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SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2016

night at the museum From left, Kait Siegel and Erin Vining look at a reconstruction of a giant ground sloth in the prehistoric North Carolina exhibit during the third annual Natural Selections event on Aug. 19 at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences.

The event featured panel discussions, hands-on science of beer activities and beer samples from more than 20 North Carolina breweries.

Agencies investigate police shooting of deaf motorist Charlotte The Mecklenburg County District Attorney, North Carolina Highway Patrol and State Bureau of Investigation are investigating a fatal officerinvolved shooting of a deaf man in Charlotte. Motorist Daniel Harris, 29, was shot during a traffic stop Aug. 18.

The State Highway Patrol stated a trooper tried to pull over a motorist on Interstate 485 for speeding. The driver fled and after a pursuit pulled over and got out his car. The statement added there was an “encounter” with the officer and a shot was fired killing the driver. According to multiple reports, the Highway Patrol trooper is identified as Jermaine Saunders.

Man pleads not guilty to aiding terrorists Asheville A Morganton man has pled not guilty to charges of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack.

Justin Nojan Sullivan, 20, was arraigned Wednesday on charges which include providing material support for terrorists, transporting and receiving a silencer in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony and receipt and possession of an unregistered silencer.

Authorities said they arrested Sullivan last year before he was able to carry out a mass shooting at a concert, bar or club. According to court documents, Sullivan converted to Islam in 2014 and began watching ISIL videos of beheadings on the internet.

His trial was set for Oct. 31, and he faces the maximum penalty of life in prison.

UNC study shows promising treatment for peanut allergies Chapel Hill, N.C. Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine found that nearly 80 percent of peanutallergic preschool children were successfully treated with peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT), allowing them to safely stop treatment and incorporate peanut-containing foods into their diets. The phase two clinical trial results, published online this week in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, show that one month after completing the OIT protocol, trial participants achieved “sustained unresponsiveness,” the highest rate yet reported. Researchers anticipate that peanut OIT can offer protection against potentially life-threatening anaphylaxis caused by peanut exposure.

INSIDE Born without a leg, follow one Raleigh girl’s path to Rio for the Paralympic games

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Kinston calls on fanbase to name new team

By Josh Hyatt North State Journal KINSTON, N.C. — Five years after the Kinston Indians’ departure for Zebulon, professional baseball is back in business at Grainger Stadium.

But before the Kinston team can take to the historic field in the 2017 season, it needs a name — and it’s giving fans a chance to submit team names until Friday.

Minor League Baseball announced Monday the Texas Rangers have entered into a 12year agreement with the City of Kinston to provide a team, which the Rangers will own, to play at the town’s storied Grainger Stadium. The Kinston club is slated to begin play in April of 2017.

Team names, which can be submitted through Sept. 2 on KinstonBaseball.com, have already started to flood in. After hosting an event at Grainger Stadium for the fans on Thurs-

day, BJ Murphy, the mayor of Kinston, said that more than 500 names had already been submitted. Although he’s not sure exactly how many people showed up, he knows the hungry fans, in true N.C. spirit, consumed more than 1,400 hot dogs and cold Pepsis.

Kinston and the Rangers have invested roughly $1.6 million in Grainger, the second-oldest stadium in the Carolina League, with features such as wall padding, upgrades to existing field houses, and cosmetic updates to the ticket booth, entrance area and concession area.

“We really want to focus on the safety of our players and secondly the experience for the fans,” Murphy said.

Born and raised in Kinston, Murphy told the North State Journal just exactly what baseball means to his eastern N.C. town of roughly 22,000 folks.

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Presidential campaigns talk small business with locals

By Liz Moomey North State Journal RALEIGH — At two small businesses in Raleigh, Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns advertised their economic plans on Tuesday.

Lara Trump, who campaigned for her Republican father-inlaw, talked at the historic Briggs Hardware, in downtown Raleigh.

And at Trophy Brewing at Maywood, former North Carolina Treasure Richard Moore spoke about the democratic presidential candidate, joining small business owners Trophy’s Chis Powers, Barn and Ivy’s Catherine Woyee-Jones and Reify Media’s Sarah Glova.

Hillary for North Carolina also hosted a roundtable with latino and women small business

leaders in Raleigh. Wake County Commissioner Jessica Holmes, Centro owner Ángela Salamanca, CEO of Pixbit Saúl Flores and cofounder of Craft Habit Taylor Lee participated.

According to various polls, the economy is the top concern for voters heading into the November election. Forbes also recently ranked Raleigh as the second and Charlotte 14th for best place for businesses and careers, making the economy an important talking point for North Carolina residents. North Carolina is home to more than 800,000 small businesses that employ 1.6 million people.

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Gov. Pat McCrory answers questions during the Triangle Business Journal’s Power Breakfast on Friday.

McCrory makes his case to Triangle business leaders

By Jeff Moore North State Journal CARY, N.C — Gov. Pat McCrory participated in a discussion with Triangle area business leaders on Friday to discuss the economy and make his case for reelection to a second term.

The breakfast event, hosted by the Triangle Business Journal at the Prestonwood Country Club in Cary, covered a range of economic topics ranging from H.B. 2 effects on business to corporate recruiting incentives, infrastructure and taxes.

The question-and-answer discussion with business leaders was originally intended to include Democrat gubernatorial nominee and current Attorney General Roy Cooper, as well.

However, according to the Triangle Business Journal’s event planning team, Cooper never accepted their invitation for the pro-

“If I’m reelected as governor, I’m going to bring it right back up to the legislature.You know the growth is going to continue at a pace, which is going to be much beyond our interstate capacity.

We’ve got to plan for that network now.”

Gov. Pat McCrory posed event on economic issues in front of local business leaders.

McCrory was greeted by a standing ovation before pointing to progress in economic and government efficiency he has helped realize since taking office in 2013, evidenced by the state’s approxiSee business, page A3

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Grainger Stadium hosted a free event to celebrate the announcement of Minor League Baseball coming back to Kinston, North Carolina on Thursday. The Texas Rangers announced Monday that the team will have an affiliate playing in Kinston by next year.

Endorsements start rolling in for the governor’s race On Murphy to Manteo, page A5

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THE BACKSTORY Behind the scenes: The race for the governor’s office Campaign season is in full swing with just ten weeks to go until the gubernatorial election. Gov. Pat McCrory and his challenger Attorney General Roy Cooper are campaigning hard, meeting with students and business leaders to present their plans for the next four

years. The gloves come off in a barrage of day-to-day jabs on policy, personal agendas and big money, but behind the scenes is an army of fundraisers, media experts and logistics coordinators who get their candidate to the right place on time and help them put their vision,

Visit North State Journal online! nsjonline.com jonesandblount.com nsjsports.com carolinabrewreview.com chickenbonealley.com Gov. Pat McCrory answers questions during the Triangle Business Journal’s Power Breakfast on Friday.

Attorney General Roy Cooper, left, leaves the Starlight Cafe after holding a roundtable discussion about college affordability on Tuesday in Greenville.

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Chief Strategist | Chris LaCivita

Campaign Manager | Trey Nix

LaCivita has served on and off for a decade as the political director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He led a resurgent campaign for Sen. Pat Roberts in Kansas in 2014 before joining Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s primary bid for President.

Nix ran Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) successful re-election campaign in 2014. Prior to that race, he ran several other Virginia campaigns for state senate and lieutenant governor. He was also an Obama for America field organizer.

Campaign Manager | Russell Peck

Communications Director | Ford Porter

Peck served as McCrory’s campaign manager in 2012 and worked on 2010 Republican General Assembly campaigns. Previously, he worked on presidential campaigns for Bush ‘41 and Bush ‘43.

Porter formerly served as N.C. Democratic Party communication director, N.C. Senate Democratic Caucus director and is the former press secretary for Walter Dalton.

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accomplishments and criticisms into finely tuned messages. As TV ads run, flyers hit mailboxes, and candidates stir crowds at rallies, here are some of the people that make these high profile campaigns run:

Press Secretary | Jamal Little

Director of the Pat McCrory Committee | Billy Constangy Constangy has served on the committee since 2012 and previously served as campaign manager for Sue Myrick for Congress.

Little was formerly the press associate for Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. Finance Director | Kate Connelly

Communications Director | Ricky Diaz Diaz also served as communications director for McCrory’s 2012 campaign and worked on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s first presidential campaign. He served as communications director for the N.C. Republican Party before rejoining the governor’s committee for 2016.

Television Ad Strategist | Fred Davis Davis also led media strategy for McCrory in 2012, served as Creative director for the RNC in 2008, and created ads for political campaigns including work for George W. Bush, John McCain and Elizabeth Dole.

Connelly served as the North Carolina deputy finance director for Kay Hagan and as a researcher for various campaigns.

Television Ad Producer | Mark Putnam Founder of Putnam Partners, Putnam created television ads for the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2012 as well as wrote and produced the biographical films on Michelle Obama “South Side Girl” and “Michelle” for the Democratic conventions.

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Durham company gives owners a solution for anxious pets

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URHAM — The loud crack after a lightning strike or the bang of an exploding firework can startle anyone. But for fourlegged family members, loud noises can bring on stress and anxiety that not only severely impacts them, but also their owners.

Phil Blizzard knows all about this.

“My own dog is afraid of thunder and fireworks,” Blizzard said.

“Waking up with a 40-pound dog standing on my chest in the middle of the night during thunderstorms ... the dog’s miserable, I’m miserable, [he’s] keeping us up.”

Blizzard did what most people would do: he went to his vet and asked for help. But outside of medicating his dog, Dosi, with sedatives — which would also mean predicting thunderstorms ahead of time — he found little help.

And that’s how ThunderShirts were born.

Blizzard, an engineer who worked for Ford Motor Co. in the 1990s before coming to North Carolina to work during the dotcom boom, started to research ways to calm scared or anxious dogs and found that swaddling, which is effective in soothing a crying baby, might also work for his Goldendoodle.

During a storm one night, Blizzard and his wife took an old T-shirt and some packing tape, creating a snug, makeshift shirt, and Dosi calmed right down.

“When I first heard about swaddling my dog for thunder anxiety I thought it sounded ridiculous, but we tried it a few more times after that first time with similar results, and ThunderShirts basically evolved through that,” Blizzard said.

Conversations with people made him realize how many pet owners deal with anxiety, and having seemingly found a solu-

Detroit New-vehicle retail sales are expected to drop by 6.5 percent in August, compared to year-ago figures, according to a monthly sales forecast provided by J.D. Power and LMC Automotive. Total newvehicle sales are expected to drop by 5.2 percent in August following the same metric.

Total vehicle sales by the end of August are expected to reach nearly 1.5 million units, a 0.5 percent drop over last August, which had the same number of sales days (26). The average transaction price for a new vehicle retailed so far this month has reached $30,942, an all-time August record.

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A look at the ThunderShirt display at Phydeaux pet store in Raleigh on Wednesday. The Durhambased company created the dog anxiety vest to help dogs during high-stress events like fireworks and thunderstorms.

tion, Blizzard decided to try his hand at entrepreneurship and develop ThunderShirts.

“When we told the story of what was working for us, it just had a real high level of engagement,” he said. “We thought this had potential for a business, even though there are really no good statistics out there, no one had done any research prior to us getting into the space as far as how many dogs really have these types of anxieties.”

ThunderShirts (retailing at $40 to $50) are made of washable fabric that can be cleaned in the washing machine and air dried. It is held secure on your pet — they are available for both dogs and cats — by fabric fasteners that, when properly sized, should not bother their hair or fur.

The company launched in May 2009 and has “helped many, many

business from page A1 mately $400 million budget surplus.

“We’ve got the fourth-fastest growing economy right here in North Carolina,” said McCrory. “We ought to be proud of it, but we’ve still got a lot of work to do.”

As a result of that growth, McCrory said there are things the state should be doing to prepare itself for heightened economic activity, among them investments in infrastructure he has long proposed.

“We’re going to be dealing with growing pains, not dying pains when it comes to infrastructure,” he said.

While McCrory has already spearheaded the $2 billion Connect NC bond proposal, which voters passed in the spring, instead of direct investments in transportation, the funds were dedicated to infrastructure and building improvements in the University of North Carolina and North Carolina community college systems.

However, McCrory explained pressure from factions within the General Assembly guided the spending priorities away from roads, yielding the current project list.

“I failed in my effort to put transportation on the bonds,” said McCrory. “It was kind of an interesting political coalition that got in the way of that, but we can get into that later. Part of the coalition was the universities wanted even more money and we also had a coalition of business people that wanted more money in the maintenance and

millions of dogs and cats around the world,” Blizzard said. ThunderShirt headquarters is located in downtown Durham less than a mile from Durham Bulls Athletic Park, and Blizzard said their products are in about 90 percent of brick and mortar pet stores — around 10,000 locations.

Blizzard said the company has also donated more than 30,000 ThunderShirts to shelters and rescues groups.

“Shelters and rescues get a lot of the problem dogs, and then a shelter is a stressful situation in the best circumstances, even for dogs that don’t have an otherwise problem,” Blizzard said. “So ThunderShirts have proved very helpful for dogs adapting to a shelter and getting ready to find a new home.”

Other products like ThunderLeash — which, similar to

operation of roads.”

McCrory said he was determined to pass transportation bonds during a second term.

“If I’m reelected as governor, I’m going to bring it right back up to the legislature,” he said. “You know the growth is going to continue at a pace, which is going to be much beyond our interstate capacity. We’ve got to plan for that network now.”

Beyond the anticipated growth in North Carolina’s future, McCrory said many of the state’s chances to win more competitive big development projects that bring significant jobs, like the CSX intermodal hub in Rocky Mount, depends on the level of infrastructure available.

McCrory told the group of business leaders that the port system is the weakest link in attracting those big companies, because surrounding states like South Carolina and Virginia have such comparably accessible and comprehensive port facilities. Such was the case when Charleston, South Carolina, beat out North Carolina’s offer for a Volvo expansion.

Further, McCrory said financial incentives are also needed to attract investment, especially in targeting the rural areas of the state that could use the boost the most. While he said he prefers utilizing incentives for manufacturing jobs, the different regions’ economic dynamics make some incentives more effective than others.

“In the Charlotte area, we don’t have

ThunderShirt, uses gentle pressure around a dog’s chest to stop them from pulling — have already hit the market. Blizzard said the company will introduce at least five new products over the next year and that they’re branching out a bit from the “calming” market and into other pet-related areas.

But the company’s bread and butter is still the ThunderShirt.

“Essentially, any kind of calming could have a benefit,” Blizzard said. “That applies to a tremendous number of situations, whether it’s a jumpy, anxious dog, car travel, going to to vet, new people coming over to your house, interaction with new dogs, being on a leash. You name it. Any time a dog can just tend to get excited, a Thundershirt — just the swaddling has a calming effect — can really help out.”

a need for new call centers,” said McCrory. “If it’s a call center for Rocky Mount, we’re probably talking about an incentive.”

When asked about what he would tell business owners that may have been affected by H.B. 2 fall out, McCrory reiterated his deference to the volition of private business owners in this area.

“I’m going to do what’s right,”said McCrory. “I do not believe it is government’s responsibility to tell the private sector what your bathroom or shower or locker room policy should be.”

More than anything, McCrory rested his case to the business leaders for reelection on fiscal and economic results he attributed to the Republicans’ tax and regulatory reforms over the last several years.

“What it’s doing is making us more competitive,” said McCrory of lowering corporate tax rates, citing growth in private sector jobs and dismissing his opponent Cooper’s characterization of them as “corporate giveaways.” McCrory also boasted about the successive budget surpluses and chided those who had predicted revenue misses and deficits as a result of the expansive tax cuts.

Even though Cooper chose not to make his own case to the business crowd Friday, North Carolinians will undoubtedly hear from both candidates over the airwaves in the days and weeks ahead. A televised debate has also been agreed to the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 18.

Silver Spring, Md. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it has issued revised guidance recommending universal testing of donate whole blood and blood components for the Zika virus in the U.S. and its territories. “There is still much uncertainty regarding the nature and extent of Zika virus transmission,” said Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “At this time, the recommendation for testing the entire blood supply will help ensure that safe blood is available for all individuals who might need transfusion.”

