (behind Circle J), 4825 N.C. Highway 62 in Trinity. For more information, call 857-4673 or 847-2228.

Preschool Registration

Hopewell United Methodist Church Preschool is currently accepting applications for the 20092010 school year. The church is located at 4540 Hopewell Church Road in Trinity. Call 431-9517 for information.

Footsteps Preschool

The new Footsteps Preschool at Mt. Zion Wesleyan Church, located at 222 Mt. Zion Church Road, is currently accepting applications for the 2009-2010 school year.

For information, call 4724239, e-mail footsteps@ mtzionwesleyan.com or visit www.mtzionwesleyan.com.

Salad buffet and guest speaker

New Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church, located at 6408 Friendship-Ledford Road in the Wallburg community, will host a salad buffet on Tuesday, Sep. 8 at 6:30 p.m. Author AlexSandra Lett will be the guest

speaker. Sandy is from Sanford and has written several books, the most recent being “A Timeless Place... Let’s Set a Spell at the Country Store.” She will have copies of this book, along with others she has written, available for purchase if requested. Come enjoy a salad buffet featuring complete salads from many different recipes.

The event is sponsored

by United Methodist Women, and there is no charge. For additional information, call 769-3360 or 769-3284.

Fairview UMC Annual Cookout Fairview United Methodist Church, located at 3180 Old Greensboro Road in Thomasville, will hold its annual cookout and the unveiling of a brand new community playground on Saturday, Sep. 12, at 6 p.m.

Please join in for the church’s annual cookout and the celebration of the new community playground at Fairview United Methodist Church. All are invited. For more information or directions please email ashleydarr@ gmail.com.

Homecoming at Greenwood Baptist Greenwood Baptist Church, located at 1010 Lexington Ave. in Thomasville, will hold a homecoming on Sunday, Sep. 13. They all will be outdoor services unless weather prohibits. At 9:45 a.m., there will be a joint adult Sunday school class taught by Associate Pastor Mitch Hayworth.

At 10:45 a.m., there will be a worship service with a former pastor, the Rev. Steve Livengood. Lunch will be provided by church, and there will be no evening service.

For more information, call 472-7314.

First Presbyterian Church to host book study First Presbyterian Church located at 21 Randolph Street will host a four-week study on the best-selling novel, The Shack by William P. Young. The study will begin Sept. 13 at 7 p.m.

Bring your Bible and a copy of the novel.

Homecoming Celebration First Pentecostal Holiness Church, located on East U.S. 64 in Lexington, will have its 86th Homecoming Celebration on Sunday, Sep. 13. The Rev. James Ward Jr. will be the speaker. He served at the church from 1993 to 1995 as a youth pastor before becoming a senior pastor, and he currently serves the Stoneville Church as senior pastor.

The Lebeaus will be the guest singers. They are well known in the area and will be ministering at the morning service.

Service will start at 10:30 a.m., and a meal will follow the service in the fellowship hall. There will be no evening service.

Community Outreach Mountain View Baptist Church, in association with Freedom Crusade Ministry in WinstonSalem and His Laboring Few Ministries in Thomasville, will host an outdoor Community Outreach the week of Sep. 13-19. The tent will be located on Highway 8 in the

Southmont area.

The event will begin each evening at 7 p.m. with guest evangelist Jerry McGee. Jerry, a former drug dealer and an associate of a notorious outlaw biker organization, was powerfully saved and delivered from that lifestyle

by God. He shares his message in high schools, jails, prisons, bars and churches around the U.S. and Central America. He has a word for all people, saint and sinner alike.

Kidzone Live New Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church is offering “Kidzone Live…Live It,” an elementary age fellowship meeting for children in third through fifth grades, beginning Sunday, Sep. 13 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and continuing throughout the school year. Come join in the Bible lessons, crafts, service projects, fellowship and refreshments. The church is located at 6408 Friendship-Ledford Road in the Wallburg community. For more information, call 769-3360 or visit www.newmtvernonumc. org.

2009 FMBC Basketball Classic First Missionary Baptist Church will sponsor a men’s basketball tournament at Thomasville High School on Sep. 19 at 10 a.m. There will be an 8 team bracket with a 2 game minimum. The fee is $100. Call (704) 2992025 or e-mail tykim@ northstate,net by Sept. 12 for registration and additional info.

Christian Fun Festival Crisis Ministry of Davidson County (Lexington) will hold its first Christian Festival Sept.

19 from 11 a.m. to 6 (rain date Sep. 20). The event will feature a variety of Christian music and bluegrass. There will be vendors, games, food, a silent auction and a children’s play area. Streets will be blocked off at 1st Ave. below the Dispatch. For additional information or to apply to be a vendor or entertainer, call 248-6684 or 249-3313.

Revival Thomasville First Pentecostal Holiness Church, located at 509 Cloniger Drive in Thomasville, will be holding a “Camp Meeting style” revival Sep. 20-24, at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday and at 7 p.m.

Monday through Thursday. There will be a different speaker each night.

Homecoming will be on Sunday, Oct. 4 with the Rev. Billy Taylor. The service will be held at 10:30 a.m.

Weeds and seeds KEEPING THE FAITH

DOUG CREAMER Guest Columnist My wife and I have been enjoying some delicious vegetables from our garden. There is nothing in the world like a good fresh tomato sandwich. While I love the rewards from the garden, it seems that at this time of year I begin to have a great crop of weeds. Some years I have used plastic and mulch with some success, but this year the weeds have really taken hold on me.

Several weeks ago I went out and cleaned out some sections of the garden and put a second crop in. The new corn is up nicely and the beans are beginning to bloom.

Today I cleaned out the first crop of corn and the accompanying weeds and put out some sunflower seeds and some squash seeds. I have some more I hope to clean out one evening soon and maybe we can get some more beans planted.

I’ve never been a big fall vegetable gardener.

I try to get second crops of things we enjoy. But I am afraid that what I will get a second crop of will be more weeds. I hope I’ll get the garden center this week and get some mulch to help keep the weeds down. I was checking over my new crop of beans this morning and discovered I need to spray some pest control on them, another of my least favorite gardening tasks.

