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Raleigh could be home to new Army Futures Command Raleigh N.C.’s capital city is on the extra-short list to headquarter the Army’s new Futures Command. Raleigh’s high-tech environment, low cost of living and university talent pipeline is drawing attention as one of five cities to top the list of possible sites for the command.

Five members of an Army site selection team are visiting the city this week. The Army Futures Command will focus on using technology to predict and counter future threats to the nation. A site decision is expected by June 30. For more on this story, turn to page A3.

Toll rises after volcano, quake ravage Guatemala Escuintla, Guatemala A 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook the Guatemala coast Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, a day after a major volcanic eruption hit the Central American nation. The quake struck in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 6.2 miles, USGS said. The tremor came after Guatemala’s Fuego volcano violently erupted on Sunday, killing at least 38 people and injuring about 300, according to preliminary government figures.

NC awarded $147M infrastructure grant Washington, D.C. N.C. will get a $147 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for infrastructure projects in eastern N.C. Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) worked to secure the grant and announced its award on Tuesday which will be the largest infrastructure project in the state, widening up to 25 miles of road along I-95, upgrading the remaining sections of U.S. 70, and providing 300 miles of broadband backbone to connect eastern N.C. to telecom access.

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State employee raises passed in NCGA budget Gov. Roy Cooper has until next week to sign or veto the $23.9 billion state budget that gives long-awaited raises to troopers and other state employees

By David Larson for the North State Journal RALEIGH — The short session adjustments to the 2017-18 biennial budget, passed by both chambers of the N.C. legislature last week, included significant raises for state employees. All state employees received at least a 2 percent boost in salary with many others given much more.

Troopers from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol have of-

ten complained they were not getting the same kind of attention from budget writers as teachers, who have received 19 percent average raises over the last five years.

This year, however, state troopers will receive larger raises, at about 8 percent on average, than teachers do at 6.5 percent. In addition, the entry-level base pay for state troopers will rise from $39,000 per year to $44,000.

The most dramatic raises were directed toward state employees making the lowest salaries.

The current floor, or minimum salary given to state workers, is $24,332. This floor is being raised to $31,200, an almost 30 percent increase. The State Employees Association of North Carolina See RAISES, page A2

Supreme Court hands win to baker over gay couple dispute Justices said the case showed impermissible hostility toward religion

By Lawrence Hurley Reuters WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a 7-2 victory to a Colorado Christian baker who refused for religious reasons to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, stopping short of setting a major precedent allowing people to claim exemptions from anti-discrimination laws based on religious beliefs.

The justices said the Colorado Civil Rights Commission showed an impermissible hostility toward religion when it found that baker Jack Phillips violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by rebuffing gay couple David Mullins and Charlie Craig in 2012. The state law bars businesses from refusing service based on race, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.

The ruling concluded that the commission violated Phillips’ religious rights under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.

But the court did not issue a definitive ruling on the circumstances under which people can seek exemptions from anti-discrimination laws based on their religious views.

The decision also did not address several of the claims raised in the case, including whether baking a cake is a kind of expressive act protected by the Constitution’s guaran-

U.S. House Democrats close to forcing a vote on DACA Three N.C. members of Congress signed the petition to bypass leadership

By Susan Cornwell Reuters WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three members of N.C.’s congressional delegation, Rep. Alma Adams, Rep. David Price, and Rep. G.K. Butter-

field, are among the 215 members of the U.S. House to sign a petition to force a vote on four immigration bills written to address the fate of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program (DACA), often called “dreamers” by Democrats.

Called a “discharge petition,” the rare parliamentary procedure bypasses the authority of House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and demands

a debate on four bills that would protect illegal immigrants from deportation. Trump signed an executive order last year that made the program sunset on March 5.

The petition, which needs 218 signatures, was launched last month by centrist Republicans who say they are tired of inaction on immigration in Congress. The issue has bitSee IMMIGRATION, page A2

tee of free speech.

Two of the court’s four liberals, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, joined the five conservative justices in the ruling authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy.

“The commission’s hostility was inconsistent with the First Amendment’s guarantee that our laws be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion,” Kennedy wrote.

“The outcome of cases like this in other circumstances must await further elaboration in the courts, all in the context of recognizing that these disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without undue disrespect to sincere religious beliefs, and without subjecting gay persons to indignities when they seek goods and services in an open market,” Kennedy said.

Of the 50 states, 21 including Colorado have anti-discrimination laws protecting gay people.

The closely watched case before the Supreme Court, which in 2015 legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, pitted gay rights against religious liberty. President Donald Trump’s administration intervened in the case in support of Phillips.

The outcome of the case hinged on the actions of the Colorado commission. In one exchange at a 2014 hearing cited by Kennedy, former commissioner Diann Rice said that “freedom of religion, and religion, has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be See COURT, page A2

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Six months out from the November midterms, eight key states hold primaries Democrats are promising a Resist-driven blue wave while Republicans say the economy is their main message

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By Donna King North State Journal RALEIGH — This week marks six months until the 2018 midterm elections, potentially determining which party will control Congress. Democrats need to win 23 seats nationwide in November to wrest control of the U.S. House of Representatives from Republicans but are defending five seats in the Senate with at least two others considered a toss-up. They are counting on a “Blue Wave” to sweep them into power, saying that the Resist anti-Trump movement will bring their party to the polls.

However, record low unemployment, North Korea coming to the negotiating table and end of the Obamacare mandate has some saying that Blue Wave may not be coming.

“I think the blue wave was kind of a creation of the Democrats and the mainstream media,” said Marc Rotterman, political analyst and host of “Front Row” on UNC-TV. “It’s clearly dissipated. It was based on the generic ballot which at the time showed [Democrats] anywhere from 8 to 15 points up, and now it’s a virtual tie, within the margin of error.”

Tuesday’s primaries in eight states could give a clearer image of what’s to come in November. Primaries in Mississippi, Alabama, Montana, South Dakota, New Mexico, New Jersey and California brought voters to the polls to choose candidates for November.

California primary sets the tone Democrats see California and New Jersey as their best shot to take the House. In California, Democrats have targeted 10 of the 14 seats held by Republicans. However, Tuesday’s contests will determine whether Democratic candidates in the swing districts are moderate or progressive.

“What’s going to be the profile of these Democrats from Republican districts?” said Mark Baldassare, president of the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. “Will they get somebody who says they want single payer health care, or will they talk about economic mobility?”

Democrats may be shut out of some California races altogether.

The state’s so-called jungle primary system allows the two highest vote-getters to advance to the general election, regardless of party.

The battle for the top spots is particularly dramatic in the 48th Congressional District, where voters chose Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election but re-elected longtime Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.

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(SEANC), a state chapter of SEIU, praised the increase. A nationwide priority of SEIU has been the “Fight for 15” campaign that asks for a “living wage” of $15 per hour for every worker — which equals $31,200 for a $15-an-hour, 40hour work week over the course of 52 weeks.

In a very unusual move for a group generally associated with the Democratic Party and left-wing protests, SEANC had their director, Rob Broome, join GOP leaders as they announced these raises.

“What I’m just tremendously excited about is the fact that we were able to sit down with the House and Senate leadership and come up with a plan that will make North Carolina a leader in terms of living wages for public employees,” Broome said at the press conference. “For that, SEANC applauds the House and Senate leadership and look forward to working together for a long time to come.”

Reaction from the left was not uniformly positive however. Rob Schofield, director of the state’s leading progressive think tank, N.C. Policy Watch, parted ways with SEANC on the budget. Schofield decried both the process and lack of funding to what he believed were key areas of governance.

After laying out why he believed the budget fell short in a number of areas, Schofield concluded, “The budget and the tactics accompanying it are, in other words, cut from the same political cloth one would expect to see on display from (President Donald) Trump’s patron in the Kremlin rather than the kind associated with a functioning Western democracy.”

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‘Openly antagonistic’ Kennedy also noted that the commission had ruled the opposite way in three other cases brought against bakers in which the business owners had refused to bake cakes containing messages they disagreed with that demeaned gay people or same-sex marriage.

“Government hostility toward people of faith has no place in our society, yet the state of Colorado was openly antagonistic toward Jack’s religious beliefs about marriage. The court was right to condemn that,” said Kristen Waggoner, a lawyer at conservative Christian group Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents Phillips.

She added that the decision “makes clear that the government must respect Jack’s beliefs about marriage.”

ACLU lawyer Louise Melling, who represents Mullins and Craig, said that high court had made it clear that businesses open to the public must serve everyone.

“The court reversed the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision based on concerns unique to the case but reaffirmed its longstanding rule that states can prevent the harms of discrimination in the marketplace, including against LGBT people,” Melling added.

Phillips’ lawyers argued that his cakes are an art form — a “temporary sculpture” — and being forced to create one to commemorate a gay wedding would violate his rights under the U.S. Constitution to freedom of speech and expression and free exercise of religion.

Mullins and Craig, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, said Phillips was using his Christian faith as pretext for unlawful discrimination based on sexual orientation. The ACLU said the baker was advocating for a “license to discriminate” that could have broad repercussions beyond gay rights.

Phillips and others like him who believe that gay marriage is not consistent with their Christian beliefs have said they should not be required to effectively endorse the practice.

Gay rights advocates said the case is just one part of a bigger struggle seeking greater legal protections for gay, bisexual and transgender people.

“In N.C. Democrats are well-organized, they have a governor who’s raised a lot of money, but you and I know that just raising a lot of money doesn’t do it or Jeb Bush would be president. You have to have a message attached to that.”

Marc Rotterman, political analyst So many Democrats are vying to challenge Rohrabacher in the fall that there is a chance they will divide their party’s vote, setting up a general election fight between the incumbent and a leading Republican opponent, Scott Baugh.

If Republican John Cox wins the second spot on the ballot, his presence in the race could spur Republican turnout in November and possibly improve the party’s chances in congressional races.

But if Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa, a former mayor of Los Angeles, makes the final cut, Republican leaders worry more of their voters will stay home in November, giving Democrats a better chance to flip some seats.

However, as of Tuesday morning, Democrats were most concerned about a shutout. On Monday, Democrat early voter turnout

been relatively quiet about whether or not Gov. Roy Cooper will sign the budget, it did release a statement saying it thought it fell short overall.

“We can do so much more to raise teacher pay, improve school safety and protect drinking water but legislative Republicans thought it was more important to protect their tax breaks for corporations and people making over $200,000 a year,” Cooper’s office said. “Gov. Cooper’s budget proposed tax fairness for teacher pay along with forward-thinking investments while saving responsibly.”

Becki Gray, senior vice president at the conservative think tank the John Locke Foundation, disagrees.

In a press release, Gray lauded the budget and the GOP’s ability to lower taxes, fund essential elements of governance (including employee wages) and still have the flexibility to leave much of the state’s revenue unspent.

“By guaranteeing that every fulltime state worker will earn at least $31,200 a year, the budget addresses one of state employees’ major concerns,” said Gray. “Once again, this change is made possible by fiscal prudence state lawmakers have exercised in the past.

“The General Assembly diverges from the governor in not trying to spend almost every available dollar for an ongoing government expense,” Gray continued. “This budget plan leaves about $560 million unspent this year, while putting aside another $220 million for the rainy-day reserve fund, $135 million in reserves for Medicaid changes, and $220 million for capital projects and repairs.”

Cooper received the legislatures budget on June 1 and has 10 days to sign or veto it.

President Trump campaigned last week for Tennessee Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn, who is trailing despite her endorsement from the seat’s retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker.

The eight-term congressman (she’s reportedly directed that she prefers the term congressman to congresswoman, in the interest of avoiding political correctness) has fought against abortion and for fiscal responsibility.

Her opponent, Democrat and former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, led Blackburn by double digits in April, but that lead has closed to 3 points over the last month.

Meanwhile, former President Barack Obama is headlining high-dollar fundraisers for the Democratic National Committee.

On June 28, a gala dinner at an undisclosed location will bring supporters at a starting ticket price of $2,700 per person. The highest priced ticket goes to those who write checks or raise $100,000, which includes premium seating, a photo reception, host reception, membership in the DNC finance committee and admission to two other “marquee events,” according to an invite.

Obama was in Los Angeles for a fundraiser in May for Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) at the home of Jeff Shell, with other co-hosts including J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg. He also headlined an event in March at the home of Tampa Bay Buccaneers co-chairman Ed Glazer.

And while McCaskill and other Democrats have taken some criticism from their Republican challengers for taking money from the Hollywood elite, GOP senators have not shied away from taking high-profile Hollywood money. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C), Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), and Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) headlined a May 2 event for the National Republican Senatorial Committee that was hosted by MPAA chairman Charles Rivkin and major studio chiefs.

“The Democrats, in my view, have no message — resist is not a message,” said Rotterman. “Just being against Trump is not a message, and by and large Republicans are falling in behind Trump.”

Republicans hope that economic milestones and improvement with North Korea will motivate people to keep the Republican majority, while Democrats say that anger toward Trump and worry over deportations will motivate the blue base.

“Most elections come down to how do people feel about their pocketbook,” said Rotterman.

“How do they feel about their personal situation? If they’re feeling better, that has dramatically changed the equation on any type of blue wave, which I think just isn’t coming together at this point.”

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But nearly all Democrats favor holding the debate and had signed the petition as of late last month.

However, there were three Democratic holdouts from the Texas border region. On Tuesday, two of these holdouts, Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Filemon Vela, said they will sign.