KFC’s fried chickenscented sunscreen returns Louisville, Ky. Citing “the only skin that should be extra crispy this summer is on your fried chicken,” KFC re-released its “Extra Crispy” fried chickenscented sunscreen for free on Friday after a successful first campaign promised more than 9,000 fans a bottle of the stuff when KFC only had 3,000 in stock. The company says that demand was so high that some were being listed for sale online by third parties for more than $200, so KFC decided to rerelease the product for free on ExtraCrispySunscreen.com until supplies run out.

Kinston from page A1 “Baseball in Kinston has been a family tradition for decades,” Murphy said. “From youth baseball players being the bat boys for the pro teams to having Little League games to seeing Scout dance on top of the dugout. Baseball has been a big part of our culture and identity in Kinston for a long time.”

Kinston may not be the only N.C. area expecting a baseball reinvigoration. According to MiLB, Fayetteville is under consideration for a second Carolina League club expansion site, saying the city has made steady progress toward a stadium that would see play beginning in the 2019 season.

“Realignment doesn’t happen often, and we are excited to be a part of this process that addresses some issues important to our industry,” said John Hopkins, Carolina League president. “It’s flattering that clubs are making a major commitment to become part of our league, enabling us to return Carolina League baseball to two outstanding communities where we have some memorable history.”

The two teams will replace the California League’s Bakersfield Blaze and High Desert Mavericks, both of which will cease operations at the end of the 2016 season. The two clubs were the league’s lowest-attended teams.

Murphy says his town has been proactively seeking a new relationship with MiLB since day one after the Indians left. He says Kinston has entertained one or two offers for a wooden bat league at the collegiate level of play, but ultimately decided that pursuing Class-A baseball was in the community’s best interest. To Murphy, the new team, whatever it ends up being named, is bigger than Kinston.

“Although the historic Grainger Stadium is located in Kinston, this is going to be a regional team,” Murphy said.

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RALEIGH — Political endorsements are starting to roll in for both candidates for North Carolina governor. The incumbent, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, has landed the support of two law enforcement groups, while the challenger, Attorney General Roy Cooper, has a handful of endorsements from advocacy groups.

The North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police (N.C. FOP), North Carolina Police Benevolent Association and the North Carolina Troopers Association have backed McCrory in the upcoming election. McCrory has also received support from the Associated Builders and Contractors of the Carolinas, a group of 1,800 construction companies in North and South Carolina.

Cooper earned endorsements from the AFL-CIO, Equality NC, Human Rights Campaign and Planned Parenthood. Both the North Carolina Association of Educators and the North Carolina League of Conservation Lawyers also support Cooper.

One law enforcement group who did back Cooper was the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO), a coalition of police unions from across the United States.

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west NC Forest Service: Locust trees turning brown is no cause for concern Watauga County The N.C. Forest Service said the locust tree pest, which is causing the leaves to turn brown, is no reason for concern. According to Ranger Joe Shoupe with the N.C. Forest Service, the color change does not normally affect its long-term health. The locust leafminer, a beetle that eats the trees, causes the leaves to change from green to brown, bronze or gray in the late summer. Repeated leafminer attacks can stunt the growth or kill weak black locust trees, but generally the leafminer’s natural enemy prevents this.

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Man found not guilty in 2014 deer hunting death Transylvania County A man who was charged with involuntary manslaughter was found not guilty in a 2014 incident when he shot and killed a friend with a crossbow while deer hunting. Boyce Walter Stepp, of Arden, was found not guilty for the death of George Harley Case of Pisgah Forest on Sept.

14, 2014. District Attorney Greg

Newman said the two were friends, and the jury concluded the incident was an accident. Newman added the outcome may have been different if there had been gross negligence, like alcohol or drug use or other carelessness.

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Juvenile detention center to reopen to provide a resource for criminal justice center Buncombe County The former Buncombe County Juvenile Detention Center, which closed in 2013, will reopen in September to provide a resource for the juvenile criminal justice system’s western counties. The center will provide a location for children aged 6-16 who are in the court system or in need of crisis-intervention and assessment. Every child will be given a mental health, physical and educational assessment while at the center. According to a deputy commissioner of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice at the N.C. Department of Public Safety, 30 percent of juveniles in a detention center are awaiting a mental health assessment, which takes about 30 days. This center is the third in the state, but the first to offer beds for secured-custody youth.

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piedmont Interstate 40 exit closure impacts weekend travel Wake County The North Carolina Department of Transportation shut down the eastbound exit 295 on to Gorman Street in Raleigh on Thursday night.

The exit is expected to re-open before Monday’s rush hour. The closure is a part of Raleigh’s Fortify project, and the ramp will be reconstructed, which includes replacing the pavement and installing a drainage system. Drivers can follow detour signs.

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Greensboro Youth Council seeks Halloween volunteers Guilford County The Greensboro Youth Council is looking for high school students to volunteer as staff members for Ghoulash, the organization’s annual Halloween festival, on Sat., Oct. 22.

Citing the event as a prime opportunity to earn service learning hours and build leadership skills, interested parties must be able to attend training on Oct. 19 and a festival setup event on Oct. 21. Applications can be found at www.greensboroyouthcouncil.com.

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Concord church hosts ‘Racists Anonymous’ meetings Cabarrus County Trinity United Church of Christ in Concord has begun to host Racist Anonymous meetings. Inspired by a church in California, the meetings began last month and currently tally roughly a dozen visitors from all backgrounds. The church reports that most of the visitors are church members, but it also attracts other members of the community. The program is led by a licensed therapist and follows the 12-step model traditionally found in alcoholics and narcotics anonymous groups.

east Oak Island Arts Guild returns Brunswick County The popular Oak Island Art Guild Arts and Crafts Festival will return for its 27th year. The two-day event scheduled for Sept. 3-4 will feature more than 100 artists and handmade craft vendors. The event is free and open to the public. The Festival will be located at Southeast 46th Street and Dolphin Drive.

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2 NCCU students robbed at gunpoint in dorm room Durham County Police say two armed suspects robbed two students at North Carolina Central University’s New Residence Hall 2 early Wednesday. A student told authorities that two masked men knocked on his dorm room door and threatened him with a gun. The suspects went through the room and took items. Police are still searching for the suspects and have not released information about how the suspects got into the building, since the residence halls require card keys for entrance.

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Grantsboro seafood market focuses on in-state fish Pamlico County The Red Fish Seafood Market, which opened Saturday in Grantsboro, only serves local North Carolina seafood in an effort to support the state’s economy, fishing industry and fellow North Carolinians. Located at 11146 N.C. 55 East, the market features crab legs, scallops, shrimp, Pamlico oysters, clams, crab meat and a variety of fish.

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Group calls for release of SBI report on homicide Wayne County A group of concerned citizens joined the Coalition Against Racism outside the Wayne County Courthouse this week demanding that District Attorney Matt Delbridge release the SBI report on Deriante Miller’s shooting death

by State Trooper W.A. Hardison in March. In a prepared statement, a group member identified as Anthony D. stated, “We are here because Lenoir County and the State of North Carolina have not done what they were supposed to, to resolve this. And we will not rest until the voice of the family is heard and their demands have been met.” Statements from the N.C. Department of Public Safety declared Miller was running in Hardison’s direction in the early morning hours of March 27 outside of Club Aries, repeatedly failing to respond to commands to stop and drop the gun he was carrying.

In their own prepared statement, the Kinston-Lenoir County Justice Coalition, the Pitt County Coalition Against Racism and friends and family of Miller said they are aware of an eyewitness account that says Miller wasn’t armed and wasn’t given a warning.

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“NAPO is pleased to support your campaign and is confident you will continue your strong support of North Carolina’s law enforcement community as governor,” the group said in an endorsement letter to Cooper.

The Democratic gubernatorial nominee in 2012, Walter Dalton, received the endorsement of the N.C. Fraternal Order of Police for the seat vacated by then-Gov. Bev Purdue. But the N.C. FOP has been at odds with Cooper over the 2015 prosecution of Charlotte police officer Randall Kerrick.

Cooper decided against a retrial of Kerrick, who shot and killed 24-yearold Jonathan Ferrell in 2013, on a voluntary manslaughter charge after the first prosecution ended in a mistrial. The N.C. FOP reportedly spent $500,000 on Kerrick’s defense and said Cooper decided to prosecute him despite insubstantial evidence.

Several members of the N.C. FOP walked out on Cooper when we spoke at the organization’s state convention in Asheville earlier in the month.

The N.C. FOP has also endorsed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, but endorsed both Democrats and Republicans in upcoming down ballot races this November.

McCrory, Cooper head back to college

By North State Journal Staff North State Journal GREENVILLE, N.C. — East Carolina students headed back to school this week, but had a couple of special visitors as they got ready to crack the books.

Gov. Pat McCrory and his challenger Attorney General Roy Cooper were both in Greeneville on Tuesday to talk about college affordability.

McCrory met with ECU’s new Chancellor Cecil Staton and a group of students who shared their concerns and gave him a look at the plans for the Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building, a $90 million project being funded through the Connect N.C. bond passed in March.

Across town at the same time, Cooper hosted a higher education roundtable with current and former college students to discuss student loan debt at the Starlight Café. About twenty people turned out for the one hour meeting, including Greenville Mayor Alan Thomas.

McCrory continued the student sit-downs at other schools across the state, visiting UNC-Pembroke on Thursday where he talked to students about the state’s move to cut tuition there, along with Western Carolina and Elizabeth City State University, to $500 per semester for in-state students.

“It’s very disturbing for me to hear about kids getting into further debt and

not being able to climb out of that debt within a reasonable time,” McCrory said after meeting with UNC-Pembroke students. “This generation is having to deal with much greater financial pressures than my generation.”

Higher education has been an increasing focus of the governor’s race as schools prepare for a changing economy and the recent raise in K-12 teacher pay addressed months of criticism over the General Assembly’s budget for public schools. The effort to raise teacher pay over three years came after the state dropped in national teacher pay rankings from number 19th in 2003 to 47th in 2013.

The Cooper campaign was boosted by an ad this week accusing McCrory of neglecting public education. The ad is funded by a group called North Carolina Citizens for Protecting Our Schools, which according to the Center for Public Integrity, is largely funded

by The National Education Association and Democracy Votes, a super PAC that lists donor organization Democracy Alliance, founded by liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

“They are attacking Gov. McCrory’s record of improving education and increasing teacher pay to distract voters from Roy Cooper’s terrible record of cutting education and letting teacher pay fall behind more than any other state in the country,” stated Ricky Diaz, McCrory’s campaign spokesman.

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north STATEment Neal Robbins, publisher | Drew Elliot, opinion editor | Ray Nothstine, deputy opinion editor EDITORIALS | RAY NOTHSTINE

Buck Newton is right on Roy Cooper The Voter ID case clearly shows that Cooper is interested in leveraging partisan policy to become governor at the expense of the rule of law.

Attorney General candidate Buck Newton recently joined other Republicans in stating that Roy Cooper should resign his position. “It’s time for him to resign or do his job — and I am happy to volunteer to do his job since he doesn’t want to,” declared Newton. While there are plenty of partisan barbs directed at Cooper from Newton and Gov. Pat McCrory, his non-defense of a reasonable Voter ID law should compel him to leave office.

In what has become a pattern for Cooper, the attorney general has refused to do his job by carrying out a good faith defense of the laws of our state. He has passed on defending House Bill 2, the marriage amendment, challenges to Obamacare, and now Voter ID, the last one after vowing to defend it. Cooper’s actions clearly signal that he covets the governor’s job more than his current position, but he still has an unambiguous obligation in state law to carry out the tasks in his current position. This is required by the state constitution and the assigned duties of his job.

Some attorney generals argue that they can decline cases by citing their oath to the U.S. Constitution, but all elected officials take the same oath. Courts decide constitutionality. So a failure to defend laws duly passed by the state’s legislative and executive branch erodes the rule of law. “An attorney general who refuses to defend a statute when good faith defenses exist puts himself and his subjective opinion in the place of the court,” declared Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller.

Despite one’s political leanings, it’s hard to argue that federal overreach is not a serious crisis. In pushing back against the federal government, the majority of states are appealing to the Constitution. The people of North Carolina, especially through the legislature, have exercised responsible pushback to federal expansion. They deserve an attorney general who understands the defined role as it relates to checks and balances within our republic.

The Voter ID case clearly shows that Cooper is interested in leveraging partisan policy to become governor at the expense of the rule of law. The measure has broad public support and affirmation by a district court before being struck down by what many describe as partisan judges. Recently in 2013, a Supreme Court ruling is what granted states like North Carolina expanded power on setting voter parameters. In this instance, an attorney general who abandons the clear and compelling duty to defend the state’s interests has in effect abdicated his position.

It would not be shameful for Cooper to resign so he can continue his focus on the job he desires. Sadly, there’s precedent for continuing to take a taxayer salary while not really doing the job. However, the practice of contributing to the erosion of the rule of law and undercutting democratic principles puts the state at greater risk of being a pawn to federal power.

In criticizing Cooper, Newton plainly said, “It’s a normal expectation for the people of North Carolina to show up and do their jobs each and every day,” and asked, “Why should Roy Cooper be held to a different standard than the people of North Carolina?”

That is a basic and fair question to ask of Cooper. Voters should look for candidates who are willing to place the interest of North Carolinians above their own self-interest. By resigning, Cooper would signal that he is willing to do that. While being late in doing the right and ethical thing is not ideal, it’s better than never.

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EDITORIALS | Drew elliot

What North Carolina can teach the nation about economic stimulus Rather than an orgy of spending, North Carolina’s successful economic stimulus was accom­ plished through a return to conservative economic principles.

Most North Carolinians know that the state’s economy is doing well, both compared to our neighboring states and compared to the recent past. Exactly how much conservative policies since the 2011 legislative takeover by Republicans have helped the economic turnaround is up for debate. But any objective look at the state of the state will show how wrong the left and the old-guard media were about predicting gargantuan budget shortfalls, painful job losses, and general calamity and collapse when legislators proposed conservative reforms.

Instead, the state’s economy is humming along, by some measures posting the fastest economic growth in the nation. Another major milestone came recently, when July unemployment figures were released, showing North Carolina’s jobless rate at 4.7 percent — ­ the lowest it’s been since 2007 and below the national average of 4.9 percent.

Since the slow recovery began in 2010, North Carolina’s unemployment rate had generally tracked with the national average and about a point higher. Then in 2013, the gap began to narrow. Now the state’s rate is lower, dropping an entire percentage point since this time last year while the national rate has showed scant improvement. In terms of jobs, the state has added 114,518 since last July, roughly equivalent to the population of Wilmington.

What do all these numbers mean? First, North Carolina’s economy is fairly well tethered

to the nation’s, although there can and will be differences. Second, policy choices matter. It’s impossible to know the exact cause of the boost to North Carolina’s rate of rebound since 2013 — but certainly no one would say that the state has enacted liberal policies since then.

In effect, North Carolina’s leaders have stimulated the state’s economy through broad conservative reforms. While there are many more vestigial shackles on the economy — such as the antiquated certificate of need laws for healthcare, a ridiculous state-run liquor system, and anti-competitive occupational licensure requirements — so much has been accomplished that it’s hard to know which reform has had the most impact on the economy.

Is it decreased individual income taxes, decreased corporate taxes, overhauling the unemployment insurance program, chipping away at the regulatory state, or something else that has helped the state to stop lagging the nation and start leading it? The truth is that it is likely the combination of all these policies and more. And while crossing the line to best the nation’s unemployment rate is more of a psychological threshold than anything else, the rate drop continues the long trend of recovery, a trend that conservative policies accelerated.

And remember, Tarheel Republicans have been able to juice the state’s recovery while simultaneously taking short-term budget hits that will pay off down the road — rebuilding

the rainy-day fund, boosting teacher pay and classroom supply funds, paying back a $2.75 billion loan to the federal government for unemployment benefits, and others. All this while enacting budgets using legitimate math that have produced small budget surpluses instead of the large, painful deficits of the past.

If only the federal government had taken this approach to stimulus. Instead, Pressident Obama pushed through more than $800 billion in total “stimulus” spending, with little to show for it. There were some sensible short-term measures that helped ease the recession and provide relief, such as temporary payroll tax cuts and temporary extension of the duration of unemployment benefits. But by and large the recovery act was an orgy of spending, much of it directed to wealthy Democratic donors.