I am afraid that if

we are all honest with ourselves, we would admit that we allow our spiritual gardens to get weeds. While the weeds can sometimes have easy victory in the vegetable garden, I do not like spiritual weeds.

I believe that spiritual weeds are things that distract us from being about kingdom business.

Weeds can be the excuses we come up with for not praying and reading God’s word. Weeds are things that keep us from serving God within our church families. Weeds keep us from sharing the good news with those around us who so desperately need to hear about God’s love.

We all have areas of our lives where we struggle with sin.

Sometimes we have great victory and we live holy lives. Other times the weeds creep in and we allow them to take root.

There is a big difference between slipping in sin and living in sin. Slipping is when we allow temptation to drag us away to sin’s den. When we realize our mistake we repent and turn our hearts back to God. We pull the weeds of sin out of our lives.

However, it’s an entirely different thing when we allow sin to dominate our lives. When our spiritual gardens are not filled with any godly activities, then we have allowed the weeds to take over. We need God’s help through the Holy Spirit to clean out our hearts and to find a place for His spirit to live. Then it becomes our responsibility to nurture and protect our spiritual garden from the invasive weeds.

Once the Holy Spirit has helped us plow the soil of our hearts, then we need to ask God for some fresh seeds of hope.

If we repent and clean out our hearts, then we need to put some good

things in that soil or the weeds will return.

Old habits die hard, so we need to begin building new habits that will be a spiritual blessing to our lives instead of the spiritually draining weeds we just pulled out.

God is all about hope and dreams for us. He sees so much potential that we can’t even imagine. If we would apply our hearts and minds to God’s vision for our lives we would never turn back to the sinful weed traps again.

If we would partner with God through the Holy Spirit, we could touch our dreams. But first, we need to have the hope that there is a way of escape and a better plan for our lives. So if we take time to clear our spiritual gardens we will discover opportunities for fulfillment in our spiritual and personal lives.

I want to encourage you to do in the spirit what I did in the natural today: clean the weeds out of your spiritual garden. God can do incredibly more than you can imagine if you partner with Him and allow His seeds of hope to take root in your heart.

What I am suggesting is change, which isn’t easy.

Following God isn’t easy, but the reward is worth the price. Go ahead, get your gardening gloves on and pull those spiritual weeds, then plant some seeds of hope.

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BY ELIOT DUKE Staff Writer Anything and everything that could go wrong for the Thomasville Bulldogs did Friday night at Cushwa Stadium against the Kannapolis A.L. Brown Wonders.

Leading by two touchdowns, Thomasville’s defense failed to stop Kannapolis when it mattered most, resulting in a 34-28 loss, marking the Bulldogs second setback in a row.

“We stopped them in the first half, but we couldn’t in the second,” THS coach Allen Brown said. “We appreciate their effort but you don’t get anything for trying.

We’ve got to get better. We

can’t keep giving up this many points. You can’t give up over 30 points and win the game.”

Unlike last week’s loss to Mt. Airy, THS was in control of this one. The Bulldogs had the ball near midfield up 28-21 late in the third quarter, but a poor handoff led to a fumble, giving the Wonders possession. The game was tied four plays later on a 3-yard run from Travis Riley.

“I’m going to take it as my fault,” said THS quarterback Sam Nelson. “I just didn’t get the ball in my hands and take it.”

Thomasville would gain only one first down in the fourth quarter,

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Thomasville wide receiver Brandon Lucas shakes off a defender and looks for the endzone against A.L. Brown Friday at Cushwa.

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BY ZACH KEPLEY Sports Editor Rarely does a team commit 130 yards worth of penalties and still win, but that is how things turned out for North Davidson in a 35-3 rout of East Davidson Friday at Eagle Stadium.

Despite the incredible amount of penalty yards, the Black Knights held East to 126 yards of total offense, and were able to outrun the Eagles on offense all night long. Running back Ryan Morgan scored three touchdowns and ran for 115 yards, paving the way to the blowout.

Through all of that, EDHS actually trailed 3-0 early.

East mounted its lone

scoring drive on the first possession of the game in unusual fashion. The two teams combined for 60 penalty yards over the course of the drive that started on the 20 of the Eagles. When the yellow flags stopped flying, East had moved the ball down to the North 20, where the drive stalled and Taylor Warren booted home a 37-yard field goal.

The East defense forced a three-and-out immediately and was going to get field position around the 50. Dylan Hutchins muffed the punt, though, as the ball fell to the deck and the Black Knights recovered at the East 43.

Six plays later, Morgan carried the ball over the right side and in from 24 yards out, pushing the

visitors ahead 7-3.

“We came out and did some good things on that first drive to keep everybody’s hopes,” said East coach Bryan Lingerfelt.

“Then we played great on defense, but we had the tur nover and it started snowballLingerfelt ing after that.”

North quarterback Brennen Dodd was too quick for the Eagle defense all night long, dancing around defenders for large chunks of yards.

His arm got him in trouble at times, though, as he was picked off in the end

zone by Justin Mounts on the next drive.

Breathing a sigh of relief, EDHS was poised to turn the turnover into something positive, but they ended up giving right back only two plays later on a fumble by Malcolm Wimmer.

North recovered on the East 23 and Morgan converted his second tally of the night on a run up the gut, upping the North advantage to 14-3.

East netted negative yardage on its next drive and was pinned deep in its own territory.

Following the punt by Mounts, North worked quickly going the 31 yards in one play, as Tevin Tuttle took the end around to the house for a 21-3 score.

East got into the field-

house with no further damage, and they might have been better off staying in there.

On the first play from scrimmage, North’s Morgan completed the hat trick, blasting through the hole for a 63-yard jaunt. North tacked on one more to completely ground the Eagles.

“We will lick our wounds and try to grow up from this,” Lingerfelt said. “Hopefully, we can come out here with a good attitude on Monday.”

Notes: Dylan Gallimore bulled his way to 106 rushing yards on 25 attempts ... East will travel to Southwestern Randolph next week at 7:30 p.m.

Ledford still searching for first win in 28-13 setback

BY STEVE HANF HPE HIGH POINT — Opportunistic Southwest Guilford took advantage of a bevy of errors by the Panthers on Friday night for a 28-13 victory.