One of the four immigration bills would put the young “Dreamer” immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally when they were children on a path to citizenship.

Another of the four bills, spearheaded by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, would give temporary protections to the Dreamers but not offer citizenship, and is backed by more conservative Republicans.

Ryan also faced a challenge from the conservatives, as members of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, led by Congressman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), discussed withholding their votes on an unrelated farm bill later this week unless Ryan agrees to bring the Goodlatte bill alone to the House floor.

The petition sponsors have said they expect to have enough signatures, but House Republican leaders oppose the effort and have called a party meeting for Thursday to discuss the issue.

Gonzalez said in a statement that he had been hesitant to sign the petition because of “concerns that it could open the flood gates for members across the aisle to hold Dreamers hostage in exchange for a border wall” that President Donald Trump wants along the southwest border with Mexico.

Gonzalez said he was signing with the intent of helping the Dreamers, but added, “I will not accept” a fix “that includes funding for a border wall.”

Vela wrote a similar statement on Twitter, saying he would vote to help the Dreamers “but not for any measure that includes border wall funding.”

Several House Republicans also oppose the construction of a wall and instead favor more high-tech solutions to border security. Rep. Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 House Democrat, said the goal was to have all 193 Democratic lawmakers sign the petition. One other Texas Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar, still has not signed the petition, as well as a large number of Republicans.

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Raleigh could be Army’s choice for next weapons command center Army officials have named Raleigh among final five cities being considered for the Army Futures Command headquarters

By Emily Roberson North State Journal RALEIGH – Bloomberg News reported on Monday that U.S. Army leaders have included the Research Triangle among its top choices for a new command center that will lead an organizational effort that looks at future threats to the Army faces and the technology needed to counter those threats.

Raleigh and Boston appeared to have made the cut along with three other communities not yet made public. Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle were previously in the running.

Projects slated for likely development at this new center include components of several major new weapons systems. According to Army officials, a top priority will be the support of the infantryman, and improving “soldier lethality.” This could include improving long-range precision strike capabilities such as self-propelled howitzers, battlefield rocket systems, and designing a “vertical lift” helicopter or aircraft.

N.C. Senator Thom Tillis released a statement on Monday touting the area’s many attractions for this type of facility, noting the valuable combination of location, technology centers, businesses and academic resources.

“This decision comes as no surprise. Raleigh would be a perfect host of the Futures Com-

mand and the perfect home for the soldiers and their families, DoD civilians, academics, scientists, engineers, and innovators who are involved with the effort,” he said. “Raleigh is in close proximity to Fort Bragg and the area offers an incredible combination of high quality of life, affordable cost of living, and world-class research institutes that would support the Army. I will continue to work with our state leaders on a bipartisan basis over the next month to show that Raleigh truly is Army Strong.”

This announcement comes after many months of work involving Army leaders, state and local officials, the UNC system and a robust group of North Carolina-based military and economic development stakeholders.

The North Carolina Military Business Center (NCMBC) is part of the most comprehensive statewide infrastructure in the country to help businesses start, grow and leverage new markets, including federal contracting.

This infrastructure includes public sector organizations like the community college and university systems, the Small Business and Technology Development Center and the NCMBC – as well as non-governmental organizations like the N.C. Military Foundation (NCMF). All of these entities have unique and complimentary missions and operational focuses, but contribute collaboratively to growing the military economy in the state.

The NCMBC, the North Carolina Defense Technology Transition (NCDEFTECH) Office and several organizations served on the team - led by the NCMF - that worked since October of 2017 to develop the State’s initiative to locate the Army Futures Command in North Carolina.

“The Army Futures Command locating in the Research Triangle

“Raleigh would be a perfect host of the Futures Command and the perfect home for the soldiers and their families, DoD civilians, academics, scientists, engineers, and innovators who are involved with the effort.”

Sen. Thom Tillis Park would be a tremendous catalyst to grow the military economy exponentially in North Carolina,” said NCMB Executive Director Scott Dorney.

Dorney noted the partnerships that orchestrated this process across the state, from government and private sector entities alike, and was optimistic about the significant potential for growth the command center could produce throughout the state’s civilian and military communities.

“Although the military is already the second largest sector of the state economy, locating this Army four-star command in the Triangle would likely bring numerous defense contractors to the region, and stimulate tremendous opportunity for existing businesses in North Carolina to develop and transition new technologies into the Army, into the Department of Defense and into the hands of America’s warfighters.

The Army expects the new headquarters to house about 500 civilian workers and uniformed staff who will work under a fourstar general. A final decision will be made by June 30.

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He couldn’t agree more. As the director of operations and development at Scotland Neck’s Sylvan Heights Bird Park, Lubbock has seen the importance of not simply having internet access but having adequate access, which includes speed and bandwidth.

Last year, when Sylvan Heights didn’t have enough bandwidth to both conduct business and enable its 60,000 visitors access to Wi-Fi, it was forced to turn off visitors’ internet access. With spotty mobile coverage around the park, Wi-Fi is often visitors’ only option. Working on a solution with the area’s internet service provider, Lubbock learned that there is fiber throughout eastern North Carolina and much of the state. The problem is activating it. “They’re waiting for the right moment and the right need,” he says. “If we don’t move quicker on it, we’re going to see a lot of small communities really struggle from the lack of it.”

Sylvan Heights negotiated with its ISP to use fiber for 20 Mbps speeds. That’s 5 Mbps below the Federal Communication Commissions’ minimum adequate speed for downloads, but Lubbock says it’s a start. “I’m hoping that now the town can look into doing it too.”

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Instead, in the extension’s first month of operation, Blue Line ridership fell by more than 1,700 passengers a day.

river cleanup project this weekend due to the weather, said about 75 percent of the trash in the rivers came from roadside litter that got washed into storm drains. The organization is currently recruiting volunteers to help with cleanup, once it’s safe to proceed.

David Radkin, husband of Courtney Elementary School principal Amy Radkin, designed a device to help protect classrooms in an intruder situation. The Intruder Stop mounts to classroom doors and, when deployed in an emergency, locks students in a classroom while keeping shooters or other harmful people out. The device is meant to be low-cost and easy to use.

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Lake Tahoma Dam ruled safe after evacuation McDowell County A landslide during last week’s storms had area officials concerned about the stability of Lake Tahoma Dam, necessitating the evacuation of about 2,000 residents in the area. McDowell County Emergency Management reported that water was spilling around the sides of the dam and floodwaters reached levels not seen since Hurricanes Frances and Ivan in 2004. Officials inspected the dam, ruled it safe and lifted the mandatory evacuation order later the same day.

The mechanical failure of an air compressor caused the evacuation of the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher in late May. The faulty compressor produced smoke in a behind-the-scenes area. While it wasn’t visible to the public and no injuries were reported, the smoke triggered an alarm. Kure Beach and Carolina Beach fire departments responded to the alarm, cleared the scene, and the aquarium was able to reopen less than an hour after the alarm first sounded.

held in Greenville last Wednesday.

The nationwide program is being led by physicians and hopes to encourage physical activity. Dr. John Morrow of the Pitt County Health Department educated participants on the importance of exercise in lowering blood pressure, promoting weight loss and decreasing blood sugar. The doctors and walkers then walked trails at Alice Keene Park.

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DOT workers rescued after truck swept into river McDowell County Two N.C. Department of Transportation workers were pulled from the Catawba River after a mudslide swept their truck from the road into the water. The workers were clearing the road after an earlier mudslide when their 33,000-pound truck was pushed into the river and floated more than 1,000 feet downstream. The two workers climbed from the capsized truck and waited atop the vehicle until rescue workers were able to throw them ropes and life jackets.

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Randolph County baby found safe Randolph County Seven-month-old Emma Grace Kennedy of Virginia has been found safe in N.C., according to authorities, after several days of an Amber Alert ran nationwide.

Her father and alleged abductor, Carl Ray Kennedy, was arrested in Randleman by the Danville, Va., police, the FBI, the Randolph County sheriff’s office and the U.S. Secret Service. The father is a registered sex offender and an Amber Alert was issued for the baby by Danville police after he allegedly assaulted her mother in a gas station parking lot and took the baby. Authorities say she appears to be in good health.

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Rains cause sewage spill in Catawba River Gaston County About 165,000 gallons of sewage overflowed from heavy rains, officials at Two Rivers Utilities reported last week. Some of the sewage spilled into the Catawba River in Gastonia. Two days of heavy rains led to the spill, which was cleaned up and reported to the N.C. Division of Water Resources.

It took crews from Two Rivers about two hours to stop the flow.

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$7,200 worth of handbags stolen from Nordstrom

Habitat trailer thief caught in Jones County Jones County Edward Kemp was arrested and charged with the theft of a Habitat For Humanity trailer filled with tools.

The trailer was taken from a build site outside of Maysville two weeks ago. Last weekend, deputies received reports that Kemp was attempting to sell the trailer and its contents. Onslow deputies made the arrest while the Jones County police helped with the recovery of the trailer and its contents.

Habitat reports that about $2,000 worth of tools are still missing.

deadline for resolving the debt.

“Today is the beginning of the end for Swain County’s long fight to receive the funds it is owed from the North Shore Road settlement,” said Tillis. “I want to thank Secretary Zinke for making this a priority and I look forward to working with the administration and my colleagues to ensure Swain County receives the money swiftly.”

Zinke said the department is working on being a better neighbor, and thanked Tillis for his tenacity in making sure the Swain County issue didn’t fall through the bureaucratic cracks.

“One of my top priorities as your Secretary of the Interior is making sure the federal government is a good neighbor and a good land manager for federal lands like national parks and battlefields,” Zinke said in a statement.

“Making sure Swain County received the funds from the Department of the Interior was key.”

NC DHHS shows drop in opioid distribution, as HOPE Act gains traction

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Edgecombe County Meico V. Bynum of Raleigh was stopped at a license checkpoint and arrested for having $7,200 worth of stolen designer handbags from a Nordstrom in Tarboro. Bynum had 18 name-brand handbags that had been taken from the store, which were found in his car. Police also found a gram of marijuana and 11 grams of crack cocaine in the vehicle. He was charged with possession with intent to distribute, storage of controlled substances and possession of stolen property.

RALEIGH – Twenty million fewer opioid pills were dispensed in N.C. in the last quarter of 2017 compared to the year before and more people are also being treated for opioid addiction, according to data that comes from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.

The agency says the data shows intervention and attention is having an impact on the opioid addiction problem. It is published on the agency’s N.C. Opioid Dashboard, launched to distribute data and information. It also gives lawmakers some measurable points as they develop the second phase of the effort to curb opioid deaths in N.C. “The opioid data dashboard is a powerful tool for health care providers, community coalitions and everyone involved in turning the tide of the opioid crisis in North Carolina,” said DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen. “While we are encouraged by these early metrics, our data show that we still have a lot of work to do.”

DHHS credits several factors with the trend down, including distribution of nearly 40,000 units of the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone aided overdose survival rates. The N.C. General Assembly passed a bill in 2015 to make naloxone available from pharmacists

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without a prescription, opening it up to use by first responders and friends and family members of addicts. According to the dashboard, there were more than 4,000 cases in 2017 of naloxone overdose reversals.

According to DHHS, the federal Opioid State Targeted Response grant also made treatment programs more available, helping drop the numbers, and an increase in community-based programs are assisting in educating the public on the dangers of opioid abuse.

However, implementation of the STOP Act, passed in 2015 to put limits on how much opioids can be prescribed, has seemingly played a key role in curbing the availability of opioids. Last week, lawmakers presented what they say is a sequel to the STOP Act, which would more harshly punish drug dealers by creating a felony change, “death by distribution.”

The measure, if passed, would allow the state to charge a dealer for a person’s death if they sold them the drug that killed them. It would also make it a felony for health care workers or first responders to steal or dilute a patient’s drugs.

Called the HOPE Act, the measure has bipartisan support and is currently before the House Judiciary Committee, having already passed a House health committee.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

The destructive effect of ‘latent hypocrisy’ in American politics

As long as political people acknowledge their blatant hypocrisy in public is a tool to the ultimate end of a solution to the problem at hand, it can be accepted and used to good effect.

DO YOU THINK you are a completely fair and objective evaluator of politics?

Take this test: “Donald Trump is a completely immoral man and shouldn’t be president of the United States!”

Agree or disagree?

Now do this: Replace “Donald Trump” with “Bill Clinton” and see if you can say the same thing.

“Bill Clinton is a completely immoral man and should not have been president of the United States!”

No ifs, ands or buts allowed. No moral relativism on a scale of your choice. No saying, “Well, Bill Clinton may have been bad but Donald Trump is worse!”

If you can’t say exactly the same thing about both men, you probably have “latent hypocrisy” and you don’t even realize it.

Yet. Latent hypocrisy is what is really hurting our political discourse lately. The inability not only of politicians themselves but commentators, news reporters and partisans to honestly admit both the good, the bad and the ugly about their side as well as the other side makes it virtually impossible to gain any traction on the truth, or as close of an approximation to the truth as we can humanly achieve.

We all know what “blatant” hypocrisy is.

That is where elected politicians know they are playing certain roles in public debate and staking positions out in public to frame the issue from both ends and to see a parameter within which a compromise can be hammered out.