North Carolina’s “stimulus act,” on the other hand, was a return to principles that would make Calvin Coolidge smile — minding the fisc and trusting citizens to make the most productive choices with their own money. But in a democracy, results are as important as principles. So it is good news for North Carolina Republicans that voters have such clear indications that their plans have worked.

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Guest Opinion | CHRIS MILLIS

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North Carolina is one of the top states in the solar market, ranking second behind California.

Confused by all the renewable energy studies? Trust your common sense

S Electricity from new wind and solar power is 2.5 to 5 times more expensive than electricity from existing coal and nuclear power.

tudies can confuse, especially when organizations with competing interests produce seemingly contradictory results with regard to the policies they advocate.

Take the battle to mandate and to improve tax benefits for the production of renewable energy, such as wind, solar and biofuels.

In 2009 a Beacon Hill Institute study published by the free-market John Locke Foundation determined that North Carolina’s renewable energy mandate, which requires that utilities generate 12½ percent of their power from alternative sources by the year 2021, will likely cost the state 3,600 jobs and $1.8 billion in higher electricity rates, and inhibit the state’s economy by more than $140 million a year.

And the conservative Civitas Institute found the renewable requirements will decrease economic output by more than $6.6 billion in 2025, and that North Carolina will have 50,000 fewer jobs in 2020 and 45,000 fewer jobs in 2025. By 2020, the policy will force electricity costs up by $1.9 billion, the report said.

On the other side is the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association, which espouses the benefits of renewable energy requirements. They argue that “clean energy costs have largely been shown to either reduce residential customer bills, or to help customers avoid an equal amount of future utility cost increases in

the future.” They contend the state’s ratepayers have realized $162 million in energy cost savings since 2007, when the renewable mandate was implemented, and estimate they will save another $489 million by 2029.

So who to believe? Besides the confusion of statistics and economic modeling offered by these policy groups, fortunately citizens have another tool to discern the truth: their common sense.

In North Carolina, our Utilities Commission is required to ensure that the electricity providers they regulate (primarily Duke Energy and Dominion Power) deliver reliable service at the lowest cost possible. Besides what their government overseers demand, however, it is in the best interest of companies like Duke and Dominion to keep their costs as low as possible so as to attract more businesses and residents to the state, to further expand their customer base. Thus in a truly free market, the utilities would seek out the most economical and dependable sources possible.

Unfortunately the nature of so-called “clean” energy supplies, like wind and solar, are not cheap, nor are they dependable. An analysis by the Institute of Energy Research of data from the Energy Information Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission found that electricity from new wind and solar power is 2.5 to 5 times more expensive than electricity from existing coal and nuclear power. Many of the power

plants currently in operation could continue to provide inexpensive, dependable electricity for decades to come, but federal and state carbon dioxide regulations have spurred utilities to replace many coal plants with renewables.

As a viral video from a few years back articulated, they “make cheap energy expensive, so that expensive energy would seem cheap.”

This costly electricity, which we expect to always be “on” at our homes and businesses, is not dependable either — because it is not “dispatchable” (in energy industry lingo). This means the sources cannot be turned on or off on demand, like fossil-fueled plants can. When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, the renewable “generators” are actually degenerates. This means traditional sources must always function as back-ups, which are less efficient and more polluting when they operate that way.

So so-called “renewables” are not cheap, they’re not dependable, and they’re not cleaner to operate than fuels that have been traditionally used for electricity. If you don’t know what studies to believe, trust your common sense: The high costs and environmental ineffectiveness due to North Carolina’s mandate of “green” energy is all pain and no gain.

Chris Millis, who lives in Hampstead, represents the 16th District in the N.C. House of Representatives.

Columnist | james leutze

From Benghazi to emails, Clinton’s intent matters et me start by saying that I wish that Hillary Clinton were L more candid when she answers

When matched up with a less experienced congenital liar, Hillary still wins.

questions about her actions or lack thereof. There is no arguing that she is often defensive, evasive and overly legalist. Like a gift bestowed by a bad fairy, to not tell the whole truth is in her nature. Yale Law School probably saw in her a “natural.” As legal scholar Peter Henning has noted, “Finding the truth is the object of the judicial system, but it is not the governing principle of the lawyer.”

Now to another fact of legal, and in this case, practical life.

To find someone guilty of many crimes, “intent” must be proven.

The question is not just whether something happened or not, but whether there was an intent to harm.

Let’s take the two things the Republicans pursue most in regard to Hillary: Benghazi and her private email server.

On the evening of Sept. 11, 2012, a mob attacked the American consulate (not embassy) at Benghazi, Libya. In the resulting gunfire and torching of the consulate and nearby base, four Americans were killed.

This was a tragedy that compounded an awkward

situation. The base was a highly classified CIA base whose full purpose is not known to this day.

How to discuss the events of Sept.

11, 2012 without compromising a national security secret?

Remember the “bodyguard of lies.” At a minimum the situation invited obfuscation or dissembling.

However, my point is something different — does anyone think Hillary intended to have our ambassador killed? What in the world would she had to gain from that? She has testified before Congress that she had no such intent – however, in her later “clarifications” she has failed to drive the point home.

Next, to her State Department email server controversy. Does anyone think she intended to make classified information hackable?

Why would she? What she did was careless, foolish, amateurish, but not intentional criminality.

This does not mean that in this case she is guiltless. Returning to the original point — Hillary is incapable of telling the whole truth. We’ve known this for a long time. In 1996 William Safire wrote: “Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady... is a congenital liar.”

Now the partisan group Judicial Watch, a virtual adjunct of the Republican National Committee, has discovered a “new trove” of emails they want handed over to Congress. These emails have been read by the FBI and are covered

by Director Comey’s assessment of Clinton’s guilt or innocence. Like Churchill said about continued bombing of London, it only made the “rubble bounce.” Americans have had a long time to get used to Clinton’s character flaws and, as Bernie Sanders said, they don’t seem to give a damn. Maybe they should, but when matched up with a less experienced congenital liar, Hillary still wins.

It is quite an act, as Kathleen Parker has recently written: “like a gymnast on a balance beam, she manages to stay within the narrow parameters of lawfulness….”

There is no reason to believe she is going to be any less successful now than she has been for the last 40 years. So much for the chants of “lock her up.”

James R. Leutze is chancellor emeritus of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a former history professor at UNC Chapel Hill. He lives in Wilmington.

I hear from leftist friends who ask, “Why are there so many well-funded right-wing ‘think tanks’?” They don’t really like my answer, but I stand by it: There are lots of large, well-funded leftwing think tanks, too. They’re called “universities.”

The policy shops that the left hates — John Locke and Civitas in Raleigh, or Heritage and Cato in D.C. — are inadequate counter-balances to the taxpayer funding given to leftist initiatives and research justifying Democratic policies. This wouldn’t be acceptable if things were reversed.

The civil rights laws, and the judges who interpret them, have concluded that “disparate treatment,” in terms of a pattern of substantial differences, is enough to conclude that there is discrimination.

Our General Assembly recently created a “N.C. Policy Collaboratory,” where scientists and experts will do environmental policy research and give advice on new technologies. Why not simply do this through existing academic structures? After all, the taxpayers are forking over millions of dollars to those big state-funded think tanks in Chapel Hill, at N.C. State, and so on.

The answer seems to be that the legislature doesn’t trust the partisan and ideological bias of those “experts,” since they are all Democrats. It may seem strange to think that science can have a partisan bias. Think about it this way: If science has no partisan bias, why are there no Republicans in the existing departments of science policy and study of the environment or climate? Doesn’t that mean that the hiring process is biased, just as if a hiring process never happens to hire African-Americans or women?

If universities should “look like the population” — a common civil rights goal — then shouldn’t the partisan balance approximate the population?

And since about one-third of voters are Republican, shouldn’t about onethird of our university faculty be as well? Remember, if you answer “no,” you must explain why “looks like the population” makes sense for race and gender but not for ideas, which is what universities should be focused on.

But, okay, let’s suppose that the problem is that there are far fewer Republican scientists than there are Democrats. Perhaps only one in 10 people getting a PhD in the relevant science discipline is conservative.

The problem is that there are entire Schools of Indignation, and Task Forces on Life-Arranging, with zero Republicans. Nada, none, bagel. If the blind chance of hiring a conservative is one-tenth, what is the probability of having 30 leftist faculty? The answer is less than 5 percent: if the process is fair, there would be one or more conservatives. If there are 100 faculty and no conservatives, the probability is 0.00003. So, the hiring process is not ideologically neutral.

But then how can some people — including Dr. William Snider of UNC — make the following statement?

“In 17 years of experience with hiring faculty, I have never heard political affiliation mentioned.... There is certainly no place for information about it on the application form. I have never heard any member of a search committee ask a candidate about political preference, and... I have never heard party affiliation or political leaning raised in the final committee deliberations....”

Is he fibbing? No, I’m sure he’s right. No one needs to have meetings, or say anything about hiring and partisanship. The problem can be stated simply, and I have heard it said this way, verbatim: Asking the environmental department to hire a conservative is like asking the biology department to hire a creationist.

It’s not an intellectually respectable position. That’s why are none. Not few; none.

So, when people want to add ideological diversity to the new “Collaboratory,” they are missing the point. It’s not that the left needs “equal time.” The Collaboratory is equal time, a way to add balance and ensure other points of view are represented in our state. It’s not ideal, but then this wouldn’t be necessary if the universities had done their job better in the first place.

Michael Munger is a professor and director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at Duke University.

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NATION& WORLD Chorus grows for Clintons to shutter charitable foundation

NEWS IN IMAGES

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — National media outlets are calling for The Clinton Foundation, the family philanthropy organization of Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, to be shut down. This after an Associated Press article revealed more than half of the non-government meetings that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held were with donors to her foundation. The investigation reinforced accusations the Clintons allowed access to the State Department in a “pay-for-play” system.

Clinton called the accusations “absurd” saying the media scewed the data in her calendar by omitting those meetings that she took with federal employees or foreign dignitaries, meetings that would be expected from the U.S. Secretary of State. Of those foreign dignitaries taken off of the list, 16 of them donated $170 million to the Clinton Foundation. The AP did not include those meetings in their investigation because they were tied to her official duties.

The investigators said out of the remaining 154 meetings, approximately 85 people who Clinton met with at State donated about $156 million dollars to her family charity. Forty of

those gave $100,000 or more, Twenty gave more than $1 million.

“Hillary Clinton ran The Clinton Foundation like her own personal hedge fund,” said Republican presidential opponent Donald Trump.

The calendar of Clinton activities was requested through a public records request six years ago. The Associated Press sued the State Department in federal court for the schedules they have, which so far only accounts for half of her tenure as secretary of state.

The Washington Post and USA Today said in editorials on Wednesday that if Hillary Clinton wins the Nov. 8 election, the global charity must close for the Democratic candidate to avoid any appearance of unethical ties.

“The only way to eliminate the odor surrounding the foundation is to wind it down and put it in mothballs, starting today, and transfer its important charitable work to another large American charity such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,” the paper’s editorial board wrote.

In an effort to quell criticism, the foundation announced it would stop accepting at least some foreign and corporate donations if Clinton wins the presidency and that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, would resign from the foundation’s board.

However, it did not address whether

the more than 6,000 donors that have already put $2 billion into the foundation since its formation in 2000 would get special White House treatment.

The Washington Post said in its editorial that these changes were insufficient and should have happened sooner, before Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

“The foundation undoubtedly does worthwhile work,” the Post’s editorial board wrote. “Should Ms. Clinton win, all of that work and all of the foundation’s assets should be spun off to an organization with no ties to the first family.” The Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea Clinton, remains on the board of the charity, the full name of which is the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

The foundation has said Hillary Clinton was not involved with the group while serving as the nation’s top diplomat. The Clinton campaign denies Clinton ever took any action because of donations to the foundation.

The reporters investigating this case say they expect to release more information on Clinton’s schedule and emails later in the fall, but before the general election.

Reuters News Service contributed to this report.

Former NC treasurer sell Clinton’s economic plan

By Liz Moomey North State Journal

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Lara Trump, left, daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, and store owner Evelyn Murray, right, talk to television cameras during a campaign stop at Briggs Hardware in downtown Raleigh on Tuesday.

Briggs Hardware hosts Lara Trump to talk small business

By Jeff Moore North State Journal RALEIGH — Lara Trump made a campaign stop in Raleigh on behalf of her Republican presidential nominee father-in-law Tuesday at historic Briggs Hardware, owned by sixth generation Briggs family member Evelyn Murray, to talk about small business.

“Evelyn is so gracious to have us here today and it’s been an honor to hear your story and the history of your store,” said Lara Trump.

“Evelyn, like so many small business owners, has felt the impact of the economy.”

Though she is now a member of Donald Trump’s billionaire family, the North Carolina native said she is no stranger to the small businesses that make the economy go.

“I’m very comfortable in a hardware store,” she said. “My parents have small businesses, they have my whole life, so I understand what it’s like to own a small business and to have employees that count on you every day.”

Briggs Hardware was originally founded in the 1850s by Thomas H. Briggs and his partner James Dodd. After buying Dodd out in the 1860s, Briggs went on to build the historic four-story Briggs building on Fayetteville Street that stood as the tallest

building in the City of Oaks for 33 years.

The store remained in the family for more than a century, but was ultimately unable to weather the sharp recession that began in 2008 and closed its doors in 2015.

However, the store was reopened in a new downtown location by Murray, who was excited to host Lara Trump and said she is strongly leaning toward supporting Donald Trump for president.

“I’m mighty excited to have a woman come to a woman-owned business,” said Murray. “We appreciate you coming here. We appreciate you standing tall for the woman, and what a wonderful daughter-in-law Donald has!

“What affects small business is Obamacare and then the healthcare industry as a whole,” Murray continued. “I can’t afford to pay my employees’ health insurance anymore, and I’m getting so I can’t afford mine anymore.”

Murray stated she thinks Trump will do better for small business owners like herself.

“He’s not a politician,” said Murray. “He’s a businessman, and as a businesswoman I need his expertise to help loosen the economy and regulations. I don’t see a lot of anybody doing any-

thing but talking, and I think that’s an issue that needs to be addressed.”

Lara Trump concurred her father-in-law is the better choice over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for entrepreneurs like Murray.

“Well look, Hillary Clinton, in my opinion, would be a continuation of what we’ve seen in the last seven to eight years,” said Lara Trump. “As you can see in Evelyn’s case; that doesn’t work.”

Despite the stock exchanges being at record highs, Murray says it has done nothing for Main Street, and she hopes Trump can change that.

“When people are looking at business, they’re not looking at the average man and woman,” said Murray. “People, [such] as myself, are losing their businesses still. Nothing’s improved on our end. Those are the things that are happening, not just to me, but to a lot of people around here.”

Murray described her distrust of Clinton regarding ongoing email scandals and alleged influence peddling through the Clinton Foundation.

“I’m very concerned about Hillary Clinton,” said Murray. “I also know Donald Trump can’t be bought and that is one issue that I’ve seen in politics way too long.”

RALEIGH — While Lara Trump campaigned for her father-in-law in Raleigh, just a few streets over at the same time, three small business owners and former North Carolina Treasurer Richard Moore called a press conference to promote Hillary Clinton’s plan for the economy at Trophy Brewing & Taproom.

Trophy Brewing’s Chris Powers, who hosted the event, Barn And Ivy owner Catherine Woyee-Jones and Reify Media owner and president Sarah Glova spoke in support of Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee.

Glova referred to Clinton as a small business president, emphasizing what her administration would do for women wanting to run their own companies.

“As a business owner and an entrepreneur, I am proud to support Hillary Clinton and the plan that she has for small business,” Glova said. “But more than that, as a woman business owner I am proud to support a leader that represents something we’ve never had before.

As a child, I didn’t know many women business owners, and I definitely didn’t know any women that owned tech businesses.”

Powers said small businesses were necessary to help the economy grow, using Raleigh as an example for a positive small business atmosphere.

“It’s an exciting time to be a small business owner in Raleigh as it is one of the fastest growing and most innovative regions in the country,” Powers said. “This city offers a unique environment for busi-

nesses like ours to grow and succeed. …We also recognize the vital role businesses, like ours, serve.

They form the economic backbone of communities across America, creating jobs, spurring innovation and helping our neighborhoods grow and flourish. That’s why we need leaders like Hillary Clinton, a candidate that has the experience and vision to stand up for our nation’s small businesses.”