The Cowboys’ Greg Bridges returned an interception 40 yards for a touchdown with 6:09 remaining in the second quarter for the lone score of the first half. Tanner Butler’s PAT made it 7-0 and the Panthers never recovered.

Ledford got one first down on a nice run by De Greene on its first series before having to punt. Grady Gilmore boomed a beautiful kick to the 7-yard line, and four plays later, defensive lineman Ty Anderson was ripping the ball out of a Cowboys’ arms.

First-and-goal at the 4 – the Panthers were in business. But following a 2-yard

run by Steven Fuquay, a play that didn’t go well from the start due to an illegal shift ended in disaster when a bobbled handoff got pounced on by Southwest at the 2.

Ledford’s defense continued to play well, forcing two punts later in the first half and ending a pair of Southwest drives with nice INTs by Jonathan Reid and Chris Ross.

The offense never capitalized, with the Panthers throwing two picks in all and putting the ball on the ground four times with one lost fumble. Two of Ledford’s first five first downs of the night came on roughing-the-kicker penalties.

That came back to haunt Southwest in the third quarter. The Cowboys embarked on an impressive 13-play, 81-yard drive to open the third, putting Ledford

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Just call me a ‘locavore’ It was September, and I have no idea which year.

Jack Leonard and I shot doves over Kermit Eller’s tobacco field and we got a limit each if I remember right. We drove Jack’s white ’63 Falcon back to the house and cleaned the birds.

Jack took the birds in the house and breaded them, fried them, and made gravy. His wife and my mother-in-law, Bonnie Leonard, made mashed potatoes and biscuits while Jack and I cleaned guns, put up our stuff, and talked.

When Bonnie called us to supper, we were the only ones at the table. Everyone else had already eaten when we came in and we ate across the bar from each other in their little kitchen. I ate a lot of good meals in Bonnie’s kitchen; she could cook fried chicken so good that the chickens would stand in line to be next.

Her bird pie was to die for and she taught me to appreciate baked beans.

This meal, however, was as good as any I ever ate there. I’ve paid upwards of what I paid for the shotgun I used that day for meals and they were nowhere near as good as those doves and gravy.

The doves were tender and peppery from the black pepper Jack put in the breading; the gravy was thick and had none of the pasty taste that gravy has when the cook doesn’t know to burn the gluten out of the flour. If the doves hadn’t been so good, I could have made a meal out of that gravy pooled up in a pond made in Bonnie’s mashed potatoes. The biscuits were the big, squared off, shoulder to shoulder, cat head biscuits found on the table when farm families were getting up hay or cutting wood at Thanksgiving. Bonnie, if you read this, thank you for those biscuits.

I am not known for being up to the latest trends. I’ve been wearing the same style of shirts for about 15 years.

I can’t find real shorts in the store that I’ll wear because I’m not willing to wear shorts that come below my knees. When I see one of my friends wearing the shorts they make now; the ones that hang half way to their ankles, I ask where they bought them and if they sell men’s clothes there. I drive old cars and trucks, shoot old shotguns, and my wife cuts my hair. Not exactly up with the latest.

I found out this week that the 2007 word of the year for the Oxford American Dictionary was “Locavore”. According to Wikipedia, the go-to dictionary on the misinformation superhighway, a locavore is someone who eats food grown or produced locally or within a certain radius such as 50, 100, or 150 miles. The word is only three years old but describes a trendy movement started in San Francisco by a group of urbanites with whom I likely have little in common.

It proves, however, that I am up with the latest in some areas. In fact, I’ve preferred locavorism all my life. (I may have just invented a new word, “locavorism”). The best food I ever ate came from within 10 miles of where I live and, while I’ve never been 100 percent

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DICK JONES Outdoor Columnist locavore, I spent my early years at around 80 percent or so. Many of the meals I ate until I was a teenager were 100 percent within ½ mile of my house. I drank milk from our cow, Bessie, until she got old and then, we ate her. We then got our milk from Uncle Jim’s cow, 3/8 of a mile away. The butter, cottage cheese and buttermilk I consumed, I helped Aunt Mildred make.

By the way, if all your buttermilk came from a carton, you’ve never really had buttermilk.

All the vegetables came from the garden and the meat came from our pigs and cows. Eggs came from Stanton Bodenhiemer on the other side of Abbots Creek.

I’m still locavore.

Today, for lunch, I had pheasant pie from pheasants raised in Ellerbe and shot in Harmony.

(Ellerbe and Harmony, sounds like a song, huh?) My freezer is filled with this spring’s run of striped bass from the Roanoke River and catfish from the Yadkin chain. While the blues and drum of last fall are long gone, there are still some quail, chukar, ducks, and pheasants.

I’ll be restocking with

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doves next week, unless my shotgunning skills have completely dwindled during the summer.

It’s really funny that the least up to date guys in the country, hunters and fishermen, are further along with this Locavore trend than almost of the folks that watch Entertainment Tonight religiously. We’ve been locavores for years and haven’t even known it. This week, I went to see Mountmor Farm, a project right here in North Carolina that’s to be a sustainable community with a farm in the center of the homes. The project will even have a special community kitchen that will allow the people living there to can what they raise on the farm. Apparently, someone has figured out the value of eating what comes from around you.

Soon, Cherie and I will be doing cooking segments for the Austin Outdoors webpage on WXII12.com. I’m really looking forward to showing folks how to make a pheasant pie or my famous striped bass coronary casserole (So named because nothing in it is healthy). The recipes we cover will almost all be locavore friendly. We’ll even use local products like Texas Pete and House’ Autry Seafood Breader while we’re at it. It’s going to be fun and, if we do a recipe a week, I’m going to run out of ideas without your help.

Send me your favorite recipes using local food, especially game, and give us a hand. We may even get Bonnie Leonard to come over and show us how to make those biscuits.

in a 14-0 hole after Airyn Willis scored from 3 yards out.

But following a stop by the Southwest defense, Gilmore boomed another beautiful punt – that came back due to an illegal procedure call. Big mistake for the Cowboys, who accepted the penalty and then promptly creamed Gilmore on the following punt.