Republican President Ronald Reagan and House Democrat Speaker Tip O’Neill used to routinely set out pretty harsh lines in public against one another in the 1980s when Democrats held insuperable 85-plus seat majorities to satisfy activist partisans on both sides. However, they would retire in the evening to play gin rummy, drink scotch and trade stories and jokes before settling down to some serious, reasonable compromise they would both be willing to accept for the good of the country at large.

Not just for the good of their respective political parties.

Former North Carolina Democrat senator and former governor Terry Sanford and Republican Sen. Jesse Helms grew up together in North Carolina politics as Young Democrats before Helms ran as a Republican in 1972. They would stake out diametrically opposed positions in public on an issue that made some people think they hated each other. Then they would go behind closed doors and hammer out a compromise because of their lifelong friendship to get things done rather than waste time with endless

and, many times, senseless yammering and posturing in public.

As long as political people acknowledge their blatant hypocrisy in public is a tool to the ultimate end of a solution to the problem at hand, it can be accepted and used to good effect.

It is when people don’t recognize they have an inherent bias that troubles arise. If you think you are always right and your opponent and their party is always the Spawn of Satan, you will never drop your guard behind closed doors and give an inch on anything.

Supporters and followers then go on talk shows to talk about the speck in the opposing side’s eyeballs when they have a railroad tie sticking out of both of theirs.

Try this exercise in the weeks to come: Any time you hear someone on the other side say something nasty or terrible about your candidate or political party, substitute the name of your candidate or party and see if you can say it out loud in front of your spouse, friends or colleagues.

If you can’t say it without swallowing your tongue and breaking out into hives, then you are part of the problem.

If you can say it, congratulations on being an adult in a world of arrested development.

“As values change, so does one’s evaluation of the past and one’s impression of long gone actors. New myths replace the old.” — Evan S. Connell “We want brains for the higher objects of history — the difference between the knowledge of facts and the energetic study of their significance is so serious.” — Lord Acton “To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.” — Lord Acton “Nothing capable of being memorized is history.” — R.G. Collinwood “To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.” — Lord Bolingbroke “If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.” — Aristotle “The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism and faith.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.” — Thomas Jefferson “History is a vision of God’s creation on the move.” — Arnold J. Toynbee “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell

“History is the spiritual form in which a culture is taking account of its past.” — Johan Huizinga “History is philosophy teaching by examples.” — Lord Bolingbroke.

“History is humanity’s knowledge of itself, its certainty about itself. It is not the “light and the truth,” a search therefore, a sermon thereupon, a consecration thereto. It is like John the Baptist, not the light but sent to bear witness of that light.” — Johan Gustav Droysen “The socialist crusader interprets the conduct of others according to his own idea of History, and by the same token, can find no adversaries worthy of him: only reactionaries or cynics would oppose the future which he represents. Because he proclaims the universal truth of a single view of History, he reserves the right to interpret the past as he pleases.” — Raymond Aron “We cannot be certain about being right about the future; but we can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.” — G.K. Chesterton “If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and surest emancipation.” — Lord Acton

EDITORIAL | TROY KICKLER

What is history?

The study of history is not simply the mere memorization of facts.

SOMETIMES I’M ASKED to explain what is history and why it is important. My answer usually includes a quotation or two or three; sometimes, the thought cannot be expressed any better than with a quote. Sometimes the quote expresses my thought more clearly.

One thing is certain: The study of history is not simply the mere memorization of facts.

Indeed, memorization is the earliest stage of historical studies. In the end, however, one has to make proper sense of the facts. Although one may differ with the following authors’ conclusions, the quotes reveal how history is often studied and understood and used.

“History is a certain kind of memory, organized and supported by evidence.” — John Lukacs “The past is the only thing we know. The present is no more than an illusion, a moment that is already past. … And what we know about the future is nothing else than the projection of our past knowledge into it.” — John Lukacs “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.” — Cicero “History is a great drama beginning and ending in the mind of God.” — St. Thomas Aquinas “History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.” — Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

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COLUMN | GARLAND S. TUCKER III

Buckley was right about the decline of higher education

Indeed, the threats which Buckley exposed remain deeply entrenched in American intellectual circles today.

THIS SPRING BROUGHT news of another record year of giving to American colleges. In 2017, donations to colleges and universities topped $43.6 billion. The surging U.S. stock market enabled renewed charitable giving by alumni.

There were five gifts of $100 million or more. As usual, Harvard and Stanford led the pack with $1.3 billion and $1.1 billion, respectively. The Wall Street Journal’s analysis showed that “much of the increase in giving last year can be attributed to alumni activity. Gifts from school graduates jumped 14.5 percent last year.”

This news prompted me to recall a watershed event from 67 years ago. In 1951, a young Yale graduate, William F. Buckley, Jr., shook the academic world with the publication of “God and Man at Yale.” In addition to launching the author’s national career and the 20th-century conservative movement, this bestselling little book forecast with remarkable accuracy the future of American higher education.

Buckley clearly perceived that Yale — and most of American higher education at that time — was actively undermining what he called “the public welfare.” He saw belief in Christian values and free-market capitalism as the foundation upon which America had been built. As a student, Buckley had become convinced that the elites at Yale preferred openness and relativity to Christianity and conservatism. They promoted government control instead of free markets and capitalism. Buckley wrote, “The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world … and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.” He was among the very first to discern this trajectory in American higher education.

Yale and the American academic community reacted with disdain and acrimony. Blistering attacks from McGeorge Bundy, A. Whitney Griswold, Frank Ashburn, Henry Sloane Coffin and others labeled Buckley a “young Nazi” and challenged his scholarship. In his lengthy article in the Saturday Review, Ashburn charged, “This book is one which has the glow and appeal of a fiery cross on a hillside at night. There will undoubtedly be robed figures who gather to it, but the hoods will not be academic. They will cover the face.” Buckley did evince some support from conservatives and from concerned Yale alumni, but the intellectual elites made every effort to bury his argument under a torrent of criticism. As Dwight Macdonald commented, “[Yale’s leaders] reacted with all the grace and agility of an elephant cornered by a mouse.”

Although Buckley wrote “God and Man at Yale” in the midst of the Cold War, he foresaw an ongoing battle between collectivism and capitalism that would continue beyond the defeat

of communism. Indeed, the threats which Buckley exposed remain deeply entrenched in American intellectual circles today. Similarly, Buckley’s philosophy of Christian individualism still remains just as much at the core of American conservatism as it was in 1951.

Recent examples of this ongoing battle abound. Student disruption of Charles Murray’s speech at Middlebury, demands to remove the Haystack Monument (erected in 1867 to honor Christian missionaries) at Williams College, and the harassment of law professor Amy Wax at University of Pennsylvania are but a few.

For anyone reading “God and Man at Yale” today, there are several clear takeaways.

Regardless of one’s own political views, one cannot help but be impressed that this book was written by a 21-year-old. The quality of Buckley’s writing and analysis is remarkable — especially for someone his age.

Secondly, in retrospect, Buckley was obviously right. He correctly perceived the thrust of American education long before most of his fellow citizens and warned prophetically of the corrosive future consequences. Indeed, the leftward shift of American higher education has proven more pervasive and more aggressive than even Buckley imagined.

Thirdly, today’s reader is struck by the compelling simplicity of Buckley’s antidote. College alumni should exercise their right of governance.

To the outrage of educators, Buckley wrote, “the responsibility to govern Yale falls ultimately on the shoulders of her alumni.” Alumni should exercise their prerogative, and, if educators are unresponsive, alumni should discontinue their financial support. He wrote: “If the majority of Yale graduates believe in spiritual values and in individualism, they cannot contribute to Yale so long as she continues in whole or in part to foster contrary values.”

Sadly, Buckley’s exhortation to alumni has been widely ignored. Alumni contributions have poured into American colleges at levels unimagined by Buckley in 1951. Colleges are awash with funds as never before, and educators feel little or no obligation to submit to alumni concerns. How is it that Buckley could have written so presciently about the trajectory of American higher education, yet alumni failed so miserably to follow his good advice?

When the development officer at your alma mater calls, think of Buckley’s wise counsel before you write the check.

Garland S. Tucker III is the Retired Chairman/ CEO of Triangle Capital Corporation, author of “Conservative Heroes: Fourteen Leaders Who Changed America — Jefferson to Reagan,” and senior fellow at the John Locke Foundation.

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NUMBER OF THE DAY | SCOTT RASMUSSEN

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JFK was assassinated fifty years ago.

FIFTY YEARS AGO, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy had just won the California primary, and some believe he was on his way to winning the Democratic presidential nomination.

The assassination took place five years after his brother, President John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated. It was one of many events that made 1968 a particularly tumultuous year. Earlier Numbers of the Day looked at the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. In March of that year, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he would not seek reelection.

In 1968, only 13 states had primaries, and most convention delegates were free to vote as they saw fit. At the time Kennedy was shot, he trailed Vice President Hubert Humphrey in the delegate count. However, given that the majority of delegates were unpledged, it was at least theoretically

possible for Kennedy to win over some Humphrey delegates.

Humphrey eventually won the nomination but lost the general election to Richard Nixon.

In August 1968, the Democratic National Convention sparked riots and violence between police and tens of thousands of activists. Following that debacle, the party established a commission to reform the presidential nomination process. The McGovern-Fraser Commission created the system we know today where just about all delegates are selected directly by voters and pledged to a particular candidate.

Sen. George McGovern oversaw the creation of this new approach and then used it to win the Democratic nomination in 1972.

Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.

WALTER E. WILLIAMS

Past versus present Americans HAVING ENJOYED my 82nd birthday, I am part of a group of about 50 million Americans who are 65 years of age or older. Those who are 90 or older were in school during the 1930s. My age cohort was in school during the 1940s. Baby boomers approaching their 70s were in school during the 1950s and early ’60s.

Try this question to any one of those 50 million Americans who are 65 or older: Do you recall any discussions about the need to hire armed guards to protect students and teachers against school shootings? Do you remember school policemen patrolling the hallways? How many students were shot to death during the time you were in school? For me and those other Americans 65 or older, when we were in school, a conversation about hiring armed guards and having police patrol hallways would have been seen as lunacy. There was no reason.

What’s the difference between yesteryear and today? The logic of the argument for those calling for stricter gun control laws, in the wake of recent school shootings, is that something has happened to guns. Guns have behaved more poorly and become evil. Guns themselves are the problem. The job for those of us who are 65 or older is to relay the fact that guns were more available and less controlled in years past, when there was far less mayhem. Something else is the problem.

The job for those of us who are 65 or older is to relay the fact that guns were more available and less controlled in years past, when there was far less mayhem.

Guns haven’t changed. People have changed. Behavior that is accepted from today’s young people was not accepted yesteryear. For those of us who are 65 or older, assaults on teachers were not routine as they are in some cities. For example, in Baltimore, an average of four teachers and staff members were assaulted each school day in 2010, and more than 300 school staff members filed workers’ compensation claims in a year because of injuries received through assaults or altercations on the job. In Philadelphia, 690 teachers were assaulted in 2010, and in a fiveyear period, 4,000 were. In that city’s schools, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, “on an average day 25 students, teachers, or other staff members were beaten, robbed, sexually assaulted, or victims of other violent crimes. That doesn’t even include thousands more who are extorted, threatened, or bullied in a school year.”

Yale University legal scholar John Lott argues that gun accessibility in our country has never been as restricted as it is now. Lott reports that until the 1960s, New York City public high schools had shooting clubs. Students carried their rifles to school on the subway in the morning and then turned them over to their homeroom teacher or a gym teacher — and that was mainly to keep them centrally stored and out of the way. Rifles were retrieved after school for target practice. Virginia’s rural areas had a long tradition of high school students going hunting in the morning before school, and they sometimes stored their guns in the trunks of their cars during the school day, parked on the school grounds.

During earlier periods, people could simply walk into a hardware store and buy a rifle. Buying a rifle or pistol through a mail-order catalog — such as Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s — was easy.

Often, a 12th or 14th birthday present was a shiny new .22-caliber rifle, given to a boy by his father.

These facts of our history should confront us with a question: With greater accessibility to guns in the past, why wasn’t there the kind of violence we see today, when there is much more restricted access to guns?

There’s another aspect of our response to mayhem. When a murderer uses a bomb, truck or car to kill people, we don’t blame the bomb, truck or car. We don’t call for control over the instrument of death. We seem to fully recognize that such objects are inanimate and incapable of acting on their own. We blame the perpetrator. However, when the murder is done using a gun, we do call for control over the inanimate instrument of death — the gun. I smell a hidden anti-gun agenda.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

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Nation & WORLD

U.S. high court hands Trump win in pregnant immigrant teen case

GM settles lawsuit with motorcyclist hit by selfdriving car

French prosecutor opens investigation into Macron’s chief of staff

Japan’s prime minister tries to mend image ahead of election

U.S. bans imports of slave-picked cotton from Turkmenistan

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling that let a pregnant illegal immigrant minor held in federal immigration custody obtain an abortion last year at age 17 over the objections of President Donald Trump’s administration.

The action by the justices provided a legal victory to Trump’s administration even though the teenager already has had the abortion because it eliminated a precedent at the federal appeals court level that could have applied in similar circumstances in which detained minors sought abortions.

The justices, however, declined to take up the administration’s request for disciplinary action against the American Civil Liberties Union lawyers who represented the girl, who underwent an abortion in Texas last October. The administration had accused the ACLU lawyers of misleading the Justice Department over the timing of her abortion.