Moore agreed that Clinton’s economic plan would help entrepreneurs.

“Hillary Clinton’s new small business plan will do just that — providing small businesses in North Carolina and across our country with tax relief and simplification, cutting red tape, expanding access to capital, and opening up new markets so North Carolina companies can sell their products around the country and the world,” Moore said.

He added if Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, were to win he would be the “reverse Robin Hood,” saying he would take from the poor and give to the rich. Moore also called Trump unfit for the presidency, saying he avoided the draft, has been sued multiple times, and has refused to provide his tax return.

Woyee-Jones reiterated this concern while speaking to press.

“Donald Trump, on the other hand, has a proven record of putting himself first ahead of families and defrauded workers,” she said.

“He has made a career out of stiffing small businesses — not because he couldn’t pay them, but because he wouldn’t pay them. We can’t afford to let him anywhere near the White House.”

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Former North Carolina State Treasurer Richard Moore discusses his support for Hillary Clinton’s small business plan alongside small business owner Catherine Woyee-Jones at Trophy Brewing Company & Taproomin Raleigh on Tuesday.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2016

2016 Rio Paralympics

the Sunday Sideline report 1. Kinston awarded Minor League Baseball team, name to be determined by fan vote.

2.Ex-Illinois coach no longer volunteer assistant for UNC after mistreatment allegations bring attention to North Carolina football.

3. NC State quarterback Ryan Finley received an extra year of eligibility from the NCAA. Now a redshirt sophomore, the transfer from Boise State is listed as one of two starters for the season opener.

4. The Texas Rangers waived former MVP Josh Hamilton, a Raleigh native.

5. Brock Lesner temporary suspension extended by UFC.

@Shaq: Happy Birthday Lil Bro @kobebryant and Congrats on your well deserved 8-24 day. @DemaryiusT: Where yours at young fella?? @J_No24c

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Hannah Aspden, 16, puts on a swim cap before swimming laps at the AE Finley YMCA in Raleigh Friday, July 29. Aspden, who was born without her left leg, will be competing in the Paralympic Summer Games in Rio next month.

SPORTS wake forest football

By Brooke Pryor North State Journal

@JimRome: Whose idea was it to drill holes in burned baked potatoes and call it a James Harden signature shoe?

ALEIGH — Hannah Aspden still remembers her first Paralympic meet.

RShe arrived alongside her parents for the three-day

College Football

Ex-Illinois coach Beckman no longer working with UNC football team The North Carolina football team is under some scrutiny after Larry Fedora brought former co-worker (Oklahoma State) and ex-Illinois football coach Tim Beckman in to work with the Tar Heels.

Beckman was fired by Illinois and an investigation found he “criticized players who sought medical treatment.” Fedora countered the claim by saying “I don’t believe everything I read, all right.” Beckman announced Thursday that he would no longer be working with the team, hoping to avoid any further “distraction.”

Chancellor Carol L. Folt, disappointed he was there, supported Beckman’s ouster

olympics

2020 medals might be made of recycled cell phone material The precious materials used to create the Olympic medals awarded to athletes might not be so valuable at the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo. According to reports, organizers want to use “e-waste” — old electronics, including cell phones —to create the gold, silver and bronze medals.

nfl

Pats trade with Browns for former 1stround pick The Patriots picked up a member of the 2013 NFL Draft on Thursday when they traded the Cleveland Browns a fifth-round pick in the 2017 draft in exchange for pass rusher Barkevious Mingo.

Mingo was taken by the Browns with the No. 6 overall selection in that draft.

Hannah Aspden conquers illness in time for Rio

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Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson reacts in the fourth quarter against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Notre Dame Stadium. Notre Dame won 28-7.

Clawson keeps on rebuilding at Wake

By R. Cory Smith North State Journal INSTON-SALEM, N.C. — One decade ago, Wake W Forest shocked the college

football world, going 11-3 and winning an ACC title en route to an Orange Bowl berth. The Demon Deacons lost just two conference games during their magical season.

Unfortunately, success wasn’t sustainable for Jim Grobe, who only led the team to two more winning seasons before he resigned. Dave Clawson was hired to pick up the pieces, a task that has been as grueling as he expected.

“I knew exactly what I was getting into,” Clawson said. “It was never presented any other way. Here’s the roster, here’s who graduated, here’s who left the program, these are the issues with your numbers. We knew when we got there this was going to be a process.

“I think it’s the experience of having done it three other times that let’s you not panic.”

Clawson has only six wins over two seasons in Winston, but he also has a wealth of experience when it comes to rebuilding programs.

His first head coaching job was with Fordham, who finished 0-11 in his first season. In 2001 he broke Fordham’s stretch of 12-straight losing seasons with a 7-4 campaign, before following it up with 10-3 and 9-3 marks in 2002 and 2003, respectively.

In his next stop at Richmond, Clawson accomplished a similar feat, going 9-4 in his second season and ending Richmond’s five-year playoff drought. Not a bad follow-up to a 3-8 mark in his first season with the Spiders.

During Clawson’s first year in 2014, Wake had just 46 scholarship players on the sidelines.

Entering his third season, the See clawson, page B8

meet at the University of Minnesota in 2011. A natural swimmer since she was four years old, Hannah had plenty of experience in the pool, but the US Paralympics Spring Swimming Nationals was unlike anything else the 10-year-old had “I’ve always liked ever experienced.

There were limbs strewn everywhere, that [swimming] prosthetic legs cast by the wayside as their was easier for owners shed their plastic appendages for me to compete races where they wouldn’t be needed.

Wide-eyed and full of nerves, the Ra- against the twoleigh native walked across the deck with legged kids.” the help of her ever-present crutches.

It was all going well until she hit a slick Hannah Aspden patch on the pool deck and tumbled to the ground.

That could’ve ended everything. She could’ve given up and sulked away in embarrassment. As she’s learned to do so often in her life, Hannah got back up, shook it off and fought through it.

“That’s what I remember from the beginning of that,” said Hannah, who was born without her left leg. “Everything from there was awesome. Just get the nerves out by face planting and then you’ll be fine.”

Six years later, Hannah is preparing for her biggest meet yet: the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Eight months ago, a simple trip up the stairs in her home was difficult.

And Rio? That felt impossible.

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College football kicks off across North Carolina this weekend, on Thursday night even in Winston-Salem and Raleigh. NC State will host William & Mary as part of that opening night slate, making the debut of a new offense, led by Eli Drinkwitz, with a new starting quarterback (either Ryan Finley or Jalan McClendon). Nyheim Hines is one of several skill position players set to star in the high-octane attack, and he discusses his role on B3.

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Kwame Brown: Former top-overall pick said he is contemplating an NBA comeback, but Brown hasn’t played in the league since 2013.

Minnesota Wild: NHL hockey team changed the song the team plays after a goal is scored to “Let’s Go Crazy” by late musical artist and Minnesota native Prince.

Colt Underwood: Raiders tight end asked gymnast Aly Raisman on a date in a Yahoo! Sports video and Raisman sounded pretty interested, calling the tight end “very cute.”

James Harden: Photos leaked of a shoe that is reportedly Harden’s signature shoe from Adidas. The shoe was brown and ugly and quickly made fun of.

Demaryius Thomas: Broncos wide receiver posted a picture of a Super Bowl ring directed towards Josh Norman after the Redskins cornerback stoked him with a little trash talk.

Josh Gordon: Browns reportedly received multiple offers for talented-but-troubled wide receiver. One report indicated the “offers” may have been the Browns stirring up interest in a non-existent market.

Billy Butler: Oakland Athletics outfielder got in a fight with teammate Danny Valencia. The two adult human beings reportedly fought over baseball cleats.

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The Falcons new home, the plush Mercedes Benz Stadium, won’t even be ready for use until 2017. But video game players on the newest rendition of EA Sports’ “Madden” will get an opportunity to spend time in the digs. The video game company already incorporated the stadium in the game and released a virtual tour as well as photos.

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New York Knicks point guard Derrick Rose, who is optimistic/delusional for team’s 2016 season

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4 Number of athletes in the North Carolina University system who won medals as LaShawn Merritt (ECU), Paul Chelimo (UNCG), Ryan Held (NC State) and Harrison Barnes (UNC-CH) all picked up hardware. Merritt won two medals on her own for the state.

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$3,190 Purchase price of a game-used — or is it game-chewed?

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Josh Norman continues to run his mouth about anything and everything. The new Redskins cornerback said he’s “the best CB on Earth,” that the Panthers purposely didn’t give him endorsement deals and called Roger Goodell a “dog in a suit.”

Former NC State and current Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson reportedly moved his wedding from North Carolina to London over the H.B. 2 bill.

Wilson declined to comment on the matter when he returned from his nuptials to football.

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Chargers first-round pick Joey Bosa and the team are at a stalemate on contract negotiations. The Bolts issued a statement saying they would not plan on negotiating a full 16-game contract with the defensive end because of his protracted holdout.

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N.C. State running back Nyheim Hines (7) practices on August 1.

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Nyheim Hines is ready to become a nightmare for ACC defenses

By R. Cory Smith North State Journal ALEIGH — Nyheim Hines can do it all. He has the R strength and explosiveness to

line up as a running back. He runs routes well and possesses the breakaway speed to serve as an excellent option at wideout.

The combination of all these skills make him a dangerous and explosive return specialist, capable of ripping off big plays.

Last season was a personal disappointment for Hines, as he was only seen in limited action. But with a new offensive system under first-year offensive coordinator Eli Drinkwitz, the NC State offense is prepared to unleash Hines this fall.

Hines has shifted from wide receiver to running back multiple times this offseason and is still sorting out his position with less than a week before the season begins. Regardless of where he ends up, Hines is ready to help lead a new-look offense into a difficult schedule that starts on Thursday against William & Mary.

North State Journal: How difficult has it been to transition between receiver and running back on a constant basis?

Nyheim Hines: I’ve learned a lot of the receiver things and I feel like I know a lot of receiver routes and what they need to do based off the run or protection. I can tell I haven’t played receiver in a while. (Laughs) I’ve been forgetting a little bit of the fine details. [Wide receivers coach George McDonald] has been doing a great job working with me and making sure I’m up to par with the receivers and [defensive backs] because the DBs in this league are so tough.

Where do you feel more comfortable?

Wherever I get the ball. I’m supposed to be a little bit uncomfortable because it’s a game and that makes you stay on your P’s and Q’s and not relax.

Is the wide receiver playbook a little easier than other positions with the new offense?

I feel like any offense can be easy as long as you put the time into it and study it. Every night after I get home I make sure I study the plays and install every night. I feel like if you do that, you can be successful

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Nyheim Hines Hometown: Garner, N.C. College: NC State Major: Exploratory Studies Position: WR/RB/KR Track: Leadoff leg for ACC Champs in 4x100m relay, All-ACC in 60m (indoors) and 100m (outdoors) 2015 Stats: 48 carries, 243 yards, 20 catches, 256 yards Twitter: @TheNyNy7

anywhere you go, even the NFL. You lost weight during the summer. What was your offseason workout routine?

Just running track, really. When you run track, it’s really hard to maintain weight. But I feel faster and healthier because of it. I stayed in the weight room and just ran, like, a lot. I’m about 190 pounds now and I feel like I’m as fast and as quick as possible heading into the season.

I’m a lot more explosive and quicker heading into this year.

Fans will see that. I was dealing with a knee injury coming into camp last season, so I feel like I’ve gotten all that back and more.

How rewarding was it for you to win the 4x100 relay after all the work put in on the track?

It was so exciting. We hadn’t done that since 1990, so it’s always great to accomplish something the school hasn’t done in years. Hopefully we can do more of that on the football field this fall. That was the whole reason why I came here was to change the culture in football and track.

Did you ever have any Olympic dreams in track?

Yes sir, I did. But we’ve got to be realistic that football is probably the way for me to go. (Laughs) I think about doing it during the Olympics every four years, but I think I could go without track a season and it wouldn’t hurt. I don’t think I could go a season without football.

Are your expectations different heading into this season compared to last year?

Oh, definitely. I’m working to increase the workload this year.

Last season I was just really

doing kick returns and only in on a few snaps offensively. My plan is to make a huge impact on the offense to really just prove I can be a player in all aspects of the game.

How excited were you when you heard about Eli Drinkwitz’s offensive scheme?

Anybody who covered me when I was being recruited, I said I wanted to go to a no-huddle spread. So when I heard we got Coach Drinkwitz and we were going to a no-huddle spread, obviously I was ecstatic. I’m loving everything that’s going on with installing a new offense.

There’s ups and downs, but we’re pushing as hard as we can go.

Being from Garner, what made you want to ultimately stay in state when so many are heading out of state?

Family, my sister [sophomore on NCSU track team], I get to go home any time I want and get home-cooked meals. Also the connections. College is all about who you know and who you meet. Being from here, I feel like I know a lot of people. And outof-state friends on this team I

Running back Nyheim Hines (7) runs the ball during the first half against the North Carolina Tar Heels at Carter Finley Stadium last November.

try to help out because I’m from here, so I always tell them to call me and I can try to help them the best I can.

I’ve also always been a guy who’s wanted to be different and not do what everybody else is doing. Now the goal for me is to help Coach [Dave] Doeren out and help local kids stay here like Matt Butler. We tried to get Dexter Lawrence, but that unfortunately didn’t work out.

We’ve heard a few nicknames for you around camp, what’s your personal preference?

Oh, man. (Laughs) Nyheim the Dream is really cool and I’ve always liked that one. But I feel like it’s taken already by Hakeem Olajuwan. So I guess Nyheim the Nightmare works for me. I can punish teams on the goal line, so I guess that makes me a nightmare. I’ll roll with it.

What are your personal expectations for this season?

Just do everything I can to help us win. I’m not really a statistical guy, just want to help the team in any way I can. I want to have a better season than last year.

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Hannah Aspden, 16, dives off a starting block during practice at the AE Finley YMCA in Raleigh on July 29.

Aspden, who was born without her left leg, will be competing in the Paralympic Summer Games in Rio.

Aspden from page B1 During the coldest winter months, Hannah shocked her parents by wearing shorts and a t-shirt to and from swim practice. But in November 2015, she shivered under layers of sweatshirts, sweatpants and socks inside their heated Raleigh home.

Her blood pressure spiked, she got sick after she ate, she periodically lost feeling in her hands and feet, she couldn’t regulate her body’s temperature, and she alternated between bouts of dizziness and shaking.

Something was wrong, but nobody could explain it.

How could a perfectly healthy 16-year-old suddenly have health problems found more commonly in people three times her age?

It was inexplicable.

But after two trips to the emergency room and countless trips to nearly every specialist at Duke, the Aspden family finally had a diagnosis: dysautonomia — an umbrella term for an autoimmune disorder that causes the body systems to go haywire.

In Hannah’s case, there’s no sure way to tell what triggered it. The doctors’ best guess is that it was a response to a bad respiratory virus Hannah had two weeks before Thanksgiving. And as she was recovering from the virus, the mysterious disease rapidly evolved.

“We’re lucky to live near Duke,” Hannah’s mother, Jennifer said. “We’ve seen about every -ologist at Duke trying to go through it. The first thing, other than being sick, we went to her pediatrician and her blood pressure was really high and we were like, she’s in great physical shape, this should not be happening.

She’s still on high blood pressure medicine. Some days she couldn’t even climb up the stairs. All of a

Hannah Aspden (right), 16, high fives Molly Pennisi, 14, during a practice.

sudden it just wiped her out.”

It’s not all that uncommon, the Aspden family learned. More than 70 million people live with the disease all over the world. But while the disease doesn’t have a specific cure, there are ways to manage it, and eventually, the symptoms fade but that can take months or even years.

Hannah had to learn to manage her symptoms and not overexert her body as the autoimmune disease ran its course. It was a total loss of control, an unfathomable sentence for someone who’s thrived in pushing herself beyond the expected limits since she was born.

••• The disorder kept Hannah out of the pool for just a few weeks, but it felt like a lifetime for the girl who fell in love with swimming at the age of four.

Following in the footsteps of her older brother, Hannah not only wanted to learn to swim, she wanted to break boundaries — she craved the coveted black band allowing her entrance into the deep end. It wasn’t long before she earned the all-access pass to the YMCA pool. A day later came the next milestone: the diving board at her neighborhood pool.