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THS From page B1 and Kannapolis eventually scored on Riley’s third touchdown of the game with 46 seconds to go. Brandon Lucas made some noise in the waning seconds only to fumble fighting for extra yards at the Wonders 30-yard line.

Early on, what Dee Dow did for the Bulldogs on defense, Quin Riley did on offense. Dow, in a 14-7 game with 1:41 left before halftime, intercepted Martel Campbell and raced 41 yards for the score. After the Wonders scored with 14 seconds left in the second quarter, Riley took a seemingly innocent handoff and exploded through the Kannapolis defense 57

over just past midfield, Greene raced 23 yards for a first down and Jonathan Reid then took his second carry of the night 19 yards for a touchdown.

Fuquay’s PAT put the score at 14-7 with 3:52 still left in the third quarter.

The Panthers tried to pull even. Following another Southwest punt, Ledford moved the ball to the Cowboys’ 40 before Fuquay was forced to throw off his back foot and got picked off by Ray Bridges. Southwest responded with a 10-play drive that ended with J.J.

Garrison fumbling the ball into the end zone and offensive lineman Anson Robinson falling on it.

Following Butler’s third PAT, it was 21-7 with 6:45 to go.

Ledford would score again on a 17-play, 68yard drive, with Fuquay hitting Reid from 4 yards out, but the PAT was blocked and Southwest recovered the onsides kick to hold on with 2:19 to play. Southwest capped scoring with Willis’ 51yard run against a tired defense moments later.

yards to paydirt as time expired, shifting momentum back to THS. Thomasville took the opening kickoff and trampled 72 yards in 11 grueling plays, chewing up nearly half the first quarter in the process.

The offensive line set the tone, opening holes for Kesean Green, who carried the rock six times for 20 yards on the drive.

Nelson, after being on the good end of two pass interference calls, hit Brandon Lucas on a post route from 14 yards out for the game’s first touchdown.

“It’s a tough loss,” Nelson said. “Going into halftime I felt we had it.

I thought we were playing well and if we kept it we would pull it out. It didn’t work out that way.

We definitely played well, but this is the second

close game we’ve had.”

The Nelson-to-Lucas theme continued into the second quarter. On first and 10 from the Kannapolis 48, Nelson pump faked and found a covered Lucas streaking down the far sideline.

The pass dropped in over the senior’s left shoulder for a 44-yard completion, setting up Green, who scored two plays later for a 14-0 Bulldogs lead.

The Wonders cut into the THS lead on Antwoine Jordan’s 1-yard touchdown run with less than five minutes to go before halftime, thanks to a 53-yard punt return from Mike Robinson.

Thomasville hosts Albemarle next Friday night.

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Labonte’s class act put him above the sponsorship-search fray Of all the pithy comments my grandmother made over the years, one in particular stands out in my mind.

“I can tell that I’m getting old,” she said, “because all my friends are dying.”

I brushed it off as maudlin at the time, but now I’m beginning to understand that sentiment a little better.

I can tell that I’m getting old, because all my friends are retiring.

Thank goodness for the television broadcasting business. Without it, my former-driver withdrawal might well have been terminal.

Mid- to late summer is always a period of transition in NASCAR. This is the time when drivers change teams, gain and lose sponsors, maybe consider having a serious conversation with a different auto manufacturer. Harvick? Staying.

Keselowski? Going.

It’s kind of fun to watch in a way, this intricate game of chess where all the pieces are jousting knights, knocking one another out of the way to reach the one spot they all want to occupy.

But once in a while, the game gets out of hand and something happens that just makes you sadly shake your head. That was the effect of a recent announcement concerning Bobby Labonte.

Labonte, who has been driving the No. 96 Hall of Fame/Yates Racing Ford this season, was relieved of his driving duties for seven of the year’s remaining races. His sponsorship money ran out, and he will now share seat time with Roush Fenway driver Erik Darnell, who has been racing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

We’re all adults here, and we have to be realistic about things.

Money is tight, business is business, and teams have to do whatever it takes to get those cars out on the racetrack every weekend. Everyone understands this.

Still, when you have watched and cheered for and admired someone for so many years, it is difficult to see them struggle, even a little bit.

Funny, friendly and very approachable, Labonte is a great example of a utility player, the kind of guy who always comes through. Whatever the sport has asked of him, he has delivered.

He personifies all the traits that make a great athlete: consistency, patience, and success.

Some athletes are like

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CATHY ELLIOTT NASCAR Columnist shooting stars. They make a spectacular impression in the early going, and can even be dazzling at times, but can’t maintain that brilliance over time.

They lack consistency.

Here’s a statistic for you. Going into the race at Atlanta on August 6, Labonte had a streak of 568 consecutive starts.

Five hundred sixty-eight green flags in a row, and he saw every one of them from behind the wheel of a race car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. How’s that for dependability?

NFL quarterback Brett Favre has been taking some heat lately for his unwillingness to take part in the Minnesota Vikings’ training camp.

Far be it from me to put words in the mouth of a future Hall of Famer, but Favre apparently feels he has served his time, paid his dues, and is therefore entitled to a few extra privileges along the way.

But the bottom line is that he didn’t want to do the work required for the job.

Bobby Labonte, on the other hand, rolled up his sleeves and got his hands dirty. He raced quarter-midgets and go-karts, and learned as much as he could about stock cars while working as a fabricator on his brother Terry’s cars.

He scraped together enough money to enter a car he owned in the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Martinsville in 1985, finishing 30th and bringing home a whopping $220 for his efforts. By 1990, he finally managed to start his own team, and raced in the Nationwide Series full-time.

To keep going when the going is hard and slow … that’s patience.

But it does pay off. The following season, Labonte won the Nationwide Series championship.

Another quarterback, Dan Marino, is touted as one of the best to ever play the game of football. But Marino’s name comes with the dreaded asterisk; any discussion about his career includes the comment,

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In 1993, Labonte finally made it to the big league — the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. He drove for Bill Davis Racing, and then picked up his first career win in 1995 after moving to Joe Gibbs Racing. He broke a shoulder at Darlington in 1999, but started the race anyway.