San Francisco General Motors agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a motorcyclist involved in a minor crash with one of its self-driving cars in San Francisco late last year. Oscar Nilsson sued GM in U.S. District Court in January for negligence over a December 2017 crash in which he was injured. A police report found Nilsson at fault in the accident, but he was not issued a citation. The report on the crash to California regulators said the GM Cruise was operating in heavy traffic, when it saw a space between two vehicles in the left lane and began to merge. At the same time, a vehicle decelerated and the selfdriving car stopped making the lane change and returned to the center lane.

As the Cruise was re-centering itself, the motorcyclist had lanesplit between two vehicles in the center and right lanes and glanced the side of the Cruise, wobbled and fell over. Nilsson’s suit said he “suffered injuries to his neck and shoulder and will require lengthy treatment” and was required to take disability leave.

Paris France’s financial prosecutor opened an inquiry on Monday into allegations that President Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff breached conflict of interest rules while working for the state and the Swiss-Italian Mediterranean Shipping Company. The investigation comes after antigraft group Anticor filed a complaint accusing the aide, Alexis Kohler, of influencepeddling while in public office.

The complaint alleges a conflict of interest based on Kohler’s family links to the Italian owners of MSC while he was working for the French state holdings agency and later as a senior official in the finance ministry. Kohler left the finance ministry in 2016 when Macron stepped down as economy minister. He then moved to Geneva to take up a position on MSC’s board. Nine months later Kohler quit that post to work with Macron following his election as president.

Tokyo Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government is working to fight a cronyism scandal that has clouded Abe’s chances for reelection, as his finance minister said he’d give back a year’s salary but would not quit. Abe’s ratings have been on a roller coaster since last year when the public learned of the heavily discounted sale of state-owned land to a school operator with ties to his wife. Questions also arose over government approval for a new veterinary school by another educational body run by a friend of Abe. The prime minister has denied any wrongdoing by himself or his wife, Akie. He is running for re-election to lead the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, with elections slated for September.

New York The United States has banned cotton imported from Turkmenistan due to findings of state-enforced slave labor, a move celebrated by activists who said they hope other nations using enslaved workers will come under similar scrutiny. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will turn away any shipments of cotton originating in the Central Asian nation as violating a 2016 law banning slave-made goods, the agency said on its website.

Cotton grown in the former Soviet Republic has been documented by the U.S. Department of Labor as a product of slave labor run by Turkmen authorities. Turkmenistan’s embassy in Washington did not respond to requests for comment on the decision, which took effect late last week. More than $140 billion worth of goods suspected of being made by forced labor enters the U.S. market each year, according to New York-based nonprofit Human Rights First.

California city considers ‘guaranteed income’ for residents

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North Korea’s envoy Kim Yong Chol talks with U.S. President Donald Trump as they walk out of the Oval Office after a meeting at the White House in Washington, on June 1.

Kim summit set for Singapore’s Sentosa Island The White House has released some details of next week’s historic summit with the North Korean leader

By Steve Holland and Patricia Zengerle Reuters WASHINGTON, D.C./SINGAPORE — The summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be on Singapore’s southern island of Sentosa, the White House said on Tuesday as preparations accelerated for next week’s event.

On Monday, the wealthy citystate had declared a central region that is home to its foreign ministry, the U.S. embassy and several hotels, as a special zone from June 10-14. In its online gazette, the Singapore government amended the area to include Sentosa and an area of the sea stretching approximately 0.6 miles off its southwestern shore.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a Twitter post on Tuesday that “the venue for the Singapore summit between @POTUS and Leader Kim Jong Un will be the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island.

We thank our great Singaporean hosts for their hospitality.”

The Singapore government has

said police would make stricter checks of people and personal belongings and items such as public address systems and remotely piloted aircraft system would be prohibited in the area.

Sanders told reporters on Monday in Washington that the summit would start on the morning of June 12.

National security advisers are briefing Trump daily about the summit, which he wants to use as a vehicle to persuade Kim to shut down North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Meanwhile, the White House says its policy of tough sanctions on North Korea has not changed, even though Trump said he no longer wanted to use the phrase “maximum pressure” to describe the campaign to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.

After meeting a senior official from Pyongyang at the White House on Friday, Trump said North Korea was being more cooperative and that although sanctions would remain in place, he would hold off on imposing new ones.

Asked at a news briefing on Monday whether the “maximum pressure” campaign would continue, Sanders told reporters: “We have sanctions on, they are very powerful and we would not take those sanctions off unless North Korea denuclearized.”

The Trump administration has credited its “maximum pressure” campaign, supported by the United Nations and major world powers, for helping bring North Korea to the table to negotiate giving up its nuclear weapons.

Trump said on Friday the summit he had previously canceled after he received the North Korean delegation bearing a letter from Kim. Asked about the contents of Kim’s letter, Sanders declined to “get into the specifics” but added, “We feel like things are continuing to move forward and good progress has been made.”

“The president has been receiving daily briefings on North Korea from his national security team,” she added.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and ranking Democrats from national security committees released a letter to Trump urging him not to make a deal that leaves North Korea with nuclear weapons, and threatened to maintain or toughen sanctions on Pyongyang if that condition is not met.

Easing sanctions under a deal would likely need approval from Congress which has passed sanctions on North Korea. Since most legislation needs 60 votes to pass the 100-member Senate and Trump’s fellow Republicans hold only 51 seats, that would require Democratic support.

STOCKTON, Calif. — Michael Tubbs, the 27-year-old mayor of Stockton, Calif., has a radical plan to combat poverty in his cash-strapped city: a “no strings” guaranteed basic income of $500 a month for its residents.

Starting in early 2019, Tubbs plans to provide the monthly stipend to a select group of residents as part of a privately funded 18-month experiment to assess how people use the money.

“And then, maybe, in two or three years, we can have a much more informed discussion about the social safety net, the income floor people deserve and the best way to do it because we’ll have more data and research,” Tubbs told Reuters.

The city has not yet decided how many people will receive income from the trial project, which The Economic Security Project, a philanthropic network co-chaired by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, is funding for $1 million.

The idea of governments providing a universal basic income to citizens is a talking point in socialist campaigns, including that of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Sanders held up Nordic countries, like Finland, as an example of socialism done right.

However, the Finnish government is running a two-year trial that would partially move away from the socialist concept — they are proposing a plan to divide up the money once used for extensive social programs and send it directly to citizens instead, but no social programs would be available if the money is spent elsewhere. A two-year trial underway in Finland provides 2,000 unemployed people with monthly payments of approximately $660 to see how it is spent.

The experiment is to study whether paying people directly can eliminate the need for extensive state-funded public welfare programs. Currently, the average Finnish taxpayer pays about 51.6 percent in income tax.

Finland’s government has opted not to extend that country’s two-year trial when it ends next December. Some lawmakers and economists had argued the scheme was too expensive and yielded disappointing, but not credible conclusions because it was too narrow in scope.

The California experiment would not eliminate access to current social safety nets.

Hughes said the donation for

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the program was based on his belief that the U.S. government should give a guaranteed income of $500 a month to every working American earning less than $50,000 a year. He says a 50-percent tax rate on income and capital gains for Americans earning more than $250,000 would pay for it.

“My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life,” said Hughes, 34. “You’d get food stamps, but that’s not cash, and maybe food’s not the biggest need. ... So this gives people more agency to kind of make the best decision.”

The scheme is not without its detractors. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development argues that providing an unconditional basic income to everyone of working age would do little to combat poverty if not funded by large tax increases.

Critics also say it would encourage people not to look for work.

The criteria for participation in the experiment has not yet been decided, Tubbs said. He points to the Alaska Permanent Fund, which pays annual dividends from oil revenues to residents, as a possible model for distribution. Last year, the payout in Alaska was $1,100. However, the Stockton program is based on a philanthropic donation, not a revenue stream.

Community organizer Trina Turner, a pastor who deals with economically disadvantaged people, hopes the experiment will change the way people see Stockton, which declared bankruptcy in 2012 and has high rates of crime and homelessness.

“I think it will begin to shift the narrative about Stockton,” she said. “Instead of being the miserable city, we’ll be the city that people are waiting to come to for all the right reasons.”

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49ers great Clark, N.C. native famous for ‘The Catch,’ dies at 61 Whitefish, Mont.

Dwight Clark, the 49ers great made famous by “The Catch” of a pass from Joe Montana that beat the Cowboys in the NFC Championship Game in 1982, died Monday at age 61 after an extended battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Clark won two Super Bowls as a 49ers player and three as an executive. He was born in Kinston, played quarterback at Garinger High School in Charlotte and went to Clemson before being taken in the 10th round by San Francisco in 1979 NFL Draft. He played all nine of his NFL seasons with the 49ers.

Giants GM Gettleman, formerly of Panthers, battling lymphoma New York Dave Gettleman, the new general manager of the New York Giants and former GM of the Carolina Panthers, announced in a statement Tuesday that he was diagnosed with lymphoma during an annual physical and will soon begin treatment. “The doctor’s outlook for the treatment and the prognosis is positive, and so am I,” Gettleman, 67, said in the statement. Gettleman was general manager of the Panthers from 2013-16, building the team that reached Super Bowl 50 following the 2015 season, losing 24-10 to Denver.

Trump rescinds Eagles’ invitation to White House Washington, D.C. The Philadelphia Eagles did not visit the White House Tuesday after President Donald Trump rescinded the team’s invitation, citing several players on the team who planned not to attend.

“The Eagles wanted to send a smaller delegation, but the 1,000 fans planning to attend the event deserve better,” the White House said in a statement. Several members of the championship Eagles squad, including wide receiver Torrey Smith — now with the Carolina Panthers — have been vocal about their plans not to attend any White House visit due to their opposition of Trump and his policies.

Blue Devils Heels, advance to baseball Super Regionals UNC, Duke keep College World Series dreams alive; five N.C. schools bounced

By Shawn Krest North State Journal

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Jordyn Adams’ draft stock skyrocketed after a standout performance at the National High School Invitational at the USA Baseball National Training Center in Cary this spring.

UNC football signee Adams taken 17th in MLB Draft Angels draft Green Hope two-sport star, who could forgo playing football and baseball for a pro career

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal JORDYN ADAMS might be signed and sealed to play football for North Carolina this fall. As for the delivered part, there are now at least 3.5 million reasons why the Green Hope High School star will never play a down for the Tar Heels.

That’s the slotted value in dollars of the 17th pick in the Major League Baseball draft and how much Adams stands to make after becoming the first-round selection of the Los Angeles Angels on Monday.

Adams, a 6-foot-2, 175-pound

teenager, is rated as a five-star wide receiver as well as being a top prospect as a baseball outfielder. Although the Cary resident has not given any public indication as to which sport he plans to pursue professionally, Angels scouting director Matt Swanson told the team’s official website that the Angels “don’t expect to have any issues” signing the two-sport star.

“Jordyn is somebody who is big and fast and strong. Somebody we can just continue to mold,” Swanson told Angels.com.

“When we feel like we can grab somebody like Jordyn and infuse our organization with talent such as his, that’s tremendous upside and tremendous athleticism, you take that. You take it and you bring that in. I think it’s just another very exSee MLB DRAFT, page B4

NORTH CAROLINA set a state record by sending seven teams to the NCAA baseball tournament this season. For the second straight year, a pair of teams from the state will advance to the second weekend of the big dance, as Duke and North Carolina will move on to the Super Regionals.

The state also set a record by hosting three regionals — in Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Greenville.

However, home turf didn’t pay the same dividends that it has in the past. Heading into this year, since the NCAA Tournament moved to the current regional/Super Regional setup in 1999, North Carolina teams had hosted 19 regionals and advanced out of them 15 times.

This year, just one of the three host teams — UNC — was able to advance.

Here’s a look back at the five teams who were eliminated in the first weekend of the tournament, and a look ahead to next weekend for Duke and Carolina.

NC State The Wolfpack were chosen as a national seed and hosted a regional at Doak Field. The Pack was immediately sent to the loser’s bracket, however, with a 5-1 loss to Army in the opening game.

State made a run, posting wins over Northeastern (9-3) and in a rematch with Army (11-1), setting up a regional final matchup with Auburn. The Tigers pounded the Wolfpack 15-7, however, ending State’s season at 42-18. It’s the sec-

ond straight time that State has failed to advance from a regional it hosted — the Wolfpack fell to eventual champion Coastal Carolina in 2016. The last time NC State advanced out of a regional it hosted was in 2013.

East Carolina The Pirates were chosen to host a regional for the first time since 2010 and were matched with instate foe UNC Wilmington in the first game. ECU posted a lopsided 16-7 win that would prove to be its last of the season. The Pirates fell to eventual regional champion South Carolina in the next game, 4-2, then dropped a rematch to UNCW, 9-7.

UNC Wilmington The Seahawks earned their third bid in four years. Following their loss to ECU in the opener, they eliminated Ohio State with a 4-3 victory. That earned UNCW a rematch with East Carolina. For the second time in three years, the Hawks were able to knock off an in-state rival. UNCW beat Duke in the 2016 tourney. In another repeat from 2016, South Carolina ended Wilmington’s run, with an 8-4 win in the regional final.

Campbell The Camels earned their third NCAA bid ever and first since 2014. Campbell earned its first-ever tournament win back then, but the Camels weren’t able to duplicate it this year. Heading to Athens, Ga., Campbell drew the two teams that would end up playing in the regional final. Campbell first lost to Georgia, 18-5, then fell to Duke, 16-8. That leaves Campbell’s all-time NCAA Tournament record at 1-6.