For Hannah, swimming was more than a hobby — it was a place where disabilities didn’t matter.

“I remember trying basketball and trying soccer, and they were fun, but swimming has always been my favorite,” Hannah said.

“I’ve always liked that it was easier for me to compete against the two-legged kids.”

By the time she was eight, Hannah was swimming competitively year-round with the YMCA of the Triangle Area. Two years later, she was entering in-

ternational paralympic competitions and was named to the US Emerging Team roster at 12 and to the National Team roster at 13. She’s been to meets around the country and a handful of international meets, including the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Scotland where she earned a silver medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay.

While the freestyle and backstroke specialist doesn’t really have to modify her stroke, there are aspects of her sport that require a little tweaking. Swimsuits are made with two leg holes, but because she has no use for one of them, Hannah has to have them specially made.

So after her daughter picks out a suit, Jennifer heads to the fabric store to get extra material and then drops everything off at the tailor to sew up the extra opening.

Though she was undersized at birth and arrived without a leg — likely the result of a blood clot in utero — there’s no doubt Hannah was built to be a swimmer.

At 5-10, she is physically more mature than most 16 year olds.

Her muscular shoulders flow into arms made even more powerful through the everyday use of her crutches. And that lack of a leg?

Barely noticeable when she’s in the water.

“I first saw her when she was swimming, I had never even seen her on deck,” said Matt McInnis, one of Hannah’s YOTA coaches.

“She was a very strong swimmer from the get-go. I honestly didn’t even see that she was handicapped. She was swimming like she had two legs and she was keeping up with the best of them.

I didn’t think anything of it.

“She hopped out of the pool and I was quite shocked. But from the get-go, I could see that she had a lot of strength and a lot

Hannah Aspden, 16, swims laps at the AE Finley YMCA in Raleigh on July 29.

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of competitiveness. Other than that, she was just another swimmer.”

••• Through the early months of her illness, there wasn’t much Hannah could do at full strength.

Her life seemed to move in slow motion as she coped with the autoimmune disease. Along with missing time in the water, Hannah also missed seven weeks of school.

“At first when this all started I was kind of just worried about a lot of things, swimming was one of them,” Hannah said. “I was trying to figure out, ‘When am I going to be able to get back in the water? When am I going to go back to practice? I didn’t get to go to one or two meets that we had scheduled. I had to back out of those just because I couldn’t get in the water at practice.’

“How was I supposed to go do a meet and race? I didn’t race for six months, which was really hard mentally, being away from that big of a part of my life before this for so long. I definitely was worried about how I was going to come back with this.”

Before Hannah got sick, she was training at full speed, hoping to make Paralympic Worlds for the second time. Suddenly, she didn’t even have the strength to get in the pool.

As a mom, Jennifer thought about telling her daughter to take the year off, but Hannah wanted to keep swimming.

When Hannah was finally able to resume some physical activity,

“I first saw her when she was swimming, I had never even seen her on deck.

She was a very strong swimmer from the get-go. I honestly didn’t even see that she was handicapped. She was swimming like she had two legs and she was keeping up with the best of them. I didn’t think anything of it.”

Matt McInnis, one of Aspden’s YMCA coaches

Jennifer brought a blood pressure monitor to the pool. She sat a couple of feet away while Hannah swam a 50 — a fraction of her usual workouts. And when her daughter finished laboring through the set, Jennifer knelt down beside the pool and checked her daughter’s blood pressure.

Often in the early weeks of her return, Hannah’s blood pressure would be dangerously high after just the brief time in the water.

Slowly, she’d get out of the pool, sit on the bench to calm her body down, and then walk to the car with her mom.

In March, Hannah resumed training with her regular groups.

But she still couldn’t participate fully in their workouts and continued to go at her own pace, modifying her practices to her body’s capabilities that changed on any given day.

“Getting back was really hard, it took me a half hour to do a 500,” Hannah said. “I just couldn’t do anymore. It started out pretty bad and hit pretty hard. It very

Matt McInnis, a YOTA coach, times Hannah Aspden during practice.

slowly started getting better and some symptoms will come and go and there’s so many ups and downs. It’s very unpredictable, but overall it’s gotten so much better than it was.”

While some athletes spend years mentally and physically preparing for the Paralympics, Hannah had just two months of team training before the June trials. Her illness kept her out of Worlds and other major meets usually used as tuneups, but she managed to squeeze in two meets in May, traveling to the Cincinnati Para-Swimming Open and the Arena Pro Swim Series meet in Charlotte.

And even with limited training, Hannah flourished in those meets, capturing five first-place finishes in the Cincinnati Para-Swimming Open.

But Hannah was still nervous entering the Paralympic Trials.

Was her body ready? Would her disorder flare up again and derail her Rio hopes? Would she be fast enough?

Hannah quickly quelled those fears, turning in a first-place finish in her signature 100-meter backstroke race while also improving on some of her times from the previous meets.

And when the names for the US team headed to Rio were announced at the conclusion of the meet, Hannah was the first name called — perks of alphabetical superiority.

“The good thing is I didn’t have to wait too long,” Hannah said. “I think I was the first name on the whole list. She was like, ‘Alright I’m going to read the names’ and she read my name and I was like ‘Whew, OK good, good, I can breathe now.’ I didn’t have to wait so long.”

Her training still isn’t back to 100 percent, but she’s pushing herself as hard as she can with the help of a rotating cast of coaches and teammates. During

Hannah Aspden (center), 16, chats with friends Molly Pennisi (right), 14, and Hanna Fulford (left), 15, before a practice.

most of the year, Hannah trains with YOTA. But when the that team went on its annual hiatus in late July, Hannah worked with her coaches individually to get daily workouts six days a week.

And sometimes, her YOTA teammates joined her at the pool as surprise workout partners.

“It’s been rough, but she’s really strong,” Jennifer said. “She’s had some really, really rough days. But she stuck with it and just made the best of each day and she always, there’s been very few days that she let it tear her down. She’s always had a great attitude about everything and not just swimming, school too.

That’s the hard thing, she doesn’t

want to let anything slip. So even her school, she wasn’t going to not do her hardest to get As in everything. I’m like, ‘It’s OK! People will understand.’ But she’s a perfectionist in everything that she does. I’m really proud of her.

“She’s really fought hard for everything to be where she is right now. She’ll be proud of that no matter what the outcome. You can only do what you can do and what your body can do. She’s going to give it her best.”

••• Eight months after her diagnosis, Hannah and her mom are sitting in a restaurant about a mile from where she trains at

the A.E. Finley YMCA. Her long blonde hair is loose and she’s wearing a gray USA t-shirt. In a few short weeks, she’ll be decked out in even more USA gear, nearly 5,000 miles away from home as she marches in the Paralympic opening ceremonies.

“I got an email the other day it was like just confirmation that you’ll be at the opening ceremonies,” Hannah said. “It was like, ‘Oh yeah, I’d like to be there!’”

She’s excited about the trip — less excited about the travel to get there — but she’s brimming with joy as she talks about the upcoming Paralympic experience. And of course, part of that Paralympic experience is understanding how

she got there.

In telling her story, Hannah doesn’t sugarcoat anything. She’s naturally modest and soft-spoken, but through her ordeal, she’s become more thoughtful and pensive than most 16 year olds.

She knows she’s lucky. She knows it could’ve been a lot worse. And she knows that fighting for her health has given her a greater life perspective than most people, let alone teenagers, will ever achieve.

“I am actually proud of how far I’ve come in the past several months because it’s been really rough, to say the least,” she said, tears welling up. “And I had no idea that I would be where I am today eight months ago.”

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Coach K’s golden motivation

By Shawn Krest North State Journal n July 17, Coach Mike Krzyzewski stood in front of O his team and played them a video.

It was the same video he played in 2008, before a group of NBA All-Stars went to China to regain the gold medal lost in 2004. It was the same video he played in 2012, before Team USA went to London to defend the gold.

“America doesn’t have a fight song,” Krzyzewski told the players. “I mean, what is America’s fight song?”

He played a video of Motown legend Marvin Gaye.

“Here,” he told the team, “is our fight song.”

Gaye was standing at center court of the Los Angeles Forum, before the 1983 NBA All-Star Game, and he proceeded to sing arguably the most powerful arrangement of the “Star Spangled Banner” before a sporting event since Jose Feliciano’s controversial slow jazz version during the 1968 World Series.

By the end of Gaye’s rendition of the anthem, the crowd was clapping along.

“Our fight song will be played before every game,” Krzyzewski said, “and your hand will be over your heart, and you’ll feel very proud.”

“And, on August 21,” Coach K added, “our fight song will be played twice. The second time, gold medals will be around your neck, and our flag will be raised above all others.”

Team USA went on to make Krzyzewski’s prediction come true, just as the 2008 and 2012 teams did, proving beyond a doubt that, while motivating the NBA’s top players may be a different animal from motivating Duke teams, the Hall of Fame coach was more than up for the

“It starts to make a program, like our program at Duke or North Carolina’s program. You can tell these stories, because they happened, and they build a culture of excellence that you hope would sustain. I think it will.”

Mike Krzyzewski, Team USA Basketball coach

challenge.

“You want them to feel that,” Krzyzewski said of his Olympians. “All of a sudden, what you said, what you did, they feel that.

Anything we can do to get them to feel, not just listen and see.”

Krzyzewski finished his tenure as the Team USA head coach with a perfect 24-0 record in the Olympics. More important than the win-loss record, in his mind, was the legacy he left behind.

“I never knew I would see such incredible infrastructure developed,” he said. “It’s kind of like in college, when you go from being a team to an outstanding program.

We have an outstanding program right now. It’s built to last.”

Krzyzewski now hands off USA Basketball’s coaching duties to San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, who worked with the team over the summer to help ease the transition.

“I feel really good about what we’ve done and how we’ve done it,” Krzyzewski said. “I feel really good about Pop taking over, and the relationship we formed this summer and the succession that will take place. We’ll work closely, together, to make sure we keep this thing going. … He’s

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as good a coach as there is in the world. It’s kind of like in the military. I was in command of the unit. This division — the Eighth Army or whatever it is. Now he’s in charge. He’s a military person.

He graduated from the Air Force Academy. When you take over command, you want to make it better, and you want the person after you to make it better.”

As proud as Krzyzewski is of the foundation he helped build at USA Basketball, it’s the players

he built relationships with that bring out his strongest emotions.

“There are a bunch of different stories,” he said. “One of the great ones is Paul George. A couple years ago, we’re in Las Vegas in a hospital room, where he doesn’t know if his career is going to continue (after suffering a serious leg injury in a Team USA exhibition game). At that time we were with him and his parents—we have these coins that are like military honor coins for USA Basketball.

We gave Paul a coin and said, ‘I want you to keep this, so when we play in 2016 and win a gold, you’re going to be a part of it.”

He was a part of it, earning praise from Krzyzewski for his in the gold medal game.

“We got better,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s the key thing. We were at our best in the championship game. [Kevin] Durant was spectacular. He was taking threes from farther back than J.J. Redick ever shot them, and I was watching them go in. To have Deandre Jordan get 16 rebounds, Demarcus Cousins get 15 and have a double-double at halftime. To see Paul George just wrap up [Milos] Teodosic, who’s been the best guard in Europe for the last decade. To see the hustle play—we’re down 1412 in the first quarter and Kyle Lowery dives for a loose ball and gets it. From that point on, there was a spark. … He wasn’t even in the pool of players [at the start of the Team USA selection], and he ended up being incredibly valuable on the court and off. He was just an unsung hero of the whole thing. To see Carmelo Anthony’s leadership. Kyrie [Irving], to have a chance to coach him again.”

“Things like that,” Coach K concluded. “It starts to make a program, like our program at Duke or North Carolina’s program. You can tell these stories, because they happened, and they build a culture of excellence that you hope would sustain. I think it will.”

He also thinks his motivational video might stick around.

“I think Marvin Gaye will last forever,” he said. “Even though I like his music I think [the players] like it too. They like it a lot, because as good as players as they think they are, and I think I’m a good coach, we’re not as good a performer as he was.”

Team USA Basketball stays golden in Rio

By Brian Geisinger North State Journal ike Krzyzewski is the first coach in Team USA M basketball history to win three

gold medals, thanks to 24 karat performances from Kevin Durant and Paul George.

After some shaky moments in Rio, the Americans saved their best for last as Team USA basketball threw down the gauntlet against Serbia, and claimed their third-straight Olympic gold medal. Following their 96-66 victory in the gold medal game, the Americans proved once again it doesn’t matter what continent the competition located — Asia, Europe, South America — when it comes to basketball, Team USA is the undisputed champion.

Mike Krzyzewski, who ends his time as head coach of the American basketball program with a perfect 24-0 record in the Olympics, tinkered very little with his rotation and lineups down in Brazil. However, he made one simple and critical change just before knockout play started that made a major difference for the Americans.

DeAndre Jordan was inserted into the starting lineup at center, ahead of DeMarcus Cousins, and with DJ anchoring their defense, Team USA never looked back.

In the quarterfinals, the Americans held Argentina to just 78 points on 38 percent shooting.

Two days later in the semifinals against Spain — the country they met in gold medal bouts in 2008 and 2012 — Team USA once again impressed defensively, giving up just 76 points on 39 percent shooting. Jordan, who normally plays in the shadows of his Los Angeles Clippers teammates Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, took center stage and was the best player on the floor against Spain. DJ scored just nine points, but defensively he was a monster: corralling Spain’s pick-and-roll action, snagging 16 rebounds (13 of them on the defensive end) and blocking four shots.

Kevin Durant, Team USA’s

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leading scorer for the second straight Olympics (19.4 points), was his usual efficient self throughout most of these games (74.5 true shooting percentage, which is smoking). However, Durant — the best player in the tournament by a good margin — was mostly passive and a little sloppy with the ball (two turnovers per game). In the finals against Serbia, however, Durant and the Americans unearthed the kind of performance fans and media types had been expecting for two full weeks. USA forced 18 turnovers and held the Serbs to just 66 points, while Durant led the way with 30 points on just 19 shots.

Durant stroked a three just before the end of the first quarter, and it was on after that. The second quarter was all Team USA. Durant splashed four 3-pointers, and the Americans closed the half on an amazing 40-15, which was punctuated by their best play

of the tournament: a six-pass exchanged that saw the ball hit the floor just twice as every perimeter player for Team USA touched the ball at least once before it found Durant’s hands for a wide open three.

The game was already out of reach for Serbia, but the Americans poured it on to start the second half, too. In the second and third quarters, Team USA outscored the Serbs 60-28, and the rout was on. (Team USA went plus-109 in the middle two quarters during the Olympic tournament.)

Enough can’t be said about Paul George, who returned to Team USA despite suffering a gruesome leg injury leading up to the 2014 FIBA World Cup. The injury cost him a year of his prime with the Indiana Pacers, but it didn’t curb he desire to once again don the red, white and blue. If you paid any atten-

tion to this team during their time in Rio, you know how much better they looked with George on the floor.

George was fourth on the team in scoring (11.3 points), first in steals (12) and second in blocks (five). The Pacers All-NBA wing has a rep for being a lockdown defender, and it showed in his first dose of international experience. Serbian point guard Milos Teodosic carved Team USA up when they met during pool play.

Led by Teodosic’s dribble drives, Serbia ripped apart the pick-androll defense of Kyrie Irving and Cousins. Teodosic, who racked up 18 points in six assists, in the first meeting — an all-too-close three-point win for Team USA — found life much more difficult in the second contest. Krzyzewski wisely moved Irving off Teodosic, replacing him with the 6-9 Paul George, who made life miserable for Teodosic: nine points (4-11

shooting), three assists and three turnovers. George is so long and smooth on the perimeter that he makes himself almost impossible to screen. He just effortlessly fights through and over screens.

When Serbia was able to get Teodosic an alley to the rim, he found Jordan there waiting for him.

The win over Serbia gave Coach K his third Olympic gold medal — yet another unparalleled achievement for the Duke basketball coach. It wasn’t his most dominant team, defeating their opponents by an average margin of 22.5 points (the third lowest margins since NBA players started participating in 1992). In 2008 and 2012, Team USA smashed their competition by 27.9 and 32.1 points, respectively. This, however, was another strong coaching effort from Krzyzewski, who wasn’t able to start working with this team until five weeks ago in Las Vegas.