And in 2000, he won four races, led the point standings for 25 weeks, and took home the title of champion.

Billionaire industrialist J. Paul Getty said the formula for success was to rise early, work hard, and strike oil. That’s just a high-dollar way of saying that a combination of luck and effort is required to achieve the ultimate goal.

Bobby Labonte was out of work for about 15 minutes. He will drive for TRG Motorsports in the seven races he will miss for Yates this season.

As for his future prospects, who knows?

Ideally, he will enjoy a few more respectable seasons of racing, then step away from the wheel to go wherever his new dreams might take him.

He has already more than proven that he knows how to get there.

One thing is certain.

Bobby Labonte is a class act to follow.

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS WIZARD OF ID VOLLEYBALL Lady Panthers split two Ledford picked up its first loss of the season losing at West Davidson in four games, 22-25, 19-25, 25-20, 17-25 on Thursday.

Cady Ray had nine service points and 15 assists, Carman Pericozzi 10 kills, Kaitlyn Otey seven kills and Taylor Ballard 14 service points with five aces.

Wednesday, the Lady

Panthers traveled to Trinity and dropped the Bulldogs in straight sets, 25-20, 25-20, 25-23.

Ray recorded 20 points on seven aces while Pericozzi chipped in eight kills with four blocks.

Ledford is 6-1 on the season.

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Newman pays relaxing visit to Fort Benning Army Post NASCARMEDIA.COM FORT BENNING, Ga. — As the tension mounts with two races remaining before the top-12 drivers contend for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, U.S. Army/ Haas Automation driver Ryan Newman unloaded some anxiety Wednesday with a visit to Fort Benning, Ga., a 182,000 acre U.S. Army post, located approximately 120 miles south of Atlanta.

Heading into Sunday night’s Pep Boys Auto 500 at the ultra-fast, 1.54-mile Atlanta Motor Speedway, Newman is currently ranked seventh in the standings, 84 points inside the Chase cut line.

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anxiety build-up, he had the opportunity to unleash some apprehension at Fort Benning, home to the United States Army Infantry School as well as the Army’s Airborne School. The visit by the Army NASCAR driver was also an appearance on behalf of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.

Newman’s day at Fort Benning included firing weapons at the Army Marksmanship Unit, a simulated combat ride on live range roads at full speed, a ride with the Stryker Brigade in the Stryker Armored Fast Attack Front Line Assault Vehicle and receiving first-hand information from the Airborne

will be next week — Saturday night (Sept. 12) at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway.

“Except for a few drivers safely in the top12, teams are counting points and estimating what needs to be accomplished to secure a Chase spot,” said Newman, who has been in the top 12 in points since the May 2 race at Richmond. “It’s crunch time. But at the same time you have to be careful because you don’t want to over think the situation. The key is to continue to do what you’ve been doing. I think we all have our brief moments of anxiety since it’s a major accomplishment to qualify for the Chase.”

If Newman had any

Edwards fractures foot NASCARMEDIA.COM Roush Fenway Racing confirms that Carl Edwards fractured his right foot Wednesday. He is working with doctors at the University of Missouri who have cleared him to drive for this weekend’s Sprint Cup and Nationwide events at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He is currently on crutches to assist with walking but will race the No. 99 Aflac Ford and No. 60 Save-A-Lot Ford in the Sprint Cup and Nationwide races respectively this weekend.

“I know this probably

sounds ridiculous to a lot of people and I could hardly believe it myself,” said Edwards from his home in Columbia, Mo. “I was playing Frisbee with a couple of buddies and we both went for the Frisbee at the same time.

I put my foot on it, my friend dove for it, and the next thing you know…we all heard a pop. I knew it was broken and we all kind of looked at each other in disbelief that of all things, I would break my foot playing Frisbee.

I immediately went to the doctor and have been working with a great team of people at the University of Missouri who

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In 15 career Cup races at Atlanta, Newman has one top-five and four top-10s. He also captured an incredible seven career poles, including six straight from 2003-2005.

He is tied with Buddy Baker for most Cup poles at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

“I love qualifying at Atlanta — it’s such a fast track that puts you at the edge,” stated Newman.

“It would be nice to set the pole record, beating out my good friend Buddy Baker. Regarding the race at Atlanta, you need the entire package — speed, aero and handling.

It’s easier said than done, but that’s what it takes to compete there. We’ll be ready.”

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Following the Fort Benning visit, Newman talked about Sunday’s Atlanta race with the same confidence he had on the weapons range. He and the No. 39 Stewart Haas Racing Team, led by crew chief Tony Gibson, are definitely looking to better the 22nd-place finish it posted at the spring event in Atlanta.

“I always feel confident going into a race, knowing that we have the capabilities of contending for the win,” offered Newman. “We’ve been working hard for the 1.5-mile tracks and feel that our Chevy Impala SS can be a contender at Atlanta.”

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Thursday, the Lady Panthers went three sets to edge West Davidson 21-25, 25-19, 25-19. Tori Griffits accounted for 13 assists while Molly Holbert added 11 service points and Haley Leonard six kills.

On Wednesday, Ledford dropped Trinity 2518, 25-20.

Griffits had 12 service points (6 aces) and 14 assists to lead the way.

Leonard, Holbert and Madelyn Leonard each had five kills.

work with all the college teams here. They have me on crutches to help me walk but said I could race in both races this weekend and shouldn’t have a problem using the accelerator.

“I guess you never know when something is going to happen. This is obviously an unforeseen accident and even though I am not going to miss work, my Aflac policy has me covered.

I’ve now seen first hand how Aflac works and it’s clear that no matter how big or small the accident is Aflac is there for their policyholders.”

Unit prior to a jump class. He also spent time signing autographs at the Base Exchange for base personnel and their families.

“This was my third visit to an Army post this year and each one has been pretty remarkable,” said Newman, who also visited Fort Bragg (N.C.) and Fort Jackson (S.C).

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POLICE REPORTS

All entries in the section are based on information provided in police reports from the Thomasville Police Department.