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INSIDE Raleigh’s Kevin Universal plays in and officiates hockey games, but his biggest contribution has been to North and South Carolina’s USA Hockey membership — specifically recreational adult players — as director of the Carolina Amateur Hockey Association. For his efforts, USA Hockey is honoring him this week as its Adult Member of the Year at the organization’s annual congress in Colorado. B4 CORY LAVALETTE | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

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TRENDING

Luke McCaffrey: The youngest son of former Broncos wideout Ed McCaffrey and brother of Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey, announced Monday he has committed to Nebraska. A four-star dual-threat quarterback out of Valor Christian (Colo.) High, McCaffrey picked Nebraska over offers from Colorado, Ohio State, Michigan, Washington and Ole Miss. His oldest brother, Max, played at Duke and is a receiver with the 49ers.

Jim Kelly: The Hall of Fame quarterback will be honored with the Jimmy V Award at the 2018 ESPY Awards next month, Kelly said Monday morning.

Kelly was originally diagnosed with oral cancer in 2013. He has undergone multiple treatments and surgeries in the years since, with the cancer recurring twice, most recently in March.

Late broadcaster Stuart Scott and NBA coach/broadcaster George Karl, who both attended UNC, are past recipients of the Jimmy V Award, which is named after former NC State basketball coach Jim Valvano.

Randy Lee: The Ottawa Senators assistant general manager pleaded not guilty to seconddegree harassment charges in Buffalo City Court on Monday and was allowed to return to Canada. Lee’s passport was seized after he was arrested Thursday night and charged Friday for allegedly rubbing the shoulders of a 19-yearold male shuttle bus driver and making lewd comments. He was in Buffalo for the NHL combine, which ended on Saturday.

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The Capitals are one win away from their first Stanley Cup. Washington coasted to a 6-2 home win over the Golden Knights on Monday in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, giving the Capitals a 3-1 series lead heading into Thursday’s Game 5 back in Vegas. Capitals forward Evgeny Kuznetsov had four assists in the win and has a playoff-best 31 points in 23 postseason games.

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“It’s kind of hard to play when I can’t physically serve.”

Serena Williams after she was forced to pull out of the French Open due to a pectoral injury ahead of a fourth-round matchup against Maria Sharapova.

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“It sucks to lose.”

Cavaliers superstar LeBron James after Cleveland fell into a 2-0 hole in the NBA Finals despite James’ neartriple-double in Game 2, which followed a 51-point effort in a loss in Game 1.

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8 Strikeouts by Yankees slugger Aaron Judge during a doubleheader in Detroit on Monday, a major league record.

New York split the two games against the Tigers, but Judge — in the top 10 in home runs — had 83 strikeouts through Monday’s games, the second most in baseball behind Texas first baseman Joey Gallo’s 85.

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Greensboro’s John Isner was ousted from the French Open in the fourth round Monday, losing in straight sets to Argentinian Juan Martin Del Porto 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. For the second straight year, Isner fell one win short of becoming the first American to reach the quarterfinals since three-time French Open champion Andre Agassi did it in 2003.

Four former Houston Texans cheerleaders called for fairer pay and work conditions in a letter delivered Monday to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. The letter came three days after the cheerleaders sued the team, saying it had failed to pay them minimum wage or overtime, and that the cheerleading coach created a hostile work environment.

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Former world No. 1 Adam Scott is set to maintain his 17-year streak of competing in major championships after securing a spot in next week’s U.S. Open through a qualifying event in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday. Scott has played in every major since the 2001 British Open and his 67 consecutive starts puts him behind only Spaniard Sergio Garcia (75).

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A day in the life of Durham Bulls chef Curtis Wong How each day’s ballpark food — from the hot dogs and burgers to the locker room spreads and upscale fare of the Triangle Club — gets made on gameday

By Shawn Krest North State Journal DURHAM — It’s 4:30 in the afternoon. Thanks to the threat of inclement weather, gates at Durham Bulls Athletic Park will open in an hour, 30 minutes earlier than originally scheduled. Despite being on the job for nearly nine hours, chef Curtis Wong begins cooking his first dish.

That’s not to say the kitchens haven’t been active. Quite the contrary, the first burgers hit the grill in the production kitchen, located adjacent to the grounds crew pit in right field, at 10 a.m. Before that, someone else had prepared hundreds of chicken patties.

“We can’t have the same guy prepare burgers and chicken,” Wong explained. “He collapsed from dehydration a few times last year.”

That’s when Wong decided to hire an overnight cook to man the grill, making the Durham Bulls kitchens close to a 24-hour shop — and that’s for the team’s normal schedule of night games. In two days, the Bulls will have a 10:30 a.m. first pitch, hosting field trip groups from local schools that will pack the ballpark with more than 6,000 hungry kids.

“I’ll spend the night here,” Wong said. “I’ll sleep on a couch in the Duke Baseball clubhouse and be up by 4:30, cooking hot dogs in my pajamas.”

Wong is responsible for two kitchens and supplies food to everything except the concession stands. That includes the stadium party decks, the suites, the Triangle Club and the visiting team’s pregame and postgame spreads.

The larger production kitchen takes care of the ballpark food, while the upstairs kitchen, located next to the Triangle Club, supplies the fancier dishes. In his time running the kitchen for the Triangle Club, Wong has prepared such ritzy dishes as lobster ravioli, crawfish etouffee and caviar appetizers.

With the diverse dishes being prepared, Wong has a staff of about a dozen people working the two kitchens — seasonal workers grill meat, deep-fry chips and bake cookies (for dessert trays that go in each suite) in the production kitchen, while more experienced colleagues, drawn from his days in the restaurant world or recruited from PNC Arena and other sports venues in the area, do more creative work upstairs.

“Restaurants are a different animal completely,” Wong said. “The seasonal labor combined with mass production of few items is far removed from smaller restaurants.

In a restaurant, it could take three or four steps to compose a dish.

Here at the stadium, I have positions that will repeat one step for a five-hour shift.”

Prior to coming to the Bulls, Wong managed the dining halls at Duke, giving him experience in prepping for massive crowds of diners.

One of the biggest lessons Wong had to learn in both jobs was the importance of delegating work — even the fun work of preparing a menu — to his staff. For most of his day at the stadium, Wong is

NCAA from page B1 NC A&T Like Campbell and UNCW, the Aggies were sent to a regional that featured a higher-rated in-state foe.

A&T headed to Chapel Hill for its second NCAA appearance ever and first since 2005. Like that first appearance, the tournament was short for the Aggies. They lost to host Carolina 11-0 in the opener, then were eliminated by Purdue, 14-4. In four NCAA games all-time, the Aggies have lost by a composite 43-9 score.

As seems to happen so often during basketball season, the last two in-state teams — and last two ACC teams standing — both wear different shades of blue. Here’s a look at Duke and Carolina’s first weekend and prospects for getting to Omaha.

North Carolina The Tar Heels had a drama-free regional, pounding A&T 11-0, then topping Houston twice — 4-3 and 19-11 in a four-hour, 14-minute slog of a game that featured a school-record scoring output and a weather delay. It was a relief for Carolina, which advanced out of Boshamer Stadium for the first time since

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Chef Curtis Wong is responsible for all the food in the Triangle Club, suites and party decks at DBAP.

“My dad asks me, ‘So, do you spend all day cooking?’

Not exactly.”

Curtis Wong, Durham Bulls chef

holding a cell phone, not a carving knife or spatula.

“My parents don’t really understand what I do,” Wong said. “My dad asks me, ‘So, do you spend all day cooking?’ Not exactly.”

So, what does Wong do all day?

“Have you ever seen ‘The West Wing’?” he answered.

Indeed, Wong is generally fighting about three fires — metaphorical ones, not grease flare-ups on the grill — at once, requiring a lot of walking and talking. By the time the gates opened, Wong had put in close to 9,000 steps and four miles, walking the stadium to monitor the kitchens and answer questions.

Wong’s first task of the day was getting the production kitchen up and running. Then he got to work planning for the next day’s truck order.

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2013. The Heels lost while hosting a regional last season, with in-state foe Davidson advancing on Carolina’s home turf.

The No. 6 Tar Heels will now host the No. 11 Stetson Hatters, who topped Oklahoma State to move on.

It was the first time in school history Stetson had hosted a regional, and the Hatters will now head to Chapel Hill to try to continue rewriting their record book.

It will be a tall task. UNC has never lost a Super Regional it hosted, and in-state teams have won their last six Super Regionals played at home. ECU, which hosted a Super Regional in Kinston in 2001 and lost to Tennessee, was the last North Carolina team to lose when hosting that round.

The Hatters are red-hot, heading to Carolina on an 18-game win streak. This is the first meeting between the two teams since 1985.

Stetson holds an 8-5 advantage in the teams’ previous 13 meetings.

Duke The Blue Devils were sent to Athens, Ga., for the first weekend of the tournament, and Saturday evening, things looked bleak indeed. Duke had already lost its opening game,

liveries from a food vendor — for the early-start day, the truck would deliver 110 cases of olive oil, capers, wing sauce, burger patties, canned tomatoes and more. The pantry is low on banana peppers and jalapenos, something that Wong will be told by three different kitchen workers — each approaching him with an urgent look of concern — throughout the day. “Another case is coming on today’s truck,” he assures each of them.

The bigger problem on this day is bread. Somehow the daily order of buns for burgers and dogs was short by several dozen pallets, meaning the concessions stands and Wong’s kitchens are scouring the stadium for more bread.

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that kids day is about 40 hours away. The crew is already stocking up on cases of hot dogs for all

the kids, storing them in all available freezer space. A bun shortage at this stage could throw planning for the early-morning game into chaos.

Wong gets word that a concession stand prep area has extra buns. He heads off to the far corner of the stadium to investigate, only to find that their stash — a couple pallets — is a drop in the bucket.

He works the phone to try to get an emergency delivery from his vendor, then heads back to his computer to put the specifics of his request into the online order system.

That system is already open as he spends the day trying to put together his truck order for the following afternoon. “We have to have that in by 3,” he says.

There’s a rotary luncheon in the Triangle Club, meaning that the upstairs kitchen will need to do two full meals — one for the lunch event and one for the evening’s game. Wong has called in a local chef to help handle the rotary affair and heads upstairs to check on the prep for the first meal — salmon with dill-caper cream sauce,

pasta shells with marinara primavera, spicy stewed beans, an asparagus-carrot platter, Caesar salad and mini cupcakes.

The luncheon prep is going smoothly, but Wong gets a surprise when he checks the paperwork on a board next to the door. The ticket office has managed to sell three more suites for the night’s game, meaning Wong now has close to 100 more mouths to feed.

While this news would send the celebrity chefs from television into a wild storm of cursing, Wong takes the news in stride. He stops to take the world’s shortest coffee break, pouring barely enough coffee to cover the bottom of a Styrofoam cup, taking a quick sip, then moving on. Everything Wong does is on the move and ridiculously abbreviated — a smoke break consists of two puffs before the cell phone rings with an update on the emergency bread order, and the only food he eats all day are samples of what his kitchens are preparing, an odd chip or spoon of caper-dill sauce here and there.

As game time approaches, the production kitchen ramps down.

The emergency bread arrived, along with the regularly scheduled truck. Tomorrow’s truck order went out. The last-minute suites received their food. The major work is done, and the remaining cooks prepare food for the front office, visiting clubhouse and grounds crew. Wong continues to dart between the two kitchens, taking ingredients and supplies with him on every trip.

Attention turns toward the Triangle Club evening meal. Wong has left a great deal up to the imagination of his upstairs cooks. His initial menu said, “Corkscrew shrimp with some kind of sauce.” Trina Kennedy, who he’s put in charge of the evening meal, pitches her idea to him — ditching the sauce and going with a dry rub instead.

Wong gives her the green light and she sets off to prepare that, along with the rest of the menu — barbacoa beef, chipotle chicken, pork carnitas, corn and black bean salad, and a fennel/grapefruit/watercress salad that he seems to make up on the fly when he finally gets to do some food prep on his own.

Wong got into the business because he loved cooking, so it seems like it would be frustrating that he spends his days searching for bread and talking to vendors while other people cook his food.

It also seems like coming up with fancy salads that fans will walk past as they go to get another hot dog and plate of nachos would be irritating, but Wong gets just as much of a thrill in seeing Kennedy come up with her own vision for the shrimp dish. He proudly says that any of the seasonal staff in the production kitchen “that survive the summer with me” usually end up wanting to work in the culinary industry.

“There is no feeling like jamming on a busy line in a restaurant that you can be proud of,” he admits. “Getting in whole fish, breaking it down, and watching it all come off your station at a pretty penny to people who waited to eat there is quite a feel-good. But that same intrinsic reward happens after a six-day stretch of high volume with endless trucks and 14-hour days. Knowing that your kitchen(s) safely fed over 2,500 in one day and was left neat and tidy to do it all over again tomorrow is just as much of a rush as working a busy station.”

Pitcher Luca Dalatri and the Tar Heels advanced to the NCAA Super Regional, which will be held in Chapel Hill.

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6-0 to Troy. In an elimination game, the Blue Devils found themselves down 8-1 to Campbell and facing a frustrating end to the most promising season in decades. Duke scored two runs in both the seventh and eighth innings, then exploded for 11 in the ninth to earn an improbable win. The following day, in a rematch with Troy, the Blue Devils trailed by four after one inning,

only to storm back again and win 15-6.