Once again, Coach K was able to get his 12 guys to buy-in to being a part of this juggernaut system.

The third-straight gold medal was a fitting sendoff not only for Coach K, but also for forward Carmelo Anthony. Melo — participating in his record-setting fourth Olympics — became the first American basketball player to win three gold medals. And while he struggled to find his shot the last four games of the Olympics, Anthony managed to finish second on the team in scoring (12.1 points), and become the program’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder. Anthony has spent a lot of his career in the backseat of LeBron James’ NBA, and it was neat to see him have his moment in the sun.

The reins of Team USA basketball have now been placed in the more-than-capable hands of San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who will seek a fourthstraight gold in Tokyo. We will see what awaits Team USA four long years from now, but one can be sure of this: America’s dominance in the global basketball remains unchallenged for yet another year.

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Duke football

Don’t look back: Thomas Sirk’s recovery

By Shawn Krest North State Journal hen a person tears an Achilles it feels like someone W kicked them in the back of the leg.

“When it happened to me on the field in 2013, I actually turned around, to look back and see who it was,” Duke quarterback Thomas Sirk said. “It felt like they either kicked me or threw a ball at my leg. There was no one there. I felt immediately the pressure and the pain.”

Sirk took a moment to reflect on everything that’s happened since he went down with the Achilles injury three years ago.

“The second time it happened, I didn’t have to look back,” he added.

Sirk was a promising redshirt freshman at Duke when he tore his right Achilles in spring, 2013.

He missed the entire season recovering from it.

This February, Sirk tore his left Achilles during a team training session.

That put Sirk in an elite club.

While the injury is fairly common in football, it’s almost unheard-of for someone to tear the Achilles in both legs.

“I know of one person before,” Sirk said. “If you remember our cornerback (2014 Duke alumni and current Pittsburgh Steeler) Ross Cockrell. His dad tore both of his Achilles but he did it when he was older. But I haven’t heard of anyone tearing both Achilles this young.”

Sirk doesn’t know of any family history of Achilles problems and isn’t sure why he ended up in this position.

“I always heard that if you tear

one, you’re to tear the other, that it’s more likely to happen” Sirk said. “I don’t know why. I don’t know if it has to do with the anatomy. We still haven’t figured out why it happened to me. I don’t think we ever will find an answer, exactly. ” Sirk hasn’t spent much time worrying about why it happened.

He knew what it would take to get back onto the field, and he’s been busy attacking that work.

“I started the rehab process immediately after surgery,” he said. “I kind of knew what to expect and what the process was going to be composed of. Immediately, I accepted there’s nothing you can do about the injury. I had to move forward. That’s one thing you can control, is control your attitude.

That’s what I’ve did. Every week I’ve gotten better and seen improvement.”

Very quickly, Sirk began to see results from his attitude. He blew past the first milestone in the recovery process.

“One of the first things they have you do is a calf press,” he said.

“That’s where they test to see when you can do a single-leg calf press on the ground. “I think it was around six or seven months before I was able to do that on my right side. This time, I was able to do that right around the five-month mark, in July.”

Sirk is already back on the field, although he’s not 100 percent cleared for all activity yet.

“I am running and dropping back in the pocket, throwing,” he said. “I’m still taking it day by day.

My expectation is to be back by the season opener.”

Coach David Cutcliffe estimated that Sirk is about a month ahead of schedule in his recovery,

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Duke Blue Devils quarterback Thomas Sirk speaks to the media during the ACC Football Kickoff at Westin Charlotte on June 21.

declaring himself “amazed.” He even raised the possibility that Sirk will be ready by the season opener.

“Thomas is going to play and be true to the way he plays,” Cutcliffe said. “The goal is to get him 100 percent ready to do that. As we evaluate August, we’re not trying to see if he’s ready to play in his first game August 8th (the opening of Duke’s preseason practice). That’s not the goal. The goal is to see if we can get him to the point for September 3, to play like Thomas Sirk plays to be success-

ful.”

Just as Sirk didn’t ponder his bad luck in February, he hasn’t worried about the reasons why his recovery has beaten the odds.

“Honestly, I’ve just been responding to my body,” he said.

“I feel like my body this time—I don’t know what’s exactly different about my anatomy, on my left side from my right, if there even are any differences. I would just say that my body has allowed me to do things more rapidly.”

Sirk is still being cautious. A calf strain late in the recovery pro-

cess set him back the first time he went through this, and he doesn’t want that to happen again. He’s also making sure he’s fully back before he takes the field to lead his team.

“I won’t come back if I’m hesitant about being who I am as a football player. I won’t return to the field until I’m ready to do those things. I don’t want to come out there and be an average player.

I want to come out and be better than I was last year.”

Sirk’s first step in accomplishing that is his refusal to look back.

UNC football

How Fedora found the punter from down under

By Shawn Krest North State Journal arry Fedora is happy with his newest punter, for the most L part.

“He looks good,” the UNC coach said. “Just got to get the cigarette hanging out of his mouth — got to get that out.”

Fedora quickly points out that he was just joking, and comparing UNC’s Australian punter Tom Sheldon to Nigel Gruff, the Welsh kicker in the movie “The Replacements.”

In reality, Fedora isn’t even sure if Sheldon smokes.

“I don’t know anything about him,” Fedora said. “I don’t know his story, what he’s been through.

I’m still getting to know him.”

Sheldon’s arrival at UNC is borderline Hollywood in itself. He arrived at Carolina as a 27-year-old freshman and longtime veteran of Australian rules football. Sheldon has also never seen, let alone played in, a live American football game.

“You take for granted that when a guy gets here, he knows the game,” Fedora said. “Tom doesn’t. I’ve never had anything like this. I’ve never had anybody who hasn’t played the game.”

Sheldon’s journey to UNC is part of a recent trend in college football. Many of the top punters in the game are imports from the Aussie game. The last three Ray Guy Awards, given to the nation’s top punter, all went to native Australians — Utah’s Tom Hackett won the two previous awards, and the one prior went to Tom Hornsey of Memphis. Wake Forest is looking to replace Alexander Kinal, an Australian who was one of the ACC’s best punters for the last four seasons.

Four teams in the Big Ten’s East division had Australian punters on the roster last season.

Sheldon’s younger brother, Jack, is a freshman at Central Michigan this year. All told, more than five dozen Australians have punted for a U.S. college in recent years, many moving on to the NFL. Virtually all of the talent from Down Under has arrived courtesy of Pro Kick Australia, a company that is part skills academy, part recruiting service and part online matchmaker.

Created by Australian Nathan Chapman, a former punter for the Green Bay Packers, Pro Kick

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Nov 28, 2015; North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Larry Fedora (center) reacts to a missed field goal during the first half against the North Carolina State Wolfpack at Carter Finley Stadium.

takes advantage of the one skill that gives footy (the term natives use for Australian rules) players an advantage in the states.

The footy field is much larger, and kicking is a key method of moving the ball down field and scoring. Everyone on an Australian roster is expected to be able to get off a booming punt, often on the run, in traffic.

“We grow up playing the game from so young,” Chapman said. “I think we are really comfortable in ourselves to be able to kick the ball downfield and to be able to place it where we want it.”

“Preferably, inside the five [yard line], right?” he added.

North Carolina struggled with its punting last year, trying out three different players at the position and producing a net average of just 35.87 yards, ranking second-to-last in the ACC and 95th nationally. The Heels also had two punts blocked.

Something needed to change in Chapel Hill, and, from half a world away, Chapman offered a

solution.

“We actually targeted Tom for UNC,” Chapman said.

Fedora spoke to coaches that have worked with Pro Kick in the past and decided to test the waters.

“They started putting guys in front of us that they thought could play here at UNC,” he said.

“That’s how I first found out about Tom, and then it was a few phone calls. I was hoping that when he got here I wasn’t going to get catfished, because, basically, it was all over the internet and telephone. I never saw Tom in person.

So I was hoping that when he got here he really was a real person.”

Once it was clear he wasn’t being catfished, Fedora was ready to see this foreign prospect punt.

“Fedora was great,” Chapman said. “He jumped right in and said, ‘Yep. Let’s get this done.’

From there, it’s been pretty funny communicating with him. I know how anxious he was to see Tom kick for the first time, but now I can joke with Coach and say,

‘Told ya not to stress.’”

Of course, the Australians have a different way to word that message.

“No worries, mate,” Fedora said. “He calls me mate, and that’s what he says to everything we put in front of him. ‘No worries, mate.’”

Fedora and the Carolina coaches have put plenty in front of him in camp so far.

“He’s got a lot to learn about the game,” he said. “I think the skill set’s there. But there’s still a lot for him to learn just about the game and all the nuances that come up as the punter. We’ve got to make sure he’s totally prepared before we put him on the field.”

The staff isn’t bothering to explain offense and defense, yet.

They’re just prepping him on everything that can happen during a punt. We’re showing him film, showing him things that have happened in games.

“He’s an intelligent person, and you want to really cover everything. Don’t take anything

for granted. So we show him things that aren’t normal. If you drop a snap, here’s how you have to react.”

From experience, Chapman said that the speed of the game will be the biggest adjustment for his pupil.

“The skills are all set, ready to go,” he said, “but we must adapt to getting it all done at the speed of the team. You can never simulate game speed. It’s always another level.”

Still, Chapman’s intensive program comes as close as possible to getting his players college ready.

Players get up at 6 a.m. each day to train. The program includes six days of weight lifting, including some two-a-day weight room sessions. There’s also running and what Chapman calls “football sessions,” which are a combination of classroom and field work to try to understand what they’ll be doing.

“It’s pretty busy,” he said. “We train for about 14 months from start to finish. I hope they enjoy it, but I’m sure they wonder why we train so hard just to kick a ball.”

Despite being as much as a decade older than his teammates — “He’s like their father,” Fedora joked — Sheldon has blended in with his teammates. “They love him,” Fedora said. “The accent alone — he was way ahead of the game.”

Chapman promises that, once the games start, Tar Heel fans will also appreciate their new punter from down under.

“He will change your punt game like you haven’t seen,” he said. “He has a super strong left leg and incredible touch on the short-field kicks. All in all, I expect a 48-yard average with everything fair caught.”

“He might even have a chance to throw one on his right foot, if he gets cheeky,” Chapman added.

In the meantime, Sheldon is battling incumbent punter Joey Mangili and getting acquainted with American football culture.

“We had a women’s clinic the other day,” Fedora said. “Ryan Switzer was talking to them about what it’s like to return a punt. Then the next man to speak was Tom. They asked him, ‘What’s it like to punt to a really good return guy like Ryan Switzer?’ He said, ‘I don’t know.’”

“We’ll see how far we can go with it,” Fedora said.

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Acc football

‘8 plus 2’ scheduling model a small adjustment

By Shawn Krest North State Journal

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t the time the ACC Network was announced, in late July, ESPN and the league announced that there would be two additional basketball games, to help provide the network more inventory.

Over the month, details have leaked out about potential changes to the ACC football schedule to meet the same purpose.

According to several sources, including ESPN itself, the network is demanding that the ACC add a ninth conference game or commit to playing two Power Five opponents in addition to the existing eight-game conference schedule.

The majority of the ACC football coaches have come out in opposition to the nine-game schedule.

“I’m not in favor of it,” Duke coach David Cutcliffe said. “I don’t see any advantage to it.

To me, there are so many other things we can focus on. I think if we did it, it would only be for financial reasons.”

North Carolina coach Larry Fedora agrees.

“I would much rather stay at eight plus two right now, when Notre Dame is in the mix with you. Unless they count as one of the nine (conference opponents), then I’m not interested in doing that. I’d much rather have the flexibility of doing eight plus two.”

Fedora said he would be hesitant to agree to neutral-site games against SEC teams, like last season’s opener against South Carolina and this year’s Chick Fil-A Kickoff against Georgia, if the Tar Heels were faced with playing nine ACC games.

“Whether I’d have been able to decide that, goes above my head.

Bubba (Cunningham, UNC Athletic Director) makes those decisions. I get to have my input, but the final decision is with him.

My input would have been, ‘No. I don’t want to do that.’ That’s one of the luxuries of being eight plus two. I think you can go out and find great matchups and do those things.”

Cutcliffe shrugged off the potential impact of an eight plus two requirement.

“We’re kind of doing that anyway,” he said. “We’re the same conference as the SEC, where I spent my whole career. We have teams we’re playing traditionally from that league. We also have this Notre Dame thing on rotation. So the ACC is probably playing, overall, maybe the toughest schedule right now of any conference.”

A look at the numbers show that Fedora and Cutcliffe are correct — adding Notre Dame has significantly upgraded the ACC’s scheduling over recent years. To the right you can see a look at how many current ACC teams played two Power Five non-conference foes each year in Table B. Since reaching a low point of just 15% of teams meeting the obligation in the year before Notre Dame was added to the mix, the conference has steadily improved to the point where more than half the teams are already meeting ESPN’s requirement. The definition of Power Five is also a point of contention. While independent

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ACC commissioner John Swofford speaks with the media during the ACC Football Kickoff at Westin Charlotte.

“The question will be is there going to be enough inventory out there for everybody to go eight and two. There might not be.”

Larry Fedora, Carolina head football coach

Notre Dame is already considered part of the Power Five, Cutcliffe would like to see the service academies included as well.

Duke has played Army or Navy in three of the last four seasons.

Including the academies would give the conference a boost. Overall, since 2006, ACC teams have met the eight plus two standard in 47% of their seasons. Including Army and Navy improves that to 53%, including eight of the 14 teams this season. ACC teams have varied widely on non-conference scheduling. Looking at the past 10 years and the upcoming season, you can see how often each team’s schedule has met the “eight plus two” requirement in Table C .

It’s no surprise that the teams with a traditional SEC rival: Clemson (South Carolina), Louisville (Kentucky) and Georgia Tech (Georgia) play the most Power Fives. The recent additions to the conference — Syracuse and Pitt — rank highly because they played just seven conference games for several Big East seasons, allowing them five non-conference contests to play two Power Five teams. Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Pitt, Syracuse and Wake have all played three Power Five teams in non-conference at least once since 2006, although no ACC

team has done it since 2014.

If service academies are counted, Wake has twice played non-conference schedules with four Power Five teams included.

The recent schedules seem to put to rest one argument against mandating an eight plus two— that there wouldn’t be enough games to go around.

“The question will be is there going to be enough inventory out there for everybody to go eight and two,” Fedora asked. “There might not be.”

Coaches are hesitant to admit it, but there’s another powerful argument against eight plus two: It makes it tougher to have a successful season.

Games against weaker foes allow teams to rest starters and reduce physical wear and tear. It’s why teams frequently schedule a non-Power-Five game right before an important rivalry game.

UNC plays The Citadel the week before NC State this year. The Citadel is a popular tune up. In recent years, it has also played Clemson the week before the Tigers’ game against South Carolina and Florida State the week before the Noles played Clemson.

There’s evidence that avoiding Power Fives helps a team throughout the season, essentially giving it an extra “half bye” week.

In Table A, the numbers show how non-conference scheduling has influenced ACC records over the last decade.

Despite the fact that an eight plus two could cost teams an average of one win a year, the coaches appear to be moving grudgingly toward that model.

Cutcliffe would rather have the conference devote its efforts to to making the schedule more stable from year to year.

Clawson from page B1 Deacs now carry 85 scholarships and are dealing with far less attrition than in years past.

It’s been a slow process, but Wake heads into this season with hopes of making waves in the tough Atlantic Division.

When asked if Clawson believes he’s carrying his best team into the season, by far and away.

“Yes, and it’s not even close,” Clawson said. “Of the three teams that we’ve had since we’ve been here, it’s not even close with the strength, the speed, the experience level, the knowledge of the system, the depth, the internal competition.

“We’re in this together. We’re in this for the long haul.”

That attitude has trickled down to his players. Marquel Lee, a senior linebacker, sees tangible differences in the program under Clawson’s leadership.