July 23

Julie Ann Del Angel (WF, 35) arrested on charge of assault and battery at 130 Jewel St. Curtis Lee Thorne (BM, 37) arrested on charge of 2nd degree trespassing at James Ave./Cooksey.

July 24

Cleveland Eugene Joiner (WM, 47) arrested on charge of DWI alcohol or drugs at 11 Pine St. Christopher Quinn McElroy (WM, 16) arrested on charge of larceny at 8 Conner Court.

Tyler Adam Robinette (WM, 17) arrested on charge of larceny at 1109 Hrvest Drive.

David Martin Byerly (WM, 35) arrested on charge of larceny at 1585 Liberty Drive.

Teresa Hill Johnson (WF, 57) arrested on charge of no operator license at 809 Randolph St. Debra Koontz Hutchens (WF, 54) arrested on charge of DWI alcohol or drugs at 713 Edgewood.

Isaac Lamar Phillips (BM, 35) arrested on charge of injury to personal property at 1311 Blair St. Courtney Renee Yarborough (WF, 16) arrested on charge of larceny shoplifting at 1585 Liberty Drive.

James Wesley Denson (WM, 17) arrested on charge of possessing controlled substance at 203 Wall St. Charles Henry Rawlings (BM, 16) arrested on charge of possessing controlled substance at 201 Wall St. Marlone Bernard Tripp (BM, 53) arrested on charge of assault with a deadly weapon at 815 Ray St. Wallace Nathaniel Burnside (BM, 41) arrested on charge of disorderly conduct at Homeless.

on charge of hit and run property damage at 21 Johnia Circle.

James Phillip Boyd (BM, 16) arrested on charge of stolen property possession at Memorial Park/Main St.

July 27 Pablo Juarez Aguilar (WM, 25) arrested on charge of communicating threats at 911 Mendenhall St. Joanna Gene Edwards (BF, 29) arrested on charge of failure to ap-

pear at 209 Lynella Lane.

Riley Bruce Deaton (WM, 39) arrested on charge of failure to appear at 201 North Road.

Joe L. McKnight (BM, 62) arrested on arrested on charge of driving after consuming alcohol at 709 Martin Luther King Jr.,Drive.

Brian Neal Allen (WM, 29) arrested on charge of failing to appear at 4218 County Line Road.

Shanna Michelle Russell (WF, 29) arrested on charge of assault with a

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July 28 Eric Elli Ruff (BM, 27) arrested on charge of carrying a concealed weapon at 1112 Cedrow in High Point.

Samuel Wilson (BM, 45) arrested on charge of assault and battery at Guilford St. and College St. John Michael Kirby (WM, 24) arrested on charge of possessing a contolled substance at 16 Goforth Drive.

Nathan Emil Lee (WM, 19) arrested on charge of possessing a contolled substance at 16 Carmalt St. Edward Junior Montgomery (BM, 51) arrested on charge of assault and battery at 416 Barnwell St.

July 29 Terry Devon Garrick (BM, 16) arrested on charge of robbery with firearms or other dangerous weapons at 19 5th Ave.

Brandon Ja’cobey Coleson (BM, 16) arrested on charge of robbery with firearms or other dangerous weapons at 333 Walker St. David Vinson Jordan (BM,, 40) arrested on charge of hit and run property damage at 209 Barnwell St.

July 30

Paul Edward Monroe (BM, 41) arrested on charge of intoxicated and disruptive at Doak St.

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July 25

Harold Denard Johnson (BM, 29) arrested on charge of fighting at 110 Griffith St. James Richard Barnes (BM, 24) arrested on charge of fighting at 108 Maple St. Mark Alexander Gregg (BM, 39) arrested on charge of disorderly conduct at 615 W. Main St. Bryan Aguilar (WM, 17) arrested on charge of assault and battery at 911 Mendenhall St. Carmen Aguilar (WF, 41) arrested on charge of assault and battery at 911 Mendenhall St. Ryan Thomas Nagle (WM, 22) arrested on charge of hit and run property damage at 601 May St. Marvin Wayne Baity (WM, 52) arrested on charge of assault on female at 806 Virginia Ave. Michelle Shanna Russell (WF, 29) arrested on charge of larceny (misdemeanor) at 103 Trexler Ave. Tkorey Kelvin Pittman (BM, 21) arrested on charge of assault on a female at 603 Price St. Miguel Angel Reyes Valdes (WM, 43) arrested on charge of DWI alcohol or drugs at Winston Salem/Thomasville.

James Richard Barnes (BM, 24) arrested on charge of possessing contolled substance at 615 E. Main St.

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BUSINESS

Getting it all done ASK THE COACH

TAMMY HOLYFIELD Business Columnist Dear Coach, I am struggling with balance in my work and personal life. There are not enough hours in the day. What can you suggest to increase energy and reduce panic?

Signed – Out of Balance Dear In Search of Balance, Finding balance in today’s frantic-paced world is no easy task.

We are addicted to the whirlwind of busyness.

There is an increased pressure to do more with less. Maybe you have experienced this seemingly out of control frustration and anxiety that accompanies endless phone calls, voicemails, emails, deadlines, appointments and the list goes on.

Most often our greatest discomfort comes from over committing. By saying yes to everything, it is nearly impossible to keeping promises and honor commitments.

Work/life balance is a real issue for people.

Boundaries of work and personal lives are often blurred due to our global economy and advanced technology. With Blackberries, iPhones and wireless connections, people have the ability to work anywhere and we do, even on vacation. Being so connected can have challenges.

These challenges can be overcome by applying timeless principles, creating a clear vision and realistic boundaries.

Balance is serious, intentional and purposeful living. It’s not for the weak. It takes a highly effective, courageous person to live what matters most. Often it is easy to

BB&T Chair to kick off leadership series TIMES STAFF REPORT

John Allison, chairman and former CEO of BB&T Corp., will speak Thursday, Sept. 10, as part of the Leadership Speaker Series presented by the Wake Forest University Schools of Business.

The event, which is 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in Room 1312 of the Worrell Professional Center, is free and open to the public and will include time for Q&A. Allison, a Distinguished Professor of Practice in the Wake Forest Schools of Business, will kick off the first Leadership Speaker Series event of the academic year with “The Financial Crisis: Causes and Possible Cures.”