Why change a successful formula? The Blue Devils trailed Georgia 4-0 in one game and 2-0 in the other before coming back to win by 8-5 and 8-4 scores and earn a trip to the Super Regional. It’s the third year in a row that a team from the state has won a regional on the road, following in the steps of Davidson (in

Chapel Hill) last year and ECU (in Charlottesville) in 2016.

Duke will travel to Lubbock, Texas, to take on Texas Tech. It’s Duke’s first Super Regional ever, and the Blue Devils are hoping to follow in the steps of the 2006 Tar Heels, the last team from the state to advance to the College World Series on the road. Carolina won at Tuscaloosa that season.

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USA Hockey to honor Raleigh volunteer Kevin Universal, director of the Carolina Amateur Hockey Association, named nationwide organization’s Adult Member of the Year

By Cory Lavalette North State Journal RALEIGH — There may not be a more thankless job than that of a youth hockey referee. Not only do the two officials pull double duty by serving as referees and linesmen — a job done by four in the NHL — but the jeers from the consistently dissatisfied bipartisan crowd bounces off the walls of the mostly empty rinks where the games are played.

On Friday at Raleigh’s Polar IcePlex, the referee surely couldn’t help but hear the crowd pleading with him to hurry up as the running clock — a staple in house hockey leagues — wound down while he explained a boarding penalty to the scorekeeper. The playoff game was tight, and the trailing team’s fans were anxious for their squad to attempt to erase the one-goal deficit.

The fans likely don’t see past the black and white stripes, though it’s hard to miss “Universal” written across the official’s back.

“I wanted to learn from all different aspects and get on the ice,” Kevin Universal said following the game, the second of two he officiated that night. “It is an eye-opening experience to learn and grow that way, actually learn the rulebook.”

When it comes to hockey in the Carolinas, Universal is more than simply a referee. The 49-year-old West Point graduate from Niagara Falls, N.Y., has sat on the board of directors of the Carolina Amateur Hockey Association for the past 14 years, serving as CAHA’s director for the last decade.

CAHA is an affiliate of USA

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CAHA director Kevin Universal will be honored as USA Hockey’s Adult Member of the Year.

“We’re trying to target a larger portion of the membership, give back to them, make their enjoyment of the game as best as possible.”

Kevin Universal

Hockey, serving youth and adult amateur hockey in both North and South Carolina in the Southeastern District that stretches from Maryland to Florida. This week, Universal will be honored at USA Hockey’s annual congress

in Colorado Springs, Colo., as the organization’s Adult Member of the Year.

The award is given to “an individual who has made outstanding contributions during many years of service to the ice hockey com-

NC Hall welcomes LPGA major winner Donna Andrews Former Tar Heels golfer and six-time tour winner is now an golf instructor at Pine Needles

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal RALEIGH — Donna Andrews won six tournaments on the LPGA Tour, including a major. And yet, when you ask her to choose the most satisfying moment in her professional golf career, she’ll probably tell you that it took place that very morning when she worked with a group of amateurs as the lead teaching instructor at Pine Needles Resort in Southern Pines.

“I loved my time on tour, but the time I spend teaching golf now is much more rewarding because it’s not about me,” Andrews, 51, said last month upon her induction into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame.

“It’s about their improvement and giving back to the game that gave me so much. So for me, the teaching is much more rewarding than the playing ever was.”

Andrews, who enjoyed a successful college career at North Carolina before turning professional, oversees two to three three-day golf schools per month.

What makes the job all the more meaningful is the connection it gives Andrews to one of the true legends of her sport and the state or North Carolina.

Fellow Hall of Famer Peggy Kirk Bell was a champion in her own right and a pioneer in women’s golf who went on to become one of the most influential personalities in the game both for her teaching ability and her family’s ownership of Pine Needles — which has served as the host of three U.S. Women’s Opens.

Andrews has lived at the Sandhills resort since she left UNC and considers it an honor to have the opportunity to follow in Bell’s footsteps and carry on her legacy.

“She was such a great mentor and role model,” Andrews said of Bell, who died in 2016. “She always had positive things to say, not only to her students, but to her staff and to anybody who was there.

“The slogan at Pine Needles is, ‘Once you’ve been there, you’re part of the family,’ and that’s the way everybody feels. I feel like I’m

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Donna Andrews now serves as the lead golf instructor at Pine Needles Resort. part of the family. In fact, people ask me if I’m one of Peggy’s daughters, and I’ll say, ‘No, but I wish.’ I love being included in everything the family does.”

As much satisfaction as she gets from her teaching and being part of the Pine Needles “family,” it’s her performance on the course that earned Andrews her spot in the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2018.

A native of Lynchburg, Va., she came to Chapel Hill partially because she loved the campus and partially because the weather there was conducive to playing all year around.

She had a standout career at UNC, earning second-team All-American honors as a senior and finishing third in the 1989 NCAA Championship, the highest finish ever for a Tar Heel. Andrews twice won the prestigious North and South Amateur at Pinehurst, and in 2003, she was selected as a member of the ACC’s 50th anniversary women’s golf team.

Her first win as a professional came at a tournament in Portland, Ore., in 1993, her third year on the LPGA Tour. The following year, she won three times — including the Nabisco Dinah Shore, one of women’s golf’s four major championships.

Andrews made a birdie on the final hole to beat England’s Laura Davies by a stroke. She called the victory the highlight of her playing career. But what she did immediately after the holing out her final

shot may have been even more significant than the victory.

Three years earlier, Amy Alcott celebrated her win at the tournament by holding hands with Shore — a famous television personality at the time — and jumping into the pond adjacent to the 18th green.

It’s a ritual Andrews helped restore by taking the plunge herself.

Every tournament champion since has celebrated her title with a similar splashdown.

“I won the year Dinah passed away,” Andrews recalled. “She’d just passed away, so when the crowd started chanting, ‘Jump in the water,’ I was the one that jumped in and restarted the tradition.”

Another of her favorite traditions is the Solheim Cup, an international team competition that is the women’s version of the men’s Ryder Cup. She was selected to represent her country twice, in 1994 and 1998 — the year she finished second on the LPGA money list — and said she got goosebumps when she heard her name announced on the first tee as a representative of the United States.

It’s similar to the feeling she got last month when she was recognized as one of the newest N.C. Sports Hall of Fame members.

“It’s such a humbling experience to be here with all these great athletes, to look at all the people that have gone in before and be included with all the greats,” she said. “I’m just honored to be a part of it.”

munity as an adult player and/or volunteer.”

Often, the perception of a hockey market is tied to the success of its best players. Look no further than Arizona-raised 2016 first overall pick Auston Matthews, who has 74 goals in two NHL seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs, all before he would be old enough to crack open a cold one in the parking lot following a Phoenix beer league game.

While Universal sees the importance of nurturing the best youth hockey players in the area — he raved about how much improvement he’s witnessed in the Carolinas throughout his time with USA Hockey — he has made the everyday player his focus, serving on the national-level adult council of USA Hockey for 10 years.

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That athleticism, specifically his speed, is what has made Adams such a highly rated football prospect.

He also hit .453 with five doubles, three triples, a home run and 15 RBIs during his senior season at Green Hope. His draft stock rose considerably this spring after a standout performance in leading his team to the championship game of the National High School Invitational tournament at the USA Baseball Training Center in Cary.

Adams was one of five players with North Carolina connections to be taken on the first day of the draft.

Wake Forest junior pitcher Griffin Roberts was the only other first rounder, going to the St. Louis Cardinals in the Competitive Balance phase as the 43rd overall pick.

Outfielder Griffin Conine, whose father Jeff was a Major Leaguer in his own right, was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays at No. 52. The selection capped a productive day for Conine, who earlier hit three homers in two wins to help Duke advance to its first NCAA Super Regional.

High school pitcher Owen White of Rowan County’s Jesse Carson High was also taken in the second round, at No. 55 to the Texas Rangers, while UNCW catcher Ryan Jeffers was the 59th pick, going to the Minnesota Twins.

While Adams’ signing with the Angels would seem to be a no-brainer because of the financial aspects of his draft position, his situation is complicated by the fact that his father, Deke, is an assistant coach with the UNC football program.

Neither Adams, his father nor UNC head coach Larry Fedora have commented publicly since the selection was announced.

“In my journey on the board, initially the kind of focus was maybe a smaller population of the elite or better youth athletes and being focused around that,” he said. “I’ve come in and tried to do a little bit different emphasis — instead of that top 3 to 5 percent of our membership, put the focus on the base of the membership: the house player, the rec travel, the adult player.”

Universal, who moved to Raleigh in 1999 after spending much of the ’90s in the Army and a couple years in Colorado, actually didn’t start skating until his two sons, now 23 and 25, started playing. His younger son is now a rising junior at Neumann University, a Division III college in Pennsylvania, and plays defense for the Knights, while his older son continues to play adult hockey in the Triangle.

Universal began playing in an adult league, and after a couple years he was encouraged by others to run for a board spot with USA Hockey. He now devotes hundreds of hours a year volunteering for the organization on top of his day job as vice president of enterprise data management at First Citizens Bank.

Universal has been attending USA Hockey’s annual congress for years, sitting in on meetings and presentations explaining the latest efforts by the organization to both grow and improve the game in the U.S. This year, however, Universal will be joining names like NHL star Patrick Kane, top-ranked 2019 NHL Draft prospect Jack Hughes, Team USA gold medalist Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and others in being honored at the June 8 President’s Awards Dinner.

“It’s a great family of hockey people out there that you meet and get to volunteer and work with,” he said. “So those relationships and being able to be around this board and continue to enjoy and give back, that’s definitely something I see myself doing while I’m still healthy — for a couple more decades, hopefully.”

It would not be unprecedented if he decided to play college football rather signing a professional baseball contract.

In 1997, Tyrell Godwin of East Bladen High turned down a contract after being drafted in the first round by the New York Yankees to play football for the Tar Heels. After two seasons on the football team and three on UNC’s baseball team, he was drafted again, this time signing after being selected in the third round by the Toronto Blue Jays.

There is a possibility Adams could still play college football after signing with the Angels, though it is unlikely the team would allow it considering the amount of money it would have invested in the 18-year-old draftee.

He has until the first day of classes this fall to decide which direction he will go.

“I definitely feel like I’m a twosport athlete,” Adams told Baseball America last month. “I’ve been playing baseball longer than I’ve been playing football. So football kind of comes naturally to me.

I work more at baseball than I do at football.”

The draft continues through Wednesday. Among those players with state connections taken on Day 2 were Cullowhee native Cal Raleigh, a catcher at Florida State (third round, Mariners), Duke outfielder Jimmy Herron (third round, Cubs), East Carolina outfielder Dwanya Williams-Sutton (fifth round, Padres), Lake Norman High School pitcher and UNCW recruit Justin Jarvis (fifth round, Brewers), UNC Greensboro outfielder Andrew Moritz (sixth round, Braves), UNCW relief pitcher Warren Austin (sixth round, Angels) and UNC relief pitcher Rodney Hutchison (sixth round, Yankees). Outfielder Brett Kinneman became the first NC State player to be called when he was drafted in the seventh round by the Pirates.

COURTESY OF DUKE ATHLETICS

Duke’s Griffin Conine, pictured last year at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, was picked in the second round by the Toronto Blue Jays.

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June 4-July 14 Outer Banks Daredevils Baseball First Flight Athletic Complex, Kill Devil Hills Cheer on the OBX Daredevils baseball team all summer long as they compete in the Tidewater Collegiate Summer League. The Daredevils summer baseball league features college players using wood bats. Visit www. outerbanksdaredevils.com.

June 7-10 Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show L.M. Tate Showgrounds at the Broyhill Equestrian Preserve, Blowing Rock

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Employers help pay student loans to attract workers

By Andrea Januta Reuters Public relations manager Maggie McCuen is grateful for every penny her company has contributed to paying off her student loan balance; since December 2016, these contributions have totaled over $1,400.

"It absolutely allev iates stress," said McCuen, a 26-yearold from Boston who works for Natixis Investment Managers.

For U.S. companies trying to lure and retain workers now that unemployment is near an 18-year low, student loan repayment programs offer a way to specifically target millennial workers who are saddled with student debt.

Only 4 percent of employers currently offer student loan repayment assistance, according to a 2017 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, but the possibility for expansion is immense. More than 44 million Americans are collectively on the hook for the $1.5 trillion of outstanding student debt, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

The way most programs work is that employers make a regular contribution to the loan balance, typically $100 a month, while employees continue to make their regular payments. Employees save money on both the balance and the interest they would have paid on a longer loan term.

Unlike tuition reimbursement benefits, however, which are taxfree below a certain amount, the employer’s loan contributions are considered taxable income.

On a $26,500 student loan with 4 percent interest, employer help of $100 a month could cut down the length of a 10-year loan by about three years, saving employees around $10,000, according to a study commission by Gradifi, which offers third-party administration for loan repayment programs.

"Employers get talent and engagement, and employees get out of debt faster," said Meera Oliva, chief marketing officer for Gradifi.

Gradifi now has more than 300 corporate clients, up from 50 in 2016, when it was bought

by First Republic Bank, said Oliva. It is one of a flurry of new startups in recent years designed to facilitate student loan repayment benefits, including FutureFuel.io, Tuition.io and Student Loan Genius.