“He’s brought so much more

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Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney talks with Wake Forest Demon Deacons head coach Dave Clawson prior to the game at Clemson Memorial Stadium on November 21.

excitement around this program since day one,” Lee said of Clawson. “I mean, he helped get us

an indoor facility that is one of a kind. When that opened, it told us as players that somebody re-

Table A: Overall record/winning percentage relative to 8+2 scheduling P5 Opponents

Total Wins

Total Losses

Win %

0

96

60

.615

1

360

276

.566

2+

480

408

.541

Table B: Percentage of teams who played 2+ Power 5 opponents

Table C: Percentage of years meeting 8+2 opponents over the last decade

Year

% of teams

2006

36%

Team

% of years

2007

45%

Clemson

82%

2008

64%

Louisville

82%

2009

55%

Georgia Tech

73%

2010

64%

Pittsburgh

73%

2011

64%

Syracuse

73%

2012

45%

Wake Forest

73%

2013

15%

Florida State

55%

2014

23%

North Carolina

55%

2015

57%

Miami

45%

2016

50%

Duke

36%

Boston College

27%

Virginia

27%

Virginia Tech

27%

NC State

19%

“I come from a conference that had traditional playing dates, and you could work around those to set your schedule,” he said. “I’d like to see some work done on that. How great would that be for TV inventory and fan inventory, to know that every third Saturday in October, this is who we’re playing and you can plan ahead and get more people traveling.”

“That seems to have a lot of benefit to me,” he added. “I think our fans would certainly like that.

Not that I’m trying to run the conference.”

ally cares about us as a program.

Why can’t we repay them with wins?”

That indoor facility is a behemoth. Housing a 1,500 square foot meeting room, a 3,500 square foot locker room with a players’ lounge and three football fields — one is turf to give the feel of playing at BB&T Field — Wake’s practice facilities are now on par or better than any team in the ACC. While the new facilities are a clear indication of the backing the program has, the wins must come. Coming off a year where the roster was dominated by freshmen and sophomores, Clawson has a more experienced team heading into the fall. However, getting young players to buy into his system hasn’t always been an easy process.

“It’s hard because we’ve put a lot into it,” Clawson said. “In this business, the high of winning is balanced by the low of losing.

There’s no grey area in football.

But that’s where, when you’re building a program, you point out to the players the small victories. … Eventually that improvement means more wins. But you don’t just go from three to 12 wins. There’s steps in between.”

Replicating the success of the 2006 team is ultimately the goal for Wake. Clawson and his players believe getting back to the top of the ACC is an attainable goal. Maybe not this year, but in the years to come.

For now, Lee is focused on the old adage of, “one game at a time” heading into his senior year.

“Our main goal right now is to beat Tulane,” Lee said. “We can’t lose sight of that in the process of thinking about where we want to be. … Coach Clawson always preaches about ‘the process.’

That process has to manifest itself this year. There’s no excuse why we shouldn’t be a bowl team this year.”

the plate With countless new craft brewing operations popping up across the state, The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences annually entertains a full house to examine the science behind what’s brewing.

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playlist August 30 100th Anniversary, Save Our Sand Dunes Heritage Day Nags Head Jockey’s Ridge State Park and the Friends of Jockey’s Ridge join in a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the North Carolina State Parks and the birthday of Carolista Baum, who is credited with helping spearhead the movement to “Save Our Sand Dune.” Come out to the park and enjoy free music and food while learning the fascinating history of the park. ncparks.gov

September 2-3 Annual Smoky Mountain Folk Festival Lake Junaluska

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These two nights will celebrate traditional music and dance in the Southern Appalachian Region. The main shows begin at 6:00 p.m. both Friday and Saturday, on the grand stage of the Stuart Auditorium overlooking beautiful Lake Junaluska. Both nights will include a variety of fiddlers, banjo players, string bands, ballad singers, buck dancers, square dance teams, and more. smokymountainfolkfestival. com

Vegetables are processed at Yamco in Snow Hill before they are pureed and packed on Wednesday, August 24. Once the sweet potatoes are pureed, they are transferred to the distillery where they are made into vodka.

September 2-4

The spirit of sweet success in Eastern North Carolina

N.C. Sunflower Festival Chocowinity

Through a marriage of agriculture and business the state's number one crop is grown and harvested in Duplin County and distilled and packaged in Greene County to produce Covington Vodka.

By Laura Ashley Lamm North State Journal

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nder the hot rays of the sun, day in and day out, farmers are growing and harvesting sweet potatoes in the fields.

The sweat, dirt, and hard work to produce a quality crop means even more to the farmers when that crop makes it to their family tables.

“All we love doing is farming. It’s in my blood, and I guess I just love it too good,” said Jimmy Burch, Sr. Down in Faison, Burch’s ancestors have been on the Duplin County land since the 1760s. His parents took over the farming operation in 1977 when there was only 20 acres.

“We were raised real poor, but we worked our tails off. The Lord smiled on me, and we’ve done very well,” said Burch.

Those 20 acres have since grown to 8,000 acres, with 6,000 used as farmland. The main acreage of Burch Farms, 3,500 acres, is devoted to sweet potatoes—their largest crop in production—while the reminder of the land is harvested out for growing cabbage, collards, turnips, kale, butternut squash,

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The first N.C. Sunflower Festival in Chocowinity will have live music, hayrides, a parade, corn maze, entertainment, contests, beauty pageant, farm games and animals, food, and more.

Sunday will host Praise by the Maze worship in the morning and later in the day, a cooking competition. ncsunflowerfestival.org

September 3-4 Revolutionary War Battle Reenactment Huntersville Join dedicated reenactors at Historic Latta Plantation for a weekend of Revolutionary War reenactments where they will bring history to life on the grounds of this circa 1800 cotton plantation and living history farm located within the Latta Nature Preserve. lattaplantation.org Production and Operations Manager Paul Gussenhofen, of Goldsboro, checks the alcoholic proof levels as pureed sweet potatoes are distilled into vodka at the Covington Spirits facility in Snow Hill on Wednesday, August 24.

the maker

“I love to see how I can switch up and reuse things whether it’s to repurpose clothes or household items.”

— Kate Ward, designer and owner behind the handcrafted jewelry brand, A Native Look

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Fall into a healthy routine

September 2, 1911

By Alton Skinner For the North State Journal ummer is coming to an end. Boardwalks are S closing, schools are opening,

days are shorter, leaves and temperatures will soon be falling. This is a great time to address the challenges fall brings to fitness.

Stay visible Make sure you add extra reflective gear to your outdoor training clothes. It’s nice to be out running but the shorter, darker days make it harder to see you and can put you at risk.

Make sure you shine bright on the street at night.

Layer up your gear In the summer you may seek running in the shade, but now you are looking to switch to the sunny side of the trail. You can also warm up with layers of performance wicking fabrics.

Temperatures can vary by 10 degrees when the sun ducks behind a cloud, so be prepared.

Stay hydrated It’s easy to drink water when you’re hot and sweaty. While you may not sweat as much when it is cooler outside, you still lose water through huffing and puffing when exercising.

Build your immune system Start prepping against seasonal colds and the dreaded flu bug at least 3-4 months in advance of the coldest months. Increase your intake of foods rich in zinc (dark green vegetables, nuts, seeds, seafood, and fish), add in a mix of seasonal vegetables, and eat more fruit such as apples or berries for vitamin C and circulation support. Also, be sure to cut back on refined sugar to help stay healthy.

Add vitamin D It’s easy to get your daily dose during North Carolina’s sunny summer, but the shorter days and covering up for colder weather makes it tough to get all you need.

Only 10 percent of vitamin D comes from food, which means the rest is required from consistent sunlight or via supplementation.

Consider the season The eating season begins on Halloween and runs to New Year’s Day, plan ahead to avoid too much winter weight gain.

Romare Bearden, one of the 20th century’s most important African-American artists, was born in Charlotte. Bearden studied at the Art Students League in New York City, Columbia University, and the Sorbonne. For 30 years, he worked on his art at night and on weekends. Bearden’s first solo exhibition was in Harlem in 1940.

His collages, watercolors, oils, photomontages, and prints depict black culture in a style derived from Cubism.

September 3, 1585

Ralph Lane described the Virginia Colony, which included present day North Carolina, as, “the goodliest soile under the cope of Heaven.” Lane, leader of the second group of English voyagers that was sent to explore the colony, used the phrase in a letter to promote New World exploration. Describing the colony as a land of unexplored greatness with an unequaled wholesome and pleasant climate. There is debate among historians over whether or not Lane was giving an accurate description or if he was simply trying to increase the likelihood that a permanent English settlement would be established in the colony. Regardless of questions surrounding the intent of the description, the “goodliest soile under the cope of heaven” phrase has become revered by North Carolinians and seen as an apt accounting of the natural beauty of the state.

just a pinch show Freshen up your container gardens with fall flair by thinking beyond the mum. Don’t get me wrong, the mum is a wonderful plant to incorporate in containers, but here are three others you can use alongside that perennial favorite to really add some punch to your patio.

• Coral bells — these come in a variety of colors, are easy to care for, and look lovely by themselves or in a pot with either contrasting plants or with shades of the same color.

• Verbena — this fruitful bloomer comes in colors from reds to dark blues to purples and pinks and is perfect for filling in container spaces and spilling over in hanging baskets.

• Ornamental cabbage — this brings a wonderful robust texture to a container garden, and as a bonus, their color becomes even more vibrant as it gets colder.

the plate Cackalacky Stew

The Purple Onion, Saluda Start to finish: 40 minutes Serves: 4 olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 small fennel bulb, cut lengthwise into slivers 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes salt pepper 1 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined 2 pounds fresh tomatoes, diced 4 ears corn, cut in 1-inch pieces 1 cup white wine 2 cups clam juice or fish broth 1 pound mussels 12 ounces fresh okra 1 tablespoon butter

Information courtesy of N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

turn the page This week our book recommendations come directly from a group of North Carolina authors, four women who have joined together to form Authors Out of Carolina.

They’ll be touring around the state this fall giving panel talks at independent bookstores.

Grab a copy of their books and look for readings at a bookshop near you.

“Last Ride to Graceland”

by Kim Wright

“Our Cackalacky Stew is a variation on cioppino, a Portuguese seafood stew.

Because it’s summer, we’ve enhanced it with local North Carolina produce.

We have a great tailgate market here in Saluda, and a lot of the farmers who participate supply produce to us. The stew has fresh fennel and tomatoes, corn, okra, and North Carolina shrimp.

It’s pretty much the essence of summertime.”

released May 24, 2016

“The Fifth Avenue Artists

— Susan Casey, Owner

Society”

by Joy Callaway

released May 31, 2016

“The Last Treasure”

by Erika Marks

released August 2, 2016

“The Things We Wish Were

Contributors to this section this week include: Samantha Gratton Donna King Laura Ashley Lamm Alison Miller Liz Moomey Alton Skinner Cory Smith Annie Veum

Tell us Know a North Carolina story that needs telling?

Drop us a line at features@nsjonline.com.

Saute over medium heat until vegetables begin to soften, about 3 - 4 minutes. Add shrimp, tomatoes, and corn. Saute until shrimp are almost cooked through. Deglaze pan with white wine, using a wooden spoon to scrap the bottom of the pan. Add clam juice or broth and mussels, reduce heat to low, and let simmer, covered, for 10 minutes.

Toss okra in 1 teaspoon olive oil, then sprinkle with salt and pepper and roast at 450 F until tender, about 8 minutes.

Remove stew from heat once mussels have opened, add butter, and swirl pan until melted. Pour into bowls and top with roasted okra.

Garnish with arugula and a lemon wedge and serve with toasted, buttered country sourdough.

True”

by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

releases September 1, 2016

Voices

Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat until it simmers, then stir in onion, garlic, fennel, thyme, red pepper flakes, 1 teaspoon salt, and ½ teaspoon pepper.

accolades Lake Lure festival celebrates iconic film while raising cancer awareness

By Liz Moomey North State Journal With Lake Lure as the backdrop, more than 2,000 attendees had the time of their life at the seventh annual Dirty Dancing Festival last weekend in Rutherford County.

Honoring the victims of pancreatic cancer, which took the life of “Dirty Dancing” male lead Patrick Swayze, the Dirty Dancing Festival featured dance workshops with the Asheville Ballet, musical performances, and a lake lift competition.

“The Chamber of Hickory Nut Gorge took over the Dirty Dancing Festival in May of this year and the outcome was phenomenal,” said Michelle McConnell Yelton, the Dirty

Participants compete in the watermelon race sponsored by the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

Dancing Festival co-director. “We added several new components like a larger outdoor stage, more dance lessons, more performers, and tripled the number of vendors. Attendees have given rave reviews, and we look

forward to making next year’s festival even bigger in celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary.”

Jacob Walas taught dance lessons with the Asheville Ballet.

“I love the teaching tents,” Walas said. “People can let loose

and feel like they are in the movie.”

A portion of the proceeds from the festival went to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, which led the watermelon race. Chris Es’Dorn, a volunteer, said the watermelon race has grown in popularity and helps get the word out about pancreatic cancer.

“It’s sad that we have a world that people die from cancer, but if we can raise that awareness and enable research and really make the difference in someone’s life, it was well worth a carry,” Es’Dorn said.

Joyce Worley, who lost her son to pancreatic cancer and is a community representative with the Action Network, added, “They said they would not ‘put Baby in the corner,’ and we’re not putting pancreatic cancer in the corner.”

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the maker A Native Look | Raleigh Designer Kate Ward works at her kitchen table creating a piece for her brand A Native Look in her Raleigh home, Tuesday, August 23. A native North Carolinian, Ward created the fashion line in 2015 as she looked for a way to repurpose old rugs. She makes each unique piece completely by hand.

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tanding in the entryway of her home, Kate Ward looked down at the six-foot runner on the floor with its array of colors—reds, greens, and whites—woven into an exquisite pattern and thought to herself, “This is gorgeous—I wish I could wear it.”

She took the rug, cut it up, and made a necklace that has turned her piece of statement jewelry into the next great handcrafted business. From the rug on her floor, A Native Look was born.

“I love to see how I can switch up and reuse things whether it’s to repurpose clothes or household items,” said Ward.

Ward bought five sewing machines to find the perfect one. Her mother helped her make her first necklace by teaching her how to sew.

“I made my first necklace and liked it. I wore it around and wherever I went there were comments from people and inquiries about owning one. Pretty soon I made necklaces out of the whole rug from my floor.”

Ward has taken a unique concept of using new and old tapestries and repurposing them into wearable, textile art. A Native Look encompasses her signature necklaces along with cuffs and headbands.

“When you wear the necklace,

you look like a native from wherever you are. If in San Francisco, then you look like a native San Franciscan. If in New York, then you look like a native New Yorker. You fit in, but you stand out,” said Ward.

“A Native Look is not the source of the tapestries, for they aren’t Native American tapestries, A Native Look is a state of mind, part of your current location. Your story transcends the rug. You can go anywhere and look the part.”

Rugs are purchased from antique shops, estate furnishing stores, and even from Turkish rug vendors.

Necklaces vary in weights and are made of wool or cotton. Some are vintage, some are crisp, some have fringe, some are lightweight, some are heavier. Each piece is different and one-of-a-kind. It’s a conversation piece for the wearer and the admirer.

“It’s a scavenger hunt,” said Ward. “Each piece has its own personality. These are not created off a factory machine, so the pieces are not perfect.”

Cuffs are suede based with leather ties for the perfect fit. Handmade and handcrafted, all orders are custom.

“These pieces are designed to go with anything basic or neutral.

Wear a solid color head to toe, put on a necklace and get a ‘pop’ for this is your statement piece,” said Ward.

Ward, from Elizabeth City, now lives in Raleigh and uses her kitchen, garage, and basement to fulfill

Designer Kate Ward poses for a photograph at her Raleigh home wearing a necklace created for her brand A Native Look.

her company’s growing demand for custom necklaces and cuffs.

“This venture has been a wonderful experience. The positive response has been nothing short of thrilling. It is exhilarating to know that other people like something that I created. People have been so

kind and have embraced A Native Look. I am so thankful,” said Ward.

Ward’s whimsical adventure of turning her rug into jewelry took art and design to a whole new level.

Ladies can wear a necklace from A Native Look and make a statement bigger than the necklace itself.

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dustry here.”

Anne Madden, a microbiologist at NC State’s Dunn Lab creating rare yeasts, has seen the beer community welcome her with open arms.

“What’s really cool about the beer community is that there’s no in-fighting amongst breweries,” Madden said. “Everyone wants to create and try great beers. You couldn’t ask for a better atmosphere.”