A strong proponent of a free market economy and a vocal opponent of government intervention, Allison spent 38 years with BB&T before retiring as CEO in 2008.

let life control you. In order to make positive, long lasting impact we need to examine our current habits. Habits are patterns of behavior that consist of three components: desire, knowledge and skill. Habits are created over time. Samuel Smile said, “Sow a thought, reap an action; Sow an action, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny.” Consider making a list of your top ten priorities, then evaluate where you send most of your time.

Are your habits and actions in alignment with your highest priorities?

Here are some “Highly Effective Habits” to consider in the search for a balanced life, based on the work of Dr. Steven R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Habit two Begin with the End in Mind. This is the Habit of Vision Ineffective: I live by default.

Vs. Effective: I live by design.

Mental creation precedes physical creation.

Beginning with the end in mind will result in a clear definition of where you want to be. The vision provides criteria for deciding what is or is not important. As we start to model this way of thinking, we begin to envision outcomes before we take action, which in turn increases our focus and production.

Habit 3 Put First Things First. This is the Habit of Integrity and Execution Ineffective: I put urgent things first.

Vs. Effective: I put important things first.

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

– Johann Goethe This habit means we are walking our talk. Our actions line up with what we say is

important to us. E.M. Gray said it this way, “Successful people have the habit of doing what the unsuccessful don’t like to do.” Then he added, “They don’t like doing them either. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.”

Keep in mind that changing habits takes personal commitment. When a rocket is launched it expends more fuel and energy in the first few minutes of lift off than it uses over the next several days to travel a half-million miles. Like gravity, habits have tremendous pull.

Suggestions to Improve Balance.

Decide What is Important… Having a clear vision will help in living a balanced life. Balance looks different based on what matters most and the roles you play in your life as well as your objectives. Assess your habits, priorities, objectives and actions.

Plan… Schedule the First things First, but don’t over schedule.

Decide what needs to be done now and what can wait until later.

Set Boundaries…

Determine a set time to shut things down in the evening and focus on your family.

If possible eat dinner together or scheduling a family night.

Take Care of Yourself… It is important to plan time for self care.

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Include your whole self, spirit, mind and body.

Including personal development or learning new skills can expand your thinking to produce desired results. You are your greatest asset, without you what is there?

Laughter is Good Medicine... Lighten up and laugh Just Say No… Be honest and don’t over commit. You can’t be everywhere all the time. Know when it is OKAY to say No. What we feed grows and what we starve dies.

If we are addicted to being busy, it can give us a false sense of accomplishment. But it is really about our purpose, we achieve balance when our actions are in alignment with our values. Viktor Frankl said, “When we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Tammy Holyfield is the founder of Holyfield Consulting, a business and personal development company. She is also a professional speaker, author and consultant.

For information on organizational solutions or to reach her visit www. holyfieldconsulting.com or call (336) 988-5635.

Have questions? We would like to hear from you, e-mail your questions to askthecoach@holyfieldconsulting.com. Ask the Coach is a trademark of Holyfield Consulting.

Legals

NORTH CAROLINA GUILFORD COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Homer A. Everhart, Deceased.

All persons, firms or corporations having claims against Homer A .

E v e r h a r t , deceased, formerly of Davidson County, North Carolina, are notified to exhibit s a m e t o t h e undersigned on or before November 15, 2009 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery.

All persons indebted to the estate should make immediate payment.

This 15th August, 2009.

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Alice Faye Everhart Executrix of the Estate of Homer A. Everhart P.O. Box 1905 Thomasville, NC 27361

Need Immediately Experienced Drapery maker. Apply at 2316 English Rd. HP.

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Miscellaneous

Britthaven Of Davidson has the following positions available: Dietary Manager for a 154 bed facility: ● Responsible for planning, organizing, developing and directing dietary department ● Must have CDM certification ● Experience in Supervision, and Management skills ● Knowledge of State and Federal regulations for nutritional compliance, including MDS assessments and Resident care plans.

Please apply in person at Britthaven of Davidson 706 Pineywood Rd. Thomasville AAE/EOE/Drugfree Workplace.

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The Classifieds NORTH CAROLINA DAVIDSON COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE UNDERSIGNED, having qualified as Administratrix of the Estate of Anthony Michael Mohney, deceased late of Davidson County, this is to notify all persons, f i r m s , a n d corporations having cla ims agai nst said Estate to present t h e m t o t h e undersigned on or before the 3rd day of December, 2009, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

Michelle L. Mohney Administratrix of the Estate of Anthony Michael Mohney 808 Kenreed Drive Thomasville, NC 27360

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Licensed Practical Nurse, Evening Shift, 3pm-11pm Monday-Friday Reports to: RN Nurse Supervisor Chosen by the Consumers Research Council as one of the top nursing homes in the nation for 2008, Adams Farm Living and Rehabilitation is a premier rehabilitation center and nursing home located in Jamestown.

We are seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse to join our superb nursing team.

We are looking for a new team member who desires to make a difference in the long-term care arena and to positively touch lives.

If you are looking to be a part of a growing, innovative company that puts service to others as their top priority, then you may be interested in joining our team.

We offer competitive salary and benefits, including 401(k) match, medical, dental, and vision health plans, short and long-term disability, and paid vacation.

This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a resident-centered environment devoted to providing the highest quality healthcare to each and every resident.

The ideal candidate will have at least two years of relevant experience in long-term care, be compassionate and caring, handle multiple priorities and can motivate staff.

For consideration, please apply in person or email your resume and cover letter in Word or PDF format to: SDC@adamsfarmliving.com 5100 Mackay Road, Jamestown, NC 27282.

Applications accepted 10am-3 Pre-employment background check and drug screening required.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

B8 – Thomasville Times – Saturday, September 5, 2009

AREA NEWS

DOT encourages fall litter sweep participation Statewide cleanup to be held Sept.

19-Oct. 3 TIMES STAFF REPORT

RALEIGH — The N.C. Department of Transportation encourages citizens to put on their safety vests and join Adopt-AHighway groups and other volunteers across the state for the 2009 fall Litter Sweep, which will take place from Saturday, Sept. 19, until Saturday, Oct. 3.