Enjoy one of the oldest horse shows in the country at the 93rd annual Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show at Blowing Rock Equestrian. See competitions ranging from Saddlebred, HunterJumper I and Hunter-Jumper II. Visit www.blowingrockhorses. com for more information.

Highlands Motoring Festival Kelsey-Hutchinson Park, Highlands See your favorite makes and models of American and foreign cars at the Highlands Motoring Festival all while enjoying fresh N.C. mountain air. Activities will take place throughout the weekend including the classic car show on Saturday at the Park. Visit www. highlandsmotoringfestival.com.

June 8-9 2018 Washington Summer Festival E. Water Street, Washington Join family and friends along the Little Washington waterfront for the annual Washington Summer Festival. The festival has activities for everyone including a musical performance by The Embers, a variety of local vendors, amusement rides for kids and nightly fireworks. Visit www. littlewashingtonnc.com.

Cold Mountain Music Festival Lake Logan Episcopal Center, Canton HYUNGWON KANG | REUTERS

Sting addresses the audience after conferred an honorary doctorate degree during Brown University 250th Commencement ceremony in Providence, Rhode Island, on May 27.

Traditional financial firms are also getting on board. Fidelity Investments announced last month that its Student Debt Employer Contribution program would expand by the end of June to 25 employers, offering benefits to an estimated 9,000 eligible employees. Fidelity has N.C. offices in the Charlotte region, Triad and Triangle.

Fidelity started with its own employees last year in a pilot program and found that borrowers could save an average of five years off the life of their loans, lowering the total cost by about $20,000.

"Something like this shows your employees you understand where they are, and you're committed to helping them," said Asha Srikantiah, Fidelity's vice president of workplace emerging products.

Easy choice When executives at indoor cycling company, Peloton, learned about student loan repayment

programs, "it was a complete no-brainer," said Amy Stoldt, the company's vice president of people.

Peloton par tnered w ith Gradifi and launched the benefit last June. For full-time employees with student loans, it pays $100 a month to the loan's balance. Right away, more than 10 percent of the company's workforce signed up.

"I was astounded by the response," Stoldt said.

Today, about 20 percent of their 719 full-time employees participate across different departments, including retail, instruction, tech, marketing and their bike delivery team.

Participants in loan help programs say it makes a big difference: In a 2017 survey by American Student Assistance, 86 percent of young workers with student loans said that they would commit to their employer for five years if it helped pay off their debt.

The programs also offer a way for companies to broaden their

recruiting pool. Student debt is disproportionately held by women and people of color, making companies that offer these benefits appealing to more diverse applicants.

The repayment help certainly matters to Elaine Florentino, the child of immigrants and the first in her family to attend a U.S. college. Florentino admits she did not understand how much debt she was taking on when she signed loan papers at age 18.

Now 26 and a parent, she was relieved when she learned that her company, PwC, would put in $100 a month. She thinks it will cut down the life of the 10-year loan by around two years. She currently pays $346 a month.

"I imagine by the time my son enters the workforce, a lot of companies will consider it a standard part of their comp package," Florentino said.

N.C. employers Staples and Aetna also have significant student loan repayment programs according to the career website glassdoor.com.

Help raise funds and awareness for Lake Logan and Camp Henry at the 2nd annual Cold Mountain Music Festival. Admire the Shining Rock Wilderness Area of Pisgah National Forest while enjoying live musical performances by Shovels & Rope, Mandolin Orange, River Whyless and many more. Visit www. coldmountainmusic.org.

June 9-June 10 Occaneechi Saponi Powwow Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, Burlington Discover Native American culture and history at the 33rd annual Occaneechi Saponi Powwow featuring native drummers, dancers and storytellers. The Powwow includes ancestral games likes corn cob toss and bowl games, Native American food offerings and fellowship among friends through singing and dancing. Visit www.obsn.org for more information.

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NeCessities! history marked

Montagnard Artists Day at the N.C. Museum of History

June 7, 1969

June 9, 1953

Private Dan Bullock, USMC, Youngest Vietnam Casualty

North Carolina’s Texas Pete, Cousin to Louisiana’s Tabasco

By NSJ Staff

On June 7, 1969, Private First Class Dan Bullock, a rifleman in the U.S. Marine Corps, was mortally wounded by a burst of enemy small arms fire. He died shortly thereafter. He was only 15-years-old.

At the time he was killed, Bullock was scurrying about to bolster the ammunition supply of the Second Platoon of Company F at An Hoa Combat Base outside Da Nang in South Vietnam. The base was under active assault by the North Vietnamese. Raised in Goldsboro, Bullock was big for his age and thus able to carry off a deception when enlisting. His mother died when he was 11 and he moved with his father to New York, to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. At age 14, he altered his birth certificate, changing the year of his birth from 1953 to 1949, and enlisted in the Marines. Training at Parris Island was tough but he survived with the help of fellow soldiers. He had been in Vietnam for just three weeks when he was killed.

A week later the New York Times broke the news about Bullock’s age and the Defense Department has confirmed that he was the youngest of the war’s 58,000 American casualties. Public attention came to his story in 2000 when television talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael purchased a headstone for his grave in Goldsboro.

The trademark ‘Texas Pete’ was registered to the TW Garner Company of Winston-Salem as a hot sauce for use on prepared foods. Made from hot red peppers, vinegar and salt, ‘Texas Pete’ was first used commercially in 1936 as a spicier version of the Garner family’s popular barbeque sauce. Thad Garner got the original barbeque sauce recipe from a restaurant he bought at the age of 16. The sauce was made in the family kitchen and peddled throughout the state by his father Sam. Joined by brothers Ralph and Harold, the “four Garners” built a successful food business, which continues to thrive on the site of original Garner family home. The Texas Pete name was chosen to evoke the spicy Mexican inspired foods of Texas. ‘Pete’ comes from Harold’s nickname. In the 1930s, with cowboys as popular movie icons, the Texas Pete trademark represented independent selfreliance. During World War II, Texas Pete and other Garner products were sold to the U.S. government as soldier rations. ‘Texas Pete’ was also used as the name of a cartoon villain in the 1980s BBC Super Ted cartoon. The Garner foods trademark was originally only for the sauce, though the family later expanded to produce Texas Pete hot dog chili, honey mustard, seafood cocktail, green pepper sauce, Worcestershire sauce and Buffalo wing sauce.

RALEIGH, N.C.— Who are the Montagnards? The N.C. Museum of History is hosting an event this Saturday answering this question.

Montagnard, a French word meaning “mountain people,” refers to the indigenous ethnic minority living in the central highlands of Vietnam. These indigenous peoples became close allies of American soldiers during the Vietnam War, and N.C. is currently home to the largest number of Montagnard people outside Southeast Asia.

The history museum is hosting Montagnard Artists Day, a drop-in family event featuring Montagnard artists and performers, on Saturday, June 9, from 1–4 p.m.

Visitors will see craftsmen make baskets and woven fabrics. From 1:15 to 2:45 p.m., Dock Rmah will perform traditional Jarai music and the Montagnard American Organization dancers will perform.

At 3 p.m., “This Is My Home Now,” a short documentary film

about young Montagnard people making new lives in their adopted home of North Carolina, will be screened. A panel discussion will accompany the film.

“This event offers visitors a chance to connect the artifacts in our lobby case with Montagnard traditions and culture that are still being celebrated and passed down in our state today,” said event organizer Jessica Pratt. “By interacting with artists, watching the music and dance performances, and participating in the documentary viewing and panel, museum visitors will be able to understand how the Montagnard experience and story are now a North Carolina story.”

The museum’s lobby-case exhibit, “Collecting Carolina: Montagnards, Vietnam’s Central Highlanders,” features a selection of Montagnard textiles, crafts, tools, hunting weapons, and musical instruments—all collected by a Vietnam veteran while he served in Vietnam.

TAKE NOTICE CABARRUS NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 232 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Patricia A. McClure to Dawn W. O’Dell, Trustee(s), dated the 29th day of June, 1999, and recorded in Book 2584, Page 111, in Cabarrus 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 Cabarrus 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 Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on June 11, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 533 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Fletcher Adam McMillan, Jr. and Kenya Rachelle Gray to National Corporate Research, LTD., Trustee(s), dated the 5th day of October, 2007, and recorded in Book 07842, Page 0176, and Modification in Book 09755, Page 0218, and Modification in Book 10185, Page 0023, and Modification in Book 11620, Page 0327, and Modification in Book 12403, Page 0295, in Cabarrus 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 Cabarrus 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

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CABARRUS IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 18-CVS-171 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, V. CARL J. HUNEYCUTT, JR., DONNA P. HUNEYCUTT and SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.; Defendants.

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Order filed on

JOHNSTON AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 390 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Larry L. Flowers, unmarried to The Shoaf Law Firm, Trustee(s), dated the 10th day of September, 2004, and recorded in Book 2764, Page 818, in Johnston 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 Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed,

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 723 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Scott C. Foster and Candice F. Foster, Husband and Wife to National Title Network, Trustee(s), dated the 2nd day of July, 2011, and recorded in Book 4001, Page 101, in Johnston 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 Johnston 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 Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on June 19, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being 0.244 acres, lying at the southwest corner of the intersection of Reid Street and Crowell Street adjoining Jeffrey K. McClure, the following description being taken from a physical survey of the subject property dated June 2, 1999, by Rodrick A. Sutton, RLS: BEGINNING at an existing railroad spike in the southwest corner of the intersection of Reid and Crowell Street and runs thence S. 16-48-01 West 105.02 feet with Crowell Street to a point; thence N. 79-13-16 West 95.60 feet (passing over an existing disturbed 1/2” iron pipe on line at 5.31 feet) with the Northern line of Jones to a existing 1/2” Rebar; thence N. 17-06-07 East 120.00 feet (passing over an existing 1/2” Rebar on line at 98.80 feet) with the eastern line of Moore to a point; thence S. 70-11-59 East 94.57 feet with the northern edge of the right of way of Reid Street to the point of BEGINNING. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1530 Crowell Street, Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina.

For back reference see Deed Book 2066, page 145, Cabarrus County Registry.

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 prior 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.

of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on June 11, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in Number Two (2) Township, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and being Lot Number 43 of The Pointe at Riverwalk, Phase 2, a map of said property being on file in Map Book 49, Page 96, Cabarrus County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a complete description thereof as to metes and bounds. Revised map recorded in Map Book 50, at Page 66, Clerk of Court for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3015 Clover Road Northwest, Concord, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 prop-

erty 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.

closure 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.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property

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: 1220938 (FC.FAY)

April 30, 2018, in the above-captioned matter and pursuant to applicable law, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. as Commissioner (the “Commissioner”) will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the Cabarrus County Courthouse, 77 Union Street South, Concord, North Carolina on June 18, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. that certain parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situated, lying and being in the County of Cabarrus, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in No. 8 Township, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and being Lots Nos. 43, 44, 45, 46 and 47 of J.B. McAllister property, a map of said property being on file in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County, North Carolina, in Map Book 5, Page 78, specific reference thereto being hereby made for a more complete description thereof by metes and bounds.

Address of property: 193 North Main Street,

Mount Pleasant, North Carolina Parcel Number: 5670290440000 Present Record Owners: Carl J. Huneycutt, Jr., and wife, Donna P. Huneycutt The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold to the highest bidder. The Commissioner reserves the right to require certified funds not to exceed the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00). The successful bidder shall also be required to pay revenue stamps on the Commissioner’s Deed, any Land Transfer Tax, and the tax required by N.C.G.S. Section 7A-308(a)(1) unless the person entitled to enforce the instrument is exempt from paying these sums.

The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS” and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. The Commissioner reserves

the right to sell the real property either as a group or on an individual basis whichever will bring the highest bid(s). Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required.

If the Commissioner 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 Commissioner. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Commissioner, in its sole discretion, if he believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 1-339.29 against the party or parties to the proceeding in possession

by the presiding judge or clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Respectfully submitted this the 15th day of May, 2018.

the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on June 19, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 160, Waverly Point Subdivision, as depicted in Plat Book 56, Pages 1-6, Johnston County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 90 Peggy Court, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 convey-

ance “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 prior 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.

ing 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.

The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Johnston, State of North Carolina, and is described as follows: Beginning at an existing iron stake in the western right of way if Natalie Drive, control corner, said point of being the eastern most point of Lot 130, Waverly Point Subdivision, as depicted in Plat Book 56, Page 4, Johnston County Registry; thence from said point of beginning and with the original lot line of Lots 130 and 131 according to the aforesaid plat South 68 degrees 16 minutes 54 seconds West 201.72 feet to an existing iron stake, corner with Lots 129 and 130, thence a new line North 67 degrees 04 minutes 42 seconds East 85.05 feet to an iron stake set; thence North 69 degrees 09 minutes 31 seconds East 116.70 feet to the point and place of beginning and being 180 square feet according to a recombination map for homes by Greg Johnson, Inc. Lot 131 Waverly Point, by L. Dennis Lee, P.A., Professional Land Surveyor dated May 18, 2000. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 106 Natalie Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Parcel ID: 06F99011D 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 prior 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 ten-

dered 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

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 fore-

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 provid-

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

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.

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PUBLICATION DATES: May 30, 2018 and June 6, 2018

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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.