As the demand for beer across the state grows, it has piqued the interest of smaller towns. Companies such as Red Oak (Whitsett) and Mother Earth (Kinston) have opened up shops in smaller towns to not only save on production, but also keep money in their communities.

More recently, companies like White Street Brewing has moved production from Wake Forest to Youngsville while Southern Pines Brewing is building a craft community in, well, Southern Pines.

“I think people are starting to see how great this is for industry

and the economy,” Smith said. “It creates jobs and keeps money in the cities where it’s brewed and distributed. … Having a taproom gives towns a sense of community you don’t get anywhere else.

Bonding over homegrown beer with people from the area is a unique experience for any size town or city.”

Despite the huge boom in breweries, the bubble will likely burst at some point. So what do breweries have to do to set themselves apart? Smith says the sustainability of any company relies solely on the quality of the beer they’re producing.

“Quality is by far the key,” Smith said. “We’re definitely in a rampant growth phase and it’s possible for it to slow down. But what I think it’s going to come down to is breweries that aren’t making quality beer are going to fall by the wayside.

“You can’t just be a local brewer putting out bad beer. Breweries that figure that out will be around for years to come.”

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences | Raleigh Stories By Cory Smith | Photos by Christine T. Nguyen

Full disclosure, I love my job. As a sportswriter and part-time Swiss Army knife for the North State Journal, however, there are simply some stories that are more fun than others.

In the case of covering the third annual Natural Selections event, I was living out a dream.

The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences turned into a full-blown taproom with the best breweries from the area handing out beer samples like candy. In the process of learning about beer science, I drank a White Street Hoptimist in front of a Acrocanthosaurus, sipped a Big Boss Saints & Sinners sour under a massive sperm whale and even sampled beer made from wasps and bees. Yeah, that's my job.

In the midst of all this "research," I also got to talk to some experts in the beer industry. Here's a look at three different ways suds and their ingredients are impacting the Old North State.

Mark and Lynn Albert of Cary sample beers in the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences nature exploration center during the third annual Natural Selections event on Friday, August 19. The sold-out event featured panel discussions, a brewing demonstration, hands-on science of beer activities and beer samples from more than 20 North Carolina breweries.

Josh Barton of Ponysaurus Brewing Company pours a sample of the brewery's rye pale ale during the third annual Natural Selections event on Friday, August 19 at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences.

High hopes for hops North Carolina’s agricultural industry currently contributes an estimated $84 billion to the state’s economy. That’s more than 17 percent of the state’s yearly income that employs 17 percent of the work force.

In the last few years, the beer industry has been getting in on the fun. Finding ways to grow and produce exceptional hops has been a tough task with the climate in North Carolina not being entirely conducive, but Smith believes the state isn’t far off.

“We’ve seen a growth in the hops in the state, but it’s not where it needs to be,” Smith explained.

“The problem is it takes about 2-3 years for hops to take root and produce a high-quality product.

With the craft industry still fairly new, I think that industry is lagging a little bit behind.

“But when this state figures it out — and they will — local beer will have a completely different feel in N.C.” Thanks to its longer days and cool, wet climate, the Pacific Northwest is a perfect environment for hop growing. However, farmers and private organizations looking to grow hops can learn from Virginia’s recent move to take the next step forward.

“They’re really small right now, but there’s so much potential,”

Rita Welder, a sales representative for Big Boss, said. “Virginia actually has a ton of hop growers who are extremely organized and have purchased a pelletizer together. If you don’t have one, it’s really hard to sell your hops. If Virginia can do it, N.C. can get there.”

Pelletizers can run anywhere from $2,000 for a small unit to $10,000 or more for a massive reproduction system. But as the beer industry continues to bolster itself through new breweries, types of beer and ingredients, N.C. farmers clearly have a chance to cash in on this growing crop.

While hops in N.C. might be a few years away, the malt industry is a fledgling one. Companies such as Epiphany Craft Malt in Durham and Riverbend Malt House in Asheville are already cashing in on the growing product with the dark beer season nearing its peak.

As porters and stouts make their comeback in the fall, Smith expects several to be brewed with local malt in the near future.

“There are farmers that already grow barley and rye in this state, so malting is a natural transition to get into the beer market,” Smith said. “To me, it’s a logical next step, and it’s not far away.”

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Beer culture in North Carolina Over the last decade, craft beer in North Carolina has gone from a relative unknown to one of the most booming industries in the state. The move to craft beer has been evident all over the country, but N.C. has produced some of the best and most creative brews.

Whether it’s in Asheville, Raleigh, Charlotte or Winston-Salem, breweries are popping up all over the state. Even with some cities already housing double-digit breweries, the number of taprooms continue to grow.

Raleigh Brewing Company’s head brewer Alex Smith said even with the high volume of breweries, he doesn’t see it slowing down anytime soon.

“Oh, it’s enormous,” Smith said.

“In the past four years alone we’ve probably added 70-plus breweries all across the state. We’re talking to other companies who are maybe six months out from opening their own place. While there’s been a ton of growth to this point, there’s still an exponential growth curve for the in-

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Bugs: the future of beer has been evident for more than a decade. Even though the state is the largest producer of tobacco in the country, there has been a significant decrease in the amount of farmers growing the crop.

That leaves room for a unique crop like hops to make its way on to the state’s farms.

“Private companies are working their best to figure out, ‘What can I grow to get in on this?’” Tony Ferlotti, a purchasing agent at Atlantic Brew Supply, said. “It will grow better in North Carolina soil, but they have to find ways to make it work. It will eventually grow into a huge aspect of our agricultural economy. We just have to give it time.”

Ferlotti worked with home brewers for years prior to joining Atlantic Brew Supply to help young companies grow into large breweries. Working alongside Raleigh Brewing, Ferlotti has high hopes for the agriculture industry with the potential for hops to take local beer in N.C. to the next level.

“Why not North Carolina? We can’t deny the fact that we are proud of our agriculture,” Ferlotti said. “The pride alone of wanting to make local beer truly local should drive us to get there. There will be a true demand in coming years. It’s eventually going to get there and hopefully soon.”

In 2014, Anne Madden joined the Dunn Lab at NC State as a part-time post-doctoral researcher. After earning her PhD from Tufts University, she set out to find success with wild yeast strains in everyday life.

She never realized it would be so easy. Just over one year later, Madden was producing yeast from bugs that could produce beer. Now she has a patent on the product after less than three years with the lab.

So why get into the beer industry?

“How could you not?” Madden said with a smile. “Beer is an exciting art and we’re really coming at it from both sides. When it comes to rediscovering the science of beer, it doesn’t get much cooler than making yeast from bugs!”

Yeast can contribute as much as 50 percent of the flavor in beer, making it one of the most crucial components in the process. With a sweet flavor that comes from the yeast of bugs like wasps and bees, which are the two species the Dunn Lab has tested thus far.

“For the last 150 years of brewing beer, it’s been done with only a handful of yeasts,” Madden

said. “They’re domesticated and yeasts we know well. They’re like our cats and dogs — they’re great and make great beers — but there’s about 997 other types of yeasts. It just took a few people saying, ‘Why not?’ and taking that leap. So far, it’s paid off.”

Placing priority on finding new flavors and tastes to satisfy any beer drinker, Raleigh Brewing has certainly taken notice.

“There’s definitely a market for new yeast and especially these kinds of indigenous strains,” Smith said. “Especially as the market becomes more competitive, you have to do more to stand out.”

The Dunn Lab has already found success with two different types of yeasts from insects.

After wasp beer was produced, Madden instantly turned her focus to yeast from bees. Both not only worked, but generated great tasting beer in the process.

Wild yeasts typically can’t make beer, so the Dunn Lab uses domesticated strains of the insects to create a sour taste. Rather than focusing on rare insects, Madden said wasps and bees were chosen because they are commonly found year round.

Before going into beer, the

yeast is separated from the insect to ensure no bug parts are found in your favorite brew. What that process has produced is a slammable beer with sour notes perfect for a spring or summer night.

“All we set out to do was to see if we could make a different type of beer,” Madden said. “But if you’ve tried these beers, you know it not only makes beer, it’s making really good beer. And with so many craft breweries moving to sours, this comes at the perfect time.”

So what makes the wasp or bee yeast different from any other sour yeast? While other sour yeasts have to age over six months to a year or require bacteria, bee beer can be produced in the same amount of time as a lager.

That’s what many in the beer industry are calling a game changer.

“NC State is working on something we’ve dreamed of for years,” Ferlotti said. “We definitely have spoken with these groups working on new strains and new ideas. … Through that selective process, there’s also a great opportunity for education about ways to reinvent beer.”

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the table North Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Association | Raleigh

By Donna King North State Journal

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eaders of North Carolina’s hospitality industry will gather at the Raleigh Convention Center Aug. 29 and 30 for the second annual North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Expo, featuring a comprehensive program of education and a showcase of the latest products, services, and technologies.

Restaurant owners, general managers, executive chefs, hotel managers, purchasing managers, event planners, and food and beverage directors are encouraged to attend so they’ll be equipped with the best tools to grow and improve their business.

“The North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Expo provides an incredible opportunity to educate industry professionals, feature successful restaurateurs and hoteliers, and showcase new trends, products, and cooking methods,” said Lynn Minges, president and CEO of The North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association. “Thanks to the support of our valuable suppliers, including Got to Be NC Wine, The N.C. Craft Brewers Guild, The N.C. Distillers Association, and The N.C. Department of Agriculture, we are able to transform businesses across the region and impact the industry as a whole.”

Also on Aug. 29, North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Expo will host the first annual North Carolina Chef Showdown from 6-9 p.m. at 214 Martin/ Market Hall in Raleigh.

Twelve savory chefs and four pastry chefs will compete to win the titles North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Expo Chef and Pastry Chef of the Year.

Savory chefs will create innovative small plates/ heavy hors d’oeuvres and pastry chefs will prepare delectable desserts. Attendees and an exclusive panel of judges will sample the dishes, inciting an air of

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Sweet potato liquid is boiled in a tall column in order to burn off different types of alcohol in the process of distilling the liquid into Covington Sweet Potato Vodka in Snow Hill on August 24.

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A look into the meat case of the in-house butcher shop at Standard Foods near downtown Raleigh, March 1.

excitement and competition.

“We are thrilled to bring a new component to our second annual North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Expo,” said Minges. “The N.C. Chef Showdown provides an incredible opportunity for some of North Carolina’s finest chefs to share their talents with the attendees while partaking in a friendly competition.”

In addition to the small plates and desserts, attendees will get to sample cocktails from a mixology challenge. Attendees from the expo, which unites the restaurant and lodging industries for a comprehensive program of education and a showcase of the latest products, services, and technologies, are encouraged to attend this groundbreaking event that will set the tone for years to come.

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Yamco in Snow Hill where they are cooked, diced, and pureed. Producing a small batch that captures 60 percent of the “heart” of the distillate results in a smooth taste and creamy texture—the perfect gourmet vodka.

“This is what you share with people who have shared their best with you,” said Bill Heafy, plant manager of Yamco.

Burch Farms is one of three owners of Yamco which produces aseptically packaged all natural sweet potato, spinach, pumpkin, butternut squash, and carrot purees. The plant also ferments and produces Covington’s Vodka to which Burch Farms is also one of the owners.

“We are part of the growing industry, part of the food industry. We take farm and facilitate it to go to the table with the food processing side,” said Heafy.

“It never ceases to amaze me at how smooth, crisp, and clean Covington’s Vodka is. It’s not the flavor, but the smell of butterscotch and caramel that is indicative of a finely roasted sweet potato.

It tastes like elegance if you could put a flavor to elegance,” he added.

Sweet potatoes grown and harvested from Burch Farms find its way to your table in a variety of products. Traditional sweet potatoes that accompany those pork chops; pureed baby food for your littlest family member; vodka that fills your happy hour cup; and even the chips you eat with your hotdog.

“The family likes sweet potato casserole with sugar and cinnamon. Me, personally, I like them baked in the oven,” said Burch.

Every Sunday for lunch all of the family gathers around the table. From Burch’s family to yours, there’s something sweet for everyone.

cucumbers, and more.

“The Covington variety is the best sweet potato grown in the U.S.,” said Burch. “The rich, sandy soil is good for them to grow in, and it gives us a nice, sweet potato.”

Of the 130,000 acres of sweet potatoes grown in the United States, 95,000 of those are grown in North Carolina. Burch Farms produces approximately 3.5 million bushels of sweet potatoes a year making Burch Farms one of the top three sweet potato producers in the country.

“The soil down here is ideal for ‘tators. East of I-95 we have the land they like,” said Burch.

To be a top producer of sweet potatoes, Burch Farms hires 200 year-round employees and 350 during harvest season as they operate six days a week, taking Sundays to rest.

One can find a number of their products in Food Lion, Harris Teeter, Aldi, local restaurants, and even behind the neighborhood bar.

A few years back, Burch and his fellow farming friends were looking at ways to support the state in ethanol production. When an analysis revealed the yield from a sweet potato was less than the yield for corn, they realized ethanol production would not be cost effective for them.

Instead, the unique idea and niche of making an alcoholic beverage from sweet potatoes was born as Covington’s Vodka began production.

Going from potato sprouts to spirits has proved to be a successful venture that has brought locally grown sweet potatoes to the table in a new way.

Small potatoes are carried from Burch Farms to

The Best Yam Vodka on Earth.

Covington® Gourmet Vodka is handmade locally from sprout to spirit. It’s expertly crafted in small batches using a combination of traditional and modern distilling practices.

Our unhurried approach and varietal selection of locally grown Covington® sweet potatoes costs us a little more, however, ensures a truly premium vodka.

Ending our dependence on foreign vodka. www.covingtonvodka.com

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 2053

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made

by Carmen Cassidy and James A. Cassidy (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Carmen Cassidy) to Cindy Roberts & Amy E. Johnson, Trustee(s), dated the 28th day of July, 2007, and recorded in Book 012681, Page 02469, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 19, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 3, Gordon Place Subdivision, as shown on Book of Maps 1995, Page 1423, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 8021 Hinton Road, Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Terence Coleman to Gurley & Cookson, PLLC, Trustee(s), dated the 28th day of September, 2007, and recorded in Book 22878, Page 1, and Modification in Book 29273, Page 210, in Mecklenburg County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:30 PM on September 13, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Mecklenburg, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 62 of Berewick, Phase 5B, Map 2 (Village at Evanton Phase 3), as same is shown on a map thereof recorded in Map Book 46, at Page 361 (incorrectly referred to previously as Map Book 46, at Page 401) in the Mecklenburg County Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 7106 Evanton Loch Road, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Frank Dawson, (Frank Dawson, deceased) (Heirs of Frank Dawson: Tamara Denise Pittman aka Tamara Pittman, Latisha Harris, Angela Farmer, Brenda Watson and Unknown Heirs of Frank Dawson) to Charles P. Farris, Jr., Trustee(s), dated the 23rd day of July, 1996, and recorded in Book 1596, Page 309, in Wilson County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wilson County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on September 13, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wilson, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: That certain lot on the Easterly side of Mill Street and the Southerly side of Selma Street and being Lot No. 26 as shown by that certain map recorded in Map Book 6, Page 17, Wilson County Registry, being the very same property conveyed to Lloyd Marvin Edwards, Jr. and wife, Berta Lucas Edwards by deed recorded in Book 495, Page 397, Wilson County Registry. See Also deed dated February 9, 1962 by Lloyd Marvin Edwards, Jr. and wife, Berta Lucas Edwards to J.H. Rosser and wife, Berta Rosser and recorded in Book 791, Page 588, Wilson County Registry. Being the very same property conveyed in Deed dated September 19, 1995 by Sonia Lamm West and James A. West, Co-Executors of the Estate of Berta L. Rosser and recorded in Book 1565, Page 458, Wilson County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 811 Selma Street, Wilson, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made

by Leah M. Needham to Ivey & Eggleston, Trustee(s), dated the 27th day of February, 2015, and recorded in Book RE 2430, Page 1184, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 13, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lots 28-33 and Lot 102 of Joe S. Hight Subdivision as shown on plat recorded in Plat Book 10, Page 95, Randolph County Registry.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1442 Hight Street, Asheboro, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit.

Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1188573 (FC.FAY)

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit.

Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1167912 (FC.FAY)

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.

Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit.

Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1186221 (FC.FAY)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1177172 (FC.FAY)

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