“Litter is not only an eyesore, it also can be a safety hazard and harm the environment,” said Transportation Secretary Gene Conti. “Litter Sweep provides an opportunity for all citizens to enhance their local communities and the state’s environment by removing roadside litter and debris.”

AAH groups and other volunteers, along with N.C. Department of Correction inmate squads and individuals in the Community Service Work Program will participate by picking up litter along state roadsides.

NCDOT employees will also pick up litter and remove orange trash-filled bags left along the roadsides by other participating groups.

Throughout Litter Sweep, the N.C. State Highway Patrol will focus on individuals that either litter or fail to properly secure their loads. Upon conviction, offenders can be fined up to $2,000, plus 24 hours of community

service work and one point on their driver license.

All motorists are encouraged to participate in Litter Sweep by disposing of trash in garbage containers and by taking the time to properly secure vehicle and trailer loads.

Citizens are also reminded that cigarette butts are considered pollutants and can contaminate water when discarded onto roadways and sidewalks.

More than 2 million pounds of litter is expected to be removed during the 2009 fall Litter Sweep.

More than 2.1 million pounds of roadside litter was picked up during the 2008 fall Litter Sweep and more than 2.5 million pounds was picked up during the 2009 spring Litter Sweep, compared to 2.4 million pounds picked up during the 2008 spring Litter Sweep.

NCDOT’s Office of Beautification Programs administers Litter Sweep and provides cleanup information to Adopt-AHighway groups, garden clubs, civic groups and other community organizations prior to the twoweek cleanup. Anyone wishing to participate should contact their local NCDOT county maintenance office in advance to obtain supplies such as safety vests, gloves and orange trash bags. Participants are reminded to warm up before picking up litter, drink plenty of water during the cleanup and follow safety guidelines.

For more information on Litter Sweep, visit www.ncdot.gov/ ~beautification/littersweep or call toll free 1800-331-5864.

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Volunteers of the Davidson County Civitan Club who washed and cleaned United Way agency vans during the UW Week of Caring gather for a group photo.

County Civitans raise funds for United Way TIMES STAFF REPORT More than 30 members and friends of the Davidson County Civitan Club washed and cleaned vans of United Way of Davidson County agencies during the Week of Caring. The project took place

Everyone from North Carolina who becomes a member of the Arbor Day Foundation in September will receive 10 free trees as part of the Foundation’s Trees for America campaign.

Trees for America is a program dedicated to environmental stewardship through the planting of trees by the nonprofit Arbor Day Foundation.

The 10 trees are eastern redbud, white pine, sugar maple, white flowering dogwood, pin oak, red maple, river birch, silver maple, northern red oak, and Colorado blue spruce.

“These trees were selected to provide benefits every season of the year in North Carolina: lovely spring flowers, cool summer shade, spectacular autumn colors, and win-

local chapter of the American Red Cross and Special Olympics along with three private automobiles.

This was the seventh consecutive year the Davidson County Civitan Club has conducted the project as a part the United Way Week of Caring.

SCHOOL MENUS Davidson County Schools Monday, Sept. 7 — Holiday Tuesday, Sept. 8 — Goody bun, assorted fruit, juice, milk; Lunch: Hot dog w/slaw and chili, oven baked chicken w/roll, hoagie sandwich, vegetarian beans, steamed broccoli, garden salad, strawberry fruit pop, assorted fresh fruit.

Wednesday, Sept. 9 — Breakfast bagel, assorted fruit, juice, milk; Lunch: Chicken nuggets, roll, beans and franks, w/

buttered Texas toast, soft chicken taco, baby potatoes, green beans, garden salad, pears, assorted fresh fruit.

Thursday, Sept.

10 — Breakfast: Cinnamon bun, assorted fresh fruit, milk; Lunch: Nachos, lasagna w/roll, rib-b-que, lima beans and corn, onion rings, garden salad, baked apples, assorted fresh fruit, cherry crisp.

Friday, Sept 11, — Breakfast: Sausage biscuit, assorted fresh fruit, milk; Lunch: chicken fillet, chicken terazzine, grilled cheese, squash

casserole, corn, garden salad, fruit mix, assorted fresh fruit.

Thomasville City Schools Monday, Sept. 7 — Holiday Tuesday, Sept.

8 — Breakfast: Cereal w/graham crackers, fruit juice, milk; Lunch: Chicken nuggets, yogurt with fresh fruit, baked beans, blueberry cobbler, creamed potatoes, fresh fruit.

Wednesday, Sept. 9

— Breakfast: Cinnamon-raison bagels, fruit juice, milk; Lunch: Pizza, chef salad, carrot sticks, ranch dressing, chilled applesauce, fresh fruit, milk.

Thursday, Sept. 10 — Breakfast: Pancake on a stick, fruit juice, milk; Lunch: Cheeseburger, chef salad, potato wedges, green beans, pineapple, fresh fruit, milk.

Friday, Sept. 11 — Breakfast: Breakfast pizza, fruit juice, milk; Lunch: Hot dog, chef salad, baked potato, sherbet, green peas, fresh fruit, milk.

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Arbor Day Foundation offering free trees to new members TIMES STAFF REPORT

at the Workshop of Davidson, Inc. on the afternoon of Sept. 2.

The volunteers washed the exteriors as well as cleaned and vacuumed nine vehicles. There were three from the ARC of Davidson County, two from The Workshop of Davidson, Inc., one each from the

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ter berries and nesting sites for songbirds,” said John Rosenow, chief executive of the Foundation. “They will also add to the proud heritage of North Carolina’s 71 Tree City USA communities. ” The trees will be shipped postpaid at the right time for planting, between Oct. 15 and Dec. 10. The 6-to-12-inch trees are guaranteed to grow or they will be replaced free of charge.

New members of the Arbor Day Foundation also receive The Tree Book, which includes information about tree planting and care.

To receive the 10 free trees, send a $10 membership contribution to Ten Trees, Arbor Day Foundation, 100 Arbor Ave., Nebraska City, NE 68410,

by September 30, 2009, or join online at www.arborday.org.

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