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TAKE NOTICE RANDOLPH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 81 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ethel Jeanne Doring, (Ethel Jeanne Doring, deceased) (Heirs of Ethel Jeanne Doring: Michael Neil Doring, Mark John Doring, Mitchell Doring, Michelle Leigh White, Kathleen Nicole Doring and Unknown Heirs of Ethel Jeanne Doring) (Mitchell Doring, deceased) (Heirs of Mitchell Doring: Unknown Heirs of Mitchell Doring) to Atlantis National Services, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of December, 2012, and recorded in Book RE 2320, Page 1363, 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 June 12,

STANLY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 136 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Cynthia G. Morrison and Timothy J. Morrison to TRSTE, Inc,, Trustee(s), dated the 19th day of February, 2003, and recorded in Book 907, Page 496, in Stanly 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 Stanly 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 Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on June 13, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Stanly, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being on the Northwest side of

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 76 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Sheila R. Shelton and William R. Shelton, (William R. Shelton, deceased) to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 25th day of June, 2009, and recorded in Book 1288, Page 960, in Stanly 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 Stanly 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 Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on June 20, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Stanly, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

UNION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 249 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Maureen A. Bannon and John M. Bannon, (John M. Bannon, deceased) to David Brown, Trustee(s), dated the 28th day of August, 2006, and recorded in Book 04285, Page 0040, and Modification in Book 05800, Page 0760, and Modification in Book 7011, Page 283, in Union 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 Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 39 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Gilbert M. Scholl and Ethelyn G. Scholl to Incorp Services, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 30th day of April, 2015, and recorded in Book 6436, Page 481, in Union 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 Union 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 Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on June 14, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land referred to in this Commitment is described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 533 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Amy Nevills and William Mims (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Amy Deverie Nevills) to Neil W. Phelan, Trustee(s), dated the 2nd day of April, 2002, and recorded in Book 1799, Page 800, and Modification in Book 6336, Page 876, in Union 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 Union 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 Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location

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2018 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: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Grant Township, Randolph County, North Carolina and more particularly as follows: BEGINNING at an existing Iron rod in the Eastern right of way line of Osborn Mill Road (NCSR No. 2904) located 2,570 feet South of the centerline intersection of Osborn Mill Road and NCSR No. 2845, and being a common corner with Gary D. Goss as described in Book 1333, Page 1034, Randolph County Registry; thence from said beginning point along Goss: North 66 degrees 55 minutes 14 seconds East 61.23 feet to an existing Iron rod, North 27 degrees 57 minutes 41 seconds East 402.93 feet to an existing Iron rod and North 28 degrees 05 minutes 61 seconds East 74.93 feet to an existing Iron rod; thence along Roscoe B. McDonald as described in Book 1158, Page 175, Randolph County Registry by, and along the Centerline of a branch: North 62 degrees 11 minutes 10 seconds East 39.74 feet, North 35 degrees 35 minutes 53 seconds East 101.15 feet, North 62 degrees 44 minutes 58 seconds East 65.17 feet, South 76 degrees 22 minutes 15 seconds East 35.80 feet, South 48 degrees 20 minutes 46 seconds East 61.26 feet, South 27 degrees 30 minutes 14 seconds East 84.84 feet, South 66 degrees 24 minutes 44 seconds East 73.37 feet, South 78 degrees 31 minutes 14 seconds East 109.72 feet, North 82 degrees 58 minutes 50 seconds East 43.51 feet, South 80 degrees 43 minutes 22

seconds East 148.75 feet, North 12 degrees 44 minutes 15 seconds West 106.55 feet, North 69 degrees 49 minutes 46 seconds East 135.63 feet, and North 64 degrees 09 minutes 24 seconds East 146.51 feet; thence South 05 degrees 12 minutes 56 seconds West 1,211.05 feet to new iron rod; thence North 87 degrees 05 minutes 22 seconds West 1,089.80 feet to a new iron rod in the Eastern right of way of Osborn Mill Road; thence along said right of way line; North 02 degrees 54 minutes 38 seconds East 207.00 feet , North 05 degrees 00 minutes 59 seconds East 159.00 feet, and North 09 degrees 00 minutes 48 seconds East 184.29 feet of the BEGINNING. Containing 25.00 acre and being the Northwest portion of that 126.160 acre tract described in Book 1631, Page 1535, Randolph County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3789 Osborn Mill Road, Asheboro, North Carolina.

Assessor’s Parcel Number: 7698344151 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 prior 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.

Pine Bluff Road and about one and one-half miles Southwest of North Carolina Highway 24-27 and particularly described as follows: Beginning at a set spike in the centerline of Pine Bluff Road opposite the driveway that leads to the Robert D. Teeter residence and runs thence with the centerline of Pine Bluff Road South 5358-49 West 252.72 feet to a found old spike in the North line of the North Carolina Natural Gas Company right-of-way, thence with the North line of the North Carolina Natural Gas Company right-of-way North 69-33-05 West 1041.71 feet to a found old iron, thence continuing with the North line of the gas line right-of-way North 69-33-30 West 240.17 feet to a set iron; thence with the R.L. Teeter line (Deed Book 279 at Page 286) North 23-45-46 East 246.87 feet to an old nail found in the centerline of the Norfolk Southern Railway right-of-way; thence with five lines in the center of the said railway rightof-way as follows: (1) North 86-33-16 East 100.08 feet to a nail: (2) North 82-28-28 East 99.97 feet to a to a nail; (3) North 78-48-43 East 100.95 feet to a nail; (4) North 76-31-01 East 100.83 feet to a nail; and (5) North 75-32-27 East 154.55 feet to a set iron in the center of an existing gravel drive; thence with the center of the said existing gravel drive three lines as follows: (1) South 15-42-45 East 29.97 feet; (2) South 39-53-41 East 29.99 feet; and (3) South 60-57-48 East 30.01 feet; thence South 65-14-05 East 240.87 feet to a point in the centerline of a proposed twenty-foot road rightof-way; thence continuing with the centerline of said existing gravel drive eight calls and distances

as follows: (1) South 63-12-24 East 99.97 feet; (2) South 59-34-03 East 49.98 feet; (3) South 52-3347 East 50 feet; (4) South 43-24-15 East 50.01 feet; (5) South 36-29-30 East 99.96 feet; (6) South 3909-39 East 99.94 feet; (7) South 41-54-11 East 99.91 feet; and (8) South 45-57-10 East 128.44 feet to the point of beginning and containing 12.420 acres subject to the rights-of-way of Pine Bluff Road, North Carolina Natural Gas Company, Norfolk Southern Railway and the existing gravel driveway and the proposed 20’ road, as shown on a map entitled “Boundary and Division Survey, the property of Robert Dale Teeter and Kathryn Sue Teeter” prepared by Carroll L. Rushing, Registered Land Surveyor, on June 28, 1990. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3988 Seminole Trail, Midland, 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 prior 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.

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.

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Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property

PUBLICATION DATES: May 30, 2018 and June 6, 2018

Being Lot 5 in Block “G” of an addition to Anderson Heights Subdivision and being bounded on the north by Lot 6, on the south by Lot 4 of the subdivision and on the west by Cherrywood Lane and being more particularly described as follows: THE POINT OF BEGINNING being a found iron pipe in the margin of the eastern right of way of Cherrywood Lane, that said point is located by way of the right of way 90 feet south of the intersection of Cherrywood Lane with Sprucewood Street.

Thence from said POINT OF BEGINNING running with the line of Lot 6, S. 78-05-07 E. 199.87 feet to a found iron pipe; thence S. 11-55-57 W. 100.01 feet to a found iron pipe, being the northeast corner of Lot 4; thence with the line of Lot 4, N. 78-03-21 W. 200.01 feet to a found iron pipe in the margin of the eastern right of way of Cherrywood Lane; thence with the right of way of said road, N. 12-00-33 E. 99.91 feet to THE POINT OF BEGINNING and containing 0.46 acres as shown on a Physical Survey for Kelly Smith and Amy Smith, dated April 25, 1994, prepared by Survey Tech, Jimmy R. Ellison, Certifying R.L.S. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 505 Cherrywood Lane, Albemarle, 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 prior 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.

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.

the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on June 14, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 80 of LAWSON SUBDIVISION, as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet I, File No. 824/825, Union County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1105 Hoyle Lane, Waxhaw, North Carolina.

Deed Reference: Book 4098 Page 411 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 prior 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.

the City of Vance Township, Union County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pipe found in the rightof-way on the southwest intersection of Lakewood Drive and Rhoderia Drive and running South 0524-38 West 363.65 feet to an iron pipe found; thence with the common line of Lot 5 and Lot 6 North 84-36-00 West 149.80 feet to an iron pin found, a common corner of Lots 5, 6, 17 and 18 of Block D of Lakewood Knolls; thence with the lines of Lots 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 North 05-23-53 East 395.58 feet to an iron pipe found thence with the right-of-way of Lakewood Drive South 72-34-17 East 153.24 feet to the iron pipe found, the point and placed of BEGINNING as shown on Boundary Survey by John David Skidmore, III, NCRLS, dated June 13, 1997 and being all of Lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Block D of LAKEWOOD KNOLLS as shown in Plat Book 4, File 189 of the Union County Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2122 Rhoderia Drive, Matthews, North Carolina.

These lots are subject to same restrictions found in Book 234 Page 316 of the Union County Registry.

BEING designated as Tax Parcel No. 07129182 Property Derivation: Gilbert M. Scholl and wife, Ethelyn G. Scholl

acquired by deed from L&P, Inc., a North Carolina Corporation, dated September 17, 1997 and recorded September 17, 1997 in/at Deed Book 1011, Page 27.

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 prior 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.

designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on June 21, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 12 of Southern Estates Subdivision as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet A at File 120-B, Union County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4721 Linda Kay Drive, Waxhaw, 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 prior 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

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property

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

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 termina-

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.

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.

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tion 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 Hutchens Law Firm Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. 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: 1239746 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 30, 2018 and June 6, 2018

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: 1198863 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 30, 2018 and June 6, 2018

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: 1187844 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: June 6, 2018 and June 13, 2018

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TAKE NOTICE WAKE 17 SP 403 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Samuel Hassell and Amy D. Hassell, husband and wife to W.J. Kellam, Jr., Trustee(s), which was dated November 30, 2011 and recorded on November 30, 2011 in Book 014560 at Page 00968, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on June 20, 2018 at

16 SP 1789 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Rita R. Thomas to Judy H. Woody, Trustee(s), which was dated August 30, 2006 and recorded on September 1, 2006 in Book 012149 at Page 01895, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is locat-

18 SP 210 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Shadrach Ramnath and Laura Fernandez to Prlap, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated May 31, 2007 and recorded on May 31, 2007 in Book 012580 at Page 01729, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is locat-

10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 36 as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 2011, Page 370, Wake County Registry and as further described below and reflected in Deed Book 13033, Page 572 and Deed Book 14537, Page 141, Wake County Registry.

Tract 1: BEING all of Lot No. 36, Block 21, according to plat entitled “North Ridge, Additions to Haymarket Village, Section Four, Part B, North Ridge, Inc., Developer, Raleigh, N.C.”, dated March 24, 1972, prepared by John A. Edwards & Company, Engineers and recorded in Book of Maps 1972, Page 73, Volume I, Wake County Registry.

Tract 2: BEGINNING at a point in the northern right of way line of Ravenhurst Drive, the southwest corner of Lot 36, Block 21 shown on the recorded map hereinafter referred to: thence a new line through Lot 35, Block 21 three (3) calls as follows: (1) North 09 degrees 11 minutes West 77.07 feet to a point, (2) North 05 degrees 26 minutes East 69.21 feet to a point and (3) South 83 degrees 02 minutes East 5 feet to a point, the northwest corner of Lot 36, Block 21; thence along the dividing

line between Lots 35 and 36, Block 21 South 0 degrees 18 minutes East 144.36 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING, containing .0237 acres and being a small portion of Lot 35, Block 21 North Ridge Subdivision recorded in Book of Maps 1972, Page 73, Wake County Registry according to map entitled “Lot Revision, Lot 35 & 36, Block 21, North Ridge, Raleigh, N.C.” dated September 24, 1976 prepared by John A. Edwards and Company, Engineers.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 7701 Haymarket Lane, Raleigh, NC 27615.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Samuel Hassell and wife, Amy D. Hassell.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to 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 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 no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. 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.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this prop-

erty 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.

ed, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on June 20, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 9329, The Villages of Wakefield Parkside, Phase 2 as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 2001, Page 610-611, Wake County Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 12521 Garden Tree Lane, Raleigh, NC 27614.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND

THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Rita R. Franklin and husband, Guy Edward Franklin.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to 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 prop-

erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement 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 no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. 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.

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 chal-

lenged 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.

ed, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on June 20, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Lying and being in the City of Raleigh, St. Matthews Township, WAKE County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All of Lot 47, in Bison Court Subdivision, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Book of Maps 2006, Pages 1302-1305 (with said Lot being shown on Page 1303), Wake County Registry, to which map reference is hereby made for a more particular description of same.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 3811 Bison Hill Lane, Raleigh, NC 27604.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred

Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Shadrach Ramnath and Laura Fernandez.

An Order for possession of the property may be

issued pursuant to 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 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 no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. 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.

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.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-01877-FC01 PUBLICATION DATES: June 6, 2018 and June 13, 2018

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 16-20617-FC01 PUBLICATION DATES: June 6, 2018 and June 13, 2018

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-19382-FC01 PUBLICATION DATES: June 6, 2018 and June 13, 2018